Chapter 68 – 5. Helen (7)
Our movement began with the click and click of horses’ hooves as music.
Contrary to what I thought, the road I set off after filling up the items I needed for this trip and any travel expenses I didn’t know, leaving the things I had to leave for the battlefield in Uncle Cashwin’s bag, was so peaceful.
Instead of the large carriage that had been presented to them by the Count, it was a small and light carriage that could fit three people lying down on it.
The maid who was driving the carriage in the coachman’s seat thought that she would go on a long road ahead, and she replied that it was because the horse might collapse from exhaustion if she went too fast.
“Of course, if there’s a place that sells horses at the next destination, I’ll run fast and change horses there, but most of the roads will go this slow.”
“…”
“And are you doing a good massage for the lady?”
At the maid’s words, Roa uh huh. She did and she replied.
Right now, Yuria felt the stability of her mind only in contact with her loa. Even to promote the recovery of these dulled sensations and inability to move properly. And when she heard her words that if she couldn’t move for such a long time, her body would harden, and to prevent it, she had to loosen up and stimulate her body with her massage. Was kneading
Strangely enough, when the maid did it, Roa and the maid both groaned in pain and saw Yuria smiling at Roa’s touch, which was even more clumsy than the maid’s.
Seriously, how did you know?
What the hell is different
That’s why YuRia’s masseuse became Roa.
Uh, of course… Even for Roa, it was happy to be able to touch the lovely Yuria’s body.
“Yes…”
For YuRia, who lost her sight and hearing, this Squeenship with Loa was the only channel of communication with Loa.
In a dark world where nothing can be seen or heard, it is the only window that proves that she is not alone and that Loa is by her side.
It wasn’t an unbearably great pain, but even so, Roa’s touch was the only light to Yuria in the pain.
“Do you know, Loa? You are indeed a very blessed person.”
“Huh?”
Roa, who was massaging Yuria’s body and changing her posture, turned her head at the words of the maid who was driving her carriage.
“What men with many powers in the world ultimately desire. That is a beauty. If you are more beautiful than anyone else and have a beautiful heart, it would be perfect. Especially if such a kind heart is only directed towards you.”
“Uh?”
“You are the victor who got what every man in the world finally craved.”
At the maid’s words, Roa was him. Is it like that? She thought about it, but it was difficult for her to relate to the words.
Certainly, Yuria was well aware that she was too much of a woman for her.
She was a person of a much higher rank than human beings like herself, and a person who stood at the highest place among such a higher species.
Roa felt her heart ache when she saw the woman who should have shined the most brilliantly, being destroyed by her side.
“But that much. Because she is such a perfect woman, many people will covet her. Although the Count will serve as a shield, there are many people in this world who cannot help even such a Count.”
“…”
“The lady’s existence hasn’t been widely known to the world yet, but her presence can’t be hidden forever. Lady Roa. You’ll have to make up your mind someday.”
Loa was just quietly silent at her words.
“One day, the day will surely come when the world’s great powers will fight over the young lady. I hope that we can protect the young lady safely in that gap.”
“Thank you…”
“Even though I have served the lady by the count’s order, the lady is my only master. The count ordered the lady to do so when he sent me. From now on, even if he orders me to kill myself, I will be loyal to the lady.”
What about Roa? And looked at her.
“But even if it wasn’t her name, I liked her. So if she makes her cry, even if you are, I won’t let her go.”
Haha…”
Loa really felt the sincerity in her words. Maybe that’s why, because of her presence, her heart has been relieved a little.
About having one more reliable ally in this difficult world.
‘But on the other hand, Nuri will grumble’
Eun-gong’s side is my seat!! It seemed so good to shout out.
Cuckoo.
I was kind of looking forward to it. The day that maid and Nuri meet.
* * *
The journey to the carriage was very, very uneventful.
On the one hand, it was boring, but on the other hand, I thought it was so fortunate.
Uniting with Yuria is a price to pay, but how to unite with Yuria and convey her intentions to Yuria, who is unable to communicate through any external means, was a very difficult task.
“…”
Even so, he was no longer the same as before.
Loa, who pulled out the middle of her two shortswords from her waist, blew the energy flowing inside her body into her blade, and a white light began to shine from her blade.
The final qualification to become a knight or adventurer.
It was cut.
Since she learned how to use her aura through Yuria’s abilities, she’s just using it the way she felt at the time, but she still doesn’t quite understand how she uses her aura. Couldn’t
Truly, Yuria’s ability was the feeling of forcibly breaking through to that realm with her fraudulent intellect.
It was only at this point that she reached a level where she could compare herself with Noori.
If until now she was just an apprentice adventurer who couldn’t even reach Nuri’s toes, now she’s standing on the line where she can call herself an adventurer.
* * *
She had two letters to herself.
One is a letter from the Count requesting support and cooperation from the kingdom of Gashu, as well as asking for Yuria’s healing.
One of hers was a letter from her Uncle Cashew Wynn to her aunt, her late father’s co-worker and her mother’s chair man.
At the request of the Count, she wrote a letter asking him to come and meet him while she was in Gache.
Her Count’s letter was delivered. The maid said she would help, but her aunt asked how to meet her, and Uncle Cashewyn just smiled incomprehensibly.
Just say you’ll know when you go.
Perhaps she would meet her aunt before the person to whom the Count’s letter was supposed to be delivered.
She said ‘I really don’t know anything about her aunt except that she told me to visit her when she grew up’.
It’s not very rare, but it’s like you don’t know anything.
She was just her dad’s colleague. A member of the former Hero Party and the official strongest player in the West Continent.
Because this was all she knew about her aunt.
“Now it’s the border of Gache”
“I’m kind of looking forward to it…”
A united nation created by non-humans of different races. What would that place look like?
Is it really a city overflowing with elves and dwarves?
Is it true that there are a lot of different races that ordinary people don’t even know exist?
What does it really look like? Is there any grand castle?
After thinking about this and that, Roa finally arrived at the border, something like Vuong? And looked at ‘something’ called the ‘border’.
“So the border? This one?”
“You must have thought of something mysterious, but it will be very different from what you imagine.”
In the place called the border, there was a large wooden hut that looked rather ugly.
In this hut, which seems to have been made with dead trees, suitable rocks and mud that fell down naturally due to typhoons or other reasons without proper processing, there was an orc staring blankly at us.
An orc with slightly darker flesh rather than green skin.
“I’ve never seen a non-monster, heterogeneous orc.”
Compared to the Orcs, which are monsters, the Orcs, a heterogeneous species, looked more like humans than wild boars.
Being a pot-bellied monster was similar to that of a monster, but compared to a monster orc, his belly was relatively less bloated, and instead he had a muscular body in many ways.
“Are they humans?”
“Yes. Recently, a large-scale abnormal movement of monster orcs occurred in the third forest, so I brought a letter from the Count who wanted to discuss joint countermeasures.”
As soon as the maid glanced at Loa, Loa immediately took out a letter from her count from her bag and gave it to her. The runner orc nodded her head.
“That’s right. The pattern of the Baran Territory of the Shelton Kingdom.”
“Can I pass?”
“Wait. Even if your identity seems clear, you have to go through the process.”
The orc went into the cabin for a while and took out a crystal ball.
“Put your hand on it. If you’ve never been wanted or have no evil energy, nothing will happen.”
At the orc’s words, the maid quietly raised her hand over the crystal ball, and the crystal ball fell silent.
Loa also put her hand on the orb, but the orb did not respond.
“Who is that woman in the wagon?”
“She is the count’s daughter. Even though she is an adopted daughter, she is the count’s true daughter.”
“I need to check that kid too.”
In response, Roa quietly hugged Yuria and placed Yuria’s hand on her crystal ball.
And at that moment, the crystal ball emitted a bright light that was so bright, and the orc looked at Yuria as if surprised.
“I can’t believe it. What the hell is this child?”
“What is it? Is something wrong?”
“No, it’s not a bad thing. This reaction only comes from noble people. For example, from people like high elves.”
At the orc’s words, the maid slightly frowned.
“The lady is seriously injured right now. However, as you said, the lady is presumed to be a non-human spirit or fairy species, so she came to seek help from the Gash Kingdom to cure her condition. No see”
At that, the orc sighed and then nodded his head.
“Okay. A member of a noble family. I can trust you.”
It was something so empty border crossing and deliberation.
I wondered if it could be that simple, but looking at the maid’s expression, this seemed natural.
“Even if it looks like that, it’s more strict than the human state’s examination.”
“Huh?”
“That crystal ball reacts even if it has an evil heart. Above all, it not only distinguishes, but also serves to send information about those who enter the kingdom upwards.”
“…”
“In a word, the Gash Kingdom can track anyone who enters or leaves the kingdom. That’s why, in some cases, those who enter without permission are summarily executed on the spot.”
Hearing that, I came to think that the immigration process, which seemed so simple, wasn’t just too lax.
“That’s right. You guys be careful.”
“What happened?”
Just passing the border, we stopped at an orc who suddenly called us to look at him.
“Recently, a lot of spies have invaded from the Ent-in kingdom. Everyone is busy right now.
“…Thank you”
After that conversation, we finally entered the Gashu Kingdom.
Starting from crossing the border, Loa began to worry a little as the forest gradually grew larger.
“Can the wagon pass?”
“It’s okay. Although it’s a place geared towards different races, there are not very few races among the different races that use wagons like humans, so there are roads for them. That has come”
The maid the Count had assigned was far more capable and versatile than I thought.
“To tell you in advance, loa, the mindset of this race is very different from that of humans.”
“Huh?”
“Their way of thinking is different from humans, and their values and culture are different from ours.”
“…”
“That’s why we have to be careful. What seems very rude and rude to us may be natural for them, and what we consider polite may be very rude to them.”
Roa was greatly worried about that.
So how should you treat them?
No matter what they do, it should be accepted as good.
“Of course, they know that we are different from each other, so it won’t become a big deal, but I just meant to be careful.”
“Yes…”
The day began to go down and dim lights began to appear in the distance.
“It’s finally the first village in the Gash Kingdom.”
It was only when the day got darker and the sun was completely over that we were able to arrive at the village.
The town is really small in everything.
It’s so small that it’s like a real town.
Of course, there were a few large buildings as well, as if there were no buildings for humans.
“It is a village of gnomes, one of the dwarves among the different races and a farming race.”
It’s a gnome He seemed to have heard of it, but it was a heterogeneous race that he did not know well.
“There’s no special warning, but please don’t make any comments about them as if they’re small. It’s very rude.”
“Yes”
So we entered our first village.
“Is the room full?”
“Yeah. There’s been a lot of customers these days… I’ve prepared a temporary campsite near the village if I’m in a hurry…”
Since it was an inn made for people of average human height, the gnome, who was sitting on a high chair and watching the counter, slightly frowned at the Loa group.
Two women and one man.
It was a perfect composition of people to have an accident while going to a campsite.
“It would have been fine if there were more people in the party, but I don’t really recommend it.”
The innkeeper in front of me was very short.
She was shorter than Yuria, who was about 1 meter 33 tall, only about 1 meter tall, but despite that, his heart seemed very broad.
“So what?”
“Well… It’s the first time we’ve seen so many people in this town…”
After thinking about it for a long time, he finally made a decision.
“It’s a bit cramped, but sleep in my room. It’s a bit small, but if it’s the girl on your back, I’ll be able to put you on a bed and put you to sleep.”
“Well, what about the uncle?”
“Hey, it’s no problem if we don’t sleep for a day or two. But I have to apologize first. That girl is the only one who can sleep properly in that room.”
After a while, the bedroom, guided by the innkeeper, was very cramped, just as he said.
A low room where even Yuria would straighten her back, her head would touch the ceiling, and a small bed where her toes would go out of bed when she lay down.
Really, this room was barely enough for Yuria or her to sleep.
Roa and the maid laid YuRia on her bed, and then they sat on the floor and leaned their backs against her wall for an uncomfortable sleep.
“Turn it off…”
“Ha…”
The two of them took Yuria out of the room with her whole body aching, probably because she slept in an uncomfortable position.
The front of the inn was crowded with people returning keys.
“You just have to go”
“Ha, but…”
“I have a conscience too, I can only give you a room like that, but I’m not a bad guy enough to take money.”
I was just about to leave the inn, thanking him like that.
“For a moment!”
“Yes?”
“Be careful. The guys gathered at the camp look a little suspicious.”
Suspicious…
Considering the entry procedures of the Gash Kingdom, such a thing…
The innkeeper hissed and sent a gesture with a serious expression.
As a result, Roa had no choice but to leave the inn with the maid and get into the carriage.
“What is it?”
“It reminds me of what the orc I met at the border said.”
“Are you an orc?”
Are you saying that it seems like there are a lot of spies from the Ent-in Kingdom?
“Anyway, since there is no bound to be vigilant against the same race, the ones in the Ent-in Kingdom who are not very different from the ordinary alien race in appearance can still enter relatively easily.”
“… What the hell are you trying to do?”
“Obviously. They have periodically kidnapped people of different races and used them as sex slaves, such as seedlings and stallions. Or maybe it has something to do with the Orc crisis.”
Truly over the mountain. It was a river beyond the river.
“I’ll try to stay out of their sight as much as possible.”
“Please…”
After quietly leaving the village, we were rather more nervous than before coming to Gash Kingdom and were wary of our surroundings.
“Lady Roan. Come to think of it, I forgot to tell you some of the things to be careful of.”
“Hmm?”
“Not all races are necessarily good.”
Isn’t that natural? I was thinking, but I suddenly realized that Roa was more wary of strangers than aliens.
“Because of their racial characteristics, most of the different races are more likely to be on the good side than humans. But they are also in a position to be tested by gods and demons, and are always tempted. That’s why sometimes there are other races stained with darkness.”
“…”
“Do not be suspicious of others, but do not carelessly trust others. The darkness never knows when, where, or how it will try to deceive us.”
After that, it was quiet for a while.
As if they were laughing at our worries.
As we walked along this road full of forests, we ended up facing people we didn’t really want to see.
A caravan consisting of dozens of large wagons.
It was a huge carriage with four large horses that looked very strong and stamina, if not as good as the pedigree pack horses that the count had gifted them.
However, the maid seemed rather relieved when she saw the flags the caravans were wearing.
“That’s good. It’s not very reassuring, but it doesn’t seem to be the worst.”
She said, pointing to the flag on the caravan.
“This is Ruth’s Merchant. It’s the Merchant’s Merchant of our desired territory. We will be able to seek cooperation in the name of the Count.”
