chapter 20
Chapter 20 – Another World (10)
Chapter 20 – Another World (10)
‘A lot has changed.’
I thought that while looking down at the flowerpot.
The world has changed a lot since there was only a bonsai that had withered and barely survived, and an elf woman who was building a hut that had collapsed next to it.
[Nameless Elf Village]
The name of the flower pot changed in the nameless elf hut proves it. Along with the world tree growing greener, Serenians and elves are also growing small, but steadily, befitting their small bodies.
Maybe it’s because they send us things that can be used freely, and they actively use them to gradually fill the world they live in.
“What are you doing?”
I smiled and spoke using the walkie-talkie in my hand. Then, in her flowerpot, the girl I was looking down at also squirmed and searched for her waist.
“We are installing obstacles on the wall. Drive a steel spear so enemies don’t stick to it.”
She fiddled with her walkie-talkie with an awkward hand and answered what she was doing.
Actually, I’m watching everything, but I just wanted to hear her voice. In fact, she was standing in front of the barrier she had made and piercing the partially melted barrier with a water-soaked chimney pin, creating a complete fortress that the ants couldn’t cling to.
“—?”
“—….”
I looked away. This time to the place where the elven children are.
Those kids who learn something from her every day also get more done as the days go by. Making things necessary for living, taking care of the world tree, training oneself, and so on.
Even now, the boy Ren was grunting and repairing the wagon made of toothpick wood, and the girl Leah was squatting clay to make something like a bowl.
“The other elves… don’t come?”
“You need a stronger force to convince them. To do that, the still young World Tree needs to grow further.”
It’s just that there are only three of them in a pot that is wide and spacious compared to their body size, so I insinuated about the other elves.
However, as she drove a stake into the clay wall with a hammer she made herself by crossing short and long chimney pins she had cut into pieces, she wiped away sweat and answered in a dark voice.
“Humans live everywhere and go everywhere. You, a human being who seems to have taken freedom as a racial value, may understand, but asking us to leave our homeland is never a light word. Abandoning the root of the world tree and escaping its dominion means that you will soon lose your identity, so it’s not for nothing that the reformists exiled me to this place, who should have had to kill and get rid of it like other elves.”
“But isn’t the world tree here too?”
“That’s why we have to be more careful. The new world tree means a new ‘clan’. In the past, everyone might have rejoiced at these miracles and discoveries, but those in power now will surely see them as obstacles.”
Putting her homemade hammer down, she sighed and sat down on the stake she had just driven in. Looking at her walkie-talkie, her face was smiling faintly, but the worry and concern in her eyes looked familiar.
The eyes of a leader who carries many things. You have to take responsibility, and that responsibility always weighs on the shoulders of the leader. It is such an eye that I hate very much from the point of view of watching.
“Then let’s talk about something other than the inevitable. Didn’t you say it was a new clan? What is the name of the?”
I forcibly changed the subject. Because I didn’t want to bother her any more.
“So, honestly, I don’t know. It’s something I’ve never imagined before, so may I dare put a name on this land, the World Tree.”
The name [Nameless Elf Village] Bothered me, so I asked if there was a name in mind, but she shook her head in embarrassment.
I don’t think I’ve had time to think about that yet. For the past few days, I’ve been really emaciated like a zombie, so I’ve been clinging to building the wall.
“I am thinking that this place would be a paradise. A place where you can be a haven where you can find peace, not a place where you have fled and been banished.”
“Paradise. So… What about this name? It is a word in the Word of God.”
Still, listening to her thoughts was a success. I just gave her a name that came to her mind out of nowhere.
[Elf Village: Eden]
Since Serenian accepted it right after, the name of this flower pot was changed. May this place become a paradise for elves as she wishes.
“You always get help from the spirits. Please give thanks to the gods.”
Serenian, who judged that today’s chi work was finished, stepped on his stake, bounced up at once, and landed on a barrier more than twice his height while doing somersaults.
At the same time, she picked up the walkie-talkie and asked me to say her hello. That greeting, though I already received it well.
“Could you look at him and say hello? It is an extension of what I said last time.”
“Is this really helpful to the spirits?”
As I grabbed it, Serenian grinned and stood at the drone that was flying beside her. Her beautiful face was showing up on the screen of the controller I was holding.
She soon nodded her head at the drone in a slightly awkward gesture. The scene with the world tree in the background, which is huge even though it is far away, looked pretty good.
I was going to use it for the ending scene of the video, but it came out well as expected.
‘Isn’t there anything dangerous?’
Watching her return to her village, I looked away from her flower pot and sat down at the computer scratching her head. I’ve already finished my company work, but I didn’t close the program.
A 9-minute video that is almost finished. The first video, this video, was filmed from inside, so it was filmed in a composition that made it seem like you would never know that this place was in a pot, and it was edited to reveal everything that might raise doubts.
If others see it, it will be a video that only shows mysterious and beautiful people living in a mysterious forest. I took the picture of Serenian that I just took at the end, and I upload it on the Internet as planned.
Of course, it is also true that in the corner of my heart, if I ever get suspicious, the worry that things will get bigger still lingers. It’s a different race or an elf, it’s ridiculous, but anyway, it’s something that Gates and monsters couldn’t even imagine in the past.
“Mister, I need to help you one more time. I’ll text you so see you tomorrow.”
“Are you the guy who ran out because you were breaking up? Why open it only when necessary!”
So I decided to be a little more cautious. Kim Dongchun, who received my unilateral notification this time, went into a fit of rage, but I just hung up.
***
“You bastard.”
“It is broad daylight. Calm down.”
At lunchtime the next day, a cafe near the office.
In this place where other people are also crowded, I approached the grim-looking old man with a frown on his face, and when he jumped up from his seat, I hesitated in embarrassment.
“What’s wrong with you when you came out on time?”
“I am doing this because I want to know what bullsh*t you are trying to do. Sit down!”
Having the same old personality, he gnashed his teeth, took a quick glance at the people around him, and then sat back down.
As expected, he is a person who separates his words from his actions. Contrary to his rough appearance and words, he has a lot of affection inside as well as he did 8 years ago.
“Tell me. What’s going on.”
“A little serious. Because it is such an important thing.”
Sitting in front of him, he immediately got to the point. I didn’t come here to chat, so I immediately took out my laptop.
“I’m trying to upload videos, but I don’t want to bother you because of these videos. If it’s profitable, I’ll give you some of it, so can you take care of it instead?”
It is impossible to do everything alone. Sometimes there are things you can do only by making strong allies. It was the principle of the world that I had already realized from long ago.
“No, what kind of video are you talking about? Is it a crime?”
“I know when I see it.”
I showed him the video. The video of the elves I filmed and edited by myself. As expected, he grunted and as soon as he saw the video, he fixed his eyes on the screen and fell in love with it.
“What is this? Was it filmed at your company? Foreigner?”
“I don’t think I know that. How is it?”
When I saw Serenian at the end of the video, I hurriedly responded with a smile on his open-mouthed face.
He is a person who has had many small talents since the past. And since that talent was a bit stretched to crimes, including money laundering, I dared to contact him because I thought it would be possible enough.
Certainly, ten years ago, when society was still in chaos, was a great era. To think that a high school student who didn’t know anything went through life and death with a person like this.
“I guess I could dig a channel as a foreign ghost corporation and upload the video under its ownership. Money is what you get after going through it.”
“Okay. Of course, this contrast has to be well done to be meaningful.”
“Do you think it will work? Honestly, even if this actor just danced naked…”
“Stop talking vulgar.”
The encounter ends with that. We got up and went back to our seats. He is the head of the Hunter company’s development team, and I am a new employee of the Hunter company’s video team.