Episode 345
Snow is falling from the sky.
Looking down from the mountain city of Volterra with a clear view, everything in the world was covered in a cold and cold white snow.
Adela walked for a long time in a familiar landscape, as if she had seen it before.
Adela couldn’t help but recall that day as she was walking in the same place in the cold to the bone.
“…the day I left home tired of waiting. I was only thinking of finding my parents.”
At that time, Adela moved her short legs busily to find her parents,
but that only added to the pain. The reason Lewis was afraid of the cold was not simply that the temperature of the atmosphere dropped.
The biggest problem was digging into the exhausted minds of people exposed to the cold and stealing mana.
It recovers mana by using the humans in the barrier as its own fuel.
So Lewis never kills precious fuel. As the Queen of Winter, she imprisons her people in eternal cold and levies a harsh tax called ‘Spirit and Mana’.
“There was a snowstorm outside. I missed the warm soup my parents made. I was so lonely that I wanted someone to talk to me.”
The place where Adela stopped walking was her own house. This is the place where Adela spent most of her time confined to Volterra, and it would be fair to call it the crystallization of her trauma.
Nevertheless, Adela spoke so calmly without any agitation.
“If it weren’t for Lewis, this wouldn’t have happened.”
“Adela….”
Adela shook her head slowly at Yoosung Shin’s reaction.
“Ah… I’m fine. We are here to prevent a tragedy like that from happening. I’m trying to forget my personal feelings. It’s just…”
Adela was uncharacteristically hesitant to say the next word. I could only be honest in front of Shin Yoo-seong, but now with the attack ahead. Adela didn’t want Shin Yoo-sung to get caught up in her emotions.
Yoosung Shin cheered me on with a kind tone, as if he felt something about Adela’s attitude.
“It’s okay to talk.”
Adela felt strange.
It is difficult for even him to understand his own complex emotions, but how does Shin Yuseong know his troubles so well?
It felt like being read, but Adela didn’t hate it.
“It’s just… a daydream I had after meeting Velvet. If I hadn’t lost my parents, what kind of person would I be now… It must be different from now.”
Adela looked at the house of memories. In the snow-covered front yard, she grew beautiful daisies with her parents. I loved how the whole yard was covered with the scent of spring when the petals bloomed.
Adela stared blankly at the front yard, where only snow piled up.
“…would you like to see the two of you again?”
To the question of Shin Yoo-sung, who held her hand tightly, Adela answered very honestly, unlike before.
“yes. very.”
Adela’s wish, if ever to see the two of them again, was always the same. It was just like being 5 years old in the arms of your parents.
“…But I have no intention of complaining.”
But that dream could not come true, and Adela knew it best. That’s why Adela wanted to make the attack more successful.
I may never have my parents back, but it was possible to make this cold winter retreat from Volterra.
It was possible to make yellow daisies bloom in his front yard when spring came in the bright sunshine.
“I just want to show you how I’ve grown… to you two.”
Adela promised.
He promised to show the two of himself as a confident hunter, not a child shivering in the cold.
“Alone it would be impossible, but with you it is possible.”
After making her promise, Adela left her house empty and headed for the base camp with Shin Yoo-seong. Sleeping in her house was a past she missed so much, but Adela never looked back.
* * *
The base camp for attacking Ruin Castle was set to be a building belonging to the Hunter Association built in Volterra.
Although all the people involved in the building left due to Lewis’ resurrection, the facility itself boasted state-of-the-art technology, so it was no shortage of base camps.
There was only one thing that bothered me, but the huge building without people was too quiet. No matter how brightly the interior was illuminated, the dreary silence was not easily overcome.
“A building without people is a more gloomy place than I thought! Besides, it’s so cold inside the building…”
Lorelai replied relatively calmly as Angela shivered from the cold.
“Lewis’s winter is not a physical temperature change, but a large barrier.”
As long as it was within the influence of the barrier, it was impossible to completely avoid the cold even inside the building.
“Are you really okay with the cold? If you’re having a hard time, it’s best to put your body together and share warmth…”
Contrary to Angela’s worried face, her proposal seemed not to be purely cold.
‘How wonderful it would be if I could get closer to my esteemed Lorelai through this opportunity…’
Angela scolded herself for blasphemous imagination, but every time she saw Lorelai, a thought came to her.
‘That’s just stroking Lady Lorelai’s hair…’
But that was a dream that couldn’t come true. Even if Lorelai allowed it, it would be too disrespectful.
‘But I can’t. Lorelai-sama is the party leader and the clock tower’s oracle… It’s only natural to treat Lorelai-sama with respect!’
Thanks to that, Angela was content to stand by Lorelai’s side and brush her hair.
Even if he made an offer to be courageous and approach him like this time, Lorelai did not readily accept it.
“it’s okay. A hunter who came to attack the boss can’t show such rudeness because of the cold.”
To Angela, Lorelai’s resoluteness, which was hard to be touched, seemed rather attractive.
‘I can’t believe you haven’t lost an inch even in this cold… Lorelai-sama!’
Angela looked at the entrance with a regretful heart behind her. Hunter, who is about to attack, shouldn’t be excited about this, but Angela was so looking forward to a reunion with Kim Eun-ah.
‘I’ll see you soon.’
yes how can i forget
The lines of the body forged through exercise and the facial features neatly matched in the golden ratio like God’s design. However, as if beauty alone wasn’t fun, she had a cuteness that was good for teasing with something lacking.
‘Besides, I’m sure… That proud personality must have the taste of bullying whenever he’s teased.’
The moment Angela was drawing Kim Eun-ah like her unforgettable first love.
Clap!
The iron gate of the base camp opened.
‘at las!’
Angela looked at the entrance expectantly. However, entering the base camp with Shin Yoo-seong was not Kim Eun-ah, whom Angela had been waiting for so long.
“Ah…”
Angela let out a short sigh filled with deep regret. From the moment they first met until now, Angela’s courtship toward Kim Eun-ah has been the same. It was Adela, not Kim Eun-ah, who was by Shin Yoo-seong’s side.
‘It wasn’t Kim Eun-ah…’
But Angela, who felt sorry for her, looked at Adela calmly. With two ruby-red eyes and a nonchalant expression, she has a beauty that cannot be hidden. In addition, the pure white skin, like pure white snow, even created a sense of mystery, so Angela was unknowingly admiring it.
‘It’s a different feeling from Kim Eun-ah, but it’s definitely amazing…’
Kim Eun-ah said, if she wants to bully and tease Adela, the case was different.
‘It’s a case like a queen. No, I can’t tell from the outside… Rather, it might be the other way around.’
Angela tried to exercise her specialty, imagination. Adela, who exudes mystery from her entrance, seemed hard to get close to or get close to even pretending to. That’s the story that it’s not easy to be close soon.
‘But once you get close, you’re a style that you
‘ll obsess over.
Let’s imagine the lofty and mysterious Adela restlessly searching for herself. Angela shook her head in emotion.
‘…How many party members like that are there? Gaon’s party leader is really envious.’
While Angela was using her own imagination and making plans to get closer to Adela, Lorelei, the precious party leader, was staring at Shin Yoo-seong with her cheeks blushing.
‘Ki Knight!’
As Shin Yuseong, who recognized herself, approached her side, Lorelai’s heart beat rapidly and a thumping sound was heard. Shin Yoo-seong’s appearance, which he saw in person, exceeded his imagination and was hundreds of times more handsome than the princes he saw in fairy tale books.
“Long time no see, Lorelai.”
Shin Yoo-seong even smiled brightly at herself, and Lorelai somehow managed to hold on to her distant spirit.
Klopp.
Lorelai, nervous at Shin Yoo-seong’s gaze, was silent. If I kept my mouth shut like this, I would be seen as a strange person, so I had to answer quickly.
However, since she was so close to Shin Yoo-seong, it was not easy for Lorelai to even open her mouth.
Have I become weird?
How can not only look and voice, but even hand gestures feel cool?
“…stylish.”
Perhaps because of that, Lorelai involuntarily spits out an exclamation instead of an answer. Shin Yooseong laughs without any reply.
“ah!”
Belatedly realizing her mistake, Lorelai’s eyes widened in embarrassment.
[Lorelai? My heart is beating abnormally fast.]
The aftermath was so great that the goddess of time, Cronoa, who was asleep inside Lorelai, was awakened.
‘I want to turn back time…’
Lorelai was reddened and teary-eyed, but the water had already been spilled.
[That’s not okay. Even the goddess of time cannot turn back time.]
Lorelai’s face grew redder at Cronoa’s resolute answer. The moment he was worried that Shin Yoo-seong would think of himself as a strange person.
“Lorelai. Do you have a fever? Her face is very red… Is it because of the cold?”
Yooseong Shin worried about Lorelai by placing her hand on Lorelai’s forehead to measure her fever. Thanks to that, Lorelei, who had blushed, was completely out of order.
“Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no…”
The Oracle of the Clock Tower was completely destroyed in a different way.
