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[On the trail]
A man turned into rags I dragged myself back to the carriage. The children were still soundly asleep by then.
“hmm? “Did you move the kids?”
The great man checked the children lying side by side in the carriage and asked Modrea, who was watching the surroundings.
“…….”
Mordrea nodded slightly without saying a word. The great man looked at the doll with a curious expression.
‘Now I’m doing things I wasn’t even asked to do. ‘Is this sothing you can learn on your own?’
Daein thought that he should read the manual left by Dreitz properly when he had ti.
Maybe there are more ways to use it than you thought.
“Well, take it slow.”
The great man entered the carriage and shook Lily’s shoulder to wake her up.
“kid. “Wake up for a mont.”
As mana was injected into her body to drive out the sleeping pills, Lily woke up, rubbing her sleepy eyes.
“Ugh… why?”
“Co outside and see. “Because I have sothing to show you.”
After a while, Lily ca out of the carriage with a disheveled face. In the girl’s arms was a chicken doll that she always held when she slept.
Lily’s eyes widened when she found the man kneeling in front of the carriage.
“who is this?”
I couldn’t recognize it right away.
The man’s goblin mask was shattered and his face looked like an exploded punching bag.
“…….”
But for so reason, I felt creepy. The man’s familiar eyes. Lily began to recall mories of her terrible past one by one.
“Who are you…?”
Lily unconsciously took a step back and muttered, but her instincts had already revealed her opponent’s identity.
Tuk.
Sothing touched my back and I turned around to see a man standing behind .
The great man said.
“Don’t run away, look straight ahead.”
The great man removed the gag from the man’s mouth, took out the goblin mask he had been using when pretending to be a fake, and placed it on his face.
After a while, a slow, cracked voice flowed from the freed mouth.
“Child of Fire…”
The mont she heard that voice, the girl returned to the laboratory in the cave of the past.
Shivering.
Lily clutched the doll in her arms and glared at the goblin mask.
In fact, I imagined this situation several tis.
Because he said he was going to catch the goblin mask.
‘If we et again, I won’t stay still!’
I even made bold promises in front of people.
However, when she actually faced the goblin mask again, no thoughts crossed her mind.
The goblin said, looking at Lily carefully.
“You did well to run away. Moreover, you rescued a reliable ally, hard us, and captured like this… But that’s it.”
“…….”
He chuckled.
The goblin leaned towards Lily and spoke. He seed unfazed by the torture that tore his flesh and bones apart.
“You don’t think this is the end, do you?”
“Ugh…”
The girl, facing her own trauma, whimpered, unable to say a single word that was in her heart.
The great man quietly looked at the figure and thought.
‘It might have been better if we didn’t et.’
Maybe it would have been better for him to deal with the goblins alone.
In a way that quietly buries the wounds of the past rather than bringing them up for no reason.
After that, if you find the little boy’s mother and return to Earth, you won’t have to worry about this place for a while.
I could have allowed the little boy to eat well and live well without having to face his painful past.
Good and good. By just ignoring it and forgetting about it.
But that ant the little boy would have to suffer from nightmares of goblins chasing him for the rest of his life.
The great man held Lily’s trembling hand.
“Are you still scared?”
The girl turned her head and looked up at the man. A scared face. The great man gave strength to his hand and continued speaking.
“What’s so scary about sothing like that? A child whose arms and legs are tied and who can only speak. “I can’t do anything to you anymore.”
Warm, big hands. And a confident voice.
Lily felt her anxious mind calming down little by little.
The man who let go of his hand gently pushed Lily’s back forward and said.
“Go ahead and say whatever you want to say. “It’s okay to show it with action.”
“Yeah…”
Lily, with her back pushed down, walked forward one step at a ti. A man’s voice, no different from usual, ca from behind .
“Let’s have breakfast when we’re done.”
“…huh.”
The girl walked forward with strides. He confidently faced the goblin who was looking at him with his eyes focused.
The goblin said with a chuckle.
“Do you think it will end if you just kill ? Child of fire. There is no place in the world for you to run to…”
Voila!
The goblin’s face turned to the side. Lily sighed, caressing her numb palm.
And I scread with all my might.
“I’m not scared of you anymore!!!”
“…dare!”
The goblin contorted his face viciously and scread, but Lily did not avoid his gaze and shouted at him.
“I’m not scared! “Not one!”
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Fireworks filling the sky.
The fireworks, which easily numbered tens, hundreds, or even thousands, spread out so far that the end could not be seen, dyeing the sky red.
The goblin looked at the burning sky that Lily had created with a shocked face.
“How can I already have this much power…!”
This is ridiculous. The child who ran away from the laboratory grows much faster than the ‘other children’ who are developing their abilities in the organization.
Fluffy.
Lily’s body rose slightly into the air.
Hair spread out in all directions, and trendous magical power emanated from the entire body.
With a light hand gesture, the flas in the sky all turned towards the goblin mask.
gulp.
The goblin mask swallowed its saliva and muttered without realizing it.
“Witch…”
the girl said, her ruby-like eyes shining sinisterly.
“Wendy’s enemy. “I’ll pay you back now.”
At that ti, a man ca up from behind and placed his hand on Lily’s head.
“Don’t kill .”
“…why?”
When Lily turned around with a sowhat dissatisfied face, the great man brushed down the girl’s hair that was all over the place and said,
“I still have sothing left to ask.”
Lily pouted her lips for a mont and nodded obediently.
“…okay.”
Lily, now calm, ca down to the floor. The girl glared at the goblin mask once and then returned to the carriage.
The great man took off the mask of the man who was still dazed, put the gag back in his mouth, and spoke.
“Then let’s have an in-depth conversation again later.”
“…….”
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That evening.
A rural village at the western end of the Teru Kingdom. A carriage pulled in there.
A quick glance.
When a rare, luxury carriage appeared, villagers stuck their heads out the window and glanced.
“What kind of carriage?”
“Isn’t this a nobleman’s parade?”
“What kind of business is there in this corner of the village?…”
The villagers, who looked scruffy, looked at the carriage with worried expressions.
A carriage that looks precious even at a glance. There was a high probability that soone of valuable status would be on board.
And when valuable people showed up in the village, almost always sothing unfortunate happened.
The great man sitting on the roof of the carriage was able to look around the village at a glance.
“It’s a fairly poor-looking neighborhood.”
It was a barren rural village with a remote location and no specialties.
The great man spoke to Lily, who was sitting next to him.
“Is this right here?”
“huh! Just go down that road!”
Lily looked very nervous.
The hotown I left when I was young and returned a few years later. Faint mories were coming back.
“there! “It’s over there!”
The voice got louder and faster. My heart was pounding so fast that I didn’t know what to do.
The great man looked at Lily with a worried face.
‘Is this guy’s mother still alive?’
Of course, I never told Lily, but the great man saw the chances as less than half.
In a rural area like this, it was not easy for a woman to survive in an environnt so poor that she had to sell her children as well.
‘Besides…’
The great man turned his head and looked at the sack being dragged around tied to the back of the carriage. The blood-stained sack contained the mask of an unconscious goblin.
‘Those guys may have kidnapped to use as a hostage.’
Although we used various other thods, including the use of bone spurs, the goblin held out much better than expected.
So I was thinking of keeping him alive for a while longer.
If you have enough ti, there is a way to extract all the information you have, even if it ans breaking your mind.
And if a situation arises, goblins could be used as pandemonium and negotiation cards.
While the man was thinking about various things in his head, Lily jumped up from the roof of the carriage and shouted.
“Over there!”
The carriage stopped and Lily jumped out of the carriage and ran ho.
But the girl stopped in front of the door. The outstretched hand hesitated in front of the door.
The great man stood next to him and asked.
“Why aren’t you going in?”
“What should I do without my mom?”
Lily wasn’t stupid either. I knew that my mother might be dead, even though I didn’t say it out loud.
The great man said.
“Let’s think about it then.”
“…huh.”
Lily closed her eyes and knocked on the door.
After a while, a frightened voice was heard from beyond the door.
“…who are you?”
A woman’s voice. The great man turned his head and looked at Lily. Lily’s eyes were as big as a flower lantern.
Lily said in a trembling voice.
“mom?”
The great man took a step back. A frightened voice was heard again from inside the door.
“who are you? Who are you?…”
“Mom!! it’s ! “Lily!”
“…baby?”
The door burst open and a woman in shabby clothes appeared.
The woman’s eyes widened and she looked at Lily with an expression of disbelief. It seed like he didn’t know what to do.
At that mont, Lily jumped into her mother’s arms first.
“mom-!!”
“How how…”
The woman kept repeating the word ‘how.’ Soon tears began to flow from her eyes.
“How could you…!”
“mom! I miss you!”
The mother and daughter hugged each other and cried loudly. The story that had been buried broke out with tears, and the emotions that had been suppressed exploded.
And after a few steps, the great man sighed.
“Phew.”
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A barbecue party took place late at night.
Daein took out the grill and camping supplies in front of the house’s yard, spread them out, and took out all the at he had brought in the wagon.
And he gave the kids a mission.
“Go and call all the villagers.”
At first, the villagers were wary of Daein’s group, but attracted by the sll of grilling at, they began to gather one or two at a ti.
Among the villagers who tasted the at, so shed tears.
“When was the last ti you ate at?…”
“It’s delicious. “It’s really delicious!”
“Perhaps there is soone called the Saint of the Carriage…”
The wary atmosphere quickly changed to a welcoming one.
After learning about Lily’s story, the villagers went to the mother and daughter and offered congratulatory words.
“I heard your daughter was sold far away and ca back? Congratulations!”
“If you look closely, you can see that your face remains from when you were young.”
“Your face has beco so bright and prettier!”
While he was throwing away the man, he also took out so alcohol.
“Let’s all have a drink.”
As the excitent grew, so of the village n stepped forward and shouted.
“Singing is a must on a day like this!”
One or two people ca forward and began to sing, and soone beat a drum or sothing to beat the beat.
It was the happiest night for Lily.
“You know, Mom. “What did you say back then…!”
The girl talked to her mother all night long about the adventure that started on Earth. So of them embarrassed the great man.
“hey! “Don’t talk like that!”
“It’s long!”
Jang Young-shin worked hard to impress Lily’s mother, and
siblings Zeke and Hannah looked at the mother and daughter with envy.
Mordrea watched the surroundings with an expressionless face on the roof.
It was an unforgettable night for many.
After the party, everyone in the village went ho and fell asleep.
Lily’s mother slowly combed her sleeping daughter’s hair.
She raised her head and looked at the great man sitting across from her. Everyone was asleep and only two people were awake.
“How should I repay this favor…”
The great man laughed and shook his head.
“What about grace? “Thanks to the little guy, I had fun for a few months.”
“But…”
“…….”
When the great man stared at her silently, she avoided his gaze and lowered her head.
“Why are you looking at like that?…”
“Mother. “Would you like to take a short walk with ?”
“yes?”
When she looked embarrassed, the great man smiled softly and said,
“I have sothing to tell you separately. “In a quiet place.”
In an instant, her face turned red.
“…Then, shall we walk for a while?”
After a while, the two walked down the path side by side.
It was Daein who spoke first.
“When the little boy ets his mom again, I want to make it the best day ever.”
“Oh yes….”
“I ate a lot of my favorite at, many people congratulated , and I fell asleep while chatting next to my mom… It sohow went as planned.”
When Daein smiled happily, she laughed along with him.
A secluded trail. A pair of n and won walking shoulder to shoulder.
The great man stopped and said.
“Actually, I was a little confused at first. But now I can be sure.”
“yes?”
“I wanted to talk… but I just wasn’t in the mood because of the little boy.”
As the atmosphere changed strangely, her voice trembled a little.
“What are you talking about…”
The great man turned his head and looked at her gently.
The little girl definitely took after her mother, and even without makeup, she was quite a beauty.
The great man approached her.
“So I decided to stay put until the party was over. “Now I finally have a chance.”
“You’re in trouble if you do this.”
The woman blushed shyly, but there was a faint smile on her lips as if she didn’t hate it.
The great man quickly approached her.
“I’ve been waiting to tell you this for a really long ti…”
I reached out my hand and gently cupped her cheek, and she quietly closed her eyes.
The great man lowered his hand and grabbed her neck.
“Wow!”
The great man asked the fake, whose eyes were wide in surprise, in a cold voice.
“Where is your real mother?”
[On the trail] End
ⓒ Ganjjajang
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