Chapter 74 – Chapter 01: Elf Heavenly Horse
Moon Ae-ri, who lost the dagger due to the sudden explosion, lets out a growling voice and glares at Eugene with murderous eyes.
However, Eugene, who was not at all intimidated by the gaze, grabbed Moon Ae-ri’s face with her hand, which he had scarred with his cannon blade, before she could move.
“Ha!”
Then, with all her might, she used her uniform to strengthen her entire body, throwing her behind her and slamming her head into the floor.
“Aaaaah!!”
Moon Ae-ri immediately struggles to escape from his grasp with physical strength greater than that of Eugene.
And of course, her physical ability was overwhelmingly superior to Moon Ae-ri’s, so if it had stayed that way, Eugene would have been thrown out in just a few seconds.
“Whoa… ! Phew… !”
However, despite this, Eugene, who held on for a few seconds while pressing Moon Ae-ri’s face with his palm, was able to see that her strength was quickly beginning to drain from her body, just as he had intended.
“Gulp! Gulp!”
And he confirms that the reason is because he instinctively began to drink the blood flowing from Eugene’s palm, and as a result, he became distracted by the act of ‘blood sucking’.
So, Eugene held her mouth with his palm and spoke quietly to her while maintaining her position with her head pressed against the floor.
“Are you slowly coming back to your senses? If so, calm down and listen. If we continue to spar like this, you will just run away like you are now. If that happens, it will be quite difficult for that side, so let’s end the sparring by assuming that they lost.”
Hearing Eugene’s voice mutter like that, Moon Ae-ri’s eyes, which were concentrating on drinking the blood flowing from his palm, actually came back into focus.
And Moon Ae-ri, who has regained some sense of reason, looks at Eugene while swallowing her blood with an incomprehensible gaze.
Those eyes contained countless questions. The biggest question is how he knows about himself.
In that case, drinking her blood to calm himself down like he did now was something he couldn’t do unless he knew about her.
In addition, he talks as if he is aware of Moon Ae-ri’s situation where her skills should not be revealed.
Lastly, it seems like he knows about her reckless behavior, so of course he can’t help but look at Eugene with a strange gaze.
“Even if you look at me with those eyes. He kept giving me blood because he was worried about giving it to himself. “You’re hiding your skills. You might not know it if you look at it through an artifact like the examiners do, but it’s a fact you can’t help but know if you deal with it in person.”
And Eugene made an excuse, saying that he was only roughly guessing Mun Ae-ri’s situation by organizing various other requirements.
Of course, the words themselves were not impossible, but even so, the question of whether it was not enough to persuade Moon Ae-ri, who was returning to reason, could not be completely erased.
In reality, Eugene’s knowledge of Moon Ae-ri was due to his knowledge of the original work, but since he could not explain it directly, he was just trying to make excuses and move on.
“Then let’s just do this together. “If you and I do this well, we will probably be able to pass the academy entrance exam.”
However, Eugene had no intention of explaining further to Moon Ae-ri, who was unable to completely erase her doubts, so she slowly moved her hand away from her face, which seemed to have completely calmed down, and stood up.
Then, as he glanced around, wondering if he had done this much, it would be a final decision, the examiner’s voice came from inside the training room, as if he had grasped the meaning of his actions.
-The winner is student Jeol Yu-jin. Now that we have confirmed that the practical test has been completed, we would be grateful if you could leave the two test takers as is.
“For a moment… !”
When Eugene tries to leave the room without looking back at the examiner’s voice, as if he has finished his business, Moon Ae-ri hurriedly gets up from her seat.
Then, she wiped Eugene’s blood remaining from the corner of her mouth and hurriedly tried to grab him, but Eugene skillfully turned his body to avoid her touch and left the room with only one sentence left.
“Then, let’s meet again when we are admitted to the academy.”
It was a farewell message with a double meaning: if he was admitted, he would see Moon Ae-ri, who had lost, if he was also admitted.
When Eugene no longer faced her and left the room, she was left alone and Moon Ae-ri could only mutter in her dazed voice.
“What on earth is that guy?”
It is said that Eugene somehow managed to pass the entrance exam, which could have resulted in a major accident if he had done something wrong.
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After completing all the entrance exams, Eugene quickly leaves the academy grounds, fearing that Moon Ae-ri might follow.
Eugene, who spent dozens of minutes just getting out of the site, raised his head as the area was enormous, befitting its reputation as a small city.
Then, what he sees in his field of vision is the sun that is already setting.
And as the sun began to set, light sources began to turn on here and there to push away the darkness that was falling all over the island.
‘I guess it’s a civilization closer to modern times than the Middle Ages.’
A magic civilization that allows anyone to use the magic of that circle through artifacts.
As civilization developed, even large cities would have had to adapt to the darkness in the Middle Ages, but now humanity has been able to push out the darkness.
Therefore, the night view of the Orbital Islands, the capital of the Orbital Empire, was a sight that reminded me of a city on Earth.
At the same time, Eugene, who was part of the night scene, momentarily had the illusion that he was on Earth.
“What are you doing in a daze, alone?”
In such an illusion, Eugene, who was looking around with his eyes looking somewhere far away, suddenly felt the mask he was wearing being lifted up.
After the entrance exam, Eugene walked all the way here alone, putting on his mask again, which of course he had taken off while taking the entrance exam.
The person who lifted the mask that Eugene was wearing over his head was Yeonhwa, the elf Cheonma, who naturally thought that Eugene would follow on his own and did not bother to wait.
“… “I was thinking about it a bit.”
“Should we save the world or just leave it alone?”
Yeonhwa is the only one who can even penetrate his Unirat radar and touch the mask without any hesitation.
Eugene, who was thinking so inwardly, did not panic much even though his mask was suddenly lifted up, and had a calm conversation with Yeonhwa, whose presence he belatedly began to sense.
“It’s strange to say it so grandly, so let’s just say I’m thinking about what I want to do.”
“I think this is a story that really goes beyond the topic in that the part where you worry about whether you want to do it is salvation.”
At Yeonhwa’s comment, which still shows a negative attitude towards Eugene moving to save the world, Eugene raised her head and opened her mouth, looking at the moon that was slowly rising.
“Well… Wouldn’t it be difficult to say that the story goes beyond doing anything to survive? “The right to strive for survival exists not only in humans but also in all living things.”
“Yes, as you said, every living thing has the right to do whatever it can to survive. But still. “That is literally a justification for the ‘will to survive,’ not a justification for the ‘will to save the world.'”
In other words, Yeonhwa was pointing out that Eugene’s justification of having to save the world in order to survive was itself wrong.
“You talked. This Orbital Continent will be destroyed within 10 years. To be honest, even I was amazed at the way the system had developed to this extent in just a dozen years. In that sense, it is a story that makes it hard to believe that everything on the continent, including this island, is turning to ashes.”
But still, there was no lie in Eugene’s words, and Yeonhwa, who knew the level his soul had reached, believed that he would never reach it and trusted him.
“But that’s what you said. Unless it’s a lie, it will definitely happen someday. But that is not a reason for you to save the world in order to survive.”
That would be the case, if Yeonhwa were in the same position as Eugene, rather than trying to prevent destruction in order to survive when destruction comes within 10 years…
“I would have tried to find a way to return to the world where I came from, Wulin, within 10 years.”
“…”
“Well, my friend, I didn’t have any regrets about martial arts to begin with, so rather than taking the time to find such a means, I am investing even a moment more in martial arts by using the lifespan of the elf race, but isn’t that a unique case for me?”
If an ordinary person were to fall into a world they knew nothing about, they would naturally find a way to return to the original world.
In particular, if the world that has fallen is a world destined to be destroyed, rather than preventing its destruction, they will struggle to somehow return to the original world before destruction.
“But you weren’t. “It seemed like you had no intention of returning to the Earth you said you came from in the first place.”
And the fact that Eugene showed such an attitude made Yeonhwa feel another sense of kinship.
… Yes, just like Yeonhwa herself, there is a sense of kinship in the fact that she has no regrets about the world she originally lived in.
“No, in your case, I should say that you have no regrets about life itself. As I already told you, this is after I achieved the revenge I wanted to achieve by sacrificing my entire life.”
That’s why Eugene didn’t bother looking for a way to return to Earth. Even if he went back to Earth in the first place, Eugene was still in a state where he didn’t even know what to do.
“Instead, I decided to pursue the immediate goal of salvation.”
Eugene’s attitude, where he never once mentioned a means of returning to Earth, proved that fact.
… And Eugene also heard Yeonhwa’s story yesterday and after thinking about it until now, she had no intention of denying her analysis.
“I have no regrets in life… It’s not at that level. “It would be closer to the feeling of having lost the purpose of life and having no complaints even if you die right away.”
“That means you have no regrets about life, you idiot.”
He laughed when she heard her say something derogatory in her voice, as if she didn’t like Eugene’s attitude.
Then, after lowering her head from looking up at the moon, she looked several times at Yeonhwa and the people of the island who continued to pass by as if they did not recognize her, and then carefully spoke out.
“… It is definitely as the Heavenly Demon said. “I’ve asked myself several questions since yesterday to deny it, but I couldn’t come up with a counterargument that could deny what you said.”
Therefore, Eugene had no choice but to admit it now.
As Yeonhwa said, she did not try to save the world in order to survive, but simply chose salvation for the purpose of surviving.
“Inertia… , Is it so. It’s exactly as it says. After losing her purpose and wandering, a clear path was presented to her, so she didn’t even think about whether it was the path she wanted and just tried to walk by inertia. … “I can’t think of anything to deny it.”
As Eugene continued to speak like that, she soon looked somewhat sad.
Then, she put into her mouth the words that expressed her feelings, which were not losing their vitality even though the night had fallen, and her own feelings, which were sinking as if they existed in a separate dimension.
“But… Even if it’s just inertia, I don’t know what else to do right now.”
“… “What does that mean?”
