are ridiculous.
Bern thought it was ridiculous.
âWhy do you want to tell me something so poisonous?â
âBecause I need it.â
âIâm asking where it is needed.â
âIs there any other reason to be curious about how to kill someone quickly? âIâm asking this to kill someone quickly.â
âIâm saying this because I think youâre misunderstanding your location with the knights over there.â
âI am the second prince of Secretia. I know exactly. I know very well that I am in a position where I cannot kill people with my own hands. I also know that you shouldnât swing a knife carelessly. And Iâm not asking you to point a knife at your father. So please tell me, Master. Required.â
Is there anything more ridiculous than a lion biting a rabbit to death and expecting it to not hurt? But Bern did that funny thing. I donât remember when it started. Someday I felt the need and someday I learned it. And from then on, I used the sword like that. As quickly as possible, at once.
It was said that Teilan was poisonous.
Swordsmanship that does not look at the opponent twice. Some people said it was efficient, while others said it was cruel because of the speedy swordsmanship that cuts off the opponentâs life in an instant. Whatever it was said, Bern didnât care. No matter what formula you put on it, what kind of review can you make if it is just a technology that kills people? So Bern always used the sword like that without commenting on it other than finding it funny.
â Quaaaang! Quang!
It soon became a habit.
Even now, I lived in hell, died once, came back to life, and live again.
I said so.
Now Calian had forgotten that habit.
Since I didnât know where the mother tree was in the ground, I would have definitely checked there first. Indeed, even though he was here, he would not have exerted any effort without even knowing what the roots of the mother tree looked like. What will happen if you touch the mother tree with your sword and will you suffer a loss or gain? Is there a possibility? It was clear that he had guessed that too. And only after that would he swing the sword. As quickly as possible, at once.
But I didnât do that.
He was wielding his sword without considering anything.
âItâs not the princeâs fault.â
âThen whose fault is it?â
âItâs Devlanâs fault.â
âKiri. âThatâs sophistry.â
âItâs not a lie, itâs true. If what I am saying is sophistry, then blame the sword the prince uses. In the end, it wasnât the prince who cut their lives, but the sword he wielded.â
âIf youâre going to force yourself, just drink alcohol. Arianne said you donât talk a lot in front of a glass of wine.â
âItâs not far-fetched.â
âKiri. I was the one who weighed my brotherâs life and their lives. âNot my sword.â
âThe prince protected the crown princeâs life, and they failed to protect their own lives. If it were me, I would have killed a hundred or a thousand people without hesitation if it were possible to save my brother. Isnât it true sophistry to say that everyoneâs life is precious? My younger brother was more important to me than the lives of a thousand people whose faces I did not know. Thatâs natural. It was Devlan who was at fault, not the prince. Just as there is nothing wrong with the princeâs sword.â
âYou are too generous to me. Kyrie. If it had been Arianne or Eila, she would never have said that.â
âAt least Lady Lin would have said the same thing as me.â
â Quaaaaaaaa!
I forgot my habits and let go of the things I had always suppressed. In preparation for the next enemy, I released the aura I had always saved and gathered all my magical power. Isnât the body feeling burdened just by containing the aura? Because of this, I gathered up all my strength, little by little, to avoid putting more strain on my body that had not yet fully grown.
âThe prince is too harsh towards you.â
âThis is generous.â me too.â
âIs it possible to say that you are generous while embracing all the sins of the world?â
âYouâre living. So itâs generous.â
âJust because you breathe doesnât mean you are living it unconditionally.â
What the roots of the mother tree look like, where they are, and whether they can be attacked or defended.
â¦I wonder if I can endure it.
Nothing was calculated.
To save the guy who said he would live.
âYou donât live just because your heart beats and your life continues. âThatâs not what living is like.â
âItâs unexpected. âI didnât know you could say that.â
âBecause thatâs not what I said.â
âthen.â
â⦠My younger brother. My younger brother once said something like that. Just living is not living. Thatâs not living. âThatâs what I said.â
âI guess not.â
âyes. no.â
âokay. âMy brother said good things.â
okay. Living wasnât like that.
Now I know that saving someoneâs life is not an easy task that requires just holding your breath.
Now I know.
âSo I will live well. So, buy the prince too. âDonât just save the crown prince, save the prince too.â
ââ¦â¦ I am.â
So, was it Plantz who was trying to save it?
Is it because Planz started to live, not just breathe? Is it Plantz who is teaching us to live like that? Is it just one planz? Was it Plantz who saved Plantz and brought him back to life? I wonder if Plants fell into the abyss I created. Is it planz that you want to take out from there?
âI⦠well.â
I wonder if all these people were right about Planz.
Itâs just that Plantz was right.
I saved him without knowing that.
I pretended not to know and saved him in the end.
Iâm angry that it suddenly became meaningless. Because I couldnât bear to see it turned meaningless for a moment. Negotiation first, threats second. I put all that aside and attacked. I slashed my sword towards the ground where I didnât even know where I was.
After taking a moment to catch his breath, Calian increased his strength once again.
no. I tried to pull it up.
ââ¦â¦!â
Suddenly, Calianâs back arched sharply.
I could no longer swallow the blood that was welling up and poured it onto the ground. I vomited it out.
âWhat can I do? I will smell blood and be boiled again.â
A slow voice came out from a mouth that had spilled a lot of blood. As if I had heard that voice, I could hear the words of the mother tree again.
âAre you risking your life for just one dream?â
âYou say youâre going to kill someone who lives, but you canât go that far?â
âYou canât deal with me. Itâs too much.â
âI have never lived in an advantageous environment.â
âItâs reckless.â
âI have never lived without thinking about dying.â
You cannot use magic that destroys the ground and draws out lava.
I canât use magic that makes lightning fall from the sky, or I canât use magic that catches star fragments and throws them. Kalian doesnât know how to do that. Still, Iâm good at using a sword. He knows how to write with keener wishes than anyone else.
So I picked up the sword again. It contained the wind.
-â¦â¦Tall!
At the end of the sword that was being slashed like that, something finally caught on. Calian, who momentarily stopped all attacks, closed his eyes for a moment and looked around. Soon, the corners of Calianâs mouth drew a long arc.
Since it wasnât a materialized tree root, I couldnât see anything and I couldnât feel anything. But I could clearly see it.
âDid you just say it was a dream? Itâs not a dream, itâs a wound.â
The strong curtain filled with protective energy was lifted in an instant.
Didnât miss it. I cut it down without hesitation.
Kalyan cut down the tree.
â Kugugugugungâ¦!
There is an earthquake.
Kalyan laughs.
The ground splits apart.
Deep in the ground in the middle of the village. I could see something transparent, throbbing and shaking inside the sharp wound. Something cut off by the power of the auror and torn apart by the power of the wind, scattering dark red light, was clearly revealing its true identity. Calian laughed while looking at that.
âEvery time you think of the cut place, you will hear what I said right now. Even if time passes and all traces disappear, you will still think of it. A wound does not necessarily have to bleed.â
A voice like a spring flower flows out.
âIt will hurt. You too. It wonât get better. It wonât get better until I die, my teacher dies, and someone else dies. Until you die, even after you die. Because Iâll think about it. Over and over again.â
I laughed without even checking whether the cut was the size of a fingernail, an arm, or a village. She smiled like a flower without saying anything.
â Excited!
My heart moved.
Instead of the seal of oath, the power of blessing moved. Because my body mustered all the strength it could muster, I ended up pushing the broken pieces up.
âThis is not what I meant when I said donât conform. Itâs not wise.â
âDid you touch the rock without knowing it was a baby? You see the future well.â
âIf it werenât for this land, I wouldnât have cared for you.â
âIf it werenât for this body, I would have already used you as firewood.â
âYou donât say a word. How foolish.â
âI hate losing. Iâm too good.â
â Ugh!
A significantly reduced number of swords were remade.
A significantly increased amount of blood was vomited out again.
I didnât care.
âstop.â
Maybe Iâm sick of it.
Or maybe the cut area hurt. Was it hurt?
âI will open it.â
In the end, I got the answer I wanted to hear from Danu.
Calian said no more.
My perspective has changed.
A familiar scene caught Kalianâs eyes.
He said he would show the world that had stopped, but the time until it stopped was unfolding first. Very kindly. So much so that it is truly a curse word. Nevertheless, I did not say out loud harsh words that would not be pleasant even if I uttered them for several hours. I was hoping that the wonderful pea, which is good at learning things, would listen and learn. Not because I was thinking of Danu, but because of that reason, I decided not to swear any more. Instead, he vomited thick blood like a curse once more.
After that, after teasing him so much, he walked diligently towards his older brother, who was squatting in a round shape, as if he really thought he had turned into a pea. Because I said I wouldnât make a fuss.
âLetâs go back.â
And called out.
Who is behind my back, what is on top of me, and where does the person who put it on go? What happened after that? With the face of someone who knows nothing.
âI donât think itâs late. Are you late by any chance?â
ââ¦â¦ little.â
âThen thatâs it.â
Anyway, the peas havenât wilted yet. Then it happened.
The world changes again.
The pebbles that used to fill your feet disappear, replaced by pure white ice. Instead of ash scattering everywhere, a snowstorm rages. Calian, who was trying to move his magic because he thought he could still apply a shield, lowered the finger he was about to flick. It had already been trapped in a tree hole until now, and I thought it wouldnât be good to block it again. So, without doing anything, I just moved my feet and opened my mouth.
âI canât bet on hunting.â
Plantz nodded.
âIâll assume I won.â
âwhy.â
âI cut down the roots of my motherâs tree.â
âI am.â
âYou didnât catch anything, did you?â
âI caught a pig.â
âDonât you remember that we decided to leave out the chicken and pig? I thought you were smart, but it turns out that you sometimes forget.â
âI thought he was good at barking, but it turns out he really just barks.â
âAre you saying something new?â
Plantz sighed, irritated as if he would forget everything he had just seen. And he gave me a human comment about the barking sound.
âUnless itâs a pig. As for the trees.â
âWe decided to get rid of the pigs, but not the trees.â â
⦠Since when did we get rid of the trees?â
âThey lock people up and talk to them, but isnât that like firewood and game?â
A face with a lot to say . Planz looked at his younger brother, who was giving him a new definition of prey. Calian swallowed what was rising in his throat with a nonchalant expression and smiled. As if he didnât know that he hadnât left the elf village yet. âOkay,â said his
brother
. Itâs not okay to try to beat your younger brother. In the end, the gentle Plants decided to lose.
âUsually, when you hear something like that, you have to ask yourself if it makes sense, isnât it? Why do you say you just knew?â
âYou did it.â
âYou should do more.â
âYou said you decided that way.â
âBut still. If you hear something that doesnât make sense, you should insist and get angry.â
âWhat should I do? So.â
âAnyway, Iâm asking you to take care of your share elsewhere as well. Since you said you would lose, I will assume you won, but donât do that anywhere else. Brother, itâs perfect for getting scammed as soon as you leave the palace. You are truly so gentle. It really takes a lot of work, brother.â
Planz, who now had a lot to say, frowned. Then, with an expression that seemed to have seen Calianâs thoughts, he said, âJust say it
. âStop barking.â
Calian laughed slightly at the admonition not to hide what you want to say by making unnecessary noises. However, instead of saying those words, he kept his mouth shut for a moment and continued walking toward the outside of the elf village. He passed the uninhabited frozen village and went to the outskirts of the village. Passing through to a place connected to the forest. As
the purple flower Minesias was passing over the ice where he was trapped, Calian said something he had not often said before.
âIt doesnât matter whether what you did was wrong or not. Whether the reason was justifiable or not, we canât blame it now. No matter who it is. So, even if you saw something in there, brotherâ¦â
âYou.â
The unlucky king who likes to be pampered, the day he visited Kairis when he was the crown prince. What it was like back then and really. A person who was very similar. A person who couldnât get closer, but who had a longer head and only one arm than Chase that day. A person who tried to see the distant spire as he had thought and noticed, but couldnât in the end. âI saw it.â That
person
. He said he saw it. Honestly.
Calianâs feet, which had always been moving steadily, stopped for a moment. He hesitated for a moment, as if he had forgotten where to step. Soon,
Calian put his foot out again without any problem and smiled brightly as he looked at Plants.
âHeâs really handsome, isnât he? â
Plantz, who looked at his younger brotherâs face for a moment, laughed. And this time, he answered honestly.
âI didnât see it. The face.â
âAh. Thatâs too bad. âIt was a chance I would never have again.â
âI canât see you anymore.â
âYes. I wonât show you. âBecause itâs a precious face.â
âIâm going to see it. âI
have a precious face.â
âLater. If itâs okay. More.â
ââ¦â¦ I understand. âHave you seen anything else?â
âIâm not curious.â
âIâm glad. I was worried.â
Plantz nodded without answering.
âI was hurt. many. âArenât you worried?â
âIâm doing it.â
âYes.â
Calian nodded with a grin and
left the elf village. I could feel a much warmer wind blowing through the forest. The sun was already setting.
Carly. Instead of the fishy smell coming from inside, Anne smelled the smell of the forest. And this time, after checking the peas that had not disappeared and were following along well, she called Raven. âI have obtained information about my
mother and Whitlin, so I will never come to this forest again.â I will. âThereâs nothing left.â
âAs for Danu.â
âI wonder if weâll meet again⦠I donât want to meet him again.â
Anyway, I didnât forget to promise myself that if I had to meet Danu again next time, I would definitely come with my dad. There was no need to worry about the duckâs mother, who was sitting across from the three horses and waiting anxiously for our prince to come.
He was not so gentle and would live well on his own.