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The Bird That Drinks Tears – Chapter 2 : Silver Tears (2)
Posted on February 14, 2016 by kobatochandaisuki -- Leave a reply
Fortunately, Tinahan did not mention any characteristic flaw or cultural vice that he deplored about the Dokkaebis There was one complaint Tinahan had about the Dokkaebis, which was the fact that the Dokkaebis never try to approach the skyfish Bihyung asked why that was a problem and screamed in excitement when he heard the answer
”You’re that person! Skyfish ruin excavator! Right?”
Tinahan, opening the lid of the cask the inn-owner brought, spoke depressingly
”Yes If you Dokkaebis helped, I would already be stepping on the back of a skyfish”
”But what can we do when the beetles refuse to approach the skyfish A us, there are people that want to knohat’s in the skyfish ruins But the beetles just don’t listen Even the ainst cat when it sees a skyfish Have you never heard of this before?”
”I have I couldn’t believe it so I even experimented once It really ran away God dae to beetles, why can’t you teach them that the skyfish are docile, huh?”
”If the skyfish are actually not aggressive, ould there be an expression ‘like an angry skyfish?’
”I’ve heard that silly expression until I got tired of it But I’ve never seen an actual angry skyfish, ever It’s probably not even true Since skyfish are so gargantuan, soot too scared probably…”
Then Kaygan who kept quiet suddenly opened his mouth
”That’s not always the case”
Tinahan and Bihyung looked back at Kaygan Kaygan spoke without emotion
”There was an angry skyfish It’s not knohy it was enraged Because the kingdoed it iped off the face of the earth”
Tinahan tilted his head
”Kingdo?’ Fairy tale”
”It’s a e But there was such an incident”
”But how do you even believe that fairy tale? This story could be made up by some lowlife too”
”You can probably confiret to the Hainsha Great Temple Since in their library are the records theof the Great Temple, I would like to talk about our schedule now”
Kaygan was relieved inside Bihyung and Tinahan nodded in agreean soon laid doords he could best lay dohich were dead words
”As far as I know, a beetle can be rode by two And you, Tinahan, can run as fast as a beetle So I want to sleep during the day to and I will ride the beetle, and Tinahan will run That’ll be enough to reach the southern end of the Punten desert by theof the next day At that point, let’s return the beetle home and enter Keeboren”
Bihyung and Tinahan was confused They expected a discussion, but Kaygan’s words were more like commands Of course his words were more of a request than coe, they had nothing else to do but agree assu raised his hand to halt Kaygan’s speech
”I’an, but I feel like we have nothing else to do but nod our heads Honestly I don’t know as other than the fact that they extract their hearts and do not talk, and I only know that there are horrifying numbers of trees in Keeboren How about you, Tinahan?”
Tinahan twisted his beak a little and nodded Bihyung looked back again at Kaygan
”Since our state is such, I don’t think you need to ask our agreeave us couide,’ are you not?”
”But you need to know the necessary facts What if I die in Keeboren?”
”That should never happen, but if it does, I’ around me and run north as quick as I can If you do die, only two reainst one, right?”
Kaygan sighed
”You need to know soood idea at all Nagas, who see teht repel the Naga scouts around you for a a scouts within a three day radius Those arbophiliacs will never forgive you who set fire on their trees Against the countless Nagas that will assault you overdosed in Sodrak, even Tinahan’s iron spear will be futile”
Leckorns feel insults against their weapons ainst thee at this state his iron spear He had too an’s statea scouts,’ ‘arbophiliacs,’ and ‘Sodraks’also made a curious face
Kaygan was shocked
Only then Kaygan felt how long the north and the south of the Lio, when the storas was stopped by the absolute limit of temperature and concluded the Great Expansion War, the world was split in two The Naga’s world Keeboren and the world north of it The latter, which has laciers, is the normal world
But the former world only has rainforests One and only rainforest naan found so comedic in this Only one person, other than a human that prepared facilities and tools to butcher-process-cook Nagas in the southernmost part of Karabora, the closest city to the Li every day, everyone now conceived the Nagas and their doas were to find someone to attest for their existence other than themselves, they would have to find the one that hates them the most The clever monks of the Great Temples knew this
Hatred is such
”Why are you crying?”
At the worrying voice of Bihyung, Kaygan returned to reality When Kaygan felt around his eyes, he realized that the tip of his fingers got wet Tinahan, who dislikes crying, was glaring at Kaygan with an angry look Kaygan wiped his eyes
”I don’t knohy I cried”
”Did you re unpleasant?”
Kaygan ignored that question And answered in a dry tone Tinahan’s question
”Naga’s ears are mediocre but their eyes are extraordinary Their eyes can see temperature, and because of that, even in the darkness of the night, they can see war ‘Dokkaebis hunt Nagas’ derives from this Back in time, some clever Dokkaebis a’s eyes With will-o-wisps as cold as body temperature”
Bihyung coan’s tears Even from other Dokkaebis, he never heard this story
”Wow, really? My will-o-wisp can trick Nagas?”
”Yes If we enter Keeboren, you’re going to have to use that talent I told you that you’ll be a conjurer, right? And you can probably guess what arbophilliacs mean They consider trees their friends It’s not co, since they plant trees everywhere in their do trees They too burn trees out of necessity, but they give them a tree funeral in that case Ah, and this is the second reason why Nagas dislike Dokkaebis Because will-o-wisps can trick Nagas and burn down trees”
Bihyung, astounded, kept on nodding his head Kaygan turned to Tinahan and explained the rest
”Naga scouts are scouts that wander around in Keeboren Of course they’re all woas pushed away in the power gaa city has two to three scout parties The area they scout usually is the southern part of the Li of unbelievers, or in other words, people like us And they take care of the trees They cure plagues a trees and restore forests struck with forestfire Their duty oes down to Keeboren And Sodrak is a potent drug of the Nagas As they near the Lias’ movement dramatically slon because of the cold But if they take that Sodrak, for a short tiion of Keeboren So, Naga scouts that wander around the area near the Li a skirets difficult If we can stop that, I’ll say that there won’t be any critical disadvantage fighting Nagas near the Limit Border”
The knowledge Kaygan spat out like a waterfallboth looked at Kaygan with a saot all that knowledge But Kaygan did not answer the stare Instead, Kaygan got up from his seat
”Where are you going?”
”I should go cryI want you to not follow me”
Then Kaygan picked up the twin-bladed sword that he leaned against the table and went outside The left two looked at each other with a confused face Then Bihyung realized that the inn-oas peeping at them
”Sir? Do you have anything to say?”
The Dokkaebi’s kind words encouraged the inn-owner The inn-owner made up his mind and ran to the kitchen Then came back with a pot The inn-owner put down the pot on the table the tere sitting by and spoke, peeping outside
”I’m sorry but I eavesdropped so that man for the first time today, yes?”
”You’re right Why?”
”Keep away from him! He’s insane!
Tinahan wondered for a an as his companion If he did, he would need to take care of this rude inn-owner for his co that it hasn’t even been one day since they’ve o The inn-owner, not knowing that he aler, desperately looked at the Dokkaebi Bihyung tilted his head in confusion
”I don’t know, He didn’t drool nor show the white of his eye nor clai Why do you think so, sir?”
The inn-owner gravely grabbed the pot lid and opened it abruptly Bihyung and Tinahan was deeply impressed by his action, so they couldn’t hide their disappointment at the content of the pot
”Herous Cold meat stew”
Bihyung and Tinahan looked at the inn-owner dubiously and the inn-owner realized his mistake
”This is Naga meat!”
The inn-oas satisfied Tinahan and Bihyung at last showed the reaction he expected Bihyung retreated with his face pale, and Tinahan leaned forward into the pot and stared at its content
”That h Keeboren When I didn’t believe him, he showed me this and asked me to boil it! So that he could eat it! Oh, God! Is this even real life? But I couldn’t do anything because I was so scared He stared at me with his eyes, and I’ve never seen such eyes before in my life! I would show you the rest of the meat but this is all it’s left That man ate it all! He ate this!”
”Uh, ha? Not any other animal? Even if the Punten desert is so close to Keeboren, you probably never saw a Naga before”
Tinahan spoke dubiously The inn-owner shook his head
”Yes, it was my first time! But I knew it the moment I saw it What other ani to faint when I took that arm out!”
Tinahan suddenly picked up a pair of chopsticks While Bihyung and the inn-owner stared at hih inside the pot and picked up each chunk of hly examined the shape of the bone Soon after, Tinahan put down a chunk of h it Bihyung also saw the chunk, and as soon as he saas attached to it, leaned forward and voernail on the end of the vague trace of scales A flat fingernail that animals do not have
Kaygan sat on the edge of the cliff, looking up at the dirty sky
Watery stars saturating the black night sky, and a ht sky of the desert was conteht actually was Under the stains of light, the desert flowed in pure darkness
In front of Kaygan’s eyes that stared into sky that looked like stirred-up seater appeared a huge hand
Kaygan stared at that hand On top of the huge palm, there was a sernail
”Dammit, it wasn’t a a”
Kaygan, slowly turning his head, looked at the distant Tinahan’s face, and Bihyung’s face to the side, which was ain
”If you want to talk, I would like you to sit Too high for me”
The two sat next to Kaygan Even so, the heads of the tere an Tinahan stared blankly at the piece of meat on his hand and threw it into the desert
”Hm Let us hear some explanation?”
”It was a piece of the Naga scout’s corpse that I enerated if I just left therabbed a few important parts One of them must have been the hand”
Kaygan’s speech was calm Tinahan couldn’t raise his voice
”They regenerate that well?”
”Only once, but I’ve seen a Naga that regenerated her head”
Tinahan’s comb erected
”H…head?”
”Yes When I defeated her, I was very tired, and I couldn’t buy more time So I cut her head off left the rest in the rainforest I brought the head back and ate it 2 years later, I hted to seeher head over 2 years”
”God damn… What happened?”
Kaygan looked back at Tinahan for ain to the darkness
”I don’t think I’ll ever see her again”
Tinahan decided he won’t ask as the result Instead, he asked so else
”So, for at least 2 years, you’ve been doing this silly thing?”
”I did it for longer than that”
”You aas, and boiled their corpses?”
”I sorilled them What is it that you want?”
”What?”
Kaygan said monotonously
”Be specific in what you want Are you trying to reprias too? If it’s neither, are you trying to pointlessly interfere with my life?”
Tinahan was perplexed In reality, he didn’t knohat he actually wanted Then Bihyung, who kept his mouth shut until now, screamed
”I will repriet it?”
Kaygan looked back at Bihyung Bihyung shouted, swinging his clenched fist in the air
”Nagas are people! Like you! How can a person eat another person! Can you refute this?”
”I won’t”
Bihyung was puzzled He falteredwhat to do with his hand, and spoke
”Then you admit to the immorality of your act? Completely? Absolutely? Without question?”
”I admit if you want me to It doesn’t really matter to me”
”What? What do you mean by that?”
”To put it in the simplest words, it won’t matter what you say to me If you want to revile me, revile me, and if you want to curse me, curse me”
”That is not what I want! Ad it! That is what I want Do you understand?”
”I get it”
”Then will you repent and stop your acts?”
”I will not repent, nor stop”
Bihyung was frustrated
”Then can you convince s?”
”I won’t explain”
It was like screa felt that way What caused chaos in Bihyung was the fact that Kaygan did not look like a villain at all Kaygan did not laugh like he was crazy nor showed a disturbing glare He was speaking quietly dry words that weren’t rude When Bihyung felt a ridiculous urge to screaain
”If my actions bother you so ive you Bihyung, you can practice the right that all Nagas have for me”
”Right? What right are you talking about?”
”The right to attempt to murder me”
Bihyung flinched Kaygan stood up slowly and looked at Bihyung His eyes were pacific
”That is the only way to stop the ‘act of a person eating another person’ that you abhor so uarantee your safety”
”Does that mean that if I try to kill you, you’ll kill me?”
”I will if I must”
”Then that as will feel the sa to other people that you yourself don’t want?”
”Because I know they don’t want to die”
”What?”
Kaygan slowlycould only see the twin-bladed sword then Kaygan had it in his hands until this ’s eyes because of cunning bodywas surprised by the fact that such a great sas hidden like it was a dagger Kaygan, slowly raising the twin-bladed sword, spoke as he mounted it on the hook behind his shoulder
”I do it because they don’t want it”
Kaygan walked to the inn
Even though Nagas do not have much forms of art that could be shared with other races, it doesn’tbecause of their superior vision, and they don’t have music because of their inferior audition, but they too have a body that can move very well Therefore they can dance
The dance of Nagas, in term of the essense of dance in which one feels pleasure inone’s body, is not very different from the dance of other races, but difference happens in the appreciation of the dance Other races also know toi enjoy the flow and beat created by the as, in addition to this, see the air flow around the dancer
Often when Nagas dance, they hold a unique object in their hands, and if a human saw this object, which is a wooden handle attached to a longiron This object, called the dance stick, was derived fro iron, and is heated in a brazier like a soldering iron But in its usage, the dance stick has nothing to do with a soldering iron
Naga dancers dance holding heated up dance sticks They sometimes use torches when they don’t have dance sticks, but it is ineffective, as its te rays of light in the hands of the dancer, is most appropriate The dancer, with those rods, harass, excite, and frenzy the air Therefore, Nagas, and only Nagas, can see the carnival of light around the dancer that cannot be described ords
The wo at the Fei clan were all together dazed at the brilliant movements made by Samo Fei
A set ofthe flesh of light that Samo lays out in the air, flows of air dance fla thea Naga, but as the next ht The audience all together could not look away from Samo
The dance finished