Chapter 114 – -113- How to Cook Elf Sister Rice (1)

The night is getting late, but I can’t sleep.

“As expected, this place is so… Stuffy.”

Taking a walk around the inn, I calmed my stuffy chest.

For us elves, who had grown up with the presence of the Mother World Tree throughout their lives, this environment covered in demonic energy was too stuffy.

Especially around the mansion where the monsters stayed, demons were firmly attached to it, so there was no green color to be found around.

‘Should I just go back’

As I sighed and was about to return to my inn, my senses caught the faint energy of life flowing through the unpleasant magic fog.

“What?”

I trotted to the water’s edge, scooped up some dirt, and dug out the seeds hidden underneath.

“Oh my God, there are still seeds that contain life force…”

It was a wonderful vitality. I am proud of the seed that has endured decades of demons, so I decided to give this seed some strength.

“Bloom”

The spirit’s power was blown into the wet soil around the river, which was stained red as if blood were flowing.

The seed buried under the dark red soil sprouts a cute sprout thanks to the energy of nature that blooms in my hand.

The sprout that overcame demonia with a little help, blossomed into a fragile life.

“Wow…”

“Estel? What are you doing there?”

“Ah, sister!”

After staring at the small sprout for a while, Laura appeared from behind and pinched my cheek, surprising me.

“Oh, Estelle. What should I do if I go out alone in the middle of the night! What a surprise my sister is!” There was warm affection in her gaze as she scolded me with a relieved expression.

“I’m surprised! I’m sorry sister”

“In the middle of the night without a word, uhhh…”

“Phihi… I can do my part too, so don’t worry too much”

“Ugh, from my sister’s point of view, you’re still a child, aren’t you?”

“Chi, my sister is true, it only looks like that in her eyes, and I’m the hero of the kingdom of Elbnia, and I’m the best elementalist on the continent!”

She was the kind Laura sister who cared for and cherished me, one head smaller than herself.

“Oh right, sister! I found something strange, that there were still living seeds around the mansion that was polluted with demons?”

I boasted to her of the sprouts I had blossomed.

“Oh, really?”

“Isn’t it amazing that seeds are still alive in this kind of land? Look, sister. Such pretty sprouts have blossomed.”

Laura’s older sister smiled and gazed at the light green sprouts that her sister had planted.

“Huh, is it the same color as our Estelle?”

She teased me comparing the buds she scooped up with her hands to the color of my hair.

“Is that so? Hee hee”

She looked at the sprouts in her hands as if they were precious, and said with a vague expression.

“…If the Demon King is defeated, this land will be able to receive the blessing of the Mother World Tree, right?”

“…I hope so”

I snuggled into her sister’s arms and pampered her. In contrast to the eerie atmosphere of the underworld, her older sister’s warm body temperature reassured people.

“Estel, too, is spoiled…How can you not treat her like a child?” My sister stroked my hair and said.

She spoke to me in a benevolent voice.

“Are you very anxious? Estelle?”

“…Yeah, sister.” She reassured me by gently rubbing my back. I could hear her little sister’s beating heart.

“Don’t worry, Estelle, you’ve got your sister by your side. As long as we’re together, nothing can hurt you.”

She soothes me with a quiet voice, and when I’m anxious, she always hugs me.

It was the reason I was able to maintain my composure even though I was away from my people and Mother World Tree.

If it hadn’t been for my sister, I wouldn’t have had the courage to join the fearful journey to subdue the demon lord.

When I was with her sister, I had nothing to fear, so I gladly accompanied her on the journey to save the continent.

It was a little distasteful to have to live with disgusting, filthy short-lived servants, but it was bearable enough for her sake.

“This friend, her sister will take it as a memorial to her, whoa… I wish I could take it back to her hometown.”

As long as she had an older sister, I could endure any ordeal.

“It’s late, Estelle. Shall we go to bed now?”

“Yeah! Sister” I took my sister’s hand and went back to her inn.

The little life we ​​left behind in the cursed land fit into a potted plant in our room.

Even in the middle of a difficult journey, I was able to make beautiful memories.

***

Upon leaving the mansion, Magi ran into a lucky pass through a slightly shallow place.

“It’s great luck. Because the demonic castle strongly sucks in demonic energy, the demonic energy around here is rather thin. It’s like a kind of demonic vacuum has been formed.”

The Magic Tower Master was interested and explained the phenomenon.

Whatever the reason, it was refreshing to be able to face green plants again.

The refreshing scent of phytoncide exuded by trees, the cold, wet soil that is soft and moist from the morning rain, and the warm temperature.

The grove, which was formed thanks to Magi’s thinness, presented a pleasant illusion as if it had escaped from the cursed land.

After a long time, while enjoying the green forest road, I witnessed a sudden surge of irritation.

Leon Sodus, the hero of the Kingdom of Lucas, was looking at Laura with a dark look.

‘It’s like a human who doesn’t even know how to fountain…’

Leon Souders. A male human race that was strangely popular with other humans.

I don’t know what part of this man the other human warriors are so attracted to, but as an elf, it was an attraction I couldn’t understand.

I admit that the face is not aesthetically bad. But human ears are ridiculously blunt.

In addition, perhaps because he used a sword so large that he was ignorant, his muscles were excessive, so it seemed difficult to move freely while stepping on trees.

He enjoyed eating meat, and showed a destructive nature in swordsmanship.

For her sister, a gentle elf companion would be suitable. It is not a human species that smells of meat and does not know the importance of mother nature.

He was looking at her sister Laura with her sullen eyes, so I made sure that her sister couldn’t have any crush on him from her.

“Sister, that person looked at me with strange eyes!”

“Yes?” Before he had time to retort, I took her complaint to her sister.

“Really~ You looked at me with sinister eyes? Ugh, it’s really creepy.”

“…Really? Prince Leon?”

With her sister’s flattering, quick tone, she questioned him.

He has a smile on his eyes, but anger peeks out between his narrow eyes.

She was tolerant of the damage she suffered, but she was an older sister who was infinitely sensitive to problems related to me.

Her older sister’s evaluation of him plummeted because of my words.

Despite her hard human efforts to make excuses, her sister did not hide her cold gaze.

I knew that expression, frozen in a smile, only came out when her sister was genuinely upset.

“…It’s still a dangerous place right now, so we’ll talk about it at the dorm later, Leon Souders.”

‘Me~long, I’m sorry, hee hee’

Enjoying the expression of the panicked short-lived male, I fell into my sister’s arms.

‘A sister cannot be taken away by anyone, especially to an inferior short-lived species’

***

That evening felt unusually long.

“Sister… Is it late…?”

It seems that the stupid short-lived species is being scolded severely.

As soon as she returned to the inn, she had a ‘serious conversation’ with Prince Leon and went out with a firm expression, saying that she would come, but she did not return for a longer time than expected.

“Hmmm, I guess…Isn’t there something wrong…?”

While she was away, she tried to focus on her books, but the longer she was away, the more my anxiety grew.

“Couldn’t the filthy humans be intimidating her sister?”

Could it be that she is using the fact that there are too many of them to bully her older sister, who is questioning Leon?

Or is it that she is trying to seduce her innocent sister with disgusting candy coating?

She couldn’t stop thinking bad thoughts. I got up and headed to Prince Leon’s quarters.

Just as I was about to open the door and enter, I heard my sister’s voice from beyond the door.

“…Yes, yes, that’s how you do it”

“…Whoops, like this?”

The older sister’s voice and the man’s voice came alternately.

There was no hostility in the conversation between the two, and a friendly atmosphere was conveyed.

‘For now…It’s not a bad atmosphere’

“*Tsugget*”

‘Huh..? What are you talking about…?’ There was a strange sound, like something damp hitting your skin.

“Is this right…? It’s my first time. Oh, that’s great.”

“…Whoops, it’s very big and heavy. How can I do something like this?”

“It’s hard at first, but once you get good at it, it’s very destructive.”

“…Then, *shit*”

“What kind of conversation is this…!”

My sister was worried. Alone with a sneaky man, what the hell are you doing?

‘No way, he’s doing something dirty…?’

Forgetting etiquette or anything, I opened the door at once and tried to enter.

“Oh, Estelle-sama! What are you doing here!”

The saintess suddenly appeared and stopped me with a smile.

“Sss, that…Saint, it’s a little bit”

“Are you finally ready to listen to Goddess Lumina’s words? I’m always welcome!”

With a much more enthusiastic attitude than usual, she held my hand tightly as if she would not let me go.

“Look, I’m really busy right now!”

“I follow the will of the goddess, where can I be busy!”

“Oh my! Right now, I’m really busy! Let go!”

As if she didn’t care about the noise around her, the saintess began preaching to me in a booming voice as if she were advertising all over the place.

Her voice was louder than usual, and her ears were hurting.

I barely shook off the saintess who clung to me persistently today, and I opened the door at once.

“Rion, what now…! What? Sister…?”

“Today was fun. Prince Leon. Oh my God?”

Laura stood at the door as if she was about to leave at any moment.

“It’s a surprise. Did you come to see your sister off? Estelle?”

My sister pushed me outside, and she quietly closed the door.

…As if there was something inside that I shouldn’t see.

“No, since my sister doesn’t come, I’m worried…”

“Whoops, he’s nice too, our cutie!”

She was a sister as usual. She was an older sister who always greeted me with a warm smile.

“Hehe…But, what the hell were we talking about inside?”

“Umm, just… This and that…? Oh, and you politely apologized for saying that what happened in the forest earlier was a misunderstanding? I guess it was a misunderstanding~”

“Uh, yeah…?”

As she went back to her room and chatted with her sister, I asked about the strange noises I heard earlier.

“Well, right before I go in, what the hell was your sister talking about?”

“Right before you came…? Oh, that?”

Laura unnie explained with a bashful smile as if it was not a big deal.

“I’ve used Prince Leon’s great sword once. As you know, I’ve fought all my life using only a bow and a dagger.”

“Uh, there was a strange clicking noise…”

“Ah, that? That’s the sound that Prince Leon’s frog makes. It’s so lively, it’s so lively that it keeps banging against the fish tank. It’s making a funny sound like splat, slap.”

“…Okay?”

Well, there’s no way my sister would do anything dirty with a man she wasn’t close to, but it must have been an illusion created by my mind worrying about her.

… It must be my mistake that her older sister’s dressing was a little more disheveled than usual.

She regretted that her older sister became friendly with Dan Myeongjong, but she was fortunate that the things she feared did not happen.

I was relieved and slept next to her sister as usual.

***

“…Sister?”

When she woke up in the middle of the night feeling a strange emptiness, her older sister, who had always slept with her, was gone.