54 Cost and determination ① To Moribe

"Oh, I see a water field - you feel like you've finally made it to your hometown"

When I snuffed while taking a rough breath, the eye-fa glanced at me pretty crackly.

"What is that voice? You're a ten-year-old, Asta."

"Ooh, if it's not below Limi-Lu, it's above all.... You've finally spoken to me, Ai-Fa"

It is an eye-fa that happens to face forward with "Phew" and will speed up your legs.

"Wait! At least let me drink some water! My throat was crunchy just now!

At any rate, he grabbed more than 16 kilometers of luggage and walked the mountain path for nearly an hour. The shoulders I was strapping on had skin ripped off, and my legs and hips are rattled. This is a heavy labor beyond the creation of the day of departure.

By the way, on the suspension bridge of terror, Ai-Fa also carried my share of the luggage back and forth.

Really, he pulled my hand and guided me.

It is a shameful life I do not want to be known around Limi-Lu if possible.

That's it, I'm rehydrated now anyway.

"Really pitiful......" I soaked and drank a little flowing rocky fresh water, guzzled with my heart by Ey-Fa's words.

It is sweet dew.

And Ai-Fa, who spoke to me for the first time in a hiccup, could say this once again, with a slight tone.

"... you don't ask anything, Asta"

"Hmm? About what your old man was saying earlier?... Well, there are a lot of things I'd like to ask, but about this world, you talk to me every night."

I look up at Ey-Fa's face as I lay my hands on both knees and prepare my breath.

"At your discretion, you must be choosing the order in which you want me to listen. I won't take that decision personally.... this world is full of things I don't know yet"

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"But, well, if you're in a good mood, I'd love to do one of the public stories.... What do you think of that old man?

As I said, I dropped my eyes at my feet.

Big bags filled with poitane or tino and earthen bottles of fruit liquor.

Ai-Fa tried to leave it behind, but I came back with it hanging in my hand, saying there was no sin in fruit liquor.

I am also interested to know what kind of liquor this is because the bottle is slightly different in design.

"I was an old man who was more flamboyant than I was when I said flamboyant, but you didn't even feel like an extremely evil person. I'm just wondering how you feel about people like that."

"... there are no words to say about this"

"What, are we leaving already? Hey, give me a minute!

He carries the bag without it, and chases it to Ai-Fa as he says it.

I'm not disturbed by Ai-Fa's pace while carrying a load that weighs a hundred and five times heavier than mine.

"If you don't want to talk, I won't force you to ask. You've been tingling a lot. Oh, you don't like old people like that?

"... there is no talking to the inhabitants of the capital."

"You were talking about it. I mean, what am I, more than that old man? If we talk about it, it might make you feel good about being out there, right?

"... me and you, do you feel comfortable?

"Ha ha! I noticed, but you're not feeling better at all! I've been running my heart around for a while now!

"... I don't mean to do that"

And now it turns to a dark glance.

"Is there something wrong with me?

"Are you crazy... aren't you serious about something? You've had a tough face the whole time we got here from Inn Town, haven't you?

"I don't know. Probably because I've never exchanged words like that with the inhabitants of the capital... you're confused"

Dark eyes look at me.

Like, a lost child.

"Am I, is something wrong?

"... no, it's not weird," I said.

"If they suddenly talk like that, it's natural to be confused. I only knew about half what it meant, but for you - I guess for Moribe it was a story that could dictate the end of the future."

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"I know I've said this a long time ago, but there's no responsibility for a person in a position like you for such a serious matter. If you're out of hand, forget it."

Was my point too much?

But half the time, that's what I meant.

Assuming what that man named Camua-Josh was saying is true - so if it took me long to crash the Sung family and lead the woodland around the Lou family, maybe everything will fit round.

But it may not fit round.

We still don't know all that much about who a man named Donda-Lou is. If that crude big man took control of the woodland on behalf of the Sung family and became more violent than the Sung family - I wonder if he would be no longer sorry for Limi-Luu or Ziba-Lu either.

And after all, I can't throw away the possibility that all the stories I just spoke about are cod.

Maybe that guy who knows a lot about the forest just made fun of us on a whim.

You can't just get on with that guy's story lightly before you can throw that possibility away, either.

But - that's half of my heart.

The other half, I want to believe the man's words, I think.

From the Sung family, I want to strip them of their power as chieftaincy muscles.

That way, you won't have to worry about the despicable trend of Diga-Sung - and there's a new obsession with the Sung family again today.

I called him Dod-Sung, that man.

The sense of trinkets is a good battle with Diga-Sung, but those who don't have that much shame are scared the other way around.

Start drinking in the daytime or so and make a scene in the lodging town. I didn't even imagine such a monster existed by the woods.

It's really hard to believe that there are people who live with prizes from the capital and live without even hunting for a decent giva, etc. - and that's the chieftaincy muscle, etc.

Clean, clean.

That man named Camua praised me for Ey-Fa in such embarrassing terms, but the truth is, I agree with him entirely.

For good and for evil, the people of the woods are simple.

I couldn't accommodate myself because I was pure, and even yesterday I was supposed to catch a scattered struggle, but I don't feel like I'm working hard in my heart. Relative to the troublesome existence of Donda-Lou from the front, relative to my feelings and thoughts, I think I managed to get my way through - even the sense of accomplishment, I think, gained.

The least trustworthy person in the Lou family would still be his second brother, Dalm-Lou, but still that man, too, took pride in himself as a hunter, in himself born in the Lou family. It may have caught the bad wind and become a majestic temper, but it may have diminished me as an individual, but still, I think I live with pride.

If Dalm-Lou is a rough wolf, he's just a skinny wild dog, such as Dodd-Sung. My fangs broke and I lost my ability to hunt for my prey from scratch, it's a wild dog.

... Oh, no. I'm kind of feeling sorry for the wild dog.

I was originally a dog lover.

A lean wild dog with broken fangs and no prey to hunt can only be an object of asylum.

That guy wasn't such a cutie.

Well, then, after all - that man is a "human".

It's not "people by the woods". I'm not a "hunter" either.

I know a lot about people.

"A human being who has been offended by the poison of civilization".

"... aren't you the one who keeps quiet, Asta"

And I heard a girl like a shin.

If I thought of someone, I knew it was Ai-Fa.

"You're the one who's caught up in your thoughts, Asta, while telling people to forget."

Sometimes, Ai-Fa shows her younger face than her age.

That's when I get upset at all times - so even this time, I got very upset feathers.

"No! I wasn't thinking about such a small difficulty! I wonder if there are any animals in this world!

"Dog? Valve's wolf becomes a human friend when he descends into people and remits his child, or what? I don't even know if that's true or not. It's just a legend from the West."

And, Ai-Fa makes her lips crouch.

"If you want to eat so much with that dog, go to the stone capital. It's not what I found out."

I turned my back on you. Pfft.

I'm already pissed off. I love you. My chest is a mess or a mess.

"I get it! I get it! Make it a more fun topic! You know, it's been settled with Donda-Lou, and I'm trying to try a little new dish today. I've been tasting steak for a few days now, and my jaw is tickled."

Ey-Fa leans back at me with a little bit of flanking.

"... is that better than Hanba-gu?

"I don't know that unless I try to make it. I mean, even the steak was delicious, right?

"That's right...... I figured Hanba-gu was my favorite"

"Huh!? But you told me the steak was just as good. That's why I'm ready to settle with Donda-Lou on a steak, right?

"Suki is just as delicious as Hanba-gu.... but I like Hanba-gu."

I objected to something, but I forgot what I was trying to say to my surprise.

I used the word "like" because it was probably the first time they noticed this.

"There is no delicious or unsavory meal," Ey-Fa said, "delicious," and finally even said the word "likes".

It was a dramatic change that deserved amazement for me.

"... He said his teeth would be weak if he was eating all the soft meat, but if he was grabbing the dried meat, he wouldn't have to worry about it that far?

And he is an eye-fa with an just dastardly look that leans slightly towards him and leans over him with his lips crooked.

This is not the calculation, so it's really bad.

"Then I still like Hanba-gu."

"Wow... ok. Tomorrow, then, let's hamburger. For today, let me try a new way to eat"

Ai-Fa got even more annoyed and gave him a smiling look.

I'm glad my hands are blocked with luggage, that's all I'm saying.

Well, we just got settled with Donda-Lou. Although I've had the seeds of new worries, I won't be hitting the bees after spending some time today or so. Maintain your English well and think about the Camua-Josh thing again tomorrow - and so on, when you finally get to the front of the house.

A seed of further distress awaited me and Ai-Fa.

The seed of distress had the shape of a pair of men and women who really suited them.

It is Gazran-Rutim and Ama-Min, who refrained from the wedding six days later.