Chapter 62 – Chapter 01: Elf Heavenly Horse
Eugene came this far and calmly summarized his life in one sentence as if he had nothing to hide, and ended his speech with a bitter expression.
Yeonhwa then opened her mouth with an expression that revealed that she had finally realized the true nature of the sense of discomfort she felt from Eugene.
“Right. “You can’t live without a goal, so you just set a goal out of ‘inertia’ due to the situation.”
“Inertia… ?”
Yeonhwa, who noticed a fact that even Eugene himself was not aware of, looked at Eugene with a pitiful expression and continued his explanation.
“Yes, inertia. You’re not trying to save the world because you want to save it, or because you want to survive. “In a situation where I didn’t know what to do, a suitable proposition to use as a ‘goal’ appeared right in front of me, so I just inertially made that my goal.”
In other words, Eugene did not save the world in order to survive. He simply made it his ‘goal’ to save the world in the name of wanting to live as a goal for living.
“That’s probably why you don’t feel the instinct to live, the passion to live, or the sincerity to survive. Because you don’t want to live, you want to live.”
Eugene gathered his thoughts for a moment at Cheonma’s assertion, which accurately grasped Eugene’s state of mind that even Eugene did not know about, and then had no choice but to smile bitterly and agree.
“I’m sure that might be the case… Inertia… Is it inertia? At the moment when I was stuck at home not knowing what to do, I saw a suitable goal and used it as a reason to live, right? …”
It was when Eugene, who realized his true feelings that he had not been aware of, was muttering with a somewhat dazed feeling.
Yeonhwa, who had already finished eating all the food, put her plate aside and looked at Eugene with serious eyes and asked.
“Okay, in that sense, let me ask you seriously. Do you really need to go to the academy?”
“… Yes?”
Yujin let out a dumbfounded voice when Yeonhwa suddenly asked an unexpected question.
However, Yeonhwa did not break her serious attitude and asked with sincerity.
“I mean it literally. You said you had to go to the Academy to save the world. But as I said, your goal of saving the world is not what you truly want. “I just chose the right proposition in front of me as a goal for living by inertia.”
When Yeonhwa asked if he couldn’t deny that fact, Eugene couldn’t bring himself to say that he couldn’t.
“So now that you know that fact, there’s no need to dwell on the goal of saving the world, right? “Rather than such a grandiose goal, try to find a new goal that you can truly be passionate about.”
“… But then, just like the future I saw, this Orbital World will be destroyed in at least 10 years.”
When Eugene objected to Yeonhwa’s unexpected proposal with an expression that he could not simply accept, Yeonhwa said with a charming smile.
“You just have to think about it at that time. The world is going to end? Things like that happen, too. But there’s no need for you to try to stop it, right? “You are not alone in this wide world.”
Yeonhwa says that maybe even if you don’t, someone else might try to stop it.
“If it doesn’t work out, the main body can block it. “There is no need for you to leave this place, enter the academy, and sacrifice your life to stop the world.”
Yeonhwa’s argument is that there is no need to do that for the sake of the goal chosen out of inertia, not sincerity.
“You are just lost. As you said, they are running with only one goal in mind, which is revenge, and they just don’t know how to find a new path after reaching the destination. In such a situation, a large path appears before your eyes, and you are moving forward without even knowing if that path is truly the path you want to follow.”
And Yeonhwa was saying that she couldn’t just watch Eugene’s situation like that.
“If you truly want to go down that path, this office will not be able to stop you. But you don’t mean it. “I just keep moving forward because I can only see that path and I don’t want to stop.”
Therefore, Yeonhwa emphasized that there was no need to leave this place to enter the academy, being deceived by the path of being a savior that was immediately visible in front of one’s eyes.
“If you need a goal, just find a new goal. The goal of salvation is a path that cannot be described even in words as a thorny path, as it is a path that can only be pursued through inertia. “No matter how much you have, the correct path is not to go forward unless you truly want to go down that path.”
Yeonhwa’s words are not even sincere about that goal in the first place, but she asks if you really think you can achieve that goal.
At those words, Eugene was silent for a moment and then opened his mouth with some difficulty.
“… Even if you find a new goal, it means nothing if the world is destroyed.”
“If the world is going to be destroyed because you don’t stop it, destruction is the answer.”
“I don’t want to die in such destruction.”
“But doesn’t that mean you don’t want to burn everything and prevent destruction in order to survive?”
“No one can stop it except me…”
“Even if the world is truly destroyed, I will stop it. “Are you looking down on me?”
Eugene, who couldn’t bear to open his mouth in front of her because he was sure that even Yeonhwa wouldn’t be able to stop her, soon opened and closed her mouth as if she wanted to say something.
But soon she heard Yeonhwa’s words and Yujin became confused as to whether she really wanted to save the world. She quickly got up from her table and said,
“… “I’ll think about it on my own.”
“Hmm, then what do you plan on doing for the academy entrance exam tomorrow?”
“… No matter what the conclusion is, the entrance exam itself will be held tomorrow. “You can choose whichever conclusion you want.”
While saying that, Eugene has a very complicated expression and goes back to his room without even saying a word to Yeonhwa.
If it were Yeonhwa’s usual attitude, she would have seemed uncomfortable, but Yeonhwa now seemed quite relaxed.
Hehe… Yes, think about it. “After much thought, I will forgive everything if you just stay by my side.”
Then, Yeonhwa, who was muttering quietly with quite a magical look in her eyes, remembered one fact and thought about it regretfully.
‘By the way, that girl called Snow Girl. It’s quite a shame she’s already dead. If she were alive, she would have found a way for me to go to a place called Earth, or I would have dragged that woman to this world, or I would have punished her with her life for touching treasures that I should not have touched with my own hands.’
At the same time, she remembered Eugene’s expression, which was quite complex for someone who was just thinking about the woman who raped her, and her mood worsened again, and she soon let out a sigh.
“Wow, now that I realize it, it seems like the main seat is not the main seat. “Every day is a new feeling, but as it is, it’s quite perplexing.”
However, Yeonhwa thought she was not bad, but she soon realized that she was in quite a serious condition, and she laughed bitterly.
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The next day, after hearing Yu-jin go back and forth on whether Yeon-hwa was gaslighting her or if it was really his true feelings, I couldn’t sleep and worried.
Although no conclusion was reached right away, as the academy’s entrance exam date arrived, Eugene decided to put his worries aside and proceed as planned.
Because Eugene couldn’t sleep well in the first place, he started moving early in the morning to be on time for the academy’s entrance exam.
“… Are you really going to follow me?”
“Yes, I would like to take this opportunity to take a look at the system for the first time in a while. “Didn’t you say that many things have changed from the system we were familiar with?”
“If you are not interested no matter how much I encourage you, then why bother to follow me today…” …”
“It’s a whim. “Complaints are only accepted through the office.”
The problem was that Yeonhwa, who was still behaving the way she wanted today, made an unexpected move.
Yeonhwa usually didn’t pay any attention to Eugene when he returned to the island every week.
However, for some reason, he insists on accompanying Eugene to the system on this day when an important exam called the academy entrance exam is about to take place.
And Eugene, who had no means to break her stubbornness, eventually allowed her to accompany him despite sighing.
Eugene heads to the island accompanied by Yeonhwa, who is wearing a revealing outfit with the usual Chinese dress motif.
“… “They really are leaving the gate open and not checking.”
“As you can see, horse-drawn carriages and carriages are passing by without a break. “In this situation, if we delay the inspection, it has reached a level where the logistics of the system itself become problematic.”
For that reason, the two accompanied Yeonhwa and arrived at the Jedo Castle Gate through a familiar route.
Yeonhwa expressed admiration as she saw not only the familiar carriage, but also the carriage she had never seen before, a carriage running without horses, and a horse-drawn carriage quickly crossing the gate.
“But is it okay to run outside the gate like that? Although the speed is considerable, it would still be dangerous if you encountered a monster, right?”
“As you can see, the road has been maintained. “If you’re in a rural area, on roads where horse-drawn vehicles are allowed, troops are dispatched periodically to eliminate monsters, so there isn’t much of a problem.”
Of course, there were no problems at all. In the first place, the current Orbital World was in the process of transitioning from the Middle Ages to the modern era due to the explosively developed magic civilization, that is, it was a worldview close to the modern era.
Things that are more common in modern times than in the Middle Ages are being developed in droves, but they are literally being developed.
Therefore, no matter how much the empire leads the development of civilization and makes efforts to improve roads or enact laws, it is an environment where accidents are bound to occur.
Of course, from Eugene’s point of view, it was a story that he did not know much about, so he entered the system with Yeonhwa, who was curious and was looking around at the system that had changed significantly in just a few decades.
“This…”
And Yeonhwa, who follows Eugene into the island, is slightly overwhelmed by the sight of the island’s interior, which is much more developed than what she saw outside the outer walls.
“Has it changed that much?”
“… It’s not like things have changed. “This makes me feel like I’ve been reincarnated in another dimension.”
And Yu-jin, who was accustomed to seeing Yeon-hwa’s appearance from the beginning and seeing the system in front of her, looked puzzled by her.
Yeonhwa, who has come to the island for the first time in at least ten years, or even decades, continues her story by expressing admiration for the island that has completely changed from what she knew.
“It’s the same with this road right now. “When I came to the island before, there were not even separate roads for horse-drawn carriages and horse-drawn carriages like there are now.”
However, after the development of horse-drawn carriages and the fact that they could easily kill criminals at their speed, the empire created a large-scale separation of sidewalks and roads.
Therefore, despite the huge number of people crowded around, the carriages and horse-drawn carriages running in the center were able to run at high speeds, completely separated from the crowd.
“Look at those tall buildings over there. “There are buildings here and there that are taller than Cheonmagak, where the main body stayed.”
In fact, even if it was high, in Eugene’s eyes, she was only a 10 to 20-story building.
As Eugene, who has seen buildings boasting not only 30-story buildings but also 40- or 50-story buildings in the modern world, and even three-digit floors, it is difficult to sympathize with Yeonhwa’s words.
However, for Yeonhwa, who had a 10-story building as the tallest building in the martial arts world as well as before the development of the magic civilization, the sight of a system where buildings with more than 10 stories are being built in droves is close to a new world.
“More than anything, this crowd… It seems like the population numbers are different from what we know… ?”
“Well, since the chronic food shortage has been resolved with the development of the magic civilization, it is only natural that the population has increased.”
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