Carb Sears (R) 374

Chapter 374 – Legacy of Order.

“That’s why the outskirts suddenly got better.”

After hearing Nausicaa’s story, Lenny put on a tired expression. It was because she had been living in Parz for longer than Nausicaa, and she knew the news about the outskirts of Parz.

“I didn’t know Yoff would do that.”

The story of the outskirts, where security suddenly improved, was a mystery of Parz that was still talked about over and over again. That’s right, most of the guys who did the work were caught by the guards in a panic. Because they didn’t know exactly who did it, and they just talked about monsters.

“Hee hee, actually I don’t know what happened either. After I went home that day and went to bed, the uncle was also back.”

Nausicaa talks about Krikaliev, and she is smiling. Although the corners of her eyes were still filled with sadness and tears that did not know when they would fall.

“Have you calmed down?”

At Lenny’s question, she licked her lips to say something, then nodded her head in silence.

“How does it feel to take out your anger on a child?”
“…I don’t know. I know it’s definitely not his fault. But my heart keeps hurting.”

Nausicaa did not know what to do with these feelings that were about to explode, so she still found herself resenting Usher. Even though she knew it was wrong, she couldn’t control her emotions. Lenny then robbed her tuk-tuk seat and got up.

“Nyan, then let’s go see each other again.”
“But I hit him.”
“Look at that. I don’t feel guilty. Don’t believe that time will solve everything.”

Time waits for nothing

“That…”

Nausicaa’s eyes widened at her words. Seeing this, Lenny smiled bitterly.

“That’s what Yoff said.”

It was the same with Nausicaa. It was one day when the house that Krikaliev had bought was being furnished and cleaned one by one, and it was getting a proper look.

– Right!
“Ah!!”

Nausicaa sat down, clutching her head at the hard sensation of hitting her own head.

“Ugh, it hurts.”

She rubbed her hand where she had been hit and looked up at her assailant with her resentful eyes.

“That was also a quick hit.”
“This?”

Krikaliev, who had been wrapped in cloth like undertakers because he wanted to stand out someday, was looking down at Nausicaa, glowing yellow in the shade created by the cloth.

“Okay, so stop babbling and get up.”
“It’s not tough.”

Nausicaa lamented how she had come to be like this. She thought he wasn’t such a bad person as her protector. She hadn’t really experienced what other parents were like, so she couldn’t know for herself, but she thought it wasn’t bad, since at least she could live in a decent house and live in clean clothes.

“Why do I have to learn this?”

Being too strict at times was a moot point. She was especially strict about teaching things.

“Why should not you know how to protect yourself on your own?”

It was even more so when he taught me how to handle a weapon, saying it was for self-defense. Nausicaa, although she did not understand why she had to learn this.

“It’s okay if the uncle keeps watching.”
“How can things in the world go your way? There’s nothing to lose by learning one more thing.”
“But it hurts.”
“If you don’t get sick now, you won’t end up sick later.”

Even when she grumbled, Krikaliev, as usual, did not take the childish light. Just straightening the hair of the girl he hit.

“Nausicaa, if there is something that must be done, it must be done as soon as possible.”

Otherwise, what can be solved quickly becomes a really difficult task.

“For time waits for nothing.”

Nausicaa recalled her words at that time and followed Lenny to her feet.

“…I’m going to see him.”

So let’s go back to the hut.

“Has Helena taken you?”

All I could hear was that Usher had already been taken by Helena.

“It looks like he went for treatment.”

Nausicaa heard Jeremiah’s story and felt her heart tighten. Come to think of it, she didn’t even have the spirit to control her strength. Somehow Kane and Rachel looked at her with an indescribable expression, but there was no time to pay attention to her. She was more worried because the power of a beast man was never weak.

“Wait a minute! Where…!”

Because of this, Nausicaa ran out of her very hut, despite her voice grabbing her.

“Go slow!”
“Sister Lenny.”

As soon as she stopped at Lenny, who followed and grabbed her, she let out a sigh.

“For now, let’s go to Helena’s hut. It might be there.”

Only then did Nausicaa realize that she had been impatient, and she calmly followed Reni to Helena’s hut.

“Here is…”
“This is where I was assigned.”

The place Usher arrived, led by Helena, was another hut. Although she was thin on the outside, the strength of the woman, who could feel the rough calluses on her gripped arms, was stronger than she thought, so he had no choice but to be dragged along. And the inside of the hut he entered was filled with the spicy smell of herbs and various tools that he had smelled before.

“Is it okay to look at the wound?”
“As far as the wounds… Ugh?!”

Usher wanted to tell him that she didn’t need any treatment, but he frowned at the stinging, bitter pain she felt when she lightly pricked his cheek with her finger. She averted her gaze as Helena looked at him as if to see it.

“Open your mouth in case there is a wound.”

But that’s for a while. She had no choice but to open her mouth to her talking Helena, grabbing his chin and forcing him to look at her. Checking Usher’s mouth, she frowned.

“At this rate, it will be severely swollen. Please wait a moment.”

Then she picked the cheesecloth with her tongs, dipped it in her vial, and put it straight into his mouth.

“Ah!?”

At that moment, the feeling of touching the inside of his cheek, it was obviously cold at first, but the moment it touched the inside of his cheek, I felt a burning sensation. Although he wanted to struggle with the painful sensation dozens of times more than the Mumiya he felt the other day.

“Please stay still, otherwise you may get other injuries.”

As she spoke, Helena held his chin with an expressionless face and pressed her mouth with her claws with her other hand.

“Eww?”

I felt the pain of losing my cheek in succession, and while tears welled up in my eyes, I suddenly realized that the pain was fading little by little. Perhaps noticing that sign, she removed the cloth and tongs from Usher’s cheek and examined his mouth.

“It can’t be helped with swelling, but it won’t make the wound worse.”
“What is Sohi?”
“…Puch.”

The moment Usher asked in a hoarse voice at the foreign body sensation still lingering in her mouth, she let out her first airy laugh.

“Ugh?”

As he stared at her Helena, unable to comprehend the meaning of the laugh, she then opened her little jar and dipped her finger in the ointment. Then, a rough and soft touch rubbed his cheek and spread her ointment lightly. It was a time when Usher was hardened by the favors that followed one after another without time to understand the situation.

“Young master.”
“…Me?”

He didn’t think that he was calling him, so when he asked again, she nodded her head.

“Yes, I’m talking about you.”

At that, Usher didn’t know what expression to make.

“I’m not one to be called that…”

As he denied it, Helena gently stroked his cheek with a somewhat bitter expression.

“No. You are rightly called that.”

When I was at a loss for words to say to her firm voice that raised him above me.

“You can cry if you want to cry.”
“That’s what it is.”
“Because there is no one here except me, the doctor.”
“Ah.”

Only then did Usher realize the thoughts of the woman who had brought him here. He looked at Helena properly for the first time. Tears welled up at the sight of herself in her serene eyes.

“Why? Why are you doing this?”

Usher knew at least that she had been hired by Donnar in Lantua. Belka had told him why she had come to Parz. But that would have been all.

“This is no longer Lantua.”

I wondered if it would even be possible to return in a normal way, as I was already beyond the cloud area that I couldn’t pass through properly unless I was a wizard.

“The man who hired your sister and Sif’s sister aren’t there, are you?”

No matter how much money they were paid, their work would be separate. His illness had already been cured, and there would be no reason for the hired woman to stay by his side or to call him Master.

“I abandoned Belka.”

No matter how regretful and painful the choice was, it was an unchanging fact. Because of this, he didn’t even know in time that the girl was being captured by the Cat Sis, and he couldn’t even prevent her from being taken to the Holy Land. And to the end

“I mean I couldn’t protect Belka!!!”

The girl lost her life. And also to protect him who had abandoned her.

“I didn’t do anything!”

The next thing that came to mind was Erica’s figure. Belka smiled at him as she held her hand together as she spoke of them as one and the same.

“Continue! Continuing! I was just taken away!”

Soon, she became Erika, exhaling excitedly on top of the wizard. Even so, he couldn’t bear to deny the image of Erica who laughed at Usher in that way.

“I’m useless to anyone!”

Because she wasn’t sure if Belka really didn’t resent him for a moment. He didn’t do anything right for the girl, so the memory of hurting her was stronger.

“I couldn’t even help you because I only got help from you…”

Then Usher couldn’t even scream until the end of the neck that was tied.

“No matter how hard I try, I don’t think I’ve improved at all. Nothing’s changed. Why do you call me that?”

The moment she finally bursts into tears and asks her out. Along with the soft touch that wrapped around his face, the spicy yet fragrant smell numbed his nose.

“Ah…?”

Helena took him into her arms.

“Perhaps it would be rude for you to talk like this.”

But I dare to say this.

“Because I saw my childhood in you.”

Helena, who struggled hard and fulfilled her dream of the precious friend she wanted to save at all costs, but Helena herself proved her own words. But that was something she couldn’t convey to Usher, so she showed another proof.

“And this.”
“This…”

Usher’s eyes widened at the sight of Helena’s holding and releasing her, as she pulled out her object.

“This is what Donar-nim told you to hand over to the young master when he wakes up.”

A hat made of worn-out looking fabric that can cover the entire face when worn inside. However, the face, especially the eyes, is black, but when you get close, it is like a transparent stone with a smooth surface and you can see through it. Sometime around the time I met Donnar for the first time with Belka. It was the hat he put on in the wind that kept blowing. I received the hat with trembling hands and picked up the note falling inside.

‘Usher, I don’t know when I’ll see this, but I’m sure you’ll wake up. I’m only lending these goggles.’

Usher read the short text and with trembling hands hugged the note and the hat tightly. He got down on his knees and curled up on the floor.

“Keuk! Kuk!”

Not to see your own tears. Even the sound of crying so that no one can hear it.

“You are still Donar’s son.”
“Huugh! Uhhhhh!!”

However, Helena’s hand patting his back broke the cry he had somehow suppressed.

“Do you think you can understand Yoff now?”
“Yes…”

Usher was drowned in his own cries and did not hear the sounds outside.