Chapter 318 – The Winter Dancer.
“Ugh.”
Early in the morning, shivering from the permeating cold even though the blanket was covered, as he pulled the blanket, the boy frowned and opened his eyes at the unfamiliar feeling of a different, rough texture rubbing his skin. Then, an unfamiliar landscape caught my eye.
“Right.”
Realizing belatedly that the place he was in was not the house he had originally lived in, he sighed. That’s because the place where the boy stayed was originally in the Holy Land. When I woke up and looked around, everyone was asleep wrapped in the blankets given to them. At first glance, the number is about four or five. Most of them were strangers as they rode in the wagons at will. But if the people who hired him knew at least, would they know?
“Uncle Coles and Aunt Coles.”
They were still lying down and asleep as well. I wasn’t really worried about them. In the first place, he has a stone nose, so who cares? At least he was a little relieved by his familiar face. But for a while, the boy made sure they were all asleep and looked out the window. As soon as the sun was about to rise, I could see it getting dimly bright, so I quietly got up. She shuddered in the cold air and brushed his arm as she approached the door. As he opened the crack in the door and stretched out his hand, the cold air stung his hand as if it were about to freeze.
“Evil!”
He screamed involuntarily, then hurriedly covered his mouth and looked around. He tossed and turned noisily at the boy’s screams, but he was relieved that no one was awake, wrapped himself in the blanket he had covered himself, and went out.
“Oh, it’s filthy cold.”
Originally, it was said that the night was cold, but even so, this was too severe. The wind was not blowing, but the force of the cold was fierce nonetheless.
“How the hell did something like that suddenly appear?”
It was to see the huge mountain of ice, which is thought to be the cause of this cold. I thought it might be possible with magic, but even so, this scene was a nonsense story. It was still hard to believe that such a huge mountain range of ice could have appeared in a mere moment, but I couldn’t help but believe it when I saw something that I couldn’t see along the way. Nevertheless, it was true that I was curious, so as I approached the mountain, I saw people.
Somehow, they were dressed lightly to be outside in this cold weather, but they were not living people, so it was natural.
“I thought you had a funeral.”
I wasn’t particularly interested, so I was avoiding the cold in the carriage, but I was curious and approached the ice mountain to examine them.
“Wow, how cold it really is, only for one night.”
I heard that the corpses were buried against a mountain of ice, but I was shocked to see them. Obviously, all the corpses that were supposed to be propped up yesterday were trapped in a frozen, cold world as if they were originally in ice.
“It’s crazy. If you do this, you won’t be able to find anything useful.”
In fact, the boy’s real purpose was something else. Because people put on or leave the owner’s things, big or small, during funerals. He was trying to find something useful among them.
“Nothing really works. Maybe I can get another job.”
It would have been better if it was something worth money, but as you can see, even if there was such a thing, it was useless. I tried kicking the ice with my feet just in case, but there was not even a small scratch on the surface of the transparent ice. It was when I was walking, looking back at the ice mountain, wondering if there was a place that hadn’t frozen yet. Suddenly, in the gloomy air, I found another human figure. He was nervous, thinking that he might have come to see the person at the funeral. Even though he belonged to a dead person, it was true that he tried to steal things.
‘Huh? Too small?’
However, let alone an adult, he had doubts about the figure of a smaller shadow, and as he carefully approached it, the boy realized that the identity of the shadow was a girl. It is also very beautiful. Ebony hair that seemed to flow softly as water flowed, eyelashes that were as tender as butterfly wings, and skin that was as soft as snow that fell little by little. A girl wearing a unique top with wide sleeves and a short skirt that shows off her white thighs regardless of this cold weather.
“…And.”
It was to the point that he forgot what he was trying to do and inadvertently admired the girl he had seen so far, no, she was more beautiful than anything else. Because of this, the girl looked back at him as if she had noticed his presence.
“Who?”
The girl’s gray color was full of caution, so the boy hurriedly opened his mouth.
“Who are you? You’re just wandering around because you’re bored. Who are you?”
It was a questionable situation for him, but he could say it boldly because he thought it was the same for her. Then the girl doesn’t answer and turns her head in a pout. The boy was taken aback by the sight of her even turning her foot away because that wasn’t enough. He was moving her steps before he thought as he was getting farther away. Contrary to his fading footsteps, the girl’s footsteps gently walked across the snow. However, it was the girl’s thighs that caught the boy’s attention.
Because of her short skirt, the exposed thighs were thick and well-curved even for a fairly small girl. It was the time when I unknowingly chased after the tail of her jet-black hair that swayed gently. The girl suddenly stopped her steps.
“Why are you following me?”
She was weeping at him in an indifferent gray light. Even when I was perplexed at the heightened borderline, a good idea came to my mind.
“Because I’m on a walk. It’s just a walk. Why?”
The girl frowned at her fair armies as if she were not trustworthy, but she withdrew her gray light from him and walked in front of her. The boy began to grow more and more irritated by that negligent action. Because of this, he now pursued her openly.
“My name is Reuben. What is your name?”
“I didn’t even ask.”
The girl is dumbfounded by his words, so she replies and continues walking away.
“No, in times like this, you have to say your name!”
“Why?”
A girl who even asks back as if it’s really bothersome. So while he was thinking about how to get her attention, he handed over the blanket he had wrapped himself in. To be honest, as soon as he took off the blanket, a chill came over him, his body trembled, and his teeth tried to clash, but he clenched his teeth to hide it.
“Then don’t you get cold with a short skirt like that?”
“What does that have to do with you?”
“What does it matter?”
Reuben, to be honest, had nothing to say, but he struggled to find an excuse nonetheless.
“That’s because they said women shouldn’t be cold.”
Because he had a friend who was quite good at flirting with women. He recalled, albeit clumsily, the story he had heard from his friend.
“That’s fine. It’s not too cold.”
However, seeing the girl who continued to walk without getting her seed eaten, Reuben wondered if the guy had given him the wrong information. He didn’t even think that his words were far from the way his friend used to speak. He decided to be even more brazen.
“Why are you still following me?”
Perhaps because of this, she was now glaring at him grayishly as if it were annoying.
“I’m curious about your name.”
“Won’t you follow me if I tell you?”
“Follow me because I’m on a walk.”
The girl eventually sighs at his words, and she walks forward again.
“Did you also escape from the Holy Land? Where have you been living?”
Reuben persisted in pursuing him, but the girl did not respond to any of his words, so she became in a hurry.
“Aren’t you really cold? You should wear this.”
That was when she finally said she once again showed her blanket that she was covering herself with.
“Whoa, okay.”
“Oh, really?”
Reuben, who did not expect her girl to receive her blanket for real, was when she watched her take her own blanket. It was the first time the girl laughed bashfully.
“Hehe ♪ You must have decided to give it to me?”
“Yes…?”
The girl’s smile turned her mind white. Because she was so beautiful and so cute. So she didn’t realize that while he was parenting, the girl was holding the handle of her carriage, which she had just arrived.
“Aha ♪ Then I’ll use it well. Are you good at walking?”
“Uh?”
Reuben came to his senses and realized the situation. The girl had already slightly opened the door of her carriage and put her body through the gap, staring closely at him. Of course, his blanket was in her hand.
“Huh?”
So he tried to say something, but his mouth couldn’t get the words out properly, and only stupid sounds came out. When Reuben regained his senses, the cold stung him, and he was already standing alone outside the carriage without a blanket.
“…Each!”
Reuben finally sneezed and trudged back to his carriage to avoid the cold that stung his body.
“What kind of blanket is this all of a sudden?”
When Erica, who said that Diana had been out for a while, wondered at the appearance of her unexpectedly bringing her blanket, she smiled bashfully.
“Hee hee ♪ I got it.”
“You got it…”
Diana wondered if anyone had spare blankets, but Erica took the blanket she had brought and went to the back of the carriage. Because there was Usher, who was sleeping curled up in her body.
“Usher, it’s here.”
The girl affectionately called his name and whispered sweetly, but Usher did not wake up. I’d rather just be happy with that.
“Wait, Belka.”
Usher hears a girl’s voice in his sleep and calls out the name of another girl who is no longer there. Erica sat down next to him and lifted his head and put it on my lap. And Diana said, watching Usher loosen her face, frowning a little at the girl’s touch gently sweeping her forehead.
“Are you all right?”
When she asked such a question, Erica tilted her head.
“Why?”
“But you like him, and he…”
Diana shut her mouth there. It was because her powerlessness was still harassing her to bring up such a story directly. Then Erica blinked her gray light and opened her mouth.
“That’s not why I don’t like Usher.”
“But I’m not afraid…”
No matter how much he likes him, if the other person is looking for someone else, there’s no way he can’t help but feel sad. Diana seemed to be able to vaguely guess the reason, but she couldn’t be sure, so she couldn’t understand Erica’s attitude even more.
“But me and Verdi are one?”
“…One.”
Diana couldn’t understand her girl’s words. Surely they were completely different from appearance to personality? It seemed to make sense, but the sense of heterogeneity seemed to refuse to understand. Then Erica looked down at her Usher again and continued to run through his hair.
“It can’t be helped. We ended up falling apart and we couldn’t share the same memories with Usher.”
Diana barely realized. Erica was not without regret. She was just swallowing bitter water.
