53 ⑥ Blonde guardian

"Hey, it was more than just a little peace of mind. Hey?

Even after the guards and Dodd-Sung disappeared, strange figures who somehow named themselves Camua-Josh did not disappear.

He's poking his knees at us for some reason, not disappearing.

The place is a vacant lot between the stall and the stall where we were originally sitting.

He was still laughing relaxed as he got stuck with Ey-fa on the top of the Buddha and me with a puzzled face.

"... I would like to thank you for saving my predicament"

And, I = fa looked so uncomfortable, he kept his head down with all his feelings.

"Stiff," the man laughs.

"Nothing. I'm not helping you. I just told him what happened the way I saw it. Come on. As the people of Selva, the god of the west, you just did what you deserved, didn't you?

We didn't have to be taken to the guard's quarters.

Dodd-Sung is the only one who was taken, but he doesn't get punished either.

"Well, isn't that okay? The people of the woodland stretched out to an impudent imitation, and the people of the same woodland held it back. It's kind of that one that pulled the knife out, but I don't suppose we need to talk about anything more?

Dressed to obey the words of Kamua-Josh, the earlier havoc closed the curtain.

Dod-Sung was only temporarily deposited with him on the pretext of being drunk.

"So you guys go straight back to the woods," the guards' eyes complained strongly.

Yet without even going home like this, I'm poking my knees at the first man I've ever met.

"Um... didn't you have some important business, too?

"Yeah? Oh, you mean Marquis Genos? It's a lie, a lie. It's true that I have an appointment, but they're just telling me to show my face for dinner, so I can totally afford the time."

After all, he is an inedible man.

When he did it and a grin he couldn't eat on his elongated face, the man moved his eyes slightly.

"Still, it was a lot of noise. Lady, were you hurt anywhere?

"Yeah! Because this lady helped me!

Of course, it's about me, and what I'm talking about is the little girl who just named Tara or something.

Tara didn't disappear, either.

Without disappearing, he is cheeky with goose and meat buns.

It was bought by Camua-Josh instead of the meat buns that were crushed by the Dodd-Sungs.

"Oh, yeah, and then this guy -" he puts his hand inside the long cape.

It was the earthen bottle of fruit liquor that was magically removed from it.

He soaks his plug with his broken fingertips, sips a sip, and then offers the plug to Ey-Fa again.

"As you can see, it's not poisoned. If you like, could you get it?

"… there is no indulgence in receiving charity from you"

"Stiff! I was so impressed by the way we upheld the order of the Inn Town and the Forestside Code! Is that not a reason?

Ai-Fa looked terribly nasty.

The man smiles and pounds the little head of the girl next door.

"This Tara is the same thing. I was so impressed with the way this kid tried to help his own benefactor by squeezing his courage that I was willing to treat Kimmus to a meat bun.... Delicious, Tara?

"Yeah! Thanks, Uncle!

"Uncle... well, sure, it's almost thirty, but hey"

Is it only thirty years ago? I'm a little surprised.

But sure, if you do something about that all-you-can-stretch beard, you look so young...... no, don't you? The floating look and gesture is a bit more old than old man.

"So what do you say? Can you take it?... or was it unwillingness to hold that rough guy accountable? I was wondering if I shouldn't make a big deal out of it if that's the Sung family."

I was surprised again by the words.

Does this man even have access to information by the woods?

"Yeah? Is something wrong? Morga Forestside is an untouched realm for me, but I've heard about the names of the chieftains who know it. I like this lodging town, so I don't see many people by the woods. … it's just that this is the first time I've ever spoken this way"

And, under his elongated nose, his big mouth laughs at him.

"It is a double joy that it was such a beautiful woman hunter. I would love to receive this fruit liquor to honor its beauty."

I roughly asked for an eye-fa look.

Oh, I'm passing through, wrinkles are leaning against the head of my nose.

"Is that it? Did I say something to offend you? I don't just praise its appearance, but I praise its noble behavior and its beauty."

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"No way.... So, what about you?

"Yes?

"I would like to pay tribute and praise to you for saving Tara's crisis earlier than Camua-Josh for this' whirlwind in the north '. I was wondering if you could take it?

It doesn't have a very receptive atmosphere.

By the way, what's with the sheep?

"Oh, that's what I call it within my people. I guess the color of this hair in the west is unusual.... I was born in the North."

With that word, the look on Ai-Fa's face changed slightly.

An eye like a bobcat that still leaves a lot of danger snaps a man straight from the front.

"Are you… born of the northern kingdom of Mahdra, Camua-Josh"

"You can camouflage it.... or I haven't heard your names yet, have I? Why don't you tell me if I'm lying?

So I guess that kind of thing turns the nerves of the i-fa upside down. "It's Ay-Fa in Fa's house," he said, hanging his eyebrows.

"Uh, I'm Asta, the family of Fa's house."

"Is it Ai-Fa and Asta? That's a good name.... Yes, I was born in the North. His mother was born in Mahydra, and his father was born in Selva. Mixed northern and western children who have been in trouble repairing their relationship for over a hundred years. I spent my childhood in the north, and since I lost my mother, I spent my time in the west. Well, I didn't put it on a decent job because I was born like this, so I made a career out of a 'guardian' job where I could live with one arm."

Instead of the man, a slightly slender but much more slender knife is placed unwrought.

"Speaking of which, your hair looks a lot like mine, Ai-Fa"

And I look at Ai-Fa, with purple eyes narrowed slightly blindfolded.

"I hear that the people by the woods are descendants of a people who have fled from the south to the west. I don't think there's any reason for the blood to mix in the far north and south, but does that hair have any origin?

"... nothing, such as special origins. Sometimes people with these hair colors are born by the woods. My mother had the same hair color."

"Really? My mother had the same hair color as me."

Camua smiled grinningly and innocently, and Ai-Fa turned to her loudly.

Somehow - things are different than usual, I thought.

"That's why I've always been interested in the people by the woods. There are hardly any human beings in such a state of affairs who transfer soul-giving gods on the way to life. This one had a sense of companionship on one side. So I'm glad that the first people in the woods who spoke were people like you, I am."

…………

"So, do you have any business with us, too, you?

On behalf of Ey-Fa, who seems to be doing well, I decide to shut my mouth.

"I'm very grateful for your help with the danger, but we have a job waiting for us by the woods, too. Hopefully, it's time for me to go home..."

"Really? Too bad. Well, then, shall I finish my business first?... Actually, next time, I have a job to protect the Genos Chamber of Commerce to the eastern kingdom. In the meantime, I want you to let me pass through the woodland settlement."

I was very surprised, but the EY-FA reaction was chilling.

"... all such work is partitioned by the Sung family of the chieftaincy"

"Yeah. Of course I know him. But today, I had an unfortunate encounter with the Sung family's son, so I lost my mind to ask them to do it. I knew they wouldn't be trusted."

The worm also looked unkillable and Camua said so very lightly indeed.

"No, actually, I've been advising Lord Genos for a long time. When there's a commotion in Inn Town, the Sung family always teases you. In the stubborn, disciplined, and closed forestside people, I wonder if there is something wrong with the side of the Marquis that all the Sungs are so unreliable and open..."

"It was the inhabitants of the stone capital who corrupted Sung's house"

The voice of Ai-Fa cut off the voice of Camus.

There is a slight blue fire burning in his eyes.

"The people of the capital gave wealth to Sung's house. So the Sung people abandoned the pride of the people by the woods and stopped hunting for Gibba properly. He's drowning in alcohol, staying lazy, and losing his depression. It's all... the responsibility of the people in the capital."

"Does wealth mean a bounty once in March? Such a thing should have been a tiny forehead..."

"So the Sung family monopolized its wealth. We live in love and play with that wealth."

Probably the most amazing thing on the spot was me.

After eating the meat bun, Tara was decent, and the camouflage is still and some kind of facial nod.

"Well, I thought that would happen. You're saying it's a reward for the forestside people who are protecting the territory of Genos from the threat of Giva, but it's not restored to the hard-working people, and only the play-and-love Chieftain muscle humans smoke sweet juice?... so there's often no unrest, right?

"There is no need to impose stone capitals. We're hunting Gibba to live."

"Clean and clean!... but it's still stiff."

Now she laughed a little bitterly, and Camua blushed her golden brown hair.

"If you guys want to restore discipline to the woods, maybe I can help you, huh?

…………

"Of course, we're not just talking about impeaching the Sung family at last. Why, it's the Sung family that runs the woodland. It's important if the forest folks who lost their chieftaincy lose their ability to hunt Giva. The Morga Forest will also be flooded with giva, and many fields will be devoured and crushed. … so even though Marquis Genos and the Sung family are faintly cannibalized, he can't help it."

…………

"That's the question.... Assuming the power of the Sung family is lost, does there exist a family or something that has the power to govern the woodland after that?

Of course, there was a Luu family presence in my head that was the only one that could counter the Sung family.

But Ai-Fa, he doesn't try to open his mouth.

Instead, those eyes are beginning to shed more and more sinister light.

"Anyway, the capital and Moribe only interact through the Sung family, so all information that is inconvenient to the Sung family has been blocked. The guys at the castle don't even try to show their faces off those stone walls.... When this happens, I wonder if my encounter with the Sung family and you, the only parents, who are people of Ichii but who have gained the knowledge of Marquis Genos, could also be the basis for a new bridge that connects Moribe to the capital?

"What good does it do you to do that?

To my inquiry, Camus laughs again.

"I mean, you and I, we're the same people of Selva, the Western god, right? Let me tell you something, I'm a compatriot. It's normal to help each other when you're in trouble."

…………

"And well, that one was in front of the building. As I was saying, I had a one-sided sense of companionship with the people by the woods. That's the consciousness I had for a clean person like you, and I'm not willing to pay any respect to lazy people who drink from day to day and don't even try to hunt giva - I guess so."

I don't know.

I don't think I'm saying things that aren't in my mind either. I couldn't possibly decipher the insides of such a neat man.

And I-Fa...

Now it was clear that its eyes had burned the fierceness of rejection.

"Camua-Josh. You are a man of the stone capital. If the people of the capital want to pull a bow into Sung's house - you are the enemy of the people by the woods."

"Even if that's the corrupt betrayal Sung family?

"If the Sung family needs punishment, it is the people by the woods who will give it. The shame of the woodland is solemnly purified by the woodland. And it was the people of the capital who corrupted the Sung family."

To slap him, Ai-Fa said.

"The inhabitants of Stone Capital are... untrustworthy"

Um, burning hunter's eye.

But still, Camua-Josh - was still laughing loosely.

"Clean, clean.... I knew you were beautiful, Ai-Fa"

"... fool me, do you?

"Why does the word beautiful get foolish? - Oh, look, Tara's scared."

Looking back at you haphazardly, indeed, Tara had grabbed onto Camus's arm and shivered with rattles.

"There is no other way. For today, that's it. If you're bluffing, your son from the Sung family might show up."

"... only today, neither tomorrow nor the day after"

"I don't know about that. Opportunity is not something to wait for, but something to make."

With that said, Camua-Josh stood up with a long sword in his right hand and a girl's hand in his left.

"Asta to Ai-Fa. It's good to see you guys today. I'll celebrate this encounter and leave that fruit liquor behind, so if you need anything, give it back to the earth. … See you later"