20 ⑤ Bonding Night

"... are you going to go to Lew's house, Asta"

It is night.

"I'll be back tomorrow morning," he bowed his head and Rimi-Lou left.

"Reply is fine then," he said, "I will persuade my family myself this evening."

If you clean up the dishes, cookware, etc. you used in the iron pan, then you don't have any more jobs to exchange. Usually, we talked about just a little bit of time, and we just fell asleep - Ey-Fa was silent for a long time, with a missing face of expression.

I must acquire the common sense of this other world.

So even at this moment before bedtime, Ai-Fa really told me different stories about the promises and contraindications by the woods, or about the kingdoms and the anecdotes of the gods, about the accomodation town of Genos, which I have yet to see, but I did not try to tell you one thing today.

Thus, it is the opening words that finally came out.

Sitting against the wall, his eyes remain pointed at the darkness outside the window, not trying to look at me.

I answered quietly, staring at the strangely cold looking side of the candlestick, which fire fell and on which only the candlestick fire depended.

"I want you to go."

I want Ziba-Lou, the oldest of the Lou family, to grace me with a meal I made - an offer from Limi-Lou, who was too barbaric, but when I asked him, it wasn't that easy to talk about.

Ziba-Lou, an old woman who wants to count her age 85, says she has lost most of her teeth due to old age, leaving her unable to eat solids on her body.

Nowadays, it is a diet where finely chopped giva meat and vegetables are simply flushed with broth, and their quantity is getting smaller day by day.

(... pouring such a muddy juicy substitute into my mouth until I can live forever doesn't mean anything...)

They say that, but they cry every day.

Until just a few years ago, I lived well, but I was completely weak to my heart.

What was Rimi-Lou's heartache that he was adored as his youngest daughter?

If I think about it, I want to go.

"But I guess I don't agree with you, Ai-Fa?

When I asked, Ai-Fa still answered with an emotionally unseemly voice.

"... it is Sung's house that reigns as the head of the people by the woods, but Lew's house is no less inferior in terms of the number of his family. And in both houses, there is certainty from previous generations."

"Sure?"

"Now about twenty years ago, Sung's human figure out her daughter, who had been set to be dowry in Luu's main house. The men of Lew rode into Sung's house with their swords, but the former head of the Sung family said that this daughter was the sinner who tried to commit injustice with the men of the other house before the dowry, and the sinner had cut us off according to the code, and he penetrated the carcass."

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"Perhaps my daughter had done herself harm before she was taken to pieces. But because there was no proof of it, the men of Luu had no choice but to harvest their swords even as they vomited the words of the curse.... because if Sung and Lu contend, it will be a huge contest that will bisect the woodland and will have to perish with it. Still, if the Sung family hadn't returned their daughter, the Lew family would have taken the sword, too. I can't take a sword for a dead human being. That's why the two houses refused to meet, and their persistence has not yet been solved."

"That's a bad story about chest shit. Is the Sung family a gathering of locudenasi?

"Well. Well, at least we don't seem to have a man in our parents' blood."

With the same face, with the same tone, I = fa crunches low.

"So, two years ago, when a grudge arose between me and Diga-Sung, the head of the Lou family, Donda-Lou, offered me a dowry into the main house of Lou"

"Hey, what?

"That way the Sung people won't be able to get their hands on me either, and if you let me out, that's when I'll destroy Sung's house, Donda-Lu was laughing. … that's why I stuck with the story and lost touch with Lew's house."

"Oh... you mean you don't want to be a spark of contention"

"I will not yield to Diga-Sung, etc., without the help of Lew's house, etc. I shouldn't have a relationship with either house."

"I see. Okay. So you're not happy that I'm taking care of you and putting you in Lew's house."

I sigh deeply.

Then, Ai-Fa twisted her mouth to scorn something, keeping her pointing that way.

That was too much of an eye-fa laugh.

"But you still think you want to help Limi-Lu, etc.? That's what you are, Asta."

"Yeah?... That's reasonably true. She seems like a good girl, and she wants to remind her of the delights of food."

"I guess so. Then do as you please."

"Huh?"

"It's a simple story. If you want to save Rimi-Lou and Ziba-Lou, all you have to do is cut this fringe with me. And now, you can take care of Lou's house.... Nothing hard to talk about?

"What the hell? I don't know if I can change my mind like such an asshole."

One thing I can't read the truth about Ai-Fa right now, I shrug my shoulders.

"I'm not that worried. I'm sorry, but I'm gonna have to say no to Rimi-Lou."

"... what?

"No matter how adorable a child is, Limi-Lu is the kind of person I just met face-to-face with, and I don't even know her face until I'm a woman.... you'll think of me as a cold person, but I can't put my shoulder down until I've put you in a bad position"

"... why?

With tremendous momentum, Ai-Fa has looked back.

The face is frozen to bitter surprise.

This guy is less and less like an eye-fa, but I dared to make a look at him without seriously hitting him.

"Why, then, you're more important than the people we've just met or the strangers.... don't make me say too little embarrassment, idiot"

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"What is it? Wouldn't it be a good idea for me and the Lew family to be involved?

"... I became a family member of Fa's house, albeit in the name of saving the person in Lew's house and rewarding him for his benevolence, Donda-Lou may bring up the dowry story again. And if you could poke that story once again - this time, you'd turn your anger at me for getting mud painted in the name of the house"

"You're a total pain in the ass.... and by the way, wasn't there a charming hall in the main house of Luu? I mean, that Rimi-Lou's brother, right?

I asked halfway, halfway through curiosity, but I just got back the really sloppy saying, "I've decided to live as a 'giva hunt'.

"It doesn't suit me sexually, like knitting grass as a woman, smearing fur, and just living waiting for a man to return. I live in the woods as a 'giva hunt' and die in the woods. That's what I decided when I lost my father."

"Yeah. You look beautiful, but you're a waste"

I don't even come on board with those chilling words.

However, Ai-Fa's eyes were loosened like a blaze by the uncertain fierceness of his identity.

"Whatever, you don't have to worry about it. I refuse to accept Rimi-Lou's offer, just like I've always done. It doesn't mean the Lew family will resent you for turning down Limi-Lew's offer."

Rimi-Lou said, "Because my father will be convinced by Rimi-Lou!," he said.

In other words, this offer is only Limi-Luu's personal hope, and even if I tell my family, they will be opposed to asking for help from me, an absurd stranger.

"... why? If you cut off from me, you can do whatever you want, okay? Then why don't you just like it? It should be more desirable for you to rely on Lew's house than to be by an isolated person like me."

"That's not desirable at all. I took care of you a lot. I can't believe I'm going to break up with you in this way, and roll over to people I don't even know I saw, even if I just thought about it. Ah.... hey you, things have been going wrong since just now? What the hell do you want me to do?

Ai-Fa didn't try to answer.

So I stood up and decided to do it somewhere in front of Ey-Fa.

Ai-Fa leaves the fiery fire loose in his eyes, and he falls back on his face all the time.

"I = fa. I want you to get the hell out of the house because my presence is nothing but luggage for you - if that's what you're talking about, I think I'll have to do that, too. That's not what we're talking about, is it? If that's what you're talking about, that's how you just have to say it clearly, right?

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"I don't know why, so tell me exactly what you think. To your word, I obey. I'll behave the way you want me the most."

Ai-Fa slowly raised her face and looked at me directly in the front.

With the fire of passion in his blue eyes...

Eye-Fa's eyes were just a little wet.

"... my father, Gil-Fa, died two years ago now"

Its cherry-colored lips quietly follow the words.

"Until then, I was close to Rimi-Lou, too. I never interacted with Luu's house, but both Ziba-Lu, who adored Limi-Luu, had looked at each other more than once since I was young"

"... Really?"

I had no choice but to answer that way as I was disturbed by the tears that wet my eyes.

Ai-Fa frowns a little bittersweetly.

"I don't want to have an interaction with Lew's house. But what makes Rimi-Lou or Ziba-Lou sad... I'm sad too"

"Then... is it the most desirable path for you for me to cut off from you and help the Rimi-Lou guys as an identity that has nothing to do with you?

The moment I said it, I was caught in the chest.

My eyes like a blue fire even glimpse me like I'm eating in.

And.

The tears in his eyes slipped down to his smooth cheeks without a sound.

"To me......" and that voice is shaking a little too.

"... I don't know what to do"

How can you not know?

You can help the Rimi-Lou people if you even cut off from me.

If you don't get involved with Luu's house and still want to shady help the Limi-Luu people, that's the only way to go anymore.

But.

Ey-Fa's fingertips were holding onto my chest.

It's like if you let go of this hand, you're in danger of me disappearing like this.

"Well," I put my hand on Ai-Fa's shoulder.

The nagging shoulders, the smooth skin, convey the hot body temperature in them - and a slight tremor.

I didn't think so, and I drew that shoulder all the way.

Ey-Fa's sneaky body falls down to his chest without any resistance.

"If you don't know, there's no other way. Well, even for me, I don't know what's the right path."

My favorite Eye-Fa scent tickled my nasal cavity fluttering.

I will speak quietly as my heart is filled with that scent.

"But if it's about what's the most desirable path for me, I know exactly what it is.... If you don't show me the way I should go, I'll choose the way I want to go myself?

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"I want to help Limi-Lu. But I don't even want to leave you. So I will lend my help to Limi-Lu and Grandma, who are dignified and important to Ai-Fa as the dwellings of Ai-Fa's house."

With that said, I gently slapped my golden brown hair tied to the intricate shape of an eye-fa.

"I don't care if it's the Sung family and the Luu family stubborn or something like that? Why should I abandon an important person for such a ridiculous personal struggle? The fate of the forest settlement should be left to the responsible fathers. You're wrong to kill your feelings for something like that."

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"Let's help the Rimi-Loux. What does Rimi-Lou's father have to say? Now if you want to get out of dowry again, then tell him to bring even a man who looks better than Giva!

Ai-fa, answered nothing.

Just that fingertip didn't try to let go of my chest forever, and that tear kept my t-shirt wet forever.