Chapter 53 – Chapter 01: Elf Heavenly Horse
I think we’ve mentioned this before, but Yeonhwa got up from her seat with a very offended expression when Yujin asked her why she was asking again now.
“… “I will be in meditation from now on, so please do not disturb me.”
“Yes? “What about dinner?”
Yu-jin asked in confusion at Yeon-hwa’s sudden declaration, remembering the deer she caught on her way home, but Yeon-hwa only gave a completely different answer.
“Today’s business meeting is also cancelled. I’m going to meditate seriously, so if you disturb me, I’ll kill you… “It won’t hurt, but it will be quite painful.”
So after telling Yeonhwa not to disturb him at all, she goes back to her room without listening to Eugene’s answer.
… Eugene, who had seen Yeonhwa like that for the first time in a month, could not help but be embarrassed.
No, Eugene, who was momentarily dazed by the sight of Yeonhwa in the original work, which he had never seen before, sighs and scratches his head at the fact that reality is not as easy as expected.
“Why is it like that all of a sudden? There’s no way it’s because I’m sad about leaving…”
If we think about Eugene based on the original work, Yeonhwa’s current favorability towards Eugene would be only 20% at best. At this level, it would have been the level of favorability equivalent to a well-known acquaintance.
Of course, considering that there was a difference in the protagonist’s attitude toward Eugene from the beginning, what if the generous payment is double that amount, about 40%?
It’s a little short of being considered a friend, but can we say that we’ve known each other for some time?
Since they were in such a relationship, Eugene could now joke around with Yeonhwa without hesitation. But to put it another way, it was only that much.
‘No matter how I think about it, I don’t think they’ll react that much to me leaving.’
In addition, when the main character, who achieved a likeability rating of 99 in the original work, returned to the academy at the end of vacation, it was Yeonhwa who calmly sent it away even though she felt a little disappointed.
Eugene cannot understand why she would react so dramatically just because he is leaving, so he just tilts his head.
And then, did you ever attain enlightenment? After thinking about this, he decided that he really shouldn’t be disturbed, so he decided to go out of the house to slaughter a deer to eat alone tonight.
‘Still, you might get hungry at night, so I should pack it separately.’
Not knowing what Yeonhwa was thinking when she started meditating, Eugene was just slaughtering her deer while thinking about the entrance exam that would take place a week later.
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About six days passed after Yeonhwa reacted in a way that was difficult for even Eugene to understand.
When Eugene returned to the system, the entrance exam for Orbital Academy, for which she had applied in advance, was only one day away.
With January 31st, the last day of January, and one month left until Eugene actually receives Yeonhwa’s protection, Eugene couldn’t help but feel a variety of difficult emotions.
After saying that she would meditate six days ago as if she had achieved enlightenment, Yeonhwa actually concentrated on meditating until the next morning.
And from then on, Yeonhwa’s attitude toward Eugene changed significantly.
To be specific, it was difficult to say what had caused such a huge upheaval. When she talked to him, her tone was still high-handed.
However, when Eugene was preparing a meal with food obtained from animals hunted in the forest or from the island, Yeonhwa would wait until it was done and then come and just put a spoon on it.
Now, when Eugene is preparing food, she sneaks over to him and starts chatting with him and helping him prepare the food.
This wasn’t the only thing. If you try to wash the dishes after you finish eating, they will do it for you a few times, or if you try to organize your training tools after the training is over, they will immediately throw them away as empty waste…
… What should I say? Should I say that I have started to be considerate of small things?
In that sense, it could definitely have been a huge change in attitude. It wasn’t anyone else, it was Yeonhwa.
Yeonhwa, the only child in the world, believes that Yu-jin is in a position to help her and that she deserves to receive that service.
She is so considerate of Eugene that she doesn’t mind doing odd jobs with him?
No matter how you think about it, isn’t it strange?
Wasn’t it during Eugene’s first sincere meditation that he suddenly burst into flames? He looked at Yeonhwa with such eyes.
Fortunately, I didn’t ask the person involved because I thought that if I said it directly, I could die during the sparring session.
In any case, if Yeon-hwa’s attitude toward Yu-jin was slight and strange, there was also a change in her sparring with him based on the date when it began to change strangely.
Yeonhwa’s way of pushing Eugene with the intention of killing him was to tell him to survive and become stronger on his own.
Now she was starting to push Eugene to the limit.
Yes, the story goes from pushing him with the intention of killing him to pushing him to his limit without killing him.
This was obviously a strange story considering Yeonhwa’s personality. In addition, after the sparring was over, she kindly started giving advice about Eugene’s martial arts… !
“I don’t know what the wind is blowing…”
For that reason, Eugene was feeling quite comfortable as the minor inconveniences that Yeonhwa had been staying with for the past six days had improved.
And at the same time, there is no way the Yeonhwa I know is like this? I also felt a great sense of discomfort.
‘So you’ve turned around? I can’t ask you directly…’
If you ask Yeonhwa in front of Yeonhwa if she was wearing a coin coat, should she ask this since it wouldn’t be strange if she made Eugene fall into a coin coat on the spot? Should I not? It’s something you can’t help but worry about.
‘At least, if you think about it through knowledge of the original work, there are some parts that are unexpected…’
In the original work, there was a point when Yeonhwa’s attitude changed like this. The point at which none other than the protagonist becomes her student and reaches more than 50% of her favorability rating.
At this point, Yeonhwa decides that her protagonist is her own person and begins to show a rather tolerant attitude.
Eugene becomes generous to the point where there is no problem with exchanging small jokes with Yeonhwa, as promised in the beginning.
In addition to this, she pretended to be indifferent, perhaps because the person whom she had treated like a servant until now had become her own person, but she began to take care of various things as she does for Eugene now.
In this way, the players said that the players argued that the Yeonhwa was awakened from the nursing house to the Laurie Maman.
“No, but I don’t think my current favorability rating is over 50%…”
Isn’t it only a month and a week later? In the original work, reaching 20% favorability at this point was a respectable level.
It took a newbie about 6 months of game time to meet the 30% mark, which is the standard for becoming Yeonhwa’s disciple, and a person who memorized the strategy took about 3 months.
At least Yeonhwa was the type of person whose likeability became easier as her likeability increased.
But to put it another way, it is said that it is also a type that is difficult to increase favorability to the extent that the early section is called hell.
But Yeonhwa’s favorability level was increased by more than 50% in just one month? No matter how much I thought about it, it was difficult. Above all, Eugene was not Yeonhwa’s disciple…
‘No, if you take the Yeonhwa route, you will be forced to become a disciple, so I don’t know of cases where your favorability rating exceeds 30% without becoming a disciple.’
… In any case, it was said that Yujin’s knowledge of the original work could not be used to explain why Yeonhwa’s likeability had exceeded the standard and her attitude had changed.
“… Tsk, she has absolutely no intention of trusting the original knowledge.”
However, Eugene was unable to come up with a plausible answer even considering Yeonhwa’s changed attitude without knowledge of the original work, so in the end, he decided to focus on the task in front of her for now.
“Kkieek… !!”
While worrying about her Yeonhwa, Eugene avoids the attack of Enemy, a strange form that fell from the ceiling and was aiming for the top of her head, by sneaking a step to her side.
Then, he stabbed the tip of the cannon blade towards Enemy’s solar plexus, which had fallen naturally as if it had been put together.
Phew!
“Kruk?!”
Enemy, who was in the form of a bipedal monkey whose arms were shaped like sharp awls, attacked her solar plexus in an instant, causing her to struggle in pain.
However, the moment she was about to stab her awl-shaped arm towards him as if she was going to use Eugene’s life as her companion before she completely lost her breath, Eugene’s arm moved first.
Phew! Wow!
With her left hand, which was not holding the cannon blade, Eugene took out a butchering dagger that was worn at her waist, and in an instant, she thrust the dagger towards the monkey’s dagger.
Then, with a snap of his wrist, Jeol Yu-jin skillfully slices off a handful of flesh from the dagger he had plunged into the monkey’s stomach.
The strength of the dagger he was holding in his hand was strengthened by internalization due to unilutation.
In addition, when Eugene’s strength, which had doubled his physical abilities due to internalization of the body, came into play, he was able to cut off Monkey Enemy’s flesh like tofu.
“Stick…”
Enemy, a strange-looking monkey with both arms in the shape of awls, whose flesh had been smeared in an instant by Eugene, soon lost the light in his eyes and hung down one of his arms as he tried to thrust out.
“Is this the last time?”
Eugene, who instantly cut out the magic gemstone alive from the Enemy in front of him with a butcher dagger, was collecting the magic gemstone buried in the flesh.
Dump!
He then lightly kicks the corpse of Monkey Enemy, retrieves the cannon blade stuck in the corpse, and stores the magic stone in the pouch on his waist.
‘According to the original, all that’s left now is the boss room.’
Eugene, who was thinking about other things but showed enough composure to deal with the Enemy that surprised him in an instant, was soon looking at the passage in front of him and searching through his memories.
‘I have come down a total of 4 floors so far, and all of them have the same structure as in the original game, so if you go forward from here and go down the stairs that appear, you will reach the final 5 floors, the boss floor.’
And by hunting that boss, you can clear this dungeon, one of the two introductory dungeons in Lina Forest.
If Eugene retrieved the dungeon core, the dungeon itself would have been closed as it was a subspace type dungeon.
“… “Let’s go get some food.”
Unlike the dungeons where magic stones were supplied and centipede-shaped enemies appeared, Eugene planned to conquer this dungeon until the end today.
No, unlike the Centipede Dungeon in the first place, which was open and accessible, this dungeon was closed and once you entered, you could not escape unless you conquered the dungeon.
In other words, the fact that Eugene entered the dungeon after asking for Yeonhwa’s understanding early in the morning was tantamount to a declaration that he would clear this dungeon.
And just as he declared, Eugene, who had broken through this dungeon, which was a closed-type sub-space type and also a class-breaking type, was already in a situation where the boss room was in front of him.
‘This dungeon doesn’t really have any hidden pieces.’
Eugene, who was in front of the boss room, sat down for a moment and thought, eating the beef jerky he had brought from the bag on his back to recover his lost stamina.
‘A typical leveling dungeon. A gimmick to cause a dungeon break later if you don’t attack it.’
In other words, it was also a dungeon that Eugene did not need to attack.
Dungeon Break is an entry-level dungeon. It is said to be a level of difficulty that even those with the status of criminals can narrowly overcome if they form a party of 6 people.
‘Of course, since entry level is divided into beginner, intermediate, advanced, and top level, you may fall behind if you are unlucky.’
