Chapter 191 – # (Side Story) Ispin’s Beginning and First Trip – 1

Although he was born in a small village where he made his living through hunting and gathering, he was able to grow up without any shortages despite the irregular food situation.

I vaguely thought that when I grew up, I would follow the path of a hunter while doing sword fighting with tree branches with the neighborhood kids and learning how to make traps.

One day. A person came to visit us, saying that an adventurer’s guild had discovered a dungeon nearby and that they wanted to set up a branch office in our village to manage it.

I don’t know whether the village chief was worried about the word dungeon or the frequent visits of outsiders, but after thinking about it for quite a while, he allowed the branch office.

The adventurer’s guild built an inn in the village’s spare land and settled there. Although the number of outsiders visiting increased, the things that the village chief was worried about did not happen.

And about a year later, when they reached the age of 15, the head of the adventurer’s guild accepted into the village suggested that the children take a talent test.

The adults were against it, but the more the children opposed it, the more they wanted to try it. I secretly tested my talents at the Adventurer’s Guild, avoiding the eyes of adults, but most of them were a failure.

I nervously raised my hand, thinking it would be a disaster, but I got a different reaction from the kids. The head of the branch office smiled very happily and praised him for his talent as a spiritist, and smiled brightly when he was told that he had mysterious powers.

And then the bullying began.

It was a natural story. All the kids got together and took a talent test, but that kid was the only one with special powers? Naturally, I became more distant than usual, and keeping a distance meant bullying.

Adults were embarrassed to learn that kids who got along well were suddenly being bullied, but no one, including me, answered the reason.

It’s funny, because even in that situation, I was afraid that I would be severely scolded if I was caught secretly taking a talent test. As I naturally became distant from the kids, the branch manager felt sorry for me and offered to help me learn special powers.

The hand that first touched my arm was cold.

Even if I had suspected that she was a vampire at the time, the story would not have been much different. The world was already torn apart by vampires, and it was a ruling structure that would not be shaken until the descendants rose up and killed each other.

As a child, I learned the basics of spirit magic and decided to go on a journey to obtain my first spirit.

My 19th birthday, when I decided to go on a trip, was a sunny spring day.

It was a trip I took on impulse without telling anyone. All I wanted to do was to come back and surprise him once I got the spirit.

There was an incident where I had my food stolen by a squirrel while I was sleeping in the field when the weather was perfect for a nap.

There was a time when I entered a small cave and ran away scared by the bats pouring out.

Sometimes, because I was threatened by a very excited wild boar, I climbed up a tree and cried.

At the same time, I didn’t encounter any threats such as orcs, goblins, or bandits, but now that I think about it, I thought that the branch manager had secretly chased after me and eliminated the threats.

“But is this story interesting?”

I stopped talking for a moment and looked around. On the bed, with me in the middle, Angelica was looking up with her head on her left shoulder and Yuna with her head on her right shoulder.

Even if the two people were curious, Sia, who was sitting on the boat looking down, already knew everything.

“Ispin is about telling a story that you have already experienced, so it may feel boring. When she likes someone, she wants to know everything about their past.”

“It’s been a hundred years. No. “We’ll probably be together for over a thousand years, but doesn’t it bother you if you don’t know something?”

“Is that so?”

Although they came from different backgrounds and had different levels of civilization in the world they were born in, I couldn’t help but nod when I heard that these two people were sending me love. What would the listener say if it was fun?

“And above all. “Sia knows everything about how we and Ispin met, but it’s a bit weird that we’re the only ones who don’t know how Sia and Ispin met.”

“That’s right. I feel ashamed because it feels like my secret has been revealed. Since we will be living together for a long time, I think we need to know this now, in the beginning.”

In order to calm down the two people who secretly shared their true feelings, he reached out his hand and gently stroked Yuna and Angelica’s waist and continued talking.

It had already been a week since I left the village and started walking around. It was around this time that I started to think that I would worry a lot if I didn’t go back home. I could hear the sound of a waterfall in my ears.

The bag that I had stored the drinking water in was thin, so I went closer to the waterfall to fill it, but no matter how close I got, I could only hear the sound of the water and not see it, which was scary.

After finding the waterfall, I realized why I could only hear the sound. It was because it was such a large waterfall that the sound could be heard far away. So, even if you heard a sound and went in that direction, it was a waterfall that you couldn’t find unless you walked for a while.

There were a lot of women around the waterfall, and surprisingly, it felt clean and green, unlike other people. As I walked through the bushes and got closer, they noticed a stranger and gave me wary looks. When they saw that, I raised my hands and spoke cautiously.

“Could you please bring some water? “I’m thirsty.”

After talking carefully and waiting for a while, they whispered among themselves, and then a girl of similar height to me approached, making the sound of her bare feet stepping on the dirt.

“Who brought you here? Do you know what this place is doing?”

“I was walking around the area for a short trip when I heard the sound of water.”

“You heard the sound of water?”

The girl looked at my face in disbelief. While she was getting worried, wondering if she had come to a place she shouldn’t have, she heard a voice coming from the direction of the waterfall.

“Just let them in.”

“Yes? But he’s a human?”

“It doesn’t look like it’s going to cause any harm, it has a good heart, and you can sense the spirit’s energy.”

When she was suddenly surprised by the story of her spiritist, the girl lowered her upper body and raised her head to glare, as if she was very suspicious.

“Is this a spirit temple?”

“What’s wrong with me?”

The girl’s eyes narrowed as she inadvertently reacted harshly, remembering how she had been ignored in her village because she had become a spiritist.

“You. “What’s your name?”

“You know what to do. “There is no name to tell a rude person.”

“What? You are so funny. Do you think you don’t know what you came here to do? You came here to sign a contract. Contract. “It’s not the place for a shabby spiritist like you, so I’ll hand these kids over and send them on their way.”

I thought I had picked up something that looked like a pebble from the floor, but when I looked closely, I saw something that looked like a small hermit crab wriggling around. It looked similar to the picture of the lowest level spirit that the Adventurer’s Guild branch manager had given me.

Suddenly, I couldn’t understand what was going on, so I stood there in a daze, and the woman who had told me to let her in from the side of the waterfall came up and hit the girl holding her hermit crab on the head.

“Sia. “I told you to stop acting like that, right?”

“Mr. Ui. What did I do wrong? Humans are happy if you give them something like this! Ah, it hurts, it hurts!”

The girl, called Sia, screamed and then went limp as her head was whipped around with her fist. Sia was crying, and I was embarrassed, unable to accept the change in her situation.

That’s how our meeting started.

When I came to my senses, I was led to a small cave near the waterfall. It was a very sweet and delicious fruit that was treated as the only thing humans could eat.

Is the sugar that I only heard about in the Adventurer’s Guild this sweet? It was so delicious that I ate all the fruit they brought me to the blink of an eye.

It was so delicious that I saved a few pieces and didn’t even think about going back and giving them to my parents.

“Joy. “You eat so undignifiedly.”

“I didn’t mean to interfere with what other people eat.”

“What? When did you interfere? “I was just passing by and saw it and said to myself.”

“Thank you. “I ate well.”

She ignored Sia and smiled broadly and thanked the kind adult next to her.

“What. “Are you ignoring me now?”

“I’m glad it suits your taste. “It’s been a long time since someone with the qualifications of a spiritist has come to visit, so I can’t treat him with neglect.”

“I would like to ask you one question. How did you know that I had the qualities of a spiritist? “The village found out about it through a special prosecutor, and I didn’t know anything before that.”

“Hehe. Are you curious about that? That’s natural. “We”

Because it’s a spirit.

Although the words sounded very small, they felt big to me. It was surprising to meet a spirit that I had vaguely hoped to discover, but also a spirit that could talk and communicate like a human.

It was something that wasn’t even found in books about spirits.

The spirit sister laughed as if she knew I would be surprised and suggested in a soft voice that we should stay here for a while and then find a spirit to stay with and make a contract and go back. Of course, she nodded.