Chapter 90 – Volume 18 – People Who Walk on Time (5)
“Carly, wait a minute.”
“…Orca?”
At that time, Orca suddenly left the exhibition hall and headed somewhere.
I wondered where he went without saying anything, but we had to return to the academy together.
I patiently waited for her to return.
And where did she get the orca that came back, she was wearing a pure white mourning dress.
Except for the difference in the color of her hair, it was the appearance of a ‘half’.
It was an atmosphere that would attract attention.
Even untied the ponytail that was always tied, and changed it to the straight hair style that Harp wears.
If you look at the accessories, they are decorated as similarly as possible.
It has been said that she deliberately tried to imitate her harp.
‘Oh, no way, boy…’
I thought of a pretty cute idea, so I smiled a little.
In the end, even though the character in the book just died, everyone commemorated it like this, as if someone important died.
Then someone must have thought that the memorial should be accepted.
And Orca thinks that the most appropriate thing to accept the memorial was the elf or harp wearing mourning clothes in the last picture.
Then, if she was a harp among them, she would have thought that since she was an orca and she resembled herself, she might be able to replace it.
“You…”
“Carly told me with the last work. I could become a character in a cartoon with just one tattoo. Then I thought I could become a harp-chan with just one of my race.”
Although the color of her hair is slightly different, it was a color that could be confused enough depending on the light.
If you don’t look closely, it definitely feels like you’ve taken out the characteristics of a harp.
To be honest, since there was only Orca as a mixed blood of Elves and Orcs to refer to nearby.
The grown-up Harp had no choice but to resemble an Orca.
“I’ll help you a little.”
Orca became a harp, and she would like to play a resident role in this naturally formed atmosphere of remembrance.
For a moment, she wondered if this was a self-padded lip, but she quickly erased it from her head, as it only shattered Orca’s innocence.
Anyway, I can’t help but think of such a cute idea.
‘First, mix the magic with the lighting to make the hair color look similar.’
Her harp’s hair is paler than Orca’s, so I increased the amount of light on her hair to make it look a bit brighter.
And unlike her orca, the tips of her hair are gradated with a white feeling.
This part is completely white by reducing light reflection and increasing the amount of light with dark magic.
“Go.”
“Thanks.”
Orca, who had become a real harp, slowly walked to the exhibition hall and picked up the flowers that were lying there.
The attention of those who have just been watching or those who put down flowers and commemorate the orc begins to focus.
Of course, my drawing has strong deformation, so it’s hard to say that the orca and the harp are completely similar.
Rather, it is difficult to specify the appearance of the harp, and an optical illusion occurs due to the atmosphere in which the orca feels more like a harp.
“Thank you.”
“…Harp?”
Maybe because I thought that couldn’t be the case, I heard a pretty dumbfounded voice.
Thanks to Orca, who subtly continues her acting well and accepts her, her atmosphere begins to change drastically.
Suddenly, a character from a cartoon appeared in reality, so it must feel like a dream.
It’s a dream made on purpose.
“…Everyone really likes it.”
There were people who hugged Orca and cried, and there were people who looked at her with a very sad expression and held her hand tightly.
Seeing so many people’s feelings toward orcs, I felt very strange that this was a craze caused by my work.
At first, people were amazed that the harp appeared in front of them.
As if she became a real harp sooner than she thought, the way she tried to comfort her was a scene that warmed her heart very much.
Thanks to that, Orca goes beyond focusing on that role.
There was a situation where I burst into tears for a while, or forced a smile while being speechless.
Later, as rumors spread, too many people gathered at the capital’s exhibition hall, and we had no choice but to run away from the exhibition hall in a hurry.
“…How are you feeling?”
“It’s gotten a lot better. I’m not a harp, but I still feel like I’m getting a lot of support.”
It must be because Orca thinks he and Harp look alike.
I changed her orca’s hair and clothes back to normal, and returned to her academy holding her in her arms.
It wasn’t to the extent that he couldn’t walk, but he seemed to be very emotional.
There was nothing better than me holding her as her princess to keep her calm by holding her tight.
“… Oh, Carly! Orca! Did you hear? I heard that a harp has appeared in the Waterworks Exhibition Hall. From the sound of a ghost, it’s actually a harp, and her family is alive…!”
As soon as we got back to the club room, Yuria made a lot of noise with the information she got very quickly.
Where did you get that information from, so you knew so quickly that it was a mess?
By the way, she seemed to like such unknowns so much, Yuria’s stupid hairy puppy wagging excitedly like her tail as she explained.
Maybe we should go out together and see the real thing, but…
“Are you talking about this?”
Let me turn the magic back on and untie the strings from Orca’s hair.
I could see that Yuria’s expression was shaking quite a bit.
She’s YuRia, whose expression changes so little that she only smiles lightly unless she’s gone because of pleasure.
That’s what really surprised me.
“Could it be that the harp was an orca?”
“Ehehe… For some reason, everyone was honoring the death of an orc by laying down flowers there. I felt like I had to do it as a half-orc.”
“What is it? I thought it came out for real.”
“Would you come out?”
Yuria went back to her dormitory in a very disappointed state.
Because Rosaria is also busy today, only Orca and I are left in the club room.
It’s something that happens often, but I think it’s a little naughty because I’m thinking like that…
At that moment, suddenly there was a knock at the door.
Perhaps because it felt similar to the last time Nia came, Orca and I were both hardened and I couldn’t think of moving.
We stayed like that for a while, and only when we heard voices outside did we come to our senses and open the door.
“Ah, Professor Rondo.”
“Um, were there only two of us? Well, Rosaria is running out of time right now…”
“What are you here for?”
“Oh, I didn’t come because there was something special. But… I just wanted to talk about this new work with a Cali student.”
“Aha.”
As I happened to pass by this place, I saw that Yuria, the only member of the comics club who did not know that I was a student of painter Shiu, was leaving.
He laughed, asking, “When else would you talk about the work of artist Siwoo with me?”
I think this work left a lot of impression on you.
“Actually, I’m busy too, so it took me quite a while to finish reading the manga and see this exhibition. If you hadn’t asked to put the exhibition hall in the school, you probably wouldn’t have seen it yet.”
“I saw you today.”
“And as soon as I said I saw it, the damn old man with a communication tool… No, Master was so noisy that it was hard work.”
“I guess so.”
Elder Sharon is the kind of person who likes to talk about things like this.
Among them, Professor Rondo, who is the one who fits the story the best, is quite happy and worthy of running amok.
To be honest, Professor Rondo also said that, and I can see that he secretly likes Elder Sharon.
“…Honestly, I felt a lot after watching this work.”
“Did you feel it?”
“After all, wouldn’t it be stupid for elves to blend into human society like this… Well, something like that.”
“I jumped too much.”
Professor Rondo smiled faintly.
Master is older than him, and he dies before him. Although it didn’t feel that strange.
As a professor at the academy, he became acquainted with so many students.
In the end, having to watch all those children die, he said, suddenly felt like reality.
“Certainly, this work will give many thoughts to the elves, whether human or orc, who have come to value short-lived people.”
“That’s right. It’s to the point where I doubt Kali’s teacher might be an elf. It would be difficult to come out like this if I didn’t think about it a lot…”
I admit that this work came out well, but I did not think that it was my pure skill.
To be honest, there were too many things that happened by chance.
It is also the material obtained because Orca’s father became in poor health due to his dying life and collapsed as a result.
It is also a coincidence that the subject matter was exactly the same as the work I was preparing.
“Painter Siwoo always makes me think of a lot of things. But I didn’t expect me to stab the painful part with such precision.”
“…I must have done it on purpose.”
“Ah, professor! In that case, it’s good to walk backwards along the walking path of the work!”
“…Backwards?”
The orca laughed bashfully and began to tell the professor what I had said to her to comfort her orca.
Stop Orca, it’s hard because I feel like I’m being read aloud about my dark history!
“Because I was able to go to the future just by walking. Conversely, I could return to the past just by walking.”
“That’s right. It hasn’t actually happened yet, has it?”
Just because misfortune is scheduled for the future, there is no need to throw away the happiness of being able to smile brightly now.
Rather, because of that unavoidable thing, he said that he should not give up even being able to be happy.
I explained with a more developed feeling than what I had said.
“That’s probably why I chose the first picture to look very happy.”
Although you may regret that time is over.
That said, I shouldn’t regret it itself, so I drew a picture that was too beautiful to regret.
The meaning contained in the work, which I did not know, began to emerge from Orca’s mouth.
