Chapter 102 – 102 – Refreshment and Regret
“What a refreshing morning!”
Nidroga, who had a good night’s sleep because he had a long flight, smiled refreshedly as he watched the sun rise over the layered mountains.
And he immediately looked embarrassed. Because a face that looks much more refreshing than Nidroga’s appeared.
Eshen, whose estrus pain had completely disappeared, stood next to Nidroga and solemnly faced the dawn like a man who had mastered everything in the world. Then he handed Nidroga some black tea that he had brewed himself.
“Yes. It’s such a refreshing morning. The sun shines equally on everyone, but it looks particularly brilliant today. Maybe it’s because my attitude toward life has changed.”
“···You came by car? You?”
“From now on, I will borrow your back and remember to ride it whenever I take a long flight. After entering the White Beak Mountains, Garam and I will guide you, but you will be the one who will work the hardest during the move. Although it is new, thank you and take care of me, my friend. “
“···Showing sincerity? You? Even when you’re in heat?”
Nidroga twitched his eyebrows. And when she saw me climbing the mountain after her, she smiled helplessly as if she understood the situation.
I nodded, feeling pain at the fact that I was alive.
“Yeah. It’s me.”
“As expected. You’ve really helped Eshen’s friendships tremendously, knowingly or unknowingly. These days, you seem like a new person.”
“What on earth was it like before I came?”
“A fighting cock with no bullshit. A sensitive bitch who would attack anyone who touched her, regardless of whether they were party leaders or dragons.”
Eshen, whose skin was shiny, smiled in cool recognition. The reason why that monk-like clear smile is somehow irritating is because Eshen stole all of his composure and goodness.
As I stared at him quietly, Eshen scratched his head shyly and avoided my gaze.
“I’m sorry for waking you up in the morning. I was so excited when my condition returned.”
“You didn’t have to throw yourself on top of me and wake me up with a body press. People are coming. Let’s leave it at this.”
“It’s not the people, it’s Isilun. Among the group of us we’re with right now, Isilun is the only party member who doesn’t know about your lustful behavior. The rest have seen you openly violating me.”
Nidroga held back his laughter and put his arm around my shoulder. I was shocked because my energy was exploited all yesterday.
“How long are you going to keep this a secret from Isilun?”
“···The fewer outsiders who know about this situation, the better. Besides, Isilun is not the only one accompanying us. Garam and other Tigris will also move together this time.”
“One way is to make them insiders. Why not try to seduce them both?”
“Are you a lecher? Attack every woman you go with. It’s already dangerous enough right now.”
I closed my eyes tightly. Thinking back to the words Ragnaroka hinted at last night.
You clearly said, ‘I took care of my share.’
I have a habit of sleeping with the door tightly locked. It’s been like that ever since when Thena and I were adventuring alone, scary adults came in with daggers drawn and rummaged through our luggage.
But yesterday morning, just before I went out to see Villena and Morgan off, I noticed that my bedroom doorknob was broken and missing. I didn’t think it was strange at the time. I just thought it must have been old because it was such an old castle.
After listening to Rod’s words, I looked again at the doorknob, and there was a faint trace of someone’s hand carved with a strong grip.
“For some reason, I thought the dream was too erotic. If I could get the door, I could get the same thing from my hair…”
“What does that mean? Ah. Her mother caught your scent the night before yesterday. Yes.”
Nidroga scratched her horn in embarrassment. Eshen almost spit out her tea at those words, but she managed to calm herself down and slowly drank the rest.
“Hmm, should I take care of it myself?”
“···Please have mercy.”
“I’m just kidding, relax your face. Anyway, since I’m in a relationship with multiple people, it can only happen if my turn gets pushed back from time to time. Come visit me whenever you feel like it. I’m fine anytime.”
I took a deep breath. Then, with a firm decision, he took something out of his pocket.
When they opened a small bottle with a pungent herbal scent, the two people who were sensitive to smells frowned at the same time.
“What is that?”
“The tonic potion that Vilena made. Originally, it was planned to be distributed to people who were exhausted in the magic cave, but no one used it, so they gave me a few bottles. They said this would happen.”
As Nidroga blushed and looked embarrassed, she pretended to raise her tiptoes as Eshen giggled.
“Can you keep an eye on me?”
“···Request.”
Nidrogar took a deep breath and tried to hold my hand.
I pushed away his hand and lifted Nidrogar up as if I was holding a princess. Nidro cupped his shoulders shyly, like a new bride being carried to her bed.
“Bar, bar, outside?”
“Why not? Take your pick. Behind a tree, in a bush, in a valley.”
“···Let’s go to the valley. I know a quiet place.”
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[I hope you have a comfortable flight to your destination.]
There is one more person in the world whose condition is refreshing.
Isilun, the type of person whose good mood is easily contagious, smiled brightly as he entered the cabin on Nidroga’s ship.
And when she saw me sprawled out on the sofa as if dead, she tilted her head.
“Did you not sleep well last night?”
“I had a hard time sleeping because I had a violent dream, and even the scissors were pressed against me. I was struggling to get away from the scissors, and I ended up with cramps on my thighs. It was a hot night, so I was sweating profusely, so it was hard.”
When the reason why Eshen was massaging my legs was explained clearly, Isilun nodded her head as if she was clearly understood.
Unlike Isilun, Lenny, who had a habit of laughing when she noticed that others were in trouble, twitched quietly behind Isilun as if it were funny.
“It looks like you had a very war-like night.”
“That somehow sounds dirty… Oh.”
Isil Rune put his hands together over his mouth and let out an exclamation.
“It’s not some kind of romantic relationship you’re hiding. I won’t ask, so just keep hiding it. This is also quite interesting.”
···Shit.
Fortunately, the conversation, which would have been extremely difficult to delve into, stopped before the group entered the cabin of the Nidrogar Transport.
A sister who looked almost as tired as me came in and sat next to me. He seemed to have woken up late and was smiling with a messy face.
And after them, seven handcuffed Tigris sauntered in. Six are men. One is a woman.
The reason he wasn’t shackled was because he repeatedly promised to remain quiet. However, Garam Taiga, whose venom had not yet disappeared, looked around at us dissatisfiedly and looked like he was measuring something.
The male Tigris glanced at each other, and one of them whispered to Garam.
“These three people. I don’t think we can beat them just by kicking. If you’re going to do this, do it alone. We’re honestly scared-“
“Shut up.”
“If you fall from the air while making a fuss, if the bottom is the sea, you will all be fish food, and if it is land, you will all be meat pie-“
“Okay, just shut up!”
Garam’s kick, which made his colleague worried, was aimed at his colleague’s shin.
While the guy who spoke up loudly was screaming that he was going to die, the rest of the Tigris were giggling and sitting down.
Lennie wrinkled his face as if irritated by their mere presence.
“Everyone who returned home also got on board. Me, Isilun, Bantai, Monica, Eshen, and even Nidroga, the captain of our own small aerial ferry. No one was missing. Villena is the base of the underworld, and Nenya is the Great Patriotic War. I left for Elan, and Morgan-“
“Morgan is here. Morgan Alkonost Tomko, reporting on board.”
Someone ran furiously under the transformed shadow of Nidroga, jumped into the door, and landed in the middle of the room.
Everyone looked at Morgan with dumbfounded expressions.
“···What? Didn’t you say you were going back to Tobetan?”
“It’ll be okay. I left a letter explaining what’s going on. My crew will be able to convey it to my father in a good manner. In fact, the meeting will go on even without me. My father, who is the captain, will take care of it.”
After dumping her luggage down next to me, Morgan sat down next to her on the couch, kicked off her shoes and stretched out.
Then he massaged my right leg and smiled sinisterly.
“Where should I go and leave you behind?”
Eshen, who was massaging her left leg, snorted at her dejection.
“Hey, look. The party leader’s order has been given. Is it okay to do this?”
“Now that I think about it, Tena’s orders said that I should persuade her father to warn the pirates, but it didn’t say that I had to go all the way to Tovetan.”
“What do the sailors who came to take you say? They said they would take care of convincing Captain Tomko? If this was going to be the case, didn’t they complain that they should use a mail owl?”
“I told the sailors that my current comrades needed me. They were all so moved by my camaraderie that they shed hot tears and said they would understand.”
“…You didn’t shed hot tears because you were threatened?”
“What do you think of me? I’m not a senseless person who points a gun at me because I’m wrong.”
“I didn’t say they pulled a gun on me.”
Morgan looked away from her, avoiding her gaze. She then realized that the snap button strap on her holster was loose and she quickly locked it.
She shook her head as if Eshen was dumbfounded.
“If you leave like that, what will become of Villena?”
“An honest and hard-working person. I am just taking care of my share in a cunning and mean manner.”
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Villena, who had overheard the conversation with her eavesdropping bug, narrowed her eyelids.
She didn’t hold a grudge. Villena Nitro fully understood Morgan’s position. Since big players were already competing for the position of the secret service, it was natural that competition in the niche market for the secret service would also become fiercer. No wonder she wants to stick with Villena, who is somewhat impoverished in many ways, rather than a breast monster like Sister Monica.
So, if a suspicious potion were to one day end up in Morgan Tomko’s food or water, Morgan would also understand. As long as Vile or Umbrella Nitro is watching, the damn sea robber bitch will never be able to drag her bantai into bed with ease.
Villena smiled cruelly as she came up with numerous plots in an instant. And as if she suddenly remembered something, she turned on the receiver attached to Tomco and checked her movements.
〈I can see the hands wiping the deck! 〉
〈Ai, ai!〉
The two port cleaners hurriedly responded to the deck captain’s displeased command and sped up mopping the floor. The two women who followed Adamantone were Moriba and Mindina.
It was difficult to become familiar with the smell of salt water, but it was a cheap price to pay for avoiding death and punishment.
Due to deep-rooted superstitions, they were not allowed to sail, but among the Tobetan humans, there are few who do not have a drop of blood on their hands. A country founded by charlatans and scoundrels accepted as members two deck sweepers who wanted to put an end to the past.
It’s a pretty happy ending for a group of leeches who cling to a bastard with a good family name. I clicked her tongue in annoyance, as I was secretly hoping to see them in trouble.
But today I felt a little bit refreshed.
〈Aren’t you coming? He’s not coming! Don’t have time to come see dad? I want to enjoy love…Love…〉
The reason Moriba and Mindina’s voices were heard was because Tomko, who had attached the eavesdropping bug, was passing by them.
Aleister Tomko, who received the letter from his daughter’s thunderous owl, was so angry that he screamed as if he would turn the sea upside down.
〈···Baaan Taaa Yiyi-!〉
The winged postal service hurriedly flew up and left, probably because it was afraid of being in trouble.
Mindina and Moriba, who had no wings and could not run away until the deck was completely cleaned, began to wipe the deck as hard as they could, hissing in fear.
Villena, who was laughing happily at them, pursed her lips as her third receiver lit up.
It was an item given to someone who was trusted by everyone. The only one who doesn’t trust him is Villena, who has an uneasy personality.
If the party finds out she’s been eavesdropping, she’ll probably be mad at Villena for a long time.
But if she finds out that Villena is eavesdropping on her party’s spiritual leader, the rest of her party will treat Villena as her irreconcilable enemy.
But she has information that Villena must overhear. In the past, the shameful eavesdropping was due to a paranoid part of him thinking that someone might gossip about him, but this time there was a more clear and obvious reason.
〈···So, I have to come to a clear conclusion today. What kind of person was Thanh Bhan Thai to you? 〉
〈Someone like an older brother or younger brother who we get along well with.〉
〈 Don’t lie. 〉
〈Even if you ask me a hundred times, the answer will be the same. We were just born in different ships, but we were like real siblings. We’ve been fighting each other since we were in the single digits, and we’re like a family who’s seen everything we can’t see. 〉
It’s a lie.
Of course, Villena is not used to reading other people’s emotions. Spotting a lie in tone of voice is something that only a more social person can do, she said.
However, if someone collects as much physical evidence as Vilena, even a social loner will be able to tell that that statement is a lie.
And, crucially, when she glared at Eshen, putting her arm around her Tan’s shoulders.
There was anger and regret in Tena Everlight’s eyes that even a fool could see.
〈 Officially, yes. 〉
〈···I will say that in front of everyone. Because it’s easier to endure that way.〉
There was noise between the conversations. The fragments of the Demon King that had been stepped on by Thena Everlight’s feet seemed to gurgle and spit out bubbles of her blood.
Thena’s new porter, Erinak Sophon, grumbled. She’s a smaller fragment than Gunther, but she’s quite tough.
Instead of answering, Thena raised her sword and made the sound of cutting through the wind. The demon king’s fragment fell silent along with the sound of meat being pierced.
Thena let out a sigh of relief as she eliminated yet another Apostle of the Apocalypse.
〈 Anyway, I have to kill this heart before ‘that day’ comes.〉
‘What day?’
At the sound of her father approaching, Villena bit her lip impatiently.
But TENA Everlight was silent. The warrior and the porter did not have any further conversation.
When her father knocked on her inn door, calling for her, Villena bit her lip as she gathered up her listening devices and placed them in her backpack.
‘What day, Tena? What day do you want something to happen?’
