episode_0126

Dennis’ expression wasn’t that good.

This is because they were allowed to raise cockatrices by providing them with eggs. They must have felt like they were fooling their friends.

But since that was Heilang’s condition, Dennis had no choice but to comply. This is because most people are dissatisfied with Cockatrice rather than friendly towards it.

“So, this is the shell of the famous Ouroboros?”

“Yes. I heard that you can get a high-quality alloy by mixing this with cast iron.”

“No. It is better to mix it with wrought iron or steel.”

“Haha! You know something!”

Schwein smiled brightly and touched the ingot with a hot iron, and the ingot began to melt like butter coating a frying pan.

Felix’s uncomfortable gaze falls on Jules’ armor hanging in the workshop.

Jules took it off right away and asked for it to be repaired. There were tables here and there in the village that didn’t seem to have been there before we left. Jules, sitting there, is joking with the villagers.

“Why on earth is Seolrang’s armor dented? Even if you hit it with a hammer, it won’t dent…”

“I got hit by Grootsrang’s front paw.”

“What?! With Groots──?!”

It’s a surprise!

Felic, feeling appalled, started running towards Jules, who was joking from afar. Schwein glanced at Felix’s back and started laughing.

“This is the first time since I met that old man that I have seen him run. By the way, how did you get hit by that monster and still be so fine?”

“Sure.”

It’s not like it was a miss.

I saw with my own eyes that big hand was stuck squarely in my side. Then it flew away as if it had been hit by a 10-ton truck traveling on the highway.

But then he suddenly got up.

Without a single wound!

“I don’t even know if that person needs armor in the first place. I smashed Groots’ head with my bare hands…”

“Oh, that was like 14 years ago too. Even then, I beat the ogre to death.”

“······You beat the ogre to death?”

Schwein nods.

“It’s impossible. But it was possible.”

Ogre.

They are monsters that no animal can overcome with strength alone.

“It wasn’t much of a fuss back then. Do you know what to do when hunting ogres in the Drekkar Alliance?”

This is an opponent that arrows cannot hit.

Even the knife doesn’t get stuck. then····.

“I think they might use explosives or ballista.”

“You can’t use explosives. Because Horus classifies Ogres as demi-humans. So, as you said, I hunt with a siege ballista. Otherwise, the weapon won’t get stuck in your skin.”

······Isn’t an ogre no different from a tank?

That person destroyed the tank with his bare hands.

“Is that really a monster…?”

Jules ears flutter and he glances this way.

I pretended not to notice and avoided eye contact. Jules looked around for a while, then turned his head towards the people talking.

“I don’t know. Anyway, it’s not normal.”

“By the way, what does it mean that Ogre is a demi-human?”

“It is literally Ain. He’s very private and closed… he’s even more independent than Terup. Thanks to this, no one knows what Ogre says or what Ogre’s personality is. There is nothing better known than the Magic Tower.”

Ogre is a demi-human?

The ogre that my parents, Jule, and other Southerners sometimes talked about was literally a monster.

“····Up until now, I thought Ogre was just a monster.”

“In that case, Auger would have been listed on the seawater list. It would be easier that way. All you have to do is pay the magic tower and request relief.”

“Oh, I guess Dragonia is doing the seawater rescue instead?”

“I’ll make it neat. Cut it all off without leaving a single hair behind.”

I don’t understand why Dragonia takes on such a task.

I’ve heard that dragons are the guardians of Pangea or the guardians of demihumans, but why is there a need to protect demihumans?

The Twin Goddesses protect the South with the Root Snake as their servant. In some ways, isn’t this an element that can cause conflict between servants?

“Anyway, I will probably go ogre hunting within 4 years, so you should quietly get out of hunting then.”

“I’m going back home.”

Schwein, who was collecting the water from the melted ingot in the crucible, looks back.

The expression on his face was strange, as if he had heard something he shouldn’t have heard.

“What?”

“There is no longer a need for it.”

“······That wolf sent it to you?”

“Yes. They told me to just say goodbye when I leave.”

Schwein was silent for a moment, then burst into laughter.

“······You are also very unique. Aren’t you close to the Archwitch and Dragonia? Even though you’re a slave, you don’t even look like a slave. Are you a dragonia undergoing a social experiment? Or are you the prince of a ruined country?”

“Over there, across the universe, on a star called Earth, there is a place called a peninsula. It is a place where people fly through the sky in horseless carriages───.”

“You crazy bastard.”

Schwein took the crucible and turned around.

“Don’t make fun of old people. Speak before you go. I will make you the best dagger I can make.”

“That’s it. And you still seem to be correcting yourself. What kind of old man are you?”

“If you look at it like this, it’s still 50 lines.”

When people say that he looks young, he also smiles cheerfully.

Thanks to you, I feel mischievous.

“You are an old man.”

Schwein looks at me with a sallow face filled with laughter.

“Who would come to their senses if they dipped their head in molten iron and burned it?”

It’s a friendly swear word that I feel like I’ve heard before somewhere.

Thanks to you, I can only laugh.

“I’ll leave now.”

“Okay. Go see it.”

Schwein entered the workshop with a hot crucible in which a haze was blooming. Shirna Jul has been unwinding in her own way, but I still have work to do.

When I returned home, I smoothed out the wrinkled paper and took out a fountain pen. Now, with my fire-making skills reaching a new level, I easily lit the candle and started writing my essay.

My birth, what happened from meeting Jule until today, the emotions I remember, the reason why, the situation at the time, things about me, the story about the root snake, etc…

Even as I write this, disbelief comes to mind.

Can we catch Dantalian’s tail this way?

······But you have to try.

I remember the days when I was studying for the college entrance exam.

The guy next to the library who pointed out that the sound of the pen was noisy.

The guy was wearing earphones in his ears. I thought there were all kinds of crazy people out there.

······I can’t believe that this memory of mine was created.

Or was the root snake really playing with me?

This thought occurred to me for three months. After thinking about this a lot, there is only one result in the end.

I should have apologized to them and done my best to be filial. If I go back, I will tell everything to you two.

You might get overwhelmed.

But that’s something to think about later.

It is necessary to write down all the emotions and contents that come to mind in an essay. Little by little, the sunlight outside the window began to weaken.

*

“So, you want to go right away?”

“Yes. Can you take me there?”

“Okay. Still, let’s sleep today and leave tomorrow. I have to explain it to Shir too.”

“Shir can read my mind. He even hinted in advance that he would be leaving.”

“Did you say you would leave today?”

“······No.”

“You know the difference between expressing it and not expressing it. You will be very disappointed. Today is a new moon, so the road is dark. So, please just say hello and leave.”

“Hmm… I guess so.”

I wanted to leave without a word like Julia, but it seems like that won’t work. In the end, I finished writing the essay. It was so long ago that I didn’t write it down because I couldn’t remember how I felt at the time.

‘It seems like eight hours have passed.’

Seeing that the candle wax tray was overflowing, I wondered if I had used too much candle. I stretched and relaxed my frowning body.

“Keueuuuu…!”

I blew out the candles and lay down on the bed, and Jules hugged me as if he had been waiting for me.

Those thick hands have more strength than usual. It was a little uncomfortable.

“It’s suffocating. Why do you sleep with someone like this in the first place?”

“······When I was staying with my younger brother. I always slept with my younger brother hugging his back like this.”

If you are Jules’ younger brother──

“Shir’s father?”

“Okay. Shir’s father.”

It’s an exciting story.

Bringing this out now means that I was hugged in exactly this way.

Did I feel like a younger sibling?

“My younger brother was very curious and stupid. I was soft-hearted and had no spine. Because I was weak, I was always worried and pitied the weak. Plus, I had a strong sense of responsibility that didn’t suit me.”

···It’s the perfect style to waste your life on.

“Wouldn’t my younger brother, who is listening somewhere, get angry?”

“Well? I scolded him every day telling him to come to his senses, but in all the time we spent together, I never saw him get angry. When I got angry, I just laughed like water. When I think about it now, I think I didn’t value myself.”

Juul’s hand continues to penetrate into the body, unlike usual.

The hand stopped above my solar plexus, in front of my heart.

“You resemble my younger brother in that stupid way.”

“Just the stupid part?”

“Sometimes, like you, I think about it in advance and prepare something.”

···Maybe Juul saw me as his younger brother from the beginning. If you think about it that way, it also explains why you brought me here and why you were able to open your heart to me so quickly.

“So, did you touch your sister’s breasts like this?”

I feel a shaking sensation in my back and my heart fluttering.

“It wasn’t like that from the beginning. My younger brother suffered from a serious illness. Every day, I lay down and held her like this and placed my hand on her chest. I didn’t know what I was going to do with it, but I vaguely thought that if it was in my hand, it wouldn’t leave me behind.”

“You said you lived?”

” As the period of fighting the disease became longer, it became a habit. I’ve been sleeping like this ever since. I haven’t been able to do it since I was taken away by Xu Sha.”

Seeing Juul making strange noises, I think this is really the end.

“···I hope you don’t go.”

Kuuuuk…

Jules’ hands tighten.

It’s late, but it’s right to go back to the two of you now.

If I get kicked out after confessing, then it would be better for me to follow Jules.

But that’s not the case now.

So I can’t give a definite answer.

“Well, it’s not like we can’t meet each other, right? I’ll stop by later when I have time.”

“Crazy sound.”

He is a person who proudly steals alcohol even in human villages.

No matter how scary his father is, Jules would be able to sneak in quietly.

It’s only been a year since we first met, so if we break up, it might end the same way. Naturally, as it has been in my life. That’s what human relationships are, after all.

“We are both crazy people. I will help you, so please explain it to my family.”

“······Is that so?”

“Yes.”

It seems like things have finally been sorted out to some extent.

I feel both thankful and sorry to Jules. When I go back, it will definitely be something I talk about for the rest of my life. Are you two doing well with your parents?

I wondered what excuses and lies I would have to make when I got back.

As I was playing with Juul’s hand like a plaything, Suma soon came to visit.