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“Oh, brother…”

Concerned voices were heard, but it did nothing to dispel Glenn’s hostility.

Glenn had his reasons. If his ears were not deceived, these elders mistook him for a warrior. They mistook him for that rascal. He had never heard such an insult. It was the first time in his life that he had been so insulted.

‘And then he said kid again. Kid again. Kid again, kid again, kid again!’

Although he said it was ‘small’, it was hard to deny that it really got on Glenn’s nerves.

Anyway, Glenn was really upset when he saw the old hags and grandpas he was seeing for the first time suddenly belittling them and clicking their tongues.

“Eungi, tsk tsk tsk… As expected of guys who still have blood on their heads, their tempers are still alive… Who would think they’re not human? ”

“Are you saying that you are not a warrior? Are you saying that you are? The old man doesn’t understand, so speak properly.”

“That’s not true. Not at all, not a warrior.”

Glenn felt all the strength drain from his body at the sight of the grandmother elf clicking her tongue and spouting curses, and the grandfather elf staring at them with a face that seemed to have either dark eyes, dull ears, or both. However, he still answered with emphasis.

Why is it that I feel like I am seeing a future that is much more frustrating and depressing than talking to elderly humans.

“Mr. Marzadan, Ms. Margareta? I will leave the room so that you two can speak. Then…”

Oh, wait a minute!

Another misfortune befell Glenn. Leones Dreamside smiled on the outside, but he looked uncomfortable and slowly left the room. No, he had already left the room halfway, greeted the four people in the room, and closed the door.

And yet, he is the leader of the elves! Glenn wanted to protest at the top of his lungs, but instead, he could not help but focus on reality because of the weight he felt next to him.

“Uh, uh…you called us, so…we came…”

It was Alina. She was still clinging to Glenn’s arm, half-hiding herself, and speaking to the two elven elders.

“Huh? Oh…you have red eyes and black hair too? So you’re a warrior?”

“Huh? Oh, no. No! I didn’t do much in my hometown…except for delivering alcohol…”

“Really? Hmm…it doesn’t look like that…”

“Grandma…see? That little baby…isn’t it a joke.”

“That’s right…That little thing…Huh, really…I’m sure it’s not a lie that people are hard to understand even after seeing them twice…?”

“That’s right. And that little guy…there’s no way a human could have that kind of talent…is he, like the old saying goes, the legendary…right?”

“If you don’t speak properly, I won’t know, old man!”

The two elven elders engaged in a kind of argument that wasn’t really an argument, rambling on and on about something that might have been bewildering.

For a moment, Glenn had the feeling that he could just slip away carefully without anyone saying anything.

“Oh my gosh… Look at my mind. I forgot to tell you something important. If you ask me this, I’ll know right away. Oh, by the way… What are your names?”

“My name is Glen.”

“I, I’m…Alina.”

When the old lady asked their names as if they held some great meaning, Glenn answered cautiously, and so did Alina.

But the old lady’s face frowned as if she had given the wrong answer.

“Huh? That’s a normal human name? Wait…you don’t have a last name?”

“Huh? Oh, there isn’t any.”

“In human society, few people have surnames unless they are nobles. So we confirm family relationships by saying, “So-and-so is the son of so-and-so.” ”

“Oh, really? Humans live complicated lives…”

“We have royalty too, so what’s so complicated, Grandma?”

Glenn cautiously threw in an explanation, and once again the elven elders chatted amongst themselves before stating their names.

“Well, I don’t care about humans… This old lady is Margareta Shadowkeeper. Despite her appearance, she has lived here since the time when our elven race first built homes and sewed clothes in this forest. This old man here is Marzadan Stormbreaker, and despite her appearance, she used to be a warrior who commanded animals and controlled the power of the forest with her bare hands. She’s a shrunken old man now.”

“Why are you saying that, Grandma… Please take care of me, kids.”

“Okay, please take care of it.”

“Okay, please…?”

Even as they greeted each other, Glenn and Alina felt their hearts rot.

What on earth was the point of this? Glenn wanted to get away from this waste of time. The important thing now was not to joke around with these old men. He had to make his life’s greatest resolution a reality. They couldn’t stay in the Elven Forest forever. They had a mission waiting for them, which required them to head to the Northern Kingdom within a week.

But instead, I’m wasting my precious time with these old people.

Alina was similar. Living in the countryside, she had encountered some old people. There were many instances where the regulars at the bar would laugh and treat Alina cute. However, this was the first time she felt as frustrated as she did now.

More than anything, he wanted to quickly escape from this awkward and suffocating situation and return to the gentle embrace of the saint. Or Lady Sieta, who liked him quite a bit, or Sister Briwen…

“There, there, that…is that Glen? Come here for a second.”

In Glenn’s ear, Elder Margareta’s voice came. Glenn, who came to his senses with a start, moved his feet again and approached the elder. As soon as he approached, he heard a tongue-clicking sound.

“Tsk tsk… Are you afraid someone will eat you? You little punk… Where, look at me.”

“Look at me?”

“Yeah. Can’t you even do that simple thing?”

Can’t you do it? Okay, I’ll look at you with my eyes.

Glenn, slightly blushing, stared at Elder Margareta, who was literally staring at him. The elder looked back at Glenn with narrowed eyes.

“Ah, why is it that only Grandma can see…”

Elder Marzadan approached Elder Margareta. Like Margareta, he looked straight at Glenn with narrowed eyes.

At that moment, Glenn felt embarrassed as he was stared at by two people at the same time. He followed the old people’s words for the time being, but he felt like he was being observed as an animal or plant.

So, the awkward eye contact continued for a while and ended with the sound of tongue clicking again.

“The child’s eyes already look like they’ve experienced pain… What happened?”

“Oh, old man, have you already forgotten the fate of this man with red eyes? Back in the old days…Greece…Man…Don’t you remember that guy?”

“Ah, Greece…wasn’t it Greiznin?”

“That guy is a human being who is 200 years behind Greece!”

“Was it like that?”

“That’s right!”

Oh really.

Glenn shook his head. He felt ashamed of himself for expecting to hear some kind of plausible prophecy. Now, he was really determined to get out of this place right away.

However, the two elders’ persistence was considerable.

“Hey, human girl. You come here too. We can’t think straight with a savage…”

“Oh, yeah? Me, me too?”

Alina, who had been watching from behind Glenn and yawning, flinched and jumped. It seemed as if she had mistakenly thought that her own blood relative had used the poison on its own. However, reality was harsh.

“Ah, you should come quickly when I call you. Why are you just standing there blankly?”

“Oh, yes. Yes! ”

Although she didn’t have to listen to each and every one of them, Alina hurriedly moved to stand next to Glenn. Glenn had now relaxed his stiff posture from before and was hunched over, his discontent clearly visible.

“Oh, why are you like that, oppa?”

“That’s not true, is it? ”

“Huh?”

“Shut up, please!”

“Oh, yes! Sorry…?”

Alina was bewildered by Elder Margareta’s sudden actions, but she apologized at first.

Anyway, the angry elf grandmother and the relatively calm elf grandfather looked back and forth between the two of them several times with narrowed eyes.

It was an odd question that calmed Glenn down, who was on the verge of exploding, his patience at its limit.

“You guys…Do you know why it’s hard to find a combination of red eyes and black hair among humans?”

“Huh?”

“Uh, what are you talking about?”

“Ah, don’t answer questions with questions. Just say “I know” if you know, and “I don’t know” if you don’t! ”

“There’s no way I could know that!”

Eventually, Glenn exploded and answered like this.

However, as if she liked that answer, Elder Margareta today put away her frown for the first time and laid back on her chair with a more relaxed expression.

Soon, a story unfolded that Glenn and Alina had no desire to know.

“A long time ago… I think it was exactly three thousand years ago… No, that was… When was that, sir? ”

“It was three thousand five hundred and sixty-five years ago, huh…”

“Yeah, three thousand five hundred… That was before that time… Listen carefully.”

“Umm…”

“Brother…Can’t you just leave?”

Perhaps because she had a premonition that the conversation would be long, Alina finally whispered a complaint that wasn’t really a complaint. Glenn almost replied in one breath, “Let’s do it since more than half of the people in the room are in favor.”

However, I was robbed of my chance to speak. The elven elders started to bring up old stories without my permission.

“Back then…the demons, our elves, the water people, the dwarves…were all living in a place where there was no place to settle down. Maybe…our elves didn’t even live here, but over there…if you go all the way out to the sea past the eastern coast of the continent…it’s called the Silver Island. Right…so they were a special race. Don’t you think, old man?”

“Don’t you guys know that too? There must have been something that was passed down to humans in books in the past…”

As Marzadan said, such a book did exist. However, Alina, of course, and Glenn, who had never thought of going to the Elven Forest when he had been locked in a corner of the room and only read books, had never even glanced at a book with such boring content.

“Shut up, old man! Anyway… back then we had just arrived on the continent, settled in the forest, and established a kingdom? That was cool, the first Dreamside 1st generation was really… there were leaders of various tribes on the continent who came to see that Dreamside. The dwarves were those greenstone guys who had returned to the dirt… and among the beastmen, that cat or… tiger or something… that guy came to see us… and the humans… back then we called them the chieftain… anyway, their representative came to see us? Do you know who he was? ”

“I have no idea.”

“Do I really need to know?”

It was a long story that even children would find boring. Naturally, Glenn and Alina, who felt uncomfortable, awkward, and bored in this situation, answered indifferently.

There was a giggle. Surprisingly, it was Elder Margareta herself who had given a long speech and received a lukewarm response.

“Of course it would be like that since this was a story from long before you were born… Anyway, that guy. Other chiefs just brought gifts here and there and offered them, but they didn’t do much else? But that guy was different. He brought gifts that were on a whole other level than the others… He even approached our king and asked him all sorts of questions like a machine gun. Like he was going to get high that day. ”

Pulling out the mulberry? That was a vulgar expression. At the same time, I finally had a question for Glenn. It was a rather trivial question.

‘Back then, did humans and elves communicate?’

The reason I didn’t bring up that question was because I was afraid that the boring story would continue even longer.

“It was obvious what he wanted. He wanted to be a king. Not content to be the leader of a small tribe of humans, but a king who would have countless humans under his feet. His desire to rise to the same level as our king was obvious. Anyway, our king spared no effort in giving him advice. He had been a kind man to the weaker races since ancient times… And the human followed his advice very faithfully and became king. ”

“Wow…”

“Really, that’s amazing…”

Weakly, Alina clapped her hands lazily, and Glen responded with a tone that said nothing at all impressive.

However, this did not bother Margareta. Margareta smiled brightly and moved her lips as if she had gained strength from such a response.

“Even if it’s just like that now… I know this old lady will be shocked when she hears this fact. Hehehe… Do you know what kind of hair and eyes that guy has? It’s…”

“Red eyes and…”

“Black hair. Right? Can I go now?”

“Uh, uh…how did you guys…”

Glenn and Alina, who answered very well, moved their feet, leaving Margareta, who was dumbfounded, in that place. With a whoosh, they turned around at the same time. Before they knew it, they had trudged to the door.

The door opened in an instant. On the right outside, a man appeared. The man who flinched at the sight of Glenn and Alina’s dazed appearance was, of course, Leones Dreamside.

Only then did the embarrassed voices of Margareta and Marzadan come to mind.

“Ah, no, those guys… They listened to such a precious story without permission…!”

“Hey, you guys! The story isn’t over yet!”

“You may not be finished…”

“We’re done, so let’s go…”

After showing the two elders their extremely tired expressions, Glenn and Alina approached Leones. Just as the two were about to say, ‘Let’s go down quickly,’ Margareta’s voice was heard, close to a shout.

“Okay, wait a minute! Even if you leave, please listen to this before you go!”

“Is it really okay if I don’t listen?”

Glenn asked back with a tone that contained his disgust. He didn’t turn his head. He imagined that he would be jumping up and down, but surprisingly, the voice he heard was calm.

“Anyway, just listen and go! You bastard! In front of you…there are huge walls. Three of them. Three of them! At first, I wondered why there were so many walls…but now I understand. They were drawn against fate! And that’s all because you’re a descendant of ‘that man’! Keep this in mind! If you don’t come to your senses, everything you were holding in your hand will disappear! You have to keep this old lady’s words in mind! ”

“And you, girl! The event that will determine your fate has not even begun. Got it? This is only a very small part of your life! The moment that will determine your life is still in the distant future! For us elves, it is as simple as an arrow flying… but for you, it is in the distant, distant future! So take note! You have to do your best at every moment. If you don’t want to face your fate in a miserable state when it begins! ”

The prophecy that finally came out was leaking out content that was more horrifying than one could imagine.