episode_0231

Just because Kihara left the sea route open, Shiron did not attack right away.

He is a warrior and a good man. This is because they could not leave Johanna alone, who collapsed after being exploited. So Siron remembered Seira’s coordinates for Orr’s vortex and at the same time rented an inn in a nearby village. furthermore…

“Are you really Kylie?”

I had to say something I couldn’t say before.

“It would be better to be honest. Because I’m really angry.”

Siron shifted his gaze from the unconscious Johanna to Seira. Just as she said she was angry, Seira had her arms crossed and her legs crossed and a frown on her face, and Shiron had only one response.

“No.”

“…Is that the end?”

“I’m sorry.”

Shiron did not just finish his speech and bowed his head. This is not a formal apology. An impersonation of Kylie, her former colleague. No matter how necessary it may be, there was no way that Seira’s feelings would not have been hurt.

“Ugh… then that’s right.”

Seira knew that too, so she let out a deep sigh and finished it off by hitting Honey Chestnut once. It was impossible for Seira, a wizard, to inflict damage on Siron’s body, but Siron pretended to be in pain as much as he felt sorry for her.

“I had some expectations.”

Seira muttered with a disappointed look on her face.

“Did you expect it?”

“……Unfortunately, they say that a friend who died has returned. It was a dizzying situation, but it is natural to be happy.”

“…”

“And the disappointment was that big.”

Siron pushed a chair for Seira and encouraged her to sit down. As disappointed and angry as she was, she thought she would refuse the favor, but Seira did not refuse the chair that was offered to her.

But the conversation did not continue right away. Do you both need time to organize your thoughts? Or maybe I have nothing to say. Siron, who was uncomfortable with silence, had no choice but to open his mouth first.

“…I never thought I would even believe you.”

“I don’t know, maybe I’m stupid. Or maybe my loneliness reached its peak and I felt weak.”

Seira’s eyes became increasingly bloodshot. As if she was remembering a painful memory, her eyes filled with tears and she rubbed her eyes with her sleeve.

He wondered if he should wipe away the tears and soothe them, but Siron, who knew the consequences when friends crossed the line, decided to pretend not to see the tears instead.

“Sniff. Where are you going?”

Seira grabbed Shiron’s collar as he was about to leave.

“But if you’re a colleague, even if you can’t wipe away your tears, you can pat your back, right?”

“…Am I that handsome??”

“What are you talking about?”

“No. Okay, I’ll give you a pat.”

“Hmph! I should have done that a long time ago. It’s late.”

“…Ugh.”

Siron took a deep breath and stared at Johanna on the bed. Even as the conversation continued, she did not open her eyes.

” Cast all the magic you can to protect this guy.”

“…sniff. Still, I guess you feel sorry.”

“You became innocent. The bubbles inside have disappeared, and now I think I was really a child who hoped the hero would come.”

“……Definitely, it’s easy to mistake him for that guy.”

Seira chuckled and raised her wand. Shiron, who didn’t miss a single word of her muttering, opened his eyes and turned his head.

“Again, I am not Kylie.”

“What are you talking about?”

Seeing that sly reaction, Seira waved her hand and wiped away her tears.

“I’m not that fish head, are you really mistaken?”

“… Kihara must have experienced Kylie too. Have you and that guy ever met in the first place? At best, all I could see was this guy’s eyes…”

“You and Kylie have nothing in common except that your hair and eyes are black and you have a holy sword.”

Seira looked at Siron with faint eyes.

“So don’t try to find reasons for the thoughts of a madman.”

“…”

“Just as the devil’s thoughts cannot be understood by humans, it is just a crazy bitch acting crazy.”

“…were you crazy in the past?”

“If you don’t go crazy, you can sink a ship with hundreds of people laughing…”

“You were an enemy.”

“…You have a face that makes me want to ask, “You killed a lot of demons too,” but I still shot them dead from a distance where I couldn’t see their faces. And he prayed to God every night.”

Swish – Seira crossed her legs, crossed her arms, and looked back on old memories.

“Of course, later on, I couldn’t afford it, so there were many days when I didn’t do it… The opponents gradually became stronger and more vicious, so I fought against the evil, but Kihara was a bitch from the beginning.”

“I see.”

Siron stroked the head of Johanna, who was lying down. As long as Latera confirmed that she was not lying. It would also not be a lie that her father, the chef, had a back injury.

In that case, there was a high probability that the cook’s injury was also caused by Johanna’s hands.

“…I have to kill him quickly.”

“Okay, I have to kill him quickly.”

Perhaps it was the moment when she gathered her will and clenched her fist, but Seira suddenly remembered the presence of someone who was not here.

“By the way. Is it okay for me to stay here?”

“…What are you talking about?”

“Your sister is still shivering outside. I think he needs to be comforted too…”

Seira said while staring at the door she had passed through. Lucia is not in this room right now, because she is deliberately avoiding Siron.

Siron didn’t seem to care much, but from the outside, Lucia looked like she couldn’t come to her senses, as if she was experiencing great regret.

Shiron thought he was worrying needlessly, but Seira seemed to know how Lucia felt.

No matter how much it was a provocation, she mustered up the courage to give her a surprise kiss, but Siron, the person involved, didn’t pay any attention, so it wasn’t surprising that Lucia was in a state of great self-destruction.

As if staring at the sea with wide eyes was not enough, the red-haired girl was crouching on a rock, her back bent and her sword sheath tightly hugged.

“Well… I think I should go.”

Seira opened her mouth, remembering Lucia’s appearance.

“I don’t know why my sister kissed me… Of course, I think you feel bad, but it’s too pitiful to do that.”

“I too… was quite surprised.”

“I think that bitch Kihara didn’t just attack you, she provoked you. It’s strange that I’m not surprised.”

Latera, who had disappeared as if Seira’s sigh had been contagious, also let out a sigh full of worry.

[It may be because I have a lot of sins.]

‘What do you mean?’

[Why, there is a saying like that. They say sinful men are popular.]

‘Don’t talk nonsense, if you have a lot of sins, you should be stabbed, not kissed. And when did you clear your karma?’

Siron wrapped his arms around himself and trembled.

Wouldn’t you know it if you stabbed her with a knife? The karma of impersonating Kylie is hitting your sister’s lips?

[Anyway. Lucia seemed to like the warrior.]

‘…no way.’

[Isn’t insensitive men a long time out of fashion these days? You’re not stupid, are you deliberately pretending not to know? Or do you really not know?]

‘There’s no reason for her to like me. I flirted with Siriel openly, but Lucia treated me like a real friend or family member.’

Siron blocked any possibility of Lucia liking him.

That’s because, even if we exclude the relationship between Lucia and Siron in ‘Reincarnated Swordsman’, there was a lack of evidence for Lucia to like Siron.

Of course, to prevent Lucia from stabbing her, they built a close brother-sister bond and a friendship-like relationship, but I could never have imagined that affection would blossom to the point of kissing.

“Don’t just sit here. First, go out and give him some comfort! What will you do if your hands and feet don’t work together before the battle?”

Seira jumped up from her seat and grabbed Siron’s collar.

“Don’t even think about coming in until you resolve it well! At least come in when you feel like your hands and feet are in good shape!”

“Hey, you…”

Shiron tried to say something, but Seira even levitated him and kicked him out of the inn.

‘…Colleagues must be friendly with each other.’

It may seem like a pointless nonsense, but since she broke up with Kylie without being able to reconcile, Seira hoped that Siron would not go down the same path as her.

*

Kihara’s words about keeping the road open were not lies.

The dark clouds in the sky remained the same, but the strong storm had stopped, and the sea had become like a calm lake without a single wave, let alone a whirlpool.

Are your feelings for Kylie that heavy? She bluffed and pretended to be Kylie, but Shiron still didn’t understand Kihara’s feelings.

What Lucia didn’t understand was the same.

Immediately after Kihara left, her head became calm as the cold wind took away her body temperature. Therefore, Lucia could not help but think about Kihara, the culprit of this incident.

Why did I finally notice Kihara’s existence?

Also, why did Kihara keep the sea route open?

What particularly bothered me was Kihara’s reaction when Siron said it was Kylie.

‘…It seemed like he liked me. That’s also huge.’

It was a very vague idea, but Kihara just declared that Siron was Kylie, but then he did something shallow by mixing his tongue.

that,

It is an act that is difficult to do without great affection. It was hard for Lucia to understand that they were even ignoring this situation when it was clearly heading towards battle.

Of course, after Johanna escaped from Kihara’s control, Lucia tried to show off, but… she was so embarrassed that she didn’t say anything!

‘Anyway, that’s it…’

Lucia blushed and did not take her eyes off the sea.

‘I didn’t even know that bastard liked me… Does that make common sense? ‘Why do you like someone who cuts off their limbs as if they’re going to kill you?’

To clear her heated head again, Lucia recalled her last memory of Kihara.

Indeed, it was under the sea at that time too. I even remembered that an order had been sent from on high to subdue Kihara in order to intentionally calm the sea storms and launch supply ships to support the Allied Forces.

And, as expected, Kihara lost to Kylie.

Although it could not be killed, it disappeared after being caught in a strong current, with its limbs cut off and bleeding profusely.

‘And you’re a woman? ‘Gross, why do you like me, a woman?’

We didn’t even have a few conversations during the process. He said that he was the enemy of Cheolcheon, and even if he sharpened his sword for hundreds of years, he pressed his lips so hard that he made his crotch… wet! It makes no sense to like it.

Then a thought suddenly occurred to me.

‘Could it be that this is what Yuma told you to be careful of?’

-That’s why you have such a deep grudge! The Queen of the Deep Sea and the Tower of Despair are alive. Would they be still if they knew you were alive?

When she left for the Dawn Castle to find herself, Yuma warned her to hide Kylie’s identity. The reason is simple. This was because there was a risk that if the fact that Kylie had been reincarnated spread to the world, those who still remembered her with deep resentment would attack at the same time.

But for Lucia, it was just unfair.

Among them, the only one who was deliberately saved was Yuma, and the rest had no choice but to leave Huhwan behind due to unavoidable circumstances.

Yura’s high fever. Seira’s injury. Allied forces retreat. Disruption of supply.

And Kihara missed it due to an unavoidable accident. I regretted that I should have gone out of my way to follow him, but thinking about it now, I couldn’t help it at the time.

The sea is no place for humans to live. Therefore, no matter how strong Kylie was, fighting a life-or-death battle in a location that was advantageous to the enemy was a daunting task.

‘I used a technique I didn’t know about. ‘It’s definitely harder to deal with than last time.’

Almost 500 years have passed. Kihara is a demon who has lived foolishly for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

I don’t know if he became stronger than before due to the time it took to recover from his severed limbs, but from what Lucia saw, Kihara was using more advanced techniques than before.

‘…I thought it would be over if I just killed the demon.’

It wasn’t the end. And, just because Kihara disappeared, it wasn’t the end. Lucia gathered her courage and looked back.

“……Sorry.”

There was a poetic tone there that seemed to subtly keep a distance.

“You were very surprised, right? Suddenly…”

“…I’m not surprised, so come on in now.”

Shiron looked embarrassed and scratched the back of his head.

“Yeah, really?”

Lucia asked with joy. Siron nodded slowly in response to the easy-to-understand response.

“Because I’m not young enough to attach meaning to kisses.”

“…Yeah, right.”

“So when Kihara did that… I didn’t think anything of it.”

In response to Lucia’s gloomy reaction, Siron added a word to block any unnecessary illusions.

“So don’t worry about it either, I don’t think you were rude…”

“Did you think nothing of it when I did it?”

Lucia cut Siron off guard. The intention of indirectly showing consideration by telling her not to worry is a way of speaking that is too complicated and difficult for her.

The anxiety reflected in Lucia’s eyes. Siron, conscious of him, decided to speak more honestly.

“No, I was embarrassed, but it doesn’t mean I felt bad. Rather, I think it was good that you came to save me…”

“Well, I see…”

Lucia lowered her head and muttered. My face was so hot that I couldn’t look at Siron properly.

In the meantime, many thoughts come to mind. A thought about what is the starting point of all this.

The reason why Siron impersonated Kylie’s name. The reason behind holding the holy sword.

The reason why Kihara had feelings for Shiron…

A hidden secret.

‘I don’t think I can keep it a secret forever.’

Like that for a while. Lucia raised her head with eyes full of determination.

“There is something I wanted to say to you…”

“Don’t do it.”

Siron cut Lucia off with a straight face. Lucia, who was saddened by the loss of words, pursed her lips with a sullen expression.

“What if I tell you not to do it without listening?”

“Didn’t you hear from Eldrina? If you say such ominous things, something bad will happen.”

“…It’s not like that. That…”

“If you’re going to say something, say it after killing Kihara.”

“No, isn’t that an ominous sign?”

“I told you to be quiet, right?”

Siron grabbed Lucia’s hand and made her shut up as she was about to say something. It wasn’t that he didn’t think she would reveal her identity, but Siron thought that now was not the time.