Chapter 244 – 244. Homecoming (1)
“Berdandy.”
“Why?”
After a good night’s sleep and waking up, Eunhyeon and Belldandy lay on the bed for a long time hugging each other and kissing each other with affection.
Hearing Eunhyeon’s voice calling him, Belldandi looked up at him and met Eunhyeon’s eyes.
“Here… How does the passage of time pass?”
“This room is an independent space created by my own power even in the divine realm. That’s why I can control the flow of time at my own will.”
It was explained that the flow of water falling from top to bottom cannot be stopped, but the speed at which the water falls can be controlled either slowly or quickly.
Curious as to why Eunhyeon was asking such a question, Belldandy asked Eunhyeon with anticipation.
“If… Does the child want to be here with me a little longer?”
“Haha, there is that too.”
“That too?”
“I want to practice.”
“Training?”
Unable to understand Eunhyeon’s sudden request, Belldandi tilted her head.
Soon after, he read Eunhyeon’s accident and showed a slightly disappointed expression when he saw Eunhyeon’s bitter smile on his face.
“It’s a bit sad… Is personal training more important than time with me?”
The mindset of a goddess who wanted to prioritize herself over growth for personal training, which was also related to her role as an apostle, was no longer the mindset of a god.
‘Well, if he had the right way of thinking, he wouldn’t have released the restrictions on my soul.’
“You’re thinking disrespectfully of me again.”
After reading Eunhyun’s accident, Belldandi made an impression on her and hugged her upper body tightly.
The movement of her upper body, rocking her up and down, rubs against the soft, fluffy skin of the goddess, making her feel strange again and again.
“Hey, Mr. Belldandy. Don’t do that for real It’s dangerous!”
Eun-hyeon, who is mainly being victimized, becomes very dangerous in her own mind.
“Whoops. She is a punishment for the child who harbored disrespectful thoughts to the goddess.”
Soon, she pulled back the blanket covering Eunhyeon and her own body, and Belldandi climbed on top of her Eunhyeon and assumed a riding position.
“I will listen to the child’s request.”
“No, if you’re going to do her favor, why are you riding on top of me…”
“Instead, there are conditions.”
“Conditions?”
“Yes.”
Belldandy slowly leaned down and kissed her on Eun-hyeon’s lips.
Even though it was a kiss they had already shared several times, each other’s tongues and saliva mixed together were sweet and paralyzed every time they tasted it.
“Whoa, the condition is…”
After kissing, he took her face away and looked at Eunhyun’s face.
“After you satisfy me so that I am not lonely, I will do you a favor.”
“… All right.”
Eun-hyeon nodded her head, and once again mixed her body with her own goddess.
Satisfied with Belldandi, Eunhyeon moved her place to a newly created virtual space with Belldandy.
A facility the same size as your dungeon house’s underground training ground.
“… This is real The ‘room of mind and time’…”
I felt as if I had to leave to find the 7 Dragon Balls even now.
“What do you mean?”
“Oh, no… This is a story from a cartoon I watched as a child.”
“… Comic book?”
Verdandy tilted his head as if he didn’t know what the story was about, but he didn’t care much because he realized it wasn’t a very important story.
Eunhyeon looked around the underground training ground, which was reproduced exactly like her own house.
Eun-hyeon, who felt a sense of familiarity as if she had come down to the underworld and returned home, bowed her head to Verdandy, who had created this space.
“Thank you. Mr. Belldandi.”
“What, isn’t caring for the child the same as doing it for myself? Than that… Are you really going to be okay?”
It is said that the scale of the flow of time was set so that time passed at a significantly slower rate than in the summer, but spending close to several decades alone in the same space alone could not be the right way.
Concerned about Belldandi, Eunhyun smiled and shook her head.
“You are not alone. Because Belldandy is here.”
“…”
“Will you stay with me?”
Verdandi was taken aback by Eun-hyeon’s straight-forward stone ball, full of anticipation, avoiding his gaze and blushing.
“Oh, I will stay with you forever if the child wants it.”
Even though he had a personality that seemed like he would never say something like that for the rest of his life, why he could occasionally say something like that without hesitation, he pierced Belldandy’s heart moment by moment.
“So it’s okay.”
Eun-hyeon responded to Belldandi with a smile and stood in the center of the training ground, summoning a sword and gripping it with both hands.
She is not in the usual dual swordsmanship stance, but the basic swordsmanship stance she first learned from Siete.
The twin swordsmanship he had been using so far was nothing more than a combination of the swordsmanship of Siete based on the martial arts he had learned from Joo Hyeonseong, and improved.
Therefore, in order to accept everything in Siete, it was necessary to recall the memories of the first time I was taught and the memories of this engagement and learn them from the beginning.
I close my eyes and recall the fight against Siete, who became a Death Knight.
The distance between the legs, the movement of the waist, the angle of the arm, and even the trajectory of the sword strike.
I had my eyes on it, and I had to recall everything I could think of.
It is not enough just to follow.
It is not enough to imitate.
You just have to catch up to it.
‘Can I do it?’
You shouldn’t even ask yourself.
You have to do it.
It is a mission she has in her heart as her disciple, not as an apostle, to accomplish what her teacher, who could not even leave behind, left her.
‘Master’s sword. I will definitely catch up and complete it in the end.’
The mental strength to never give up on what one has without talent, and a time close to eternity.
It’s okay even if it’s half a penny to realize that you have to teach ten.
In order to realize that one thing, I was confident that I would put in ten times more effort than others.
That is an advantage that only Eunhyun can have.
Time is on Eunhyun’s side.
However, from the beginning, he did not set the goal of ‘complete swordsmanship’, which was his teacher’s wish.
Eun-hyeon’s first goal is to perfectly reproduce ‘Siete’s swordsmanship’.
Furthermore, her second goal is to improve ‘Sie Te’s swordsmanship’ so that it fits her body.
After setting the target, Eun-hyeon moved his body and swung the sword.
“… That’s great concentration.”
Belldandi, who was watching Eunhyun’s movements from a distance, smiled heartily as she looked at Eunhyun’s image, which seemed to be on fire more than any other image he had ever shown.
Soon, Belldandi remembered one thing he had decided on and began to devise a specific plan.
“I guess I’ll have to get ready soon.”
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“Okay… Are you leaving after all?”
“It’s going to be.”
After hearing about Eunhyun’s future schedule, Regina smiled bitterly and nodded her head.
As she drank the drink from the glass, Eunhyun looked up at her into the void.
The spectacle of the flying spirits chirping as if decorating the full moon in the sky, absorbing the mana flowing from the World Tree and shining softly, was a beautiful sight like a painting.
The nostalgic nostalgia that reminds me of when I first entered the village of the moon with Sylvia comes out.
“I didn’t know why this place was called ‘Moon Village’ in the past.”
The festival celebrating the victory and the resurrection of the World Tree is in full swing, and the lively atmosphere of the village blends with the atmosphere of the moonlight to create a more uplifting atmosphere.
Unlike the usual quiet forest village where the moonlight harmonizes, the forest is full of vitality of all life and is busy expressing it in its own way.
Eunhyeon thought that she didn’t know how long it had been since she saw the village of the moon full of life under the moonlight.
“It’s better because it’s been a while.”
After the war with the Dark Elves, as Sylvia died, she escaped the village of the moon as if she were running away under the pretext of ‘apostle’s mission’.
The festival in this lively town, the smiling elves, and the beautiful scenery overflowing with life were all heartbreaking memories that reminded me of Sylvia.
The path that she had to give up, the path that she was not allowed to even choose, that tightened her heart every time she thought of it.
“You seem to be fine now.”
“…”
Eunhyun did not respond to Regina’s words, who were staring at her.
Regina continued her words as she looked at Eunhyun’s bitter smile.
“Because the teacher’s face when he left was not at the level where I could say that it was okay even with nice words.”
It looked like he was trying to hold on to something that was about to collapse.
“Was I that bad?”
“Yes. Very much.”
As much as she had no awareness of her own condition, she couldn’t help but be taken aback by Regina’s comments.
“But now… You are much better than you were back then.”
“… That’s because you’re not alone anymore.”
There are those who desperately try to support their hearts.
Like Belldandi, there are Illyana and Eleanor.
Although it was the worst part of her life, she also found comfort in the fact that she was able to say goodbye to Siete properly.
Eun-hyeon’s eyes were thinking about the future, and he was determined to move forward little by little.
“Thank god.”
Regina smiled innocently and was delighted that her teacher had let go of the heavy thoughts and started to get back on her feet.
“Teacher.”
“Huh?”
“Can’t you just hug me once?”
“Regina… That’s kinda…”
She is no longer a child.
400 years later, she inherited the position of her ancestor and became the Elf Queen who stands above all elves.
No matter how much her Eun-hyeon treats her without hesitation, it is a completely different matter from touching her queenly body.
“Are you okay.”
Regina, who was calmly shaking her head, put down the glass she was holding in her hand, and dug into Eun-hyeon, who was sitting next to her, and she hugged him tightly.
“No, there…”
Even though she already had two wives, Eun-hyeon, who was unable to strongly refuse, turned her head and instinctively scanned the locations of Illyana and Eleanor.
I see Illyana lying on Eleanor’s lap and Eleanor looking after her with a bitter smile.
After confirming that her wives couldn’t afford to care about this side, Eun-hyeon was troubled.
Soon after, she let out a sigh, and in response to her actions, Eunhyeon also hugged Regina by the upper body and patted her on the back.
“Good job. She has made a really good queen.”
“Thank you.”
Only after receiving her small compliment, Regina with a satisfied expression took her body away from her Eun-hyeon and returned to her original position.
Eunhyeon, who had been drinking again in the awkward atmosphere, opened her mouth again.
“Regina. I have a request for you.”
“What is it?”
“Before I leave, I plan to invite Alice. Won’t you come along with me to treat her eyes. But she can’t have Alice come alone. If the…”
“You’re talking about the case where Derkin and Eris go through the woods together.”
“That’s right.”
Since Alice is her human being, it doesn’t matter at all if only she expresses her intention to consent, but she believes that Alice will not leave her husband and her daughter and follow Eun-hyeon, and her husband, Derkin, will kill her. There was no way she would send Alice alone, thought Eun-hyeon.
It was a sensitive issue even for the elves that Alice and her entire family followed Eun-hyeon into the house.
She has lived in the depths of the forest for nearly 400 years, hiding from humans and maintaining a closed custom.
The fact that Derkin and Eris left the forest village and went outside also meant that they would break the elves’ custom that had been going on for nearly 400 years.
“If Derkin and Eris choose to follow Alice out of the forest… Could you give me permission?”
After asking Regina her question, Eunhyeon quietly waited for Regina’s answer.
