Chapter 36: Parting
Oran departed, and he stopped his horse at the top of the hillside, and looked back at the place where the old hunter had lived. Maybe this time away, never to come back...... Even if he was born in this mountain range and grew up in this village, he was destined to be just a passerby.
Back at Devola's alchemy house, Orlan finally meets Andrea. She lay on the bed pale, but fortunately she had already made it.
"Little Oran, it's good that you're okay, I still want to thank you for saving me......"
"No, it's my fault, it's me who caused you, in fact, I should have taken the initiative to do something."
"Little Oran, it's not your fault. You know, those robbers are going to do it after all...... Just like they did with Morgan. Although you are now grown up and have great abilities, you have to promise me Oran. Don't bother those people again...... You have to take good care of yourself...... Ahem. Andrea spoke a little hurriedly, and her injured body couldn't help coughing.
Orlan crouched down next to the bed and shook her hand. "Don't worry Andrea, I'll take care of myself. For Morgan's sake, and for you. Just maybe I'll be leaving this place soon......"
"I know that chicks will always fly away from their nests when they grow up, and little Oran you can leave everything behind and pursue the life you want. And if you're tired one day, you're always welcome to come back. Andrea replied with a smile.
"Definitely." Orlan smiled.
"Lady Andrea, I will come back to see you often in the future. Rest assured, I'll take care of Oran along the way. Maybe it's because she's emotional, or maybe Lillian isn't good at dealing with such situations, and her eyes are a little red.
"Lillian, you are a kind and beautiful girl. I'm sure you'll get stronger, and no matter what you will encounter in the future, if you can't face it alone, then remember Oran. Andrea spoke like an elder to Lilian.
Lilian blushed when she heard this, and returned to her arrogant appearance: "How come, this guy still expects me to save him in the future." ”
"Little Golden Retriever, you said you could take care of the little hunter, I guess he was in charge of it some time ago, and you were responsible for eating, right? Don't think I don't know. "The eccentric Devra and Lillian seem to be at odds.
"You, how do you know. I mean, you guessed it wrong, the day before yesterday he was surrounded by robbers and I didn't rush to the rescue. Hmph, isn't it natural to eat him? Lillian showed no signs of weakness.
"Ahem." Andrea's cough was interrupted just in time, silencing both of them. It's just that Orlan feels a little weird.,Why can a Lori quarrel with a seventy-eighty grandmother?
"By the way, Oran, you might come across it when you go to town, huh...... Devola's granddaughter, I heard that she is coming back recently, and you can go to her to help when the time comes. Andrea then gave a detailed address of Otinenam.
"Hmm." Orlan took note of it and agreed.
Orlan still has some impressions of Lady Devola's granddaughter, and that probably started from ten years ago.
At that time, when Oran returned from hunting with the old hunter, he would always take some of the strange herbs, bugs, and prey he found and sell them to Lady Devola.
The little red-haired girl who followed Ms. Devola was about a head taller than Oran, with a pair of round lenses in front of her big blue eyes, and a book thicker than the palm of her hand. She seemed curious about Oran, especially his silver hair and red eyes.
But Orlan was very wary of everyone but the old hunter, and almost never spoke in front of strangers, and his eyes were always on guard, like the cubs of a wild beast.
And this red-haired little girl was the only one of her age who dared to take the initiative to approach him, although Orlan never talked to her from beginning to end. She had been asking Orlan some strange questions, always trying to tell whether he was a sun elf, a moon elf, or a wood elf in terms of hair color, skin, and physical characteristics......
Later, for a while, Orlan was temporarily "fostered" in this alchemy house, probably because the old hunter needed to go deep into the mountains for that hunt.
Although Orlan is a problem child, he still listens to the old hunter. At least that time didn't hurt the elderly Devra and the little red-haired girl, who ate and slept every day. Silently waiting for the date agreed with the old hunter.
During this period, Oran's biggest frustration was to be dragged around by this red-haired girl all day long, and at first Oran pretended to be a beast to scare the girl, wanting her to stay away. But the top of his head only reached someone's chin, but he was still rubbed by the girl, shouting "so soft and cute".
Orlan had promised the old hunter that he would not harm them, and that he was keeping his word. Otherwise, with his character of daring to fight hand-to-hand with the bear cub, how could he let a little girl be so ravaged. But he couldn't leave, he had to wait for the old hunter to return. Therefore, you can't fight, you can't escape, and you will be found wherever you hide......
"Little hunter, don't run away, I won't ask you to drink my newly invented transformation potion today. Can I teach you how to read? So you can be my assistant! "One day the girl finally changed her mind about inventing a new potion.
“…… Well. Oran thought that he could finally get rid of the torture that this hateful little girl had inflicted on him, so he agreed, after all, not everyone could stand the taste of becoming a fat toad, or growing gills and directly growing bat wings. Learning words is definitely much easier and easier!
And the facts have also proved that Oran is simply a genius for learning the lingua franca of the mainland, almost never forgetting, and he is now teaching and knowing. And the girl who is a teacher is also full of accomplishment, so she no longer lets Orlan be a "drug tester" with no future.
"Little hunter, you have learned very well, and it seems that I have nothing to say as a teacher. Then I'll teach you something advanced today, I don't believe that you can learn Elf so quickly, it took me three years of hard work......"
A few days later.
"It seems that you still have a little talent, and you have reached the point where you can speak and write so quickly, but you must know that the Elvish language is profound and profound, and you want to really understand ......"
In a few more days.
"Okay, I'll teach you one more language, and if you can learn it so fast, I'll make an exception to take you as an alchemy apprentice and teach you how to become an alchemist. See, this is our family's mystery, and you must not tell Devra and Andrea. This is the language of the dragon......"
It's a pity that Oran didn't learn a few words of dragon language with this schoolboy who was not much older than her, because the old hunter finally came back to pick him up.
Orlan swore that he had never missed this old hunter who was habitually drunk, foul-mouthed, and fond of playing tricks on him.