Chapter 228 – Eating the Land (1)
The next day, thanks to my wives, I regained my strength and headed straight to the supermarket where Sati would be.
When I saw Sati crying and leaving while looking at the ring I was wearing or the lunch box Karura had packed, I didn’t even think about catching Sati at that time.
Now that I think about it, there was no reason for her not to catch it.
When Lilith once said that if there was a girl who liked me, she would just embrace me anyway, she couldn’t say anything at the time, but in fact, she wasn’t like that at all.
Because he loved me blindly and had my child, I had no intention of taking responsibility and taking care of him.
If that were the case, I would have brought Mummyummung home right away.
However, perhaps because Mewmewmung is a slime, he seemed to like family, a father, and love in the first place, and he was also a slime queen, and perhaps because he was in a high-ranking position among slimes, he was a person who did not have to worry about life.
So, I just occasionally sent texts asking how they were doing.
Contrary to Mewmung, although she was pregnant with my child, she loved me at the same time, and in the case of Liliana, who wanted to be by my side even though she was the Queen of Wear Honeybee, I contacted her often.
I heard that she was due to give birth soon, so I planned to make time to visit her then too.
In any case, the women I wanted to take responsibility for were not women who blindly loved me or had my children.
Only the women there who wanted to do so tried to make it happen.
In that sense, she was Sati… No matter how much she still loved me, she had no intention of holding on to me if she didn’t want to be by my side.
However.
You should have asked why.
Instead of just watching Sati go away like I was yesterday, leaving me behind like an idiot.
I should have at least asked why.
“Where do you want to be?”
First of all, I just rushed in from the morning, but when I thought about it, I didn’t even know how long Sati had been working.
She doesn’t have any contact information, so she’s wandering around her supermarket, looking for her pink-haired satyr.
“…Why isn’t it there?”
She looked through all the food aisles and couldn’t find Sati.
Haven’t you gone to work yet…
Every time, she came out around lunch time, so maybe it was.
After going to work, I thought I would work as a dispenser and then come back, but there was someone who caught my eye.
The halfling, who was busily displaying goods since morning, playing with her short limbs, was the manager of the supermarket, whom I had seen during Sati’s interview before.
I thought it was a good idea, so I approached the halfling.
“Hey, I’m looking for someone.”
“Uh…”
The halfling store manager opened his eyes wide when he saw me.
The store manager, who is a halfling with short limbs and a body that is less than half that of a human standard, which is another characteristic of halflings, and looks younger than other races, was a bit cute.
Dwarves, another race that is short and classified as dwarfs, are only small in stature, but other than that, should I say they are ordinary or hairy? Anyway, compared to halflings, they tend to have the impression of being chubby dolls.
It’s cute, but it just looks too young for me as a human.
Anyway, I spoke to the halfling store manager, who seemed to remember me.
“Do you know where Sati is?”
“Uh, that’s… Ms. Sati… Yesterday, that…”
When I saw the halfling manager stuttering and unable to speak, I wondered why he was acting like that, but I soon found out why.
“I cut it…”
“No, fuck.”
What did you do?
“No, why cut off a child who was working fine until yesterday?”
“Hee, hee hee…! Well, that’s it…”
After listening to the halfling manager’s explanation, I couldn’t bear to continue speaking.
It seems that soon after Sati and I broke up, there were some bastards who sexually harassed Sati because she was a satyr.
I will buy you something, so I ask you to give it to me at least once.
Since he was a satyr, the satyrs seemed to be annoyed by the satyr who had been ignoring the satyrs who had been flirting with him and arguing about whether he would like to sell things or taste dick, and the satyrs were trying to stab him.
The race of satyrs is so famous for its perverts that the bastards must have forgotten about it for a moment.
That satyrs are a high-ranking race that is located significantly above the average of all races belonging to the world government.
Satyrs are a race of people who have physical abilities that are incomparable to those of humans and are good at using magic, but compared to humans, they are born with exceptional talents as both wizards and warriors.
Moreover, Sati was not in a very good mood.
In the end, I gave up my job.
Because Sati beat up the men who tried to use violence.
“No, but why cut it?”
“Look, there were so many people watching that I couldn’t help it… I know Miss Sati didn’t do anything wrong… But… I couldn’t help it…”
As the manager of a local supermarket, I knew that there was nothing I could do, so I couldn’t say anything when the halfling manager said that while crying.
Whatever the reason, the supermarket employee beat up the customer.
If it hadn’t been for the mart employees and customers, it would have ended up as one of the most common accidents, but because they were mart employees and customers, the situation escalated.
I sighed and said, thinking I knew why the halfling manager cut Sati down.
“…Then, do you know Sati’s contact information?”
The store manager, who was at a loss to answer my question, said,
“Well, that… I don’t know…”
“No… Then, where do you live?”
“I was renting a room in a supermarket…”
I didn’t know where Sati, who was wandering around the streets, was living, but it seemed like the manager had let her stay in the night room inside the supermarket as a favor.
Thanks to that, Satya, since I was buying it at a supermarket anyway, I didn’t really need contact information, so I guess I didn’t know the contact information of the store manager or the staff.
“Baby…”
I swallowed the curse words that were about to come out of my mouth.
I saw the halfling manager looking up at me and shivering.
“…All right. Thank you.”
So, after saying that, I turned around and left the supermarket.
“Fuck.”
And then, I finally let out the curse I had been holding back.
If I had known this would happen, I wouldn’t have just let it go.
I should have at least received the contact information.
“Really, fuck.”
After becoming a full-time employee, I remembered Sati who proudly said that she had received a uniform, and I felt even worse.
Especially since I don’t know how to find Sati, who I don’t even know where she went.
After much thought.
I called Lilith.
-…What? What’s going on?
Today is my work day, but unlike me, who left home early to stop by Sati, Lilith, who was still at home, answered the phone and asked me that.
Something doesn’t come out when I open my mouth.
-What, why aren’t you talking on the phone?
When Lilith asked that question again, I said:
“By any chance, Lilith. Do you know Sathi’s phone number?”
-…
“Ha,” Lilith’s sigh was heard coming from over the smartphone.
-The reason you were dead yesterday was because of that goat?
“Yeah, well…”
-First of all, let me just say this. I don’t know either. They call my phone… No, you know Murry’s phone number. Still, I’ve never really received a call from him… So Muri probably doesn’t know either.
I was wondering if Sati had said that Lilith had come to visit her before, but it seemed like Lilith didn’t know either.
“Yes… By any chance, Lilith.”
-…First of all, I’ll look for it on my own. But, you. Don’t you think it’s too much to ask me to do this?
“Sorry.”
I have nothing to say.
“Really, I’m sorry.”
When I apologized again, Lilith sighed again and spoke.
-…It’s okay. Hang in there.
Eventually, Lilith spoke to me again.
-…I don’t have any? At least not in this city.
“What…?”
No, where have you gone?
-What should I do to find it more broadly?
When Lilith asked that question, I said after thinking about it.
“No… That’s okay.”
If Lilith does her best, that is, if she tries to find Sati by breaking the seal on her body, she will be able to find Sati pretty quickly.
However, it was a bit strange for Lilith to go that far in such a matter.
Moreover, I knew that breaking the seal would be quite a burden for Lilith.
-So, what are you going to do?
“For now, I’ll look for it on my own.”
-You?
“Yeah, well. “I have to try it.”
-…Okay, I get it.
“Thank you. Release. Love you.”
-…Noisy. The bastard you love is asking you to find another woman?
“I’m really sorry about that.”
-Joy. That’s all you need to know.
After saying that, Lilith suddenly hung up the phone, smiled bitterly, and put the smartphone back in her pocket.
“Well, now all that’s left is…”
Well, as I was racking my brain to see if there was more, something came to mind.
There was still only one way for me to find Sati.
I don’t know if it will work or not.
Still, it was better than not trying at all, and better than staying still like yesterday.
Sssss…
Thin threads flowing from my body.
I saw threads that were connected to me.
Some of the threads are heading to the same place, and some of them are heading to different places.
The five threads in the same direction were clearly connected to the wives currently at home.
Also, two of the threads that extend in different directions are Liliana and Aileya.
The two threads leading straight to me were Hoa and Ammut.
One left.
I held in my hand a thread that was thin and stretched far away.
“This is Satine.”
A thin thread that still connects me.
I placed my hand on the connection between Sati and myself and sent energy into it.
I loaded my energy and sent it all the way to where Sati was.
“You went far.”
As Lilith said, even though I spent a long time wondering if it was true that I had just left this city, I felt that it was continuing.
My energy stretched out on a thread, and even though it continued for a long time, there was no sign of reaching the end.
Then, eventually, the limit came.
In my opinion, further pursuit than this was impossible.
“…You really went so fucking far.”
I couldn’t estimate it exactly, but it looks like it’s about a city or two away.
Seeing that the Sati that was cut just yesterday had already moved this far away, it seemed like it had ridden away on something as soon as it was cut at the supermarket.
Still, since I know roughly where she went, there shouldn’t be any problem in chasing Sati like this. As long as you’re connected to me, and I know there’s a way to track you no matter how far away I am, it’ll only be a matter of time before I find you.
But I was concerned that the reservations for today were already full.
Sati is important, but this is also important.
It may have been a little closer, but considering the distance my energy had traveled, at least all reservations made for today would have to be cancelled.
“…Let’s cancel.”
If you were to ask which is more important, the scheduled reservation or Sati, it would be Sati.
The customers who made reservations today weren’t particularly regulars.
If you ask me which is more important, my customers and the one who still loves me, or the Sati who ran away from me, I could of course answer Sati.
So, I took out my smartphone again and tried to send a text message to the customers who had made reservations today, apologizing and canceling.
-Ugh…!
As I was writing down the text to send, a phone call came.
“…No, what day is it really?”
Since the call came in the middle of an emergency, I thought I would just hang up, but should I say it was the call I had been waiting for? I saw the name Namgung Muhyul clearly visible in the middle of the smartphone and answered the call.
-Hello, Kang Han-jo, are you calling?
“Yes that’s right.”
-Ah, sorry for being so early, but this is Namgung Muhyul.
I know.
Well, I wish you would tell me quickly.
“Yes, so? “What’s going on?”
-Actually, I’m calling you about something you mentioned last time… Can we meet now?
“…Let’s meet up? “Now?”
-Yes, if you can’t… Well, it would be difficult. Since I don’t have much time…
“…No, it’s okay.”
Of course, who was more important between Sati and her wives was her wives. And Namgung Muhyul’s case was also related to Ariad, one of those wives.
Because it was about the land where we would plant the seeds of the World Tree we received from Ariad, and the land where we would live in the future.
“Then, can I go there?”
-No, you don’t have to do that. I will go there myself. The meeting place is… Do you know of the Harpy cafe over there? It’s a famous place…
How famous is it there?
Well, Hapi is famous for roasting and brewing coffee himself.
“…Yes. I know. “Then I’ll be waiting there.”
After hanging up the phone, I grabbed the smartphone I was holding.
“…There is no change in having to cancel.”
I sighed and decided to send a text message to the customers who had reservations for today.
