A week after the day I took Adrin’s fruit.
Kugugung-!
Renee felt his whole body tremble at the loud roar he heard, and asked Vera a question.
“Vera, how are you doing?”
“Yes, Aidrin is going down smoothly.”
“Whoever gets hurt… .”
“There is not.”
A smile formed on Renee’s lips.
“That’s fortunate.”
The sound that was heard was the sound of Essence breaking down the Aidrin that had escaped. It is a task to empty the place to plant a new seed for Adrin.
According to the explanations I heard from Friede, the body of Aedrin that is now being destroyed will be used as materials for the fairies’ houses and bows.
Rene remembered an awkward laugh when Friede’s words, ‘You make a house by trimming your mother’s body’ felt a bit strange.
“… Fairies are very curious.”
“What do you mean?”
“just… . To do something with your mother’s body.”
“It must be a cultural difference. It is not the tree that they worship, but the soul of Aedrin.”
Renee said, ‘Am I the only one who’s being too sensitive about Vera’s insignificant attitude?’ I thought about it and nodded my head.
“How long will it take?”
“I think it will be over by the end of today. Fairies work very fast.”
Vera saw the fairies digging up the roots of Aidrin, which had only the bottom left, and raised a small admiration for their work ability.
It was truly amazing to move heavy objects that were created irregularly or to use magic to lift the roots.
There was one that caught Vera’s attention in particular, and that’s what Friede did.
‘Did you say the mystery of the wind?’
The most primitive ability. The ability to commune with nature that only the chosen ones can hold in their hands.
Friede was using the same mystery that she used to shoot the wind in this work.
As the work continued, I cut off the upper body of Adrin, trimmed it, and then sculpted the roots, creating a breeze, and the speed is astonishing.
“At that speed, I think I would be welcomed as a worker wherever I go outside of the great forest.”
There was something that really made sense.
The reason why fairies, who were only around 300, were able to achieve such a prosperous society by counting all the Neuers. That must be the work ability.
So while Vera and Renee were chatting about the ongoing work.
“Eat everyone!”
Marie’s voice rang out.
“ah!”
Renee’s resilience also popped out.
Vera raised his confused mind as he looked at Renee, who showed a harmonious complexion at the word ‘Bob’.
It was because René, who ate the most delicious meal he had ever seen before, could hardly understand it.
“Vera, we go too.”
“… Yes.”
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Of course, I couldn’t get those worries out of my mouth.
Vera just wished. Let’s get out of the big forest soon so we don’t stare at that strange soup.
*
“Aww, the saint is so happy to eat!”
Marie’s horse.
A blush crept across Renee’s cheeks.
“Hehe… . no.”
Renee felt a sense of embarrassment rising for some reason. It’s so delicious that it’s just delicious to eat, isn’t it embarrassing to praise it so much?
Rene, who had lowered her head in embarrassment and teased the spoon again, suddenly remembered the words she was going to ask Marie and spoke out.
“Oh, Marie-sama, are you going back to the Holy Land now? It’s all over here.”
“yes? No, once you plant the seeds, they will be here until they are properly established, and after that, I will visit my family for a while.”
“Family?”
Renee’s head tilted.
It was due to the question of whether his family was not in Seongguk.
Seeing Rene’s questioning expression on her face, Marie answered with a stern tone.
“Because my husband works as an inspector in the Empire.”
“ah.”
“Ugh, I haven’t seen you in ten years, so I’m not too worried about whether this person is having an affair!”
wind.
Although it was said as a joke by Mario, Renee felt a sense of nervousness at those words for some reason.
“Bar, no wind!”
“Yes? Well, the wind is bad.”
“yes! The wind never blows! Absolutely absolutely! No way!”
Shout out on please. Rene’s nerves were focused on Vera.
Marie burst into laughter at the sight of René, the emotion she could clearly see at a glance, and then added more words.
“Well, I’m a yangban who can’t even stand, so I don’t know if anyone will accept it.”
flinch. Vera’s body trembled. Vera urged Marie with her eyes narrowed.
“… Marie.”
“Ouch, I’m the master.”
A word spoken with a surprised expression covering the mouth. However, the expression that floated above it was full of playfulness.
“Aren’t you standing? What?”
Far from the usual s*xual jokes, René’s question, unaware of what Marie meant, continued, and Vera made an excuse with a ‘knuckle’ sound.
“Marie was joking. It’s not something you need to know.”
Renee’s head tilted.
Vera glared at Marie, who was making a nonsensical noise, and once again recalled the proposition that ‘there are no saints among the apostles’.
*
It was the day to leave.
The seeds of Adrin are buried in the well-leveled ground. The earth was covered with the soil, and the divinity of Marie covered the earth, and all processing was finished.
As Vera was watching Friede approaching after work, he felt a little bit of annoyance as he remembered the moment when he suddenly cut Gilly’s head.
I should have found out about the dagger, but it’s heartbreaking to have you hit your head right there.
Vera, who had been wrinkling his expression in irritation, took a deep breath and cleared his thoughts.
‘… No, I wouldn’t have found out if he hadn’t killed him.’
Half of his body had exploded, and his life was on the verge of extinction. Plus, he didn’t show any signs of saying anything until the end.
Vera was a man who knew nothing would change if he vomited over the past.
“Are you going now?”
Renee answered the voice he heard.
“Yeah, I’ve been indebted to you a lot.”
“I’m sorry, our fairies lost. Thank you for saving us.”
“no. I did it because I could.”
Renee felt embarrassed and lowered her head.
Receiving a sincere thank you from someone was just that embarrassing and a bit tickling.
“Where are you going now?”
“I’m going to look around the Confederation of Kingdoms.”
“Ah, it’s the land of the beauties.”
Friede nodded slightly at Renee’s words and continued to ponder, then began to instruct the fairies to do something.
“Would you mind waiting a moment? I just want to repay you.”
“yes?”
“I have a present worth giving.”
fresh.
Friede laughed.
*
After a while, the elves who had left the place brought some well-manicured wood and a package that looked quite heavy.
Vera looked at Friede and asked.
“what?”
Friede smiled a little at Vera’s words and added a description of what he was carrying.
“This is my mother’s strongest branched wood. That bag is Froden.”
Vera’s eyes widened at Friede’s word ‘Froden’.
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One of the most valuable minerals on the continent, it was surprising that they were giving it away at the price of a mansion in one lump.
“It was given as a gift by a guest who came several hundred years ago… . As you know, we fairies can’t handle minerals. Since your sword was also broken, I thought it would be a great gift, so I prepared it.”
Friede looked at Vera’s surprised face and then added:
The expression on his face was slightly bitter.
“I feel sorry for Gilly. I know you were trying to figure something out, but I’ve been too emotional.”
emotionally. Why is this word so awkward?
Friede smiled a little at the thought that came to her while she was speaking, and then continued.
“If you go to the Confederacy, look for Doban in the Keloy Mountains. He will be able to handle Freden.”
Vera nodded, swallowing the embarrassment he had raised up until now as he continued.
“… Make it good.”
“If yes, thank you. Oh, and.”
Is there more to say?
Vera looked at Friede with that thought in mind, and Friede took a small package from her arms and handed it to Renee.
Rene, who was listening to the conversation that followed, posed a question while feeling the weight of the thing resting on her hand.
“What is this?”
“Your mother’s flesh. All we needed were seeds, so wouldn’t it be better to give the flesh to the saint who made the fruit?”
“ah.”
“Eat, it tastes good, but mother’s flesh is very effective as an elixir. You won’t be disappointed as there is only one fruit that comes once in a thousand years.”
Renee’s body trembled.
It was because the thoughts he had while waiting for Aidrin to be cut came back to his mind.
mother’s flesh. So… . Renee, who had an awkward smile on her face, felt strange for some reason that she was told to eat her mother, and with a trembling movement, held it in her arms and lowered her head.
“thank you… .”
As Renee thought that the culture of fairies would not be understandable no matter how much he thought about it, Marie bid farewell to him.
“Lady, take care of yourself. yes?”
“Ah yes. Marie is also in good health… . Will we see you again in Seongguk?”
“yes? Well… .”
After hearing Renee’s words, Marie let out a sound as if she was contemplating for a moment, then pulled out a notebook from her arms, wrote something down, handed it to Renee, and added a word.
“For now, though, would you like to come and visit us from 1st Avenue when you visit the Empire?”
Rene received Marie’s note and recalled the story she had heard the day before.
“Oh, is this Marie’s house?”
“That’s right, if I’m at home then, treat me to a big treat.”
“thanks. I will definitely visit.”
“Draw, well furnished.”
“yes.”
Finally, all goodbyes were over.
Renee turned to face the outside of the great forest, and raised a deep smile at the greetings of the fairies from behind.
After being deprived of the light of this world, Renee felt overwhelmed that she had accomplished something by herself for the first time.
*
In the carriage to the Kingdom Union.
Renee was fiddling with the flesh of Adrin, which he had been holding in his arms until then, and opened his mouth by offering it to Vera.
“Vera, would you like some?”
I’ve been thinking about it all the time, but after all, I can’t eat this myself.
It was no other matter. I couldn’t eat it because of the words I heard while receiving this.
If I had just eaten it, I would have ate it, but what I was told was ‘mother’s flesh’. Isn’t it like eating someone else’s mother?
It was purely a matter of feeling! Still, Renee did not have the courage to eat this because of the rising rejection.
Vera looked at the flesh of Aedrin that Ren gave to him, and asked with a tone of hesitation.
“Thank you, but are you okay? If it was the elixir that the fairies were confident in, the efficacy would not be normal.”
“it’s okay.”
firm answer.
Renee pressed the pulp again in the direction of Vera.
“Drink, please.”
please.
I mean, it feels weird when you hold it.
Renee swallowed the stubborn slur and held out his hand until Vera picked it up.
Vera received the flesh with a little hesitant movement at Renee’s decisive attitude.
“… thank you.”
I probably wouldn’t have gotten it anyway… Vera was also a person.
I mean, there is such a thing as greed.
The lust for water and the lust for power kept René by his side and immediately brushed it off, but the greed for training and force still existed in Vera.
In such a situation, how could you refuse the elixir of heaven and death?
Vera struggled to suppress the sinful heart that filled him, and looked at the flesh he had received.
Exactly half-divided pulp wrapped in a rag.
“Please eat. hurry.”
“… Yes.”
After answering Renee’s prompt, Vera removed the cloth, picked up the fleshy pulp, and put it in his mouth.
‘… Apple flavor.’
Adrin’s flesh tasted like apples.