Chapter 194 – # (Side Story) Ispin’s Beginning and First Trip – 4

Sia warned the approaching wolves by kicking the bonfire and creating sparks, but the animals did not give in and closed the distance.

Saliva flows like a waterfall from its sharp-toothed mouth, as if it had been starving for a long time, and its eyes sharply open as if you are our prey.

The wind carrying the scent of an animal made me realize that I was surrounded by wolves in a semicircle. Seeing the siege gradually narrowing, Sia kept taking a step back, hiding the blade behind her back.

“Is there a way to kick them out? “It doesn’t look like he’s going to step down normally.”

Although she was a runaway from home, she was the daughter of a country farmer. It was not unusual for a hungry wolf to hunt down a village’s livestock.

From that experience, I knew that hungry wolves would not attack unless there was a chance of success in the hunt. I used all my remaining stamina to go hunting, but if I failed, the only thing left was death.

Thinking that she could get rid of her if she successfully threatened her, she asked Sia if there was a special way.

“It’s not even a joke that a spirit is eaten by a wolf.”

Trembling eyes, cold sweat from tension. Even though he knows he is inferior and even though he is a person he dislikes, he has the will to protect the weak.

And because of the lack of specifics, she couldn’t have known that Sia was just pretending to be strong.

“I’ll help too.”

In her crisis, Lee Sang came to know Sia’s caring and kind heart beyond her grumbling tone. She had no intention of just hiding behind.

She grabbed the strongest tree branch she had prepared as firewood for the campfire and quickly sharpened the end on the stone floor.

I wiped the sweat from my forehead with the back of my hand, sharpened the ends of the branches, and burned the ends with the residual heat of the campfire to make them hard.

After completing her quick preparations, she looked embarrassed as she stood next to Sia, who was on guard to use her spirit magic whenever the wolf attacked.

“What are you going to do with one branch that seems to break easily?”

“It can attack soft areas or vital points such as the inside of the eyes or mouth. If we fight, at least I won’t make you fight alone.”

Is it because what I thought was just prey showed an attitude of resistance? The growling sound from the wolf’s mouth grew louder, and its approaching speed increased.

Sia pointed her finger at the flying wolf, which opened its mouth so large that it could fit a whole human head into its mouth.

When water poured out of empty space and pushed away the wolf that had jumped in front, the other wolves continued to attack as if it was nothing more than to attract attention.

If Sia had been alone, she would have been subject to the pack’s unique hunting method of directing the prey’s gaze and swarming in blind spots, but she was not alone.

When the tip of the wolf’s eyes or mouth was burned and hardened, and the hot heat threatened to pierce the remaining tree branch, the wolf’s momentum faltered.

At that moment, he threw the stone he was holding in his left hand aimed at the wolf’s head, and the wolf it hit made a screeching noise and retreated for a moment.

After a close exchange took place before a round of exploration, the injured wolf retreated, and the wolves that had been conserving their strength while maintaining the siege moved forward.

I thought there was no point in continuing to fight in a war of attrition like this.

“Sia. How many times do you think you will be able to use elemental magic in the future?”

Sia looked around and seemed to be counting the number of wolf packs, then bit her cute lip and spoke in an exasperated voice.

“If you have the strength to deal with a wolf charging at you from the front, it will be five times at most.”

Five shots wasn’t enough to take down the entire pack of wolves, but the plan I had just come up with was enough.

“Sia. “Can you trust me?”

“No.”

“… Isn’t this the moment to say you believe in something like this?”

“You said you don’t trust humans.”

I almost sighed at Sia’s unwavering misanthropy, but she held back and told me her plan.

Despite her harsh words, Sia, who listened to the story to the end, nodded her head after hesitation and decided to go along with the plan.

After adding the dried leaves that were prepared in the embers left in the campfire, the flame was sufficiently revived. I put in the twigs and kindling that got wet from the water that Sia sprinkled while defending.

Then, smoke with an acrid smell rose upward, and because of the hollow terrain where the fire was lit, it reached the ceiling and began to stay for a while.

Even though the surroundings were not covered with smoke, the stinging smell was scattered around the area, so the wolves lowered their bodies and tried to avoid inhaling the smell as much as possible.

He threw a burning tree branch at the wolves and shouted.

“Now!”

She ran in the direction that Sia had mentioned before and used her spirit magic in front of her.

A large amount of water poured out like a strong stream, sweeping away the two surrounding wolves and breaking their posture.

As I ran hand in hand with Sia towards the direction where the siege was broken, the wolves, who reacted late, probably lost concentration while avoiding the acrid smell.

Sia used her elemental magic once again, but this time it was not in the direction of the wolves. He threw himself onto the water flowing down the slope.

I looked at the wolf while holding Sia in my arms to prevent her from hitting a tree or stone in case she was about to use elemental magic.

It chased after the prey it had found so long ago, as if it would not let it go, but the hungry wolf’s running did not seem to be able to keep up with the speed of the water.

“I can see the water ahead!”

“Do as I say!”

Just before the water we rode down joined the river, Sia gathered all her magical power and gave strength to her whole body.

While Sia was getting ready, I measured her speed and realized that at this speed, she would immediately go deep into the water, so I took a deep breath and held it.

As soon as she joined the river and fell into the water due to her weight, Sia exploded with all the magic she had gathered. A flood occurred when the calmly flowing river turned into a torrent just after the dam collapsed.

Now, when she just had to go up to the surface and breathe, an unexpected problem arose.

As she is a water spirit, Sia’s body does not naturally float in the water like a human, but her body is the same as a weight attached to it, so she is held tightly to her and has to swim above the water to breathe.
I couldn’t go up.

“…!”

It was only after I knocked on Sia’s body a few times that she realized my condition and was startled and helped me get up to the surface.

“… Puh-ha!”

When I looked back, breathing heavily, the wolves hesitated, not thinking about approaching in the strong current, and then turned around with a look of lingering regret.

Seeing her as if she had given up on tracking her, she felt like she was alive now, so she looked at Sia. She seemed relieved that she had escaped safely, and a bright smile appeared on her face.

“Thank you for your cooperation.”

“Well, it was a good idea for a human.”

I was laughing internally at the shy tone of voice that made me unable to praise honestly, but it felt like the water was getting faster instead of slowing down.

I tilted my head for a moment.

As soon as I felt it pass through her thin membrane, I heard a rushing sound of a waterfall hitting my ears that I had never heard before.

No way? Probably not? Those thoughts flew away as soon as I saw the cliff falling in front of me, creating white air bubbles.

When I realized that the river we had washed down was a small tributary that joined the main stream of the waterfall, I was reminded of the neck-breakingly high waterfall I had seen when I first came to the valley where the spirits live.

I thought that if I fell like this, I would definitely die from the impact of hitting the surface of the water, even if it was deep water below.

The only way to escape the strong waves that could not be escaped by human strength was to hold Sia face to face.

I called to her with a voice so loud that it could not be beat by the sound of her waterfall.

“Si, Sia!”

“When I ran away, I used up all my magic power, so now it’s gone!”

Sia, who obviously realized what I wanted, shook her head in embarrassment and shouted.

As she looked at the waterfall and me continuously with trembling eyes, I truly felt that she had no magic left and that she wanted to help me.

“Magic power, if you give me just a little bit of magic power, I’ll do anything!”

“Magic attribute? How could that…!”

She didn’t have time to think deeply about Sia’s proposal. If she didn’t do anything, it was certain that she would fall off the cliff and die in just 20 seconds.

Handing over her magic power to spirits with whom she did not make a contract. A means to quickly hand it over in an emergency situation. There was only one means.

Sia also blushed and avoided looking at her, probably because she was prepared to say it.

Should I give my first kiss to a girl and to a boy who was grumbling and fighting with me just a moment ago?

At the moment when her head seemed to stop, Sia looked at me with trembling eyes and shouted.

“If you want to live, don’t attach meaning to it and do it quickly! “You idiot!”

I could explain for 108 reasons how important her first kiss was to a flawless virgin, but I couldn’t resist calling it lame.

He tightened his arms around Sia, pressed his body close to her, and then looked straight into her eyes and pursed his lips.

The moment I felt a shiver run down my back from the feeling of the thin, soft skin of my lips rubbing together. It reached the end of the waterfall and was thrown straight into the sky.

Her life was at stake, and her overly nervous heart from her first kiss began to pound violently, causing blood to circulate throughout her body rapidly, and her magic circulated quickly as well.