Chapter 148 – Destiny.

The plains of Lantua, which originally boasted vast fields, had become a sea of ​​brown due to the long rain. The only trace of the field was the yellow plants floating in the muddy water, swaying back and forth along the current. It was raining, but the current was not rough, so the ferry boat was moving smoothly through the brown sea. A scene that makes the boatman sick of it because he is not used to it. Among them were some unfamiliar guests.

The boatman, who was rowing the boat and moving the boat, glanced at the guests on his boat while listening to the sound of the rain. He’s been doing this for a long time, and he’s ridden many people, but he’s never had a unique one like this one. Even a girl who is so tender that one would mistake it for a dwarf and a woman in a maid’s uniform. Normally, to alleviate boredom, I would have passed the time by talking to customers and talking to them.

Unless the weather was so bad that there was no room for conversation, the guests didn’t mind spending their boring time talking. But even that was only possible if there was a place to talk to the other person. He touched his nose, which he had put out to breathe. The lord who entrusted him with the work did not ignore him because he was a green dwarf, but there was no guarantee that his daughter and maid would do the same. In that case, it was fun to eavesdrop on the conversation.

How come they didn’t even open their mouths. The girl just looks somewhere around her with unknown eyes looking somewhere, and the woman holds her umbrella, closes her eyes, and quietly stands by her girl so that she doesn’t get hit by her rain. There is only It was very embarrassing to speak.

“I guess there’s something urgent about renting a boat at a time like this?”

Still, feeling unfair that he couldn’t even talk to such beauties, he smoothed his words as if he had come in by ear, and opened his mouth. I didn’t think he would get a good response anyway. As a man, I thought I would like to have a conversation with such beauties at least once. Just because they were green dwarfs didn’t mean their fair skin wasn’t pretty. At his words, Helena opened her eyes.

“You don’t need to know.”
“Yeah, that’s right.”

Sure enough, he laughed awkwardly at her harsh reaction when he returned from her. Fortunately, her eyes were sharp, but there was no hostility or revulsion in her voice. She was rather relieved by her nonchalant voice, just as she was looking at her other people.

“But isn’t it boring? There are a lot of stories that you know even if you’ve seen them!”

He said he was trying to get some attention. It was because I was bored quietly rowing the oars, let alone talking with the beauties.

“I’m not very interested.”

Unfortunately, it failed, but he couldn’t help but laugh bitterly. It would be nice if the guest was sociable, but that was only his wish, and this was a rather good first guest.

“Are they partners?”

He wondered at Helena’s next words and looked where she was looking. And he freaked out. It was because there were dozens of green dwarves, each riding a ferry, blocking their way. Barely covering their lower bodies with rags and proudly revealing their green skin, they were holding spears and jjangdol in their hands. The sight of him made him feel sorry for him.

Green dwarfs like him made a living moving from place to place in the fields, and when the fields were filled with water during the rainy season, before the fields were filled with water, they took money to pick up guests in their inherited boats. At this time, there were many people who made a living because gray dwarves and humans were able to deal with them, but among them there were also people who plundered like them.

“They’re thieves! I’m going to turn the bow first!”

He hurried back, but Helena glanced behind her and said,

“No. We are already surrounded.”

After listening to her words, I looked around and it was clear that the people on the ferry had tied their boats with thick ropes and imprisoned them. In addition to those who were blocking the road, there seemed to be others who were chasing them. Even if you try to escape through the gap, you will get caught in that rope. It was his negligence. Normally, I would have noticed it sooner and went back far away, but I was too preoccupied with the beauty of the customers. It was when he was drooling and didn’t know what to do.

“Mister? Eitri’s son’s?”

I heard a friendly call among the dwarfs, as if they knew him. He also realized that it was a voice he knew, and when he looked where it came from, he saw a familiar green dwarf.

“Grere! You bastard! Go plundering with the boat your father gave you!”

As he screamed, he responded by rubbing his ears with his fingers.

“Hi-go. You work like a man or a father to make money, but you’re a year old?”
“Do you know what kind of boat that is! It’s not a boat that I gave you to use for plundering, but digging!”

The ship the green dwarfs rode was not just a ship. It was a precious boat that they had inherited from their ancestors. It was more like iron than stone, and the boat, which was made of stone rather than iron, was very light, so it floated well in water and did not rot, so it was an item that they risked their lives to protect. But even so, Grere was reluctant to plunder with such things.

“Are you thinking of using the boat that your ancestors gave you?”
“I know that, damn it! Damn it!”
“It’s okay! Since you’re a man, just give me the money and the women, and I’ll send you back safely.”
“What!”

It was only then that he remembered that the guests on his boat this time were not ordinary girls.

“I want to taste the white skin and flesh of human women after a long time.”

Eitri was dumbfounded at the sight of the thieves, including Grere, gliding over them with lust. Then the other green dwarves caught his eye. Now that I see it, it’s because I didn’t know one or two faces.

“Rieur and Allir! These bastards who don’t even have blood on their heads!”

There were some faces he didn’t know, but most of them were just coming of age.

“Ah, that’s noisy. Thank you and I’ll send you safely if you give me money with those women.”
“I don’t understand. What did the humans do for our hunt?

At the same time, the sight of his spear tapping on his shoulder was threatening, so he groaned. He is not old, but he is not one or two hot-blooded guys, and he is surrounded in all directions like this, so it was when he was contemplating what to do with this situation.

“Are you acquainted with them?”
“Yes, yes. I couldn’t raise my head because the guys who were originally supposed to be boatmen sat plundering.”

He sighed at Helena’s words and said,

“Then there won’t be any problem even if you put them all in the water.”
“Yes?”

He could see it the moment he turned his head, wondering what he had just heard. Helena loading arrows into a crossbow that looks like a small bow.

“Catch that lady first… Kkeaaaaa!”

Grere, noticing this, tried to shout, but Helena fired a crossbow and hit him in the leg first. As the arrow pierced her knee joint, Helena calmly loaded the next arrow in silence as she screamed and fell into the water.

“Kkottong!”
“What can I do! Hurry up and catch me!”

After one more person fell into the water, they reacted belatedly and threw stones or spears at them, but Helena threw something she was holding in her other hand at them first. At the same time, boom! The sound rang in my ears. The green dwarves and their boats, where she had thrown her something, were breaking into pieces and sinking into the water while their boats were tossed mercilessly by the untimely waves. Because of this, everyone was at a loss for words.

“If you don’t back down, I’ll make everyone like that.”

They broke the siege and ran away.

“Let’s go now.”
“Yep!”

He was dazzled by the sight, but at Helena’s words, he rowed harder than ever before and was able to reach the base quickly. And after they entered the manor, he wondered if he was dreaming, and he remembered the pouch he had received from Donnar, opened it, and smiled.

“They were very scary people.”

Inside the pocket was a note from Donnar telling them to bring them safely.

“Are you alright? Maybe the aftermath hit.”

The first thing Helena did after entering the territory was to see her Belka’s condition.

“Because this was there.”

In response to her question, what the girl saw was a cloak lined with thick fur and lined with barbs. It was something Helena had covered for Belka just in case, but it didn’t protect her completely. Confirming that her girl was unscathed, she nodded her head.

“First, let’s go to my workshop.”

And Helena brought Belka to the house she originally lived in. She used to leave it empty, and she hadn’t even said that she was moving yet, so you could see the dust on her medicines and tools. Among them was the parched plant she was looking for. Helena held it out to her girl.

“If you chew a whole leaf of this plant, you will not get pregnant for about a month.”

She said the reason she came here was because of the tools she didn’t pack, but she was on the contraceptive pill. It’s a herb that’s more common than you think, but it shouldn’t have been caught by Donnar or Sif eating something like this. Dry herbs are bitter and difficult to chew, but Belka chewed the leaves of the herbs Helena gave her and swallowed them. But this wasn’t the only reason her girl had to follow her to her original estate.

“You said there are people you want to say goodbye to.”
“Huh.”

Helena seemed to be able to guess who they were. She recalled the image of Medea and Lyudmila she had seen when she came out of the conversation with Aeolus, and opened her mouth.

“Then I will take you to your business.”
“What about Helena?”

Helena closed her eyes for a moment as her Belka stared at her in her transparent gold.

“Because I have people I have to say goodbye to, too. I’ll go see you again when it’s over.”

She told her too, because she had things to clear before she left Lantua. Helena first took Belka to her closet. She was fortunate enough to be let in by guards who had not forgotten her girl, and she checked it out, turned around, and relived her memories. She wasn’t looking back at her memories, which were like her scars as before. It was just that the time had come for her to put them in her box, like sorting through old things. She sorted things out one by one, and the first place she reached was, of course, De Valin’s Magical Bookstore.

“There you are.”
“It’s Helena.”

When Helena opened the door and entered, she was greeted by an old de Valin, just like her memories.

“What’s going on? I haven’t heard from you lately.”

She kept her mouth shut for a moment and leaned her back toward him.

“I’ve been indebted to you for a long time.”
“…Can we meet again?”

His eyes stared at Helena anxiously. She shredded and spat out her words, trying not to trip over her throat.

“I do not know.”
“It looks like it’s going very far.”
“Yes. Then I’ll leave.”

As soon as she turned around, he nodded her head.

“Yes, maybe you’d better leave as soon as possible.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“The truth is, the book I received from the lord has disappeared.”
“If it’s the book you got from Aiolos-nim.”

Helena remembered the book he had written. It was a book he hadn’t told her directly, but she would have written about Sasha’s longing. She said that when she finished it, she gave it to De Valin because it was painful to even face it. But why is that book

“I definitely have memories of selling it cheaply to someone strangely friendly like an old friend. I can’t remember who that friend was or what kind of face he had.”
“You mean you sold that book?”
“Strange. Strange. I had no intention of selling the book to anyone.”

In the process, Helena and he were able to draw a common conclusion.

“You’re a wizard.”
“I guess so. So be careful. He seems really dangerous.”

But what De Valin didn’t know was that she had already met the sorcerer and that she was leaving with him soon after.