Muyoku no Seijo wa Okane ni Tokimeku

"Cold"

A much more grumpy boy's voice echoed in the woods as he tried.

"Dark. The bouncing branches get in the way. I don't know what that means, grass growing to my knees. There's a bug. The signs of the beast are also loud. Baggage heavy. Feet hurts."

It is an on-parade of dissatisfaction.

With a faint glance at the remaining face of the scuffle, Lena, who tucked into the boy's body, rambled forward.

"You're asking me!

Then,

"-... Oh, you were talking"

A boy walking in an unmistakable foothold turned his brown face and raised his brow gently.

"I thought you were talking to yourself"

Its tone is pale, and its obsidian eyes do not enlighten the will either.

Lena scolded her opponent with great anger.

"There are people in every world who keep talking to themselves for an hour. From now on, you're poking a whole bunch of accusations at someone somewhere without a cannon who jumped out of the carriage on his own. You'll see!"

That's right.

Lena and the others were riding in a riding carriage from Richiert, scratching the road bank to head to Eland at the Covenant Festival.

But as soon as I plugged into the woods near the border, Bruno jumped off the carriage for what he thought.

So while eating bubbles, Lena, who got off with a hard time, keeps chasing after Bruno as she complains.

"Where are we... It's more of a beast path than a road."

There's no compass, I just follow Bruno, who walks silently every now and then looking up at the sun, so clearly Lena has no idea where we are right now.

All I could say was that the sunset was looming a lot in a steeper place such as the mountain, which was better than the forest.

"What are you going to do with the road bank I collected because of you? I mean, you're not gonna tell me you're gonna reveal the night here."

"- So you told me to stay in the carriage, Lena,"

When I'm complaining about a bump, Bruno comes over with such an excuse in a quiet voice.

"You won't have a choice. I was in that wagon full of roundabouts, I couldn't make it to the morning of the third day of the Covenant Festival, and if I approached the even more Elando of the Covenant Festival in the first place, I'd rather not ride the beast"

"Oh, my God, I'm not a life witch."

In retrospect, the other person looked just a little surprised.

"... you know me well"

"Well, I looked it up"

Lena answers with a grumpy look.

When she heard that Leo had decided to go to Eland as a suicidal witch, she had used all the handouts she could to capture the history and rituals of this doomed little kingdom as one.

Because Bruno, the necessity of this "Great Escape in Eland" project, had to look into the circumstances of Eland herself because of the week leading up to the contract festival, the fact that she had vacated the yard all the time.

Even though there were so many things I wanted to ask, Lena was causing me to get frustrated every day.

Moreover, I had difficulty meeting Bruno, who I could hardly see, and ended up leaving too late.

The escape is scheduled for day three, but the carriage is scheduled to arrive on the morning of day three.

However, it was rather suspicious to get there on time on the road with repairs and breaks all the time, as it is a cheap lobster riding carriage.

And it must be Bruno's behavior.

Myself, I would be in trouble if I didn't make it, so when Lena snorted and accepted Bruno's outrage, she moved on to constructive questions.

"... so, according to the veteran guide Bruno, how much more walk do we have to get to Eland"

"I've already crossed the line. If you keep going down this mountain path, the forest opens, and the temperature rises all at once, that's Eland.... well, like, three or four hours away"

"Three or four hours!?

I scream unexpectedly.

Lena complained as she ran over and grabbed Bruno's shoulder, shaking it.

"Keep it up!? In a row!? Walk another three or four hours!? I can't! I'm dying! It's not a good amount of exercise for a human being. Offer an immediate break!

Thanks to Leo's body working out in the orphanage, he thinks he's a few steps stronger than when he was a girl, but still hurts his legs already.

Or my spirit was exhausted more than my flesh.

I am absolutely sorry to keep walking even in the dark woods.

Lena took Leo's body hostage, intimidating Bruno.

"I'll tell you what, if I tire this body out of meltdown here, it's your escape plan, too. After being replaced, Leo, in a state of awkwardness and exhaustion, will not escape the expedition. Is that okay with you?

…………

Bruno's face seems annoying.

But you silently calculated your arrival time, and when you nodded small, he sighed quietly, "We're going to make it a break".

Collect as few moisture branches as possible and start a fire.

While Bruno was skillfully preparing for the camp, Lena was finally comfortable with her legs, which were heavier to numb.

Remove the bags filled with nuts from the small bags for movement and tear some.

Lena watched silently as the red and black sunset that was inserting from the gap between the leaves gradually replaced by a blue and white moonlight.

Intense night forest darkness, puffiness and red flames explode.

Losing the weight of silence that would fall around, Lena finally opened her mouth.

'... a lot, you're used to camping. When you fled Elland, did you wear it?

Bruno sitting beside him raises his gaze a little to the sounds of Ellandic.

Seeing that, Lena shrugged her shoulders small.

Neither Leo, Lena, nor Bruno can speak in the original tone in Weitz.

I didn't rule it out clearly, but that's why speaking to Bruno in Ellandic was a signal to Lena to be "let's talk for real".

'... no'

Have you figured that out, Bruno also answers in Elandean.

He was staring at the swinging flames, with a cheek wand on his horseshit.

"When I went into the mountains in hunting and gathering, Leo taught me. I've never been in a wild boarding house, not even in Elland."

Only slightly, Lena opened her eyes to what gave him a glimpse of his past.

Bruno, who is mostly riddled with mysteries, except that he is a refugee from Eland.

His presence is too full of doubt for Lena.

The same is true of the reason I've fled to the capital of an enemy country or something, but the profound words and deeds I show from time to time.

A sudden declaration of return, at the timing of the contract festival.

In the end, Lena hasn't heard what he calls "wild use" yet.

I can revive Leo's words, that you should be mindful.

If you want to hear it, it's the only time.

But I don't know how to cut in.

If it was a guided interrogation of someone else like Kai, it seemed terribly difficult to do that to someone who had lived with him for a long time, even though he said he could breathe.

After the tour, Lena gently distorts her mouth and decides to step in against the information "Leo taught me" for a moment, rather than the information "I never had a wild boarding house".

Leo's topic is, in the end, what makes it easiest for the two of you to talk.

"... at all, with the Emmy Rio's, with you, Leo, Leo, that's all. Brother Leo taught you everything that matters, huh? That it's a big imprint '

"Well, actually, a lot of kids respect him in terms other than gold."

"Well, not in terms of money."

There you go.

If it's Leo's topic, the conversation plays without being cautious in choosing words.

However,

"I'm sorry to hear that my favorite" brother Leo "has replaced me with something. You're pretty upset with me, aren't you?

Bruno made an astonishing statement when Lena sarcastically twisted her face and said it lightly.

'-... oh. A little, to the point where I think I'm going to kill'

"Oh, a little.... and... is...?

Somehow I hammer him, and then I listen back a little.

How much salt did you put in it? About a teaspoon, in a tone like that, what a disturbing thing this man mouths.

Bruno, this is pretty good, but he doesn't lie.

In his sarcastic remarks, he felt the murderous aftertaste, causing Lena to unconsciously pull the edge of her lips.

'... heh. Really? That's again.'

"But for several reasons, I didn't do it in the end"

'... heh. Really?'

I realise that I have repeatedly put the same gavel on my face and wonder if I can't give a decent response.

The situation where the opponent is under barometric pressure, etc., was unacceptable to the prized Lena.

'For a reason, yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, you can't hurt this body.'

'No. As much as there is a way to kill the spirit without damaging the body'

…………

Really, this is the kind of moment that worries me about this man's past.

It's too disturbing.

At the same time, it seemed that Leo and his specific gravity differences in him and the orphanages had been poked at, and Lena felt creased and forced to throw up the words.

'... oh, yeah. I'm really impressed with your hot, bitter friendship. Loved, loved, eternal bond. Leo will be delighted. "

It's almost a trick.

Unsurprisingly, however, Bruno raised his sight to the word.

'... well. I don't know.'

'Huh?'

"He lives by cutting off a favor from life, and even I, at least at first, hate him."

To what I was told, I shall cease.

It was so people-friendly, I couldn't solve the fact that Leo, admired by many, was "cutting off favors," as usual, and more importantly, because it was surprising that Bruno hated him.

"... you thought... at least you were Leo followers from the beginning."

'What is that? Will you not admit people to strange religions'

Bruno argued pale, cutting the words.

The sound of the blast of fire echoes.

Bruno eventually cut out quietly as he showered the shaky orange light on his cheek.

"... I just came to the orphanage because I was a spiritualist. The Spirit is the supreme being, and Eland is the supreme land. Believe me, I didn't speak to anyone in the Weitz '

Lena's eyes are opened.

Looking silently at his opponent, Bruno was staring at the flames.

Orange shadows danced to black eyes rarely seen in Richiert.

'... When did you come to the orphanage?

"Seven years ago. The contract festival is over, the battle of Eland is over, a few months later '

Ask with a faint voice and a slow answer returns.

That's how Bruno's old story began.

- In the aftermath of the war, I have lived long enough to be saved by my mother. My mother had about half Weitz's blood, so I used that handover to come to Richiert. I was supposed to be taken care of by my relatives, but the wife of the house hated raising me in different skin tones, so I was deposited in the Hannah orphanage, the most prestigious in Richiert. "

The narrative was pale.

But Lena thought, rather, it might be because it's such a nasty memory to hesitate to pinch her emotions, that she couldn't even hammer.

It's the first time I've heard anyone say anything.

I was supposed to be the one who wanted to hear it out, but when it started, I didn't know how to behave.

"Weitz, I learned from my mother, was largely understandable. Still, I didn't want to talk to the orphanages. If I didn't talk to anyone for a few weeks, the Dean put me on the lookout. - That's Leo."

Leo, who had been in the orphanage since before he could even take his cord off, had more experience welcoming orphans than anyone else.

Inevitably, he often looked after young "newcomers" and "little difficult kids".

Bruno then fitted into the frame of the person.

'Words don't make sense, skin colors and faces are different, refugees from Elland. Only the one was different as they mostly touched the swelling. Here's the first voice. "Hey, you know what a Cannow novel is? They say it's the name of the genre of the book that sells best. If I translate Ellandic, my hourly rate will jump. Ellandic, why don't you tell me?

With Errand coming under Weitz's rule, albeit autonomous, Errand books were flowing into the country at once.

It's an upper-class hobby, such as books, and you didn't even know what a sensual novel was, but you only understood that it would lead to gold, and you were glowing your eyes in color.

That was Leo.

You remember the interaction at the time, Bruno narrowed his eyes slightly.

"It's a savage country, such as Weitz. Even I thought so,... No, that's why I didn't feel bad if you asked me to teach you Ellandic. In the beginning, he's been talking a lot, anyway, even if he doesn't understand my Ellandic. Strangely enough, it wasn't uncomfortable.

When, for example, you are standing up with a rugged face to the cold that is so different from your home town.

When he was caught up in a fight and was about to be convicted of sarcasm.

At a time when ice seemed to creep into his heart, Leo always laughed uncontrollably.

You didn't do it? I know that. That's not true. I just don't want to insist.

Oh, my God, you're in too much trouble, you troublesome bruno!

- Oh, well, you can tell me without wasting any slang here. Please, Kim Zuluno!

- What, what? Are you mad at me? Are you being absurd? Rough Bruno?

'... wait. Whether it's going to be a good story or a cold Yotai story, I've lost track of the landing spot.'

When the half-eyed Lena raised her hand, Bruno nodded directly, 'That's an odd encounter, so am I.'

"I didn't understand his nagging attitude either at the time. When it was, I asked. Why do you keep calling me by my strange nickname?"

Repeating the pressing questions in Elando and Weitz. Often, finally understanding Bruno's question, Leo scratched the scattered cheeks of that scuff pompously and laughed a little troubled.

That's what I said.

"-" Because, you know, you don't want to be called Bruno, do you? ♪ And ♪

Lena is breathtaking.

When he glimpsed her without succeeding in her words, Bruno stared again at the shaking flame.