Chapter 238 – 238. The Promise Between the Barbarian Girl Athena and Claudia. [Claudia’s Decision][4]
“Kikikikik black hair and red eyes~~ Are you a barbarian?”
The northern part of Euphoria, devastated by a long war,
There, in a village alley, a big boy was strutting around.
“My mother said that the term barbarian is not good… Because barbarians themselves have never called themselves barbarians…”
It was a child with long black hair that was tattered and red eyes that looked like they had not been washed properly.
The child was a girl born to a mother from a desert tribe and a Euphorian soldier father.
“Fuck, I was never born saying I was Thomas~~? People around me called me Thomas. So you are a barbarian because people call you a barbarian!”
Hold! Hold! Hold!
Thomas pushed the dark-haired girl’s hair with his fingers.
The difference in height between the two children was the size of a head.
“Uuuuu…My mom definitely said that…”
The black-haired child began to cry.
“She was a prostitute who didn’t learn from her mother. So if she knows, how much does she know?”
As the black-haired child began to cry, Thomas became even more excited and began defecating through her mouth.
“My mom said she was a high-ranking person where she used to live… So she knows a lot… Uhhh…”
Then the dark-haired child mustered up her courage and defended her mother.
“She’s funny and sassy. Where is your proud mother? Didn’t she end up suffering from a sexually transmitted disease? Giggle, giggle, giggle! “That’s why you’re stuck in the village orphanage~ Am I wrong?”
“Fuck thank you!!! Because citizens like my father and mother pay taxes to feed you~!!”
Hold! Hold! Hold! Hold!
But Trash Thomas mercilessly trampled on the black-haired child’s pride.
“Esssss…! “My mom is trying to save me… Because I’m in a lot of pain… Ugh… To make money for my medicine… Ugh…!”
Eventually, the dark-haired girl burst into tears.
“Kyahahahahahaha!!! Cry, cry!! Cry!! It’s cool to deceive!! Do you know how hard it is for us to feed you guys? I’m eating 3 meals instead of 4, damn it!! “I lost 5kg!!!”
Thomas felt hungry after eating 3 out of 4 meals.
He dragged a passing black-haired child to a corner to vent his anger on.
“I see… You’ve lost weight, kid… I feel sorry for you…”
At that moment, a voice full of regret was heard from behind Thomas.
“Who the fuck are you? “You know what kind of person my dad is, and you’re being sarcastic like that!!!”
ㅡStroke!
The voice was full of mockery.
Thomas, a quick-witted trash kid, caught it with a surprise and turned around with an angry face.
“Hmm… It’s a pig that’s plump enough to be eaten…? “Then how much longer were you a pig before then, kid…”
It was Claudia.
Claudia was wearing her witch costume and looking at Thomas with her eyes full of contempt.
“Damn, witch!!!”
Thomas’ face turned white at the sight of Claudia in a witch’s costume.
This is because the character often cited in Euphoria when scaring children is a witch.
“Would you like to do to me the same thing you did to that kid? “You guys also despise witches quite a bit.”
“And you have to speak straight. That child’s mother and that child’s father fought hard to maintain that chubby body and survive. Is not it?”
Cook! Cook! Cook!
Claudia recklessly attacked with facts.
At the same time, Thomas’ swollen belly was stabbed with the witch’s wand.
“Please… Help me, witch… I don’t want to die…!”
Dump!!
Sprout! Sprout! Sprout! Sprout! Sprout!
The witch captures her little child and uses him as her slave.
She was Euphoria, of whom bizarre rumors abounded, such as that she was used as a slave and when she got tired of it, she was captured and eaten.
In the end, because Thomas was a child, he got so scared that he got down on his knees and begged for his life.
“Ha… It’s not right for me to kill a child at this age, but it’s not right to just send a child like you off gracefully.”
Thomas is trash, but Claudia’s personality is not very harsh, so she endured her hunger to slaughter the little boy in front of her.
Still, she crossed her arms and thought deeply, as if she had somehow punished her.
“Are you a pig?”
At that moment, Claudia calls Thomas a pig.
“Gulp?”
Thomas responded to the call by making a pig noise.
“Gulp? Gulp gulp? Wow!! Guuuuu?”
Restless! Restless! Restless! Restless!
It was the sound of a pig being made against one’s will.
Thomas, who was greatly embarrassed, became restless and panicked.
“Guuuuuck!! Wow!! Gulp gulp!! “Gulp, gulp, gulp!!!”
ㅡDa-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da!!!
“Please work hard just for today~ You’ve really been watching out for me~!”
Thomas ran away, screaming like a pig.
Watching Thomas run away, Claudia kindly told him about the expiration date of the curse.
Sigh…!
Afterwards, Claudia looked at the dark-haired girl behind her.
‘Luckily I wasn’t scared.’
Claudia, who has been traveling here and there for several years after being left alone on her own;
During her travels, she sometimes saved people.
However, what she experienced every time was that even the people she had saved were scared when they saw her witch, Claudia.
However, the black-haired girl was not afraid of Claudia at all.
“Wow… That’s cool…!”
Instead of being scared, she looked at Claudia with bright eyes and longing.
“Eh…?”
Claudia was puzzled by that sight.
She usually looks at wizards and says they are cool.
In fact, wizards are one of the pillars of the Warrior Academy.
But I was so surprised that a witch said she was cool.
“Witch Sister… Can I become like you…? You seem really free… And you have the ability… If you’re an older sister, you can live without being a burden to anyone… Right?”
The bright black-haired girl’s eyes were truly earnest and hopeful.
“Why do you think you’re a burden? “Is it because of what she said earlier?”
Claudia seemed so earnest that she answered quite seriously.
“Regardless of what that brother says… I think of that every time I miss her mother… I also think of her mother’s face when she was suffering and so… So uh…”
The black-haired girl’s pain was a pain she felt herself.
Like the name Barbarian, it wasn’t given to me by someone else.
She was heartbroken because her mother, whom she loved so dearly, had sadly passed away, and she was living with that heartache.
“…”
Claudia looked at her dark-haired girl in silence.
“You are not a burden…”
Right…!
She then slightly bent her knees and bent her back to place her warm hand on the dark haired girl’s head.
She said with a warm smile that she was more than just that.
“To my mother, you were hope, joy, and happiness. Even until the last day. She thought she was happy because she could live as a mother and be your mother. So don’t think like that.”
Claudia tried to relieve her dark-haired girl’s trauma.
“Really…? “Was I really happy that my mom was my mom…?”
The black-haired girl responded with even more earnest eyes.
“Okay~! Her older sister is a witch. “Right now, with my hand on your head, I’m looking into your body… Children are so innocent that it’s possible… But I can clearly see it… Your mother is happy looking at you…”
Seaaaaa…!
Claudia’s magic was activated in her hand, which was placed on the black-haired girl’s head.
As she said, she was looking at her girl’s memories.
“I see…!!! Mom really enjoyed being with me…!!”
The performance taking place before her eyes was believable even for a dark-haired girl.
Grinning…!
Claudia looked at the girl with a smile again.
‘Was Merlin like that too…? Was it like that to me until the last moment…?
‘Even though he had to face death like that… Would he still have been happy with the time he had with me…?’
‘Am I now… Living the way Merlin wanted me to live…?’
Claudia looks at her dark haired girl and she is looking at herself.
She endures, blaming Merlin hard, as he said in her last words,
In her wanderings she may still be engaging in her self-abuse.
“Now take this, kid.”
Sigh…!
Claudia handed the dark-haired girl a bracelet made of felt woven from her own grass.
“What is this, sister…?”
The girl who accepted her bracelet said with a curious expression.
“Now you and I are connected through this. “Right now, I can’t take in any disciples due to the situation, but this is a way for me to protect you until that situation arises.”
Claudia explains the purpose of the bracelet in detail.
Although she had a vague goal, she still had a goal.
Because of that, she wants to stop her aimless wandering.
“Wow…!”
Claudia’s actions filled her eyes with hope.
“You have to endure it bravely until your sister is fully prepared, right? Of course, my sister will contact me often. “I will take a look.”
That’s what Merlin did to Claudia in her younger days when she was ostracized because she was possessed by a ghost.
“And what is your name? Come to think of it, I didn’t even ask your name?”
She felt rewarded.
So Claudia, with her brightest smile in recent memory, asked her dark-haired girl’s name.
“My name is Athena, sister…!”
In this way, Athena became Claudia’s first disciple.
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“I was traumatized by hanging out with people, but she couldn’t help it because she had a promise to Athena. “From then on she started working as an adventurer.”
“Go to the quest exchange, register, get picked up, and earn money by performing quests or dungeons.”
“I really wanted to teach children properly, while taking care of them. “For that to happen, my existing way of life wouldn’t be enough.”
“In the end, joining forces with the adventurers at that time was the driving force that allowed me to come here. “I gained the courage to work with people I met for the first time.”
Claudia wanted to systematically teach children who wanted to become witches, just as the wizards at her academy taught their students.
She needed money to do that and she started making her money.
“But the thing about people’s greed. Even though it’s hard, it feels rewarding, so my goals keep getting bigger. “One, two, three, four, and then we had almost 10 children.”
“At that point, it would have been a lot of money to make money as an adventurer. So, while I was thinking about making a lot of money, I received an offer from the Dark Awakenings.”
Claudia spoke in an honest voice, slightly sighing.
She felt like she had said all she had to say.
“That was the situation, Claudia…”
Kim Tae-sik couldn’t think of what to say right away.
“I feel relieved when I say this. “I don’t know about anyone else, but I felt sorry for you.”
It was a sigh of relief.
Because it was awkwardly located, I couldn’t have a clear conversation.
Kim Tae-sik, who was good to himself rather than to others,
At least she can talk to him, and Claudia feels at ease.
“And it can’t work anymore…”
Cheok…!
Claudia stood up after telling the story she had stored inside her.
“Why? Where?”
In Kim Tae-sik’s eyes, the figure looked quite determined.
Grinning…
Claudia smiled warmly, as if she was just grateful for Kim Tae-sik’s interest.
But her appearance clearly gave the impression that she was about to leave somewhere.
