Chapter 533 – Side Story) Karma Returning From the Deep Sea (7)
When I was still young, there was a small river around the orphanage.
At best, it was a narrow river that even young children could jump across, but a river is a river anyway.
There were various small fish and creatures living there, and I often went fishing to catch those fish.
Of course, at the time, I wasn’t in a position to get a full-fledged fishing rod and go fishing, so I just fished by threading a thread into nearby reeds or tree branches.
Sometimes, we caught them with a net made of woven branches.
Anyway, at best you can catch them like a minnow or something that makes a fuss.
If it was a large fish, should we say that it was a small game, no more than a freshwater crayfish?
It was a memory of earning a small amount of pocket money by selling minnows for a few coins each and crayfish for a rather expensive price of about 1,000 won to neighborhood jammins.
I just threw away the guys who were making a fuss. Now they are said to be rare animals and are fattening up in a corner of the zoo, but at the time, people paying money to buy them were strange people.
Anyway, in that sense, I thought that the thing in front of me might be the biggest catch of my fishing life.
At least it was clear that if I were to sell them, it wouldn’t end up costing just a coin or two per animal.
Of course, I have no intention of doing so.
The tree that grew from the tree seed of the ‘evolving forest’ that I threw away had a strange ecology… So, it grew as I wanted, and I had just caught what I wanted.
And, what I wanted was my mother-in-law who lived in a place called the Undersea Palace deep in the sea.
In other words, what I caught now was my mother-in-law.
“Ugh…! Ugh…?!”
I looked at my mother-in-law who was harpooned by my power and at the same time the net was captured by the tree.
Although he was entangled in the roots and trunk of the tree, he seemed to be in good health as he was jumping around vigorously.
As Cecilia’s mother, it was a bit much to see a beautiful woman who looked a lot like Cecilia, with her whole body bound tightly.
Maybe it’s because he was caught while he was relaxing at home, but he’s in a very natural state, so every time he jumps around, he’s showing all sorts of things.
“…”
“Hanzo…”
“This idiot…”
“Well, as expected, the female hero is a lecher!”
The stares and sighs of the wives on the back of my head, and the sounds of Carmina being a lecher and all, were stinging.
I didn’t intentionally catch my mother-in-law while she was naked, so it was too much.
Well, whatever.
“It’s my first time seeing you.”
Since I was in no condition to have a conversation, I decided to first untie the tree that had caught my mother-in-law.
I stretched out my hand.
Slurp…
The faster the tree grows, the faster it dies.
It was a seed of the forest that adapted and evolved in an instant.
Even so, the reason it grew so rapidly and changed into such a strange form was due to the influence of my power.
If you harvest it… Because it grew excessively, it had no choice but to end its life in an instant.
Crunchy…
Trees that dry up and soon fall apart.
Thanks to this, the body of my mother-in-law, who had been rescued after being tied tightly to that tree, was also freed.
“Okay then… Let’s have a conversation.”
I’m not a crazy person who rolls my eyes and beats up my father-in-law whenever I see him. I was the type of person who wanted to do that if it could end well.
First, hitting my father-in-law was an accident because I didn’t know he was my father-in-law at the time, so I didn’t do it on purpose.
The fact that I attacked him after finding out he was my father-in-law was just sparring, so it wasn’t my fault.
But.
“Also…! Have you come to interfere with our cause again? You monster bitches!”
As soon as I released it, I saw my mother-in-law with her eyes rolled over and shouting like that.
That’s not what my mother-in-law said to me when she first saw me.
To begin with, I was a guy, not a bitch.
In other words, that’s it.
This was something I said to the wives behind me.
“No.”
Before he could stop his mother-in-law from suddenly going crazy, her eyes rolled back, and she waved her hand.
Then the seawater rose.
Quaaaaa!
The rising seawater swirled and formed a huge waterspout.
“Before, it was so easy to attack because it was land… But this is the sea…! “Do you really want to suffer again?”
Looking at my mother-in-law, visible among the swirling waterspouts, her hostility was at its peak…
I looked back for a moment.
“… Didn’t you say we were just acquaintances?”
Aside from being a grandmother and all, Lilith, Ho Aran, and Xiao seemed to know about my mother-in-law, so when I asked them, I was told that they had only seen her face once.
No matter how I look at it, it doesn’t seem like we’ve just seen each other’s faces.
When I asked that, I saw Lilith Lang Ho-Aran turning her head.
“Lilith? What is Hoa?”
When I called the two again, Lilith scratched her cheek and Hoaran blushed slightly.
“… Well, you know our faces, right?”
“That’s right, um… Isn’t it a lie to say we know each other by face…?”
… That’s true, though.
“… Xiao?”
After seeing those two, let’s call Xiao this time.
“So, do you have any complaints?”
No.
Lilith and Hoaran are somewhat humble, but I don’t know what makes Xiao so confident.
… Well, it didn’t matter.
“Let’s see…”
I roughly calculated an estimate for my mother-in-law, who hid herself among the swirling waterspouts.
Looking at the divinity that seems so weak to my mother-in-law…
It seemed like if I adjusted my strength incorrectly, I would turn my mother-in-law into a mother-in-law.
Still, I was already overworked this morning, so I wasn’t confident in controlling my manners… So I decided to call someone to calm my mother-in-law down for a while instead of me.
“Hoya.”
Pong.
The hoa summoned above his head did a somersault and sat down on my shoulder.
Suddenly, a light weight felt on the shoulder or a child’s characteristic high body temperature felt on the back of the head…
Yes, it is body temperature.
Could it be because of the influence of my power?
As for Hoa, who was almost like a member of my family, there was one thing that changed recently.
Being a food spirit is something that goes beyond the limits.
“I need to ask you a favor.”
With the appearance of nodding his head, a change occurred in Hoa’s body.
Food spirit.
An inanimate object that has been created and given life.
Hoa, who surpassed that limit… ‘Grew’.
Slurp…
I felt the weight of Hoa, who was sitting on my shoulder as if riding a wooden horse, increasing.
At the same time, I could also feel the presence of tails fluttering and stretching.
In the past and now.
Hoa usually went around looking like a kid about five or six years old, but that was just because Hoa liked it better that way.
In other words, it was just a decoration.
As a member of the family, not a food spirit, Hoa, who grew up through my divinity, revealed his true form.
… Of course, since she was sitting on my shoulder, all I could see was Hoa’s still plump thighs with less fat.
My long, plump legs that used to only reach my collarbone now come down to my chest, so I could tell that I had grown enough just by looking at this.
Is that all?
Hoa, who has grown up, is now able to do things properly, rather than just saying hoa.
“… Pervert dad.”
Thanks to this, I was able to listen to Hoa’s criticism in real voice, not just in my mind.
Perhaps dissatisfied with what I thought were thighs with less breast fat, I scratched my cheek when I heard Hoa murmur as he lightly grabbed the back of my head.
… As she grew up, she became more of a 10-year-old girl rather than a 5-6-year-old girl. These days, Hoa was even more picky.
These days, even when I call him, he doesn’t do much to hold me in my arms or sit down.
Usually, he would just ride on my head or hang from behind like this.
Is this the loneliness that fathers feel as their daughters grow up or something?
… I felt like I was previewing a little too quickly.
One day, when all the daughters grow up… Each of them will bring their own mate when they grow up every day and want to marry their father…?
…
“Just burn it lightly.”
I suppressed the slightly rising irritation and said that.
Nod, say.
Hoa nodded and said.
“Hoyeomhwanhwan.”
Suddenly, flames rose above Hoa’s seven unfolded tails. Soon, the flames formed rings, and the rings overlapped each other, forming a huge circle.
As Hoa grew, seven fox fires rose above the seven extended tails.
A bead of flame made by weaving rings made from it.
It was halophilic hwanhwan.
A bead of flame that looks so small compared to my mother-in-law’s waterspout, which is dozens of strands long.
It looked like it would be swallowed up by seawater and disappear in an instant.
“Opening.”
Ho-Yeom Hwan-Hwan, who flew towards the waterspouts created by his mother-in-law along with the incantation recited by Hoa… Showed the opposite.
Cheeeeek…!
The flame that evaporated all the seawater and even burned the steam burned bright yellow.
Is that all?
It didn’t stop there, and the halophilic ring was seen getting bigger and bigger.
Unlike the waterspout, which loses its momentum as it evaporates… The Haloyeom Hwanhwan, on the contrary, was only getting stronger.
This was due to the characteristics of the halophilic ring.
As Hoa, who was created as Hoaran’s food spirit, grew… As an individual, the effect of the magic spell created by himself, the Ho-Yeom Hwan-Hwan, was simple, but that made it even more terrifying.
Providence of flame.
The flame that extremely strengthened the burning and burning was the halogen fire.
A flame that burns with everything as fuel.
Therefore, Hoa’s halophilic fire was able to burn using even seawater as fuel.
“Well, it’s not that there are no restrictions, but…”
In any case, Hoa’s flame was able to burn using only energy of a lower level than himself as fuel.
However, that disadvantage became virtually non-existent due to me acting as Hoa’s battery.
The power used by Hoa was divine, superior in all powers.
A divinity that is superior in all powers except for the difference between strength and weakness between equals… I possessed the most in this world.
In other words, Hoa’s flame could burn everything in existence and become a burning flame using it as fuel.
Thanks to that.
“Kaaaaat?!”
Not long after, my mother-in-law’s screams were heard from inside the waterspout, which was gradually fading.
“Hoya, stop now.”
Hoa nodded and extinguished the flame, and his mother-in-law was visible through what had become a small water whirlpool instead of a waterspout.
“Ugh…”
My mother-in-law, whose once green scales have turned golden brown.
“Hmm…”
You are much weaker than I thought.
It is true that I thought I could pacify the divinity I felt from my mother-in-law, even if only slightly, to the extent of Hoa.
However, I didn’t think Hoa could do something like that with just a light spell.
“… It’s not my fault.”
Tightly, Hoa said as he held on to the head of my head.
“I know.”
It was my fault for not knowing and misjudging that my mother-in-law was much weaker than the people I had seen so far. It was not Hoa’s fault for turning my green mother-in-law into a well-done mother-in-law when she was only lightly roasted as I ordered.
Besides…
“Huh…?!”
As I approached, I saw my mother-in-law shaking her shoulders in shock, and it seemed like she had completely calmed down thanks to being slightly accustomed to Hoa, which was actually good.
Roughly, the water stream that had become weak due to burnt water was swept away with my hand and completely destroyed.
I went in front of my mother-in-law and stretched out my hand.
Wooooow…!
“Ugh…?!”
My mother-in-law closed her eyes tightly, but that wasn’t enough, so she covered her face with her tail.
In particular, I didn’t mean to attack my mother-in-law and deliver the finishing blow.
“Well, it’s okay, just open your eyes.”
Slurp…
The mother-in-law’s tail that was golden brown after being cooked well by Hoa, the scales that were ripe and peeling off in scarlet color, and the skin that was ripe and falling off in red.
It heals quickly as if nothing had happened.
Saint-Jean.
Living and growing, the life activity itself.
For me, who had the power to handle this, it was simple to slightly increase the creature’s natural resilience.
As a matter of fact, it was easy to restore the vitality itself, which had decreased a bit… So I did that as well.
Thanks to this, I could see that my mother-in-law’s skin, which received my divine full-body care, was not only recovering but also slightly rejuvenated, becoming softer.
Originally, this was a service provided only to wives, but we decided to call it a service provided by Jeongdon Hoa as an apology for cooking a little too much.
“Now, do you want to talk now?”
She asked her mother-in-law, who had lowered her tail that was covering her face with a stupid expression, feeling that not only had her body gotten better, but she had even become younger.
“… Who are you?”
Only then did my mother-in-law ask that question as if she had seen me.
Yes, it seems that I was right when I saw the wives behind me.
I was still full of wariness, but when I saw my mother-in-law asking, not looking at me with maximum hostility like before… But rather looking at me with a slight fear… I felt like I had done something bad.
Anyway…
Since you asked me who I am, it’s natural for you to answer.
I happened to come up with several names to refer to myself, but I had no intention of using those names now.
So.
Said.
“I am the father of Siren, Serena, and Sepia.”