NOVEL NEXT Chapter 11 - How can one become a good person?
How can one become a good person?
“Oh.. Mom…”
Rita, who handed over a large variety of goblins, firmly held the hand of the timid Scalbet in chewing tea.”
Rita’s fluttering is conveyed to Scalbet.
“Khehuhuhu…”
The kind of goblin with a Scalbet and a Rita who suppressed Deckie gazed at them savoring the taste form.
‘I should run away, but my body won’t move..’
Though they were the ones who wanted to escape the goblin, their feet seemed glued to the ground and didn’t budge.
A group of goblins approaching across the skull-lit pathway.
‘Please..someone help me..’
The skeleton watched the approaching goblins, anxiously hoping for someone’s aid.
***
Luizen was on his way home with his arms full of groceries.
The various vegetables that the Director gave him before he left the countryside.
At first, he hesitated, but he accepted the groceries after Sung-ha said he wanted to get the grace.
That day, the condition was at its peak.
Thinking of preparing food for Skull and Rita with these vegetables, he gradually became worried and anxious.
“I’m sure they’ll like it, right?”
Thinking of the dishes that could be made with the various vegetables, imagining the scene of Skull and Rita eating delicious food, Luizen made his way home.
“I’m back~”
Luizen entered the house cheerfully greeting.
As soon as Luizen entered the house, he felt a sense of unease somewhere.
An empty house, no signs of life, and the lively visit of Skull and Rita.
“What’s that? Did they go to the bathroom?”
[Silence]
Luizen went to the bathroom with a light knock, but inside the bathroom, there was no sound.
“Did they go in?”
Louisiane opened the door to the bathroom, but no one was there.
“Huh… there’s no one here either..?”
Louisiane started having uneasy thoughts.
In usual times, the difficult lock on the closet should have been secured tightly, and there was also the fact that the reflected images of them were not visible anywhere in the house.
“Selma..!?”
Images emerged slowly from the swirling thoughts inside Louisiane’s head.
Louisiane dashed out of the house.
Louisiane opened a drawer and took out an old document.
There weren’t many things that could be done with the old document, but among them was the ability to track old memories.
The document had the ability to verify the location of where Loiuisane was.
“This is…”
Louisiane resolved to confirm where they were.
The place where they were now was a zone like a monster with many restrictions on entering and exiting.
Already, the door to the depths of the cave had opened for the closet and Rita.
An emergency situation arose in an instant.
Louisiane headed to where they were.
***
“Oh….”
The closet could only stare at the turbulent goblin with an oppressive edge.
A transformation only possible by the mere existence of the closet and Rita.
By seeing the oppressive size, it was clear that the transformation was fully realized.
Goblins were wandering around the place where Scalabit and Rita had fallen asleep.
[Sniff-! Sniff-!]
Every time Goblin made a small step, the ground sank.
Scalabit sat down in its place, wanting to give up everything, but.
“….”
Rita, who was lying in Goblin’s arms, finally began to move, prompting Goblin to start running away.
“Coooffff!!”
The fleeing Goblin dragged Scalabit and Rita recklessly.
Scalabit and Rita pushed Goblin’s immobile legs, forcibly making it retreat.
Those women were retreating from the familiar mountain.
Every time they tried to jump away from the mountain, they knew that if they stopped, they would die from the Goblin’s vengeance, so they couldn’t stop.
Thus, those women retreated from the mountain to escape Goblin.
Without anything to mind, Scalabit and Rita ran back and eventually reached the edge of a cliff.
Those women cornered at the edge of the cliff were desperate.
A Goblin was approaching from the front, and behind them was a never-ending cliff, seemingly existing forever.
“Huff…”
Scalabit rubbed its legs anxiously and whimpered.
Scalabit and Rita, who had leaped down the familiar mountain, were a mess, with wounds covering their feet and blood dripping.
“Kuhuhuhuhuhu”
Goblin gradually drew closer while making a displeased laughing sound.
Skallat regretted coming out of today’s man’s house.
The thought that Rita might die because of my curiosity made my heart sink.
Goblin held out his hand to us, and thus began the transformation of Goblin’s hand.
“……?”
We closed our eyes thinking Goblin’s hand has ended, but nothing happened somehow.
What we saw when we opened our eyes in curiosity was.
“How dare you offer your hand to my family?”
It was the face of a man glaring fiercely and coldly at the half-turned Goblin.
The man who handled the great goblin at once walked towards us.
He smiled and said, reaching out his hand to us.
“Let’s go to our house.”
Skallat couldn’t shake off such a man’s hand.
Thus, Skallat and Rita turned back to the man’s house.
Rita was on the man’s back, and Skallat followed the man from his side.
Skallat curiously spoke out the man’s statement.
“How dare you offer your hand to my family?”
A word by the man who blocked Goblin from behind.
The word ‘family’ the man said caught Skallat’s attention.
Family. A lively word never heard until now in life.
Skallat looked quietly up at the man.
The man climbed the mountain with Rita on his back.
“Uh…”
The scalpel was being lifted towards the man at that moment. A scalpel resting on the man’s back, Rita spoke to the man.
“Thank you for understanding… thank you… and I’m sorry…”
With gratitude, Rita handed an apple to the man.
Regardless of what had happened, leaving the house was obviously a mistake, which was why Rita handed an apple to the man with a heavy heart.
Louis Jane smiled slightly and said.
“Aren’t you hungry?”
“I am hungry…”
As Rita spoke in a small voice, Louis Jane walked ahead and said.
“I’ll make something delicious when we get home. So, can you hold on just a bit longer?”
“Okay…”
Rita hugged herself against the man’s back.
The man’s broad back seemed large enough to hold Rita’s small frame comfortably.
The scalpel, observing all around, cautiously approached closer to the man’s side.
***
We turned back to the man’s house in the late afternoon.
Returning to the man’s house brought a familiar, calming feeling.
“First, let’s take care of your wounds.”
As the man cautiously helped Rita onto his back, they began treating the wounds on her feet and elsewhere.
“Ouch…!”
Rita clenched her body.
Looking at such a spectacle didn’t quite feel right, but the way Rita’s foot stepped out seemed like she’d had enough of something.
“Scalp. You should come here too.”
The man gestured to Scalp, and Scalp cautiously moved to his side.
‘Oh… restless…’
Scalp understood why Rita awkwardly bent her body.
Because the man’s hands were so restless while performing the treatment.
Scalp, who usually wasn’t so quick-witted, contained the laughter bubbling within and eventually, all the bruises on her feet healed.
“If you come into the room, I’ll make some food for you.”
The man spoke brightly as he ruffled mine and Rita’s hair.
The man’s hands. They were warm.
It felt like the first time we held hands, feeling the warmth emanating from the man’s hand.
Whenever the man ruffled his hair, I felt both calm and secure.
In the midst of that, the man released his hand.
‘Ah… ouchie…’
Scalp felt a bit sorrowful.
‘I wanted to feel the warmth just a little longer…’
Scalp wanted to hold onto the sensation of the man’s hand a little longer.
“Then I’ll just go and fetch Yori now.”
As the man turned to leave, Scalp hurriedly stopped him.
“Wait.. just a moment..”
The man looked at the skeleton with a deep sigh.
The skeleton watched the man and spoke carefully.
“By any chance… what’s your name?”
The skeleton asked the man’s name.
To this, the man smiled broadly and replied.
“My name is Louisane. Call me comfortably.”
‘Louisane…’
The skeleton whispered the man’s name to itself.
Thus began the dinner with Louisane’s homemade dishes.
Following today’s meal by the man.. no, by Louisane, tasted better than ever.
The skeleton thought about what Louisane said regarding family.
Why would Louisane call us family, he wondered.
Clearly, Louisane and we are known as master and servant.
Therefore, it was natural that we should support Louisane unconditionally, and we would be wrong to complain.
Louisane never hesitated to serve us by preparing meals and never showed any sign of anger.
Far from expressing anger, Louisane even treated us, healing us.
The more we knew, the more mysterious the man became.
[Puzzle, puzzle]
That’s what he thought about Louisane.
Louisane welcomed our visit with pleasure.
“I’ll put the present in front of the door. Check it out later.”
Skalnitz opened the door cautiously at Ruijien’s words that it was a gift.
There lay a pair of dark red and light blue shoes tiered in the color of my and Rita’s hair.
Seeing this, Rita picked up the shoes in her arms.
‘A truly strange person…’
Skalnitz gave a faint smile as she looked at Ruijien’s present.
Really… he’s an unusual man.
Skalnitz didn’t dislike such Ruijien.