Chapter 488 – [A Guide for Transcendentalists Traveling in the Post-Apocalypse]
To say that this is a super-luxurious hot spring resort facility is honestly not a lie.
Even though the city dwellers outside did not have enough, if not insufficient, drinking water, the sight of hot spring water steaming up for only a few people to use in a huge bath that could wash hundreds of people was something good, but it made me feel bitter.
“Well, here it’s up to you. Wastewater is fine, but things like washing water are sold to outsiders at a low price or distributed to city dwellers for free. That’s why people flock to the city without worrying about water, even if the city sucks.”
“Where is the water source?”
“If you’re unlucky, you’ll get caught in a sandstorm. That’s how dozens of water sources disappear and reappear every day.”
“Ah, that’s why you built a stone wall.”
It was definitely in the middle of the desert. Even if the grass grows a little like the steppe climate around it, it will be created whenever there is time.
How much sand do you think a desert sandstorm would bring in? Even in this world?
It probably wouldn’t be a problem to bury a water source or two. Think of what Crocodile did to Alabasta in One Piece. Roughly similar.
“It’s nice to feel such luxury…”
“But why did you sit with me in a mixed bath?”
“Kingchiman can’t come out of the room because Jinkyo is scary, and the other two are being held by the owner!
“That’s so honest”
“Why don’t you be a little more honest, Mr.
“Didn’t you have something like that?”
“Even if there was, I wouldn’t have. It’s my first experience.”
“Oh right”
Ruri sneaks up on the beauties standing behind the bath where I am hanging out… Ah, it would be nice if it was a word that could define even a beautiful woman. Anyway, I turned my attention to beauties including handsome men.
All the people up to seven have come to wait on me. Both men and women are waiting politely, covering only the lower part of the body and not entering the bath.
“Oh, popular guy?”
“If there’s anything better than a civilized society, I’d say it’s that military power takes precedence over appearance.”
“Don’t you know that the opposite logic also holds?
“Ah, wasn’t that what I meant here?”
I glanced at the attendants behind me.
There were also people among them who were reluctant to do this. At least I try to pretend not to, but I can see everything in my eyes. He had a smooth face, but there was a possibility that he was brought because he needed money or was in debt.
Fortunately, the conversation between Ruri and I was muffled by the noise and hum inside the hot spring facility, so they couldn’t hear them behind us. What I just said was not a good thing to say about them.
“Speaker Kiyoung is also very hard working. He allowed me to use such a large hot spring bath as he wished, and attached seven attendants to it. Did you really go crazy to recruit him?”
“It’s expected and it’s a natural thing to do. In a world where violence isn’t enough when there’s something that can’t be done with violence, if there’s the strongest violence, they’ll try to get it.”
Just in case, I blocked the sound with a separate curtain. A few people have complaints about this place, but there is no guarantee that they will be on my side.
Sometimes the enemy of an enemy is an ally, but the probability of another enemy is very high.
“I’m going to enjoy this and that and leave tomorrow. Will the schedule be okay?”
“Umm, from my point of view, there’s a high probability that he’ll hold on until dinner and then reluctantly let go. Until then, he’ll cling tightly to the old man.”
“Looks like they’re clinging to Xion and Baekhee right now.”
“I’m sure you’ll hit the uncle soon.”
“I’m already paying attention”
“In the first place, I showed too much. Considering the power I possessed, I can make a big splash at this pre-destroyed planet by myself, but even so, in this era, just showing off is enough outside the standard.”
“Instead, even if we’re leaving right now, can’t we just catch up?”
“It’s quite a benefit not to do that openly. It won’t get in the way of the journey… It won’t. To the extent that the number of useful hands has increased?”
“Do you see the nobles as a hand?”
“I have to use any means to achieve my goal.”
It may be a desolate and cruel mind, but if it wasn’t for that thought, I wouldn’t have survived here.
Ruri’s body can be seen through the heat of the hot spring water. I saw her before when she was bathing in a mixed bath, but her body has quite a lot of scars.
If you look closely, it’s a completely different body from Ruri from the other side of the earth. Although they may look alike, there is no physical resemblance.
And……
“Ah, even I feel embarrassed when I stare at you like that!”
“I’m not interested in children’s bodies”
“Doesn’t your wife think that’s what a person like that would say?”
“Don’t talk back, is it because of the part-time job at the quartz factory you mentioned before?”
“That’s why I don’t like quick-witted Transcendentalists.”
The child who tried to sell herself to me went into a quartz factory and died while working. If it’s as short as one day, if it’s as long as two days.
I heard that Ruri also worked at a quartz factory. It is said that they were lucky, but considering the environment in which people die in one day, there is no guarantee that Ruri will not have such an effect.
If it’s hard to understand, she worked in an asbestos factory, not a quartz factory. Even in a factory without safety equipment.
“Approximately 20 years? Originally, the average life span now is not that long, but since it has decreased by that much, she will live to be 40.”
“………”
“Thank you for not telling me the last time we had a mixed bath, but don’t tell anyone else.”
Originally, the less developed the era, the lower the average life span. At least, it would increase a little if the concept of hygiene was embedded, but in a world where there was little water to drink, there was no way to have enough water to wash.
I can’t help but say nothing about the topic of soaking in hot water that hundreds of people can drink. Because in a destroyed world, those with power are justice.
“There are so many scars. It reminds me of Nuri.”
“I can’t use it compared to an irregular like that. At least I like my position.”
The reason why Nuri, the king of freedom, is in charge of freedom and even her ability is ‘freedom’ is quite gruesome.
She is somewhere like Aoji Coal Mine, where she is worked until she dies. She dies without ever seeing the sun. She even awakened her ability from that shock, and she rebelled against God-Ruri Ruri, and she became the Demon King. Perhaps her resentment at that time is similar to that she eats and eats Gat-Ruri Ruri.
After that, she enjoyed moderately and then changed her job from Demon King to Great Demon King. Because freedom comes with responsibility, she became the Great Demon King in order to practice it.
Nuri is older than me when she awakens as a transcendental person, but as the Great Demon King, she is the last. It’s relatively recent, but what?
“Absolute and perfection do not exist in the world due to the Absolute of Twisting. The only exception to that rule is the same Absolute. It’s only natural that irregulars occur, but I haven’t crossed that line yet.”
“Hmm…”
It feels like something is slightly stuck. It’s still only clues…But it’s not related to Ruri now, it’s essentially a different problem.
Quietly, I felt Tang’s warmth and thought.
* * *
It is a fact that I already know that the narrator Ki-young is targeting me. But she didn’t know she would, until late at night she offered her a drink.
“Unfortunately, you two don’t like alcohol very much.”
No, it’s not the alcohol that’s the problem, it’s you.
Baek-hee doesn’t know, but Shion likes to drink. But when she refused to drink, at least she didn’t want to drink with her.
…….Honestly, I understand. I was holding on to the two of them until late at night, but it wouldn’t be zero if I tried to drink too much. Or, he may have grasped the intention of the speaker Ki-young to get this or that information by exposing his gaps by making him drink, and rejected it.
Or maybe Shion rejected it because of the former and Baekhee because of the latter reason.
The place where I was invited was not in another drawing room, but in the room of speaker Ki-young. It feels like going into the mouth of a tiger for some reason.
“Do you like to drink?”
“Well, if you ask me if I like it or not, I’m on the good side for now…”
Here, you have no choice but to accept the invitation to a drinking party and drink quietly. Shion and Baekhee refused, and Jinkyo and Ruri didn’t even care about her in the first place, and if I didn’t accept it, there would be more flirting.
“I’ll take it for now. It’s only served when a special guest comes, so I’m sure it’ll be satisfying enough.”
The liquor she gave her was incomparable to the white cactus liquor she usually drank here.
No, in the first place, it’s not like drinking a plant containing alcohol in water, but a real alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grain.
When you drink it, the bitter taste of alcohol comes up. However, the grain-specific subtle sweetness and clean, clear feeling that follows are quite good.
It’s not a soju type because the alcohol taste isn’t strong, and it’s not a takju type because there’s no sediment… It’s probably from the rice wine side. Anyway, considering the water and grains that went into making this cup, it must be quite expensive.
“It’s good. Compared to cedar cactus liquor, it feels very good.”
“Of course. It’s a drink made with hot spring water dug up from the city’s underground.”
There are two types of water, one is hard water and the other is soft water. The difference between the two is determined by how much magnesium or calcium is included, but when making alcohol, soft water with less is usually used.
Judging from the fact that the sake doesn’t taste bitter, it seems that the hot spring water here is soft water. Somehow, I didn’t feel like I was getting stuck when I used the water in the bath.
Kiyoung and I drank a few drinks each other, ate a few snacks, and started talking in earnest when the atmosphere was a little ripe.
“It’s a personal curiosity, but does travel suit you?”
“Well, I like walking around, too.”
“What to settle down?”
“I don’t think it’s bad”
I personally like both settling down and traveling. When you are settled in one place, you feel a sense of stability, and when you travel, you feel the fun and thrill that comes from it.
Which one to choose is up to my heart. You can travel and settle down, or you can settle down and then go on a trip. Just like I traveled here from Mars.
“Then, how about this city? I’m proud of it, but this city is one of the most developed cities in the South. There are countless places that are inferior to this city, but there are not many places that are bigger than this one.”
“Once there is work to be done, that will be difficult.”
“Hmm……”
No matter how noble you are, it is not easy to run a city as a woman.
If you just have power and have a bad brain, it will only take a moment for the city to collapse. This is because this place is a weakling, so if you reveal your weakness, you will be eaten. Rather, it is more honest and certain than civilized society.
“From what I’ve heard, he doesn’t enjoy colors, and at most enjoys gourmet food and hot springs, but he’s quite frugal.”
“I tend to think that I enjoy things that I enjoy.”
“I’ve seen plenty of prodigal people looking down from this spot. Even the people under my command don’t miss alcohol and women when they’re resting, but at least that much, they’re rather innocent.”
“It’s overrated”
Her eyes looked right at me.
Eyes filled with honest feelings of greed. It belonged to a greedy human who saw something he wanted to get his hands on anyway.
But fortunately, the greed is justified. It was not a desire to rob and obtain something, but a desire to obtain it at any cost.
I don’t know if it’s because I showed my powerlessness, but the minimum dory remains. It means you can’t take it if you don’t pay for it.
“What should I do to get you? There’s nothing I want and nothing I can do, so I can’t do anything I want to do.”
“Because that’s how it is”
“Then let’s think the other way around. What did Baek-hee and Shion-nim give to get you?”
“Baekhee-sama is my companion. To be precise, it’s Shion-sama’s side.”
Actually a prisoner Like being a prisoner of love… Ah, that’s what I felt after saying it just now!
If you think about it, it will be difficult for the narrator Ki-young to understand. Even if you put the husband and wife thing aside, you can’t do anything other than that, but you got me.
“The things you can give to people are not necessarily material things.”
“Huh? In a way, it’s the cheapest, but it’s also the most expensive in the world.”
“It’s kind of like that”
“Then what about me?”
I almost spit out the alcohol I had been drinking for a moment. It was a really unexpected question that I hadn’t expected.
I’ve been through quite a lot of times that I’ve been using the beauty world because I’ve been given a girl. However, it is rare for a person with clear real power to use the beauty world.
What’s wrong with you doing that? I’m going to use someone to do it anyway.
“Are you drunk?”
“I don’t think so.”
It’s very embarrassing. Narrator Ki-young is objectively quite beautiful, but compared to Shion, she is inferior to Baek-hee.
For other people, there is more to them than their looks, that they are the owners of the city, so it’s worth more than enough to compensate for that, but… I’m very uncomfortable with people who push me like this.
It’s not that I don’t understand being in a relationship for profit, but personally, feelings for each other stand above that. If you think of it as a tool…
“If I receive your seed, I might not worry about my posterity. If I am born with fair skin, I can take it as my heir. Even if I am born with dark skin, if it is your child, I will be gifted with that talent and become a great warrior. I should be able to sit down…How is it?”
“No, that’s a bit”
“Don’t think of it as cheating. Can’t you think of it as a one-night stand?”
“It’s not like that, it’s because I don’t like it.”
“Am I not attractive?”
“…Compared to Shion?”
“They call me without honorifics. They seem to be quite close.”
Oh, I accidentally called it the way I usually call it. She realized something and nodded her head, and then she took a step back.
It seems that he roughly guessed the relationship between me and Shion with just that title. So I know that what I am doing now is not possible. A person with a good head
“But if you need to, come to my city anytime. You are welcome.”
I will never come to this city again.
It keeps bothering me, but I hate the ambiguous type who kills me the most!
