Dark Iron Incident

"Oh, those flowers are so beautiful, aren't they, Master Zalyon? You think they just grow taller? Let me tell you, their branches can really wrap around the clouds and let the clouds go It can’t be lost, so as long as you know how to control the Mis flower, you can control the microclimate of Kabruheim, and the grassland can be taken care of so well.”

"...If...I mean, if you have the seed of Mies in your hand, can you make it bloom?"

"Ha!!" The little demon shook his head again, as if he had been insulted, "In my hand? If those stinky bronze flames hadn't started burning from their roots, I would have let them see the light of day long ago! In my hand On? In my hand? In my hand?"

After two seconds of silence, Zon, who remembered the sad past again, began to cry, and moved his hands while crying, unexpectedly being able to do both.

When he was crying the most emotionally, Zalien, who came out of the treasure room, handed the transparent little ice cocoon to him. He wanted to explain what it was, but saw the expression of the sharp cone monster. Finally, Binglong felt that explaining was superfluous.

"...Here," Zalyon whispered, "here."

The guy who was still crying did not speak, he turned back mechanically and continued to play with the flowers that were almost unfinished, and only after all the details were dealt with, he took the cold dish and stared at the flowers inside for a long time. Something, tears crackling on the ice.

The ice dragon moved its hooves, the ice cocoon shattered, and six seeds scattered in the hands of the sharp cone demon, but the little demon still didn't say anything, turned around sharply, and ran away crying.

"...Then, what... Hey!" Zallion, who just remembered that it would be better to threaten, said weakly that the other party could no longer hear, "That... I only have this point, if you, if you fail Yes, I'll kill you, you hear me! I've said it! I've said it!"

Zallion didn't know exactly where Zon planted Redmis and Lanmis, but when he woke up one day, he saw a big jigsaw puzzle made of fallen leaves at the gate of the palace, and there was a line of ancient times written crookedly. Speech: To the great Zalyon.

Zon definitely didn't do it alone, because he didn't need to look up to know that all the sharp cone monsters in the forest were hiding in the trees and peeking at him, so he froze the fallen leaves puzzle and hung it in the most conspicuous position on the main hall When Gary Face saw it, he accidentally laughed, but he still told Zalien sincerely that although this thing was ugly, it was ugly.

Of course, after the compliment, the earth monster asked him if he was in the mood for wing-to-wing as usual, and was kicked out of the Ice Palace as usual.

After his life returned to the right track, Zallion began to consciously manipulate his dreams. Because of his stronger power, manipulating his dreams was not as difficult as he imagined. Indeed, he never had a real dream again, and he never even had an illusory dream. Clegane appeared, who had been so afraid of his thoughts and dreams that he was afraid to fall asleep and almost broke his body.

But now everything is fine, and he is relieved.

Zallion tried to restore his relationship with the centaur Kanna, and the kind old man welcomed him as always, and put fruits and vegetables on the table as always, and he was not allowed to pick the green plants away.

"You look fine, my dear."

"I've raised a bunch of kids in the forest, and it feels pretty good."

"Recently, the human world keeps losing babies. Could it be that you did it?"

"Come on, ma'am, I don't raise anything, and I will raise humans! It's the sharp cone monster of Kabruheim. I have been very concerned about it before receiving their help. I sent an invitation not long after I came back from the carnival. At first they If you don’t believe me, they seem to have held an internal meeting for decades before deciding to relocate and come to my place to see the situation.”

"Spires? Can you raise something intelligent? Sounds as bad as you raising a bunch of Geryons."

"..."

"So, what's your plan next?"

"I don't have any plans. In the past few years, I have made up my mind not to find a spouse, but to think about it now, I still really want to find a spouse and have children. Back then, I didn't even know the child's name." Think it over."

"Then, what do you mean, are you going to attend the next Hundred Ghosts Carnival?"

"I don't mean that. I won't go to the Hundred Ghosts Carnival again."

"It's true, even though your arch-rival didn't attend last time, and it was for nothing that Wuwangzhe won the title of Bronze Prison Winner for the second time, but there is no guarantee that he won't go next time."

"……enemy……"

"Can I just say his name?"

"No, it's good to be a deadly enemy."

"You said just now... that you have made the determination to match the wings?" Kanna took a sip of the tree brew, "You started thinking about King Xiong so naturally?"

"... This... No... This, this is very complicated..."

The young man in blue coughed a few times, and brought up this sensitive topic, "I haven't visited you for a long time, I'm sorry, ma'am, I don't know if you are doing well."

"Alive."

"..."

"You don't need to apologize. You have to take care of yourself before you can take care of others. It's good to see you recover."

"Originally... it wasn't a big deal, but it was too much of a fuss back then..."

"Really?"

"……Well……"

His heart, which had been calmed down for many years, suddenly tugged again. Zallion felt a little dangerous, and shook his head quickly, "Well, no, there must be some shadows, let's talk about something else, madam."

Kanna nodded slightly.

"What do you want to talk about?"

"...I don't know...how about, why don't you talk about your affairs, ma'am, I have been learning from you for so long, and I have always talked about my trivial matters, and I haven't talked much about your affairs. "

"for example?"

"Well, for example, how do you know so many things?"

"Chiron taught me."

"How do you know Chiron?"

"We're from the same family."

"The same...huh?"

"Since you want to talk about this, okay, let's talk about my silver hair."

"……what?"

Looking up at the old man's slightly cloudy eyes, Zalian hesitated.

"This, this... I'm sorry, I'm not... Actually, um, I suddenly don't want to talk about this topic..."

"It doesn't matter, it was more than 760 years ago."

"... seven hundred... six, sixty years...?"

"Do you know who our family is, dear?"

"Well……"

The man in blue nodded embarrassedly.

The Centaurs are a race full of bad deeds. They are savage, addicted to alcohol, unreasonable when they go crazy, advocating blood, and extremely cunning. They talk.

"Then do you know how different our prophet Chiron is from other guys?"

"I know, Lord Chiron's name and great achievements are known to everyone."

"...Then you should know how I couldn't help myself when I saw him for the first time." Kanna chuckled, as if talking about someone else, "I fell into an irrational obsession and frenzy for him, He also became his earliest student, because, well, not many Centauros want to learn, and I happen to be the same kind as Chiron, and in the eyes of other guys, we are heretics at all."

Zalyon nodded: "And then?"

"Then, Chiron learned of a prophecy related to our people. In order to protect everyone, he said the prophecy. The general idea is that a human named Theseus will conquer the Centaurs who did evil at the banquet. He The original intention was to hope that everyone would restrain themselves and not make trouble at any banquet, but... I know how everyone will understand this prophecy, and they did - they searched all over the world for this Theseus, trying to kill him."

"But Theseus is... I remember that Theseus is Lord Chiron's favorite student?"

"Yes. Chiron said that the child was in danger because of himself, and he must bear the responsibility, so he accepted him as a disciple. Although everyone hated that prophet, he was favored by Zeus after all. Endowing the immortality that everyone envies, everyone only dares to isolate him and dare not attack him."

"...but you like him, don't you, ma'am?"

"Hmm, I can't say I like his madness anymore," the silver-haired lady laughed, "I stood by his side without even thinking about it. , I am so young, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is my god, my god."

"To tell you the truth, I can't imagine you ever having that kind of time, ma'am... I don't mean to be sorry, I mean..."

"Okay, boy, I understand what you mean."

Kanna stopped laughing, and her tone became lighter, "But people in Centauros have desires, even the most perfect sage is no exception... His desire is only on himself Of course, at that time, I didn't know that I would do anything for him. He told me how lonely eternal life would be, and he hoped that someone could always be by his side... I can only say that this is very important to me. It's not a problem, I betrayed all my clansmen, I humbly prayed for eternal life in front of Zeus, I don't want my family's name, blood, I don't leave any traces in this world, I can do any dirty things for the gods, no Question... that's the price I paid for eternal life.

"And this silver hair is the only witness of that betrayal. None of my people know me anymore, and no one will marry me, because the oracle does not allow it, and I will never conceive a child. Grow old day after day."

"……lady……"

"When you were struggling for some guy, you asked me how much I had to pay for stupid 'love', but I couldn't answer you, that thing is the biggest fraud in the world, even Hermes Don’t dare to play, sometimes you can’t control it, it becomes true, no matter how much you pay at this time, it’s worth it, and love is not stupid; but sometimes you control it, and you find it’s not true, then you feel This love is stupid because it's not worth it no matter what it takes, and there's no going back."

"...I don't know, because I don't... I don't think it's possible that love isn't stupid, and even if I had to think about it now, I think it's always stupid, and whether it's true or not, it ends up just letting it go. You’d rather die for a while, but you can’t take anything with you.”

"...Well..." Kanna pursed her lips, but did not refute his obvious self-covering remarks.