The wind was slightly cool that noon. I could feel on my skin that the wind was touching my skin but then suddenly running away from me. My hairs were again flowing with the rhythm of the wind. My head was on top of a very soft and comfortable thing which had a very nice warmth.
I could also feel that someone was playing with my hairs, but then they would stop, pat my head for couple of times and then continue playing with them. I didn't know who that person was as I was unconscious but I could feel those things.
I could also hear two people talking to each other. The other person who was a bit afar from me which I concluded from the sound of his voice which was slightly fainter than the sound of the person playing with my hairs. That other person was scolding the person playing with my hairs.
It was unclear what they were talking about as I was not able to hear them clearly as I was unconscious.
I could feel that my whole body except my head was on top of leaves but my head was on something really soft.
They quarrel between them continued for a while and then I opened my eyes slowly. I was slowly regaining my consciousness. I expected the tree leaves, branches and the sky infront of my eyes but that view was blocked by something else. I could see two round things in a cloth blocking my view—breasts.
My face flustered and I move my eyes around me and found myself laying on the lap of the devil who actually knocked me out—Luna.
Sitting on a stone a bit afar from us was my friend—Elwyn.
There was no more bruise on my face and I was also not feeling pain anymore from my broken nose or from any part of my body.
It was Luna who was playing with my hairs and then her eyes which were running away from Elwyn rolled down towards my face. I could see her innocent expressions whick spoke of her innocence which I don't think she had any.
The moment she saw me awake, her expressions changed in the blink of an eye. A bright smile appeared on her face and with that face she spoke, "You are finally awake, Airu. "
Elwyn's eyes rolled towards me who was looking at Luna and barking at him. A smile came on his face too but it was not as bright as Luna's.
I slowly rose up and sat on the ground. There was actually no pain but a slight dizziness. My right hand was on my head because of the dizziness while my left hand was slowly dugging into the mud because of the force I was applying on it to maintain my position.
And then I slowly moved my right hand to my nose to check and found out that it was no more broken.
That ice elf for no real reason slapped my back, "You are a strong man. I knew it. "
There still was that smile on her face. I looked towards her with dizziness and sleepy expressions which were forced on my face by the dizziness.
She looked at me confused, her expressions changed to confusion and questioned, "What happened? "
She asked me that as if she really didn't know—the person who caused all this was acting as if they didn't actually know what happened.
I just didn't say anything and a heavy sigh left from my body.
Elwyn was now sitting beside me and looking at my face. His expressions were anxious, he was worried about me. And so he questioned about my health, "Are you not feeling any good? "
I looked towards him with my dizzy expressions and my right hand on my head again, "No, it's okay. I am alright. It's just a slight dizziness which is still in my body, I will be fine in a minute or so. "
He exhaled heavily and with a slight anxious smile replied while his eyes closed and face facing downwards, "Thank god. I thought that my healing magic didn't work. "
'Oh, so it was him who healed my body. ', I said to myself in my mind. I was confused how my body was alright with no more pain because as much as I remember Luna kicked my face heavily followed by three consecutive punches and still when I woke up, my face was all right and there was not a single bruise on it.
Elwyn and I looked at Luna with narrowed eyes and that elf acted innocent and confused and looking at our expressions, she leaned back a bit with her right hand infront of her lips and left hand on the leaves and still had the audacity to ask, "Why are you both looking at me like that? "
With Elwyn being at my side I had the courage to say these words to her while rubbing my nose bridge, "Aren't you forgetting to apologize to someone? "
In that same gesture and with that same expressions she questioned, "Why? And to whom? "
I was still going to tell her calmly but I think Elwyn's patience betrayed him because he stood up from his place, pointed his right index finger towards me and with angered expressions and a bit angry and annoyed voice spoke loudly, "Aren't you supposed to apologize to Airu!? "
Me and Luna, we both got startled. I looked at Elwyn as I didn't expect that side to come out from him so soon.
Luna who fell on the ground on her hips, startled looked at Elwyn and with nervous voice replied, "I.. I see no reason to apologize to him.. "
In that same gesture and expressions and in that same annoyed voice Elwyn barked again, "What do you mean!? What if something bad had happened to him!? "
Luna had calmed down by then and also stood up from her place clearing dirt from her hips using both her hands. Then she put her left hand on her waist and right hand behind her head, her breasts bouncing and replied with a normal calmed voice, "It's alright Elwyn. It was just a friendly duel and he lost that's all. And see he is fit and fine, totally alive. ", then she looked at me with a smirk, winked her left eye and asked me, " Right, Airu? "
Her smirk and wink left a creepiness in my body and my body shivered a bit. I didn't reply to her question and moved my head towards Elwyn with my eyes slightly closed.
Elwyn also calmed down a bit and put both his hands on his waist and said calmly but still I could feel his voice being a bit annoyed, "Even though it was a friendly duel Luna, you have to be careful. You are really strong for him so please next time keep that in mind and go easy on him. "
She moved her right hand infront of her face, made a victory sign using her index and middle finger horizontally and winked her left eye and with a big smile replied, "Noted! "
I also stood up from my place clearing dirt from my hips. Then my eyes moved towards Luna who's head was slightly bent down towards the ground but she was still looking towards me with that same evil smirk. Her both hands were behind her back and she was hitting the ground with the tip of his right toe.
With creeped out expressions, I moved my eyes from her to Elwyn who was looking towards the dense trees with both his hands on his waist. And then he moved her head to Luna swiftly as if he forgot something to tell her and remembered just now.
His expressions spoke for him that he really forgot to tell her something and as soon as his eyes met Luna's eyes, he spoke, "Luna! I forgot to tell you that the council actually was calling for you. We need to go right now. "
Luna gave a heavy sigh full of discomfort. Following her sigh was her words, "Those old geezers. Well, can't really do something. ", she moved her left leg ahead, looked at me and spoke, "Airu, while we are away, go and train. You are still weak. ", then she moved her eyes to Elwyn and said to him, " Let's go. "
Elwyn turned his back against us and started walking and then he moved his head towards me and said, "She's kinda right Airu. You need to train. " And with these words he went away with Luna towards the village passing through the tall and mighty trees, bushes and slowly disappeared from my sight.
All I could see now were the moving bushes moved by the legs of Luna who passed few seconds ago through them but now nowhere in my vision.
I turned my eyes towards the ground in which we had a duel few hours ago.
I was able to tell the time because of the sun—though it was not much visible but I could tell that around two or three hours had passed since our duel.
She and Elwyn were also right though. I need to get stronger and stronger to survive in this world and go back to mine.
I took a deep breath, exhaled and extended both my arms infront of me with a curve on my elbows and called out for both my weapons, "Rodrigo's Wrath. "
"Sword Of Miscellaneous Saplings. "
Both of them appeared in a second from the thin air. Rodrigo's Wrath in my left hand and Sword Of Miscellaneous Saplings in my right hand.
"I think I should try to control both of them at the same time, though the sword I received from the boss is kind of heavy but still they will become a great assest if I use them together. " I convinced myself to use them together.
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LUNA WINTERSONG
I arrived infront of the door behind which those elders were sitting. With me was Elwyn who was a bit nervous to go into that room—he always was. He always was like this. I knew him since I was around 9 years old and he always was nervous to stand infront of the elders.
I looked at him, my both hands behind my waist and asked him, "Aren't you going to open the door? "
He looked at me and tried to hide his nervousness—though I could see it on his face. He was really really nervous.
He moved his right hand ahead to grab the door knob and replied with a faint voice, "Yeah.. "
He pulled the door knob and the door opened with a CREAK sound. Infront of the door was a round table. It was covering half of the floor of the room and surrounding that round table were many chairs but the one facing towards the door was bigger than rest and on that chair was sitting the head of the village and the strongest in the village after me—Eryndor.
He always holded a mighty presence though it had no effect on me anymore as my presence was alone greater than the presence of those elders combined.
I walked inside the room with my left hand still behind my waist and my right hand rubbing one of my hair strand falling on my forehead.
Elwyn also walked into the room while closing the door knob.
All the elders looked at us and Eryndor opened his right eye slightly which casted his mana pressure on us. I didn't feel it much but Elwyn, he found himself kind of suffocated under this pressure. I could see it on his face and the way a sweat was falling from his forehead to his nose. I was clearly able to see from the corner of my eye as he was standing in my right.
Eryndor started rubbing his beard from his right hand while his left was on his lap. His eyes closed after seeing the condition of his own son.
It was not Eryndor who spoke first but the elder sitting on his right—Brave Heart Of The Forest Elves—Vaelion.
"Do you know why we have called for you, the Lone Warrior Of The Ice Elf Village—Luna Wintersong... "