160 – Necrosis (11)

Killed a person. Tomorrow, or in the far future.

Pointing to the future while reminiscing is a very unique experience, Eva smiled.

“Ha.”

It takes quite a bit of courage to even laugh in a desolate dusty desert. Coarse particles come in through the gaping mouth and scratch your throat. My throat hurts right away.

It was not unfamiliar to Eva that the sharp, yet sharp sense she felt in her throat. It wasn’t just that she had already burned the inside of her throat from using magic.

She’s the sensation and the pain, all the artificial things that she turns her eyes to. Because she was used to it all.

He wasn’t too surprised that the scenery he saw as soon as he opened his eyes was a city on Earth. She had heard a story from the Prophet, so it was because she had roughly predicted what would happen from the moment the rift formed.

“What is all this?”

It’s not longing that fills you up, it’s boredom. Boredom.

There are people who experience this sometimes.

The act of refusing to eat the food you ate when you were poor, even if it’s been a long time since you haven’t eaten. Rejection that comes from learned familiarity.

For Eva, this city was like that food. Right next to the city where I was born and grew up. A desert covered in dust.

A place where the owner ran away after screaming at someone to death. If his childhood was spent under his master, this desert was a symbol of Iva’s adolescence.

It was terrible. Why did you come to a place like this?

“That sucks.”

“Yeah~ That’s a damn thing!”

Lilia hit Iva hard on the back of the head.

“Hey you bastard! What have you done?!”

“Lilia, I don’t think it’s fair to blame everything on me.”

“Did you leave your conscience and intelligence in the woods? Think of the correlation, you twit! After you were stabbed by the sword, you fluttered with your wings, so this division broke out!”

I had nothing to say.

“There is a saying! Most of the accidents that happen around you are usually correct if you take a picture of your kid! This time, it must have started from the source of all the evil that destroys my daily life!”

“…Lilia, is this the first time you’ve heard that?”

“Of course I just made it up!”

It’s unreasonable, but I had no choice but to keep my mouth shut.

“You talk so damn hard…”

“I wouldn’t have done this if you hadn’t acted too badly, bastard! Huh? If you were normal, would I have done this? Huh?!”

Lillia slaps Iva on the back and scratches at her gourd. Instead of dodging the attack, Eva covered her ears.

“Oops.”

“Hey you asshole! You think I won’t stop just because of that?”

While his back was being hit, Eva felt the attention of the people around him. She felt unbearable disgust at the sight of older-looking boys drooling over a child the size of her daughter just by looking at them.

‘Who are you trying to touch…’

Eva clicked her tongue hard.

‘I tried to twist it, but only the stick would be cut off. Foolish bastards.’

It was exactly as it was in her memory. Foolish bastards. Only bugs covered in irons swarmed.

“Hey bastard! Don’t you listen to me?”

“That’s right Lilia. I did it all wrong.”

“What is it? Are you really sick?”

“Hey, I acknowledged all these things and moved on.

This was really unfair.

Holding Lillia’s hand as she slapped her back, Iva whispered in her ear.

“Don’t bet on work.”

“That’s not it b*tch… Anyway, look around. We’re getting our f*cking eyes on it.”

“Your unconscience is a bit different.”

“Not that, but your beauty.”

“Do not work?”

“No, it’s not a job, what can I do…”

My head hurt.

Perhaps it was a joke though, Lillia hardened her expression and looked coldly at her gaze.

“It’s perfect for a fight.”

“I know that.”

“So, what?”

“Let’s move first. Your wand is…”

“Maybe?”

“Then, in between, pick up useful looking wooden sticks and make some emergency walking sticks.”

They both moved their feet at the same time. There was no particular direction to go, but Iva walked the ripe path. Her body remembered where she was and what she was.

She had nothing in common with the body she had when she lived here, but her body remembered this.

In fact, it was more like his body moving because he couldn’t forget it, rather than a familiar memory.

“Iva, do you know where this is?”

“…Probably.”

“You speak vaguely.”

“Because I want to be vague.”

“You know well.”

Lilia asked.

“Where is this?”

Eva didn’t bother to answer. She didn’t want to answer.

This city was the living hell he went through when he was freed from slavery. When he was a slave, at least he didn’t have to worry about dying of cold or starvation.

It was only after starving in her orphanhood that Iva realized why she asked to be a slave on her own.

How miserable material scarcity makes people.

Freedom meant she had to take responsibility for everything she did. Moderate bondage brings a sense of security to a person.

But he welcomed freedom. Even when he starved to death, he did not miss his former slave.

Iva had many regrets, but she didn’t regret running out of the house as soon as her master died. She couldn’t

The truth about the death of the owner’s baby that he did not know even after he rose to a moderate position as a mercenary.

The life of the culprit of the murder case and the owner’s baby disappeared as if it evaporated overnight.

It was just a coincidence.

She couldn’t regret it. It wasn’t chosen by him in the first place, it was given.

Even the first freedom he could not achieve with his own hands.

**

“That child… Is this…?”

Wiz asked back in disbelief.

“Oh, no, that can’t be the case? Eva is bad-mouthed, but not as bad as that. That’s just crazy.”

“You’re crazy.”

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“That’s…”

Innis could not refute.

Is this the boy who is walking hard in front of me right now? It was a fact that could not be trusted.

“So that building over there is a bank… I don’t know what it’s for. This is just my guess… Seeing that there’s a lot of money going in and out all the time, it’s clear that some crazy rich bastards are going to gamble. “

“That’s right…”

Thanks to Stella’s passionate persuasion, the boy named ‘Shiba’ decided to guide them through the city.

“And over there… Oh god damn it. What the heck. Anyway, the cocky bastards go often. They only open at night, so I can’t go now.”

Is this kid who always curses once when he speaks? It was ridiculous. His swearing was always used to express anger and bewilderment. It wasn’t even overblown like this.

In the first place, isn’t his hair color and eye color completely different? Compared to Eva, who had a faded gray color, this boy had black hair and blue eyes. He was like a northern hunting dog.

Stella must have misunderstood just because the names are similar.

“So… What did you say this city was called?”

“How stupid is your head that you forgot it already?”

Innis let out a deep sigh. Neither. There was no way this kind of kid would be this.

“It’s New York, New York. The original name of the city was somewhere else… The bastard who bought this land changed it to New York. I don’t know the details. He’s just telling me what he found.”

“Certainly he must be a madman or a madman. He calls himself New York, not anywhere else.”

“What is New York?”

Stella answered with a smile.

“Uh… The city where all cultures once converged?”

“That sounds like an idiot. Isn’t it like that when it comes to culture? It’s just a culture of ‘We have to protect the culture!’

“Yeah… You’re not wrong.”

Stella giggled at the different point of view.

“Hey boy…?”

Innis, exhausted from hearing the swear words, asked back.

“That… Can you please stop cursing? If you say such a thing, it will hurt not only the listener, but you as well.”

“Swearing…?”

The boy asked if he was serious.

“What is that? Other adults have said that a lot. Don’t do it. But they never told me what it was. So, what’s that swear word?”

“You know all the things you said earlier. Why, asshole, asshole, f*ck. It’s a bad word.”

“Does Shiva go in there, too?”

“Uh…”

Innis was troubled. He was confident at the same time.

This child has no concept of profanity. Perhaps it was an adult close to you who influenced you. It is often said that children are mirrors of adults. It was obvious that their linguistic life was completely infected with his words.

“That’s right. Shiba is also an insult.”

“Ah… As expected.”

“As expected?”

“Whenever the owner kid and his friends were loud, I could hear Shiva from time to time. So when I ran to it, I just laughed at it.”

The child laughed.

“Yeah… It was like that…”

Then he asked in a curious voice.

“So, what is that swear word that everyone is telling me not to do?”

“Because it’s basically a word made up to insult someone else… Oh. You don’t mean insult?”

“No. I don’t know. Wouldn’t it be worse since you went all the way to ‘mo’ in the swearing that you said was bad?”

“hahahaha. That’s right. Very bad.”

Stella cleared his throat and said to the child.

“Swearing is. It’s a word made to make the listener feel bad. There are so many types… But the curse words and the sh*t that you often use fall into that category.”

“You feel bad?”

The child tilted his head.

“Then adults are very strange. They curse at each other even while sleeping together on the bed. Are they saying bad things to the person they like? There’s another strange thing. They curse at each other even though no one is listening. Then who do you say bad things to? Did you do it to yourself?”

The words did not stop.

“And I said it without knowing what swearing was… Whom have I always offended? Is someone always offended even when I didn’t want to? Who gets offended every time my name is called? Do I have to be offended every time my name is called? Did I become a bad person even if I said it?”

At the end of the question, the child spat out words that suspended the conclusion for a while.

“Oh, you weren’t human from the beginning.”

After speaking, the child bowed her head.

“It’s difficult… I’ll have to think about it seriously.”

The child raised his head again. He put on a grim expression as his eyes reached the sky. Suddenly, the color of the sky began to take on a pale orange hue.

“Damn it! You’re going to f*ck the owner again!”

I waved her hand and walked away from their sight.

“Anyway, thank you for telling me something good today! Keep your promise!”

As he said that, he dashed off toward the street where the sun was setting. It was a vigorous step, but there was not the slightest bit of cheerfulness to be found.

Stella looked at the scene with a bitter smile, then turned to the two women.

“Now. We can’t be homeless either. Let’s go make some money! I know the way.”

“Stella.”

Wiz asked, pointing to the spot where her child had left.

“What did you promise?”

“I decided to buy you a book.”

“He… Can you read the letters?”

“If you don’t know, you can teach me.”

“Do you know the letters here?”

“Yes.”

Wiz let out a sigh.

“Then…How do I get to meet that child again…?”

The answer to the question was simple.

“I’m going to visit him later!”

Remembering the tracking magic attached to Ai’s back, Stella smiled broadly.

“Stella. I’m in a hurry. I need to get back to him and help him as soon as possible.”

“So I told you. That kid is Ibara.”

“How can you believe that?”

The two exchanged glances for a while. In fact, I didn’t know that it might not have been for a long time. The color of the sky wasn’t black yet. Nevertheless, it felt like a long time for both of them. At the end of the gaze mixed with various emotions.

It was Stella who backed down. It always has been. To Wiz, she often gave way.

“Whoa…Then I’ll tell you as we go.”

Stella licked her lips as she scanned them. Where to start talking How should I tell them to accept it?

“The truth about me and Iva.”

I started to spread knowledge to people from other worlds who came to this world.

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