Abandoned Priest at the Hero’s Party

Please Allow Me

After a short conversation with Roca, the child began to notice me less.

Now, even when I was in the house, I walked around the room. Maybe it was still difficult to make eye contact, so when I smiled and greeted each other, I was startled and bowed my head.

‘It’s faster than I thought.’

It’s a slow change if you watch it day by day,

If you break it down by week, it’s faster than you think.

Even if I am alone, the Lord is behind me, but considering that child cannot communicate with anyone, it may not be as fast as I thought.

‘It would be nice if Loca had a friend.’

Would you like to have a cat or a dog at home?

…do you want to like it? I don’t know much about the habits of beasts, so I really don’t know.

‘Because the place where the beasts live is the northeast part of the empire, and there is usually nowhere to go.’

western continent. The demon realm ruled by demons was adventurous and went in and out like a meal. I have also been to the Elven Forest, a place no one can enter, and Elvenheim in the southeast.

The Eastern Plains is a place I’ve only heard of, but never been to. The stories I heard are only stories from the past, and they were essentially no different from the stories I heard from the elderly in my hometown.

The demons and demon lords are usually not in the north, but in the west and south.

Only one. A person who always deviates from the words ‘usually’ or ‘usually’.

Only the ancient demon king, Grimudo, lives alone in the northern part of the empire, even to the far north. Maybe his monster corps will be with him, but the monster is not even able to speak.

‘It was not easy just to go.’

The Arctic is such a place. No one wants to live there.

In the first place, the Kalcamir Mountains, the highest mountain range on the continent, are blocking the northern part of the continent, so the northern snowfields can only be seen by somehow crossing it. Although one of the Lord’s miracles was the protection of the blue bird’s feathers, the journey was not easy.

Grimudo is living alone in such a difficult place, alone, alone, making his own North Pole Citadel. In the middle of the most difficult terrain, a series of difficulties just to live.

‘Unfortunately, we may never see each other again.’

Grimudo told us. He says he sets his monsters free.

If it attacked your home town, at least it wasn’t because of my will.

Probably true. He said so while overwhelming us throughout, so there would be no reason to lie. But wasn’t he the one who raised such a dangerous monster?

I have no choice but to resent him and hate him.

If you can sprinkle ashes on his face, you will.

But I have already failed, and the Lord has done my most powerful miracle.

For that revenge, I have no choice but to leave it to Urinelle. If I were to face him again, it would be suicide, and if I gathered new colleagues, it would be just a group suicide.

widely.

At the table where the only thing lit was a candle, I quietly drank tea and fell into my thoughts.

When I think of Grimudo, I always feel like this. I lose my composure, and I become radical without realizing it.

At that time, the scars of that tragedy still remain in my heart and will never be forgotten. What has already happened cannot be undone, and the wounds of the body can be healed, but the wounds of the mind cannot.

It can heal, but it can happen again at any time. As an adult, I am too, but what about that little child?

It is difficult for anyone to move forward over a wound. Until that child takes one step on his own, I just wait and help silently.

That was then.

‘exactly.’

squeaky.

The door opened slightly, and dark blue eyes flashed through them.

‘I was really bored.’

Those eyes looked around the living room, but I didn’t seem to be able to capture it.

squish. Like a rat running fast through a ditch, the child ran back and forth toward the garden. His gaze was always on the swing.

He looked carefully at how I rode, and he seemed to want to ride too.

Somehow, I felt the reward of making it, so I was proud.

“Itcha.”

The child on the swing tried to move the swing by waving her feet. The swing moved a little. The position where it was hung was a little high, so Roka’s feet did not touch the ground while sitting.

Even in such a state, it is not difficult to ride a swing if you learn the tricks.

But this is similar to saying that if you farm well, a good harvest will come. It’s easy to say, but it doesn’t take into account how much effort is required to put it into practice.

For a moment, the child continued with meaningless footsteps. If that didn’t work, I got on the swing.

Holding the string with both hands and moving it one after another, the swing did move. The problem is that it moves naturally when the breeze blows.

I put down the tea I was drinking and smiled.

You have to clap your hands to make a sound. That child mustered up the courage, but I have no intention of just looking at it.

roca. I walked slowly towards the child I had not known for a while.

Even in the dark, droopy ears were visible. It seems to be disappointing.

It’s time to put those ears back together.

“Isn’t it good?”

Startled, I could see that my ears were straight. The child immediately looked at this.

“Sin, sorry…”

“At first, everyone is like that. Loca, would you like to sit again? When you first start the swing, you don’t ride alone.”

I reflexively say sorry out of my mouth. what is so sorry

There may be many things to be sorry for in life, but it would be the privilege of a child to be okay with being a little brazen. The child hesitated and hesitated. I just smiled.

Hey, there’s nothing to be sorry about.

If you’re just afraid, you can quit now.

If Rocca runs away again, she’s not ready to open her heart yet.

It just takes a little more time. But the child did not.

Our house wolf just slumped and sat down again. Either way, it was clear that the desire to ride the swing had overcome the fear of me.

“I’ll push you slowly, so don’t be afraid.”

I gently pushed that light body, and the swing floated. The swing that went forward will one day come back again. Gently accept it and push it again. A simple but fun ride, the magic of the swing.

The higher the swing, the brighter Rocca’s expression became. But the real fun doesn’t come from being pushed. You have to learn the trick and ride the swing on your own.

“Rocca, I’m going to stop pushing. You should keep this pace.”

“yes…?”

“I’ll push you back when it slows down, so give it a try. You are not alone.”

However, it is difficult to realize the trick on a still swing.

You can learn to swing by yourself, but that’s not the standard. No matter who gets on the swing, the start is to push it from behind. Watch until you can ride it well by yourself, and if it doesn’t go well, push again.

Learning the tricks on a moving swing is much faster.

“Profit… yep…”

The first struggle is just a struggle. Rocca struggled to move the swing, but the swing only slowed and had no hope of reviving.

No matter how hard I tried, when the hundred pills were ineffective, I stretched out my arms and pushed the swing again. As before, until the swing climbs almost seventy degrees.

“Come on, it’s not going well…”

“Are you going to stop? Shall I keep pushing?”

“…no. Let’s do it.”

The second struggle was nothing but a futile gesture, but Rocca seemed to be obsessed.

He declined my offer and continued to struggle. Its footsteps only kicked into the air, and at first glance it seemed as if nothing was left. But the whole process is learning and acquisition.

In the third time, the speed was maintained longer than before. Of course it fell again.

The fourth, I wondered if I would do well, but it didn’t work either. Still, it seemed to be growing. After failing in a row like that, Rocca seemed to have developed her own flaws. I don’t know if I should call it a desire to win or an obsession.

“profit…”

Watching the child chewing his lips in anger, I just pushed his back.

If you can overcome failure and keep going without giving up, you will definitely be able to do it.

yes, at this moment.

here now. The moment that the child probably longed for and longed for.

As if by magic, the moment the swing that was about to slow started to speed up again,

“Wow?!”

I could see Rocca’s face turned white in the bright moonlight. I did not push the child further. The swing continued to recoil, and it was oscillating with more and more angles.

The child’s face looked happy. For the first time since I met him.

things that have been built up. what you have endured. things that were difficult. All the things I couldn’t even spit out,

I wish I could blow it away like smoke with the wind.

“Ahaha, ahaha!”

Having fun and bursting into laughter without even realizing it is the expression a child should make.

In the meantime, if there was nothing to laugh about, the expression on his face was awkward as if he had been forced to smile. The sound of laughter was also hardened, and it felt like every sound was cut off. It hurts my heart to see a smile like that.

“Lord, just grant him happiness.”

Once upon a time, a child who lost his parents by Manticore,

And all the people in the village who lost their neighbors and their families,

It reminds me of the smile that I barely smiled when the laughter flower should have bloomed brightly.

A smile built after sadness is always pitiful.

It doesn’t make people happy, it just makes them sad.

“No, please allow me.”

It’s my little greed that I don’t want to see that kind of expression anymore.