SARLINCE (UNilateral LOVE)

64. Dean Curious

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Dean piled up some large dry wood and the rest a few dried twigs to burn as their home's natural warmers. Dean also mixed some special leaves into the fire, which they believed could repel mosquitoes at night.

"Dad. What's the forest across our forest like?" ask Dean.

Babilo stopped the activity of his hand that was twisting the sap of the tree, to make one into a bowl made of the fruit of the tree maja.

"Did you guys go there?" ask Babilo.

"No dad." This time it was Aru who answered Babilo's question quickly.

Aru doesn't want her calf to be targeted by rattan anymore. Because he's not the kind of person who can stand excessive pain, unlike Dean.

Babilo let out a long sigh and sat down to Dean and Aru. Babilo dropped his butt on a log that had been cut into pieces to make them a seat.

Pukkkkk

Babilo patted Aru on the shoulder with a slight press of the teenager's shoulder.

"Pat. Although I have always been rude and cruel to you, I love you both very much. I don't want to lose you. There's a lot of cruelty out there that you'll get if you break all the rules of this forest."

"But dad can't be this kind of conundrum every time with us. We've been hearing this since we were 7, and now we're 14. I should have been able to explain in more detail, so we weren't always curious" Dean said.

"What kind of creatures actually inhabit the forbidden forest? and why is it called the forbidden forest?" keep Dean.

"It looks like your curiosity has taken root huh? I can't hide this from you guys for too long. I'm old, maybe I won't be long."

"Dad...." Dean and Aru said simultaneously.

"Dad, don't talk like that. We believe that you will live a long life" said Aru.

Babilo framed a smile while patting Aru's head slowly.

"All beings will surely feel what is called death, and that is certain. After that will appear other new humans."

"Father does not want you to enter the forest is not without reason, because indeed we are not encouraged by our ancestors to enter it."

"But why?" ask Dean.

"Is there a giant?" tymphal Aru's.

"Even that thing is scarier than a giant or an ogre."

"More scary than a giant or an ogre? isn't there a creature bigger than that?" aru asked with widened eyes.

"Maybe they are not as big as giants or ogres, but they have an invisible power."

"Is that some kind of magic? don't the fairies have that knowledge too? but they're not that bad, are they?" ask Dean.

"You could say it was the opposite. It uses black magic or dominating power so that we weak beings can submit to it."

"What does this have to do with the forest?" ask Dean.

"Deans. The fairy forest had already been given a shield by the fairies, before they could no longer reveal their form to pure or mixed humans."

"Why?"

"What happens when we get out of this shield?"

"You will be seen by the creature. And they are free to do anything to you, including bringing you into their lives to be made eternal slaves."

"Then what about the forbidden forest?" ask Dean.

"The forest is arguably a curse forest. In the past, for breaking the rules of the demon lord, a goddess of darkness bore the child of a mixed human."

"Mixed humans?"

"Yes. He's united with a mixed man instead of a pure man like Dad. A man born of fairies and pure men."

"At that time Father, Aru's father and father's friend ran from the pursuit of the creature. But we are separated. Until father enters this fairy forest. But alas, at that time Aru's father was caught and successfully killed. With all the courage I have left, I'm holding you both and entering this forest. Unfortunately we have to pay dearly, your mother must be punished for breaking the rules of the fairy world and making a pact so that we can survive by giving the last shield."

"Then what happened to the other father's friends?"

"Actually not just one, but there are two. But they're stuck in the woods from the east. And the other one's stuck in the woods of that ban."

"Really? then why don't we just bring him here? isn't pity? are there any other humans in the forest?" ask Dean.

"No. There were only his father and daughter's friends. Father's friends can't cross our territory, just like we can't. That he did because he wanted to protect his daughter who wanted to be forcibly taken by the mahkuk."

"Why?"

"Because my father's friend is united with the goddess of darkness. The rules of the demon world were more cruel than the fairy world. After 3 months of being born, the demon lord cursed the child goddess of darkness could not live on the ground, so the child was half human and half fish."

"Dad is that true? why does it sound so awful?" ask Aru.

"Then?" Dean's curious.

"With magic trickery, the Goddess of darkness managed to escape and gave her last shield to her only child to escape the curse. The goddess of darkness brought her daughter to be raised by her father. After giving a shield to the forest, the goddess of darkness was recaptured and sealed to the present."

"Does that mean her daughter is already a full human being?" ask Dean.

"Yes. But still they could not get out of the forest shield of prohibition. If it comes to breaking, the child will be visible to the creatures and it applies just like you.

"It's hard to digest dad's story. Is that true, or is it just Dad's book. But I feel like the forest is fine, just like this forest. Is it possible after tens or thousands of years that the creature still cares about other creatures? is the demon world not as busy as the human world? so it should disturb humans only, "inner Dean.

"Dad. So how long will our enmity with the demon world end?" ask Aru.

"Until we die." Answer Babilo.

"Until death?" aru and Dean said at the same time.

"Yes." Yeah."

"It's so boring living like this to death. Look, I'm gonna break all that illusion. Don't I have a shield from mom? so I'm definitely gonna be okay," Dean said.

Dean felt a white object perched on his neck. The shield has been around since Dean began entering the fairy forest and before his mother was punished by the fairies.

Dean lay on a neatly arranged piece of wood. The house on the tree is indeed the home of his people today. But the difference is that the population in the fairy forest is crowded, and there are many tree houses there. In his dreamy daydream on a pile of leaves, he became the mind of the Siren figure. How can the girl survive and only interact with her father. Dean was determined to meet the girl at any cost.

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