Episode 30 The Saint and the Saint (2)
Aira’s laughter relieved the tension in the hall.
I hoped that the anger of the woman who was angry and said that she would leave the village was slightly relieved.
Covering her mouth while laughing, she spoke to the elves who couldn’t raise their heads.
“Do you have any feelings about your words and actions?”
An elf lifted her head and said to her as she quietly spoke with her smile erased.
“We were so shameless… We took it for granted that they were protecting us.”
Starting with his words, the other elves also raised their voices one by one.
“I’m sorry, Lady Aira.”
“It wasn’t the will of all of us. Please let go of my anger.”
Aira said it was because she was angry, but her sincerity was contained in her decision to leave the village.
It was a family that had been together for a long time, so when I heard that, I was quite shocked.
I even felt betrayed.
He couldn’t believe that no one was looking for him.
Even as she lay in her room, she had been holding on for twenty years, saying, ‘Someone will come tomorrow.’
The loneliness of not visiting anyone was greater than the pain I felt as my skin gradually decayed.
While passing through that painful and lonely time, he sought them again on his own feet, but he heard voices blaming himself and the elders from the elves.
If she had been a bit violent, she might have destroyed the village.
But when they bowed their heads and apologized, I felt my heart melt away.
Obviously, when I just woke up, I hated it enough to want to kill it.
Aira sighed.
“okay. I will withdraw my words of leaving the village.”
The elves were relieved at her words.
It happened without time to stop the atrocities of the young elf that happened in an instant.
Besides, even if she did something wrong, it was their position that they couldn’t say anything.
She was a high elf, and they were elves protected by her.
It was because she had grown accustomed to her invisible life after living without caring about her for a long time.
Aira brought up a topic that had become a hot topic the other day.
“If that’s what upset you, I understand. It is only natural to be angry with the elder.”
The elves nodded their heads at her support.
The sin of not informing the same tribes of important facts is great. Even more so when their lives were at stake.
“But the elder didn’t do it with bad intentions either. I would have thought that somehow the fact that I was ill could reach the ears of humans.”
At the point of ‘humans’, the eyes of the elves focused on Ray, who was next to Aira, but soon dispersed.
“Besides, I cannot say that you guys are not at fault for not trying to find out for yourself.”
The heads of the elves bowed.
After a long peaceful life, the tension in them was gone.
In the past, I did not even try to know the information that I would have independently investigated and researched now.
If humans had attacked them without any tension like now, the village would have been occupied in an instant.
She looked around the elves for a moment and then said.
“I am not saying to forgive the elders. I just want you to do me a favor. If there were no elders, there would be no elves to manage the village.”
Certainly, if an elder is placed on probation and is absent for as little as a few years or as long as several decades, it will be difficult to decide on important matters in the village.
Ira is talking about that.
The elves hesitated for a moment, but nodded.
It respects her wishes.
“All right. I will.”
“…I don’t understand it, but since it’s Aira-sama’s word, I’ll follow it.”
When they seemed to accept, she let go.
If an elder disappears or is replaced, her responsibilities increase.
The elder’s guilt was not without it, but he did it out of consideration for his tribe, so he didn’t want to take it too seriously.
It’s because it happened because he had an unknown disease in the first place.
Even though I did my best among those few options, the current issue was so big that I had to be punished.
That’s what their lives depended on.
Ray thought as he listened to their conversation.
‘Just because the race is different doesn’t mean the thoughts are different.’
It was a human-like society.
It was just a different habit or unique idea, common sense, and culture.
For example, how to manage long ears unlike humans.
It was actually described in the book I read at Aira’s house.
After seeing Ray’s appearance, Aira realized that he was there.
It’s because I didn’t pay attention to him because I was absorbed in the story.
Right after she reconciled, I looked at Ray to change the awkward air.
Then he smiled and said.
“If we are done talking about the treatment of the elders, I would like to hold a party for our benefactor.”
At Aira’s words, the eyes of the elves instantly turned to Ray.
They had forgotten about it, but in fact, it was about Ray that came up as a bigger topic than the elder’s story.
He has cured an unknown disease that no one can cure at once.
An atrocious disease that makes it impossible to even eat.
In Aira’s case, she was able to endure because she had a huge amount of mana in her body, but no matter how much, twenty years had passed, so mana would run out soon.
If that happened, even she would have died in the end.
Ray’s ability to cure such a disease was such that it remained as an indelible memory in the heads of the elves.
Besides, what about the mana he collected?
At that moment, many elves doubted whether Ray was not a great being.
However, I was able to erase my doubts about the human smell I felt from him.
Although there were still many elves who had doubts about his identity.
“I am in favor. Since he saved Aira-sama and saved our lives in the long run, I think it’s right to treat him differently from humans.”
“I agree too.”
“Whoever sees this man is not our savior. ha ha ha.”
Most agreed and came out.
He was the one who saved Aira’s life.
Being favored by the high elves was, in and of itself, like a right of passage to freely enter and exit the village.
However, since he did not simply receive grace and saved a dying life, how could the reward be small?
He became the benefactor of all the forest tribes of Grandel.
Ray laughed and scratched his head.
“Somehow it happened like this. ha ha ha.”
Even if Daera Shinseon came back alive, she was a woman who couldn’t be healed, but Ray’s hands absurdly healed her.
The elf who watched the healing process from the side was overwhelmed by the mana he could feel even though there was no one except for Pia.
Like the elves who value the strength of oneself as a virtue, they acknowledged the existence of Ray.
* * *
After going home for a while during the day, Ray couldn’t help but be surprised when he arrived at the elven village again.
It’s because they prepared for the festival while they were away.
Normally, I tended to think that elves’ banquets would be quiet, but I couldn’t help admitting that it was my own prejudice.
The festival held in the village of the elves was truly enormous.
Everyone from children to adult elves were seated in a row.
It was hard to believe that it was morning.
When Ray paused to watch them outside the village, Pia, who had not been seen until now, approached.
“I’m here?”
She approached me slightly awkwardly and said with a grin.
“Come on. Everyone is waiting for you.”
As she spoke, she pulled herself.
There were many elves in the place where they moved forward.
I could see a lot of elves who had been confined to the house until now, or young elves who hadn’t come out.
When I gathered it up, it was a great population.
I think it will be enough to catch 500 people.
“Hey, have there been so many elves?”
Pia smiled at Ray, who seemed very surprised.
“Because there are elves who didn’t show up because they were raising children, and elves who live in the outskirts.”
“It’s amazing.”
Pia looked at Ray like that and let go of her hand.
“huh?”
I looked at him with a curious inner heart, but she smiled a little sadly.
“I have work to do… Can I go alone from here? When the festival is held, the village is more defenseless than ever.”
Pia waved her hand.
As a guardian of the elves, there are many times when she cannot enjoy the festival.
The frequency of festivals is not very high because they do not hold festivals unless it is a big deal.
At that time, if she, the guardian, postponed her mission and enjoyed the festival, she could not block out the danger.
Why wouldn’t she want to enjoy the festival?
However, it is unavoidable because fulfilling the mission given to oneself is several times more important than playing to one’s heart’s content.
Ray smiled at the regret that showed on her face.
“I’ll go to your place in the evening to play.”
“really?”
She regained her energy in an instant and asked excitedly.
Ray nodded, and she jumped up in complete excitement.
“This is the first time I’ve ever had someone come to visit me!”
She is the one who can’t come to the village for several years at the most while doing the duties of a guardian.
Being with someone and doing a mission was something I only dreamed of.
It was not unreasonable to be so happy.
Pia jumped and jumped happily by herself, and was startled to see the sun rise.
“It’s already time…”
She murmured briefly while looking up at the sky, then waved her hand hurriedly at Ray.
Lay murmured as she watched her run away excitedly by herself without noticing that time had passed, then jumped out in surprise.
“…He’s not normal either.”
* * *
After going through the monsters, the dispatch battalion decided to go homeless.
It was a place for the saintess to sleep, and it was not easy for the dispatched battalion to prepare because it was located on a relatively higher terrain than the surrounding area.
It was not flat, so I had to dig up the ground and set up a tent.
In addition, the ground to support the support of the tent is not hard, so I had to tie the surrounding trees with a rope to fix it firmly.
As a result, young hagyeondae naturally grumbled.
“Why did the saintess say that she was sleeping in a place like this…”
“Since you are still young, you don’t seem to know that you have to pitch a tent on a flat land.”
“Whew… It’s just us who are having a hard time…”
He said in a low voice, so no one listened.
However, since they were revealed by facial expressions, I was able to guess to some extent.
But that was only for a moment.
It was because the monsters attacked again while preparing for homelessness, lighting a fire, and settling down.
“It’s an orc!”
“Ouch! Why is the ogre here!”
A mixture of screams could be heard and everyone was ready for battle.
The sound of clashing weapons and the unpleasant sound of cutting flesh echoed together, staining the place where they slept with blood.
However, there were no casualties during the fighting.
He was able to take advantage of the terrain because all the tents that were pitched at high places under Iriel’s instructions were located on high ground.
It was easier to attack from the top down than to attack from the bottom up, and it was better to inflict a critical hit.
Even the lower dog, who cried the most, could feel it while fighting.
They muttered while playing with their swords nonstop.
“Could it be… the saintess had this in mind?”
“Ah… how could you have expected all of this when you’re still young? The priests next to me must have told me.”
“Well, he is called the epitome of perfection in our castle country?”
There were various opinions, but in the end, the opinion that it was her order was dominant.
It was all the more so because she had never been clumsy in her work.
