Chapter 197
Chapter 197
“Sister Alicia! I’m here!”
“Hey, hey you bastard! Where are you crawling in without a letter!”
hmm. It’s a cry I haven’t heard in nearly two years, but it still resonates as if I’ve boiled a train firebox.
As soon as I entered the store, Mrs. Alicia ran out of the kitchen and rushed over to me. He slapped my forearm with his palm until it made a noise.
“Ouk! You’re still on active duty.”
“It sucks. You’ve just become a swordsman. What the hell happened to you last time? It wasn’t even a fuss when people like nobles came… Oops! Mr. Asillie was also there at the same time!”
“It’s been a while Alicia. Fortunately, things were sorted out at that time.”
Mrs. Alicia, who hit me with a stern face, smiled endlessly at Asilie and said that it was okay. I scanned the faces of the children snooping around, wondering what was going on in the midst of this commotion, but surprisingly, there were no faces I knew.
“Are all the kids independent? Don’t you know any faces?”
“What about independence? Everyone went to work. There’s no room for those who don’t work at this hour!”
“Oh. They say it’s going well, but it looks like it’s true. But are there any rooms left?”
“Why are you looking for a spare room? Go home.”
“There are things that we can call our own. We don’t know, but we need to find a place to stay.”
Alicia, who rolled her eyes as if disapproving of my answer, went back into the kitchen and said,
“I don’t have time to know if it’s you and Asillie. It’s not an inn anymore. There are many inns near the Adventurer’s Guild, so check them out.”
“Are you saying you’ve got a lot?”
“Yes. It used to be an unattractive outskirts, but it’s become a nice place for new adventurers who don’t want to be involved in war.”
hmm? This is a story that I hadn’t even heard from Asilie’s letter. Turning my head and looking at it, I noticed that Ashley didn’t know that well either.
“Since Eldy left, I’ve been living a little… leisurely.”
“Don’t talk. It’s really hard to see because I’ve lost my soul for a while…”
“Ah, Alicia? It looks like the stew is burning!”
“Huh? Oh!”
Anyone could see the opportunity and looked at Asilie, who showed an attitude of turning away, and then got hit on the other arm for no reason.
“Did your brother live here too?”
“huh?”
Looking down, I saw one of the children who had come close to me, staring at me with shining eyes.
“You’re from here? No. You’re the one who made this place.”
“Yes? This place was made by Alicia and the priests?”
“I can’t believe it! Sister? How the hell do you teach kids to study history?”
Growing up without knowing the epic about Eldmia Ega, the prophet who led Lady Alicia’s inn’s first member, Ragnis, and others. There is a problem with the historical consciousness.
“If you have nothing to do but stop talking, go and come back in the evening. I’m busy!”
“Well, if you’re curious, be on time for dinner, kids. The reason you’ve come to live in such a blessed environment is because of your footsteps…” My speech was the dust flying through the air
. I was stopped by the buried green onion roots.
As I escaped the building that had now become an orphanage while avoiding the flying projectiles that were precisely targeting me, the bright laughter of the children burst out from inside.
“To see the pain of others and laugh so happily. These guys have the qualities of a well-to-do adventurer.”
“It sounds like you’re having fun, right? Seeing the puns come out by themselves.”
“Well… not bad.”
Aside from Ragnis’ work, Alicia’s inn was the place where there wasn’t really anything bad to say. In many ways, it was a place that held its place as a good memory in me.
I climbed back on the horse and seated Asilier in front of me, and I spoke in a strangely refreshed mood.
“Now that we’ve said goodbye, shall we go to the cabin?”
“Umm. It looks like it’s going to be a bit disastrous, but I’ll have to go after all.”
I was wondering what it was, and when I got caught up in the gate of the demons, I came out in such a hurry that I couldn’t even close the door of the cabin. It seems that it will be difficult for the family and even the livestock to be kept alive.
Even though the city had changed so much, the road to the cabin didn’t seem to have changed much. The forest with its leaves and bare branches began to greet us with a dreary look, and it wasn’t until around the time I heard the sound of water running down from the valley that I stopped my horse for a moment and looked at the hill. .
The tomb I had made could be seen here as well.
“Do you want to stop by?”
“…no. I want to stop by before I leave.”
There were times when I cried all those days when I was young, and there were times when my sadness was diluted a lot while staying with Asilie, so now I feel more obligated as a child than feeling. Rather, the road leading to the hut, leaving the ruins and graves behind, evoked more emotions.
Maybe it’s because a little over two years isn’t an easy period, so it made people emotional.
“It feels like years have passed between just these few days.”
“Yeah. It was eventful.”
In fact, for quite a few people, it was not an eventful event, but something close to a disaster. Even the road to get here.
Come to think of it, when I first left, I thought I would return only after capturing the demon commander, but I’m a little embarrassed.
“Hmm?”
“why?”
“Someone is in the cabin.”
this crazy It’s been a few weeks, and there’s an outsider who has already found and occupied an empty house? It’s not easy to accept that there’s something wrong with not locking the door.
“But… are the cattle still alive?”
Asilie tilted her head as her ears perked up, but I didn’t have to question it.
It was because we had already seen the cabin because we rode quickly with the intention of rushing over and splitting the top of our heads.
At the sudden sound of horses hooves, the big man who was feeding the chickens raised his head to look at us.
“jin?”
“Huh? Brother? Are you back?”
Jin, a foreigner from Ladan across the sea and who called me brother without hesitation, was looking at us with surprised eyes.
“What are you doing here?”
“What are you doing? I’ve been guarding the house since Mr. Asillie suddenly disappeared with the nobles who suddenly appeared last time.”
“…After that?”
“Hahaha. Not that much. I just cared enough not to make these guys hungry.”
The guy who smiled awkwardly as if it wasn’t a big deal seemed to have even walked away without saying a word. In addition, it was not difficult to guess that, judging from the tidy surroundings of the house, it was easy to guess that he had taken care of the cleaning as well, unlike when he said that he only fed the livestock.
“Thank God. I honestly thought he would have run away or starved to death.”
“I received something, but I have to give you this much. Did you come back before that?”
“No. I haven’t even been near the battlefield yet. This time I came to organize my house and stuff.”
“Cleaning up… did you decide to go together?”
When I nodded as I lowered Asillie from the horse, he smiled and nodded.
“It’s a relief. After Mr. Asilier left…”
“I need to clean the house!”
“Uh… I’ve done it…”
Maybe he didn’t want to let me know how depressed he was after I left, but I just smiled as I watched Ashlie desperately cut off her words. listened to
“You seem to have gotten stronger.”
“You seem to have gotten bigger too? Do you do adventure work?”
“Hahaha. You’d be surprised to hear how much I’ve been involved in building Ogwen’s walls. I’m a popular person after all.”
but. The racial difference only made people feel threatened, but after getting used to it, this guy never got into gossip.
Jin calls it my grace, but in the end, it was his constant efforts to break the prejudice built up by various cultures, including slavery in Ladan.
“By the way, if you organize your luggage, you’ll dispose of your livestock too, right?”
“That’s how it should be. I want to go to the uncle I saw later, slaughter it, and give it to Mrs. Alicia as a gift.”
It’s not that I’m short of money anyway. I’d love it if you brought it. It will help even slightly.
“Now it’s Gunther’s butcher’s, not Bon’s butcher’s.”
“Huh? Did he inherit the family business? He thought he would become an adventurer?”
“It actually happened. I gave up and came back after less than a month. I think my older brother will find it funny when he goes and sees it later, right? He wears an iron adventurer’s mark around his neck and cuts meat solemnly like something to brag about…
” . You said you jumped out without even being able to wear a golden grade?”
The conversation that started with the recollection of a braggart whose face had grown like a warrior in a battle went on for quite a long time. Alec and Remiri’s bloody love front, a flurry that arose for a short time as an increasing adventurer, created a romantic atmosphere, and Mrs. Alicia’s sword fighting, driven by adventurers who tried to touch their children, etc.
“A lot happened.”
“Isn’t your brother like that too?”
“me?”
It was only after hearing Jin’s question that I recalled my memory.
In fact, it was quiet for about a year after I first went up to the capital. I was busy learning, I was busy using my brain to rightfully refuse the preferential treatment the Ogatorf family was trying to give me, and after I registered as an adventurer for the first time, I lived a tight life collaborating with all kinds of idiots to raise my grade, but… But in front of the recent big events It’s just that I can’t even hand out a business card.
“To be exact, things have been a lot in the last few months.”
When I think of all the things I’ve done, such as being stabbed in the stomach and almost being killed by a demon, I naturally laugh out loud.
The past is like magic. Just the fact that it has already passed is so mysterious that it can remain calm like this.
“To the extent that we can talk about it at Alisha’s nursery school this evening.”
I can’t tell you a few stories related to Esmue or the demons, but that would be enough.