Chapter 47. I am good at setting traps (3)
In my cramped world, I am not alone in going crazy.
Plantz frowned at the conclusion he reached after considering it based on extremely objective standards.
“…… bet.”
“Yes, Vice Commander. This is the bet that Lord Hill lost yesterday.”
“It means you bet my brother on a bet.”
What Plantz hates the most is excuses. The next thing I dislike is avoidance. So, it was obvious that if they opened their mouths about anything now, Plantz would laugh brightly again, so the Vulcan crew kept their mouths shut for now and lowered their heads.
In times like this, it’s always the middle management who suffers.
Needlen took a step forward and conveyed to Plantz the feelings of the silent crew members.
“I’m sorry, Vice Commander.”
Between Siona and the Vulcan crew, there was a bet on who could endure eating meat longer. If Siona loses, she decided to teach the wolves of the Great Desert how to fight.
okay. It’s okay up to that point.
It really would have been okay if I hadn’t promised to ask Calian and Siona to spar when Siona won. To be precise, it was a bet proposed by Siona and accepted by the members of Balkan, but in any case, the members of Balkan sold my brother, the third prince.
Sparring between sword masters is difficult to achieve. Since it is not a real battle, you may think there is no threat to life, but no. Slayman, who sparred with Teilan, had his chest split open.
“This is not the royal palace. I know that my brother, who has 41 lives to take care of, will not spar with that chicken-eating elf again.”
But it was decided to be a bet.
When Calian finds out about this, there are only two reactions.
Either you laugh because it’s fun and pick up a knife, or you laugh because it’s fun and try to kill everyone. Well, the results will be similar. It’s not a Balkan that doesn’t know that.
“Why did you do that?”
“I was so curious to see who would win the bet that I took the bet.”
“…… for that reason.”
“It’s true, Vice Commander.”
Even if I don’t say it’s true, I think I’ll go crazy because I know it’s true.
“It’s crazy.”
Needlen laughed slightly when he heard this.
It’s all crazy.
The wizards went crazy. It didn’t just happen for a day or two, but even the knights were affected.
Plantz, standing alone in the middle of the crazy people, swept up his flowing hair. I remembered that I had used patience three times at once just yesterday, so I skipped over it today. Since I knew that the Balkan guys were like that, I just ignored them without even a single need to be patient.
– Oh my. Have you just been caught? What happened?
I succeeded in instilling magical power with great difficulty, trying to ignore the words ‘yap’ and ‘shoo’ that kept popping up in my smart mind, which doesn’t even know how to forget. Then I heard my new favorite purple-eyed crown prince, who had contacted me to check if the communication connection was working, saying something like that, so I had already used up my patience since morning.
– I wish I had been a little more careful. Prince Planz.
no.
I wrote it twice.
“Anyway, don’t get too angry. I lost anyway, so it doesn’t matter. By the way, it seems like your brother and the crew weren’t that close. I thought they were so close that they sold your brother without even showing any signs of concern.”
While thinking about Chase’s words, Plantz’s eyes changed as his patience was further weakened by the words the chicken-eating elf said next to him.
“Let’s go do some physical training!”
Needlen, who saw the smile he saw yesterday again, spoke quickly and everyone rushed towards the sandy beach. We all knew very well that when Plants behaved like that, it was best to go out first and get a beating.
Before long, forty soldiers dressed in pure white clothes began running on the sandy beach where three people had run yesterday.
Siona, who was looking at the warm appearance from afar, opened her mouth as if muttering.
“Maybe I should run too.”
“…… shut up.”
Plantz responded with an irritated voice and stood in place, watching the Vulcan crew. Then, as if he was curious about something, he looked at Plantz and opened his mouth.
“You said you went running together yesterday, but you’re not going today.”
“I don’t know what my brother will do.”
“What have you done?”
Kalyan went alone to see his mother tree.
“Sword stabbing. Explosion.”
Isn’t the mother tree also an elf after all?
It is unknown how they will scratch the inside of Kalian. If that happens, it is unclear how Kalian will destroy the inside of the mother tree. So, even though I was punishing the Vulcan team members, I was observing the situation rather than running with them.
“…… Oh yeah.”
Surprisingly, Siona understood Plantz’s words and nodded and answered. And he looked at those who were running hard in the distance and said the same thing.
“It’s a difference in mindset. Humans survive, but elves have to survive. There are some people who are astray, like the elder that your brother went through, but I don’t think most of them have malicious intent, but to humans, it would seem selfish.”
After hearing this, Plantz turned his head towards Siona.
“Weren’t you angry because you couldn’t get treatment?”
“Aren’t knowing and understanding two different things?”
The elf, who spoke as if he understood the elf’s selfishness and eventually met Calian to vent his anger, smiled sheepishly.
“A chicken-eating elf.”
And Plantz called Siona like this.
Siona blinked for a moment and answered while pointing at herself.
“Me?”
“Is there more?”
“Siona Hill.”
“know.”
“Oh yeah. That’s a relief.”
The strange prince, who says he likes to eat grass and beans, but that doesn’t seem to be the reason he has that kind of personality, opened his mouth.
“Have you ever met him?”
“who?”
“Your mother.”
“No. I don’t have any.”
Plantz nodded.
It meant that there were no further questions, but Siona dared to open her mouth and explain further.
“Sometimes, there are elves who are born at a time when the spirits are said to awaken. It is said that such elves receive long names after meeting the mother tree in person. Most elves who do not, unless they become elders, never meet the mother tree during their lives. ”
“okay.”
“I heard that Mother Tree sees through many things, so you won’t have anything to worry about.”
“… You wouldn’t know.”
Is there anyone who can fully understand the inside of him?
Thinking of this, Planz slightly curled one corner of his mouth.
“Shouldn’t we tell the crew to stop running? If we’re on standby because we don’t know what might happen, we need to conserve our stamina.”
“The pink-haired wizard who eats things with salt will take care of that.”
Siona asked with a chuckle after hearing that funny name.
“May I ask why you call people that?”
“Because there are two pink-haired wizards.”
“Why bother when you have a name?”
Siona asked a question that others could not bear to ask and that Calian did not need to ask. If the crew had been nearby, they would have pricked up their ears, but unfortunately, they were still running.
“I’m afraid I’ll forget it if I only remember it by name.”
I’m afraid I’ll forget everything Kalian made.
“hmm.”
Siona, who had been listening to stories about how smart our Vice Commander was until her ears bled over the past few days, pursed her lips and thought for a moment. And I concluded that Planz’s answer did not mean simple memory, but that I did not understand what it meant.
“You call your brother by his first name.”
So I asked one more question:
Plantz looked around, saw the sky, smelled the sea, felt the wind, and answered in a low voice.
“…I know you won’t forget.”
Lucy, Anne, and Hina.
And one younger brother.
* * *
I went crazy alone in my wide world.
Calian lowered his eyes and took a long breath. I was out of breath again as the memories filled me, so I took a long time to catch my breath.
“I don’t have a good hobby.”
I was standing on a vast land with nowhere to lean on.
Standing there, I was focusing all my energy on just breathing.
This was the situation not long after I arrived here.
– I thought it would be at the highest place because it is the main body of the mother tree. That’s surprising.
– Isn’t the foundation of life the law at the root?
I didn’t know there was an underground place.
Since I was supposed to meet the mother tree, I thought I would go somewhere higher than Daejangro’s space, which is located at the highest point, but instead I ended up in the ground.
A black, dark and cozy space.
There wasn’t a single thing I could see in front of my eyes, but I didn’t feel frustrated. I had no idea where Grand Elder Narzan was, but I followed him with familiar steps. I thought that even if I had to go to Mother Tree alone from here, I would be able to get there, and I thought that I would also know how to get there if I wanted to get out of here right away.
– That’s fascinating.
– I find it even more surprising that they rejected Mother Tree’s call like that.
– It’s wrong to ask him to come out in the middle of the night.
– You guys are such a rude people.
– You guys are such a selfish bunch.
I thought Calian would keep his mouth shut, oppressed by the dark, dark, and cozy atmosphere, but that wasn’t the case for Calian.
It was like that until then.
In the end, Narzan could be heard laughing at Calian’s words, which did not hold back even a word.
– Do you really think King Secretia will come here?
– It will depend on whether desperation or doubt wins. Whichever King Secretia chooses, you guys are buying time, so I don’t think it’s a bad thing.
– It’s not wrong.
– Of course, the best option would be to remove the people living there before the Bridget Forest is burned down in Secretia. If you open the forest path, you can escape, so why don’t you open it?
– Because it wasn’t allowed.
– You mean you’ve already talked to Mother Tree?
– That was the first thing I did.
It is said that the mother tree, which opened the way to the forest for Kalian’s group, blocked the way for her people to survive. While he was wondering how to understand Narzan, who believed that he too had a reason, he felt Narzan’s feet stop.
– We’ll talk about the rest after we return.
With these words, Narzan’s presence disappeared. To be precise, it would be more accurate to say that Kalyan was taken somewhere else rather than that Narzan disappeared. Just like the time I set foot on the hill where Sispanian stayed.
However, it is different from then.
“If you were curious about my life, you shouldn’t have asked.”
Standing in a place where no one was around, Calian opened his mouth like this again. To be precise, it would be correct to say that he was standing in a place where there was no one alive.
The sky was full of twinkling red stars.
A red star floated in the endless sky.
I just know that it is not a star. I know that it is various red gemstone powders that have been broken into small pieces.
okay.
It’s a kaleidoscope.
Calian looked down from where the red star was twinkling, and a windy voice flowed from his mouth.
“There’s no need to show it.”
Things I never forgot anyway.
Images that I had no intention of forgetting.
One day, on a night when blue stars were falling, I saw someone who had died at the end of Kalyan’s hands.
Tap, tap, tap.
Calian took a deep breath and walked quietly.
I continued walking, passing the bodies of those who had not been forgotten, one by one. I walked past so many people. I saw nobles. I saw knights. Their vassals were visible.
I saw a young child and an old man.
I continued to walk step by step, facing each and every one of them squarely.
I saw Aila.
I saw Kyrie.
The burning Secreta was seen. I saw the royal palace. I saw wizards dressed in pure white standing in a group. I see Kane. I see Needlen.
– Your life was saved.
I see Arsene.
I see a pure white sword breaking into pieces.
The long blue-silver hair of a person who has lost an arm is visible.
– Look at the tragedy.
Calian’s steps slowed down.
Calian’s feet stopped.
I bowed down while repeating the ending of a voice that I could not tell was coming from, nor could I tell its gender or age. I bent my legs. The red cloak of conquest he was wearing touches the floor.
He tried to protect the one thing his whole life, but in the end he reached out to the person he could not protect. He turned his head towards the spire where someone who looked very similar to him was standing and stroked his closed eyes. Even though there was nothing at my fingertips.
“Was it a tragedy?”
I just caressed it for a while, as if soothing it to sleep.
Someone is approaching.
I unconsciously raised my head.
I could see light green eyes that did not contain any life in them. I looked into those eyes. I looked at it endlessly. Who should I view that person as? Because I didn’t know that.
A lifeless person walks toward a lifeless person.
Put down the sword in your hand.
You can see the black name written on the gray sword body. The red eyes wavered for a moment. It shook loudly. It hit hard.
ah.
You came that day.
You saw me.
“Anyway, foolish pea.”
anyway.
Anyway, you seem like a foolish brother.
What are you going to do if you throw away your sword on the battlefield?
Just because I couldn’t forget that one word.
A long smile appeared on Calian’s lips.
The day when the person who couldn’t go crazy alone and the person who went crazy alone lived. I got to see what was behind that tearful tragedy.
“…You uploaded it.”
I took a breath.
