Chapter 188 – Chapter 188 ― Yeon (1)
Episode 188 ― Yeon (1)
“Then Aina-sama, thank you.”
“Don’t worry.”
“… Something happened the last time you went to the cave.”
Aina somehow seems to have lost her trust in Helen. Aina waved her hand at Helen with a shy expression. Roan laughed out loud.
“I-I brought something to eat this time!”
“I’m going to talk, so don’t worry too much. Helen.”
However, Helen stared at Aina with her characteristic cold expression.
I am a child who always does what she has to say, but when she brings up the story of her being trapped in a cave, she suddenly becomes speechless.
Aina looked up at her perplexed Roan and pulled on the hem of her dress.
“Go… Let’s go. Your majesty.”
“Don’t go.”
Aina’s expression is cute, which is rare, but the more procrastinating she is, the tighter her time is.
As he stroked Helen’s head, Helen seemed reluctantly convinced and she took a few steps away from the waypoint and moved out of her range.
“Then, go. Master. Aina-sama, please be careful.”
Helen’s last words,
Light flickers softly.
Soon, what appeared in front of my eyes was a forest that was much denser and full of green than the suburbs of Basel.
“… It’s different.”
“Hmm.”
It was Aina who burst into admiration.
Winter in the Dark Forest is not as harsh as in Zeno or other Evirgio cities, which are a little farther away.
It seems that spring has come so early,
The forest, which had previously been white with snow when Roan had come alone to deliver the letter, was now completely covered with bright green shoots.
“It’s like taking a walk.”
“Yeah, it feels good. Being in the city was hard.”
After all, Aina is a forest fairy.
There is also a large garden in the imperial castle.
When she goes to the outskirts of her castle or to the forest, her vitality returns to her.
“Whoa…”
Aina took several deep breaths.
The crisp air seeped deep into her lungs.
“Shall we go?”
As Roan quietly raised her palm, Aina stared into it.
“… Huh.”
Her cheeks blushed a little, and I gently placed her hand on top of Roan’s.
Holding her hand and leaving her ruins for a bit, the soldiers who had been warned in advance and watched around the waypoint bowed their heads.
And to her surprise, standing beside her is the West Blood Spirit Lord.
“… Grand Duke, why?”
“I want to take you to the cave at least.”
The Grand Duke came wearing his long spear and even his armor.
Roan smiled bitterly.
It’s not that I don’t know how he feels, but to dress up like this and enter an area they’re monitoring…
“It must look intimidating.”
“Soldiers will bite. Please let me escort you alone.”
“Grand Duke, you look like a weapon in your own right. A race called Centaur can be as dangerous as a Witchbeast in the forest.”
“…”
The grand duke glared at me, but the child who held my hand did not escape her gaze.
“I am going as a guest. Although the invitation was a bit extreme.”
In the end, Roan stepped in to intervene.
“Soldiers or you. It is a threat to the village of forest fairies. You can’t show distrust of a house you’re invited to for the first time. I can protect one of my body.”
“… All right. If you say so.”
His face was still full of dissatisfaction, but the Grand Duke lowered his head as if he couldn’t help it.
“I’ll wait.”
“Grand Duke. Don’t worry. It’s like going to my house. If something happens, I’ll wipe it all out and bring Your Majesty out.”
“Could someone so confident have such an accident?”
“Profit… !”
Sparks seem to fly from Aina’s eyes.
Seeing her pupils, her Seohyeol Ryeongju stepped back from her in pity, and Aina gnashed her teeth and turned her head with her snoring sound.
Roan motioned for the high lord and soldiers to retreat, and quietly led Aina.
The border area between the demons and forest fairies.
After walking silently for several minutes, Roan threw a word at Took Aina.
“Still, it’s not you anymore, it’s the Grand Duke.”
“… Heh, well, maybe…”
At first, she was the one she called ‘you’ to the high lord, and now I started calling him by her title as well.
Perhaps she had heard Grunent’s nagging.
A smile appeared on Roan’s face.
“Something special.”
“Heh, well, with something like that…”
It seems that she was happy with her praise, but Aina shyly took a few steps forward.
How much longer would I have walked through her spring woods with her, when her step was a little lighter.
The shape of the cave where the two had toiled for a while began to appear.
And a strange person standing in front of him.
Before he could properly check his features, a person raised his hand and stopped him.
Gesture to stop.
And the presence of about 10 people everywhere that can be felt by ‘detection’.
Aina, who was standing next to her, was looking at the person standing in front of the cave, slightly frowning.
“I came with a forest fairy to guide me! Only one black…”
And Roan’s cry was drowned out by Aina’s scream.
“Iris!”
Uh… ?
Roan’s eyes, which had been looking at her child, with her bewilderment, widened as she saw her rushing forward.
Confusion culminated in the sight of a woman running towards her like a deer.
“… Aina!”
Friend?!
This is where Aina was born and raised, she said.
There’s a good chance she’ll meet someone she knows.
But are forest fairies such an emotional race?
So far, Aina has been the only forest fairy that Roan has met in “Real life,” And I can guess that Aina is definitely on the wild side of the forest fairy.
Did other forest fairies do the same?
However, other beings who can be felt by ‘detection’ are just calm?
“Ah, Aina… ! How are you here… ! I don’t know how much hardship you must have suffered outside… !”
“Iris, how is your sister here!”
And Roan was taken aback by the conversation.
Aina’s family!
The age difference between Aina and her is big, and she cared for her so much that she named her Aina.
It seems that she is this forest fairy right in front of her eyes.
A completely different hair color from Aina.
The white hair contrasted with Aina’s fiery red hair.
However, looking at their features, it is clear that they are sisters.
A cool impression with sharp eyes like Aina. As for Iris, she hugged Aina for a long time and touched Aina’s face several times.
It wasn’t long before she found Roan, who was standing behind her.
“… How are you with Aina?”
The sudden change of expression is even frightening.
Roan’s eyes widened for a moment, then narrowed.
“Hmm. Should we not talk? Aina has a private life too.”
“What?”
And at Roan’s words, Iris’ eyes flashed with life.
“How dare a demon tribe put Aina’s name in its mouth… !”
And suddenly,
Magical power began to gather in her hands.
A large amount of mana gathered in an instant can make the space shake.
The moment Roan opened her eyes and hugged Aina to gather her holy power and deploy the ‘Star Cloud Shield’.
Someone leaped from behind her and clung to Iris’ arms, and Aina screamed as she cradled her in Roan’s arms.
“Iris, stop!”
“Sister no!”
“Do you hug Aina?!”
This is a place where you can’t use magic.
It is enough for Aina to have already done such a thing.
And fortunately, there was a forest fairy who stopped Iris from losing her reason.
“Wake. Iris.”
The one who caught Iris was a male forest fairy.
Appearing at tremendous speed from a place out of sight, he naturally grabbed the white-haired forest fairy’s wrist and turned his face away with the other hand.
“Look at me.”
Meanwhile, Aina called Roan.
“Your Majesty, let go.”
Aina asked with sorrowful eyes she had never seen before. Roan let go of her arms that held her back. Without reaping her holy power just in case.
The white-haired forest fairy only saw the child approaching me and glared at Roan, breathing heavily.
“How do you, a demon, call Aina by name?”
“Then, should she call her by her nickname, as others have called her?”
In response to Roan’s sharp answer, Iris put on a stern expression. And her gaze at me, her child, turned again into a soft face.
A forest fairy who asks Aina questions with a gentle voice like a spring breeze.
“Aina, what happened? How do you let a demon like that call your pretty name?”
Roan looked at Aina as if demanding an explanation from her. Then Aina glanced at Iris and Roan, then sighed at her.
“First of all, I think I should explain to His Majesty. Your Majesty doesn’t know much about our culture.”
Okay. That doesn’t appear in the game.
Roan was embarrassed, but
First of all, there is another forest fairy who skillfully controls the forest fairy, Aina’s sister, so she can be a little relieved.
“Whatever that means, the name you get from everyone is the name you use when you leave the place where you grew up and meet people outside.”
“Then, is your real name a name that should not be known to outsiders?”
“Normally. However, it is not allowed to tell the name of a child to someone very close. For example…”
A blush appeared on Aina’s face.
Aina patted her cheek and murmured.
“Like His Majesty, a human.”
“… Aina?”
Iris’s voice trembled as she called her Aina.
“That is… What do you mean… ?”
“Sister Iris.”
“Iris.”
“You, no way, why are those demons close to you… ?”
Iris’ dark eyes trembled.
Not only the male forest fairies holding the iris, but also the forest fairies outside the field of vision felt through ‘detection’ could feel the presence of agitation.
Roughly, the situation is expected.
Iris didn’t seem to have imagined that Aina would become such a crooked forest fairy.
She said she cared for me so much that she even gave me a name.
Even in the lives of humans who don’t need to question their race, there are many people who jump out of their heads when they hear that a loved one falls in love with or marries someone they could never have imagined.
But I don’t want to see magic used here a second time. The crystal cave is close by. The forest might really blow away this time.
“Um, maybe.”
Roan asked for permission from the male forest fairy, Kouran.
“Can I use my holy power?”
Kouran’s eyes widened at Roan’s words, and the pupils of Iris, who was held by him, widened even more.
The man with green hair tied up stared at Roan. And he asked
It was a quiet, very calm voice.
“The holy power doesn’t react around here, but the great power is threatening. May I ask what divine magic you want to use?”
Thank god.
Normally, I’d ask if it’s true that the demons are trying to use their holy power.
However, this forest fairy seems to be rational.
Maybe this is common.
“It is ‘stable’.”
Permission was dropped.
Iris, who opened her eyes terribly, glared at Roan and tried to say something, but
As soon as he saw Kouran nod, Roan released the holy power he had gathered in his hands.
“Calm down.”
And the light that fills my eyes in an instant.
Iris was enveloped in a warm light similar to Roan’s ‘Starlight’.
Iris and Kouran froze.
Divine magic that was not expected from the demons.
Hearing the order to greet the king of the demons, he was told in advance that he could use divine power, but he did not expect to see it this way.
Living for a long time, I have never seen or heard of demons using divine power.
Kouran burst into amazement at the sight he hadn’t even imagined, and Iris stood in a daze and was struck by the light that spread from Roan’s hand.
Silence fell with the light.
Roan examined her iris, which blinked a few times before opening her mouth.
A different voice than before.
“… Surprisingly.”
The voice that seems like the ice will fall,
Similar to Aina, but colder.
Black eyes, like Aina’s, shone as if they could pierce Roan’s depths.
“It’s been a while since I met my blood relatives and showed rudeness. Excuse me.”
And she lightly bowed her head.
Like her eyes, her white hair slicked in long strands.
“My name is Iris. He is the captain of the guards of the Northeast Residence.”
