Estio Volume 6
- Episode 3
"......how did you know?"
"What?"
"That I am agnostic."
"Haha, once again! It's not the face of a person who believes in God just by looking at it."
"gibberish."
There is no way that such a face shape is fixed. Yeon-yeon-rang, who thought it was her nonsensical joke, wrinkled her expression, and Moo-bin lifted her finger.
"I'm joking, you're not a citizen of the Ruvarzan Empire. Monotheism is a special religion that the Empire has made the state religion."
"The denomination also exists in Eastern countries. It is not well known."
Even after listening to Yeon-yeon-rang's response, which sounded a bit gloomy, Moo-bin said, "Is that so?" and stretched out for a long time. He didn't care what god he believed in in any country.
"Then do you believe in God?"
"Ugh."
At the return of the arrow, Mubin gave a rather annoyed expression.
"Imperial nobles are baptized from within their womb. It means that their beliefs are already decided even before they are born."
"It's a compulsory belief."
"Whatever it is. Personally, I know that gods exist, are interested in humans, and are often involved."
Black eyes glanced towards their master.
"believe."
Moobin has spent his whole life searching for traces of the dragon he signed with Seonjo. Had he given up along the way, it was a belief he might not have gained.
Estio silently searched the gold coin garden in the center of the room, leaving behind their conversation. Parker also came and crouched next to him, who had no interest in flashing gold and was only digging hard.
"Leader, are you looking for something?"
"...a box."
"What box?"
Hearing that, Parker wondered if Estio was looking for the treasure chest. But the explanation that followed was different.
"The bugs have been asking me since a while ago. Find a wooden box."
It means that he was only looking for a wooden box among the scattered gold. Parker, who somehow thought the answer was Estio, put his hand in the pile of gold coins and dug through them together.
"If you ask me to find it, it seems that there are very important items inside."
"I'll look for Neju too!"
Neju, who had a large body, began to focus on high-stacked objects. Mubin and Yeon-yeon-rang, who were fighting each other, joined in the search for the box without saying a word, and silence fell in the room.
How much time has passed
Because it was underground, there were only blue insect lights and flashing gold in the room where there was no sunlight, so it was difficult to estimate the time. Parker, who had been crouching for a while, rummaging through the gold coins, patted his back and stood up.
"Aww, it's Saksin. Can you find this?"
"If you don't give up and keep looking, you'll find it someday. Let's think positively, my friend."
Mubin, who had no sign of difficulty due to his physical ability, responded calmly by putting a gold circlet on his finger and turning it round and round.
Then Parker looked up at the tight ceiling and worried.
"Yes, yes. But it takes a while. What if the desert crabs you left behind are eaten by monsters?"
"Uh, that's a bit worrisome. It's a bit far to go back on foot."
"...I'm worried about the desert crabs."
"Yeah. I'm worried about them too."
Both are talking to the same thing, but Moobin, unlike Parker, was only concerned about losing his means of transportation. Under that friendly, playful look, Parker was sometimes terrified of Duke Heyga, who didn't give up a single ounce of affection.
Perhaps even if Parker or Neju, whom they have traveled together, die, Moobin's impression is, 'Oh, that's so bad.' She might have ended up in degrees. Parker sighed, but she just shook her head.
"What?"
Neju, who was looking at the high shelf at that time, tilted her head. Then she shouted brightly.
"I found it!"
"Oh."
The group immediately stopped the search and gathered towards Neju. Indeed, there was a wooden box atop a high shelf. Neju, who was too big, couldn't reach it, so the tip was high enough to indicate the location with a hand gesture.
It was up to Winged Parker to get the box out.
clap.
"Uh-huh, I should have looked into this from the beginning."
Parker, who picked up the box and went down to the floor, regretted it with a shy face. Moobin, who had slapped her softly falling feathers with the back of her hand, giggled in sympathy.
"Yeah. Why was the winged friend digging?"
"It's a wooden box, so it feels like it's buried somewhere..."
In addition, Parker, who added an excuse that it is very difficult to fly in a small room, held out the box in his hand to Estio.
"Is this right, Leader?"
「……!」
「……」
As soon as Estio received the box, the insects suddenly began to run wild.
slurp slurp.
Parker glanced back at the loud noise of bugs bumping into each other. And he swallowed dry saliva. He could not enter the room, and the flickering blue light rushing to the entrance felt a bit eerie.
Seeing the box, the bugs were flying around with excitement.
"Help me."
The sound they were making was so loud that Estio, who listened to it, had a headache.
'Because what's in this.'
Estio pushed the lid hard.
Click, the box opened.
The group's eyes gathered in the box that was opened so easily that it was overshadowed by the worry that it might be specially sealed.
"Gold again?"
Parker muttered blankly as he saw the thing glowing with a particularly bright light inside the box. Then Mubin shook her head.
"Wrong. No gold this time."
woo woo
The light emanating from the box dyed the faces of the party in golden color. It was dazzlingly bright, and the color was so beautiful that it was mesmerizing. Even Estio, who opened the box, couldn't take his eyes off the object.
"This is what it is."
It is something incomparable to the gold that is now under your feet. Everyone instinctively felt that way. It was at that point that the cactus, which had been sleeping quietly in the flowerpot, woke up.
「'Scales of the Yellow Dragon'.」
It was just a spit, but it went so well with the shiny object in the box that Parker followed Ahur involuntarily and muttered.
"'The Scale of the Yellow Dragon'...?"
"Oh, it's so dazzling that I'm awake. Why is this here?"
Ahur was really annoyed. It was because the desire to sleep more and the instinct to recognize Hwangryong's energy collided with each other. Ahur, who stretched out with a long yawn at the silent subject, jumped out of Neju's arms.
Mubin pretended to be the first to know the cactus that woke up.
"Cactus, do you know what that is?"
"Literally, the scales of a yellow dragon. Can't you just look at it?"
"Well, if you look..."
Mubin narrowed his eyes and looked into the box. He was so bright that it was hard to look at him for long.
"I can only think of a very dazzling feeling."
"It also feels a bit unusual."
Although it looked like gold, it was only the size of the palm of a hand, and there were no special names or recognizable features engraved on it. Mubin and the group felt it was unusual in that it shines on its own, but the cactus waved its branches to deny it.
"Hey, it's not that unusual. It feels like one of my thorns has been pulled out? In your opinion, it's just a single hair..."
"But no matter how you look at it, dragon scales don't look like cactus thorns, do you?"
The Heiga family drank dragon blood and inherited special abilities from generation to generation. The cactus Ahur, whom we are talking about now, has also been transformed into a monster after drinking Estio's blood. It wasn't a monster that harmed people, but it was by no means an ordinary plant.
It was clear that even a single scale could not be seen in vain as long as it came from a dragon. The cactus agreed with that.
"Right, that's the problem. It must be the scales of a dragon, so it must have been magic."
"What's at stake?"
"Magic."
Ahur alluded to magic, as if talking about a local shoe store. Then he groaned as if it was normal.
"Isn't this the race that originally created the magic of dragons? It is only natural that even a single scale can cast such a terrible magic that humans cannot even imagine!"
"For example?"
"what. Because I keep telling you, they think I'm Dr. Cheok-cheok. Don't ask, just try to figure it out for yourself."
Moobin scratched her cheek, feeling embarrassed because of the cactus that was suddenly in color.
"No, because I really don't know."
"Woong-eng, if you're scared, you can guess it yourself."
"I, I hope."
Parker, who had heard that far, asked in a crawling voice, blinking at the swarm of blue bugs fluttering outside the door.
"Maybe there's some kind of magic that makes the surrounding monsters kill and lord it...?"
"Ding dong ding!"
Ahur even clapped passionately in two ways. Parker covered his mouth with his hand.
"Ugh, it was real!"
Unlike the Jo-in people who make a lot of fuss, Moo-bin wrinkled his forehead and clicked his tongue.
"After all, is the culprit again, the yellow dragon named Shuhanan?"
Shuhanan was the only dragon that had existed as a Adjuster from a long time ago, and was the only one who could hold hatred and curse humans.
Estio thought the same thing and looked at the box in his hand. The culprit who shook the desert was revealed, but I still felt uncomfortable.
'Why did you do this?'
I wanted to get away from it at the most, but I came across it again. It would be better to press openly rather than openly, but Shuhanan never showed himself. Instead, the traces he left behind were revealed whenever it was worth forgetting, as if jokingly. It also clearly shows signs of hatred for humans.
Alone in a room full of heavy silence, bright Neju tilted her head and asked.
"Then what now?"
"Simple."
Ahur, who had been harsh on Mubin, responded kindly again.
"You can break this. Children like bugs, giant earthworms, and scorpions will return to their original state."
"But how does Ahur know that?"
Everyone looked at him at Parker's question and then said 'Huh?' He looked at the cactus with that expression. Then I saw that I thought it was that way until now, but the more I heard, the more the plants born in the sin desert knew about it.
"Because I inherited my mother's memories."
"Uh, so, if it's Ahur-sama's mother, is that... Acuminata, a thousand-year-old tree in the Turke Desert?"
"Hehe, what is a thousand years? My mother has been living since the days when dragons coexisted with humans. She has talked to her in person, and she knows a lot of secrets that she has been told."
Rather, Ahur laughed at the title of 'Millennial Tree'. The memories that Ahur inherited from his mother contained the weight of years much older than that, making it laughable even for a thousand years.
Estio Volume 6
- Episode 3
"......how did you know?"
"What?"
"That I am agnostic."
"Haha, once again! It's not the face of a person who believes in God just by looking at it."
"gibberish."
There is no way that such a face shape is fixed. Yeon-yeon-rang, who thought it was her nonsensical joke, wrinkled her expression, and Moo-bin lifted her finger.
"I'm joking, you're not a citizen of the Ruvarzan Empire. Monotheism is a special religion that the Empire has made the state religion."
"The denomination also exists in Eastern countries. It is not well known."
Even after listening to Yeon-yeon-rang's response, which sounded a bit gloomy, Moo-bin said, "Is that so?" and stretched out for a long time. He didn't care what god he believed in in any country.
"Then do you believe in God?"
"Ugh."
At the return of the arrow, Mubin gave a rather annoyed expression.
"Imperial nobles are baptized from within their womb. It means that their beliefs are already decided even before they are born."
"It's a compulsory belief."
"Whatever it is. Personally, I know that gods exist, are interested in humans, and are often involved."
Black eyes glanced towards their master.
"believe."
Moobin has spent his whole life searching for traces of the dragon he signed with Seonjo. Had he given up along the way, it was a belief he might not have gained.
Estio silently searched the gold coin garden in the center of the room, leaving behind their conversation. Parker also came and crouched next to him, who had no interest in flashing gold and was only digging hard.
"Leader, are you looking for something?"
"...a box."
"What box?"
Hearing that, Parker wondered if Estio was looking for the treasure chest. But the explanation that followed was different.
"The bugs have been asking me since a while ago. Find a wooden box."
It means that he was only looking for a wooden box among the scattered gold. Parker, who somehow thought the answer was Estio, put his hand in the pile of gold coins and dug through them together.
"If you ask me to find it, it seems that there are very important items inside."
"I'll look for Neju too!"
Neju, who had a large body, began to focus on high-stacked objects. Mubin and Yeon-yeon-rang, who were fighting each other, joined in the search for the box without saying a word, and silence fell in the room.
How much time has passed
Because it was underground, there were only blue insect lights and flashing gold in the room where there was no sunlight, so it was difficult to estimate the time. Parker, who had been crouching for a while, rummaging through the gold coins, patted his back and stood up.
"Aww, it's Saksin. Can you find this?"
"If you don't give up and keep looking, you'll find it someday. Let's think positively, my friend."
Mubin, who had no sign of difficulty due to his physical ability, responded calmly by putting a gold circlet on his finger and turning it round and round.
Then Parker looked up at the tight ceiling and worried.
"Yes, yes. But it takes a while. What if the desert crabs you left behind are eaten by monsters?"
"Uh, that's a bit worrisome. It's a bit far to go back on foot."
"...I'm worried about the desert crabs."
"Yeah. I'm worried about them too."
Both are talking to the same thing, but Moobin, unlike Parker, was only concerned about losing his means of transportation. Under that friendly, playful look, Parker was sometimes terrified of Duke Heyga, who didn't give up a single ounce of affection.
Perhaps even if Parker or Neju, whom they have traveled together, die, Moobin's impression is, 'Oh, that's so bad.' She might have ended up in degrees. Parker sighed, but she just shook her head.
"What?"
Neju, who was looking at the high shelf at that time, tilted her head. Then she shouted brightly.
"I found it!"
"Oh."
The group immediately stopped the search and gathered towards Neju. Indeed, there was a wooden box atop a high shelf. Neju, who was too big, couldn't reach it, so the tip was high enough to indicate the location with a hand gesture.
It was up to Winged Parker to get the box out.
clap.
"Uh-huh, I should have looked into this from the beginning."
Parker, who picked up the box and went down to the floor, regretted it with a shy face. Moobin, who had slapped her softly falling feathers with the back of her hand, giggled in sympathy.
"Yeah. Why was the winged friend digging?"
"It's a wooden box, so it feels like it's buried somewhere..."
In addition, Parker, who added an excuse that it is very difficult to fly in a small room, held out the box in his hand to Estio.
"Is this right, Leader?"
「……!」
「……」
As soon as Estio received the box, the insects suddenly began to run wild.
slurp slurp.
Parker glanced back at the loud noise of bugs bumping into each other. And he swallowed dry saliva. He could not enter the room, and the flickering blue light rushing to the entrance felt a bit eerie.
Seeing the box, the bugs were flying around with excitement.
"Help me."
The sound they were making was so loud that Estio, who listened to it, had a headache.
'Because what's in this.'
Estio pushed the lid hard.
Click, the box opened.
The group's eyes gathered in the box that was opened so easily that it was overshadowed by the worry that it might be specially sealed.
"Gold again?"
Parker muttered blankly as he saw the thing glowing with a particularly bright light inside the box. Then Mubin shook her head.
"Wrong. No gold this time."
woo woo
The light emanating from the box dyed the faces of the party in golden color. It was dazzlingly bright, and the color was so beautiful that it was mesmerizing. Even Estio, who opened the box, couldn't take his eyes off the object.
"This is what it is."
It is something incomparable to the gold that is now under your feet. Everyone instinctively felt that way. It was at that point that the cactus, which had been sleeping quietly in the flowerpot, woke up.
「'Scales of the Yellow Dragon'.」
It was just a spit, but it went so well with the shiny object in the box that Parker followed Ahur involuntarily and muttered.
"'The Scale of the Yellow Dragon'...?"
"Oh, it's so dazzling that I'm awake. Why is this here?"
Ahur was really annoyed. It was because the desire to sleep more and the instinct to recognize Hwangryong's energy collided with each other. Ahur, who stretched out with a long yawn at the silent subject, jumped out of Neju's arms.
Mubin pretended to be the first to know the cactus that woke up.
"Cactus, do you know what that is?"
"Literally, the scales of a yellow dragon. Can't you just look at it?"
"Well, if you look..."
Mubin narrowed his eyes and looked into the box. He was so bright that it was hard to look at him for long.
"I can only think of a very dazzling feeling."
"It also feels a bit unusual."
Although it looked like gold, it was only the size of the palm of a hand, and there were no special names or recognizable features engraved on it. Mubin and the group felt it was unusual in that it shines on its own, but the cactus waved its branches to deny it.
"Hey, it's not that unusual. It feels like one of my thorns has been pulled out? In your opinion, it's just a single hair..."
"But no matter how you look at it, dragon scales don't look like cactus thorns, do you?"
The Heiga family drank dragon blood and inherited special abilities from generation to generation. The cactus Ahur, whom we are talking about now, has also been transformed into a monster after drinking Estio's blood. It wasn't a monster that harmed people, but it was by no means an ordinary plant.
It was clear that even a single scale could not be seen in vain as long as it came from a dragon. The cactus agreed with that.
"Right, that's the problem. It must be the scales of a dragon, so it must have been magic."
"What's at stake?"
"Magic."
Ahur alluded to magic, as if talking about a local shoe store. Then he groaned as if it was normal.
"Isn't this the race that originally created the magic of dragons? It is only natural that even a single scale can cast such a terrible magic that humans cannot even imagine!"
"For example?"
"what. Because I keep telling you, they think I'm Dr. Cheok-cheok. Don't ask, just try to figure it out for yourself."
Moobin scratched her cheek, feeling embarrassed because of the cactus that was suddenly in color.
"No, because I really don't know."
"Woong-eng, if you're scared, you can guess it yourself."
"I, I hope."
Parker, who had heard that far, asked in a crawling voice, blinking at the swarm of blue bugs fluttering outside the door.
"Maybe there's some kind of magic that makes the surrounding monsters kill and lord it...?"
"Ding dong ding!"
Ahur even clapped passionately in two ways. Parker covered his mouth with his hand.
"Ugh, it was real!"
Unlike the Jo-in people who make a lot of fuss, Moo-bin wrinkled his forehead and clicked his tongue.
"After all, is the culprit again, the yellow dragon named Shuhanan?"
Shuhanan was the only dragon that had existed as a Adjuster from a long time ago, and was the only one who could hold hatred and curse humans.
Estio thought the same thing and looked at the box in his hand. The culprit who shook the desert was revealed, but I still felt uncomfortable.
'Why did you do this?'
I wanted to get away from it at the most, but I came across it again. It would be better to press openly rather than openly, but Shuhanan never showed himself. Instead, the traces he left behind were revealed whenever it was worth forgetting, as if jokingly. It also clearly shows signs of hatred for humans.
Alone in a room full of heavy silence, bright Neju tilted her head and asked.
"Then what now?"
"Simple."
Ahur, who had been harsh on Mubin, responded kindly again.
"You can break this. Children like bugs, giant earthworms, and scorpions will return to their original state."
"But how does Ahur know that?"
Everyone looked at him at Parker's question and then said 'Huh?' He looked at the cactus with that expression. Then I saw that I thought it was that way until now, but the more I heard, the more the plants born in the sin desert knew about it.
"Because I inherited my mother's memories."
"Uh, so, if it's Ahur-sama's mother, is that... Acuminata, a thousand-year-old tree in the Turke Desert?"
"Hehe, what is a thousand years? My mother has been living since the days when dragons coexisted with humans. She has talked to her in person, and she knows a lot of secrets that she has been told."
Rather, Ahur laughed at the title of 'Millennial Tree'. The memories that Ahur inherited from his mother contained the weight of years much older than that, making it laughable even for a thousand years.
