112 – Vigil
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“I absolutely hate it.”
Ron stubbornly shook his head. Sitting on a well-made seat and shaking his head, he looked like a grumbling child.
“You have to rest well so that we can rest too. That’s why we sleep comfortably.”
“You all work, but if I rest, I’ll be uncomfortable and I won’t be able to sleep. Really.”
Ron said that with all his heart, but even he wasn’t sure of his condition.
‘Wouldn’t it really make me feel better if I got a good night’s sleep?’ A subtle anticipation lowered the volume of his voice a little.
Lian, who finds a slight gap in his words and digs into it, tells him to rest. Ron, who had been a little soft towards Lian from the beginning, nodded as if pushed.
The slowly moving moon is located in the center of the sky.
Their sleep time, implicitly set, is 8 hours. It was a time that could be accurately divided now with four people standing.
The first night watch was Lian.
She prefers this time of day, with a slight fear of the silence and darkness. At other times, everyone would be asleep, but at times like now, I could still hear a little talk in the camp.
Just having that was enough. Lian recalls the past once again, adding firewood one by one whenever the momentum of the bonfire weakens so that wild monsters do not attack.
The whole process after meeting him is drawn in her mind. Just like what happened just yesterday.
Thanks to him, she was able to receive salvation, receive a name, and feel happiness.
But to become the man who made her happy, she became unhappy. I thought it was okay because he always had a smile on his face. If I thought about it a little more, I could have figured it out.
seeds of unhappiness. I erased that word from my mind. Because he was happy now. Because I gained ability, honor, and wealth, and I got a colleague I could talk to with ease.
She remembered the word for the first time in a long time. I recalled him scratching his eyes as he recalled all the unpleasant memories. He immediately regretted the recollection and shook his head to erase it.
I see stars shining in the dark. It was like his eyes. There were no large or small scars imprinted around it.
You can hear the rustling of leaves and the rustling of grass in the wind. Occasionally, the sound of tossing and turning from colleagues lying down intermittently intermingles.
“It makes me happy.”
He murmured as he pointlessly poked at the burnt firewood with a branch. The small, watery voice sank into the dirt floor and no one could hear it.
‘Am I doing well right now?’
There was no one to answer her questions.
..
“Rain. Wake up. It’s time.”
“Ah.. Thank you. Yes. I’ll go right away.”
Rain opened his eyes as soon as Lian spoke. I raise my upper body and take a sneak peek at my colleagues.
A light breath is heard. No one had a bad sleeping habit, so everyone seemed to be sleeping peacefully.
After a while, Lane, who was ready, gently sat down next to her. Lane naturally checked Lian’s profile and asked in surprise.
“Did you cry?”
“Because I became a little sentimental. Maybe it’s because I woke up at night after a long time.. hehehe..”
Lane knows that feeling well. Didn’t she do something she wouldn’t do when she went around the labyrinth with him and Priersil? Although the direction was different.
“What’s special?”
“There’s a big monster looking over here. There’s nothing else besides that.”
If it had been Rian in the past, he would have woken up his comrades crying that there was a big monster. Seeing him speak calmly like this, it seemed that he had not only developed the strength to protect himself, but also had grown sufficiently internally.
After Rain told her that he had a hard time, he even confirmed that Lian went into the simple dorm.
I checked the signs. It’s not comparable to Ron’s, but she did her own training. As Lian said, there was a large monster staring at this place.
I didn’t know if it showed signs of approaching, so she looked at the campfire from the spot. Even if it came closer, I could have cut it with a single knife.
The time allotted to her is two hours. If it’s long, it’s long, if it’s short, it’s a short time. As I sit alone in my seat without a single word, I naturally fall into my thoughts.
A woman named Lane Guardon had spent most of her life with him. That is why most of the memories Lane recalls were related to him.
I went with him for a long time, but I was ignoring the pain he was holding. Inwardly, ‘It won’t be a big deal.’ I thought, because I had a clearer and more important goal.
I remember him scratching his eyes while cursing himself for putting it off to a later date even though he could have done it for sure. He was exceptionally strong when facing himself.
did i do something wrong? Would I have been happier if I hadn’t asked Ron to go with me?
Lane couldn’t answer the question that suddenly came to his mind. Because I was afraid to give an answer to it.
Scratch the tidy hair once to make it messy, then tidy it up again. I took a look at the iron sword and armor next to me. I thought he would be relieved if he showed a more mature appearance in the same outfit as back then.
In fact, didn’t he throw off his bandages and welcome them as if he were recalling the past? Of course, I wound it up again as if it didn’t work out.
Everyone, including Lane, did their best. Ron kept his mouth shut as if it was reluctant, but eventually acknowledged their actions and bent his opinion. It was proof that this act of giving him happy memories was not wrong.
Ron may not be familiar with this situation, but if you go through this process over and over again, you’ll understand everything and stop messing with yourself.
The thoughts that flowed like that naturally draw a happy future. In that future, she shared everything with him and lived happily. The images of Solar and Lian were not in that imagination. Making a covenant with them and imagining them were two different things.
I was so happy that I closed my eyes and slightly raised the corners of my mouth. A warm eye smile that still lingers in my memory. Imagination is free, so a voice that whispers love to your heart’s content.
“after..”
He let out a breath heated by the rising body temperature. More than this was dangerous. Because it was a lane that had suppressed the desires that had been suppressed to the fullest, especially limited to one, the switch could be turned on anytime, anywhere.
She shook her head lightly to shake off her delusion, and at the end of her gaze, he reached the seat he was sitting on.
‘No matter how you think about it, that was too much.’
In the joy of being together again, I recognized it a step later that I had gone astray. Even if he had been in that situation, he would have shook his head vigorously and refused with all his might.
The appearance of Ron, who shrank his body to the fullest. However, since he already had a bean pod, Rain felt that even that suited him.
I just swore I wouldn’t be delusional, but my head just spins in that direction. Ron, sitting in a lavishly decorated chair, raised his chin arrogantly.
“Kuhmm…”
Clearing my throat, I cleared my delusion once again. In the light of the campfire, her cheeks seemed very slightly reddened.
After clearing away his thoughts, Lane sat down and focused, thinking that he should do something a little more productive.
The organs that generate magical power and the organs that generate holy power work. Resources produced at the central point are explosively circulated. Just before they circulate to gnaw at the body, they permeate into the generator again and disappear.
From a distance, it was a daunting sight. The gigantic monster that was salivating over their campsite flinched at the force and fled. The sound of the beast stepping on the blades of grass echoed, but Lane’s concentration did not break.
..
“Odrox. Vigil.”
Lane called out to him with small words, but no answer came back. Odrox was a deep sleeper by nature, so I had no choice but to call him a few times to wake him up or shake him.
O’Drox opened his eyes as Lane tapped him on the shoulder.
“Oh, yes.”
They looked around and scratched their heads, as if they weren’t used to working together yet. After coming to his senses, he asked Lane to wait for a while.
Lane nodded and headed back to the place of vigil.
A huge shadow fell on the opposite side of Rain, who was concentrating on the moment and refining his holy and magical powers. Odrox came out with his own armament.
“What’s special?”
“doesn’t exist.”
The huge beast had just run away, and there was nothing dangerous around. At Lane’s assertion, Odrox nodded and let out a small yawn.
It looks like that, but it is Odrox who faithfully fulfills the role he is assigned. Lane was sure he never fell asleep.
Lane went to bed. Odrox gently leaned his huge sword and shield silently and stared at the bonfire.
He had many memories to think about, and being saved by Ron, but he didn’t think of them.
because he was hungry
There was no way that Ron, who had a larger physique than a normal person, could not be satisfied with limited meals. Odrox had sufficiently agreed, but it seemed that he did not agree to the disguise.
A pair of eyes fell on Odrox, who was idly basking in the bonfire while feeling hungry. The monster that had escaped earlier had returned. That dangerous human from earlier had gone in, so this time I’m going to eat it.
And there was no way Odrox would miss such a thing.
‘It just went well.’
He grabbed the greatsword. To fill the stomach after processing quietly.