Episode 647 Rising public sentiment, the majesty of the upper half of the upper class (5)
The morning when the sun is about to rise.
Lacia arrived at Billo Village with the girl and the elf.
He said to the two of them looking around curiously.
“Don’t stare too hard. If it looks suspicious, the guards will approach you.”
“Ah yes.”
“all right.”
Relieved after hearing the answer, Lacia headed towards the house.
Let’s get out of the village a little bit and the liveliness of the market can hardly reach.
A small hill came out.
After walking some more from a rock big enough for one or two adults to sit and rest, a small house comes into view.
Lacia quietly approached the door and knocked a couple of times.
Knock- Knock-
“Lacia?”
“It is me.”
With those words, the door opened.
A woman in her thirties could be trusted to ask with a worried face.
“I know how worried Mom was because you suddenly left…
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“
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One is an elf and the other is a pretty young girl.
I looked at Lacia as if she needed an explanation, and she answered briefly.
“I got it from the slave market. I brought it because it looked like there was nowhere else to go… can’t I?”
For her, it was said without a change in tone, but in the eyes of Sein, there was not that kind of charm.
Besides, it’s not a bad thing, and you can’t scold me for getting it from the slave market!
Sein, who slowly started rationalizing himself, nodded fiercely.
“How could it not be! Our Lacia asks for this!”
Even if the person who brought it was not an elf or human, but an orc or kobold, he seemed willing to accept it.
Sain hurriedly tidied up the tied apron and said.
“Come inside first.”
“yes.”
“Then… take the risk of rudeness…”
Did he read the sign of mana felt in Sein?
The elf’s tone became extremely polite.
Upon entering the house, Sein immediately turned around.
Then Ale’s beard came crashing into her seat.
“Lacia!”
In the end, the huge arms do not hold anything and struggle with only afterimages.
“dad. I am not a child.”
At those words, Ale staggered greatly.
It’s as shocking as hearing that your daughter, whom you raised with affection, smells like.
Crashed into a corner, he murmured as if lamenting.
“Ray said that at the same age. How can this father live if his two children do not give him love?”
That look is so pitiful.
Sein smiled.
“Stop honey and wake up. Customers are also in trouble.”
“customer?”
Only then did Ale find two figures standing behind Lacia.
Judging by the long ears, one was an elf, and the other looks normal.
Like Ray and Lacia, it was almost the first time they had brought guests to their house, so they were more curious than puzzled.
Like Sein, Ail also looked at Lacia.
“We drink tea and talk. Whoops.”
Is it because someone has been visiting the house for a long time?
Sein’s expression is brighter than usual.
Soon, Sein, who brought tea cups with steam rising, put them down in front of the seat he was sitting on.
To relieve tension, the elf and Ete raised their teacups in turn.
The tea seemed to suit her taste, and Ete was bright.
On the other hand, the expression of the elf woman hardened a little.
Putting down the teacup, she was silent for a moment, then asked.
“This car… where did you get it from?”
The tea in front of me was obviously made from tea leaves that only elves could make.
A woman named Sein and a man named Eil.
Since the amount of mana was unusual for all of them to be human, I began to have doubts.
If he robbed an elven village.
Ale waved his hand at the elf, who was clenching his fists and making up his mind.
“I only got it from my acquaintance with the nearby elven village, so don’t make any strange misunderstandings.”
“Ah, do you know me?”
The elf, who had heard the words, was dumbfounded.
Do you know me?
If it wasn’t even the occasional helper in the elven village, how could mere humans go in and out of the elven village to get tea leaves?
In addition, if you feel the depth of the fragrance felt in the car, it was by no means an ordinary car.
It was a tea that was so clean that at least an elf elder could drink it.
There wouldn’t be an elf who dedicated it simply to maintain friendship.
She was more suspicious than at first.
Ale, feeling that something was wrong, scratched the back of his head.
“It looks like you’ve raised more suspicions by saying useless things.”
“Ho-ho-ho. There have been many strange things like that since the old days.”
“Still, I met you thanks to that, so it’s not a bottom-line business.”
At those words, Sein covered his flushed cheeks.
“Oh, you too. The kids are watching.”
“ha ha ha. You’re still cute even when you’re old.”
The two spilled sesame seeds as usual.
Lacia, who has gotten used to it by now, said while drinking tea quietly.
“You said you knew where the Elf Village was before you came home, right?”
“There must be a high elf…”
“Yes. The high elf gave it to me, these tea leaves.”
“Ha High Elf?”
“If you don’t believe it, you might as well check it yourself.”
At that, the elf shook his head.
Judging from the fact that the eyes of truth do not respond, it is not a lie.
If so, are the high elves really close to the elven village enough to bestow tea leaves on their own?
‘How can humans get along with elves?’
Usually, it’s easy to get kicked out by the guardians before reaching the village.
Human slave traders usually come pretending to be nice people, so if it is judged that the location has been discovered, they will move the village or supplement the protective magic circle.
Even if they entered the village by chance, there would be countless surveillance, so unless it took a long time to build trust, there was no way they would make friends.
Sensing that there was something between them, the elf kept his mouth shut.
Then, Lacia explained to Ale and Sein what was going on between them this time.
A slave auction held in southern Celia.
There was even a story about the elf who was captured there and Ete who stood there guarded by the Black Room.
She told me everything she knew.
“I can leave the elf to Aira… I want Ete to stay at my house until a place is decided.”
At those words, Ale thought while stroking his neat beard.
“It was good to help people in need. She is our daughter too.”
“thank you.”
“But it was wrong to go alone to the black room. Besides, do you know how worried your mother was about going out out of the blue?”
Lacia, who recalled Sein with tears welling up on her face as if she would cry at any moment, apologized without making excuses.
“…sorry.”
“Don’t worry Inseok-ah. You’re not even Ray.”
“Oh, it has nothing to do with Brother.”
Lacia replied as if crawling in with a disheveled face.
“It doesn’t matter. Even if one or two customers increase.”
“sure. I was just about to clean the Ray room, so I guess I can use it.”
At Sain’s nonchalant words, Lacia let out a scream.
“Brother, the room is not available!”
I didn’t know that I would raise my voice all of a sudden.
Elf and Ete’s expressions hardened a little.
On the other hand, Ale and Sain only smiled mischievously.
“Sain really likes you.”
“What can I say? Ho ho ho. You’ve been chasing after Ray since you were a year or two.”
“This father is worried. You’re not even thinking about marriage, are you?” “Marriage!”
The two of them play drums and janggu, so the porridge cannot match like this.
Realizing that she was just making fun of herself, Lacia was so thirsty that she repeatedly lifted the teacup.
She puffed out her cheeks only when she teased her like a grown-up, so I couldn’t stop teasing her even if I wanted to.
Ale hinted at it with a smile on her face.
“Take a tour of the elven village and come back. You will like it.”
Lacia stuck her mouth out and answered with a quick turn of her head.
“yes.”
Ale thought that a kiss or a hug was wrong for the time being.
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After letting Ete use her room, Lacia left the house with the elf.
Turn left from the rock you saw earlier and head towards the forest.
Soon, the familiar smell of grass put the elf at ease.
“I can feel that it is a good place just to breathe in the air. It must be an active elven village.”
“It’s okay to be active.”
In the first place, the population had grown enough to be called an elven village, so there was no choice but to be active.
Lacia took her along a winding path through the woods.
A guardian patrolling the area recognized her and showed up.
“long time no see. What else is going on today?”
“Pia.”
An elf woman called Pia put her hand on her waist.
He turns his gaze to the new elf and says it’s quite interesting.
“Are there guests? You are the delivery book.”
“Can you guide me to the village?”
“of course.”
Pia, who took off her greaves for a moment, led the two of them.
As soon as he started walking while spilling his signature mana waves, he penetrated the barrier made of magic and entered the village.
The elf followed Pia.
Then, a scene unfolded that was hard to believe even after seeing it with my own eyes.
The entrance seemed to be three or four times larger than a normal elven village, and the houses were built here and there in the trees so that it was safe to say that the entire forest was a village.
The elves, who were busy moving from the entrance, did not lack to attract attention.
Pia smiled as she saw the elf looking around with a dumbfounded face.
“Everyone looked like that when they first came here. The number of military families increased and the village grew rapidly.”
“It’s all thanks to my older brother.”
“I cannot deny it.”
He shrugs his shoulders proudly.
Why is Pia proud of what her brother has done?
leaving the doubt behind.
After following her for some more time, the biggest tree in town came into view.
It’s not a building, it’s a tree so big that I wonder if it’s a tree.
Strangely, however, it exudes a mystical spirit, as if it were possessed of magical power.
“This is where the high elves live. I will come with a message.”
She lowered her head for a moment and bowed toward the tree, then jumped up and climbed the tree.
It is a footwork that looks really light at any time.
Lacia decided to wait in silence until she arrived.
