Chapter 41 – 3. Janghwa Hongryeon (1)
What happened last night All the women who went to take a bath in the lake that Yuria discovered by accident seemed to be having trouble with themselves.
Especially Allen.
“Hee!?”
Even if you get a little closer, as if you have seen something scary, Roa is frightened and hides behind Cashwyn. Blankly, she looked at Allen.
What? What is it?
In such a situation where the reason is unknown, even when I tried to look at Nuri, Karna, and noona, she tried to avoid her gaze with an awkward expression, but did not say anything.
Naturally, Roa’s eyes turned to Yuria.
“…”
Of course, Yuria was also silent.
“What the hell just happened!?”
YuRia was sweating profusely, and she could hardly meet her eyes as if she had committed some crime.
What is it really!!
There was some commotion, but the wagons they rode gradually drew closer to the village.
There was something very strange about the town.
Originally, there should be a guard standing outside the village, but the entrance was left wide open, and no one wandered around the village, leaving only silence.
When it comes to ghost towns, dust and fog must settle down, but this place didn’t even have that.
It was just being silent.
But the closer I got to the village, the colder I began to feel.
Is it because of that? The first thing to start showing strange reactions were the horses.
Hee hee-!!
“Uh, oops! Inseoks?!”
As if they did not want to enter the village, the coachman managed to drive them into the village, somehow calming them down, and as they entered the village, a cold chill penetrated their whole body, as if pierced with needles.
Funny enough, even though he recognized it as cold, he didn’t feel the cold as strongly compared to the tangible coldness he felt.
I looked around with a strange feeling that I couldn’t understand, and the other party looked at the front and back of the carriage with a nervous look on their faces.
“No matter how early it is in the morning, isn’t it strange that no one is there even though the dawn is breaking?”
“No, I understand. Something is not normal in this town.”
Karna looked very nervous and silently glared at her village while holding her breath.
“I don’t know what it is, but there must be something. Something that terrifies the villagers so much.”
Roa looked at Uncle Cashwyn and saw Allen and her younger siblings clinging close to him, shivering.
Uncle Cashewyn was quietly looking around her with her cane in her hand, though the situation seemed to be very embarrassing.
On the head of her wand, a crystal ball borrowed from Yuria was shining faintly, and as if she was receiving power from such a crystal ball, her wand was also emitting a soft light, showing off her presence. It seemed reassuring.
“For now, let’s look around the town like this.”
Cashwin made eye contact with YuRia for a moment, and the two nodded as if they were talking to each other through their gaze, and YuRia went out of the carriage and climbed onto the roof of the carriage.
“Is the child okay?”
“There should be no problem since they are a species that can’t be like ghosts from birth. It’s similar to Nuri here, too.”
At Cashew Winn’s words, the coachman’s grandfather seemed a little worried, but she soon started driving the wagon around the village as Uncle Cashewyn asked.
I circled once along the outer edge, followed a little further inside, and finally went to the center of the village, but nothing was found.
As soon as the sun began to rise in the sky, the village began to show some change.
Click!
Squeak!
The doors of the village were literally opened almost all at once, and countless people began to rush out into the streets at the same time.
In an instant, the store opened and smoke rose, and the atmosphere suddenly changed from a ghost town to a city inhabited by people.
“Hey, what’s going on?”
“It must be because of the sun”
It was Nuri’s words.
For a moment, everyone’s eyes turned to Nuri.
“This village is filled with so strong yin energy that it is difficult to live in it, and an environment full of yin energy is a good environment for ghosts, so it seems that people were restraining themselves from outside activities as much as possible, but the power of the sun is the most active. This time of year is when the yang energy is the strongest, so the yin energy that is full in this town is suppressed to some extent, so I think I came out thinking that this time is safe in my experience.”
Looking closely, I noticed that some of the people were carrying things that appeared to be holy things on their bodies.
Even though it was broad daylight, Karna’s party seemed to be very worried about something that didn’t seem very relieved.
I wonder if I can really be relieved.
“If it was really dangerous, the people in this village wouldn’t even be alive.”
People still couldn’t hide their anxiety at Uncle Cashwin’s words, but they seemed to calm down a bit.
“Mister. But what is Yuria doing?”
“Should I say that I’m eating a meal… I’m making up for my lack of sleep with something else. And that’s when the ghosts steal food to eat.”
Weaken enemies and strengthen allies. Loaya is the basis of all strategic tactics.
“…”
“The village is full of yin energy. Eun-gong said that this power, which is full of villages, is just power that can be used.”
At Nuri’s additional explanation, Roa looked up at the ceiling with a moan.
The cloth covering the slightly sunken carriage showed where YuRia was.
“Well, and. It’s strange that this place is full of things like this. They say they’re looking for the cause, but I don’t know.”
“…”
Roa suddenly had this idea.
I wondered if there was a part of a dangerous magic book hidden in this village like that inn back then.
“Isn’t Yuria going to be in some danger again this time?”
“…I don’t know. It may or may not happen. The future is always like that.
At the uncle’s words, Roa thought for a while and denied it inwardly.
I don’t know anything.
No, at least not as much as Yuria.
When she thought of the way she saw her past, she could now see her own past, which was not her own, although she was not her own.
She is born and raised as a woman, not a man, and the past that will come true when Yuria, born as a man, meets. All in all, what would happen if she and Yuria didn’t meet. A story from the past that does not connect with the present.
Her future that Yuria will see will be similar to this.
So many futures. Countless futures that will not continue from now.
That’s why it’s such a future that you don’t know which of them will come to you.
So you can know. It was such a future that I had no choice but to suffer even though I knew it.
At this time when people are still active, Karna and the others have expressed their opinion to do emergency maintenance and leave the village immediately.
However, that opinion was dismissed as Yuria’s opinion.
For Yuria, this place is not as dangerous as she thought. He said that if he didn’t solve the problem here, he would be in big trouble someday.
“How can you determine that?! Is this place not dangerous?
“Whoah, calm down. I guarantee it. What Yuria said must be true.”
“Cashwin, no matter how much you are a wizard, how the hell am I supposed to believe in such nonsense? No matter how much you are our benefactors, this place is too ominous.”
At Karna’s cry, the mercenaries folded their arms and nodded.
As if he really didn’t want to stay here even for a moment.
“Allen, what do you think?”
“Eh, eh?”
Allen, who was suddenly nominated, was embarrassed and did not know what to do.
“I bet you wouldn’t want to keep your little brothers in a dangerous place like this.”
“…”
At Karna’s words, Allen murmured and pondered for a moment.
But what can I say? For some reason, though reluctantly, Allen’s intuition came to him that it was better to stay here.
No, to be precise, it’s not good to stay in this town. The feeling that it’s good to stay by Cashwyn and Yuria’s side.
“Jeong then, why don’t you rent a new wagon here and leave first? We can meet at the Dwarf Village, right?”
What about Karna in Allen’s words? She did
Come to think of it, it was.
If you really didn’t want to stay in this town, you had to leave first.
The mercenaries also began to talk to each other, sighing at Allen’s words.
Will you leave first? Or will you stay together
And in the end. The opinions of Karna and the others gathered in the direction of leaving first.
“We will be waiting for the end of spring in the Dwarf Village. If you arrive there, please find the Black Wolf Mercenary at the Mercenary Guild. Even if we don’t meet again, the Black Wolf Mercenary will not forget your kindness. If something happens, tell us. Even if you can’t do an unreasonable request, if it’s a light request, at least once is free. Or, depending on the type of request, I’ll accept it at half price for up to 3 requests.”
In the end, Karna and the others had a sad farewell, and Yuria also quietly waved her hand at them.
Instead of getting a new wagon, they sent the old driver who didn’t want to stay here for long, and now that we really were left in the village, we stood on the street and put our heads together.
“Yuria. So did you find something? Did you make it go around the village as you ordered?”
“…”
YuRia was silent at Uncle Cashwin’s words.
Apparently, nothing was found.
“It doesn’t look easy.”
Apparently, YuRia nodded her head as if she had a conversation with Mr. Cashew Winn.
“By the way, Allen, you don’t know, but don’t you think you don’t have to spend your younger siblings with them?”
“Well, my senses are telling me it’s safest to be here.”
Looking at Allen and the brother and sister staring at him from the left and right of Allen, Cashwyn let out a sigh.
“Then let’s gather information first.”
I walked the streets and listened to my surroundings.
But on the street, there was hardly any information to say anything about.
It was not only because of her ghost that he was afraid, but as if he was afraid of something else.
Uncle Cashewyn, who had been thinking about it for a while, changed the direction she was going.
“Mister?”
“Anyway, it seems that information won’t come out on the streets, so I’ll have to change the destination.”
What the uncle pointed out was the tavern.
“Originally, in places like this, people who can’t stand it because they are full of complaints and dissatisfaction tend to gather. I can’t stand it, so I’ve been able to relieve my cramped mind with alcohol, but even with alcohol, it doesn’t go away, so it leaks out.”
Oops, cashewwin while moving towards the bar? And she looked behind Allen.
“Come to think of it, are the kids too young to be in a bar…?”
Cashwyn sighed at the pair of small eyes staring at her, but soon she changed the direction of her steps again.
She bought street snacks and some bread, and headed for the nearest inn.
She opened the inn door and there was a jingle and bell. What is different from ordinary inns is that at the counter of the inn, the whole family, which seems to be the innkeeper’s family, gathered together and trembled with fear.
“Oh, are you here?”
“Here is one large room and one double room”
“I, will you split up the party!?”
At the innkeeper’s reaction, Cashwyn huffed and pondered for a moment.
“It’s okay. Maybe it’s because the kid over there is an expert on these ghosts.”
“Uh, um… I see. Here’s one key to the quad room and one key to the double room. Please have a safe trip.”
I hope you have a safe night, not a good night.
Just hearing something from the innkeeper gave me a scary feeling.
Above all, Roa felt chills running down her spine at the sight of them gathered in one place because they were afraid to be alone even in this face.
What the hell is going on in this town?
Upon arriving at her room, Cashwyn groaned and pondered for a moment.
“I think it’s a bit dangerous to leave only the kids in the room. Um…”
“Nuri, please”
Cashwin’s troubles ended sooner than expected.
Watching Noori take her children into the room at YuRia’s request, Cashew Winn sighed softly.
“Hagisa, are the only ones in the party who can do anything about ghosts besides Yuria, my staff and Nuri?”
As Allen was about to leave her children, she seemed a bit embarrassed, so Cashwyn let out a sigh.
“Allen, you stay too.”
“Eh? But…”
“But, what? You’re worried about your younger siblings, aren’t you?”
“…”
While the conversation was going on, Yuria was busy moving in her room.
Something white powder was scattered along the walls of the room, and strangely colored stones and unidentified pieces of twigs were placed.
Putting these rocks and branches on shelves and windows, and hanging these branches on the walls where you can hang something, it seems like they put a lot of effort into it. Looked at
“Yuria? What is that doing?”
“Flint and mistletoe branches. Then it must be salt sprinkled along the walls.”
Yuria nodded her head at Nuri’s words.
“All of these items are effective in exorcising ghosts. If this is the case, there is no need to worry about this place.”
“Uh, um…”
With this, Allen, who was a little less worried about her younger siblings, looked at Cashew Winn with a smile, and Cashew Winn sighed.
“Okay. Let’s go. Noori is taking good care of the kids.”
“Would you like to go”
Arlen, who left her room with a slightly confused mind, looked back at her for a moment and waved her hand at her younger siblings.
“Kids. Goodbye. Sister, you listened carefully to what you said, didn’t you?”
“Huh!”
“Your sister should come home safely too!”
Allen came out with the support of her younger siblings, but she looked a little relieved now.
Buzz buzz…
As expected, the inside of the tavern was very noisy.
All of them had already had a glass of alcohol, and all of them had become agitated, and their reason was loose, and they were talking about this and that, and the party listened quietly to those words.
Cashwyn sat down and ordered four beers for her.
“For a moment”
“Huh?”
“Do you have any spirits besides beer?”
At YuRia’s words, the store owner gave a slightly perplexed expression.
Distilled spirits…
No matter how you look at it, I thought the child who looked like a kid was saying something very bold, but what was unexpected was the attitude of the young man who looked like a wizard.
“What’s the distilled spirit here?”
“Hmm? Aha. It’s something the wizard would eat. There’s nothing particularly famous about this place, only cheap ones made in the village, but would you like some of that?”
“Then ask for three beers and one of that spirit.”
The store owner took the order and went inside.
“Yuria, did you like that?”
“I don’t really like beer… It would have been better if it was a bottle instead of a glass.”
Seeing YuRia smack her lips, Cashwyn somehow sulked and broke into cold sweats.
He’s a perfect kid, but he’s a tough guy who says his taste in alcohol is that of a real man.
Roa, who did not know how to drink yet, just stared blankly at the conversation between Cashwin and YuRia.
“By the way, would you like a drink too?”
“You should learn how to drink soon. You are over 16 and now you are 17. Shouldn’t you learn how to drink?”
At the uncle’s words, Roa sighed and pondered for a while before nodding his head.
She had already let it go anyway, and she was also curious about it.
What is the taste of alcohol?
I wondered what kind of alcohol is it that adults like to drink so much.
Above all, I couldn’t help but be curious about the fact that it was alcohol that made Yuria look very expectant.
“Mr. Cashwyn. Are you sure you’re only ordering beer?”
“I don’t have much cash right now”
“…”
“There are a lot of things that can be turned into cash, so you don’t have to worry too much, but I need to save money right now. I need to find a way to make money.”
After escaping from the den of human traffickers and providing the people she saved with money to go back to her hometown, Cashwyn, who robbed her of her cash, sighed in her wallet, which had become too light. Exhaled
“Well, it’s difficult to turn into cash, but we’re the ones who took care of the most. Don’t look too much like a hogu.”
“…”
Looking at the drinks that came out, Cashwyn slightly paid attention.
“Everyone drink slowly. The purpose is to blend in with the surrounding atmosphere and listen to the rumors flowing around you, so you have to hold on for as long as possible.”
“… It’s a little bit”
“If you get drunk on it, the drunkards may be evangelized, so even if you had money, you wouldn’t know if it was a snack. I have no intention of buying more alcohol, so stop thinking about drinking, you barefoot kid.”
Allen screamed at the sound of a bare-footed kid?! And staggered.
It’s cowardly fact violence…
Meanwhile, Yuria stared intently at a small glass placed in front of her.
YuRia, who had been looking at her for a while, sniffed and stuffed it into her mouth, frowning at her.
“It’s not vodka either…”
Yuria sighed and thought that it was not a pity that she only had one drink, but that it was fortunate that she had only one drink.
It would have been embarrassing for me to drink this kind of alcohol with a bottle.
Roa also sipped with anticipation at her first beer, but the taste of her first beer was simply tasteless.
No, it doesn’t taste good, so I wondered why I was drinking something like this.
“Beeeee…”
“Isn’t it delicious? That’s what alcohol is all about.”
“Really, why do adults drink this?”
“You’re an adult too, but you’re definitely still a bit young to understand alcohol.”
Normally, I would refute the fact that I was young, but for now, it went quietly.
I really couldn’t understand beer, the first alcohol I ever drank.
“Well, you’ll know someday. Why do you drink something that doesn’t taste like this?”
“I don’t really want to understand”
I bought it, so it was a waste, so I was drinking it, but I felt like it was not coming. I was sipping slowly because it was hard to drink without sipping, forcing myself to save little by little just to listen to the story.
However, Allen was sipping beer with a very sad expression, as if he was actually tantalizing drinking little by little.
“Alen, do you like this?”
“I don’t eat for the taste. That’s why eating tantalizing things like this is more irritating.”
Loa tilted her head even more at Allen’s appearance.
“What does Yuria think of this?”
“A beer?”
YuRia’s impression was suddenly distorted.
“That’s not alcohol”
Something was said in a very firm tone.
“That PeeAm”
Whoops-?!
“Why have barley PeeI don’t understand why it manufactures”
“Cock Coke! Yu, YuRia?”
“I’d rather go with that barley VodkaMake That’s reasonable consumption.”
Roa also broke out in a cold sweat when she saw Allen looking at YuRia with a groggy Cashwyn and a buuueng expression on her face.
Well, something about alcohol is very firm.
“Bo, do you like vodka that much?”
“Chilled VodkaIs Number of livesAll. To me, the only thing that can be called alcohol is VodkaIt’s just… Huh?”
As if she couldn’t see something, Yuria hurriedly managed her expression and cleared her throat, then slightly turned her head away and avoided the gaze of her companions.
“Yes, the old tone came out. Sorry”
At YuRia’s words, Roa broke into cold sweat.
What kind of person was Yuria before!?
