Chapter 4 – 1. Winter Queen (4)
Hey, this fuck! I will kill you! I’m going to kill you! You dare me!!
Loa’s body shrank at the sight of the village chief’s grandson screaming, but the sound stopped shortly thereafter.
And at the sight of the village chief’s grandson, even the slightest bit of sympathy among the villagers seemed to have completely disappeared.
On the contrary, he mumbled as if it was more terrible that such a person was running around the village.
“Really Loa, how much trouble must that young child have suffered?”
“I see. All you have is that house your parents gave you.”
Of course, it was a house on the outskirts of the village, but on the other hand, it was also the best house in the village.
It’s a house built by a wizard.
Of course, it doesn’t mean that Mr. Cashwin built the house alone.
Even so, Loa’s house was certainly not repairable by ordinary people.
So once a year, once a year. Except for repairs by Mr. Cashew Winn, who came every fall, she couldn’t even touch it.
It was difficult to touch, but if touched incorrectly, the magic hanging over the house could disappear.
Come to think of it, what he did was very reckless.
What on earth was she going to do when Mr. Cashew Wynn came to fix her house in the fall?
Or maybe I didn’t even think about it.
Of course, his brother probably didn’t really try to take the house away. It meant that we should write together, both in reality and in words.
But he wasn’t stupid enough to believe it right away.
In fact, living together like that, he would have taken the initiative in his house and tried to bend it to his own will.
I felt that way especially as I listened to the people who had come to confess his brother’s sins.
Mostly powerless women and children were the victims, but some poor adults who had little influence in the village also regularly suffered big and small damage from the older brother.
In particular, some of them confessed that their house belonged to their brother, not their own, and there were also those who testified about what his brother tried to do to them, making them even more shocked. There was.
They said that they were serfs and were no different from slaves. The testimony that he must have tried to make Loa like them made the villagers fall into great shock and made the anger even greater.
Even Roa couldn’t imagine that his older brother would be like that, and now his feeling of sorry for his older brother has completely disappeared. On the contrary, it was fortunate that I was caught like this even now, and I felt very grateful to the landowner who made the decision.
And even though he had some smoke in it, I couldn’t help but think that he was really good at asking the landlord for help.
In the end, the older brother was locked in an underground alcove with both his hands and feet bound with the manacles he had only heard about.
Since he is still a young man, the ruling has been passed that he must live there for the rest of his life except when he calls in the village to work and feed him when he needs labor, and the villagers did not know about me and the villagers who had suffered great damage from his brother. He said he was sorry and handed out gifts big and small like this.
Roa, who had a gift in her arms before she knew it, was worried about how to do this because the luggage was too much.
“I’ll keep it. I’ll come back often to work anyway, so go back little by little each time.”
“Thank you”
Mr. Landlord picked out some of the gifts from Loa and gave them to me.
“First of all, I can’t keep these for a long time, so it’s better to take these first.”
The owner of the landlord, who gave me this and that bread, fresh vegetables and fruits wrapped in a cloth, just stroked his head.
“Plow the land around the house beforehand. I’ll teach you how to farm next year.”
“Yes? Really?”
The landowner nodded his head.
“You’re learning all the basics, so it seems like the time has come for you to learn too. Now you seem to be growing corn, beans, and pumpkins well.
At first, I wondered why they didn’t teach farming.
No, actually, it was through Yuria that Roa learned how to farm like this.
But, unknowingly, he was teaching himself little by little how to farm?
“It may be a bit difficult, but try your best.”
“Yes”
“It happened”
YuRia also saw fresh fruits rather than wild berries after a long time, so her cheeks were convex and puffy, and the way she ate crunchily was somehow reminiscent of a squirrel, so it was so cute.
YuRia, who didn’t stop talking even while listening to Roa, listened to her words and then hmmm… For some reason, his expression darkened slightly.
Gulp!
“It might be a little dangerous”
“Is it dangerous?”
“I’m sure he did. He said he’d let me go sometimes just to get him to work.”
Yuria stretched out her hand toward the fruit Roa brought and bit into it, wondering if her fruit was really good.
“Such people don’t really consider long-term things. They do consider it when making their own plans, but that’s a completely different way from what normal people do.”
Crisp Crisp! Mess.
YuRia, who coveted her fruit with her usual expressionless face completely relaxed, forgot what she was talking about and eagerly coveted her fruit. Suddenly, seeing the fruit with only her seeds left, YuRia realized that she was saying something to her, and she tried to reach for the fruit but stopped her hand.
“How should I explain… People tend to put up with their own losses for various reasons. Whether it’s because of other people’s reputation or because they’re weak. It might be more beneficial to just skip it, etc.”
YuRia was hesitant, but eventually she reached out her hand for her fruit again.
Wasak! A smile appeared on Yuria’s expression as she bit her mouth.
“If you are not a person with an altruistic personality far beyond the human category, the reason you endure in the end comes down to almost one thing. Whatever the meaning of not patience, in the long run it will be more damaging than patience.”
“Is that so?”
“Of course, even if you don’t have a character that is rare among humans to be called a saint, there are times when you put up with it without thinking about the profit or loss, but that kind of thing is really rare. The case of such a person is completely different from this general case.”
YuRia, who was crispy and had eaten yet another fruit before she knew it, tried to reach out to him, but his hand hesitated when the fruit in the basket was running out.
“Ro, don’t you eat loa?”
“Just watching Yuria eat makes me happy”
“Muhh?!”
His face turned red and YuRia’s hair flopped a little. For some reason, Roa put a smile on her face.
“Kuhm!”
Eventually, after hesitating for a moment, Yuria reached out her hand toward the fruit, probably unable to withstand the temptation, and eventually picked it up and bit it.
“Basically, acting for long-term gains is the same for both of them, but the direction of thought is completely different. If an ordinary person calculates the gains by putting up with himself, they calculate the gains by not putting up with it.”
“By impatient?”
“For example, if the other person does not tolerate an unfair act, they suppress it with a bigger unfair act, and they get an advantage by making no noise.”
What about Roa? And looked at YuRia.
“This is a riskier act than you might think. It’s easy to injure others and make a lot of enemies. But you don’t have to be patient or considerate of others. That’s why they don’t care about that risk. … The important thing is to suppress the opponent more strongly and maintain one’s own advantage.”
At YuRia’s words, Roa gulped and swallowed her saliva.
“For that reason, he will try to set loa as an example, no matter what damages he may have in the future. The way he maintains his gains is to oppress others. In reality, it’s never like that, but he’ll think so.”
Roa couldn’t say anything at YuRia’s words.
“Somehow, I think Yuria is amazing. How does she know so much?”
“Well. In our civilization, this is so natural that I don’t know how to explain it.”
At Yuria’s words, Roa suddenly became curious about what kind of place Yuria’s hometown is.
She didn’t know, but she had an idea that it must be an unimaginably wonderful place.
“Come to think of it, why does Yuria not want to meet anyone other than me?”
“Maybe it’s because loa got used to living with me since childhood, but she didn’t feel strange because she didn’t see me side by side with other normal people. I’m a lot different from the loa species than I thought.”
Huh?
“Look”
Yuria stretched out her hand and lightly touched her loa’s hair from the left and right of her, keeping it wide, then gently pulled her hand and brought it towards her own head.
And surprisingly, the width of Yuria’s head was quite wide. To the extent that Yuria’s hair remained for a long time even behind the back of her hand, which she brought while maintaining the width of her own hair.
“Uh?”
“Did you see? My head is almost twice as big as Loa. There are quite a few other things besides this.”
YuRia hesitated and held out her own arm. At first glance, if she had done that herself, she would have screamed in pain in her arms, but Yuria looked so casual.
“Like this, both arms and legs. The range of movement is completely different from Loa.”
Spinning her head, he turned her 360 degrees on the spot. She did, of course, in her torso as well, but she did move somewhat, but at an angle that made her look grotesque. She, of course, turned her head like that, but she immediately returned her head back to normal, frowning as if she was a little sick.
“Ah… It hurts a lot to do this for the first time in a while. Did your body stiffen up a bit during that time… Anyway, Roa and I have completely different physical structures.”
Then she took off her shoes and showed her feet.
Some of her toes also seemed a little longer.
Yuria moved each of her toes separately like her fingers, and she even showed herself holding an object through her toes and feet and wielding the object. She even showed her walking up the wall with her toes on the bumps on the wall and even holding onto her ceiling.
She, of course, blushed as the hem of her dress was about to come down, and tried to hold her hand to the hem of her dress, trying to cover her vital parts.
As if her covering was too much, eventually Yuria jumped from the ceiling and landed on her floor.
“How is it? Do I still look human?”
“Huh”
At Roa’s words, Yuria put on a puzzled expression.
Perhaps, she was trying to break Loa’s affection with this opportunity. She was very perplexed as if it didn’t go the way she thought.
“Aren’t I weird?”
“I just think it’s something beautiful”
Yuria, who had a very bewildered expression on her face, sighed softly.
Yuria, who was avoiding her gaze with a reddened face for some reason, moaned softly and finally let out a sigh.
“It’s like this Casinova…”
“?”
“No, it’s okay. You don’t have to know.”
In the end, Yuria held out her hand toward her last remaining fruit with a very sad expression.
“It’s very difficult between Loa’s people and mine, but her descendants can come out.”
“To?”
“However, the probability is so dire that it is practically impossible. If artificial methods are used, it is possible with a probability of close to 100%, but in fact, that method is not available now. If you want to obtain offspring through normal relationships, well Shouldn’t we have relationships over 10,000 times?”
Loa gulped at the words and swallowed her saliva. Eh, ten thousand times?
“But if you do it multiple times a day, it’s out. No matter how many times you do it, you should count the number of times a day as 1. If you do it every day for 30 years without skipping a day, maybe it will happen.”
At those words, Roa gulp for some reason and swallowed her saliva.
And what about Yuria at Roa’s expression? Hada hot? And her face turned red.
“Oh no. That, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s calculated like that, no, rather than that Ahhhhh?No, why did you say this?“
YuRia, who had been perplexed for a long time, didn’t know what to do, and finally turned to blush Yuh uhhCrying and crying, in the end, heheum! Cleared her throat, glancing at her loa with her fresh red face.
“This is all because Roa said something strange”
“What am I!?”
“I don’t know!”
Boo! YuRia, who was turning her head with her cheeks puffed out, blushed and eventually let her wind down and bit into the fruit she was holding in her hand.
Soon, Yuria’s expression, which seemed to be frowning, was soon relieved.
“Yuria really likes fruit”
“Huh?”
Wow this time! YuRia bit her cucumber and her expression suddenly changed strangely.
Yuria, whose expression had become as if she had put something in her mouth that shouldn’t have been in her mouth, she couldn’t do anything about her cucumber, which had been in her mouth for a long time M, Mm Mm Mm Mm Mm?She walked away and showed a strange appearance as if it was out of order.
“It tastes awful?”
“…”
Something in her closed her eyes tightly, and Yuria opened her mouth wide, as if not wanting to taste her as much as possible, and she gasped! And she chewed on her cucumber, which was in her mouth in a militant manner. But it was impossible for her not to taste it and she was elated!! She groaned and half-cryed, eventually succeeding in chewing and swallowing all of her cucumbers.
“If it doesn’t taste that good, don’t eat it. Why do you eat it all?”
“Uuuuu0uuuuuable can possible…”
Wow! She vomited, but in the end she did not vomit.
“I’m sick to my stomach…”
“Didn’t you eat something you couldn’t eat?”
“Don’t worry, it’s not a crop that’s particularly harmful to the body. It’s not poisonous.”
She ate something she loved, but she ended up eating the wrong thing, so Yuria, who felt depressed in many ways, let out a sigh.
“Didn’t you like fruit?”
“Huh”
“It’s a bit complicated. But the situation I’m in right now is that fresh fruits and vegetables are very welcome. Except for a few exceptional cases like cucumbers.”
In fact, when Yuria held another vegetable in her hand and bit into it, she did not show any particular reaction.
“Well, it’s definitely better to eat fruit as it is, but…”
YuRia, who ate one tomato in an instant, looked at Roa with a sigh.
“Come to think of it, this was Roa’s, but I was eating it all by myself.”
“It’s okay. It’s me. Well, if you like Yuria, she’s fine with that.”
“No! Of course, I also needed a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables like this, but Roa needs to eat a lot of these vegetables too. That way, the body can grow and grow strong without getting sick.”
Eventually, Yuria took her remaining vegetables and headed to her kitchen.
She cut smoked salted pork belly (Yuria called it bacon) into small pieces and sautéed them in a pot until the oil rose to the top.
After stir-frying to the point where she held her breath for a moment, she poured water into the pot, and as it was about to steam up, she poured the finely chopped potatoes and mashed corn kernels into the pot.
Then, she took a small lump of rock salt and squeezed it with her hand. With a crackling sound, the rock salt crumbled into a fine powder and sprinkled it into the pot.
Suddenly, a good smell filled the cave.
“Come on. Try it.”
“Uh, um…”
With a gulp, Roa took up the spoon. Of course, it looked very delicious when I smelled it, but I was nervous for some reason.
It’s not that she doesn’t trust Yuria, but what to say. Since it is the first time for her to make food for herself, it is said that she is nervous without even knowing why she is nervous.
To think that she was the first food made by a woman he liked more than him…
Raising her spoon with her pious (?) Heart, Loa had her first tasting of her history, and at that moment, her eyes flashed!… And she did not wake up.
It was just plain delicious. Of course, it’s not a luxurious taste, but it’s been a while since I’ve had such delicious food, so I was able to enjoy it normally.
“Yuria is good at cooking”
“Me, Meot… “
Somehow, Yuria, her face reddened again.
“Can she cook other dishes?”
“I know quite a bit about recipes. Today’s one is just an impromptu home made using the basics.”
Be self-made I thought that even if I improvised this much, even if I didn’t know much about cooking, it would be really amazing.
“Can I ask you to do something better next time?”
“Uh, uh, huh?”
“If you tell me what materials you need, I’ll get them for you.”
“Oh, no. It’s okay. I can do anything.”
Then, YuRia groaned, and eventually she sighed generously.
“Flour. Eggs. Butter. Eh, onion. I think this will be enough.”
“Okay. But I think butter is a bit difficult.”
“You don’t need that”
In the meantime, Roa suddenly became curious about what Yuria was doing on a regular basis.
“Come to think of it, what does Yuria usually do?”
“Me? Hmm… I’m doing a lot of miscellaneous things like hunting the monsters around me, pruning out wild beasts that have grown beyond my needs, planting good fruit trees around here, and so on. You can say it’s inside. Although there are times when I go beyond that because of monsters.”
Beyond this mountain?
“Why did you go so far to catch monsters?”
At those words, for the first time, Yuria seemed hesitant about her answer.
“Did I tell you I was sick before?”
“Huh”
“In other words, I am in a state where the vessel containing my life force is broken.”
Roa was surprised by Yuria’s words and looked at her.
“Of course, I can recover some of my life force myself, but the bowl itself doesn’t recover properly and just keeps coming out, so it’s very difficult.”
“That…”
She was fine on the outside, so she wasn’t particularly worried about Yuria.
But to think that her life force is leaking out…
“That’s why I go looking for magic stones. I temporarily fill the vessel containing my life force with a little bit and use it as a buffer to escape instead of my life force. Other than that, I use it instead of my original power in many ways to repair the vessel containing my life force even a little bit. It’s being used as energy. Even so, it’s only a temporary measure. In fact, there’s no other way to get better than a medicine made from the Erez tree.”
Was it like that
That’s why she said that the Erez tree is like her own life.
“It’s the same with my liking for fruits and vegetables. Fresh fruit is full of life. Even though it’s a very insignificant amount, even that insignificant amount is so precious to me now. It’s like fresh air.”
“Were you in such pain?”
Yuria just smiled bitterly.
“That’s why I didn’t want to talk much…”
YuRia, who was silent for a moment, smiled with a sad expression and said.
“Anyway, if it weren’t for Loa, I would have died that day. It’s thanks to Loa that I was able to live even a little longer, and I’m satisfied enough. And maybe I’ll get better somehow before it’s too late.”
“Why didn’t you talk like an idiot? You should have told me instead of doing it alone. Then I would have asked Mr. Cashewwin for help.”
Yuria shook her head.
“To me, wizards are the most dangerous”
“That…”
“It’s okay. I won’t die, trust me.”
For some reason, Roa seemed so anxious about Yuria that she couldn’t leave her.
That day as well, Loa ended up spending the night together in Yuria’s cave.
