Chapter 235 – 8. The Fall of Daedalus (5)
For some reason, the forest where Yuria and her party left was filled with so much silence.
A land where only plants were swept away by the Crimson Ant.
Even with this, not all of the plants were safe, with some fruit trees being uprooted and the leaves and fruits being eaten roughly, leaving only the tree parts to roll on the floor.
In the midst of such silence, Roa and the princess faced each other in awkwardness, and within the awkwardness, Roa reached out first.
“Then let’s go. I’ll see you.”
“Yes yes…”
In the middle of melancholy, the princess who stood up holding Roa’s hand stumbled and lost strength in his leg, and Roa hurriedly received what she almost fell over, so she was saved from falling.
“Are you still having a hard time walking?”
“…”
“Then I’ll pick you up.”
When the princess nodded and agreed, Loa carried the princess on her back.
“It’ll be a little faster.”
“Yes?”
Seeing Loa blaming and ignoring inertia and running fast without any recoil, the princess barely stopped screaming as she tried to scream out to the end of her throat without realizing it.
A bizarre run where the sense of reality disappears.
The princess, who was frightened by the strange feeling of floating, gradually got used to the sight of the forest quickly disappearing behind with the sound of the wind cutting, and she began to get used to this first-time feeling similar to this strange feeling of floating surrounding her body. Did.
The princess, who had become accustomed to Loa’s running, hesitated for a moment, then asked what she was most curious about.
“Sir Loa. You’re a man, right?”
“Yes”
“But why does Lord Loa look like this?”
Loa, who almost stumbled upon the princess’s words for a moment, barely escaped the crisis with extreme footwork.
“Kuh, kuhm…”
“I’m sorry. Were you rude?”
“Oh no”
Roa, who happened to be dressed as a woman to save the princess, even felt self-defeating at the fact that she couldn’t use it to save the princess, but this was not a look that she could quit just because she wanted to stop.
This appearance, which involved not only magic but also witchcraft, was unavoidable until Yuria and Tamamo released it.
Come to think of it, do I have to go out to town in this form…
“Come to think of it, I don’t have enough time, so I’m still like this.”
In fact, since the only thing left is time, Roa started talking slowly.
He went to the Northwest Continent to save the princess, but due to the problem of the Northwest Continent, he dressed as a woman to protect himself and her party from the custom of exchanging her wife or her sister to sleep there. A point blown into ruins.
And since they were tracked down right after that, they didn’t even have a chance to break the disguise.
“Even if it looks like this, it’s not an ordinary disguise, it’s a disguise with magic and sorcery added, so it’s like poison that can’t be easily removed.”
In fact, nothing has been altered from its original appearance. The make-up that is maintained even after washing, and the lines of the face and body have been corrected very slightly, and the hair has only been made longer.
“Okay”
“However, it’s ironic that this figure has never worked properly.”
With a self-deprecating sigh, Loa ran through the forest.
Even in the midst of running like that, Roa’s skills continued to grow and move forward.
Even if it wasn’t a battle, running almost at full strength with the injured on the back of the uneven terrain was practically the same as a real battle, and it was filling something that could not be achieved with just training and training.
Of course, Roa didn’t really feel that much.
“Where are we going now?”
“We’re going to Gash. You’ve probably heard of it. It’s an allied nation formed by the once persecuted and enslaved races to regain their own safety and rights.”
When I think of Gache, for some reason, bitterness came first.
Some of the biggest scars that YuRia has had to do with what happened in Gashu.
She is a body that has ridden the hands of more than 10,000 men besides herself.
Among them, the ‘ten thousand’ unit of wounds were carved into YuRia’s body and mind, and all of her internal organs were crushed to make her heart stop and beat again and again.
And the place where Yuria’s suit, which has now been used up and disappeared, was made.
And Yuria still seemed to miss the suit that had disappeared.
Roa sighed and decided to focus on work for now.
Even if it wasn’t that she didn’t stop thinking about YuRia, it was time to put it aside for now.
I wanted to find a village, but it was an empty village.
Fortunately, there were no signs of destruction or bloodstains on the outside, as if it had escaped before being attacked by the Crimson Ant.
It looks bleak, but what is really bleak? As a Loa who has been to the world of the dead, I didn’t feel any negative energy here, so I went into the village and tried it.
Could it be that all of them didn’t even close the door properly and only took care of things urgently? Most of the houses were left with their doors open, and Loa, who was looking around the streets, looked around and found a suitable house.
The princess frowned a little at the sight of the dusty Pega, but she didn’t seem frightened either.
Hagi Knight, she was also a shaman with some knowledge of the spiritual world. Although her achievements were not very high, her standards were by no means low for her age.
She looked around for a while, but it didn’t seem like a suitable house, so Loa came back. After looking around a few houses, she found a suitable one.
“I’m going to sleep here for today”
“Would it be okay?”
At the princess’s words, Loa just shrugged her shoulders.
“Actually, this house, or rather, this village, would be abandoned. People who could use the facilities here would have already disappeared.”
In fact, returning itself would be far away.
If it hasn’t returned by now, it must mean that the house has actually been renovated elsewhere, or that the owner of the house has died.
Yes, just like the hot spring town I went to with Yuria in the past.
Even the Empire, which was said to have successfully stopped Crimson Ant, was in a situation like this, what about other places?
Did she aim for this situation in her hometown, Selton Kingdom? If it hadn’t been for the new town that Yuria had built in advance, it would have been difficult to properly rebuild the county he wanted.
No. In fact, even in the desired territory, almost all villages except for the new town would have disappeared.
Although it is a case of actually living together with all the territories in the new town rather than dying.
Once again, I am amazed at how great YuRia’s ability is.
“Sir Loa?”
“Oh, sorry”
Loa prepared firewood by kicking and breaking wooden chairs and tables, drove them into the fireplace, and piled the rest aside.
Then, quietly using the aura to light the firewood, Loa went around his house again looking for a cloth that could be used instead of a blanket.
One by one was not enough, but after finding some suitable cloths, Roa shook off the dust with a bang.
The dust in the air was clogged for a while, but Loa, who swept away the dust with a gesture containing an aura, gave it to the princess.
“Please wait here for a moment.”
“Lo, Sir Loa?”
“I’ll see if there’s anything more useful in this town.”
It feels a little uncomfortable because it feels like looting, but right now it wasn’t a situation to cover up.
I have Aunt Nell and Aunt Eileen, so I’ll do something once I get to Gache, but for her, not everything will work out just because she gets to Gache.
There would be no problem if Aunt Nell or Aunt Eileen could be met quickly, but Roa was acutely aware that Gash was not on their side just because of the incidents she had experienced before.
Since there are many different races gathered around the world tree, Yggdrasil, even though Aunt Eileen, the shaman of Yggdrasil, was the highest, that didn’t mean that Aunt Eileen, like a king, had poor control over all races.
Aunt Eileen’s dominance was only limited to the elves.
So now I had to stock up on some items.
Had clothes. Anything you need for camping. Something that can be exchanged for money or something with good liquidity.
Considering that this town is a ghost town because they hurriedly evacuated due to Crimson Ant, there must be many things left in the town.
Perhaps there were people who robbed these empty villages with thoughts like themselves, so they might have all been robbed already, but seeing that the village is in a better state of preservation than I thought, it didn’t seem like that here.
More than anything. It would be difficult to do so carelessly as the empire has strict differences in social status.
I had asked Tia before.
About whether the difference in status between the unique empires is so strict.
What came back was a different answer.
It’s all an optimal governance structure built from the knowledge she gained from her mother.
The fact that this class system seems strict is proof that the other kingdoms are sloppy.
Roa, who had been searching for empty houses while doing something similar to stealing, breathed heavily and thought about the empire again.
Surprisingly, the people of the empire think that the status system of other kingdoms is strict.
While picking up some fairy tales from the cupboard, Roa felt that her thoughts would disappear when she was with YuRia.
Because Yuria is smart. Because she says Yuria is amazing.
Does she stop thinking for herself because she just does what Yuria tells her to do?
When she’s with Yuria, she’s happy, so nothing else catches her eye?
“…”
It’s a bit bittersweet.
She thought of becoming a man worthy of her will to Yuria, and now she is like this.
* * *
A few rings while touring the village for a while. On her way back in search of copper coins and some silver coins, Loa found among the buildings what appeared to be an inn.
He opened the door just in case and tried to go in, but the door was locked.
“Hmm…”
If it’s a building like this, wouldn’t the owner find it later?
After thinking about it for a while, Roa gave her strength and pulled the door as it was.
Pajak -!!
The lock holding the door was smashed and the door opened, and the room was already dark, but it did not interfere much with the aura-enhanced loa’s eyes.
After taking a quick look inside him, putting off taking a good look at it for now, Loa came out of the empty inn thinking that this place would be better than the house he had made his temporary base for.
And when he came to the house he used as a temporary base, he found that the princess was fast asleep.
If I was still awake, I might have already fallen asleep, but it’s strange waking me up in the middle.
If it was YuRia, I would have said good night, but it felt strange to be with someone other than YuRia.
I’m sorry for her princess, but she didn’t look like a woman to herself.
Basically, it’s because there’s absolutely no empty space inside her, filled with her Yuria.
Second, it was because of the appearance that was close to Yuria’s foul play, which I was starting to feel little by little.
Since she was very young, she lived almost alone, and she maintained her innocence to the point of being too late until a relatively late age, so I wondered how pretty Yuria was. She hadn’t realized that she was beautiful.
Even after she went out into society, she thought it was because she said Uncle Cashewyn was too dangerously beautiful, but it didn’t touch her that much.
But now it felt real.
That Yuria’s appearance is to the point of being said to be that of a human.
Come to think of it, her current self was also very absurd.
If she had been born as a woman, she might have been prettier than Yuria.
“It’s fortunate. I’m a man.”
Powerless commoners. No. The warrior of the holy sword is not a commoner, but even so, a warrior was almost like a commoner before his abilities were accumulated to some extent, he was known to the people around him, and his achievements were accumulated.
If she had been a woman, what would she have done in such a situation?
Even if he didn’t know about the Tiberintertz incident, he might have been treated more harshly than Yuria in one way or another.
But she says that Yuria is a man. If she were a woman, she would have suffered less than Yuria, so she would have been better…
With that thought in her mind, on the other side of her away from her princess, with her cloak covering her body and sitting down just in case, the loa fell asleep.
Maybe it’s because in her dreams she slept thinking that maybe it would have been better for her to be a woman herself. She was a woman in her dreams.
A dream she had before. As if it was the situation after being raped by the grandson of the village headman in her now-disappeared hometown, her self-esteem and self-confidence were infinitely low, and the man, Yuria, was suffering from a great sense of guilt.
She said “I’m sorry… I promised to protect you…”
As a child, she was powerless and different from herself.
Even though Yuria had weakened as she weakened, she was definitely an adult, and although she was an adult socially, she was still treated as a child.
Is that why? Yuria, who couldn’t protect me, seemed to suffer from a greater sense of guilt than when I couldn’t protect her.
Do not do that… Yuria, the happier you are, the faster you recover.
As for how to comfort YuRia who was so depressed, I could only think of one way.
I just accepted him.
Longer. More. I hope he can be comforted with this dirty body of his own.
He too was comforted for a moment at the moment when we became one, but is it because he knows how I feel? He really was not comforted.
After that, a lot of things happened to me.
Yuria, a man, liked vodka, but did not like hot springs.
That’s why things started to differ in many ways from when she was Yuria, who was a woman in many ways.
Over and over again, his whole body becomes covered in blood. Yuria, who protects herself while spilling her internal organs and becoming a disgrace. Even so, he himself got caught up in bad things a few times.
Things happen that can’t even do this or that because they are swept away or caught up in the affairs between nobles and nobles. In the midst of the terrible teaching assistant and humiliation, the mind and soul were gradually cut away.
The reason I didn’t take my own life even after becoming almost a doll was because of Yuria, who seemed like she would die with me.
Yuria lives a long enough time to be compared to the gods.
I hoped that he would not take his own life at this early age for an insignificant existence like himself.
Rather leave me…
It was so heartbreaking to see him suffering so much because of me.
He got pregnant with someone else’s child and got aborted by Yuria several times.
In response to such a shock, she longed for YuRia’s affection even more and wanted to conceive his child, but it was impossible for her body to do so.
Although the probability of Yuria conceiving her own child, who can be said to be of a lower race, was not known, it was not harmful to her body.
For him, having Yuria’s child was directly related to his life.
Since there was virtually no possibility of him becoming pregnant, Yuria let the emotion into her as she wanted, but she was always concerned.
It’s just that he wants to live a long time with himself.
If you had children of your own, you would die.
If you want a child like that, let’s adopt and raise it.
And.
Having reached my late twenties, I eventually accepted Yuria’s opinion.
While adopting an orphan and raising him in love with YuRia, one day he realized that the distance between them was over.
I thought it was because her body was bad, but it was close to nonsense to say that her body, after awakening as a saint, was deteriorating.
And it wasn’t long before I realized.
At least in the last few months, it hadn’t been violated by anyone other than Yuria, so this child was definitely Yuria’s child.
At first, it was clear that Yuria would tell him to erase it, so he hid it from Yuria, but it didn’t last long.
As expected, Yuria wanted to erase her child, but I desperately refused, and Yuria eventually agreed with a very sad and painful expression.
And after that, while she was carrying Yuria’s child, her saintly ability was manifested with all her might in order to heal her own body.
As my body couldn’t handle a child, my body collapsed and recovered over and over again. Seeing myself getting more and more impoverished, YuRia felt so much pain.
In the end, I gave birth to YuRia’s child and at my request to laugh before she died, he, who was crying so desperately, smiled so hard.
In front of him, who somehow desperately smiled at the request to smile even though the tears didn’t stop, I eventually lost consciousness with his smile for the last time.
“…”
Roa woke up and curled up in pain so much.
The emotions I felt in her dream came through and I realized how foolish I was to think that I would have been better off being a woman.
Yuria, who was a man in her dream, must have wanted to die along with her.
However, he couldn’t.
With precious treasures left behind by his precious self, he couldn’t bear to leave this world while missing himself.
I still don’t know which one is better.
But he was obviously very comfortable with his own end.
But his heart must have been torn to pieces.
In fact, he himself had run away. It’s hard to see him suffering because of himself anymore.
Just comforting himself that it would be better for him.
While ignoring the fact that it would hurt him even more.
With the thought that I am not by his side, but my child is by his side.
“You’re stupid…”
Did you know that couples who truly love each other resemble each other?
I hope Yuria is happy. That’s my happiness
Then, conversely, for Yuria too, my happiness is her happiness.
We were on the easiest and hardest path.
When I looked up, the morning fog was still thick outside.
The princess was still asleep, and Loa quietly began her practice at dawn, as was her custom.
When I opened my eyes after completing the Aura training, the princess had already woken up and was slowly tidying up her surroundings with a restless body.
“Are you awake?”
“Yes, do Western knights also practice simbeop?”
“It’s not like that, but I’m receiving some teaching from the White Dragon Gate as well.”
At that, the princess groaned.
“I only learned about the realization of martial arts or basic knowledge principles, but I did not learn the martial arts of Baekryongmun.”
“Then… Lord Loa’s mind is…”
Loa just shrugged her shoulders.
“My wife made it”
I still miss you.
I know very well that it is more difficult for Yuria to have something special happen, but was there ever a normal time in this crazy world?
“If it’s her wife… She’s talking about it. Umm, her taste is…”
At her words, Roa made a slightly embarrassing expression.
“It’s different. When I first met her, she was rather older than me.”
She replied that the princess was joking with a laugh at the appearance of Roa who was frightened by something.
Roa, who was ready soon, carried the princess on her back and left the village like the wind.
