Chapter 255 – 2. White Watch (1)
A pure white pear.
The ship was very large, but she was moving along silently, as if gliding over her on the surface of the water.
Rumors spread that she knew from people who saw the mysterious ship, which was built in a style completely different from those of other ships around her, and it bore her name.
It is a white and beautiful, very huge whale, hence the name ‘Baekkyung’.
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“Ugh♡”
YuRia, who was taking a bite of the tuna carpaccio, trembled as she ate something that she thought was delicious for the first time in a long time.
However, except for Yuria, the reactions of her other party were a little subtle.
It’s delicious, but should I say that it’s so delicious that it’s exceptionally delicious? It’s a subtle feeling.
In particular, in the case of Tamamo, who can be said to be the same person, he was munching with a subtle expression as if asking why he was eating healthy fish with leaves on it.
“It’s not that it doesn’t taste bad, but it’s a bit disappointing.”
Eventually, Tamamo changed her diet to sashimi with only oil and salt, leaving out her vegetables and vinegar.
On the other hand, Cheong was eating well, munching with a strange feeling.
Rather than saying it’s really delicious, I just eat whatever they give me. Should I say that it makes me feel happy when I eat it?
It reminded me of the time when I munched on the heads of tuna and marlin, and it felt so subtle. In fact, her expression wasn’t that different from back then.
Loa is… She did and she tried to understand and savor the taste as much as possible.
I wonder if this is what YuRia likes.
It’s delicious and it’s delicious, but what does Yuria like? If you understand what she likes, she will be able to choose something that YuRia will like as much as possible for the next meal.
To be honest, even for Roa, Yuria’s appetite was still close to a mystery (?).
The fact that she liked fruits and fresh vegetables was because her vitality was so lacking in the past and she wanted to supplement it by consuming the vitality from fruit full of vitality. Was
Of course, she liked peaches even though they weren’t. She just wasn’t that much of a fan of her.
Until now, the only taste Roa knew well about was vodka, but today she finally learned one more of her tastes, so she savored it as much as she could.
Oh wait. Was there any chocolate?
Then, she suddenly remembered something she had completely forgotten. Choco Pie?
Was it a chocolate-covered pie with marshmallows between biscuits?
Oh no, let’s focus on the taste for now.
“Does Eun-gong like seafood?”
“Huh?”
With a fork, she rolled up thinly sliced tuna sashimi and vegetables, dipped in olive oil and balsamic sauce, and took them to her mouth.
“Rather than saying I like seafood, it’s more like there are a lot of things that belong to seafood that I like.”
YuRia, who had been chewing on the carpaccio on a fork, gulped and swallowed it, then opened her mouth again.
“The seafood I’ve eaten is limited. It depends on how it was cooked. I don’t hate some seafood, but I don’t really like it.”
YuRia, who was rolling sashimi and vegetables, opened her mouth in deep thought.
“Would you like something like crab or shrimp?”
“Ah, the texture is crispy and delicious.”
At the end of her request, Yuria said to him, ‘Ah… ‘ She said with a slightly perplexed expression.
“Oh, no. I don’t eat the peel. It’s not like I can’t eat it…”
“Is that so?”
Chung looked like he was holding a crab, holding both hands in the air and slightly opening his mouth full of jagged teeth.
“By the way, where did your hair go? There’s a lot of delicious meat in your hair too.”
Cheng flinched at him and began to look away from her gaze.
And seeing that, Roa was a little surprised that what Cheong said was really true.
“It’s nothing special. It’s a bit unfortunate, but they say that if it wasn’t for blue, I wouldn’t have been able to take care of it properly.”
Cheong and Roa couldn’t bear to say anything about Yuria’s regretful appearance.
Apparently, YuRia thinks she just dumped her hair…
The truth is that Chung munched and ate it all by himself…
“Well, it’s delicious, but it’s okay because it’s not that incredibly delicious.
That’s what she said, but it was a little regrettable.
Certainly, if you look at the ‘taste’, it will be so.
Still, it’s the unique texture, but in many ways, there are a lot of regrets about the flesh on the head.
The first time she was served, I thought she was eating with a lot of thought.
After all, natural meat, not synthetic, is yours, she said while thinking.
When I think about it now, I didn’t attach much importance to it because natural meat was eaten only for vanity and luxury, and it wasn’t particularly superior to synthetic food.
Well, natural products are overflowing now…
‘Still, if I just recover my ability, I might be able to find a way to make hometown food’
Somehow, I found a way to use the technology of civilization through an expedient, but in order to reproduce all the skills I want, I have to think about it in various ways even after finding the ability.
In the end, the important thing was that I had to recover first. Whether you find a way or not, in the end, you can’t do anything if you don’t have the ability.
Turn around again, yum! YuRia, who had been eating, lost her expression.
Even though it’s a bit disappointing, it’s really delicious.
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Institutional name of the Ming Empire.
As with most empires, the name of the capital and the name of the country had the same name.
Ming, surrounded by a large river, had very fertile soil and was suitable for being a logistics center as ships could come in and out from the sea to the inland, and the huge river surrounding the capital was itself a natural fortress.
A truly blessed city. A new ship appeared in this highly developed city where nothing was lacking.
Those who saw the boats, which were truly pure white, were captivated by their beautiful appearance.
Some people were wary, wondering if it might be the emperor’s ship, but there was no flag anywhere on the ship to indicate that it was the emperor’s ship.
That, surprisingly, meant that the ship was not the one the emperor rode on.
It was very surprising. Who the hell could ride such a fancy boat?
However, I was fascinated by the beauty of the ship and thought that no one other than the emperor could ride such a ship, but after recognizing that it was not the emperor’s ship due to the lack of a flag, I gradually saw different things.
That pure white ship lacked symbolism in many ways to be an emperor’s ship.
No use. I thought it was very splendid, but it was only because the ship was so beautiful.
It was neither sober nor flashy.
However, the decoration of the ship was by no means modest, as it was not flashy.
The five-colored, brilliant jade that decorated the various parts of the ship were all pure and clean, and were used sparingly, and the luxury was such that the emperor’s ship never yielded.
“Come to think of it, doesn’t the ship look like a ship from the West Station?”
“Uh?”
After someone said something, people looked at the ship again.
Leisurely, lofty and arrogantly passing among numerous boats, the appearance of a boat gliding across the river was clearly similar to the boats in the West that occasionally passed over the river.
Is the player a sharp point? Like the fact that it has multiple masts and uses various sails divided into several pieces.
In particular, there is a statue of a very beautiful woman in front of the boat.
Although it shows a clear difference from the ships of the West Station in many ways, if you look closely, it looks closer to the ship of the West than the ship of the East.
However, the shapes and styles used to decorate and decorate the boat are also of the Orient.
The West is gold and silver rather than jade. Decorating the boat with jewels was an oriental way.
Someone shouted while I was blankly watching the ship pass by, where the ways of the East and the West coexist harmoniously.
“Baekkyung, Baekkyung!”
“Baekgyeong? The one that has been rumored lately?”
Hearing that, I looked at the ship again, and the huge and graceful appearance was more like a creature than a ship, giving the impression that it was really like a huge white whale.
“The rumors couldn’t express even half of the real thing…”
But what is it made of?
The milky-white metal covering the surface is also metal, but when you look at the upper deck, you can see that it is wood.
However. The color of the trees also did not match any of the many ships here.
What is it made of?
Could it be that some knowledgeable people are cedar trees? He tilted his head, but soon smiled.
It was monopolized by the imperial palace, and it was used to manufacture the highest-class magic instruments in very small quantities, and if you wanted to get even such a small amount of cedar wood, you said that the wealthy used so much cedar wood that they would go bankrupt even if they tried to buy even a small amount of cedar wood?
Why don’t you rather say that the metal covering that ship is a metal called Mithril, which was called the wise iron of the West?
And no one knew.
As for the material that makes up the ship, the keel and ribs are really wise iron. Not all of the wood that makes up the hull, but one visible part is really cedar wood, and other wood parts have also been infiltrated by cedar wood and have already become cedar wood, and the metal covering the outside is really mithril.
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“Who are the people on that boat?”
“What do you know, they must be people like us who have nothing to do with each other.”
A ship from a kingdom in the western continent or a place called the Sorby Empire across the ocean was also very gigantic, but that ship exceeded that level.
I had never seen such a huge ship before.
That beautiful ship was so huge that even the presidential ships, which were said to go out to sea, looked very small like a small fishing boat when standing next to it.
Who the hell is the person on that boat? Could he be the emperor of the Western Continent?
But what does it matter? After all, they are just people from a different world than themselves, like rats who go on filthy day after day.
As the saying goes, don’t even look at a tree you can’t climb.
“Let’s go. If we don’t hurry, the edible trash will be picked up by others.”
“Yes”
The boy took his sister’s hand and moved from his seat.
The boy and girl are not siblings, but they have lived together for so long that their first meeting is not memorable.
It’s just that the fact that they weren’t siblings remained somehow in their memory.
Like a rat, scavenging through food scraps, sometimes stealing food from street vendors or begging to buy food. Days to live like that, day by day.
These back alleys were full of boys and girls.
Still, the boy and girl were on the lucky side.
At least I’m not missing a part of my body, I’m not disabled, or I’m not sick.
This place was full of them.
Even living day by day is a risky life. And in the end, they can’t overcome such a dangerous situation and die of starvation or illness. Freeze to death…
They are dying one by one without anyone to bury them, but the people in this back alley did not think about the line from where else someone flowed into this place.
I went to the back of the big inn I used to go to often, but I wonder if I wasted too much time distracted by the big ship. Someone had already dug up all the food scraps that looked edible, and nothing edible was visible.
Dejected by the situation, the girl and the boy wandered from place to place again looking for other places, and all they could find was barely edible fruit skins and a few soiled noodle noodles.
As she pondered what to do with her teeth, the girl finally let out her sigh.
“You eat”
“Sister?”
“Because I can go to ‘there’ again.”
The boy widened his eyes at those words and shook his head.
“Oh, no! It’s bleeding now.”
The ‘there’ the girl said meant her gibang.
The lowest quality among the gibangs. Kibang, which is actually a window.
A few times before, when the girl had nothing to eat, she used to get something to eat there.
Without knowing anything, she just did something that made her sick and food came out, and if she endured it just once, she could get something to eat with her brother for a few days.
At first, I just lay there, not knowing anything, and I lost my first to some nasty uncle, but now I know that it’s about making a baby.
The kibang told her that it was okay because there would be no babies until there was bleeding, and the girl experienced the bleeding that she had only heard about a while ago.
When I did it for the first time when I did not know anything, completely different blood poured out, which made me embarrassed and scared.
Most of all, blood continued to come out there, so it was impossible to get food properly, and although the blood barely stopped today, it seemed very clear that the harvest that was sought after a long time would be no different from other people dying in the back alleys.
“It’s okay. It was like that there too. After the blood stops, two or three days are fine.”
“Sister…”
“So, eat this and don’t do anything dangerous. Stay calm somewhere safe.”
The boy wanted to stop the girl, but he couldn’t do anything.
With so much blood pouring out of her body, it felt like her sister would die if something wasn’t replenished.
The boy felt as though it was her own fault that it had come to this.
Wouldn’t he have been able to get more food if he hadn’t watched the boat and had gone with his sister to the back alley of the inn he usually went to?
The girl, too, was uncomfortable with the way the boy looked at her, with her guilty and worried look on her face.
She didn’t learn anything like embarrassment or shame, so she didn’t have anything particularly painful, but her sister looked at herself with that look in her eyes every time she went there.
It was only the first day that I didn’t know anything about being seriously ill. I haven’t had much pain since then.
However, when something hot from someone else’s body flowed into her body, she felt a little bad.
If you put it on the outside, you might say that, but what was sprayed on your stomach can’t be washed away. For some reason, the more you do this, the more you do this, the more it accumulates in your stomach. I just laughed at how imaginative it was.
If it was like that, they would have already rotted in their stomachs and died.
So today, as usual, except for the day when I was lured in without knowing anything, saying that I would provide food for the very first day, I stepped into the room on my own.
Don’t do this anymore
The news of my bleeding had already reached this place as well.
“It’s okay. The blood just stopped today.”
“… No, it’s not like that. No, if you think about it, you should have stopped it from the beginning…”
Her aunt hugged her face, her face so guilty.
“Ah… Really, what have we taught you?
The girl couldn’t understand what her aunt was saying.
Why?
Why not today
“Then, could you give me a little something to eat? I haven’t been able to go out to get something to eat for a few days because I’m bleeding, and I’m really hungry because I’ve lost a lot of blood…”
“…Yes. I’ll just give it to you today. But if it’s really possible, I don’t want you to come. If you come because there’s nothing to eat, wait a month if possible. No, don’t come for about three months, okay?”
The girl did not understand what her aunt said, but she nodded her head.
A small loaf of black rye bread cut into pieces and miscellaneous cheese crumbs that seemed to be about a quarter the size of the girl’s fist. Pieces of fruit that seem to have been eaten and left behind after being on someone’s table.
It may not seem like a big deal, but from the girl’s point of view, this was an enormous collection of sacraments.
“Come on, go away. Don’t be seen by them.”
“…”
She lived in such a filthy world that her aunt’s figure seemed desperate to a girl who was sensitive to human malice.
She didn’t feel like trying to kick her out because she was in trouble if she was here.
She looks like she’s overdoing it even though she might endanger herself if she does something wrong.
But she knew nothing a girl could do.
True to her aunt’s words, there was nothing she could do for her aunt other than to hide quietly.
That night.
She tried to share the bread and cheese and her fruit with her brother, but this time her brother refused.
He ate all the food he had worked so hard for today, so let his sister eat all this time.
“Really?”
“Your sister bled a lot. You should hurry up and eat.”
“Uh, uh…”
She tried several more times, but the boy was unmoved, so in the end, the girl ate all the hard-earned food.
From the beginning, she assumed that a boy and a girl would eat, and the girl felt full for the first time.
I felt like I was just hearing words. Feeling that this is what being full is like, she felt sorry for her brother for some reason.
Because she’s so sorry that only she feels this way.
The next morning. The girl and the boy set out early to find their daily bread.
Vegetable skins or butts left over from preparations for business at an inn or restaurant. Pods of all kinds of ingredients, etc. This was the golden hour when treasure was scattered all over the place.
Sometimes, if you’re lucky, they give you a little leftover food for free, saying you feel sorry for them at a young age.
Normally, customers would reject it because they were in a bad mood.
Of course, not all households were good at this.
If you meet the owner openly, there is a good place. There are households that need to be careful not to meet the owner. Because each household is different.
Somehow, I had very good luck today. I was able to get more parts that were better than usual, and luckily I was able to get a bone left after making the soup from a kind-hearted inn lady.
The girl and the boy who finished the morning harvest by sucking on the bone with the meat that is hard to remove and biting it off like tenacity, and throwing the bone that literally sucked out all the marrow to the dog on the road, and the girl and the boy who finished the morning harvest are happy to have gathered all the food for the day just by doing morning activities today. And returned home.
In front of the small house made by digging the ground next to the stream and gathering tree branches and straw mats, this and that sort of junk was piled up.
Adults scared me, saying that if I lived like this, a monster would catch me, but that hadn’t happened yet, and even if it wasn’t, I couldn’t help it.
For the two of them, there was no better place than here.
Going to the creek, washing the slightly soiled vegetable skins and scraps, and eating them crunchily, the girl looked at the broken mirror.
Among all the junk gathered here, the girl’s greatest treasure.
I heard that even quite a few aristocrats would be stumped if they were to buy this extremely precious mirror that was originally intact.
The girl in the broken mirror had reddish hair in the middle of flowing soup, and her eyes had a vivid garnet light.
Perhaps this is why a girl and a boy remember that they are not real siblings, even though they have spent so many years together that they cannot remember each other.
Because the boy had black eyes in her black hair.
I don’t know the girl well, but I heard that she is probably a westerner or a mixed blood with a westerner.
He said it was more likely that he was of mixed blood.
That would be the case, because except for the color of her hair and eyes, the girl’s features were no different from those of the East.
If you look at the Westerners you often encounter here, the appearance of their features is definitely very different from that of the girl.
Maybe it was because she was still young, but it probably wasn’t because the villagers weren’t particularly against her.
“Sister, sister. Shall we go see that ship?”
“The ship?”
What kind of boat does the girl say? She suddenly remembered the big and beautiful boat she saw yesterday.
“I hate it. I almost got into trouble yesterday while watching that ship.”
“But I was lucky today, so I got everything to eat today.”
“Mmm”
The girl pondered for a while as she poured the well-washed scraps of vegetables into the broken and cracked bowls that were barely usable.
“But if I leave it as it is, the rats might bite me?”
“Uh, uh…”
The boy pondered for a while, and then she made her trick.
After meticulously covering it with this or that covering, among other odds and ends, she covered it with stones again, and then with sand and earth.
“If you do this, the rats won’t steal it, right?”
Seeing the boy shaking her hand, the girl looked at the boy with an expression of amazement.
“Do you really want to see that ship?”
“Yeah. It’s really pretty. There are a lot of people who have to work for such a big backside, but if we can work there as housekeepers, wouldn’t we be successful?”
The girl made a sullen expression at the boy’s words.
Because that can never happen.
A ship like that would never give a ride to people like them whose identity is unknown.
No, it’s not just their identity, they won’t even treat lowly beings like themselves.
However, the thought that if it was really possible came to the girl a little.
“Well, if that’s the case, there’s nothing to wish for. Shall we go?”
“Huh!”
The girl grabbed the boy by the back and dragged him into the river as he was about to head for the boat.
Then, with the boy’s hands, he rubbed her face with water.
“He said he wanted to work there. If he looks even a little bit cleaner, his chances will increase.”
“Ah!”
At that, the boy took off his clothes and ran into the stream.
Seeing the boy like that, the girl sighed and looked at her own body for a moment.
Thinking about it, she wondered if she should wash herself once in a while.
Originally, the day I went to sell my body yesterday, I would have washed it in the kitchen.
The girl said, “I don’t know,” And took off her clothes and jumped into the stream.
In the stream, the boy and girl were tossing and turning, playing in the water and washing their bodies.
