## Chapter 250 – Massaging Heroes (1)
After enjoying the sightseeing in Hong Kong, I returned to Korea on the first day.
That day—
I did nothing.
I just slept all day.
A day passed by in an instant.
I was even more tired than when I returned from another world.
If I had to pick something I did, it would be that I cooked ramen.
I was a bit surprised.
That ramen, which didn’t feel spicy at all before the trip.
When I tried to eat it after the trip, it was so spicy that my tongue felt numb.
So it was spicy.
My days in Hong Kong were a good experience in their own way.
The only disappointing thing was.
“I didn’t get any skills.”
People’s greed really knows no end.
I should be satisfied with having mingled with beautiful women, but.
I kept wanting something more.
After all, in other worlds, I even got skills just from sleeping with women.
I couldn’t help but be filled with greed.
In my heart, I longed for the world in the quest.
When I turned on the quest after a long time, it seemed that I wasn’t the only one who missed it.
[Do you want to accept the quest now?]
[The difficulty of the quest will decrease.]
[The rewards for some quests will…]
“Why is it like this?”
I’ve avoided quests for a long time before, but.
It wasn’t like this back then.
Maybe this feature was added as the quest board’s skill level increased.
It felt like the quest board was grabbing my leg.
Telling me not to abandon it.
I turned off various notification windows and started choosing a quest.
Focusing on quests that had decreased in difficulty and increased in rewards.
Then, a familiar world appeared.
A fantasy world.
“Certainly…”
I remembered massaging the commander of the Knights at the end.
Even this memory was old, so it wasn’t clear.
There must have been other things that happened, but only the memory of massaging dominated my mind.
“…If I go, something will happen.”
I was a little excited to go to the quest world after a long time.
I read the mission details.
[Massage 2 women.]
The difficulty has decreased, so it seems easy.
…It’s talking about pure massage, right?
First, I closed my eyes and entrusted myself to it.
Then, I felt like my body was floating slightly.
After feeling the buoyancy that I would never get used to—
“Hrah!”
“Haap!”
I heard the rough shouts of men.
“Hoo…”
I grabbed my head and looked towards the source of the shouts.
“Euryaap!”
The loudness of the shouts reminded me of a gymnasium.
Looking around, sure enough, there were men, almost half-naked, training.
It wasn’t ordinary training.
It was modern exercise using dumbbells and barbells.
“Ah.”
I remembered that I, who had come to this world before, had supplied those exercises and exercise equipment to the Knights.
Thanks to that, everyone had a balanced body.
Good job, past me.
As I stood still, I felt like memories were coming back.
“Commander Dana!”
“Yes.”
When someone shouted Commander Dana from afar, everyone stopped training and saluted Dana.
I also saluted, matching the surrounding atmosphere, and Dana smiled when she saw me.
I remembered.
The memory of touching every part of Dana’s body under the pretext of massage.
“Where are you going?”
I grabbed Dana, who was about to pass by, and asked.
“I’ve been summoned because dignitaries are visiting this time.”
“Dignitaries?”
“I don’t know anything more than that. I’ll be back soon, so don’t worry.”
It was our first conversation, but I felt very friendly.
Dana left for somewhere, and I looked around at the knights who were training.
Everyone saluted with discipline when they made eye contact with me.
When I secretly checked their favorability, everyone thought well of me.
It seemed that I had done quite well last time.
It’s rewarding.
Among them, I saw a heterogeneous favorability.
A relatively young knight with a particularly fluctuating favorability was standing blankly.
“Ethan.”
Yes, the protagonist of this world.
I remembered.
Originally, this world was a Japanese short manga.
A short manga about a boy named Ethan growing up and saving Dana, the commander of the Knights who had just passed by.
And the previous me had changed that story.
He conquered the dungeon, and Ethan couldn’t connect with Dana.
So what’s the next story?
Since it was originally a short manga, I didn’t know how this world would flow.
There might be a worldview hidden that only the author knows, or even the author doesn’t know.
“…Something will happen.”
I called Ethan.
Ethan hesitated but approached me.
His favorability increased and decreased repeatedly.
I could understand the reason in Ethan’s first words.
“D-Didn’t Commander Dana come out of Sir Seonghan’s room yesterday…?”
“Ah… that? It’s just a massage. I loosened her muscles.”
“At night…?”
“She’s a very busy person.”
“Ah… phew…”
[Favorability: +75]
His favorability stabilized again.
I looked at Ethan strangely.
I didn’t know it then, but I could tell now.
‘Is it because he’s the protagonist?’
I felt tremendous mana and internal energy from inside Ethan at the same time.
“…Ethan.”
“Yes?”
“Do you want to learn swordsmanship?”
I wanted to teach him once.
Me, an extra, teaching martial arts to the protagonist of a fantasy world.
When I smiled, Ethan’s favorability dropped a little.
He’s scared.
***
There were two women in the rattling carriage.
The age difference between the two was only 5 years, but their positions were as different as heaven and earth.
One was one of the world’s leading mages, and the other was her daughter.
“Tsk.”
“What’s wrong?”
“Why are the roads in this country like this?”
The woman frowned, looking displeased.
Other people might say that she was nitpicking unnecessarily, but from her point of view, it was understandable.
The Magic Tower where she lived had wide roads paved with magic.
Moreover, she was investing a considerable amount of money in the country she was heading to every year.
So she was in a position to have this much dissatisfaction.
“And it still seems like they’re not prepared enough for monsters. What was it…”
“…Are you talking about the Black Knights?”
“Yes, except for those Knights, there’s no countermeasure against monsters, right?”
The woman pounded her chest as if she was frustrated by that fact.
“Sigh. That’s why the greenhouse flower is…”
Greenhouse flower.
That’s what some people called the Empire.
They were surrounded by many countries, and the number of dungeons was small, so they didn’t have to be wary of monsters.
That’s why they had a strong military force.
Also, that’s why they didn’t know.
The horror of monsters.
Why other countries, especially the countries of the alien races located on the outermost edge, were pouring most of their military power into monsters.
“…You have to be careful.”
“I know, I know. I’ll be quiet just for today.”
Today was an important day.
The moment when her investment, which she made once a year, would see the light.
The day when she, Eva, the master of the Magic Tower in the West, would take over the 3 mages she wanted.
“I don’t understand it well.”
“What?”
Eva’s disciple, an elf, said.
She was a particularly talented child among Eva’s disciples.
“To sell promising mages every year for just a few coins.”
“Tch, they don’t even know if they’re promising mages anyway.”
It wasn’t that they didn’t know the value of mages.
It was just that they had a higher priority for knights, and at the same time, they lacked the ability to recognize excellent mages.
That’s why they were grateful to Eva.
They were just happy to receive a huge amount of support every year and take away half-baked mages.
“They’re half-baked mages from their point of view.”
From her point of view, she was rather amazed that there were people who were doing magic properly in this country.
To handle magic with half-baked curricula and magic books.
In a way, it was a tragedy.
This country would never know why excellent mages couldn’t come out of their country until the end.
“I wonder if Dana will come over here soon?”
“She’s the commander of the Knights.”
Eva clicked her tongue as if she was disappointed even at her disciple’s obvious words.
She had risen to the commander of the Knights, but in Eva’s eyes, Dana was a person who didn’t suit knights.
It wasn’t that her talent as a knight was not good.
It was just that her talent as a mage was much better.
Knowing that, she tried to take her out several times, but it was difficult to break Dana’s will as the commander of the Knights.
‘I am the commander of the Black Knights.’
She said that and refused firmly.
The country was thinking of handing over Dana, the commander, on the condition that they would give her a little more money.
While she was talking, the carriage finally stopped shaking.
It was the story that she had entered the city.
“Ahu, my butt hurts so much because it’s shaking too much.”
“Shall we find a massage shop?”
“…Shall we… Huh?”
As soon as she entered the city center, she felt an unusual energy.
It was mana.
A powerful one.
“Coachman, what’s over there?”
“Are you talking about that side? There’s nothing special… Ah, the Black Knights, there’s the Black Knights’ residence.”
“Is that so?”
Could there be another case like Dana?
There may be more people who should have walked the path of a mage but became knights.
“Let’s stop by there a little later.”
“The Knights? …If you want…”
Somehow, it was the Black Knights again.
