Carb Sears (R) 437

Chapter 437 – End of Suffering.

Seol-Chien watched Usher’s back as he opened the carriage door and rubbed his hand.

“I’m just a little worried…”

He sighed, feeling a tingling sensation in his hand as if it had been frostbitten against the cold gauntlet. They were on their way to Ragado in their newly prepared wagon.

It was different from the way to Pacifenia, but Usher decided to help Sulchen with his investigation. He was happy at the thought of being able to finish the rest of his studies, but soon became worried.

“What kind of dream is it that makes you so distressed?”

It’s been weeks since she left Parz with Usher. During the day, there were no signs of anything out of the ordinary. He had to lead the wagon, and he felt rather bored, unless it was time for a quick meal.

“It’s been quite a while since I organized my research materials.”

At first, he was busy organizing his research on the relationship between the cloud region and the dragon king, which he found in Parz, and the ecological changes that took place under it, but he belatedly realized that there was nothing to do after he finished organizing.

“If I knew it would be like this, I would have taken it easy.”

It was only once or twice that I reviewed it again, and now there was nothing to organize. Because of this, she spends most of the day sleeping, and rather, her sleep at night is gone. But at night, too, there was nothing to do.

“Ha.”

That night, too, was a time when she could hardly fall asleep and toss and turn. Even if she tries to use the sound of the waves outside her carriage as a lullaby, she has no energy to fall asleep, so even that is just a wake-up noise.

‘I’d like to get some fresh air in my heart.’

There was nothing so stupid. The reason why Sulsien could be safe now was thanks to Usher and his Hildisbini protecting her. If, by chance, you ran into a monster while wandering around outside alone, there was nothing to worry about.

‘Stuffy.’

Even so, she was unable to sleep at night because the stuffiness did not go away in the carriage at night full of silence.

“Turn it off.”

At some point, I started to hear a grunting sound. Could it be that Seol Shien was making something else like that? She listened intently, but it was clear where the sound was coming from.

“Mr. Usher?”

She said when N raised her body to check it out, sure enough, she heard the sound coming from Usher. She wondered if something was wrong with her startled mind. She went straight to where he was asleep and she shook him awake.

“Kyaaak!?”

The moment Sulshien put her hand on her body, her Usher, who raised her body, grabbed her and pushed her, causing her to fall. She would have been glad if she had been that.

“Kup! Kkeuk! Uh, Mr. Usher! It’s me! It’s me!”

His breath was choking as he gripped her shoulder so hard that he seemed to crush it.

“You are…?”
“Are you out of your mind?”

When Seol Shien hurriedly patted his hand and called out, she seemed to have finally come to her senses, then relaxed her hands and withdrew.

“Whoa, sorry.”

He sighed and apologized to her, as if he finally realized what he had done, but she was more concerned about other things than her sore shoulder.

“Why are you doing that all of a sudden?”

It was strange that he suddenly showed such an appearance, who had apparently never had any problems before and looked like a knight who had been created. But there was no answer from him.

“It’s nothing.”
“It’s nothing. You suffered so much…”
“It has nothing to do with you.”

Talking like that, he kept his mouth shut. Wouldn’t he then go out of the carriage to get some fresh air? If it ended in a day or two, I wouldn’t have cared about it.

“Turn it off.”
“You’re like this today.”

For Seol Shien, who lost her sleep at night, what remained was time, so observing him while he was asleep had become a hobby before he knew it. He might have been reluctant if he kept attacking her, but somehow he had suppressed her so he never attacked again.

“Belka…!”

A faint name that seemed to be cut off from his mouth.

“Erika, I…”

Those two were the names that came up the most in his mouth, as if he was shouting desperately while grunting.

“Who is it?”

It was also unexpected that he wasn’t looking for Helena, but he could guess that it was a woman’s name, which made Sulsien more curious.

“With me right next to you.”

She couldn’t say that she wasn’t jealous of the way he called another woman’s name anxiously while sleeping in the same carriage with her. Seol Shien felt pathetic about herself.

Sulsien said he naively risked all his possessions and body to make a deal with Usher. Of course he made the deal, convinced that he could get his hands on his body and that it would pay off.

“You haven’t done anything since that day…”

Since Usher met her, he had never laid her hand on her true self, except once, when she was raped by her monster and forced to do such an act. Truly, he was only doing his duty so that Sulsien would not give birth to monsters.

What that meant was clear. That Usher really has no feelings for her. That fact stabbed him in the chest every time he woke up from a nightmare and showed the back of him as he opened the carriage door and left.

“What am I going to become when I’m prepared for such a thing?”

In the end, in my heart, where only the sorrowful feeling increased every night, I was realizing day by day that my head was full of his image.

“What on earth do you like about a man like that?”

He is a man looking for the name of another woman who is not here, while showing a cold-hearted appearance to the woman right next to her, not allowing even the slightest gap.

Seol Shien sighed through the night, feeling that her hand, which had been tingling after being hit by him, suddenly heated up just because it touched him.

“Ugh, Lagado seems to be getting colder, is this normal?”

The next day at lunch, when Sulsien went out to eat with Usher. He trembled at the feeling of the cold wind brushing his skin, and squeezed the blanket tightly together.

“It wasn’t originally like this.”

Usher, who had been collecting frozen willows outside first, answers her question.

“Then this must be Otter’s influence.”

It seemed like they made it winter because they were afraid someone would say it wasn’t Bingryong.

“From here on, everything is frozen. Is it okay?”

Also noticeable is that the water they had been wading through so far seemed to have thin ice at some point, and then a completely frozen ice sheet appeared.

“Wasn’t that what your job required?”
“Ugh, that’s right.”

Do you really need to emphasize that you are a stranger in that way? Sulshien was offended by his remarks, but he couldn’t even complain as it was really necessary.

‘Looking at the traces of willows, it must have been a really warm place before.’

While he was thinking about it, he was writing down the new facts little by little, when he suddenly saw Usher grabbing Hildisbini’s leg and doing something.

“It’s dangerous, don’t come closer.”

As she approaches behind him, he sighs as she flinches at the warning he returns.

“Haha, what’s going on?”
“I’m just curious what you’re doing…”
“I’m going to put on a cotton quilted cloth to tidy up my hooves.”

When Usher stepped back, the four feet of Hildisbini were tied with cotton cloth, making them look like shoes. It looked like it could run on ice like that. When his work was over and he was about to have lunch.

-Puuuuu!

Before that, Hill Disbiny rang the windpipe in his head and sounded an alarm. What it meant was clear. Sulshien looked around in amazement, but couldn’t see very well, so he wondered if Hill Disbiny was mistaken, but he recanted that thought at what he soon discovered.

“Um, what kind of monster is that?”

A monster that looked like a huge ape was running towards them from afar, shaking the ice. It was hard to see because of the pure white hair that covered the whole body. He threatened with his mouth wide open, making his protruding lower tusks appear even more pointed.

“Gigantopithecus.”

Suleung, Usher’s words as he pulled out his sword made Seolshien questionable.

“Don’t Gigantopithecus have brown or black fur? Besides, he’s alone…”

Gigantopithecus was also recorded in several documents in Paciphenia. It was mainly data obtained through exchanges or trade with other countries, but since it was procured locally, the reliability was certain.

“They changed as the environment changed. Since they mainly eat carnivores, it would have been better to be alone than in a group.”

Thud! Thud! Even while he was talking calmly, Seol Shien was sick of the sight of him approaching every moment.

“It’s gotten bigger too.”
“Shouldn’t we be running away right now?”

If the average Gigantopithecus was slightly larger than an adult, it looked about twice as big as them. Seeing the appearance of Gigantes, which he had only heard about, Sulcien talked to Usher.

“No need.”
– Hiss

He swung the sling he had taken out before he knew it and saw the guy coming close to them.

-Kwoaaaaa! 5 billion!!

The roar, which should have been the menace of Gigantopithecus, turned into an ugly scream in an instant. It was because Usher’s sling shot shattered one of the two tusks he was proudly displaying. While he gripped his tusk with both hands and suffered, Usher cut off his heel with the rapier he was holding.

– Kreuk?!

It was only then that he felt something was wrong and tried to shake him off by randomly swinging his arms, which were only as thick as their torso, as if he had never confidently charged.

– Kreuk!!

Before that, he first bit into a bubble of blood and fell face down on the floor. Behind his bewildered face was a rapier that aimed precisely at the gap in his ribs and pierced his heart.