Chapter 556 – 556. The Teacher’s Story (1)
“… Right.”
The nine-tailed fox listened to the circumstances of the nine ghosts who visited his shrine and nodded his head with a firm expression.
As soon as Erin finished sparring with Eunhyeon, the place she visited was the shrine of a nine-tailed fox.
His first start was when he suddenly came in front of him, put on a triumphant expression, and immediately summoned the hundred demons.
The nine-tailed fox immediately recognized the status of the changed white ghosts.
There were cases where the density and amount of magic power surrounding the whole body rose so dramatically that it was impossible to recognize, but the most embarrassing thing was that the white demons spoke to the nine-tailed fox in their voice.
It was completely unexpected even for a gumiho who had been commanding white ghosts for a long time, and Erin, who embarrassed the gumiho, showed a very satisfied expression.
Realizing what had happened to Erin in the Mograf Territory, where she was rushed to apply, the nine-tailed fox frowned.
“Hi-Hi. How is it? Aren’t I great!?”
“…”
It was certainly a great thing, but Erin’s expression, as she was sending me an elated look, saying ‘I’m more amazing than you, Miho!’, Made the gumiho very unhappy.
“Ouch!”
In the end, she couldn’t stand it and the nine-tailed fox put a honey chestnut on Erin’s head and beat her. Erin, who had been hit by one abruptly, wrapped her head with both of her hands and screamed at her.
“Why are you hitting me!”
“That arrogant expression was very disrespectful, so I slapped him. Where did you get that power purely through your efforts?”
“Well, it’s not…”
Erin was a bit taken aback by the nine-tailed fox’s point and couldn’t continue her words.
This is purely through the introduction of Verdandi, the power and right she has been able to exercise as she is granted some of the powers of her sister goddess, Urud.
However, it was only a privilege that she was able to obtain because there were Eunhyeon and Belldandy to connect with her goddess and to conclude the oath of her family, not the power that Erin gained through her efforts.
“… Chii. Still, Hyun gave me a lot of compliments on how great he was.”
Erin looked away from the nine-tailed fox, who, unlike her Eun-hyeon, gave her a grim assessment, and pouted her lips in a gossip.
“Joy. Certainly, your idea is special.”
No matter how much power she is endowed with, the idea of giving real bodies to the white ghosts and reviving them is definitely Erin’s special way of thinking that can’t be immediately thought of by the nine-tailed fox.
“But that’s where it ends.”
The gumiho snorted and asked.
“You have a disgruntled face. Then, would you like to hang out with me now?”
“…”
Erin bit her lip in resentment, and she couldn’t answer.
The reason she can’t immediately say yes is that she knows very well the gulf between herself and the nine-tailed fox as a divine being, and even Erin knows very well.
Though she was endowed with some of her goddess powers, Erin was well aware of her own subjects.
Just because a novice swordsman who has just picked up a sword has a sword with deceptively high specs doesn’t mean that the novice swordsman has tremendous power.
Erin, who had suddenly awakened to the power of the divine beast, understood very well what the nine-tailed fox meant because she knew very well how much effort and time she had had to put in to master this power.
“At least if you want to be acknowledged by me, be able to handle the power of the Shinsoo perfectly.”
“Tooth… Okay.”
Erin pursed her lips at the nine-tailed fox’s grim assessment that she just wanted to hear the compliment, but she still had a long way to go.
“Then, white ghosts. Talk to Miho. I’ll just go.”
“All right.”
Arthur, who was positioned as the leader of the other Hundred Ghosts, nodded and saw off Erin as she left the shrine.
She was also considerate of Erin, who arranged a place for them to have a conversation with the white ghosts who had served the nine-tailed fox as her master before she was herself.
“Maybe your standards are too high?”
Gumiho’s evaluation was generally accurate, but to Erin, it was like painful fact violence.
“Joy. That guy is getting too big from the other people around him.”
Even Eun-hyeon, who is teaching swords and various skills, is not being raised that softly, but she is more likely to boost her morale with compliments and affection rather than bitter words.
That’s not a bad thing, of course, but it’s important to get her level right and balance her out so she doesn’t become arrogant.
Since there is a nine-tailed fox who keeps saying bitter things to Eun-hyeon, she is just continuing to use this way of raising her while accepting it.
“What are you going to do now?”
The nine-tailed fox asked about the future plans of the hundred ghosts.
“For the time being, I plan to stay in a place called Mograf.”
It was also Eleanor’s plan proposed to the hundred demons.
Erin granted freedom to the White Ghosts, who now had real bodies and could eat, drink, and sleep, and the way they chose to enjoy that freedom was to be active in the battlefield.
The essence of the Hundred Ghosts was subordinate to Erinn, but Eleanor was very fortunate enough to give them a legitimate reward and status in the form of formal employment in the Duchy of Armitas, so she accepted Eleanor’s offer without hesitation. Took it
“I can eat delicious food while receiving money, but I can even fight to my heart’s content! Isn’t this the absolute best!? Haha!”
Tristan’s hearty smile seemed to be quite pleased with the situation, and the other hundred demons nodded as if they agreed.
“Hmph, anyway, I brought you quite unexpected news. You guys should go back now.”
Previously, they had never communicated with the White Ghosts as beings that performed only when they gave orders.
The nine-tailed fox gestured as if it were annoying and tried to send the ghosts away, but Gerard, who settled in as the hostess of the house, smiled and said to the ghosts.
“Haha! It’s been a long time since I’ve been a guest, so why not send it like this! Miho! Let’s have dinner and go!”
“… Do whatever you want.”
The gumiho let out a small sigh and gave up.
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After dinner and tidying up, Eunhyeon and Eleanor headed for Mograf.
It was because Count Mograf gave permission for some of the dwarves to move to the Mograf territory, and the existence of Eunhyeon and Eleanor as middlemen was absolutely necessary to coordinate and decide many things.
“The first thing to do is to repair and renovate the walls, and prepare a space for the dwarves to move.”
“Hmm.”
“Okay. We follow the word of the field chief.”
The meeting that followed at the lord’s castle of Count Mograf was carried out in a flash under Eunhyeon’s leadership.
From the distribution plan for large quantities of supplies delivered from the dukedom to the county, to the repair of the walls and the management and supervision of the dwarves, Eunhyeon’s decision quickly restored the damage to Mograf.
“Whoa…”
Eleanor, who had been accompanying her, asked Eun-hyeon, who had returned to the lodging prepared by the count after completing the supervision of the dwarves on the repair of the castle wall.
“Could you give me a minute?”
“Hour?”
“Yes. There is someone I would like to introduce to you.”
Eleanor’s expression, smiling a little, showed a little anticipation.
She wanted to introduce herself and see the reaction on her face, which made her questionable.
In this Mograf region, there is no one directly related to Eunhyun at all.
But who is she trying to introduce?
If Eleanor wants to be introduced to this level, she must be an important figure at least to know, so she is not a loss.
“OK.”
Eunhyun immediately nodded and accepted Eleanor’s request.
He followed Eleanor’s guidance and arrived at a certain room in the same building.
“Are you here?”
“Yes.”
Eunhyun held the doorknob behind Eleanor, who smiled and affirmed behind her.
As soon as he opened the door, he felt an indescribable strange sensation.
“…”
Should I say it’s a feeling, a strange feeling that reminds me of past memories.
This feeling, like feeling nostalgia, is very strange.
Before long, I saw a woman drinking wine at the table in the room and stiffened her body.
“… !”
“You’re here.”
A person who could never have been here saw her voice in front of her eyes and heard it in her ears.
‘Why?’
‘How about Eleanor?’
Unable to understand the situation at all, Eun-hyeon stood in front of the door, unable to draw a single conclusion from the numerous questions that popped into her head.
“Come on in.”
Eleanor pushed the back of the hesitant Eunhyun.
She forced herself into the room and shut the door.
Before Eleanor had time to react to the coercive figure, which was hard to see, Eunhyeon’s gaze was directed straight at the woman sitting at the table.
“S… Are you a monk?”
“Okay.”
“… Really?”
“… Do you doubt not once, but twice?”
Siete narrowed her eyes and stared at her Eun Hyun.
Eun-hyeon, who met Siete during her third ordeal to acquire her godhood, had a history of treating Doshiete as a fake in a very rude way.
Eun-hyeon, who was stared at by her slightly offended poem, trembled at her and was convinced that the woman in front of her was real.
“Sorry.”
Eun-hyeon quickly apologized to Xie-te and sat down in the chair directly across from her.
Siete, who was drinking her wine as a snack with the meat on her plate, tried to pour her wine into her glass, and Eun-hyeon immediately stood up from her seat and grabbed her wine bottle.
“I will follow.”
“… Hmm.”
Siete did not reject it.
Since the days of her apprentice, this kind of service has been in charge of her eunhyeon, so she passed her wine to him as it was natural for her.
Immediately after filling her glass with wine, Eun-hyeon sat back down and opened her mouth, controlling her embarrassing feelings.
“How… Can Master be here?”
“Proserpina-sama sent me here.”
As I snapped her wrist, the wine in her glass swirled.
“Proserpina-sama… ?”
“Perhaps he wanted to help you a little. It’s only a soul, but I can give you some advice on swordsmanship.”
In addition, the intention of consideration was also included so that the student’s growth could be closely observed.
“But… The current master…”
It is clearly a living human figure.
Just because her soul came across, many processes were omitted for it to lead to the result of her being revived.
Eun-hyeon naturally had one possibility that immediately came to mind, but she quietly waited for Xie Te to say.
“That… Thanks to the kid you are raising.”
He really didn’t want to admit it, but he had to admit it, as much as he was able to resurrect with a body with her help.
“… Okay.”
As expected, Eun-hyeon grasped the general circumstances of Siete’s resurrection.
Naturally, it didn’t take her long to understand because there were already cases of white ghosts who had tried sparring once.
‘… It must have been this.’
She belatedly noticed why Belldandy, Illyana, and Eleanor were looking forward to seeing meaningful expressions on their faces.
“This is the first time I’ve had a conversation like this with you.”
This was the third time he had met Eunhyeon again, but this was the first time he had been given a chance to have a proper conversation.
The first is when her soul is subordinated to Mediah, the Queen of the Dead, and she as a Death Knight becomes confronted with Eun-Hyeon.
The second is during the third of her trials to attain her godhood.
However, in both opportunities, there were too many restrictions to have a leisurely conversation.
“What should we talk about…”
The opportunity for a conversation that was given so suddenly came to Eun-hyeon along with the unexpected resurrection of the teacher.
While pondering in her head what to start with, it was Eun-hyeon who brought up the story first.
“Master.”
“Hmm?”
“The story of the devil who killed Master. I want to hear it.”
Eun-hyeon clenched her fists as she asked about the object she must annihilate.
