Chapter 6 – 1. Winter Queen (6)
I don’t know how the havaselet flowers she received from Uncle Merkin grew into a flower tree overnight, but I’ll never forget the expression on Yuria’s face as she tried to eat the flowers with her mouth wide open and a bright smile as if she was really happy.
But when she came to think about it, what was she thinking when she climbed this mountain path?
If she hadn’t met Yuria here, she already knew how dangerous it would be to come down this mountain road alone as the sun went down.
Caeng -!!
It was like that even now.
Watching the wolf dying while rolling over and over with Yuria’s kukri, Roa thought that she was truly fearless.
After the three wolves died in such an instant, the remaining wolves seemed to think that it would not work, so she eventually withdrew.
After dealing with the wolves like that, Yuria might have realized that her loa was careless, so she glanced at her loa.
“Loa, what were you thinking?”
“Uh, uh…”
“If I hadn’t come here, but had gone far to get a monster’s magic stone, what were you trying to do?”
Roa couldn’t move at the sight of Yuria coming straight to Roa as she brushed off the wolf’s blood from her kukri.
Scary.
Even though she knew that Yuria couldn’t harm her, she was so scared.
YuRia, who approached Roa like that, is jaeak! She does and she slapped Loa on the cheek.
It hit her head so hard that it snapped, but it hurt her more than the cheek.
“Don’t do anything dangerous like that again”
“…Sorry”
“If you think this will happen again next time, I’d rather stay in my cave or stay in the forest and come out when the day comes. Those two places are safe.”
What about Roa? And she looked at YuRia.
“Is it safe there?”
“It’s hard to explain, but those two places are safe. However, the effect is weak for people, and once they recognize the place, the effect disappears, but at least it’s a safe place for monsters and animals.”
She wanted to ask why she was like that, but judging from what Yuria said, she really must be something she couldn’t understand herself.
Something similar happened once in the past.
She said she wanted to know, so Yuria explained it in detail, but she was filled with a feast of something she couldn’t understand at all, and she couldn’t remember the contents even now.
If you were Mr. Cashewwin, would you understand?
Yuria must have noticed that I was thinking the wrong thing Damn!And slapped her on the back.
“Ahh!”
“Again! Aren’t you reflecting?”
“Mi-sorry. I really won’t”
“If only the body grows.
Roa groaned at YuRia’s words.
I already had a complex about being the shortest among my peers, but isn’t there anything to stab me like that?
“Anyway, don’t stay late and try to sleep at my house. It’s not polite to come so late to a house with a woman alone. Although I trust Roa, I can’t help but feel a bit reluctant about her.”
“You don’t like that?”
There was a moment of silence for Yuria, but she finally nodded her head.
“But even if you think you are in a dangerous situation, don’t force yourself to go home. In that case, just come to my house. It’s better than being in danger.”
“Yes”
Occasionally, there were many times when she felt that Yuria was scary, but there was never a day when she was really scared like today.
Because today was the first time he was really angry at me in this way.
However, as much as she felt her concern for me inside, she felt sorry for Yuria as much as she was afraid of him.
I really thought that I should be more careful next time.
Don’t make Yuria angry like this again.
In order to teach Roa, Merkin, who was working in the field with Roa and showing her a demonstration, looked at the young man with her waist straight, wondering what to do with the figure of a young man in the village running away from far away.
Roa also felt some anxiety in the atmosphere that seemed unusual.
“Adult landlord! It’s a big deal. The grandson of the village chief has run away!”
“What?”
Merkin’s expression hardened greatly. All in all, at a time like this…
But on the other hand, I saw this as an opportunity.
Wasn’t she already preparing to come up with a natural excuse to stay at Loa’s house?
“How the hell did that happen!”
“That, that, that…”
Merkin let out a deep sigh at the young man’s inability to speak.
“This can’t be done. In some ways, this is also my fault, so I’ll stay at Loa’s house for a while and protect her.”
“Eh? But…”
“So you know. I’ll stay with Loa for a while while he’s caught. Loa. Will you be okay?”
At that, Roa was momentarily taken aback, but nodded her head.
If YuRia is still someone she would consider meeting, she would be able to trust her. The person she trusted the most in this town was Uncle Merkin.
He is the third most trusted person in the world.
What about the first and second?
Of course, it was YuRia and Mr. Cashwin.
She feels sorry for Uncle Cashewwin, but she is honest with her.
Roa was confused for a moment why Mr. Merkin had said such a thing, but she quickly guessed the reason.
She used this incident as an excuse to meet YuRia.
Even if that wasn’t the case, he probably did it to protect himself.
“Okay, then I’ll tell the village like that.”
As soon as the village youth who came to deliver the news passed away, Mr. Merkin sighed again.
“It’s better not to go see your fairy friends for a while.”
“Yes?”
“I’m sure he’ll be targeting you, but if you go to see his fairy friend, he might get caught.
Roa said ah… ? And her heart sank.
YuRia, if she did anything bad to that hyung. What the hell is she supposed to do?
Uncle was right.
Normally, there were days when I didn’t visit YuRia for 2-3 days. She had been scolded by Yuria before, so she probably thought that I was taking care of Yuria too and wouldn’t worry about it.
“All right…”
“Yes. It’s better to be careful at times like this. I hope he gets caught quickly, but something’s not serious. It looks like the village chief tried his hand.”
Roa looked at Mr. Merkin, puzzled by his words.
“Are you the village chief’s grandfather?”
“Your grandson is your grandson.
Mr. Merkin sighed and sighed.
“If I’m really caught this time, I’ll strongly insist that the tendons in his limbs be cut.”
“Uh, uh…”
I wondered if that was a bit harsh, but somehow even Loa couldn’t object.
If it was only him, she would definitely object, but considering that this could damage Yuria, it was difficult for her to just object.
“I feel like I’ve done something very wrong.”
“Don’t do that. You haven’t done anything wrong. What’s wrong is that idiot and the village chief who raised his grandson wrong. Didn’t even you, who grew up alone, grow up this way?”
Roa looked up at Mr. Merkin with a groan at the word “Great alone.”
With a look like that’s not the case.
“Hmm?”
“That, um”
I thought maybe I could talk about this part.
It’s not really related to YuRia’s personal life. I thought I could trust you if you were an uncle.
“Because my fairy friend led me right.”
At the end of the day, what did the old man say? I looked at Roa.
“I see… You have one more thing to be thankful for that friend. Yes, it must have been hard to say, but thank you for telling me, Roa.”
“Because you’re the old man. But please understand that it’s hard to tell even the old man.”
“Yes. Originally, they are not involved in the human world, so the less they know, the better. It’s you… Um, no. I was wrong about what I said.”
“…?”
What was it
Apparently, the uncle was about to say something, but he stopped talking in the middle.
What am I?
Is there some secret I don’t know about?
Fairies shouldn’t be deeply involved with humans.
But will I?
I’m not human then Or is it a hybrid with something non-human?
Loa suddenly started to get confused.
But looking at the expression on the man’s face, she didn’t seem like she would answer no matter how much I asked.
‘I can’t help it. Next time I see YuRia, I’ll ask her.”
After she found out about Yuria, her trust in Yuria definitely increased.
If she was Yuria, she would be able to tell her about her own secrets.
There are about 4 days left until the full moon.
For some reason, Roa seemed to feel that those four days were too long.
Aung…
YuRia, who opened her small mouth as much as she could and took a gulp of her haba cellet flower, looked at her somewhere with a sad expression on her face.
Of course, it is true that this area is dangerous for Roa, so I wanted her to refrain from dangerous times, but she was still a little disappointed.
Whether you see him as a man or not. For Yuria now, she was her own benefactor, the only person she could trust and be safe with, and a conversation partner.
Although the racial gap was so great that it was impossible to see him as a member of the opposite sex, there was bound to be affection.
Wouldn’t it be lonely if you were separated from a pet you loved so much for a long time?
However, as the deadline passed, Yuria began to worry more and more about what she thought of Roa.
What does she think of Roa?
The Habaselet flower tree had already grown quite large, and now its growth had entered a stagnation period, and it had grown even taller than Yuria herself.
Now, in order to preserve her own life, she didn’t even need to make medicine with the fruits of Erez.
If you continue to eat habaselet flowers from now on, this unbearable thirst. Because it can greatly alleviate this agony of suffocation.
“…”
Do I really need to recover?
Of course, habaselet flowers can’t fundamentally heal, so you have to eat them periodically every time, but anyway, now you have no purpose left for yourself.
Like sand leaking through her fingers, she has gradually become accustomed to this unbearable thirst that seems to suffocate due to the vitality leaking out of her cracked soul.
I wondered if there would be anything I couldn’t stand if I could only eat the flowers of the havaselet on a regular basis.
Why is he so desperately trying to survive? Why are you struggling to recover this far?
He actually gave up his life until he was saved by Loa.
She thought it wouldn’t hurt to rest now, so she tried to risk her own life, but was saved and nursed by Loa. And seeing her generously using the potion that would have been very precious to her Loa, Yuria finally decided to live again.
The life she threw away anyway. Then she said let’s use it for this child who saved her.
That’s right.
I see.
Now that she had already forgotten the resolution at that time, she was only thinking that she would leave if she repaid the light of her life, so the promise of that day came to her anew.
“What was I doing?”
Looking at the Erez trees around her, Yuria let out a sigh.
What do these trees mean to you now?
But she decided not to stop doing this for her healing though.
She’s that kid Because I don’t want to get sick.
This suffocating thirst is a punishment that will not stop until my vessel of life is healed.
Lately, Roa seemed to be running out of time because she was learning farming. Seeing that he never came to see him.
You can just come here and sleep.
Did she say that she doesn’t carelessly come to places where women are alone?
I looked up at the sky and saw a full moon.
There was still a little time before the full moon rose in the sky, but Yuria took her steps a little earlier.
For some reason, I missed Roa so much.
She still said she could trust Loa and although she felt a little hesitant about meeting the villagers, she missed Loa even more than that.
YuRia thought that if she met her this time, she could just come and sleep, so even if she was a little late, she should ask her to come often.
YuRia, who was slowly advancing through the gloomy forest to the promised place, stopped her steps for a moment as she saw the two standing in the distance.
There’s still a little left to be the promised time, but shall we move on now?
Or is it a bit early, but should we move on now?
YuRia, who had been thinking about it for a long time, eventually, while she was thinking about it, time passed and it became the promised time.
For some reason, YuRia sighed and smiled at such an unfunny situation, but she soon returned to her usual expressionless expression.
I don’t know anymore
She also explains why she has become so taboo about revealing her feelings. She also wondered why she insisted on her expressionless appearance.
I was just kind of ashamed.
It was somehow embarrassing for her to openly reveal her feelings in front of them.
She said it was because she felt like she was losing something. It feels like something has been stripped off.
Yuria, freed from the shadow of the trees, walked out of the forest in the moonlight that rose high into the sky.
Siridi Under the cold moonlight, the girl breaks through the darkness in the forest and reveals herself.
Merkin, who had been looking forward to seeing what kind of fairy Roa’s friend would look like, stopped thinking at the appearance that was more realistic than he had imagined, and just stared blankly at it.
YuRia under the moonlight gave off such a dreamy atmosphere that even Roa, who was used to her appearance, lost her temper for a while.
“Is it you? The one who wanted to see me”
“Ah! That’s right”
Looking at her Yuria, Merkin felt that she was like winter.
Her expression and her eyes were so cold. And her hair, a light blue color like deep ice that felt so cold, somehow reminded me of winter.
Is she a winter fairy?
“Why do you want to see me?”
“Ah…”
Merkin said that she forgot what she wanted to say when she had the existence of her dreams in front of her.
After looking at Yuria without saying anything for a long time, he belatedly remembered what he wanted to say if he met a night fairy.
“What will happen to fairies if they die?”
“Mister?”
At those words, YuRia seemed to understand why he had HaBaselet’s flower.
There is no way an ordinary person could have such a flower.
Absolutely, it was not a flower that could be obtained through the story of coincidence.
It meant that if he had gotten it, there would have been something inevitably necessary for the flower.
If so, what was the purpose of the flower?
At last… The answer lies in his question.
“The flower then…”
“…”
Mr. Merkin just put on a bitter expression.
Was it because he asked why he had flowers that were good medicine for fairies?
“It’s just that by the time I found it hard, it was already too late…”
Yuria just quietly bowed her head to express her condolences.
“The answer to your question depends on how you died.”
At those words, Mister Merkin frowned for a moment, as if recalling a memory he didn’t want to recall.
“When I was young. It was a time when I was still innocent and immature.
He didn’t tell me what kind of wound it was, but it seemed like that was enough for YuRia.
However, that expression was very sad.
“Isn’t that good?”
“No. It’s not…”
After contemplating for a long time whether she should say something or not, Yuria finally opened her mouth.
“The pure white curtain will come at an unexpectedly early time”
“Huh?”
Yuria’s eyes didn’t seem to be looking at this place right now.
Something, far away. It seemed like he was looking at something far away.
“A year’s hard work will be in vain. The back of the nest will be too weak that day. Please, prepare for that day.”
“That…? What the hell does that have to do with my friend?”
“I can’t tell… The reality to come will change the more I talk about it, and I can’t even foresee what it will do. I’m taking a very big risk just to repay you the favor and give you the most likely future. Is that just what you said?”
At that, the old man closed his mouth.
“Excuse me. I forgot. You guys were like that… I lost my friend like that and I forgot about it again…”
“…”
“Are you okay?”
Yuria shook her head with a very sad expression.
“I will suffer a great deal of humiliation and humiliation because of this.”
“I’m sorry”
Roa couldn’t understand the conversation between Mr. Merkin and YuRia.
I knew that some important conversation was coming and going, but I couldn’t figure out what it was.
The only thing Roa understood was that because Yuria said something of hers, she felt that Yuria would suffer great disgrace and humiliation.
“What the hell happened? What the hell were you talking about?”
“Yuria told me how I could meet my friend again. However, she said that she would be humiliated and humiliated because she said no.”
Loa was dazed by her words.
Yuria’s disgrace and humiliation?
“Are you okay…”
“It’s not a good look at all…”
Yuria had a very sad and distressed expression, but she seemed to be putting up with it.
“That’s how much he gave me is a very big favor to me. It’s not as much as the loa saved me, but it’s almost comparable to it.”
“Yeah, but…”
Uncle Merkin knelt down on the ground.
“I’m sorry. I hope that the shame and humiliation you will experience will not hurt you greatly.”
“You know very well that it is impossible.”
“…”
Merkin had never been as resentful of knowing fairies as he was today.
“Wait, I’m waiting here”
Yuria disappeared into the forest again.
And after waiting for a long time at the border of the forest, Yuria appeared with a flower pot.
The flowerpot was none other than the same flowerpot that Uncle Merkin had given Yuria as a gift.
The flowers of Habaselet were also planted as before, but Merkin could tell.
That the flower planted in the pot was not the flower she had given.
More than anything, she gave Roa only one flower, but she had two flowers that Yuria gave her.
“Have it. The day will come when you will use it. You must have both.”
“… How much greater do you have to be gracious to me to go through?”
YuRia smiled hard with an expression that made her look like she was going to cry at any moment.
“I don’t hate people like you”
“…”
Uncle Merkin went straight to Yuria and hugged her tightly.
What about Roa? He looked at Uncle Merkin and YuRia, embarrassed.
And since Uncle Merkin and Yuria were so close together, it was only then that Roa could clearly feel that Yuria’s appearance was so different from them and her ordinary human being.
Yuria and herself have two arms and two legs in one torso. And apart from the basic appearance of having one head, something, the feeling was so different.
Especially. The feeling that the head was so large that it was not human was very noticeable.
That’s why I knew
Why did Yuria not want to reveal herself in front of her villagers?
A look that can never be mixed among people.
People will never be able to understand Yuria.
It wasn’t until Uncle Merkin stood next to Yuria that Roa realized that.
“Cheer up… Thank you so much, and I’m really sorry.”
“…”
Eventually, tears flowed silently from YuRia’s eyes.
Loa still couldn’t realize the meaning of those tears.
What great hardships it foreshadows.
What kind of shame and humiliation Yuria will experience?
