Chapter 124 – Ep.8 – Beyond the Border (1)
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Rico and Delrin stayed together until the sun shone brightly over the world.
The two of them were sitting under a tree watching the blue world slowly becoming clearer.
Rico sat leaning against a tree, Delrin quietly cradled in Rico’s arms, listening to her heartbeat.
In the silence that followed, Delrin raised her voice first.
“We have to get in before everyone wakes up.”
But Rico didn’t say much, she just pulled her head a little in front of her and put it on Delrin’s shoulder and stared at his profile.
She didn’t want to spend time with him like this.
So, sitting under the shade of a tree,
Even if you feel him quietly and hold him, you are enough.
Rico laughed bitterly as he had to hold Delrin’s hand and go back to the women.
“It’s still a long way from waking up. Don’t ignore my poison. Even if it happens, it’ll probably happen when the sun rises in mid-heaven.”
So she catches a fleeting moment and catches her breath, hoping to feel Delrin a little more.
The smell of flesh rising from the nape of Delrin’s neck,
Small trembling hands,
Enjoying a soft yet elastic young body.
“…Pup.”
She puts a word of her curse at herself who has fallen for him, and at him who seduces herself with her lascivious body.
“You know. Please listen to my request. Since I have conceded a lot, you should also do my favor.”
Put another negotiation on top of that.
Delrin tosses and turns her body for a moment, corrects her posture, sits down, and answers her.
“…What is it? I’ll listen.”
The act of granting her request will relieve her of the burden she is carrying.
The fact that Riko, who can capture and extract herself by force, asks herself,
It means that you were considerate and conceded.
“Tell me.”
So, Delrin promises to do her favor.
However, Riko’s [Request] Puts him in trouble.
“Let’s draw a picture too.”
At first, I couldn’t guess what the hell she meant by painting, but
Soon after realizing the true meaning, Delin was startled and shook her head.
“What, are you saying to get a tattoo!?
He lived like a model student, so he never touched dye or tattoos. He extremely refuses to dare to make irreparable mistakes on his precious body.
“What. Do you like it?”
He couldn’t resist Riko, who was holding her from behind and now tightly gripped her wrist.
She said she would do me a favor, but I can’t help but do it.
If I don’t appease Riko here, she’ll have trouble getting around with her in the future…
“…What kind of tattoo is it? I’ll try to get it out. It’s really only for listening.”
That’s why he steps back and bends her opinion to Rico.
“Here. See?”
Rico turns his head to see the tattoos on his thighs and forearms.
“This is a rose. This is my thieves’ mark.”
Looking at the tattoos of her considerable quality up close, Delrin gulps at her.
Aside from being pretty, having a tattoo on your body will definitely attract attention from various people in the future as well as all kinds of social awareness…
… Are not This is a fantasy world.
Is there a need to think according to the original world?
“Muh, can I just get a tattoo?”
“Yes. Then I’ll be patient. I’ll be patient with it a few more times in the future.”
It’s not a losing business if you put up with future disputes by tattooing your body.
It’s like a tattoo…
However, there is one real problem.
If other sisters found out that I had these tattoos on them, would they take it seriously?
“If I… Get these tattooed on my body, the other sisters will make a fuss. This is just…”
Delrin swallows her saliva for a moment, unable to finish her sentence.
‘Isn’t this just the same thing as getting tattoos to obey your bully boyfriend or black people…?’
I was a little worried though.
Rico’s stiff face and voice forced him to agree to the request.
Under Rico’s sincere touch, Delrin was given a tattoo that could never be erased again.
One on the wrist and one on the ankle.
On her wrist, a black rose symbolizes secrets and eternal love.
A crest expressing the pride of a thief was worn on the ankle.
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Fortunately, the secretly engraved tattoo blended well with Delrin’s skin and became a beautiful figure.
“You’re too big! What should I do…”
Delrin, of course, had her tattooed on her, so she was quite conspicuous, and she stomped on her feet, bewildered,
Rico calmed him down as if it was nothing.
“It’s fine, so don’t make a fuss about it. It’s pretty and nice.”
“It’s not because it’s pretty! I didn’t expect it to be engraved this big…”
Delrin glanced at his wrists and ankles and sighed heavily.
Contrary to the determination when engraving, it feels like the future is bleak once it is engraved.
“What if other noonas ask what this is? I’m sure everyone will notice…”
“Well, just say you got a tattoo. My tattoo looks great, so you asked me for it.”
“Then there will be more uproar…!”
“Well. If you say you did it because you wanted to, everyone would just walk away without saying anything.”
Rico’s tattoos, which once engraved, cannot be erased even if the skin is peeled off, were truly beautiful.
The person who got it couldn’t pay attention to the beauty and sophistication, but it was a tattoo that couldn’t be engraved without skillful hand movements.
“Aren’t they a bit like a couple now?”
Rico, whether aware of Delrin’s concern or not, looked at the tattoo on his wrist with satisfaction and drew it close to his lips and kissed it briefly.
Her soft lips touched the top of her tattoo, and she felt a strange feeling of total domination.
“I don’t know… Haa. First of all, I won’t fight with the other sisters from now on. I promised…!”
“Yes. Promise.”
Rico held his hand, interlacing her little fingers together, shaking her up and down a few times as a sign of her promise, then she again brought his wrist to her lips.
The anxiety that dominated Rico’s complicated mind was quenched by the paired tattoos.
More than a sense of unity with Delrin, she felt a great bond, as if she had sworn an oath with his soul.
Their tattoos were a passage.
It is an oath to never end their relationship, no matter how many times they bump into other women.
It was her promise to always think of her and live her life.
Unlike the stupid verbal promises made by mouth-watering words, it was a contract deeply engraved in each other’s souls.
Of course,
A tattoo meant to appease one woman’s heart caused the same amount of displeasure and betrayal to other women.
“Erase it now! Now!!”
From the naive Kaede, to Chichi, who lives with mana tattoos, and Neva, who has skin like white jade.
Everyone stared in disbelief at the tattoos on Delrin’s body and burst into rage.
After waking up late in the morning and before washing their faces, they started fighting right away.
The inn was noisy for a while, and even Chichi’s noise blocking magic couldn’t stop the heat.
In the end, not a single woman could withstand Delrin’s words.
“I-I asked you to do it!”
None of the women rebelled against that wonderful advocacy.
Naturally, all the women who had been threatening to fight against Rico put down their weapons as if in despair.
In an instant, the dorm was frozen with stillness, silence and awkwardness.
“Where is this! Then let me carve the marks of the small man’s teeth! Kwang!”
“Ahh! It hurts! It hurts!”
Fortunately, Kaede, who was just a little shy, and Chi-Chi, who made her promise to carve her own mana tattoo right below her belly button, soon relieved her mood.
“…”
Neva constantly followed the tattoos on Delrin’s body with her eyes.
Her face hardened.
Even though she was her knight, she had white skin like white jade, flawlessly beautiful skin, and saw the black tattoos on Delrin’s body and gnashed her teeth.
Dark clouds hung over her face. She felt left out of the party.
“…Eva, let’s pack our bags…”
“I told you not to talk to me!”
A younger sister who answered sharply and avoided the seat,
Among the people who talk while looking at her tattoo as if she doesn’t particularly care about herself,
Neva packed her belongings alone and put on the complex armor one by one.
There was no one looking at her.
Even Helen was by the side of the other party who continued their quarrel over tattoos,
Delrin was trying to soothe the feelings of her other women, and she couldn’t afford to look at herself…
No one paid her attention to her.
“Everyone, pack your things first! We don’t have time to fight like that…”
Even her voice
Kaede’s mad tail,
Chichi’s nagging voice,
It was buried in Rico’s sneering snort.
Neva was alone.
Dear man,
Dear little sister,
She didn’t pay her attention to her,
Everyone was outside of her.
Neva’s eyes flickered for a moment.
However, even that shaking,
No one saw
“…”
They left the inn with a small ember in their arms.
Their destination is
The gateway to the kingdom of dwarves,
Lemün.
