Estio Volume 8
- Episode 5
"......?"
Estio continued to look like he did not understand English. So Shuhanan asked again in a gentle voice.
"It looks like he changed the color on purpose by using magic. Is there any particular reason why you had to make a fake color with different eyes?"
"fake......?"
At this point, Shuhanan also noticed something strange and stopped asking questions. In Shuhanan's eyes, Estio's dark blue eyes didn't suit her face at all. The fact that the dark blue color like the deep sea was not the light he was born with, but a fake color made with magic, he had been stepping on his eyes ever since he met the child.
'Maybe this child now.'
Shuhanan's golden eyes narrowed slightly, even thinking about any guesswork.
'Aren't you unaware that you have changed the color of your eyes yourself?'
Originally, it was a bizarre reasoning that could not happen among the dragons, the race that created magic. But Shuhanan couldn't shake his head, saying, 'Whoa, that's not possible'. As soon as he was born, he was a child raised by non-kinsmen. Estio even said that he had never used magic before.
"Oh, maybe."
"Yes."
"You don't know how to use magic?"
It was a question I asked while hoping it wasn't, but Estio calmly answered it.
"I do not know."
Shuhanan buried her face in her hands and managed to suppress the urge to despair. He wasn't the kind of reaction he would show in front of an innocent child who knew nothing.
'Be as humble as possible. You should treat it as if nothing happened.'
I hope the child will get hurt. Shuhanan paid attention to every detail of facial expression management. Shu Hanan, who had been so used to expressionless expression, twisted the muscles around his eyes and raised the corners of his mouth to smile somehow.
"......"
Frowning, not knowing that Estio had shaken his hand, Shuhanan smiled as brightly as possible. It was her face that gave her a lot of strength to give the impression of her father's affection and warmth. And Estio looked up at Shuhanan with trembling eyes.
"It's okay, you don't have to. Don't worry."
"......"
"You may not know. Ha, ha, ha."
Unfortunately, it backfired.
* * *
While Estio was receiving private lessons from Shuhanan, the rest of the party gathered in the room to rest. Mubin, who had become a mess from fighting with the commander of the Holy Knights, washed his dirty body and changed into comfortable clothes. Although Tsuki was very bothered, he endured to the extent of splashing water on the blood-stained hair. In addition, minor wounds that were not serious had to be treated. They completed the reorganization without much conversation.
Mubin, who jumped out the window and found a plant that was familiar to him, wiped the water with a towel and opened his mouth.
"Oh, come to think of it, Mr. Cactus said that he withdrew earlier? When did you get out of here?"
"Hehe, it's been a long time since the beginning."
Ahur proudly admitted to the quick escape.
"Don't ask. Running is also a skill!"
"Oh? That's right. Well, if you escape and survive well, that's more profitable."
Moobin, who had tapped such a cactus with his finger, was amazed.
"By the way, it's a great escape skill. I didn't even know it disappeared."
"It must have been that you were careless, Sir Heyga."
Ahur and Mubin stopped the conversation at the sudden interruption of the voice. It was Ruby, who was crouching on the floor alone in a particularly gloomy atmosphere. It wasn't just the people who had been staying together in the room. The Holy Knights Commander Ruby and the humanoid holy sword Lipe Stigmata were wandering around.
For some reason, while gazing at the excited Lipe, Ruby squatted and placed her chin between her fingers to provoke Moobin.
"Huh, or was I in a rush not to lose because I was too strong?"
"no way."
Moobin wiggled his ears or whistles inconsequentially.
"He said he didn't even know Ahur was there during the last raid, didn't he?"
"Uh-huh, I can't even remember when the enemy was in the past."
"You pretend to be strong when you attack your master's son without even knowing it, and you will receive severe punishment."
"......"
Ruby's expression, which had been stabbed by the cactus, became even more gloomy. Mubin chuckled and brushed past him with a towel on his head.
"The war is over, but why did the Holy Knight follow us into our room?"
"Of course, because the Holy Spirit has commanded you to educate."
"Give me some time to rest. Your kids are also hurt a lot."
"The later you learn, the later the time to leave Elysium. Is that okay?"
Ruby thought their purpose was to get Estio out of the Vatican as soon as possible. However, Mubin responded calmly without even blinking an eye.
"Not really. It doesn't matter."
"It doesn't matter?"
"If Estio-sama said that he would stay here, I would do so."
In fact, even when Mubin and his party first visited Pope Shuhanan, it was right that Ruby had come to get Estio back, as expected. But now the situation is different from then. Estio, who introduced Shuhanan as his biological father, was a little shaky. It was a small tremor that even the speaker did not recognize, but Mubin, the guardian, caught the subtle change.
It was the excitement of meeting my fellow countrymen for the first time in my life. The thirst that had not been satisfied with anything until now was finally satisfied by meeting Shuhanan. Estio was so excited like a child seeing the first snow in his life. Then, as Estio's colleague, there was only one thing he had to do.
"If we had won the war, would we have come back to this room?"
"That's right. The leader really cares about his father. Whoa! To be honest, it's just a family reunion, but it's cruel to drop them right away as soon as they meet."
"It would be nice if Neju could also be with you. Bye."
After Movie, Parker and Neju also joined, Ruby asked again with a confused face.
"Then why did you join the duel?"
"I'm annoyed."
Mubin threw the wet towel into the laundry basket and returned to his seat.
"Even though he's Estio-sama's father, he didn't seem very fond of having him in his hands and swaying him at will, so I tried a bit of rebellion."
This confrontation meant that they conveyed to Hwang-ryong their will not to just leave them alone in the future. With it or not, Shu Hanan succeeded in locking his young child, Estio, in his arms as he wished.
"As a result, it was broken beautifully by the Guardian of the Hwangryong."
"Huh, did you know you couldn't win?"
Mubin, who met his sighing gaze, smirked and sat down, hugging the back of the chair.
"Whether it's a dragon or a human, life is the same in the end. It's not that I threw it away on purpose, it's that I suddenly found a child I lost unavoidably, so I can't imagine how obsessed with him will be."
Ruby listened to the story and kept her mouth shut. Moobin, who glanced at the expression of the commander of the Holy Knights, who seemed to be deeply immersed in something, changed the topic again.
"Anyway, I thought I should learn divine magic while competing with you."
"You're talking like a fan! Guys, just be aware that this is a special opportunity given by His Holiness Shuhanan. A good fortune that ordinary people can't even dream of...!"
"Ha-am. I know, I know. I'm always lucky."
When Mubin, who even yawned, brazenly responded, Ruby couldn't speak any more in absurdity. Ruby, who pressed the gap between the brows and forcibly smoothed out the wrinkles that formed over and over again, said with a sigh after a while.
"But there is something wrong with what you just said."
"Well?"
"If only the master had not intervened in the previous fight."
Ruby asserted.
"You would have won."
Blue eyes filled with sincerity shone through golden hair resembling a yellow dragon.
"The cat's claws are very naughty."
The 7-member Holy Knights are all guardians of the Hwangryong. The strongest among them was definitely Ruby, but the rest of the knights were not in a formation that could be easily torn down like a castle built with cards. Even considering the handicap of missing the holy sword, the core power, each holy knight possessed a superhuman strength that was not human-like.
In the worst case, would even the emperor become cautious in front of the prestige of the Holy Knights? Ruby had a great interest in Tsuki, who easily neutralized such holy knights.
When Tsuki was talked about, Parker looked around.
"Uh, come to think of it, where did Tsuki-sama go?"
Heukho with Odd-Eye had already hid himself somewhere and couldn't see it. He didn't even know if he was in the room or not.
"Give up. The cat is a friend you can't find unless it shows up on its own."
"We should start training together."
"Then, try hard to find it."
Whether Ruby was in trouble or not, Moobin whistled that I didn't know.
"Oh, by the way, I'll learn from the Holy Sword, not you."
Ruby was furious and refuted the declaration like a blue sky.
"What? Why!"
"Was it possible to choose a teacher? Then I too will be the holy sword jjimppong."
In the meantime, the cactus, who had been dozing off, woke up and quickly stuck to the Lipe side. Ruby, the most ambitious, was unfortunately not very popular amongst Estio's colleagues.
"Khhm. Lipe Stigmata is also a part of the Holy Spirit, so of course he is the best at holy magic, but..."
Ruby glanced at Lipe with a faint cough. The holy sword, said to have been made by grinding the bones of Hwangryong, was hanging on Neju like a child. Lipe was very fond of Neju's fluffy white fur.
When everyone's attention was on him, Lipe noticed the topic of conversation and turned around.
"Even though cats and cacti are the same, since Hei is a swordsman, can't I teach you better, since I have the same body type and ability?"
"It seemed that there was nothing to learn with the sword."
The only thing Mubin wanted to learn at the Vatican was divine magic. He faced the sword directly with Lou Berry, so he had no regrets.
"Besides, I hate you so much. I'm even more reluctant because I think I'll end up with bad water just hanging out with you."
"Hey, what a shame. I think we're allies."
This time, Ruby chuckled.
"The self-centered type who doesn't notice other people and does everything I want to do."
Looking at the wrinkled black eyes, Ruby stopped laughing and continued speaking in a low voice.
"Even when I was choosing a master, I came to it out of my own needs, and I am still parasitic by relying on that power."
And it will always be. The relationship between the Master Dragon and the Guardian is in the form of trading life as collateral to obtain the desired purpose of each.
Ruby, who had said that far, looked up at the grimacing Moobin and gave a arrogant chin.
"How is it? Is it different?"
"under......."
"Isn't it the same? Huh? I thought you were the same as me, huh!"
Ruby, who was suddenly hit in the side with a hand blade, fell to her knees like a paper doll on the floor.
"Keep, S, Stigmata... You..."
Estio Volume 8
- Episode 5
"......?"
Estio continued to look like he did not understand English. So Shuhanan asked again in a gentle voice.
"It looks like he changed the color on purpose by using magic. Is there any particular reason why you had to make a fake color with different eyes?"
"fake......?"
At this point, Shuhanan also noticed something strange and stopped asking questions. In Shuhanan's eyes, Estio's dark blue eyes didn't suit her face at all. The fact that the dark blue color like the deep sea was not the light he was born with, but a fake color made with magic, he had been stepping on his eyes ever since he met the child.
'Maybe this child now.'
Shuhanan's golden eyes narrowed slightly, even thinking about any guesswork.
'Aren't you unaware that you have changed the color of your eyes yourself?'
Originally, it was a bizarre reasoning that could not happen among the dragons, the race that created magic. But Shuhanan couldn't shake his head, saying, 'Whoa, that's not possible'. As soon as he was born, he was a child raised by non-kinsmen. Estio even said that he had never used magic before.
"Oh, maybe."
"Yes."
"You don't know how to use magic?"
It was a question I asked while hoping it wasn't, but Estio calmly answered it.
"I do not know."
Shuhanan buried her face in her hands and managed to suppress the urge to despair. He wasn't the kind of reaction he would show in front of an innocent child who knew nothing.
'Be as humble as possible. You should treat it as if nothing happened.'
I hope the child will get hurt. Shuhanan paid attention to every detail of facial expression management. Shu Hanan, who had been so used to expressionless expression, twisted the muscles around his eyes and raised the corners of his mouth to smile somehow.
"......"
Frowning, not knowing that Estio had shaken his hand, Shuhanan smiled as brightly as possible. It was her face that gave her a lot of strength to give the impression of her father's affection and warmth. And Estio looked up at Shuhanan with trembling eyes.
"It's okay, you don't have to. Don't worry."
"......"
"You may not know. Ha, ha, ha."
Unfortunately, it backfired.
* * *
While Estio was receiving private lessons from Shuhanan, the rest of the party gathered in the room to rest. Mubin, who had become a mess from fighting with the commander of the Holy Knights, washed his dirty body and changed into comfortable clothes. Although Tsuki was very bothered, he endured to the extent of splashing water on the blood-stained hair. In addition, minor wounds that were not serious had to be treated. They completed the reorganization without much conversation.
Mubin, who jumped out the window and found a plant that was familiar to him, wiped the water with a towel and opened his mouth.
"Oh, come to think of it, Mr. Cactus said that he withdrew earlier? When did you get out of here?"
"Hehe, it's been a long time since the beginning."
Ahur proudly admitted to the quick escape.
"Don't ask. Running is also a skill!"
"Oh? That's right. Well, if you escape and survive well, that's more profitable."
Moobin, who had tapped such a cactus with his finger, was amazed.
"By the way, it's a great escape skill. I didn't even know it disappeared."
"It must have been that you were careless, Sir Heyga."
Ahur and Mubin stopped the conversation at the sudden interruption of the voice. It was Ruby, who was crouching on the floor alone in a particularly gloomy atmosphere. It wasn't just the people who had been staying together in the room. The Holy Knights Commander Ruby and the humanoid holy sword Lipe Stigmata were wandering around.
For some reason, while gazing at the excited Lipe, Ruby squatted and placed her chin between her fingers to provoke Moobin.
"Huh, or was I in a rush not to lose because I was too strong?"
"no way."
Moobin wiggled his ears or whistles inconsequentially.
"He said he didn't even know Ahur was there during the last raid, didn't he?"
"Uh-huh, I can't even remember when the enemy was in the past."
"You pretend to be strong when you attack your master's son without even knowing it, and you will receive severe punishment."
"......"
Ruby's expression, which had been stabbed by the cactus, became even more gloomy. Mubin chuckled and brushed past him with a towel on his head.
"The war is over, but why did the Holy Knight follow us into our room?"
"Of course, because the Holy Spirit has commanded you to educate."
"Give me some time to rest. Your kids are also hurt a lot."
"The later you learn, the later the time to leave Elysium. Is that okay?"
Ruby thought their purpose was to get Estio out of the Vatican as soon as possible. However, Mubin responded calmly without even blinking an eye.
"Not really. It doesn't matter."
"It doesn't matter?"
"If Estio-sama said that he would stay here, I would do so."
In fact, even when Mubin and his party first visited Pope Shuhanan, it was right that Ruby had come to get Estio back, as expected. But now the situation is different from then. Estio, who introduced Shuhanan as his biological father, was a little shaky. It was a small tremor that even the speaker did not recognize, but Mubin, the guardian, caught the subtle change.
It was the excitement of meeting my fellow countrymen for the first time in my life. The thirst that had not been satisfied with anything until now was finally satisfied by meeting Shuhanan. Estio was so excited like a child seeing the first snow in his life. Then, as Estio's colleague, there was only one thing he had to do.
"If we had won the war, would we have come back to this room?"
"That's right. The leader really cares about his father. Whoa! To be honest, it's just a family reunion, but it's cruel to drop them right away as soon as they meet."
"It would be nice if Neju could also be with you. Bye."
After Movie, Parker and Neju also joined, Ruby asked again with a confused face.
"Then why did you join the duel?"
"I'm annoyed."
Mubin threw the wet towel into the laundry basket and returned to his seat.
"Even though he's Estio-sama's father, he didn't seem very fond of having him in his hands and swaying him at will, so I tried a bit of rebellion."
This confrontation meant that they conveyed to Hwang-ryong their will not to just leave them alone in the future. With it or not, Shu Hanan succeeded in locking his young child, Estio, in his arms as he wished.
"As a result, it was broken beautifully by the Guardian of the Hwangryong."
"Huh, did you know you couldn't win?"
Mubin, who met his sighing gaze, smirked and sat down, hugging the back of the chair.
"Whether it's a dragon or a human, life is the same in the end. It's not that I threw it away on purpose, it's that I suddenly found a child I lost unavoidably, so I can't imagine how obsessed with him will be."
Ruby listened to the story and kept her mouth shut. Moobin, who glanced at the expression of the commander of the Holy Knights, who seemed to be deeply immersed in something, changed the topic again.
"Anyway, I thought I should learn divine magic while competing with you."
"You're talking like a fan! Guys, just be aware that this is a special opportunity given by His Holiness Shuhanan. A good fortune that ordinary people can't even dream of...!"
"Ha-am. I know, I know. I'm always lucky."
When Mubin, who even yawned, brazenly responded, Ruby couldn't speak any more in absurdity. Ruby, who pressed the gap between the brows and forcibly smoothed out the wrinkles that formed over and over again, said with a sigh after a while.
"But there is something wrong with what you just said."
"Well?"
"If only the master had not intervened in the previous fight."
Ruby asserted.
"You would have won."
Blue eyes filled with sincerity shone through golden hair resembling a yellow dragon.
"The cat's claws are very naughty."
The 7-member Holy Knights are all guardians of the Hwangryong. The strongest among them was definitely Ruby, but the rest of the knights were not in a formation that could be easily torn down like a castle built with cards. Even considering the handicap of missing the holy sword, the core power, each holy knight possessed a superhuman strength that was not human-like.
In the worst case, would even the emperor become cautious in front of the prestige of the Holy Knights? Ruby had a great interest in Tsuki, who easily neutralized such holy knights.
When Tsuki was talked about, Parker looked around.
"Uh, come to think of it, where did Tsuki-sama go?"
Heukho with Odd-Eye had already hid himself somewhere and couldn't see it. He didn't even know if he was in the room or not.
"Give up. The cat is a friend you can't find unless it shows up on its own."
"We should start training together."
"Then, try hard to find it."
Whether Ruby was in trouble or not, Moobin whistled that I didn't know.
"Oh, by the way, I'll learn from the Holy Sword, not you."
Ruby was furious and refuted the declaration like a blue sky.
"What? Why!"
"Was it possible to choose a teacher? Then I too will be the holy sword jjimppong."
In the meantime, the cactus, who had been dozing off, woke up and quickly stuck to the Lipe side. Ruby, the most ambitious, was unfortunately not very popular amongst Estio's colleagues.
"Khhm. Lipe Stigmata is also a part of the Holy Spirit, so of course he is the best at holy magic, but..."
Ruby glanced at Lipe with a faint cough. The holy sword, said to have been made by grinding the bones of Hwangryong, was hanging on Neju like a child. Lipe was very fond of Neju's fluffy white fur.
When everyone's attention was on him, Lipe noticed the topic of conversation and turned around.
"Even though cats and cacti are the same, since Hei is a swordsman, can't I teach you better, since I have the same body type and ability?"
"It seemed that there was nothing to learn with the sword."
The only thing Mubin wanted to learn at the Vatican was divine magic. He faced the sword directly with Lou Berry, so he had no regrets.
"Besides, I hate you so much. I'm even more reluctant because I think I'll end up with bad water just hanging out with you."
"Hey, what a shame. I think we're allies."
This time, Ruby chuckled.
"The self-centered type who doesn't notice other people and does everything I want to do."
Looking at the wrinkled black eyes, Ruby stopped laughing and continued speaking in a low voice.
"Even when I was choosing a master, I came to it out of my own needs, and I am still parasitic by relying on that power."
And it will always be. The relationship between the Master Dragon and the Guardian is in the form of trading life as collateral to obtain the desired purpose of each.
Ruby, who had said that far, looked up at the grimacing Moobin and gave a arrogant chin.
"How is it? Is it different?"
"under......."
"Isn't it the same? Huh? I thought you were the same as me, huh!"
Ruby, who was suddenly hit in the side with a hand blade, fell to her knees like a paper doll on the floor.
"Keep, S, Stigmata... You..."
