#277
Helmut
Episode 277
“That bastard, I don’t think he can see us at all.”
Asuka appeared next and muttered dissatisfiedly.
Helmut, who was hugging Area tightly, seemed completely unaware of their presence.
Although they were friends who risked their lives to save him, their presence was overshadowed by his reunion with his girlfriend, Area.
“Friendship and such in front of women.”
Xian looked at the scene with moving eyes and sniffled.
“I feel sad for some reason. “I feel like crying.”
“It’s disgusting.”
Asuka looked at Xian accusingly, calling him a ‘crybaby’.
Xian looked at Helmut and Area alternately as if he was amazed.
“But Alea was really a woman. Why didn’t I know? “Now that she’s around Helmut, she looks like a woman.”
“Yeah, that makes it even more creepy. “Did you ever imagine that you would see those two doing that?”
Asuka added sarcastically.
To him, Area was like a third gender that could never become a woman.
Xian also nodded.
“It’s as shocking as a talking bird or a leopard.”
[What is this, a touching reunion?]
Ygrel muttered, his eyes sparkling.
Ever since I met a man named Helmut, I have continued to have strange experiences.
Don’t you see humans going out of Pahe’s Forest, and don’t you see people coming back into Pahe’s Forest to look for that guy who came back?
‘That’s interesting. As expected, it was a good thing you helped that guy back then.’
Ygrel nodded.
Elaga looked at Helmut closely and frowned.
He was the one who pressured Helmut to take care of the cub, but when Helmut actually stayed with his girlfriend, he felt very unfamiliar. It’s ticklish yet strange… … .
[So that’s Helmut’s girlfriend? It’s definitely hard to forget.]
It was an appearance of Area that even Elaga, a leopard, could not help but recognize. Because the absolute perspective of beauty is similar for both monsters and humans.
Sarah opened her eyes and looked at them.
“It was your girlfriend… … .”
I thought she was a pretty but cold and scary sister.
It felt strange to ask about Helmut, but I was glad.
‘It went really well.’
Four years ago, Helmut was lying like a corpse, looking up at the sky with empty eyes, and his eyes were good.
The body was fine, but what was there was broken and broken pieces.
Even as he taught Sera how to use a sword, Helmut had a deep emptiness in his eyes.
There was only a dry and withered feeling emanating from that expression and eyes. As if he had lost his soul.
‘I felt like I lost everything.’
Through him, Sarah understood the word despair literally.
But at this moment Helmut seemed alive. It was as if hope had come back to him.
A dizzying emotion flooded me like a flood.
She is witnessing a miracle. A miracle that has never happened in the Forest of Pahe and that no one expected to happen.
Helmut let go of Area after a while and asked.
“How are you here?”
His black eyes had a particularly intense light.
“I’m a wizard. It took a while, but I found a way to overcome the sacred barrier. “Because you will be alive in here.”
And I decided. I will definitely find you.
Area looked back with a smile.
As soon as I entered the Forest of Pahe, I met Ygrel and avoided danger, so I didn’t do much, but they were still my friends who risked their lives to come here with me. Their contributions have not been forgotten.
“I’m not the only one here.”
Only then did Helmut look at his friends. It was a late reaction that felt indifferent.
“Helmut, it’s been a while. “Can you see us now?”
Asuka was waving her hand and her expression was completely different from when I saw her before.
If four years ago he was a handsome boy, he has now become a tall and handsome young man.
Although he is not bulky, he has a frame and physique that befits the name of a prosecutor. Only the crooked expression was the same, and it was a clear difference from the past to say that he had simply grown.
Helmut assessed the difference simply.
“Has it become twice as big?”
Asuka immediately got angry.
“What is he saying now! “I wasn’t that small!”
Xian rubbed his nose and greeted calmly.
“I’m glad you’re alive, Helmut.”
Unlike Asuka, Xian has only matured a bit from her previous self.
Although she was not as tall as Asuka, she was very tall and looked like a slim scholar.
Helmut took a moment to choose what to say and then blurted out.
“You all seem to be doing well.”
Asuka grinned.
“of course. “How on earth have you been living in such a gloomy forest?”
“I grew up here.”
“Yes, I guess so. Hey, you should say hello too!”
When Asuka gestured toward the back, she hesitantly walked forward.
Charlotte.
She looked frozen, as if she didn’t know what to do.
“Charlotte.”
Helmut’s expression disappeared.
His face was originally almost expressionless, but it had a cold look to it.
Helmut did not express anger or criticize. He quietly stared at Charlotte.
He didn’t know how to deal with her. An existence that reminds me of the nightmare-like four years ago.
“Senior Helmut, I’m glad you’re safe. I just… … .”
Charlotte let out a sigh.
“I want to give this back.”
What she took out from her bosom and held out was a sword.
Helmut looked down at the sword she held out.
Darian’s sword. A keepsake of a teacher.
Helmut reached out and picked up the sword.
It felt comfortable in my hand, ignoring the gap of the past years. This feeling of fitting perfectly. The feeling of being filled with something I thought I had lost forever was truly unfamiliar.
“How did you find this sword?”
“Luckily, it wasn’t disposed of. “I was lucky enough to get it.”
Charlotte responded briefly and remained silent.
She watched as Helmut sheathed his sword at his waist. A calm and quiet attitude, as if he would accept his decision.
‘You’re still the same.’
Although he had never said it out loud, Charlotte was his younger sister.
I know what she meant by coming here.
Four years had passed, but Helmut still remembered what kind of person she was.
Charlotte is a swordsman who is upright and proud.
For her, kicking Helmut out of Linosa would have been an unacceptable, intolerable injustice.
‘But she is also of Rinosa’s lineage.’
That’s my sister too.
The people of Linosa have hearts of ice. To Helmut, there is nothing more meaningful than blood.
His mother, who seemed so kind, abandoned him. Michael, who had been friendly, quickly changed. Charlotte may also have a plan in mind.
But what is certain is that Helmut did not know much about what kind of person his mother was, and he knew Charlotte even better than that.
Before she met him as his younger sister, she was Helmut’s junior.
What he saw was probably not wrong.
No matter what the plan, there is no reason to risk the Grand Princess of Rinosa entering the forest of Pahe directly.
“Charlotte.”
Charlotte, who had been slightly lowering her head at his call, raised her gaze.
“I received the sword well. “It’s not your fault, so you don’t have to act like you committed a crime.”
It is sincere as it is.
Only then did Charlotte smile faintly.
“I really wanted to see you again and talk to you. “Thank you for saving me.”
“okay.”
Although I lost a lot while saving Charlotte, I was glad that saving her was not in vain.
Helmut lost his mother, but at least he gained a younger sister. I only found out about it today.
That what he experienced was not just loss. That there could be something that fills him enough to lose.
The despair he felt was by no means light, but its weight could be eased.
If you don’t give up on yourself, just by living, the day will come when the buds of hope you didn’t even know existed will sprout and bloom.
It was a short period of time, less than two years, but the time spent in the Forest of Pahe was never in vain.
As a result of that time, Helmut was now facing them.
When Charlotte took a slight step back, Area and other friends approached her and spoke to her.
The occasion for a friendly reunion was opened.
Words poured out before Helmut could even ask questions such as how we were doing and whether we knew how we got here.
Elaga strolled over and quietly intervened.
[Have you finished greeting everyone?]
A huge leopard with fearsome magical energy.
Wariness appeared on everyone’s faces as Elaga approached, sounding dully on the floor.
Helmut casually extended his hand toward him.
“iced coffee. This is Elaga. “The leopard that raised me.”
[Do you admit that you raised him?]
Elaga replied indifferently.
Area slightly bowed her head towards him.
“It’s called Area.”
Elaga asked, looking up and down Area carefully.
[So, are you the area that Helmut couldn’t forget in his dreams?]
There was silence for a moment.
Helmut cupped his face.
“… … “I have never forgotten it, not even in my dreams.”
[Didn’t you know? You called his name in your sleep. I heard it several times.]
For some reason, I felt hot.
I felt like I wanted to violently hit Elaga’s mouth shut.
Area laughed.
“Did you?”
“… … .”
At a time when Helmut was silent, Asuka giggled and whispered into Xian’s ear.
“Hey, but what kind of leopard is that big? “If you hit it with your front foot, it’ll fly away, right?”
Elaga’s hearing was sensitive.
Immediately his gaze returned to him.
[who are you. Blue hair.]
“Helmut’s friend Asuka. We attended the swordsmanship department together during our academy days. “We all met at the Academy.”
Asuka responded uncharacteristically politely.
He recognized that the leopard was like a parent to Helmut because he had an opponent.
Elaga’s curiosity was piqued.
[If you’re talking about an academy, you mean a place where humans gather together as a group and learn things, right? How was Helmut there?]
Asuka shrugged her shoulders.
“Chief of the swordsmanship department. It was first place. “It was the strongest.”
[okay? That’s amazing. It looks like that poor guy didn’t get beaten up outside.]
“Instead of being beaten, he was beaten up himself.”
“Because even my seniors were so strong that they couldn’t do anything about it.”
Only after hearing the testimony of her friends did Elaga finally accept that Helmut was not such a weak guy.
‘He looks weak, but does that mean he’s still strong among humans?’
Elaga had no idea that after swallowing Naho’s core, she became so strong that Helmut felt weak.
At first, Elaga had no feeling about her own strength. Because he has reigned as a predator in Pahe Forest for a long time.
[Well, okay. Let’s say so.]
Elaga said sullenly, still with disbelief in her eyes.
