## Chapter 4 – 04. Matching (4)
#04. Matching (4)
Resilia, who had turned her dagger towards the queen she once served, turned her head towards the people staring intently at her.
“People of Pelledia, the World Tree has ordered the abdication of the current Queen, Iris Remeria Vayart Pelledia!”
“?!”
The nobles had expected Resilia, who had taken a stance amounting to treason, to have impure intentions, but they were all speechless at her blatant statement.
Of course, that was only true for one elder and the nobles.
“First Elder of the Council, Biglis Harun Hartz. I shall obey the World Tree’s command.”
The deeply wrinkled First Elder uttered a shocking statement.
‘What is that crazy old geezer saying right now…?!’
‘Wasn’t he supposed to be uninterested in power?!’
‘…This is dangerous.’
‘If the First Elder is of that opinion…’
The anxiety of the high-ranking nobles soon became a reality.
“Second Elder of the Council, Alanya Remong Provina. I shall obey the World Tree’s command.”
“Fourth Elder of the Council, Amal Florence Khashka. As the noble and great World Tree commands.”
“Seventh Elder of the Council, Raiken Van Pittel. I shall obey the command.”
With the exception of a few elders who were not present and the Sixth Elder who had scolded Resilia for slandering the Queen, a situation unfolded where all the elders approved of the current Queen’s abdication.
“Wh-What kind of behavior is this?!”
The Sixth Elder shouted at the elders of the council with an expression of disbelief, but the elders did not respond.
“Your Majesty? No, Iris!”
“Resilia!!”
Eventually, Iris, who had lost her reason, reached out to Resilia, but she was stopped by an unidentified figure in black who appeared from somewhere.
It was the appearance of the fourth master-class powerhouse.
Even Iris, an 8-circle archmage, had no chance of winning against a master-class knight once she had allowed them to get close.
Besides, even if she had lost her reason, she couldn’t commit the sacrilege of using magic in the holy ground.
“Hmm? Since when have Your Majesty’s hands been so light? Oh, I guess you’re the former queen now?”
“What…!? What have you done to the World Tree!”
“Oh, dear…”
Resilia’s expression, as she looked at Iris with a hint of pity, was mixed with obvious mockery.
“People of Pelledia! As the World Tree has commanded, I, Resilia Runbanien Falun Pelledia, hereby announce that I have ascended to the throne as the fifth monarch of Pelledia!”
It was a series of statements and situations that the brain simply couldn’t process, even while seeing and hearing them.
The former Queen, who was a wise ruler, was rejected by the World Tree, and the woman who appeared as the chancellor slandered the Queen and even committed the sacrilege of laying hands on the World Tree’s body. She was a heinous criminal who deserved to have her entire lineage exterminated immediately.
And now that criminal was the new queen?
The people were not easily able to escape from the confusion caused by the series of catastrophes.
But that was only for a moment.
“…Long, long live the new Queen!”
“Long live Queen Resilia!”
“Long live the World Tree!”
“Glory to Pelledia!!”
“Long live! Long live!!”
For the elves, the choice and will of the World Tree, their only god and mother, was more than enough to captivate the masses.
No matter how wise Iris had been, believers would send absolute faith and loyalty to their god.
Afterward, things progressed quickly, and Iris was sentenced to eternal imprisonment in the underground cavity, wearing a powerful seal that suppressed her magic power.
She would never be able to leave the prison until she took her own life or died for some other reason.
Iris, who had become a heinous criminal overnight and was imprisoned, repeatedly asked herself with a blank look.
Why did this happen?
Why would Resilia do this?
‘Why…?’
Thud-
Until the moment the prison door closed, no one appeared to answer her questions, and 200 years passed.
***
Perhaps due to the influence of the app, Iris calmly recited the story, which was difficult to even listen to.
‘…200 years.’
Just thinking about it made her feel suffocated.
As a mere human who had lived for only 21 years, she couldn’t even begin to imagine how long that was.
It was impossible to describe in words how she must have felt, spending all that time alone in this place.
Iris’s eyes, which had revealed all of her past, returned to normal.
“Don’t you want revenge?”
I tried my best not to show it, but it came out without my knowing.
“Revenge…”
Iris seemed somewhat detached.
“Who can I blame now? It’s a virtue of a ruler to see through the essence of others… I just didn’t have an eye for people.”
Iris, who seemed to be blaming herself, seemed calm, but she also seemed somewhat sad.
“But you don’t want to stay here forever, do you?”
“That’s true, but…”
“Then it’s decided.”
For me, the most satisfying ending would be for Iris to take revenge on the woman named Resilia, but I had no intention of forcing someone who didn’t want revenge to do so.
Whatever it is, the person’s own will is the most important thing.
“Whether it’s revenge or whatever, let’s get out of here first, okay? That much is okay, right?”
Besides, it wasn’t right for an innocent person to rot in prison for the rest of their life. For now, that’s all I needed to think about.
I felt sorry for Iris, being trapped in this dark and damp place for the rest of her life.
“H-Here…?”
Iris’s voice sank heavily.
“Thank you for the offer… but it’s impossible.”
There was a huge door where she was pointing. It seemed to be about 5 or 6 stories high.
“The only exit is blocked by the World Tree’s barrier, and I can barely use any magic because of the seal.”
She hadn’t been idle for the past 200 years either.
Even in a situation where her magic power was limited by the seal, she had tried to break the barrier somehow, but at the current pace, it would take about 1,200 years just to interpret the barrier.
Of course, it was absurd for a mortal to interpret a god’s barrier in the first place, but even if she did finish interpreting it, releasing the barrier in her current state was another matter.
“Hey, things are different now than they were then.”
“Huh? What’s different?”
“I’m here now.”
Was there no way to escape from here without having to break the barrier?
I didn’t think so.
Even at the department store, there were escape artifacts made in preparation for when ordinary people were trapped in the gate.
Of course, the problem was that they were so expensive that they cost hundreds of millions of won, but if I asked Iris for permission and dug up some of the World Tree roots scattered around, I thought I could buy them quickly.
But there was one fact that Kang Hyun-woo had overlooked here.
The Earth, where monsters had existed since the beginning of human history, was full of various artifacts and magical tools, but in reality, nothing had been revealed about the existence of God.
Transcendent beings were occasionally depicted in ancient history, but whether they were gods or super-powerful beings like S-class hunters was still a matter of debate among experts.
As a result, Kang Hyun-woo had no idea what kind of being the World Tree, a god that actually existed in this world, was.
That’s usually how shallow imaginations work.
He wasn’t even thinking about whether a god’s barrier could be broken with an artifact developed by humans.
Kang Hyun-woo would learn about this fact later.
“I came from another world called Earth.”
“Yes…? Another world??”
I explained to Iris in as much detail as possible about how I came to this place.
Except for the dating app part.
It wasn’t a matching that I turned to to meet women, but my pride wouldn’t allow me to say that a grown man was dragged here while using a dating app.
Of course, Iris wouldn’t know what a dating app was, but there might be a situation where I had to explain it later.
At first, I was at a loss as to how to explain what a cell phone was, but it seems that the development of magical tools in this world is more dazzling than I thought.
“…So, Mr. Hyun-woo, you’re saying that you traveled to our world through this communication device called a cell phone from Mr. Hyun-woo’s world?”
“Yes.”
With just a little explanation, she seemed to understand the cell phone.
I was quite surprised to see her grasp the essence even with my poor speaking skills, which didn’t have the talent to explain things so that others could understand. However, her reaction to the dimensional transfer was more bland than I expected.
‘Is it because the words are too absurd?’
Rather, she seemed more interested in the cell phone. There are things that you can tell just by looking at them, even if you don’t express them in words.
“Would you like to try using it?”
“Is that okay…?”
“Of course.”
“Th-Thank you…”
I handed the cell phone to Iris, who had been staring at it as if she were possessed since earlier.
Then, I explained this and that to Iris, who was touching and looking at the cell phone with a happy expression, satisfying her curiosity.
The sight of her being disappointed when I told her that she couldn’t connect to the internet right now was so cute that I wanted to take a picture of it and save it.
An elf using a five-star cell phone and showing reactions like that, if I uploaded it to NewTube, wouldn’t it get 5 million views in one day as a basic?
‘By the way, it seems that the ‘Other World Dating App’ is only visible to me.’
Just in case, I tried to show Iris the Other World Dating App, but it seemed that she couldn’t see anything.
It seemed that this app wasn’t matching me with women from another world, but rather sending me to a place where there was a woman who met the conditions I wanted.
‘I think I can be sure if I do a few more matches.’
It was a distant matter for now.
“Um… Mr. Hyun-woo…”
“Yes? Why are you callin…”
Without thinking much, I turned my head and was shocked as if someone had hit me in the back of the head when I saw the screen that Iris was showing me.
A very familiar photo was being shown on the screen.
It was a photo of an AV actress exposing her big breasts without any mosaic.
It was a pornographic image that I had worked hard to get a while ago, so why was Iris showing it to me?
‘…Ah, I didn’t tell her not to go into the gallery?’
Even though it was a relatively recent photo, it wasn’t like I hadn’t saved other photos after that, so if she was showing me that photo, it meant that she had already seen photos that were more explicit and full of my tastes.
“D-Do you like this kind of thing, Mr. Hyun-woo…?”
“…”
Kang Hyun-woo couldn’t say anything.
It was like going on a blind date and showing the other person his favorite porn and erotic pictures. Of course, he had never been on a blind date.
-Hey, just kill yourself.
I even heard a hallucination as if my instincts were talking to me.
“I-If you’re okay with it…!!”
Just when I was wondering if it would be better to just bury my face in a plate of water and die, I heard Iris’s voice trembling pitifully.
Iris, who came closer with a face as red as if it would explode at any moment, grabbed my hand tightly.
“Would you like to touch my breasts…?”
