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As soon as he finished, Ran cried without a sound.

Early in the spring, the bud, which was close at the end of the branch, finally burst and burst into tears as if it were revealing an ivory petal.

Judas saw her crying and said nothing. I was just standing there, not too close or too far away with my cuffs out.

Thanks to that calmer consideration, Ran couldn't stop crying.

“Judas. ”

In the meantime, Ethan briefly reported on the situation.

“The bodies were all buried on the ground. There is also a plaque among the possessions of the dead so that they can be recognized on each grave. ”

“Yes, well done. ”

“…… Do you want to order a filling? ”

“Well, I guess it is. ”

Judas shakes his head with a stuffy face. Then I looked down at the sleeve, which was still firmly held.

“I can't leave here today. ”

Ran was tired of crying and sleeping.

I didn't let go as much as the cuffs that were desperately attached while I was asleep. Judas' group decided to rest nearby because he couldn't leave her alone in the ruins.

However, Lan, who didn't know who was sleeping so deeply, woke up in the middle of the night when the darkness was dull.

The nights in the mountains were always cold, regardless of the season. The sound of a campfire melting the cold temperatures intermittently followed by a clamor.

When I opened my eyes, I saw a branch covering the night sky.

As Ran raised his booth, the soft blanket that was covering his body flowed down.

“It's still night. ”

I heard a familiar voice in her ear as she stared at the blanket in a dazzling spirit and tried to understand the situation.

“A little more sleep, my dear. ”

“Ah……. ”

Judas sat a little further away. Ran stopped looking at him.

Around Judas, the revealing spirits glittered in different colors.

When I saw him, I thought he was like a star floating in the sky.

Grung!

A blue wolf with a jaw on Judas' knee raises its head with a small throat. As soon as I saw the transparent watery pupil, I could feel Lan as well.

‘In fact, you are their star. ’

He was most cherished by the spirits of the natural world.

Bassi smiles, Lan slowly opens his mouth.

“You know, I had a dream. ”

The scene in my dream was still good in front of my eyes.

Ran held a blanket in his empty arms and spoke.

“A dream my father calls me. ”

“Ugh. Isn't that a scary dream? ”

When I looked up, Judas wasn't the only one around the campfire. Not only did Baikal look reluctant, but Ethan and Cristina sat around together.

Lan, who was looking at them with a little surprise, shakes his head.

“No. I'm not scared..... I missed my dream because I heard my father's voice before I was born. ”

Pixies bear fruit from trees, unlike humans.

However, it is not unconditionally possible for such fruits to be born as pixies. In addition to clean sunshine, greasy soil, sufficient moisture, and sufficient conditions for the blessing of the elder Pixie, the fruit is only born to evolve into Pixie.

If none of the conditions are met, the fruit will last for about a hundred years and will disappear naturally.

Pixie, born that way, has the memory of the fruit before it was born in the world.

Ran remembered the voice of a human who warmly blessed himself instead of his elder Pixie.

‘You're like a Lan, living and breathing in a sphere. ’

The man was from defrost. He left the fruit of the pixie and called it ‘lan’, which means egg.

I didn't understand everything he was saying, but at least as clearly as the voice he called 'Lan’ towards himself was entered into the brain.

Maybe he didn't give her a name. But it seemed good.

Ran liked his voice. I liked him who came to me every day and called me as if he was loving, taking care that the tree would not wither.

A man's spiritual childcare was born in a Bondi plant and spread affection for his parents to fairies without blood ties.

Cristina asks, moving her blanket towards Lan.

“Do you remember your father? ”

“Well, I don't know the details, but my dad was from Defrost. I used the language of the country. I've never seen a face, but it was probably a black eye on a black head, right? Oh, and I think he was an alchemist. ”

“What?”

I merely asked about my father, but when the enormous answer came back, Cristina's face was filled with astonishment.

Alchemy is a special skill that only appears in thawing.

Within the Empire, transformation and creation were almost unknown and incomprehensible by magic technology. That's why there was so much interest in alchemy, but even within the thaw, the ability to deal with it was precious.

In particular, to use Senior Alchemy, I needed an Ark of Alchemy with sophisticated and complex techniques, which is passed down to noble families and royalty for generations to come.

Emperor Lubarzan and the Thawing Princess wanted to solve some of the secrets of alchemy by leading to an alliance, but not long after she got married, Thawing Princess Hayun Lee faced a shocking death. This has led to a desire for relations between the two countries, and even research into alchemy has made things unbearable.

Lan, who does not yet know the seriousness of the subject of alchemy, simply remains in memory.

“When I was first born, I found an alchemy book and an alchemy chest in my father's house. I don't know where to write it, but I just left it in my house. It must be all burned down by now. ”

“...... I can't believe it burned. ”

Books and the Ark of Alchemy were extremely rare.

In particular, the Ark of Alcohol was so valuable that it came down to the family heirloom. Edan narrowed his glabella when he heard that the enormous treasure had become ashes in the fire.

Lan, staring at Edan, speaks in a happy tone to him.

“You don't look like a defroster, but you're black too. ”

“ ……? ”

“I have a head and eyes. ”

Edan's black hair and black eyes were not very unusual even within the Empire.

It wasn't uncommon, but Edan couldn't answer for a moment because no one had expressed a special impression of the color.

Lan laughs silently as he looks at the black pupil who is looking at him.

“My eyes are black too! Maybe it was inherited from my father? ”

“I can't believe you inherited it.”

The fact that fairies are born different from humans is already heard and understood by Judas as as well as the rest of the group.

Edan closes his mouth to speculation as he touches his head.

‘She said she was born eating a human body. Was it inherited then? ’

Ran was born nourishing human beings, not blessings of his people. So the appearance of the day and night became different, not an intact fairy.

It was now a dazzling beautiful fairy, but it will soon turn ugly as it was when we first met in the sun.

If the reason was because of human blood, which accounted for half of her, it explained all the anomalies.

“But now it's all meaningless. ”

“What do you mean? ”

“The meaning of birth. The meaning my father made of me in the world. I'm half as unborn as a perfect fixie, but I don't like mixing with people. In the end, I hated him like this. ”

Ran fixed his gaze on the campfire with a confused face.

“I didn't know people hated me enough to think they wanted to kill me. ”

“Look, it was their fault. ”

Baikal choked and snapped. But Ran shook his head awkwardly.

“I don't know. I liked being alive at first. I really don't know anymore. If no one wants it, they'd rather die. ”

“ ……. ”

“Why was I born? ”

“Rana.”

Judas, who was still watching, called her.

Lan shook his head like a dead cat and lightly tapped his side. At the gesture of his hand to come and sit, Ran gently grabbed the blanket and approached the shotgun and sat by it.

Judas then gave her something.

“What about this?”

“You didn't burn them all. ”

It was the only leaf that did not burn among the burning trees.

A soft leaf filled with light green has just sprung into my palm.

“Where did I hear that? Everyone is born with one shiny jewel. ”

“Gems……. ”

Lan carefully grabbed the leaf in his hand.

“Why do people live together? I've wondered that before. ”

“Now?”

“I don't think so right now. ”

The answer was tenderly followed by a laugh.

“Because the gems you have are hard to find on your own. We meet each other, we find the gem, we tell them again. ”

“ ……? ”

“You know that you are already shining from the moment you were born. ”

Lan opens his eyes round. My mouth opened. Ran, who was so stiff for a while, burst into laughter.

“Ahaha! That's weird. Clearly younger than me. ”

She smiled so much that she added with tears to her eyes.

“I feel like a father. ”

“Hmmm.”

If anyone knew Judas, it was an idea I had done once, so I coughed up even among the people I was listening to.

“Hey, hey! Why don't you call me Dad? ”

“Khh! Khh! Khh! ”

No, this never even occurred to me.

It was not a cough, but a cough that exploded. The faces of the three men, except Judas, were all white.

‘What a big day...! ’

Even though he is only 17 years old, he cannot allow himself to call such a misleading title to the Crown Prince of one country.

Baikal couldn't stand it and shouted.

“Are you crazy! I'd rather be your brother! ”

“Huh? It's been more than fifty years since I was born, and my brother is a little old for you guys. ”

“…… What about Dad? ”

“Wouldn't it matter if you were a foster father? ”

Baikal and Edan shut their mouths simultaneously in a barrel that returned to their naive faces. I've never seen anything so absurd in my life.

Baikal, who lost his word, looks at Cristina's complexion and stiffens like a stone.

“Wait, how old are you? ”

“Fifty-six, exactly. ”

Baikal, who knew the race was different but didn't know he'd be that old, made an impression.

“Dismissed. Absolutely not. ”

“Why? ”

“Why rat horns. Who do you think you're talking to when you're that age? No, you don't have to be that age. Hey, I haven't heard from any adults yet. ”

Hearing the grumbling, Lan became a slut on the road. Then, I asked Judas, who was watching him closely, for the last time.

“Really not...? ”

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