Chapter 225 – A Bloody Funeral
“Did everything go out..?”
Ariel poked her head at her door and rolled her eyes. First of all, there is no one in the living room. It must have gone out when I heard it go out earlier.
“Good..!”
Ariel crept out of her room. It was a bonus that her spirits also moved gently to follow her. She sat on the porch and put on her shoes. Alright, now just quietly leave and come back…
“Where are you going?”
Ariel looked behind her, startled.
Maria was looking at her with her arms crossed.
“Uh… You… Didn’t go out..?”
“The funeral has nothing to do with me. Rather, please answer my question. Where are you going?”
“That… I just want to go for a walk..!”
“Walking… You mean?”
Maria’s eyes narrow. Cold sweat runs down Ariel’s back.
Did you hear me?
It’s not… I hid it well until now.
She didn’t even let me into the room…
As Ariel trembled at her guess, Maria removed her eyes from her stare at Ariel and let out a deep sigh.
“All right.”
“That, is it? Then I’ll go…”
“Let me go too.”
“Huh? Together? Why?”
“Just in time, she was on her way to buy groceries. Let’s accompany this.”
“Does it really need to go with you? Can’t you just go alone?”
“Didn’t you say you were going for a walk? Please help me while I take a walk.”
Maria said she was going to get her shopping cart and her purse, and she went into the room.
Seeing that, Ariel just giggled.
I shouldn’t accompany her… She made an excuse and tried to move separately, but she couldn’t come up with a plausible excuse.
“The preparations are complete. Then let’s go.”
In the end, Ariel had no choice but to leave her house with Maria.
As she fidgeted and followed Maria, Maria said to her:
“You haven’t been out of your room for a while. Is there a reason for that?”
“Huh? No, that’s…”
It was because I was embarrassed to see Han Yuseong.
But she kept her mouth shut because Ariel knew it would make things worse if she said that to Maria.
Maria continued her words, as if she had taken her silence a little differently.
“Why is it hard to say? I understand. It can happen to anyone.”
“Yes..! That’s it!”
“But.”
Maria stopped her steps and stood tall, and she gave a firm voice.
“Even having those reasons does not justify your actions. You are your master’s slave. It means that you must devote yourself to your master.”
She began preaching to Ariel.
This was the reason she brought Ariel in the first place.
She told Yooseong to leave it alone, but she couldn’t understand it as his faithful servant, Mary.
And Mary’s sermon.
“Ah, yes. Huh. Okay.”
Ariel passed it roughly in one ear.
He was relieved that he was not caught on the inside.
“Whoa… Let’s talk about this later, and let’s go buy ingredients for now. We have to make a meal before the master comes back.”
Maria started moving her steps again.
Entering the market, she pointed to one of the vegetable shops.
“Vegetables are the freshest in this area. You know too.”
No answer was heard.
“Ariel?”
Maria looked back.
Ariel, who she should have come with, was nowhere to be seen.
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“Uhhhhh, is this enough?”
Ariel took a deep breath. She was fortunate that Maria did not notice her running away. She will eventually find out, but before she does, it’s over when she goes home.
She smiled and went into her shop where she usually stopped by secretly.
“Welcome. What? It’s ariel What are you buying today?”
The shop owner, a middle-aged woman, greeted Ariel as if she were used to it.
“I’ll look around and decide.”
After saying that, Ariel started browsing her store’s products.
A shoe as small as the palm of your hand.
Dolls and toy knives that children might like.
Baby items were on display in the store.
Ariel looked at them and a happy smile came to her face.
‘Last time I bought shoes… Shall I buy a doll this time? While buying dolls, buy a toy knife. It might be a boy.’
Her owner’s aunt laughed at Ariel’s smiling face.
“Is it that good?”
“Nu, who likes it!”
Ariel screaming.
However, he couldn’t hide the fluttering of his red-stained ears.
“What? Really? What the. Your husband is very nice There is such a true lady.”
She also expected the store owner that Ariel would not be on an equal footing as long as she was an elf.
However, from that happy expression, one would expect the owner not to be a bad person.
“Husband?! Do not be ridiculous!!”
Ariel screamed louder than before. She then took the toy knife and doll and put them on the counter.
“What? Are you on bad terms?”
“Stop talking nonsense and do your calculations quickly!”
“Okay~ Tempting. It’s 50 coppers for both.”
“Uh… I always feel that, isn’t it too expensive?”
“It’s because I made it myself. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it.”
“Who doesn’t live? Ruler! 50 Cooper!”
Ariel took five 10-cooper coins from her purse and put them on her counter. As a result, her wallet became thinner than before.
She was pretty chunky until recently…
She ended up like this because she was buying baby products.
‘To be honest, it’s too expensive. Does it make sense that only two of these cost 50 coppers? Aren’t you ripping off this person just because I don’t know?’
Ariel grumbled inwardly as she cherished her doll and toy knife.
After finishing her errands, her shopkeeper said before she left.
“If you neglect your husband, it will be difficult for the children later. Do well.”
“Shut up!”
Bang! Ariel slammed the door shut.
“That bastard’s husband, husband. Why is he my husband in the first place?”
Being a human husband is unbelievable. A noble elf like himself would be matched by a noble elf like him.
Mumbling, Ariel headed for her house.
Then she stopped and she gently stroked her belly.
“…The kids say it’s hard.”
Before she leaves the store, she remembers what the store owner said.
Will the kids really have a hard time if they don’t get along with him?
That…
“Nope…”
Ariel’s ears drooped.
* * *
After the funeral, Sister Ceris and I returned home.
He then found Maria knocking on Ariel’s door.
“Ariel, are you going to keep coming out like that? Should I open the door and go in?”
“Maria?”
At the sound of my voice, Maria startled and trembled.
Turning her head to find me, she hurriedly bowed her back.
“Master, are you back?”
“Uh, I’m here… What’s going on?”
“It’s a personal thing between me and Ariel. It’s not something the master should be concerned about.”
“…Okay? He seemed pretty upset for that.”
It was the first time Maria was angry, so it was quite surprising.
What the hell did Ariel do?
But Maria seemed unwilling to tell me, and she decided to give up asking me too.
Later, she asks Ariel separately.
“Would you like to eat first? Or would you like to wash before then?”
“Let me wash first…”
“I will eat first.”
Seris cut me off and said. Are you hungry? Turning her head, there was Ceris, who was looking at me with a coy look.
“Washing… Should we do it together?”
Oh dear.
* * *
Red Heart Adventures.
It wasn’t a lively place full of people, but it was a place that smelled of people.
But now there is no one.
The administrative staff who were always tired, the chef who quarreled and grumbled with his wife, and the adventure crew who were waiting in the hall on the first floor.
Except for one Orca.
She made her way through the empty space.
She climbs the stairs and stands in front of the door. She stood in front of him for a long time, like someone hesitating about something.
He grabbed the doorknob and turned it slowly.
A doorknob that twists and turns. With a little force, the door opens lightly.
A large desk and a chair can be seen beyond the door.
But no one should be there.
Not just people. The splendid decorations and treasures that filled the inside also disappeared.
It is because the family confiscated it, claiming to recover the damage caused by this incident.
This time, the adventure team’s failure to manage silver-ranked adventurers was to blame, or something.
It’s a far-fetched word, but it’s from an aristocratic family.
Since there is no longer a gold-rated adventurer who can give her voice to the writer after her… No, not even her father, she has no choice but to cry and eat mustard.
Orca went into her room and ran her hand across her desk.
Dirt smeared on her fingers.
I’ve touched this desk hundreds of times now, but never once.
“Dad…”
I once hated him.
There were times when I resented him.
But I swear I’ve never wished for this to happen.
Although he was a bit cold-hearted, he was the father she loved after all.
Water droplets drip onto the dusty desk. Tears contain sadness. It contains longing.
…It contains loneliness.
This is the pain of being alone in the world.
Loneliness with no place to lean on.
It was more painful than Orca had imagined.
The mind and spirit are gnawed away.
“I miss you…”
What comes to mind is the face of the man she loves.
Miss you.
Right now, I want to be embraced in that wide embrace and flirt.
But now it was too late.
It would be a great rudeness to visit.
“Even if it’s just the face…”
If only I could see his face without being held in my arms…
It seemed like it could somehow sustain the heart that was about to collapse.
Magical power rises from Orca’s hand.
The rising magic power became a small sparrow and soared high into the sky.
Under the wide and beautiful night sky, the sparrow reached in front of a house with a small flap of its wings.
As far as Orca knew, this was Han Yoo-seong’s house.
‘Only the face… Only the face…’
The sparrow flew low and stopped in front of the window.
I tilted my head and looked through the window. Normally, it would have been hidden by the curtains, so you couldn’t see inside.
But today, the already tired Yoosung was being dragged by Celis, so he forgot to close her curtains.
Thanks to this, Orca was able to see inside her, and she faced the truth she did not want to see or face.
Beyond the window, two people are overlapping their bodies.
If it was just that, it would have been fine. Because she knew at least that Yooseong had a lover. It was unpleasant, but bearable.
But the sight she was seeing now gave her a great shock.
-Hajak, Crane, Mr. Yooseong… Mr. Yooseong Mr..!!!
A woman on top of a meteor gasps with an obscene voice.
But she doesn’t look ugly or cheap.
She exudes her classy aura even as she sways and gasps on top of the man.
-Ah… Yoosung… I love you… I love you…
The woman brushed her Milky Way hair to the side of her disheveled to match her meteor with her lips.
Suddenly, the woman’s face was revealed.
“Ah…”
The woman…
The meteor and the woman overlapping her body were even more beautiful than Orca.
Not only her appearance but also her atmosphere overwhelmed her.
Yuseong laid her woman down while Orca was in shock.
He grabs her chest tightly and slaps her around the waist.
…It was an intense movement that Orca had never seen before.
-Hajak, Crane, Mr. Yooseong… Mr. Yooseong Mr..!
The woman wrapped her legs around her man’s waist. She shows no sign of being burdened. She just takes him for granted, like everyday.
Orca, who was staring blankly, realized who the woman was. She couldn’t know It’s a voice I’ve heard dozens of times.
“Three… Reese…”
Han Yu-seong’s lover.
“Ahhh…”
The stumbling bridge collapses.
Orca kneeling down.
Only tears flowed from the empty eyes.
She realized
She knows she has nothing left.
