Chapter 22 – Chapter 01: Elf Heavenly Horse
It didn’t matter if someone from the Demonic Cult happened to find it and continue her German martial arts skills because she had hidden it in the Demonic Cult’s library.
Because she belonged to the Heavenly Demon, or to put it another way, the Demonic Cult. It means allowing someone of the same affiliation as her to continue her martial arts skills.
However, the Heavenly Demon Church did not exist in this Orbital World. In other words, from her perspective, there is no one who would allow her to continue her discovery of her own German martial arts skills, even if by chance.
The only thing that would happen is if she changes her mind and accepts her student. In that case, all she has to do is pass on the various martial arts skills she knows.
In other words, in the Orbital World, the martial arts book was a useless item from Yeonhwa’s perspective.
Rather, since it is nothing more than an object that poses a risk of people learning his German martial arts without permission and going on a rampage, it is a natural choice to burn it like this.
Eugene, who understands that fact, just watched her actions silently, even though she suffered and burned her returned martial arts right before her eyes.
“Well, in the first place, it is said that this Chimpum imprints the memory of martial arts in the minds of those who read it for the first time, so considering this world where knowledge of martial arts is lacking, there may not have been a need to burn it…”
Still, Yeonhwa mutters that it would be better to burn it because it feels bad for her things to wander around the world without her permission, and she quickly shakes off the ash with her hand.
Yeonhwa, who had completely resolved the purpose of Eugene’s visit to her, said that she had finished her work and looked into her eyes with Eugene in earnest.
“Eujin, you have done me a favor. And this committee believes in thoroughly repaying not only grudges but also favors. Even if the other person intentionally showed favor for that purpose.”
Yeon-hwa’s tone clearly shows that she knows that Yu-jin returned Gu Yu-magong’s military service because she had something he wanted from her.
But Eugene was not embarrassed. In the first place, she knew that the main character in the game, Yeonhwa, had her own purpose and that she had returned the martial arts book of Guyu Magong to herself.
In the first place, humans act because they benefit themselves, so if they show kindness to someone they don’t even know, it’s probably because they have some kind of purpose.
It is natural for Cheonma, who knows the physiology well, to infer that the original protagonist and Eugene did him a favor for a purpose.
It was no one else, but the Heavenly Demon. The Heavenly Demon has used not only force but also all kinds of tricks to become the leader of the Heavenly Demon Church.
Therefore, Eugene was not embarrassed even if Cheonma saw through his purpose. She already knew this would happen from the beginning.
“If you have shown favor to the person who is so strong that he does not need to receive favor from others, even if it was an attempt to target you, the fact that you have shown him the favor is just a story of piercing the loophole of the person.”
The Heavenly Demon Church was proud of itself. A world of survival of the fittest. At the same time, it is a place where the weak can swallow up the strong at any time and become a new strong.
Therefore, even though it was a world of strong against the jungle, it was not a world where the weak were looked down upon. Because the weak can overwhelm the strong and take their place at any time, the strong must always be wary of the weak.
In that sense, even if there is a purpose, Eugene can exercise his authority as a strong man in the sense that he has pierced the Heavenly Demon’s loophole just by the fact that he has benefited the Heavenly Demon.
And as the head of the Heavenly Demon Church, Yeonhwa, who was the embodiment of strong self-respect, naturally intended to respect that authority.
“To put it simply, since I have received grace, I will appropriately grant what you want.”
Therefore, even though Yeonhwa in the game may be irritated by the fact that she received a favor from the protagonist, she definitely repaid the favor.
Therefore, Eugene was also confident that Yeonhwa in front of him would repay the favor properly, even if she had received a favor that she did not want.
That’s why Yujin calmly accepts even though Yeonhwa said that she would grant her whatever she wants in return for returning the military service of Prince Guyumagong.
… However, even for Eugene, who was pretending to be so calm, there was something that he couldn’t help but feel embarrassed inside. Unlike the game, Yeonhwa didn’t seem to be in a bad mood.
‘The Heavenly Demon in the game was irritated because he had received an unwanted favor and had to repay it anyway.’
However, the Heavenly Demon in front of me was not like that. Unlike the Heavenly Demon in the game who did not hide his annoyed expression, he maintained a faint smile throughout.
In addition, the calm eyes that were filled with indifference also seem to have calmed down, but they contain enough interest that Eugene can clearly read them.
It didn’t stop there. In the first place, it was not possible to return Gu Yuma-gong’s martial arts book so easily in the game.
To be precise, it was quite a pain after returning the military service of Duke Gu Yuma. That’s because the Cheonma asked various things from the protagonist as if it was natural.
‘How did Gu Yuma know that it was his martial arts? Why did he think of returning it to himself? How did he know that he was staying here…? … , Etc., Very inquiring questions.’
And as she said, lying did not work for the Heavenly Demon who opened the human path. No, in the case of the main character, even the rough thoughts can be read.
But the problem was that the main character in the game was the incarnation of the player.
In other words, a contradiction may arise in that the protagonist does not know any information that the player knows through various episodes.
‘In other words, the protagonist does not know the answer to the Heavenly Demon’s question.’
From the player’s perspective, he simply used all the information he gained through various episodes to clear the path to becoming a disciple of the Heavenly Demon, but from the protagonist’s perspective, everything just happened to come together by chance.
So even if the Heavenly Demon asks questions, it just happens to be… The only answer I can give is . And this touched the hearts of the Heavenly Demon.
‘Obviously, if you read the accident, it’s true that all of this was a coincidence, but in Cheonma’s opinion, that can’t be the case.’
Could it be that the person who obtained the military service of his old Yumagong comes to return the military service to him even though he is unaware of his existence and has no reason to do so?
That all happened by coincidence? No matter how much I thought about it, it was natural to think that it was strange that that probability existed.
The problem is that the main character really thought that everything happened by chance, and the Heavenly Demon can read that thought…
‘Is that why you become even more irritated by the unacceptable reality?’
And at this point, the Heavenly Demon’s response is determined depending on the protagonist’s personality. If the choices you made before reaching that point are close to evil tendencies, kill the main character after granting him what he wants.
… Well, since he received a favor no matter what, should we say that he repays it and then kills him out of shame? And, conversely, he showed an attitude of waiting and watching if it was closer to a good tendency. What if it’s close to neutral?
‘I won’t kill you this time either. ‘Because it’s annoying.’
In short, if the protagonist’s inclination is not good, he will die.
It wasn’t that Cheonma chose to date good or bad people.
To begin with, Cheonma himself is clearly a person with evil tendencies, so isn’t it strange that he chooses good and evil people to date?
They just act that way because they have concluded that if a neutral or evil person sticks to them, it is obviously because they are bothersome or have an unpleasant purpose.
In other words, even if you return the martial arts book properly, there is a 66% chance of death by the Heavenly Demon depending on your disposition…
‘At this time, you can sell some of the blessings that returned the military service and ask the Heavenly Demon not to ask about things he might be curious about in advance.’
In short, in return for returning the Book of Military Officials, all you have to do is ask him to give advice on his martial arts for a year and half a year, and ask Cheonma not to ask you why you returned the Book of Military Officials, etc.
Even if the Heavenly Demon’s Human Sword is a fraudulent ability, it reads the thoughts in the protagonist’s mind, so if the question itself was not asked in the first place and the answer to the question was not thought of, the Heavenly Demon would not be able to read it.
So, the story was that if you start by excluding factors that might make the Heavenly Demon suspicious in exchange for grace from the beginning, you will never die at the hands of the Heavenly Demon, regardless of your inclination.
‘So, if you ask me how the Heavenly Demon knows about the relationship between him and the former Lord Yuma, he was planning to sell his grace to some extent…’
Unlike the main character, Eugene had a thorough mental barrier, so there was no need to worry about being read or thinking like a human being, but it was still a situation where it was assumed that it would be judged whether it was true or not.
In that respect, the situation may be worse than the protagonist who knows nothing and moves as the incarnation of the player.
For example, when Cheonma asked if he knew about the relationship between himself and Guyumagong and came to return some of them, the protagonist had no problem answering ‘No.’
In reality, the main character just didn’t know anything and just did what the player told him to do.
However, in Eugene’s case, if he gives a negative answer, he will be caught by Cheonma, a human lie detector, so he has no choice but to not answer.
So, for the same reason explained earlier, selling grace can block Cheonma’s questions, so when Cheonma asks this or that, Eugene was planning on using grace as collateral to block the questions.
… Yeah, that was my intention. It was a given that Yeonhwa would ask all the questions that came to her mind after giving her a firm answer that she would listen to him because she was indebted to him.
“But before that, there is something I would like to ask you. And at the same time, you probably also have something you want to ask me. In that sense, let me make a suggestion. “How about we ask each other questions one by one and agree to answer honestly?”
… Yes, unlike the elves in the game, Cheonma and Yeonhwa, Yeonhwa is making Eugene even more embarrassed in that she does not forcefully ask questions to Eugene, but instead gives Eugene the option to ask questions to her.
Even after returning the official military service of Duke Guyumagong, Yeonhwa simply asked questions in a high-handed manner, as if she were one-sidedly interrogating the protagonist.
Therefore, Eugene was also waiting for that situation and making a plan to pass away at that time, but he approached it with a completely different attitude from the game in the first place, so it was strange if he wasn’t embarrassed.
‘Whoa…’
However, from the moment she entered this log mansion and her eyes met Yeon-hwa, she was showing a completely different attitude from the game, so Yu-jin was able to calm down quickly.
‘Okay, so you should only use your knowledge of the game as prior knowledge, right?’
No matter how great the knowledge of the game was, what was unfolding before Eugene’s eyes was reality.
A reality with infinitely more possibilities than games. Unlike games, the reality is that options are not limited.
Games also have a variety of options, and depending on the protagonist’s personality, which changes as he or she decides on various options, the options that appear in the same scene may vary.
In other words, Orbital World is basically a crazy game where there are more than one or two choices at one branch point, and in some cases, dozens of choices.
But the reality was more than that. Even if it were a game-like turning point, the reality was that the number of options Eugene could choose from was not just dozens, but hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands.
In that sense, one should not blindly trust the original knowledge. Believe without doubt, but only with prior knowledge… , We must not forget that it is a variable that can fluctuate depending on one’s actions.
Eugene, who had realized this fact after being possessed in the Orbital World by Yeonhwa and Cheonma, an elf who clearly showed a different attitude from the game, opened his mouth to answer immediately.
“… All right. “If the Heavenly Demon wants it, of course we should do it.”
“Tsk tsk, that’s fun. “Is the reason it sounds sarcastic because I have a twisted mentality?”
“How could I say something sarcastic in front of the great Heavenly Demon?”
“Even those words sound sarcastic to me… Well, it’s good.”
And Eugene decides to scrap all the plans he had made in advance because things are going in a completely different direction from the game from the beginning.
