Chapter 55
Chapter 55
Episode 55
EP17 - The 'Human' Doesn't Come
There was a certain "Spirit.
│ㅅㅇ)
This fellow was a Spirit of the star called "Peeping Star│ㅅㅇ)." A star's incarnation who enjoyed wandering around the world, subtly peeping at others.
│sㅇ)
Without any meaning. Without any purpose. Just half-hidden somewhere, looking for interesting things to watch. And subtly encouraging those things to become even more interesting, like a shadowy spectator of this world.
Wandering around the world, this fellow came to Star Gazing Mountain about a year ago.
│ㅅㅇ)
Star Gazing Mountain was special. It was a place unlike anywhere else in the world.
There was a very interesting person.
It was a very interesting place.
It was a place where a very big thing was about to happen, a place that would become interesting in the future.
And it was also the perfect place to watch people without doing anything special.
Above all.
│ㅅㅇ) (ㅇㅅ│
Another "Spirit" was here!
How long has that guy been here?
I couldn't know that, and I wasn't curious either….
But there was a rite of passage that "Peeping Star" Spirits had to do when they met.
│(o^▽^o)/ (▽^o│
A hand greeting!!
│sㅇ) ＼(ㅇs│
Returning the hand greeting!!
│ㅅㅎ)
I was satisfied.
⋮
Anyway.
It seemed that guy was also watching 'that being' right away.
In this deep mountain, in this dense forest.
The world's treasure.
The being called 'Eve.'
Bright sky-blue hair, blue eyes. A being who wore dirty cloths covered with grass like a dress, deeply using it like a hood, only revealing her eyes.
A being who only knew how to wander around busily.
│ㅅㅇ)
For a Spirit to watch for a long time.
Eve's daily life was very dry and boring.
Waking up in the morning and rubbing her eyes blankly with that face.
Yawning with that face.
Taking a walk nearby with that face, or doing light stretching.
Eating apples, flower honey, dandelions, and wild strawberries with that face. Sometimes eating dirt or stones too.
Going to a nearby pond and washing that face, or washing her body with her clothes on, or washing her hands and feet.
Then going into a cave with that face and training with a sword or sleeping.
Then, when night came, going up to the tomb and looking at the sky was all she did. With that face.
So why was it interesting?
I don't know.
No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn't figure it out.
│ωㅇ)
It's just fun.
Hearing through telepathy from another Spirit far away, there seems to be another person who looks very similar to Eve but is bigger, in a place far away with many people. But I don't know about that.
Anyway, watching the interesting face, no, the interesting person, for a year.
In the meantime, people came to kill Eve about ten times, but Eve survived.
And now, when no one came and stargazing was repeated every day.
A new person appeared in Eve's daily life.
│ㅅㅇ)
It was a man.
Pink eyes, black curly hair, probably a Professor.
At first, I didn't think much of it.
The sharp clothes and appearance were interesting, but only to that extent.
However, I was a little interested because it was strange that he came alone to a place where no one came.
In the end, he was just an unfamiliar human 1.
Maybe that's how Eve saw it too.
Because she rejected and pushed him away.
Then the man went back.
It was an uninteresting interaction.
In short, it wasn't fun.
│s-) ....
It was okay.
I didn't expect anything in particular.
If you don't expect anything, you won't be disappointed.
But….
There was something strange about that man.
│What?
The man came to see Eve again the next day.
│sㅇ)
And the day after that.
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And the next day,
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And the next day, the day after that, and the day after that, he started coming to see Eve every day without fail.
│sㅇ) ....
This was quite interesting.
The distance between Eve and him began to decrease as much as the days the man came.
As if measured with a ruler. Accurately. Eve began to recognize the man. And the distance between them gradually began to narrow.
In the process, the man showed no actions or impatience that would make Eve uncomfortable.
In that composure.
He was slowly getting closer to Eve.
│ωㅇ)
This was quite fun.
No matter how delicious the food is, you get tired of eating it every day.
After watching the same scene for over a year, seeing such a big change was more fun than I thought.
Was this only fun for me? So, I looked at that guy over there.
│sㅇ) ♥(ㅇb│
No!
That guy was having even more fun!
│ㅅㅇ)
Anyway.
After that, the man gradually came closer to Eve, and after interacting by giving and receiving a Scope and a bell.
Finally.
Finally, he sat next to Eve.
│ㅅㅎ)
It was very interesting.
It was a good thing to peep at.
I don't know what will happen in the future, or how they will be, but Eve's day has changed a lot since then.
│ㅅㅇ)
Eve started washing a little more often.
Eve took things she thought were delicious, such as apples and walnuts, and gave them to the man.
Even when sitting on the tomb, she began to wait for the man to come before looking at the sky.
Later, because the man always came around 8 o'clock, Eve started looking or peeking at the place where the man used to come from around 7 o'clock, and she dressed herself up.
(But there wasn't much difference.)
The time she spent worrying about holding a walnut that she forgot to give was cute. It was even cuter to worry about putting down the walnuts in both hands because she had prepared one more to give but couldn't give two.
Then one day, Eve was training alone in the cave, and she started drawing the man's picture on the Wall with the tip of her sword. That was very interesting.
(Actually, she drew it so badly that I and that guy over there were wondering what it meant, but anyway…….)
Thus, starting 'things that didn't exist before' was a great pleasure for the Spirit.
Meaningless repetition is boring.
In the midst of that time flowing.
Suddenly, something strange happened.
│ㅅㅇ)
The man didn't start to appear.
│ㅅㅇ)
Beyond a day.
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Beyond three days.
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He didn't come for a whole week.
│sㅇ) …?
What's going on?
Why doesn't the man come?
│sㅇ) …???
The Spirit was curious about that.
But I didn't bother to go look for the man.
Of course, it would have been fun to see the man.
But surprisingly.
Surprisingly.
Eve's reaction to the man's disappearance was a little more interesting.
Eve started to break down.
│bㅇ)
The regularity disappeared from the time she woke up. Eve would suddenly wake up in the middle of the night and not know what to do. And sometimes she fell asleep in the middle of the day.
Walking around Star Gazing Mountain also became strange. She kept moving her steps down the mountain, which she hadn't gone to before.
Taking care of delicious things to eat also became strange. Eve started eating almost nothing. Even the apples she liked. The honey too. The dandelions too.
Eve didn't wash.
She skipped training.
Then, she blankly looked at and touched the man's picture she drew on the cave Wall.
Isn't it fun?
│b)\n\nIn the Spirit's opinion.
Consistency is boring, but I'm looking forward to it.
Because I know that breaking consistency is fun.
That's what it was like now.
Nevertheless, Eve didn't stop going up to the tomb and looking at the stars at night…….
It was about three weeks after the man disappeared.
Suddenly, a big incident occurred.
│mㅇ) ! ! (ㅇㅁ│
Eve started going down the mountain!
This was a very big incident.
Eve broke one of the three rules she had kept without breaking even once.
Eve went down Star Gazing Mountain.
She was quite lost, as if she had forgotten the way.
Even so, she started going down recklessly, following the direction the man had come up.
However, she strayed into a slightly different place from the path the man usually came up.
"Oh! How did that, that monster get here?!"
She ran into an old man in a nearby mountain lodge.
"The witch of the graveyard!! If you could move, you would have left a long time ago!"
“…….”
"I don't know what you're trying to do, but you've finally revealed your true colors! I will definitely drive you out of this mountain today!"
The old man from the mountain lodge suddenly took out a gun and started shooting at Eve.
Bang! Tatatang!!
But Eve didn't get hit by it, and she moved to avoid it no matter how many shots were fired. Unfortunately, the old man was close to the landing point.
"Eek! Are you trying to kill me?!"
The old man was surprised and stumbled backwards, falling on his butt.
"Ah, no! You can't kill me!"
“…….”
"I'm right! Can you kill me?!"
Then, the old man put a gun under his chin and shouted.
Eve flinched.
Then she started running away far away.
"...That, that witch is escaping!"
The old man hurriedly returned to the mountain lodge, picked up an old Crystal Ball, and made a phone call somewhere.
In the meantime, Eve reached the road.
It was exciting.
│b)\n\nIn the Spirit's opinion, that was a facility that showed the arrogance of the human race very well.
Humans knew that no race was a threat to them, so they laid down a facility called 'road' that led them to their homes and arms.
It was easy for even Eve, who didn't know anything, to use.
Eve started running along the road towards the place where the humans were.
And she ran for a long time.
Until the city came out.
│sㅇ) ....
But what could she find even if she went to the city?
In the Spirit's opinion, the city was wide, and there were a lot of humans. It was almost impossible to find the man among them.
But.
Maybe 'that guy over there' thought similarly.
For some reason, that guy seemed to have decided to help by using the Stigmata, and he was raising his power.
Around that time, Eve entered the city.
As expected, Eve, who arrived in the city and entered the crowd, had to stop. She couldn't make eye contact with them properly while looking around. She didn't know what to do.
"What, what is that? A person?"
"Don't get close! I have a bad feeling!"
"Isn't that the witch of the graveyard?!"
"What!?"
"Discipline Department! Is the Discipline Department here yet?"
Eve, who was wearing a hood, was hideous. She was an outsider. She was a completely heterogeneous being among people.
In the midst of that, a picture appeared on the ground. It was a picture that only Eve could see.
" ↖ (ㅇㅅ│ "
Then Eve seemed to realize something and started running in that direction.
But it was already too late.
"A monster presumed to be the witch of the graveyard has escaped. She is currently wandering around the city center."
"Suppress her, or if the situation doesn't allow it, eliminate her. Inform the chief and the dean of this fact."
Assassins started running towards Eve.
Pajijik!
Pajijijijik!
Exploding the Magical Imprint, they rushed to kill Eve.
Eve, as always. She simply deflected or evaded the attacks and started running away diligently.
Stepping on the Wall. Stepping on the trees. Soaring up and stepping on the roofs of buildings, she rushed forward.
As the number of assassins, including the Discipline Department, exceeded 20, it became impossible to keep avoiding them.
A bullet grazed her arm, and a crossbow arrow grazed the instep of her foot.
< Damn it! Just kill her! >
The commanders of the 0th district's upper echelons, who were already on high alert after the war, ordered her to be killed as if she were Shaman Kreutz's enemy.
Finally, Eve's foot gets caught in a huge Trap.
Kaang!!
In that instant, Eve drew her sword and slashed the Trap. The sight of the complex machinery for fighting giant monsters being smashed with a single slash was astonishing.
│bㅇ)
It was fun.
But Eve's bizarre behavior had to stop soon.
"That's far enough. Witch of the graveyard."
White hair. White mustache. And sagging jowls.
To prevent the movement of a large disaster, the guardian deity of the 0th district immediately appeared.
The Dean of Assassination, Shaman Kreutz.
"I left you alone because I judged that you were living quietly inside, but why did you crawl out like this?"
“…….”
Eve avoided his eyes.
Pulling down the rag hood deeply.
"You know it too, right? What happened here. Many people died. And there are also disciples of this old man. But I can't go somewhere else and vent my anger. Please, let me suppress my anger alone?"
“…….”
"Please go back. Otherwise, I have to kill you now."
Eve 'tilted her head.'
Because she can't hear.
│bㅇ)
Anyway, exciting.
Who would win if they fought?
But unlike expectations, Eve jumped high and seemed to be going around far away, but it was a regrettable decision. Eve couldn't beat the assassins in speed.
As she tried to go back diligently, the assassins' attacks continued, and Eve continued to get more and more wounds on her body.
About 30 minutes of escape and pursuit.
The throwing star that the dean threw like a cannonball to check her tore Eve's cheek skin, tore that skin deeply, grazed it deeply, and flew away, so blood began to burst and scatter.
Eventually, Eve had to turn her body.
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As a result, Eve did not achieve her purpose.
She was just kicked out from among the humans.
"Huh? Huh? Why did we come here?"
"Um…. Was there a 5-minute standby drill…?"
After that, no one remembered that fact.
│sㅇ)
But. An interesting thing happened on the way back.
Eve, who was bleeding and returning to the mountain, fell at some point.
Thud, she crashed to the ground.
At the same time, the hood above her head came off.
Two horns, curved like sheep's horns, were revealed.
│What is it?!
She had horns on her head?
I knew it for the first time. Even after watching for a year.
Because Eve had never taken off her hood even once.
* * *
"Ah, Professor."
"I'm listening."
"Come to think of it, aren't we going to Star Gazing Mountain?"
Dante blankly looked at Adele and asked.
"Why would we go there?"
EP17
The 'Human' Doesn't Come
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