134
Estio Volume 6
- Episode 7
The guild took some insect corpses that Estio brought as evidence and sand collected from the temple for research purposes. As a result, it was revealed that the existence and efficacy of the curse magic on the insect was true, but from the beginning, the lord Galvin did not doubt whether Estio's report was real or not. The lord thought that the Turke Desert was greatly favored by the Ignis Guild, and he held a festival by slaughtering precious sheep and pigs in the desert along the way.
The temple said that the restoration work would be done by gathering the priests who had been scattered again, and within the Turke tribe itself, the warriors gathered voluntarily to try to subdue the monsters that were still in the wild. More confirmation was still needed, but soon merchants would be able to travel with peace of mind, and the Turke Desert would be more prosperous.
The naive Turke tribesmen fully acknowledged that the Ignis guild leader had all the credit. Estio was almost a hero at Turke.
"Anyway, this trip has been completely successful."
"Yes?"
"Hehehe. A vacation, a vacation."
Parker chewed the cookie in his hand and suddenly spoke.
"Leader, have you been uncomfortable all the time because of the tie or neturu alcohol? I'm glad I don't have to wear an eye patch anymore."
"Nectar liquor. It's not a long name, but let's remember it properly, friend."
Mubin, who was sitting on a chair sharpening his sword, intervened and corrected the mistake. Then she glanced at Estio and opened her mouth again.
"Are you completely in control of your abilities now?"
"Yeah, at least you won't be influencing others unintentionally."
Estio nodded, but a point of concern remained, and he gently clasped and opened his gloved hand. Surely his control has returned. Even if he did not wear an eye patch in the future, he could be sure that his power would not run wild or his inner thoughts would be heard at random.
But he still couldn't say that he could use all his powers. Estio didn't know too much about the powers of the dragon race, and he had inexperienced controls. He was worried that if he met Shuhanan on the day of Holy Baptism, he would be able to discuss the matter.
And there was one more thing to worry about.
"Is Lang-nim still the same?"
"Yeah. I haven't been able to open my eyes since yesterday. What's the problem?"
Estio and his party stayed in Turke until the day after the festival was over. Now that the mirror is in place and the bluesand has been fixed, we have to go back to HQ, but we have a problem.
"If it's like that, you won't be able to go through the portal."
Mubin took the sword he had been grooming again and turned his half-worried and half-annoyed gaze to the bed behind him. There, a girl covered in scars was lying quietly with her eyes closed.
Yeonjunang, who followed him as a combat personnel, was still unable to wake up.
Chapter 22 In a dream
Two more days have passed since Estio's party went to the desert temple.
Yeon-yeon-rang still couldn't wake up. At first, they were in a state of sleep that was long enough to be embarrassing to the party, who had been watching peacefully, wondering if it was just a side effect.
In the end, Estio directly contacted her dream and said that he would bring Yeon Yeon-rang with him.
"No, Leader, you're going into a sleeping person's dream this time?"
"Yes."
Parker, who was surprised anew, grunted, and pointed his forehead. Even though I heard, saw, and experienced by my side every time, Estio's ability was still unknown. Parker, who was one beat late, asked again.
"Then... you're saying that the leader can go into a dream and wake up Rang himself, right?"
"You have to do it to know. It's different for each person."
"Have you done this before?"
"A little when I was young."
Estio answered with a calm face. I mean, I did, but it was not a pleasant memory because I remembered the story of my childhood. At first he did not realize that he had entered someone else's dream while he was sleeping. Even when he knew he had broken in, Estio didn't want to. After all, a dream is just a dream, and Estio didn't want to go into someone else's dream.
It was after I had been stoned by a neighbor's child whom I had been playing with until the day before that I realized that it was a problem. Along with intense anger on the child's face, there were emotions that Estio, who was young at the time, could not understand.
It was a 'feeling of betrayal'.
"Normal people don't want to show their dreams. They're more likely to show rejection when I step into them."
"Rejection?"
"Of course not. Huh."
Mubin, who was leaning by the window, yawned droopy and lifted his fingers.
"Neither you or me, we can't choose the content of our dreams that day when we sleep. If we only showed the scenes we wanted to see, the word nightmare wouldn't have been born."
"Umm, he is like that. After all, it is said that dreams are the world of the unconscious."
"That's right. If someone wants to show their unconsciousness to others, that would be crazy."
Mubin, who had spoken up to that point, paused. And he added one word as if he were just a little excuse.
"Ah, of course, if Estio-sama wants to see it, you are always welcome."
"...I have no intention of taking a look."
Estio was overtly burdened with Moobin, who somehow ended up calling himself a crazy person. Seeing them, Parker shed a cold sweat and turned his gaze to Yeon-yeon-rang again.
"It probably depends on what kind of dream Rang is dreaming of."
I tried not to use this method as much as possible, but I couldn't wait any longer. He couldn't even eat or drink water, let alone being able to climb the portal while sleeping. If Yeon Yeon-rang, who could not wake up from her dream voluntarily, was left as it is, it could lead to a serious situation.
"But do I have to wake up?"
"Ahur."
The cactus, which jutted out of the bedside, slipped into the midst of the people who were seriously discussing it.
"Can't I just leave it alone until I wake up on my own? I hate him."
No, Ahur hated Yeon-yeon-rang very much. She wasn't just dislike, she was close to hate.
Ahur, who originally had a rough personality, was not very kind to everyone except Estio. From the beginning, Ahur opened his heart and only dealt with Tsuki and Neju, who had a warm heart. He got along a lot with Parker, who was a joiner, and made fun of him, and although he was a bit grumpy with Moobin, he was pretty good at it.
However, such Ahur did not recognize him as a colleague as much as Yeon-yeon-rang. After Estio accepted her Yeon-yeon Lang as her teammate, Ahur did not speak to her at all.
"He's a kid with an irrational thought that it's okay to kill everyone except humans. How many animals did he kill before us?"
Ahur took this opportunity to express his accumulated complaints.
"Anyway, the smell of blood from her usually makes my nose feel paralyzed!"
"Lee Yeol. Our cactus-san, do you have a nose as well as a plant?"
"You can smell it with your heart's nose."
In the end, it was like saying no, but Moobin giggled and acknowledged it.
"Even if I had woken up anyway, I would have almost done it again. Wouldn't that be better? Like this forever...」
"Ahur, stop."
"Woo-san, Estio is the only one who says something."
The cactus, restrained by Estio, bent its thorns and muttered. Estio sighed and took the cactus flowerpot.
"It's not a tree. I have the same thoughts as you."
He also hated Yeon-yeon. He was still accepted as a member of the team. As Ahur said, the smell of the blood of animals that had died at the hands of Yeon-yeon was never forgotten, even as time passed.
"Even if you help me, it won't change Rang. But."
"but?"
"This is my responsibility."
Estio felt a strong sense of responsibility for Yeon Yeon-rang, who fell into a deep sleep because of the ability he could not control.
It's not because I don't like acting. She just didn't want to turn away from someone who had been trapped in an unwanted dream because of her. No matter how many sins the opponent committed, it was violence wielded by a powerful person.
Hearing that, the cactus became angry and stopped being annoyed and murmured.
"Awesome, you have a really weak heart."
Nyaan.
Tsuki, who was watching from the high furniture, let out a long cry as if he knew it now. Tsuki jumped off the top of it and walked to the bed of Yeon-yeon-rang's sleeping pillow.
"Come with me, Estio."
Tsuki is a black cat that is considered to be divine, so whenever Estio broke into another dream, he would often follow him. Whether Estio wanted it or not, he did it strangely. After he died in the cold snow, Tsuki followed Estio like a shadow wherever he went. Even if it was a dream, it followed me.
It wasn't a cat that curled up anyway, so Estio was accustomed to keeping Tsuki by his side. Dreamers were also sensitive to strangers, but cats tended to be a little less wary, which was helpful.
"Neju, do you need any help?"
Estio didn't want to disappoint the young white fur monkey, who was trying to be of some help, so Estio managed to find something to do and make it.
"...Then, will you protect the surroundings in the meantime?"
"Leave it to me!"
The Turke tribe village, where the curse of the Yellow Dragon had been lifted, was now safe. In addition, there was also the imperial first swordsman, so there was no way he could ever touch them. So Estio didn't worry about what might happen while he was away.
Although he did not have to express it in words, Moobin also bowed his head and expressed his will to fulfill his role.
Estio, who had obtained all consent from the party, placed one hand on the forehead of Yeon Yeon-rang, who had lost consciousness.
The preparation was over.
woo woo
A black mist, now familiar to him, spread softly from under his hand. The mist, which stretched out like a vine, eventually enveloped Estio, and at one point swallowed him up like a black monster.
Hook, Estio disappeared like a candle. Tsuki, who was on his shoulder, also disappeared. Only Yeon Yeon-rang, lying motionless like a corpse, remained on the bed.
Then Parker looked around the empty seat in admiration.
"It's amazing every time I see it. Is there no limit to Estio-sama's abilities?"
"Well. There must be limits yet."
"Yes....Yes? Yet?"
"Yes. My master is still young."
Even in human age, nineteen was an incomplete age that had just entered the class of an adult. If we count the age of the dragon clan, it is no different than a newborn baby. Mubin was very aware of that fact.
So, Estio will gradually change as time goes by.
'You will gradually change into your natural form rather than a human.'
Even now, he was slowly but slowly finding his identity as a dragon.
It was natural, and it had to be.
134
Estio Volume 6
- Episode 7
The guild took some insect corpses that Estio brought as evidence and sand collected from the temple for research purposes. As a result, it was revealed that the existence and efficacy of the curse magic on the insect was true, but from the beginning, the lord Galvin did not doubt whether Estio's report was real or not. The lord thought that the Turke Desert was greatly favored by the Ignis Guild, and he held a festival by slaughtering precious sheep and pigs in the desert along the way.
The temple said that the restoration work would be done by gathering the priests who had been scattered again, and within the Turke tribe itself, the warriors gathered voluntarily to try to subdue the monsters that were still in the wild. More confirmation was still needed, but soon merchants would be able to travel with peace of mind, and the Turke Desert would be more prosperous.
The naive Turke tribesmen fully acknowledged that the Ignis guild leader had all the credit. Estio was almost a hero at Turke.
"Anyway, this trip has been completely successful."
"Yes?"
"Hehehe. A vacation, a vacation."
Parker chewed the cookie in his hand and suddenly spoke.
"Leader, have you been uncomfortable all the time because of the tie or neturu alcohol? I'm glad I don't have to wear an eye patch anymore."
"Nectar liquor. It's not a long name, but let's remember it properly, friend."
Mubin, who was sitting on a chair sharpening his sword, intervened and corrected the mistake. Then she glanced at Estio and opened her mouth again.
"Are you completely in control of your abilities now?"
"Yeah, at least you won't be influencing others unintentionally."
Estio nodded, but a point of concern remained, and he gently clasped and opened his gloved hand. Surely his control has returned. Even if he did not wear an eye patch in the future, he could be sure that his power would not run wild or his inner thoughts would be heard at random.
But he still couldn't say that he could use all his powers. Estio didn't know too much about the powers of the dragon race, and he had inexperienced controls. He was worried that if he met Shuhanan on the day of Holy Baptism, he would be able to discuss the matter.
And there was one more thing to worry about.
"Is Lang-nim still the same?"
"Yeah. I haven't been able to open my eyes since yesterday. What's the problem?"
Estio and his party stayed in Turke until the day after the festival was over. Now that the mirror is in place and the bluesand has been fixed, we have to go back to HQ, but we have a problem.
"If it's like that, you won't be able to go through the portal."
Mubin took the sword he had been grooming again and turned his half-worried and half-annoyed gaze to the bed behind him. There, a girl covered in scars was lying quietly with her eyes closed.
Yeonjunang, who followed him as a combat personnel, was still unable to wake up.
Chapter 22 In a dream
Two more days have passed since Estio's party went to the desert temple.
Yeon-yeon-rang still couldn't wake up. At first, they were in a state of sleep that was long enough to be embarrassing to the party, who had been watching peacefully, wondering if it was just a side effect.
In the end, Estio directly contacted her dream and said that he would bring Yeon Yeon-rang with him.
"No, Leader, you're going into a sleeping person's dream this time?"
"Yes."
Parker, who was surprised anew, grunted, and pointed his forehead. Even though I heard, saw, and experienced by my side every time, Estio's ability was still unknown. Parker, who was one beat late, asked again.
"Then... you're saying that the leader can go into a dream and wake up Rang himself, right?"
"You have to do it to know. It's different for each person."
"Have you done this before?"
"A little when I was young."
Estio answered with a calm face. I mean, I did, but it was not a pleasant memory because I remembered the story of my childhood. At first he did not realize that he had entered someone else's dream while he was sleeping. Even when he knew he had broken in, Estio didn't want to. After all, a dream is just a dream, and Estio didn't want to go into someone else's dream.
It was after I had been stoned by a neighbor's child whom I had been playing with until the day before that I realized that it was a problem. Along with intense anger on the child's face, there were emotions that Estio, who was young at the time, could not understand.
It was a 'feeling of betrayal'.
"Normal people don't want to show their dreams. They're more likely to show rejection when I step into them."
"Rejection?"
"Of course not. Huh."
Mubin, who was leaning by the window, yawned droopy and lifted his fingers.
"Neither you or me, we can't choose the content of our dreams that day when we sleep. If we only showed the scenes we wanted to see, the word nightmare wouldn't have been born."
"Umm, he is like that. After all, it is said that dreams are the world of the unconscious."
"That's right. If someone wants to show their unconsciousness to others, that would be crazy."
Mubin, who had spoken up to that point, paused. And he added one word as if he were just a little excuse.
"Ah, of course, if Estio-sama wants to see it, you are always welcome."
"...I have no intention of taking a look."
Estio was overtly burdened with Moobin, who somehow ended up calling himself a crazy person. Seeing them, Parker shed a cold sweat and turned his gaze to Yeon-yeon-rang again.
"It probably depends on what kind of dream Rang is dreaming of."
I tried not to use this method as much as possible, but I couldn't wait any longer. He couldn't even eat or drink water, let alone being able to climb the portal while sleeping. If Yeon Yeon-rang, who could not wake up from her dream voluntarily, was left as it is, it could lead to a serious situation.
"But do I have to wake up?"
"Ahur."
The cactus, which jutted out of the bedside, slipped into the midst of the people who were seriously discussing it.
"Can't I just leave it alone until I wake up on my own? I hate him."
No, Ahur hated Yeon-yeon-rang very much. She wasn't just dislike, she was close to hate.
Ahur, who originally had a rough personality, was not very kind to everyone except Estio. From the beginning, Ahur opened his heart and only dealt with Tsuki and Neju, who had a warm heart. He got along a lot with Parker, who was a joiner, and made fun of him, and although he was a bit grumpy with Moobin, he was pretty good at it.
However, such Ahur did not recognize him as a colleague as much as Yeon-yeon-rang. After Estio accepted her Yeon-yeon Lang as her teammate, Ahur did not speak to her at all.
"He's a kid with an irrational thought that it's okay to kill everyone except humans. How many animals did he kill before us?"
Ahur took this opportunity to express his accumulated complaints.
"Anyway, the smell of blood from her usually makes my nose feel paralyzed!"
"Lee Yeol. Our cactus-san, do you have a nose as well as a plant?"
"You can smell it with your heart's nose."
In the end, it was like saying no, but Moobin giggled and acknowledged it.
"Even if I had woken up anyway, I would have almost done it again. Wouldn't that be better? Like this forever...」
"Ahur, stop."
"Woo-san, Estio is the only one who says something."
The cactus, restrained by Estio, bent its thorns and muttered. Estio sighed and took the cactus flowerpot.
"It's not a tree. I have the same thoughts as you."
He also hated Yeon-yeon. He was still accepted as a member of the team. As Ahur said, the smell of the blood of animals that had died at the hands of Yeon-yeon was never forgotten, even as time passed.
"Even if you help me, it won't change Rang. But."
"but?"
"This is my responsibility."
Estio felt a strong sense of responsibility for Yeon Yeon-rang, who fell into a deep sleep because of the ability he could not control.
It's not because I don't like acting. She just didn't want to turn away from someone who had been trapped in an unwanted dream because of her. No matter how many sins the opponent committed, it was violence wielded by a powerful person.
Hearing that, the cactus became angry and stopped being annoyed and murmured.
"Awesome, you have a really weak heart."
Nyaan.
Tsuki, who was watching from the high furniture, let out a long cry as if he knew it now. Tsuki jumped off the top of it and walked to the bed of Yeon-yeon-rang's sleeping pillow.
"Come with me, Estio."
Tsuki is a black cat that is considered to be divine, so whenever Estio broke into another dream, he would often follow him. Whether Estio wanted it or not, he did it strangely. After he died in the cold snow, Tsuki followed Estio like a shadow wherever he went. Even if it was a dream, it followed me.
It wasn't a cat that curled up anyway, so Estio was accustomed to keeping Tsuki by his side. Dreamers were also sensitive to strangers, but cats tended to be a little less wary, which was helpful.
"Neju, do you need any help?"
Estio didn't want to disappoint the young white fur monkey, who was trying to be of some help, so Estio managed to find something to do and make it.
"...Then, will you protect the surroundings in the meantime?"
"Leave it to me!"
The Turke tribe village, where the curse of the Yellow Dragon had been lifted, was now safe. In addition, there was also the imperial first swordsman, so there was no way he could ever touch them. So Estio didn't worry about what might happen while he was away.
Although he did not have to express it in words, Moobin also bowed his head and expressed his will to fulfill his role.
Estio, who had obtained all consent from the party, placed one hand on the forehead of Yeon Yeon-rang, who had lost consciousness.
The preparation was over.
woo woo
A black mist, now familiar to him, spread softly from under his hand. The mist, which stretched out like a vine, eventually enveloped Estio, and at one point swallowed him up like a black monster.
Hook, Estio disappeared like a candle. Tsuki, who was on his shoulder, also disappeared. Only Yeon Yeon-rang, lying motionless like a corpse, remained on the bed.
Then Parker looked around the empty seat in admiration.
"It's amazing every time I see it. Is there no limit to Estio-sama's abilities?"
"Well. There must be limits yet."
"Yes....Yes? Yet?"
"Yes. My master is still young."
Even in human age, nineteen was an incomplete age that had just entered the class of an adult. If we count the age of the dragon clan, it is no different than a newborn baby. Mubin was very aware of that fact.
So, Estio will gradually change as time goes by.
'You will gradually change into your natural form rather than a human.'
Even now, he was slowly but slowly finding his identity as a dragon.
It was natural, and it had to be.
