Yotogi no Kuni no Gekkouhime

Episode 29: Elves in the White Forest

"Child? Why are you here alone?

The two young men, who appeared scratching the forest bushes, looked at Serene in wonder. Long silver hair and red eyes too, but more characteristic than that are their ears. Long pointy ears were not human. It was seen at a glance that they were called elves.

Serene, who had never seen a decent Fae other than a dragon since he was born in this world, watched with ease (relaxation) whether this was a rumored elf or something.

Apparently, the youths thought the young elf girl was frightened when they saw an adult they didn't know. You're trying to tell me you're not going to hurt Serene, turning the wooden bow you had in your hand to your back and slowly approaching Serene.

"What's wrong, my lady? It's dangerous to be alone here. You lost your way? What settlement? Let me give you a lift."

"Er."

The pair apparently assume Serene to be a complete elf, and speak that way in a calm voice. But one young man behind him frowned.

"Hey, is something wrong with this kid?

"Change... hmm?

That's what they say, and the elf youth keep an eye on Serene. Sure, the hair color is too white for an elf. They all have silver hair, but the color of this girl's hair is almost pure white. Most importantly...

"My ears are round!? Oh, you...... could it be human!?

"Yeah, well."

Serene replied so with no particular thought. Moments suddenly change the attitude of the young man who has ever had a tender look on his face. Wrinkles between his brows, his face so close that his breath hangs, he approaches Serene.

"Are you Bockenshire!? How! How the hell did you get in here to such depths of the White Forest!? Say it!"

"Uh, well, um..."

Serene tried to pull back because the momentum of the meal was such that she was asked questions early in the day. But I shouldn't have worked that way. They thought he was trying to escape, and the excited elf youth pulled Serene's arm forcefully.

"Ouch!

Shortly after Serene complained of the pain, the elf grabbing her arm bent to the shape of her body and blew it backwards. The other elf, who was holding back, suddenly couldn't afford to pay attention to his blown partner, and turned to Serene to see what the hell had happened.

"You guys! I didn't expect you to touch my Lord without permission and cause me even pain! I won't forgive you!

It was the hit of Butler's wrath that hurt the Lord. One of the elves who devours an intense body blow manages to get up while holding his belly down. That's how they noticed the presence of a little mouse, standing up to protect the pure white girl.

Butler's words don't make sense to them, but I understood that rat was furious from the way he swelled his whole body hair and protruded his sharp front teeth to intimidate him. And that the rat is not just a rat.

"Hey, rat? You, you got busted by that one?

"Ho! Oh, I want to hear it! What the hell, man! That's crazy!"

"You know what! I'm gonna get that little one anyway!

A mysterious man and beast that suddenly emerged, a sufficiently alarming opponent for an elf. An elf who hasn't been hit by Butler's body jumps back and takes the distance, keeping the bow in place.

The aim is Serene. Apparently, it was assumed to be the body that manipulated that powerful rat. Born in Japan and peacefully bogged down, Serene suddenly couldn't help but be confused by the status quo in which he was poked at his weapon. That look, full of gaps, is a good outfit for an elf.

Squeeze the string as it is, and the elf shoots and releases the arrow. The aim is Serene's leg. Suddenly the killing ended without knowing who this man was. To gather the information, the elf first tried to deprive Serene of his mobility.

Elf's bow arm was great. The unleashed arrows pierced Serene's feet in different dimensions - never. Before the arrows tried to pierce Serene's soft feet, the arrows broke down as if by magic.

"Huh!?

The elf was astonished. That too should have happened, that little mouse popped up and chewed up an arrow in the air. Elves use wooden arrows that bind the wax, but are reinforced with magic. Before that, the flying arrow is easily accepted and crushed in the air. That is no longer a level that can be called divinity.

"You guys... now you're really after the princess! Then let me get this Butler serious too!

Butler said, "Cut!" If you make an intimidating noise that is peculiar to small animals all the time, you instantly kick the ground. Its speed is tremendous, and it is not easily perceived as an elf with excellent motor vision. Butler is a warcraft that combines force that can obey bears and wolves with mouse agility and more than human wisdom.

Butler runs through the fallen leaves like a black shadow, hitting the ankle of an elf that was about to release a second arrow, all over his body.

"Around!"

Taking a strong blow to his ankle, the elf happens to fall to the ground. Immediately Butler changes direction with a sudden brake. Let the face of the fallen elf eat an intense tackle again. The elf had a severe concussion and passed out.

"Ko, you bastard.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

An elf who was earlier beaten to the stomach by Butler pulls out the dagger he was stabbing in the hip and sticks it out to the mouse. But there's no way Butler can avoid the blade of the handyman. Butler jumped. And when you land on a nearby branch of a tree, from the top of the tree, you aim for the back of the elf like a raptor that strikes a prey. This also struck directly, and the second elf fell to a depression on the ground.

'Princess! It is dangerous to remain here! We're getting out of here!

"Running? Duh, where!?

'Anyway, I just have to run in an open place with a little less wood! My lord, I will serve you!

"Okay!

Serene runs through the white, shining woods as she is pushed out by Butler's impending voice. Even when it comes to the place I opened it, honestly, everywhere and everything is filled with trees, and Serene has no idea where to go.

As Butler instructed, he tries to run to sew through gaps in trees that seem relatively easy to run, but all around are bright white trees that make him not even know where he is.

Still, Serene runs. I know that the elves don't have very good feelings for humans, and I don't know what they'll do if they catch them. Even for my dear sister Alye, I can't screw myself up here.

"Hino, Hino!

'Princess, it will be hard, but good luck!

Desperation was on the back, and Serene's legs were on. Serene is insensitive to athleticism, so she doesn't have the strength to put a wheel on a normal eight-year-old. What's more, the ground had bright white fallen leaves and tree roots everywhere, making it harder to run.

"Are you all right?

"Shit! What the hell is that? Those guys!

Not much time has passed since Serene escaped, and the elf youth regained consciousness. And that white girl and the rat caught sight of her running away with her back.

"That little one, he's not the only one......! Call for reinforcements!

"But now, it's Zana who's in the vicinity... and we can't call her on our own."

"You have no choice! You can't let them get away with this!

The elf youths pounded their tongues. She was such a shapeless girl that she was perfectly fooled. Being human beings, they enter their neighborhoods flat, and use beasts that are not of that standard. It may be difficult to catch him alive.

Only for a moment hesitated, the elf youth takes a wooden whistle out of their chest and blows it. Pie, and the tall sound echoes around him, and shortly afterwards, he sets up a bow and moves into the pursuit of the Serenes again.

"Looks like they've probably called some company! Come on, if you have somewhere to hide yourself... '

"Ha-ha!

Serene was running as her heart was about to explode. Running around even the white woods, not knowing where to look. There were plenty of bushes around, but those elves came out scratching the bushes in the first place, and if they jumped in poorly, that was the danger of getting bowled up with the others.

The elves were desperate, too. It's like twisting a baby's hand if you just pack the distance from Serene. But the mysterious rat the girl serves won't let it. If the elf releases an arrow, each time he hits his body, he changes the arrow's orbit, breaks it, chops it a thousand bites. When I do bad, I throw an arrow back at me.

Then you can't get close and use a dagger. Butler flies endlessly around like a triangle flying on a scaffold with the trees that grow all over it. It was like a bouncing bullet that jumped around willingly, a black junction that protected the girl.

Serene was extremely blunt-footed, but Butler's marvel was just experienced by the elves as well. Serene fleeing the lead, elves chasing it, and warriors standing in the middle (Butler). The distance between the three remained constant.

"You guys! Get out of the way!"

The time has come to break that antagonism. Unexpectedly, Rin's voice echoes the White Forest. Looks like it belongs to a girl from her voice. That shadow, which appeared far rearward of the two pair of elves, only looks like a bean grain because they are too far apart. A daughter-like figure dressed in a white coat sets a bow from the other side.

"Reinforcements! No matter how many times you do it, it's useless!

Butler neither escapes nor hides, but limps onto the ground in front of the elves to intimidate them. The elf youths were frightened when they saw Butler. The girl in the rear doesn't look particularly concerned, and shoots an arrow in a loose motion.

"Well, you're very confident."

I wonder if they just called me with an earlier whistle and I don't understand the situation? Arrows released from the other side fly straight without stalling. It still seems Serene is what you're after. But that's futile. As long as I have Serene Butler, I will break hundreds of arrows of this magnitude. In contrast to the long distance flying arrows, Butler catches the arrows in the same procedure as earlier and tries to chew them off a thousand times.

"Loosen."

The moment the girl groaned so briefly, the arrow suddenly loosened up and became like a string. Yes, her aim was Butler from the beginning. If you aim for the girl, Butler will always interfere. I poked there.

"What the hell!?

Butler's sight slips against the suddenly deflected arrow, and his sharp fangs cut the sky.

"Tie it up."

Immediately afterwards, when the girl acts like she is holding hands, this time a loose arrow wraps around Butler as if he were a living snake and restrains him. Butler held his whole body in limbo and plunged to the ground.

"Gu! Fucking demon! What is this?

Butler tries to escape by turning his back, but the sturdy crawl, which he was admonished with disappointment, will not frighten him with his power. Apparently, it was not the arrows that were released earlier, but the rod-shaped bamboo that was fixed by some means. And I also instantly understood that it was controllable at her hands, but the hour was already late.

"Butler!?

"Princess! Leave me alone, please run away! I'll take care of this place!

Butler exclaimed. No matter how powerful a warcraft Butler is, if he gets his movements sealed like this, he's just a mouse. Still, he was going to fight to the end to protect his husband. Because as long as he's here, there's a chance that even a second can distract him for Serene.

"No!

But Serene didn't pull off. For Serene, Butler was an important friend who could speak properly in this world. Serene was a bit arrogant talking to animals and plant opponents by herself because nobody had any friends in her lifetime. So I was really happy when I was able to talk to an animal that was a one-way street.

Serene is definitely a difficult pervert, but he was a person who poured out his spare love for the existence he liked. That is no different for Butler, who is a rat. And I loved Alye more than Butler, and the human man didn't care.

"You bastard!

Serene picked up two slices of bars that had fallen there, holding one at a time and becoming duplicitous. Serene is not just a vulnerable eight-year-old girl. Its beautiful and poor body holds the soul of a rough middle-aged man. To be honest, it's subtle, but for now, I was somewhat more struggling than an eight-year-old girl.

"Uh-huh!

Serene was beaten to death by the elf youths as they wielded their sticks in tears with both arms. The elves just faced each other because the girl who had been running around turning her back until now was suddenly attacking me.

"Princess! Please stop! I don't care about me!

"Uh-huh!

But Serene doesn't stop. Serene was the type of person who, when blood rose on his head, acted without thinking about it later and regretted it after it was over. The elves will soon return to me and set their bows. And again, the arrow is relegated mercilessly. This time there is no Butler. Only Serene can find a way in.

"Yikes!?

Serene screams wooden spirits. Serene had a stick in both hands and only looked before and was running, so she fell too far down with her legs taken by the roots that were growing on the ground. Thanks to this, the elf's arrows cut the sky and pierced the trees behind him.

"Evaded!?

The elves are stunned. I would have definitely caught you at that time. The girl dodged it instantly by laying low. Again, that girl should be on guard, not just the rat. The elves' vigilance jumps again.

But Serene didn't move with her thrust. Because he had a stick in both hands, so he couldn't get passive, and he punched him hard in the face and passed out. The elf youths were hardened by Serene eccentricity without knowing what to do.

"Hey, hey...... is he fainting?

"No, be careful. It could be a trap that keeps us alert."

The elf youths stay alert and pack their distance little by little. Butler was now paying attention only to Serene because he was completely powerless just rolling on the ground.

"Princess! Are you okay! Princess! '

Butler desperately calls on Serene, but Serene consciousness does not return.

The elf youths stuck Serene at the tip of their bow to see what was going on, but apparently concluded that they were really losing their mind.

"What are you going to do? Do you want to catch him?"

"No, I've never seen a bockenshire like this before. Let's get this over with."

"Wait! Don't wait!! Please, wait!

No matter how much Butler screams, it just sounds like the rats are screaming. The elf youths mercilessly retrieved the short knife. Closed eyes Serene is a young girl, albeit human, and the elves were driven by guilt, but the danger must be eliminated.

"Wait a minute!

A voice echoed from behind as the elf young man put a blade on Serene's neck. As the young men turned around, there stood an elf girl who had released her bow earlier.

She was a girl with silver hair bound behind her back, red eyes, long ears, but not a single head minute shorter than the youngsters, leaving her somewhere young.

"Dear Zana, but Bockenshire must be destroyed."

"She's not Bockenshire."

"Eh?"

When the elf youth replied as if they were frightened. The girl called Zana shrugged her shoulder, for Christ's sake.

"'Cause that kid doesn't have any luggage. Bockenshire would have been a lot bigger."

"If you ask me that..."

The elf youths see Serene again. She is dressed in a white dress and has nothing else. The elves were not very familiar with the humans' clothing, but I can tell by no means that they are not dressed to enter the woods.

"But it is true that this daughter was here. If you're not in Bockenshire, why are you here? And he had a strange mouse."

"Oh, that rat is you. Exactly. That one surprised me. When I heard the whistle, it was so small, I thought you were fighting the air at first."

"Rat, it's not you! Princess Serene's butler, it's Butler!

"Oh, angry? I'm sorry."

The girl, known as Zana, laughed at Butler in an unwieldy manner. He smiles uncontrollably, but for Butler, he's the enemy holding Serene's life, stripping his fangs to intimidate him while he's tied up.

"Surely the rat, you and this human child are not normal."

"What do you want to do? Do you still want to dispose of it?

"Hmm..."

Zana glanced into Serene's face as she put her arms around her and gave her a thought. Serene is a beautiful princess in the Dungeons if you just sleep in silence. Zana was also surprised by Serene's young but complete beauty.

"All right! Then we'll take you to the chief and turn to him for judgment"

"Chieftain...... are you at Master Gi's?

"Well, I'll carry this girl. You rats, please."

"But not dangerous? We'd better carry that child..."

The elves suggest to Zana. From the Elves' point of view, Serene, who freely manipulates Butler, thought he was the psychic and the one to watch out for. Besides, Butler is being held hostage by Zana's power, so it should be safer to carry him there.

"Heh heh heh! And this girl, she's not a bad girl."

"How can you say that?"

"Because..."

Saying so, Zana didn't even ask to stop around, and she held Serene's little body. Zana is also luxurious, but Serene's body was as light as a feather for the elves who move their bodies everyday.

"This child, what smells like flowers"

Zana buried her face in Serene silky white hair and let her face down. For the elves close to nature, the scent of grass flowers emanating from Serene was instrumental in de-alerting.

The scent of the grasshopper was creeping because of the seven falls of Serene wrath, which meant that for Elf and Serene, strangers were flowers.