episode_0052
by fnovelpiaBolt waiting in the safe zone outside Baekungok.
Buddy didn’t even come because he was scared. He must be taking care of his feathers at the inn in the village at the bottom of the valley.
“When on earth is it coming out?”
It’s been about an hour since Karami and Seira entered Baekungok.
Because of the thick fog, the inside could not be seen, and the sound of the ground rumbling echoed through the valley.
Can I just wait here like this?
If that monster comes, I’m dead.
I don’t know.
‘You two were destined to be together. May you rest in peace.’
It was the moment when Bolt was about to turn his back after finishing his prayer in 0.1 seconds.
“Oh my, I finally got out. If I had come alone, I would have been locked up for the rest of my life and never escaped.”
“Why am I doing this… .”
“You have to watch over it, watch over it. You have to take responsibility until the end.”
The two people who had entered the valley came out, dispersing the fog. It was exactly the appearance effect of a mountain spirit.
“D, you’re finally out! I wasn’t trying to run away alone… Huh? ”
Bolt’s eyes widened.
Karami was holding the little girl in her arms like a baby. Two went in, but three came out?
“Congratulations. What a beautiful daughter! I never thought you two would be like that. But no matter how good you are, isn’t it a bit weird to play outdoors?”
“Don’t talk nonsense, Bolt.”
“Three, three?”
Even though the other person wasn’t Karami, Seira spit out harsh words. Her appearance was different than usual.
The hands and feet were those of a hideous beast, and the limbs were covered in ashen fur. It was a sign of the beastman’s unique ability, beast transformation.
“I’m a wolf. This kid is a fox.”
“Hmm…? Oh, I see, I see. Sorry for the misunderstanding. I was just flustered.”
It’s a cute fox.
And the pink fur too.
“… ?”
Pink fur?
fox?
Pink fox?
“Ho, Hongho?!”
“That’s right. Isn’t it pretty? My new slave.”
“How pretty! You took a pink fox as your slave? Are you out of your mind?”
Hongho (紅狐) was one of the infamous monsters. Just being around it would bring misfortune and disaster.
To bring it here on my own feet? I can’t explain it without going crazy.
“Put it back where it was, even now! Otherwise, you’ll be in trouble!”
“Haha, how could you leave such a cute kid in such a dangerous place? I guess Mr. Bolt doesn’t know, but inside Baekungok, there’s a bear monster called Unggwi that walks around and if you go in, it’ll squawk.”
“But─!”
“Ms. Seira.”
Karami cut off Bolt’s words as he tried to protest and looked at Seira with a sly expression. Seira’s eyes were wary of what nonsense he would say next.
“… What is it?”
“Is it a plus or a minus to let an injured child die just because it brings misfortune?”
“Tsk.”
Seira responded with a short click of her tongue, and Karami smiled faintly at the expected reaction.
“You heard, Mr. Bolt? If you leave it behind, it’s considered abandonment. You can’t abandon it again when you’re accused of abandonment, right? That’s too bad.”
“… … I clearly told you not to. I don’t know what will happen.”
***
I left Baekungok and returned to the small village where Buddy was waiting.
It was a tiring day, so I promised to meet tomorrow and went into my room.
“Hoo… .”
I sat down on the bed. Perhaps because it was a foreign inn, I had chosen the best room, but it wasn’t very comfortable. It was unfortunate, but I guess that can’t be helped.
As expected, Lin was sleeping next to me, breathing heavily.
The treatment had already been completed a long time ago. There were bandages wrapped here and there, but Suin had excellent resilience, so she would recover quickly.
I stroked Lin’s hair. I flinched unconsciously, as if it was a sensation I was experiencing for the first time.
‘Oh, poor thing.’
The third main slave [the fox that brings misfortune].
One of the most popular characters that comes to mind when you think of Taosul. There are several reasons for this, but first of all, he is different from other slaves in many ways.
first.
In Lin’s case, there is no name.
Mirabelle’s case is slightly different. While Mirabelle tried to hide her name, Haerin really had no name.
So where did the name ‘Rin’ come from?
‘That’s the name I made up in the game.’
In-game it is [LIN].
The reason is because the game rules state that nicknames can only be between 2 and 8 characters long.
Lin is the only character whose name is directly assigned by the user.
The second is the growth aspect.
Other slaves are already somewhat grown up when you meet them. Based on their development.
But the current Rin is small.
It’s smaller than Mirabelle.
However, as the story progresses, you will gradually grow physically.
That is, I name her and I raise her from the beginning. If you watch her grow up, it is a structure that makes it impossible not to feel affection.
“Hoo hoo, hoo hoo hoo.”
I’m already excited to think about raising Lin.
Daddy will raise you well.
***
In the back alleys of Bestia, along an old road that no one knows about, there is a fortune teller.
A musty, old-fashioned smell.
Dark interior.
There are white beads on the round table.
The old woman moved her wrinkled fingers languidly over the beads, her silver tail swaying softly as she moved.
“Let’s see… I see you running down the road. Behind you, other guys are chasing after you. It’s so exciting, it’s like a competition.”
“Time, what time is the match?”
“You went in first. People are cheering and congratulating you.”
“Really?”
The old woman nodded while looking at the beads.
“Then… .”
“What’s next?”
The girl who was reading the fortune swallowed her saliva and waited nervously for the next words. The next words that came out of the old woman’s mouth were.
“… … are dancing while singing.”
“Dance… ?”
“Yeah, a lot of guys are waving their flags and cheering you on.”
“You went to a competition, ran, won first place, danced, and sang? What kind of absurd fortune telling is that?”
“No… .”
“She said she was a fortune teller, but she’s actually a scammer. I want to go.”
A girl who was leaving the fortune telling shop as if she was dissatisfied with the results. Her tail was wagging.
Silence settled in for a moment.
“Keuheup. Keuheuheuheuk.”
A woman who was watching the series of events let out a small gasp. She covered her mouth with her hand, but it was no use. Eventually, a burst of laughter broke out.
“… If you laugh like that, I’ll get mad, Princess.”
Infinitely dark black hair.
Pupils that seem to be filled with melted gold.
Ears that stick out and a long tail.
She, called the princess, is the lioness of Vestia.
It was Hilde Brigitta Lionis.
“Keuh-keuh, I’m sorry. But there’s nothing I can do. I never dreamed that there would come a day when Yu-hwa would be called a fraud.”
Yuhwa kept her mouth tightly shut.
The fortune-telling grandmother.
Most people call the old woman by her ubiquitous name, but the few who know of her existence call her this.
One of the three witches who hide from the eyes of the world.
A witch who reads the flow of fate.
Yuhwa of the Sky Fox, Cheonho.
A demon who has lived for a thousand years despite being a beastman and not an elf. He has been a living witness to the changes in the world over a long period of time.
“I guess Yuhwa has gotten old too? Looking at her making such ridiculous predictions.”
Blue eyes like the winter sky. The fox’s tail is white, like a cloud.
Yu-hwa was once a visionary who could foresee the future, but even she could not escape the passage of time.
Her tail was faded, and the tip had lost its luster. The wrinkles engraved around her eyes told of the weight of the years she had lived.
The demon that once held the will of heaven has now been reduced to a small creature that only uses magic.
“Hmm, this can’t be happening… .”
Yuhwa frowned as she looked at the picture reflected by the marble, as if she still couldn’t give up.
No matter how different it may seem from the past, the other person is just an ordinary girl, and even that is not far in the future. I am confident that I can never be wrong.
The girl, a horse-woman, wears a dazzling outfit and races through the city, coming in first, and dancing on stage with the horse-woman competitors.
Even to Yuhwa, it is absurd, but no matter how hard you look at it, the sight the marble shows does not change.
“Yu-hwa, how about you come to the palace now? You can read my daily horoscope every morning.”
“I will decline. I have to operate the top, and sometimes, instead of good points, bad points appear. I am worried that I will upset the princess.”
“In that case, just tell me a white lie. I believe whatever Yu-hwa says unconditionally?”
“If you lie about your fate, you will be punished by heaven, princess.”
“I know. That’s why I believe in Yuhwa.”
Why do you want me to lie when you know it?
Yu-hwa sighed at the princess who liked to play with words.
Less loud.
“Huh?”
The marble shook out of nowhere.
It wasn’t an earthquake or a wind.
“What? Yuhwa, is it an egg, not a bead?”
Yu-hwa didn’t have time to react to the trivial joke. She just stared blankly at the marbles.
The bead shook unsteadily, rattling. The vibrations grew stronger and stronger, and then a pink light spread out, filling the inside of the bead.
Yuhwa’s eyes, which had been locked low, grew wide like a carp.
“This, this is…?!”
“Why?”
Yuhwa’s eyes shook violently like marbles.
The pink fog that had been spreading out in clumps is starting to take shape little by little. The fog has created nine haze. The haze is swaying as if dancing.
The strange movement reminded me of the wagging tail of a fox.
What this means is obvious.
“That kid… came out?”
A being that had been in hiding for a long time and disappeared from the eyes of the world. But now, it has reappeared to the outside world, disrupting the order of the heavens.
That wasn’t all.
‘Who else is there?’
There is someone who has twisted the order of heaven and brought out the evil fox. However, we cannot see who it is. A huge tree obscures his appearance.
‘Are you an elf?’
The elf and the world tree that protects him?
But I don’t feel any elven energy… .
I don’t know.
The fog dispersed and the marble regained its original color. The shaking also stopped.
Yu-hwa was dumbfounded by the fact that everything had happened in an instant. How could such absurd things happen one after another?
“Yu-hwa, what the hell is going on?”
Yuhwa slowly regained consciousness at the sound of Hilde’s voice. Still, her tired expression was evident.
“I guess I’ll have to close the fortune telling shop.”
I guess I’ve really run out of supernatural powers.
Otherwise it wouldn’t make sense.
Okay, let’s stop now.
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