Chapter 108
My Villains Episode 108
27. mountain villa(4)
I stroked the back of the sleeping bundle. Well-dried fur is as soft as silk..
A feeling that puts your mind at ease. Still, my eyes don't close. It's because of Atalanta.
I put my arm on a pillow and forced my eyes to close in an attempt to clear my complicated mind. First of all, it is almost certain that she is Atalanta, the vision hunter. It looks exactly like the face I saw in the illustration, and gray hair isn't that common..
And, it's probably my sub character. There are cases of Ellen, Luke, and Utequoi, but wouldn't it be unlikely that this is an exception??
Next is the level and build.…….
But damn it, I don’t remember a single thing. I haven't raised a non-warrior hunter at least in the last 2 or 3 years, so it's rather strange if I remember..
Besides, the Vision Hunter is not my favorite character. This is because it is very difficult to use equipment, has poor survivability, and PK performance is ambiguous..
So, the vision hunter I raised was always one of two builds. PK build for hunting melee characters or labor build for farming.
So Atalanta will also be one of those two builds. If you just look at the equipment, you will be able to figure it out right away.…….
“trunnion.”
“What, I didn't sleep?”
A small voice. Ellen was lying facing this way..
“I'm not very tired.”
“Aren’t you tired? You used a lot of mana.”
“Now that tidying up is no big deal.?”
“Phew, yeah?”
I turned to face Ellen, resting my head, and he pulled the blanket up to my nose..
“You must be a real genius. How did you get so good so quickly??”
“It's true that I'm a genius, but that doesn't mean I'm skilled. original ability
Because I just demonstrated.”
“Ugh, okay. It's you.”
“……Is it you? what do you mean?”
Ellen's gaze shifted and the topic changed..
“What does Ute Kwai look like??”
“What do you think??”
“We've been together already... … Um, how long has it been??”
“……It's been about three months.”
“Three months? already?”
“The first day of June was when I went to free him.
“It was.” “Oh, I guess so. anyhow. You'll figure it out to some extent in three months. what kind of person.”
Ellen took a moment to choose her words..
“hmm. I don't think he's as bad as I thought..”
“okay?”
« O ” ugh.
and?”
“and what?”
“That's it?”
“huh. What more should I say??”
“No, that's not it.”
I continued talking while stroking the bundle..
“I feel like we've become a lot closer.”
“I? With that barbarian?”
“You too, me too.”
“I'm not.”
“okay? Was I mistaken?.”
“huh. Not at all.”
“Anyway, he seems like a good guy. Even though he sometimes, no, often says bullshit, he is kind. There are times when I cry like an adult at my age..”
Ellen narrowed her eyes at my words..
“……Befitting my age?”
“It's not like that.?”
“Do you know how old Utequoi is??”
“Well, I don't know exactly. He must have been a little less than forty.?”
“what?”
Ellen shook her head as if it made no sense..
“Forty. I don't think he's over 30?”
“Thirty? Hey, I'm at least thirty-five.”
“I don't think so.”
“They say they have three kids and their daughter is as big as you. I must have been over thirty-five.”
“……I see. So, why did you bring this up??”
I answered Ellen's question by scratching my cheek..
“That bothered me a bit..”
“what?”
“It's always like this. You and I sleep together, Ute Kwai is alone. Even though he is clearly a colleague, doesn't it seem like he is being ostracized??”
Ellen's face suddenly frowns..
“I tell you in advance, I can't have a room with that guy..”
“No, I mean. Even if we use separate rooms-”
“I don't even think of them as colleagues yet..”
“Um, why?”
“Why? You're a savage.”
“It's so important to be a savage?”
“Then it doesn't matter?”
“What's important about the background? Savage or not, we are all the same..”
“Phew.”
Ellen sighed heavily and shook her head with serious eyes..
“It's not the same.”
“what?”
“Religions are different, learning is different, languages are different, and lives are different. We know nothing about those barbarians.”
I wanted to retort, but I couldn't say anything. It reminded me of the scene where Utequai dismantled the ogre..
The scale ogre Haklio. Utequai dismembered the creature, offering its neck and spine to his mother and chewing its heart for himself..
I clearly remembered the look in Utequai's eyes as he prepared the offering at that time..
“……okay. you might be right.”
I was silent for a moment before continuing..
“Then Ellen.”
“ huh?”
“i believe?”
Ellen frowned at my question..
“Why ask the obvious?”
“……Hmm, I'm a little touched..”
“What is so touching?”
“just.”
Ellen looked at me for a moment and then turned over to lie on the other side..
“Now, I'm not confused.”
“ huh?”
“Don't be confused.”
“ ah.”
“Now, I'm not confused. I don't even shake
ah.”
I laid my body upright, using my arm as a pillow. The lump is digging into the armpit..
“Oh, that's right. Ellen.”
« After O ” •
“how old are you?”
Ellen was silent for a moment and answered belatedly..
“twenty years old.”
I'm twenty years old. It's a good age. however,
“……Even if you say something, you have to do it believably..”
“what?”
“Even if you say you're fifteen, you look like you can believe it, so what? twenty? twentyul?”
Ellen suddenly raised her upper body at my laughing words..
“not fifteen!”
“'Fifteen' is not '?”
Ellen closed her mouth for a moment and then lay back down..
“……Twenty years old.”
“Ah, yes.”
“If that's the case, you can just assume that's the case, why bother arguing??”
This kid keeps insisting.
“You're not lying to me?”
“••••♦•what.”
“You say you trust me.”
Yo o ” huh.
“I trust you too, but you won't lie about something like this..”
“......uh?”
“I hope that won't happen. I won’t let trust be broken for no reason.
That's right. right?”
The silence this time lasted quite a long time..
Ellen glanced sideways at me, and I tried to keep an expressionless face..
“If I'm being honest right now, I will see it..”
“one, two,”
“I'm not twenty.”
Ellen kept her mouth shut, probably out of pride. I burst out laughing without realizing it.
“……Haha! Oh my, I'm not twenty years old.?”
“not even fifteen!”
“Huh, then how old are you??”
“Don't say anything. Idiot.”
“why?”
“You're acting annoying!”
After screaming, Ellen turned around and lay down..
……Aw, so cute. I want to hit people.
After giggling for a while, I finally calm down. The bundle seems to have woken up to the sound of my laughter and starts crying. I gently brushed him away and got lost in thought..
Once again, I feel like I was very lucky to have met Ellen first. What if I had met a strange guy like Utequoi or a dangerous guy like Luke first? Probably, he was hostile to all the new sub-characters he met..
Thoughts about Atalanta come back to mind. What kind of person is she? What kind of relationship will you have with me??
Like Ellen, wanting a relationship where you can entrust your life to each other is greedy..
It would be great to be able to stand side by side like Ute Kwai..
If you're crazy like Luke... … . Hehe, I hope it's not just that..
However, you should not try to force a relationship. If it's meant to be, we'll meet, if not, we won't..
Just don't waver. It is important to protect Ellen well and get to know Utequai. Atalanta doesn't care.
When I repeat it to myself, somehow I feel at ease..
Even though I fell asleep repeating that, the next morning, as soon as I entered the tavern, I looked for Atalanta. When I couldn't see her, I felt a surge of regret, but I tried to push it down, remembering yesterday's resolution..
After eating at a bar, we joined the commercial trip..
The Perso monk said that he was fortunate enough to have a monk at the mountain lodge, so he was able to receive treatment. Only the minor wound was completely healed, and the symptoms only slightly improved, but it was obvious that that alone was of great help..
The current number of passengers is twenty-seven. Three people died yesterday, and two people died before that. Magical bandits were rampant in Saban, and I encountered greenskins in the forest, so all I could say was bad luck..
However, if I had fought a little more actively, at least two lives might have been saved.…….
I shook my head to get rid of useless thoughts. Rather, there was something that bothered me..
“Poynix, a face with something to say.”
“no, no.”
Last night, Ute Kwai's level rose..
I think it's because of the battle with the greenskins that took place yesterday. Well, his last level up was almost a month ago, so it was about time..
But the problem is that some of his bonus points were automatically distributed. Yes, it's only the same as leveling up, but I was a little annoyed that it was out of my control..
Perhaps if you accumulate too many level-up bonuses, they will automatically increase. I was a little puzzled because of Ellen's case, but I think she was a bit of a special case..
I looked at Ellen, who activated her feather decoration and got into the carriage, and suddenly tilted my head..
“But Ellen.”
“why.”
“Are you tall??”
“……key?”
“Uh, try standing upright for once..”
At my words, Ellen slowly got down to the ground. He looked up at me with a somewhat expectant look on his face..
“……It was really big?
“It seems big.”
“really?”
Ellen's face brightens slightly. I nodded, running the blade of my hand against the top of his head and my breastbone..
“Wow, it was definitely big. Look at this. You didn't reach this far in the first place..”
“Is that so??”
“I think it's about 2cm bigger.……
Considering his height, he's grown a lot, but I'm only now realizing it. Maybe I realized it too late because I was always sitting down??
“No, how old are you and why are you so tall? Not under fifteen?”
“no!”
The journey that started again with a small event was very peaceful..
The mountain was quiet. It was hard to believe that we had been attacked by greenskins the day before..
Judging from the occasional strange human-looking trees or dead gray wolves, it seemed like another group of merchants or mercenaries had cleared out the monsters along the way..
I didn't think it was particularly boring or boring. This is because I have been trained during my journey..
There's only one reason why I can't lie down in the carriage and chat with Ellen or play around with the bundle right now. It was because of the field of vision..
As long as your vision is clear, someone, even if it is not you, can detect the enemy's presence early. But in a situation like this, someone with sensitive senses like me had to stay alert as much as possible..
Even with the greenskin attack that happened yesterday, if I hadn't noticed and notified them in advance, the merchants would have been decimated. Either me or Ellen could have been hurt. I had to come to my senses to stop that from happening..
To put my nervous vigilance to shame, what was blocking our path as the sun was setting was a monster so large and massive that everyone on the road noticed it..
Thump, thump!
“Oh, it's a monster! Entya!”
“Holy shit, prepare for the fire!”
What someone shouted was wrong. The monster in front of me was not an ‘ent’ but a ‘decaying spirit’..
Unlike Ents, who are inhabited by spirits or have acquired a sense of self through a long life, decaying spirits are monsters created by gathering the malice of the forest. It is a giant that arose from all the rotting things in the forest..
The one that appeared in front of Sanghaeng was based on the dried trunks of a fir tree and a fir tree. It looked like it was covered in crushed leaves, broken twigs, and corpses of dead animals..
He was a guy who appeared as a random encounter in the game. After all, reality was full of the shittiest encounters..
I immediately yelled at Ellen..
“Ellen, summon the dance spirit! No, take the antidote first.!”
“antidote? what antidote?”
We have a total of three antidotes. These are items that are effective against vascular poisons, neurotoxins, and paralytic poisons, respectively..
What kind of poison did that guy use??
“I don't know, eat it all first! Ute Kwai, you too!” Ellen hurriedly searched through her sling bag and took out the poison. I drank the antidote, chewed it, and swallowed it all in one go, then quickly jumped forward. and yelling.
“Don't light it on fire! The whole mountain will burn down!”
Tomod, the most veteran mercenary in Sanghang, reacted to my shout as if he were dumbfounded..
“Hey, there's no way to deal with that guy other than fire.-”
“I'll handle it, so back off! He's gonna spit poison!”
As soon as I finished speaking, a pair of gaping eye sockets turned towards me. I held my breath as I got as close to him as possible..
“Inhale！”
At the same time, the decaying spirit blew out smoke from its mouth..
Cloudy smoke that obscures vision. I quickly raised my shield, but the smoke was easily blown away by the wind..
Ugh, I feel sick. I feel like I'm going to throw up at any moment.
But it wasn't unbearable. In addition to the poison resistance of the dragon slayer's seal, thanks to drinking the antidote, I am able to withstand the powerful poison spewed out by this thing..
I threw down my shield and slashed the bottom of my hand with Hrunting. It seems like it's been quite a while since I pulled out a blade with my own blood..
Huooh!
At that time, the wind blew from behind.
The dancing spirit summoned by Ellen was struggling. A desperate dance that scatters the poisonous smoke exhaled by the giant into the air..
The wind opens the view. The giant was right in front of us. I kicked straight into the ground..
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