Chapter 466 – Wreaths.

“Hmm.”

As soon as Usher got up, the first thing he looked at was the window. Then, what was reflected was still a sky full of dark clouds. It didn’t rain, but it wouldn’t be strange if it rained at any time.

“Is the festival going on like this?”

Looking down, I saw a street lined with colorful flowers. Numerous flowers showing off their colors as if it didn’t matter what the mood of the gloomy sky was.

Beneath it, I could see a large number of people in groups of threes and threes laughing and moving their steps somewhere.

“Is that the reason you set the time late?”

Usher remembered Lidica’s words for delaying the festival, and opened the door and left.

“Huaam, are you awake?”
“Ugh.”

Then, Lidika and Elkana, who were sitting at the table in the living room, greeted him half asleep. He was still staying at Lidica’s house.

As for what happened, it goes back to the day when I was looking for an inn.

“Look elsewhere!”

Bang! Watching the door close, Usher wondered how many times this had happened. It is said that the first two inns that Lidica introduced were literally used by the poor.

“Would you really accept it in a place like that?”

Usher doesn’t have to be expensive, so he asked to introduce me to an ordinary inn, and Lydica smiled bitterly. In the end, though, she guided me to the places she knew.

“Can’t you do it here too?”
“Okay.”

Seeing that he had been spurned by the innkeeper again, Lydica nodded her head and glanced at Elkanah at what she had to say from her hiding place.

“…”

She stood quietly, holding onto his cloak, eyes not knowing what she was thinking. Until now, the only time he had been rejected from the inn was after they had seen Elkanah together, so he was worried that he might be hurt, but there was no such sign.

‘Is hostility toward witches familiar even to children?’

Among the countries he had seen, Paciphenia was one of the most hostile towards witches. The reason is also.

‘My parents died because of dragons!!’

He recalled the image of Seol Si N, who had never shown it while living with him, and cried bitterly with a murderous look.

‘Did they say that the witch called the dragon?’

If that were true, I could understand why the people of Pacifenia, including Sulsien, hated witches. Usher was now somewhat aware of the situation in Paciphenia.

‘Everyone is strangely trusting the words of the Führer.’

Pacifenia is a form of voting to determine the representative of a country. The newly created Parz was also made in a similar form, so even if I didn’t want to know how abnormal the situation in this country was, I kept stepping on my eyes.

There is a difference of opinion in choosing the person who decides the future of the country through voting, and the majority of people choose people they trust or are familiar with, so the votes eventually diverge.

But what about Paciphenia now?

‘Even the king of a country wouldn’t be so blindly trusted.’

Not to mention, even the Cait Sis had some resentment towards their king, who was of the same race. But now Paciphenia has completely overturned that common sense.

‘Everyone supports the party to which the president and his aides belong.’

Usher wandered the streets comparing information he had obtained from adventurers in exchange for alcohol at the guild, but almost everyone believed in the Führer and his party.

‘The result is 20 years, 4 consecutive terms of the president with a period of 5 years.’

In the meantime, even the representatives of each district were filled with his people.

‘Donnar was a rebel in a place like this.’

Usher was conscious of wanting to take Donard’s side because he was indebted to Donard, but even taking that into consideration, the existence of Pasifeneia and the Führer ruling the place was bizarre.

‘What the hell is the president here thinking?’

It was even more unbelievable that he had talked about witches. Even if it’s true, how can you believe something that insists on authority without any basis?

‘Maybe it’s because I don’t know much about this country.’

Usher remembered a pair of rings in his bag.

‘Cessipia.’

At one point, he wondered if he would be able to find out something by visiting the family that he was the representative of the district, but he shook his head. Isn’t it already a broken relationship? I didn’t want to leave regrets.

“Hurup, would you like Usher too?”
“Please.”

While he was lost in his thoughts, Usher did not refuse Lidica’s invitation to drink coché. Anyway, this is what Lidica, who was watching him who was in trouble after being rejected from all the inns, talked about it.

‘There’s nothing we can do. Just stay at my house for the time being.’
‘Isn’t it troublesome?’
‘It’s embarrassing… But I can’t just leave that child alone on the street!’
‘Then, only this child will sleep at home…’
‘Profit! Just come in!’

In the end, he continued to stay at Lidica’s house. Now, getting her to drink her kochet is quite a habit.

“Uhm, I guess now.”

After a leisurely morning, Lydica stuck her head out again, checked outside the front door before signaling them to come out.

‘Is living with other people a problem after all?’

It is known that even among the despised witches, Dimacaeri are given special treatment.

People immediately wrinkled their faces when they saw Elkhana, but there were very few people who openly cursed or showed dislike to Lydica, even though she seemed to be shy.

Usher had a lot of things he wanted to know about him, but he never got the chance to ask them.

“Come on! Come on!”

Especially when I look at those blue eyes that seem to bloom brightly every time I look at him and talk, I want to forget what I have to say and focus on this moment.

“Are you holding a festival on a day like this?”
“If it were a normal festival, it wouldn’t have been held during the rainy season, but the Hunhwa Festival is a bit special.”

A quiet street because almost everyone headed to the place where the festival took place before.

“What kind of festival do you think Mr. Usher is?”
“On the surface, it seems like welcoming spring. Are you offering flowers to someone like the name suggests?”

They walk together through the splendid but lonely street, where only the colorful flower decorations hung on the streetlights announce the festival, overlapping the sounds of footsteps.

“Um~ Only half of them are correct.”
“It’s difficult.”
“Mr. Usher is new to Paciphenia, so it can’t be helped. So, the flower festival is…”

Lydica stopped her words as if to explain herself. When I look at her with a puzzled look, she laughs playfully as if she had a good idea.

“Why don’t you see it yourself and guess it? I’ll give you a prize if you get it right, but there’s a penalty if you get it wrong?”
“Is it a prize?”
“Hehe, it’s good to expect a prize, but it’s better to be afraid of a penalty? Do you know what kind of penalty I’m going to give you?”

As she watched Lydica make a mischievous expression as she leaned on her waist, she let out a smile of her own and stretched out her hand and cupped her chin.

“Huh?”
“I wonder if Lidica knew what I would ask for as a prize and would make such an offer.”

She whispered as she tugged at her shoulders as if they were about to kiss, and Lydica’s face instantly heated up as she stared at him as if she was bewildered.

“Hey, naughty things are not allowed! Ban! Ban!”

Engulfed in his momentum, she swung her hand away with a sound close to a scream.

“I’ve never really thought about that.”
“Eh.”

Tung-tung, Usher tapped the helmet I was wearing and talked. Lidica’s face, which returned to its original color for a moment, soon turned redder than before and began to stare at him with sharp eyes.

“Seriously! Let’s see! If you really get it wrong, aaaaa! I’ll give you a terrifying punishment!”
“Then shouldn’t I raise my prize accordingly?”
“Hey! No! No! Do I have to know what you’re asking for?!”

Startled by Usher’s playful remarks, she pushes herself. Still, she doesn’t stop laughing. It’s hidden behind a helmet, so you can’t really see it.

“Aww! Wait and see!”

Ridika took the lead, stomping her feet as if angry, but when a street full of people appeared in front of her nose, she stopped as if embarrassed, and she glanced back at him.

“If we just go in, we’ll fall apart. Why don’t we hold hands?”
“Yeah, yeah! Uh, it’s just that I don’t like things bothering me at all!”

When he reached out her hand first, Lydica shyly placed her hand on top of his. Seeing their hands touching like that, I felt the difference in the size of each other’s hands.

Even though they must be made of the same iron and leather, Usher’s was crude and thick, but Lydica’s was thin and delicate enough to make one wonder if it was a gauntlet.

“”Ah.””

The moment they met, they made a strange voice together.

“”…””

While one side of my heart is tickling, I want to be silent in an awkward atmosphere for a while.

“When are we going to go to the festival?”

The one who broke the awkward atmosphere was Elkanah, who tugged at his cloak.

“Oh, that’s right! Let’s go!”

Only then could they come to their senses and enter the street where the festival was taking place together.