At the Northern Fort

Everyone in the knight is trying to destroy the door with an axe, but the spread seems fat and hard. So here's what Kicks called for from the outside.

"Woodbaum! You put it out, so you can't turn this tree off or spread it."

Woodbaum leans his neck slightly and thinks before saying.

"I don't know, I wonder if I can. I'll try."

When I concentrated, I heard Zuzazaza and the crawl moving.

Did you succeed? I thought so, but it seemed different.

"Wait. Please don't. It's increasing."

Kicks said in a panic.

Still, the knights of the northern fort only have the strength and strength, so without waiting so long, every door of the spread was broken and the four of us were able to escape.

When Woodbaum went outside in the lead, I followed it while Mr. Rekka held me too.

Mr. Rekka calms down as usual without showing any symptoms of dark spot phobia or claustrophobia, but I and Ms. Teena still have stiff faces due to some of the fears she has encountered rats.

"Mill, are you okay?

The knight with the eye of the ship asks, "Yeah," he answers weakly. I also saw Mr. Branch Leader in the back. He looks at me with a harrowed and worried face.

Kicks squeaked and stroked my head with half a cry before wandering at Mr. Teena, who was blushing her eyes.

"Oh, my God, with tears in my eyes till Teena"

"'Cause there was a rat inside"

"Got it..."

Remembering and trembling, the two of us said, Kicks returned it like this.

"I'm glad you two weren't the only ones trapped. You can count on Rekka to stay inside with you."

I know it was a casual word for Kicks, but that seemed like a confident word for Mr. Rekka. I laugh secretly, but happily, at Mr. Teena, me, and Woodbaum.

"Ah, the fairy..."

And the fairy, too, thought Mr. Rekka was okay already, melted in the sunlight and disappeared.

Now it was me who thought it was settled, but I felt a sign of water there and looked back.

Is that what this feels like? No, but...

As I think in my head, I ask Mr. Rekka to take me down to the ground, and I run out in a hurry.

"Mill?"

"Master Mill, where are you going?

What I headed for was a pond in the fort.

Not something as flavorful as a fish swimming, but an artificial square pond for melting snow-capped snow. And for me, it's also a trauma pond that was chased by wild dogs and dived into the middle of winter.

Rather than coming for here, I got here when I followed the signs of water, but as I expected, the pond was no longer the usual secluded position.

Because a light, watery serpent was packed in a pond that wasn't that big.

"Father!"

My father's big, long body doesn't fit half in the pond and his upper body sticks out. And the water that had originally accumulated in the pond was overflowing, and the ground around it was flooded.

Everyone in Woodbaum and Fort who came after me is also stunned to see a giant snake in his eyes. It should have been the first time I had ever seen a father in a serpent, either, a ship-eyed knight or a branch leader, Kicks or Teena.

Everyone instinctively axed a giant snake forward for a moment, so I rushed around explaining.

"It's my father, don't you dare! Big, but not frightening!

It's not dangerous because you're moving slowly.

"Mill's? Is that the Spirit of Water?"

"Dae-dae"

Seeing everyone axe down, I turn to my father again.

"Father, what's wrong?

I proceeded through the water reservoir sounding pippy, and looked up at my father's eyes, which were half open but still loud, and asked.

My father gives out a chillo and a two-strand tongue - although not the size of a chillo for me - and speaks pale.

"I've been thinking about living here since today."

"Huh?"

I accidentally raised my voice, but the knights would feel more like shouting "YEAH!?" than I do. Everyone is reluctant to shut up about Father, but his face is drawn.

My father doesn't attack humans, and he basically sleeps and doesn't move like he's dead, but it would be tough if such a giant snake were in a fort all the time. I usually get in the way rather than because I'm a spirit. It's not like Woodbaum, a deer, is at the edge of the garden.

I managed to try to persuade him. I also feel pressure from the knights behind me: 'Please be polite with your father'.

"Father, it's not easy for Father to be here."

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When I stared, Father slowly closed his eyelids, pretending not to hear him.

"Don't go to sleep!

Lift one hand and bash. My father-in-law, who has a big body, won't notice until he does this.

"Even your father doesn't like this, does he? Let's get back to the original big lake."

When I said that, Father opened one eye and looked at Woodbaum, who was behind me. Slow to eye movements.

Is Woodbaum afraid of his father, or shivers his shoulder "hi-no" like a herbivore?

"Why are the tree spirits here... I shouldn't be..."

"'Cause that's, uh, because Woodbalm is a biggie"

Even if I answered that, Father didn't seem convinced. Continue with a dissatisfied voice.

"... Milfilia comes to me every day, to see me... even though that's the kind of promise... she doesn't come. So here I am..."

Uh, you promised me that, and I sweat cold. Sure, until now, I've basically been going to visit my father every day, and that's what I used to be.

But lately, I've spent more time in the fort to see how Mr. Rekka and Woodbaum are doing, so I'm pretty sure I couldn't get to my father.

Even when I went to visit my father before, he complained with his gaze while rubbing the meatballs, but I really gave priority to Mr. Lecca and the rest of the day I still couldn't make it.

Maybe that's why your father missed you.

"Milfilia......"

Father dropped something from his mouth, Cologne.

I fell in the water reservoir and got wet. I lean my nose at it and smell it. No, I knew what it was without having to smell it.

"Of the deer?

The horn of a bull seems to change every year, and once in a while the horn that ends its role after the breeding season falls into the woods. I've picked it up on Mount Snowlea before, but my father must have picked it up in the woods near his residence, too.

But Woodbaum mistakenly assumed that his father ate a deer and didn't digest just the horns, and he said, "Hi-no!" and retreated.

"Before...... I found a deer horn...... happily, I would have told you"

"So this, to me?

Father blinked once instead of nodding.

"Thanks......"

I snuggled a little thinking about what I would be happy to get and how my father was looking so hard for deer horns and dongles.

I don't feel like I've done anything wrong because I don't go out and play every day.

"Father, from now on, I'll go every day as soon as I can. If you don't give me one, I'm going to go see my father."

When I looked up and said that, my father's eyes, usually unable to read his emotions, rocked a little like they were touched.

"So, get back to your usual address. I'm going to go and see you later today. Right?"

When I plead, Father slowly lifts his mouth and answers.

"... I don't like it..."

Father, this is where I say "OK"!

"There's a tree spirit who's not even his father... here... near Milphilia's residence, but... it's not fair that I, the father, have to live far away... and... weird"

I frowned mummy. This is troublesome.

Your father seems surprisingly stubborn. I may not be able to convince you alone.

I said, look behind you for a moment, and Woodbaum is frightened that his father will attack him, and the knights are looking at me with the eyes of 'Don't shake it this way,' and the ship-eyed knight or branch leader won't be able to tell his father strongly.

... All right. Let's call my mother.