Chapter 209 – 208 – Someone’s Expulsion Story
Back at the stables, Thena kicked down her door and ran. And she went straight to Tan, who was lying on a pile of straw.
Tan’s mouth is foaming. The body covered in trembling wounds is curled up like a baby.
The musty smell of animals fills her nostrils. It is not a place where patients can be left unattended.
Tena quickly took two bottles of potion. Although she received it from Yajin, the contents are reliable.
He had the audacity to walk into the temple and buy himself a brand-new product with a quality assurance label. She was a tough guy who didn’t care about the identity of her customers.
One of the two bottles of seemingly luxurious potions is a high-end healing potion that is said to raise even the dead.
And one is a potion that detoxifies bacterial substances that Newt Rock puts on the tip of the spear. She didn’t even know she needed detoxification until the enemy told her.
It is not the enemy that kills our allies, but incompetence. TENA was deeply aware of that fact.
Her medication was poured down her throat and she was moved to clean accommodation. She nursed him very well all day and night.
However, Tan was unable to open his eyes, just holding his breath.
“Wake up, Tan.”
Tena became impatient. She doesn’t know when Jin will show up and take her away, saying ‘it’s time’.
Tan, left alone without her conscious mind, may die. As an orphan, Thena knows that being left alone is scary and dangerous.
It was Tan who saved Thena from such loneliness.
“Wake up and eat dinner. Then we can go on another adventure. Do you remember what the scenery of the mountain village of Borvais was like? In early summer, the iris flowers turn purple, and in late summer, the autumn leaves turn bright red. It was beautiful.”
It’s so beautiful. Tell them not to laugh. Even if you fail a hundred times, you will never miss that drunken skin.
In fact, Tena had no regrets about the land of Borvais occupied by monsters. It’s natural. She had no sympathy for orphans, so she couldn’t have been so attached to her country that they were herded into her temple.
The only people who were important to Thena there were the Bantai family and Sister Monica. They were the only ones who treated Thena as her own person and not as a native.
However, Monica, who followed her like a mother, disappeared without a message one day, and Thanh’s mother, Kale Bantay, who was often absent from the village, returned as a letter to notify her of her death.
Among her siblings, the younger one left to pursue career success. The height of her life has changed, and she may never see it again.
The only thing left by her side until the end is Tan Bantai.
Tan wanted Borvet like that. She wanted to completely drive out the monsters from the land, purchase the entire land, and build a building.
Tan didn’t honestly say why she was obsessed with a dream that was difficult to reach with her child’s body, but Thena knew deep down.
As a child who had no parents or relatives, she needed a place where her mother, who might still be alive, could visit her.
If you’ve never had it, you don’t know the pain of loss. Thena, who was born in a void, wanted to fill the void that she did not know.
That is how the so-called Borvais reconstruction project began.
“···Let’s find the treasure. Become a top adventurer and write a legend. Let’s create a party that interviews hundreds of people, and expand the map to places no one has ever been to. Then, Borvet Mountain Village will naturally reappear. You could buy the whole mountain.”
Tena wiped her sweaty forehead. And she kissed that spot, leaving a new mark of her water.
Only then did Thena realize that her own lips were wet with the snot from her eyes.
“There are so many adventures we haven’t gone on yet…”
“Don’t be funny.”
Her tanned lips were sweet.
Even though it wasn’t Christmas, it seemed like a miracle had come.
The fairy tale of waking a sleeping person with her kiss passed through Thena’s mind. Even that was told by her tan. Tan was young Thena’s world.
“Tan… Are you awake?”
“Don’t do something like that.”
“I’m awake. I’m awake! Mithra, Peru, Dievas, thank you! What? Don’t do what? What do you need? If I do something…”
“Don’t ask me to follow you anymore to these stupid party games that your delusions created. I’m sick of it.”
Thena blinked a few times. It was because she thought she had heard something wrong.
However, Tan slowly opened her eyes and glared at Thena with her cloudy eyes filled with hatred.
Tena gritted her teeth, ready to be scared.
“I don’t know if the rainy season is over or not, but if only I hadn’t said nonsense like ‘I’ll die if I get caught in the rain.’ At the very least, even if I had skipped this request…”
“I was wrong. I was wrong, so now I can calm down-“
“In the first place, if you hadn’t told me nonsense about going around together and gaining experience… I wouldn’t have ended up like this.”
“···What do you mean?”
There is a gap between the two here. The brain often forgets unfavorable statements to protect itself.
One truth has been revealed. It was Tan who wanted to form a party. It was only when he saw this scene in Tena’s head that Tan remembered it.
However, if he was going to hurt people with nonsense like that the moment he reached his limit, why did he suggest a dangerous adventure for two people?
Suppose they stumble into an orphanage. Just like all the other adults suggested.
The future of the porter is clear. I don’t know where it will be, but I will soon become an adult carrying luggage.
This is different from a warrior who does not know what opportunity will come and knock on his door. Either you get a chance to enter the academy, or you leave because of a recruitment offer from a warrior party.
Do you know anything? The parents who passed on such beautiful looks and great aptitude may appear and create a tearful reunion, saying, “I have found my child who was lost in an accident.”
Therein lies the scary truth. For Tena’s sake, I should have chosen that side. It’s not an early adventure where you never know when you’ll become companions on the afterlife like this time.
But Tan was afraid. If she didn’t do this, she felt like even Thena would leave her. She felt like no one really cared about her anymore.
She reached out her hand in sympathy to Thena, who seemed lonely because there was no one by her side.
She wanted to forget her fear, so she forgot what she had caught.
This is because it is advantageous for the preservation of sanity.
And at this moment, when her pain became so severe that she could not maintain her reason, Tan’s limitations reared their heads and found another support.
The person to blame.
“What do you mean, Tan? Our party is…”
… You’re the one who dragged me in. Tena bit her lip, swallowing her words.
People often scratch the hearts of those closest to them. There are times when only then can you bear it.
So Tena let Tan spit out all her harsh words. In addition to all the flaws she felt while being with Thena, she also let Thena talk about her personal weaknesses about being alone.
But what hurts more than any words.
“Please, Thena. I’m tired now. I can’t bear your bullshit, your stupidity, or your mistakes anymore.”
“Tan.”
“So get off. Go somewhere.”
And at this moment, beyond the rebuke, there is unconscious reflection.
It was only after one real crisis passed that Tan vaguely realized. She would rather have Thena alive somewhere far away than have Thena with her dead.
Even if she only heard about her becoming the heir or princess of a certain kingdom in the newspaper, it would be okay for Tan Bhan Thai to be left alone in her own miserable life.
The effort to keep Thena on her floor would be cruel and mean.
With this, her second truth was revealed. It was Tan who called for the expulsion of her opponent.
“I understand.”
The sad thing about her was that Thena was thinking similarly.
Tan’s eyelids twitched as the other person convinced him that it was faster than expected.
“Help will come soon. Just be patient until then.”
“Do… Um…?”
“Don’t follow me now. You don’t have to.”
Tan grits his teeth and wiggles his fingers. Thena quietly got up from her seat and left her room.
Only after the back had crossed the threshold did Tan raise her trembling hand and hold it out. She didn’t even remember that she had just asked her to leave.
Thena did not see her hand trying to hold on to her.
“It’s not your fault. It’s because I’m weak.”
“Te···I···.”
“Because that’s what it is.”
The door closes.
This is not the story of the exile adventures of porter Tannhäuser Bantay.
This is the story of the exile of Hero Thena Everlight.
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Tena, standing on a mountain hill, looked down on the village with the eyesight of a warrior.
The Mancellarion flag, which looks as big as an ant, flies across the city. It looks like they brought more than four people with them this time. Mansell, who has surrounded the entire inn, bursts through the door with a tense expression.
And he is embarrassed by the owner’s abusive language. She received information from the errand boy she was staying with that Ya Jin, a white sword spirit, was occupying the inn next door, but she was not.
Thena was well aware of the fame and reputation of the warrior Mancellarion. She had heard countless compliments about him not only in the party league newsletter, but also at the adventurer-only inn.
So, he was the only responsible adult in this city that Thena knew who could protect her.
Mansella Leone says she still needs to check, so she goes into room 309. And he is shocked to discover Tan, an Insa Buddha.
Who left that boy here? He couldn’t possibly leave a child his age alone. Call a healer. Those echoes scattered by the wind are faintly caught by the warrior’s hearing.
Maybe they will appreciate his experience assisting Tena, who is full of mistakes, and recruit him as his porter. If so, Tan will be able to make a fresh start with a new family. That was the greatest hope Tena could hope for.
“It’s time. It’s so ugly that I can’t wait any longer.”
Tena, who had been watching her from afar, turned around at Yajin’s words.
“I guess they like being called ugly. Didn’t they say that when they first saw us?”
“I just said what came to mind. Did you like that boy?”
“···Yes?”
“Did you love me? I don’t know if that word is appropriate at your age.”
Tena gritted her teeth. He didn’t want to share his feelings with the villain who would kill him one day.
Here is the third truth. Tena couldn’t tell Yajin that honestly.
Perhaps Tan had already sensed Thena’s feelings. Each other’s existence seems to have been created for each other in a lonely world. Days spent observing the starry night reflected in each other’s eyes. Those things are definitely not only meaningful to TENA.
However, there is an upper limit to the weight that porters can lift. This situation of suddenly having to support one’s own life after losing one’s loved ones and family must have been too heavy for the child. That alone was too much for Tan to pretend not to notice that feeling for a moment.
Of course, if she cannot overcome Yajin’s ordeal, she will have no chance to have that faith confirmed in the future. Then certainty is just a guess.
Thena wasn’t going to leave her guess as a guess. I will survive.
Until the day when I ask the precious question of whether you felt the same way as me, perhaps the meaning of life.
“You know what. What you’re interested in is my talent, not my life, right?”
“That’s refreshing to say. That’s it. If you have any regrets, throw them away.”
Yajin smiled eerily and showed her satisfaction.
“That way, there will be at least some hope of survival.”
