Chapter 3 – 1. Winter Queen (3)
The bed in Yuria’s cave house was really amazing.
The bed, which was said to have been filled with feathers of birds and down feathers of animals, was so soft that it was so amazing that it was thought that this was a bed used by aristocrats who had only heard about it.
At first, thinking of sleeping in the same room with YuRia, I thought I would hardly be able to sleep, but contrary to my thoughts, the bed was so soft that I fell asleep so easily and woke up in vain.
No. After waking up, far from being in vain, I was extremely frightened.
She was leaky and Yuria’s clothes, who hadn’t woken up yet, were very much disheveled. Maybe she didn’t have very good sleeping habits? One side of her breast was exposed to the nipple, and the hem of her skirt was raised between her legs, revealing a woman’s genital area that looked like an ax mark.
Is this intentional? Is it some kind of test?
Seeing Yuria’s stimulating appearance, Roa had a great impulse, but she showed superhuman patience, reached out her hand and quietly fixed her clothes, ending her by covering her body.
To Roa, who belatedly realized her sexuality, Yuria’s appearance a moment ago was a bomb-like stimulus, but she was able to endure it somehow with her steel-like patience.
How could she be so defenseless after teaching herself that much yesterday?
Is it because there is no risk of having her child?
Even so, among the things she taught me yesterday were her first experiences and the symbolism of her virginity. How could she be so defenseless…
However, it seemed that she would be a little happy if YuRia said it was because she trusted her.
Roa came out to her living room, leaving YuRia who hadn’t woken up yet.
I didn’t know it yesterday, but her Yuria’s cave was very unusual. She must have vents all over the burrow. There were many small holes here and there that could be called skylights.
Maybe that’s why, despite being underground, it wasn’t as dark as I thought.
“Amazing…”
How could she have built such a house in the ground?
Roa, who was looking around Yuria’s house here and there, was fascinated by the appearance of Yuria as she walked out of her bedroom, and her heart pounded.
As if she hadn’t woken up from sleep, her sloppy and somewhat dazed expression, Yuria, was so different from her usual icy expression that she was so cute that words couldn’t describe it.
But that expression was really short-lived. It was hot, but Yuria soon returned to her usual cold expression, which was a bit regretful.
However, her face blushed a little, perhaps because she was ashamed that her defenseless expression from before had been discovered.
“Did you see it?“
“What?”
Roa answered honestly. Because she really didn’t know what Yuria had seen.
But for some reason, YuRia, her seonji, put on a very relieved expression.
Does Yuria not know that I can read her expression?
She was about to ask but she just decided to move on.
For some reason, Yuria seems to be very shy about revealing her feelings to others.
“Come to think of it, is this your first time at my house?
At YuRia’s words, Roa nodded her head.
She didn’t, but she wanted to take a look around, but she was hesitant because she didn’t think it was okay to look at her on her own, so she thought it was rather good.
“Well then, that room over there is a bathroom. You’ll know from yesterday… You can’t just open it like yesterday.”
“…”
Is it embarrassing when she still thinks of yesterday? Roa felt ashamed for some reason when she saw Yuria covering her body with her arms as if covering her body.
“And the room we slept in yesterday is a bedroom. It’s not as good as the bathroom, but you can’t open the door over there too. You change clothes there too.”
“Yes”
Even if that wasn’t the case, Yuria didn’t seem to have a good sleeping habit. Hadn’t she been exposing her breasts and genitals just this morning?
She felt that if she went in the wrong way and saw her like that, in many ways she would lose her mood.
Even after that, Yuria introduced her to various places in the cave.
Among them, there was a place where she was like a wizard’s laboratory, and Yuria warned her that this place was dangerous, so she didn’t touch anything, and when she wasn’t confident, she didn’t even enter.
Deep inside the cave, I don’t know how that happened, but there was a very cool place, and Yuria had a large amount of food stored there.
In particular, the large amount of meat hanging from the ceiling made Roa’s mouth wide open.
Smoked meat, salted meat, dried meat, etc. It was literally full of various preserved meats, and I realized once again how great Yuria was.
Above all, there was ‘something’ that looked very familiar among the meat that was hung like that.
“Bear?”
It was a bear’s paw.
“Yeah. Normally, you wouldn’t attack me, but for some reason, I didn’t back down and attacked you, so I had no choice but to catch you.”
In addition, Yuria added a quadrupedal sign that said, ‘And that bear was a male’.
Roa why is that? As I looked at her, YuRia shrugged her shoulders.
“A female bear with cubs might attack me, but a male bear doesn’t.”
“?”
“Normal animals don’t attack elves first. I’m not an elf, but in a way I’m similar.”
When I wondered how she knew knowledge that only elves would know, it seemed that Yuria had something to do with elves.
Could it be a half elf or something like that?
Roa thought that maybe she was older than Yuria looked.
“How old is Yuria?”
“44… Hot!?“
YuRia, who had told her age in her daze, her poker face broke and hurriedly covered her own mouth with her hand and looked back at her loa.
“…”
“…”
There was a moment of silence.
“Bird, are you older than I thought?”
“Do not say…”
After hearing about Yuria’s age, Roa almost confirmed her identity as a half-elf.
Perhaps, there is a story behind them that brought them here.
The color of that mysterious hair and the color of the eyes. And that beautiful appearance that seemed to transcend human beings probably came from elves.
I was curious in my heart. Which of YuRia’s parents was an elf?
And what kind of elf was it?
Considering the abilities Yuria has, I don’t think she was an ordinary elf. Are you a high elf that was only told in legends?
Anyway, Yuria, who had accidentally told her age, was quite discouraged. Was it that shocking to discover her age?
“Yuria?”
“There he is… Loa. She forgot to tell me yesterday…”
Yes?
“I don’t ask how old a woman is… “
It was the first time she had ever seen Yuria so discouraged, so for some reason Roa was dripping with cold sweat.
“Ha, isn’t it still too young for a half elf in his 40s?”
“Huh?”
YuRia looked back at Roa as if she was saying something.
“Did you think I was a half elf?”
“Wasn’t it?”
Yuria brushed her hair to show him her own ears.
“Do they look like elf ears?”
“I heard that half-elves often don’t have elven ears?”
At those words, YuRia let go of her hair again and began to worry about something in her.
“Come to think of it, it’s clear. Considering the things I’ve shown and taught to Loa, it’s easy for them to misunderstand me as a half-elf.”
Apparently, it seemed that Yuria was not a half-elf.
“Someday. You’ll find out naturally. The day you’ll meet a real elf will come someday.”
“To?”
YuRia said as if she had looked into the future.
You might be able to see it. Not the same thing. She will see, she assured me.
“How do you know that? Could Yuria prophesy?”
“Well… It would be better if it were a prophecy. Then I wouldn’t have to live in such a frenzy…”
What is so unsettling?
YuRia’s expression was as if she would collapse at any moment.
“When I try to give up on life, I see hope. When I try to live, despair comes… To me, this world feels like a place full of malice trying to play with me.”
“…”
“And even if you’re an elf or half-elf, Don’t mention the woman’s age… “
Until the end, she was Yuria who emphasized that part.
“Goodbye, if you run out of food, you can take it from my house.”
Roa, who left Yuria’s house a little before noon, returned to her house with Yuria seeing her off.
When I got home, the house felt awkward.
Normally, she would have thought that this was where she should be, but when she came back after spending a day in YuRia’s cave, for some reason this house felt very strange.
After she returned to her house, Roa pondered for a while what she should do now, and she felt anew how much Yuria had for her.
She felt such a huge sense of emptiness just because YuRia was not by her side, and she thought for a moment, if she married YuRia, would this emptiness disappear?
However, she thought of YuRia’s words again.
She still doesn’t know what kind of existence Yuria is, but she thinks that maybe she is not human and that Yuria will have to live for a very long time even after she dies at the end of her lifespan.
Her words that the more she likes herself, the more Yuria’s years will be painful, made her loa think again.
“Ha…”
She seemed to have to go and see the village.
She didn’t have a specific schedule, but while she was doing a little tidying up, it seemed that if she didn’t clear her head by moving her body something, her head would keep getting complicated.
Loa’s house was located on the mountain side of the village, so the road to the village was a low slope, so the road itself was quite comfortable.
Roa, who came down to the village along the well-trimmed trail, pondered for a moment what to do.
She wasn’t sure if she had any errands to do herself.
Until now, I used to come on a set day and time because there was an errand for that time, but today was the first time I came to the village unplanned like this.
“Hey~ Aren’t you a kid?”
The moment someone said something and looked back, Roa was terrified inside.
It was the older brother who had been making babies with an unknown woman yesterday.
He’s a bad-tempered older brother who usually doesn’t like his behavior, so he doesn’t want to run into him if possible.
It’s not that far to be called a bully or a gangster, but even so, he didn’t want to get involved with each other if possible, and he wasn’t interested, so he was that older brother whose name I didn’t even know even though I’d seen him for years.
And the fact that I don’t know the name is the same as that hyung.
I didn’t really know my name, and there was always one title for me. ‘Kid’
“It’s past the age of being called a kid, right? If you don’t have business, I’m busy, so I’ll leave.”
“Ah, I know you have no work today, but is that so? Rather, what is it really like?
“…”
That’s true.
If I had free time, I would go see YuRia, because there was no reason to come to the village.
It was very embarrassing. I don’t want to get involved with this brother, if anyone else knows, but I couldn’t come up with an excuse to shake it off.
“What is it?”
“It’s nothing Let’s borrow your house“
Under?
“It doesn’t matter too much since you live alone anyway. Even so, it’s annoying because there aren’t many deserted places these days. If you lend me a place, I’ll let you do it too.”
Loa couldn’t understand what the hell that word would do.
But I knew instinctively that it wasn’t so good.
“I don’t like it. It’s obviously a bad thing, but do you think you’ll give away the precious house your parents inherited?”
In fact, the real reason was that if he kept coming in and out of the house, he would not have enough time to go to YuRia, but even so, it seemed clear that if he kept coming to his house, something would negatively affect the house.
He’s a hyung who’s known for his bad behavior, but if rumors spread that he gets along with him, he won’t be able to complain in many ways no matter what happens at home.
“Oh really… That’s terribly expensive. Hey!“
Roa, who was caught by him and caught by the collar, was embarrassed.
I had a bit of a bad feeling, but I didn’t expect that he would be such a bad person.
It’s a bit rough, but he didn’t think he was a person who would use violence or do more than a bad thing, but the current situation was already going beyond what Roa thought.
“Do you think you can be anything?What does a kid with no parents really believe in? Do you think you would blink an eye in town if I killed you?”
“…”
She felt a moment of sadness, but nonetheless, Loa had a sense of trust.
“I will. I am the link between Mr. Cashewwin and this town.”
“Fuck“
Baek! Stars popped out of my eyes with a sound.
And belatedly, her eyes rolled around and a tingling pain rose from her left cheek.
“This fuck. Are you trusting a wizard coming once a year?”
“Because the house you mentioned is the one that the wizard built?”
At that, the damn brother flinched and stepped back a bit.
“Oh fuck, that’s fucking fucked up. What the hell are you orphans doing, how can a man who’s like a wizard be so cheap?”
“Not related by blood, but between uncle and nephew?”
When I spit out, my mouth seemed to have burst, and a lot of blood came out.
As if she wouldn’t be beaten any more, Roa held her fist up and took a posture. He growled, but eventually he chuckled and backed away.
It was strange that no one came out of the village after such an uproar.
As I said, there was a wizard behind me, and that wizard was a very important customer in this town and a precious person who arranged the only way for this town to connect with the outside world.
The dominant opinion of the village elders was that if it had not been for Uncle Cashwin, this village would have been cut off from the only road and isolated by monsters.
Before I was born, this village, which was a small village of slash-and-burn farmers, was able to prosper to this extent thanks to Roa’s unknown parents and Mr. Cashewwin, who passed away when she was very young.
And on the other hand, he must have benefited from Yuria a lot.
I don’t know much about it, but even YuRia is regularly clearing the forest in the north of the village and drying the seeds of the monsters.
She did it not for the village, but because Yuria herself needed a lot of magic stones from monsters, but it was true that the village was benefiting from it.
So, in fact, the fact that this village was maintained was because of Loa’s connections.
That’s why Roa himself was aware that what his brother said to Roa was bluffing.
Who is more important in this town?
Roa, who was threatened with her own home and the time to meet YuRia freely, never intended to end this work like this.
“Oh Loa, what’s the matter? Huh?”
The landlord came running out in surprise at the appearance of Roa, who came with a bruised face, bleeding from the corners of his mouth, and a dusty appearance all over.
Roa did not show it on the outside, but in his heart, he sang a pleasure.
He thought that he would definitely react like this because he is the most powerful person in the village except for the village chief’s grandfather among those who are most kind to him, and he is quite a big-hearted person.
And although it was a waste of clothes to maximize this reaction even a little, the effect was even more amazing because the clothes were rolled around on the floor and the clothes were dirty, and some of the blood from the mouth was spilled around the mouth.
Roa acted and appealed to the landlord, who held onto her shoulder and asked what the hell was going on.
He said that his older brother, who was a tough character in the town, threatened him with giving up his house and beat him.
He knew his brother was rough, but he didn’t know he would do something like this.
Even if he said that even if he died, the village wouldn’t blink an eye, the uncle’s face turned red and red, and he looked extremely angry.
“That damn thing did that? What on earth did this little kid who lives steadily and well do wrong that he caught him like this?”
I flinched a little at the words ‘little child’ or ‘child’ among the uncle’s words, but this time I decided not to show it.
If he was alone, he might not have been so harsh.
However, if it was now that Yuria would be exposed to the villagers, Roa really intended to use whatever she could use without hesitation.
Of course, one way he didn’t go to see Yuria at all was that, but he didn’t like that.
For he told him to give up his only pleasure living in this town was no different than telling him to stop living.
“Let’s go! This time, I have to say something to the village chief. I will not allow it to be left unattended even though this has happened.”
“Has this ever happened to you before?”
“Loa must not have known that. He periodically had accidents big and small. Every time he seemed to reflect on himself, he always had accidents again. If he wasn’t the chief’s grandson, he’d just kick them out of the village.”
The village chief’s grandson.
He didn’t know much about the older brother, but surprisingly, the older brother was quite a big man in the town.
“Are you trying to take away the house of a child who has been working hard and being kind by himself? This incident has really gone too far. Is this really just telling you to die, Roa? “I’m going to ask for a trial.”
How did Roa respond to the uncle’s words? And was perplexed.
Trial? A trial?
Something turned out to be bigger than he thought.
“Oh, no. I’m going to have a trial…”
“Roa is very kind-hearted. But this isn’t just about doing it this time. I’m going to take this opportunity to gather all the villagers who have been victimized so far, so don’t be too burdened. Now it’s time for the villagers to live with peace of mind. “
While still thinking that something had gotten too big, Roa couldn’t figure out how on earth that older brother had lived and how things had gotten this far.
I thought it was okay to do it like this, but if the brother’s fault was so great, he didn’t know if it was right to step out and muddy the water, so in the end, Roa followed the landlord’s lead.
Bang bang!
The landlord’s fist pounded the village chief’s house vigorously, shaking as if a door was about to fall off.
“Chief of Ivoche! See with your own eyes what your grandson did again! Look at our poor loa.”
The villagers began to gather one by one at the sound of the uncle screaming.
As if he was really determined to use this opportunity, he drew people’s attention without hesitation.
“He told our loa to give us our house or he’ll kill us! How long will we have to put up with your grandson’s actions!”
At those words, the villagers began to mutter. And, as if even the village chief was frightened by those words, a sound came out of the house in a hurry.
The sound of a few thumps rang out as if he was running out with his cane on, and then the door opened with the sound of a bolt being unlocked.
The village chief’s grandfather, with curly gray hair and a hanging white beard, came out undressed and in a mess, but it seemed that he was taking this matter very seriously.
“That child, that child really did?”
“Look at Loa here! Look at this kid running to save me.”
Roa’s face blushed for some reason.
It was embarrassing to advertise my image extensively to the village chief as well as to the villagers.
“How many girls were harassed by him, and how many were robbed of money and goods! At first, you were so out of line. Now, I’m not going around saying I’m going to kill the poor child and take away the house!”
When he heard that he had violated a virgin, Roa remembered what happened that day.
I see,
Then the work at that time was forced…
As she thought about it, Roa suddenly burst into tears.
Is that person okay? I’m sure it’s more painful than dying in some cases.
Shouldn’t he have stepped up and stopped him then?
“Come, sleep! Roa, pop! Now, that bad brother will definitely stop this uncle from coming to you, so rest assured.”
Did the old man think that my tears were due to the bullying of his older brother? His ferocious face softened in an instant and he comforted me.
No matter how difficult the village chief’s grandfather was, Roa, who had been working steadfastly without once saying that it was difficult, showed tears, and his heart was shaken, so he collapsed in his seat.
Even though he thought, he really realized that this matter was completely out of his hands.
To such an extent that he could not atone for his grandson’s sins with his own hands.
“So, what are you going to do with my grandson?”
“Whatever. I have to tie it up. I haven’t killed anyone yet, so I won’t kill it, but I’ll have to tie it up and lock it up except when I’m asked to do something.”
Roa wondered if it was a bit harsh, but when she realized that this was not only her work, but also the work of a woman who had been raped a while ago, as well as many other things that had accumulated over the years, she just kept quiet.
“I was going to cut it off completely and cut off all the tendons in my hands and feet, but please know that this is also a lot of patience for the village chief.”
“Okay…”
The village chief’s grandfather seemed to have a complicated feeling in many ways.
However, Roa may be a little selfish, but I was worried that if this happened, the relationship between her grandfather and herself would completely fall apart.
However, what happened to his older brother was not only the result of what he had done to himself this time, but also the result of the accumulation of guilt so far, and his own work was just an opportunity.
Now, even if he asked for mercy, it didn’t seem like the punishment that would be inflicted on his brother would be so weak.
And honestly, he himself was very worried about what to do if his older brother broke into his house, which was out of sight of the villagers, and caused a commotion, so he agreed with the punishment the uncle said.
“Chief, then can we consider agreeing to his punishment?”
“…That’s right. That child has already left my hand too much.”
For some reason, Roa felt very sorry for the village chief’s grandfather.
“Sorry Grandpa…”
“Hmm?”
The village chief’s grandfather made a surprised expression, but then lowered his head.
“No, I’m more sorry. I raised my grandson the wrong way… No matter how much I feel sorry for his parents’ early death, you, who lost your parents just as early as he did, grew up this way, but he still has a great-granddaughter. It’s my fault. It’s my fault. You really don’t look like me. How much grace this village owes to your parents and wizards.”
The village chief’s words made Roa feel strange.
I knew roughly what Mr. Cashwin was doing, but I didn’t realize it very much.
No one had ever told him what his parents had done, so he, their son, had no idea what he was doing.
Seeing the village chief’s grandfather talking like this, it doesn’t seem like an ordinary thing, but what the hell happened?
And what kind of people were your parents?
Something unexpected happened all the time. In many ways.
