Book 3: Chapter 16
“Wow….”
I said that it felt like the elf capital wasn’t as crowded as the human imperial capital, right? Well, I take that back. The elf population is no less than the human population.
The field for the deer hunting festival was the forest in the East. We weren’t provided with maps. We were only given a rough guideline and all the participating elves gathered in the imperial capital this afternoon while all the elves in the imperial capital came out in full force, lining up all the way to the path we left via. This congested the wide stone road, leaving room for only two horses to pass through, one behind the other. They wore big smiles as they threw flower petals towards us. Female elves from the shops by the sides stuck their heads out of their windows and waved their handkerchiefs, generously cheering us on.
There weren’t a lot of elves participating, but neither was there few. There were approximately twenty participants. A few of them were soldiers in the imperial guard unit. I noticed the cavalry girl practising her jockey skills I met a few days back was also present. I noticed a few elves dressed in hunter costumes. However, elves being lean, they didn’t look badass even if they were to wear tiger skin.
I rode my horse to the front of the group with Lucia following behind. Flower petals, perfume and even handkerchiefs got thrown onto my face. The elves cheered me on and quite a number of them sent me blow-kisses. I could feel an extremely frightening aura behind me…. I smiled and waved at them. I suddenly had a thought. Did Troy see the same scenery as I’m seeing right now when he led the children of the noble families to slay the Earth Dragons?
This feeling doesn’t feel good since what followed the grandiose cheers was a tragic ending.
If I hadn’t come here, Troy would be buried in the ground as nourishment for bugs right now…. No, that’s not right. If that were the case, then angry and despaired Vyvyan and Elizabeth would probably have reduced the entire mainland to particles.
The Eastern Forest and the imperial capital are very close to each other. Actually, it’s better to say that the imperial capital is located within the Eastern Forest, but to the North is just the Grand Canyon. It’s snowy in the Grand Canyon. The bodies of elves don’t cope well in snow which is why the elves don’t have a map of the North, while humanity has no way of passing through the country under the jurisdiction of the elves and they know very little about the Grand Canyon up North.
Mom had finished the preparations in the Eastern Forest. She wore an extravagant long green dress, a luxurious crown on her head that I’d never seen before, and a long woven shawl on her back as she elegantly stood atop the altar. The large stone statue on the altar looked like a goddess with her left hand holding fresh flowers, while her right hand held a long sword as she looked down upon us majestically. Behind the queen was a brazier.