## Chapter 79 – 79. Luna & Ellie
#79. Luna & Ellie
Generally, elves are born in the Great Forest and live there until the end of their lifespan.
Of course, there were very rare cases of elves living in the outside world, but most of them were either oddballs or forced to do so.
About 60% of the elves living in the Great Forest reside within the walls of Peladia, and the remaining 30% form villages throughout the Great Forest. In addition, the dark elf minority had their own settlements.
However, just as there are refugees on Earth, there were those in the Great Forest who belonged nowhere and lived by settling somewhere in the forest.
“H, here it is…”
Iris and I followed the young elf, who introduced herself as Ellie, through the forest. Before long, a small cabin appeared before us.
“This is…?”
“Our home.”
It resembled a house, but it was crude in many ways.
It wasn’t the neat, charming house one might imagine when thinking of a cabin.
Rather, it felt like a beginner had struggled to build the frame, forcibly fitting mismatched trees to create the walls.
“…I’m sorry the house is so shabby.”
“N, no, it’s a wonderful house!”
At the words of the elf named Luna, who was in my arms, Iris shook her head in horror.
‘She seems to know the house is in bad shape.’
I wasn’t too concerned since we were only planning to stay one night. I was more bothered by Luna, who had been repeating like a parrot that the house was too shabby to host her benefactors.
More precisely, my gaze was drawn to the bandage wrapped around her shoulder.
It was a wound caused by the arrow shot by the man who was furthest back among the five.
Fortunately, the arrowhead had barely grazed her skin, so the wound wasn’t too deep. Of course, she had bled a little, but we had taken emergency measures with potions and ointments, so the wound shouldn’t fester.
If that was all there was to it, it could be seen as a stroke of luck, but my mind was filled with lingering questions.
Clearly, the five were weak, but they were skilled enough to easily handle Luna, who hadn’t awakened her magic. From the start, their equipment was vastly superior. Moreover, with a younger sister to protect, escaping wouldn’t have been easy.
If they had used rough methods, they could have easily dealt with the two before we even joined the fight, but they didn’t.
I couldn’t shake the feeling that they had intentionally reduced the power of the arrow. No, it was more accurate to say that they had deliberately tried to avoid injuring the two as much as possible.
As if they were being careful not to damage a product.
The net hanging from their waists and the words of the man whose neck I had first severed, saying that he would offer Luna and Ellie to someone.
From that one sentence, I could infer that it was likely one of the most tiresome tropes in fantasy novels: slave hunting.
Finally, the fact that Luna hadn’t been able to walk at all was another piece of evidence.
At first, I thought she was just exhausted from fighting the five alone before we helped, but seeing how she could barely move a finger and the sticky liquid on the tip of the arrow, I realized that Luna had been hit by something other than a normal arrow.
Most likely a paralysis arrow, a preparation for capture rather than a deadly attack.
‘I think I know why that dark elf girl told me to go southwest.’
If slave hunters were brazenly entering and trying to kidnap elves, it meant that the southwestern border of the Great Forest was weak.
In that situation, the question of why it had become weak was a rhetorical one.
Resilia had said that the northern empire was forcibly conscripting young men to prepare for war. Where would those gathered troops go?
Naturally, to the northern part of the Great Forest, where the northern empire would invade. The southern border, being on the opposite side, would inevitably be weak.
Luna and Ellie had been unlucky enough to be caught by slave hunters who had sneaked into the Great Forest hoping to turn their lives around in such a situation.
In short, they were unlucky.
I suddenly felt sorry for Luna. Ellie looked young, but Luna looked just as young.
“…Um, if you stare at me like that…”
A reddish blush bloomed on Luna’s face as she was held in my arms.
“How’s your shoulder?”
“Ah, I think it’s okay. Thank you so much. Thanks to you, Ellie and I were able to survive.”
Luna quickly lowered her head and expressed her gratitude. I stroked her head with the hand that had been supporting her neck and told her it was okay.
Although it had taken a lot of time to save the two and bring them to their house, I decided not to worry too much about it. It wasn’t in my nature to turn my back on a beautiful woman in distress, and even if I had prevented the war by doing so, Iris would still have an indelible sense of guilt in her heart.
Besides, I could think of it as having set up a base camp in advance, even if it was a bit early.
Ellie, who was walking ahead, struggled to open the door of the cabin. Unlike its shabby exterior, the interior was quite clean. It was clear that the two women had taken good care of it.
I followed Ellie into the inner room. I carefully laid Luna down on the bed, which looked like it had been made with considerable effort.
“I really don’t know how to thank you… If it weren’t for you two, we would have been captured by the humans without a chance.”
“Don’t mention it. We should help each other when we’re having a hard time.”
Iris held Luna’s hands tightly and gave her a gentle smile. Even though she had slightly altered her appearance with perception interference, her beauty was still there.
Perhaps because she sensed that Iris was the same elf, a woman, and older than her, Luna’s voice began to sound watery.
After glancing at me, I quietly slipped out of the room.
It was true that I had saved them, but I was still a human.
It would be better to leave them alone for a while, for the sake of the sisters who had almost been kidnapped by humans.
‘Should I prepare dinner while I’m at it?’
If the other party had been a man, it would have been impossible, but when I thought of the frail Luna, who was struggling with the paralysis arrow, my feet automatically headed towards the kitchen.
“Oppa.”
“Yeah?”
As I was about to go to the kitchen, I was stopped by something hugging my waist.
It was Ellie, who was slightly shorter than my master.
“Oppa is a human, right?”
“…I guess so?”
“Then I heard that humans like elves, is that true?”
“Uh…”
Serious thoughts flashed through my mind. Do all humans really like elves?
My answer was no.
What humans liked wasn’t elves, but pretty elves.
In my case, I wouldn’t even glance at a guy with a dangling dick, whether he was an elf or a beastman.
In that respect, Ellie was a very promising beautiful elf girl.
When I nodded lightly, Ellie smiled brightly, as if she was very happy.
“Then Oppa, please marry me!”
“…”
…That would be difficult.
As I soothed Ellie, who was actively courting me, my brain seemed to shrink from the worry of how to solve this problem.
It was getting dark.
The table in the cabin was overflowing with the food I had prepared.
“Y-You made all of this, Mr. Hyunwoo?”
“Just tell me if there’s not enough.”
I can always take more out of my inventory anyway.
Luna seemed to have recovered from the paralysis poison, moving without any difficulty. I’m glad she got better so quickly, but…
“Oppa, ah~”
“…”
If you’re okay, can’t you take your sister away?
Ellie wedged herself between Iris and me, claiming the spot next to me as her wife’s. I wish Iris would stop her, but Iris just looked at Ellie with eyes that seemed to say she found her incredibly cute.
“…Ah.”
If I kept refusing, Ellie might start crying, and I’d become a traitor that day. I didn’t have the confidence to face the cold glares of Iris and Luna, so I obediently accepted the food Ellie offered.
Pleased with my reaction, Ellie kept bringing me food and holding it to my lips.
Her advances were so aggressive that I felt burdened.
“It’s the first time I’ve seen Ellie follow anyone other than me.”
“Taking care of your husband is a wife’s job!”
“…”
“Oh my, I can’t just stand by and watch, can I?”
Iris got up from her seat and came to my side. Naturally, I was pushed to the center, creating a formation with Iris on my left and Ellie on my right.
Their competition was fierce.
My mouth felt like it was about to tear from the spoons being shoved at me from both sides. Of course, Iris seemed to be doing it playfully, just to tease Ellie.
I hated Luna for smiling as she watched us.
In martial arts stories, they repay the grace of saving their lives with their lives, but I guess this is a baseless fantasy, abandoning their benefactor.
“Oppa, do you like being called ‘honey’ or ‘darling’ better?”
“…”
The dinner, which was giving me a headache, continued for quite a while.
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As the night deepened, we naturally split into two rooms.
Surprisingly, the cabin had separate rooms for Luna and Ellie. It seems elves respect each other’s privacy.
Anyway, Iris and I would use Luna’s room, and Luna and Ellie would use Ellie’s room.
In the process of assigning rooms, Ellie clung to my pants, crying sadly, but this was a matter I couldn’t concede.
“Haa…”
At this point, I wondered if Ellie would tear my pants off in a terrifying rage when we left tomorrow morning.
“Hehe, Hyunwoo, you’re popular.”
“…Cut me some slack. I can’t do minors, no matter what.”
The dark elf I met yesterday hadn’t had her coming-of-age ceremony, but she was old enough in terms of age. Just like how not having an ID card issued on Earth doesn’t make someone in their twenties a minor.
“A minor?”
Doubt spread across Iris’s face.
“Ellie, I mean. I don’t know what it’s like in this world, but where I lived, it was a big deal if an adult dated a minor.”
Of course, it wasn’t just because of some trivial ethics or laws. How unattractive and pathetic would an adult have to be as a person to try to sleep with an unripe child?
It was a matter of pride.
“Um, but I think you’re misunderstanding something.”
“Misunderstanding?”
“Yes, Luna told me that Ellie is actually over 100 years old and an adult.”
“…?”
I felt like I had been hit on the head with a ladle.
That appearance and physique, and she’s over 100 years old?
Reflexively, Ellie’s image came to mind.
A little smaller than my master and with a chest that was practically nonexistent, but still, her face was that of an incredibly beautiful elf girl.
Suddenly, I was relieved to be free from the fate of social annihilation for being courted by a minor, and my lower body throbbed when I thought about being courted by a 20-year-old beauty.
Iris, who wouldn’t miss that, reached out and gently caressed my crotch.
“Just a moment ago, you said you couldn’t touch her because she was a minor, but as soon as you heard that Ellie was an adult, you perked right up like this…”
Iris stroked my hardening member up and down through my clothes with a suggestive touch.
My back twitched involuntarily at her skillful touch.
Having been intimate with her countless times, I knew this was Iris’s signal.
The Ellie thing was just an excuse.
Gently kissing her lips, I laid Iris down on the bed. Even with the slightest impact, Iris’s breasts shook in a way that no man could take his eyes off of.
And because she was wearing the negligee I had given her, the visual stimulation was immense.
“The walls are thin, so they’ll hear everything. Are you sure it’s okay?”
Iris responded with another kiss instead of an answer.
“I think you can block it out.”
Hugging Iris, who was giving me a seductive smile, I grabbed her breasts tightly.
The night was deep, but dawn had not yet arrived.
“…gulp.”
And Iris and I, unaware that the door was slightly open, began to explore each other’s bodies.
