Chapter 373 – Legacy of Order.
“I guess I can start working on it from here.”
Yakaf touched his chin and looked out the window on the first floor. The iron bars that were supposed to be there had already been removed by someone, and even the remaining wooden windows were half-rotted.
“Do I really need to make a window? It’s enough just to block the rain.”
At first, it was true that she felt a bit uneasy about the exterior of the almost collapsed building, but when she entered, Nausicaa liked the interior of the building, which was quite spacious. Best of all, I no longer had to hide in trash cans or under bridges to keep out the rain.
“If you put it like that, other houses wouldn’t have windows like that. It’s important in many ways, so I’ll fix it first.”
I mean, it’s cheap for a reason. Yakaf grumbled, but started to make the window with the materials he had obtained for making the window.
“…Can a normal person drive a nail with a fist?”
I know harpies use hammers when they do things like that.
“All you need is a tip. Just a tip. And there’s nothing you can do about it without a hammer. I’m out of money just for window materials.”
Although the method was unique even to her, who knew nothing about it. Anyway, Nausicaa wanted to help him, so she picked up a nail and put it in his hand as he was fumbling for it.
“Hmm? Oh, thank you.”
Then she spoke lightly and looked at her hand rather than at the way he continued to make the window. It really shouldn’t have been a big deal, but I liked the feeling of tickling around my chest. So it was. Unknowingly, chasing after him who was making windows, moving materials or lifting nails.
“Come on. Leave it there.”
“Huh.”
It may be that I was so excited to hear the words I heard for the first time because I liked his voice that came back every time.
“What’s wrong?!”
Then he stumbled and spilled all the nails he was holding onto the ground. Tingle! The sharp sound of metal scattering across the ground could not be so frightening. This forced her to tremble as she crouched on the floor strewn with her nails.
– Jip jjuljjul!
So frightening is the sound of it speeding through the ground that Nausicaa, who was lying on her face, is caught and lifted up by her large hands. She stood up without a chance to resist and waited for her finger to fly, but no matter how long she waited, nothing she feared happened.
“Hmm. I don’t think you’re seriously hurt.”
“…?”
Scared to open his eyes at the sound of his voice, when he narrowed his eyes, Yakaf quietly checked Nausicaa’s condition with the only yellow eye, and then began to pick up her nails that she had spilled. In a situation she couldn’t understand, she couldn’t help but stare at her, so he picked up her nails and looked at her curiously.
“I have to install a window somewhere else, but why don’t you follow me?”
Even after that, she followed him around and helped him install the windows, but even if she thought to herself, she didn’t seem to be very helpful. She often fell and spilled nails, and in severe cases she even broke her heavy materials because she couldn’t lift them properly.
“I’ll have to put a new window here later.”
In the end, she had no choice but to bow her head at the sight of him talking while looking through an empty window. Maybe she might be kicked out this time, she thought.
“Well, it seems like everything is over. Let’s go eat first.”
Nausicaa couldn’t understand her calmly speaking Yakaf, so she just nodded her head. Even though she thought, why the hell?, She didn’t have the courage to ask him, so she ended up living with him awkwardly.
“So kid. Which name do you think would be the best?”
“Why would you choose a new name when you already have a name?”
One day, he wrote several letters that looked like names on the sand floor and asked while thinking about it.
“What will the harpies think when they hear my name?”
Nausicaa thought for a moment before answering.
“Wouldn’t it run away?”
Who is not afraid of the one who defeated the wind king and no one else?
“So we have to change it. If your name gets known, won’t it get in the way of making money?”
His words made sense, but there was a crucial problem.
“But I can’t. I don’t know how to read.”
He remembers memorizing it when he was very young, but that memory faded before he knew it.
“For now, just listen to what he says and decide. I’ll let you know later.”
So they started to come up with a new name for him.
“Alt Four?”
“I hate something.”
“Gusak?”
“Anyway, that’s not it.”
There were a lot of names that made me wonder why they thought of such a thing, but there were some that were right.
“Krikaliev?”
“Let’s do that.”
For some reason, Nausicaa quickly decided on the normal name she had heard. Somehow the subtle expression on his face bothered me, but it was Yakaf who asked her to come up with a name for her. Even after that, they used the money he earned from hunting to go around the village or go shopping to repair old buildings.
“A flying contest?”
Then I heard that the harpies were having a flying contest.
“That’s what it looks like when you come here.”
“Does your uncle know?”
“Everyone knows how much I’ve been to the Holy Land. By the way, I’ve even won first place in a flying competition.”
“Why is it possible for someone who isn’t even a harpy to do that…”
“How did you join?”
Nausicaa was dumbfounded, but he couldn’t take his eyes off the leaflet on the bulletin board. On that leaflet, a harpy with a bird’s head was flying in the vast sky. She stretched out her hand behind her back and tried to touch the tip of the wing, which was so small that she could barely reach it. Can I fly like the harpy in that leaflet with these wings?
“It’s really flying.”
And they could really see the harpies spreading their wings and flying from building to building. But she thought something was strange. Among the many harpies watching over there, are there only a few flying harpies?
But that question was short-lived. I couldn’t take my eyes off of them flying in the sky. Could it be that the problem was that I moved away from Krikaliev for a while to get a closer look?
“I got it…!”
“Eh?!”
Nausicaa could not breathe at that moment as her large hand covered her own nose and her mouth. It was not Krikaliev’s hand. His hands weren’t warm, but they weren’t this rough. She wanted to shout but her voice wouldn’t come out. Because that big hand blocked her words.
Grabbing Nausicaa, he ran relentlessly somewhere, moving between her alleys. Originally living here, she realized that it was to ostracize Krikaliev. She, too, has been running away from those who threaten her in this way.
“Do you really know how long it took to find you? It’s hard to find a single prisoner girl.”
Seeing her and smiling at her, Nausicaa realized that he was the one who had been targeting her from the beginning.
“I don’t know where or what I did, but I think the prostitute will pay more for it because it’s tidy and nice to look at.”
Still, a beast like you sells for a high price. Especially since it’s the first harpie to come in. He was the one who took a lot of her girls with her when she wandered her back alleys. Also, since none of the children she took with her had ever seen again, Nausicaa sensed her own fate. After all, no one was looking for a child wandering down the alley.
‘Will the uncle find me?’
But at that time, now she thought of Jakarp, who had decided to use the name of her own choosing.
‘It can’t be.’
However, she denied that possibility herself. That’s because she wasn’t a useful child even if you think about it yourself. She often had accidents, and instead of helping her, she increased her work. He said nothing about Nausicaa, but it was even more terrifying to her. Maybe he was already disappointed in himself, he worried. So I thought it was only natural that he wasn’t looking for him.
“Yes, yes, you have to be quiet to be sold to a good place. The other kids kept making noise and sold it cheaply to a bad place.”
As if he was bragging, he told the story of what he had done. He got goosebumps at the words, but he couldn’t do anything. Still, he couldn’t hold back the tears that leaked out. Anyway, he didn’t want to be abandoned by him in this way. As she was gently led away, he had loosened her hand that was covering her mouth. Because of this, Nausicaa was able to follow her impulses and shout.
“Mister!!!”
But no voice came back.
“If I shout now, who will listen? You stupid kid. No one wants to come this far anyway.”
She realized that the place he had been brought to was familiar. Because this was her back alley where she first had to settle down. She used to think that she was the end because of her.
– Wedges!
If it wasn’t for the sound that reached her ears for a moment. When she looked up the sound came from when she heard it. Nausicaa opened her eyes wide.
“Did I tell you?”
“What… Keuuk!?”
Her Krikaliev fell from above her sky, kicking her kicking away at her bastard that was holding her.
“It’s the first place in the flying competition.”
Nausicaa couldn’t help but stare blankly at him as she embraced her in her arms.
“Are you okay, kid?”
“Why did you come to save me?”
It was such a question that Nausicaa brought up first when he asked her about her condition.
“You know that, too. I’m useless.”
Is it just useless? She had multiplied his work, but had never been of any help at all.
“Why don’t you shout?”
Adults have always been like that.
“I can’t do anything.”
I was often annoyed at him because I couldn’t control my overflowing emotions.
“Breaking dishes. Falling and always getting hurt.”
Her adults were always angry at her, beating her and kicking her out. Just like that, the little things she could earn her money for were gone.
“You can’t even clean it.”
In the meantime, she had been patient, but she was finally pouring out the words she couldn’t ask because she was afraid.
“It’s so useless. Why aren’t you angry?”
Why the hell did he come to save himself like this?
“That’s what being a kid is like.”
“Is that what it used to be?”
“Yes, I can’t do anything. I’m clumsy and easily hurt. And I get bored easily and I’m picky.”
“Then why did you save me?”
Is it worth saving something that doesn’t help anything?
“Because I was like that too.”
“…Uncle?”
“Who wouldn’t have been so young? But when they grow up, everyone forgets that they were like that.”
“What is that.”
“That’s right.”
He chuckled and covered her head with her hand. It was cold and heavy, but strangely reassuring, a feeling she never thought she would ever feel again.
“And I’m not stupid enough to watch my daughter get kidnapped by some nonsense bastard.”
“Keah!”
Yakaf soon trampled the hand of the man who was trying to escape by crawling on the ground with his foot.
“Anyway, apart from the house, the security is not so good, so I need to fix it.
So you should blow all the traders you know. Then I will give you a chance to live.
“Otherwise, algan?”
“Turn it off!?”
Nausicaa couldn’t tell the details because his hand was covering her face, but she could tell that the man was in great pain.
That day, the back alleys of Parz were conquered by someone unknown.
