Chapter 45 – Lily
Lily, who was eating soup made with onions and potatoes, raised her head.
She was having dinner with Ian’s family today.
One seat was empty where there were usually five people.
“How about Seojun oppa over there…?”
“Uh, huh? I heard you’re busy from today.”
“···Why?”
“Well, I don’t know exactly… Could it be that Melson’s mill is busy?”
Sophia seems to have been using the excuse of being busy, but Lily and Ian know that’s not the case.
It was obviously because of what happened yesterday.
It’s because Lily intervened in the training and prevented violence against Ian. Like a petty man!
Lily couldn’t possibly approve of such violence. What the hell is teaching? What does training mean
If he had seen Seo-joon beat Ian mercilessly at the time, anyone would have rushed to stop him.
But Ian didn’t seem to think so.
Ian sincerely followed Seojun. To the extent that if he overturned the boat, he would follow without hesitation…
Honestly, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t jealous. Still, I had no doubt that if asked which of the two I liked, he would choose himself.
“Ian? Why is this guy cracking up at the dinner table…?”
“Oh, sorry. I was thinking of something else…”
To Ian who was scratching his spoon, Jack finally said something.
Throughout the meal, Ian seemed very nervous. Even if Seojun said that yesterday, he didn’t really think that he wouldn’t come.
Lily, to be honest, didn’t expect it to come out that way.
Honestly, no matter how many times I think about it, it was not education, but one-sided beatings and violence. Lily couldn’t quite accept that part. If something like this happened in the future, she would not hesitate to stop it.
After finishing the meal, Ian immediately got up from his seat.
“I really enjoyed the meal···!”
“Ian…! Where is that guy in such a hurry…!”
“Lily, I’ll go first.”
“Uh, yes…”
Ian kissed Lily on the forehead and smiled as if telling her not to worry. But Lily read the worry hidden in his laugh. It was probably what Seo-joon would do if he didn’t accept his apology.
Lily wanted to stop him. Do you really have to train with someone who mercilessly beats you like that…?
But Lily knew very well how much Ian wanted to be a knight. Since I was little, I used to sing like a knight knight.
Lily is completely ignorant about swordsmanship, but she knew that Seo-jun’s skill in wielding a wooden sword was unusual.
Mr. Smith, a field foreman who is now fixing farm equipment, said he used to be a mercenary wielding a sword, but he referred to Seo-jun as an unusual guy. Among the mercenaries, there is no one who handles a sword so well…
Frankly, Lily thought his words were an exaggeration. Doesn’t every adult say something like that? When he was young, blah blah blah…
Looking at Ian’s back as he hurriedly runs down the hill, Lily wonders what if Seo-jun doesn’t accept his apology and returns to training…? I felt insecure about it, but I was sure I wouldn’t be such a petty person.
On her way back to her house, Lily said her goodbyes to her father, Booker, and lay down on her bed.
Well-
A bracelet of mottled stone shards twitched on her wrist.
Lily lifted her wrist, and she fiddled with her bracelet, which clattered. Her bracelet was very tattered because she had made it more than ten years ago.
But the most precious thing… This bracelet was a gift that Lily gave to Ian when they were playing house.
From her childhood, her caring and good-natured Ian caught her attention. Although she was of little interest back then. As she got older, she started to like Ian more and more.
She was different from normal people who were strong with the weak and weak with the strong.
Ian said that no matter how much bigger and stronger her opponent was, she always sounded right. When the strong oppress the weak, she stands by the weak. As a result, even when she was beaten and cried, she never changed.
Her Ian was always right, and that became an example for her.
Then, at some point, she felt her heart race when Ian approached her. She listened intently to every word he said. As he looked at her, Lily couldn’t control her quivering heart.
“Ha···.”
Lily let out a low sigh and groped over her large breasts, which were not befitting her age.
There was a necklace here not too long ago… She entrusted it to Seo-jun and lost it, and in the end, whispering her love for Ian, she handed over a fake necklace…
Lily was very fond of her Seo-joon, for she had sacrificed herself to save her before.
She didn’t disappoint Ian, much less her necklace, thanks to her making her a similar one instead of losing it. I felt sorry for deceiving him, but the love we swore was sincere…
However, seeing Seo-joon mercilessly beating Ian was a bit frightening.
No matter how sincere you are in cultivation, you shouldn’t hit people like that.
Lily pulled the hem of her blanket up and up to her chin.
As she closed her eyes, the pain slowly came to her.
When I wake up tomorrow, I have to go see Seo-joon.
I should tell you not to hit Ian anymore…
And I have to ask him to resume training.
If it was the bully from before, I wouldn’t know, but I believed that if it was changed now, she would listen to her words.
I fell asleep like that…
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The chirping of mountain birds resounded in the lush forest.
A grasshopper crawls on the fleshy skin.
But I can’t move Holding my breath, I wait for a moment.
It doesn’t move until that moment comes. Like, like mountains and rivers. Yeah, like stones and rocks.
A deer passes under the bushes. The deer, which briefly limped when its antlers protruding from its head got caught in the bush, purrs and licks its lips, showing annoyance.
Stretching out his neck, he walks between fir trees and pine trees.
He shakes his outstretched legs here and there, and at some point turns his head this way. The intuition of the beast is frightening.
However···. A hunter should aim for just that. The very moment when the beast became tense and hardened.
Widely-
Sitting in her bush, obliterating her presence, Lily’s hand, which had been pulling on her string, released her hand at once.
Wheeaeaeae liquid-
The arrows that fly from her fingertips, the arrows she carves from the hard yet light bamboo she attaches her handmade pheasant feathers, fly through her wind.
The distance to the deer is over fifty feet. As the arrow flies, it draws a long parabola and flies between branches and between blades of grass.
And the deer’s pupils widen, and he touches the long plucked head.
Fluff- The deer fell.
However, he gets up again, wriggling his slender legs, and runs away all of a sudden.
Missed.
The arrow grazed Sareum’s head, stuck in a wooden pole right next to him, and his feathers trembled.
“Fu-huu…”
“Lily… Where the hell is your mind…”
Lily let out her last breath and shrugged her shoulders at her father, her Booker, who was watching from behind her.
“I guess today isn’t the right day.”
“What about the bad days… The guy who can hit the deer’s eyeballs even outside the 100’s…”
Booker sighed in frustration at her, but when she laughed, he burst out laughing too. How can she blame her only daughter when she smiles?
She rode down the mountain road, holding a badger and three rabbits in her hand. It’s a pity she missed the chance to catch one deer, but the opportunity will come anytime. Because she was a sharpshooter.
Booker finally asked what he had been hesitant about asking Lily all the way down.
“Did something happen with that guy Ian…?”
At her father’s question, Lily, who widened her eyes, smiled.
“No, what is the problem… You know I’m not the kind of kid who’ll cause trouble.”
“Yeah, if he ever gets into trouble, tell me anytime. This father put an arrowhead in his ass…”
“Dad···!”
Lily laughed and bruised, and Booker laughed, shaking her beard.
She greeted the herbalists and woodcutters she met on her way down the mountain path, and Lily finished her preparations to go straight to Seo-jun’s house.
“Where else are you going?”
“I want to see Seo-joon oppa.”
“Why is that guy?”
“There is such a thing.”
After Seo-jun rescued Lily from the chaos, Booker changed her attitude of trembling at her if she was a bully.
No, she still caused a match just by seeing the walruses swarming around, but it was different in Seo-jun’s case.
“Take this with you when you go.”
What Booker held out was the buckskin he had been tanning the night before.
If I sold it, it would be enough for a month’s worth of meals, so Lily frowned.
“Dad···! This···!”
“It’s okay, so if you want to take it, take it. Thinking of what I did to protect you, it wouldn’t be a waste to give me a dozen hides like this. I wish I had given you some in advance, I hope you don’t think it’s too late. Go.”
Lily suddenly grabbed the buckskin that Booker had scooped up and left her cabin.
I don’t need to take care of that kind of guy…
Lily grumbled and followed her trail to Seo-jun’s cabin.
