Chapter 71. Blink
again (4) .
The long, black eyelashes slowly fell and then lifted a little more slowly. Underneath the eyelids that closed and opened, red eyes that could not be imitated by any jewel on the continent of Cysterra were repeatedly hidden and revealed.
Glitter.
Drops of water that had not yet completely dried formed on the tips of her jet-black hair, which did not lose its color even under the redness of the sun. Instead of hair that is unstained by the sun’s light, and eyes that are redder than the sun, the sunlight is captured in those tiny water droplets.
But even for a moment.
The red eyes closed again and then opened. The long, beautifully curled eyelashes moved together as if they were pieces of a moon halo.
The hair slightly touching the eyelashes bends. Due to the wind, the water droplets that briefly sparkled in the sunlight lost their grip and fell.
– ……Talk.
The whole world seems to move slowly.
Even the water droplets seem to fall slowly. You can almost hear the sound of it hitting the floor.
“So…”
A thin voice flowed from between the bright red lips of the person who was trying to get rid of that slow feeling.
Oh, of course, it only means the voice.
This does not mean that the feeling inside is beautiful.
A beautiful voice full of dissatisfaction continued.
“Where are you looking?”
“Wherever you look.”
Whether your eyelashes are long or short. Whether the snow inside looks more precious than jewels or not. Whether the hair is black or not.
Plantz, who didn’t even have the slightest sign of welcoming the face of his younger brother after seeing him for the first time in a long time, answered quietly.
Likewise, Calian, who had no time to check the pretty face that had returned after a long time, tried hard to use his magic power. I managed to create a small silent barrier and opened my mouth again. The words, dripping from sleep, were directed at the green-faced brothers standing in front of them.
“Why is this a draw? I definitely won.”
“why.”
“I caught all eighty-seven of you.”
“The reason the Vulcan crew wanted to fight is not what my brother looks like now.”
Blink… Blink.
I don’t know if I was sleepy or frustrated, but my eyes closed for a long time and then opened again. Shaking his head and taking a moment to sleep, Calian lifted his finger. And he pointed at the Balkan crazy guys who were still standing at a distance, unable to tell if the fight was over.
“In front of those guys, didn’t he always look like his old self? Besides, he was broken after the fight. Why do you say he lost the right to fight? It’s clear. It was clearly his old self, and the bracelet was broken after he cut your brother’s neck.”
“I didn’t tell you that I lost. Besides.”
“Besides, what?”
“Just because your throat is cut a little doesn’t mean you can’t fight any longer.”
“… You can’t cut off his head just to make him unable to fight.”
“you.”
A fierce edge appeared in Planz’s eyes.
Plantz let out a low voice, as if he couldn’t bear that irritating behavior any longer.
“Speak informally.”
…… ah.
Cutting it off doesn’t seem to be a big deal.
The standards are strange. Well, anyway.
“Anyway, I… won.”
“tie.”
“why.”
“Speak informally.”
“…… under.”
Sleep is flooding in, Peas can’t communicate, I’m so wet that I don’t even have the energy to move a single finger, let alone clean myself. The aftereffects of using too much force in a temporary borrowed form remained. Just maintaining the Silence that was just unfolded is already difficult. My whole body aches and my bones ache. More than anything, I’m sleepy. I’m feeling sleepy to death.
But if I sleep like this, I can’t sleep because I feel like that pea will arbitrarily end this fight in a draw.
“Aren’t you tired, brother? Your elbow is out of alignment, your neck is bleeding, and your back is bleeding a lot.”
“I won’t die.”
“I guess so. Because I didn’t kill him carelessly.”
Plantz nodded once.
It means that you know that you are alive because you did not kill it. I admit that again. But that doesn’t mean we lost.
Ah… that’s really strange.
Why does it seem like there are so many things to be excited about these days?
“I think I’m going to die, not you.”
“therefore.”
“So what?”
“again.”
“What.”
“bet.”
“why.”
“Because it was a draw.”
“I said no.”
“You keep doing this.”
“yo. this.”
When I told him that I won because I cut down the Danu root in the first hunting bet, he meekly lost, but this time he showed no signs of backing down. They are insisting that they did not lose by pulling out all kinds of pressures. okay. I taught him that he shouldn’t lose a bet like that. I used to teach.
…… That’s right.
I taught that too. These are the words I said. Why did I tell you so much unnecessary information? Anyway, he learned it from me and uses it only for me every day.
-Slap!
Plantz frowned, then sighed, then furrowed his eyebrows, then raised his hand and looked at his younger brother slapping his mouth. Then, he opened his mouth.
“I’m saying that because I think I’ll have to fight again to use it again. Why?”
“What.”
“bracelet.”
“…Did you like seeing my old self that much?”
“No. After you changed like that, you didn’t even look in the mirror. That’s why I asked you to fight.”
Calian quietly looked at Planz.
“The scent of flowers is still strong for me. I don’t think you’ve gotten over it yet.”
Even though I poured it on once, the smell of perfume still felt strong. Calian also thought that he would not have been able to escape from the gates by winning once.
“Okay then. I don’t think I’ve been able to calm my stomach after this one fight. Let’s call this a draw. Are you saying we’ll fight again?”
“So, try to win. Keep going. I’ll keep fighting. Until you break free.”
The Balkans who felt aggrieved for not being able to participate in this fight were widely criticized. Having a lot of practice catching one Kalyan is good for them anyway. So what I’m saying is let’s fight until we feel relieved. This bet ends in a draw, and the Knight’s Oath, which both of them still don’t want to give up, is staked again.
A long sigh escaped Calian’s mouth.
Plantz saw Kalyan like that. Perhaps due to overexertion, I looked at my face, which was turning white, and my clothes soaked in ice water for a while before opening my mouth.
But no words came out of his mouth.
Instead, a different sound came out.
[Clean]
The magic power of refreshing energy surrounds Kalian and passes by.
Then, to my surprise, my wet hair dried. The moisture from loose, cold clothes and shoes dries. My hands, which were dripping with water, are dry. The dust disappears and the mud falls away.
The blood stains on black clothes are erased.
– …… dream.
weird.
Looks like the peas just did some magic.
“Am I dreaming…”
Calian, unable to understand the sudden situation, muttered as if he were drooling. Planz turned around as if he had no intention of answering and slowly walked towards Estina.
Calian opened his eyes wide, which had fluttered shut again, and tapped my cheek a few times. Then, with great difficulty, he bent down and picked up Aila’s bracelet and the pieces of Sinasta that had fallen on the floor. After putting them in his pocket, he quickly moved his feet and caught up with Plants.
“Did you learn magic, brother?”
“I didn’t learn it.”
“It’s not. I learned it. It’s magic. It’s clean. I didn’t use it.”
“Keep speaking informally.”
“You asked me to teach you clean. Did you learn it on your own?”
“I never learned it.”
“Clean is a magic that requires two circles to use. When did you create the circles?”
He pretends that it wouldn’t be strange if he lays down and falls asleep right away, but then he follows me and continues to bother me like this. The corners of Planz’s eyes furrowed slightly.
“You’re saying something I don’t understand.”
“Then what are you writing now?”
“Are you very tired? You keep getting confused.”
“Foolish.”
“Speech habits.”
“Have you really not learned anything?”
“I didn’t learn.”
“lie.”
“you.”
“Then when are you going to learn how to clean?”
“In about 30 or 50 years.”
“…Until then, you will keep asking me to remove cat hair. I will continue to remove cat hair from your clothes until you get older.”
“My brother promised so.”
Plantz, who walked away without looking back, refused the hand of the Vulcan members who approached him after realizing that the fight was over. Then, with his healthy right hand, he climbed on top of Estina.
Calian, who was standing looking at the green, green back of his head, burst out laughing.
I used Clean, but I didn’t learn it.
I plan to learn about it in about 30 or 50 years.
By then, I’ll be busy being king, and I’ll even have to get the cat hair off my brother’s clothes.
“I’m going crazy. I really am.”
So I laughed. He burst out laughing as he removed the silent curtain that had been in place so far. He laughed until tears came to his eyes, not even feeling the awe-filled gaze of the crazy people looking at him.
By the time the laughter that had lasted for a long time had barely subsided.
– Multi-faceted, multi-faceted!
Just as I heard Calian’s laughter, I heard very familiar footsteps, as if I knew it was okay to approach now. When I turn my head, I see Raven approaching quickly and Kirie walking behind her.
Calian waved his arms in joy and looked at Plantz. I held back the yawn that was about to burst out and opened my mouth.
“I brushed off more than you think. I’m going to fix my bracelet and look in the mirror.”
Plantz, who was looking down at Estina’s saddle, nodded.
“…… okay.”
I feel drowsy.
They are coming in so hard that they can no longer be driven out.
“Still. I can’t lose the bet. Let’s do it again next time. This time, I conceded a lot… so I’ll count it as a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a draw.”
“okay.”
Calian opened his arms towards Raven who was approaching. Raven’s slightly bowed head touched his arms. He hugged Raven’s head tightly. He leaned his head on it.
“Next time… I will never back down.”
“okay.”
“yes.”
Calian let out a mumbling voice. Then.
With his face buried in Raven’s forehead.
While holding his big head tightly. Leaning with your entire long body.
“I won…”
I fell asleep just like that.
* * *
The tea was brewed well.
I first learned how to brew tea from Merlin after coming to the palace, and I quickly became good at it. I tried making tea myself a few times and it was really good.
I was good at sewing.
This was largely due to the fact that Kirie’s clothes had been prone to tearing and fraying since she was young. In fact, both siblings were not very skilled, but they were better than Kirie and did the job. Additionally, after examining Kirie’s wounds several times, I became good at sewing. Nowadays, it was a skill that was only used for embroidering long names on cat collars or occasionally making cat clothes.
There was no other dexterity.
I couldn’t cook and I wasn’t very good at writing. I always liked Kalian, saying it was the cutest font in the world, but it wasn’t a very nice looking font. Not only had I never lived in a place where I could cook, but it was better to write quickly than to write well.
– Is it that messed up?
I was thinking of Arianne’s half-up hair, which had her hair thinly braided on both sides, pulled back, and secured with a pretty orange ribbon. I also thought of Aila’s hair, beautifully styled up with a hairpin with pretty beads dangling from it. As a result, there are some days when I don’t like my hair, which I always tied up.
So I tried acting on a whim, but it seemed really strange. Serie, who stood in front of Hina who asked the question awkwardly, chuckled.
“I don’t know if you’ve ever looked in the mirror.”
– I’ve had the kind division commander and the stern maid braid me a few times, but this is the first time I’ve done it on my own.
After saying this, Hina took out a notebook from her pocket. Then, I wrote down the name ‘Needlen Zeia Merlin Fiat’ and showed it to Serie who was standing behind me.
“Is that so.”
Hina nodded.
And when I followed Calian to Rosellita, I once again remembered all the things I had not yet noticed.
The blunt voice and tone of voice coming from behind really resembled Demirea. They are so similar that there is no need to worry about who Demirea resembles.
Isn’t she the duke’s wife and the minor duke’s mother? Regardless of her position, she was just looking at her personality of speaking up, whether when she was Calian’s maid or now as Viscount. It must have been Serie who taught Dmirea and Jan like that.
– Sarak Sarak.
After arbitrarily dividing her hair, Serie loosely took off her braids and combed Hina’s hair with her hands.
Hina, who was still not used to letting someone else do her hair, raised her hand for no reason. I tried to explain my poor skills, saying I wasn’t very good at it since I had never decorated my hair before.
But Serie grabbed her hand and placed it on Hina’s hair, which was divided into three parts. Then, I had them feel how much hair they had divided.
“You can divide the hair like this and braid it like this. You can apply the same amount of force whether you apply it strongly or lightly.”
Nod.
Hina nodded quietly. He then looked at his braided hair and moved his hands.
– I think it’s much prettier. Thank you. I’ll do better next time.
Hina smiled brightly as she learned a method that Kirie could not tell her. Lirie, who had been watching with curious eyes from the side, looked at Serrie.
“Serie’s mom. I want to learn too.”
Seeing the short green-colored hair that left only a fistful of hair after it was tied up, Serie smiled slightly. And he answered by pointing to the tail-like tail of a sparrow.
“Do you want to grow more? I’ll let you know when you grow taller and your hair grows longer.”
“Then, can I just grow up to be as big as Dmirea?”
“You can grow as much as Leah, you can grow more, or you can grow less.”
Lily smiled and nodded. Then, led by the dog Yan, we walked ahead along the small path in the garden.
Hina and Serie, who had finished tying their hair, followed suit.
“Anyway, I’m worried that you may have been unable to rest because of our fourth child.”
– no. I was just about to get up and get ready.
“Even though it will only be a few days, my second son has been requesting that I rest comfortably during my stay and that the knights should not visit me if I am slightly injured.”
Hina laughed, making a sound like a spring breeze.
Even though he may not have met Calian, it seems that Jan, who already knows well what Calian cares about, relayed that message.
– are you okay. Please let me know if you need anything. I have to pay the price for staying here.
“Yes. But…”
Lirie started to walk faster and then run at a trotting pace, following Yan the dog. Serie, who was watching this for a moment, looked at Hina. And then he continued speaking.
“According to the stories of our knights, there was a fire burning in the palace forest all morning last morning. Before that, His Majesty asked the Duke whether he could send 100 knights who were scheduled to be reinforced next week by today or tomorrow. Hill. “The Lord said that Prince Calian’s fierceness could be felt even here. I am worried that something may have happened overnight.”
He must have been worried that if Calian was involved, Yan would also be involved.
Hina’s expression changed strangely.
Hina nodded and answered while looking at Serie.
– No, the kind prince. I think the Third Prince and His Excellency the Good Crown Prince made a strange fight bet. It is said that the third prince was dealt with by Balkan wizards and knights. And I got a call from my brother a little while ago and he said the bet was over. The therapists are probably very busy right now.
Serie looked at Hina, who was talking while pointing to the pink earrings.
“Is it okay if I don’t go?”
– The Third Prince is not the kind of person who would hurt me so badly that I need to. And even if I get hurt and go through a hard time, I won’t make that bet again.
Hina, who said this, continued speaking with a light gesture.
– Because there are people who will reject my treatment anyway because they say it won’t cause scars. It’s okay if you don’t go.
Hina, who had already become a Balkan healer, smiled as warmly as the sunlight.
* * *
The sun rises and the sky is blue.
It was unusually windy all day.
Either out of frustration or pleasure.
– Jump and jump.
Chase, who had been unable to control his mind until the middle of the night, finally left the office suddenly.
Then I left the main palace and walked a little, leaving behind a steady sound of footsteps. I moved to the highest point in this royal palace. I placed Surveyin in the form of Teilan at the entrance of the round stairs and went up alone.
From the beginning to the top of the stairs.
I went upward without being distracted by my steps or my breath.
– Sweet.
I stood in front of a place that I have come to visit often recently.
I opened the door to an unlit room without hesitation. I stepped forward, turned around, and closed the door I had just opened again. And then I raised my head.
spire.
It was always a windy place.
There was a hot wind blowing on a hot summer day and a cool wind blowing on a cool winter day. It was that kind of place.
However, that day is something I have encountered over and over again in my dreams. On that day.
It was a cool day, but a hot wind blew.
It was a hot day, but a cool breeze blew.
For Chase, the steeple was a place remembered for that wind.
– Saaaa…….
It was the same this time too. But it was a little different.
The wind blew.
The moonlight fell.
The wind blew.
“You must not call the driver for coming without permission.”
Someone was already standing there.
It was so strange. It was so sad. I missed it so much.
The starlight fluttered like a rainbow.
“older brother.”
Chase lowered his head at the low voice. But I couldn’t do that for a long time and raised my head.
Even after tying it all up, I took in the sight of my hair blowing uncontrollably here and there, and then closed my eyes for a moment. But I couldn’t do that for long before I opened my eyes.
Calian grinned and gestured toward Chase.
I held out the glass of alcohol in my hand.
“I wonder if you’ll come. It’s okay if you come, but it wouldn’t be a bad idea if you don’t. I came here for a while with that thought in mind.”
Chase didn’t answer. I couldn’t answer.
“I made a bet with the Balkan guys this time.”
Kalian’s low voice followed as he poured a strong basilika into Chase’s glass of wine. Bern’s words flowed out.
“Eighty-six… No, I dealt with eighty-seven guys. I was fine like this, but they were all lying down.”
Bern patted his intact left arm and looked at Chase. I took one step forward. He put a glass of wine in his hand.
“I won. Because it felt good. Here I am.”
Chase opened his mouth.
I couldn’t think of anything to say in response, so I closed my mouth again.
“I won.”
Bern said.
“… I won.”
Chase nodded.
I received a drink from Bern.
“Yes… yes, yes.”
Strange, unfamiliar, nostalgic, and sad.
But willing.
That wind blew.
