Chapter 173 – Activities (3)
To be honest, my impression of Aki was not good even with empty words.
Because Sanae hated me for being a fan of mine.
But Aki had a lot in common with me.
“You like spicy things.”
“Yeah. There was no one around me who liked spicy food, so I went alone. Oh, do you like mint chocolate milk?”
“Yes, I can’t eat it because I don’t have it, but Sanae-sama doesn’t like green grass.”
Sanae doesn’t like grassy plants. Inside, his liking for Sanae went down and his liking for Aki went up.
“Would you like to try this too?”
I asked, putting mozzarella cheese on top of spicy fire chicken on a small plate.
“Yes, I also wanted to try it once. Shall we share this in half?”
“I see.”
Sanae took half of her mapo tofu and gave it to me.
Tao Li recommended that you can feel Sichuan’s ma 痲 and lal 辣, but she didn’t have much opportunity to eat it.
Even if I tried to eat it once, Yoon Seung-ha asked me to eat malatang or Chinese-style shabu-shabu hot pot together.
When you take a bite with a spoon, put it on top of rice, and put it in your mouth, the pleasant spicy taste tingles your tongue.
“Lee Siu, are you eating Sichuan food too?”
Tao Li, who came naturally, sat down on the seat to my left and asked. Tao Li brought out a bowl of red-hot tantanmen and maraxiangguo.
“… Can you eat all of that?”
“Of course. Rather, you’re weird, Siwoo Lee. Are combat jobs that use the body trained with only that? My sister will bring more food, so let’s try Sichuan food. You will also like it because it is prepared by a famous chef in our family. Because Koreans like Sichuan’s Ma 痲 and Ral 辣.”
Tao Li picked up the tantan noodles with chopsticks, bragging about her. At first glance, it is a bowl with a diameter of nearly 40 cm.
I moved my chopsticks to Mara Xiangguo. I picked up one lotus root and one shrimp and put it in my mouth. I liked the pleasant spicy taste that tingled at the tip of the tongue.
“Oh, do you like Mara Xiang Guo?”
Xiao Mei spoke to me with her hair tied up to the side and her legs showing off under her qipao.
In her hands she brought two large plates, one with a whole brownish duck and the smaller wooden plate with dumplings.
Xiao Mei sat down to her right and pulled out her dumplings. It contained only four dumplings the size of her fist.
Something was odd about the arrangement. A strange arrangement of dumplings leaning to one side, as if they had been trying to put a lot of them in, but hadtily pulled them out.
“… What? Sister, you said you only brought 12 dumplings because you were on a diet, but there were fewer?”
Xiao Mei put her hand behind my back and turned to Tao. Seeing that she flinched, she felt that Xiao Mei had pinched her Tao with her hand.
“Tao, be quiet.”
“… Yes, I got it.”
Tao was quiet and inhaled her cotton.
“Would you like to try this?”
Xiao Mei tore a piece of duck meat from her side and brought it to her mouth. While smirking at her.
I ate without hesitation.
***
“Ah, so Sanae-sama is coming as a professor at the academy? May I know what grade you teach?”
Xiao-Mei said in a friendly tone.
“Sanae-sama will be teaching second grade. However, since you are taking final exams this time, you will only say hello to the students to get acquainted with them.”
“Ah, sorry~. I’m going up to the 3rd year this time, so I can’t take Sanae-sama’s lessons. Instead, Tao should study hard.”
“Sister, I am studying martial arts.”
“Tao.”
“… Yes, I will.”
Thao said in a low voice. Tsk tsk, poor thing.
I popped the waffle I brought for dessert into my mouth. Sweet whipped cream and honey taste pleasantly wrap your tongue.
After eating waffles for dessert, I felt that the mana in my body was almost full.
It’s time to slowly infuse the collector’s mask with mana.
“… Do you have time for Siwoo?”
“Time?”
“Yeah. I heard that some pretty good things came in from the black market this time.”
Black market.
What started as a black market has now turned into a market selling only the most expensive and rare items in the world.
There is nothing illegal on the outside, but inside there is an illegal world. The mines are also quite useful, so it’s a place that gets demolished from the association around the middle.
All items on the black market are random. So I didn’t bother to go fast.
I looked at Xiaomei. Shao-Mei’s ability is the Greedy Gaze.
It is the ability to roughly measure the value of something or a person.
If Xiaomei participates, I will be able to buy good things at a relatively low price even for things I don’t know or have forgotten.
‘I have quite a bit of money.’
Thanks to Xiaomei, more than 10 billion won is dormant in the bank account.
However, if you are bored with items from the black market, a billion units are laughable.
This is because there are things that families and corporations risk their lives to obtain.
-One high-level hero is better than multiple high-level heroes.
That’s what salespeople at large corporations say.
An enormous amount of money goes into raising a single top-ranked hero. And the hero of the award has the ability to repay the light no matter what job it is, even if it costs 10 billion won.
So, as a joke, there are places where competition in the black market is overheated, and even if you bid for an item, you pay the price, and the party is disgraced. Enough to say
“Then let’s go together.”
“Can I go too?”
Sanae said urgently. Aki narrowed her eyes for a moment, then nodded her head with an oops expression.
“Tickets will be readily available. And if Sanae-sama goes with us, it will be okay even if the other demons attack. Sanae-sama gets along with the other heroes…”
Aki urgently mentioned Sanae’s strengths. Of course, even if she doesn’t say that, she has to be taken.
I’m sorry to say this, but Sanae doesn’t know much about her own abilities. She only thinks of it as a power to seal something.
“Then shall we go together?”
When I asked, Sanae nodded her head up and down vigorously.
“Aki-nim will go with you too, right?”
“Me, are you talking?”
Aki hesitated for a moment when I asked. And then, he nodded her head. It looked like he was a little stuck on something.
Glancing to her side, Sanae was looking at Aki with a betrayed expression.
***
Titania had been neatly dressed for the first time in a while. Abandoning the fashion of wearing only shorts with her sportswear, the fairy queen’s dress was handmade by Grande Hill. She wore it with the help of Grande Hill.
Her radiant blonde hair was trimmed by Grande Hill and neatly arranged, and she looked tidy even at a glance wearing the formal dress Grande Hill had chosen for her.
Rather than being pretty, it feels very elegant. Titania smiled contentedly and put her necklace around her neck, which glowed blue like her own pupils.
“Queen.”
“Yes why?”
“I think this necklace suits you better than that one.”
Grandehill showed a pearl necklace.
Titania glanced at herself in the mirror. Looking at it again, her pearl necklace seemed to fit better.
I took off the sapphire-encrusted necklace again and put on the pearl necklace recommended by Grandehill.
Suddenly, the earring in Grande Hill’s ear landed on her eye. An earring with a slightly rough sapphire that looks like it was made by humans.
‘Dehil doesn’t like accessories very much.’
The thought did not last long. This is because Lee Si-woo came right away.
Smart.
Titania sat down in her seat and made a small use of her ability assimilation. The world number responded. The magic of the World Tree resides here.
It’s just a nest, so there’s not much utility in itself. It just makes you feel better, smells of fresh grass, and something like dignity stands out.
Very little. Grande Hill looked at Titania with the slightest pity, and quickly lowered her eyes to hers.
“Come in.”
A voice that is not usual and elegant.
When Titania spoke, her door creaked open. It was the result of beckoning the tree spirit.
Pretending not to see anything, Grande Hill briefly touched the sapphire earring that Lee Si-woo gave her as a gift, saying that she liked it.
Wide open door.
Siwoo Lee comes in. When our eyes met for a moment, Lee Si-woo greeted me with his eyes. Grande Hill nodded her head calmly.
“First, sit down on the sofa.”
Said Titania, gesturing gracefully. Lee Si-woo nodded calmly and sat down on the sofa. Titania was about to say her words to Lee Siu, but hesitated.
A strange sense of discomfort came over me.
Familiar scent. And bitter memories.
After she caught the lazy goat, she felt strangely uncomfortable when she looked at herself in Japan and said it was her taste.
Titania tilted her head for a moment before organizing her thoughts. Now it’s my turn to push Grandehill first.
Bongguan Shaman is a hero of the highest rank, and her individual strength is weak, but her value rises vertically when she is combined with her team.
But she doesn’t function properly without her at the Hero Academy. So, didn’t Titania make a separate seat like this to support Grande Hill?
“There is no need to worry. I’m not trying to reprimand you, but I’m giving you a reward for stopping the last lazy goat.”
At first, she spoke calmly.
She was actually about to give as well. The Void King, Ennis, and the Dragon King, Hamer, also agreed.
However, the problem was what to give the reward for. The indolent goat, which only descended and regained some of its strength, was a great disaster for Japan.
It polluted an area of 400,000km with demonic energy, and blew everything away as it was.
In less than an hour after the mountain goat descended.
It wasn’t that Ennis offered to give him away for nothing. I said it in a joking tone, but if Lee Si-woo had nodded there, she would have had a real wedding.
─My taste for her is rather close to that of a fairy queen.
Lee Si-woo’s voice was clearly audible. Titania shook her head briefly.
The reward was decided to give one at a time.
– Serve Yeouicheonju (如意天酒).
Those were the words of the Dragon King.
In other words, nectar. It was a divine drink made with fire as an act of eating. Yeouicheonju provides perfection to humans by eating itself.
Literally a divine drink that, when consumed by ordinary people, becomes similar in spec to that of a hero in the middle.
-What is it? Hamer, isn’t that too hot? I’m worried about this He also wears really good looking weapons. If you live in Yeouicheon, you won’t need an elixir.
It is nothing else than the Glory of the Morning Star and the Kirin Sword, which are weapons that are too high for his level.
If it’s just a good weapon, there should be more, but there is a high probability that Lee Si-woo’s growth will be fixed.
-In addition, I decided to receive a holy relic from the Vatican. Then I’ll give you the fantasy orb.
-… Aren’t you overdoing it?
Fancy marbles.
It is a sacred thing related to time. Simply put, the effect is that if Siwoo Lee dies once, Siwoo Lee’s time is turned back and resurrected.
– Then what about Titania?
-Titania, don’t stay here, talk to Grandehill. You… What can I say, but it tends to be too cheesy.
-That’s right~. If you had a man, would you support him while taking care of the family?
… Titania erased their conversation from her mind.
“Dehill.”
I called Grande Hill. Grandehill lowered her head and pulled out two items from the space.
Golden cup. A purple liquid flowed over the glass.
And purple beads.
“… This.”
Lee Si-woo looked at the two with trembling eyes. Titania smiled contentedly. It is a world where only the strong cannot survive.
Seeing the eyes and brain of Lee Si-woo, who knew the value of things at a glance, Lee Si-woo looked prettier.
Lee Si-woo is an excellent child whose talent has been proven.
‘In the future, sure.’
History will be reorganized around him.
Just as in the past——the human race united around the man who was a regressor and embraced a single world.
“They are gifts from the Void King and the Dragon King, respectively. The Dragon King gave Yeouicheonju, a nectar called the divine drink. And the Void King gave me a fantasy orb.”
“Yes…”
Lee Si-woo listened to his words and looked at the Yeouicheonju and the marble of fantasy with ecstatic eyes.
Titania opened her eyes.
I didn’t like the way I looked when I couldn’t take my eyes off the presents from Ennis or Hamer, even though I said I liked it more.
“Dehill.”
Titania called Grandehill by name.
To show the reward prepared by the fairies.
