Chapter 67
Chapter 67.
A dark forest as the sun goes down.
Me and Sera were searching the neighborhood for a resting place today.
‘You must take a look around!’
According to Eren’s words, when you go to sleep in an unknown place, you must look around unconditionally.
If something happens.
In that case, you need to be aware of the surrounding geography so that you can deal with it and prevent accidents.
That was what Eren learned while he was away to defeat the demon king.
‘I must have had a hard time at a young age.’
Suddenly, the Eren of childhood that I remember came to mind only from her letters.
She would have been good with kids back then.
Maybe it only got worse between the kids because I showed up.
I felt the bitter taste of a little guilt.
Sarah, who had been walking without a word, said as she was lost in such feelings.
“Did you think of another woman?”
“Huh..?”
Sera said as if she read my thoughts, as if she had used magic. In my eyes, Sarah’s eyes, the color of amethyst, were reflected in the setting sun.
“Isn’t it..?”
Sarah nodded her head as if wondering that her prediction was wrong. That’s kind of scary. I decided to just look around.
“It’s just that the forest is kind of bleak…”
A wind blew through the forest as evening approached.
As the sun goes down, the shadows of the leaves on the ground.
I felt a bit ominous in the forest, which was gradually losing its light.
Sera, noticing my anxiety, grabbed my arm as if telling her not to worry.
“Deacon, are you afraid of the forest?”
Sarah’s cold hand, which held my arm, was weak. The cold hand she just put on.
She asked me if I was afraid of the forest.
‘Rather than being afraid of the forest…’
To be precise, the forest wasn’t scary. It just feels different in the morning and at night. The forest always had the same shape. There was something else I was afraid of.
‘I can’t say it’s you’
I hid my expression as much as possible and spoke to Sera.
“It seems like it’s getting cold. Sera, are you okay?”
At my words, Sera seemed to ponder, then opened her mouth and said.
“Coming to think of it, it might be a bit cold…”
She suddenly trembled, seizing her body. She strongly appealed that it was cold.
“Then let’s go back quickly. I think I’ve looked around a bit.”
When you return to the wagon, a warm fire should have been lit. Being alone with Sara was a bit unsettling, so I wanted to quickly go back.
I heard Sera’s voice through the back of my head as I turned around and headed towards the carriage.
“You don’t have to go back.”
ㅡ Anger.
Surprised by the sudden brightening of the surrounding landscape and the warmth I felt, I looked at Sarah.
ㅡFar Leure
A fire was burning in her hand. There was no problem in raising the temperature of the body that had been lowered by the fire that emitted the proper temperature.
Sera held out the fire in her hand and said with a smile.
“I don’t think I’ve looked around yet, but I think it’d be better to go inside a little more…”
Sera did not want this time to be uninterrupted by them to end. She was shivering and trying to get into his arms failed, so she used the second strategy.
Now that the temperature and light are satisfied, all you have to do is move your body.
“Something might happen. Go deeper, sir.”
Sarah smiled and said seductively. As for me, she couldn’t deny her words.
“Okay let’s go…”
Ha ha.
Isn’t this wrong?
The moment when the feeling of uneasiness overwhelms me that I will never be able to go back.
I followed Sera and went deeper into the forest.
•••
“..It’s late”
Arya lit a fire at the base and was waiting for her party to come. She was still and the dizziness she felt from motion sickness was almost gone.
I waited so long.
I can’t even hear the sign of being a person. Boredom enveloped her whole body. Arya felt bored.
“When are you coming?”
The sun was setting and the area was covered with darkness, so Arya, who felt a slight sense of fear, stabbed the fire with a piece of wood.
“Haa.. Lenny is too much..”
Arya let out a sigh as she recalled her past before coming here.
When Sera wants to remove her ring, Lenny thinks about it for about 3 seconds and then removes her ring right away. Did she forget all of her wedding vows?
“Only I’m sincere. I’m the only one…”
Although she believes that the wedding was forced. As she lived with herself, she wondered if the feeling of love would spring up in his arms as well.
“Still, he loves me…”
I have to love you.
However, unfortunately, there was no love as burning as his own.
“What am I missing?”
How can Lenny make her look only at me and love me? Those thoughts dominated Arya’s head.
A fire burning fervently from firewood.
I wish Lenny’s heart could burn with her love like that.
Looking at her own ring finger caught in her middle ring finger, Arya could only let out a sigh mixed with her lamentation.
ㅡ Basrak.
Aria began to hear her presence, which she hadn’t felt at that moment.
“Who are you?”
From a sound perspective, it’s just one person.
Arya stared in the direction of the sound with her eyes mixed with tension, as it might not be the group.
The wind shakes.
The leaves move because of it.
In a situation where there is such tension. Her human figure revealed her true identity.
“What is it… A saint?”
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The person who approached rustling through the bushes was Saint Laysha. Let’s look at the face of the saintess who came after her reconnaissance. Arya was able to put her mind at ease.
“Huh? Did everyone arrive?”
After the appearance of Saint Laysha, Eren arrived for the second time and showed her face.
Since Aria didn’t even feel her popularity, she was in a situation where she felt fortunate that Ray Sha arrived first.
‘When will the teacher come?’
ㅡ Tadak. Tadak.
All I could hear was the firewood burning, and there was no sign of a conversation between them.
‘..You haven’t come yet’
Just like that, when the night arrived. At the base where Shiana also arrived, Lenny and Sera were not present.
It’s not a wide forest, it’s a search mission where you just have to look around. There was no reason for them to be so late.
‘Suspicious’
Something is not good.
It was a moment when everyone in the room agreed, except for Laysha.
“Keuheum, I’ll go somewhere for a while..”
“Me…Me too…”
“…”
Lenny doesn’t come even at night. Except for Lay Sha, who was tired of it, everyone in her party started to stand up.
“Uh.. Uh uh..?”
Everyone except Laysha suddenly got up from their seats and started to go into the forest individually, as if they had decided on their location.
Only one Laysha remained at the base where the subtle war of nerves came and went. She sat in front of her fire, dumbfounded.
“What are those people…?
Laysha’s cry, left alone. There was no one to hear it, and the sound only spread through the dark forest.
•••
‘..Isn’t it too deep?’
A long time has passed since I followed Sera into the depths of the forest. I looked back.
There was no light everywhere, giving off a bleak energy, and the light of the stronghold, which I could see faintly, was not even visible to my eyes.
Looks like you’ve looked around the forest, isn’t it time to head back? I called Sarah, who was walking without a word, and stopped me.
“Sera, do you think it’s okay to go back now? I think I’ve looked around…”
As if she had heard me, Sera stopped her urging steps and stood still.
“I see, should I go back now?”
Fortunately, contrary to my expectations, Sera readily answered her request to return to her base.
‘I thought I might be trapped somewhere..’
Sarah went deep into the woods and she said nothing. Unlike the behavior that clung to me a little while ago. There was something about her that was not clear.
So I wondered if they were kidnapping me again. As if such worries were unfounded, Sera turned around behind her and walked in the direction of the base.
‘Huh..?’
For a moment, it seemed that purple eyes were coming out of Sera’s eyes. Probably because of the moonlight at night. I also moved behind her with her.
ㅡTurbug. Turbuck.
We walked in silence toward the direction we had walked. The occasional sound of branches being stepped on only fills our silence. Strangely enough, the conversation didn’t come out of Sarah.
At that time, a sudden change appeared in Sera.
“Deacon. Do you know what I did wrong?”
“Wrong..?”
Sarah, without saying anything, suddenly asks her about her fault. All I could guess was work at the temple.
But the fault Sera was talking about was something else.
“..It’s about the incident that day”
Sera began to outline the events of the day to Lenny.
The day Lenny was seriously injured. The magic formula used by the wizard that day. It was one of the magical improvements Sera had been researching.
She is guilty of following Sarah for two years. She put off the person she loved to her death with the magic she created. That intense emotion continued to linger in a corner of Sera’s head.
If you tell me this. What if you hate me If the butler hates me, I…
I will stop his time before he hates me.
Sera, determined to risk her death, bit her lower lip.
‘What are you talking about…?’
I don’t understand this situation. It was the mad wizard who used the magic. It wasn’t Sarah, so she didn’t have to apologize.
If I had to argue, the incident I had to apologize for was at the temple. The past incident was not the problem.
‘It’s dizzy…’
You mean Sarah had feelings like that? It was a part I didn’t pay attention to at all, so my head hurt.
‘First, let’s organize our thoughts’
There doesn’t seem to be anything good to talk about with her now, so I’ll have to talk to her later about what happened at her temple. Thinking that, I turned my head away from Sera and turned toward the base.
“Later. We’ll talk later, Sera.”
“Oh…”
Lenny walks away from Sarah. Contrary to his intentions, Sera’s interpretation plunged a knife into her chest.
‘You must hate me..?’
A magical spell was manifested in the hand of Sera, who was obsessed with her victim delusion.
In the deep and dark forest, only children wandering on the road remained.
