Chapter 175 – Chapter 5: Another Revenge – 4
Aunt Merid looked first at Mari, who was the shortest, and then at Ruev, who was the tallest.
The emotions in the brown eyes were a mixture of surprise and joy at the same time. Like meeting a friend again after a really long time. His tongue stiffened at the sudden meeting, but he quickly ran up to Ruyev and gave him a childlike expression, wanting to hug him as hard as he could.
But that innocent face is the moment you see ‘me’ over Ruev’s shoulder.
Everything was shattered.
“… “Inhale!”
I can see Merid’s face turning pale.
She pointed at me with her trembling finger and screamed.
“Ghost?!”
To the people of Brisden, ‘Ritz’ is a dead person.
They buried me in a coffin and even covered it with dirt. Everyone in the village was a witness who attended the funeral.
But as if I were still alive and well. With a blank face with no life at all. Let’s face her, with her eyes glaring at her Merid.
Merid soon began to croak as if she was going to lose her breath.
“Behind, behind! The dead Ritz…”
Ruev turned around and glanced at me. Next, I looked around to see if anyone was looking this way.
It’s a sudden encounter. Although he was not prepared for this situation, Ruev calmed down Merid, who was on the verge of going crazy, with a calm voice.
“It’s not a ghost. Aunt Merid. “Ritz is alive.”
His tone was so calm that it felt indifferent to the point of being calm.
“… What does that mean?”
I didn’t want to make Ruev tired for no reason.
“Ruyev, I’ll explain later. There are a lot of eyes watching here.”
“Hmm. Okay. “Aunt, please come here for a moment.”
“Yes? Ah… !”
Ruyev lifted Merid up and carried her on his back as if carrying a load. And he quickly entered a deserted alley.
Aunt Merid’s voice was loud and sharp, so it attracted unnecessary attention. That much had to be avoided.
“Let go of this!”
I put Aunt Mary down in a dark place, avoiding her gaze.
She asked urgently with a confused look on her face.
“What happened? Ritz? Ruyev? Please explain.”
She knows that no matter what explanation she gives to Merid now, it won’t be good.
Because no one can understand the cause and effect of all this except me.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t have time to talk at length. Just know that we are alive. Rather, where are all the villagers?”
“If you are a ‘village person’… Us, the Brisden family?”
As soon as the name Brisden came to mind, Merid’s eyes lit up.
The effect was good.
She began to speak clearly, as if she had remembered the name she had forgotten all her life.
“A few seniors are missing, but fortunately everyone is safe. “I was released as a free citizen two days ago.”
“What I mean by being released… “Where was she trapped?”
Merid nodded her head in response to Luyev’s question.
“The lord of Taildon suddenly came to our village with his soldiers. And suddenly they grabbed the elders and dragged them here. “For the first few days, we were imprisoned, but after a while, they said they needed help preparing for the expedition and made us work.”
I understand.
Why did Uncle Marvin become a Taildon soldier and appear in front of Tia?
Lord Kintoff took the villagers and made them work in order to pay off his debt.
From that day on, the people of Brisden became the residents of Taildon.
The end of a village swept away by a storm without a village chief was terrible.
Because there was no one who could turn their backs on the cruel, whipping wind and support them…
The frogs in the well were blown away by the wind and rain.
It is said that the villagers followed the words of Marvin, who was the temporary village chief. Marvin took her lead and offered her loyalty to Lord Kinthorpe, and she became his soldier. She said that it was he who actually commanded the people of Brisden.
Marvin agreed to do as he was told first. He encouraged people to think of it as ‘a little’ help in Tail Dawn’s work, even though we were not enslaved and were given food and a place to sleep.
However, for people who had been working in the fields and wood all day long in the mountains, organizing an expedition was extremely arduous.
Amid the long hours of labor, several of the elders passed away, and Aunt Merid’s once beautiful skin became increasingly rough.
Just by looking at his face, I could tell how difficult he had been through.
Her aunt recalled her memory in a weary voice.
“… We were taken by the expedition team and went right in front of Deseo.”
It is said that Lord Kintoff’s troops advanced as far as the Deseo Gate.
They made a camp there and stayed there for about three weeks. It is said that no one knew what happened inside Deseo Castle or why the soldiers had to be dragged there.
I was nervous that there might be a war, but it never happened. One day, I was spending day and night at the camp.
“That was the end.”
Suddenly, Lord Kinthorpe gave the order to return to Taildon. And by the time he reached Tail Dawn.
Suddenly, all the ‘surviving’ people of Brisden were gathered together, paid compensation, and released as free citizens. With the saying that you can live in Taildon or go back to Brisden, where you originally lived.
“But Marvin said he would live as a resident of Taildon… There is no one to become the village chief in Brisden, so I can’t go back to that village… “It was just like this.”
Even if you go back in the first place, the place is devastated. There are not many elderly people left, and there are no young people like us.
It would be literally the same as living in a dead village.
Aunt Merid probably decided in her heart to just stay in Taildon.
I understand everything.
“…”
That was my honest feeling.
In fact, I thought my heart would become heavy when I heard the tragic stories of the villagers.
Still, they are family members who have lived together since childhood. I thought that if I faced them, this lonely heart would be attracted at least a little.
But… The expectations were completely wrong.
It’s truly amazing. It was nothing.
It was as if an unrelated traveler in a carriage heard someone’s sad life talking excitedly.
To me, it just sounded like a story from another world.
“Where is Marvin?”
In the end, I had no choice but to remember the reason why I returned from Gordburg to Teildon.
“Marvin? Why is Marvin…”
“We have to meet.”
Merid looked at me with unfamiliar eyes.
“Ritz… Is it really Ritz? It seems so different…”
“Aunt.”
Ruyev closed his eyes and said.
“Please tell me. “Where is Uncle Marvin?”
Heavy air flows.
Everyone here knew each other. Just a year ago, we were from the same village. It was a cider where we ate stew cooked in the same pot and baked bread.
It was not a cold atmosphere, but a past where we talked happily and laughed happily.
But now, I can’t find any of those memories.
Marie quietly hides behind Ruev’s back… It was proving the missing bond.
Do you think I have changed?
It has to be that way.
What did Merid plan to drive Tia out of her village?
… Because I have seen it all.
Merid, who was watching her, lowered her head and answered.
“Marvin is near Yeongju Castle. She is there, you can ask anyone, and they will know.”
Now that she heard the answer, she immediately moved on her feet.
When she said goodbye to the villagers, she didn’t say ‘see you again’ like she always did.
Because I have already exercised my best patience.
* * *
Marvin’s ‘current house’ is much larger than his previous ‘Brisden house’.
She seemed to live well enough that her decision to live as a resident of Taildon was immediately understood.
She knocked on the door and asked from inside.
“Who are you?”
Marvin was guarding her house alone.
As she opened the door and came out smelling like alcohol, her reaction upon seeing us was not much different from Mary De’s.
“No?!”
She was startled, revealing her rough-trimmed beard. Next, she asked to understand what happened.
As expected, there was not a single ounce of joy to be found in the surprise. Rather, even the subtle facial expressions that made me feel very uncomfortable about my resurrection were vivid to me.
He opened his mouth as if his jaw was about to break.
“What… This isn’t a dream, is it? How is Ritz alive?”
Likewise, there was no time to waste on such questions.
“Gordburg.”
“What?”
“What happened after chasing Tia there?”
“… !”
Marvin backed away from her.
She had an expression on her face that seemed to indicate that she had spread the rumor about the incident that she had not told anyone about.
“What are you talking about… Me, I don’t know! How do I know where she ran off to?”
“Isn’t it likely that the last traced location is the east gate?”
“Tsar… Mountain range.”
Marvin answered hurriedly.
“Okay! The soldiers said it was the Charrak Mountains. He abandoned the carriage there and ran away! From now on, it’s none of my business whether he died or lived there…”
Charrak Mountains.
The place where Tia and Posao fled to avoid pursuit…
Is this the place where the two met for the first time?
I caught a strand.
I think I know for sure where Tia went.
Now that we have a destination, all that remains is to head there again.
“I heard that you are currently a soldier for Taildon.”
“Yeah, yeah. That’s right.”
“Please make a pass to pass through the gate now.”
“Now?”
Marvin looked at her shelf where her pass was placed, and she suddenly felt uncomfortable and turned her head to look at us.
“… However. Why should I do that?”
Have you sobered up? Finally, my voice changed.
The gibberish tone of his speech disappeared, revealing the real Marvin.
“Hey, Ritz. I don’t know how you got out of the coffin, but I sincerely congratulate her on surviving. But baby, now this… Is that right?”
He spoke in a low, deep voice.
“I am now a ‘Soldier of Taildon.’ I’m no longer in Brisden, I’m no longer friends with you, and I have no reason to listen to you as the village chief. But what is that cheap attitude that treats me like a servant or a sinner and tells me to give it up?”
In the past, when I heard Marvin’s angry voice, I felt instinctive fear.
Except for the village chief, he was the best worker and greatest person in the village. The masculine power felt in his strong body was filled with a heavy pressure that this small body could not dare to resist.
I just hope that the spark doesn’t fly out on me. I tried not to upset Marvin.
But that kind of behavior meant nothing.
Now I realize that I lost everything.
No matter how much this man standing in front of me glared at me, he just seemed insignificant.
“You still don’t know?”
He told me honestly.
“You are a sinner.”
