Chapter 404 – R or L (7)
─Rumble.
When she opens her door and brings Dana in, she sighs as she sees the man holding her breath.
[… So, what is it? Why did you suddenly come and propose to me after not being interested in it for over 20 years?]
[This wasn’t on purpose! I didn’t know you were married! And the priest barely knew where you were until recently! I was proposing to bring you to town!]
[That’s an excuse. … Ha, yes How are your mother and father?]
It was a question that made her feel disgusted, yet still had a lingering lingering feeling. Our Ttodogas magician looked at me and hesitated, then spoke quickly when my eyesight deteriorated.
[Now, you’re doing well, but you’re worried. The head priest is struggling with territorial disputes and quarrels.]
[I heard that news years ago. You haven’t written a letter to your daughter-in-law, do you think you’re worried about that?]
Dana glared at her with a sharp shot. Gas opened her mouth again, but Dana was quick to continue her speech.
[I’m not going back.]
[Dana, but!]
[What do I do if I go there? I’ll forget about the bullshit you did, so take Mr. Wellon who followed you and get out of here.]
[No! Even the Winglings are toxic since entering winter! If the Chief Priest is to become the focal point of the struggle, we need the next Chief Priest to carry on the history of Erinn instead of him in case of emergency! You know it well!]
Dana flinched briefly at her whimpering remark, but quickly regained her cool, she said.
[… I learned very little from my mother, other than boring history. It is true that I have been able to live until now thanks to the history and magic studies I did back then.]
While admitting to admitting it, Dana openly showed dislike.
It wasn’t contempt, but it looked like a daughter-in-law who hated her father who was a gangster.
[There will be other disciples. Couldn’t that person be saying that I wasted all the 20 years after I left?]
[… She screens out another candidate for the next priest chief, but that mourner has also run away from the village. That was only about 3 months ago.]
Dana bit her lip at his words, but it was only for a moment that she stopped talking like that so that she only noticed me.
[That’s a lot of patience. You must have been very vigilant not to miss it again because of me, but you must have endured it for a long time to shake it off. Still, I must have learned a lot during that time, so it wouldn’t have been a loss.]
Dana snorted at her sympathy maneuvers, and with her sober mind got to the heart of her work.
[If I want to follow in my mother’s footsteps, I’ll have to study for a long time while mingling with that boring zazen. No Fighting with the Winklings is nothing like a battle, right?]
[It’s for my hometown. I’m sorry to say this, but could you give me at least a year or two?]
Dana’s eyes widened even more.
[Then what about a year or two later? Leave again? Asking me to be called in to play the part of that person’s breadwinner for a while? Is that why she calls her child home after she hasn’t spoken to her in 20 years?]
[It’s not like that! The head priest is——]
[For a moment. Don’t do that.]
I interrupted Ttodogas.
[My wife doesn’t want to go. And I don’t know if you know it, but if you listen to what you say, it won’t solve anything right away if Dana goes. Just find the other student who is said to be a rabbit.]
[… He’s the guy who might have gone. I’ve tried, but I’ve heard it’ll be nearly impossible to find.]
[Huh.]
I remembered the difficulty of finding missing people, which Katherine had also mentioned.
‘Perhaps Dana occasionally told his hometown where she lived, but that other disciple probably didn’t.’
It’s unfortunate in its own way, even if you listen roughly, but are you trying to solve it by bringing Dana, who has been running away for almost 20 years, now? That was nonsense.
‘That’s because I married someone like this.’
As I thought so, I twisted her face.
‘This bastard loves Dana, so she didn’t even propose, right?’
If she knew Dana as her single daughter and confessed it innocently, she was fine with it as a happening. If that’s the case, since he’s not an NTR chump, he’s an idiot, he might have been able to hold back his rage.
But that bastard with a hole in his brain dared to beat her abacus and get married!
The groom Nord, who is only thinking about the wedding date, is bound to be very upset. Uh? Are you mad?
[I understand the situation. But neither I nor Dana want to hear it kindly. When you say something nice, just do this and leave.]
I said crossing my arms.
[If you’re so desperate, then at least find out where our Dana is, what she does, who she lives with and how she lives. If you don’t even know you’re married and make that kind of mistake, it’s obvious what will happen when you go back.]
[… Big hum.]
As if there was nothing to say about my thesis, the friend of Ttodogas, whose name was unknown until the end, robbed the seat and got up.
He moved his heavy steps to the celebration and said, looking back at our nunna for the last time.
[… The priest said he would send a letter.]
[Tell her that being able to receive the priest’s blind handwriting as a daughter is an honor like Ha-hye.]
As if he understood what I meant by the carefree sarcasm, he took the wand I picked up and left the lab.
“Ah… What is it. You don’t have to care.”
As the lab quieted down, Dana scratched her head as if the ambiguity was unpleasant.
I said, tidying Dana’s hair.
“I heard that when I was 10 years old, I ran away from home without having a coming-of-age ceremony. You must have had a bad relationship with her parents?”
“Oh well, isn’t it like that? My husband can’t even see the faces of her mother and father, so what am I to be if I frown over something like this?”
Dana said it curtly, but on the contrary, touched my head. It must have been disturbed while running amok earlier.
Said Dana, tickling her bangs.
“The village I was in was a place where I really tried to avoid interaction with the outside world to the extreme.”
“Aren’t all Ulsterians like that?”
“The collateral was worse. It can’t even be compared to the Ulster village I saw last time, right?”
Dana, who she hates as she speaks. It was almost a reaction at the level of reminiscing about the lab days.
“Still, I happened to read a book my father gave me and became interested outside the village, so when I was 10, I secretly tried to run away. There was a city not too far from the village that we interacted with from time to time.”
“I thought about this from the first time I heard about it, but when you were 10 years old, you must have had a lot of trouble too.”
I shrugged and said. Repeating words and empathizing with them is a great way to listen as a listener. Dana, who had known her for three more years and had adapted to my way of speaking, spoke comfortably to her.
“Not really? I knew that I was a daughter of a priestly class, so I learned to speak and worked under a merchant lady who I used to hang out with. But even after a year or two, they didn’t even try to find me.”
Dana frowned as if recalling her old days.
“You know what’s funny? There were a few people I knew in the transport guild in the city that used to deliver news to our town, and he was surprised to run into me on the day of the second year or so.”
“Are you surprised? See you?”
“Yes. Why are you here It’s been more than two years, and they still thought I was in town.”
“… Hmmm shit.”
My mouth was closed. Dana smiled.
“That’s right. If the transport guild members, who are the only ones communicating with the village, didn’t know, then my mother wouldn’t even think to find out where I went, right? After that, that’s what you know.”
“I’m going to go to college anyway… Met me.”
“And she was being stupid and got cut in line by her franc.”
Dana quivered at her joke, biting out her tongue.
It was the sound of her heart breaking, but when you think about it, being able to joke like that was a huge step forward. The trust built up between me, Fran, and Dana must have become that much stronger.
“So I’m not going back. Didn’t I send the letters I sent to my hometown every spring this year when I came to live with you?”
“… Great.”
Dana said it in passing, but I suddenly coughed like someone with an incurable throat disease.
It’s because she suddenly noticed an uncomfortable truth in her words.
‘Dana being dispatched to Sargadis… Wasn’t it also because I didn’t send you a letter for over several months?’
Maybe that’s why he risked losing our eye-catching carrier and came to me without even realizing it.
I thought that as I kept sending letters to my mother back home that never came back, another type of letter that I didn’t get a reply to would increase.
Damn fuck i’m a sinner I’m not in a position to say anything to my mother-in-law.
“… Hey husband Do you know why I didn’t send a letter to my hometown this year?”
Dana, who heard my clearing of the cough, laughed as if it was funny.
Her husband’s shallow thoughts and guilt were all smiles that seemed to lie in the palm of her hand.
“It’s because I have a home to return to here, you bad wife killer.”
– Cock. Her slender index finger poked my nose.
I was at a loss for words, then laughed mischievously.
“Are you talking about this institute? Hey, it’s Dr. Berbeia who never forgets his duty as a scholar.”
“Right? If you want to get a master’s degree, you have to follow the example. How long are you going to be pushed aside by your academic background by your wife?”
“If you are so proud of your academic achievements, how about sleeping in this laboratory room supported by the academic world? Eating and sleeping at work eliminates the waste of time commuting to work, so it is efficient!”
“Do you want to go back? I’m afraid that the researchers will treat you like an idiot because you haven’t brought anything with you even if you go on a business trip.”
“No, while playing Tikitaka, suddenly there is a real attack attack? My sins are as great as one, Sifal.”
“If you know, bring it on your own, bastard. Don’t make your wife a goblin who goes abroad to play with her husband.”
“Ouch! This fact hurts so much!”
The bitter taste of reality is like chewing on insect wings. I clutched at my heart feeling guilty for ruining my wife’s career profile.
Is the thesis that the professor of light, Hiromain, is sending me yet?
I’ll have to weave a few of them together and get some results, or I’ll have to get some artifacts from the ruins of the ancient civilization we stole away and bring them to the academic world as a tribute to Beherit.
Otherwise, the real Dana would end up looking like a bitch who only traveled for more than half a year under the pretext of business trips without much performance.
“Now that I think about it, it seems like I only wrote nominal papers and didn’t devote myself to research.”
“It’s the level of your big mouth, and it’s the level of the bitch whose nose was pierced by you, and it only hurts my mouth to say it.”
“No, you crazy bitch. Don’t give up and find a way. Fuck you, are you the main character of a regression? Even if you live as a bitch my way and kill your carrier, do you go back to the day before you lost your child?”
“Even if we were born on different days, we are together when we search, honey!!”
“If you were born a year earlier than your husband, wouldn’t it be polite for Honey to go a year earlier?”
Otherwise, it’s obvious that my sister will cry when she sees me die.
Concealing such a sweet feeling, I thought of something else with one part of his head as Dana strangled me for the bullshit.
There’s nothing really logical about it. It’s just an intuition or sixth sense.
However, just as a skilled hunter finds the way animals walk on a confusing mountain path, I, who have been plagued by fate or trouble, for some reason was able to speak with certainty.
Although Dana doesn’t seem to want it——perhaps in the not-too-distant future, we will visit her hometown.
