Chapter 449 – The End of Suffering.
“Huaam, uh?”
Seol Sien woke up at one point and yawned at her. Suddenly, realizing that the atmosphere around her was different from usual, she raised her body and looked around.
The warm morning sun shines through the window, and small particles of dust floating in the air are peeped out.
“You came back yesterday.”
She had been emptying it for a long time, so it smelled a bit of musty dust even though she cleaned it hard, but it was her room that she was familiar with everywhere.
As the morning sunlight penetrated and scattered to illuminate her room, she suddenly felt a longing for it and watched it blankly, then suddenly realized that it was empty.
“Oh yes! Mr. Usher!”
Sullien didn’t see Usher, who was supposed to take her home and stay with her, so she got out of bed and left her room.
‘You slept too long!’
It must have been the evening when the sunset was in my memory when I fell asleep, but the morning sun was beating down as if the night had been blown away.
No matter how tired she was from the trip and cleaning, she worried that Usher might have gone somewhere, and when she went down to the first floor, the sight she found relieved Sullian.
“You’ve been sleeping.”
He was lying on the sofa in the living room, fast asleep. The figure of a knight lying down, exhaling peacefully, bathed in the sunlight streaming in through the window, was a picture-like scene.
“You don’t even take off your armor.”
Even the knights of Parsiphenia tended to take off their armor inside the house, but Usher was still wearing her helmet, let alone the armor, and did not move. Sulsien thought about waking him up, but changed his mind.
“Let’s start preparing the meal.”
Because when he wakes up he might as well have a meal right away. But if he had something unexpected.
“Oh, right! Ingredients!”
Yesterday, during the general cleaning, the warehouse where food was stored was all emptied. That’s because the time she emptied her house was two years, and she went ahead without a proper plan, so all the food in the warehouse she couldn’t empty was rotten or dried up and it’s been a long time since I couldn’t eat it.
Even food that can be stored for a long time can’t help but go bad if you don’t take special care of it, so she swallowed only regret and glanced at Usher’s sleeping place.
“…A short visit would be fine.”
When he goes back to his room and opens the closet door, he sees clothes in good condition, albeit dusty.
“It’s been a while since I wore a student uniform.”
Among them, what caught my eye was the dark red cape and the round beret of the same color. I had to go to the conference later anyway, so I changed into the clothes and went to the market.
“Hello, ma’am.”
“Oh my God! Boy! It’s not like this! How long has it been since this happened?”
Soon we arrived at a small shopping mall nestled between residential areas, and among them, a familiar vegetable store at the outermost part. It was a place she had frequented, so even though it had been two years since, she felt her heart thump a little at the sight of her recognizing her.
“I heard you went somewhere far away to investigate. How have you been? Didn’t you get hurt?”
“Yes, I’m not hurt. Rather, you’d be surprised if you knew what I found?”
“Yes, yes, how are other countries these days?
As usual, she dismissed her pride as usual.
‘Chi, really.’
Seol Sien was saddened by her appearance, but thought she couldn’t help it. Originally, because she liked to brag about the conference here and there, she knew very well that people who knew her well only accepted it in moderation.
‘Why did I do that then?’
Now that I think about it, it was a very embarrassing and childish act. Realizing how young he was, Seol Sien cleared his throat and spoke.
“Hmm, can I buy some vegetables instead?”
“Oh my gosh, look at my mind! You can’t grab our scholar’s ankle!”
“Stop it!”
Her aunt in her vegetable shop looked at her in surprise as her seolsien blushed and waved her hand.
“They said it was good in the past. Has it changed a lot?”
“Oops, old things are old things.”
As she hesitated, her aunt laughed.
“Whoops, time goes by so fast. The lady who boasted that it would be nice to be praised.”
“Oh, when did I say that!?”
“When? Even before the investigation…”
“Ahhh! Stop!”
Her aunt saw her covering her ears in her shyness and laughed at her.
“Still, it’s nice to see. I used to always stand tall. Come on, take it here.”
“Okay, how much is all of it?”
Seol-Sien immediately asked for the price, lest he be made fun of again.
“All in all. It’s all three iron battles.”
“…Yes?”
She took her money out of her purse and stared at her aunt stiffly. 3 iron battles? I wondered if I had heard it wrong because it had been so long.
“Three battles, right?”
“Right. Why?”
But what came back was a gaze looking at her as if there was something wrong.
“Well, I’m sure it wasn’t spaghetti noodles, 3 pamidors, and 5 mooks?”
This is because, in her memory, she went back and forth between 9 and 12 fairy tales before the first iron fight. When she looked like Sulshien didn’t understand, her aunt tilted her head and clapped her hands, as if noticing something in her.
“That’s right. It’s been a while since I came back. Didn’t the price go up too much?”
“Isn’t that too harsh?”
Even if you simply measure it, it is about twice as high, so even if the price has risen, isn’t it too high?
“Well, we can’t help it either. Prices have risen, but the value of iron has changed.”
“How much has changed.”
“I heard that 10 copper coins are for iron coins, and 10 coins for silver coins are decided to be counted in increments of 10.”
Sulsien said she had doubts about whether the story she was hearing was true. In Pasifenia, the original iron coin she knew was 14 copper coins, and the silver coins were 5 iron coins. However, if you unconditionally set it in units of 10, didn’t the value of the iron coin drop below half?
“Isn’t it good because it’s easy to calculate? It’s also something the president pushed for.”
“The Führer?”
“Yes! So believe me!”
It was even more difficult for her to understand, but later, after going around the shops she knew and looking for ingredients, she came to know that everything was true.
“What is the Führer thinking?”
Sizzling, she went through all the chapters and watched the sauce cook on the skillet and the noodles in the pot. She had heard the same, and she had heard the same at the butcher’s shop.
It didn’t cost that much because they bought minced meat, but the fact that the price of meat skyrocketed didn’t change.
“Genius is difficult to understand.”
Still, isn’t this something strange? Sulsien said she was in doubt. Soon she confirmed that her noodles were done, and she scooped them out and tossed them in my sauce. She shifted them to a plate and, to finish, topped each of the undercooked yolk fries and set them on the table.
“Mr. Usher, eat!”
Talking chattering, Sulsien peeked at Usher’s face as they ate together.
“Why is that?”
“Oh, no! I was wondering how it tastes…”
“It’s delicious. You’re a good cook.”
“Whew, I’m glad.”
Relieved, she started eating her portion of spaghetti, but she didn’t stop looking at Usher. His long hair stood out against his back from the sunlight.
‘Your hair has grown a lot.’
As expected, his face was more appropriate to say that he was pretty rather than handsome. When his hair was short, he still looked manly, but just as his hair became longer, his androgynous side became stronger, and it was surprising to see that he could be seen as a woman.
‘To think you can only see that face when you’re eating.’
It was all the more disappointing for Sulsien as he rarely took off his helmet. What’s more regrettable.
“I think I will be coming home late today.”
“What’s going on?”
“I got a call from the conference.”
There was a letter that arrived while she had been going to see her for a while. It was a story that she heard at the checkpoint and told her to report the results of the investigation.
“What do you think Mr. Usher is going to do in the meantime?”
She had intended to go anyway, as Aidos and Aegeus had business, but she asked, feeling a pity at the thought of spending less time with Usher.
“I’m thinking of looking for an acquaintance.”
‘They don’t tell me who they are again.’
Seol Sien felt like a black emotion was boiling inside her, but she shook her head and tried to shake it off. She herself knew how ugly this feeling was, so she did not dare to reveal it to him.
“I think I’ll be busy for a while.”
“Is that so.”
As she watched him reply nonchalantly, it boiled thicker and bit her lip.
“Um, if you don’t mind, could you take me to the conference today?”
She sighed as Usher nodded her head nonchalantly.
‘I’m such a fool too.’
While she was so self-deprecating.
“Where should I look for it?”
Usher took Sulsien to the conference and looked around. She had barely reached Parsiphenia, but she was still frustrated by the lack of progress in her search for the woman.
‘If she knew it would be like this, she would have listened even if she was coercing.’
Even though Donard was from Parsiphenia, she had little to say about this place and knew very little about it, which made her even more confused. As she wanders the streets, she wonders if she should drop by a bar.
“!!!”
Usher reflexively reached out and grabbed her hand as the white woman passed him by. And that’s because everything from her outfit to her hair was the same as the woman Usher had seen on his way here.
But the joy is short-lived.
“…What is this doing?”
The moment the woman looked back at herself, she was staring at him with blue eyes that seemed to have been carved from the blue sky instead of pure white light.
The only difference was that she was a completely different person.
