The Lumberjack And His Goblin Daughter.

In a place called the Aeron plateau, there is a kingdom called Loogam which controls all the land in the Aeron plateau. The Loogam Kingdom is known as a kingdom that produces the best knights and fighters in the entire continent and is very famous for its formidable military strength. The face of the Loogam kingdom has changed a lot since the 1200 years of the founding of the kingdom. Starting from the ruthless kingdom that oppressed the small kingdoms around it to the kingdom that produced many heroes who became world legends. Now, the world is peaceful after the great war between demons and humans a decade ago. The Loogam Kingdom, which during the great war had the role of producing the best fighters, has now changed its direction to a kingdom that focuses on arts and food. In the border area, on the edge of a towering green forest lived a man named Ravan who worked as a woodcutter. Ravan is a former knight who had participated in a major war and after retiring, he chose to spend the rest of his life living in the forest. Fifteen years is the length of his time in the army and Ravan was only sixteen when he first entered the military. It only took Ravan a year to be appointed as a knight by the kingdom thanks to his efforts to protect the royal members from the attack of the demon troops alone for a week. Although he likes the luxury he gets as a knight but Ravan prefers a simple life. Five years after the war, Ravan got his retirement and he chose to live as a woodcutter. But it seems that Ravan's life story doesn't just stop churning even in his old age. At that time, Ravan was doing his usual activities like a tree feller, walking into the forest looking for a good tree to cut, cutting down a tree, and replanting a new tree next to the felled tree. Until one day, Ravan's ears caught a movement of the bushes next to him. His trained instincts say that something bad is going to happen and Ravan prepares for the worst. Ravan raises his ax and puts on a stance as the sound approaches. Before long, a small humanoid creature streaked out of the bush with fear-filled his face. The little creature immediately fell in an instant when his eyes met Ravan and tears streamed down his eyes, showing an expression of hopelessness. AWOOOOOO !! A howl could be heard in the distance and a rustling sound was getting closer, From behind shadow rush 5 creatures coming out from forest shadow, 5 horned wolves appeared one by one from behind the thick forest with their fangs open, thirst for blood. The little creature could only scream hysterically seeing the wolves appear, its little legs were limp with fatigue and fear, he could no longer run, his face had lost hope. The wolves followed by their head instincts jumped towards the little creature ready to pounce and as the little creature's hope faded, in a flash, Ravan jumped forward swinging his ax clockwise and slashed two wolf heads with one s***h then quickly Ravan kicks the three wolves near him very strongly that made those wolves fly and hit the trees. There was an instant silence with Ravan who was still silent with his ax shine under the moonlight. Seeing their members die, the wolves did not stand still and immediately launched a counterattack to avenge their members. Ravan moved, he raised his ax and swung the ax at the wolf very quickly. Little by little, the ferocious wolf dwindled until there was not a single one left. Ravan just beat a pack of wolves. Ravan lowered his ax and looked back, seeing that the little creature fell in silent with his action. Small body, pointed ears, pointed nose, and green skin, this little creature was a goblin, and he was still a child. Due to the darkness of the forest, Ravan had to re-examine what he saw but what was in front of him was a real goblin. What was this goblin doing alone in the middle of the forest? Where's the flock? Is he separated? And more importantly, is the tribe still around here? "... i ... I'm sorry, sir, woodcutter, I will do anything so please don't kill me, I beg you," said the goblin while prostrating. Ravan is surprised to hear the little goblin's voice, it turns out he is a girl. It was only natural for female goblins to be discarded by their tribe because goblins severely discriminated against women of their species. Goblins are known as weak creatures but have a very high ego beyond their physique but that only applies to male goblins. Female goblins have the opposite mental, if male goblins like brutal things, rob each other, and dominate each other, then women have a gentle and peace-loving attitude. No wonder this difference made female goblins got discriminated against by male goblins who had huge egos to the point that they preferred to kidnap girls from nearby villages and r**e them rather than women of their species. For female goblins, luckily their fate is to be made as livestock or slaves by their tribe because their fate has been cut off since they were born. Seeing the Little goblin begging for her life in from of him made Ravan feel uncomfortable as a former knight who saves many lives in the war. Ravan took off his coat and gave it to the poor little goblin girl. The little goblin was shocked because she was dressed to cover herself which was almost n***d and the shock didn't stop there. Ravan puts his hand on the goblin's head and slides his fingers between the very dirty, matted brown hair "O fairy, grant my wish, heal it" Ravan released a healing spell and passed them through his hands to the little goblins. Slowly, all the wounds on her body disappeared in an instant, her wounds were healed even the numbers on her back disappeared thanks to the healing magic given by Ravan. "Sir, what is this? What are you doing?" Said the little goblin in surprise as she saw Ravan's face which had aged a little. In an instant, a light of hope-filled the little goblin's face when her eyes saw Ravan smiling sincerely at her with a very welcoming aura. "Who are you, sir?" The flow of mana stopped flowing from Ravan's hand and he pats the goblin's head before lifting his hand from it. "My name is Ravan, I am a woodcutter and a former knight". "Why did you help me? I am just a weak little goblin and I know that all races around the world hate goblins, why do you help me?" said the little goblins. Ravan put down his ax and opened his hands to embrace the little goblin and gave her a warm hug. Taken aback, the little goblin was speechless but silent as she didn't know what to do as this was the first time someone had hugged her. "Every knight has hopes and promises that they instill in themselves to become knights, my hope is peace between races, and my promise is to help anyone who is in need no matter what race they are, including you little girl" "Girl !! but this servant is a goblin" said the little goblin "Yep, you are a goblin, but you are also a girl" Blushing at being called a girl for the first time made tears of joy flow from her eyes. Since birth, this girl has never received love or compassion except for everyone who has the same fate as her, she has been separated by her mother from birth and raised to be a slave. No one has ever hugged him until now. "What is your name?" Ravan asked the name of the little girl, "my ... my name? Servant has no name, sir" replied the girl "Stop using formalities because I am not anyone's master and you are not anyone's slave anymore" Ravan insists "But..." "Listen, little girl, I will give you a name and you can stay with me, but you have to stop calling me sir, do you understand, Nana," said Ravan confirmed once again. "Nana?" "Yep, that's your name from now on and you can call me whatever you like, don't you like it?" "is not..like ... I don't like it, it's just ..." the goblin girl who is now named Nana didn't know what to say because she was so happy because she was given a name, she could only bow in embarrassment with a blushed face. "Hahaha, it looks like you've been through a lot so far, you better clean yourself and rest first," said Ravan as he picked up Nana and put her in his arms. "All right, Papa" ....... ....... ....... The atmosphere was silent for a moment, silent, so silent. Ravan with an expressionless face lowered Nana from his arms and immediately ran to a nearby tree to bang his head repeatedly because he was so shocked he was called PAPA. "eh! What's the matter! Did I say something wrong, papa? Papa stop, papa's head will break!" Said Nana worriedly after Ravan managed to make a hole in the tree from the result of being hit by his head very hard repeatedly. "Don't worry, I am a former knight, in other words, my physique is very well trained, plus, I am your father from now on so something like this is nothing for me" said Ravan while turning around showing blood flowing from his wide forehead and that it made Nana scream in worried "THAT'S NOT NOTHING !!" Ravan uses healing magic to heal himself and uses a handkerchief to wash the blood from his face. "Sorry to worry you, I was just shocked because suddenly called papa" "I see! I'm sorry! because in my place someone can adopt a child by giving them a permanent name, is common so I don't know is not a thing outside my tribe, I am sorry, then I will stop to call you papa" said Nana apologetically "Why are you sorry? You don't need to apologize because ...." Ravan swiftly used both hands and lifted Nana into the air with a happy smile "... now I am your papa," he said loudly while swinging her in the air. Nana was shocked, a very intense feeling suddenly appeared and swirled in her chest for the first time, finally, Nana could feel the thing called happiness. Nana laughed for the first time with happiness in the round of swings given by Ravan with their laughter echoing throughout the forest until they both fell on the ground after Ravan lost balance and they both continued to laugh. Especially Nana because she finally managed to find the happiness she had been looking for. "From now on, we are family," said Ravan "Yes, papa" replied Nana with a smile on her face