episode_0169
by fnovelpiaLife as a one-armed person is extremely uncomfortable.
Especially if you were someone who had both arms intact until a few days ago. If you habitually try to use your right arm, only the empty sleeve will flutter.
It’ll take some time to adjust, but by the time you do, you’ll be able to put your arms back on. Just get by until the priest comes.
Ironically, it wasn’t all bad, as Assisi started doing something of his own accord.
Just this morning, it was like that.
Isn’t it showing an effort to wake up on its own without me waking it up?
‘Asis… wakes up alone?’
This is truly a remarkable achievement.
Even.
“Rami. Ah… .”
Assis brings the soup to my mouth. I plan on feeding him someday like I did.
“It’s okay. I have a left hand. I can eat by myself.”
“Ah.”
Consideration that borders on coercion.
I try to refuse by saying I can do it by myself, but he doesn’t even pretend to listen.
The determination to never back down was evident in his voice.
I had no choice but to open my mouth and eat it.
“Delicious… Huh?”
“Yes, well… . It tastes better because Miss Asia fed it to me.”
Then Assis nodded his head as if satisfied.
That wasn’t the end of it.
“Rami. Pal.”
“I’m the only one who can handle the clothes… .”
“eight.”
“eight… .”
Until I dressed her.
Even while walking, I could feel the change in Assis.
After eating breakfast, I went for a walk to help with digestion.
I had to feel the sorrow of being one-armed without fail.
‘Wow. I can’t even carry a backpack anymore.’
He used to carry things on his back because his hands were empty, but now that his right hand is gone, he can’t even carry things on his back. His left hand, which has no friends, has become a loner.
As I was walking with my left hand weakly shaking, I felt a cool sensation. I looked to the side and saw Assis approaching me and grabbing my hand.
“AS Yang?”
“Because I feel lonely.”
“Are you lonely?”
“Rami.”
Last time, you held my hand, saying I would be lonely. I appreciate your consideration, but Assis’s hands are too cold.
“It’s not quiet enough to hold hands.”
“… I’m lonely.”
“I told you it’s not that lonely?”
“I’m lonely.”
“My hands are cold. Let go.”
“… I don’t know.”
To put it bluntly, Assis casted Molu, and rather than letting go, he gave it a lot of strength.
‘hmm….’
Assis, who was like a reckless kid, became wise overnight.
I’ve raised Asis hundreds of times, but this is the first time I’ve seen this case. The character’s personality has completely changed.
As a parent, I should be happy about my child’s growth, and as a master, I should be happy about my slave’s growth, but I’m worried that it was Tricker who lost his arm.
‘This is just like when Lin was here.’
The starting point of Lin’s excessive obsession with me was when I was injured. She secretly absorbed my energy and even confined me so I couldn’t go anywhere.
So from then on, I was thinking, ‘I have to be careful,’ but somehow things ended up like this.
‘Surely he’s not going to lock me up too?’
Become a second Skadia and freeze her forever?
I just pray earnestly that something like that never happens.
***
“Snow White was surprised, surprised… . In the snow, white fairies… … .”
Assis’s overprotectiveness of Karami did not end even when night fell.
A room where two people live together, decorated with a magic stone mood light and snowballs. The music box winds up and soft music flows out.
The person sitting on the bed was not Assis, but Karami. Assis was reading a storybook in a soft voice next to him, just like Karami had done before.
If you close your eyes and listen quietly, you will probably fall asleep quickly.
“ASIS Yang? You don’t have to read it.”
Karami finds this situation awkward.
I appreciate Assis’s heart, but at this age, I feel strange listening to fairy tales while sleeping. Is it embarrassing or awkward?
“No, no… ?”
But Assis unleashed his ultimate attack. An aegyo that no one, regardless of gender, could refuse.
Of course, there was no malicious intent behind it, but it was even more fatal because there was no malicious intent. I knew that if I refused, I would hurt that pure heart.
“No. I will listen.”
In the end, Karami had no choice but to listen.
Assis began to speak again.
It was nothing new. It was Snow White, created by Karami and told to Assis several times.
Still, it wasn’t too bad because it felt like a treat to my ears to hear the clear voice that sounded like crystal.
“Snow White, who was sleeping, was kissed by the prince… … .”
“?”
“… I woke up to a customization.”
There was even a sequel that wasn’t in the book, which Karami only told to Assis. Assis seemed to like the ending quite a bit.
“The prince… put a ring on Snow White… and proposed to her… .”
“… ?”
However, an additional setting that did not exist before was added. When he looked at Assis in doubt, Assis slowly turned his gaze away and avoided eye contact.
“Why the ring all of a sudden?”
“When Perka proposes, he gives her a ring… .”
“Well, that’s not wrong.”
Assis is also a woman, so she can be romantic about such things. Karami didn’t think much of it.
Even after that, Assis kept glancing at him from time to time, but Karami didn’t realize why until the moment he fell asleep.
***
The day of the decisive battle is just around the corner.
Preparations for the battle with Skadia were nearing their final stages. However, as the battle with the dragons approached, tension began to rise in the always bustling Doomheim.
A drunkard’s cask.
The dwarves conversed in worried voices.
“Is this right?”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, fighting a dragon. I thought it was too reckless.”
“Are you scared now? Didn’t you say you were going to show the kids a confident appearance?”
“At that time, I was swept up in the atmosphere… .”
Among the dwarves who had been swayed by Karami’s rhetoric, one by one, some began to reconsider fighting.
I was serious at the time, but I don’t stay intoxicated by passion my whole life. After about a month, I suddenly became smart.
“Hmm… .”
The most contagious emotion is fear.
The primal instinct of a living creature to want to live.
The dwarves lifted heavy cups today.
Then a dwarf approached the table.
“Everyone looks worried.”
“Wow, Mr. Ulbram? What brings you here… .”
“Hehe, what’s going on? Am I not allowed to drink in a bar?”
“Oh, no. Take a seat here. Hey! Here’s a cold ale!”
“Thank you.”
Ulbram joined naturally.
I drank the alcohol that just came out in one shot.
It was indeed a bold move worthy of the leader of the dwarves.
“Wow~ That’s refreshing. Yeah. Are you scared before a fight?”
“That, that’s… .”
“You can be honest.”
The dwarf, startled by Ulbram’s point, answered cautiously.
“… Yes. I’m a little scared. To be honest, I wonder if it’s right to bet the rise and fall of the kingdom on something that has nothing to do with us directly.”
“Hmm. I guess you could think that way. It’s a very natural thought.”
The reason Doomheim started fighting was not because of Skadia. To be exact, it was to help Assis, who had been harmed by Skadia.
It’s okay to be proud of keeping your word, but you can’t help but wonder, ‘Is this the right thing to do?’ It would be strange not to do it.
But Ulbram firmly denied the dwarves’ doubts.
“You guys. I think you’re mistaken. This fight isn’t about serving others. It’s about serving our dwarves.”
“Yes?”
“Do you know why dwarves live underground?”
“Isn’t that because there’s a lot of ore?”
I shook my head at Ulbram.
“There are many mines on the surface. Let alone us blacksmiths. Even the so-called masterpieces of craftsmanship are nothing more than junk if no one uses them.”
Just as there must be consumers for there to be producers, a blacksmith can only have meaning if there are users who use his goods.
If so, it would be common sense that it would be much easier for most races to interact on the surface than underground. However, dwarves settled underground, which is the complete opposite.
It wasn’t intentional.
“Since ancient times, dragons have been very interested in the skills of dwarves. They made dwarves their slaves and made them create things that they liked. Until the last moment when the hammer broke and the soul went out.”
“… … .”
“Dwarves had no choice but to hide underground to avoid the eyes of dragons. Even though there is an endless sky and a wide world, they live in this narrow underground space.”
Great Dwarf Bargan.
A legendary blacksmith who founded the underground city of Doomheim and created the Heart of Magmar. At the same time, Vargan was the greatest coward among the dwarves.
Because he ran away from the dragon faster than anyone else and hid deeper than anyone else to build Doomheim.
Bargan was a hero and also a coward.
“But a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity has come. A chance to defeat the evil dragon and get back to the surface…!”
There was excitement in Ulbram’s always serious voice.
When Karami first came to Doomheim with Perka, Ulbram took it lightly.
When Karami brought Assis, I suspected it was a coincidence when I found out she was under the curse of Skadi.
When Karami convinced the dwarves with the story of Snow White, they were convinced that it was fate.
Karami, the slave messenger.
He didn’t know exactly what he meant by ‘liberation’, which he had heard rumors about, but it sounded like this to Ulbram’s ears.
“In this dark underground. It is a golden opportunity to be free from the dragons that have oppressed us dwarves.”
“… … .”
“It’s okay to be scared. It’s okay to tremble. But please don’t run away. As a blacksmith. As a dwarf, burn your soul.”
“Uh, Mr. Ulbram… .”
A history I had never thought of, no dwarf could open the door due to Meister Ulbram’s sincere request.
There was a heavy silence for a moment, then Ulbram smiled and cleared the air. He stood up from his seat.
“Oh, are you drunk? You’re talking nonsense like that. You don’t have to listen to me, but just remember this. This fight is not for others.”
The dwarves nodded absentmindedly.
A few more days passed since then.
The day of final battle has arrived in Doomheim.
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