498 The 24th of the Yellow Moon ① - Morning ~

The 24th of the Yellow Moon - that day, at last, came.

It's Asta's 18th birthday at Fa's house.

Of course, it's Razorback's birthday for convenience.

But because of that, that day could have meant a lot more to me than my original birthday.

Having been struck by a fire in the original world and having lost my life so negligently, I decided to live my second life in this other world by some sort of paranormal action. And while I was twisting my head about what this was all about, I was attacked by Giba in the Morga Forest, and that's how I was saved by Ai-Fa. That was the 24th day of the Yellow Moon last year.

For me once dead, that day was the dawn of my second life.

That's why I set the day as my new birthday.

The 24th of that yellow moon finally came.

The beginning was the ultimate serenity, completely unchanged from the usual.

"Yeah... it's morning..."

The soft morning sun slipping through the window is the alarm clock for me.

As I fled from that sun, hitting the back and forth on the bedding, I could see Ey-Fa wearing an allure and tying his hair in the middle of the hall.

"Is it finally happening? I want you to do your part."

"Yes, my lord Parent... fuwaaaaaaaaa"

"... every morning, you look stubborn"

Ey-fa smiles as she cleverly twirls her hair.

The love of that smile was such a morning, as usual.

I'll move to the storeroom and get back to work. T-shirts and bandages change at this stage and do laundry at the water plant. Always waking up earlier than me, Ey-Fa was supposed to be getting dressed before he tied his hair.

Put the undressed clothes in the grass cage and I'll put my hands through the new T-shirt.

This is a new T-shirt that I got tailored to in Castle Town just before the rainy season. When I found out about the existence of towels and T-shirts that could substitute for rainy season outfits, I ordered a few of these things through Jan.

The original T-shirts I wore before I bought them were stored in this store with my cooking clothes.

I got dressed early, and I looked over those clothes, no matter what.

Even when it comes to storage, it's just hanging on the back wall.

The T-shirt can't even be seen from the outside because it's stuck inside the cooking clothes. In addition, the cooking pockets contained the underwear, socks, and towels that I used to wear.

In addition, a rubbed off deck shoe at the bottom is also placed on the floor below it.

With the exception of my father's santoku knife, this was everything I had brought in from the original world.

On the chest of the cooking garment, there is a "sagittarius" logo.

No one can read in this land, it's an exotic letter that only I know.

I breathed through the black embroidered lettering.

(Since then, it's been a year... well, I guess it's actually been nearly 400 days since I had the moon)

Think that way, slightly tilt your gaze.

Two fur cloaks hung next to my cooking clothes.

One is what Ey-Fa had wrapped around at an early age. The other one, from about three years ago until my birthday this year, was worn by I-Fa.

The smaller cape was the one that Ey-Fa's mother rubbed on.

Instead of his father, who was wounded and could no longer go out into the woods, Ai-Fa captured his child Giva in an awkward trap. That giva fur rubbed this for me, I hear.

Of course, it's not a formal hunter's coat. Since it was originally the fur of the child Gibba, the length, etc. was only about 30 cm at best, and there was no way that the hunter's clothes were given to Ai-Fa, who was a young girl in the first place.

Still, I guess Ai-Fa's mother rubbed this little cloak with all her heart in order to satisfy the deeds of her daughter who saved her family's predicament.

I could feel warm just thinking of the sight of a ten year old or Ey-Fa there weaving this little cloak and climbing trees and running around the house with a proud face.

And the other one was supposed to be the shape of Ai-Fa's father.

Ai-Fa had been working on the hunter's job alone since the age of fifteen, when he lost his father, but there was no family to smear that fur and rub the hunter's clothes. So Ai-Fa continued to do his job wrapping this father's shapes around him until he was presented with a new hunter's coat by Sallis Run-Fou and the others on his birthday.

My cooking clothes are stored along with such eye-fa memorabilia.

Even though it's a sight I see every morning, it seemed to me to feel so emotional today.

(Well, it's just today. Whatever, it's been a whole year since I met Ai-Fa)

When I forced my gaze away from you, I pulled the doorboard open in my hand with a grass cage filled with laundry.

Then the side of my fist approached the tip of my nose and stopped just before it hurt me.

From beyond the vertical fist, Ai-Fa's face peeks a little.

"What, have you done your duty? It's so late, I thought I'd knock on the doorboard."

I thought so, but it didn't change anything bad for my heart.

Ey-Fa puts his fist down with his face and flicks himself.

"Okay, let's go. I don't feel comfortable with the water in the water bottle, so will I replace it?"

"Oh, yeah"

Flush half the excess water outside and set the water bottle on the hauling pull plate.

Then Brave, who was lying down instead of Gill, rushed up fine.

Brave doesn't have a job to do, but it was a habit every morning to accompany him to the watershed.

I'll take the water bottle, I'll take the iron pan and dishes I used last night at dinner, and we'll all go for the water field.

On the water field, the folks at Fou and Run were starting work first.

In addition, he was accompanied by a hound kept at Fow's house, so Brave was to get closer to you.

"Today, finally, it's a city of meat. I'll try to keep you safe, so take a look, Asta."

One of Fou's ladies laughed as she washed the iron pan.

I try to nod yes while I start washing as well.

"Please do your best to keep an eye on me without extra mouth. But if you have any problems, call me right away."

"Oh. If Asta could just stay with us today, we'd be comfortable."

Today is the day for the first meat city to be attended by the people of the woods.

So, I happened to be on holiday in Inn Town, so I decided to accompany him.

Originally, Rayna-Lew was supposed to accompany me as a guide, but that's where I wanted to see the first time Gibba's meat was sold on the market with this eye.

"See you later, then. Uh, three moments, four and a half? Anyway, I'll be ready by the appointed time."

"Yes, thank you"

In relation to getting them to work together, all the families who are already nearby have set up day watches. The four halves of the three moments, according to my senses, corresponded to about 8: 15.

"Until the promised time, what shall we do? As usual, can I pick up firewood?

"Mm-hmm. I don't feel comfortable going down to town without cleansing myself."

It is currently only half an hour since dawn, so I am free to use it for about two hours. With all that, I was likely to be able to do the firewood and pico leaf collection work after cleaning myself up.

"... but well, it feels amazing, as usual, everyday"

I called it that way because we were alone, and I-Fa said, "Hmm?" I leaned my neck like a jerk.

"No, look, today's not the first anniversary of meeting Ai-Fa"

"Hmm. But I picked up Asta in the woods at dusk, when the sun was about to set, and at this hour a year ago, I didn't even know you existed."

Ey-Fa said so lightly and began to concentrate on the washing again.

"Exchanging words of celebration would be sufficient for dinner to be engraved. Now, do your job."

"Yes, sir, I understand."

What a dry response, but it never made me sad.

Such perseverance has also swept away, and I am fascinated by Ai-Fa.

(It would be my greatest pleasure to be able to send the usual routine)

With that in mind, I also decided to concentrate on dropping coal stuck in an iron pot.

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Afterwards, Brave also enters the edge of the forest, cleansing himself in the river of Rant, before collecting firewood and vanilla.

As the day passed, the number of fruits fruiting around here was also just decreasing.

Scratches on trees everywhere are traces of Giva repeatedly pounding her head, unable to wait for the fruit to ripen and fall. Besides, traces of digging back into the grass roots resembling Guigo are left all over it.

In a while, the grace of this area of the forest will be devoured openly.

That means that a period of rest is approaching even in this neighborhood.

Recently, the period of rest for Luu's blood clan ended. It was customary for this nearby family to receive a period of rest after about a month.

"... but it should have already been more than a full four months since the dawn of the last rest period"

"Er, the last period of rest dawned only in the middle of the month of gold. And then, tea, red, ju, yellow, so... yeah, it's been over four months at the moment."

"Given the state of forest grace, which respite would still be half a month away to receive a period of rest. Then a period of about five months will be available from the last time"

"Since the rest period comes three times a year, does five months mean it's slightly longer? Is there anything special about that?

"That probably means that it has taken longer to be eaten up by the grace of the woods because in this neighborhood we can now harvest Giva more than ever before,"

It is true that Giva's harvest should have gone up, not only in Fa's house, but also in Fou, Run or Sudra. Besides, it should have even been introduced to hounds these days to achieve such remarkable results.

"Then I guess that's with you, even with the Lew family. One month after the rest of the Lou family, our rest part hasn't broken down, so we've got about five months left."

"Mm-hmm. At the Lew's we let the hunter resume his work as soon as he entered the silver moon, and last time we had a harvest festival around the end of the Zhu moon, so don't be free for five months after all"

That's an eye-fa with an extraordinary memory. I couldn't even remember the time of rest of the Lou family that way.

But well, if you ask me, the beginning of the silver moon is the beginning of the year, and since the last harvest festival was Grandma Ziva's birthday, it could have been an easy day to remember.

"If you're giving our Luu blood an unbeatable harvest, that's something to be proud of. Well, there's plenty of forest grace there, and I guess we can harvest a lot more giva than this one."

"Yeah. But something about Sudra felt like the number of Giva was decreasing, so she started going to the Sung family settlement, too. If you think about it, it means the harvest is going up a lot."

"Oh, sure. … and this would be a testament that Asta has given more power than ever to the nearest clan and to the blood of Lew by the delicious cuisine"

With the firewood I picked up in my hand, Ai-Fa looks back at me.

"I'm proud of you. It will not change in the future, but it will help our compatriots by the woods."

"Yeah. I'd be most happy to have Ey-Fa say that."

Ai-Fa nodded, "Uhm," with a patriarchal, crisp look.

However, I should not have felt like there was a tender light in my eyes that kept me warm.

That's how when I got home from work in the morning, there was already time to leave.

Connect Gill to the luggage and head to Fou's house with full members of Fa's house. Even this morning, I was told that I would accompany him just in case.

"Oh, Asta to Ai-Fa, I've been waiting for you"

Even at Fow's house, he was ready to leave.

And even there, only one of them was accompanied by a man as an escort.

When all the giva meat prepared today is sold, the sales amount to at least 3420 red copper coins. Since this does not necessarily prevent an unexpected outlaw from appearing, it was decided to accompany one escort at a time, either Fou or Die.

There are two women in business. The parents' companion of Fou's branch, who also facedown in the water field earlier, and the young ladies of the run. The escort was a young man of Fou.

"Well, I don't think people in town are going to give a shit about the woodland ladies. We've never carried so many copper coins before, so I'm not going to be too careful."

"No, I think that's a necessary measure. If you're an outlaw coming from another town, you might come after copper coins without knowing the people by the woods."

We were also set to be attacked by outlaws in the town of Dubbag who were not afraid of the hunters by the woods. I thought this would be a cautious situation.

Either way, we're off to the settlement of Lou.

We're Gill's luggage, and the folks at Fou and Run take Fafa's luggage down the road. Both were small, but they had loads of more than 200 kilometers of giva meat there, so they needed to split their luggage.

We arrive in the settlement of Lou in about twenty minutes.

At the entrance to the settlement, four members were already waiting for us.

It is a rash of faces: Ziza-Lou, Rudd-Lou, Raina-Lou, Rimi-Lou.

"Thank you for waiting. You just settled into four people."

"Mm-hmm. The conductor also has Asta, and I could have been the only one who showed off."

In the wake of Ziza-Lou's words, "I'm these guys' amulet," Rudd-Lou says yawning around.

"I was originally a guide, so I want to do my job."

When Raina-Lou says in a serious way, his sister says, "Neither Limi -!" and hitched a ride.

Well, I guess Raina-Lou and the others are in the same mood as me. I couldn't help but see if Gibba's meat could really sell and if the Fou and Die people could get the job together safely.

That's why four of the Lew family also board Gill's luggage.

The decision was made that the number of luggage cars should not be increased in order to travel to that crowded city site.

As we went further south down the road, the Die family's luggage was waiting for us around the T-shaped road leading to the Inn Town.

In the period of the last rest, tototos and luggage rented by the house of Fa. They were all disciplined to get off the carrier and wait on the spot.

"I've been waiting for you. Thank you for today."

Two young but married women wearing clothes and still young men.

The man lowered his head deeply to Giza-Lou, who was peering his face off the carrier.

"It's a hiccup, Giza-Lou. You won't remember, but my name is Deal-Die, head of the Die branch."

"Deal-Die?... Oh, you. Hiccups or something... well, it sounds like a breath disaster, more than anything."

"Yes, I will try my best not to tarnish the name of Die's house today"

He seemed to be a lot of soft men on the waist.

Though the back length is considerable, it may be skinny in one way or another and gentle for the face and hunter. Besides, I even felt something like awe in my eyes staring at Giza-Lou.

(Die's house has a lot of low back people, right? Is it because the north and south are surrounded by the clans of the chieftaincy muscle)

Die and his family, Lehn, are the only families that exist between Luu and Sauti. Long before he became a chieftaincy muscle, Luu and Sauti were second largest families after Sung, so in that sense, he may feel a lot of weight on his shoulders.

As I was thinking about it, a familiar onion head glimpsed from the carrier of the luggage that was tucked behind them.

"How long have you been saying hello, Sa? Wouldn't it have started with the City of Meat if I'd stumbled around?

It is Zwei-Rutim, given the important role of human supervisor in the field.

Me and the Lew's face can be a tour or a spectator, but she's a member of a clean job. The settlement of Rutim was more southerly than that of Lou, and so it was stipulated that the people of Die would join the way.

"Well, let's go."

On the signal of the women of Fou, three baggage cars entered the western road.

It is downhill from here to town, so the tremors become intense. I tried calling Giza-Lou, keeping my back perfectly against the wall so I wouldn't fall.

"Was Ziza-Lou acquainted with that person named Deal-Die?

"It's not so much about people I know. We only met once.... My father Donda, Darum-Lou, etc. told me that he looked at me several times at the Parents' Conference."

He named himself the head of the branch, so he was probably the second brother or something in the main house. Then, as with Dalm-Lou, he would have had the opportunity to participate in the Conference of Parents at the behest of his parents.

"I wonder if Lilyn's house was a celebration feast for Luu's family… that Deal-Die was sneaking around the feast"

"A Die human, having a Luu feast? How could you do that again?

"I'm talking about being merely curious. It's just Vina and I had a lot going on at that time."

So when Giza-Lou clasped his mouth, Raina-Lou came ear pounding.

"I don't know the details, either, but that man had seen Sister Vina at that feast, and the next day he had asked his parents to marry him without permission," he said.

"Yeah? That's a lot, that's a bold story.... I mean, it was a long time ago that Lilyn became a family member of Lou."

"Yes, my sister Vina should have just turned fifteen, so I think it's been about six years. Well, my sister Vina has been an adult since that time, and a lot of men wanted me to dowry her."

Whatever it was, it was a fancy story.

And Rayna-Lew told me an even more amazing story.

"Besides, that man originally said he had concerns about Yamil-Ray.... to Yamil-Ray when he was still a Sung family person, right? Pretty amazing story, huh?"

I didn't think so, and I uttered a dumb voice called "hehe".

Raina-Lou laughs when he dulls, and Ai-Fa on your stand scolds you for "not raising your crazy voice" with your back turned.

"Well, that's a hell of a story. Putting Vina-Lou and Yamil-Ray on the scale is more than a raw-ray shapebreaker. He didn't look like such an unscrupulous imitator..."

"Yes, this is the first time I've seen him, too, but I didn't think he was such a thin man of lines. People are things you don't know."

With a mixed look of maturity and childishness, Rayna-Lew was laughing with pleasure.

"But it seemed like we were about to make a little noise at the time. Because it's a hell of a story to think about to the eldest sister in each of Luu and Sung's main houses. Die's parents also apologized to Donda's father and Zulo-Sung at the Parents' Conference with their foreheads on the floor."

Indeed, given Sung's relationship with Luu at the time, it seemed to me that such an act would be tantamount to throwing a bomb in. Still, if Vina-Lou or Yamil Ray had been concerned about it, either dignity could have been rounded up and collapsed the dangerous relationship between Luu and Sung, which was a one-touch shock.

"Ah... Speaking of which, a long time ago, you heard that Vina-Lou had had a crush on Yamil Ray. I wonder if that was just... a little before the Parents' Conference."

"Oh, yes, I heard it from my sister Vina and Lara, too. Yamil-Ray came to visit Asta's stall."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I didn't know that was six years ago. I'm surprised this place is connected."

"Yeah, but Deal-Die told me he took the ladies of the division to his daughter-in-law soon afterwards, so it didn't make any noise."

"Huh? I was wondering about the two women, and you welcomed another woman to your daughter-in-law?

"Yes, that's how Yamil-Ray ordered Sung and Lu to make a scene."

Remembering Yamil-Ray's poisonous eye and blood odor when I was still in the Sung family, I thought I was "crazy" from the bottom of my heart.

Deal-Die really, what a vulgar nerve.

(No, I wonder if it's out of sensitivity somewhere, rather than audacity. I didn't understand how big I was doing it, or... somehow, my image overlaps with Joo-Run)

But whatever it is, it's only been six years.

If you're having a wedding by then, one or both of your lovely children may be lumped. Wish was for everyone to live happily ever after as a people by the woods.

"Oh, you're about to arrive!

Rudd Rudd, who was hanging around Brave with Limi-Rudd, raises a hazy voice.

Beyond the trees, I was beginning to see the shadows of the building.

It's Limi-Lew's birthday when I look down, and it's quite a fun coincidence that it's my birthday today for real.

What results can be achieved in a city of meat that will participate for the first time? I decided to see the result as I leaped my chest.