Chapter 477 – Icarus
Shoot aaa-
Rainwater flows down Seojun’s face.
After stealing his face, he jumped up onto a large rock.
Dark clouds can be seen covering the top of the mountain ridge.
The sun is nowhere to be seen in the gray sky. There are only dark clouds here and there.
Kkeuhn-
A voice that made him sweat was heard from behind, and Seojun glanced back.
Nori, a girl with red hair, struggles to hold on to the back of a rock and puts one leg up.
“Catch it.”
“···Thank you.”
When Seojun held out his hand, Nori looked up at his face, gulped, and held his hand.
The excruciating heat, the rain pouring down all the time, all kinds of bugs crawling into the hem of your clothes when you feel like you need a little rest…
Nori had as much strength and stamina as most men, but she never thought it would be such an arduous journey.
Sunset in the afternoon, ten and four days later.
While the sun sets and the moon rises, and the moon sets and the sun rises again, repeating for fourteen days-,
Using their father as a guide, the group was chasing after an unprecedented being called a tunnel rat.
Her father would often put his ear to the floor, put a handful of dirt in his mouth and mumble it, or pound the dirt with his fist and say this.
“You went here.”
“Well, I took a turn here.”
“I went west.”
“South of here.”
“It’s the west again.”
However, the black-haired man, Seojun, did not seem to completely trust his father.
“Is this the right place?”
“I don’t see a single ant baby on this road?”
“… Those bastards went this way? Really?”
He thought about it several times.
Of course, my father vented his anger like hell.
He said he wouldn’t have taken the job if I hadn’t, and that I wouldn’t do it in vain like you – and he pounded his chest.
Originally, I had planned to take my father’s side at that time and throw harsh criticism at the other person, but I couldn’t bear to take either side, so I just kept my mouth shut.
For the next few days, we acted as if we were not together.
There was no conversation, but his father steadfastly led the way and Seojun was alert to his surroundings.
“Tsk, he’s a good guy. Except that he’s a violent, bragging guy. Well, that’s the nature of what a man should naturally have. Absoluteness! You can never give me my daughter! Never against a guy like that!”
This was what Seojun’s father said while eating rabbit soup.
It seemed like his father recognized Nori’s feelings.
That’s inevitable – didn’t they say that coughing and love can’t be hidden?
Nori’s eyes were exactly like that.
While I was panting while climbing the rugged mountain path, I only looked at his back, and every time I took a bite of soup, I looked at his long eyelashes and lips as if I were picking up a side dish.
So even a fool had no choice but to notice.
Perhaps that’s why his father evaluated Seojun with a harsher gaze, and if he felt like something was wrong, he would nag him, telling him that that was the problem – and telling him to listen.
But I guess there were more advantages than disadvantages.
In places where the mountain slopes were rough, he took the lead to find a place to step, and if a bee or snake, etc., Seemed to approach, he immediately took out his knife and cut it out cleanly.
“Tsk… Still, he is a man who will protect his woman very well.”
That was the first compliment his father gave.
No matter how many criticisms I said, Nori’s eyes wouldn’t change, so I ended up thinking about my strengths.
‘Dad, then what if we get married? What kind of wife will I be? What kind of groom will he be? What about our wedding? I think it would be good to have two sons and one daughter. What do you think, Dad?’
Such a question lingered on the corner of his mouth, but it felt like he was carelessly stepping on ground that had not yet solidified – Nori barely held it back.
However, unbeknownst to the father, the relationship between the two was progressing very little by little.
“Oh my god, look at that ridge over there, Nori. “Isn’t the sunset gorgeous?”
“There was a bug on my head. Come here. “I’ll take it off.”
“It’s a little hot, isn’t it? Don’t you want to get some air for a moment? “You know the early morning breeze is quite cool.”
Seojun came close to me throughout the curved mountain road, and Nori couldn’t push him away.
There was no reason for that.
I got sentimental while watching the sunset along the ridge he pointed to, I held my pounding heart while he removed bugs, and every time he asked me to go for a walk, I had to pull down the corners of my mouth to hide the fact that I had been waiting for just that moment. I did it.
And when, from a distant place, he turns to look at her, a shadow falls over her face as she approaches him, and she gradually tilts her head…
Nori just crossed her hands like a girl and stuck out her lips.
Until he had tasted her enough and was satisfied – she would stand still, and when he fell again, she would let out a sigh of relief and give a wistful look in her eyes.
“Would you like me to suck it?”
Whenever he goes out for a walk, he always asks for something.
Nori had no reason to refuse, so he just nodded his head.
I liked it when his breathing became rough like hers, I liked it when he grabbed her hair mercilessly, and at the last moment, I liked it when he pushed the infinitely larger object all the way down her throat – spitting out a lot of it, hot and sticky.
And the moment when he kissed her on the forehead and said thank you after finishing his errand, it was perhaps the most ecstatic moment in her life.
Nori wanted this journey to last for days and days and never end. It was tiring but sweet, tiring but dreamlike.
I also thought that one day I might be able to put an end to this lukewarm relationship.
I was tired of lying down every night, secretly touching my crotch and letting out suppressed moans in fear of being caught by my father who was lying next to me.
I wanted to fall into his arms.
I wanted to kiss his red, sweaty body here and there, tell him I love him, and hear him say I love him.
I hoped that the words he often said to his mother, “I love you,” Would have those profound gazes focused solely on him.
But every book has a last page…
“···Oh my god!”
“Sseup-, the ground has completely collapsed.”
In turn, it was Andalote’s scream, and then father Tormund’s lament.
Traces of a landslide can be seen down the steep mountain slope.
Stones, rocks, dirt and gravel reveal their yellow interior, and broken tree trunks and fine roots are visible.
And the corpses…
It looked like tunnel rats that had been crushed to death by mud with their long tongues sticking out.
Seojun, looking down at that, was speechless.
“···Surely, they’re all dead?”
When Nori couldn’t bear it and asked, her father shrugged her shoulders.
“I don’t know. You’ll have to go downstairs to find out, but those rats are the ones who immediately run away if they think there’s even the slightest danger. But is he dead? Well, then, the other races should be considered guilty.”
Tormund seemed to have already come to that conclusion.
The person who moved faster than anyone else at those words was Seojun, not anyone else.
He slid down the slope in a month, and his mother and Nori hurriedly followed behind him.
“Oh, he died anyway…!”
Tormund’s voice echoed across the mountain ridge behind him.
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The world is surprisingly full of unexpectedness.
A lawyer from a successful law firm is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and a gambling addict wins first place in the lottery.
It is said that only successful people get rewarded for living hard, but there are many people who do not.
Most of the population who do business fail.
Even if you estimate 80% of the business goes bankrupt every year, a coffee shop opens every year, and a meat restaurant opens in its place, and then a chicken restaurant opens again.
The world does not help them even if they work hard.
Just because they live roughly doesn’t mean the world doesn’t help them.
That’s what the world is like. That’s what life is like.
It was the same here in the Middle Ages and in this damn third-rate novel.
Pant-
Seojun was digging out dirt because his eyes were wide open.
He held the sheath upside down like a shovel and scattered handfuls or two of dirt in all directions as if he was rowing an oar.
Is Ian dead?
If he’s dead, this episode ends here.
Even if you earn a few thousand coins by eating Andalote, it’s still nothing.
The coins you have earned so far will disappear, and the body you have trained day and night and the energy and energy you have expanded will be gone.
Behind him, Andalote is looking at his back with sad eyes, as well as Ian, Monica, Margery, Meryl, Carina, Vivian…
The relationships, memories, and narratives with them all disappear like a dream.
However, Seojun no longer attached any meaning to it.
If that were the case, he would have gone crazy by now.
Is there anything more foolish than hanging yourself in a meaningless relationship?
The only thing that was a waste was the effort and time it took.
“Sssss”
Seojun was screaming and repeatedly digging out some soil-.
Suddenly, the floor was deeply caved in.
At the same time, his body went down, and Seojun fell and rolled in the dark.
“Seo, Seojun…!”
“It’s okay!”
Women’s screams and worried voices could be heard from above, but Seojun had no power to pay attention to them.
The corpse of a tunnel rat that was crushed to death is stepped on.
I brushed back the hair that was blocking my vision and stood up, spreading my energy.
Ian’s energy was not felt among the corpses.
Instead, the insidious and sticky energy of Majong is felt somewhere.
Seojun threw the half-broken scabbard to the side and slowly headed towards there with his sword drawn.
“···Cough! In the end, is it you? Hehe…”
There was a being crushed by a huge rock, with only the upper body remaining.
“Seojun!”
The three men and women who belatedly followed him down to the cave approached him and faced the being there together.
“···Andalote. Cluck! My···. My one and only friend…”
“···Roach.”
It was a cockroach.
