Chapter 287 – 287. The Meeting of Euphoria and Earth PH-1. [Operation to Enter the Devil’s Castle][5]
‘Horns… Horns… Horns…? Is it a goblin…? No… If it were a goblin, wouldn’t it have been detected as a quasi-villain like an orc with the villain slayer trait?
Scratching…! Scratching…! Scratching…! Scratching…!
Kim Tae-sik was sitting on the large plant stem that was in the way of the horned child, scratching his head.
Of course, from the moment I heard the child’s screams, I expected it to be an unusual situation, but seeing a child with horns right in front of me gave me a strange feeling.
‘Hmm… On the other hand, Mina doesn’t seem to care at all…?’
Sigh…
Kim Tae-sik, who was sitting on a plant stem, glanced sideways to his side.
“Now… I applied some medicine and wrapped a bandage… How are you feeling? Do you think you can walk?”
Kang Mi-na was treating a red-eyed girl with horns next to her.
Kim Tae-sik put some unexpected food in his inventory.
Kang Mina brought bandages, gauze, and disinfectant.
With it, she disinfected her child’s knee and bandaged it.
In the process, Kang Mi-na’s attitude, eyes, and tone showed that she did not care at all about the strange appearance of the child in front of her.
“Hmm… It stings, but…”
Juseom… Juseom… Juseom… Juseom…
The child who received treatment from Mina Kang stood up and did her own inspection.
“You can run…! Like this, like this, I think I can walk…!”
Bean! Bean! Bean! Bean! Bean!
The child seemed to jump slightly.
It felt like she was thanking Mina Kang and appealing to her that her treatment went well.
“Yes, I’m glad.”
Grinning…!
Seeing that scene brought a smile to Kang Mina’s face.
“Why don’t you say thank you again to that guy over there? “You worked really hard, man.”
Kang Mina pointed to Kim Tae-sik and said.
Of course, she thanked Kim Tae-sik right after he saved her child, but she was so scared that it didn’t feel like proper communication took place.
So, as her child, Kang Mi-na, calmed down to some extent, she wanted to greet Kim Tae-sik properly.
“Uncle… Thank you so much for saving my life!!!”
Nodding…!
She was truly a well-mannered child.
She soon turned her body towards Kim Tae-sik and gave her belly button salute.
“Haha! I did what I had to do as an adult. Still, it feels good to see you safe. Haha!”
Since Kim Tae-sik can’t lie, he was really in a good mood and was laughing out loud.
This is because the child’s adorable appearance immediately dispelled Kim Tae-sik’s delusions, which were full of doubts and thoughts.
“…”
Kang Mina smiled slightly and looked at the two in silence.
‘The sight of Taesik running to save that child… When I was a child, I felt empathy for someone running to save me…’
This is because I felt that the image she had so desperately wanted in her childhood had now come true.
‘I prayed so desperately… For someone to save me…’
She was exactly the girl in front of me right now.
At that age, Kang Mina was abused by her father, a drunkard and gambler.
Every time she hoped for a helping hand,
When her mother left, there was no one around her.
Her older brother Kang Seok-gu was with her when she was very young, but from her adolescence he became just another villain.
‘At some point, it seemed like she got used to it, saying it was something she couldn’t help…’
Still, she was strong, but as time went by, she thought she had overcome much of the trauma of her childhood.
Rather than hoping for help, she thought it wise to try to stand on her own.
So she thought she had quite accomplished it
Based on that strength, she wanted to be the one to extend her hand to those in need of strength.
‘Even as an adult… I guess I was waiting for someone to save me in the end…’
When Kang Mina tried to help others, it was not simply because she wanted to gain vicarious satisfaction from it.
She wanted to have hope.
Deep in her heart, Kang Mi, who was still young, was just that she couldn’t meet him because she couldn’t reach him at the time, but she wanted to believe that such a wonderful person would definitely exist.
“But I’m not old man… You’re not old enough to hear the word uncle yet, kid…”
“But he’s really tall… Just like that…”
Kang Mina got to see the scene she had been waiting for for a long time.
‘Thank you, Taesik oppa… I want to say this too…’
The words of the horned child who thanked Kim Tae-sik for saving him were
Kang Mina was also her own heart.
“Hey… Kid…? After all, did you suddenly become separated from her mom and dad…?”
Afterwards, the three walked through the dungeon together.
The girl was in the middle, Kim Tae-sik was on the right, and Kang Mina was on the left.
First of all, the direction of movement is the vent route that leads to the Dark Awakening capital base that Kang Mina knows.
However, since there was no way the horned child was headed there, Kim Tae-sik cautiously asked.
“Uhm… So…”
A girl thinking deeply after hearing Kim Tae-sik’s question,
It seems like the horned child was in the same state of mind.
Since the only people she can rely on are Kim Tae-sik and Kang Mina, she is following along.
Because it was her own destination, it was difficult and she was hesitant.
“You and your brother are human, right…? So, she’s a human…?”
Afterwards, the Horned Child asked about the identities of the two people.
Just as Kim Tae-sik felt a sense of strangeness in the child’s appearance,
The horned child also felt a sense of strangeness in the two people’s attire.
However, since her face and other features were solely human, it seemed as if she was asking about humans as a priority.
“Yeah, right… Me and the sister next to you are humans. “Then you are of a different race…?”
The tone was cautious, but Kim Tae-sik’s expression showed a little joy.
Because for him, it was the question he wanted to ask the most.
However, from what I heard from Claudier,
I heard that in this world, there is a lot of conflict between different races, so be careful when speaking to each other.
So it seemed like they were trying to set the best example possible.
“Yes… I am a demon…”
Then the horned child looked slightly at me and answered in a crawling voice.
She was a demon, a demon girl.
‘Hmm… It was a demon… That’s why she wasn’t detected by the villain eradication trait… Because Claudia defined demons as a specific race, not monsters like goblins or orcs…’
He tried to control his facial expression as much as possible, but when he saw his dilated pupils, Kim Tae-sik was screaming Eureka inside.
“…”
And the demon girl who answered in her hushed voice looked up at Kim Tae-sik’s face.
“As expected… This isn’t where I originally lived, right…? “It’s a different world, right…?”
The demon girl was convinced that her standard here was the world through Kim Tae-sik’s expression just before that.
“Maybe so, I think… But why did you think that?”
This time, Kang Mi-na, who was on her left, asked the demon girl why she made that inference.
“In Euphoria, where I live… The relationship between demons and humans is not very good… To the point where even saying it is bad is not enough…”
“But when he heard me say I was a demon, I didn’t see any disgust or fear in his eyes… It felt like he wasn’t used to demons…”
The demon girl was also fully aware of the conflict situation between humans and demons.
Although she saved her life, no matter how she looked at it, she seemed like a human, so her hesitation was consistently visible in the demon girl’s eyes.
However, when she saw Kim Tae-sik’s reaction, who had no preconceptions about demons at all, she felt reassured.
At the same time, she became convinced that this was not where she lived.
“Euphoria? Are you from Euphoria?”
Euphoria, a place name that came from the mouth of a demon girl,
Kim Tae-sik’s eyes widened beyond surprise when he saw the demon girl’s horns and red eyes.
“Uncle, you too, do you know Euphoria?”
The demon girl looked quite bright.
When Kim Tae-sik seemed to be fixated on the word ‘mister’, he was constantly trying to change it to ‘oppa’.
Meanwhile, she couldn’t help but feel glad when Kim Tae-sik found out about Euphoria, where she lived.
“I haven’t been there, but I’ve heard about it… I have a friend who’s from there…”
Kim Tae-sik answered the demon girl’s happy question in detail.
“Euphoria is there…? “Where did Claudia live…?”
Kang Mina also asked Kim Tae-sik in a low voice as if confirming.
Nod…! Nod…! Nod…! Nod…!
Taesik Kim nodded his head thoughtfully.
“Then do you know how to return to Euphoria? “I didn’t listen to her mother and went out to the forest to play for a while and then suddenly came back here…”
When Kim Tae-sik said that he had a friend from Euphoria, the demon girl was filled with hope.
So before she was warped here, she revealed what she had done.
“This world has not developed the ability to go to other worlds, kid… I guess the reason why my brother had no prejudice against demons like you said is also in that context. “I think it’s because there is no interaction at all.”
Kim Tae-sik was never a person who gave up vague expectations.
He impressed upon the demon girl the cruel reality.
“Huh… This is a big problem… What should I do…? “Mom and Dad will be looking for me and worrying about me…”
The demon girl was devastated as she faced the cold reality.
She looked like she was in a lot of pain as she stood clutching her head.
‘Hmm… Then should we assume that the Orc Warriors were also warped from Euphoria? I guessed that other worldization had become rampant due to the power of the Demon King…’
Kim Tae-sik, looking at the demon child who was holding her head and fidgeting restlessly, thought that the situation was more complicated than he thought.
It was possible to imagine zombies evolving or something new being created due to the power of the Demon King.
The reason a warp across dimensions occurred was because the levels seemed different.
“Huh?”
The demon girl, who was in tears at the thought of worrying and scolding her mother and father, suddenly made a slanted expression.
“Why?
It was Kang Mina who was looking at the panicked demon girl with a worried expression.
She asked why.
“Sniff! Sniff! This… This smell… Sniff!”
Suddenly, the demon girl started sniffing her here and there with her cute nostrils.
“!!!!!!!!!!!!”
At that moment, Kim Tae-sik’s eyes sparkled.
ㅡShuuuuut!!!
And his summoned horn pipe,
ㅡFuaaaaah!!!
He turned around and hit something with the horn pipe.
ㅡPurdeodeodeodeodeok!! Deodeodeodeodeok!!
The target seemed to have been shattered.
However, the corpses of the targets were scattered, making a quite unpleasant sound.
“Yes, that’s right!! Slime!! “It smells like slime!!!!”
Match!!
At the same time, the demon girl clapped her hands and shouted out the identity of her scent.
“Huh… Slime…”
Kim Tae-sik was astonished by the light green slime liquid on the horn pipe.
“What is slime, brother…?”
When the strong slime splashed the corpse, it quickly protected the demon girl from the corpse.
As a result, she ended up with light green slime on her shoulders and back.
“Even if I don’t explain it… I think you’ll understand, Mina…”
Sigh…!
Kim Tae-sik, who heard Kang Mina’s question, looked towards her ceiling.
Sssss…! Sssss…! Sssss…!
There, many slimes were forming as if they had been summoned from another world only now.
