Vermillion

"Hey...... hey!?

The silence did not last long.

Ha, Lily opened her eyes as she woke up from her dream, and she rushed over with a tremendous foothold.

"Hey!

"Lily......"

A crouched Irene gently hugs the slender girl. "Really? Not a dream?," he muttered like a rumor, turning to Lily, who touched her cheek with a pepper - Irene didn't seem to know.

"It's not a dream, it's true...... Long time no see, Lily."

Hold Lily tightly as she tries and whispers gently. More than that, as if to show off the colors of perplexity.

"Mr. Irene! Mr. Kay! Are you back?!

From behind the house, furthermore, Kiska rushed out as she wiped her hands with a front cover. Montan and Kiska, and their daughter Lily. It's the shape of a family.

"It's been a while, really."

It's been roughly three months since we've met again. Kay drops her gaze on Lily as she shook Montan's hand again.

The young girl seemed - slightly trembling. I bury my face in Eileen's chest, and I just can't leave if I don't let her go again.

"To her (Lily), what?

With hesitation Kay asks, Montan, who took off his bandana, opens his mouth in the face of sinking pain.

"…… yet, I can't seem to forget the incident. They can barely sleep at night..."

…… there is no word to give back.

Betrayed, kidnapped and imprisoned by those who believed.

By the way, I almost got sold off as a slave.

The fear, despair that young Lily tasted - even though the case was' solved ', it never meant' finished '- is painful.

"Is that so………"

The only thing we could do together was watch Lily and Irene hug each other, frustrated by helplessness that couldn't be helped.

†††

After a while, after Lily settled down, Kay and the others had a treat for herbal tea in the back of the workshop. Could it be one of Montan's pieces, where everyone surrounds a table of tiny, shabby decorations like the one with the twisted twisters involved?

Lily sat next to Eileen, squeezing Eileen's hand tightly, licking candy for nagging additions and subtractions.

The golden, honey candy...

"Really, it's good to have you back"

Drinking tea in a wooden mug, Montane says it stings.

Since then.

Since Kay and the others traveled.

The Montans say that getting back to their usual routine didn't come true at last.

"The Witch of Justice," Eileen's hero Tan swept a lifetime in the city of Satina. But that meant the Montans would be exposed to curiosity.

If only to attract the crowd's attention. Still, the fact that 'the girl (Lily) was kidnapped and imprisoned' called for more speculation, persevering prying, swallowing rumors and sympathizing on her own, and even unwilling to expose young Lily to inferior words.

At the end of the day, he pushed even a spectator into Montan's workshop, and Lily herself was no longer able to walk outside without Montan and Kiska. The current situation, which even interferes with everyday life - there is no prospect of Lily returning to the school she used to attend.

People's rumors also say seventy-five days. Three months already since the incident. But even though the hero Tan of "The Witch of Justice" is sung in taverns all over the city by the bard, it was impossible to tell him to forget.

"Well, I didn't have to work too much before, so for my family to relax, it's just about right..."

That said, Montan laughs powerlessly. Eileen was pulling her lips together as she stroked Lily's head. That look is full of nasty. Not that it's anyone's fault. I know a lot because I know a bard (Joaquin), but they're just doing their job.

And Montane doesn't even think of fine dust as annoying because of Eileen, and naturally, he wasn't willing to blame it.

I just can't breathe. I can't see the end of it.

He was drowning in depression.

- At least not until this day.

"But now that you two are back..."

Something is going to change.

I wouldn't put it in my mouth, but Montan seemed to hope so.

"Go ahead."

Kiska re-brews herbal tea for me. Kay thanked him, grabbing a cup of tree that stood in the hot air and looking at him in a shivering manner. Is it a cup for the customer? It looks brand new. Plant spreads, flowers, twisted snake patterns and many other decorations carved up to the point of paranoia - a very laborious delicacy.

Every day I pulled into the house, I thought I had a glimpse of how Montan was spending his time - a piece of his life.

"By the way, what have you two been up to since then? I heard you were headed to Wolvern... A while back, a caravan headed to the capital came across the Grand Bear and heard that an armed escort had put it in place. Also, a Gentile bowman won the martial arts tournament..."

A bright smiling montan asks, as if trying to change the sinking air. Kay smiled unwittingly at what he was just saying.

"Yeah, that's me. I came across a big bear (Grandurus) in a pioneering village on the way. Thanks to Montane's long arrow, he was killed with a single blow, thank you."

"Again! No, but with one blow to the big bear!?

"You're lucky to shoot your heart out. After that, he went to Wolvern's militant tournament and won."

Whoa, and Montan and Kiska are surprised, and Lily looks up, too.

"Really? Come on, wow."

"Truth. Thanks to my victory in the tournament, I became an honorary citizen of Wolvern. This is the proof."

Take your ID out of your chest and give it to Lily. Lily, who received it with a small smile, "Wow," looked at Kay's sketches on thick parchment paper and the daunting wording that guaranteed his identity.

"That's amazing!... So far, you are in Wolvern?

"No, after that, I went to the North Land. There's been a lot going on since then."

Irene smiled gently, opening her mouth. There was a lot to talk about.

On the road to Wolvern, the beauty of the lake cities Euria and Lake Schnapeia stopped by. Having encountered a big bear. A duel between the people of the snowfields (Alexei) and Kay.

When I arrived in Wolvern and headed to the library to do my research, I couldn't get into the primary city district without my ID card, and I was paid in advance. That Kay competed in a militant tournament to get an ID. And a victory by showing overwhelming strength.

Clear enough to get into the library, he grabbed a clue called 'The Misty Gentile'. An encounter with a suspicious silver-haired mushroom sage familiar with the northern earth. Lily was also laughing out loud when she talked about how, in consideration for the information on the northern earth, it became a carriage teaching astrology, and when she did astronomical observations, she blew up the telescope and the snail, and left to flee because she was afraid to make amends.

Then, a journey to the North. Hardship in the buffer city of Dylannylen. Temporarily attempted a longitudinal cut for just two people on the route around the east, but the lack of drinking water caused them to turn back. That Eileen sold into the caravan by witchcraft and obtained permission to go the same way.

As for the attack on the horse thief, he spoke like a brave adventure tan wrapped in oblate, as he had previously told another daughter (Edda). It's the second time, so Kay and Irene are used to it. Lily seemed to think about her distant homeland and the fierce struggle there.

Finally, the village of Sharito on the border and the story of The Devil's Forest. An unexpected reunion with Alexei. A generous welcome with the casual villagers. Events in the fog spoke in fairly light order to avoid placing any further psychological strain on Lily. The story of Kay knocking down the fog giant with a bow and arrow, and the fact that the rope was about to unravel and break away at some point.

And meet the Wise Men of the Devil's Forest...

That we have come from far away. That I can't go back. To get here, Kay and Irene also accidentally got a somber tone.

However, he consolidated his determination to live here and took off the woods.

Turning all the way back to the North, crossing the Dylannylene, making another astronomical observation in Wolvern, fulfilling his promise to the silver-haired mushroom and the brown-haired long-haired, challenging the [Abyss (Abyss)] approaching the pioneering village, fighting the Abyss monster herd, and Irene about to be put at the mercy of his lord in Euria -

Plus, I'll give you a souvenir to go with the story. Such as a little folk art I got on the northern earth, and round nails like the treasure balls of the monster "Checker Checker" that came under attack in Abyss. Lily was astonished, eye-lit, and obsessed with the story of Kay and Irene.

"- That's why I'm back. To Satina."

That concludes the conversation, and Irene, howling and sighing small, moisturizes her throat with a chilled herbal tea. It was noon when I came to the workshop, but by the time I finished talking, the sun was completely tilted.

"…… well, then, you guys,"

Lily, turning away from her excited face and clouding her expression, hesitates a little and then asks as if she had decided to.

"What are you guys going to do now? Are you going somewhere again?

"... no. I'm going to settle down on Satina."

When Eileen answers with a smile,

"……………!

Lily's expression became much brighter. It was such a smile, like the sun plugging in from a slice of the cloud, like the fire lit up again in the extinguished fireplace.

"So we'll be together forever from now on."

"…… yeah, yeah."

Glad to hear it, sneeze your face, nod over and over.

"I've been wanting to see you for a long time."

Lily said so, pulling the chain she was wearing around her neck and taking out the red crystal (Rose Quartz) amulet.

"That is……"

Irene blinks.

Before leaving Satina, Eileen created The Magic Amulet.

A simple [manifestation] of witchcraft is sealed, and after the sun sets, you can only 'call' Eileen once. Even if I say, "I can call you," it's a childish substitute for having a conversation for a very short time.

"…… I really, really wanted to use it many times."

Pompous and Lily talk as they tease the red crystal at their fingertips.

"… but I was gambling. Once used, it will be gone……"

With a sobbing face, Lily stared at Eileen.

"I didn't use it... but hey you came to see me, so good!

"Lily......"

"Hey............!

Again, they had one hug. No further words were needed. Kiska is wiping her eyes with a handkerchief. Kay and Montan, too, looked at each other and laughed. Kay is quiet. Montane, calm down.

A few moments after that, he spoke of his future prospects. When Eileen was scheduled to sell her magic props at the Cornwell Chamber of Commerce, and at that time she wanted to ask for a woodworker, Montan agreed in two replies. He is now almost closed as a furniture artisan and a luxury arrow artisan, and he lived with his savings cut off, but he also wanted to get his pumpkin job back on track. Exactly, a boat on the crossing.

At sundown, Montan recommended "I'd love to have dinner with you," but screamed that Kiska, who keeps the key kitchen, "has nothing to put out for customers," and together, once again, promised to go out to dinner with him.

"Today, thank you."

"I'm so glad you both look good"

"Hey, honey! See you later!"

A montan with his head down, a kiss like a load of shoulders down, Lily getting back on her feet. All three of them looked sunny.

Kay and Irene, too, saw what it looked like and felt a little bit.

It made sense where we were 'back'.

Know that.

"See you then."

"See you, Lily!

As the three of us dropped him off, Kay and Irene tried to get back to the inn.

"-Ah. Speaking of which, Mr. Kay,"

I just did, and Montan accidentally called it off.

"Hmm? What's wrong?

"No, I've totally forgotten that I was looking for Kay about two weeks ago. He visited us."

"……… Someone looking for me?

Surprisingly, Kay frowns. I had no idea. If you're involved with the Cornwell Chamber of Commerce, you've already met with the people involved, and you're not supposed to know anyone else in Satina. Did you ask for Kay's bow arm, someone else in red? I just guessed, for example, that to the following Montan words, my complexion changes.

"Yeah. Anything. 'I'm from the village of Taaf'."

- I'm from the village of Taaf.

- I'm 'looking' for Kay.

(…… No way)

Back of the brain, that night, the bloody battle comes back.

(Are you a chaser for the Ignaz Bandits!?

Shortly after his transfer to 'Here', he engaged the bandits in the vicinity of the village of Taaf. I was going to kill all ten of my constituents, but when I went to collect the artifacts the next day, there were only eight bodies for me.

Two, missed.

But it is true that you have injured everyone with your hands. There has been no retaliation in the village of Taaf since then. I was optimistic that he was probably dead.

(Are you going to retaliate against me with a pinpoint...?

Naturally, the expression becomes more rude. At last in Satina, I wondered if I could live peacefully and safely, but was it sweet... Kay's face through the many training grounds was amazing enough to make Montane soak up. Kay hasn't revealed the circumstances, and Irene, who has no idea, looks surprised.

"So, I'm keeping a note from that person. Erm."

Montan returned to the house, explored the doozy and the cupboard, and then immediately brought a small piece of paper.

"This way."

I can't read what it says.

Kay, who received the note as he listened to Montan, was stunned.

Impact enough to blow it out of your head, such as about the Ignaz Bandits.

There was simply one sentence written there.