It was a strangely irritating sense of disparity.
“There is another problem added to that. Guardsman friend, do you remember the brothers you met before you came?”
“… Neuer.”
“Yeah, that’s what you call them brothers. Well, it’s not that important… . Those brothers are aiming for your mother’s essence.”
Friede’s faint beauty did not change in the slightest while continuing the explanation.
As far as Renee knew, no one was so blunt when talking about a crisis directly related to him.
You could say that she is a fairy rather than a human being, but Renee thought that Friede’s calmness was fundamentally different from that.
“Hmm, let’s talk a little bit internally. The reason the brothers ran away is because of the disappearance of their mother. The brothers fear the end of their lives.”
It was precisely because of this.
Friede was talking as if his death was really nothing.
He didn’t even have the slightest fear of dying.
“So the brothers are trying to prolong their lives by taking her essence before her life ends. That’s why we’re scouting out of the great forest. To keep the brothers from approaching their mother.”
Naturally, the question ‘why’ popped up in Renee’s head.
Why do you talk about your own death so casually?
It wasn’t just himself. Even though he talks about the death of Aedrin, who he calls his mother, the other fairies around him, and even the deaths of those he calls ‘runaway brothers’, the tone that explains it is too calm.
In other words, it was the serenity that would be correct to call it dryness.
Rene wiggled her fingers at this uncomfortable feeling that made her unable to concentrate on the story.
“Saint?”
“Ah yes!”
“Did you roughly understand the situation?”
pain ringing. There was a mechanical smile that was now clearly distinguishable in it.
“Yeah, so… . Adrin-sama is in a dangerous state, and the brothers named Neuer are aiming for Aedrin-sama, right?”
“Well, that’s good. It seems that the meaning was conveyed properly.”
Renee raised an awkward smile at Friede’s words.
Seeing that smile, Friede smiled softly along with it, and then continued, referring to Marie.
“There is only one way to end the conflict right now, and to use the power of Marie to receive the mother’s seed. But the pace is very slow.”
Renee continued his thoughts on the next words.
About the power of fertility, I had heard from Trevor while he was being educated in the Holy Kingdom.
Maximization of vital activity.
The power to temporarily maximize the natural vitality of living things and to express all metabolic activities beyond the limit.
According to Trevor, the power of fertility was the ability to harvest grains in three days from the place where the seeds were planted.
It was only then that Renee realized why Marie had been sent here.
Plus, I could understand why Friede said he was slow.
“Does that much divinity go into Adrin-sama’s growth?”
“Great. As the saint said, to end the mother’s growth, one divinity is not enough.”
The saying that even the divinity of the apostles was not enough could not be refuted this time.
It resonates with the soul of Adrin, which has existed since the creation of the world. It was only natural that the divinity of Marie, who had only lived for less than 50 years, could not handle it.
“I know something about the power of a saint. How can a saint end her mother’s growth?”
Renee listened to Friede and stroked the roots of Aedrin, who was sitting on the floor.
Renee gently breathed divinity into the roots and judged whether he could grow Aedrin with his powers.
“… it’s hard.”
The answer turned out to be negative.
I was able to know because it was Renee who put his heart and soul into knowing the limits of what he could do for the rest of his life in Seongguk.
With the divinity that Ren had, he could not manifest that much power. If he had done such a thing, his soul would be annihilated immediately.
“To bring out Adrin-sama’s growth to the end… . It’s impossible for me.”
In the past, the result of René risking her life and using her powers in a chase on her way to the Holy Kingdom for the first time was to wake Terdan.
Renero, who fainted and collapsed by waking Terdan from sleep, was unable to use the power that directly affected the body of the ancient species.
Suddenly, Rene, who was thinking of him, was filled with frustration.
Even though he was praised by everyone, it was because he seemed so pathetic that he was helpless in front of the world that had just come out.
“Hmm, that’s unfortunate.”
Renee trembled at the mechanical emotions felt in the voice he heard, and then bowed his head.
“… I’m sorry.”
“It’s okay. can’t you help it Well, after all, let’s go on vacation and enjoy. Well! He was the last tourist to visit the Great Forest. You’re going to have a really cool title for a saint.”
words of insignificant attitude.
Renee felt dizzy all over, mixing the sense of shame from his own helplessness and the sense of detachment from Friede’s dry words.
*
After the story was over, Vera followed Renee’s suggestion that he wanted to go for a walk, walking through the Great Forest and replaying the previous conversation.
This is because there were so many questions that came to mind.
‘Friede must have been alive 10 years later.’
He was not only alive, but to the extent that he was counted as one of the heroes of the demon lord subjugation, and he was alive enough to chase and drive him in the end.
But, based on the stories that have been heard, Friede is sure to die soon.
Vera’s gaze turned to Renee.
Renee’s power is probably the most plausible of the variables that will allow Friede to be alive until then.
Vera’s brow narrowed.
‘What happened?’
It’s not like history has changed.
Marie started the treatment of Adrin even before she was stigmatized, and Renee wasn’t involved in her coming here, so it was definitely not the butterfly effect caused by her.
Rene must have come to the Great Forest in her last life. Perhaps something René did have kept the fairies alive until then.
The result was clear, but the process was full of holes.
Vera continued his thoughts, unable to come up with an answer, so he came up with a different idea.
‘… what if.’
If Adrin finally met its extinction, if only the fairies survived.
This was also conjecture, not just an unfounded conjecture.
Aidrin’s life or death has never been talked about in her past life, so it’s impossible to be sure, and in the previous conversation, even if Aedrin died, how the fairies would live was mentioned.
‘The essence of Adrin.’
The source of life that Neuer aims for.
If there was, the fairies could continue their lives even when Aedrin was dead.
Right now, the fairies show no signs of aiming for Aedrin’s essence… . How do you know what’s next?
Vera knew. No matter how rational you are, when you face death, you end up putting your own life first.
No one knows whether the fairies will betray Adrin after realizing that death is imminent.
‘what if… .’
If this assumption were true, Renee could be in danger. As much as he intervened in this life, there must be variables that follow.
It would be nice if it was a simple old woman, but it is right to think of as many possibilities as possible as there is no certainty right now.
So, while Vera was organizing the assumptions that came to mind and digging into them one by one.
“Vera.”
Renee opened her mouth.
Vera cleared out all the thoughts he had been thinking about Renee’s words and spat out an answer.
“Yes.”
“What do you think, Vera? It’s like Adrin-sama and the fairies right now.”
“I think it is right to call it an emergency. Literally, the future of the species is at stake.”
“Yes? But why? .”
Words close to muttering.
As Vera was about to add a question to him, Renee sighed deeply and shook his head.
“No, no. Think about this later.”
Vera’s head tilted slightly as he continued to mutter while comprehending alone.
Renee seemed to have finished thinking about it, then turned to Vera and spoke.
“Shall we go in now? I think it’s been a while.”
“… Yes.”
At the end of Vera’s gaze, there was a deep smile on Renee’s face.
*
“Oops! where did you go now! Hey, come and eat!”
lively voice. It was Marie.
Vera trembled at the sight of Marie cooking a bonfire in front of Aedrin’s roots.
“… Can I make a fire there?”
It was an intolerable question. No, I was starting a fire in front of the root of a tree, and it was strange to put up with this question.
Marie rolled her eyes at Vera’s question, then smiled and waved her hand.
“yes? Hey, it doesn’t catch fire like this. Come and sit down!”
While Renee, who can’t see the front of the conversation, was raising questions in the midst of raising questions, Vera said, ‘Still, it’s all right since I’ve lived here for 10 years.’ With that thought in mind, he led Renee to the front of the bonfire.
Marie continued to speak as she held the soup bowl to the two people who were seated.
“I think you are both lucky. There is nothing better for the body than the medicinal herbs grown in the great forest!”
Soup made from medicinal herbs.
Vera nodded slightly, realizing that the savory scent emanating from the soup was that of medicinal herbs, found Hela spying on him from far beyond the roots, and spoke out.
“Aren’t you eating?”
“I am fine. After I ate the leftover jerky, I was full.”
It was a word that he said while gently averting his eyes.
Vera nodded his head roughly in response, then grabbed a spoon and served a spoonful of soup.
Since I was starving all day, I thought that it would be good to eat something, so I did it.
That complacency led to a disaster.
“… Oops!”
Vera shivered from the vomit that rose from the inside as soon as he opened the soup.
It had no taste. It wasn’t just the level of no, it was a disgusting taste.
Vera frowned when he realized he had unwittingly passed the soup over the back of his throat.
It felt like the soup was going down the esophagus and scratching all the way.
What are all these dishes?
For a moment with that thought, Vera recalled Hela’s previous significant attitude and turned her head in the direction she had been, but the place was already empty.
will run away
It was clear. Hela knew this taste.
“Will you use some? Eat it anyway, the original bitter ones are good for your body.”
Marie’s words were stuck in her ears. Vera wanted to throw the bowl right away and leave, but he realized that it was against the rules, so he grinded his teeth.
“Well? It’s delicious.”
Vera turned his head in amazement at Renee’s words. Renee dyed her cheeks red, erased all the dark complexion she had seen before coming to this place, and said in a cheerful tone.
“Very delicious! A little bit bitter is addictive.”
“Is it? Our saint is not even picky eater and is very kind!”
“Hehe… .”
A series of words that I couldn’t understand even though I heard them.
Vera frowned at her for the first time in three years with Renee.
There was something that came to mind.
She ate the honey honey porridge that she had received as a gift in the past life.
Its appearance overlapped with the present one.
‘no way… .’
It was only after one lifetime that Vera realized that Renée’s taste had been twisted.
Lol, that’s the sad truth.