Estio Volume 3
- Episode 8
It was said that many people were deceived by the pseudonym of <Beautiful Lina>. Noticing that she was talking about her self, Lina crept back to her and she sadly wrapped her arms around her Parker's neck.
"Ahh. Why, why are you like this! I was just telling you the truth!"
"Uhjjuguri. Was that right? It should remind you of the hot first night with beautiful Lina!"
"Kek."
Estio, who remained behind, clapped and looked at the two leading the way. Neju, who was quietly following him with chains, asked him carefully.
"Bye. Are you sick, Ahur?"
"I don't know. It looks like he's in bad shape."
The talkative cactus didn't even say that he was asleep. Even if she read her insides, she could only feel something unpleasant.
Ahur said that he had been bothered to move since morning, tired, and constantly sleepy. Still, she hated being left alone.
Even with that alone, Estio couldn't figure out what was wrong.
"Because I don't know much about the health of plants."
"I hope it doesn't hurt."
"I think the same thing, Neju."
Estio gently patted the gentle white fur monkey's head.
The botanical garden that Lina guided me was located in a very corner of the castle of Levito.
'Levito Botanical Garden.'
The name was very simple as it was taken from the place name. The signboard decorated with yellow pansy flowers added a neat atmosphere. It was not a building, but a large outdoor facility separated by long fences, so you could see trees growing beautifully from outside.
Passing the wide open entrance, Parker looked around.
"Is the door open?"
"For a botanical garden funded by the guild, it's kind of like a city garden. Anyone can come and visit the flowers and trees."
The botanical garden was a space that anyone could enter freely. But there weren't many people looking for it. People were busy walking around the market rather than looking at plants. There were no other visitors to the botanical garden from midday on weekdays, not even on holidays, except for them.
They moved slowly, looking around the interior of the botanical garden, which was quiet compared to the large space.
"Well, it's my first time visiting a botanical garden. Unlike animals, plants don't move, so the name seems a bit boring..."
Parker, who had said that far, stopped and turned his gaze to look at the cactus Estio was holding.
It was quiet and motionless now, but I couldn't help thinking that Ahur was a much more lively and noisy creature than any other animal. I didn't talk, and I coughed in vain. Parker, who had his mouth closed for some reason, asked Estio.
"By the way, Leader, are all the plants here talking?"
"I don't know."
Estio answered in a calm tone. In fact, there was no sound in the quiet botanical garden where only the chirping of birds was often heard.
As he shook his head, Lina, who was leading the way, made a puzzled expression.
"Hey, leader-nim, couldn't you read the heart of assari animals? Do you have a hard time with plants?"
"You don't always hear it. You have to make eye contact or at least have some contact."
"Oh Ot! Every time I hear it, it's really amazing."
The first time Lina saw Estio's powers was when the horses pulling the wagon stopped. At the time, she thought it was amazing to read why the horses stopped, but she was amazed that now she can even read the thoughts of plants.
Curious, Lina asked, stroking a tall tree in the immediate vicinity with her palm.
"Then can you guess what he's talking about looking at us?"
Estio looked up at the tree that Lina was fiddling with. It was not yet the season for autumn leaves, but it was a ginkgo tree with lots of lush green leaves.
Estio, who stood in front of a healthy and well-grown ginkgo tree, looked down again.
"...preferably, I don't want to hear it."
"Huh? No, why?"
After seeing his expression right next to him, Lina couldn't ask more why. I don't know why he didn't want to hear it, but I could see that he was genuinely reluctant.
His dark blue eyes were drooping down as if he was exhausted from something.
'If I could see what's in my heart, I'd be curious to read this and that. tp.'
Lena put her regrets behind her and pulled her hand from the ginkgo tree. She brought her in to ease her mood at best and didn't want to trouble her again.
That was the moment. The low voice of a forgotten being came from behind them.
"Say, I'm talking."
"Zen?"
It was the guild master's doll 'Zen'. Her red hair, flowing through her hooded robes, looked as radiant as her rose petals. Jen spoke in a slow tone and placed her hand on her ginkgo tree. Unlike Lina, who was rough on the tree, she was a slender butterfly-like gesture that was only lightly placed on her.
"Nice to meet you. Estio, you."
Salang.
Fresh green ginkgo leaves that have not yet ripened in the wind from somewhere fell on Estio's head.
"Nice to meet you......."
"The last and lovely child of the Black Clan."
"I'm glad I'm still alive..."
gurgling.
In an instant, the whispers of the trees mixed with laughter were heard and then disappeared. Everyone had a favorable voice. But for a while, it was quiet again like a lie.
Estio took off the leaf that had been attached to his head, held it in his hand, and looked down at him. It was a pretty green ginkgo leaf that looked just like a heart.
He turned to Jen with a ginkgo leaf in his hand.
"Zen, can you hear the plants?"
"Because it's a tree, me too."
"......?"
As Estio paused, not fully understanding what the doll was saying, Jen pointed to herself again and added.
"Wooden doll."
"Ah."
It seems that it was originally a tree.
At that moment, Estio understood the meaning of the words and sighed softly. There is no one in the world who has such power. Knowing that, he would have expected this once in a while and was often disappointed. Estio hid his anticipation after staying for a while, secretly in the pocket of his coat with ginkgo leaves.
The doll, Jen, not knowing what he was thinking, beckoned him lightly.
"Come on, come and hear for yourself."
"No, that's it."
"Why? Do you hate trees?"
"Not that."
Estio let out a small sigh. Even though she was a doll and not a human, the question of 'why?' was clearly felt in Jen's clear brown eyes.
Lina and Parker took a step back and watched Zen and Estio's workshop with strange eyes. A little while ago, that doll named Zen was stabbing me directly at the story that Lina seemed considerate and did not ask on purpose. Even though it was the same question, seeing what Jen, a wooden doll, was saying didn't sound bad.
In the end, Estio meekly answered Zen's question.
"They may not want me to read."
The mind is a secret realm. There were far more people who didn't want their inner feelings to be revealed than those who wanted them to be revealed.
"Reading the mind of someone you don't want can be violence."
"violence?"
"Yes."
So he practiced 'not reading'. always.
Of course, nothing was going on. Even though he covered his eyes and ears not to see and hear, in the end strong thoughts flowed naturally into him. The people of his hometown of Selvia threw stones at him whenever he did.
"Estio."
But after hearing that, Jen looked straight at him without shaking and said,
"A tree cannot speak unless it listens."
"......"
"Even if you have something you want to say, even if you have a story you want to tell."
If Zen had not been reborn as a doll through the power of the guildmaster, it would have been no different from the trees here. Zen wasn't even a big tree like a ginkgo tree. When she thought it was all over, she met the Master.
"Even the moment you die of thirst, you can't express anything. Naturally, trees are like that."
Jen took off her hood. Her long red petals of hair ran down her slender shoulders. Her face, exposed under the sunlight, had a strange tattoo. She didn't feel alive because she wasn't a living person, but she had a beautiful face, literally like a sculpture.
"You know, Estio?"
The expressionless doll smiled at someone for the first time.
"Your presence is a blessing to us."
That was the moment.
"There! What are you doing in the botanical garden now!"
"Hey."
Parker, who was mesmerized by the doll's smile, shook his wings and swallowed his saliva. A middle-aged man who was pruning from a distance came running, wielding a large pair of scissors.
Parker hurriedly pointed to Lina and bowed her head.
"Aww, I'm sorry Lina-san touched the tree without permission!"
"Why are you apologizing for me?!"
Lina, who was told the first time, put on an absurd expression. Jen, who was actually putting her hand on the ginkgo tree, just looked at the man who had run away. Finally, a middle-aged man who ran up to them gasped and held up his fingers.
"Not a tree!"
"Yes?"
"You stepped on a flower!"
"......!"
Where he pointed, the heavy soles of the white-haired monkey were trampling on wild flowers growing along the roadside.
"Mi, I'm sorry!"
thump, thump.
Neju, who had a gigantic size, stepped back with sincere apologies, but this time the small seedling behind him broke with a crackling sound.
Seeing this, the middle-aged man's face became contemplative.
"I can't-!"
* * *
"Uh..."
"Oh, oh my, our poor babies."
The middle-aged man wept eagerly while arranging the cut seedlings and flowers. The party, who had arranged the flowers together, awkwardly exchanged glances with each other, unable to speak because they were crying bitterly.
"Are you the manager here? I'm really sorry......"
"Hey, Parker. This is the director."
"Are you the manager?"
As a botanical garden managed by the guild, the director is a person with a higher position in the guild. The man crying profusely in front of the party was Dr. Brune Jaeger, who boasted of his extraordinary botanical knowledge as well as his unusual love for plants.
"It's been a while, Director Bryan."
"Oh, Lina, it was you."
The director looked at Lina while sniffling and showed a welcome expression.
"Yeah, how have you been? The fortress is not well-known, so you're doing something like a wandering mercenary?"
"No, what is this uncle saying now?"
Lina threw away what she was happy with and jumped from her seat.
"My popularity is excellent by month or mana! I am now the team leader. Assault support team leader! Now, I'm at the point where I'm receiving requests. Is the manager talking about the last time in a manly manner in front of the leader?"
Estio Volume 3
- Episode 8
It was said that many people were deceived by the pseudonym of <Beautiful Lina>. Noticing that she was talking about her self, Lina crept back to her and she sadly wrapped her arms around her Parker's neck.
"Ahh. Why, why are you like this! I was just telling you the truth!"
"Uhjjuguri. Was that right? It should remind you of the hot first night with beautiful Lina!"
"Kek."
Estio, who remained behind, clapped and looked at the two leading the way. Neju, who was quietly following him with chains, asked him carefully.
"Bye. Are you sick, Ahur?"
"I don't know. It looks like he's in bad shape."
The talkative cactus didn't even say that he was asleep. Even if she read her insides, she could only feel something unpleasant.
Ahur said that he had been bothered to move since morning, tired, and constantly sleepy. Still, she hated being left alone.
Even with that alone, Estio couldn't figure out what was wrong.
"Because I don't know much about the health of plants."
"I hope it doesn't hurt."
"I think the same thing, Neju."
Estio gently patted the gentle white fur monkey's head.
The botanical garden that Lina guided me was located in a very corner of the castle of Levito.
'Levito Botanical Garden.'
The name was very simple as it was taken from the place name. The signboard decorated with yellow pansy flowers added a neat atmosphere. It was not a building, but a large outdoor facility separated by long fences, so you could see trees growing beautifully from outside.
Passing the wide open entrance, Parker looked around.
"Is the door open?"
"For a botanical garden funded by the guild, it's kind of like a city garden. Anyone can come and visit the flowers and trees."
The botanical garden was a space that anyone could enter freely. But there weren't many people looking for it. People were busy walking around the market rather than looking at plants. There were no other visitors to the botanical garden from midday on weekdays, not even on holidays, except for them.
They moved slowly, looking around the interior of the botanical garden, which was quiet compared to the large space.
"Well, it's my first time visiting a botanical garden. Unlike animals, plants don't move, so the name seems a bit boring..."
Parker, who had said that far, stopped and turned his gaze to look at the cactus Estio was holding.
It was quiet and motionless now, but I couldn't help thinking that Ahur was a much more lively and noisy creature than any other animal. I didn't talk, and I coughed in vain. Parker, who had his mouth closed for some reason, asked Estio.
"By the way, Leader, are all the plants here talking?"
"I don't know."
Estio answered in a calm tone. In fact, there was no sound in the quiet botanical garden where only the chirping of birds was often heard.
As he shook his head, Lina, who was leading the way, made a puzzled expression.
"Hey, leader-nim, couldn't you read the heart of assari animals? Do you have a hard time with plants?"
"You don't always hear it. You have to make eye contact or at least have some contact."
"Oh Ot! Every time I hear it, it's really amazing."
The first time Lina saw Estio's powers was when the horses pulling the wagon stopped. At the time, she thought it was amazing to read why the horses stopped, but she was amazed that now she can even read the thoughts of plants.
Curious, Lina asked, stroking a tall tree in the immediate vicinity with her palm.
"Then can you guess what he's talking about looking at us?"
Estio looked up at the tree that Lina was fiddling with. It was not yet the season for autumn leaves, but it was a ginkgo tree with lots of lush green leaves.
Estio, who stood in front of a healthy and well-grown ginkgo tree, looked down again.
"...preferably, I don't want to hear it."
"Huh? No, why?"
After seeing his expression right next to him, Lina couldn't ask more why. I don't know why he didn't want to hear it, but I could see that he was genuinely reluctant.
His dark blue eyes were drooping down as if he was exhausted from something.
'If I could see what's in my heart, I'd be curious to read this and that. tp.'
Lena put her regrets behind her and pulled her hand from the ginkgo tree. She brought her in to ease her mood at best and didn't want to trouble her again.
That was the moment. The low voice of a forgotten being came from behind them.
"Say, I'm talking."
"Zen?"
It was the guild master's doll 'Zen'. Her red hair, flowing through her hooded robes, looked as radiant as her rose petals. Jen spoke in a slow tone and placed her hand on her ginkgo tree. Unlike Lina, who was rough on the tree, she was a slender butterfly-like gesture that was only lightly placed on her.
"Nice to meet you. Estio, you."
Salang.
Fresh green ginkgo leaves that have not yet ripened in the wind from somewhere fell on Estio's head.
"Nice to meet you......."
"The last and lovely child of the Black Clan."
"I'm glad I'm still alive..."
gurgling.
In an instant, the whispers of the trees mixed with laughter were heard and then disappeared. Everyone had a favorable voice. But for a while, it was quiet again like a lie.
Estio took off the leaf that had been attached to his head, held it in his hand, and looked down at him. It was a pretty green ginkgo leaf that looked just like a heart.
He turned to Jen with a ginkgo leaf in his hand.
"Zen, can you hear the plants?"
"Because it's a tree, me too."
"......?"
As Estio paused, not fully understanding what the doll was saying, Jen pointed to herself again and added.
"Wooden doll."
"Ah."
It seems that it was originally a tree.
At that moment, Estio understood the meaning of the words and sighed softly. There is no one in the world who has such power. Knowing that, he would have expected this once in a while and was often disappointed. Estio hid his anticipation after staying for a while, secretly in the pocket of his coat with ginkgo leaves.
The doll, Jen, not knowing what he was thinking, beckoned him lightly.
"Come on, come and hear for yourself."
"No, that's it."
"Why? Do you hate trees?"
"Not that."
Estio let out a small sigh. Even though she was a doll and not a human, the question of 'why?' was clearly felt in Jen's clear brown eyes.
Lina and Parker took a step back and watched Zen and Estio's workshop with strange eyes. A little while ago, that doll named Zen was stabbing me directly at the story that Lina seemed considerate and did not ask on purpose. Even though it was the same question, seeing what Jen, a wooden doll, was saying didn't sound bad.
In the end, Estio meekly answered Zen's question.
"They may not want me to read."
The mind is a secret realm. There were far more people who didn't want their inner feelings to be revealed than those who wanted them to be revealed.
"Reading the mind of someone you don't want can be violence."
"violence?"
"Yes."
So he practiced 'not reading'. always.
Of course, nothing was going on. Even though he covered his eyes and ears not to see and hear, in the end strong thoughts flowed naturally into him. The people of his hometown of Selvia threw stones at him whenever he did.
"Estio."
But after hearing that, Jen looked straight at him without shaking and said,
"A tree cannot speak unless it listens."
"......"
"Even if you have something you want to say, even if you have a story you want to tell."
If Zen had not been reborn as a doll through the power of the guildmaster, it would have been no different from the trees here. Zen wasn't even a big tree like a ginkgo tree. When she thought it was all over, she met the Master.
"Even the moment you die of thirst, you can't express anything. Naturally, trees are like that."
Jen took off her hood. Her long red petals of hair ran down her slender shoulders. Her face, exposed under the sunlight, had a strange tattoo. She didn't feel alive because she wasn't a living person, but she had a beautiful face, literally like a sculpture.
"You know, Estio?"
The expressionless doll smiled at someone for the first time.
"Your presence is a blessing to us."
That was the moment.
"There! What are you doing in the botanical garden now!"
"Hey."
Parker, who was mesmerized by the doll's smile, shook his wings and swallowed his saliva. A middle-aged man who was pruning from a distance came running, wielding a large pair of scissors.
Parker hurriedly pointed to Lina and bowed her head.
"Aww, I'm sorry Lina-san touched the tree without permission!"
"Why are you apologizing for me?!"
Lina, who was told the first time, put on an absurd expression. Jen, who was actually putting her hand on the ginkgo tree, just looked at the man who had run away. Finally, a middle-aged man who ran up to them gasped and held up his fingers.
"Not a tree!"
"Yes?"
"You stepped on a flower!"
"......!"
Where he pointed, the heavy soles of the white-haired monkey were trampling on wild flowers growing along the roadside.
"Mi, I'm sorry!"
thump, thump.
Neju, who had a gigantic size, stepped back with sincere apologies, but this time the small seedling behind him broke with a crackling sound.
Seeing this, the middle-aged man's face became contemplative.
"I can't-!"
* * *
"Uh..."
"Oh, oh my, our poor babies."
The middle-aged man wept eagerly while arranging the cut seedlings and flowers. The party, who had arranged the flowers together, awkwardly exchanged glances with each other, unable to speak because they were crying bitterly.
"Are you the manager here? I'm really sorry......"
"Hey, Parker. This is the director."
"Are you the manager?"
As a botanical garden managed by the guild, the director is a person with a higher position in the guild. The man crying profusely in front of the party was Dr. Brune Jaeger, who boasted of his extraordinary botanical knowledge as well as his unusual love for plants.
"It's been a while, Director Bryan."
"Oh, Lina, it was you."
The director looked at Lina while sniffling and showed a welcome expression.
"Yeah, how have you been? The fortress is not well-known, so you're doing something like a wandering mercenary?"
"No, what is this uncle saying now?"
Lina threw away what she was happy with and jumped from her seat.
"My popularity is excellent by month or mana! I am now the team leader. Assault support team leader! Now, I'm at the point where I'm receiving requests. Is the manager talking about the last time in a manly manner in front of the leader?"
