Chapter 191 – Chapter 191 ― Yeon (4)
Episode 191 ― Yeon (4)
Seeing the scene, Aina raised her voice with her shrill voice.
“Unnie, how long are you going to continue talking about 150 years ago?”
Roan washed his face dry.
She feels as if she knows for sure why Aina left the forest.
I should use a skill to calm down Iris.
“Iris.”
When I called her name, Iris’ sharp eyes were filled with life.
The affinity level is an invisible target. Even if you look at it, it doesn’t seem that ‘Miheun’ will be eaten. But I’ll have to try. Now that the level has risen, I don’t know what will happen.
Even if I can’t make you like Roan,
At least if we can make it so they don’t hate each other, we’ll be able to afford each other.
“You…”
The moment when the jet-black eyes staring at Roan met Roan’s eyes like amethyst.
Her lips, which were about to open, closed again.
“…”
Kouran, who was about to drag Iris out of the house by force, looked at Iris with a puzzled look on her face.
Because all of a sudden the power went out of her body.
Level 2’s ‘Miheun’ was slowly calming down Iris’ anger.
“I understand the joy and regret of meeting blood relatives after a long time. But wouldn’t she give Aina time to refine her surprising feelings as well? She heard that Aina had a different reason for leaving the forest. Even her coming back here was a big decision for her.”
“…”
Iris’s eyes were still burning.
But at least the swaying life is gone.
Because the threatening sense of Roan’s ‘detection’ has disappeared.
Iris, who was silently listening to Roan’s words and looking at Roan and Aina in turn, took a deep breath after a long time.
“I am too…”
Iris pressed her eyes tightly.
Kouran, who was standing behind her, saw her true self and quietly gave her thumbs up to her Roan.
“I am too… It’s hard to control my emotions when I meet you in an unexpected place.”
Now, about four hours have passed since I met Iris. It was the most sensible statement she ever made.
“Okay. You must have needed time to clear your mind. Aina. Sorry.”
After apologizing to Aina in her low voice, Iris turned to Roan with reddened eyes.
“You seem to have unusual powers. It’s unpleasant to use power carelessly, but now…”
Iris, who slightly furrowed her eyebrows, finally lowered her head lightly.
“Thanks.”
“Hmm.”
Roan nodded her head.
Aina then approached the true Iris and she took her hand.
No matter how much you get tired of her attitude, it’s a precious sister whom you haven’t seen in a long time.
Then, Iris held Aina’s hand and stroked her cheek, speaking in a calm voice.
“The elder is waiting.”
When someone I don’t know sees it, I think I’m angry, but this way of speaking, this kind of voice all the time.
Aside from the slightly different look or look in her eyes when she talks to Aina, this chilly demeanor seems to be her usual self.
She went out the door with Aina.
Kouran, who followed, lightly tapped Roan on the shoulder.
“Awesome.”
Roan soon followed the forest fairies.
Going up and down the spider web-like stairs and bridges several times, Roan and his party came closer to the giant tree in the center of the village.
Their destination is on top of a structure that wraps around the middle of a tree.
It feels like a scaffolding, but the size of the tree is so huge that it looks like a scaffolding, but in reality it is close to a square.
And several large buildings were built on the protruding part of the structure.
Aina pointed to the building and told me that it was an attached building related to the meeting hall I mentioned earlier. The pillars at the entrance, which look much older than other places, are decorated with ornate patterns.
Iris stopped at the door of the meeting hall and said.
“I can’t use the sword from here. I will use the sealing magic.”
Iris held out her hand.
Can I cast a sealing spell on Fiora?
However, if she left it in someone else’s hands, she would notice that there was a fiora inside the sword.
Roan hesitated for a moment.
Aina made a puzzled expression at the behavior that was not like him.
“… Casting magic is difficult. Can’t you just put it somewhere else?”
Hearing Roan’s words, Iris stared down at Fiora.
“The reason I was able to bring my sword all the way here is because I am a guest. However, it is not allowed to bring it into the place where the elders are, or to leave the sword aside. I am a risk-free person.”
Her words are fair
If you don’t know what kind of function is hidden in the sword, it will be more uneasy to leave the sword away from me.
On the other hand, I don’t know what will happen if I cast a spell on Fiora. Roan was candid.
“My sword is enchanted. I’m not sure what will happen with another spell. If possible, I would prefer not to use magic.”
Iris’ expression darkened.
We can understand each other’s situation.
But cannot yield
No matter how much Aina guarantees, she can’t go to the place where the elders are, wearing a sword for the first time. It wasn’t because Roan was a demon. A rule that applies equally to any forest fairy.
However, this situation, which seemed to be confronted on a single wooden bridge, ended with an unexpected word.
“Just come in.”
A man’s small voice came from inside the door.
Iris put on a puzzled expression for the first time.
Her eyebrows twitched slightly by her human standards, but Roan’s ‘detection’ showed that she was quite confused.
“Elder. Letting in a person with a sword…”
“Do you think the author won’t harm us just because he doesn’t have a sword?”
At the elder’s words, Iris bit her lip.
A word that cannot be refuted.
While passing through the forest, she was Iris who realized the splendor of Roan’s body more than anyone else.
With or without a sword, with Roan’s physical abilities, it would take a blink of an eye to break the elders’ necks with his bare hands.
Iris, who had been silent, lowered her head.
“All right.”
And a door well four meters high,
Slid open on both sides.
It’s like coming in.
Iris took a step back from the door and watched as Roan and Aina made their way into the meeting room.
The assembly hall resembled an old wooden cathedral building.
The branches of a huge tree could be seen reflected on the high ceiling, which seemed to be 7 to 8 meters high.
Due to the abundance of leaves, the late afternoon sunlight did not get enough, but instead, the magic spheres that lit up the room were floating in the air like floating lanterns.
After passing the delicately decorated pillars and tiered seats prepared for hundreds, Roan found four forest fairies waiting for him in the innermost seat.
“You’ve come a long way.”
Forest fairies gathered around a huddle with a brazier burning inside the huge auditorium.
On the other side of the hearth, leaving the center seat empty, they split into two and surrounded the hearth.
“It’s still spring, so it’s chilly.”
Even though it was a small sound, it could be heard well beyond the vast auditorium. A distance where such a voice could not be heard beyond the door.
Roan finally realized that they were using magic to hear the sound through the door and answer Iris.
“Come and sit down.”
The man sitting at the farthest of them beckoned to Roan. The empty seat in the middle seemed to be reserved for Roan.
Aina’s surprise at seeing that hand gesture felt like ‘detection’.
“… Long time no see. Elder.”
She hid her expression and bowed her head gracefully.
“Hmm. The tomboy is here.”
“Even with demons.”
“Looking at this, I wonder if this was also arranged by the goddess.”
As the elders greeted each other, Aina’s face turned red.
Could it be that the elders had accidents to the point of declaring that he was a ‘tomboy’? Well, the anecdote that she fainted in a cave as a child is enough to predict her past appearance.
“Nice to see you.”
Roan, who sat among the elders, bowed lightly, and several forest fairies smiled.
Even forest fairies like Aina and Iris deserve to be honored. I’ve heard that their ages exceed hundreds of years.
Although he came as the king of the demons, there is nothing wrong with showing respect to those who treated Roan as a guest.
After Aina greeted her lightly and left her seat, her elders looked at Roan with interest.
All of them look between their 40’s and 60’s.
They had sharp and cool lines like forest fairies, but there was a faint feeling in their deep eyes.
“My name is Roan, and I am leading the demons.”
“Okay. You are the king of demons.”
The eldest-looking old man, seated to the right of Roan, opened his mouth. Apparently, he is like the elder Iris was talking about.
“I wondered why he would bring his sword to this place. Because he didn’t seem like a brainless guy that much. But seeing it in person, it must have been a sword with a story related to us.”
“Could you find out?”
Roan was thrilled.
When he said that he was going to the forest fairy’s residence, Fiora said that he would ask if someone recognized him so that he could materialize.
With the hope that the forest fairy might know at least the story behind Fiora.
Seeing Roan’s expression, the elder’s eyes were wrinkled with a smile.
“The sword belongs to a human, but the handle has our old decorations. It is a form that is no longer used. It must be a very old sword.”
However, the elder didn’t seem to know about that much of the past, and was just happy to see Fiora’s food.
Roan answered, hiding his regret.
“That’s right. It’s been a long time.”
The captain, who was examining the sword, looked away from Fiora and turned his head to Roan with a benevolent smile on his eyes.
“You have sent us several letters. I want to meet and talk to you in person.”
“That’s right.”
“I refused, so why did you keep leaving letters?”
“Wouldn’t it be uncomfortable if we started going in and out of this area on our own? I wanted to eliminate quarrels as much as possible by setting a line so that we would not harm each other.”
There are no lies in Roan’s words.
The forest fairies who sensed this each exchanged glances.
“That’s a funny word. I would never have thought that the demons would say that they wanted to get rid of quarrels.”
The water started to boil in the kettle hanging over the brazier. Hearing the sound of steam spewing out, the forest elf sitting to Roan’s left waved her hand.
The forest fairy poured water from the teapot into a teacup with magic, floated the teacup, and set it down next to Roan.
“It’s still hot.”
“Thank you.”
“There were rare demons who contacted us for political reasons.”
Watching Roan carefully touch the teacup, the old man sitting to the right of Roan said.
“It has been less than two centuries since you created the country. And for you, there was a demon who wanted to negotiate with us during that long period of time. But we refused.”
“Why?”
The old man stared at Roan.
“It is because demons instinctively pursue strong power. All the demons who tried to negotiate with us tried to expand their power by using our relationship with the forest fairies.”
One of the elders nearby helped.
“Seriously, that’s not natural. Isn’t it the instinct of life not to risk mutual contact if there is nothing to gain? But we don’t want anyone to die as a result of the deal.”
At first glance, it sounded like he was expressing his negative perception of the demons, but Roan was relieved.
Because it seemed like there was a clue that could be solved through conversation.
“That sounds like you might be able to accept a deal if we can fill in what you want.”
I couldn’t hear anything,
It moved as if the air was rumbling.
The skill conveyed that the hearts of the elders were shaken, and a smile appeared on the face of the elder sitting next to him.
