Chapter. 15. Can a person who has seen the end of the world plant an apple tree? (10)
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I feel like I will die.
“The desert is a really hot place, right? “You’re sweating so much.”
“Oh, I guess it’s a bit…”
“Hehe. So most people in the desert stay at home unless they have anything special to do. “Even a single ray of light that seeps in through a small hole heats up the entire room, so in a closed house with no windows, we make carpets by spinning yarn dyed in various colors, trim the skin of desert creatures, or prepare various kinds of fruit.”
“That…that’s a pretty good idea-”
“When you spend quiet time like that, you tend to think a lot. The men mourn or mourn for those who died next to him or at the end of his own sword. What the old man and the woman must teach the children who will grow up in this barren land. Thinking about the stories that need to be told. And the woman who draws you… Your face drawn by connecting memories blooming like a haze and falling stars. Do you cherish your longing and fill the empty heart with your imagination? Even though I know that the moment we meet again, no matter how big I picture it, your appearance will be much more beautiful and precious than I imagined.”
“Cough!”
“oh. “Do you not like tea?”
“Oh, it’s very nice….”
“Please don’t raise your voice.” Words are a refined inner self, and respect is an expression of oneself that has been greatly reduced. I want to hold you in my arms endlessly, but even such restrained feelings are regrettable. “Please call me ‘Anaya~’.”
“That…”
“…If there is a distance in your heart, can I narrow it down a little more?”
Slurp-
“Ah, Ana! Mr. Anaya! excuse me!!!”
“Hehe. “Hearing my name, which I had been repeating in my mind, from the mouth of someone I love… is a more heartbreaking experience than I thought, isn’t it?”
….I feel like I’m going to die. I think I’m going to die! I’m dying! I’m going to die!!!!
I don’t know how I knew, but Ana was waiting for me in the first village I arrived at after entering the desert.
In front of the captain and his companions, she declared in a soft yet firm tone that she would borrow me. She said to the captain, who was worried that something related to a taboo might have been revealed, ‘You know my name.’ He dismissed it with the words:
‘name?’
‘If it’s a name…?!’
‘I was wondering why someone from the west would come to this dangerous desert! ‘There was a reason for everything!’
‘Captain! Don’t you think we need to change our plans for this? I need to give it at least one night…’
‘Uhmmm…’
So I was dragged into Anaya’s tent, unable to move amidst the crew’s cheers and strange expectations, and the companions ignoring my earnest eyes.
In a thick tent that completely blocks out the sunlight.
Amidst the sweet scent of hookah and a bed decorated with colorful silk and translucent awnings.
Just the two of us!
God, Buddha, Jesus, and Loharam protect me so that this and that dries up and wears out! Argh!
I am the human Professor Park. A cliffhanger with a reputation as a crisis management genius.
Thanks to the mobilization of all the brains that had overcome countless crises during the four days I spent floating on the sands of the desert, I prepared dozens of simulations and countermeasures for encountering Anaya, and even role-played them in the Hydrang ritual space to familiarize myself with them.
[Calm down. Calm down! Number of S38 cases of approaching Rakshasha! You’ve prepared enough! Woo, first, with a manly and serious expression, he grabbed her shoulders with both hands and pushed her away, and then the next line was… uh…]
“I guess you liked the peppermint tea? “It’s cool, right?”
“Um… um….”
“This is a car that desert women who are tired of waiting use to cool their excited hearts. “I drank a lot too, didn’t I?”
Jjororok-
sleuk-snap!
‘Huh!’
[Huh!]
But. The moment when the Rakshasha’s shoulder leans against my forearm as I sit side by side on a soft bed in a tent without a table and lean in to pour tea!
‘Command and control room Command and control room! At times like this, how can I-‘
[Bleep-]
‘Hyde, don’t leave me first! Hyde!’
The code of conduct [A-1] to [Ha-50], which had been created in anticipation of all possible cases, has all ascended to the sky.
Unlike street clothes that cover all of the bare skin except the eyes, the desert women’s indoor clothes are quite… Breathable and light, and the light silk looks so cool…
Anaya’s radiantly tanned man even in the dim tent. The moment the shoulder touches my arms, the senses are soft and slightly
moisture
.
– Holly: Ding dong! Ding dong! Ding dong! Ding dong!
– Holly: Ding-dong! Ding-dong! Ding-dong! Ding-dong! Ding-dong! Ding-dong! Ding-dong! Ding-dong! Ding-dong! Ding-dong! Ding-dong!
– Holly: Yaaaa!
– Holly: alkjaweiojaflkdf.xvcn.xvc;iaj;
– Holly: Professor Park! There’s Playboy! Look here! Here!!! Clap clap clap!
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“Hey!”
“….Husband?”
“T… Tea! “The mint tea from the mainland definitely tastes amazing!”
Gulp, gulp, gulp!
Just before I lost consciousness, I was barely able to come to my senses thanks to the movement of the chat room moving upwards in the corner of my vision, which caught my attention.
‘This is not a game, this is not a game!’
The professor muttered those words like a mantra and quickly scanned the list of chat room participants.
Speed Wagon? does not exist. Dana told me to act in a way that would help clear it quickly and that she would leave the spot so as not to be a burden.
The woman named Rakshasha Anaya Tam Shandea is the only desert connection I have right now, and if I mess up with her, this trip to the desert will be quite difficult, so maintaining a ‘good relationship’ with her will also ‘help in clearing.’ It must be included in Dana’s words, ‘direction’. If you look at it this way, it’s the same as giving half permission…
‘Think about it, Professor Park. ‘Think, think!’
He’s an information dealer. This means that he is a great man who has been through this chaos filled with blood and gunpowder with just one title, intelligence merchant, since the beginning of the fall.
What kind of kid is that? Are you away? It seems like a burden so I won’t watch it?
I can assure you that if he puts his mind to it, Speed Wagon, the famous intelligence dealer, can monitor me from more and more diverse angles than anyone else here.
‘watching. He’s not just in the chat room, he’s definitely sitting in a wheelchair in a dark hospital room, stroking a broken drone and watching me! ‘With your eyes shining bright blue!’
Maybe it was because I was thinking of such a very realistic situation, but in many ways, I felt a little… sinking. Shit. I was so prepared, but I almost got cut by one shot.
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– takealook: Sheesh!
– Jokass: I kept quiet on purpose. You are trying to sabotage me.
– Holly: What a slander! It’s not like everyone knows Dana! That’s what I said when I saw that conversation the other day too! You trash!
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After coming to my senses and drinking some cool tea with blurry eyes, I felt that I had returned to a state where I could think.
Around that time, I thought that Anaya, who had been silently pouring tea next to me, was frowning her pretty forehead. The woman who was leaning against me came a little closer and opened her mouth in a slightly trembling voice.
“Do you think this interest of mine is a burden…?”
[Huh!]
A voice so pathetic that it would make even a slightly young psychopathic serial killer grab a bouquet of flowers instead of a knife. Unlike her previous aggressive movements, Anaya cautiously reached out and traced the engraving on her collarbone again, as if asking for understanding.
“You know what? Among the countless imaginations of you in my mind. There were quite a few things like this. professor. A man who seems soft yet strong, hides his deep feelings with shallow actions, and is utterly pure as if he is skillful. Since the body and mind are inherently one, it is natural that when the body becomes distant, the mind also becomes distant. “It’s not uncommon for several women to be seduced by a good man.”
Slurp –
the magic imprint flowed along her fingertips like a living creature and settled into her palm. Ranaya looked back and forth between the intricate shape and the professor’s face and let out a small sigh.
Magic Engraving [Eight Strand Painter]
When you hear the name, it seems like a great magic spell, but in fact, it was a simple engraving that anyone who has tried their hand at ancient magic can do.
As easy as it is, the effect is also simple. This engraving, drawn with eight lines, changes into various forms depending on the subject’s psychological state. There is no set pattern, so it is a basic interrogation technique in which the practitioner looks at the shape and guesses it.
It is an abandoned spell because interpreting the spell is several times more difficult than the spell itself. However, because it is simple, it is easy to see that the magic has been manipulated or modified, so it is a magic that people in the same profession as her enjoy using.
Although each person has different interpretations, it cannot be considered very accurate. The form of the imprint that has been attached to the professor for quite some time is…
“….Screw you.”
At least he was clearly saying that he wasn’t at a loss because he was happy to see his lover whom he hadn’t seen in a long time. That meant his heart was quite far from her side.
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The Rakshasha stroked his hair, looking at the man’s expression of embarrassment, apology, and hesitation as if he was about to say something important.
‘Was I in too much of a hurry?’
A fortune-telling that the teacher who taught her magic a long time ago gave her for fun. Since divination is subject to interpretation, the results vary greatly depending on how one accepts it.
[A well that appears when you go between the stars of Cyan and Doppelon. Your beloved will visit you while you sleep there, and after a long, long wait, he will call your hidden name and warm you with his warmth.]
It was true that there was some uncertainty in the interpretation of the fortune telling. So, like the desert flowing, I just tried to wait for the moment when our currents would meet each other.
When the subordinate in charge of the outside news breathlessly announced that ‘He’ had come to the desert, he had already forgotten the virtues of calm and patience and guessed that the place indicated by the fortune-telling would be this oasis closest to him. They were in a hurry to prepare to go out.
“….Ana. Actually, I have to tell you something…”
I bit my lip as I saw him trailing off, uncharacteristically, not knowing what to do, but firming up his resolve. Of course this isn’t it. Even though I cannot be a haven for my pure lover, how can I call myself his woman if I press down on his heart like a stone?
The Rakshasha looked up at his face, unable to make eye contact, and took his rough hand hesitantly on her shoulder, gently wrapping it around her.
“You know?”
“in fact….?”
A conversation method that exquisitely intervenes in the gap the moment something is said and interrupts the other person. It was a bad habit of hers to put pressure on the person she was talking to, and it was not something she would do in front of a man she called her lover. Still, the Rakshasha, who did not want to listen to what was to come next, gently stepped in and interrupted him every time he tried to speak.
“I have no choice but to know. Even if we mix our bodies. “I have never whispered the deepest things to you, but as someone who calls me my lover, how could I not even know your feelings?”
“…I really don’t want to do this to you…”
“Shh. Don’t feel guilty or sorry. If you have a burden on your heart because of me, there is nothing sadder than that. If the steps of the person leaving are heavy, they might just sink into the sand. “A desert woman is used to breaking up lightly, right?”
Rather than force him to stay by your side and be dragged around like a burden, let him go.
“And as someone who recognized your heroism a long time ago. “Are you prepared to welcome a sister who serves the same father?”
“….huh?”
and.
It is about blowing away already frayed relationships and creating new ones.
“The desert was originally a dangerous place, so it was easy for men to die. “It is difficult for a woman left alone to survive in this harsh environment, so it is not uncommon for the dead man’s sworn brother or relative to support the woman left alone through an informal marriage.”
The Rakshasha smiled softly as she looked at the professor who had no idea what she was talking about.
“Do you have any children?”
“What what?”
“I mean the kid. The child who will be your eldest son or eldest daughter. Are you asking if the one who took your heart from me conceived your seed? “If we are going to serve the same father, we have to decide which one will be the eldest sister, right?”
Phew!
Cough, cluck. Wow!
“Oh my goodness. “Would you like me to clean it for you?”
“Ahh no! So, what I’m saying now is, Ana, you and Dana are going to take me with you…”
“When choosing a coma, you should prepare bigger bedding than you have now, right? “For the three of us to lie down.”
“Knock, knock!” “Kek!”
The professor kept spitting out the tea he was pouring into his mouth, as if his stomach was burning. Only then did she understand, and seeing him with a redder face than before, the Rakshasha thought that he was so cute that she wanted to bite him.
‘Dana. Dana…. It’s a pretty name. Maybe it’s not that precious? There are a lot of curses that can be cast just by knowing the name, but you can’t believe you revealed your lover’s name so easily.’
Even though I was embarrassed, I couldn’t help but feel a little excited.
“No, it’s a child… There’s still some time since we parted ways in Tobrunn…”
“Oh my? I don’t know who he is, so I’m just thinking of all the possibilities? “Among the people who came on the same ship as you, there was a beautiful elf and a sturdy troll woman?”
Although I had no expert knowledge about forest trolls, I did know that their gestation period was less than half that of a human’s. She didn’t expect that her man would have such a wide range of defense, but considering his warm heart that is open to everyone, it might not be that strange…
“Oh no! They are just colleagues! I’ve known Notum for a long time, and Idrasil… I’m entrusted with school training and taking him around! “That’s it!”
“Oh my~ education. Could you give me that training too? I can teach you really well. Right down to the finest details and intimate details, just the way you want. well. Guess. west?”
“No, that’s not it… Ana, please!”
“Oh my, what a shame. “So you think it was a joke?”
Hehehe.
He is also a cute guy.
Anaya couldn’t hide her laughter when she saw his tone and mood gradually loosening up. A man whose true feelings are revealed on the outside like this. That stupid face that didn’t know what to do when I heard that they understood and would let him go, feeling more sorry than relieved.
‘Do you really want to make fun of me and can’t help it?’
The Rakshasha spoke with a smile in a slightly melted mood.
“Rakshasha. It really hurts like grinding my heart into grains of sand. “For the time being, you will have to call me Rakshasa again.”
“….Sorry.”
“Please don’t say that to me in the future. I sacrificed a lot, so you can do that much… right? professor?”
Seeing him nod his head like a downcast puppy, the Rakshasha smiled brightly and stood up.
“Actually, I will admit that I was immature. It was my first time truly feeling this way, not because of work, so I asked him to accept the raw emotions as they were. “It would have been at the level of throwing a silk bug that hadn’t even turned into a pupa before being spun into thread and praising it for being pretty.”
How to deal with people. I know very well how to deal with men, but I completely forget what I know when I stand in front of this man. It must be similar to how this man, who was described as sharp and highly intelligent in the information she received, turned out to be such an idiot.
“But I’m not one to repeat mistakes, am I? The Moon Shadows are people who have dedicated their lives to discovering and stealing what someone has hidden, and I am their leader. At some point, I am not good at embracing you who suddenly fell in front of me, but taking you away from someone else’s embrace… I can confidently say that I am better at it than anyone else. So….”
Jjook-
“You must pray that the girl who stole your heart will hold onto it tightly. “The next time you call my name instead of Rakshasa’s, will it be when we hug each other so tightly that we cannot distinguish between each other’s boundaries and whisper each other’s names?”
Huuu –
She ran up to him who was sitting on the bed and left a deep kiss mark on the nape of his neck. She whispered a final declaration like a declaration and ended the regretful hug by inhaling his body scent deeply into her heart.
That’s all for now. I can’t repeat the same mistake I made once, so don’t burden that man.
Flap-
“Hmm~ It’s hot. Has the sun already set? It will be cooler outside now, so should we go for a walk? There are things I want to tell you and things I want to hear. I heard that you are so busy with construction work that it is not easy for you to find time to spare. “If you didn’t come to see me… what did you come for?”
The Rakshasa wrapped her robe around him and led him by his still frozen hand.
The oasis, where the sun had already set on the horizon, was shining beautifully, capturing both the half-submerged sun and the stars that filled the sky with the moon that had just risen.
‘At least my wish to see this scene with him has come true?’
Although I couldn’t spend the night with him, I was able to spend the day with him as a companion, so that’s half the success. With that thought in mind, the Rakshasha left the tent with the professor.
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Suddenly. Suddenly-
“Lord. Master. Stress releases negative hormones, which support various physical and psychological health as wellrrrrrrrr-” “
Okay. It’s okay, Ginny. “I’m not that agitated.”
“The bio-scanner indicates extremely intense mental fluctuations – similar to that of a 14-year-old girl who saw a kitten being hit by a train and blown to pieces -” “
No. Not to that extent. are you okay. “For a moment… I was just surprised.”
Pirik-삑 -faulha-
Fur-hair-
A research facility that can only enter from an official with the highest approach to the administration.
Also known as Professor Park’s ward.
Dana, who was in a wheelchair, was leaning against the sleeping body of the professor, pledging his soul, and observing all the lovemaking between the professor and the Rakshasa.
to the end. After the two left the tent without any incident other than a somewhat unpleasant hug, they even watched the conversation through a separately recorded video.
[Please pray that the girl who stole your heart will hold onto it tightly. The next time you call my name instead of Rakshasa’s, it will be when we hug each other so tightly that we can’t distinguish between each other’s boundaries and whisper each other’s names?] [I hope
she holds onto her heart tightly. .]
[I hope you hold on tight to that heart-]
[that heart-]
[that heart-]
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Pop-
“I’m going to steal it… I may not have intended it, but it was conveyed very well. Rakshasha.”
A beautiful woman full of vitality and confidence that cannot be found in a sick person like her, and a woman like her would fall in love with her.
While I was proud of the professor for withstanding her temptation, when I thought about why he couldn’t harshly punish her, I felt like something was boiling inside me, even though I knew that she was that kind of person to begin with.
To calm her mind, Dana buried her forehead against what was by her bedside. Heart
pounding – Pulse
so strong that it’s hard to believe you’re in a coma. he is here Not in the desert, but in the District 47 administration building. Alive and by my side.
“I… am not without possessiveness.”
I know that this is greed and that it is selfish.
Still, for now, the position of human Professor Park’s lover was hers.
I didn’t want to die, at least not to have it taken away from me right in front of my eyes.
Of course, the absolute priority is the safe return of the professor, so if something really, really, really, really has no choice, then… I could just stay in the hospital room, cover my eyes and ears, and crouch down.
Still, I don’t like it because I don’t like it.
“So… do it well. By-self.”
….tsk.
In the end, I ended up hitting his monstrous arm with a fist filled with a helpless heart.
“Ouch….”
“Geeee—-ik! master. Master, Master, Master, Master, Master, Master Dana Elisha Hyacinth is injured! Busaaaaaaaa—– Serious bruise nurse call. Nurse call!”
“Oh no. That much-”
“Returning to the hospital room! The patient is stable-”
It was obvious that the arm that had been hit with a chainsaw, which didn’t have a scratch on it, hurt more.
Dana, swallowing back tears for no reason, reassured the nurse who rushed over and pushed the wheelchair toward her hospital room.
The researchers who were holding their breath on one side of the professor’s research building were finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.
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