42 – Episode 39: Port City Tilans – 4

“… !”

According to Isabelle, what I witnessed was the pursuit party that broke into the room at the inn last night.

They were gathering at the entrance of the checkpoint, meticulously examining each and every person entering and leaving the village.

We were already close to them.

If I deviated from the line now, it was clear that I would notice something strange and come running.

I mean, to meet you here.

However, this situation must be overcome somehow.

Otherwise, all plans will go awry.

“Rin, Kyoko. Don’t say anything and just pass by quietly. You should never keep your mouth shut. I just look at the ground and walk.”

I quietly bit my lower lip as I spoke to Rin and Kyokyo. That’s how our turn came, and the moment we were about to pass the checkpoint without saying anything.

“Please stop.”

A man from the chase team grabbed my shoulder.

A strong feeling of anxiety began to force a rapid heartbeat in my head.

Could it be that I noticed Isabel hiding behind me?

Every time he approached, it felt like my heart sank.

However, it was clear that I would be caught out soon if I expressed it, so I barely kept my poker face and turned my head.

“What are you doing… ?”

“Perhaps… Aren’t you the one who was at the inn yesterday?”

“Ah… Come to think of it, last night…”

“I was so embarrassed yesterday that I couldn’t properly apologize. Once again, sorry for the rudeness. Been a little rude since we were looking for someone higher up. Please forgive me.”

“sure. Of course you should forgive me. then… ”

Fortunately, it didn’t seem to have noticed Isabelle.

The man cautiously opened his mouth about yesterday’s incident and apologized politely to me.

Concerned about Isabelle hiding behind my back, I nodded roughly as if listening.

The man didn’t seem to notice Isabelle’s identity behind me. At this point, when I answered quickly and tried to leave, he grabbed my shoulder again and started talking.

“Hey, by the way, are the three women next to you wives? Your ability is great. It is something I could not even dream of because I put myself into the priesthood.”

No f*ck, I don’t know why this bastard is so talkative, but I never should have shown him. To avoid being discovered, you have to act naturally.

“Who, who’s with the guy… Ugh!”

“The wives are not. They are just fellow adventurers.”

“Haha, it looks like it’s not ‘yet’. You can.”

I blocked Kyoko’s mouth to scream without notice, and squeezed the honey chestnuts in an invisible way to wake up. At times like this, please pay attention.

I laughed at his words and shook my head.

Then, the man replied with a sinister smile.

“By the way… The person behind you… ”

“Ah… ! My colleague is a bit shy and shy. Please forgive the rudeness.”

“Hmm… Is that so…”

While we were chatting for a bit, the man began to approach me, as if he had noticed Isabelle wearing a hooded hood behind me.

I answered him with an impromptu ad-lib, in order to somehow keep him from approaching her, and he looked suspicious but seemed convinced.

“I-I’m a little busy, so can I just go?”

“Oh, it seems I was inadvertently wasting time. sorry. You are welcome to go. May the blessings of the goddess be with you… ”

“Yes, then… ”

Barely freed from him, the moment she grabs her pounding heart and tries to enter the village.

he called me again

“Oh wait… ”

f*ck did i catch it

My heart started pounding like crazy.

The faces of the four of us who had stopped walking were clearly blue.

“Why, why do you… ”

Swallowing dry saliva, I asked the man standing in front of me.

“This is the repair fee for the damaged door yesterday. Shouldn’t a person who does God’s work pass over these things without conscience? This is the money we should give you, so please accept it.”

In an instant, my legs gave out and I almost collapsed.

It’s surprised by the f*cking people.

“Ah, yes thank you… ”

The man smiled kindly and handed me the money bag, and I accepted the money bag with a bewildered expression.

Being escorted by a man, we entered the village.

“I thought it would take a f*ck… ”

After walking for a long time from the checkpoint and reaching a place where we could no longer be seen by the pursuers, we were able to wipe off the cold sweat.

“Being with You, I feel very excited! Full of thrill!”

Isabelle breathed heavily, but a smile did not leave her lips, no matter how happy she was.

“Joo-hyeok, no matter how much I think about it, that woman doesn’t seem normal.”

“Yes, I honestly think so too.”

“wwww strongly agrees with that opinion”

We were looking at Isabelle’s appearance with shocking eyes.

After just one day of meeting Isabelle, I felt as if I had exhausted a year’s worth of life.

***

“It arrived pretty quickly, so let’s put it here.”

The store owner, who opened the door and found us entering, told me with an interesting expression.

Nodding my head, I placed three bat carcasses on the table and waited for the owner’s evaluation.

“Okay, I think this should be enough.”

At the owner’s words, I let out a sigh of relief.

I had to make it because of Damian’s urging not to even think about entering the fairy forest without this, but fortunately it seemed to have been resolved well.

“By the way, are you guys planning to enter the fairy forest?”

The owner assembled something at the workbench and asked us to sit and wait for a while.

“right! We go to the fairy forest… ! Ugh!”

“No. No. Just for home decoration… ”

I hurriedly thrust the honey chestnut into Kyoko’s head.

Entering the fairy forest is obviously illegal.

Damian asked why he needed a lantern, and when someone asked why, he said it was just an ornament.

Kyoko seemed to have forgotten about it.

“It’s okay not to hide it.”

The shop owner smiled and continued working.

“It’s only wealthy old couples and eccentric collectors who buy fairy lanterns for ornamental purposes. You don’t look that old, and you don’t look crazy.”

The owner had a look of nostalgia for some reason.

“Are you guys on an adventure? I know it well because I used to be an adventurer when I was young. If it’s an unknown place, I want to go there. i want to fight It’s natural that you can’t control your youthful energy.”

“No, so.”

“Don’t worry. Because my mouth is on the heavy side. It’s a secret, but when I was young, I also went to the fairy forest.”

The owner was making the frame of the lamp by bending the heated iron and hammering it several times.

“Have you ever been there?”

“okay. Was it for 3 days? I didn’t even have this lantern back then, so I almost died. By the way, do you know why this lantern is needed in the fairy forest? ”

“No… except that it is necessary… ”

The owner cooled the finished mold in one corner, and this time started walking towards the large cauldron located in one corner of the workbench.

“Basically, the fairy forest cannot be lit.”

“That means you can’t light a fire… ”

“Literally. Fairies are cowards. They fear that their forests will burn, so if it is a fire, they will be frightened. So even if it’s cold at night, you can’t light a fire, and even if you hunt, you can’t cook meat, so there are many inconveniences.”

“okay… ”

I roughly understood.

Well, nothing is more fatal to survival than not being able to use fire in camp.

“In that case, you need this fairy lantern. You won’t be able to understand the detailed principle anyway, so to put it simply, this lantern is a buff item.”

After mixing bat blood and various unknown ingredients in a cauldron, he boiled it down until it was about a cup of solution, and poured the solution into the lantern.

Then, the lantern was instantly surrounded by blue light and then gradually faded.

And soon, a soft blue light emanated from around the lantern.

“Touch the lantern once.”

The owner put a finished lantern in front of me and pointed at the lantern with his finger and said.

“Ah… is this hot…?”

I grimaced at the pain I felt at the tips of my fingers. Even though the lantern contained only cooled liquid, it was as hot as a roaring fire.

“Yes, that is the effect of this lantern. It is very convenient because you can raise the temperature around you without making a fire, and you can even cook by placing a lantern under it and placing a pot on top of it.”

The owner was staring at the lantern with a satisfied expression.

“Okay, take it. The lantern turns off when you remove the stopper from the top, and turns on when you put it back on. Use ‘decorations’ well.”

“Yes thank you.”

The owner coolly threw a lantern and said.

Since it was a lantern purchased for a considerable amount of money, I held it dearly as if holding a baby.

“Always be careful. You never know what might pop up in a fairy forest.”

Until the moment we left the store, the owner did not stop giving sincere advice.

He was an adult who could be called a real adult whom I hadn’t seen in a long time.

So, after bowing down and thanking me, I went back to the inn.

…

When we returned to our room, we were clearly exhausted.

I was in the middle of taking off my light armor and rushing to get ready, when Isabelle suddenly asked me a question.

“Well, I have a question. Korean.”

“What is it?”

“What does geiya mean? i am born question. make words evoke interest.”

“ah.”

In an instant, Isabel’s unexpected remark turned my mind white.

Yes, it seems that he forgot about the translator.

Isabel said that she received the same translator as us, so it was obvious that my words would sound like shit again.

“I know!”

“Oh! Japanese girl tells me too. that.”

“A kind of nickname that Chop uses! Chop am I right? ”

“uh… uh, yes that’s right It’s a nickname.”

At that time, Kyoko spoke confidently, then looked at me and smiled confidently.

I suddenly nodded.

“Very much. interesting! It hasn’t been long since I met Korean. but already made it Then, from now on, my nickname is America geiya. understand!”

Then Isabelle nodded, as if understanding, and smiled brightly.

I’m going to embarrass myself, really.

When the reality of the translator was revealed again, my face started to heat up.