Chapter 189 – Reasons to Move On.

-Kirrureuk!

I could see their throats quivering as if they were making creepy noises. Then, the black and sharp mane feathers decorated around its neck tremble together, threatening him. He wanted to run away, but his legs wouldn’t move. Perhaps noticing his condition, the other guys also came out from under the forest one by one. They were all slightly different in size, but they were all white and covered in fluffy white feathers, but they couldn’t hide their sleek bodies and sharp teeth. All seven of them, as if having fun, roared their necks and let out a low cry while waving their mane feathers all at once.

Usher swallowed at the sight of his long fingernails snapping menacingly at him. Their purpose was clear. I couldn’t help but notice the saliva flowing down their mouths. Usher intuited the end as he walked leisurely and surrounded him and slowly approached him. The salt water seeping through the cracks in his torn pants seemed to heal the wound. Even if I tried to move, I couldn’t even stand up, and the limit was to pull my body back while sitting down, and even then, the water up to my shoulders blocked my movement. I’m just immersing myself in the water, but I feel like I’m drowning in viscous mud. That was then.

-Kiruk?

Tu-du-du-du, they looked at the forest as if they were embarrassed by the sound of hooves coming from the forest. And not long after, a large figure emerges from the forest and rams one of them in the head, blowing it away.

– Kiriik!

As one of them drowned in the splash and night sky, they spread out, wary of the sudden intruding figure. Similar in shape to Hildisbiny, but smaller in size, Usher was familiar with it.

“You, how are you?”
-Hee hee!

He was the horse he had brought from the forest. The horse, with its white body glowing in the moonlight, cried once as if answering Usher, then glared at the guys around him again. One of them, who had been hit by a horse and thrown away, stood nearby shaking off his wet body.

– Kirik!
– Kiik!

Then they made noise as if they were having a conversation with each other, then rushed at them as if they were aiming for a word that suddenly intervened. The horse tried to defeat them by kicking them with its hind feet or shaking its head to shake them off, but it seemed difficult to drive them away with just that.

Hee hee!!

Sure enough, as one of them rode beside him, he saw the horse howling in pain. Even under the moonlight, I could clearly see its hook-like claws digging into my skin. Then Usher was awakened by the presence behind him. There were six guys running after the horse. Then what about the other one? Usher realized it and looked back, but it was too late.

– Kiriik!

Then one of the guys who had been sneaking out was seen jumping towards him with his mouth wide open. Usher could see it vividly in a slowed-down world. The sharp, claw-like claws he had hidden under the night sky glowed and seemed to cut him to death. What came to mind at that moment were the tears of a girl who had been neglected. She was at the same time as him. For an instant, something glowing white and square flew from behind him.

– Kreuk?!

The square flew right in, wrapped around the neck of the guy who was charging at Usher, and pulled him back. Then, In-yeong standing behind him is revealed. A man wrapped in an old cloth like a bandage was standing in the night sky. The shape of the square, thick knife shining in the moonlight in his hand tells us that it was the knife that caught the guy who had just run up to Usher.

-Kiruk! Kiik?!

When he pulled the loose cloth with his other hand that was not holding the knife, he could see that it was connected to the back of the knife as he was being dragged away. When he pulled it, the guy who was dragged by him as if he was flying in the air rather raised his claws as if he was going to attack his man using that momentum, but his sword moved first. He couldn’t even scream, and the thick knife he wielded fell neck and neck and disappeared into the night sky.

– Kick? Kirik?!

I’m embarrassed to see if the other guys saw it, and in the meantime, the horse struggles harder and shakes them off. The man didn’t miss the chance and ran towards her and brandished the sword in both hands of her.

-Kiruk!!
– Kiik!

In an instant, the heads of the two birds fall, and the head of the other is stamped with a foot, pushing it down into the night sky. Then he threw knives at those who tried to escape and cut them down. Seven of them slaughter in an instant, but the one left alone runs away until his tail falls off.

-Kiruk…!

It was pierced by a spear that had flown in from somewhere, and it fell limp.

-Pud deuk!

The man who confirmed it pressed him with his foot, and as the man still struggled to get away from him, the sound of his bones breaking just by moving his feet as if rubbing them against the ground stopped the movement of his feet, which had been struggling under the night sky. It happened so quickly that Usher could only stare blankly at him. At first glance, he seemed to see something glowing yellow in the darkness covering his face, but that was only for a moment.

“Mister! Did you find him?”

Nausicaa asked as she came out of her woods if it was she who threw her spear at the last of her, and Krikaliev was mending her cloth while he sold her mind to her.

“Yes, here it is. I caught the game.”

The guy he pulled out from under his feet seemed to have completely crushed his neck, his neck drooping.

“Ugh, I mean, handle it gently. How hard it is to see it from my point of view as a cook.”
“What about urgent matters?”

When she complained, he threw her dead body in one place and looked at Usher.

“How did you come all the way here? It’s better not to die.”

Usher knew him. That’s because he was one of the first people I saw when he woke up here, and I remember seeing him in passing. He took Usher’s hand and lifted him up. Nausicaa was surprised and Krikaliev clicked his tongue at Usher’s appearance as he was standing upright.

“It’s bloody!”
“It’s a mess. Let’s go back and talk, kid.”

As I listened to their words, the bitter sensation again pierced my legs. His pants were torn even more while running away from them, and they became embarrassingly tattered rags even wearing them, and the gaps were full of wounds. It seems that the bitter wound will wake me up, but I keep closing my eyes because I am so tired and in pain.

“Ah.”

And when he opened his eyes again, he was greeted by the rough leather ceiling with the wave patterns he had seen before. Suddenly feeling empty, I looked to the side and saw the inside of an empty dugout. After staring at the door of the dugout house swaying in the wind, I stood up in a daze for a while. When he removed the blanket covering his body, he saw his body and legs wrapped in bandages. Looking at her whitened skin and thinned body because she didn’t see the sunlight, it didn’t look like her own body either.

“…!”

Then, at the sound of people’s voices outside, Usher stood up. His leg was still sore and sore, but it didn’t bother him that much. Ignoring the discomfort of his hair brushing against the nape of his neck, I went out with only a bandage on my body and covered myself with the blanket that was covering me with reluctance.

“What if I miss it!”

When I came out of the dugout, the clear voice seemed to be somehow broken.

“What do you mean the vague reaction!”
“You can see it’s just hitting!”
“I didn’t change my eyes like you did!”
“If you twist it, you’ll wear a new one too!”

On the other side of the dugout, at the border of the mangrove forest, Krikaliev and a man in bone armor were bickering with sticks made of long twigs. Usher didn’t know how to intervene, so he watched and decided to get out of here. After all, they are also strangers to Usher. As it was, he intended to get out of here and find a place to stay.

“Are you thinking of running away?”

If only Krikaliev hadn’t spoken to him as if he had known he had come from the beginning.

“You woke up pretty early.”

Looking back, Krikaliev seemed to be still focused on something, but the man in the bone armor next to him was watching him. Eventually, Usher gave up trying to sneak away from here and went over to them and sat down. I didn’t think I could go far with a body like this anyway.

“Why did you save me?”
“Then you say that people are going to die, but are you going to leave them alone?”

I asked what I was curious about, but I had nothing to say when I got back. Krikaliev was still concentrating with the wooden stick on which the string was hung. But he still couldn’t get rid of his doubts.

“…Did Belka ask for it?”

Because of that, words like that came out before words of thanks.

“I can’t say no. It felt like I was looking for a couple while hunting.”

And when those words came out of his mouth. Usher couldn’t hold back his anger any longer.

“Why? Why!? Belka told me to bring him?!”
“I didn’t say anything like that.”
“Then why?! What the hell why!!”

Without getting hold of him. He wouldn’t even resent him. Why did her girl save him again after he foolishly abandoned her? Why? Then there was a shock that hit him on the forehead. So he looked up and saw Krikaliev’s hand in front of him. He had blown Usher off. It must have been a light night, but her forehead hurt as if it were about to swell and her head throbbed.

“I’m frowned!

He clicked his tongue and lifted and released his stem lightly.

“And you kicked it. Then why are you looking for it again?”

Usher had no choice but to wait quietly until the fishing was over. The only limit was to hide the tears and hide the crying. He couldn’t quite understand why he was doing this.

“Today’s fishing is bad. It’s a day off anyway, so it doesn’t matter.”

When Usher was exhausted and had no strength to cry, En Krikaliev grabbed the strange fish with his legs and clicked his tongue to release them into the water.

“Have you calmed down?”
“…Yes.”

Feeling ashamed that he had let out strangers and cried on his own, Usher replied calmly.

“Then let’s go back to the inn.”
“But.”
“Follow me for now or tongue.”

Whether he hesitated or not, Krikaliev dragged him along toward the inn.

“What about my clothes?”
“These days, even rags are called clothes? I threw them away.”
“This blanket…”
“Take it to Jeremiah yourself later.”

Usher was the first to know the name of the strange man in the bone armor. As he accompanied him to the inn, he squeezed the blanket tight to keep it from falling. Under the blanket, no matter how much the whole body was covered, there was only a bandage. That’s how I arrived at the inn with Krikaliev. The first thing I noticed in the yard was the figure of a white horse groaning in bandages. Come to think of it, it was that guy who ran to him and saved him before Krikaliev came. As Usher watched, he heard Krikaliev speak.

“Thanks to that guy. If he hadn’t noticed where you were and ran out first, you’d already be eating.”

Usher absentmindedly approached the horse and stroked its neck. Why? I don’t think he paid much attention to this guy. All I did was ride and run or pick up girls because I wanted to imitate Mr. Donnar, who just fed me food to feed me and sometimes rode a Hildis beanie. That was all. Why did I run so desperately to save him? It wasn’t just a big deal to him, it was rather annoying.

“Mister? Where is he…”
“Leave me alone for now.”

Even when he leaned his head on the guy’s body and cried, he didn’t reject his words and stayed still as if to comfort him. The action was rather painful and sore, which made it even more painful. Why can’t I hate him for being such an ugly, pathetic, idiot? Why.