Chapter 108 – Along the Alley.

Usher, who came to Lantua along with the Merchant, was adjusting to life here somehow. Sometimes the children would ask him how he became friends with the Medeas.

“You know what to do with that?”

Maybe you can be so shameless? It made him even disgusted to see the children he had pushed him into a duel to follow him and talk to him, thinking they wouldn’t remember him. At least he could understand something about Median and Ludmilla, but he couldn’t tolerate anything even about Belka. If you listen to Mediah’s words, the relationship between him and the girl is public. When he showed his fighting spirit, he would freak out and back off.

In fact, even if he seriously wanted to talk about how he became friends with them, he couldn’t answer. Because Usher had no way of knowing how he had become friends with them. He just came to his senses and he felt like he was friendly. Still, he unilaterally beat up the boy who was no different from the leader of the children, and he didn’t quarrel or bully him more than that, perhaps because of his fans. Even today, Usher was hanging out with the girls in his spare time after early morning training and eating.

“Does he really not bite?”

Lyudmila asked in a trembling voice. Presently they stood in front of the stables prepared for the horses. The reason for this was that Medea had told her that Usher was raising her horse, and that her curious Lyudmila wanted to see for herself. Seeing her horse in person, she was so frightened that she couldn’t even come close to her stable.

“Because I don’t bite.”

It would bite, but it was clear that at least a girl like Lyudmila wouldn’t bite. Usher, who inadvertently raised her words, could see that this guy was really mean to men and crazy about women. He seemed to know how the wolf Healys felt, who had taught him about it in the forest.

“Really?”
“Really.”
“Really?”
“Because it’s true.”

I don’t know how many times we’ve exchanged these words. If you’re scared, you can stop, but I can’t hide my curiosity, but I’m approaching you little by little.

– Purrung!
“Heheuk!”

Watching Lyudmila hurriedly fleeing behind the pillars of the stable when the horse grunted violently and returning to her starting point, it was easy to understand why it took so long for Mediah and her to meet again. Her impression was very sharp, perhaps resembling her uncle Heath, so how timid was she herself? But he didn’t even stop, and when I saw her trying to approach her horse, I felt so foolish.

“Cheer up! Ryuda! Are you really calm?”

Usher refrained from saying that she only said that to women. But since she couldn’t come too close, she rather moved her steps slowly, as if she was tired of waiting for her words.

“Huh?”

Lyudmila seemed bewildered by the sight of her white horse suddenly walking toward her, and she soon turned her face white. And when she finally got in front of her nose. She closed her eyes tightly, thinking that she might be run over by her horse.

“What?!”

She opened her eyes in fright when she felt goosebumps at the touch of her damp licking her cheek.

“Are you licking it now?”

She was blankly licked by her horse again.

“Oooh! I know it’s good, so stop licking it!”
“Maldo Lyuda must have liked her.”

They seemed to think that the actions of the words were because they liked them, but Usher, who knew the truth, sighed. Yes, she would have liked it. The two were children with a beauty that Usher could hardly see. I know that he is a womanizer regardless of race, but there is no way to explain it to others, so I just thought let’s see.

“Hey?! Eh, where are you licking!?”

Watching him stick out his tongue and lick Lyudmilla’s neck, Usher stepped up behind him.

“Hey.”

The guy tried to pretend he didn’t hear him while trembling, but that made him even more pissed off.

“This horny colt!!”
-Pu-hi-i-i-ing!

The screams of horses echoed through the castle, and Ludmilla blankly watched the scene.

“…Are horses originally treated like that?”
“Yes, according to Usher, it is good to break bad habits.”

She couldn’t get rid of the thought that something was wrong with Medea’s words, but she decided to believe it.

“Because something made me feel bad. Ugh, it’s wet.”
“I’ll clean it up for you.”
“Thank you.”

Belka approached Lyudmila, who felt uncomfortable with her horse’s spittle, and wiped the spit from her horse’s lick with her handkerchief. After watching the horses like that, they thought they would spend the day as usual that day.

“Do you remember this?”

If Medea hadn’t cautiously put a piece of old paper on the table to them gathered in her room. They knew the identity of the paper.

“Maybe Mea was in her mother’s room, right?”
“Were you holding that?”

Youngji’s appearance, which seemed to be roughly drawn on paper, was definitely the map they found when they visited her mother’s room.

“I was going to leave it alone, but the letters on the map got me in trouble.”
“Letter?”

I looked at the map thinking that there was no such thing.

“Are you really there?”

On top of the map, where there was nothing, there were unknown letters written in blue ink.

“What is this?”
“I don’t know either. I asked Sir Donnar a little bit, but he said he didn’t know the letters.”
“And Uncle Donard?”

Usher took a closer look at the letters on the map, but they were also unknown to him.

“Isn’t it just a joke and written randomly? It looks like letters.”
“It could be, but I think I remember seeing it somewhere.”

There was no strength in Mediah’s voice when she said that. As Usher and Lyudmila looked at each other at her downcast appearance, Belka reached out to her.

“Can I look at the map for a minute?”

Their eyes focused on the girl’s words.

“This letter. Can you recognize it?”
“Huh.”

Picking up her paper, Belka seemed to be examining her map, but she closed her eyes, put her finger on the unknown letter, and moved slowly through the letters.

“To Tomboy Ran.”
“A light?!”

They gasped at the scene that unfolded when the girl’s fingers moved down to the end of the letter at the same time as her words were quietly uttered. On the map that the girl’s finger touched, to be precise, blue light shimmered from that strange letter, and the blue light that made up the letters slowly permeated the map like a small earthworm and began to move. The blue light that permeated the map moved slowly and then stopped at one point on the map to create another shape.

“This is Perth.”

She was Usher, who had seen many spellbooks, so she could recognize them. It was a rune. It is a rune that she also remembered by name because the girl had called it.

“Perth? This strange picture?”

Lyudmila frowned as if she didn’t recognize her and looked at her map again, but she didn’t seem to recognize her after all.

“Yes, I’m sure. Regarding runes, I also learned from my mother…”

Instead, Medea seemed to recognize Rune as well, but she looked at her girl as if she realized something in her while she was talking. She removed her hand from the image map and opened her eyes.

“Belka, bar, what did you just say?”

Medea hurriedly asked her girl. Belka opened her mouth again as she looked at her as she looked so desperate.

“To Tomboy Ran.”
“Oh my god.”

Hearing the girl’s words in the same tone as he did when reading her words, Medea covered her mouth with her face, whether shocked or moved. And after a long silence.

“…Ran is what my mother used to call me.”

There was no way that Belka knew the nickname her mother used to call Medea.

“Wait a minute, this is it.”

Lyudmila looked at the map again. The strange letters from earlier disappeared without a trace, and only a blue glowing rune, as if pointing somewhere, remained on the map.

“Yes, I’m sure my mother left it.”

After her words, silence fell between them. With no one to speak and only looking at her map, Usher got a little frustrated and opened her mouth first.

“So what are you going to do now?”
“How are you doing?”
“I heard that it must have been left by my mother. Why don’t you look for it?”

Medea, as if coming to her senses at his words, opened her eyes wide and nodded her head.

“That’s right. My mother left it for me. I should look for it, right?”
“Then right now…”
“Wait! Not right now!”

At that time, Lyudmila immediately stopped trying to find the place marked on the map.

“Why?”
“Because! Look at this map. Do you think you can easily find that location with something like this?”
“That would be a bit difficult.”

She listened to her and she looked at the map again and it didn’t seem that easy. It wasn’t that the map was drawn in detail for each section, and only the outline was drawn so that it was barely recognizable as a territory. It seemed like it would take a while to find the place with that sign.

“So. Put it off until tomorrow at least.”
“Why is it tomorrow?”
“Maybe we need to prepare something to eat.”
“Oh, that’s right.”

Lyudmila’s words made sense. Usher has been here a little while, but she has spent more time in the castle and doesn’t know the way around the city. But to think that Mediah and Ludmilla knew it well.

“It’s about southeast of here. It’s in a place you don’t go to very often.”
“Yes. I haven’t been there much, thinking there’s not much to see here.”

Listening to their conversation now, it was hard to expect.

“I think we need a more detailed map to find this place.”
“Where do you get that?”
“Uhm, yes. Such maps are expensive and hard to find.”

She thought about it together, but she also couldn’t think of a good way for him. Then Lyudmila frowned at her, she said.

“Ha, let’s stop by my dad tomorrow and ask for a more detailed map.”
“To Lyuda’s father?”
“I don’t think your father will give it to you easily.”

Usher tried to think of her father, who seemed similar to her Heath, but was completely different. His impression is completely different from Hiss, but in a different sense, he seems to be strict. She thought maybe she would pour her nagging on Lyudmila.

“Ugh, I can’t help it. I’m sure I’ve heard nagging, but shouldn’t I find it there?”
“Lyuda…”

Medea’s moved expression made her blush. In the end, they decided to put off looking for a place on the map until tomorrow, and gathered food for the day or discussed what they needed. In the middle, Usher had to go to training with Donnar, but after training, he came back and continued the discussion. In fact, what did Mediah’s mother leave rather than looking for what she needed from the middle? She was busy telling each other what to expect.

Obviously, there must be something like a treasure, but the thought that it would be for Mediah did not change. It was just fun to talk to each other like this. Then Usher suddenly got up from lying down. Maybe she fell asleep while talking? Looking around in her dazed mind, she saw a darkened room that seemed to have fallen at night. The problem was that this was Mediah’s room, but he was lying on the sofa.

And when I turned to the soft touch of his arm right next to me, there was a sleeping girl there. It wasn’t uncomfortable because the sofa was wide and Belka was small.

“I need to pee.”

He stood up quietly so as not to wake the girl. Medea was seen lying on a large bed and sleeping quietly. Lyudmila was nowhere to be seen. She wondered if her uncle, Heath, had taken her, but Usher knew that Lyudmilla was sleeping with Medea. So, where did she go alone?

“Where did he go again?”

Usher wasn’t too bold to do her errands in the bathroom of Medea’s room anyway. I’m still worried because they’re girls of the same age. The biggest problem was that sometimes I had strange thoughts regardless of my intentions. Anyway, while I was looking for the bathroom, I decided to find Ludmilla, who had disappeared, and left her room.