Chapter 39 – Wanderers.
The first thing Usher felt in his rising consciousness was a terrible headache and a pungent odor. A poisonous and dizzying smell, as if it had been put directly in one’s mouth. Assuming it was motion sickness, he let out a weary breath.
“Ugh.”
“Are you all right?”
Sif’s voice sounded as if Usher had sensed that he was waking up. But the nausea and suffocation that still plagued him made Usher muttered.
“Are you still running?”
“I think it will stop soon, but I’m not sure.”
According to Schiff, when the coachmen driving the wagons find it acceptable to work outside, he stops the wagons and sets up camp to prepare for the night.
“Aren’t the coachmen resting?”
He was still dizzy and distressed, but he asked with a mixture of admiration and concern at the drivers’ stories of driving the wagon so far. If you look at the color of the sunlight slanting through the window, it is already time for the sun to set. When the wagon started. Considering that it was the time when the sun was rising, it was said that they had been running without rest until now.
“It’s not that I don’t rest very much. Most of them are sitting anyway, and they say being bored rather than hot is the fault.”
Thinking of the stamina of Hildisbini, who pulls the wagon, there is nothing to do except give a signal when slowing down or set the direction to follow the road.
“The coachmen are great.”
It must be very hot, but I thought nothing of it and even stayed still for a long time. Usher thought that if he did, he’d never be able to do it.
“I wonder if it’s natural since they’ve undergone rigorous training.”
Listening to Sif’s words, it seems that he needs to undergo special training to become a coachman. It was time for him to ponder whether he should go back to sleep like this in a carriage that showed no signs of stopping even though he had woken up.
“Looks like you’re going to build it now.”
The carriage slowly slowed down and I felt it move sideways, unlike the way it had been running close to a straight line until now. The carriage, which continued to slow down, stopped moving with a momentary feeling of tipping. Usher barely raised his exhausted body. I think I’ve been sleeping all day Far from being exhausted, I felt rather full. What he wanted most now was some air outside.
“Can I get off now?”
“Wait for a sec!”
Sif shouted that they had to wait for the driver to open the door, but Usher wanted to get out of the cramped carriage and get some fresh air. The disgusting smell that I felt when the motion sickness started felt so strong that I couldn’t help it. The moment you finally open the door. With the feeling that the air in the wagon was released and the hot but fresh air came in.
– Kaang!
“Evil!?”
With a clear sound from hitting something like hard iron, I shed tears at the shock applied to my forehead. Still, after getting out of the cramped carriage and breathing in fresh air, Usher came back to his senses belatedly and grasped the situation. In front of him, a bewildered coachman was looking down at the man who had bumped into his chest.
“Sorry!”
It was a bonus to see Sif holding his head as if he knew it and Truce laughing with bated breath.
Haha! Is that why she was apologizing to Shalby?”
And this is the reaction of Donard who came to see the scene shortly after the carriage stopped.
“Please stop laughing!”
Usher yelled at Donard’s teasing tone, but he didn’t care. Rather, he put his shoulder on the coachman next to him.
“Yes, Shalby. How was his headbutt? Was it great?”
“Oh, was it just amazing? It felt like I was hit with the head of a dragon.”
Are you arguing with each other? The coachman, dressed identically except for a sand-red cloth over his armor, laughed along with Donard and said exaggeratedly: As she got off the wagon, her motion sickness almost disappeared, and the aftereffects of motion sickness that still lingered did not bother her. Usher felt ashamed and his face was about to explode. How much were they being teased among them?
“Ah! It’s noisy! It’s disturbing my sleep!”
From inside the carriage, among the patients, a rough male voice could be heard, drowning out the voices of those who were laughing. It was good that Donnar and Shalby had stopped teasing him, but Usher, startled by the voice, cocked his neck, Sif frowned, and Truce squatted behind the bed as if frightened, holding his breath. Instinctively he realized that they did not like the owner of this voice very much.
“Pan, did you wake up?”
Donard’s voice was unusually low as he called out the man’s presumed name.
“Wait, Donar? You come to a place where only patients are.”
He was one of the patients who had been asleep in the bed all this time. Of course, at the very end, because he was on the bed right next to Belka, Usher’s heart sank. He, who looked exceptionally large, staggered to his feet as if drunk.
“Does Sif often come here to nurse?”
“Ugh! Get out of the way!”
He pretended to be unable to control himself, trying to bury his face in the arms of Sif, who was nearby. But when Sif freaked out and moved away, he clicked his tongue.
“You seem like a picky woman. You defeated the attackers the other day while hurting them.
“Ha, don’t talk like you’re the only one suffering. And even if you die, that won’t happen.”
Sif got up as if to avoid something dirty, glared pitifully at Truce’s hiding place, and got out of his carriage. The man who clicked his tongue at Sif’s appearance soon smiled badly.
“Or is it because of your lesser friend?”
“Huh?!”
He dared to go to the place where Truth was hiding, and stomped his feet openly with a thump, threatening him. He giggled as Truth shuddered in fear.
“He’s the one who treated you. Why don’t you be a little more polite?”
Said Donnar in a very suppressed voice. From the moment the man tried to hug Sif pretending to be a coincidence, she looked angry, but Shalvee, her coachman, was holding her back, so she seemed to be barely holding back.
“Ha, isn’t this guy a doctor? He just did what he was supposed to do. What? Oh, should I say thank you? If he didn’t have even one of these talents, he would have abandoned it halfway through.”
“You bastard!”
In the end, Donar couldn’t stand it and approached him who was harassing Truce and grabbed him by the collar, but his ridicule and mockery seemed to have no intention of stopping.
“You’re going to hit me? Hit me! I’m going to hit the patient! Catch me!”
It was such an unlucky look that even those who watched it were furious. Shalby went over to stop him, but Donard’s fist had already swung and hit the man with a thump. And what followed was one-sided violence. Yes, the man was not wearing armor and was a patient. Because Donnar was wearing armor. It may have been due to his minimal remaining patience that he did not use the sword at his waist. More than that, Donnar was good at fighting, perhaps because he was wearing armor. That’s great too.
When children fight, they hold on to each other’s hair or clothes, and fight with their pride, asking to let go first or not. Even if he pretended, he was delivering a sure hit with his angular movements. It was refreshing compared to the children’s fight. The man named Pan was also very bad from the first impression, so it wasn’t to the extent that he felt uncomfortable being beaten. But Usher became uneasy at the sight of patients near where they were fighting.
In case the girl nearby is harmed. When you’re feeling anxious. Behind Usher, a young boy’s voice came from the carriage door.
“Hey! There’s a fight here, keek!”
The boy’s voice, excited as if he had discovered something interesting, cut off as if he had discovered something that shouldn’t exist.
“Huh? You.”
“You! Why are you here?!”
That boy was Rogi, the boy who tripped Usher and was badly beaten. As they were embarrassed by each other’s appearance, the old man’s screams were heard.
“What kind of fuss is this where the patients are?!”
“Old man.”
Donar stopped punching him and let go of the man, and the man he was being beaten, Pan, chuckled.
“Oh, the old man. Here’s a man who beats a man patient!”
Seeing Pan leaning against the carriage wall, the old man frowned.
“Tsk, is it you again? Follow me, both of you.”
The two of them were called by the old man, and Shalby followed them, leaving only Truce, Usher, and Logi in the carriage, excluding the sleeping patients. There was an awkward atmosphere for a moment, but Usher spoke first.
“Does Donard and him always fight?”
“Huh? Yes, it’s rare to even punch like that, but most of the time Mr. Pan is arguing.”
“I see.”
And again silence. It was even more awkward because the first meeting wasn’t very good.
“Oh, really! But where are you…!”
Rogi screamed and tried to say something, but Usher wasn’t listening to him anymore.
“Belka!”
Because he saw the image of a girl whose eyelashes quivered like the fluttering of a butterfly’s wings, revealing a golden light transparent and sweet like honey. As soon as Usher saw her, he embraced her as if he were about to run into her.
“Usher.”
“Sorry! I don’t even know you’re overdoing it!”
Seeing him crying and apologizing, the girl smiled wryly as if she was in trouble even when she was barely awake, hugged him and gently patted him. As if begging not to cry, as if carefully caressing a fragile craft, not satisfied with looking at it. The affectionate touch, as always, was so good that Usher didn’t realize there were people who were distracted by the sight.
“More than that?”
“That’s because Belka collapsed. While looking for help from people passing by…”
It was when he was talking to Belka about what had happened so far.
“Hey, why don’t you just talk to each other and explain?”
Logi intervened with a somewhat dissatisfied expression.
“What?”
Because of this, Usher, who had stopped talking with Belka, answered bluntly, and even though he put on an annoyed expression, he glanced at the girl. Belka tilted her head at that gaze, and Rogi whispered to him with a slightly reddened face.
“Who is he?”
“Belka?”
“Okay!”
From the moment Rogi faced Belka, who seemed to be friends with Usher, he felt his heart beat fast. The appearance of a pretty girl who gave a sweet impression like honey just by looking at it was fatal to the boy’s heart. In addition, the boy’s heart was captured by the benevolent appearance of affectionately covering a boy of his own age in spite of his sickly appearance. She was the beginning of her first love, which was only left to suffer.
“Why do I have to tell you?”
While trying to trip my feet. Usher, who had no way of knowing the feelings of such a boy, just felt strange about him. Logi made a puzzled expression at his words. And he seemed to be pondering something.
“How long have I been here? No matter how much I think about it, I’ve never seen kids like you.”
“It’s just a hit in the middle.”
“Then no more. There’s no place for people to live around here.”
Usher was starting to get annoyed and annoyed by his prying eyes. He couldn’t do anything to explain it, but somehow the way Rogi looked at Belka bothered him, so he didn’t even want to take the time to explain it.
“So why do I have to explain that to you?”
“That!”
Watching him speechless, as if he couldn’t come up with an excuse himself, Usher decided to ignore it and turned his head away.
“Ac!”
Rogi finally stomped his foot, probably from a fever, and left his wagon. In his heart, Rogi wanted to talk to Belka directly, but unfortunately his heart wouldn’t allow it. My heart was beating non-stop just by being in the same room, but I felt like it would explode if I even tried to talk to the girl directly. Besides, the first impression of that girl and her best friend is the worst. Rogi thought he had no choice but to step back first and talk about it later.
“What the hell was wrong with him?”
As expected, Usher had thought of Rogi as a strange and unlucky fellow from his first meeting to now. Then, when Usher looked at her Belka again, he saw her curiously touching his belly. Did something go wrong?
“My stomach hurts?”
“I’m not sure, maybe.”
When I asked with a worried mind, the vague answer came back as if I wasn’t sure. Although he was used to Belka’s way of talking, he ignored it.
“Then shall we talk to the doctor?”
“Doctor?”
“Yeah, over there.”
Their eyes turned to Truth, who had been hiding quietly until now. He did not move a single step from the spot where the man named Pan had risen and hid in a commotion, only his head was sticking out. I thought he was an adult who seemed lacking somewhere, but he was too timid. He thought it great that he had been working as a doctor all this time.
“Are you the doctor?”
“…”
Usher called out to him, who was dazed like he was out of his mind, but he didn’t respond and only looked this way. Could it be that he was so scared that he went out of his mind?
“Doctor Uncle!!”
“Whoah?! Boo, couple, did you call?”
Let’s call out again with an absurd feeling. Seeing his reaction, he let out a sigh. Furthermore.
“Where did the ring you were wearing go?”
“A bar, a ring? What a ring… Oh, shi, I must have dropped it by mistake. I’ll find it later.”
Can we really trust this man who easily loses his stuff? He said while thinking.
“Because Belka has a stomach ache. Can you look after her?”
“Uh, yes! Pear, pear, right?”
Truth stood up hastily at Usher’s words and picked up the stethoscope that had fallen from the previous commotion. From the moment the girl woke up and opened her eyes, Truce couldn’t take her eyes off her. She didn’t think she was a beautiful girl, but when she looked directly into her golden eyes. He felt dizzy. The urge to attack the girl immediately tormented Truth.
“That, that. Now, could you loosen the front for a moment?”
He knew he couldn’t do this, but he used the stethoscope as an excuse to tell Belka to loosen the front. At his words, the girl’s gold color shook as if embarrassed.
“It’s okay. I’m just doing a medical examination.”
At the golden light of the girl who calmly calmed down with Usher’s words, Truth felt a small jealousy arise from the depths of her heart. The way they believed in each other without any impurity made Usher so envious of having such a relationship with such a sweet girl. Her girl’s clothes were black and red dresses that were easy to put on and take off by removing the front. When the girl unbuttoned the front, the dress, unlike when she was lying down, flowed down as if she was wearing the wrong size.
The girl held onto her fair shoulders and her chest as her undergarments were breathtakingly exposed, preventing them from flowing any further. Truth felt sorry for that, but held the stethoscope to the girl’s chest.
– Throbbing.
He couldn’t tell if the heartbeat he heard now belonged to the girl or his own. He barely confirmed that there was anything wrong with the girl.
“All right, I need to see the ship next.”
However, in order to place the stethoscope on her stomach, she had to either lower the front of the dress with the front of the dress undone or lift the skirt. He knew he didn’t need to put a stethoscope on something like his stomach, but they didn’t know that. Either way, Belka’s lips were tightly shut as if hesitating at the situation of showing her bare skin and underwear, but Usher calmly watching the girl calmly let go of her one-piece dress so that it wouldn’t spill out. At that moment, like an instinct, his eyes scanned the graceful curves of the girl’s body. The moment he tried to bring a stethoscope, thinking that it was regrettable that he could not covet that small fruit.
“Hey! When are you guys coming out!”
The closed door opened with a loud bang. Then they look at the open door with surprised eyes. Looking down at his anger, he saw Rogi standing there with a dumbfounded expression, as if he didn’t understand the scene in his eyes.
“Uh?”
Logi regretted the first time he opened the wagon door with his own feet and left.
“Oh, really! Why did you do that!”
To think of talking to her even if it were longer, kicked the opportunity herself. Rogi was resentful of my emotions that I couldn’t control today. He was a boy who had seen a lot of kids his age, but most of them were just kids he thought of like his little brother. At that time, a strange boy named Usher, who suddenly appeared, was enough to make him an object of curiosity. He just joked around thinking that since he’s on the small side he’d be nice to tease. Contrary to his mild-mannered impression, he had a personality. He never dreamed that he would be hit back. And from that time on, his first button was put in the wrong way.
“Please, I want to turn back time.”
But Rogi knew that even if he used rumored magic, he couldn’t turn back time. In the first place, the country where Logi lived was a place where there was a war against monsters who used magic, which is really rare among humans, as if it were breathing. If so, what is the chance for him to talk to Belka?
“Should I apologize?”
But it had a big problem. If nothing else, Rogi knew. Usher said he was of the same kind. When he gets hit back by that little boy. It is instinctively realized.
“I’m sure he’ll find a weakness and eat it.”
If you ask how he could be sure, it was because he himself was. More than anything, Rogi never joked around and apologized. The targets of the pranks were mostly adults, and they moved on to forgiving or scolding them. So instead of apologizing, he decided to go out confidently in a familiar way, and that was what created this division. And in that situation, Usher, who was the quickest to grasp the situation, jumped up to Rogi.
‘This is a really angry dragon…!’
Before Logi could finish his thoughts, his forehead was shocked and his eyes were stained black.
