- Episode 16
"What!?"
To Korn, who had already pictured the happy family life of the two in their heads, it was like a clear-cut word. Kon jumped up from his seat and opened her eyes.
"Why! why! What is it that our Lydia lacks!"
"No, calm down, calm down. It's not that I don't like Lydia, it's that I just hate marriage."
When he said he didn't like Lydia, Korn calmed down a bit, but still asked with a ferocious voice.
"Why don't you like it?"
"I like life now."
Parker answered immediately.
"How is life now?"
"It's living while working for a guild in the city. It's a very honorable job. I can help people in need."
"Help others? Aren't you too busy then?"
"It's nice to be busy walking around, meeting new people, and earning money. Hehe. Besides, I don't want to miss this opportunity as a member of the leader's team."
Kon raised his eyes shaking in shock and looked back at Estio.
"Estio was a stumbling block to love!"
"Ik, I never loved in the first place, what are you talking about!"
When the arrow suddenly returned to Estio, Parker became terrified, and Korn began to scrutinize again, asking why he didn't love his partner. At the noisy meal, only Estio silently emptied the stew.
They chose to camp because it was dangerous to keep going in the dark mountains. Wind Mountain was not a dangerous area, so I had to put up a tent with anti-crime magic brought from the guild and sleep.
Parker fell asleep first, followed by Neju, curled up and dozing off. Con too, with Estio's help, restored his health, but he still needed a break, so he fell asleep. The area around the campfire, which had been noisy until now, has now become so quiet that even the sound of falling leaves can be heard loudly.
Among them, Estio, who could not sleep alone, was leaning against a tree and staring blankly at the burning bonfire.
"Estio."
"?"
There was one more waking being. As Estio reached out to the black cat approaching with a gun, Tsuki gently rubbed her face.
"Why are not you sleeping."
"I just couldn't sleep."
He used to be arrogant, but Estio knew that this was Tsuki's way of worrying. So she asked quietly.
"What about Tsuki?"
"I'm going to get a lot of sleep in a place like this."
Estio nodded. As he knew, Tsuki had a very sensitive personality. He never fell asleep in front of other people, and even though he seemed to be sleeping, he was always vigilant with his eyes wide open. When there was a tree or wall, he hid himself unconditionally, and without even that, he had a habit of hiding in the shadows and always watching carefully to see if there was any danger.
As a result, even Estio, who grew up together since childhood, hardly saw Tsuki sleeping comfortably.
"This mountain is not a dangerous place."
"There is no place in the world that is completely safe."
Tsuki's Odd Eye looked up at the night sky with disbelief. It was deep in the mountains, so the sky was obscured by trees and it looked even darker. Estio knew why Tsuki was so vigilant in all directions. On a cold winter day, when she held Tsuki, who was lying on the snow covered with scars, she read it by itself.
'Experiment failed.'
Tsuki was almost killed by the people who made him. He'd been through it, so it was only natural that he wouldn't trust anyone. It was surprising that he was giving away to Estio like this now.
When Estio was silent, Tsuki jumped up on his lap and looked into his eyes.
"I tell you, older sister, you need a habit of being a little suspicious, Estio."
"......"
"Of course, it's okay when I'm with you. Instead, I'll take a look around. Now you can rest in peace."
Its long tail fluttered up and down with kindness. As Tsuki said, Estio closed his eyes in peace.
"Sleep properly. If you sleep while sitting, you will strain your back."
"...Tsuki."
"Why?"
Estio lifted the nagging black cat on his lap. Contrary to his usual harsh personality, Tsuki did not resist and quietly surrendered himself to his hand.
Estio, holding the black cat in her arms, slowly opened her eyes. A dancing bonfire flashed over her dark blue eyes.
"Actually, I have one doubt."
"Tell me."
Tsuki took an attitude of being willing to listen.
"Shuhanan."
Weong.
Upon hearing the answer, Tsuki cried a little.
"I heard he hates humans."
"Yes."
"Even if he did not intentionally leave this world and remained there."
"I would have left sooner if I wanted to go."
Tsuki simply guessed.
"It's a dragon. You can leave this world any time you want."
Still, the reason for not leaving was very clear.
"Just like Kai said, maybe he was left to destroy this world."
"But......."
"Why? You don't think so?"
Estio could neither affirm nor deny, and kept his mouth shut.
'I care.'
Until now, Shuhanan had only vaguely accepted the fact that he was of the same family, and felt far away emotionally. He didn't really care whether he hated humans or not, but if he attacks the Ignis Guild, then Estio becomes his enemy.
It was just a relationship I thought of as such. But after visiting the desert temple, there were parts that I was curious about.
'In the end, what happened to Shuhanan with Loaren?', 'Is Loaren really dead?', 'Or did he betray Shuhanan and leave?' Questions such as these ran through my mind. Now, Shuhanan and Loaren were no longer just names. They too were alive.
By taking a peek into Shuhanan's past, Estio began to take an interest in him.
'Are you really a slaughter-crazed light dragon?'
Estio shook his head.
"I don't know what to think. Why did he hate humans so much?"
"Well. Unless you read it in your head, you will never know."
Tsuki, who had been blunt, suddenly sensed a bad feeling and raised his lower jaw.
"No, you should."
Tsuki opened his eyes sharply, but he couldn't see Estio's face because he was in his arms. He begged, looking up at his chin countless times.
"Stop it now."
"We must meet at least once."
"Ha, yes, let's say so. The opponent is a crazy dragon. What are you going to do by reading that guy's head?"
"What are you trying to do..."
It was just curiosity. But Tsuki didn't think so.
"Don't give it to me."
"affection?"
"Shuhanan is a dangerous opponent. He won't stop going to meet the Pope. But that's it."
People with the ability to read minds are dangerous because of this, Tsuki sharpened his teeth. Estio can perfectly share the feelings of others. As a result, he adopts his own position and accepts everything else that he adopts too much. Even though he may be a cruel person who wants to kill him, he feels one-sidedly intimacy.
While Estio was dazed after being pointed out something he had never thought of, Tsuki firmly nailed it.
"Don't sympathize with people who have nothing to do with you, Estio."
'An irrelevant person.'
It sounds cold, but it's true. He followed the traces buried in the scales of Hwangryong and read a moment in the past, but Estio had never met Shuhanan before.
'...Did I sympathize with him?'
Sympathy is also right. Tsuki got angry when he said that, but from Estio's point of view, it was difficult to understand. Estio closed his eyes again while holding the crying black cat in his arms. The air at night was a bit chilly.
The next morning, the first thing in the group to wake up was the unicorn that smelled the dawn. Fully restored to health, Korn roused himself vigorously to soak up the freshest sunlight of the day.
'It's really amazing. Why is your body so light?'
The hunter who caught cones from the village below the mountain the day before shouted that the product was flawless, but that was not the case. When he was hunted, Kon was chased after not sleeping for several days. He didn't give the final blow in one shot. The seasoned hunters dug traps, inflicting metallurgical wounds and bleed to wear. Only the visible wounds were cleverly hidden, but the whole body was full of wounds.
After suffering enough to even breathe, the young unicorn gave up on escaping. By that time, death was already on the brink of death. Kon was so desperate that the hunters clicked his tongue saying he was a poison.
A body that was so messed up couldn't get better overnight. In the middle of the night, I was surprised because of Neju, and because I was excited to meet a group of people who knew Lydia, questions I hadn't thought of were floating around in Kon's head.
Now, Kon was so energetic that he could fly into the sky at any moment.
"Is it a dream...?"
It was still early in the morning, so everyone in the party was asleep. Conn paused around the sleeping Estio, seriously trying to tell if this was a dream or his birthday.
「Okay, right. When you think about it, it's totally weird, right? I was definitely being caught by the hunters and dying, but I met good people and was released and the wounds were gone. And there he met Lydia's fiancee. There is no way such a coincidence can overlap. Whoops."
Confused even more anxiously as he talked to himself, he came to an absurd conclusion.
"Maybe I'm already dead and my soul is wandering around! That's why my body is so light...!"
"Are you a ghost?"
「?」
Conn just came face to face with a cactus bobbing around the extinguished bonfire.
「Ugh, what kind of ghost looks like a pony? Are you going to surprise people like this?"
"Ah?"
"A very cute thing."
The cactus, who loved the cone, even laughed out loud. She was surprised to speak, but Kon widened her eyes and groaned at the first sight of a plant walking by its roots.
"You, are you a ghost too!"
「Anyone. i'm alive Only you are dead."
"only me?! Damn it!"
"...don't worry, neither of them are dead."
There was a hand stroking Kon's head in disappointment. Then the cactus frowned and ran towards him.
"Hey! Estio, good morning!"
"Did Ahur sleep well?"
Estio returned the morning greetings to Ahur, who jumped out. When the cactus, who had been busy making fun of him with his twisted pronunciation a while ago, showed all his aegyo in front of Estio, Kon looked at him with an absurd gaze. The misunderstanding was cleared up only after time had passed since Ahur, who had not been able to say goodbye because he had been asleep the night before, had been introduced to Khon.
- Episode 16
"What!?"
To Korn, who had already pictured the happy family life of the two in their heads, it was like a clear-cut word. Kon jumped up from his seat and opened her eyes.
"Why! why! What is it that our Lydia lacks!"
"No, calm down, calm down. It's not that I don't like Lydia, it's that I just hate marriage."
When he said he didn't like Lydia, Korn calmed down a bit, but still asked with a ferocious voice.
"Why don't you like it?"
"I like life now."
Parker answered immediately.
"How is life now?"
"It's living while working for a guild in the city. It's a very honorable job. I can help people in need."
"Help others? Aren't you too busy then?"
"It's nice to be busy walking around, meeting new people, and earning money. Hehe. Besides, I don't want to miss this opportunity as a member of the leader's team."
Kon raised his eyes shaking in shock and looked back at Estio.
"Estio was a stumbling block to love!"
"Ik, I never loved in the first place, what are you talking about!"
When the arrow suddenly returned to Estio, Parker became terrified, and Korn began to scrutinize again, asking why he didn't love his partner. At the noisy meal, only Estio silently emptied the stew.
They chose to camp because it was dangerous to keep going in the dark mountains. Wind Mountain was not a dangerous area, so I had to put up a tent with anti-crime magic brought from the guild and sleep.
Parker fell asleep first, followed by Neju, curled up and dozing off. Con too, with Estio's help, restored his health, but he still needed a break, so he fell asleep. The area around the campfire, which had been noisy until now, has now become so quiet that even the sound of falling leaves can be heard loudly.
Among them, Estio, who could not sleep alone, was leaning against a tree and staring blankly at the burning bonfire.
"Estio."
"?"
There was one more waking being. As Estio reached out to the black cat approaching with a gun, Tsuki gently rubbed her face.
"Why are not you sleeping."
"I just couldn't sleep."
He used to be arrogant, but Estio knew that this was Tsuki's way of worrying. So she asked quietly.
"What about Tsuki?"
"I'm going to get a lot of sleep in a place like this."
Estio nodded. As he knew, Tsuki had a very sensitive personality. He never fell asleep in front of other people, and even though he seemed to be sleeping, he was always vigilant with his eyes wide open. When there was a tree or wall, he hid himself unconditionally, and without even that, he had a habit of hiding in the shadows and always watching carefully to see if there was any danger.
As a result, even Estio, who grew up together since childhood, hardly saw Tsuki sleeping comfortably.
"This mountain is not a dangerous place."
"There is no place in the world that is completely safe."
Tsuki's Odd Eye looked up at the night sky with disbelief. It was deep in the mountains, so the sky was obscured by trees and it looked even darker. Estio knew why Tsuki was so vigilant in all directions. On a cold winter day, when she held Tsuki, who was lying on the snow covered with scars, she read it by itself.
'Experiment failed.'
Tsuki was almost killed by the people who made him. He'd been through it, so it was only natural that he wouldn't trust anyone. It was surprising that he was giving away to Estio like this now.
When Estio was silent, Tsuki jumped up on his lap and looked into his eyes.
"I tell you, older sister, you need a habit of being a little suspicious, Estio."
"......"
"Of course, it's okay when I'm with you. Instead, I'll take a look around. Now you can rest in peace."
Its long tail fluttered up and down with kindness. As Tsuki said, Estio closed his eyes in peace.
"Sleep properly. If you sleep while sitting, you will strain your back."
"...Tsuki."
"Why?"
Estio lifted the nagging black cat on his lap. Contrary to his usual harsh personality, Tsuki did not resist and quietly surrendered himself to his hand.
Estio, holding the black cat in her arms, slowly opened her eyes. A dancing bonfire flashed over her dark blue eyes.
"Actually, I have one doubt."
"Tell me."
Tsuki took an attitude of being willing to listen.
"Shuhanan."
Weong.
Upon hearing the answer, Tsuki cried a little.
"I heard he hates humans."
"Yes."
"Even if he did not intentionally leave this world and remained there."
"I would have left sooner if I wanted to go."
Tsuki simply guessed.
"It's a dragon. You can leave this world any time you want."
Still, the reason for not leaving was very clear.
"Just like Kai said, maybe he was left to destroy this world."
"But......."
"Why? You don't think so?"
Estio could neither affirm nor deny, and kept his mouth shut.
'I care.'
Until now, Shuhanan had only vaguely accepted the fact that he was of the same family, and felt far away emotionally. He didn't really care whether he hated humans or not, but if he attacks the Ignis Guild, then Estio becomes his enemy.
It was just a relationship I thought of as such. But after visiting the desert temple, there were parts that I was curious about.
'In the end, what happened to Shuhanan with Loaren?', 'Is Loaren really dead?', 'Or did he betray Shuhanan and leave?' Questions such as these ran through my mind. Now, Shuhanan and Loaren were no longer just names. They too were alive.
By taking a peek into Shuhanan's past, Estio began to take an interest in him.
'Are you really a slaughter-crazed light dragon?'
Estio shook his head.
"I don't know what to think. Why did he hate humans so much?"
"Well. Unless you read it in your head, you will never know."
Tsuki, who had been blunt, suddenly sensed a bad feeling and raised his lower jaw.
"No, you should."
Tsuki opened his eyes sharply, but he couldn't see Estio's face because he was in his arms. He begged, looking up at his chin countless times.
"Stop it now."
"We must meet at least once."
"Ha, yes, let's say so. The opponent is a crazy dragon. What are you going to do by reading that guy's head?"
"What are you trying to do..."
It was just curiosity. But Tsuki didn't think so.
"Don't give it to me."
"affection?"
"Shuhanan is a dangerous opponent. He won't stop going to meet the Pope. But that's it."
People with the ability to read minds are dangerous because of this, Tsuki sharpened his teeth. Estio can perfectly share the feelings of others. As a result, he adopts his own position and accepts everything else that he adopts too much. Even though he may be a cruel person who wants to kill him, he feels one-sidedly intimacy.
While Estio was dazed after being pointed out something he had never thought of, Tsuki firmly nailed it.
"Don't sympathize with people who have nothing to do with you, Estio."
'An irrelevant person.'
It sounds cold, but it's true. He followed the traces buried in the scales of Hwangryong and read a moment in the past, but Estio had never met Shuhanan before.
'...Did I sympathize with him?'
Sympathy is also right. Tsuki got angry when he said that, but from Estio's point of view, it was difficult to understand. Estio closed his eyes again while holding the crying black cat in his arms. The air at night was a bit chilly.
The next morning, the first thing in the group to wake up was the unicorn that smelled the dawn. Fully restored to health, Korn roused himself vigorously to soak up the freshest sunlight of the day.
'It's really amazing. Why is your body so light?'
The hunter who caught cones from the village below the mountain the day before shouted that the product was flawless, but that was not the case. When he was hunted, Kon was chased after not sleeping for several days. He didn't give the final blow in one shot. The seasoned hunters dug traps, inflicting metallurgical wounds and bleed to wear. Only the visible wounds were cleverly hidden, but the whole body was full of wounds.
After suffering enough to even breathe, the young unicorn gave up on escaping. By that time, death was already on the brink of death. Kon was so desperate that the hunters clicked his tongue saying he was a poison.
A body that was so messed up couldn't get better overnight. In the middle of the night, I was surprised because of Neju, and because I was excited to meet a group of people who knew Lydia, questions I hadn't thought of were floating around in Kon's head.
Now, Kon was so energetic that he could fly into the sky at any moment.
"Is it a dream...?"
It was still early in the morning, so everyone in the party was asleep. Conn paused around the sleeping Estio, seriously trying to tell if this was a dream or his birthday.
「Okay, right. When you think about it, it's totally weird, right? I was definitely being caught by the hunters and dying, but I met good people and was released and the wounds were gone. And there he met Lydia's fiancee. There is no way such a coincidence can overlap. Whoops."
Confused even more anxiously as he talked to himself, he came to an absurd conclusion.
"Maybe I'm already dead and my soul is wandering around! That's why my body is so light...!"
"Are you a ghost?"
「?」
Conn just came face to face with a cactus bobbing around the extinguished bonfire.
「Ugh, what kind of ghost looks like a pony? Are you going to surprise people like this?"
"Ah?"
"A very cute thing."
The cactus, who loved the cone, even laughed out loud. She was surprised to speak, but Kon widened her eyes and groaned at the first sight of a plant walking by its roots.
"You, are you a ghost too!"
「Anyone. i'm alive Only you are dead."
"only me?! Damn it!"
"...don't worry, neither of them are dead."
There was a hand stroking Kon's head in disappointment. Then the cactus frowned and ran towards him.
"Hey! Estio, good morning!"
"Did Ahur sleep well?"
Estio returned the morning greetings to Ahur, who jumped out. When the cactus, who had been busy making fun of him with his twisted pronunciation a while ago, showed all his aegyo in front of Estio, Kon looked at him with an absurd gaze. The misunderstanding was cleared up only after time had passed since Ahur, who had not been able to say goodbye because he had been asleep the night before, had been introduced to Khon.
