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woke up from sleep

It’s not cold, it’s hot. My back was warm.

‘temperature?’

When I turned my head, the wolf was hugging me from behind.

why me? I gently turned around and turned towards the wolf.

I looked at the wolf’s chest.

The wolf’s armor was ruined by the blood and sweat on my back.

My nose is paralyzed by the smell of blood, so I can’t even feel the fishy smell anymore.

I’m in no position to decide what I look like right now.

As I turned over, my sweaty back felt refreshed.

However, there are fallen leaves stuck to its body.

‘I slept after raking fallen leaves, but why do I have leaves on my body?’

I turned my head and looked around.

However, the place where I was sleeping is far away.

I had rolled over here while I was sleeping.

‘···Your sleeping habits are really terrible.’

I knew I had to leave.

But if you want to follow the wolf when it leaves, you must get up at the same time. So that the wolf would never leave me, I hugged the wolf as if I were my own wife and went to sleep.

* * * * * *

The area around my body, which had been cozy until I went to sleep, only felt cold.

I thought, Oops.

It looks like he eventually left it behind.

I looked around just in case, but as expected, the wolf was nowhere to be found.

“It’s all right─···.”

A sigh comes out of his throat alone.

I never thought they would throw a child, who is not even an adult, in a deserted mountain valley and just leave.

‘Isn’t this at the level of murder?’

First, I removed the fallen leaves from my body and stood up.

I have no idea how to get to where people live.

Suddenly, I remembered what my father had told me.

─All civilization begins with water.

So, to discover civilization, all you have to do is move along the river.

If so, we will be able to find Ajin somehow.

But I don’t know where the river is.

First, I climbed the tallest tree in the surrounding area.

Wow!

Mosquitoes swarmed in, preying on defenseless gaps.

I couldn’t catch it, so I roughly shook it off with my hand and headed a little higher.

They rush in like a swarm of bees that have attacked a beehive.

If you were on Earth, you might have screamed and gone crazy, but ultimately, your threshold fluctuates depending on where you live.

First, I climbed to the top of the tree.

But even when I looked around, I could only see thick trees.

‘···I’m really screwed.’

If you commit suicide, it’s the next life.

If you jump from here, it’s the next life.

When I looked at the sky so high down, goosebumps came out and I had to hold my hands tight.

‘It’s definitely going to hurt! ‘What if I don’t die at once?!’

If you look for it, you’ll find a way to die comfortably.

At least I didn’t die here.

He came down from the tree and wiped away the sweat that seemed to be getting into his eyes.

Ugh—!

I crushed the ashes left over from the campfire and applied it to my body.

It stung like hell, but it was better than being bitten by a mosquito.

“Are you disguising it with that?”

“Who disguises themselves with ashes?”

Incheok stole my gaze.

A wolf. The wolf was standing. I didn’t come alone.

There was someone standing next to him, smaller than the wolf but also taller.

‘Are all species that originally live in forests tall?’

Human—It was not human.

Because his ears were pointed.

There was something else besides that.

It looked similar to a human, but it had thick hair growing in between the hairs, and flowers were growing there.

“Hmm? Are you a human male? It would be perfect to use as a slave.”

My eyes widened.

Because the symbol of fantasy was standing before my eyes.

‘really? Are you really, really an elf? ‘It’s a real elf!’

The forest fairy, the elf, is before my eyes!

“Elf?!”

It was a sight that made my heart flutter.

The wolf’s ears fluttered and its eyes turned to me.

“Hmm? Do you know elves too?”

“Of course I know! Who doesn’t know about elves?!”

I responded to the wolf and looked at the new person next to me.

The elf was looking at me with a very serious expression.

“Are you half-elf?”

I was taken aback by the sudden words.

“······Yes?”

The wolf looks at the elf at the ironic sound.

But the elf’s gaze was fixed on me.

‘It’s no joke.’

Looking at his expression, he wasn’t serious at all.

“What do you mean?”

“You just spoke in Elvish. Judging by the lack of grace, my father must be an elf.”

“I’ve never done that before? You’re speaking in Hosot.”

Hearing the wolf’s words, the elf opens his eyes and looks at the wolf.

And both eyes fell on me at the same time.

“Do you even speak elf?”

“No?”

“What are you talking about? Hey. What I just said is an elf.”

“You bitch, are you kidding me?”

The wolf’s expression as he looked at the elf became grim.

It seems like they think elves lie.

I, too, couldn’t understand this situation.

So, I tried my luck.

“You both use the same words, right? It’s common for Drekkar.”

The wolf and the elf look at each other.

There was an easy-to-read look of bewilderment on both of their faces.

“···Isn’t that Dragonia?”

Dragonia?

The wolf that was staring at me shakes its head.

“If you did that, would you be here?”

It seems that these people understand me in different languages. Actually, I had suspicions ever since the wolf held a knife to my throat and threatened my father…

Common language of the tribe? There is no such thing as comfort.

Even paper-like humans don’t all have different languages in each country?

Only then will the question be resolved.

The same goes for that young Terub.

Terub did not understand what the wolf said.

It was a nonsensical idea from the beginning.

I remember what the wolf said to me.

‘A person who has worked hard knows the value of life.’ Called.

A child who is not even an adult speaks the language of another subhuman naturally, and it is worth saying such a thing.

Only then could I understand Averch’s violent treatment.

What if your father knew how to talk to Terub?

There is no way he would have kicked young Terup so coldly.

Of course I would have asked first.

‘But how?’

The wolf and elf are looking at me with suspicious faces.

It’s absolutely not ordinary.

‘Most likely, it has something to do with the devil!’

It was difficult to decide whether to tell this or cover it up.

Even if I cover it up, I don’t know how to make an excuse.

How will they react when you tell them?

You said you made a contract with the devil while living in another world?

If you were born with a new body in someone else’s stomach, you can speak the language of another person?

‘It’s like being burned at the stake for no reason.’

It must be covered unconditionally.

“Actually, I have met Dragonia before.”

The wolf purrs its ears and purrs.

“What?”

“There was a time when I was having a hard time learning to read so I left home and took a rest, and Dragonia came and asked me. So you don’t want to learn how to write?”

“So?”

“When I said yes, he cast an interpretation spell on me. From then on, I was able to talk to all Ajin.”

This is hastily made bullshit.

Dragonia is a piece of shit.

I have never seen dragonia hair in my life.

I don’t even know what race Dragonia is or what it looks like.

‘Do you want to trick me?’

The wolf tilts its head and glances at the elf.

“Is that possible?”

The elf nodded.

“If it’s Dragonia, that might be the case. In the first place, that can’t be explained by anything other than magic, right?”

“It is rare for a messenger to give a blessing to a person, unless it is a dragon’s oracle.”

“But if not, how do you explain that?”

Thankfully, he even convinced the wolf!

The persuasive wolf also seemed to be convinced and kept his mouth shut.

I can only thank that elf.

By the way, can Dragonia really do something like that?

‘···Then isn’t he no different from God?’

I couldn’t understand the situation, and I was busy thinking up lies. Now that I was worried, I was finally able to see the elf the wolf had brought.

It was a woman.

He is an impressive person with white skin and dark green-brown eyes. The hair is greenish black. The sharp features and flower on the head are quite unbalanced.

‘What on earth is that flower?’

Although the scalp could not be seen in detail, green stems of grass, like vines, were sticking out between the hairs. The fresh leaves and bright white flowers captured my attention.

It was literally a fantasy.

At the same time, it is tempting to try to uncover the principles of magic.

At the beginning of the scalp exposed by the elf tying her hair back, what looked like plant roots spreading out like veins could be seen.

‘It’s really like a flower growing from your head.’

Moreover, it seems that he is far from the nature-loving elf that we usually think of. The elf was wearing leather armor, and had a rabbit and an unknown bird hanging on his belt.

“···Do elves also eat meat?”

“What are you talking about out of nowhere?”

It seems so unexpected that I naturally eat meat.

When I got out of school, I learned everything about what living things eat and live in science and home economics classes, and then I asked the obvious.

‘You could be having a fantasy, why are you looking at me like that?’

I find it very unpleasant to see people looking down at me with a puzzled expression.

“···It’s nothing.”

“All Ajin eat meat. Isn’t it obvious?”

“Humans are so noble and beautiful that they live only on grass and water.”

The elf spins around and looks down at me.

“Well, it’s my first time seeing people other than my parents───”

“Oh my! Is that why you left home? Because you want to meet people?”

The elf laughs and sarcastically says.

‘I was careless! ‘I know, so please stop!’

The wolf chuckled at the elf’s sarcasm.

There’s a little more to talk about.

“What do you mean by slave?”

The wolf, not the elf, answered.

“You want me to take you with me?”

I thought the story was over yesterday.

But I guess that wasn’t the case for the wolf.

“Yes. But what?”

“There is only one way for humans to join the Union Alliance.”

…I guess they had no choice but to bring them in as slaves.

This elf must have come together to find a way.

The elf was looking at me sideways, and it seemed like he was interested.

“Sell it to me. I’ll pay for three human male adults.”

The wolf looks at me, then turns his head halfway towards the elf and shakes his head.

“No. This is mine.”

“It hasn’t been that long since we met? What use do you have for humans?”

“This human being─── What is your name?”

“Look! You don’t even know my name.”

The wolf looks down at me.

It would be best not to use the names you two gave us publicly.

This could be a clue that my father will come to save me.

···This name must be buried in your heart until we meet again.

“Ri… Sihyeon.”

“Lee Si-hyeon? Why are there all those names? It’s a name you’ll often see in Horus. Aren’t you really a dragonia who conducts social experiments?”

The elf’s eyes became sad.

Regardless, the wolf doesn’t seem to care.

I took my attention away from the elf and looked at the wolf.

“Just call me Sihyeon.”

I am Jeon Si-hyeon.

You have to live as Jeon Si-hyeon, not as Rian.

“Yes, I like Sihyeon.”

The wolf placed a friendly hand on my shoulder.

what? After acting so coldly, why are you suddenly acting friendly?

“I will never sell it.”

······It seems that the wolf has strange feelings.