Chapter 298 – The Cold Blooded King.
After obtaining the ring, they were moving their steps somewhere else.
“Ghmm, this is a misunderstanding that has no place in sales.”
Krikaliev sighed tiredly from talking with the shopkeeper, but he did not stop walking ahead.
“When can I wear the ring?”
Erica looked at Krikaliev with displeasure. After all, he was the one who told them that it was too early to wear rings.
“Hi, don’t fret. No matter how simple the engagement ceremony is, you want to make it a little more special.”
“Chi.”
Erica was still dissatisfied, but she no longer bothered him.
“Oh! Look over there!”
But as soon as she found something interesting in her, it was her Erica who ran away with her gray light shining, so her Usher was busy following her around, holding her own hand and leading her. Although Krikaliev seemed to be bothered by them, he followed them.
“They are fish.”
“Yeah! But it’s colorful and pretty!”
Belka sat on his back and looked at Erica’s discoveries together. There were small fish swimming around in a small barrel. At first glance, there was nothing special about it, but like Erica said, fish in deep red, blue, yellow, and various patterns moved their fins and were swimming in a small world. Usher also watched it for a while, but the conversation of the girls overheard caught him.
“Ugh, are these kids eating too?”
“Maybe?”
“Is it this small?”
Erica seemed to think that people would eat the fish here. She tilts her head, as if Belka doesn’t quite understand, so I wonder if these fish are really being sold for food, the owner, who seems to have been selling them, chuckles.
“Ladies, this fish is for ornamental purposes, not food.”
“Are you just watching?”
As Erica tilted her head, the owner continued.
“Even if you use it for food, it’s tasteless, and even though it’s so small, you can’t tell anything about it? It’s nice and pretty to look at, so we grow it this way.”
“Huh, you can raise fish.”
“Yeah, I guess it wasn’t just eating.”
Erica and Belka seem to have been convinced in their own way, and they follow the figure of fish swimming in gray and gold, drawing a water path.
“Shall I buy one?”
“Sorry, but it’s not necessary.”
“It must be difficult to grow.”
Usher asked just in case, but the girls shook their heads side by side. In the end, they calmed down by watching for a while and walked the streets again.
“Oh, it smells delicious!”
However, when Erica became curious about something, she tended to take it elsewhere.
“Erika, slow down!”
Fortunately, it was that he never let go of his hand. As she was being led by her, when she arrived, there was a huge cast iron pan and her man cutting something that looked like vegetables next to it. A savory smell wafted from the concave cast-iron pan, as if boiling oil, along with the sound of sizzling oil splashing.
“Me, that! I want to eat that!”
Soon, her man put a wire mesh into the boiling oil and took out a ring-shaped fry.
“Fried mook. It was pretty good.”
Krikaliev seemed to know about it too. When I asked the price, it was only Donghwa 2 cents per bag, so when I paid the bill, the man put a small paper box full of tempura.
“Yum! Delicious!”
Erica munched on each of the ring-shaped fries in the small box and ate them. As Usher was looking at it, she encountered a gray light.
“Do you want to eat too?”
“No, not like that.”
“Oh~”
He tried to say no, but as if Erica had already waited, she handed Usher one of her fries. The salty taste of salt spread in her mouth as she took it and ate it. After chewing, there is a slightly crunchy feeling hidden in the savory tempura, and when you chew what remains, a unique fragrance flows out.
“Come on, Verdido!”
“Yes, Squall.”
Erica brought her fries to her Belka as well. Belka, reluctantly, accepted the fries she offered her and munched on them. After confirming that they ate the fries one by one, Erica continued to eat her fries as if satisfied. She wondered if she really liked her taste. The whole time she ate, she couldn’t help but smile at her appearance, but as she watched, she had a hand pulling on the hem of his clothes.
“Usher.”
Belka pointed to one side as she licked her lips at his figure facing her.
“I was curious about what was there.”
At the place she pointed to, there was a stall selling fruit or something made into juice. The scent wafting all the way to this place seemed to teach me how sweet the fruit was. Eventually, when they arrived at their unknown destination, it was already sunset.
“I’m not very tired.”
“That’s because I happened to see it.”
“Aww, I’m sorry.”
As Krikaliev looked at them and said, Usher made an awkward excuse and Belka apologized.
“Hee hee, it was fun!”
Erica was drinking her own juice anyway.
“But why are you here again?”
The place they arrived at is the center of the Holy Land. It was a huge castle that towered in the sky without knowing how high it was, with no end in sight even though I was looking at it from the other side of the bridge. At first, I didn’t realize that it would be this big, but the traces of the golem’s escape were saying that this large castle was the place they had climbed once. They say they don’t have to fight anymore, but I asked if I could come back to the place where I ran amok.
“Because it’s a tradition to hold an engagement ceremony or a wedding in a holy place.”
Usher thought that if it was simply that, it would be enough for them to do it themselves, but Krikaloff’s words followed.
“And I might be able to mend the young lady’s foot.”
Because of this, Usher had no choice but to follow him to the castle.
“You guys!”
However, as soon as he reached the castle, he saw that the knights he encountered each held their weapons and were wary of Krikaliev.
“Didn’t their boss tell you?”
“That.”
“Certainly, the Cardinal and the Saint…”
It was as if they were confused.
“What’s the fuss all of a sudden?”
“Holy Maid.”
Diana’s voice came through them. Although tired or sleepy, the knights all at once retreated from where the voices came from and knelt down. The eyes resembling Nok-eup looked at them as if they were surprised.
“Master?”
So they were able to enter the castle under her guidance.
“You must be busy with work. I’m sorry.”
“No. Because I’ve arranged the things that I really want to be important in advance.”
“Huh, I never thought those kids would grow up like this.”
“Whoops, because I couldn’t live as a child forever.”
As I walk slowly down the hallway, I hear the voices of Krikaliev and Diana conversing.
“Rather than that, why did Master come here?”
“It’s nothing else, it’s for the kids’ engagement ceremony. I want you to treat the little girl’s feet as well.”
At his words, Diana’s eyes turned to Usher and the girls. Usher knew she was a different person, but she avoided those eyes, nonetheless resembling the people she knew. She must have noticed something, and she guided them to a certain bedroom.
“Kyaha! Soft and fluffy!”
As soon as Erica found a large bed in her room, she jumped excitedly and threw herself on it.
“Why is this all of a sudden…?”
“Could you please sit her down for a minute?”
When Usher looked at Diana with her puzzled mind and asked, she was looking at her Belka.
“I won’t eat you. Man.”
As he hesitates, wondering if he’ll be all right, Krikaliev bruises, and the girl on his back pats her on the shoulder as if asking her to put herself down. Usher was wary of Diana but had no choice but to sit Belka on the bed.
“Yes?”
Erica, who was rolling around on her bed, also felt Belka sitting down, and she carefully looked up at her. Diana sat down on her knees in front of her Belka and put her hands around her girl’s ankles. It was a moment of puzzlement for her as she did not know what the hell she was trying to do. Diana’s hand suddenly started to glow the same color as her eyes. The green light that spread out as if it would light up the entire room if Usher stared blankly at her in surprise stayed on the girl’s legs and soon the room returned to its original light as if nothing had happened.
The moment he is absent-minded. Belka, as if noticing something, carefully put her foot on her ground and stood up. Usher rushed towards her, afraid she might fall, but that didn’t happen.
“Belka? Aren’t you sick?”
“Huh.”
The girl was standing on the floor with no sign of pain. Belka moved her legs a few times in response to his question, moved her steps alone, and nodded her head.
“What happened?”
Usher couldn’t understand what had happened. At least as far as he knew, healing varied in severity, but he knew that any wound would take a long time to heal. It was really strange that the girl’s leg got better with just the touch of her hand and nothing else, like the medicine Belka used to put on him.
“Well, that’s why Diana is called a saint.”
“She never wanted to be called that.”
Krikaliev shrugged her shoulders as if he already knew, but Diana smiled bitterly.
“Is that magic?”
“Although people here like to call it something nice to hear, like Holy Power.”
When Usher watches her like that and asks, Diana responds calmly.
“Then what’s the difference between a witch and a witch?”
“Usher.”
Belka called him out, but Usher couldn’t stop.
“Because of Belka, she’s a witch. She had to live in hiding.”
The girl had to live in hiding. She never knew what would happen to her if anyone found out that she was a witch. She probably couldn’t even imagine what terrible things she would have gone through if she hadn’t met people like Donar and Schiff. Maybe it was scary to think of what I had been doing until now.
“But what is the difference between a saint and a witch? How are they different?”
As she watched her knights kneel down at her, Usher said that it was her hard work to hold back as her unspeakable emotions kept getting the better of her. She knew she couldn’t do this, but she couldn’t contain it, and her tears came out. She was such a fool that she was so stupid that it was painful. Isn’t that why he’s still a child who can do nothing but cry? Everyone looked at him silently, but he seemed to know how pitiful he was for holding back his tears.
“Well. Isn’t it the difference of majority vote?”
At that moment, Krikaliev’s voice came through the tear-clouded vision.
“A witch’s ability is so unique that there are many restrictions in many ways. However, occasionally witches born with useful magic are born.”
People called them none other than saints.
“And they will soon become the target of breeding.”
“I beg your pardon?”
“Saints have been passed down from generation to generation like that.”
Usher was speechless in shock. Even the tears stopped flowing, and Diana’s figure came into view clearly. He took her Belka and saw her for the first time properly, in the shadows of her familiars and her hatred for causing her pain.
“That’s right. I’m no different from a witch. I’m just called by a different name.”
The face of Diana, who faced her like that, was a woman with a sickly impression, as if she would collapse if touched. She was there, a woman who could neither hide nor escape.
“…Sorry.”
All of a sudden, words of apology came out of his mouth. It was true that she annoyed Belka, but she did it nonetheless. It was because she superimposed Belka on Diana’s appearance.
“It’s okay. Have a good rest today. The engagement ceremony will start tomorrow.”
She shook her head and promised her tomorrow. Usher said quietly to her as she left her room.
“Thank you for treating Belka.”
Did you hear what was close to his whisper? As she left her room, she smiled slightly.
“Well, then I’ll go out too. Take a break today.”
Even Krikaliev left the room, and silence came and stayed with them.
“Belka, Erica, I…”
Usher couldn’t stand the silence and opened her mouth, but it was Erica’s voice that returned.
“What does Usher want to do now?”
“Suddenly what…”
“How about it, how about it.”
“Ahah ♪ Because I’ve been wandering around all day.”
As he turned around to follow her voice, he was speechless at the sight he saw.
“From the bath? Or the snack I bought earlier? Or~ us?”
On the bed, Erica lifted Belka’s skirt, pushed her underwear aside, and stuck her slender fingers into the girl’s flower petals, showing him the transparent honey water that flowed out, laughing.
“Are you okay?”
“Yes, I have nothing to say even if I continue to be hated.
Diana replied with a smile at the sight of Krikaliev following her. Rather, she was feeling a sense of relief. She was a bit envious of Belka. While examining Diana, he nodded her head.
“Then is the next room empty?”
“Yeah? You’re not staying with the kids, are you?”
“I went in and said something.”
“Pufu, are you being considerate?”
“No, because I really can’t get in.”
Krikaliev shook her head and led her to the next room.
