Bjorn Yandel the Barbarian

Episode 580 Opening (1)

Not even once.

Is there really such a person who has never done anything wrong in his life?

Mischa Karlstein thought that couldn’t be the case.

Even great adults will make mistakes at least once in their lives. Even if the intentions were good, there may have been cases where things went wrong and had bad results.

Surely… they must have hurt someone too.

ok so i can’t help it

Even great people like that would make a mistake once in a while, but for a half-penny like me, it goes without saying—.

“I…”

Mischa Karlstein muttered quietly to herself.

“What the hell are you doing…”

It was a routine that had been repeating for several days.

Wouldn’t it be better if I’d rather hit and fight with the monsters?

There wasn’t much I could do as I spent the day shutting myself in my room.

I just wanted to live like a dead person without thinking about anything, but that wasn’t something I could do just because I wanted to.

So I thought and thought again for a long day.

Thoughts were always different, but always the same.

I resented someone, then I felt disgusted with myself, and sometimes, like today, I had thoughts that I could justify myself.

Oh, of course, the end of that thought was always the same.

“Let’s leave.”

Let’s leave Clan Anavada.

No, I didn’t even officially become a member of the clan in the first place. So it will be easier to leave.

So, let’s leave when this exploration is over and we return to the city. Let’s disappear from Bjorn Yandel’s side and never appear in front of us again.

He too… would like that.

A conclusion reached hundreds of times after hundreds of thoughts.

The moment she reached that conclusion again, Mischa Karlstein crouched down and grabbed her chest with both hands.

“Ah…”

It hurt.

It was really painful, more than just tightness in my chest and difficulty breathing.

It was such a pain that I wondered if it would be less painful if I closed my eyes and poked something sharp into it.

However, Mischa Karlstein could not turn that imagination into reality.

It wasn’t for lack of courage.

only she knew

‘That’s not possible…’

That kind of ending he wouldn’t want.

All the memories you had with him will fade into dark colors that will haunt him.

‘Dwalkie…’

He suddenly came to mind.

A noble wizard who saved everyone’s life and died in the labyrinth. Misha knew the wizard’s feelings for her.

I didn’t know it from the beginning, but after a long time had passed since Dwalki left, the Dwarf warrior Hikurod heard from Murad.

He said he was always in love with me…

At first, I couldn’t believe it. If he really had such a heart, why did he hide it from himself?

Even the moment the last candle went out.

I didn’t understand it at all.

If it had been him, he would have confided in the feelings he had hidden without missing the last chance he was given.

However, upon hearing her question, Hikurod answered.

As if asking for something obvious.

[That friend’s idea is obvious, isn’t it? He probably didn’t want to remain in a dark shadow.]

Uncertain speculative answers.

However, she agreed with that statement.

Of course, I was just convinced that he might have been, but I couldn’t really sympathize with him.

At least until today.

“This… must have felt like…”

Strictly speaking, he and Dwalkie are different.

He sacrificed his life to save everyone, and he is struggling with the weight of his wrongdoing and trying to find a way to escape.

If this place wasn’t in the labyrinth in the first place.

If she hadn’t even had that kind of hope that he might forgive her, she would have run away long ago—.

smart smart

Just then, a voice was heard through the closed door.

“It’s me, Misha. Let’s talk for a minute.”

It was Bjorn.

Feelings of joy and fear surged at the same time at his visit. But she calmed down and did what she had to do.

Because I couldn’t show you this now.

Wash your hair and quickly wash your face. And then the messy room was quickly cleaned.

Fortunately, there was not much to clean up thanks to spending the day in the room without doing anything.

“Can I come in for a minute?”

As soon as I open the door, he, whom I haven’t seen in a long time, strides into the room.

For some reason, my heart was pounding.

Pounding-

Why did Bjorn come?

Are you just worried about me?

Won’t there be a strange smell in the room?

Surely, just a moment ago, I was drying up like a withered flower in this dark room, but somehow, from the moment he came, my body became alive.

***

“I’d like to turn this on before we talk, could you please?”

It would have been nice if he had said something nonsensical saying that he had come to see his face, but as soon as Bjorn entered the room, he got to the point.

An object was clutched in his thick hand.

It was something I was familiar with.

misplaced trust.

I felt uncomfortable because the name attached to the object seemed to prove our relationship now.

But I was also happy.

This is your chance.

He who turned away coldly that day gave me a chance.

A golden opportunity to undo all your mistakes and go back to the way it was before.

…And maybe Bjorn actually wants to go back to the way it was before.

“Then… that’s all right. start.”

That’s why Misha had no intention of missing out on the opportunity.

Even so, how did it get to this point?

Whatever Bjorn asks, answer honestly.

As I was clenching my fists with such determination, Bjorn’s questions began.

“How did you follow Lee Baek-ho after I disappeared from Parune Island?”

Starting with the questions that had already been answered before, they poured out questions that could only be answered with ‘yes’ and ‘no’, and Missha answered all the questions with truth.

The current Bjorn was like the watchmaker I had seen before.

Like a watchmaker looking for all the parts to fix a watch of unknown cause, Bjorn tried to check every detail.

“Lee Baek-ho… didn’t he do anything bad to you?”

“evildoing…?”

“That… like I just put my hand on your body…” ”

…Oh no! such a thing! Seriously, I swear!”

For some reason, there were questions that were unfair and happy, but they were not important.

“Did you really not know that you lose your memory when you use the Rejuvenation Stone?”

“I didn’t know…”

“Then why did you hide it from me?”

“As I said back then… because I said something bad would happen if you found out…”

That was the part where Bjorn’s emotions were intensified that day.

At this time, he was furious, saying, “Did you only trust Lee Baek-ho’s words and hide it from him?”

The memory suddenly came to Misha, and before Bjorn could say anything, he quickly shouted and continued his conversation.

“I thought it was worth losing money!”

“…Bonjeon?”

“Because I didn’t know that I lost my memory at the time… No, even if I did, it would be the same…! Because it’s better than dying…”

“So you believed that?”

“…Lee Baek-ho is strong. And something is firmly broken.”

It was the real reason for accepting Lee Baek-ho’s proposal.

I don’t know what he’ll do if I decline the offer. Maybe ‘bad things’ happen, he didn’t even know what he meant.

So, for now, I received the Rejuvenation Stone and returned to Bjorn. I thought it was something that could save the person I love, so it was not something to lose.

But…

“Huh…so that’s all?”

There is one more thing left unsaid.

How the hell am I supposed to say this?

I wonder if everything really ends after I said it.

Unknown, Misha closed her eyes and opened her mouth.

“I decided to hand over the information in exchange for the Ox Rejuvenation Stone.”

“…information?”

“Because I told you to keep an eye on you…”

Misha opened one eye to examine Bjorn’s expression. Still, the emotion on his face was more of bewilderment than anger.

“Oh don’t get me wrong! You haven’t given any information yet. After we broke up in the first place, we never met again.”

“What if you came? What were you going to do then?”

“…I don’t know. At that time, I just wanted to get over the situation and think about it later.”

After Misha answered, it seemed like an excuse, so she hurriedly added something.

“But… I think I gave it to you. Of course, with things that are not like poems that everyone knows…!”

“Hmm…”

Bjorn, who heard Misha’s non-excuses, let out a long breath and patted his chin.

Thankfully, he didn’t seem too upset.

He just nodded his head a few times as if he had heard the answer, then moved on to the next question.

and how long has it been

“Last question.”

Soon, Bjorn looked into Misha’s eyes and said.

“Is there anything else you are hiding from me?”

An all-inclusive, all-encompassing question.

does not exist.

Everything was said honestly.

I had to say that, but for some reason, my lips just sighed and I couldn’t let out a sound.

“….”

Even though the relationship seems to be slowly healing, a silence that cannot be expressed with the word uncomfortable for a while falls between the two.

Bjorn only uttered two words.

“Yeah…”

“…”

“It’s there.”

It is a recital that sounds as if it has been prepared mentally, as if it has given up.

Misha, suffocating at this, tried to speak in a hurry.

No.

That’s all I’ve said so far.

There is never anything hidden.

I tried to say that, but my mouth just won’t come out.

Why? Could that thing have been damaged?

Mischa, who really had nothing to hide, was genuinely embarrassed.

But…

‘Ah…’

She realized within seconds.

‘Misaligned trust’ is normal. It’s not broken, and it’s still working properly at this moment.

Even so, there was only one reason why the words didn’t come out.

Because there was something she wanted to hide from him.

“Words…”

Bjorn spoke again in the suffocating silence.

“Is there anything you can’t do?”

It felt instinctive.

The moment you are silent on this question, everything is over.

“…I’m not hiding anything with this Lee Baek-ho.”

“then?”

Seeing the look in Bjorn’s eyes as if he hadn’t let go of his expectations, Misha took a breath.

“Then you have something to hide on the other side?”

“Yeah…”

He nodded as if possessed, but his head was full of hesitation.

Can I really say this?

While he wasn’t there, his side was already filled with much better people.

I also have a promise I made with them…

It might be a lot better for Bjorn if I just disappear.

“I…”

Still, his mouth opens on its own.

Her lips, which had been unable to budge even a little while ago, opened and let out her sincerity stained with long regrets.

“I lied to you before.”

“…?”

Bjorn’s eyebrows furrowed at the word lie.

Come to think of it, Bjorn was always like that.

He hated having someone cheat on him the most.

Besides, isn’t it a situation where you have to tell what you’re hiding?

So…

‘This isn’t cowardly.’

Even the last regrets are erased and the words continue.

Originally, it was what I wanted to say on Farune Island.

I tried to kill my feelings for him, but I tried to reveal my mind because I thought he might die.

“I thought it would be better to just be friends with you.”

Well, it happened that I didn’t say it until after such a long, long time.

“That is a lie.”

The earliest time is when you think it’s too late.

Didn’t you ever say something like that?

“Come to think of it… I couldn’t hear any answer back then, did I?”

Soon Misha raised her head and made eye contact with him, paying attention to her pronunciation as clearly as possible.

“Bjorn Yandel. Me too… I like you.”

On the first day I checked his heart, I couldn’t answer because I wasn’t in a hurry.

No answer came back.

But she continued.

“It was like that the day you said it.”

“It was before you said that.”

“And…”

said Misha, in a voice as clear as an ant’s crawling.

“I still do…”

It was the only thing she was hiding from him.

***

Sometimes there are days when I feel strangely strange.

The day is bright and sunny, but for some reason, the dark clouds are gathering and it looks like it will pour rain.

For Erwen, today was such a day.

“mister! Did you wake up… Huh?”

Early in the morning, I ran excitedly and ran into an empty room.

From then on, Erwen felt an unknown ominous feeling.

They wandered around the mansion looking for his whereabouts, but Bjorn was nowhere to be seen.

“You mean Captain? Well… you didn’t say anything about where you’re going… why don’t you stay in the mansion?”

“…is it so? I looked for all the other rooms, but I couldn’t find them.”

“Hmm, then you must have gone out for a while because of business…”

Anavada’s navigator, Auyen Lockrove, assured her that it would be no big deal, but Erwen’s lips kept drying out.

In fact, there was one room that I hadn’t checked yet.

‘Misha Karlstein.’

The reason I didn’t check her room was simple.

Because I didn’t think Bjorn would be in it. Even lately, something seems to have gone awry between the two.

After that, I was stuck in my room alone every day, showing off a gloomy expression as if I was protesting.

However, it was in plain English.

trudge trudge.

Why did he naturally head here even though he thought Bjorn couldn’t be here?

Although it is much more reasonable to assume that, as the navigator said, he went out for business.

Why does the ominous feeling that I will be here keep soaring?

Turbuck.

In the midst of such unpleasant feelings, Erwen arrived at the desired destination. A room located in the corner of the 3rd floor of the mansion. The door was firmly closed.

I wanted to knock, but I stopped because I thought it would be awkward if Bjorn wasn’t here.

‘Because I can’t feel the magic.’

There are no voice controls or barriers to block out sound.

This means that you can hear all the sounds that resonate inside if you want to.

Erwen opened his hearing, which he intentionally turned off during daily life.

That was the moment.

“Bjorn Yandel. Me too… I like you.”

A familiar voice sounded in her ears.

I recognized at once who the owner of the voice was, but I couldn’t easily understand the contents.

What the hell are you talking about?

I wondered if I had heard it wrong, so I listened even more.

“It was like that the day you said it.”

“It was before you said that.”

“And… even now…”

I still couldn’t understand it in my head.

After all, isn’t this a confession of love?

I’ve never done it in my life yet…

‘I don’t even know the subject…’

I was dumbfounded. Anger also arose.

Isn’t it the woman who disappeared as soon as the news of the uncle’s death spread, let alone revenge.

Although she was taking care of Bjorn, who was so innocent and kind, she couldn’t overcome her old affection, but she hadn’t forgotten it yet.

But…

[Bjorn Yandel. Me too… I like you.]

The words I heard for the first time keep ringing in my ears.

Erwen only then discovered a strange part.

‘me too…?’

Apparently, the Jeok Myo tribe’s prisoner said ‘I like it too’.

And ‘me too’ is a word used to mean agreement when hearing the same thing.

If you do, that means…

‘…that you said first?’

Is it because it’s an unbelievable story?

On the contrary, my mind, which had been heated to the fullest, became cold in an instant.

The heat in his head had subsided, and only then did the situation become more objective.

Somehow I laughed.

food.

It was all that woman’s delusion.

I’m delusional and I’m having a conversation with my uncle.

As evidence of that, no conversation can be heard from inside the room since that last comment.

‘But… it’s pitiful.’

It’s an eccentricity that is difficult for ordinary people to understand, but in fact, Erwen also did something similar to that when he was having a hard time mentally, so I could understand it a little.

‘Huh… So, where the hell did you go…’

Soon after, Erwen came for no reason and turned his back as if he had heard something he couldn’t hear.

No, I was trying to turn it.

“…I see.”

A familiar voice came from inside the room.