Chapter 4 – Episode 4 – Not a Monster!
“Uh, so… Jeong Se-ma… Seed?”
“You can call me Sema comfortably. Comfortable. I’ll just call you Als, too.”
“Ah Okay. So Sema, you… You’re from beyond the cursed mountains, far away, right?”
“What is it?”
I thought it would be annoying to say that I came from a different world, so I introduced myself roughly by saying that I had come to a city where people live after living on the other side of the mountain called the Cursed Mountains. I had been thinking about my name in another world for over a month, but when I said my name, I felt comfortable being called by my name, so I told her my name on Earth.
When I asked him to sing comfortably, it was a little awkward that he didn’t say hyung or ssi, but what about it! I can talk! I still don’t know about the culture here. Besides, since he has the appearance of a horse, what’s the point of calling him brother all of a sudden? Yes, call it whatever you want! Because we can talk!
“Um… It’s hard to believe for some reason… What’s your name again?”
Lisbeth’s frightened expression completely disappeared, but her eyes looked at me suspiciously. No, it’s ugly, but there’s no doubt about it…
“Hey… Liz still can’t trust me even though I saved her?”
“Didn’t I tell you to call me comfortable? Can you call me Lisbeth? I don’t think it’s a monster from what they’re talking about, but to think they’ve crossed over that mountain overflowing with monsters…”
“Oh, I didn’t come over, I just came around the corner of the mountain. Lisbeth ‘Mr.'”
I want you to call me, but I have to call you. What’s up Now that she’s a young adult, Lisbeth speaks harshly, but thanks to the fact that she can talk, she can laugh it off.
“Can I not emphasize it? Hmm… To come around that wide mountain range… Well, at that speed… No, but pollution…”
Lisbeth murmurs and continues to send her suspicious glances. Please stop now
“Hmmmm. Aside from that, you mean you want to go to a village where there are people?”
“Well. Right. To be precise, I should say that I want to live in a place where they don’t kick me out and attack me, and I want to be both a horse and an adventurer…”
“Adventurer? A monster? Hmm…”
It’s not a monster, it’s a horse… As she lowered her head sullenly, Als laughed and started talking.
“Well, it’s true that Sema saved you, Liz, and since she can talk, it’s clear that she isn’t a monster. Because monsters can’t speak. I can feel Teser’s aura, but seeing that there is no pollution during this conversation, it must be a rather unusual Esser’s aura. After all, there are a few high-level warriors in Radia, so wouldn’t it be okay if something unexpected happened?”
“That’s true, but… I can’t help it even if I worry… Oh, but it’s already happening. If I had to go back, it would have been late at night… The guild management office would have been closed by that time…”
Words I’ve never heard are popping up all over the place, but they seem to take me to the village anyway.
“Oh, I’m just saying it because it’s late, but is the village too far away?”
“It takes about half a day to walk from here. By the time we arrive, the gate must have been closed.”
“Uh… You mean you can’t go in today?”
Oh, what are you talking about, you have to watch it right in front of you after you arrive… It was the sound of the car that I was looking forward to so much that it cooled down. Well, if a word I’ve never seen suddenly enters in the middle of the night, even I… Huh?
“By any chance, if both of them ride on my back, won’t they arrive before sunset?”
“What!? Riding on your back!?”
Lisbeth looked at him with a strange expression, not knowing if she was surprised or disliked. Ars was also surprised for a moment, but she looked at me slowly and nodded her head.
“…Yes. If it’s this big, it would be comfortable for the two of us to ride, right? I don’t know how fast I can go…”
“Uh~ Um… Well, I don’t like being homeless either…”
“Let’s go while we’re talking! Climb up! I’ve never ridden anyone, but I think I can go faster than walking!”
Saying that, I sat down and turned my body 90 degrees, facing the two of them, so that they could ride next to me. Als hesitated for a second, then she climbed on, raising one of her legs.
“Ugh. Als is fine, but she’s not sure if Mr. Lisbeth is okay with that position. She says if she thinks she might fall”
“Okay, so get up and walk.”
The young lady who had been trembling and preparing for death at the sight of me until just now had disappeared, and a cheeky young lady who had been giving high-handed orders appeared. As the conversation progressed, it seemed that the fear was gone. Well, that’s better than being scared.
‘Hmm… I wondered what if it was heavy, but it’s not too heavy even with two people on it’
The weight of the two people felt when they got up was just right, like they were carrying a bag. After all, is this the horse’s muscle strength? Suddenly, I was amazed at my body.
“Kyaaak! Bird, it’s a lot higher than I thought…”
“That’s right… Wow, but it’s nice that the field of view is wide open”
“Then I’ll walk slowly, so talk to me as soon as possible.”
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As a result of slowly raising the speed while carrying two people, it seemed that the speed of running as if an alarm was appropriate. I had heard that riding a horse was harder than I thought, so I wondered if both of us would have back pain or something, but it seemed more comfortable than we thought. Is it because of the wide back? Or do I have some kind of skill?
After confirming that the two of them are okay, as we run, I ask them about the terms they didn’t understand before. He explained it with a smile on his face.
The two names used to be Eser and Teser. It is a kind of energy source. In short, it is said that monsters have tesers and other life forms have essers. Moderately I understood that Eser was like the power of light and Tesser was like the power of darkness. It is said that monsters appear where there are many tasers, and at the same time, the monsters spread tasers and contaminate the surroundings.
One of the places where such tesers gathered was the cursed mountain range that I came from, and it is said that tesers spread from the top of the mountain, so the higher you go, the more dangerous monsters appear.
I said that the guys I saw in the mountains whose corpses turned to dust were monsters, and guys like Mad Cow were monsters with Esser.
When I explained the monsters I caught and said that crazy light years caught the same flower, both of them looked pretty surprised.
That light-year-old flower is quite a troublesome guy at the entrance of that mountain range… However, they say that he also belongs to the lower ranks if you look at the entire mountain range, but he could have died if he went up this.
It seems that coming back from the foot of the mountain was the correct answer, not a vain one.
“Is that why you said it was a monster when you first saw it?”
“Yes. The stronger the monster, the more naturally the tesser comes out and contaminates the surroundings. Because there are barriers created by many warriors around that mountain, the tesers cannot flow out any more, and the monsters are also trapped there. It’s good that Sema seems to have passed the bottom of the mountain, which is barely there.”
“Grunt… I’m glad I didn’t eat some weird grass. But does my Esser feel that way because I’ve been in the mountains for so long?”
“Well… There are very few cases where the aura changes, so that’s probably not the case. I’m not a priest, but the aura I feel from Sema seems to be similar to Tesser’s, to the point where I’d mistake it if it wasn’t contaminated. Of course, Esser has a slightly different aura for each person, so in the case of demons, you can feel the same aura as Tesser, but it’s not the same. Should I say that Sema really feels the same if you close your eyes…”
Because of that Taser-like aura and appearance, my first impression of anyone I meet seems to be fixed. Everywhere I go, this will be an explanation. It’s a big deal.
But it’s a demon. Is there too Hearing this otherworldly name makes me feel more and more excited.
“Oh, and the Ladia we are going to is the most lively of the provincial cities of Reinhardt Kingdom. It feels like a second capital. It’s the city with the most adventurers outside of the capital, and I’m not sure how they’ll react when they see Sema, but it’ll be the best starting point for becoming an adventurer.”
“Oh oh. That’s fine…”
I don’t know how big Reinhardt’s kingdom is, but listening to what he keeps saying, it seems to be a pretty decent city. It would be nice if I could just get over the appearance of the horse. Let’s trust Als who will tell us well.
“Haa… Maybe we’ll be tied up at the guild management office for a while. To explain this, the warden… Hopefully the lord will come too.”
“Um… That’s right. Why don’t you try this rare experience? How many times will you meet Shinsoo?”
“I still can’t believe that this is Shinsu?”
I expected it to be noisy, but a noble might come out. Kill it as soon as you see it! It’s not like it’s a mogaji denggung, right? But are you a god?
“What is Shinsoo? Am I that?”
“Shinsoo means… A monster that can speak. They are also called spiritual creatures, but most of them live for a long time and are friendly to humans, so they are treated as sacred. Other than humans, only Shinsoo can speak.”
“Aha, that’s why I can speak, so it’s a divine beast…”
Well. To be treated as sacred. If something happens in the future, I’ll have to catch it as a Shinsoo.
“Ah, absolutely not. A divine being with such energy. I’ve never even heard of it at magic school. If you can’t even humanize it, maybe it’s like a rare monster… I’ve never heard of a monster with an appearance like this.”
Moan… Seeing that Lisbeth’s reaction is not good, I don’t think it’s going to work even if I catch it and take it off as Shinsoo. By the way, is there anything else to say on this side? I didn’t know that the first time I saw the appearance would come out…
After listening to this and that and asking questions, I arrived at the city of Radia in about an hour.
