Chapter 157 – Dilution
Sophia Drin could not go out of this hut.
It wasn’t small, but only this limited space was her world.
Perhaps she was considerate of my frustration, so when the day dawned, she told me to gather with everyone in order to spend time, and when the sun went down again, I headed to her room alone with her.
While eating simple beaks, we talked while reminiscing about our first meeting, and also talked about artificial wombs.
I was curious about Sophia Drin’s past, but she didn’t bother to say it because she didn’t seem to want to think about it.
After her first successful pregnancy, she mixed her bodies on days when she seemed to want her relationship, and days when she didn’t.
The week went by very quickly.
Time passed very slowly when she was a mercenary.
When enduring the pain of hunger and wounds, he was so fucking slow.
‘I’m resentful.’
Clearly, time is relative.
When I looked out the window, the sun had already set, and the sound of bugs announcing the end of autumn flowed all the way here.
-Sue.
I reached out and brushed Sophia’s hair.
Sophia Drinn licked her lips as if she was still ashamed of stroking her head while lying on the same bed as her arm pillow.
“Tonight is the last night.”
He brings her by force and hugs her.
The witch’s face was red as she rubbed her head against my chest.
“Yes.”
“Coming to think of it, this is the first time the two of us have talked for a long time like this.”
“Once in a while… It’s nice to have time like this, Joe.”
Having said that, Sophia Drinne came into my arms more tightly.
I patted her on the back and chewed her words.
“Once in a while…. Yes, then.”
It’s not that I can’t keep it, but… At this moment, I didn’t want to give her her hurt.
She thought a lot while talking to her.
That I must disappear in order to prevent the destruction of this world.
How about spitting it out to them truthfully?
There were witches proficient in witchcraft and alchemists with outstanding skills here.
If I confided in Sophia and Eskis, wouldn’t they find another way other than me disappearing?
‘No.’
But I couldn’t.
No matter how great they are, they are transcendental beings… The evil spirit of the original world, Ashte, would not be able to stop what he was trying to do.
The system has never lied to me.
So that,
『€₾ : .』
―Acquisition of ‘piece’.
※Warning※
If you use fragments, you die.
If I use the pieces to prevent destruction, I die.
This will never change.
It was clear that if I asked Sophia Drin for help, she would do anything to help me.
In the end, after being chased by such a tight time, she couldn’t find the answer, so she would despair.
So do others.
Wouldn’t I fall into the guilt of not being able to save myself?
Rather than fondly reminiscing the days spent with me, wouldn’t it be that they remain as scars filled with sympathy?
In that case, let’s just disappear.
Without saying anything, like a person who never existed before.
Of course, even if you do that, you will try and be sad to find me.
It was better that way
Rather than the sadness that I died, the sadness that I disappeared would be more bearable.
If you endure it like that, the sadness will gradually fade and become diluted.
After thinking about it, I hugged Sophia Drin’s body tighter.
Of the time it took to reach three years after being thrown into this world, the near one year passed the fastest.
A lot of things happened, and I was happy beyond measure.
If so, you will have to pay the price now.
It was a natural story.
* * *
Evening the next day.
Everyone in the cabin gathered together.
The reason is that….
“Ruler! This is the companion of the poor that I created!”
Shiina Nishid pushed her chest forward and boldly held out something of hers.
A large bottle filled with clear liquid.
“Count, cheap, simple! Thanks to spreading this recipe, I saved countless poor people!”
“Oh, but it looks like water?”
“Right. If I drank it like water, I would get drunk in no time.”
What was in the bottle was alcohol.
Shiina Nishid’s favorite alcoholic drink during her lifetime.
She made this drink a few days ago using ingredients available here.
Today, when the aging is over, we gathered everything to show the taste.
Eskis, who quietly lived only in alchemy, opened the bottle with a curious expression and put his nose to it.
“Sniff sniff… Haha! Eh, isn’t this just alcohol!?”
Startled, she almost missed the bottle, but Nishid snatched it up and laughed at her.
“To be so scared! Still, you did a good job diluting it.”
“What! Is this diluted!?”
After shouting, Eskis went back to the table where he was making something, saying that he would fall for it.
Shiina clicked her tongue and said she was a coward when she saw her, then looked around at her people.
“How can you not take a sip?”
“Um….”
Unfortunately, there was no answer.
Shiina, who was eagerly waiting to show the taste, rarely pouted her lips.
“Alcohol… Are you not enjoying it? Everyone is not normal.”
“What’s not normal is… You are the one who offers alcohol to pregnant women.”
At that time, Shin Hye-ji opened her mouth and spoke softly.
“In the first place, I didn’t even drink alcohol.”
“If you want to drink, go outside and drink. I don’t want to see you get an injection.”
As Beatrice and Sophia Drin threw out one word at a time, Nishid became even more teary-eyed.
The last thing she looked at with eyes that were moistened unlike anything else was,
“You too… Are you not going to drink?”
“… What? Me?”
Ed was thinking about something with his eyes wide open.
He was reliving what he had just heard from Sophia Drin last night.
―In order for a slime to mimic, it must eat the target it wants to imitate.
Ed, who heard the story on his last evening with Sophia Drin, was confused.
Because Lia was mimicking in the form of Lethe right now.
‘Then… Lia ate Lethe?’
But Lethe died in the village of Raham.
Lia, who was a slime, came back in her mimicry two years after Lethe’s death.
Even assuming she ate Lethe’s corpse, she wasn’t right on time.
In the first place… Who would feed a human corpse to a slime?
‘No way… Is he?”
Ed immediately remembered his one-armed man.
If it was him, there was a possibility.
‘First… Tomorrow, Leah and I should talk.’
Just when I had finished thinking this far, Nishid called Ed.
Ed was strained by Nishid’s eyes looking at him with her expectations.
“That’s right. You, the only man here. No way… You’re not going to drink, are you?”
As she whipped up her bottle, she handed it to Ed.
He scratched the back of her head at the sudden situation and nodded.
“What… A little would be fine.”
“Oh oh! Anyone who doesn’t avoid alcohol and women can be called a man!”
Then, the girls who tried to avoid the seat returned to their seats.
Of course, she wasn’t drinking as she was pregnant with the man she loved, but she was just curious about how Ed would change when he got drunk.
Ed, who was handed the bottle, tilted it, swallowed a sip,
“Kyaaaaagh! Mr. Fuck! What is this!”
Screamed and ran amok like a monkey hit by her shotgun.
Ed, unable to tell whether he had swallowed alcohol or lava, hurriedly searched for water.
“Ed! Gwa, are you okay!? What did you put in your drink!”
“Kuhak, this is alcohol, but… You’re too strong! Radish, water! Some water please… !”
The girls around them were also surprised by Ed’s reaction and moved busily to get water.
Nishid let out a small sigh and shook his head.
Then he brought the bottle to his mouth and drank like water.
“Kuhh… What is this… It’s a drink I haven’t had before.”
When her but no one gave her an answer, she quietly concentrated on her drinking.
Lia said her words to Ed, who couldn’t understand why he made such a drink.
“Ed, water.”
“Ah, thanks Leah… ?”
But Lia wasn’t handing water, she was exposing her breasts with her top uncovered.
Lia’s breasts were getting closer and closer to his face, as if telling her to drink as much as she could.
“Ed, the bucket.”
Ed, who was almost bewitched for a moment, shook his head.
“… Driving me crazy.”
Even so, Ed, who was not bold enough to suck her milk in a gathering of people, hurriedly took off her clothes and tidied her up in fear of anyone watching.
After putting her clothes down, unconsciously, where Ed was looking, someone was looking at him and Leah.
“Um….”
A woman covered in bandages in a corner.
Ed remembered that her name was Lenstein.
The privilege of the third ending that came after ending the relationship with Osiel.
Renstein was a being that appeared because DLC was forced to proceed due to that privilege.
‘Eskies… You helped Sofia, and Nishid… Well, I don’t think there’s any bad purpose.’
Those who appeared like that were surprisingly not hostile.
Eskis, an alchemist, created an artifact that could communicate with him, and helped Sophia Drin build an artificial womb he was researching.
Ed heard this morning through her divination that she liked the cabin, and that she liked the cabin, and that she would keep it and told Sophia Drinn that she would let her stay.
‘A prophet or an astrologer.’
Seeing him quietly in the corner like that, he seemed to be a little less social, but apart from that, he thought that there would be a way to use Renstein.
“Leah. Come play with me tomorrow.”
“Yes.”
But first, it was to spend a week with Leah.
