Chapter 192 – # (Side Story) Ispin’s Beginning and First Trip – 2

“Then, I will give you a little education as a guest and a novice spirit master. That way, you can choose the spirit that suits you and return.”

With a soft smile, the spirit sister began to explain the relationship between spirits and spirit masters and how to contract.

“Spirit and spirit master are partners with each other. No matter when we are happy, when we are sad, or wherever we are in the world, we rely on each other and stay together until the life of a spiritist ends.”

“Until the spiritist’s life ends?”

“Huh. If the spirit master expires, the partner spirit disappears as well.”

The eyes naturally turned to Sia. Isn’t the reaction of that spirit girl who shows an aggressive attitude a concern that she might win the favor of a mediocre human, make a contract, and then disappear?

“So, since the lower-level spirits like the hermit crabs that Shia showed me at the beginning have not developed much self-awareness, they can make contracts with just a little bit of talent without much difficulty.”

When she kindly added that it was because she did not feel the fear of extinction, she felt that the responsibility of a spiritist was heavy. She signed the contract because she liked it, but from the moment she signed the contract, she had to take on the life of her partner spirit.

“Since you have to get the consent of the spirit, wouldn’t it be easier to understand if I explained that it’s like a kind of marriage?”

“I see. Even in the village priest’s officiating ceremony, the words to be together for the rest of your life are always mentioned.”

Because I was naturally distant from other kids my age in the village, I didn’t know who was on good terms with whom, but suddenly, every time there was a wedding party in the village, those kids started dating? I remembered that there were many times when I felt this emotion.

And there were some kids who put handkerchiefs in their mouths and said the same thing, saying that I liked them first. It was only after seeing that I realized that they were all dating hard while I was busy studying.

“So, what happens if you continue to refuse to make a contract with a spirit priest?”

“What happens?”

The spirit girl smiled and slightly lifted the hem of her skirt. What was covered was her skirt, which covered the top of her feet. It was a bridge that was starting to fade.

“Just as humans reach the end of their lives and are buried in the ground, they only return to nature.”

When I was speechless at the shocking sight, he placed his hand on my head and lightly stroked my hair.

“If this happens, I can no longer make a contract with a spirit person. All we can do is stay here and wait for the time to disappear. It would be nice to have one less thing to worry about before then.”

Sia, who noticed the gaze looking at her as she said she was worried, pursed her lips and crossed her arms.

“No. I won’t make a contract with a human. The kid who left after signing a contract with a spiritist last year disappeared from the world after less than a year. “I would rather naturally disappear than sign a contract.”

Showing her resolute attitude, Sia turned her body and was about to leave the cave, but stopped at the boundary between the cave and the outside, looked back, and exhaled coldly.

“If you want to die, die alone. “Don’t kill the spirits for no reason.”

Joy. As she snorted and left, her spirit sister let out a long sigh.

“I’m worried about who will take that tomboy. Ha.”

Really. The words came up to her throat, but she didn’t say them out loud because she knew very well that this wasn’t a village.

After her brief training, she took a walk around the magical waterfall. She can be heard from far away, so if you’re close you shouldn’t hear anything except the sound of water falling, but surprisingly, the sound wasn’t that loud.

Is this also the power of spirits? While I was sitting on a fairly wide stone thinking this, I saw Sia walking somewhere in the distance.

At first, I tried to ignore the girl who had a bad attitude wherever she went, but as I thought about it, I started to feel like I wanted to pick on Sia who kept grumbling.

I followed Sia carefully. Although the sound of the waterfall was reduced by a mysterious power, it was not difficult to drown out the sound of my own footsteps.

As I looked around Sia, anxious to see if she might turn around, I made eye contact with her spirit sister. Sister Jeongryeong, who looked surprised when she saw me secretly following her, covered her mouth with her hand and smiled.

I stopped following and suddenly thought about what I would look like from a third person’s perspective. When the pretty girl, who had been grumbling ever since we met, headed somewhere, he seemed interested and secretly followed her.

I wanted to shout out that it was absolutely not, that it wasn’t like that, but if I raised my voice loud enough for the spirit sister to hear, Sia would have caught me, so I couldn’t say anything. I groaned and waved my hand, signaling that I didn’t know what I was mistaken about, but that wasn’t the case.

Despite her efforts, the sight of her waving her hand as if she knew everything and telling him to go quickly made her heart suffocate. She continued to pursue her, telling herself that when she came back, she would tell him she wasn’t real.

Sia stopped her steps in a forest a little away from the waterfall. As she sat on her tree stump and hummed, the bushes near her swayed and small animals stuck out their faces to her with interest.

Various animals, including squirrels, sparrows, and even deer, came little by little and stayed around her.

“Okay, okay. Are you very thirsty? You can’t go anywhere and spread rumors. Okay?”

When Sia put her hands together and held them out, water so clear that it seemed transparent flowed down and pooled in the hollow floor like her horse’s water trough.

Well, it’s not like I’m doing something unpleasant, but if I chase after her like this, there’s no way I’ll find anything that would bother Sia.

I let out a small sigh as I looked at the animals drinking the clean water that Sia created to their heart’s content. Suddenly, the animals raised their heads, looked in the direction I was hiding, became wary, and ran away into the forest.

“Ah.”

“Who is this. “It’s hiding there.”

Sia shouted in a much sharper voice than when she grunted at me, raising her hands and slowly coming out from behind the tree she was hiding in.

When Sia saw my face, her tense body relaxed. Instead, the corners of her eyes went up, and she suddenly felt angry.

“Are you following my lead? Lowest. “I can’t believe it.”

I just found it by chance while taking a walk nearby. As she tried to make an excuse, she remembered that it was not good to lie to the spirits, and she was unable to say anything.

“Joy. Even though she doesn’t answer, she doesn’t lie. So. Why did you follow me? An insidious beginner spiritist.”

“You’re insidious. “I was just following this kid who grumbled all the time and seemed to have no friends, because I was curious about where he went.”

“What, what! “I have more friends than I think!”

“Rather than seeing? Isn’t that what kids without friends say?”

My parents were worried about me not having friends, but my friends are books. It reminded me of painful memories from the past when I made excuses, so it hurt even after I said it. Sia’s body flinched sharply as if she had been hit right in the head, and she pointed her finger in the direction where her animals had disappeared and shouted.

“You just saw it! “My friends come to see me not just today, but every day!”

“You didn’t just come here to drink delicious water?”

“Wow, I’m annoyed! “Don’t point it out one by one!”

She must have thought she couldn’t win the argument, so Sia stamped her foot and she ran into the forest, huffing and puffing.

I didn’t mind going back like this, but when I saw the back of her friendless idiot, Sia, it reminded me of myself trudging back and forth from the village to the adventurer’s guild and home, so I couldn’t leave it alone.

“Why are you chasing me?”

“That’s because I’m running away!”

“Are you actually not a human but a hunting dog? If you run away, will I chase you?”

“Oh, he admitted that he was running away.”

“Don’t mess around!”

We were going round and round in the forest, but at some point we stopped. Grass and trees look the same no matter where you look. The sound of a waterfall that I didn’t even know was moving away because we were shouting at each other.

“No way, we’re not lost, are we? “I believe it wasn’t done randomly.”

“Si, it’s noisy.”

As I approached Sia, wiping the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand, she had a very embarrassed expression on her face. Her constantly shaking eyes even looked pitiful.

“Tsk…”

Seeing Sia’s embarrassed expression, which had been grumbling ever since we met, made her feel relieved, but a practical problem immediately came up. She just came out for a quick walk, so she didn’t take anything with her.

All of her food, drinks, and blankets to maintain body temperature had been left behind in the cave near the waterfall. Sia looked at me silently with her shaking eyes, but just because she looked like that didn’t mean she had a pointed way.

“How does it work?”

“Okay! “How about retracing your footsteps and going back?”

In response to Sia’s idea, we looked back at the remaining footprints, but only the first part remained intact.

The further you go, the more the ground becomes covered with animal footprints and thick roots. Since there were no footprints to follow, I had no choice but to admit it.

I am now shipwrecked with the spirit with whom I have the worst relationship.