Suture (3)
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Ray was very mortal.
The spirit weighs less than it looks, but the sword was the size of a house, so it was hard to breathe because it was lying underneath.
As Rey was struggling with Kalga, a girl with brown hair crept up to her and bent her knees.
“Is it very heavy?”
“Then it will be light!”
Rei, who reflexively shot at Yohana, moaned and made a regretful sound.
“I’m so heavy, can you help me get out of here?”
“Hmm… you don’t like it?”
Yohana smiled brightly and shook her head.
Ray’s expression turned pale.
However, Yohana was afraid of a healthy Rei, not of Rei lying on the edge of a knife.
Without hesitation, Yohana placed her hand on Rey’s face and began to fiddle with her cheeks.
“Eight, eight.”
Yohana’s finger pricked Rey’s cheek.
Yohana was only one-sidedly beaten by Rey in physical fights, so it was a lot more fun than I expected to play with Rey’s face at will.
Ray took back all the bullying he had been doing, and eventually called the culprit in this situation.
“Luna!! Stop releasing me!! I’m really going to die!! Agh…!!”
As Rey continued to lash out, Luna, wearing a robe, finally appeared through the darkening streets.
Luna, who appeared in the back light of the disappearing sunset, had a rather dark atmosphere.
After confirming that Luna had appeared, Yohana took a step back.
With his right arm that Rey barely pulled out, he patted Kalgar on the head and shouted.
“Luna!! Stop joking around!! Get him out!”
“…”
Luna approached Rey without a word.
Luna carefully looked at Rey’s face and pulled Rey’s cheeks to the sides first.
It was something that Rey often did whenever she scolded Luna.
Ray wanted to say something, wondering why Luna is playing pranks like this today.
However, from the face of Luna who turned her back on the setting sun.
He shut his mouth when he noticed the unusually red tears in his eyes.
“…?”
In Rey’s memory, Luna had tears in her eyes twice at most.
As Luna, who doesn’t easily show her sorrow, rolled her eyes, Rey was also speechless for a moment.
Luna grabbed Rey’s cheeks tightly and whispered her emotions in a whisper.
“…Ray can’t leave.”
Luna, too, knew that Rey wasn’t planning on going anywhere right now.
He also knew, however, that it was purely because things had worked out that Ray had stayed with the Earl of Phillips this time.
Rey will leave the Count of Phillips at any time if necessary.
If one day she wakes up and she will not be able to see Rey for the rest of her life, Luna’s heart aches just by imagining that.
“Ray needs to be with us.”
A tear fell from the corners of Luna’s eyes and fell on Rey’s face.
“Without Ray…”
if you leave us
If you don’t lead me
“I can’t be a good wizard.”
“…”
Hearing Luna’s squeezing voice, Rey couldn’t give any answers.
Rey hid her confusion and forcibly raised the corners of her lips.
In the end, it was comfort mixed with lies.
“Don’t worry, I won’t leave. I’ve worked so hard to take care of you, but now I’m leaving you behind.”
“…I can’t believe it.”
Luna was sullen.
Rey stuttered at the unexpected reaction.
“Uh, uh, don’t you believe me?”
“I don’t trust Ray.”
Oral promises were always breakable.
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Now Luna knew it well.
“So, sign a contract with me too.”
Tsuzui!
Luna activates the All-In-One Circle.
When Rey, who was riding on the ear, woke up, it was already after Luna’s circle was covered with strange characters.
Rey looked at the runes written on Luna’s circle and turned to Aptel, who appeared in the form of a hologram.
I didn’t really want to sign a contract with Luna, but I wanted to know what the contract engraving that Luna wanted to sign was about.
‘What’s the deal with that?’
As Rey pursed his lips, Aftel, who stared at Luna’s circle, showed a rare hesitation.
[Well…]
‘What’s the content?’
[This is a contract in which if the other person’s heart stops, your own heart also stops…]
“This shit.”
Puff!!!
With the hilt in Rei’s hand, he slapped Calga’s side on the head.
Calgar let out a painful scream at the sudden shock.
[Keek!!]
Whether Khalgar screamed or not, Rey continued to slap Khalgar in the head, covering the hilt with mana.
“Hey, get out of the way. No, get out of the way, bastard!”
Puck!! Puck!! Puck!!
Kalga, whose head was cut one after another, struggled in pain.
Rey managed to get out of the gap that Kalgar was struggling with, and then got up, stumbling.
Rey, who took a deep breath, grabbed Luna’s cheek and pulled it towards her.
“Luna, Luna!”
“Aww…”
“Are you sane? Who taught you to engraving contracts like this?”
“…”
“Who did you learn from?! Did you come up with this thinking on your own?”
At Rey’s continued rebuke, Luna muttered while avoiding her gaze.
“To Mr. Lophyllen…”
Luna had asked Lopilen a question.
What is the surest kind of contract imprint that can keep your opponent by your side?
Lopilen answered.
You just have to connect each other’s lifelines.
If your lifeline is connected, you will not be able to leave each other because you are worried about when the other will break.
This will be much more efficient and perform better than complex contract engraving.
I roughly gave Luna an answer with such a nuance.
It was a magician-like answer that was pickled in the importance of human distrust and efficiency.
Rey, who heard Luna’s story, kicked the knife next to him and shouted.
“No, it’s Luna!!”
Puff!!
[Keek!]
“Only learn magic from Lophyllen! Only magic! Don’t even learn the logic of those bizarre wizards!”
Rey, who had kicked the knife a few more times to get her anger out, took a deep breath.
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No matter how much Lopilen was impulsive, seeing the smart Luna brought such extreme measures meant that she was psychologically driven.
After a few dry washes, Ray pulled her hair back.
Luna was still looking at Rey with the circle active.
After reading the deep anguish and sorrow from Luna’s expression, Rey spread her hands toward Luna after hesitating.
“Come here.”
“…”
“Come and see.”
Luna slowly walked in and hugged Rey’s arms.
Rey gently stroked Luna’s back and murmured lowly.
“don’t worry.”
do not worry.
Even without me, you guys will get through the world well enough.
Ray didn’t speak.
‘Did you run around with the kids too cheaply?’
In the past, even when Jimmy Orphanage was the size of a rat’s tail, Ray did not send out even normal orphans and took them in.
It’s not that I didn’t have sympathy for the normal orphans with nowhere to go.
It was not just sympathy, but rather a purposeful act, that, despite the unfavorable circumstances, clenched and accepted all the orphans.
Ray wanted orphans above Rare to develop their humanity and social skills by interacting with other children.
Through such a process, I hoped to prevent self-righteousness, and to overcome difficulties by uniting and relying on each other.
However, contrary to Ray’s intentions, some children showed a tendency to completely depend on Ray only and not their friends.
Ray was active here and there, so it was unavoidable.
‘Well… it will gradually get better over time.’
Humans are creatures of oblivion.
Burned emotions are quickly erased, and memories of the past are pushed away by new experiences and forgotten.
The feelings of longing and attachment will eventually wear out in front of time.
As time went on, it was clear that the children who had absolutely depended on Rey would gradually become more independent mentally.
but.
Ray didn’t know.
Forgetting was not a concept applicable to Luna.
Luna still remembered the harsh breath that Rey had exhaled through the rain a long time ago.
I still remember the feelings I felt that day, every night.
Luna will cherish the feelings of that day for the rest of her life.
Rey, unaware of this, rubbed Luna’s cheeks to and fro.
“Don’t worry, I won’t leave you without a word or anything like that.”
“…”
Luna grabbed Rey’s hand, which was holding the lie in her mouth.
It was an unspoken pressure not to break the promise I made today.
Rey smiled and patted Luna’s head.
That’s how the commotion of the day ended.
*
About two months after Rei was hit by Kalga.
At a time when winter is over and spring is just around the corner, Lopilen has completed the transplantation method of the Dragon Heart.
There were some inadequacies here and there, but at the moment it was impossible to fill them.
The information related to the transplantation of Dragon Heart was monopolized by the imperial family, so if they did not attack the imperial family, they had to look at the information provided by Aftel.
Rey went to the Count and reported the matter related to Dragon Heart.
The Count gave permission to proceed with the transplant of the Dragon Heart in the lord’s castle without thinking for a long time.
After the Count’s permission fell.
On the day of the Dragon Heart transplant, the knight, Ray, and Jimmy gathered together.
And Lopilen was placed between them, putting Leah to sleep.
“Um… Then we will proceed with the transplant of the Dragon Heart.”
Everyone nodded.
Watching Dragon Heart’s transplant preparations, Rey was enveloped in complex emotions.
There was definitely a chance that the transplant of Dragon Heart would fail.
Even Lopilen could not predict what the success rate would be in the first place.
It was my first attempt, so it was natural.
That’s why I didn’t bring Bella into the room.
Even if it were, I couldn’t see the child wrong in front of my eyes.
Rey patted her cheek.
Wouldn’t it be better for everyone to fail the transplant of Dragon Heart?
Rey bit his teeth as he felt those thoughts flash through his mind for a moment.
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No, it must be successful.
Recalling Bella’s expression as she looked at her child, Rey straightened her mind.
Even in the heavy atmosphere, Lopilen took out the fragments of the dragon heart while leisurely inspecting the surroundings.
“I’ll start now.”
Shreung!
Everyone drew their swords.
If there was a problem and the Dragon Heart ran into a runaway, it had to be dealt with immediately.
Amidst the tension, Lopilen performed a magic trick and started transplanting the Dragon Heart.
Shut up!
The dragon heart implantation method was not a surgical operation.
It had to be combined with hemolysis in the body to penetrate into the heart, but it required very delicate work for a simple explanation.
A squeak can result in a hole in the heart or burns.
With the help of Aftel, Lopilen concentrated her mind and started transplanting the Dragon Heart.
Time passed in silence, and silent tension swept the space.
However, Lophilen was truly a wizard, and focused on the transplant work in a cool and indifferent way.
Duck!
Finally, the dragon heart disappears into Leia’s skin.
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Now that I’ve come this far, I can’t go back.
The moment when the tension is at its peak.
Wow!!
Suddenly, two streams of red mana spiraled up into the air.
Everyone reflexively raised the momentum.
Could it be that the Dragon Heart ran wild?
Just as such a question was about to spread, a stream of red mana that stopped rising just as it was about to spread, fell to Leia’s chest.
Wrath!
A gentle warm air flowed from Leah, who had received the red mana, and heated the room.
Everyone was very nervous, but Mana, which had been fluctuating at the end of the gentle warm wind, also disappeared.
Leah was still asleep and breathing steadily.
Lopilen took a step back from Leia and was relieved.
“Looks like a success.”
The dragon blood latent in Leia’s body was separated from human blood and stored in the Dragon Heart.
Rey approached Leah first and lifted her eyelids.
Eyes that were no different from ordinary people greeted Rei.
“Whew…”
Ray raised her head and looked down at Leia again.
“Uh-huh, it’s finally here.”
Ray let out a faint smile.
It was fortunate that Bella’s child was safe, but the reality of not being able to be happy again was a little frustrating.
Still, I couldn’t undo what had already happened.
When the situation was over, everyone left one by one.
Bella entered the room late and hugged Leah.
As if very anxious, Bella blushed and looked intently to see if there was any problem with Leia.
Fortunately, Leah looked very healthy, except for a change in her pupils.
“Good luck, my daughter.”
Rey just watched without a word as Bella was stroking Leah.
A hurricane rages, and stability comes again.
It was close to closing the conflict temporarily, but peace was precious nonetheless.
Time continued to pass while they were faithful to their respective roles.
Three years have passed since the successful transplantation of the Dragon Heart .
