Chapter 5 – 1. Winter Queen (5)
After hearing YuRia’s secret, Roa couldn’t get her hands on things.
The fact that Yuria’s life was slowly leaking out meant that even now, she was slowly dying.
Originally, she should have died, but she lived thanks to Loa, so she is grateful even in the current situation.
And she’d endure until she made her medicine with the Erez tree, which could cure her condition.
But despite this, the reason why Yuria so longs for her fresh fruits and vegetables and magic stones made her heart sink.
It’s like taking a breath of air while she’s choking and dying.
She may not be expressing herself, but how painful is she?
If you think about it, didn’t she express that she seems to stop breathing when she sees people dying.
“Are you Roa?”
“Hot! Yes!!”
The landowner tutted and looked at me.
“Where the hell are you so crazy? You said you wanted to learn.”
It was difficult for me to answer what he said. To say that Yuria’s mind was full of worries is because Yuria’s existence would be exposed.
However, there was one more worry buried in the corner of her mind, pushed by Yuria’s worries, so Roa took it out.
“Maybe while he was out at work he was thinking about what he would do if he came to kill me…”
“…”
At that, the old man grinned and his expression darkened slightly.
The uncle also heard his older brother screaming that day, so he sighed deeply, probably thinking that it was reasonable.
Then, he came to Roa’s side and patted Roa’s back.
“Don’t worry. If that happens, I’ll stop you. I’ll always be by your side, at least while he’s out working.”
“Mister…”
For some reason, Roa’s eyes blushed at the sight of such an old man.
Okay. Yuria is also Yuria, but there are people who believe in her and support her like this, so she must work hard.
Yes, let’s work harder and bring lots of fresh vegetables and fruits to Yuria.
Wouldn’t this be the way to live up to the expectations of both of them?
As if he was filled with worries about something, but now, as he was watching Roa, who was working diligently and learning farm work one by one, instead of distracting himself like before, a smile appeared on his lips for some reason.
Suddenly, he remembered something from the past.
At one time, he resented Loa. No, he’s Loa’s parents to be exact.
Knowing it was never their fault, he needed someone to blame, and he just made it Loa’s parent.
Was it like that? It seemed that they always carried it in their hearts even though it was not their fault.
“…”
Is that why they disappeared so in vain?
Now, even if I wanted to apologize to them, I couldn’t even apologize, and all that was left was that loa, who had become an orphan at a young age.
He had grown up and had already become an adult, but he still seemed far away.
I’m just a fledgling who has just become an adult. He was still a child with a long way to go.
For some reason, a smile appeared on his face as he looked at the vast fields he had decided to hand over to Roa.
If this is fate, then it must be fate.
But why?
Loa didn’t seem to be telling him anything yet.
She wondered if she still lacked faith in herself.
Although he is now trying to hand over everything he has to Loa.
However, she decided not to forcefully dig into Loa’s secret. It must be a big secret that she can’t tell anyone in this town that she keeps even from herself.
No, maybe it was a secret even to the wizard who could be called a guardian to Roa now that he had no parents.
I tried to ask the wizard once, but in the end he gave up.
If it’s really something that’s a secret even to that wizard, it might be dangerous just to give this kind of luck to that wizard.
‘Did I meet a fairy friend in the forest?’
I ate and laughed, but I felt that it was quite plausible.
He wondered if he was as innocent as Loa, so he could meet fairies.
So, wouldn’t he just hide it? If there is a fairy, everyone will rush to see it, and the fairy will hide its appearance and will never see it again.
If he’s a wizard, he can be just as dangerous as a wizard. They say that the race of wizards are maddened by curiosity.
He decided to try a test.
If loa really has a fairy friend, she’d be very happy if she prepared a basket of presents that the fairy would love more than anything else.
He smiled brightly at Roa, who was sweating and working hard.
“You worked hard today too”
“There was nothing to say that it was hard work.”
He said so, but Loa’s body was drenched in sweat.
Even though it was a hot day, it would not have been possible if he had worked slowly.
“I’ve been watching Roa work hard, so there’s nothing to be too humble about. Now, this is a gift.”
He gave a basket of very ripe peaches, and Loa became something close to frightened.
“Eh eh eh!? But this…”
“Looks like it’s in good shape”
It seemed like he was hiding it, but Roa’s expression looked really happy.
It was just that he looked too happy to simply say that he had gotten some more fruit.
“I’ll keep it a secret from the other villagers.”
“Yes?”
“Shh, have a good time with your secret friend in the forest”
At those words, Roa flinched greatly. Did you get caught? How?
“Uh, how did you know?”
“I just took a picture of it. But I guess it was real. Is there a fairy friend in the forest?”
At those words, Roa became something of a puzzled expression.
Roa wonders if the old man misunderstood something. Or, there was confusion about whether Yuria was really a fairy, and the uncle thought that he was at a loss as to what to do when Roa pointed out the truth.
“Someday, if your fairy friend says you can trust him, I want to see you too.”
“Uh, uhm… Let’s talk about it. But that friend is very sick right now…”
“Huh? Then, in fact, she was worried about her friend during the day, not him.”
“…”
Judging by Roa’s expression, it seemed to be true.
“Wait a minute”
The uncle went somewhere for a while, and as time passed and she started to get a little nervous about when he would come back, the uncle reappeared.
“Give this to your friend”
The uncle held a small, no small potted plant in Roa’s arms.
“It’s a very rare flower I found by chance. I could make a lot of money if I sold it to a wizard, but I don’t know why God gave it to me for this time.”
“Eh, eh?! Can I give you something like this?”
In response, the uncle just stroked Roa’s head and looked down at Roa with a deep expression.
“I think of you as my son. I would have told you later, but I’d better tell you now. I intend to pass this farm on to you.”
At that, Loa said Ee Ee?! I looked at my uncle again.
This farm?
“Of course it will be a long time later, but I’m sure you’ll inherit it someday by the time you get married and have children. Of course, then you’ll have to support me, okay?”
At that, Loa unconsciously nodded her head.
“Why are you being so nice to me?”
“Well, maybe it’s because I did something really bad to your parents. I resented them for something I should be so thankful for. I wanted to apologize, but I felt sorry for leaving this world before I could. It might not be”
The expression on the father’s face was very sad.
“So, I’m doing it for you. If it weren’t for me, Loa, thinking that you might have been with your parents without growing up alone like this, my conscience hurts so much that I don’t do something more for you.”
“…”
The man who patted me on the shoulder told me to go ahead and stop.
The forest is getting dark quickly, so he said he should go and meet his friend.
“Well, see you next time, mister. I’ll be sure to tell her friend once more.”
“Goodbye. Be sure to show the pot to your friend.”
The way to YuRia’s house was somehow more difficult than usual.
That’s right, she had more luggage than usual, and what if her peaches rolled down? As she went along, worried about what to do if her potted plant fell, it was to the point that even her familiar road seemed unfamiliar.
Still, for some reason, she felt better when she finally reached Yuria’s cave.
As the uncle said, I don’t know if these flowers will really help Yuria, but I hope they will be of great help to her…
“Yuria! Are you inside?”
Roa called for Yuria, and soon after, something transparent and light blue suddenly appeared at the entrance of her cave.
“Is Loa here?”
“Yeah, look at me”
What about YuRia? She said, and her expression loosened up involuntarily at the peaches piled up like a mountain, and saliva began to flow from the corners of her mouth.
But even that, when she saw the small potted plant and the flower planted in the pot, which was sticking her head out among the piles of peaches, she hurriedly approached with an expression close to astonishment and hurriedly took the pot out of Roa’s arms.
“This, this…”
“That, she said, was a gift from a trusted uncle in the village to Yuria… No, I didn’t mean her existence as Yuria. She said that if she was a fairy, she would definitely like that flower…”
“Habaselet… “* (Havacellet: A flower called the flower of Sharon in the Bible. There is a theory that the Mugunghwa is this flower)
“Yuria?”
Yuria suddenly picked up the flower as it was! She does and she gulps and swallows it in one bite. Roa was all frightened by that sight, and she looked at YuRia, but she just gurgled and gulp, unable to utter a word out of her heart.
“Ahhh… I will live…”
The flower was gone, but the lower part was still intact, so it wasn’t dead.
Yuria cherished those remaining parts.
“Let’s leave Loa Peach inside and go up.”
“Oh, go up? Where?”
“To the forest of Erez. I will plant it there.”
Somehow, Yuria seemed incredibly energetic. She has never seen her before.
True to what the uncle said, the flowers seemed to be of great help to Yuria.
Only flowers disappeared. While holding the pot containing the plant that Yuria called havaselet with care, I went up to the secret forest that only Yuria and I knew.
How much help did those flowers have helped Yuria become?
“Yuria, are you okay now?”
“Ehehe… Thank you. She really should be able to live now. Honestly… It was a little bit close, so in fact, that’s why she tried to let me go to Loa…”
Huh?
“The odds of me being cured were half and half. Will I be able to hold on until the medicine is completed? Even if I hold out, will I be able to complete it before the medicine is made in time and my condition goes beyond the point of no return…”
Roa felt chills at YuRia’s words.
“That’s why I thought that if I was going to die, it would be better to grant the loa’s wish at least once, so I half-desperately gave it to the loa.”
“So…Now?”
Yuria turned around and looked back at herself, walking backwards down that steep mountain road, but she was climbing so easily.
“Habaselet… Another name for it is Aldea. It is a flower of healing.”
“Uh?”
“This is also not enough to make me completely healed, but for now, if I don’t overdo it, I won’t die soon. Can live”
Loa felt something in her heart at those words and her heart started pounding.
One hundred years.
Wouldn’t that be enough for her to be on the same level as herself?
Momentarily, Roa felt greedy.
If I can’t make medicine through that Erez tree, I wonder if Yuria will be able to love herself with her heart.
But that idea was immediately abandoned.
How is that different from slowly killing Yuria by strangling her slender neck so that she literally lives the same age as herself?
Even if a bird flying high in the sky is forced to bend its wings and put it next to it, it will never be able to show its former light again.
Roa hoped that even if she had to leave her, YuRia would fly away again.
“That forest is a special place that I made with a little effort. So if you plant this flower there, it will show a good response.”
Arriving at Erez Forest, Yuria went to the middle of her forest and carefully planted a haba cellet there.
And, though she couldn’t figure it out, she seemed to have endowed the Hava Selet with a special aura of her own.
“Come to think of it, I said that this flower was definitely given to me by someone in the village, right?”
“Yes. So…”
Roa somehow realized the existence of her Yuria, no. She explained her existence of a friend of the forest fairy and that she had been caught by the landlord. When she said that the fairy was very sick, she told me that her uncle had given her this flower.
And she said that one time she wanted to meet the fairy friend.
And the relationship between Roa and Uncle.
YuRia pondered for a while before opening her mouth.
“This full moon. When the moon rises in the sky, I’ll be waiting for you at the border between Loa’s house and the forest.”
“Huh?”
“Once, if I’m that kind of person, I’m going to believe it… Instead, make sure to ask him to sneak out alone. No, take him to Loa’s house that night, and then bring him to the border of the forest at that time.”
At YuRia’s words, Roa nodded her head.
“Then let’s go back. I really want to eat peaches…”
Yuria’s expression as she contemplates the peach with saliva already forming in her mouth is just like that.Mehyaak?!She said, and Yuria let out a grotesque scream.
“What are you doing?”
“But the way Yuria was thinking of her peach was so cute that she couldn’t stand it.”
“M, Mg?“
Yuria’s face turned bright red and trembled was really cute.
How the hell can you be so cute?
But perhaps because of this incident, YuRia didn’t say a word back until she went all the way down the mountain.
Trouble…
But for some reason, Roa was able to be confident.
Even if she was doing that, once a peach was put in her mouth, the pout would go away soon.
“Aww!“
YuRia’s expression as she opened her tiny mouth wide open and bit into the pulp was as expected, or should I say, relaxed.
As if it was a waste of the juice flowing, she sucked on each side and sucked on each piece as if she wouldn’t miss a single piece of flesh and juice. Why is she so cute?
Who would see this as a 44-year-old?
For a moment. Come to think of it, Yuria did not deny that she was a fairy.
Suddenly, Roa saw YuRia eating her peach as if sucking on her side, and she asked a question.
YuRia, who was completely relaxed like this, when she asked a question in a surprise way, she would give an answer without thinking about it, so she would come out with an answer.
“Is Yuria a fairy by any chance?”
“Huh?”
YuRia, who sucked the juice from her side and opened her small mouth as much as she could, bit into her peach. She did and she looked at Loa as if recalling a conversation from a moment ago.
“Not even a fairy. But uhm. She could be considered similar in a way. Loa wants to know what I am?”
“She can do anything about Yuria. If she doesn’t want Yuria to tell you about it, she’ll leave it out.”
At those words, Yuria’s face turned a little red.
“I’m human”
“Huh?”
“I don’t know what to say exactly, but to put it bluntly, it’s High Human.「We」Hey”
Somehow, the moment Yuria said ‘I’, something different was conveyed in her head.
It was something other than a voice, as if it were speaking directly into my head.
However, it seemed that Yuria didn’t like the expression she said.
“No, I think she worded it a bit wrong”
Yuria slightly closed her eyes and swayed, her body slightly blurring.
And with him, her YuRia’s body went round and round and suddenly grew bigger.
Bigger than Loa herself.
“Beyond the limits of the mortal species with bodies, we are beings who are passing over to immortal species such as fairies and spirits. That is us.”
Yuria no longer looked like her younger brother, but became her older sister, just like when Roa first met Yuria.
Of course. That appearance didn’t last long, but it returned to its usual, very small appearance.
But still, in Roa’s mind, the image from a moment ago still lingered on.
When Roa was still young. Because she thought of YuRia from that time when she took care of her like this and that.
In fact, it was probably at that time that Roa truly fell in love with Yuria.
The nostalgia he hadn’t felt in a long time made Roa’s heart throb.
Because it looks so beautiful
The sight of her holding out her hand toward herself with a faint smile didn’t seem too real.
Her appearance made her feel like a goddess.
While teaching Roa farming, he saw Roa very mentally stable, unlike yesterday, and for some reason a smile came to his lips.
Apparently, the flower he gave to Loa had a good effect on Loa’s fairy friend.
Even though it was a rare item, I thought it was better.
After all, even if you have a lot of money in this town, what kind of wealth will you expect to enjoy? After all, the flower may have met its owner well.
After watching Roa like that for a while, he stood up when the work was over.
“Loaya”
“Ah, the landlord.”
He put a bitter smile on his lips and opened his mouth.
“Inseok-ah, in fact, I consider you the heir, but what is a landlord uncle?
Roa hesitated a little and opened her mouth.
“Okay. Mr. Merkin”
Merkin then tousled Loa’s hair and said that was enough, and met her eyes with Loa.
“Has your fairy friend improved a lot?”
“Yes. They say they are grateful that they were able to live thanks to them. So…”
Loa whispered quietly as she put her mouth on Uncle Merkin’s ear.
On this full moon, when the moon rose in the sky, she asked to meet at the border between Loa’s house and the forest.
“Ohhh, that’s unexpected. I thought I’d have to build a little more trust in order to meet you.”
“Maybe it’s because the flowers you gave me were a big help.”
At that, Merkin said haha and burst into a small laugh.
“I think it would be better to set aside the afternoon time in advance that day. The friend said that it would be better to go home with me and wait and meet.”
“Hmm, then I guess I’ll have to make up an excuse beforehand.”
Saying okay, Mr. Merkin sent me off, saying to go back well, and Roa glanced up at the sky.
It’s a bit late, but you can sleep at Yuria’s house like before. It was enough time to come out just to see her face.
When we reached YuRia’s house through the forest, the sun was already down.
It was an hour that seemed like if I was really going to go home, I would have to go back just by looking at her face.
“Do you have YuRia?”
She called for Yuria, but she didn’t come out.
For some reason she went into her house once, but she was not even seen in the house.
As she had pointed out before, she knocked first and entered the bathroom or bedroom, but Yuria was not there either.
And just in case, Loa moved her steps towards Erez Forest.
And.
Roa was able to find Yuria there.
“Aang♡“
With her mouth wide open, her small, dainty mouth. Just when did she grow up and was just about to eat the flower with a wide smile at one of the many flowers blooming on the Haba Selet tree that had grown into a small tree, at that moment, Yuria’s eyes met Roa’s.
“…”
“…”
With Roa and her gaze facing each other, YuRia, who was stiff and unable to do this or that, was still Howup! She ate her flower in one bite and just continued to stare at Loa, breaking out in a cold sweat.
“See, did you see?“
“…”
Yuria, who is gradually dyed red, stretches M, Mugeugeus? She let out her strange groan and finally lowered her head, covering her face with her hands.
“Cha, embarrassing!!”
“Wasn’t that just plain cute?”
“That’s embarrassing!!”
She really felt sorry for YuRia but never seemed to forget her for the rest of her life.
But what can I say?
It wasn’t that I couldn’t understand why she was ashamed if the adult side she had shown for a while before was said to be YuRia’s true self.
But, this is Yuria’s fault.
It’s so cute, but it’s against the rules.
