321 Invitation to Moribe ① - Six Guests

"Wow, it's really in the woods. Ah!

Tara is raising a shaky voice.

It is on the road from the lodging town to the settlement by the woods.

Dora's father, who is similarly facedown from the rear of the luggage car, is crushing like he felt "this is amazing".

The hour coincides on the tenth day of the purple moon, when we crossed just a few moments down the road after finishing our business in Inn Town.

On this day, Tara and her father finally set out to set foot in the woodland settlement.

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The beginning of this was two days ago, the day after I finished my job in Castle Town, when I stopped by my father's shop from the morning as usual.

Two days later, he told me that he was going to invite Michelle and Mime, the inhabitants of Turan, to the woods again, and with the aria of the order in his hand, his father began to worry about "uhm".

"It's almost Sun God's Easter, isn't it? So even in our fields, it's hard to harvest for it. I would hire more people than usual to harvest all the vegetables that fit me around the time. From the middle of the purple moon to the head of the silver moon, the vegetables will be sold as long as they are served."

"Oh, really, Easter is a big festival. I'm just getting ready to expand my business for it."

"Don't you? So until the end of the purple moon, with all the fuss... of course I'm Tara, because I don't have much time left to play"

"Yes."

"So if I were to move freely, I'd only be around right now."

That's how your father has offered you Aria's bag with a resolute face.

"Hey, Asta. Has the desire to invite Tara to a settlement by the woods still changed?

"Yes, of course."

My father nodded, "Oh well," as I embarked on myself with anticipation.

"Well, then, I'll try to convince the ladies. If you want to get out of work for half a day or so and head out to a settlement by the woods."

"Is it true!?" and my voice got louder, too.

Dad laughs, "Yeah."

"Even the Astas came to Dareim. That would have conveyed what kind of people the Astas were, so our people shouldn't be strongly opposed to it. Even I wanted to go to Asta's house, not less than Tara."

"Thank you! I'm really happy when it comes true!

"Oh, I'll definitely let it happen.... I just need one favor from Asta."

"What is it? If that's what I can do, I'll take care of anything!

"I'm not exaggerating like that. I want you to allow me and Tara to accompany your other healthy daughter."

When I heard the story, it was about Yumi.

When Tara, a distant friend of the year, said she was passionate about the settlement by the woods, she said she was doing everything in her power too.

"My dad over there seems to be quite a stubborn guy, too, but as much as he's selling Giva's dishes. So I guess he's changing his mind about the people by the woods, too. If you were Yumi, you'd convince me."

Dora's father's predictions were brilliantly centered, and on his return that day, good news from Yumi was to be delivered.

When this happened, I thought it would be unreasonable to keep the story hidden from the other customers, and I decided to tell the owners of the accommodating accommodation one word at a time.

"That sounds like a fun gathering," Naudis smiled.

I didn't seem to have the naivety to participate in it from the beginning.

"I think that's a very meaningful thing," Nair said, happily narrowing his eyes.

He is secretly praying that prejudice against the people of the woods will be eradicated.

Still, I didn't seem to get to the idea of joining the store until I left it open.

Even for me, I guess I shouldn't be so casual to increase the number of participants, so I never actively solicited them from myself.

In that context, it was Milan-Math in The Tail Pavilion of Kimus who had raised his voice "Wait a minute".

"Asta, if you're talking about five people in town going out to a settlement by the woods... can't you make me add another one there?

"Yeah? Will you accompany Milan-Math as well?

I was greatly surprised, but of course, if Milan-Math were to accompany me, I would not have had more pleasure than that.

but Milan-Math shook his head "no".

"There's nothing in it for me to be accompanied. Neither am I."

"So who do you want to accompany?

It's my daughter, Terrier.

I was out of line for a moment.

"Te, is it Terrier-Mass? But she still doesn't get over her fear of hunters by the woods, does she?

"That's why. The hunters rarely come down to the Inn Town, so why don't we have another chance to face each other as we head out from ourselves?

Is it something you can do with such a rough cure?

As far as I was concerned, Terrier-Mass, who was so afraid of the people by the woods, was just opening his mind to me, Raina-Lou, Sheila-Lou, etc., and felt like a huge step forward. If we keep taking our time like this, any of them could totally unwind her mind - and that's how we thought.

But Milan-Math's eyes were lit with a light that had never been more serious.

"He became afraid of the people by the woods because I grew up like that. I don't care if I leave him alone or not, he's got a long life ahead of him.... I want to clean up my mess while I breathe."

"I can't believe it's not over..."

Milan-Math's best friend was harmed by a Sung family murderer. So Milan-Math's companion, his best friend's sister, also suffered from heartache and died following him.

Moreover, the Sung family was never tried for the exploitation of Cycleus. Now it would also be natural for the Milan-Maths to have begun to repel the people by the woods.

So there couldn't have been any non-etc. on Milan-Math's side.

But Milan-Math's expression was serious in itself.

And - Terrier-Mass, who had been called by Milan-Math, also said, "I would like to ask you to accompany me" with a bright blue face.

If this happens, I can't refuse either.

I had no choice but to acknowledge my companionship, believing that seeing the lives of the people by the woods should not produce negative consequences for her.

That's six people.

From Donda-Lou, too, recognition could be obtained. When I spoke to the other Chiefs because of the number of people, Dali-Souti, as well as Graf-Zaza, was able to get a reply that "there is no big difference when two people increase to six".

As for Michelle and Mime, it has already been proven that they are beneficial to Kamadoku by the woods. Regardless of the complicated mood Terrier-Mass, however, he may have been in the only position he could possibly consider to be a visionary amusement mountain when it comes to Tara and his father and Yumi.

Still, I was able to get recognition from the Forestside Chiefs.

Did my valves go through that "we should strive for mutual understanding with the people of the town," or was it an award that comes from indifference and non-interference in others? Though there was no way to know the truth, neither did the chiefs try to reject them.

At the same time as I wanted to live up to the innocent expectations of Tara and Yumi, I decided to work on this plan in the hope that the bond between the forest and the town would grow.

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On the tenth day of the purple moon, the Lew family even bothered to give me a pick-up van.

We were going down to Accommodation Town in two luggage cars, but there were as many as eight people on the way home, and the quantity of luggage was considerable, so it was difficult to get as many as six guests aboard.

A luggage truck purchased by the Lew family for the buyout comes down to town, pulled by Totos' Jidula, who has reddish feathers. It was Barsha who was holding the reins.

"Thank you for waiting. Come on, get in."

Making friends with Barsha on his journey to Doug, Mim boarded your luggage with Michelle. Tara and Terrier-Mass will be more comfortable with my luggage, so the other four are invited here collectively. Only Yamir-Ray, who is not afraid of the rest, stayed here, and Tour-Din and Yun-Sudra decided to have him moved to Barsha's luggage truck.

In the luggage car, it is still the terrier-mass that has a dark color of tension. I twitched my brown hair in the back. She is my daughter and her age are the same. Originally she was familiar, but only about me in this luggage car. The only people in the woodland she could speak to safely were me, Raina-Lou and Sheila-Lou, who handled the cooking at the Kimmus Tail Pavilion, and yet had no contact with Tara or her father at all.

In the meantime, it was Yumi who relaxed my inner Terrier-Mass heart.

"You know, about me, don't you remember? I'm supposed to be face-to-face a couple of times with the inn."

"Yes. You're the daughter of Westwind Pavilion, right? My father wanted me to do that."

"That means you still don't remember. My name is Yumi. Were you Terrier-Mass?

"Yes, sir"

"It's okay not to be scared like that. You're not supposed to be as vicious as you look!

It's not supposed to be a vicious look at all, but it's still a yumi that gets classified as a bad girl in the boarding town. Dressed in a flickering curly skirt across his flashy chest, he hiccups and lowers his ornament. In brilliant contrast to Terrier-Mass, who avoids skin exposure with a qualitative cloth torso and a barrel shaped long skirt. It was quite a strange thing to have the same attribute of "daughter of an inn" but with such a distant temper and appearance.

"Looking forward to the settlement by the woods? I'm sure Asta will feed you something amazingly delicious."

"... right. I still don't have enough cooking skills either, so I hope I can gain some strength."

"Hmm? Are you going to study? I didn't even feel like it."

"Yes, no, of course I'll just visit, too. But when I'm off work, I need to get something..."

"I'm serious! I'm only thinking about going back to work, okay?

Those who interact with each other for themselves get on new edges. I really liked this kind of time.

If you realize it, Tara and her father have joined the circle of conversation, and it's getting busier in the luggage car. Yamil-Ray has been lined up right next to your podium from the start to look out for the landscape.

"Thank you for waiting. You will soon arrive in the settlement of Luu."

It took me a little over ten minutes to get over the sloping road and I stopped my luggage a little in front of Luu's settlement.

Normally, while slowing down the speed, we are still on our way to the main house, but this is like a tour of the woods, so we wanted them to step into the settlement on their own feet.

First, I got off your stand myself, entrusted Gill's reins to Yamir-Ray, and then turned to the rear side of the carrier.

"Come on, Tara."

I gave my hand to Tara, who set her cheeks on fire with anticipation and excitement, and I unloaded her from the carrier.

That was followed by Dora's father, the last of whom was Yumi and Terrier-Mass, who was taken by it, who stepped down on a yellow-treaded woodland road.

The two luggage trucks that followed me later also stop and people show up from there. Apparently, the women around the woods are walking along with their guests.

"Wow... there's a tree up there so high, huh?

Tara glanced back about as if she was going to fall, snapping like that as she pulled her father's arm.

My father is letting his gaze come and go as he responds to "Ooh, ooh".

"What's wrong, Dad? For once, are you afraid of the woods?

"Well, we've been told to stay away from Morga Forest since we were hungry. Even though I know I don't have to be frightened, I don't really listen to my body."

"Hmm. I knew it was like that when you lived in Dalaim. All I was told was to stay away from the forest people."

After saying it that way, Yumi turned to me and laughed more.

"Ma, you didn't keep your word like that, so you got close to the Astas. Sometimes I try to break it."

Then Vina-Lou walked in with Mim and Michelle from behind.

"Sorry to keep you waiting... this is the settlement of Luu, so I'll show you the first sister of the Luu main house..."

"Huh? You were a little bit of a stand-up guy by the woods, maybe?

"Nothing, I don't know... I just happen to be born sooner than the other brothers..."

Yumi is a favorite about Vina-Lou. Maybe he feels like something sympathetic to Vina-Lou, who can smile lusciously and embellish the unreliable.

And under Terrier-Mass, who is darkening the color of the tension, the familiar Raina-Lou approached.

"Come on, let's go. The House of Lew welcomes you"

We lined up and headed to the settlement of Lou.

Eventually the forest on the left hand side is interrupted and the settlement landscape extends beyond it.

It is a vast square surrounded by eight houses.

A square where more than a hundred families can gather and a wooden house with no decorations. One of them is Mida's hard-working home.

In it, the profits of the usual and unchanging people of Luu were unfolding.

By the side of the house, there are people breaking firewood.

On a large spread cloth, there are daughters who are smoothing their fur.

There are children who are chasing behind them while drying the leaves of Pico piled in the grass cage.

In some kamado, they probably boil fat for candles and lard. It has a dense fatty scent that people who don't like may not like.

Besides, even from the house in front of me, there was an unbeatable scent of vanilla.

That used to be a house rented by me and Ai-Fa for lodging and is now the residence of Zida and Barsha. I hear one of those rooms has been refurbished into a smoking room, so I'm sure he works on making dried meat. For once, the bones of Giva may also be simmering for the study of Giva bone soup.

Whatever it was, it was for me a look at the settlement of Luu, which had long since become a routine.

Surrounded by deep woods, people seem to be busy and at peace in circularly cut spaces. The blue of the sky, the dark green of the forest and the yellow of the ground, color-coded, peaceful world. It was a pastoral landscape, so hard to believe that it was adjacent to the potentially dangerous forests of Gibba, Mundt and poisonous worms.

I wonder what emotion the four people who visited the land for the first time were to have.

I didn't even feel like asking that suddenly, and as I slowly stepped into the square, a small figure eventually appeared from the back of the front house, rushing over here with tremendous momentum.

"Welcome! Welcome to Luu's settlement!

It is Rimi-Lou.

Limi-Luu jumped first to Tara as he jumped like a child rabbit.

Tara, who had fallen into a bit of a state of oblivion, also brightens her smile with it.

"You really came! I kind of want to dream!

Limi-Luu cuddled Tara's body with full force.

Though a young child, he is a people by the woods. Tara looked a lot painful, but without complaining, she likewise embraced her opponent's body and seemed to respond to it with full force.

"Rimi will guide you from here! If there's steel, I'll tease you!

"Nobody has a knife. I checked it out beforehand, it's okay."

"Oh well. Well, first of all, how long has it been?

Dora's dads wanted to see our normal lives, so we were going to do a commercial show today and the study group was going to dare.

Then we move to Fa's house and treat ourselves to dinner. When you're done eating, pick up and drop off in your luggage. Limi-Luu and Rud-Luu are also supposed to participate in the dinner and be given the role of transfer.

"Oh, before I do, could you let me say hello to your husband in the Lou family, if you like?

It was Dora's father who said so.

Rimi-Lou, who was about to take Tara's hand and start walking willingly, turns around and turns back to you.

"Your husband, you mean Donda's father? Dad's hurt, so he's resting at home."

"Then I guess greeting is annoying. Besides, would it be rude of you to wish for the sheikh?

"Hmm? I don't think it's annoying at all because he's saying he's too bored to death - or something like that, but, Donda, other than his family, he's totally scared of you, right?

"Yeah, I've been face-to-face a couple of times, so I'm fine. I don't know about everyone else."

I took your father's gaze and showed how Yumi was a lot frightened.

"A forest chief is one of those people who, you know, pulled the sinners into a castle town, right? Well, one of them is your father..."

"If you're not, you can wait outside."

"There's nothing wrong with that!

And since I said it out loud, Yumi has put her mouth to my ear.

"But no way, they weren't the ones who wore those giva bones and fur on their heads, were they? Whatever it is, I can't imagine these adorable daughters coming from those people."

"Oh, those are Zaza and Dom's hunters.... but Luu's parent Donda-Lu is also strong enough to beat them on the outside, isn't he?

"... okay. I'll make sure you're prepared for it."

Yumi closed her eyes and began to take a deep breath.

After I see him, I look back at Terrier-Mass.

Terrier-Mass had a blue face, but when he noticed my gaze, he snapped with a small voice, "I'll go".

"Speaking of which, we never greeted the head of the Lew family either. Let's go, Dad."

Mim says in an innocent tone, and Michelle shrugs her shoulders just asking her to be on her own.

That's why we're headed to Lew's house.

When Vina-Lou, who trailed Rimi-Lou and Tara, opened the doorboard and called indoors, Mother Meer Ray reveals herself in a glimpse.

Mother Meer Ray, who was whispered by Vina-Lou to explain the situation, looked around at the six guests with a grin.

"Welcome to Lew's house, we had a guest in town. You want to say hello to our parents? Of course, you're welcome here."

That's how once she hid herself, Mother Meer Ray invited the guests home once again.

It doesn't matter what you push in too many places, only me and Limi-Lew decide to accompany you to it.

"Parents, this is our guest from town."

Donda-Lou, as usual, was wearing a single knee claw in his upper seat.

Instead, it is Darum-Lou who refrains.

Donda-Lou is bandaged around his right shoulder, hanging his right arm.

Darum-Lou is just bandaged around the tip of his right hand. The injury to his left shoulder seems to have crossed the line.

Both were so compelling and stressful that they were unlikely to be injured.

No, it could have been more noisy than usual, rather, as a beast by hand.

And the walls behind them are adorned with uninterruptedly gibberish furs and, furthermore, the horns of the Lord of the Woods, which he received the other day from Dari-Sauti.

All the other things that caught my eye were spare swords and bows, so everything seemed to be making the Donda-Lou guys look horrible.

Yumi is swallowing sauce and sauce.

Tara is all over Limi-Lu's arm.

Terrier-Mass no longer looks like a dead man.

"Come on, sit down, we got a guest. I won't eat anything."

Mother Meer Ray broke her knee on the opposite side of Darum-Lou.

I take the initiative and lower my back to the right edge, letting everyone who stands up nod.

Dora's father, who returned to me, lined up beside me and stood on the spot in the order of Tara, Yumi, Michele, Mime and Terrier-Mass. Remi-Lew stands, his hands resting on Tara's shoulder so that she can cheer up.

"... I'm Donda-Lou, the head of the Lou main house, and this is my second brother, Dalm-Lou, and this is my wife, Mia Ray-Lou"

In the voice of the bottom, Donda-Lou said.

Wet your forehead sweat, then Dora's father gives you a name.

"I'm a resident of Dalaim, and I'm Dora, who also sells vegetables in Inn Town. I've exchanged words before, remember, Donda-Lou?

"I remember. … I am also delighted to be able to restore a peaceful life without exchanging swords with the lords of Genos"

I hope that I will continue to do business with you - I came out in front of Donda-Lou and the others, who were trying to make it to the showdown with Cycleus, and Dora's father conveyed those words.

Dora's father nodded loudly and smiled furiously in his face.

"I'm so happy for you, too. And today, thank you so much for inviting us to the woods. I'll be careful not to cause you any trouble, thank you."

Donda-Lou nodded with only his eyes, then looked around at the rest of the people.

"I have heard of the identity from Asta in Fa's house, but I want to make sure which one is who. If you like, I'll get your name."

"Wow, I'm Tara! Limi-Luu and Lara-Luu are always getting along! Raina-Lou and Vina-Lou are so sweet too!

"Tara is Dora's daughter. Rimi's always talking, isn't she?

Rimi-Lou hits Tara's head, laughing with great pleasure.

Tara, who was solidifying in her heels, finally laughs "haha" with it.

"Oh, I'm Yumi from Westwind Pavilion. It's tough enough to buy Gibba's food at the stall or just a little bit of Gibba meat, but the Lew family and I are getting along pretty well."

"... I'm a man named Michel of Turan. When I headed to Doug, I took good care of him in my luggage car, escort, etc. Let me thank you for your time."

"I am Michelle's daughter, and I am Mim. Thank you very much for letting us do the stall business in the near future with a dish made with Giva meat"

"... My name is Terrier-Mass and I am the daughter of Milan-Math, the master of The Tail Pavilion of Kimmus"

At that moment, Donda-Lou's eyes, which were keeping silence, lit up.

"Asta tells me. … So the men of the Sung family attacked your mother's brother."

"... Yes," Terrier-Mass nodded with a blue face.

Donda-Lou rocks the giant, "Well," he said.

"The sinners have already been judged. Human beings who work such lawlessness no longer exist as one by the woods.... but it was also the sin of all the people by the woods who were letting the Sung family go wild"

"Yes... I hear that from my father and Asta, too"

"It should be noted that I am grateful as a forest chief that I have bonded with the people of the woods, even though I have been harmed by my family.... and let me apologize for the profound grief that has befallen us from our untimely demise"

Donda-Lou put his left fist on the floor, slightly drooling his tense head.

This was the first time Donda-Lou had seen him bow his head to others.

"We believe that the only way to redeem is for all the people by the woods to live right. I want you to keep an eye on us to see if it's worth forgiving."

"Yes," Terrier-Mass said, deeply annoyed.

I couldn't confirm that look to me in the furthest formation, but I could clearly see only the transparent squiggle falling on the fur rug.