Chapter 18 – 18. Hero, Be Patient!
It’s like something out of an old story.
A fisherman who saved a dragon returned home after receiving a warm welcome from deep in the sea.
Outside, it is a story that time has passed and the children have become the same age as him.
When mana beyond a certain level is concentrated in one place, it sometimes distorts the flow of time.
Because of the dragon’s vast amount of mana, time passes slowly around the Great Cavity.
There is no other explanation than this.
Eshir had no choice but to admit this only after receiving an answer from the street vendor who was selling cotton candy next to him.
First, Asher asked as if questioning.
“Hey, why is the summer solstice already taking place? Who decided that? No, before… What month is it now?”
As Eshir checked the bulletin board again and again, he seemed to disbelieve him.
The street vendor spoke plainly, twisting his clean white goatee.
“The summer solstice festival is now… Yes, it’s because it’s the festival period, and if you have any complaints, ask the goddess.
By the way, today is the 16th of June, Miss Sister. I know about the date.
June…? Asher staggered with a stunned face.
However, it does not seem that the street vendor standing in front with a blank face is lying.
It wouldn’t be much better if the whole city held a surprise event to celebrate the hero’s return.
“It was the last day of February when we departed, no matter how blunted the sense of the date was… No, if time really passed like that…!”
This also explains why she and Joshua suffered so much right after they came out of the cave.
It wasn’t just climax and pain, it was motion sickness that cut through time that flowed four times faster.
‘This is the dragon’s magic…’
And they killed that dragon.
When I thought about it, I got goosebumps.
“By the way, Miss Nun…? Sister?!”
The shrill voice of the street vendor woke Asher from his thoughts.
“I think I answered the lady’s question wholeheartedly.”
What are merchants?
Bona Mana is to demand a reward for the answer.
“It’s too shameless to ask for money just because I gave you the date… !”
“Would you generously pay for my cotton candy that my fellow lady ate?
Oh, I heard.
Peeking out, I raised my head from the pile of cotton candy the street vendor was selling.
When I met eyes with Eshir, who had a surprised expression, I put my head back.
It was this smell.
One of the sweet smells that aroused me as soon as I entered the city.
If the prostitute across the street doesn’t work, even this.
Unable to bear it, he plunged her head into it and chewed up a lump of sugar.
But, it was so delicious.
“Joshua-sama!!!”
Eshir came running and pulled my head out of the pile of cotton candy.
I knew that in human society money was used to obtain food. However, it is unavoidable that familiar instincts come before head knowledge.
Anyway, it was a satisfying meal. The sugar tasted like this. The cotton candy melted as soon as it touched your tongue.
I tried to chew it before it melted, but the moment I thought I briefly chewed the lumpy part of the sugar, that too disappeared before I knew it.
It was like a mirage. She did this a few times, banging her head against the stalls of a street vendor, until all her cotton candy pile was gone. It happened while Eshir was immersed in his thoughts alone.
Her head feels languid and her feet seem to float.
All of the cotton candy vanished, but the lingering aftertaste, which was greater than the momentary sweetness, filled my stomach with a hazy energy.
Her face and hands were sticky with sugar.
“Eat…”
“Everyone look here, I just saw this festival and made it with expensive sugar, and this insectivore ate all of it. What are you going to do with this?”
The street vendor crossed his arms with a serious expression on his face.
However, the sarcastic tone of his voice made it clear that he had a completely different plot behind him.
In other words, it meant ‘I put my mouth first, so I’ll pay the price’.
“Hans, you bastard, are you trying to overcompensate other people?”
“Hey~ That’s really expensive, how good is it?”
“Don’t give me money, nun lady. Having that nobleman means he still has a lot of money.”
“Oh no! If you are a servant of a fair and righteous goddess, you should definitely pay for it!”
Other street vendors nearby also started to help out one by one.
Some seemed to be on the side of Asher, others on the side of a street vendor named Hans, but Asher could feel it intuitively.
That it’s all a lie.
They simply want to make fun of themselves.
Got hit
During the festival, merchants from the nearby metropolis of Zion come and open stalls.
And the malicious practices they practiced did not cover the target. Whoever gets caught gets ripped off.
Eshir knew that taking Joshua’s hand right now and running away from this situation would only make matters worse.
Rani, a nun who ran away after eating without permission, was to extend her disgrace.
‘It’s to protect Joshua-sama.’
Even if it is revealed that the man sucking his finger next to him is a warrior, it is the same that he becomes a laughing stock in the end.
Besides, it was obvious what kind of flies would be attracted to him if his inability to think rationally was discovered.
From swindlers to whores, Asher knew she couldn’t defend her master from them all.
In particular, the prostitutes, who came from Zion to earn money during the festival season, were the formidable enemies.
Joshua would never resist the temptation of a female body and open his tentacles, and if that happened, they would immediately hang themselves in the plaza.
Asher recalled her promise she had made a while ago.
‘I will never let Joshua harm you’
“Why, no money? What would she do if the goddess heard that a nun wore a man and she even ate on the radio?
Even after me, I am a faithful believer who regularly gives offerings in Zion.”
‘I’m sorry, Joshua. I think the human world is too harsh for the tentacles that have grown in the Great Cavity…’
Asher swallowed the tears in his heart. I just thought I was sorry as a human being.
“Cotton candy… I’ll pay here…”
Eshir gritted his teeth and took out a silver coin from her bosom. She had given her pocket money from Danal one day.
I don’t know what kind of silver coin it was, but that was all I had.
He absolutely had to avoid situations like harming Joshua and himself, or asking for belongings from the people in the subjugation party.
‘This…!’
After checking the amount, Hans looked at Eshir in shock. The merchants who had been chattering and helping out one word at a time also quickly shut up.
Hans then realized that something was wrong. The nun in front of me was holding a silver Blake coin. It is the currency used by the capital’s aristocrats.
For one coin, you can get one slave in good condition. It’s absolutely not something you would use in a remote village like this.
“All I have is this. Please accept this at least, and pretend you didn’t see it…”
“Uh? Yes…”
No matter how much he tried to overcharge and take unfair advantage, there was a law that there was a reasonable line even for the expected value.
Hans couldn’t bear to put his hands on that large silver coin.
“Are you lacking… ?”
Eshir asked in a trembling voice.
Hans was beginning to find the nun’s pitiful eyes a burden now.
Are you really not aware of the value of this silver coin, or are you trying to trick yourself into doing the opposite?
I don’t know, Hans said awkwardly after snatching the silver Blake coin from Ashur’s hand.
“Ah, ha ha! Come to think of it, receiving money from the servants of the goddess like this is a bit strange…
I have some money left over, but I have to give it back… !”
“Oh, no, we did it first.
Excuse me if it’s a reward, we’re busy…
Please ignore the cotton candy and donate the remaining money to the monastery!!”
Hans stared blankly at the nun as she darted away with the man beside her.
Merchants nearby approached one by one.
Hans said to one of them.
“The man next to me is a hero, right?”
“You are a warrior. I know that face A moment ago, the nun called her also Joshua. The hero of the bombardment, who carried out the massacre in Zion’s slave market.”
“I went to subdue the dragon, but I managed to come back. I don’t know why it’s like that.”
“Should I contact the merchant association? There are still many investors who are eager to do that. Everyone will be happy if I say that the hero came back as an idiot.”
Hans pondered for a while as he twisted his goatee.
The hero is also a hero, but the nun next to him was no ordinary bet.
“‘Pretend you didn’t see’…”
That’s what I meant, but Hans put his hand on his forehead and grinned.
The reason the nun gave such an outrageous amount for her cotton candy was her unspoken blackmail.
With Blake’s silver coin, it was clear that he was protected by the capital’s aristocrats, and that his safety could not be guaranteed unless he let him go.
It was the first time anyone had provoked the merchant association of Zion like this. That little nun too.
Hans said holding up the silver Blake coin.
“I got hit.”
“What about that silver coin?”
“I got it, I got it.
There was a request from the other side, so first of all, let’s stay still until the festival is over. Maybe we will meet again with them.”
Hans never knew, however, that his conclusion was an outrageous misunderstanding.
A trader by nature, it never occurred to him that Eshir really did not know the value of silver coins.
However, one question lingered in his mind until the end.
‘By the way, that hero, why did his tongue look so long and dark when he ate cotton candy?’
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“I wanted to treat Joshua to a meal with that money…”
It was the question Eshir threw as he headed towards the central square of the city where the church was located.
“Maybe I am the same snob as the street vendor? “
Can’t it be
However, the easiest way to break the situation was to immediately tie the street vendor named Hans with tentacles, tear him limb from limb, and rob him of his belongings and food.
I now have enough strength to do so, and I would have thought of doing so if there was a request from Asher.
But she didn’t.
The whole time she confronted him, she sent a desperate look at her telling him not to do that.
“Coupling…”
Asher’s hand that held me was wet with sweat.
Certainly, the festival was a festival, and the number of people increased as we went into the center.
The city was a space where all kinds of fragrances and stench from humans were mixed.
Eshir checked his arms from time to time to make sure someone was snatched from the crowd.
“That silver coin, Danal-nim gave it to me. He used to give his subordinates one by one as they broke through the Great Void.”
I stared blankly at Asher. She smiled as if she understood my gaze.
“If you said even that wasn’t enough, I thought I’d try this one.”
Eshir said as he took out the pendant hanging around his neck.
A holy relic that bestows blessings such as recovery, purification, and muscle strengthening when prayed for.
Even though she used her lower body to catch her tentacles every day, her body was not damaged because she was steadily recovering through this.
Even though I’m reluctant to even get close to her because her power is at odds with mine.
“I was rather fortunate that he was a communicative person.
You didn’t have to resort to harsh methods.”
‘It is much more humane to crush an opponent with money and power than to tear them limb from limb with tentacles.’
It was a good study.
But what I prefer is to press down with force and touch the brain with tentacles to force it into submission.
To get that power, I came down the mountain and came all the way here.
‘No way, taking over this city as it is now…?’
Build up your strength by eating humans, and even other warriors who will be in the whole kingdom someday, and further conquer the world!
Great. This is just right
My grand wish to ‘eat the warrior’s magic’ begins here, in Zionside!
“Then, Joshua-sama, please wait here.”
‘Yes?’
It wasn’t long before I set fire to my ambition, and Asher stopped me in front of a building with tall walls.
The door was wide open, but the black exterior walls radiated overwhelming authority and eerie energy.
“The priests of Zionside are only ordinary scholars who do not possess divine power, but no matter how much this is the house of God, if Joshua-sama approaches, it will definitely have a bad effect.”
Certainly, every time I walked forward, a tingling sensation came from the tips of the tentacles.
“I’ll just report that I’ve returned and come back quickly, so please don’t go anywhere and wait outside for a while. It won’t be long.”
Maybe here we need to supplement nutrition only with food.
‘No, secretly attacking a few weak humans while no one is watching…!
I thought so, but Asher suddenly embraced me. He grabbed her by the collar and said with earnest eyes.
“Joshua-sama, I don’t know about anything else, but please bear with me while I’m gone. No tentacles in front of people. Do you understand?”
Hmm, I snorted and Eshir kissed me on the cheek. Is to soothe Fortunately, there was no one watching because of the shadow on the wall.
“It is to protect you. Looking at me, please be patient with your sexual desire and appetite.”
I can’t help it, they say it’s coming out quickly, so I’ll lean against the wall and watch people.
I watched Aeshir’s back as he disappeared through the narrow door.
