Chapter 149: Tale Barony (4)
“Is it her? That ridiculous candidate?”
“Yeah. Because of her, the spirit world completely flipped.”
“Was her na Kinis?”
Blue hair and transparent skin.
The ones gathered here and there and having barbed chats were water spirits who had rather large factions even within the spirit world.
Their gazes were all directed at one place.
An unusually blue hair and skin slightly tinted red.
A water spirit with a faint smile but an expression that sohow looked sad.
Her na was Kinis.
‘Say whatever you want. Since it’s not related to .’
Kinis cared not for the gazes that poured down nor even the barbed chatters.
She purposefully walked even more confidently.
‘I didn’t beco the Spirit King candidate because I wanted to like you.’
The candidates for the next Spirit King were chosen by the current Spirit King’s choices.
And traditionally, it was custom for the Spirit King candidates to be chosen from the bloodline that was called royalty even in the spirit world.
But.
‘I’m the lowest of the lower class.’
She didn’t even have parents who had given her power of the spirits and was born in the human world instead of the spirit world.
Perhaps because of that, she had a red tinted skin instead of a clear skin unlike other spirits.
‘Because of that, I was always alone.’
The other water spirits didn’t talked to Kinis, whose birth was of lower-class and even her looks were different.
Kinis too, besides when she first entered the spirit world, didn’t try to start a conversation first.
She couldn’t handle the other spirits’ cold looks and apathy.
The aningless and lonely life that no one bothered with started like that.
But.
‘After the spirit king chose for the next spirit king candidate, everything changed.’
The other spirits, who treated her as a nonexistent spirit, began to pour out all sort of envy and jealousy.
The biting words and pointings were at least on the nicer side.
The occurrences of stealing and harassing beca frequent.
‘I don’t care. I don’t care.’
Kinis clenched her teeth.
‘I was alone anyway, and I’ll always be alone.’
Spirit King?
She had no interest in such a thing.
No, in her honest feelings, she wanted to boastfully beco the Spirit King.
But.
‘In the first place, it’s ridiculous that I, who is from a lowly class, would beco the Spirit King.’
There were plenty of spirits of royal background amongst the candidates.
Probably, one of them would beco the next Spirit King.
‘I was selected just to make up the numbers.’
A short sigh leaked out.
Kinis hurried her steps and headed towards the Spirit King Ellaim’s residence.
“I received King Ellaim’s call and ca.”
When she lowered her head in front of a grand door, the door soon opened.
When she stepped on the fluffy cloud floor and walked inside, there was a chair made out of water.
On the chair, a beautiful woman with a long blue hair sat.
She was Ellaim, the very Water Spirit King who traveled the human world with the Queen of Water Biate and who had saved Roan’s life.
‘Beautiful.’
The mont Kinis saw Ellaim, she beca half dazed.
Because she was of a low class and hadn’t grown yet, she was rely about the size of a palm.
It was a look more like a small fairy than a woman.
Compared to that, Ellaim’s look was literally that of a perfect woman.
A beautiful face and smooth figure and, most of all, an aloof grace that exuded from her entire body.
It was a beautiful look that even Kinis, who was of the sa gender, would fall for.
‘Yeah. The beings exactly like that beco the Spirit King. It’s a place that a lowly birth like ……’
Looking at her own skin tinted with a red light, Kinis dropped her head.
‘Can’t even dream of.’
When her thoughts had reached that point.
“Kinis. You’re slightly late.”
She heard a beautiful voice.
Kinis raised her head and looked at Ellaim.
“Ah……”
A quiet exclamation flowed out.
With a faint smile, Ellaim was staring at Kinis.
“I, I”m sorry. I received the notice late.”
It was the truth.
The spirit who should had passed the news had dawdled.
This also was sothing that happened because of the envy and the jealousy.
“The other candidates have all went down to the human world and are taking the test.”
The candidate selection test.
The test to select the next Spirit King was simple.
Contracting with a human who realized the essence of water or absorbed the essence of water, and staying together with that human.
That was all.
What they had to do, what they shouldn’t do, how long was the duration…… there was nothing that was revealed.
Ellaim spun her finger in a circle.
Instantly, a clear drop of water rose in front of Kinis.
“He is the human you will contract with.”
On the drop of water, a man’s face appeared.
A young but manly face.
It was Roan.
“I hope that it will beco a good result, no a good relationship.”
Ellaim cheerfully smiled.
Kinis quietly lowered her head and then closed her eyes.
Paat!
Water erupted around her, and soon, she disappeared.
When she opened her eyes again, the scenery had changed.
At that mont.
“I will make a completely new troop for you.”
She heard a dignified and low voice.
Kinis quickly turned her head and looked for the owner of the voice.
A fine looking elderly old man.
He was Count Io Lancephil.
Io was staring with a burning light in his eyes at the young man in front of him.
Kinis’ gaze naturally moved following that light.
“Ah……”
The young man, he was the human that she had to contract with.
“Troop commander Roan. Will you use Rose as the na of the troop?”
The young man, Roan looked to be montarily in thought.
‘Is his na Roan?’
Kinis flew up into the air and stood up on top of Roan’s shoulder.
‘He should be a human who has either realized the essence of water or absorbed it, but……’
Strangely, she couldn’t feel the aura of water very well.
At that mont, Roan, who had been in thought, shook his head.
“I want to use another na.”
“Did you think of sothing?”
At Io’s words, Roan stared at the eyes of the soldiers around him.
“Amaranth, we will be the Amaranth troop.”
He spoke in a low but powerful voice.
Kinis, at the burning heat that flew out from Roan’s body, flew up into the air in shock.
For a one who realized or absorbed the essence of water, the heat was too strong.
But strangely, it wasn’t uncomfortable or painful.
Kinis quietly stared at Roan’s face, no, more exactly at his eyes.
Deep eyes as if one may fall in.
At her appearance reflected on the eyes, she exhaled up a long sigh.
‘In the first place, I’m not interested at all in sothing like Spirit King.’
No, in the first place, it was a dream she couldn’t even dream of.
Now that it had beca like this, she planned to just follow the contractor and go sightseeing the world.
‘To do that, I have to make a contract first……’
Kinis flew up to Roan’s ear.
She planned to talk to him.
But Roan couldn’t hear Kinis’ voice.
And like that, the ti flew by as if it had no regret.
[You couldn’t even see or hear my voice. Thanks to that, I couldn’t even form the contract until now.]
The sharp voice tore through Roan’s ears.
Roan listened to Kinis’ story that went on for a long ti, then fell into thought.
‘As expected, that water drop I absorbed at Biate’s cave was the essence of water.’
A disparate strength that was different than the heat within his body.
It was a mont when its identity beca clear.
“Then were you always next to since then to now?”
Roan stared at an empty space.
He still couldn’t see Kinis’ appearance.
For now, hearing her voice and talking with her was the best he could do.
[Of course. Since that’s my mission.]
“Wasn’t it lonely?”
Roan’s voice quieted down.
With a gruff voice, Kinis replied.
[Not at all! I wasn’t lonely!]
Her red-tinted skin beca even redder.
‘Since I was always alone.’
She tightly swallowed back those last words.
She forcefully changed the subject.
[Anyhow, for a guy who even absorbed the essence of water, how could the aura of water be so faint like this?]
Because of that, it had been impossible for the two to converse.
At least because Roan had been more or less living in the water recently, it felt as if the essence of water inside his body beca strengthened.
Thanks to that, at least having a conversation beca possible.
‘Is the reason the aura of water is faint probably because of that……’
Roan inwardly had a guess.
“It’s probably because of the Flamdor Mana Technique.”
[Flamor Mana Technique?]
Kinis’ voice was full of questions.
For a while, Roan explained about the Flamdor Mana Technique.
[Hhm. So that amazing heat I felt from ti to ti was because of the Flamdor Mana Technique.]
Her voice sounded as if the questions were resolved.
At that mont, Roan slightly creased his forehead.
“But are you okay?”
[With what?]
Kinis gruffly asked back.
“You are a water spirit. Shouldn’t you be avoiding strong heat like the Flamdor Mana Technique?”
[Hm?]
Co to think of it, that was true.
Fire and water were opposites.
At least in the case of other water spirits, they would feel greatly pained and run away if there was even a bonfire level of heat.
But.
[I’m fine?]
Hot.
She simply felt only that much of a heat.
“Is it? Then that’s good.”
Roan nodded his head with an expression that seemingly found it trivial.
Because he didn’t knew the physiology of spirits very well, he hadn’t noticed just how strange that was.
“Then what do we need to do now?”
[The contract first. The contract.]
Kinis spoke with strength in each word.
Roan awkwardly smiled and nodded his head.
“Alright. Let’s make a contract.”
[Wait a bit.]
The contract was made instantly.
Although she originally needed to lay out all sorts of flowery and embarrassing words and then danced with a fluttery movents, Kinis completely skipped all those useless works.
‘He can’t see in the first place anyway.’
She pulled up the aura of water, then flew in front of Roan’s face.
Kinis extended her right hand and touched Roan’s forehead.
With her eyes closed, she murmured unintelligible words, then spoke in a sharp voice.
[You want to contract with ?]
Abruptly, she threw out those words.
“Un? What kind of contract is like this?”
Roan creased his brows.
From books and rumors, he roughly knew how a contract with a spirit was made.
He had thought that it was quite graceful and beautiful process, but.
‘This is shabbier than a slave contract.’
As if she had read Roan’s such thoughts, Kinis spoke in a blunt voice.
[You going to do it, or no?]
At the words that snap at him, Roan nodded his head.
“I’ll do it.”
Since there was the fault of making her wait for so long, he couldn’t be any more obstinate.
The instant he spoke those words, blue light wrapped around Roan and Kinis’ body.
However, Roan himself couldn’t see that light.
[It’s done.]
“It’s done?”
[Yeah. It’s done.]
“It’s really done?”
[Yeah! It’s really done!]
Kinis shouted aloud.
Sohow, her head ached.
It was the first ti she talked with soone for so long.
The emotional stress was worse than she had thought.
Of course, her mood didn’t feel bad.
“Okay. Then I look forward to working with you.”
Roan extended his hand towards Kinis, who wasn’t even visible.
Kinis gently flew and stood on the tip of his finger.
[Looking forward or whatnot, increase your aura of water first. I’ll be seen only if you do, you know.]
“Okay. I got it. I’ll work hard.”
Roan cheerfully smiled as he nodded his head.
He moved his feet and walked out of the lake.
“Then what will you do from now on?”
[What do you an do what. I’ll just have to sightsee the world and wait for the next Spirit King’s heir to be chosen.]
Roan, who was cleaning up his things while listening to Kinis’ story, shook his head towards her who he couldn’t even see.
“No. That’s not good.”
[What do you an that’s not good?]
“You’re a full-fledged Spirit King candidate. Then you should confidently aim for the Spirit King’s position.”
Kinis snorted at Roan’s words.
[You didn’t listen to , did you? I’m not a royalty but a lower class. And a lowly one at that. becoming the Spirit King is……]
“Impossible?”
Roan cut off her words and asked.
His face was rather serious.
Kinis wordlessly nodded her head.
But soon realizing that Roan couldn’t see her, she spoke in a quiet voice.
[Yeah.]
The mont she spoke those words, Roan faintly smiled.
He laid down on the ground and looked up at the blue sky.
“I’m from a commoner background. And a poor countryside village on the grain mountains at that. We were so poor that when it beca early spring, we would have to dig up tree roots because there was nothing else left to eat. But the truly horrible things were the monsters who attacked regardless of day and night. We sent people to the fief lord several tis, but they pretended not to know. Instead, they said all kinds of excuses and ripped off an unbelievable amount of tax. It was so difficult that I volunteered for the army as soon as I turned eighteen.”
The weight of his life could be felt in his voice.
“I wanted to beco a great general. I wanted to be a great general, subjugate the monsters, and save the village.”
That was the truth.
But in the last life, he couldn’t quite reach the dream and died.
“Huu. But……”
A short sigh flowed out.
“As I road the battlefields and experienced the world, there was a countless number of villages like mine. It wasn’t that only my village was especially poor and dangerous. So I thought at that ti. That this isn’t sothing that a great general could solve.”
This was sothing he felt as he lived the second life.
There was a world that he couldn’t see when he was barely living as a re spearman.
At a level of a great general, it ended at a level of saving few villages.
To change the world, he had to look at a place higher than that.
‘At first, I had thought that if I aid for a monarch, I would at least ended as a great general.’
The reason he wished to beco a monarch when he returned to the past.
It truly was a childish and immature reason.
But as he went from a re spearman to leading soldiers as a squad commander, adjutant, and vice-commander, his view of the world changed.
The life was too hard.
There were too many people who died without even follow their dreams.
He wished to save them all, to save the entire world.
To do that, he needed to beco a true monarch.
Not a monarch of the royalty and the nobles, but the monarch of everyone.
That was the true monarch that Roan thought of.
It was because of that reason that despite becoming a noble, he looked after the people regardless of their status.
The dream that started for an immature reason had slowly shaped up like that.
“Kinis.”
Roan called out Kinis in a quiet voice.
He montarily steadied his breath, then carefully spoke each and every word.
“I will beco a monarch.”
This was the first ti that Roan had told anyone, no, even spoke his dream out of his mouth.
Instantly, Kinis’ eyes beca wide.
Her expression was shocked.
Even her, who was a spirit, knew a bit of how the human world’s lives worked.
‘It’s a ridiculous dream.’
Kinis shook her head.
Even in that while, Roan continued to speak.
“I’ll beco a monarch and change the world.”
Roan’s eyes moved, chasing Kinis who couldn’t even be seen.
“Kinis. You said you also lived a hard life in the spirit world. Those days that you were ignored and discriminated because you were of a lower class…… don’t you want to try and change such an unreasonable world? If a candidate from the royalty becos the next Spirit King as you said, the spirit world will be the sa as before. The lower class will receive all kinds of slight and discrimination and live out difficult days. But……”
His voice once again carried strength.
“If you beco the Spirit King, you can change the world.”
His voice was full of certainty.
Kinis’ heart began to rapidly race.
[I could change the world……]
If she could do that.
‘I’ll get rid all of these disgusting classes.’
But.
[Could I do it? Could I beco the Spirit King? ?]
Kinis asked in a trembling voice.
Raising up only his chest, Roan brightly smiled.
“Of course.”
It was an answer without a hint of doubt nor hesitation.
Once again, he extended his hand towards Kinis, who couldn’t even be seen.
“Kinis. I will beco the monarch of this world. You beco the king of the spirit world.”
[You and I will beco kings……]
Be born at the lowest and rise to the highest place.
It definitely wasn’t an easy path.
But sohow.
‘I feel like I can do it.’
Until just a mont ago, she thought it was sothing absolutely impossible.
But the mont she conversed with Roan, an unknown confidence blossod.
Kinis flew down on the back of Roan’s hand and slightly bent her knee.
Her small and cute lips touched the back of his hand.
Of course, Roan couldn’t feel nor see that sight.
[Alright. Let’s try it.]
It was still a sharp and buzzing voice, but it was full of life unlike before.
Roan cheerfully smiled and nodded his head.
To him, a friend and a companion who walked the sa dream as him had appeared today.
Roan stood up from his seat and picked up his bag.
Then, as if he had thought of sothing, he spoke in a careful voice.
“Ah! But were you really not lonely?”
Countless months of ti that she had to talk alone, and watch alone.
Roan found it pitiable and sorry that Kinis had to spend and endure that ti alone.
Smiling brightly, Kinis replied.
[Yeah. I’m not lonely anymore.]
< Tale Barony (4) > End.
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