SWNOVELXO chapter 26 - girl and woman 2
“Dear Alice,” the woman said.
Alice is my sister’s name. Her name was the village where she was born and raised, and it was the name she heard repeated over and over again.
This person knows my sister. But I don’t remember seeing it in the village. That being said, it was probably the person who met her sister at the place where she was taken.
I don’t know exactly where my sister was taken, so I don’t know where this person came from.
“If that’s the case…what are you going to do?”
He stares back at the woman and asks.
The woman opens her mouth, choosing her answer carefully.
“I’m sorry, I won’t. However, if that’s the case, I’ll do whatever it takes, so I’d like you to keep me in this village.”
“Why”
If I am her sister’s younger sister, why would she want me in this village?
“…It’s because I think you might be a miko. I’ve been doing research on miko. That’s why I want to be by your side, who might be a miko.”
“No, maybe?”
I have a feeling that it might be a miko, but I don’t know if it really is a miko.
“That’s fine. I’m interested in you.”
The woman kept looking at me and smiled.
It seems like he’s interested in me. Somehow, I don’t think he’s a bad person.
“yes……”
“Yeah”
“Me, little sister.”
“on second thoughts!”
“Name, Lelunda.”
“Lelunda-sama, right?”
The woman is smiling, but she doesn’t like being called Lady Lelunda.
“Lelunda. Sir, I don’t need it.”
“but……”
“Miko, I don’t know. I-I don’t know.”
We don’t know if he is really a miko or not. For some reason, I was lucky enough to be able to leave the village alone without putting my life in danger, befriend the griffons, and still end up in a beastman village…but that’s really how it is. I don’t know.
In the first place, even if I were that kind of person, I still don’t like being called “Samazuke”. I don’t like the distance. It’s better to be friends.
“…I understand. Well then, Lelunda.”
“yeah!”
I felt kind of happy when the woman called my name.
“It might be a miko, it’s a secret.”
“secret?”
“Hmm. Maybe, dashi.”
It may be, but I can’t say that it is. Besides, if I were to exist like that, I would feel like things would change somehow, and I don’t like it.
“name”
“name?”
“Can you tell me your name?”
“Ah. I’m sorry. I haven’t introduced myself yet. My name is Randono Stoffer. Randono is my name and Stoffer is my family name.”
“So, Ran-san, is that okay?”
“Is that what you call it? It doesn’t matter.”
Woman――Ran said that and laughed gracefully.
“Ran, why are you alone in the forest?”
The name is long. My grandfather once said that a person with a family name is a great person. Why was such a great man alone in the forest?
Had he been in so much trouble that he had collapsed?
Look at the orchid in front of you. Mr. Ran is wearing a fine robe. It would be expensive to sell, but it’s dirty with dirt. He had fallen down, and his body was exhausted. There was a white cloth wrapped around his arm, and I wonder if he was injured.
Ran has purple hair that reaches around her shoulders. Her eyes were a beautiful light blue, and I thought she looked like the sky.
“I have been sentenced to expulsion from the royal capital and Agatta.”
“Expulsion? That’s terrible. Also, Agatta, what is it?”
I can kind of understand what the royal capital is. Where the king lives. But what about Agatta?
“Agatta will become a large city with a great temple.I worked there as an educator for the miko-sama, but it didn’t go well.In the end, there were continuous thunderstorms and droughts. It was rumored that this was divine punishment caused by the miko, and he was sentenced to exile to a country that feared divine punishment.”
“Is that so?”
I guess he was working as his sister’s tutor, but things didn’t go well, something bad happened, and he was expelled.
“However, even though I have caused displeasure by asking her to study all the time, no such divine punishment has occurred.If there really is such a thing as divine punishment, I would be dead by now.” You must have been there.”
Ran says this indifferently, but if there really is such a thing as divine punishment, it’s scary. If Miko was angry, if something like that would happen to the person who had angered Miko, I was worried that if I did something, someone else would be the same. Of course, if I were a miko.
“Relunda, that’s it. I was sentenced to exile from the royal capital and Agatta, but I came to the conclusion that that country was no good, so I thought of leaving the country. Before that, I decided to leave the country. I went to the village because I wanted to see the village where I grew up.”
The village where I was born and raised.
He put his sister first and contributed to her with the crops he had harvested. He remembers that a merchant who stopped by said that he lived a wealthy life for a remote village. It seemed that crops were easy to grow, and once the villagers had finished doing the bare minimum to make a living, the villagers were looking out for their sister. I was just catching a glimpse of what was going on, and he yelled at me, “Don’t look at me!”
The villagers hated me. She said that she was not suitable to be my sister’s younger sister. Her parents also loved their special older sister. I was just kind of alive. In this beastman village, I feel like I want to do something, but even those feelings never arose in the village where I was born and raised. There was no such freedom. The village where I was born and raised was everything to me, so I never thought about moving outside of the village. I remember my grandfather well, but I don’t remember much about other people.
“There I learned that crops were being destroyed by insect damage.”
“picture”
“What are you surprised about?”
“Really, where I was?”
I thought so because, as far as I knew, I had no recollection of crops being spoiled due to such a thing. In the first place, if life became difficult, I would have been the first to be killed in order to reduce my income and support.
“That’s right. Didn’t that happen when Lelunda was there?”
“yeah”
“Hehe, I knew it. That made me think that Alice-sama might not be a miko after all.”
Hearing my words, Mr. Ran smiled happily and continued.
“A child of God is loved by God. Therefore, God will not allow the land where the miko lives to be destroyed.”
“what is that?”
“This is a sentence left in the church. The last time a Miko appeared in the world was more than 100 years ago. Therefore, there is little information about Miko. However, there are many things left behind about Miko. As I researched the Miko, I learned that the land that the Miko loved will never disappear.Even if the Miko is far away, the land that the Miko loved and cared for is easy to grow crops and the environment is good. It seems to be getting better.In the first place, the area of influence of the miko is said to be wide.It is said that the country to which the miko belongs is at least less susceptible to damage caused by bad weather, etc.For the entire country.”
“……That’s right”
Miko seems to be a much bigger existence than I thought. I was a little surprised while listening to the story.
“The higher-ups said that the lightning was falling as divine punishment for angering the miko, but that didn’t seem to be the case.If there really was divine punishment, it would have come straight down on me.By the way, Lelunda , Is this village very environmentally friendly?”
“yeah”
“Will crops grow like in the village where I was born and raised?”
“Hm, yeah.”
“In that case, I think that the reason the environment in the village where Lelunda was born and raised was good until now was because Lelunda was here. Since Lelunda came to the beastman village like this, it has had a positive influence here. There is. After all, I believe that Lelunda is a divine child.”
Ran laughed at that.
“yes……”
“Yeah”
“…Ran-san, Miko, you know a lot. What do you think?”
“Yes! Of course, that’s fine! But let’s leave it for later. The beastmen’s faces are getting scary…”
That’s what I was told, so I looked at Gaius and the others. I’m staring at you.
“By the way, that griffon that brought me halfway and this skyhorse…”
“I have a contract.”
“Well, that’s amazing.”
Ran-san is looking at me and Seafo with sparkling eyes.
I look at the situation and beckon Gaius and Athos-san.
“Lelunda, are you okay?”
“yeah”
Gaius asked me first and I answered.
Athos-san and Ran-san are having a conversation next to us. Mr. Ran had asked Mr. Athos to let him live in this village. Athos had a difficult look on his face.
However, Ran-san, who begs again and again, seems to have been given a condition to live in this village.
—Girl and woman 2
(Perhaps the miko girl heard about miko from a woman.)