Estio Book 5
- Episode 14
Parker hurriedly climbed into the crab, as if he had delayed any longer, the entire top would have been bound by them.
"Ugh! It's easier than I thought!"
It didn't seem easy to others to flap its wings, but it seemed that Parker had a rough grasp of how to ride a crab anyway.
Neju, who is at the opposite end of the desert, chose not to walk on her own this time, but to use desert crabs. She luckily had a crab that could withstand the weight of Neju. It was the desert crab. Its movement is relatively slow compared to other crabs, but it was so large and strong that it was helpful when loading large quantities of things.
There was one man who was still struggling with everyone getting on the crab.
"Leader? What are you doing?"
It was Estio.
Parker, riding a green hairy crab, pounded his head out of the saddle. As advised by the merchant that it was similar to riding a horse, Parker was now somewhat familiar with how to fly a crab.
After everyone was ready for departure, they slowly began to enter the desert, but only Estio was left with desert blue crabs and lumps.
"Oh, come to think of it, he said he never learned to ride a horse."
Having said that, Parker turned his head and looked at the large desert snow crab Neju was riding. As a white-haired monkey was sitting on a large crab, it felt like a siege weapon.
"Neju-sama must be the first, but it rides very well."
"〨."
When Neju heard the compliment, she happily exposed her fangs. Parker, who had almost been deprived of his gaze by his shiny white fangs, turned his head back to Estio.
"Leader, please sit on the saddle first. You can step on the crab legs and climb up. Can I help you?"
"No, that's fine."
"Four? But."
"I'll go up on my own."
Contrary to what he said resolutely, Estio could not take his foot off easily. There was enough footing to climb on. The crab had ten legs. However, the feet that were supposed to step on the crab legs kept wandering in the air.
Seeing that, Parker muttered involuntarily.
"You must be scared..."
twitch.
Parker looked. He saw the shoulders of his superiors shaking slightly.
"......"
"Ah, hahaha. It can be! Umm, actually, I was a little scared too."
"......"
"That's right, leader-sama is blindfolded! If you can't see, you're just startled by the sound of a pot? It's okay, Nene!"
He was a caring team member who cared about being embarrassed by others, but from the perspective of Estio, who listened to it, it became even more embarrassing. I'm about to shake his head no, but Parker hastily said it first.
"Would you rather ride with Neju-sama? The desert snow crabs are large, so they are meant to be used in groups."
Neju, hearing Parker's suggestion, made a sound of sympathy. Estio was in a dilemma of whether it really should be so.
"do not go."
At that time, the desert blue crab, who had her eyes widened, suddenly pulled out a claw that had been embedded in the sand.
Curl!
Stormwater sand poured down with a threatening sound. Mubin, who was surprised, almost drew his sword, but fortunately, the desert crab lifted the tongs, not for a bad purpose.
Rather, it was the opposite.
"Okay, you. Tara, me."
The whispering voice echoed in my head again. The bright red claws held Estio without pain. And he lowered it on the saddle when spraying.
Estio sat in the saddle feeling a little startled. The posture on the desert crab was more stable than expected. At this rate, he thought that he would be able to cross the desert on a crab without difficulty.
gurgle.
But this time, the desert crab picked up the other tongs. A small child who ran to the tongs and landed in front of Estio.
Estio, feeling the sparkling energy, called out the child's name.
"Alzeniv?"
"Poco is my blue crab."
Estio unexpectedly learned the name of the desert blue crab. The purple-haired girl in the front seat continued, holding the reins in her hand instead.
"But it's the first time I've ever seen Poco ride a person first. I've only been able to ride people with claws since I was a kid."
The girl, now only seven years old, was still young. Poko, a desert blue crab born the same year as her, was a gift from Upper State Russell for her newborn Algerianb.
"Uncle Russell says everyone likes Poco because they are human-friendly, but I know he doesn't, because his eyes are so small when he rides people he doesn't like."
The red crab blinked its round eyes. Its eyes were protruding confidently as it lengthened and shortened like a snail's antennae. It meant that Estio and Alzeniv are in a very comfortable state now.
"My brother can't see, so I'll drive."
"......thank you."
It was the consideration of this little kid that only Estio, who was wearing an eye patch, had to ride on Poco. Alzeniv smiled bitterly and swung the reins.
"Then I'll go. It'll be a little shaky, so hold on tight!"
'Shake?'
Everyone in the party, who had been gathering on a crab, had a puzzled expression on their faces.
...It didn't take long for them to realize that the vibrations caused by desert crabs running were not 'little'.
* * *
The upper part of Porima, which entered the desert in the morning, stopped only when the sun went down and the sky began to darken. The desert crab, which was crawling slowly on the gravel road, changed suddenly as soon as it entered the shiny sandy desert. It lifted its large claws and started running like a charging buffalo using the other eight legs.
Unlike the dull nature, the top was able to travel a considerable distance in half a day thanks to the speedy desert crab running on the sand.
"I really don't like motion sickness... Ugh."
Parker, who had suffered from portal motion sickness for a long time the other day, could not adapt to the shocking eight-legged run of the desert crab and caused motion sickness again. As they stumbled down from the hairy crabs like sick pigeons, the Joiners were toppled over on the desert sand.
Neju sat down, drooping like a corpse, and stabbed him.
"Are you okay?"
"No... Every time the hairy crab jumped, it felt like my stomach was beating as well."
It was so hard that I lost all my gin, but it was fortunate that I didn't even vomit.
Parker turned over like a dying caterpillar. As I wiped the sweat from my forehead, I could see the sunset sky.
"There are clouds in the desert sky."
"What? It's pretty! It's a golden cloud."
Neju looked up at the desert sky together. Over the open blue sky, the evening sunset only permeated the clouds, creating a strange golden color. It is said that it rains in the desert, so of course there are clouds, but Parker felt somehow mysterious and lay there for a long time.
In the meantime, the merchants moved diligently, building tents and lighting fires everywhere.
"You say you've never ridden a horse, so you're really good at riding desert crabs."
Sang Sang-ju Russell was amazed when he saw Estio coming down from the desert crab. Foreigners, especially those who have never ridden a horse, are afraid to climb on top of a large desert crab, so getting acquainted with a desert crab is often a big gateway.
However, in the case of S.T.O, Poco, the desert crab, showed interest first.
"Poco is completely obsessed with this oppa. I ran with great care to keep it from swaying. Right?"
gurgling.
Even after dropping Estio down, the red crab looked only at him. It was a sight that seemed to have fallen in love with such a desperate and passionate gaze. He could feel he was following Estio better than the Algieniv, whom he had grown up with since childhood.
Young Alzeniv did not feel sorry for Poko like that. In fact, Alzeniv was also very interested in Estio. He has been following his uncle since he was a toddler, seeing and experiencing many areas. Although he lived for a few years, the number of people he met was by no means small.
The girl has never seen a non-star like Estio as she has passed so many people.
"Poco? Huh, that's a strange thing."
"Haha! Alzeniv, if we had received that kind of consideration from the desert crabs, we might have had fewer calluses on our buttocks!"
The members of Porima, who loved Alzeniv, passed by throwing their poles. The merchants' interest quickly led to the preparation of a delicious dinner to appease the forced march.
"Come on, join the group. Come on, let's start preparing dinner together."
"Yeah! Wake up!"
The basis of the camp was to make a fire. While Moo-bin laid down the fire and made a fire, Parker barely came to his senses and started cleaning up the ingredients.
It was Parker's job to take care of the team's meals. Yeon-yeon-rang suddenly disappeared, saying that he would scout the surroundings, and Estio was left in a corner with Neju holding a cactus in his arms.
Alzeniv, who was standing next to Odokani, suddenly pulled his sleeve tight.
"I have a question."
"?"
The purple-haired girl even raised her feet and whispered in the lowest voice possible.
"Isn't your brother actually human?"
Estio was speechless for a moment. Although I did not understand why the child was so sure, there were neither affirmations nor denials because what he said was true.
'...It's not like they're different from other races.'
The truth about his birth was still grim. Through the memories of her adoptive parents, she saw clearly that she had been born from an egg, but she still didn't realize it. What sets him apart from others is his monster-like abilities.
However, this little boy I met today for the first time was convinced that he was not a human, even though he had never read his mind. Estio couldn't figure out what made him look different from humans.
Alzeniv, who thought he was bewildered, hurriedly added his thoughts.
"I knew it from the first time I saw it, because only you have no stars."
At this point, Estio could not stand still.
"What do you mean there are no stars?"
"Everyone has their own star. Some say it's fate, but it's not really that fixed. It's just, uh-huh. It's like a sign that shows how that person lived."
Because Alzeniv was born as a 'star contractor', he has matured mentally among children his age. The truth revealed by her starlight brought bright eyes to the young child with high verbal intelligence.
"For a star, the light brightens or darkens depending on the person's heart. It is round, and it can be chamfered or bumpy when struck. And it also foretells the danger to come."
"Reading it is astrology."
"Yeah, that's right! But it's the first time I've seen a case without a star like my brother."
Estio Book 5
- Episode 14
Parker hurriedly climbed into the crab, as if he had delayed any longer, the entire top would have been bound by them.
"Ugh! It's easier than I thought!"
It didn't seem easy to others to flap its wings, but it seemed that Parker had a rough grasp of how to ride a crab anyway.
Neju, who is at the opposite end of the desert, chose not to walk on her own this time, but to use desert crabs. She luckily had a crab that could withstand the weight of Neju. It was the desert crab. Its movement is relatively slow compared to other crabs, but it was so large and strong that it was helpful when loading large quantities of things.
There was one man who was still struggling with everyone getting on the crab.
"Leader? What are you doing?"
It was Estio.
Parker, riding a green hairy crab, pounded his head out of the saddle. As advised by the merchant that it was similar to riding a horse, Parker was now somewhat familiar with how to fly a crab.
After everyone was ready for departure, they slowly began to enter the desert, but only Estio was left with desert blue crabs and lumps.
"Oh, come to think of it, he said he never learned to ride a horse."
Having said that, Parker turned his head and looked at the large desert snow crab Neju was riding. As a white-haired monkey was sitting on a large crab, it felt like a siege weapon.
"Neju-sama must be the first, but it rides very well."
"〨."
When Neju heard the compliment, she happily exposed her fangs. Parker, who had almost been deprived of his gaze by his shiny white fangs, turned his head back to Estio.
"Leader, please sit on the saddle first. You can step on the crab legs and climb up. Can I help you?"
"No, that's fine."
"Four? But."
"I'll go up on my own."
Contrary to what he said resolutely, Estio could not take his foot off easily. There was enough footing to climb on. The crab had ten legs. However, the feet that were supposed to step on the crab legs kept wandering in the air.
Seeing that, Parker muttered involuntarily.
"You must be scared..."
twitch.
Parker looked. He saw the shoulders of his superiors shaking slightly.
"......"
"Ah, hahaha. It can be! Umm, actually, I was a little scared too."
"......"
"That's right, leader-sama is blindfolded! If you can't see, you're just startled by the sound of a pot? It's okay, Nene!"
He was a caring team member who cared about being embarrassed by others, but from the perspective of Estio, who listened to it, it became even more embarrassing. I'm about to shake his head no, but Parker hastily said it first.
"Would you rather ride with Neju-sama? The desert snow crabs are large, so they are meant to be used in groups."
Neju, hearing Parker's suggestion, made a sound of sympathy. Estio was in a dilemma of whether it really should be so.
"do not go."
At that time, the desert blue crab, who had her eyes widened, suddenly pulled out a claw that had been embedded in the sand.
Curl!
Stormwater sand poured down with a threatening sound. Mubin, who was surprised, almost drew his sword, but fortunately, the desert crab lifted the tongs, not for a bad purpose.
Rather, it was the opposite.
"Okay, you. Tara, me."
The whispering voice echoed in my head again. The bright red claws held Estio without pain. And he lowered it on the saddle when spraying.
Estio sat in the saddle feeling a little startled. The posture on the desert crab was more stable than expected. At this rate, he thought that he would be able to cross the desert on a crab without difficulty.
gurgle.
But this time, the desert crab picked up the other tongs. A small child who ran to the tongs and landed in front of Estio.
Estio, feeling the sparkling energy, called out the child's name.
"Alzeniv?"
"Poco is my blue crab."
Estio unexpectedly learned the name of the desert blue crab. The purple-haired girl in the front seat continued, holding the reins in her hand instead.
"But it's the first time I've ever seen Poco ride a person first. I've only been able to ride people with claws since I was a kid."
The girl, now only seven years old, was still young. Poko, a desert blue crab born the same year as her, was a gift from Upper State Russell for her newborn Algerianb.
"Uncle Russell says everyone likes Poco because they are human-friendly, but I know he doesn't, because his eyes are so small when he rides people he doesn't like."
The red crab blinked its round eyes. Its eyes were protruding confidently as it lengthened and shortened like a snail's antennae. It meant that Estio and Alzeniv are in a very comfortable state now.
"My brother can't see, so I'll drive."
"......thank you."
It was the consideration of this little kid that only Estio, who was wearing an eye patch, had to ride on Poco. Alzeniv smiled bitterly and swung the reins.
"Then I'll go. It'll be a little shaky, so hold on tight!"
'Shake?'
Everyone in the party, who had been gathering on a crab, had a puzzled expression on their faces.
...It didn't take long for them to realize that the vibrations caused by desert crabs running were not 'little'.
* * *
The upper part of Porima, which entered the desert in the morning, stopped only when the sun went down and the sky began to darken. The desert crab, which was crawling slowly on the gravel road, changed suddenly as soon as it entered the shiny sandy desert. It lifted its large claws and started running like a charging buffalo using the other eight legs.
Unlike the dull nature, the top was able to travel a considerable distance in half a day thanks to the speedy desert crab running on the sand.
"I really don't like motion sickness... Ugh."
Parker, who had suffered from portal motion sickness for a long time the other day, could not adapt to the shocking eight-legged run of the desert crab and caused motion sickness again. As they stumbled down from the hairy crabs like sick pigeons, the Joiners were toppled over on the desert sand.
Neju sat down, drooping like a corpse, and stabbed him.
"Are you okay?"
"No... Every time the hairy crab jumped, it felt like my stomach was beating as well."
It was so hard that I lost all my gin, but it was fortunate that I didn't even vomit.
Parker turned over like a dying caterpillar. As I wiped the sweat from my forehead, I could see the sunset sky.
"There are clouds in the desert sky."
"What? It's pretty! It's a golden cloud."
Neju looked up at the desert sky together. Over the open blue sky, the evening sunset only permeated the clouds, creating a strange golden color. It is said that it rains in the desert, so of course there are clouds, but Parker felt somehow mysterious and lay there for a long time.
In the meantime, the merchants moved diligently, building tents and lighting fires everywhere.
"You say you've never ridden a horse, so you're really good at riding desert crabs."
Sang Sang-ju Russell was amazed when he saw Estio coming down from the desert crab. Foreigners, especially those who have never ridden a horse, are afraid to climb on top of a large desert crab, so getting acquainted with a desert crab is often a big gateway.
However, in the case of S.T.O, Poco, the desert crab, showed interest first.
"Poco is completely obsessed with this oppa. I ran with great care to keep it from swaying. Right?"
gurgling.
Even after dropping Estio down, the red crab looked only at him. It was a sight that seemed to have fallen in love with such a desperate and passionate gaze. He could feel he was following Estio better than the Algieniv, whom he had grown up with since childhood.
Young Alzeniv did not feel sorry for Poko like that. In fact, Alzeniv was also very interested in Estio. He has been following his uncle since he was a toddler, seeing and experiencing many areas. Although he lived for a few years, the number of people he met was by no means small.
The girl has never seen a non-star like Estio as she has passed so many people.
"Poco? Huh, that's a strange thing."
"Haha! Alzeniv, if we had received that kind of consideration from the desert crabs, we might have had fewer calluses on our buttocks!"
The members of Porima, who loved Alzeniv, passed by throwing their poles. The merchants' interest quickly led to the preparation of a delicious dinner to appease the forced march.
"Come on, join the group. Come on, let's start preparing dinner together."
"Yeah! Wake up!"
The basis of the camp was to make a fire. While Moo-bin laid down the fire and made a fire, Parker barely came to his senses and started cleaning up the ingredients.
It was Parker's job to take care of the team's meals. Yeon-yeon-rang suddenly disappeared, saying that he would scout the surroundings, and Estio was left in a corner with Neju holding a cactus in his arms.
Alzeniv, who was standing next to Odokani, suddenly pulled his sleeve tight.
"I have a question."
"?"
The purple-haired girl even raised her feet and whispered in the lowest voice possible.
"Isn't your brother actually human?"
Estio was speechless for a moment. Although I did not understand why the child was so sure, there were neither affirmations nor denials because what he said was true.
'...It's not like they're different from other races.'
The truth about his birth was still grim. Through the memories of her adoptive parents, she saw clearly that she had been born from an egg, but she still didn't realize it. What sets him apart from others is his monster-like abilities.
However, this little boy I met today for the first time was convinced that he was not a human, even though he had never read his mind. Estio couldn't figure out what made him look different from humans.
Alzeniv, who thought he was bewildered, hurriedly added his thoughts.
"I knew it from the first time I saw it, because only you have no stars."
At this point, Estio could not stand still.
"What do you mean there are no stars?"
"Everyone has their own star. Some say it's fate, but it's not really that fixed. It's just, uh-huh. It's like a sign that shows how that person lived."
Because Alzeniv was born as a 'star contractor', he has matured mentally among children his age. The truth revealed by her starlight brought bright eyes to the young child with high verbal intelligence.
"For a star, the light brightens or darkens depending on the person's heart. It is round, and it can be chamfered or bumpy when struck. And it also foretells the danger to come."
"Reading it is astrology."
"Yeah, that's right! But it's the first time I've seen a case without a star like my brother."
