Chapter 168 – The Place I Didn’t Miss Anymore
If I die
Even though they miss me and feel sad, they won’t look for me.
I think you will grieve even more than disappearing… There was no other way that came to mind.
Should I say I’m lucky?
When an ogre appeared who could not handle a mercenary group with ambiguous skills and a light mouth, I was happy inside.
If you go beyond simply dying and being eaten.
Because my traces will disappear altogether.
And it didn’t take long for that joy to turn to despair and regret.
“Off, uh… Black….”
The teeth of an ogre the size of a human forearm tore through my body.
The moment I entered the mouth, I quickly tried to swallow the evidence of the evil spirit, but I couldn’t.
It’s because the last time I saw Bill’s eyes was looking this way right before his huge mouth closed.
He definitely had to give the gossip.
A degraded mercenary named Ed was eaten by an ogre.
‘… He must have run away by now.’
Like a locust handling me, who was trying to crawl through the ogre’s mouth, the huge, foul-smelling tongue moved my body.
What catches my eye is a huge tooth.
Only then do I earnestly wish.
Bring out the evidence of the evil spirit.
Fortunately, evidence of the evil spirit appears just before the ogre’s jaw touches me.
As I was turning into a mass of flesh, I pushed my face into it with all my might.
-Gulp.
After achieving his goal, he twists his body like a bug to avoid the falling guillotine.
“Ouch… Aww!”
However, his heart accelerated as if it would explode, and it was difficult to breathe.
The pain, like being hit by a truck in my chest, is transmitted dozens of times in a second, making my mind far away.
The ogre rolls his tongue again and moves my body to the guillotine.
This time, as if he would not hesitate to resist, he secreted greedy saliva while firmly fixing it.
An evil spirit being eaten by an ogre.
Aren’t you such an evil spirit?
―Adduk!
Someone said
Even after death, human senses are maintained for a short time.
Maybe now is the time
They say pain comes from avoiding body damage.
Beyond my body being broken, I feel only one thing now that I have given up.
So painful.
-Gulp.
The ogre’s throat opens and I drift down into the darkness.
* * *
A strange air current flowed from the cabin.
Quite different from the atmosphere when Ed was present, a heavy yet calm feeling.
The reason was simple.
“It’s simple. I was the first to get pregnant, so I just have to put my child first.”
“What nonsense… To begin with, saintess, you’re not even human. Are you sure you’re pregnant?”
“Then you are half-human, half-dragon.”
Unlike when she was with Ed, Shin Heji exudes the atmosphere of a saint.
As soon as she let go of her rhyme, Beatrice immediately bit her tail, and she answered simply.
“In the first place, the window… No, none of them are human except for Ed. Then, of course, in order of pregnancy….”
“No. Anyway, it’s a few days difference. There is no surer way than that.”
At that time, the owner of the hut, the witch, opened her mouth.
She had been quiet all this time and wasn’t particularly interested in first or second, but she just wanted to finish her talk on this subject.
“The first child born is the first. Will that work?”
“Um….”
At that, Joanna and Jeren smiled and nodded.
Beatrice, who had uneasiness inside, pouted his lips and went into the room.
“Actually, first and second, what does that matter? All of us are pregnant with the man we love.”
“…….”
In response, Shin Hye-ji also kept her mouth shut.
As expected, she stepped in front of Lia, thinking that older women could not win.
“Is it true that Ed went to see Neritiel?”
“Yes.”
Ed, who went out with Lia, did not return to the cabin.
Without any words, only this Leah in front of her own eyes returned her alone.
She reduced her worries by thinking that she went to see Neri Rithiel, of course, but she reached her limit when she hadn’t contacted her until today, a few days later.
“Anything like that, no contact.”
Sophia Drin, too, twitched her fingers, as if she were worried.
Over the past few days, she has sent several calls to see her regards, but she has not received a single reply.
“No matter what… Ah, Eskis.”
“Yes? And why?”
“I want you to do what you have done before.”
The ‘something she’s done before’ is an alchemy developed by Eskis that can tell Ed’s current condition.
Again, like the last time, black might appear, so I asked again.
“Anyway, if it’s a dark color….”
“Don’t worry. It will be enough if me and Joanna run together.”
When Jeren said, looking at Joanna with a carefree expression, she also nodded her head.
With the mobility of these two who can fly, they should be able to move to the kingdom of the elves in no time.
Until now, I had left Ed alone because I respected him, but something unexpected might have happened.
Those thoughts also appeared on their faces.
“Ha… That’s pretty annoying….”
Eskis hated interrupting his studies.
But when I saw the eyes of those women, it seemed hard to refuse.
“Ingredient… Hair or semen. Hurry.”
Eskis, who lowered his head in a very downcast mood, was busy setting reagents with his hands, and a few strands of curled hair were placed on top of it.
The fur had been taken from Sophia Drin’s bed by Beatrice, who had entered the room.
For several days, the bed on which Ed slept had not been cleaned, perhaps because her witch had deliberately targeted it.
“Ah! Hey, what is this! It’s not hair!”
“The fur and the hair are the same!”
“This crazy… ! More, dirty!”
While saying so, Eskis quickly proceeds with a series of processes.
After he finished the setting with the top-notch ingredients, he put Ed’s body hair in for the last time.
“Ego. What color are you now~?”
“Don’t be kidding me, seriously….”
“You haven’t forgotten who I am, have you?”
Beatrice could not refute Eskis’ reply.
A silence came over the cabin.
After ten minutes, Eskis, sensing something was wrong, scratched his head.
“Um… What? Why is there no response?”
If this alchemy is applied to a living person, any color will surely bloom.
The best color is green, the worst color is black smoke.
But there is no response like this….
“Ah! Isn’t it just hair or semen?”
“No… Regardless of the body part, if it’s body hair, it’s a sure ingredient… Bring me something else just in case.”
Hair, and semen.
I used the two again and continued alchemy, but there was still no reaction, only white smoke rising.
“What, what’s strange?”
“Why? Black color was bad last time. Isn’t it nice because it’s white?”
“Different… Any other ingredients?”
The alchemist ignored Beatrice’s words and requested other ingredients.
Anyway, his body hair was everything, but Eskis, who changed his attitude seriously, put a little more effort into it.
The basic reagents and catalysts had already been replaced several times, so there was no problem with them.
The problem lies elsewhere.
“If you use this alchemy on a living person, it will definitely bring out a unique color. If it is clear that the material belongs to the object.”
“Um… Then, this must be Sophia. Is this alchemy that cannot be used on witches?”
Sophia Drinne, who had been sitting closely behind Eskis and Beatrice, widened her eyes in an inappropriate startle.
“What nonsense are you talking about? I don’t have body hair there?”
“Okay? Then Ed is right….”
“Are you sure? Can you be sure that this is him?”
Eskis’ attitude is strange, so Joanna and Jeren also approach them.
The girls tilted their heads and secretly pulled out the hairs they had been keeping, but no matter how many times they tried alchemy, the result was the same.
“I’m having doubts about my alchemy for the first time now, so listen carefully. Did I say If it’s a living object, what color will it always bloom?”
“…….”
From then on, the stomachs of the women in the cabin began to churn little by little.
Shin Hye-ji tried to avoid her seat when she heard a sound that didn’t sound like words.
But Eskis spoke faster than that.
“So, if you use this alchemy on a non-living target… There is no reaction like this, only white smoke appears.”
Silence passed.
Someone tried to yell at Eskis to stop talking nonsense, but the alchemist’s eyes were infinitely serious.
“That means… Either my alchemy failed….”
Without a single lie, to the point where an alchemist with high self-esteem had doubts about his alchemy.
What she was saying now was the truth full of sincerity, not the slightest lie.
“Ed, that man is dead.”
Silence and stillness continued for a considerable amount of time.
The silence was broken when Joanna and Jeren ran out of the cabin without saying a word.
* * *
Oh
Fuck.
A body that has been ground into a mash in a giant blender.
The feeling of my body falling down the throat of a repulsive ogre was as if I had become semen.
Perhaps, it may have failed.
Did I swallow the pieces too late?
Come to think of it, my heart beat accelerated, but it was ground before it could connect.
No way me… Wouldn’t it be crazy?
However, even if you die, your consciousness can continue like this….
-Kudangtaang!
“Ouch! Mr., Mr. Pal!”
I was thrown from a high place onto the cold, hard floor.
As if his back had been broken, a great pain swept through his body, but it was bearable.
Could it be because of the experience of being bitten by an ogre?
Than that….
What is it?
I don’t think he’s dead yet….
When I open my eyes now, in front of me… What appears
A little, I felt fear.
But I suppressed that fear and forcibly opened my trembling eyes.
“…….”
Then, what came into my eyes, things I dared not imagine.
“… What is this.”
I turn my head.
I got up and touched, saw, smelled, and even stuck out my tongue to lick it.
“Fuck… Here is….”
A space familiar to me.
A place that I missed a lot, but I don’t miss anymore.
In the world I lived in, a place that was allowed to me.
“My… It’s a room….”
Now, where I was thrown was my room.
