Chapter 188 – Chapter 188 – North And…
Early in the morning, we were seen off by the high priest, Claudia, and Amania on the outskirts of the city.
It was just dawn, and in front of the dimly lit front door, I questioned Amania.
“Are you sure it’s okay to stay here?”
As her love her for her husband her grew, her obsession her with Amania faded, but her her original affection her for her her didn’t completely disappear, so I asked her with some concern.
At my question, Amania nodded her head with her bitter eyes, but with her strong will her.
“Yes, it’s okay. Thank you for your concern…”
“Umm… Really…? Well, if you’ve decided, I don’t have anything else to say…”
Haha, through this… You’ve clearly realized how weak I am? Alone… I can’t fall behind…”
Armania slightly turned her eyes and looked at Claudia, who had tears in her eyes her, and her husband her, who was having a conversation with Cecil.
“I want to be like Ian one day…”
“… Well, wouldn’t it be hard to be like Ian?”
Haha, I think so too.”
At my playful tone, Amania smiled and affirmed.
It was the first time I had seen him masochistic, so when I was slightly surprised, Amania said with a bitter smile.
“It’s okay if you don’t look at me like that. I… Just found out that I can’t become a person like Ian… But… I’m going to work hard to become a great person like Ian. And. .. When I become such a great person… Can I meet you anytime?”
“Whoa, yes, I’ll come to my hometown later and feed you our tribe’s specialties.”
Haha, I’m looking forward to that.”
While we were talking like that, Sui suddenly jumped in from the side and shouted.
“Brother!! Did you forget your sister?!”
“Sui-nee…Haha, that’s not possible.”
Stepping aside so the two could talk, I soon heard Ms. Claudia’s trembling voice coming in.
She turned her head to look at Claudia, who was holding her husband’s hand her with tears welling up in her eyes.
“Mr. Ian… Can you promise me one thing…?”
Hearing the voice of Mr. Claudia, who was hard to accept or even faint at the fact that he had to part with her husband her, her husband said in the same somber voice.
“Yes…”
“Someday…If we meet again…”
Claudia, who had been speaking in her quiet voice, suddenly put her lips to her husband’s ear her and she began to whisper.
Hearing her whisper her, her husband, her slightly opened her eyes wide and began to look at me.
What?
As I looked at it with a puzzled look, my husband thought for a moment and then only nodded his head slightly.
Seeing her husband like that, Claudia gave a small smile and let go of her husband’s hand her.
And Cecile, who was looking at the scene, was in a daze and said to Claudia, startedled.
“Uh, Mom… No way…!”
“Huh? What’s wrong?”
Seeing Cecile trembling in her face, Claudia replied with a sly smile.
“That’s right!!”
“Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, he has a husband now, but without dignity…”
“What is it, since when did that happen?!”
“Um… That’s right… From when I carried you on my back while bleeding all over my lower body?”
“Eww! Mom… Always said something whenever I read a romance book…!”
The moment I looked at the sitcom-like conversation between the two with a smile on my face, the high priest approached me with a gentle smile and spoke in a whisper.
“Claudia… That girl has finally realized what true love is. Heh heh heh”
“Ah High Priest…”
I slightly bowed my head, and the high priest also bowed his head respectfully.
“You’re going north…”
At the high priest’s words, I glanced at Niel, who was standing there as if bored, and said,
“I’m trying to help a friend.”
“Well, that’s right… The north is a place where there are vast grasslands and severe cold at any time of the year. Would you accept my present?”
“A gift…?”
When I looked at him curiously and asked, the High Priestess nodded with a satisfied smile.
“You can’t walk around the vast land trusting only your two legs. Claudia?”
He then called Claudia, who had been talking with Cecil.
Claudia nodded her head at the high priest’s call and moved her steps toward the back of the castle wall. After a while, we were surprised to see what followed behind her.
Behind her were six horses and loads that looked heavy on the saddles on the horses.
As if we were satisfied with our surprised reaction, the High Priestess replied with a bright smile.
“Please accept it.”
“Ha, but…”
“Heh heh, you guys are the ones who saved our city, so how can we send it away empty-handed? If you don’t accept it, we’ll be treated like ungrateful bastards. Please.”
At the end, we couldn’t refuse the high priest’s appearance as he lowered his head and spoke.
Mounted on horseback, we looked back as we left the city.
As always, the high priest, Claudia, and Amania were waving their hands and seeing us off at the door of a city we were used to.
It is a place overflowing with pleasure and easily evaporating love… However, realizing once again that there is no lie in that love, I raised my hand and waved it with my companions.
Until they are out of sight…
* * *
The further north you go up, the colder the air becomes.
Thanks to that, Cecile, who usually wore light clothes, changed into thick ones, and I didn’t wear anything special because I was wearing magic clothes.
The sparsely visible forest gradually disappeared, and now a vast meadow spread out to the end of the field of vision, and we crossed the meadow.
The meadow was really… Nothing.
Should I say too much deer in the middle…? It was really desolate, except that I passed a group of six-legged guys who looked like the deer from my previous life.
Well, I even grew fond of looking at the desolate meadow… But there was one thing that was hard to bear.
Right away…
Weiying…
“Damn it..! Fucking mosquitoes!!”
They’re fucking assholes!!
Fuck!
In the middle of a gloomy meadow, I put a lot of mosquito repellent grass in the campfire to ward off the fucking mosquito babies.
Soon, acrid smoke spread in all directions, and I was relieved, albeit a little, from the fucking noises of the fucking dicks.
Our party was all exhausted.
Even Niel, who at first led the way with vigor, had long since turned completely despondent after a month of wandering.
“It’s definitely around here… Why isn’t it…? It should be there after passing the hill…”
The confidence in her eyes had long since disappeared as she muttered as she looked at the map she had brought with her.
I looked at her disapprovingly at her muttering her, and I frowned at her and said as if to shoot her.
“Where the hell are those people for cross-cultural exchanges? Are you a doctor from different races?”
“…..Do I really have to say it that way?”
No, I was sure what was going on, and led me this far…
Niel frowning at my sarcastic remarks of her, I said, rubbing her face the same way at her shameless behavior of her.
“Then what should I say? It’s already been a week since I said it was around here. The drinking water and food I brought will run out soon. Now then, what should I think of this situation? Huh? The only things here are fucking weeds and fucking mosquitoes. There’s nothing out there!”
To be honest, 99.9 percent of my fucking mind is occupied by the fucking mosquitoes.
“……”
As I stared at her face with a crease, Niel did n’t say anything as if he was at a loss for words.
The other party listened to the conversation between me and Niel and looked at each other awkwardly to see if there was something they could relate to.
As the awkward silence enveloped us, her husband looked at Niel and cautiously opened his mouth his.
“Niel…?”
“…Why”
It had been a long time since he had stopped talking to her during her trip of more than a month, so Niel stubbornly looked only at her guidance her with a brusque expression and said,
“What Grace said is right… Now there is not enough food and drinking water, so even if we go around like this, we will only wither and die. I won’t tell you to give up. “”
At her husband’s proposal her, which was so tender, Niel must have been well aware that she was stubborn. She looked at her map her quietly, then turned her head to her husband’s eyes her.
Then Niel, who blushed slightly, pouting her lips, as if he was ashamed of his stubbornness her, agreed with a small nod.
“Yes…”
Finally…
In the city, there would be no comfy beds and no fucking mosquitoes.
Phew…
In the end, looking at her stubbornness of her, it seems that not everything has changed.
It is true that I have become smarter and softer, but I thought that my thoughts, firm belief in decisions, and ability to execute were worse than when I was a knight, so I shook my head and took out a pot.
“Okay! Decided! Let’s start exploring the city tomorrow, whoa… Let’s eat first.”
I put the pot on the fire and put water and ground grain powder in it.
And on top of that, since today is the day I decided to go back, huhuhu I should add some vegetables.
Maybe it’s because it’s been aged for a month, I sliced up a bit of soft cabbage and put it in the soup and started to boil it slowly, stirring.
After confirming that bubbles were slowly rising from the surface of the soup, I took out an extra piece of beef jerky, which was extremely hard but of excellent quality, and cut it into bite-sized pieces with a sharp dagger.
Why am I making food?
That’s because I’m the only one who can make something good to eat here.
Ian, my lovely husband asked me to cook, and how the hell do I get that flavor?
What about Cecil… In the Holy Land, she lived on food prepared by the cook, so she didn’t even touch water.
All that’s left is me and Niel… Niel wants to know her, she’s a knight. When traveling, all she did was eat low-grade beef jerky.
At least I was the only one who tried cooking downright… In a way, it was a completely natural decision.
Well… I’m not good at cooking either…
I can still get it right, but…
The smell that rises from the bubbling soup… I can’t say it’s delicious, but it’s just this.
After tasting it carefully, the salty taste from beef jerky and the slightly thick texture of grain powder are still edible.
After finishing what I was about to eat, I started to share it with the party who wanted a hearty soup because I stuffed it with pieces of beef jerky for lunch.
I dipped hard bread into the soup to make it soft, then ate it while looking at the Milky Way and praying.
Tomorrow, I hoped that I would eat food like food in the city and not listen to the sound of dicks, but…
Doo doo doo doo…!!
I couldn’t help but sigh when I heard the sound of the ground shaking in the darkness and saw Niel standing up.
