Chapter 583 – 583. New Choice (1)
Erin let out a small exclamation at the sight of a gigantic tree four or five times her own height.
“Wow…”
Going up the wooden stairs to go up to the entrance of the house built on a huge tree that seemed to be several hundred years old, each time I went up one by one, I saw the whole view of the elven forest from various angles.
She inadvertently gazes at the superb view, mesmerized.
Soon she regained her senses and climbed the stairs. Arriving in front of the house, Erin carefully opened the door and looked inside her house.
On the wooden floor, the furniture that caught my eyes and the smell were somehow familiar.
“This is the house where Hyun-i really lived.”
Strangely, the appearance and arrangement of the furniture were similar, and the faint smell of Eunhyun, Illyana, Eleanor, and Lily remained in the house.
The smell that remained the strongest was that of Eunhyeon and Lily, who recently stayed overnight to go to the dwarf village.
Erin immediately threw herself onto the sofa, buried her face in her cushions, and sniffed.
“Sue… Haaa…”
Although the scents of trees and grass were mixed, her mind calmed down when she smelled Eunhyeon or Illyana or Eleanor or Lily.
Erin, who had been enjoying the softness and smell of the sofa and cushions as she relaxed to the fullest instead of being calm, hurriedly came to her senses.
“You have to wash first.”
Eunhyun will be back soon.
Erin, who was thinking of washing her body first and preparing dinner in a refreshing state, headed straight to her bathroom.
Fortunately, the facilities in the bathroom were not much different from those at home.
Even though it is built on a tree with everything to be equipped, such as a shower, bathtub, and toilet, it is equipped with magic-engraved artifacts for proper sewage treatment, so it is obvious that it took quite a lot of effort.
Perhaps Eun-hyeon was on her nerves so that her wives, including herself, would not feel uncomfortable with her when they came here.
As you soak your body in a bathtub filled with hot water and bath salts, the fatigue accumulated in your body disappears like snow melting.
“Ha. Ok…”
After a week of camping, I really enjoyed taking a bath after a long time.
After taking her bath, Erin immediately started preparing for dinner, wearing a thin sleeveless shirt and dolphin pants as she usually wears at home.
Maybe it’s because she has all the latest cooking utensils for cooking, but her simple cooking is at a level that even her Erin can prepare.
She immediately draped her apron around her body, but Erin activated her artifact, turning her light on and trying to place her frying pan on top of it.
Smart
“Huh?”
Erin looked puzzled when she heard a knock on the door.
“Who is it?”
Knocking means that a guest has come.
Eun-hyeon said that because she is the owner of this house, she doesn’t have to knock.
Before long, Erin recognized two types of smells, one familiar and one unfamiliar.
“This… Your smell?”
The familiar smell on her side was Alvin.
But she couldn’t tell Erin who the unfamiliar smell was.
It was the first smell she smelled, but it was somehow similar to Elvin.
Erin immediately opened the door and greeted her guests waiting at the door.
As expected, one of them waiting in front of the door was Alvin.
“Brother? What’s going on here? And…”
Erin looked to her side as she naturally accompanied Elvin.
She is a woman whose appearance resembles that of a human or an elf.
Her bright blonde hair and her blue eyes, reminiscent of sapphire, are very beautiful.
But what bothered me enough to put all of that aside was the aura I felt from women.
She was neither human nor elf.
And the fact that she smells like Alvin means that she is similar to Alvin.
Sensing her womanhood, Erin narrowed her eyes and glanced at Alvin.
“… Brother. Could it be that you abandoned Eris?”
“… Throw it away What do you mean?”
Alvin frowned at Erin, who brought up her absurd story.
“No. That’s who…”
Erin hesitated to say something of hers.
She didn’t know if it was only Alvin, but it was because she thought it might be rude to the other person if she said something rude in front of her person.
Elvin checked Erin, who was wearing her apron and holding her tongs in one hand, and she glanced her gaze toward the kitchen of the house.
“Frying pan. I think it’s better to put out the fire before burning.”
At Erwin’s point, Erin flinched and her body trembled.
“Hey, come in now!”
I hurriedly turned off the light of the artifact and led Alvin and her woman to the table.
“…”
Erwin looked closely at Erin’s behavior and made a subtle expression.
“Why? What?”
Alvin’s expression, with his eyebrows slightly narrowed, is a disgruntled expression holding back something he wants to say.
It is because Erin is Alvin’s younger sister that he catches the subtle change in his expression, which is usually blunt.
“… Aren’t you revealing too much flesh?”
“What?”
“I think your pants are too short. And so are the tops.”
Erwin seemed very dissatisfied with Erin’s appearance, wearing barely a thin sleeveless shirt and dolphin pants.
Erin frowned when Elvin pointed out her own behavior as if she had suddenly become her mother.
“I usually dress like this comfortably at home. You should have contacted her brother beforehand!”
At Erindo’s house, when someone has a guest, he doesn’t wear comfortable clothes like this.
Originally, it is the role of Lily, the maid who is in charge of managing her household, to treat guests, and Lily immediately takes care of Erin’s clothes.
She had just finished taking a bath and the only person in the house who could help was herself, so she couldn’t help it.
Although it was her right nagging, Erin immediately vented her own chagrin.
“Whoops.”
Before long, the woman’s voice covered her mouth and gave her a small laugh, and her brother and sister stopped their quarrel.
“That… Do you need anything?”
Since she has a guest, she wants to treat her to something, but Erin hesitated because she didn’t know what to serve because she didn’t need to consume food as long as she realized that she was a spirit-like being like Elvin.
“No. Are you okay. Did you say she was Elvin’s sister?”
“Ah yes.”
Erin immediately replied with a nod of her head.
“Nice to meet you. My name is Sylvia.”
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After Regina’s meeting, Eun-hyeon left the corridor and headed for the house where she lived.
“… Hmm?”
She arrived in front of her own house in the elven forest, but Eun-hyeon hesitated to open her door at the sound of her raucous voice coming from inside her house.
‘Are they even guests?’
Eventually, as soon as I opened the door and entered the house, Erin ran straight to the front door with the sound of footsteps and hugged Eunhyun.
“Hyunah… !”
“Erin?”
Eunhyun felt something strange.
Jumping into her own chest and burying her face as it is is close to an everyday expression of affection, but Erin’s face was full of moisture as she felt her own chest.
“… Did you cry?”
“Huh…”
Erin whimpered, but nodded her head slightly to express her affirmation.
Eunhyun turned her head to the table where she could feel the presence of people in order to figure out what had happened.
“You’re here.”
“… Uh?”
At the woman’s voice that kindly greeted her, Eun-hyeon made a surprised expression.
She was a voice I had heard often lately, but it was the spirits’ communication method that spoke directly to their souls with the sound of magic that contained her thoughts.
However, the woman’s voice that he heard now came out through his vocal cords and was closer to the voice that Eunhyeon heard properly.
It is also a very welcome voice to hear after about 200 years.
It was Sylvia who had now become a wind spirit.
But now her condition was very different from the last time she had been seen.
Spirits are beings of nature that can manifest themselves in this underworld through the magical power of the contractor.
The manifested spirit’s body is composed entirely of magical power, so it has no substance.
Sylvia, who had become a special being who could not be seen or heard by the general public, now, without a doubt, had a real body.
“Sylvia… Sister?”
The expression that she thought she was looking at was soon changed to an expression of doubt, and she opened her eyes wide and put the name of the woman in front of her mouth into her mouth.
“Huh.”
Sylvia smiled and nodded her head.
“How… No. For a moment…”
“Erin.”
When she was feeling a little confused, Elvin called out to Erin, who was sobbing in her Eunhyun’s arms.
“… Huh.”
“Come out for a minute.”
Erin noticed Erwin’s intention to arrange a place for Eunhyeon and Sylvia to be alone, and she immediately nodded her head.
“… Huh.”
Slightly lifting her head, she met Eunhyun’s eyes and opened her mouth.
“Hyunah. I heard everything from Sylvia-sama.”
“That…”
Eun-hyeon hardened her face as she realized that she had heard all the stories that had intertwined between her, Sylvia, and the elven forest.
“Why didn’t you tell me? Many… It must have been hard…”
Erin felt slightly sad and rested her forehead on Eunhyun’s chest again.
“… Sorry. I just didn’t want to cause any concern.”
When Illyana and Eleanor heard about her past, she didn’t want to make them worry.
As I stroked Erin’s forehead in comfort, Erin looked up at her again and said,
“I am… I want to hear everything. Hyun’s story.”
“… Okay. Okay.”
“Huh.”
After Erin heard her confirmation from Eunhyun, she gave a small nod of her head and she moved away from Eunhyun.
“Call me when you finish talking with Sylvia. We’ll be waiting outside.”
“Okay.”
When Erin and Erwin left the house, only Eunhyeon and Sylvia were left inside.
When Eunhyeon was alone with Sylvia here, she had a strange feeling.
It feels like memories from 200 years ago came back like nostalgia.
“… Sister. My sister’s body now. Is that what I’m thinking right?”
Eunhyun, who had an expression that she didn’t know why, immediately recalled in her mind the artificial body she and Illyana had created called Elvin’s homunculus.
“That’s right. The Queen made this body with dozens of elders from the branches of the World Tree.”
Haha…”
Eunhyun gave a small laugh and responded that it was absurd.
I never thought the elves would be able to create the homunculus they and Illyana had put so much effort into in such a short period of time.
It was an unexpected variable that I hadn’t even thought about.
“Alvin helped.”
Sylvia immediately guessed what Eun-hyun, who was laughing, was thinking.
It was a very short moment by the standards of the elves, but by the standards of humans, it was a relationship that traveled and lived together for a long time.
For Sylvia, she could guess what she was thinking just by looking at Eun-hyeon’s expression.
As Sylvia cleared the question of herself that popped into her head, Eunhyeon asked back with a surprised expression.
“Are you Alvin?”
“Huh.”
The origin was that the elder elves showed a deep interest in this homunculus artificial body, which is said to give the spirit a body that can move directly by anchoring the spirit in an existing medium.
Elder Elves, who have lived a long life since the previous Elf Queen, have an inquisitive mind as deep as the number of years they have lived.
How can they bear it when the crystallization of new knowledge that has appeared for the first time in hundreds of years is walking around in front of their eyes.
The elder elves could not survive without exploring the homunculus artificial body, the crystallization of that knowledge.
In addition, the fact that the material used in the production of the homunculus was the branches of the World Tree was also a very interesting topic.
In the end, it came up as an agenda at the meeting of Regina and numerous elves, and the homunculus production research agenda was formally signed.
After hearing the details of what happened inside the elven forest from Sylvia, Eunhyeon couldn’t help but laugh.
‘Dwarves and elves are equally crazy about invention.’
Dwarves sweating and maniacally engrossed in crafting the best weapons, or elves immersing themselves in research day and night to explore the crystallization of new magical knowledge.
Only the process or method of pursuit and immersion is different, but the essence does not change anywhere.
Anyway, as the production of the homunculus was signed as an official agenda, it is said that Regina, the queen of the elves, visited Derkin’s house where Elvin is currently staying in the forest of the elves.
And since she wants to research the production technology of the homunculus developed by Eunhyun and Illyana, she please, she asked for help directly from Elvin, her first case.
Alvin accepted Regina’s request without much hesitation.
It was also to repay her kindness for providing her with the branches of the World Tree that she needed to create her own body in the first place.
Elvin, who was not a natural, but an artificially created spirit, had no intention of rejecting the polite request of the ‘residents of the forest’ from the beginning.
From there, Elvin directly pointed out Sylvia as her spirit to be settled in a homunculus artificial body like himself, which is the end result of Sylvia now having the same homunculus artificial body as Elvin.
“Do something useless…”
Eunhyun couldn’t help but smile bitterly.
Perhaps it was Alvin’s own consideration for having briefly heard from Regina about the intertwined relationship between Sylvia and Eunhyeon.
“Whoops. I am grateful.”
Sylvia slowly walked towards Eunhyeon with a satisfied smile.
Then she naturally put her own slender finger on her cheek and caressed it.
“Like this… Because I can touch you again.”
Although she was made from the branches of the World Tree, Sylvia’s fingers, which were no different from her living elf flesh, felt warm.
She is just grateful that now she can feel the warmth she never thought she would feel again.
“Hyunah. I have a request… Won’t you listen?”
“Please?”
“I want you to make a spirit contract with me.”
“Yes? That…”
Sylvia is currently under contract with Regina, the Elf Queen.
There is absolutely no such thing as a double contract between spirits and humans.
This means that in order for her to make a spirit contract with Eun-hyeon, she must break the previous contract with Regina.
“I have already obtained permission from the Queen. And now… I am no longer an elf.”
“But…”
“I was able to complete my mission as an elf.”
Sylvia, who was captured and held hostage by a dark elf, made the extreme choice of slitting her own throat in order not to harm the elves and her Eunhyun.
It wasn’t just her, she said, all the elves who were held hostage at the time chose that choice for themselves and committed suicide.
Even now, she has no regrets or lingering feelings for the choices she made to protect her race and the World Tree.
However, in a corner of Sylvia’s heart, who was revived by her spirit, there was always a guilty conscience that she had planted the worst experience in Eun-hyeon’s head.
So Sylvia begged Regina to sign a contract with her, and Regina readily agreed to her Sylvia request.
“Now I have no intention of being bound by my mission as an elf. As a spirit, I want to do as my will and my heart lead.”
“…”
“I want to be with you.”
Sylvia herself was well aware that it was too selfish a thought now.
She chose the future of her race and world tree over Eun-hyun by taking her own life.
It’s too selfish to even think about it yourself.
But even so, if Eun-hyeon allowed it, if she would forgive it.
I want to choose him this time.
“Not… Will it?”
Sylvia waited for Eunhyun’s answer with a trembling voice mixed with tension.
