Chapter 250
“Airas, thank you. Thanks to you, I was able to get out quickly. I’m thinking of going that way, what are you going to do?”
Airas shook his head greatly up and down and pointed his blunt and large pincers at the water pooled on one side of the cave. Airas seemed to be planning to move through that way. Roina nodded.
“Then, it’s goodbye for now. Shall we say a brief farewell?”
Roina hugged Airas tightly. Since he was basically a bug-like creature surrounded by a hard exoskeleton, she couldn’t help but feel a slight sense of aversion, but seeing how docile and fond of human touch he was, she grew fond of him. The small Airas, who also seemed to like Roina, quietly entrusted his body to her embrace. Roina stroked Airas once more and stepped away.
The seemingly intelligent small Airas bowed his head slightly to Roina and plunged into the water inside the cave with a splash. She only thought he could swim in sand, but he seemed to do well in water too. Is it because he’s a creature created by the goddess Aiha?
Roina turned her head and looked at the gap that seemed to lead to the outside of the cave. Now she had to go outside in a different direction. Roina moved her feet towards that way.
The gap, which looked like a crack in the rock from afar, was a passage large enough for one person to pass through when she got closer. Using the slight slope to hide her body so she wouldn’t be seen from the outside, she slowly approached, and soon, she heard people’s voices. Roina stopped moving and held her breath, listening to the voices.
“Are you okay?”
“Waaah, sniff…”
It was the voices of women. There was someone sobbing and a few others comforting her.
“I don’t know. How long do we have to live like this? I hate seeing my sisters suffer anymore.”
“Those bad empire bastards…”
They were probably the citizens of the Castrello Kingdom, and more specifically, the women who had been captured as playthings by Count Icardo. Roina clenched her fist tightly.
“There are also people from the Empire among ‘us,’ though. Strictly speaking, Icardo is the bad guy…”
“Still, this wouldn’t have happened if the Empire hadn’t invaded.”
There were also voices like this among the whispering voices. Roina used magic to suppress her presence and carefully peeked outside. It was a place that looked like a waiting room, and there were about six Castrello women.
‘Neilla?’
And Roina was truly startled. It was because Neilla was among them.
Could it just be someone who looks similar? Roina stared at her intently. It was difficult to tell if it was the real Neilla from just a brief glance. However, to her, it looked like Neilla no matter how she looked at it. Even the subtly felt energy was similar.
‘Just now, wasn’t she seeing me off? How on earth did this happen?’
Roina closed and opened her eyes in confusion.
At that moment, the people who had been comforting her began to leave one by one, led by one person. Neilla, who had been quiet all along, sent the people away, saying she would rest a little more, and then quietly put her hands together and began to pray. Roina thought, Now’s my chance, and carefully dropped down outside. Having experienced the characteristics of magical space, she had somewhat expected it, but the gap that had appeared when she came out vanished without a trace.
‘But since I know there’s a passage here, I can open it again.’
Roina suppressed her presence and carefully approached Neilla, who was praying quietly. With her eyelashes lowered in concentration, she definitely looked like Neilla.
Roina cast a spell to take control of the entire room and then carefully uttered her name.
“Neilla?”
At that, she looked up in surprise. Her teary eyes met Roina’s head-on.
“Roina-nim…!”
“It is Neilla.”
Roina stared at her, feeling dazed. Neilla grabbed Roina’s hand and shed tears.
“How on earth did this happen? Why are you here?”
“Well, it’s a bit of a long story to explain… How have you been hiding, Roina-nim?”
“Huh? I just arrived here a moment ago?”
“Huh?”
“Huh?”
Roina and Neilla stared at each other blankly.
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