Eternally Regressing Knight Chapter 477

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It was the third day since Ayul came to visit us in the tent.

It was the moment when dawn was just breaking, and I was in the midst of moving my body in a technique of isolation.

As I was standing in front of the tent, Ayul came over.

Tanned brown skin, painted patterns on her face, bright eyes.

The impression was different. His expression seemed much softer than before.

At least it didn’t look like anyone was going to be beheaded with an axe.

The words coming out of her mouth were like that.

“Nice to meet you. This is Ayul.”

It’s a completely different temperament than when we first met. He was calm.

Should I really call him a Westerner?

Encred seemed to have a rough idea of ​​the habits of Westerners.

They were straightforward and unpretentious.

Just like Rem.

“It seems like a new greeting.”

Encred said, stretching his muscles absentmindedly. He grabbed the tips of his left fingers with his right hand, turned his arm over, and pressed down. It was a process of loosening the muscles and tendons that started at the elbow and went all the way to the wrist.

Flexibility isn’t something you develop overnight. It takes hard work and daily practice.

Of course, Encred had been doing this for years.

Ayul’s gaze scanned Encred’s body as he relaxed.

Although he was large and muscular, he was very soft. His muscles were tough, firm, and flexible.

It was a body so sharp that cannibals would shake their heads at the sight of it.

Cannibal babies are the ones who originally hate tough and strong bodies.

“That’s true, but you should greet them properly.”

Ayul looked closely at the body of the stranger, but his eyes did not show any emotion. Ayul was indifferent.

“Well, even if that’s true, it’s okay.”

As Encred nodded roughly, Ayul asked.

“Can I speak comfortably?”

“I like it too, it’s comfortable.”

After I sorted out my speech in a refreshing way.

Ayul was grateful to Encred for becoming a human totem. That was why.

“I’m just going to show you around for a bit.”

Ayul said, holding onto my colorful skirt neatly.

Encred saw that there were two long daggers on her thighs under that skirt.

I could tell just by looking at their gait and gestures without having to see them directly.

When walking, the weight of both feet is different. The right foot is heavier. There will be a relatively heavy weapon hidden.

When I first saw Rem, I didn’t think an axe-wielding woman would be walking around unarmed.

Anyone could see that Ayul was a warrior.

His appearance was like that, and his actions were like that.

The fluttering skirt also seemed good for hiding something.

If she were Rem’s wife, she might have used that skirt to block the opponent’s view.

The madman, who would turn any situation into a duel, would once again gauge his opponent’s skills.

Ayul waited for the other person’s answer with his back to the sun. The sun was just beginning to set as dawn broke.

The sun warming the dry air gave me the pleasure of moving my body here.

Encred had just finished warming up. He wiped the sweat off his body with a dry cloth and went into the tent, asking Hira if he could empty the tent.

“Will you be back before noon?”

Hira spoke in a pleading tone. It seemed like he hadn’t slept properly for three days and was doing something, so he wondered if his body was okay. Encred nodded.

Some of those lying around pretended to know me. After about three days, the number of people getting better increased.

Among them, there was a child I met for the first time.

“My name is Ziva. I plan to marry you later.”

The child was impudent.

When Luagarne heard that, she laughed, puffing out her cheeks and sticking her tongue out.

“Get in line, human kid.”

“yes?”

“You already have a lot of competitors in front of you.”

Ziva was taken aback for a moment by those words.

As soon as she got out of bed and walked, she said that she wanted to be a future bride. She was a really cheeky child.

The mother listened to her child’s words, but remained indifferent.

Shouldn’t I dry it?

Geomna-rae still laughed heartily, and the woman without a daughter slept soundly again as if she had died.

Well, a lot of things happened.

It was still Chiba’s time to sleep.

She had kicked off the thin blanket covering her body, exposing her stomach.

The mother covered the child who was sleeping freely with a blanket and asked.

“Shall I follow you?”

It was a question that implied that he would stick around if the market needed it.

Encred shook his head and went back outside.

“let’s go.”

Ayul spoke and Encred followed him.

There was a man in front of the tent who had been looking at her strangely for several days, but Encred ignored him.

It was a look of love and hate, filled with gratitude and hatred. It was the first time I had seen him. Should I say that he was a strange person for a Westerner who liked it and disliked it?

He seemed to be close to Chiba’s mother, so he didn’t seem to have any special intentions.

Ayul led Encrid out of the tent.

Between the many tents, the falling sunlight greeted their steps.

“Did you cut Rem’s neck?”

Encred extended his stride instead of sticking out his left foot. He could see a colony of ants crawling beneath his left foot.

Spiders scattered and fled at the sound of human footsteps.

On one side, a dung beetle was busy rolling cow dung.

Would Luagarne eat that too?

That didn’t seem to be the case. She seemed to be picking and choosing bugs just as humans pick and choose food.

“A person dies when his neck is cut.”

Ayul spat out the truth.

It was a truth that even Encred knew.

“I think I did something so wrong that I could die.”

Ayul tried to agree but then stopped.

I remembered what happened yesterday. That is, the day Rem slept at her house.

* * *

“I want to have a child.”

Shouldn’t you just say whatever you want?

Ayul did so.

My companion was indifferent when he heard that.

“Is that so?”

It was the same as usual. It was a face that seemed to be uninterested in anything other than axes, fighting, battles, and cannibals.

There was a time when he acted like a mischievous child, but when did he start acting like this?

Ayul stopped thinking about it.

It was a week before the wedding.

Rem devoted himself to fighting and hunting.

That’s what it looks like from the side.

‘It looks like he’s running away.’

It’s just a feeling, Rem never actually did that.

Ayul was watching Rem swinging his axe, resting his chin on his hand. The question of whether he wanted to run away came up.

Ayul saw herself being dishonest.

If Rem said she wanted to run away, would you be able to handle it?

I ignored it.

It was the first time. I hid my feelings and said something else, which was that I wanted a child.

I secretly thought it was impossible.

Rem was a talented and future chieftain, and a future warrior.

How many people in the western lands can be called warriors?

They say there’s one in the cannibal tribe.

Why would Rem want to run away?

He loved this land more than himself.

Ayul liked that too.

So it’s not an escape. I guess I was wrong.

He did so. He didn’t run away.

A week after the wedding.

He chose to sleep in the fields rather than at home, and he beheaded the so-called warrior of the cannibal tribe.

Under the low sky, the widely spread clouds looked like a white ceiling.

Blood dripping from the axe drew red lines across the white ceiling.

“Ahhhhh!”

My companion let out a roar like a monster. It was a cheer of victory.

After that crazy axe-smashing, Rem left.

Why? I don’t know. There was no word.

At first, it was absurd.

‘This kid?’

Rem said that he had never thought of any other woman as a companion.

Because the two grew up together, they used similar techniques and even had similar temperaments.

“I don’t doubt your mother, but you seem to come from the same womb.”

My father, who was not the chieftain at the time, often said such things.

“is it so?”

Ayul was glad to hear that.

Wasn’t it Rem?

Was my partner, the person who was to live with me as my other half, different from me? Was our hearts not aligned?

‘Just me?’

Was I the only one who felt that way?

Rem is gone.

After a month, I felt more angry than bewildered.

Does it make sense to leave without even a single letter?

“Forget it.”

The father who became the chief said. Many things have happened since then. The sun has passed. Traces of the four seasons have remained on the fields.

On the windy summer fields, Ayul made up her mind.

‘If you come back, I’ll cut your throat.’

Beyond the absurdity and anger, past the stage of worry, what remained was murderous intent.

And then Rem came back.

“You said you wanted a child.”

After avoiding me for a few days, he came up to me and said this, as if he had something on his mind.

Rem’s shadow grew long in front of the tent.

Ayul said as he looked at the shadow.

“Right now, I’d rather cut up your stuff and hang it on the wall than have a child.”

It was a sarcastic remark. When I say things, I don’t mean arms or legs.

I guess you’re talking about something that you had but never had a chance to use.

Rem scratched his head. He could shamelessly go out to everyone else, but he couldn’t do that to Ayul.

He abandoned his responsibilities and abandoned his duties.

The first of these is leaving your companion alone.

Rem acknowledged her shortcomings.

That’s why I can stand here and say this now.

“What kind of world do you think that child will live in?”

The West was once thought of as a stagnant land.

Westerners were thought to be simply people who had stopped and lost the will to move forward.

‘Wouldn’t it be better to be a madman of indignation?’

That’s not it.

I wasn’t comparing him to some crazy kid who went against the grain and broke taboos.

But, it was just as frustrating.

Is this a step taken to achieve something? No. It was an excuse and a justification.

Rem realized this quite a while after he left the West.

To be exact, it was after seeing a human named Encrid.

There was something I once gave up on and forgot about. I gave up on it without even knowing what it was.

‘I will change.’

It is the will to change the West.

I threw it away before I even realized it. I forgot about it. I threw it away.

Rem was a loser and a fugitive.

Because I acknowledged that, I couldn’t receive the spell.

The moment you receive the divine power, you will die.

That will be the end.

Any chance to change, any chance to live, will disappear.

I couldn’t enter the valley of death like that.

Rem became a fugitive, indulging in the world’s remaining pleasures.

I couldn’t see Ayul anymore.

I couldn’t show her this ugly side of me. But I couldn’t ask her to live with that idiot as my companion and lifelong confidant.

That’s how he escaped.

Oh, it’s embarrassing. Really.

Rem was embarrassed, but did not run away any further.

Now that I have learned and come to know.

How worthless I am, and how I should live.

‘Nothing is solved by running away.’

Rather than living a life as a doll with nothing to show for it, it is better to walk a path that could lead to death. So I will walk.

That doesn’t mean he believes he’s going to die.

I will shout out to this unfair world.

This isn’t a hindrance.

If you want something, you’ll go for it.

Encred did so.

At first glance, he’s just a reckless human who’s about to die.

After that, he was a fun person to watch.

Behind him is a human being too precious to die.

As the past came to mind and time passed by, I saw the captain struggling in front of me.

He said everything with his hands and feet, with his body.

I will not give up and I will not despair.

I will walk through whatever blocks my path.

That was the kind of person he was.

Rem learned. He was enlightened. He looked back on his life.

I remembered what I had left behind.

It was all an excuse.

That rascal and that stray cat just gave me an opportunity.

Only then was Rem able to turn her head and look west. She faced what she had left behind, what she had given up.

So now I could say it.

“It’s embarrassing, but I ran away.”

Rem spoke honestly and openly.

The conversation continued in a calm, yet uninterrupted manner.

Thanks to my improved speaking skills, I was able to speak quite coherently.

The reason for my escape was that if my child is born, I hope that the land he or she will live in will not be the same as it is now.

That became his goal.

Ayul still looked at Rem’s shadow.

Whether it was Rem who spoke or Ayul who listened, they were extremely indifferent.

“The end. If you want, I’ll cut anything for you.”

If that’s the atonement, then I’ll do it.

Rem said, and Ayul raised his head.

From the shadow to the toes, from the shins to the knees, from the knees to the waist, from the waist to the chest, from the chest to the face.

At the end of the gaze, gray eyes appeared.

From a young age, Rem was honest. Always to herself.

Should I say that this is the moment I have been waiting for?

It would have been better if you had told me in advance, but since I heard it now, I wouldn’t have been so upset that it was too late.

“It took a long time. I’m sorry.”

Rem said.

Ayul could never forgive Rem for his past.

But the agony of the person I chose as my companion touched my heart.

A tear fell without me knowing it. It was because dust had gotten in.

Today is a clearer day than any other day, without a speck of dust.

Under the bright moonlight, Ayul stretched out her hand.

“Catch it.”

Rem took her hand.

“I’ll let you sleep in just for today.”

Ayul said. He will probably let me sleep not only today but in the future as well.

The two had a conversation.

Rem poured out her heart, and Ayul also expressed her feelings of resentment.

At the end of that conversation, Ayul felt a little upset.

“Uh, um, there’s still stuff I want to do.”

“So, you mean you’re going to leave again after asking for forgiveness as soon as you get here? Just to get the spells?”

This fu*king kid?

Ayul found herself cursing.