- Episode 24
"Are you the leader?"
When I called him a benefactor because I didn't have a proper title to call it, Parker understood and responded perfectly. Then Lydia blinked once in her green eyes.
"Is his name the leader?"
"No, no. You are the guild leader of Ignis. He is my direct supervisor."
"Ah......."
It wasn't a colleague, it was a relationship. Lydia remembered that she had asked last night if she was Parker's mate when she was rescued and she rolled her eyes slightly. Even though it was a statement that could hurt her self-esteem by a senior level, she replied that it was natural. It was possible because she genuinely trusted Parker as a colleague.
"My name is 'Estio'."
Parker also spoke Estio's name in a respectful voice. Then he wrapped a handkerchief around the fruit he had been cutting hard and handed it to Lydia. As she was blind, she mentioned in advance that there was a fruit and put it in her hand, and Lydia took a careful bite from her. The chewy fruit had a sweet taste.
"If it wasn't for him when I fell off the cliff, I might have really died. How can I say thank you?"
The juice from the fruit permeated the handkerchief, giving it a scarlet color. Parker replied with a heh heh.
"Yes, he is like that. If there is someone in front of you asking for help, you can't just pass by."
"You must have worked together for a long time."
"Uh huh, I thought so. After counting, I haven't met the leader since the beginning of this year, so I haven't finished a year yet. Is it because we've never worked together as a team member? It feels like we've been together with the leader for a long time."
"I heard you've been working in the guild for a long time."
Parker looked at her a little surprised. She inadvertently pretends to know about him, and Mann Lydia blushes her belatedly, adding her excuses, not her excuses.
"Ah, that, mom...! Uh, I heard from my mother. Talking about engagement, this and that."
Parker stared blankly at Lydia, who was struggling.
"You can call me Mom."
"......Yes."
Lydia, who had said what she was doing at home without realizing it, bowed her head in embarrassment. Parker, who scratched her cheeks seeing her filthy only her fruit, returned to her original topic of conversation again.
"Guildra. Jin-um, who joined Ignis, came out of the house when I was 16, so this is my 5th year."
"Five years..., sixteen? From such a young age?"
"Yeah, it's a little bit too young for me. At first, I jumped in without being cool, so I made a lot of mistakes."
Having said that, Parker laughed again, saying, 'I still make a lot of mistakes'.
"Because I'm a winged joiner, my specialty is moving fast, but delivery doesn't go well with just wings."
"Then what else should I have?"
"Ugh, customer satisfaction!"
Parker, who suddenly shouted the guild slogan, lifted Lydia's bowed head. I couldn't see her eyes, but I felt her meet.
"Delivery staff must perform service to the satisfaction of the customer. It is best to send the product safely as soon as possible, accurately, and as it is entrusted."
"It's hard work."
"Oh, don't talk."
Parker, having a hard time just remembering the days of his delivery job, took out a bag of cookies from his bag and continued.
"Now that I'm in the Leader Support Team, I don't do delivery work. The hard part is... uh, it's the same here."
"May I ask why you want to keep working so hard?"
When I went to the Turke Desert right away, I thought I was going to die from being devoured by the blue sand. The guild work was a series of things that constantly risked their lives to fight. Whether he was a combatant or a non-combatant, the situation did not change. Those who belonged to the guild had to fight the same danger. In order to report good results to the client, the guild members had to sneak open the imperial palace or the abandoned ghetto, even a closed underground temple in the middle of the desert, and get results.
"well."
Parker, who had been reflecting on the dangerous situation one by one in his head, opened his mouth after contemplating.
"I was most excited when I got my first paycheck. I was very excited to do something with my own strength and get a reward."
"If it's to make money, there are many other things."
"Hey, you don't know! Ignis Guild's salaries are very low. Would you be surprised to hear that?"
"But..."
It was a job that risked his life, so it was not something that a young man able to live in a stable village would be harshly paid for. Parker, who had said playfully, soon shook his head.
"Of course, it's not just because of the money. Since Ignis is a large guild, of course, wealth and honor are guaranteed. But working in a guild is more difficult than that."
"What is that?"
"It's life."
Parker replied seriously. Lydia, whose eyes could not be seen due to speaking in such a strong voice, felt that his mood had changed a little.
"When I am in Ignis, I can feel that I am truly living as a human being."
Parker opened the biscuit and put it in his mouth, speaking slowly.
"Meeting people in need, submitting success reports, seeing the faces of clients lit up on the way home. Every time, something breaks in my heart."
'What is it that makes my heart flutter...?'
Lydia, who had never felt that way before, gave a thoughtful expression on her face. Parker glanced at her expression and released it in a more understandable way.
"A commission is something that someone has had such a hard time with, and we do it for them. You will see with your own eyes that their lives are changed."
It had been 5 years since I started working in the guild, but I was still trembling at that moment.
"When I was having a hard time, we helped someone who was going through a period of frustration because no one helped me. Isn't it great?"
"Ah."
Lydia, who now seemed to understand a little, was genuinely admiring.
"Did you feel that since you were 16? Parker-sama is amazing. I didn't really know anything when I was younger.
Parker thought it wasn't something he would hear from now 18-year-old Lydia, but he laughed. Instead, he said something else.
"Mr Lydia."
"Yes?"
"Did you know that? People usually learn from the bitter taste of emotions."
If emotions have taste, the first thing that humans perceive is bitterness, not sweetness. Parker thought so.
"Adults usually laugh at what a child knows. But everyone weeps when they grow up."
Parker, who was born and raised in a happy family in a peaceful village, also cried. No child smiles like an adult from the start. Being mature meant that he knew how to mask bitterness as sweet.
"I give up one by one when I realize that I am going through a suffocating depression and realize that I cannot bear it without laughing at it."
After becoming an adult, she flies like a butterfly chasing honey in search of the sweetness of life. Whether it's a job, marriage, children, or each other, it's exhausting wandering towards the values you consider to be success. Thinking that the sweetness you are looking for is somewhere in there.
"I was lucky, because doing this job I found the sweetness I was looking for."
Parker's voice as he said those words was somewhat muffled. Lydia stiffened for a while, and then she burst out into laughter.
"Ahaha! It was such a fresh metaphor for you to express that in such a delicious way."
"Because I like to eat."
Even now, Parker's bag was full of snacks. Lydia stopped her laughter and nodded her head slightly.
"So this engagement... if you're trying to break it, I understand. Thanks for letting me know, Mr. Parker."
"No. I have no intention of breaking it. What are you talking about?"
"Yes?"
The two looked at each other at the same time, 'Huh?' He made a face that said
"I......."
"Huh......."
At the same time, Parker and Lydia, who stopped talking while trying to speak, became confused.
"You didn't mean to break the marriage, did you?"
"It wasn't."
Parker seriously agonized over where this misunderstanding had come from. The answer didn't come.
"Um, I guess I misunderstood. Breaking up."
After giving up trying to figure out the cause, Parker decided to make his point clear.
"Like I said, I don't plan on getting married yet. Like me, Lydia-sama is still young, isn't it?"
"That's right."
Lydia's coming-of-age ceremony was next year. In rural villages, there were cases where marriages were held immediately after coming-of-age ceremonies, but in reality, the marriageable age was around the mid-20s.
"If we get married and work for another five years... If, then, we don't have a lover!..."
At that moment, Lydia's face, who fully understood what Parker was trying to say, became hot. Indeed, it was a shameful misunderstanding that occurred because she alone had gone too far.
"I... know that Parker-sama is going to reject me."
"Lydia-sama? Why me?"
Lydia closed her eyes at the voice that even sounded a little brazen. It was the same as she could wind it up anyway, but it was like she couldn't see it, but she thought that she could be freed from shame if she had to do this anyway. Of course, the shame didn't go away.
"I'll give Lydia the choice. I'll be working in the Juk Guild for the next five years, so if you don't like it, just kick it out."
"Tea, no tea."
"At that time, don't come up to Bernie's village having a hard time because of a guy like me, and fill it up with a letter."
Lydia, who was angry for nothing, opened her eyes and shouted.
"It's not cold!"
Contrary to her usual docile image, this time it was a rather powerful cry, so Parker looked at her with a dumbfounded face. Lydia, whose belated regrets had flooded her, lost her pushy energy again and rolled her eyes.
"No, that's what I mean."
Although she became timid again, Lydia continued what she was trying to say to the end.
"I'll be working hard to find my 'sweetness' in the meantime. There are many things I can do on my own even if I'm not married."
"Yes. I hope you find it, Lydia-sama."
Parker smiled and supported her decision. It was the first day the two joiners, who had only heard each other's names from their parents since childhood, shared their thoughts for the first time.
hee hee hee hee!
Just then, there was the sound of a horse crying outside the door. Parker jumped up from his seat.
"It's Kon!"
Lydia, who had recognized the sound of a horse crying from outside, wanted to get up with her, but she suffered a leg injury and was unable to get out of bed and moaned.
"I guess something happened to Kon. Kon!"
"Wait. I'll come and see you."
- Episode 24
"Are you the leader?"
When I called him a benefactor because I didn't have a proper title to call it, Parker understood and responded perfectly. Then Lydia blinked once in her green eyes.
"Is his name the leader?"
"No, no. You are the guild leader of Ignis. He is my direct supervisor."
"Ah......."
It wasn't a colleague, it was a relationship. Lydia remembered that she had asked last night if she was Parker's mate when she was rescued and she rolled her eyes slightly. Even though it was a statement that could hurt her self-esteem by a senior level, she replied that it was natural. It was possible because she genuinely trusted Parker as a colleague.
"My name is 'Estio'."
Parker also spoke Estio's name in a respectful voice. Then he wrapped a handkerchief around the fruit he had been cutting hard and handed it to Lydia. As she was blind, she mentioned in advance that there was a fruit and put it in her hand, and Lydia took a careful bite from her. The chewy fruit had a sweet taste.
"If it wasn't for him when I fell off the cliff, I might have really died. How can I say thank you?"
The juice from the fruit permeated the handkerchief, giving it a scarlet color. Parker replied with a heh heh.
"Yes, he is like that. If there is someone in front of you asking for help, you can't just pass by."
"You must have worked together for a long time."
"Uh huh, I thought so. After counting, I haven't met the leader since the beginning of this year, so I haven't finished a year yet. Is it because we've never worked together as a team member? It feels like we've been together with the leader for a long time."
"I heard you've been working in the guild for a long time."
Parker looked at her a little surprised. She inadvertently pretends to know about him, and Mann Lydia blushes her belatedly, adding her excuses, not her excuses.
"Ah, that, mom...! Uh, I heard from my mother. Talking about engagement, this and that."
Parker stared blankly at Lydia, who was struggling.
"You can call me Mom."
"......Yes."
Lydia, who had said what she was doing at home without realizing it, bowed her head in embarrassment. Parker, who scratched her cheeks seeing her filthy only her fruit, returned to her original topic of conversation again.
"Guildra. Jin-um, who joined Ignis, came out of the house when I was 16, so this is my 5th year."
"Five years..., sixteen? From such a young age?"
"Yeah, it's a little bit too young for me. At first, I jumped in without being cool, so I made a lot of mistakes."
Having said that, Parker laughed again, saying, 'I still make a lot of mistakes'.
"Because I'm a winged joiner, my specialty is moving fast, but delivery doesn't go well with just wings."
"Then what else should I have?"
"Ugh, customer satisfaction!"
Parker, who suddenly shouted the guild slogan, lifted Lydia's bowed head. I couldn't see her eyes, but I felt her meet.
"Delivery staff must perform service to the satisfaction of the customer. It is best to send the product safely as soon as possible, accurately, and as it is entrusted."
"It's hard work."
"Oh, don't talk."
Parker, having a hard time just remembering the days of his delivery job, took out a bag of cookies from his bag and continued.
"Now that I'm in the Leader Support Team, I don't do delivery work. The hard part is... uh, it's the same here."
"May I ask why you want to keep working so hard?"
When I went to the Turke Desert right away, I thought I was going to die from being devoured by the blue sand. The guild work was a series of things that constantly risked their lives to fight. Whether he was a combatant or a non-combatant, the situation did not change. Those who belonged to the guild had to fight the same danger. In order to report good results to the client, the guild members had to sneak open the imperial palace or the abandoned ghetto, even a closed underground temple in the middle of the desert, and get results.
"well."
Parker, who had been reflecting on the dangerous situation one by one in his head, opened his mouth after contemplating.
"I was most excited when I got my first paycheck. I was very excited to do something with my own strength and get a reward."
"If it's to make money, there are many other things."
"Hey, you don't know! Ignis Guild's salaries are very low. Would you be surprised to hear that?"
"But..."
It was a job that risked his life, so it was not something that a young man able to live in a stable village would be harshly paid for. Parker, who had said playfully, soon shook his head.
"Of course, it's not just because of the money. Since Ignis is a large guild, of course, wealth and honor are guaranteed. But working in a guild is more difficult than that."
"What is that?"
"It's life."
Parker replied seriously. Lydia, whose eyes could not be seen due to speaking in such a strong voice, felt that his mood had changed a little.
"When I am in Ignis, I can feel that I am truly living as a human being."
Parker opened the biscuit and put it in his mouth, speaking slowly.
"Meeting people in need, submitting success reports, seeing the faces of clients lit up on the way home. Every time, something breaks in my heart."
'What is it that makes my heart flutter...?'
Lydia, who had never felt that way before, gave a thoughtful expression on her face. Parker glanced at her expression and released it in a more understandable way.
"A commission is something that someone has had such a hard time with, and we do it for them. You will see with your own eyes that their lives are changed."
It had been 5 years since I started working in the guild, but I was still trembling at that moment.
"When I was having a hard time, we helped someone who was going through a period of frustration because no one helped me. Isn't it great?"
"Ah."
Lydia, who now seemed to understand a little, was genuinely admiring.
"Did you feel that since you were 16? Parker-sama is amazing. I didn't really know anything when I was younger.
Parker thought it wasn't something he would hear from now 18-year-old Lydia, but he laughed. Instead, he said something else.
"Mr Lydia."
"Yes?"
"Did you know that? People usually learn from the bitter taste of emotions."
If emotions have taste, the first thing that humans perceive is bitterness, not sweetness. Parker thought so.
"Adults usually laugh at what a child knows. But everyone weeps when they grow up."
Parker, who was born and raised in a happy family in a peaceful village, also cried. No child smiles like an adult from the start. Being mature meant that he knew how to mask bitterness as sweet.
"I give up one by one when I realize that I am going through a suffocating depression and realize that I cannot bear it without laughing at it."
After becoming an adult, she flies like a butterfly chasing honey in search of the sweetness of life. Whether it's a job, marriage, children, or each other, it's exhausting wandering towards the values you consider to be success. Thinking that the sweetness you are looking for is somewhere in there.
"I was lucky, because doing this job I found the sweetness I was looking for."
Parker's voice as he said those words was somewhat muffled. Lydia stiffened for a while, and then she burst out into laughter.
"Ahaha! It was such a fresh metaphor for you to express that in such a delicious way."
"Because I like to eat."
Even now, Parker's bag was full of snacks. Lydia stopped her laughter and nodded her head slightly.
"So this engagement... if you're trying to break it, I understand. Thanks for letting me know, Mr. Parker."
"No. I have no intention of breaking it. What are you talking about?"
"Yes?"
The two looked at each other at the same time, 'Huh?' He made a face that said
"I......."
"Huh......."
At the same time, Parker and Lydia, who stopped talking while trying to speak, became confused.
"You didn't mean to break the marriage, did you?"
"It wasn't."
Parker seriously agonized over where this misunderstanding had come from. The answer didn't come.
"Um, I guess I misunderstood. Breaking up."
After giving up trying to figure out the cause, Parker decided to make his point clear.
"Like I said, I don't plan on getting married yet. Like me, Lydia-sama is still young, isn't it?"
"That's right."
Lydia's coming-of-age ceremony was next year. In rural villages, there were cases where marriages were held immediately after coming-of-age ceremonies, but in reality, the marriageable age was around the mid-20s.
"If we get married and work for another five years... If, then, we don't have a lover!..."
At that moment, Lydia's face, who fully understood what Parker was trying to say, became hot. Indeed, it was a shameful misunderstanding that occurred because she alone had gone too far.
"I... know that Parker-sama is going to reject me."
"Lydia-sama? Why me?"
Lydia closed her eyes at the voice that even sounded a little brazen. It was the same as she could wind it up anyway, but it was like she couldn't see it, but she thought that she could be freed from shame if she had to do this anyway. Of course, the shame didn't go away.
"I'll give Lydia the choice. I'll be working in the Juk Guild for the next five years, so if you don't like it, just kick it out."
"Tea, no tea."
"At that time, don't come up to Bernie's village having a hard time because of a guy like me, and fill it up with a letter."
Lydia, who was angry for nothing, opened her eyes and shouted.
"It's not cold!"
Contrary to her usual docile image, this time it was a rather powerful cry, so Parker looked at her with a dumbfounded face. Lydia, whose belated regrets had flooded her, lost her pushy energy again and rolled her eyes.
"No, that's what I mean."
Although she became timid again, Lydia continued what she was trying to say to the end.
"I'll be working hard to find my 'sweetness' in the meantime. There are many things I can do on my own even if I'm not married."
"Yes. I hope you find it, Lydia-sama."
Parker smiled and supported her decision. It was the first day the two joiners, who had only heard each other's names from their parents since childhood, shared their thoughts for the first time.
hee hee hee hee!
Just then, there was the sound of a horse crying outside the door. Parker jumped up from his seat.
"It's Kon!"
Lydia, who had recognized the sound of a horse crying from outside, wanted to get up with her, but she suffered a leg injury and was unable to get out of bed and moaned.
"I guess something happened to Kon. Kon!"
"Wait. I'll come and see you."
