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Viias looked at Hwareet with a shocked face Hwareet realized his sarcasm and became nervous But soon, Hwareet reuardian soon enough ‘Okay, then’ Hwareet drew a portrait of a certain person in his mind and opened his mind a little

Viias sent neerry skyfish

[Samo Fei?]

[She intends not to have children, but I don’t know If she ever wants children, it feels like she won’t have the trouble that you’re struggling with right now]

[You!]

[Don’t callrepri not of my fault I am an acolyte, before I aroom of the Goddess without footsteps one day I solicit that you treatto my status]

Viias growled as if she was going to attack Hwareet any moment, but could not do it It was obvious which side the matriarch Dusenna would be on, between the son that will becohter that has no children Penetrating into his sister’s thoughts, Hwareet smiled coldly and neered

[Also, let ive you so a baby, this can be done without a man]

Hwareet waited for the explosion after he finished his neerm But Viias did not lose self-control Instead, Viias neered, her face beco like that of a Dokkaebi

[Thanks for the advice, dear brother Let ive you some advice in return] ”Be careful of that”

Viias left without him Until she completely left the room and closed the door, Hwareet stood still It was the first time he heard Viias’s voice

But the real reason areet was shocked was because of the content of her voice When she spoke in her voice that he heard for the first ti at the heart tower And Hwareet couldn’t help but to reo, his friend acted the same way Ryoon spoke in his voice that the heart tower is the enemy And Viias spoke in her voice to be careful of the heart tower The fact that both his friend and his sister used their rarely used voice to ‘speak’ sis, left a deep impact in Hwareet

So Hwareet began thinking about the heart tower

Svachi turned away, shaking his hand and groaning painfully

[Please let y to do that this early It was too ht…]

[Svachi, wake up! It’s me! What ever ‘that’ is, I won’t do ‘that’ with you!]

Svachi laid down straight, feeling puzzled He sighed in relief as he realized that the Naga that shook hi to do it

[Hwareet? Thank God Daht]

[It’s been quite some time since her last birth]

[Yeah, she was so pushy, I o near other wos you here?]

Svachi got up slowly because of the cold te And because Hwareet knew his status, he waited patiently until he was co a little frustration A little later, Svachi was at a state in which he could talk, and Hwareet brought up his business

[I h the extraction ceremony]

Svachi blankly stared at Hwareet and turned to Karoo, as sleeping next to him But Karoo also was saturated in exhaustion as much as Svachi Svachi decided he’ll let Karoo sleep a little longer

[Your friend Ryoon, was it? I think his fear infected you, Hwareet Only very rarely so the extraction ceremony]

[It’s not about that]

[If you don’t extract, you can’t leave Haatengraju That neer No, even before that, you yourself can’t survive Would you neer tothat?]

[Yesterday, I angered ed, but she left me with a very impressive allusion That she’ll kill me]

Svachi felt his mind awaken abruptly He looked around, confirmed that he didn’t sense any temperature around him, and cautiously neered

[Are you sure?]

[I believe so]

[Why does Viias Makeroant to kill you?]

[Because she couldn’t have children for 12 years]

Svachi looked at Hwareet, perplexed Hwareet sent calm neerms

[Sister Viias has never had a child before So she desperately wants men, but on the contrary, extremely hates her brother that can neverh reason for my sister]

Svachi found soe implication hidden in Hwareet’s neerm, and became utterly confused at what he found

[Uh, this question ht not even make neerm, but did she…]

[As you think, Svachi]

[Oh, God] Svachi couldn’t coain [Oh God]

Hwareet nodded, s sadly

[Yes, e obssession]

[Did she really… demand that from you?]

[I could only stop her with the neerm that if she touched the acolyte of the Goddess, she will be cursed]

Svachi looked at Hwareet with eyes full of sympathy, and neered

[That is horrible Okay What if ive her what she wants, will she be satisfied and forget her hatred towards you?]

[Can you iht days?]

[If we visit her taking shi+fts, she h]

[Viias herself won’t want that]

[H about? Didn’t you say she wants children?]

[Yes, but the reason why Viias wants children is to become the matriarch My sister is not the direct child of the matriarch, nor the oldest like Somero]

[Ah You neerhter]

[Yes If all she wanted was a daughter, she wouldn’t have given you up so easily to her aunts But she has an aer the other women of the clan If this is so, you will only be able to visit her about once or twice over the eight days I don’t think Viias would believe her chances of ih]

[What method do you think she’ll use to kill you?]

[She neered to be careful of the heart tower I believe so the extraction ceremony]

Svachi neered in a confused face

[That doesn’t even uardians? That’s impossible]

[I didn’t say such absurdity, Svachi I probably know uardians than you Because I aist I do not like my sister, but because I trust her skill, I stole soht be able to forge a drug thatthe extraction cereht days left, she’ll make me take it]

Svachi repeated Hwareet’s neer his confused look on his face

[A drug that causes an accident during the extraction cere like that possible?]

[I don’t know But if it’s not interpreted that way, nothing can explain her allusion to be careful of the heart tower Most definitely, so the extraction ceremony]

[Okay, a drug What if you eat nothing in this house?]

[Hoould I do that?]

[What if you eat outside the city with us? Karoo is an adept hunter You er than a rat yet but that’s not such a big problem You have to do it anyhen you’re an adult What if you eat an aniht days?]

[Svachi, do you think I can go outside with you again? I don’t know about anyone else, but I feel that my dear aunt won’t allow that]

Svachi groaned and closed hisabout The conclusion is obvious A change in plan I need to escape, now’ After thefor Hwareet, Svachi opened his ain

[Hwareet, I can feel that you’re nervous, but the more I think of it, these are all merely conjectures]

Hwareet was surprised

[Huh?]

[You don’t have any objective evidence that Viias will kill you, nor know for sure how she’ll do it Of course you neered tothat does what you told You too probably haven’t heard of such a drug, have you? Is my neerm correct?]

Hwareet had to accept it Svachi got up as if he was re and put on his clothes

[There is another interpretation that does not involve such a drug that no one has ever seen or heard about]

[What interpretation?]

[You ree, but I do want to neerm you this Hwareet Makerow, do you intend to accept that you’re under the influence of an anxiety that all Nagas face right before the extraction cere to neer that you’re an acolyte and that you’re a perfectly rational Naga that’s distant from such absurd anxiety]

Hwareet complained in his mind a little, because he was about to neer that Svachi kept on neering

[There is no such thing as a perfectly rational creature Think about it You ht be as anxious about the extraction cereht be too e that anxiety on your sister Don’t you think it all makes sense?]

[Svachi, I don’t have extraction…]

[Wait, first anwer me this question If Viias wanted to kill you, why didn’t she do it in the past 22 years? She should have had many chances]

Hwareet looked at Svachi, ape, and Svachi smiled With difficulty Hwareet could come up with an answer

[It’s not 22 years She ry yesterday]

[Hm You neere to kill just yesterday Well, okay The last drop always makes the cup overflow But can you explain toto kill you in front of the supreme authorities?]

[The supreme authorities?]

[The guardians of the heart tower If an accident happens during the extraction cerehly I don’t kno good Viias is, but I won’t play with fire in front of a Dokkaebi]

Hwareet felt that he had nothing more to neer Svachi neered as he walked to theto raise his body temperature

[I won’t make fun of your anxiety, Hwareet You probably know more about Viias than me And, if there is any kind of threat to you, our duties are in peril too So, I will confess now that your neerm sounds a little absurd, but even so, I will consider it seriously Let’s do this Karoo and I will visit her as much as we can We will try to amuse her, and at the same time, observe her And you, should look for a more objective evidence And be careful]

Svachi’s neerm was rational Suddenly Hwareet felt like he was an idiot Like Svachi neer to kill hiht about it, Hwareet felt e

At last, Hwareet decided to agree with Svachi’s plan And, at the same time, be very very careful

Kaygan looked at the Punten desert Over the scorching white desert, the color of the sky was closer to dark blue The sky of a desert rarely looks blue Sky looks blue in regions that are h a southern , and to the south of the Punten desert was the humid Keeboren rainforest Because of this, the sky on that side was blue, and looked dark blue like blight contrasted to the eerie white of the desert

There was a knock on the door Kaygan told to coan turned his head

”Sir, should I leave it on the table?”

Kaygan nodded The young son of the inn-owner, Morty, put the pot he brought on the table And let out words that he wasn’t even asked for

”My mother won’t even touch this And so won’t ht it”

Then Morty an, instead of coan’s stare becaer, Morty started to feel nervous

”Uh, do you need anything else?”

”Nothing for the ti, Morty You can leave”

Morty hesitated and spoke suddenly

”Ah, al do you plan to stay?”

”I won’t stay for long I a for a Dokkaebi and a Leckorn They will arrive soon”

Morty, who had nothing to talk about, left the rooan blankly stared at the pot on the table And in the inside, thought about Morty’s attitude

How strange of a creature are humans It’s been only two days since he met the inn-owner of the Last Inn, but he could already knohat kind of a person he was It is very easy to assuainst the desert and its infinite threats But that same inn-owner forced his wife to cook, who probably cried in protest, andhiht the pot Kaygan did not want that

Kaygan sighed and opened the lid of the pot that Morty brought

And he bit off and ate a chunk of Naga meat

At Karabora, Kaygan led a quieter life In his hut at Karabora, there is a kitchen that is bigger than all the space in the hut coan prepared all kinds of knives, saws, pinchers, hah for three large cauldrons He could go south for two to four days, capture a few Naga scouts faltering in the cold (in Naga’s standards), and return to his hut without encountering anyone There was no inn-owner that screaame, nor the stupid son of the inn-owner that felt astonishs he couldn’t handle with his ian lived peacefully, butchering and boiling Nagas and eating them

Those were idyllic days of carnage

But the Hainsha Great Te for the coan renawing on on the table and covered his face with his hands In the letter than Orenol left him, it said that his two coan could not kno to treat them He couldn’t even remember how to treat humans

What kind of people were Dokkaebis

As he broke a shower of sweat tracing back in hisstreak froo This led to other memories It was castellan Bawoo Muridol that stepped up at last to prevent a Kian barely reoing undefeated By that ti in this wrestling an was slightly startled as he remembered his emotion from back then

Maybe back then he had so at the past of soan wondered about that lasttakedown? Or a duck-under?

After a short ponder, Kaygan lost his interest Why does itstreak didn’t break, he probably won thatmatch He didn’t even have interest

And after three hours later, he regretted his decision

The inn-owner of the Last Inn found the Dokkaebi Bihyung Srable frouess that he was a traveler headed to the inn, becaue the inn-oas yet to greet a traveler that ca approached the Last Inn very closely the inn-owner realized that it was a Dokkaebi riding a beetle

The beetle landed next to the boulder causing a sandstorm, and by the ti glanced at the inn-owner as he barged in the inn, and the inn-owner, without hesitation, pointed at the second floor

”There, first room from the left”

Bihyung looked up The center of the first floor of the inn was e, and the circular hallway surrounded the space, allowing the rooms of the second floor to be seen As he found the roo smiled

”Did you dream well! You can put ht?”

The inn-owner nodded and Bihyung ran upstairs to open the door of the room And he questioned the human that looked at him with surprised eyes

”Did you dream well! How did you faceplant our castellan on the sand?”

”I’an Draaka”

Kaygan and Bihyung looked at each other aardly Kaygan thought that he ure out what Don’t people tell their name first when thefelt that he did so realized his hed cheerfully

”Ah, pardon ht?”

Kaygan could not knohy Bihyung was s that his back was breaking a sweat, Kaygan carefully spoke

”From Hainsha Great Temple… Yes?”

”You’re correct You waited for me?”

”Yes”

Silence

”Uh, how did you faceplant our castellan on the sand?”

”I apologize, but I forgot what I used”

”Huh? It was the single-leg takedown! No Dokkaebi doesn’t know this I was asking you how you pulled off a single-leg takedown on someone like our castellan that tilts his body forward so much But you said you didn’t remember what you used? How could you? If I ever went undefeated, I would have told the story until the day I died You forgot? Completely? Definitely? Without a doubt?”

”I don’t know, I think so”

Bihyung looked at Kaygan with so an felt nervous Do Dokkaebis respect things they don’t understand? He couldn’t rean bit down on his

Bihyung shrugged and put down his bag by his feet

”That could happen It’s been 20 years, and you an was relieved But, Bihyung’s speech pattern that always added a question at the end gave Kaygan another subject to think about ”But how old are you this year?”

Kaygan hesitated asat on the chair, he could think of an answer

”Why do you ask that?”

”Since you went undefeated 20 years ago, I thought I would meet someone old But you don’t look that old Ah, you were probably very young when you went undefeated, right?”

”Yes I was”

Kaygan thought that Bihyung’s speech pattern that always ended in a question had its positive side ‘I could either agree, or return the question’ Kaygan tested this, and was relieved to see it work By the ti the letter from Orenol, he recovered some composure to observe the Dokkaebi in front of his eyes While Bihyung read the letter, Kaygan slowly restored his knowledge about Dokkaebis by co

After Bihyung finished reading the letter, Bihyung put it on the table and tilted his head in confusion

”This letter only has things I already heard You, me, and the Leckorn Ah, is he not here yet? Ah, okay Anyways, us three will enter Keeboren and follon the Murun river Then, we find the Naga singing a song that followed up the Murun river, protect hi hi as the signal is a south of the Lis a song It’s a signal that won’t cause confusion, nor reveal us Anyways, is that it?”

”It is”

”I’h The other person would feel the sas such as this: Why do the Kia?”

”I don’t know anything beyond your knowledge, nor do I have speculations”

”Then could you explain me this? I heard of this Murun river for the first time today Can you find this river?”

”Yes I can The Feldori river is one of the ht this explanation was enough, but changed his ape ”So if we follow the Feldori river, ill reach the Murun river”

”Where is this Feldori river?”

”We can find it in a day’s tio south of the desert This is probably why the Great Temple chose this inn as the rendezvous point”

”You knoell about the south of the Limit Border”

Kaygan nodded

”I’uide’”

”Huh? You articulated ‘guide’ like there is abehind it?”

Kaygan regrettedwas staring at Kaygan like his eyes were lighted up Kaygan gave up

”Do you know the old ainst one?”

”Yes, I do! Doesn’t it ainst one of the four chosen races in this world, the other three races ather their force? Now that I think of it, we are three races gathered to rescue one Naga Do you mean this?”

”Yes But that maxiathered to go aginst the one, the three onizer You’re probably the conjurer”

”Huh? But I can’t do sorcery”

”The sorcerer is a trickster or a joker that disrupts order with deception You don’t need to be an actual sorcerer Also, your will-o-wisp sufficiently looks like sorcery to others”

”So the guide doesn’t need to actually guide the way?”

”Yes I think the uide that as or Keeboren”

”Then the Leckorn that’s not here yet onizer?”

Kaygan nodded slightly Asthe decisionselected as the deceiver, Leckorn fits the role of antagonizer well Dumb monks obssessed with old fairy tales

”Si that hinders our way Fitting for a Leckorn”

Bihyung, after two hours, caan’s words

Leckorns do not like traveling in the desert It’s natural, as the luscious feathers of a Leckorn provide obvious support against withstanding the ene body te heat If a Leckorn must travel in the desert, he crosses it faster than anyone (Of course, not counting a Dokkaebi on a beetle)

So, when the inn-owner saw the sillhouette of a traveler that becaer from the horizon, he im while causing a sandstor even, but because the inn-owner already encountered the previous two guests, he re and leapt over the 30the stairs is too h the inn door Everyone that carries around a 7 h a door, must be careful

The Leckorn looked around after he entered the inn And he found Kaygan and Bihyung eating dinner on a table, and promptly walked towards the because it was hollow to the top, but for a 3 meter tall Leckorn that walked with an a pillar-like iron spear, it looked like it was enough to cause hi aain felt nervous He soan couldn’t remember how to treat a Leckorn

Thankfully for Kaygan, the Leckorn opened his beaks first

”Dokkaebi and a huht place”

Kaygan was relieved again Bihyung answered the Leckorn

”Bihyung Srable This is Kaygan Draaka You came for the Great Temple’s request?”

”Hm”

Leckorn, after saying this, looked around and leaned his iron spear on the ledge of the second floor Bihyung again put a smile on his face, and when the Leckorn sat on the floor because he couldn’t find a chair big enough for hi on the floor still looked down on Bihyung and Kaygan looked a could not smile anymore

”I am Tinahan I have some complaints for the Dokkaebis”