Chapter 24 – Volume 5 – The World Where the Head Is a Field of Flowers (4)
“Ah…”
When I first read the book, all I thought was that it was easy to understand and fun because there were pictures.
In particular, it was fun to read while comparing the subtly different or similar parts because the stories of her youth with her dad, which her mother had told her, seemed to have been told as they were.
However, when the story of the elves and orcs confirming their love for each other and fighting the gazes of the people around them came out, I felt my heart tighten.
In fact, she pretended not to know, but she knew that her father was always bullied around her.
Her heart sank when she heard that orcs and half-orcs were being treated badly today.
Ah, I am a person who has not been welcomed around since I was born.
Yes, that would be unavoidable
But in my heart, it was too unfair.
We haven’t done anything wrong, but my mom and dad gave birth to me because they loved each other, and there’s no problem in our family.
That’s why I was even more stubborn to achieve my wish to go to the city.
“Thank god.”
Still, the elves and orcs in this book got married safely like my mom and dad.
In the morning, when I prayed to my mother to give birth to a child, I saw that the two of them had a happy expression while actually doing it in the book.
I also thought that I would like to have a beautiful love like that.
And finally, at the end of the book, when I saw that a half-girl was born and smiled cutely, tears flowed without my knowledge.
“Are you there?”
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, followed by a familiar voice.
Is it the voice of the girl who handed me this book earlier?
I opened the door, and for some reason she came in carrying a load of food or something and put them down.
“This is a gift. Is it the famous dinner set that is the most delicious in this inn?”
“This, this…?”
“I’m going to shoot! Let’s eat together. Oh, was I a bit reckless? Hehe, I guess I was a little crazy when I thought I had actually met a half-orc.”
“…Is this, what the hell is it?”
“A comic book?”
“Manga…?”
She explained to me that a book that tells a story with pictures is called a comic book.
Well, I didn’t want to hear that explanation.
I was thinking about how to explain this, but she explained it knowingly if she understood what I wanted to say.
“It’s a cartoon drawn by a famous artist named Siu. It’s very popular among wizards who originally liked drawing, and recently it’s sold in bookstores in large areas like the capital city, so it must be very popular?”
“So what?”
“Oh, you must have read it. That’s right. My perception of orcs and half-orcs changed a lot after reading that book. Maybe Siwoo-nim didn’t draw this manga for that purpose?”
“Ah…”
That painter named Siura knew very well how the orcs and the harps that came from under them were treated.
That’s why I wanted many people to know and sympathize with this very realistic story so that they would no longer look at it with the wrong eyes.
Even though I didn’t know him at all, I felt that his warm heart seemed to come through, so I started to feel my heart pounding for some reason.
“Maybe that’s why the main couple’s names were ‘Orc’ and ‘Elf’ without setting the names separately? Maybe her daughter’s name was also ‘Harp’.”
“Hehe…”
“Oh, this might be a bit of a cautious question. Is the real Orc-Elf family very different from the one in the cartoon?”
“No! It’s very similar! At first, I was surprised because it was so similar to the story of my mom and dad.”
“Oh, really!? Seriously, Orcs these days are so cool…”
“That’s right. My dad is cool!”
Whoa, to think that there are people who can recognize my dad’s coolness.
I really thought this book was great in many ways.
As far as I know, the atmosphere that doesn’t like half orcs is an emotional trough created by a long war, so it’s not easy to convince them.
Is there anyone who has solved that with this book?
And this person who smiles in front of me and recommends food also has a crush on me thanks to this book.
“At first, I was very, very surprised.”
“Oh, I’m sorry. Was I being too reckless?”
“It’s not like that, I thought that it shouldn’t be revealed that it’s a half okra. My mother also asked for trust.”
“That’s… I should have said it more carefully.”
“No. You told me a lot by talking to me like this, and you bought me dinner like this, right? Rather, I’m thankful.”
After that, she introduces things to see in the capital, and tells you where to eat.
He helped me a lot and guided me.
Even like my mother, it’s not that I shouldn’t go here, but if I say I want to go, she goes with me and explains it to me!
He was a really nice person.
And many people in the capital city I met during the trip really changed their perceptions of the book and welcomed me.
On the contrary, most of them were kind people who cared for me, asking if it was difficult because of that kind of gaze.
Maybe that’s why I had a lot of thoughts about being afraid of being discriminated against by someone, so I disappeared.
Because of some elves or people of other races who bullied my dad in the past, it really reminded me of that situation, so I felt scared.
Maybe it was because I knew that there weren’t only people like that anymore, so I thought it would be okay even if I really met that kind of situation.
“Thank you so much this time!”
“Yes, Orca. If there is a chance later, we will meet again.”
“Yes! I’ll be looking forward to that day!”
Thanks to her, the project to travel alone in the capital, which was my birthday present, came to a successful end.
I went back to her house in a good mood, carrying the ‘Elf who dreams of having an affair with an orc is still frustrating’ that she gave me as a gift.
As soon as I arrived, I burst into laughter when I saw her mom and dad hugging me as if they were worried.
“Mom, Dad! I want to be a wizard!”
“Huh? Suddenly?”
“This, read this! It was drawn by a famous painter named Siu these days…!”
I also want to draw something like that.
In that way, I want to make someone as happy as I am now.
It was the moment when I first realized that I wanted to do something like that.
But…
“This is impossible. I’m sorry. I could have resembled my mother in this part.”
“Hey…”
That’s how I started practicing magic and painting, but I couldn’t draw a good picture at all.
I was fortunate enough not to draw, let alone tear the paper with my pen.
Am I not good at drawing cartoons?
“Or Orca, how about thinking a little differently?”
“Differently…?”
“I said that the person who drew this picture is a great wizard, right? But when fighting, there must be a knight who always stands by the wizard.”
“Article…”
“Then, if I became a knight protecting the person who draws such wonderful manga, wouldn’t it be helpful to draw that manga?”
“Maybe!”
Fortunately, I resembled my father, so I had good physical abilities, and I was confident in moving my body.
In fact, as a result of simply learning from my dad, he praised me saying that I was definitely talented.
Then, can I become a knight for the artist Siwoo who drew that cartoon and protect it?
As soon as I saw the possibility of success in swordsmanship, I immediately wrote a letter to the painter Siu.
I will be your sword, I will protect you, I will give my life for you.
I wrote down a lot of cool words I heard in the past, and put them on pretty stationery that I didn’t normally write on my mom or dad’s birthday.
“I’m coming!”
“Wait a minute, Orca!?”
After receiving the letter, I recklessly went to the capital.
According to what I heard the other day, this book is very popular in the capital.
Then, wouldn’t Siwoo who sells the book be in the capital?
“Hey, hey. This cartoon. Can you tell me where I can meet the artist?”
Most of them just shook their heads and left, saying they didn’t know.
However, a kind older sister told me that if I was lucky, I might be able to see these paintings and comics in a place called an exhibition hall.
As soon as I heard it, I went to the exhibition hall.
“Wow…”
There were so many pictures and comic books on display in it.
There, I also saw people who were like painters who were eagerly exchanging paintings and talking.
If it were here, wouldn’t there be artist Siwoo here?
“Hey, hey… Can I meet the artist Siwoo who drew this cartoon?”
“I’m sorry. In the case of painter Siwoo, the information is private.”
“Ah, is that so…”
I grabbed the staff and asked, but the answer was that they couldn’t tell me.
After all, even after coming here, it seems that painter Siwoo can’t be found.
Still, I’ve come this far, but it’s a pity to just go back, so I started looking at the large cover picture displayed here.
But at that time, for some reason, a man looking intently here and an employee who guided me earlier caught my eye.
The conversation between the two is more than related to ‘Elf who dreams of having an affair with an orc is frustrated today’.
I overheard that it was explaining the sales volume or aftermath of it.
Hearing that, I wondered if that man might be painter Siwoo.
The moment the employee separated from the man, he clung to the employee and started to fuss over whether that person was the artist Siwoo.
“It’s kind of embarrassing. For us, rules are rules, so information like that is…”
“Then I’m going to shout out loud and call him Painter Siwoo!”
“No, that person is not Siwoo…”
In the end, she gave up and informed me that he was a student of painter Siwoo.
I was a little disappointed at first that he wasn’t Mr. Siu, but after he thought about it for a moment, I realized that he was not the only one to be disappointed.
If he’s a student of painter Shiwoo, then you just have to ask him to deliver the letter!
