"I want to be cold..."

Kushun, and the brunette girl quarreled small.

Yen invited Kiri to bring out an old cloth around his coat. Wrapping a kiri rushing over with Tatata, Kiri sits next to Yen as a matter of course and points to cloudy weather.

"Yen! Look at that. Wow! White's coming down! Awesome!"

"At least say it's amazing. You don't have anything."

"N, there's no way there's one"

The black cat turned to Puy softly. Snow falls at the tip of that nose and I laugh unexpectedly.

You're so fluffy, but not sweet, and Kiri's somewhere unhappy.

"Is this the first time you've seen snow?

"You've never seen it before. This is a desert!

"That's right."

Snow falls in the desert.

It seems unlikely, but it actually seems to be a rarity once every hundred years. Whether it can be seen once in a lifetime. You're lucky. Liar, Yen looked at the sky.

The world of sand becomes interesting and the world closes to the silence of snow.

Ethica is still sick and asleep today.

Kiri innocently tries to go to Ethica's bedroom hoping the cold gets better, but Yen grabs the root of the black cat saying, "You'd be too busy to rest if you were here".

"Right, when the snow stops, will Ethica get better?

"I guess."

Kiri let herself dance to a chunk of snow about what she thought.

Let the powdered snow rise and laugh Kerakera.

White sand that lasts one side, to the horizontal. Cover the sky, cloudy weather.

Yen often let his thoughts play amidst fantastic sights dominated by overwhelming margins.

How many years have you been out of the dragon clan? I've had enough years with one hand.

I've been telling you to reward me if you need anything, opening a piece of paper brought to my brother's swim.

'If you contact me here, it will lead to me. Pay me back if you need anything.'

After all, I never wrote a letter.

There was also a small willingness not to let you know your miserable self, and if you see Sui, you will be weak as soon as possible. I'm afraid of that......

Yen wrote the letter, however, in retrospect.

I want to see Sui, where I am right now.

Then, wishing for help.

Go with Kiri to the nearby oasis with a sentence that is less than necessary and give it to the vendor who will deliver it.

Back at Ethica's house, laying Kiri to sleep, she gently snuck herself into the master's bedroom of this house.

"... Kiri, did you sleep?

"Did I wake you? Still sleeping."

Originally the skinny man seemed to have lost even more weight again.

"Yen, you're a good out-of-the-box babysitter. Surprise..."

"I thought you might be able to get a job babysitting."

Lightly Ethica laughed, moaning again whether her stomach ached at the clap she laughed at.

"Maybe there's something in my belly that's not good."

About a month ago.

This foolish favorite told Salari and Yen.

Say it lightly like I'll tell you tomorrow's weather.

"My father died young, just like that. I don't think it's gonna be long either... '

To Yen, the clergyman smiled quietly.

"So I'm glad."

"What? What, glad......!?

To Yen, who accidentally and unexpectedly made his voice absurd because of the upset. Well, I recommended the chair to sit down, and Ethica flaunted her shoulder.

'You came here when I first thought my body was weird, Yen. It's muddy, smelly, dirty, and I thought I'd throw it away.'

"... he's rude"

Tickles and Etica rattles her throat.

"What am I going to do with Kiri when I'm gone?" I don't miss anyone because he's a tough guy. But... you're gonna be okay, right?... I was actually praying to the Great God. Even after I'm gone, help Kiri. Please protect her. And then you showed up. "

Yen accidentally slammed his fist against his desk.

"I'm here for nothing. It's not a god-and-do deal! It's my will!! Don't be ridiculous. Why do I have to be pushed by the kid you protect! You take care of yourself till the end!

Without hiding my frustration, Ethica laughs bitterly that I want to do the same.

Shit, and Yen messed up his own hair gushing.

This is not what I want to say. Even though it's not.

'Healthcare is advancing in the West. Surgical surgery to treat her by tearing her belly. Why don't you go for once? "

'... it is against doctrine to hurt the body that was born on its own. I don't feel like it.'

"Are you an authentic idiot!? What doctrine! You're not even an official cleric, what the hell are you doing?"

"Haha. The truth is... Sometimes I'm afraid of having surgery. I don't know if it's useless."

Saying you're not a formal cleric would be the greatest insult to a faithful Ethica.

But also not angry at Yen's insult at all, Ethica turns her gaze to Kiri's bedroom and squeals.

"Kiri. He's probably a dragon mixer."

'Huh?'

"My great-grandfather, there. You're not psychic, but you're smart as a lie in those days, right? I wonder if you're unconsciously feeling dragon blood.... I'm sorry, Yen. I know you don't like the story of God, and you don't like being brought up about the Dragon Clan."

Ethica smiled badly at people.

'But I'm sure you won't leave Kiri alone after I die. I'm trying to impress you unexpectedly. "

'... you're a nasty bastard. Fucking Cleric. "

"Yen, you sound just like Kiri in that tone."

'Please don't!... I have a sense of being affected!

Ethica chuckled.

So please, don't abandon him and do it, and I'll bow my head.

Yen didn't answer, but he said he was tired and went back to his bedroom. He lent his shoulder to Ethica and escorted him to his bedroom.

Yen couldn't move his side until he heard a restful sleep from the sleeping etika.

◆ ◆ ◆

"I want to call my guests here. Do you give me permission?

"Customers? Yours? Fine... but who?

A few days later, Yen wrote to Ethica with permission. Ethica didn't force the silent Yen to pry, so the story became clear.

He takes medication that doesn't even know if it will help Ethica, who laughs bitterly because her body is weak, forces her to fall asleep, and stares at the white on one side of the window again.

I'm pushing over, margin.

What should I draw in this margin?

Yen just stared at the sky without a clue.

The reply and waiting, which I had hoped would be given me within a few months, appeared under Yen in the desert at an astonishing rate of six months after I gave him the letter.

He yelled out loud to look at Yen.

"Yen! You idiot! We're late. How many years do you think I've waited to hear from you?

"Sui!"

The shadow on the big brown dragon came down to the ground as his partner broke into Yen and the two fell to the ground with a lot of momentum.

Yen laughs bitterly that it hurts and wakes her half.

Yen looked back at it nostalgically as the golden eyes that woke him up similarly looked at this one softly.

- Only two of Yen's brothers were close to each other in the Dragon Clan when my father invited me.

Shen and Sui.

Sui was a man with golden eyes in his dark hair and a weirdo who liked to learn medicine.

Kiri showed her familiarity with a suspicious man who appeared untouched before and hid behind a tree, pointing her voice.

"Yen, who is he!

"... it's awesome"

"Who are you!

In contrast to Garru and Kiri, who was openly vigilant and still tried to fly and stand her nails up, Sui narrowed her eyes "I wish I was well" towards the blind girl.

He's a man who likes children.

Spread your hands just so you have no hostility and approach the girl, without flickering a beastly quill in front of you.

"Nice to meet you, Kiri? I'm sui. He's a dragon tribe living in the north. He's a friend of Yen's."

That's a lie, and Kiri didn't loosen her guard.

"Yen, you have a bad personality. You can't have friends!

"Oh, really? He's not here? You still don't have any friends besides me, Yeon?

"... Kiri, you, just eat your bread for dinner today"

Sui chuckled as she pulled her cheeks.

Faced Yen, "Grow up, grow up, so..." I let my fingers dive into my hair all the time feeling innumerable.

I'm grinning bitterly that I'm ticklish but nostalgic about treating you like a child...,

"So bad to the face......! I've had a hard time."

- I knew you'd go back north.

Yen wanted to cry more because he was greeted with tears.

Although Etica, who is not feeling well these days, was suddenly surprised by the dragon clan who appeared... she immediately regained her mind and welcomed her.

All four surrounded the table, and Kiri tilted her neck where her belly was swollen.

Because of Ethica's instant de-alerting of Sui, he seems to have decided that he is a fine person.

All of Kiri's criteria for good and evil are Ethica.

I hear Ethica regrets that even more now that it's dangerous, but I don't think Yen has a choice.

If a lonely child is spoiled and affectionate with so much pure goodwill, it is also impossible to retain full confidence.

I was, in fact, angry at Ethica for letting go of the clams and thinking cheaply about entrusting them to Yen.

No, it's raw to be angry.

Really, very, very angry.

With that in mind, Yen swallows the northern liquor brought in by Sui.

Highly frequented liquor comfortably burns his throat and slips off to his stomach. Kiri asked the Guest questions next to her thinking about how to cut them out.

Where did you come from? Where's the North? Why are your eyes golden, what does that dragon eat?

And then...

"Is Sui a doctor?

"Well."

"Heh, wow! Ethica's a doctor, too! I'm an assistant."

"Really?

He was pointing water at Sui and denied that Ethica was outrageous.

"I'm just following the teachings of my predecessor, the cleric. It's not like I can do anything."

Sui smiled.

Then I smile people bad and say it out loud.

"It is, isn't it? If you're a doctor, you're not supposed to leave your body alone. There's more to the doctor's cure than that, isn't there?

"Huh."

"Besides, I don't want to say such irresponsible things about just accepting that it's fate and throwing it all away and waiting for death. If you're a doctor!

"Nah, I mean"

Ethica is upset and Kiri is taken aback.

Yen stirred up the liquor and looked at Ethica, and a moment later, Ethica turned her gaze to blame Yen.

It would be obvious to Sui that Yen told him about Ethica's medical condition.

Yen ignored the negative sentiments from Ethica, who had probably been directed for the first time after reaching this little oasis, and spoke to Kiri.

"... what do you mean?

To the anxious Kiri, Yen turned around.

"Kiri, listen carefully. Ethica is sick. There's something in my stomach that's not good. He says he can't live very long, and I think so too."

Kiri stopped breathing... then raved her voice.

"Just lying! There's no way Ethica's gonna die!

"There is no one who doesn't die. Just be quick or slow."

"It's a lie, hey, Ethica. Ethica sleeps all the time because she can't cure the cold, right? You wouldn't leave me alone, would you?

Yen ignored the etika that

Kiri has a good mind. So you would have quickly nursed what was true from the attitude of the two of us, and you must have realised that the truth is that there has been something wrong with Ethica over the past few months.

In big black eyes, tears float while I look at them.

"It's a lie, isn't it? Etica, tell me you're lying! Eh?"

"... Kiri..."

Yen continued.

"Ethica could die soon. Sui is a doctor. I have knowledge because I have lived a long time, and I have handouts to the doctors in the West. I said I didn't like Ethica, but I..."

Look for words and get lost. I thought about it. I said it.

"You stick to raw... I think you should be thankful"

Etica is silent and twilight on her way in front of a crying kiri.

Yen left the room irresponsibly discarding "I left the rest to Sui".

Hard to stay in the same small space and escape to the chapel.

I sat up like Ethica would flank a place to sit, and looked up at the great statue of the goddess stuck in the dragon and the statue of the goddess.

Beautiful as always, that face never changes its expression.

As a boy, Yen wanted to be a follower of God.

I wanted to see something martyred and beautiful in the National Church and speak only of the ideals, and to be serene while preaching its will to the people.... now I have no words to speak. Nothing.

- That's pathetic. But I can't convince one person to do it myself.

I mock myself that if I saw myself as a boy, I would surely be disappointed in this body.

Looking at the statue for a while, Yen asked the great god with a puffiness.

"I don't love you anymore - but there are believers who love you even in this neighborhood. Isn't it a mercy once in a while or a miracle and a show of mercy? It's not even enough to spare, is it? - Hey, what do you think?

Of course, there's no answer.

I just got confused signs from the entrance to the chapel.

"Thoughts on God are not about faith in return."

"Etica."

Ethica laughed like trouble and sat next to Yen to disturb her.

I hear Kiri left it with Sui.

Then I sigh blurred that you were here.

"... Yen's guests are coming, so if you think of anything. I never thought I'd plan this."

They grudge at me and snort at me.

"I'm the one from Vaza, the descendant of God, who told me to have surgery, and the dragon tribe, the incarnate of God, will do the difference. And if Kiri cries and wastes it, no matter how stubborn you are, you can't say no, can you? I thought... It's best to bury it from the outer moat."

"... I guess I'm stubborn"

"You're stubborn. Smile softly and listen to people... never bend your mind unless you're convinced. The truth is, aren't you thinking about Kiri? If you say you're less obsessed, it sounds good. You're just cold-blooded."

"Cold blood."

"You like the unspeakable stone statue there better than Kiri, who cries for you. You pervert."

"... I want to..."

Ethica groaned, uhh, as they said too much.

I lower my eyebrows to excuse myself.

"If you get sick and go to your roots with it. If that's destiny, I don't know how. That's just what I thought. It's not about faith or anything..."

"If I were to say that, it would be fate for me to come here, led by God, to tell you to live a little more greedily, and to stand up for it, wouldn't it? Give it up. Give it up and listen to me... and try to live a little longer."

Reminds me of Kiri's crying face.

"One more year for you, where your life expectancy has increased by two years, maybe not enough years to obsess. A year as a kid would be a long one. … all the more so if you are a child hungry for love"

Ethica strayed from her gaze to the point where it was decided. Yen smiles bitterly.

Yen knows how Kiri feels. I know, I think.

To my father Yen and my mother were called, but my father loved not the son of the defect at all. Sometimes I just get chased away with the sight that seems annoying, and I think that even having had a conversation, I only had enough to count.

... Sui and if Shen weren't here.

I don't know if they're from a sense of duty or a whim, but if Yen still didn't mind the boy and bury his loneliness, the boy's heart would have been so broken back then, I guess.

I really think you could have stayed inside the dragon clan and spent some time with them, just like that.

(But I ran away)

Yen draws Dragon blood, but he has no powers.

I was horrified to imagine a relationship with the two of them that would eventually draw a line.

I think that was one of the reasons I went inside.

If you have a relationship you know you're going to lose one day, you should let it go yourself.

Because the scratches are shallow.

"I'm sure Sui for me is the Etika for Kiri."

……

"Stay with him as long as you can. Rise up, rise up... if you die after that... because I promise I'll take you inside the North Mountain witch"

At the foot of the dragon tribe is a settlement inhabited by dragon-mixed humans.

Sui, who is a stranger and likes humans, frequently goes in and out of the settlement, or you can accompany Yen until Kiri calms down.

After I finished saying it, Yen laughed.

I'm not lying about the dialogue right now, but it's a cowardly thing to say.

"And"

Yen looked at the man next door.

Then he notices the annoying signs behind him and invites him.

Kiri ran crying and grabbed Yen's root. I groan as I stroke my wobbly, crying back. It's for Kiri, I'm telling you it's for Ethica, but it's really not.

Just... Yen exhaled. Confess by noticing.

It's not just for Kiri.... The truth is, no.

"This place is cozy."

I saw Yen like Ethica was in trouble.

"It's not my place. Maybe not. I don't have anywhere to be. But... here... I can breathe easily. There's you, there's Kiri, there's nobody else. Quiet... peaceful."

I know I'll lose it.

This kind of boxyard collapses easily. It disappears. On Judgment Day, I sneak up on you.

But just a little more.

Even with the happiness of losing one day...... wouldn't it be acceptable to hope this peace continues?

"Please, Ethica"

Yen snaps small so his voice doesn't tremble.

To God, not to wish on someone like this... it could have been the first time.

Ethica looked quietly at the ceiling and for a while in the small chapel, only Kiri's sobbing voice echoed.