Chapter 219
Chapter 219
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Translator: crow
Chapter Title: Chapter 219 - 숲의 밤(2)
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Translator: crow
Chapter Title: Forest's Night (2)
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“Hoo… hoo…”
Rishir suddenly had that thought.
‘Was my breathing always this loud?’
The forest had been as raucous as the stomach of a beast in the midst of digestion.
A profound silence had now settled over it.
Within that quiet, Rishir's ragged breaths alone stood out discordantly, sounding especially loud.
Chirp chirp.
A bird's trill echoed from somewhere.
Rishir thought it a sound utterly out of place in the damp, dark forest reminiscent of a beast's innards—
But the thought didn't last long.
“…”
Rishir grimaced as warm sunlight poured down on him from above.
Looking up, he saw a vast blue sky stretching overhead.
The dense canopy that had greedily devoured even the heavens now basked innocently in the sunlight right where it stood.
The plants that had thrashed wildly with twisted vines and branches now posed calmly in their places.
A single splendid flower was no longer anything extraordinary there.
A vibrant forest vista, where vivid colors blended naturally, embraced Rishir.
Was it because he gazed upon that serene scene?
Rishir felt his mind and body stabilizing with astonishing speed.
A cool breeze blew in, pleasantly chilling his sweat-drenched body.
Rishir shuddered at the sensation and snapped to attention.
He belatedly realized he was the only person amid that peaceful vista.
He looked around.
“Everyone!?”
Sarrr...
As if to soothe Rishir's agitation, the forest conjured a gentle breeze.
The entire woodland swayed softly in the wind, forming a single path of flowers.
A tone utterly gentle and serene.
From her tone, Rishir gleaned several facts.
First off.
He seemed to have been accepted as a guest by her.
Permission granted for visiting and lingering in the forest.
And another—
His comrades were thoroughly excluded from her interest.
As if the matter were already concluded.
The realization stirred a profound sense of unease in Rishir.
“Forest's Night...! If I may, could I ask what became of my comrades!?”
None of my concern.
She had rephrased her willful declaration most affectionately.
The gentle tone only deepened Rishir's unease.
He now felt certain: the courtesy she extended was aimed solely at him.
Rishir suddenly recalled the implications of the name “Night.”
Even someone as brazen as Karojen bore the title “Star.”
Thus, “Night”—its antithesis—symbolized far more than raw power.
In this instant.
Rishir felt it viscerally.
Her mere acquaintance with his master was no cause for complacency.
Forest's Night.
She was, in truth, the continent's most perilous entity.
One that had reigned in the chaotic era before this peace.
“Even so, I beseech you earnestly, presuming upon your grace. Those folk hold immense significance to me. Should they have offended you, I shall remedy it by any means! For my sake, please grant them a chance!?”
“…!”
Her words startled Rishir greatly.
‘Master!?’
To remark “Commendable—you weren't much swayed by your master!” implied intimate knowledge of her.
And it rang eerily accurate.
Given how his master had instilled dreams of “reverse parasitism” in her disciple.
“Y-you know our master well, it seems!?”
Sarararak.
As Rishir exclaimed unwittingly in awe, the forest chuckled anew.
“…To borrow your words, a most entertaining master.”