138. Reason (1)

Early morning with the dawn of the count’s house may seem quiet like midnight. In reality, it is a time for those who are no less busy during the day.

Diligent employees start working early in the morning in different roles and positions. Even today, the sleepless people were on the move.

And like those sleepless people, there was one who got up early in the morning and called his comrades together.

“Everyone, how is your bond with the spirits?”

Friel Arielt wore a pajama that was relatively lighter and thinner than street clothes worn outside, and a coat over it.

She asked, straightening my hair with her comb.

Friel Arielt’s eyes only stayed on her own fine golden hair.

He did not turn to his own comrades at all.

However, the five elves gathered around Friel were familiar with her attitude. Or is it natural?

One of them naturally answered her question.

“I was weak for a while last night, but I’m just now stable. Other people will be no different.”

At her words, the gathered elves nodded in agreement.

“… Things are getting worse. As soon as we finish our work here, we should return to the Great Forest as soon as possible.”

“Yes… ….”

Pause—

Friel Arielt stopped combing her words and brought a smile to my face.

“hahahaha… ….”

Her artificial laughter resonates low.

In Friel’s laughter, there was not even a speck of benevolence known to the world as an elf.

The cold anger and the irritation mixed together in it.

It was this forced smile that was cooled and forged into an expression.

Took.

Friel whispered as she put down her comb.

“Where do damn monsters come from? No matter how many times I kill it, it’s like digging up the roots of the world tree and letting it rot.”

Her bright eyes shone with a sharp light as the dawn shone into her room.

“I really don’t like it.”

The years that Friel has spent.

Her foundational status, built up step by step over the years, begins to overwhelm her audience.

Elves are born with innate talents that set them apart from other races.

However, among such elves, she was born and raised as a daughter of Arielt, the third-generation family, and is different from other elves.

Let the spirit’s energy dwelling in her body begin to tremble calmly, but certainly with anger. The elves, who are more sensitive than anyone else when it comes to spirits, begin to gulp their saliva and become nervous.

Under the high elves, there are three families. The elves beneath them lift up the great ones.

“Priel-sama, please ease your anger.”

Except for the elf who usually assisted Friel in the Arielt family, the four people could not easily withstand her momentum.

“… Oops, I made a mistake for a while. Sorry.”

Friel nodded her head for a moment and apologized, then let out a sigh.

Friel, who had gathered her momentum, looked out the window at her.

Dawn has broken and the red sun is rising.

His hometown, Great Forest, must also have risen like that, erasing the madness scattered by the moon.

“I thought it would be better to go back as soon as I finished the job. Ok then… As the elder said, it would be better to speak with the family head quickly.”

She stroked my neck for a moment.

Unemotional, bright, turquoise eyes that had lost their intelligence stared at me in front of me.

Her eyes embraced the figure of the elf in front of her, but what she was thinking and feeling of Friel was not the figure of her own kind.

Her pupils recalled her recent past and reminded her of what happened back then.

“I—”

Friel’s voice sank low and deep.

“It’s not because I bowed my head and apologized to a short-lived species who is nothing special.”

Shione, the moonlight-haired human.

The first thing I noticed was during Princess Adelheit’s coming-of-age ceremony.

Her courage to protect the princess even in the face of a sudden enemy attack is worth participating, but I have never seen her sword tip play a beautiful line.

It was also clearly visible that his posture and movements were rigid—

Although it is said that he recently broke down the wall of experts through bows… A woman who thinks she is just that.

There was a reason why she obediently bowed her head even though she was only a myeongjong who showed a lot of shortcomings compared to herself.

“You can’t pretend to be with the young lady. There is nothing more foolish than that in this situation.”

Friel’s gaze moved downward.

A comb that was put down for a while.

She starts combing her hair again with the comb.

“For the survival of us and the spirits, we have to take the young lady and her knight to the Great Forest by any means according to the elder’s wishes.”

* *

Just because an elf started living at the Count’s residence for a while, nothing bothered me right away.

Well, in order not to make contact with the elves, I tried to hide the energy of the spirit from my side as much as possible.

Thanks to the fact that the dormitory the elves were originally assigned to was quite far from me and Sione’s room, there was also no chance of seeing their pointy ears.

Thanks to that, I was able to live a normal life as usual.

I started the day by asking Shione not to do strange temptations like yesterday, and collecting the books of fiction that contained her strange knowledge.

Still, I rolled my head and briefly thought about what would happen next.

‘I told you that Adelheit would soon be swept away by the torrent of fate.’

As long as it is not unusual for elves to come to the westernmost part of the kingdom.

Anyway, I strongly believe that the visit of the elves to the count’s house is a signal that the torrent of fate will begin.

I don’t know how fate will play out, but Adelheit even dared to describe it as a torrent.

The fate of this world is never bright.

Since the future is the collapse of both the empire that was so strong and the kingdom that had the deep potential of today.

It wouldn’t be a bad thing to constantly remind yourself that if you’re stubborn, you might end up getting tired of the dangerous battle.

‘Shall I ask Siabelle to increase the strength of the sparring a bit?’

There is no proper quest.

All I can do right now is to hone and polish the skills that Ilshin possesses.

It would be better to spend a little more time sword fighting with Siabelle so that she could use her strength a little more, or teach Sione more tricks or how to shoot her own archery.

As I was playing with Shione while organizing her thoughts like that, she stared at me.

“Ray, is what you said yesterday true?”

“If it’s what you said yesterday.”

When I ask back, Shione looks up at me with her sneaky look, and she hesitates for a moment.

“That… They say they like me so much that they can’t even compare with the elf…….”

“Ah, if that’s the case.”

I am sincere.

Compared to the dark elf in

, How much more kind and gentle our Shione is.

“I am serious. Sione is better than the Elf.”

“Really?”

“Yes.”

Shione laughed at those words, and in an instant she opened her eyes wide and started staring at me.

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She looks deeply into my eyes without blinking and tilts her head at the same time.

“Why?”

“…… ?”

“Which do you like better than an elf?”

… What question did you want to ask? If this is the case, the answer is simple.

“It’s like the relationship of trust we’ve built up until now. The same goes for Sione’s heart. Overall, in almost every way, Sione is much better.”

“Really?”

“Of course.”

“Then the face?”

I looked at her face.

Shione can also be said to be a beautiful woman full of cuteness in her puppy image.

Even so, in terms of her face and appearance, it seems that there is something beyond the species of the elf.

“The face….”

But even so, my favorite face was Sione rather than Friel.

“Yes, Shione has a cuter face.”

Although I raised Shione’s hand.

“The answer is slow… ….”

Shione opened her eyes again and crossed her arms.

“… Do you really think so?”

“Have you ever seen me lie?”

“Hmm… Eight.”

Shione pricked my side.

“Please answer quickly next time.”

After saying that, Shione hugged me tightly and her dodo also ran to her bookshelf.

She picked up one of her books, took three cookies on her table, and flew towards her bed without hesitation.

Movement like a flying squirrel.

Opening the book she had brought, she got under the covers and began to slowly eat her cookies one by one.

‘… How she told me not to eat some cookies on the bed.’

In this way, I listen to the words with my ears.

Well, it’s about time to change the bed sheets, so just take care of it today.

I roughly turned around and left her room and said at the same time.

“If you do, I will go to the training center.”

“A training center? Aren’t you a little earlier than usual? If it was now, my sister wouldn’t have come yet.”

“Siabelle-nim said we should meet a little earlier today and talk about the sword we will learn.”

“Really? Then… Have a good day, Ray. You know we’re coming to the shooting range after that, right?”

“Yes.”

With those words in mind, I remembered the words Siabelle left me yesterday before he left.

─Can you tell me a story about Shione and the elves next time?

Today, beyond Ainel and Sione, Siabelle will finally learn about the true nature of elves.