Chapter 37 – Chapter 01: Elf Heavenly Horse
Then, after exchanging tiki-taka with Yeonhwa for a week, which he had now become accustomed to, he noticed with his sixth sense that she was wearing her clothes, and looked behind her.
“Hehe, so what are your thoughts? Well, this is the beauty of the main seat. Of course, it will be decided to be cute.”
And when Eugene turned around, there was Lori Cheonma, who was wearing pure white rabbit pajamas and had both cuteness and sexiness, standing proudly with her arms crossed.
“… Yes, it’s cute. “To my chagrin.”
If I could, I wanted to say something negative about her dignity, but I thought Yeonhwa’s appearance was cute and beautiful both subjectively and objectively.
Eugene, who found it difficult to give a false answer to the sight that was so close to a work of art, clicked her tongue and answered without hiding her resentment.
Then, Yeon-hwa, who chuckled and laughed at Eugene’s answer, continued her conversation by putting her butt on the chair she was sitting on, wearing cute bunny pajamas with a top and bottom combined.
“Huh, but your eyes seem to be fine, huh? “If you had said that it wasn’t cute, I would have personally plucked out those useless eyes.”
“Would you like to…”
I knew that the remark that Yeonhwa made jokingly was not a joke but was sincere.
However, Eugene had become accustomed to her after spending a week with her and hearing her say such things countless times.
In addition, Yu-jin himself was able to exquisitely avoid Yeon-hwa’s landmines through her knowledge of the original work, which he gave to Yeon-hwa as her precognitive ability.
To put it simply, even if Yeonhwa’s remark was sincere, she is confident that she would not create that situation herself, so it is natural for Eugene to react unimpressed to her heartfelt and brutal remark.
“Hmph, he seems like an unattractive guy. “If I, a normal Heavenly Demon, talk like this, shouldn’t I at least show a trembling attitude of fear?”
“As I told you because you’ve been wondering whenever I have time over the past week, I’ve been treated very harshly since I was young. “She’s experienced worse than having her eyes gouged out, so I don’t really relate to her.”
In addition, the fact that he had gone through all kinds of hardships as if he had not reached the status of an absolute figure in his early 30s for nothing could be said to be one of the reasons why Eugene was calm towards Yeonhwa, who frequently made harsh remarks.
“Hmm? “I don’t think you ever told me that you had a physical defect, right?”
“Because we haven’t had enough conversation to unravel the story yet. Still, I told you about the story about how I participated in a raid by an arch-demon called Amon and got one of my ears burned off, right?”
Yeon-hwa continues to talk to Yu-jin, who is trying to return to her own room as she returns home, saying that it must be a physical defect of its own.
“The story was definitely interesting. The existence of the devil was interesting, and the fighting method called raid in that place called raid was also interesting.”
But the most interesting thing was that Yeonhwa smiled and asked, as he said, that one of his ears was burned off in the battle.
“Now that I think about it, I forgot to ask, and now that I’m talking, I’ll ask, but since then, you’ve been walking around in that place called Earth with only one ear?”
“Well, how many years after that? Fortunately, I was able to obtain the means to recover after that and was able to regenerate it.”
And when Eugene says as he leaves the living room that if it weren’t for that method, he wouldn’t have been alive after suffering all kinds of physical defects, Yeonhwa shows interest in that method.
“I’m curious because it’s a means of regenerating body defects. “I want you to explain.”
“I’ll explain later, after the training is over, when I tell you stories about the Earth.”
However, Yeonhwa muttered with a faint smile upon seeing Yujin calmly ignoring the Heavenly Demon’s request and going into his room alone.
“Hehe, what a shameful guy. “How dare you refuse this Heavenly Demon’s request.”
If an ordinary person had shown that kind of attitude, they would not have been able to endure their discomfort and would have left from the beginning.
But for some reason, I didn’t just dislike Eugene’s attitude.
Maybe it’s because we’ve slowly built up intimacy over the past week, so we’re used to that attitude now…
Or maybe it’s because Eugene has the status of an absolute person who deserves to be treated as a human being, even if he is only a soul…
Or, if not, maybe it was just because he had been immersed in martial arts for hundreds of years and was more lonely than he realized, so he missed someone who could talk to him on an equal level…
“I don’t even know where I am.”
Maybe it was some other reason, or maybe it was all of those reasons.
However, whatever the reason, the important thing now is that Eugene’s behavior, which is gradually starting to become more comfortable with her despite only being together for a week, feels repugnant but not unpleasant.
Isn’t that why Yeonhwa became too lenient on Eugene after only a week? While thinking about this, she smoothed out the pajamas she was wearing and muttered.
“… Tsk, I knew that people with foresight existed, but foresight is more amazing than I thought. “In that guy’s dimension, Earth, they call this a fraud ability?”
Yeonhwa, who grumbled that it was shameful to shake her heart by gifting her a nightgown that knew her taste exactly, soon blushed slightly and thought with an absurd smile.
‘It seems like this man was hungry. ‘It’s amazing to see that even a small gift like this can make you fall in love.’
Hmm… , In that sense, should I just rape her tonight? Yeonhwa, who was thinking about this, soon smiled quite refreshingly and shook her head.
‘No, a man is most attractive when he offers himself to a woman of his own will.’
And he was the Heavenly Demon. She is a Cheonma who has the confidence to make men fall in love with her and fawn over her not only in martial arts but also in relationships between men and women.
For that reason, Yeonhwa was thinking with a bewitching smile that there was no need to be nervous and that she could slowly dye Eugene with her own color to the point where he couldn’t live without her.
Squeak!
And it was the timing as she thought about that and savored the remaining sip of her tea.
Eugene, who had gone back to her room, changed her clothes and came out of the room again, holding a butcher knife.
“Now that I think about it, it’s clothes I’ve never seen before, both when I came in and the clothes I’m wearing now. “It looks like the purpose of going to the system has been achieved, right?”
Yeonhwa comes out of the room again and asks a question to Eugene, who is about to move to slaughter the carcass of a wild boar outside the house.
Yeonhwa knew the reason why he returned to the system after a week in the first place.
After selling the magic stones he had acquired by easily conquering the entry-level hidden dungeon in Laina Forest that he knew of for a week, Eugene returned to the island to purchase the necessary items.
And the fact that Eugene is wearing clothes that Yeonhwa has never seen before shows that he achieved his goal in the system without any major incidents.
“Yes. “I had a lot of magic stones that I collected over the course of a week, so I was able to buy various things like clothes to wear this winter and training tools.”
The butchering dagger that Eugene is currently holding was also one of the items that could be purchased by returning to the system.
Thanks to this, it became possible to prepare and slaughter animals without having to make appropriate stone tools like when preparing rabbits that were hunted when first entering this forest.
‘When I think of the hardships it took to make stone tools for hunting and slaughtering for a week, tears fill my eyes.’
Yeonhwa is only responsible for Eugene’s safety and living space.
Since food and clothing were not provided, Eugene had to hunt animals whenever he had time in the forest to eat three meals a day for a week.
It was a shame because Eugene had experience procuring food from the forest with his bare hands to exorcise ghosts called spearfishes, otherwise he wouldn’t have been able to even make cut stone tools.
“I heard that the body you possessed was quite hated by the nobles of the empire, wasn’t it? That’s the reason I entrusted it to you. But you were able to return to the system and be safe?”
A question raised by Yeonhwa when Eugene realizes the greatness of civilization through the butchering dagger in his hand.
Eugene responded in a tone that asked if he was asking something obvious.
“Well, most people who knew Strahl’s movements would have thought that I died in the Lina Forest.”
No matter how low-level the Lina Forest was, this was truly a case for people with minimal ability.
For those who do not even have the minimum ability, like Stral before Eugene’s possession, the forest is ultimately dangerous to humans regardless of whether it is in the low level or high level range.
Even in the forests of Orbital World, no matter how low the level, monsters appear sparsely, so it is said that few people think that Stral, who was completely incompetent, can survive in the Laina Forest for more than a week.
“Of course, someone who had quite a grudge against this Strahl’s body would have wanted to get revenge somehow by sending a pursuer to the Raina Forest…”
“Those guys don’t even come near my residence area in the first place.”
The existence of the lotus flower, which has been living in the liana forest for over a hundred years, was bound to be famous even within the island.
And that’s why people living in the system, whether commoners or nobles, treated Yeonhwa as a natural disaster and tried to avoid it as much as possible as a natural response.
So, even if they were people who had a grudge similar to that of an evil spirit against Strahl’s body and had heard about Eugene late after he entered the forest and chased him down, they could not find him.
Since Eugene had been staying by Yeonhwa’s side for a week, there was no way that those who treated Yeonhwa as a disaster and never came near her would have been able to find him.
Even if they found traces of Eugene approaching Yeonhwa’s living quarters, they would be convinced that Eugene would have died at the hands of Yeonhwa.
“For that reason, most people in the current system have tentatively concluded that I, or more specifically Stral, is dead.”
Of course, the noble who truly holds a grudge against Strahl more than Eugene could have imagined will not give up until the end and may be determined to search for Eugene…
“How could you possibly know where I would enter in that wide system and be waiting so desperately?”
Eugene even spent several hours walking to enter the castle gate away from the Lina Forest, just in case.
“In addition, these days, as transportation methods have begun to develop, the floating population has increased so much that there are almost no inspections.”
For that reason, it was easy for him, who no longer used the name Stral but Eugene, to enter the system.
As a bonus, after registering as a new adventurer, selling magic stones and obtaining necessary items was no problem as he was a person whose noble status was clearly proven, although he was stripped of his noble status.
“It’s a system, but you’re not checking?”
When Yeonhwa seemed puzzled by Eugene’s explanation, noticing that the system was very different from what she was used to, he smiled and opened his mouth.
“It seemed like it was the case a few years ago, but these days, with the increase in public transportation such as railways and horse-drawn vehicles, the daily floating population is also increasing exponentially. In the world where I live, it is an era close to the industrial revolution that is often talked about…”
Even if the castle walls are maintained due to monsters, it is nearly impossible to check each and every person coming through the gates.
Therefore, the gates of the island were always wide open, unless monsters had been invading for several years.
“Thanks to this, it seems that all kinds of incidents and accidents occur every day within the system, but what can we do? “We must endure it and think of it as pain for the advancement of civilization.”
In addition, since he was also in a position to prevent all kinds of incidents and accidents, mainly the machinations of the Demon King’s Army and third forces, he felt sorry for the security organizations such as the police that were in full swing in the system.
