Chapter 77 – Chapter 01: Elf Heavenly Horse
“Of course. Just by looking at it, it looks like he wants to gain martial arts skills from me every day, but there’s no way he’ll accept it, right?”
Yeonhwa and Eugene watch the market together and talk to other test takers from other places who are looking at the market in the system as if they are curious.
And while talking like that, Eugene looked at Yeonhwa’s face as she looked at the outsiders with interest for a moment, and if his guess was correct, he was thinking about the most important factor to consider right now.
‘… What do I think of this woman, Yeonhwa?’
It was a ridiculous situation to argue that it was already impossible to increase likability, and that the character was impossible to attack in the original work.
Because the current Yeonhwa was clearly giving Eugene ‘special treatment’. He wasn’t sure if the special treatment was for the reason Eugene thought it was, or for some other reason.
Maybe it was just Eugene’s own wish that caused his thoughts to flow in that direction.
… Whatever it was, the important thing was that at the point when Eugene was half convinced, he should not treat Yeonhwa like a housemate he would just use and leave.
If Eugene’s guess was correct, he needed to give Yeonhwa an answer back.
And even if Eugene’s guess was wrong, trying to ignore his own feelings despite considering that possibility was just an escape from reality.
So, Eugene was thinking while looking at the island market with Yeonhwa. He asks if he has any feelings for this female elf named Yeonhwa.
Is she simply the favorite character from a game she knew? What happens to her is the stubbornness of an infantile self-reliant woman who never breaks her stubbornness based on her own absolute helplessness?
It wasn’t wrong. But despite this, Eugene didn’t dislike the more than a month he spent with Yeonhwa.
‘… No, it’s not something you need to worry about in the first place.’
A feeling that has been building up for nearly 20 years. Those feelings, along with the frustration and regret after revenge, clung to Eugene’s soul.
It was already a feeling that couldn’t be shaken off with just her words, so if Eugene didn’t have any feelings for Yeonhwa, there was no way he could shake it off no matter what she said.
Nevertheless, Yujin let out the emotions she had been building up without even realizing it at Yeonhwa’s few words.
It wasn’t because Yeonhwa was good at speaking or because Eugene was just an easy man who was open to anyone.
… This is simply because the more than a month spent with her was a time that could definitely be called a ‘memory’ not only for her Yeonhwa but also for Eugene.
Yes, that was it. Yeonhwa had suddenly become Eugene’s ‘reason’ who could shake his emotions with just a few words.
So when Eugene told her that he would help her vent out all the emotions she had been building up, she couldn’t deny it.
‘Ha, damn… It was a strategy and I was just planning to leave after receiving moderate protection.’
That said, Yeonhwa was a troublesome woman. No, the main heroine and sub-heroines of Orbital World were all annoying women.
It was annoying that she was more proactive because of the gender reversal, and that she ended up having all kinds of accidents.
In particular, Yeonhwa was the most annoying heroine among those heroines. She’s a heroine who threatens her life no matter what she does until she builds up a certain level of likability, so there’s no way she wouldn’t be bothered, right?
In fact, her Yeonhwa was a heroine so troublesome and dangerous that it would be impossible to treat her comfortably unless she was the type who, like her Eugene, had no regrets about her life no matter when she died.
Eugene, who knew that fact well, also tried to avoid a deep relationship with her as much as possible and only maintain a moderate level of friendship with her…
‘I’ve never seen anything in the world go as it should.’
… Strangely enough, even before Yeonhwa’s likeability was anything to go by, Eugene himself allowed Yeonhwa to have feelings for her beyond the level of simply being friendly with her.
‘Otherwise I can’t explain her humiliation just now.’
And despite her humiliating and shameful behavior, it also made no sense that she let go of all the emotions she had built up in one moment.
This is the story of how Yeonhwa has become a big person to Eugene…
“Oh, it looks like Nefty is doing an outdoor live over there?”
“Didn’t she say that she was taken by that woman, a woman who recognized her as the Marquis’s daughter? “Are you able to afford to do something that you don’t even know if it’s an outdoor live live?”
“Outdoor live means performing outdoors. And even if you are captured by the Marquis’s daughter, it doesn’t mean anything will happen right away. The bullying will begin in earnest after entering the academy, and since he has been chosen by the next marquis, he may even want to let people know that he is alive and well.”
“Is that so… “But where are you going?”
“No, since I heard that a top idol is performing, I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to see it at least once. Would you like to take this opportunity to take a look?”
“If you want to see the main event completely destroy whether it is a live performance or a performance, then do so.”
… For some reason, the current appearance of jealousy wouldn’t have been considered cute.
It’s not a joke, it’s really true that if Eugene goes to see Nefty’s live performance, Yeonhwa is sure to burst into laughter right in the middle of the live venue.
In other words, even though that warning was 100% sincere and a bloody warning, Eugene found it cute and couldn’t deny his feelings.
‘How did I end up falling for such a crazy woman…? … ?’
Yes, Eugene clearly had special feelings for her Yeonhwa as the opposite sex. And she realized that fact.
Perhaps, if this were a game, Orbital World’s favorability system would have measured that Eugene’s favorability for Yeonhwa had reached at least 70%, and in some cases, 80%.
And Eugene, who could not deny that fact, let out a secret sigh as he looked at the legitimate loli elf who was throwing a sincere threat.
‘Ha, life…’
It was like that when he was on Earth, but Eugene had no choice but to seriously doubt his taste in women when he realized that all the women he became involved with, including that snow woman, were crazy women.
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“Are you planning on enrolling in the academy after all?”
“… For now, I plan to put it on hold until I receive notification of acceptance from the academy. Thanks to where I live, Cheonma, I plan to seriously think about what I want to do during that time.”
As the night deepened and dawn began to arrive, the two walked around the island market together and enjoyed something similar to a date.
Eugene and Yeonhwa soon spent some time to a certain degree of satisfaction and then returned to Yeonhwa’s house in the Lina Forest.
Then, as they walked around the market, they enjoyed a late-night snack with food from a restaurant that Eugene had packed, and ended the day talking.
“Hehe, yes. Feel free to think as you wish. As I said, I will wander with you. So you never have to fret.”
“… Then, what would you do if I really told you that I was going to destroy the world and just live the way I wanted? “If I make a mistake, the world will truly be ruined?”
The news about Hero’s group, that is, the main character’s group leaving for vacation, that I heard today while looking at the market with Yeonhwa was not very good news.
I didn’t know why the specifics were strictly confidential in the empire, but it seems like the protagonist and his companions did something more serious than Eugene thought.
… What made Eugene even more anxious was the fact that it was being kept completely confidential by the imperial government.
If you don’t really step up, won’t the world be ruined because the main character and his group will fall before you even get to the true ending route or the normal ending route? To the point where I feel a sense of crisis.
Still, I haven’t given up hope because I still don’t know specifically what accident happened to the main character and his group while on vacation.
However, even if Eugene’s wish comes true, the destruction of the world will be certain if Eugene does not step forward, given that the main character and his party are currently taking the normal route.
In that sense, when Eugene sighed and asked what he would do if he really said he would beat up the old world and live as he wanted until the world was destroyed, Yeonhwa said.
“If that’s the case, I will stop it by reaching the prefectural police, so you can just relax and find what you want to do on your own.”
“So, in the future possibilities that I know of, not even the Heavenly Demon could prevent destruction?”
“That’s because those Heavenly Demons were asshole-like women, and the real situation is different. Even if the law of the world points to destruction, my martial arts will destroy even that law.”
In an instant, Yeonhwa shows her confidence that she is different by making herself into an asshole in the parallel world through numerous routes that Eugene knows.
In that sense, Eugene was laughing at her as he realized once again that she was the embodiment of self-confidence that never gave in to any situation.
“Really, you speak well. Then, if even the Heavenly Demon is unable to prevent the destruction and the world is destroyed, I don’t know?”
“Hmm, that will never happen, but even if the world were to perish because I couldn’t prevent it, that would be the only world in the end. “If it feels really dangerous, one way would be to find a way to escape to the martial forest where I lived or the Earth where you lived.”
To her surprise, Eugene, who had no idea that the Heavenly Demon would put the words in her mouth about her running away, looked at her with an expression of surprise.
Then, looking at Yeonhwa’s gaze, she continued her story with a charming smile as if she understood why Eugene was reacting like that.
“Maybe it was before, but there is something I don’t want to lose to my current position. I’ll just run away. “In the end, isn’t surviving what makes you strong?”
“Uh, um…”
For some reason, Eugene felt like the atmosphere was getting weird, so he quickly cleared his throat to change the subject.
“Big… ! Anyway, I’m going to think about it seriously until I get the academy acceptance notice. “I also realized something new today, so maybe I can find the path I wanted that I couldn’t find after completing my revenge.”
To be honest, I should have said it because what I realized was my own feelings about Yeonhwa.
Still, Eugene was hoping that he might be able to find a way through this feeling that he could cautiously call ‘love.’
“Are you planning on continuing your training like you are now?”
“Well, no matter what conclusion you draw, force is necessary to survive in this world, right? Even if it is not necessary, it is not good to leave the current state of the mind body out of alignment for a long time.”
So, Eugene says that even if he gives up on salvation, he will continue practicing Salatic with the same intensity as now.
“For sure, force is needed to survive in this world. As a bonus, you also need money. Isn’t that right?”
“… Is that true? But why are you suddenly talking about money?”
She said it was good that Eugene changed the topic at Yeonhwa’s unexpected mention, but she couldn’t figure out the reason, so Yeonhwa tilted her head and giggled.
“Because I was curious. “How much money are you keeping secretly from me?”
“… “You didn’t really keep it secret, did you?”
In the first place, didn’t Yeonhwa really care about how much money she had? When Eugene responded with meaning, Yeonhwa said.
“Not really. That is to say, my military power is so excellent that it can replace money. “If you want, you can overthrow the country itself and get what you want in exchange for money, so why do you need money?”
