In Count Bayer’s arms, Yuna began to tell various stories in a disorderly manner.
That he himself was not originally from this mountain.
That he was born much further west.
My older brother from far away noticed that I spent a night outside of Seolsan Mountain during the festival five days ago.
It’s like he’s trying to take himself back to the far west.
Listening to Yuna’s story, Count Bayer thought.
It was just as Count Chase had thought.
It was clear that Yuna was an outsider.
It was difficult to define, but it was neither a demon nor an angel. It was a different kind of being.
But that didn’t matter.
The important thing was that Yuna wanted to be with Count Bayer himself.
And Count Bayer felt the same way.
‘Arthur.’
Count Bayer kept his eyes focused on the front, but he was thinking of Count Chase, who was still behind him on the mountain.
The gaze that glared at me from afar when Yuna was held in his arms.
The owner of the gaze that I vaguely felt every time I met Yuna on Seolsan Mountain.
It happened this time too.
Moreover, this time, there was open hostility.
‘Arthur.’
Count Bayer once again muttered Count Chase’s name in his head.
I spurred myself on again, thinking of my friend’s face.
&
It was the following evening that Counts Bayer and Chase met again.
Count Chase looked at Yuna, who had fallen into a deep sleep early, either because she was far from the snowy mountain or because she was relaxed, and spoke softly.
“It was a huge white fox.”
A being that appeared after Yuna and Count Bayer left.
It was a huge fox that must have been at least 5 meters tall at the shoulder.
I couldn’t figure out how such a huge being could move without making a sound.
Maybe that too was a mystery.
“Did you fight?”
“No, he just stared at me for a while and then said, ‘Please take care of the young lady,’ and disappeared.”
A giant, mysterious fox that you would believe was the guardian deity of the snowy mountains.
Yuna, who was called a young lady by that fox.
Her story of being born much further west.
The presence of her brother who told her to come back.
Nothing was clear, but Count Chase did not dig any further.
The moment I saw Count Bayer’s silent face while holding Yuna in his arms, I realized that no more words had any meaning.
And a month later.
Count Bayer and Count Chase are in the northern part of the Kingdom of Cailun.
I returned to my hometown, Baylun.
&
Count Bayer married Yuna.
Count Bayer of that time – that is, Alex Bayer’s father – initially denied their relationship and was also against their marriage, but as the old saying goes, no parent is better than their child, and in the end he gave in.
The first child was born between Count Bayer and Yuna.
The name is Gail.
The child, born when Count Bayer no longer spoke of freedom, was born with blue hair and a gentle personality like Yuna.
Time passed again.
10 years.
A time that is by no means short.
But as if she had been liberated from the flow of time, Yuna was still as lively and lovely as a girl in her late teens.
But when my second child was born.
The moment when Yuder, who inherited Count Bayer’s black hair and Yuna’s mysterious green eyes, burst into tears for the first time.
The peace that seemed like it would last forever for the Counts of Bayer was shattered.
&
Uder was born with a nine-syllable syllable vein.
It was because he was born with extreme coldness despite being a boy.
But that wasn’t the only problem.
Yuna’s body, which had been healthy when she gave birth to Gale, began to deteriorate rapidly.
It wasn’t a side effect of childbirth.
Yuna’s body had already been slowly deteriorating before then.
Count Chase, who was staying at his family home because his wife was about to give birth, quickly examined Yuna and came to one conclusion.
“Arthur, she must go back.”
Yuder’s extreme temper was derived from Yuna.
She was an outsider, as she had long known, and she needed the cold air of a snow-capped mountain.
Count Bayer closed his eyes tightly at Count Chase’s words.
And he made up his mind.
She shook off the servants who tried to dissuade her, held the newborn Yuder and Yuna in her arms, and rode her horse toward the north.
Count Chase followed Count Bayer.
He hesitated for a moment because his wife was about to give birth, but Countess Chase gave him a push on the back instead.
“song.”
Because if you don’t go, you’ll definitely be in pain for the rest of your life.
“But don’t be late either.”
Count Chase smiled at his wife’s playful yet grateful threats and rode off north.
Cross the border to the snowy mountains.
To save Yuna.
[The young lady will accept it, but the child will not. The child is one of the two destined people.]
The giant fox appeared at the entrance of the snowy mountain as if it had known it was coming, and after saying that, it disappeared, taking only Yuna with it.
Unfortunately for Count Bayer, Yuna was already in a coma, so they couldn’t even say a proper farewell.
“Go back.”
It was a time when war between the kingdom and the empire was imminent.
Count Bayer glared at the snow-capped mountains, but soon nodded and climbed onto his horse with Yuder in his arms.
And a year later.
Because of the war between the kingdom and the empire, Count Bayer was unable to return to the snowy mountains.
Summer three years later.
Count Bayer found the snow-capped mountain, but it was already too late.
No, maybe everything was decided when I left Seolsan three years ago.
There were no more outsiders left in Seolsan.
Not only Yuna, but even the fox had disappeared.
19 years have passed.
Nearly 20 years.
Count Bayer, who had reached the entrance of the snowy mountain for the first time in a long while, took a deep breath and took another step forward.
Yuna’s identity.
Now I vaguely knew.
In the midst of a war of calamity, when we encountered those from the savage lands – no, from the wild lands.
When I greeted the wild avalanche called the Wild God.
Count Bayer could tell.
Yuna was a wild god.
The place called the West was a wild land that existed beyond the western border.
Count Bayer asked Rough Snow Avalanche about Yuna, but he did not know Yuna.
To begin with, Yuna was just a pseudonym and not her real name.
What could have happened?
Could it be that you have fallen victim to the wild god hunt of the devil’s eye?
Count Bayer tried hard to suppress his emotions.
After the Calamity War, when Uther and Cordelia set out on their journey to Hell.
He traveled through wild lands.
I tried to find traces of Yuna.
But during his half-year journey, he was unable to find anything.
“Yuna.”
Count Bayer said, looking at the snow-capped mountains.
I tried calling her name.
Of course, I despaired at the lack of response, but I still said the name once more.
“Yuna.”
“Alex.”
Count Bayer opened his eyes wide at the answer that came with the wind. He turned around, unable to do anything about his heart that had started beating like crazy.
And I was able to face it.
Even though 20 years have passed, she remains the same.
A woman looking at me with a shy smile as always.
It wasn’t a dream.
It wasn’t a fantasy.
Count Bayer flew up. He instinctively hugged Yuna tightly, and Yuna hugged Count Bayer back. They naturally explored each other’s lips.
And how much time has passed?
Count Bayer, who suddenly came to his senses as Yuna tapped his chest, parted his lips, and Yuna, barely able to catch her breath, groaned before tapping Count Bayer’s solid chest again.
She has always had sharp hands.
This time I was in a lot of pain again.
That’s why Count Bayer let out a foolish laugh.
“beard.”
When Yuna said that while touching the area near her mouth, Count Bayer smiled awkwardly with a red face.
Because it was a beard that he started growing after Yuna disappeared.
“I’ll cut it right now.”
Yuna laughed again at the hasty answer that was not like Count Bayer, but at the same time very Bayer-like.
As if that wasn’t necessary, she kissed Count Bayer’s lips again.
What happened?
How did she avoid the onslaught of the evil eye?
Why did it only reveal itself now?
There were so many things I wanted to ask, I didn’t know where to start.
Yuna knew Count Bayer well.
So, I started to tell them one by one, stroking Count Bayer’s magnificent beard.
A story that has been in a deep sleep for the past 20 years.
The story goes that when he woke up, the sanctuary he had been sleeping in was in complete disarray.
“Was this the work of devil followers?”
“No, I heard later that it was caused by the Guardians of the Wild Lands going off while they were trying to protect the Wild Lands. But it’s still a good thing, because it made me wake up a little earlier.”
Count Bayer let out a sad laugh at Yuna’s bright answer.
Should I be grateful or resentful of Uther and Cordelia for destroying my wife’s hometown?
“I was about to return home after getting better, but the Golden Dragon King told me to go to the snowy mountains.”
Could this be a prophecy?
Or maybe it was a reading of the flow of fate.
Either way was fine.
Count Bayer hugged Yuna tightly once more, and felt both joy and embarrassment at the sight of her, who had not changed at all since twenty years ago – no, she looked exactly the same as when they first met thirty years ago.
Because Count Bayer himself seemed to have aged too much.
Yuna, who looks like she’s in her late teens, and herself, who’s now in her fifties and has aged a lot.
Of course, Count Bayer only looked like he was in his mid-thirties, but that still felt like a huge difference.
And Yuna laughed.
Because she could tell.
It wasn’t Yuderman’s specialty to know someone’s mind just by looking at their eyes.
“You’re still handsome.”
Count Bayer blushed at Yuna’s words.
No matter how shameless he was, he had no choice.
Joy and shame, unbearable love for Yuna.
Eventually, Count Bayer summoned his younger self, whom he had sealed away long ago.
He became the young boy who had been discussing the freedom of the wind that day and whispered to his lover.
“Lady Yuna, would you do me the honor of kissing me?”
Yuna laughed really loudly.
She burst out laughing and held out both her hands, saying she would gladly do so. Count Bayer smiled mischievously and did not take her hands. Instead, he kissed her on the lips.
In fact, even when we first met, I wanted to kiss your lips, not the back of your hand.
The wind blew on the snowy mountain.
The wind was so free and unstoppable, but it was the same as always.
Always towards the snowy mountains.
A consistent wind that will not change even after a thousand or ten thousand years.
Today, the sun began to set beyond the west,
The wind blew freely as always.
fin
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