Chapter 287 – Isabella Martinez
#287.
Thud!
My heart sank greatly.
Since her grandfather passed away and her parents passed away, she has been lonely. And after being kicked out of her village and wandering all over the continent, she even forgot those feelings.
But at this moment, a crack spread in the dam that had kept her emotions firmly shut.
It seemed that if I was careless even for a moment, the emotions that had been shattered and piled up would turn into tears and flow down.
Isabella desperately held her emotions in to keep the dam from collapsing.
Then, a warm hand touched her shoulder.
Raising her head, Gaon, who had come right in front of her, was sending her a soft smile.
Isabella, who was staring blankly at her smile, felt a sudden sense of shame at her and roughly shook her hand away.
“Someone told me to touch it.”
“Sorry.”
“… Are you serious about what you just said? To help.”
“Yes. Sure.”
“Okay then, don’t regret it. Because it is very annoying.”
Isabella gave her a gruff shot and repeated her deep breath to calm her emotions before she spoke slowly.
“There was a letter from her hometown three days ago. She told me to come back right away.”
When it comes to hometown, it obviously means a village built by people from the Hunter District in an unexplored area.
It was a place commonly called Hunter Town.
I don’t know the exact details, but after losing the duel with the Chevrons, the Martinez family had been treated as half-rebels.
Isabella’s reluctance to return to her homeland is fully explained.
But if that was all there was to it, Isabella couldn’t have suffered so much.
It’s enough to just dismiss it as a ridiculous proposal and ignore it.
That is, there are reasons why it cannot be.
Gaon asked cautiously.
“Is that all?”
“…”
Isabella’s mouth closed again. As if she hesitated, she continued to spit on her lips and continued her words with a sigh.
She said, “She keeps belongings from her grandfather and her parents. In case it gets lost, be sure to come.”
“… It’s a threat. Who sent her letter?”
“Martin Rougester. She’s the second strongest ability after her grandfather. He hated us very much.”
This is another new story.
I thought the reason she left her hometown was just to escape from persecution and humiliation, but it seems there are more hidden stories.
As she listened quietly, Isabella revealed the truth, perhaps noticing his curiosity.
“I deliberately didn’t go into detail. She didn’t want to be found out about her pathetic run away. In fact, I didn’t leave my hometown on my own volition. I had no choice but to leave because I had no place to stay. The house was on fire It’s so strange when you think about it now. Why did you just let it go? If he had intended to kill me, he would never have done it. There is something I don’t know.”
“Isabella…”
Than Gaon knew, she was the organ of Isabella’s her life. She left the village, she was 17 years old, she knew, but she couldn’t imagine how much persecution and humiliation she had suffered by then.
As I muttered her name quietly, Isabella said confidently, making eye contact.
“Don’t sympathize with me. I’d rather be glad I ran away then. Otherwise, I would have continued to live there like an asshole. Or he may have already been killed by Martin Rougester.”
Without learning magic, he would have just lived a meaningless life, dying and living. He probably couldn’t even seize the opportunity to return.
Isabella had no regrets.
“Probably a trap. Better to just ignore it. There will also be a direction to grow stronger and get revenge later. … But I can’t. I didn’t know that these feelings would still remain. Whether it’s a will or a keepsake, it’s something I don’t need anymore.”
And maybe that was because of the influence of this man in front of me.
Even if she gets a chance to return, seeing her working tirelessly to prevent the destruction of the world, not to protect herself, I naturally have no choice but to compare myself with myself.
It’s because it taught me that there is a better way than revenge, and that precious things exist.
Wills and mementos were items with a special meaning that could not be measured simply by their efficiency.
This time, too, Gaon made her decision for her rather than her own.
“It is not so. Value is not determined simply by its usefulness. If Isabella goes to her hometown, she will accompany me. Please allow me to help.”
“… Really you are a bitch I will never be like you.”
“Yes. Isabella, she doesn’t have to be like me. I like the current Isabella.”
“Ugh… !
Isabella groaned softly.
Maybe it’s because I didn’t know that I would say such an embarrassing thing casually. I don’t know if it’s intentional or not, but I think I know a little bit why women are so obsessed with it.
Of course, neither did she. She was rather cheesy and greasy, which only made me feel rejected.
Isabella stroked the goose bumps on her forearms and sighed at her.
“Can’t you just stop saying that? Or are you trying to seduce me too?”
“Sorry. That was not my intention. I was just being honest…”
“That makes it even more of a problem. It’s okay. It’s my loss to talk about this any more. Anyway, if that’s what you think, then I won’t reject it either. As long as it’s like this, I’ll eat it to my heart’s content.”
“Yes!”
In this way, Gaon and the others followed Isabella to Hunter Town.
***
Autumn noon when summer passes and the world turns red. Gaon and his party reached Hunter Town.
Gaon licked his tongue as he looked at the towering buildings and neatly maintained roads.
“Awesome. To think that a place like this could be created in an unexplored land in just a few decades…”
“I know. I’ve developed more while I couldn’t see it. If you look at that place alone, it feels like you are on Earth.”
Isabella also looked around Hunter Town with her eyes mixed with longing and awkwardness.
When she was young, the village was not properly equipped to the extent that there were no roads, let alone buildings.
Of course, it developed at a tremendous speed before leaving, but even so, it was not as good as it is now.
Although the area was incomparable, Hunter Town was sophisticated and stylish enough to be comparable to the large cities of the Pentra Empire.
Isabella, who was looking around the city, which had changed so much that she couldn’t understand it in just over five years, inferred the direction of her house by relying on her faint memories.
It’s all burnt down, so it’s highly likely that another building has already been built by now, but I still wanted to check it out.
Everyone in her party moved after her.
Jerk-jerk-
Fortunately or unfortunately, the party did not attract excessive attention. Excluding them, there were quite a lot of foreigners.
Hunter Town was a shelter that couldn’t be better for those who are active on the stage of unexplored land.
In this unexplored land where a huge rift opened and all the landmarks were distorted, treasure-like things that came along with it are sometimes found.
For that purpose, people including mercenaries and explorers flocked to it.
Didn’t Gaon also try to find treasure in the unexplored land right away, but luckily found an ancient ruin and returned.
‘Come to think of it, I should be able to hear that place too.’
If this goes well, I’ll make an offer to go with you. Gaon glanced sideways at Isabella.
‘What?’
But coincidentally, at that moment, she also turned her head to face Gaon.
Isabella furrowed her brows a little for a moment, then she looked over, running the gaon up and down her, then nodded her head.
“Anyway, the new work on rubella or whatever is amazing. I can’t even see through it with my insight eye. You look weaker than me just by looking at your momentum?”
“Is that so? Thank god. I won’t get caught.”
Currently, Gaon has weakened his momentum to the level of 9 stars. This is because it is easy to induce Martin Rougester’s vigilance.
He wanted to reduce his momentum more weakly, but he compromised to this extent because he thought it would have an adverse effect.
As Gaon was observing the inside and checking the state of the power supply, Isabella informed him.
“As I said beforehand, I will take down Martin Rougester. So don’t intervene, just watch. Got it?”
“… For once. But if Isabella is pushed back, she will step in.”
“Nothing like that. Because I am stronger.”
Isabella showed off her confidence. The reason she hasn’t found Martin Rougester yet isn’t because she’s weak, it’s because she’s sure to deal with it.
The guy is sss grade. In other words, he possesses powers on par with Isabella’s. If he is determined and tries to escape, he risks missing out.
So, until it becomes stronger, it is only left without stimulation as much as possible.
But now that I have Gaon, I can feel relieved in the event of an emergency.
Isabella clenched her fists as she realized that she had come to trust Gaon at some point.
‘It’s just a colleague.’
There is nothing further to go. Even now, I will not be like the women who cling to Gaon and fawn over there.
Isabella resolutely brushed off her thoughts and, retrieving her memories, headed for her house.
After a while, they arrived at a large lot.
“Are you here?”
“Huh. Was here however… I can’t seem to get in.”
For some reason, there is a long fence around the outskirts of the site. Beyond that, the ground was dug here and there, reminiscent of a construction site.
Isabella used her telekinesis to scoop up the soil from inside the site, place it on her palm, rub it as if savoring her touch, and spread it all over the floor without hesitation.
“Let’s go. I didn’t even expect it anyway. It is clear that there is something Considering that such a large site has been left unattended for five years.”
Although Hunter Town has a considerable area, it is not to the extent that the site where the top family used to live is neglected.
For Isabella, who considered the possibility that she entered even a few buildings, she has no choice but to be suspicious.
I turned around and walked away with my back to the site, but suddenly I saw someone running from the other side.
He was a man in his mid-to-late 40s with a bushy beard. As soon as he checked Isabella’s features, he opened her eyes with tears in her eyes and then shouted with a face full of relief.
“Isabella! It’s Isabella! Is that you?”
“… Uncle Limit?”
“Okay! It is limit I worried. Do you know how surprised I was when he suddenly disappeared? You’re not hurt, are you?”
Their relationship was quite heterogeneous.
Limit is very happy and happy, but he couldn’t approach what was going on, and Isabella just looked at him indifferently.
Limit, who flinched at that cold gaze, immediately looked around him and whispered softly.
“Rather than that, we don’t want to keep talking here, so why don’t we move? My house is nearby, so let’s go there.”
“I am very embarrassed. Daddy hates me. Martin Rougester will take a picture of me if I stay with you, will you be okay?”
At the mention of the name Martin Rougester, Limit was visibly agitated. It seems that he is the reason why the relationship between the two became so awkward.
Limit put on a guilty expression, then lowered his head and apologized.
“I’m sorry I turned away then. I really have no face. But… Can’t you give me a chance to make up for it right now? I don’t know why you came back, but this place is dangerous. I will explain, so please follow me.”
Isabella wasn’t particularly impressed with the apology.
When her grandfather became a disabled person and her parents passed away, she, who needed a place to lean on, turned to Limit, whom she was usually close to, but was bitterly rejected.
After that, even when he was persecuted by the villagers, he was the one who turned away.
For Isabella, Limit doesn’t even mean anything to her other than the fact that the character didn’t bother her at all.
But,
‘It’s not bad.’
It is worth using.
I don’t know if Limit’s words are true or a trap, but there is no better way to understand the local situation in Hunter Town.
Isabella nodded her head.
“Take the lead.”
“Oh, that, yes! Please follow me.”
Do you think she forgave you? Limit smiled brightly at what was so good and started guiding him to his house.
