Chapter 1 prologue
バルサは懐かしい匂いに目を覚ました。タンダの朝食の支度の匂いだ。何度、この懐かしい記憶に助けられたことだろう。護衛士の半生は、地獄図の中から這い上がった阿修羅のごとく苦しいものだった。こんな汚れた自分によくぞ、春の光りにも似たやさしい連れ合いが付き合ってくれるというものだ。あの凄まじい戦と天災を経て新ヨゴ王国は見事に生まれ変わった。その王国の若き王チャグムの護衛をこの自分が果たしてきたということもまた夢のようであった。
Balsa woke up in the morning, smelling the beloved scent wafted from the kitchen where Tanda was engaged in preparing for breakfast. She wondered how many times she was saved by this dear memory. The half of her life as a bodyguard-for-hire was a struggling sequence of living in a hell. She often used to feel she was a fighting demon, Ashura. She thanked her husband who had taken care of her and welcomed her like tender spring sunlight after she came back from the bodyguard’s task, in other words, the filthy job, killing people.
After such a gruesome battle and the disaster, great flood, New Yogo kingdom was reborn brilliantly. She sometimes couldn’t believe that she had guarded the young king, Chagum who was now eighteen years old. All happenings in the past seemed like in a dream.
