Chapter 39 – 2. Hansel and Gretel (19)
Even on the way to Cashwyn with Roa, Yuria couldn’t hide her bitterness.
She didn’t want Loa to know the same pain as she did…
It was something that Yuria could not have imagined even in her dreams that she would find out in this way.
What are the chances of it being replaced?
The awakening of her ability due to the rise in assimilation rate so fast that she couldn’t even think of Yuria.
In this age when I am still immature and can only see it in the form of a dream, among the many possibilities, Roa is a woman. She’s also the odds that Yuria will look in the direction of the possibility that she was born as a man.
So Loa can no longer say that she doesn’t know about women anymore.
She had memories of living as a woman herself. She knew the pain of being raped by a man she didn’t want to.
But.
Even if she came to Cashwyn now and found out the identity of her loa, what would she be able to do for the loa?
After Loa already knew her pain.
“Cashwin! Did you know?”
“Huh?”
“A loa… What a loa is! You already knew that a loa was no ordinary human!”
At YuRia’s words, Cashwin flinched for a moment.
“Uh, uh…”
“Mister?”
The way she hesitated was already saying that Loa was no ordinary person.
“Mister, what happened? What kind of existence am I?”
While Cashwynn couldn’t answer, Loa opened her mouth again.
“Come to think of it, there was a time when Mr. Merkin stopped talking while trying to say something. I didn’t think much of it at the time, but now that I think about it, it must have had something to do with it.”
“…Haha. Looks like you broke your promise to your father.”
Huh?
Cashwyn let out a sigh of relief with a really sweet expression.
“Yes. Loa, you are not an ordinary human being. No, surely a human being is a human being. But…”
Even as she seemed to have already made up her mind to say her word, Cashwyn continued to hesitate.
But since she had already spoken her words, she couldn’t just keep it hidden.
“Loa, you are the hero of this generation”
“Eh eh eh!?”
“You are the one who inherited the blood of the former hero and the former saintess. For some reason, even though you are a man, you inherited the blood of a saint. Have the potential to become
“Uh, what is that…”
“Your father didn’t want you to walk the fate of a hero. That’s why he wanted you to hide it. Neither does your mother.”
Cashewyn sighed and sighed again.
“Above all, the fate of a hero or a saint is really the same.”
Cashew Winn glanced at her and looked at Yuria.
“Well, no matter how bad fate is, it’s as good as YuRia’s.”
“…”
She already knew that her own fate was so complicated that she couldn’t even speak, but hearing it from Cashwyn’s mouth made her a little angry.
Rather than being angry at Cashwyn, I’m so small that I can’t tell the difference. To a foolish world.
“So, does Loa change anything when she learns that she is a hero now?”
“Nothing”
“Then why?”
Cashwyn looked at YuRia as if she really didn’t understand.
“You know very well that he’s not the kind of person you’d turn away from if you knew that he was destined for such a fate, right?”
“…”
It was.
Roa was a very pure and kind child to the extent that she used the precious potion that was the most precious to her when she was new to each other.
Now, even if all those priorities were put in front of herself, Loa was still the kind of kid who put others before herself.
“So, what am I supposed to do?”
“There’s nothing in particular. Being a hero doesn’t mean something grandiose.”
What about Roa at Cashwynn’s words? And looked at him with a bewildered expression.
“Because being a hero is not something that the gods give you because of a crisis in the world and say, ‘God’s done it!’
“Ah…?”
“Speaking of which, yes. Did Yuria express herself that way too?”
At that moment, both Yuria and Loa spoke at the same time.
“” High Human… “”
“Yes. That’s what it is. An existence that is different from an ordinary human being. Instead, it is also an existence that has a huge responsibility in this world. Tsk… Now that it’s here, you should tell me your last name.”
“A castle…? That’s a nobleman…”
“Heroes are naturally recognized as hereditary knights in any country. In other words, Loa. You are a noble.”
Loa flinched at Cashwynn’s words.
He says he’s a noble?
“Loa, your last name is Lionheart. Remember it well.”
“Lionheart…”
“And Yuria, you too, will be introduced as Mrs. Lionheart from now on at official events.”
At those words, Yuria’s expression didn’t dislike it for some reason.
“A warrior…”
At first, I thought that a hero would appear only when a great danger appeared in the world, such as a demon king or a demon dragon, but it seemed that was not the case.
Even after that, Mr. Cashwin continued to explain this and that, and if you put the contents together, it could just be organized like this.
A warrior is a family that inherits the weapon of the gods from generation to generation, and a human being who transcends humans.
Borrowing Yuria’s expression, he is a being called ‘high human’.
And among them, he said that he was the hero of the holy sword.
Of course, warriors are not unconditionally inherited through lineage.
Because the position of a warrior comes down according to the weapon of the god that comes down to them.
It usually comes down along the bloodline, but sometimes it is passed on to a disciple, and sometimes it is said that if a weapon dies without leaving either the lineage or the disciple, the weapon finds a new owner.
That’s how it is said that all heroes exist.
I am a sword warrior who has not yet fully awakened.
And a spear, a bow, an ax, a mace, and a shield that no one knows.
And although he is not given the title of a hero, he is chosen by the gods as a meaning similar to that of a hero. Saintess.
There can be no Uncle Cashew Win, but even that saintess’s qualifications were inherited from her mother.
Originally, it would be impossible in terms of gender, but the quality of being a hero seems to have made it possible, she said.
In other words, by simple calculation, Loa was equal to two heroes.
And Cashwin said that this result would never be 1+1.
If you’re unlucky, you might be weaker.
If you’re lucky, it might even become ridiculously stronger.
And the result is that I (Yuria) has passed into the realm of an overwhelming plus that I can’t understand.
We were slowly reaching the next village.
The coachman said that she would arrive at the next village this evening, and YuRia didn’t fall out anymore, and her wounds had already healed.
“Loa… What do you think?”
“Which one?”
“You said you were a warrior.”
Leaning their faces against each other, they talked in small whispers and talked about what happened yesterday.
“Well… I don’t know. Cashew Winn also said that just because she’s a hero doesn’t mean she has to do something, and even if she’s a hero, I still don’t feel it.”
Above all, he was still weak.
After going through YuRia’s training, she became a lot stronger, but she still didn’t realize exactly how strong she was.
I’m sure you know that compared to when I lived in the village before, I’ve become incredibly strong, but I still couldn’t follow YuRia’s toes even though I could clearly see that Yuria was very caring and treating me.
“Even with Yuria’s help, I’m still so weak, can I really do something?”
In response, Yuria lightly touched Roa’s forehead with her bean and her own forehead.
“Fool”
“Ouch…”
“If Loa is different, she needs to train for years to decades before she can catch up. She caught up in a few months.”
“…Uh?”
“No matter how much I helped her, it’s a good thing to be proud of her. It’s proof that she worked hard enough to transcend her own limits.”
At her words, Roa quietly closed her eyes and leaned her head against Yuria’s.
“Yuria has a big head, so it’s comfortable like this”
“Profit…”
It’s not that I’m big, it’s that you guys are small…
Yuria grumbled softly, but no one listened to her.
Later…
YuRia comes to regret that she did not think too much of a fact she heard from Cashwyn that day.
The words that the fate of the hero and the saintess are the same.
She wondered if the fate of a hero or a saint would be like Yuria’s, but Yuria overlooked one thing.
Loa had both of them.
Just as the power that loa will have is not 1+1=2, even the misfortune that will come to loa is not a simple addition.
“Um…”
Cashwynn was a little embarrassed at the sight of her two little boys staring at her beside her.
Allen seemed to be restraining himself a bit, and now he and her two younger siblings, who were not of her blood, were staring closely at her, clinging to her while Allen was not by her side.
Well, if these little kids see what they’re doing, they’ll know what to do, but it’s still something that bothers them.
More than anything. Gathering magical ingredients also requires the results of a man’s happy life that he solves alone, but isn’t it impossible to solve it because he follows you around like this?
“Oh shit…”
“?”
“Is something not going well with you?”
Cashew Winn, who was about to die because of those two children who tilted her head and cried openly, let out a deep sigh and looked around her.
Where the hell did Allen go?
Knock… Knock…
Likes. I don’t like it.
The flower in Allen’s hand, as he muttered inside her and took off her petals one by one, looked at the points on her petals, and the petals were running out.
And the last petal ended with I like it.
Allen shook her head with her face reddened, then shook her head, then swung the stemless flower behind her.
“I don’t know!! I don’t believe in superstitions like this!!”
It seems that she is already wrong from the point of worrying about this, but she has already acknowledged it to some extent.
Is this romance or love? It may not be that far, but her crush on Cashew Wynn has already established some place in her own heart.
To put it bluntly, when it comes to her love feelings, her feelings for Loa were greater.
If she was Loa, she wondered if it would be okay to have a bed with her even now.
But Loa wouldn’t want that.
The child is only looking at her own mate.
He’s the one who half-heartedly chose a chicken instead of a pheasant, but there’s definitely a big age difference.
‘What should I do now… ‘
He was confident that he wouldn’t be a burden even if he was among them, but his younger siblings were not.
However, I couldn’t abandon my siblings. Because for me, that option didn’t exist from the beginning.
After all, do we have to part ways in the next town?
I started to worry a little.
Even though I wasn’t sure yet, I thought to myself that it would be a waste to miss Cashwyn.
How could a flawed woman like her catch such a great wizard?
Of course, I think it’s kind of wormwood. From what I’ve seen so far, I think he’ll become a trustworthy man if he catches on well.
There is a reason why I still have some loa in my heart…
Whatever he chose, he had to let go of one of the two.
Is it a brother Is she Cashwynn?
“Ha…”
“What are you doing?”
“Heugyaaaaa!”
I was startled and let out a grotesque scream and hurriedly turned around to find Cashwyn looking at me with pitiful eyes.
“Oh, no, that, that, that…”
“You seem to be thinking about something wrong, but you won’t part in the next town unless it’s what you want. It’s the same in the Dwarf Village.”
To?
“What were you thinking? Did you really think that the acquaintance I mentioned would be in the next town?”
To?
“Or did you think there was some sort of mage tower in the Dwarf Village?”
To?
“I don’t know much about it, but I can see what you’re thinking, Inseok-ah. There’s someone I know in Roa’s village, so you can leave your brother there.”
At that, Allen wondered what the hell she had been thinking about all this time, and she groaned.
Was she really, what the hell was she thinking?
“Don’t be stupid and come down quickly. Did you also look around for something to eat?”
“Ooooo…”
A strange feeling suddenly came over me.
“Something is strange.”
The coachman stroked her own gray beard and put on a slightly concerned expression.
“What?”
“The fact that we haven’t met a single person so far. You all know that. This is the road that leads to Grandium, the city of Dwarves. Isn’t it”
At the coachman’s words, Karna’s expression also changed a little.
“I don’t know yet. It might just be a coincidence.”
“It’s hard to see it as a coincidence anymore. There’s no traffic from Grandium for nearly a week. That’s because it’s more believable to say that elves eat meat.”
Behind him, Yuria raised her hand.
“Elf, will you eat meat?”
“… Kuh-hum!! Change the words to enjoy eating meat.”
To that, Yuria didn’t say anything this time.
Definitely not ‘enjoying’. No reason to eat. There’s just no reason not to eat it, and it’s just that I don’t eat meat well unwillingly because I’m reluctant to kill innocent creatures for no reason. If you serve meat, it tastes good.
It’s just that he doesn’t like meat, like dwarves and humans.
Well, regardless of whether or not the elves eat meat, the important thing is that the situation is as abnormal as whether or not the elves eat meat, which is so rare.
“If I had seen at least one team today, I might have thought it was just a coincidence, as you said, but I’ve never had anything like this happen in the decades I’ve been here. It’s very ominous.”
The driver slowed down slowly.
“I will stop the wagon about an hour away. I think I need to check the situation in the village.
At the coachman’s words, everyone was very tense.
The coachman seemed to regard this as a war of some sort.
“Why do you think so?”
“If it’s a monster, it won’t block the communication magic. If something happened, there would have been a communication. Unfortunately, the communication could have come right after we left, but for now, it’s a possibility on the inference side that they made up their minds in another country and infiltrated to do something. This is the highest”
While everyone was silent, Nuri raised her hand and opened her mouth.
“I think I’m the best fit for the current situation.”
“That’s right. If the carriage stops, please take good care of me, Nuri.”
Noori immediately started to check the equipment.
Hooks and ropes, etc. Karna looked at Nuri as if she was okay as she watched her prepare equipment for sneaking in.
“…Why are you looking at me like that?”
“Ah, no… It’s a dangerous mission, are you okay?”
Noori got up from her seat, making tight and strong knots to secure various equipment and tools to her body.
“I told you before. Adventure department and mercenary are different.”
“Well, that’s not the case! This time…”
“Because of this difference.”
As it was, Nuri, who wore a hooded hood, disappeared among his party. And when she took off her hood again, Karna could only stare blankly at Nuri who reappeared from her seat.
“We adventurers aren’t just for fighting. That’s the biggest difference between you mercenaries and us adventurers.”
Karna acknowledged Nuri’s words by simply nodding her head without saying anything.
“Have a good trip… I know your ability, but take care of yourself.”
Nuri, who went down the road for a long time while hiding herself by becoming invisible with the ability of the goblin’s gamtu, felt something strange the closer she got to the village.
Something very goofy. It was a strange feeling of rejection.
In a strange feeling as if she was becoming something other than this world, Nuri quietly went down and looked around the village carefully as she came into sight.
It didn’t look like he was invaded by something or attacked by a monster.
I circled around the village carefully and looked around, but I didn’t see any sign of anything.
However, while looking around the village, Noori felt something strange.
Nuri, who had been looking around without even recognizing what it was, felt something when she came to the other side of the village.
This feeling of silence that surrounds the town.
No matter how much the population of the village is a city and a village where most of the population is floating, it was too quiet.
Even if there were no outsiders in the village, it was too quiet.
Nuri, who pondered for a while about whether she should enter the village, felt extremely reluctant to enter the village for some reason.
The goblin’s intuition was shouting. You must never enter this town.
What the hell happened in this town?
I might have missed something somewhere I didn’t see, so I turned around to the other side and looked around the outside of the village from the outside.
And the more I did, the more I couldn’t get anything out of it except that the town was too quiet, and something foreboding and repulsive felt too strong.
Let’s go back for now
It is not your job to make judgments about what to do next.
He will follow the will of his silversmith, Nuria. He knew what to do about the current situation only after discussing it with his friends.
And Nuri thought that Eun-gong should see this place.
Although she felt nothing but an ominous feeling in this place, Noorie thought that with Eun-gong’s ability, she would be able to see something she hadn’t seen here.
I hurriedly retook my steps.
An hour’s carriage ride is by no means a short distance.
