- Episode 17
"I really thought I died and became a ghost."
Diversity Diversity.
Since it was Estio's group heading to the Join village, Kon, who had climbed the mountain road with them, expressed his doubts while playing hard with his feet.
"How did you survive?"
"......"
Estio hid the scar on his palm with a dagger. He didn't even need to tell the unicorn that he had saved his life by feeding him blood.
'I can't even explain myself.'
It was difficult for me to explain it clumsily, but if my own blood felt like an elixir of immortality. It's not that he doesn't believe in Korn, but Estio didn't want to go around talking about the fact that he was a dragon.
Since childhood, Estio used to save injured animals in this way. Animals that were dying were miraculously revived the next day even if they gave blood by biting their fingers, or cutting branches and piercing the skin with a sharp edge to feed them a small amount. He did it because he wanted to help without thinking at the time, but now he knew very well that giving blood was a way not to be abused.
If you drink the dragon's blood, you become a subordinate to him. Even now, Korn was walking close to Estio without her even realizing it. Even if no one explained it, she instinctively followed her master. Kon didn't know, but the Guardian felt a sense of stability the closer he was to the Master Dragon.
The cactus in the arms of the silent Estio responded abruptly.
"Didn't you receive any blessings?"
"blessing? To whom?"
"Who is who it is, this mountain!"
Khon stared blankly at Ahur, who stretched out his branches and pointed to a mountain path full of beautiful trees.
"Did the Wind Mountains bless me?"
"Gorum gorum. Naturally, in a place where there are a lot of plants, there is bound to be an abundance of vitality. Have you not heard the story of a kind-hearted princess who was tending a flower garden, who was blessed with flowers and saved her life from a fire?"
"Awesome! Did something like that happen? We don't know much about city work."
"Ugh, you who are slow with the latest information."
Ahur even made a clicking sound, sending out a wave of thoughts.
"I'll tell you, so listen carefully. In the mountains, there is a person called a mountain spirit..."
"What is a mountain spirit?"
"Uh-huh! listen to the end A mountain spirit is a person who is like a spirit of the mountain, but he just lived in a pond and was bored. When he met a passer-by, he gave a quiz at the first time, and if he answered correctly, he gave a prize, and gave such blessings, and the village under the mountain prospered, and humans were bustling!"
"Huh, right. We have a pond at the top of the mountain! How did you know, brother?"
"Fufu, there's nothing this hyung doesn't know."
Unicorn listened to Ahur without any doubt. At some point, Ahur's title was 'brother'.
"Anyway, you must have received the mountain's blessing too!"
"Wow!"
"......"
Estio, who saw the cactus who shamelessly cheated while knowing everything, and the innocent unicorn who fell over it, swallowed a sigh inwardly. Still, Ahur's willingness to help is extraordinary.
As we moved forward, chatting about giving and receiving, we reached the top of the mountain. Although it was one of the smallest peaks in the Wind Mountains, the feeling of conquest to the end made Ahur excited.
"Wow! It's normal!"
"Heh, heh. It's hard because it's been a while since I walked up."
As soon as they climbed a mountain, their wings were more developed than legs, and their stamina was quickly depleted and they began to tremble. Neju held out a water bottle to Parker, who was sitting on the floor with his hips spread out.
"It's not as steep as I thought. Is it all over?"
"Yes? Whoa! It can't be."
Parker, who drank the water from the canteen, continued to speak with a face that seemed to live.
"We're on a shortcut, but we still have a long way to go. This is the first peak, so we'll have to climb five more."
In an instant, a cool autumn breeze blew past them. Estio, who was quietly staring at the fallen leaves that were blown away by rainwater, also looked a little tired.
"......five things?"
"Yeah! But I'm glad I knew the shortcut. It takes three times longer for people who don't know the way to find it, because it takes three times as long to go round and round."
The silence between the party grew longer at the word triple. Parker grabbed the canteen and immediately put on the wind-tangled hat.
"I memorized it when I went out on vacation last year in case anything happened, so I'm sure I'll use it right away! Hehe, I'm really relieved now."
It was a very positive thought. When he saw the smiling joins with white wings, like an angel, even Ahur was speechless and couldn't think of anything else to say. It was the moment when the other party couldn't help but make up their minds to cross five more peaks.
"Let's fly from here."
Purneung!
Kon stood on the cliff and bowed his head to the sky. Beyond the clear autumn sky, there were huge mountain peaks that soared through the clouds. And the scenery under the cliff that stretched between them also looked like a red sea with colorful autumn leaves waving.
"That Kon, I'm the only member of the join. Others can't fly."
"it's okay! Of course, I'm not talking about looking at you and flying."
Conn smiled with delighted eyes and jumped out of place. At the same time, the horns on Kon's forehead gradually began to glow golden.
wow.
"Estio."
A unicorn with golden horns stood face to face with Estio.
"While you helped the unicorn, didn't you think that I would repay the favor?"
"......?"
"Be curious. You are someone who really doesn't want anything."
Khon gently tilted his head and chuckled. Estio, watching the cone, focused on a certain sound that was heard riding on the wind.
'Somewhere the sound of horseshoes.'
It wasn't just a sound that only Estio could hear. The other party members were also bewildered when they heard it. The sound of horses running in a herd echoed through the air. It was not a sound you would hear in the deep mountains. But the strange sound of hoofs was getting closer and closer.
Neju was the first to recognize the identity of the sound.
"Heaven!"
At the same time Neju pointed a finger above his head, white feathers fell from all sides.
A swarm of unicorns and Pegasus was running from the sky on top of the clouds.
As soon as they approached the cliff, the celestial horses stopped as if wary when they saw the cone amongst strangers. Instead, her cone spurted her seat and flew away.
"Con."
"Elder!"
The one who stepped forward was a black Pegasus with wings on its back, unlike a unicorn with a smooth body. A Pegasus old enough to be called an elder, he was twice the size of Con.
"It was okay. You don't know how worried I was when I heard that the wild birds saw you being chased by a hunter."
Black Pegasus approached Korn and rubbed his forehead warmly. Conn responded with trembling eyes as he heard the affectionate voice.
"Thank you for coming, Elder. These guys here helped!"
Pegasus removed his forehead and glanced down.
"human?"
Pegasus, who fixed his gaze on Estio and Parker standing on the cliff, flapped his wings wildly. The elegant black feathers fell brilliantly in the sunlight.
"One of them is the Joining clan."
"It is said that he is from Bernie's village."
「Yeah……, 'Bernie'. I've never heard of a small town inhabited by sincere and peaceful people."
As his cold gaze fell, Parker shuddered and grabbed the strap of his bag. Pegasus declared adamantly.
"But still, not human."
"Elder!"
"We didn't want you to have a girl named Lydia as your companion, Kon. If she hadn't been with the boy in the first place, she wouldn't have been caught by the hunter."
As they listened to this conversation, Estio and his party could see that the horde were wild horses that had not been tamed by humans.
Khon raised his paws in excitement at the cold attitude of his people.
"Elder, they are not hunters! They are benefactors who saved me from a vicious hunter and even healed my wounds."
At the sight of the black-haired Pegasus and the white shining unicorn confronting each other, Estio and his party held their breath and waited for their decision.
"Since I have received a favor, I want to repay it."
Conn said steadfastly that if the elders ignored more benefactors, he would climb one by one and climb over the mountain by himself. But when he stubbornly kept his eyes wide open, the reaction was strange.
The heavenly horses that lined up behind the Elder Pegasus were murmuring with bewildered faces.
"I just… that child… treatment?"
"But there are no signs of any wounds."
"It doesn't even smell like blood."
Some wild unicorns and pegasus even sniffed their noses as if to confirm, clinging to the cones. But there were no signs of any injuries. The faint smell of blood somewhere on his body was the only evidence that Con was injured.
Elder Pegasus asked with a serious expression on his face.
"Con, were you hurt when you were caught by a hunter?"
"Yes? Yes. He stepped on a trap, broke his leg, and received a magic attack without a shield, and was in a state of fatal wounds to the point of death."
When those words were finished, the atmosphere became chaotic again.
"Nonsense."
"The only thing that heals the wounds of the devil is Elia's spring water."
Elia was the name of the heavenly city where wild angels live. The spring water flowing there was still full of divine power.
"If not…"
Elder Pegasus raised his heavy eyes and looked down at the young man standing at the edge of the cliff.
'Only the dragons who created the heavenly demons.'
The young man's hair is a strangely striking black color. I've seen him a lot as a human with black hair, but now I feel like he's different. Pegasus flapped his wings and jumped off the cliff.
"Elder!?"
"Shh. Stay still, Con."
In fear that Elder Haengye might harm Estio, Kon's mane, which he was trying to dry, was bitten so that the other unicorns did not get sick. He stopped, but he didn't understand why the adults would stop him. Confused, his lips parted, Khon watched what the Elder was doing as he descended the cliff.
The black Pegasus, who did not give a single glance to Nejuna, a beast of the group, and Parker of the Joining tribe, approached Estio from various angles. I felt it as I got closer. That something familiar was lurking in the dark blue eyes.
Estio did not step back even in front of a giant black Pegasus. He just stood still and stared at Pegasus.
Finally, Pegasus spoke up.
"...what's your name?"
"This is Estio."
Pegasus' black eyes fluttered as he heard the unstoppable answer. No human has ever heard the voice of a heavenly demon. Hearing their voices, such as unicorns and pegasus, and.
「Loaren-sama……」
Only the dragons who created them. Estio also broke his expressionless expression when he heard the name Pegasus groaned. With his eyes wide open in amazement, Pegasus, the light of jelly, bent his knees and bowed.
"I see the last Adjuster of the Black Clan."
- Episode 17
"I really thought I died and became a ghost."
Diversity Diversity.
Since it was Estio's group heading to the Join village, Kon, who had climbed the mountain road with them, expressed his doubts while playing hard with his feet.
"How did you survive?"
"......"
Estio hid the scar on his palm with a dagger. He didn't even need to tell the unicorn that he had saved his life by feeding him blood.
'I can't even explain myself.'
It was difficult for me to explain it clumsily, but if my own blood felt like an elixir of immortality. It's not that he doesn't believe in Korn, but Estio didn't want to go around talking about the fact that he was a dragon.
Since childhood, Estio used to save injured animals in this way. Animals that were dying were miraculously revived the next day even if they gave blood by biting their fingers, or cutting branches and piercing the skin with a sharp edge to feed them a small amount. He did it because he wanted to help without thinking at the time, but now he knew very well that giving blood was a way not to be abused.
If you drink the dragon's blood, you become a subordinate to him. Even now, Korn was walking close to Estio without her even realizing it. Even if no one explained it, she instinctively followed her master. Kon didn't know, but the Guardian felt a sense of stability the closer he was to the Master Dragon.
The cactus in the arms of the silent Estio responded abruptly.
"Didn't you receive any blessings?"
"blessing? To whom?"
"Who is who it is, this mountain!"
Khon stared blankly at Ahur, who stretched out his branches and pointed to a mountain path full of beautiful trees.
"Did the Wind Mountains bless me?"
"Gorum gorum. Naturally, in a place where there are a lot of plants, there is bound to be an abundance of vitality. Have you not heard the story of a kind-hearted princess who was tending a flower garden, who was blessed with flowers and saved her life from a fire?"
"Awesome! Did something like that happen? We don't know much about city work."
"Ugh, you who are slow with the latest information."
Ahur even made a clicking sound, sending out a wave of thoughts.
"I'll tell you, so listen carefully. In the mountains, there is a person called a mountain spirit..."
"What is a mountain spirit?"
"Uh-huh! listen to the end A mountain spirit is a person who is like a spirit of the mountain, but he just lived in a pond and was bored. When he met a passer-by, he gave a quiz at the first time, and if he answered correctly, he gave a prize, and gave such blessings, and the village under the mountain prospered, and humans were bustling!"
"Huh, right. We have a pond at the top of the mountain! How did you know, brother?"
"Fufu, there's nothing this hyung doesn't know."
Unicorn listened to Ahur without any doubt. At some point, Ahur's title was 'brother'.
"Anyway, you must have received the mountain's blessing too!"
"Wow!"
"......"
Estio, who saw the cactus who shamelessly cheated while knowing everything, and the innocent unicorn who fell over it, swallowed a sigh inwardly. Still, Ahur's willingness to help is extraordinary.
As we moved forward, chatting about giving and receiving, we reached the top of the mountain. Although it was one of the smallest peaks in the Wind Mountains, the feeling of conquest to the end made Ahur excited.
"Wow! It's normal!"
"Heh, heh. It's hard because it's been a while since I walked up."
As soon as they climbed a mountain, their wings were more developed than legs, and their stamina was quickly depleted and they began to tremble. Neju held out a water bottle to Parker, who was sitting on the floor with his hips spread out.
"It's not as steep as I thought. Is it all over?"
"Yes? Whoa! It can't be."
Parker, who drank the water from the canteen, continued to speak with a face that seemed to live.
"We're on a shortcut, but we still have a long way to go. This is the first peak, so we'll have to climb five more."
In an instant, a cool autumn breeze blew past them. Estio, who was quietly staring at the fallen leaves that were blown away by rainwater, also looked a little tired.
"......five things?"
"Yeah! But I'm glad I knew the shortcut. It takes three times longer for people who don't know the way to find it, because it takes three times as long to go round and round."
The silence between the party grew longer at the word triple. Parker grabbed the canteen and immediately put on the wind-tangled hat.
"I memorized it when I went out on vacation last year in case anything happened, so I'm sure I'll use it right away! Hehe, I'm really relieved now."
It was a very positive thought. When he saw the smiling joins with white wings, like an angel, even Ahur was speechless and couldn't think of anything else to say. It was the moment when the other party couldn't help but make up their minds to cross five more peaks.
"Let's fly from here."
Purneung!
Kon stood on the cliff and bowed his head to the sky. Beyond the clear autumn sky, there were huge mountain peaks that soared through the clouds. And the scenery under the cliff that stretched between them also looked like a red sea with colorful autumn leaves waving.
"That Kon, I'm the only member of the join. Others can't fly."
"it's okay! Of course, I'm not talking about looking at you and flying."
Conn smiled with delighted eyes and jumped out of place. At the same time, the horns on Kon's forehead gradually began to glow golden.
wow.
"Estio."
A unicorn with golden horns stood face to face with Estio.
"While you helped the unicorn, didn't you think that I would repay the favor?"
"......?"
"Be curious. You are someone who really doesn't want anything."
Khon gently tilted his head and chuckled. Estio, watching the cone, focused on a certain sound that was heard riding on the wind.
'Somewhere the sound of horseshoes.'
It wasn't just a sound that only Estio could hear. The other party members were also bewildered when they heard it. The sound of horses running in a herd echoed through the air. It was not a sound you would hear in the deep mountains. But the strange sound of hoofs was getting closer and closer.
Neju was the first to recognize the identity of the sound.
"Heaven!"
At the same time Neju pointed a finger above his head, white feathers fell from all sides.
A swarm of unicorns and Pegasus was running from the sky on top of the clouds.
As soon as they approached the cliff, the celestial horses stopped as if wary when they saw the cone amongst strangers. Instead, her cone spurted her seat and flew away.
"Con."
"Elder!"
The one who stepped forward was a black Pegasus with wings on its back, unlike a unicorn with a smooth body. A Pegasus old enough to be called an elder, he was twice the size of Con.
"It was okay. You don't know how worried I was when I heard that the wild birds saw you being chased by a hunter."
Black Pegasus approached Korn and rubbed his forehead warmly. Conn responded with trembling eyes as he heard the affectionate voice.
"Thank you for coming, Elder. These guys here helped!"
Pegasus removed his forehead and glanced down.
"human?"
Pegasus, who fixed his gaze on Estio and Parker standing on the cliff, flapped his wings wildly. The elegant black feathers fell brilliantly in the sunlight.
"One of them is the Joining clan."
"It is said that he is from Bernie's village."
「Yeah……, 'Bernie'. I've never heard of a small town inhabited by sincere and peaceful people."
As his cold gaze fell, Parker shuddered and grabbed the strap of his bag. Pegasus declared adamantly.
"But still, not human."
"Elder!"
"We didn't want you to have a girl named Lydia as your companion, Kon. If she hadn't been with the boy in the first place, she wouldn't have been caught by the hunter."
As they listened to this conversation, Estio and his party could see that the horde were wild horses that had not been tamed by humans.
Khon raised his paws in excitement at the cold attitude of his people.
"Elder, they are not hunters! They are benefactors who saved me from a vicious hunter and even healed my wounds."
At the sight of the black-haired Pegasus and the white shining unicorn confronting each other, Estio and his party held their breath and waited for their decision.
"Since I have received a favor, I want to repay it."
Conn said steadfastly that if the elders ignored more benefactors, he would climb one by one and climb over the mountain by himself. But when he stubbornly kept his eyes wide open, the reaction was strange.
The heavenly horses that lined up behind the Elder Pegasus were murmuring with bewildered faces.
"I just… that child… treatment?"
"But there are no signs of any wounds."
"It doesn't even smell like blood."
Some wild unicorns and pegasus even sniffed their noses as if to confirm, clinging to the cones. But there were no signs of any injuries. The faint smell of blood somewhere on his body was the only evidence that Con was injured.
Elder Pegasus asked with a serious expression on his face.
"Con, were you hurt when you were caught by a hunter?"
"Yes? Yes. He stepped on a trap, broke his leg, and received a magic attack without a shield, and was in a state of fatal wounds to the point of death."
When those words were finished, the atmosphere became chaotic again.
"Nonsense."
"The only thing that heals the wounds of the devil is Elia's spring water."
Elia was the name of the heavenly city where wild angels live. The spring water flowing there was still full of divine power.
"If not…"
Elder Pegasus raised his heavy eyes and looked down at the young man standing at the edge of the cliff.
'Only the dragons who created the heavenly demons.'
The young man's hair is a strangely striking black color. I've seen him a lot as a human with black hair, but now I feel like he's different. Pegasus flapped his wings and jumped off the cliff.
"Elder!?"
"Shh. Stay still, Con."
In fear that Elder Haengye might harm Estio, Kon's mane, which he was trying to dry, was bitten so that the other unicorns did not get sick. He stopped, but he didn't understand why the adults would stop him. Confused, his lips parted, Khon watched what the Elder was doing as he descended the cliff.
The black Pegasus, who did not give a single glance to Nejuna, a beast of the group, and Parker of the Joining tribe, approached Estio from various angles. I felt it as I got closer. That something familiar was lurking in the dark blue eyes.
Estio did not step back even in front of a giant black Pegasus. He just stood still and stared at Pegasus.
Finally, Pegasus spoke up.
"...what's your name?"
"This is Estio."
Pegasus' black eyes fluttered as he heard the unstoppable answer. No human has ever heard the voice of a heavenly demon. Hearing their voices, such as unicorns and pegasus, and.
「Loaren-sama……」
Only the dragons who created them. Estio also broke his expressionless expression when he heard the name Pegasus groaned. With his eyes wide open in amazement, Pegasus, the light of jelly, bent his knees and bowed.
"I see the last Adjuster of the Black Clan."
