Chapter 246 – 1. Ufuji Room (4)
Roa and Yuria, who climbed on top of the burial and looked around the village, felt a sense of déjà vu.
The style of the building is different, but the scale and atmosphere are the same. In many ways, it was a small and isolated atmosphere that reminded me of Roa’s hometown.
No, it’s a very shabby village that makes me wonder if it’s more like a remote village than that.
I wonder if there is any information that can be obtained from a place like this, but seeing that the Dragon King’s ship led them to this place, surely there must be something here?
That’s why I’m still looking around this town, but the more I look around, the more I think about this.
It wasn’t just the Dragon King’s arrangement, but because the destination was the Ming Empire, I wondered if he guided them from the Dragon Palace to the nearest village to the Ming Empire.
It’s been a while since I’ve looked around, and I already feel like I’ve looked around almost the entire town.
“The village is seriously small. Isn’t it less than half the size of the village Loa used to live in?”
Since they live sparsely, there is not that much difference in terms of the area of the village from the village where Roa lived, but if you look at the number of households, it feels like it is less than half.
It would be premature to think that there would be nothing to find just because it was a small town, but even so, there really wasn’t much here.
“I don’t think there’s even a store here.”
“I wonder if the peddling, let alone the shopping mall, will become frequent…”
I was worried that I might not even be able to find information in these places, let alone seek or find something.
“I don’t know. Rather, it’s a remote place like this, so it might be suitable for hiding the contaminated magic book.”
“…”
As YuRia said, the more remote a village was, the more suitable it would be to hide something.
“If I had been intact, I would have known right away if there was a fragment here…”
“It’s not much. For now, I have to look around and find out.”
He said that, but he had already looked around the entire topography of the town.
Even if he tried to ask the villagers about something, there were hardly any people in the village.
Apparently, they went out to catch fish by boat or to the fields.
“Well, it’s spring, so it’s a very busy time?”
It was a car that I was worried about calling and stopping people who were busy working for a long time.
Tamamo said ‘Hmm?’ As I glanced back, I saw a monk approaching from a distance with rapid steps.
“You’re a monk. In terms of the West Continent, you’re similar to a priest or a priest.”
“Is there a temple in such a small town?”
“Anyway, the culture is different from the East Continent, so the personality is also a bit different.”
YuRia looked at the monk with a grin.
Come to think of it, I had never thought so much about cultural patterns before, considering it to be a completely different world, and even after learning that it was Earth, I hadn’t given much thought to it. Did.
A religion that seeks to become a god through self-cultivation, which began with Shakyamuni in leader.
However, after that, a lot of thoughts and sects were born, and the original form disappeared as it was merged and divided with other religions.
No, in fact, wasn’t it even a religion? It is just a sutra that teaches the enlightenment attained by a saint named Shakyamuni. It is not a religion that worships God. However, at some point, it changed and became a religion.
To be honest, I wonder if there is any religion that hasn’t changed so much…
Even so, the image of the ‘monk’, the priest of the religion called ‘Buddhism’ that Yuria remembered, and the image of the monk coming from afar were very different.
To be called a monk, he has the feeling of an leadern shaman. However, there was definitely an image like a monk to be called an leadern shaman.
Maybe the dragon king sent him to a quiet village like this so that he could know in advance what this continent would feel like and prepare for it?
Maybe.
If I had arrived in a busy place without knowing what the East Continent felt like, I might have suffered a bit.
Okay. Let’s say so.
But why is that monk in such a hurry to come this way?
For some reason, we stopped and waited for the monk, and before we knew it, the monk who arrived in front of us, exhaling a little short of breath, suddenly grabbed YuRia’s hands and was dumbfounded by what he said.
“Girl, please be my successor”
“…To?”
What kind of nonsense is this?
She became his disciple and was taken aback by Monk Dalan’s words, but YuRia slightly frowned at the monk’s hand still holding hers and slightly twisted her hand away from the monk’s.
“Isn’t it rude to hold a woman’s hand carelessly?”
“Ah…”
Could it be that the monk himself did not recognize that he was like that? The monk, apparently embarrassed by what he himself had done, coughed heavily and blushed slightly in his own shame.
In the meantime, Yuria fell backwards slightly, putting her party in front and away from the monk.
“I’m sorry for this. The small monk is a monk who protects this insignificant small village. The small monk was so impatient that he acted on his own.”
The monk certainly recognized that his actions were a big mistake, but he felt that the atmosphere of his party was really strange.
“However, why did the strangers come to this remote village?
At the monk’s words, the companions had nothing to say.
If you look at the ‘East Continent’ as a whole, it is to heal Yuria and solve the request of the Dragon King, but if you take a picture of this small village, it was because the boat the Dragon King built came here.
After exchanging glances with each other for a while and organizing their opinions, Nuri, who knows the most about the East Continent, became the representative and opened her mouth.
“We are not necessarily in this village, but rather in the East Continent itself, we came from far away from the Western Continent. No see”
“Hehe, you must have come from far away.”
The monk looked closely at Roa and the others.
The divine beast, the fox, looked very powerful, but it seemed closer to the existence of the East than the existence of the West, and the goblins were also the existence of the East.
There was only one blue-haired girl who seemed to have a very outstanding quality to be called a western station and a red-haired young man who seemed to be her guardian (?).
He tilted his head at the sight of a girl who was so outstanding in many ways that he couldn’t help but regret it.
A young man who looks very young and a girl who is short but has excellent growth and whose age seems ambiguous.
What kind of relationship do these two, who seem to be westerners, have?
The young man was too young to be considered a father-daughter relationship, and the girl seemed not too young.
To be considered siblings, the age difference between the two seemed quite significant.
Of course, it might not be her family, but judging from the girl’s appearance, she didn’t build any walls in her heart against this young man.
In fact, this young man seemed to be the one the girl depended on the most even in this situation where she hid behind the party in surprise because she grabbed the girl’s hand due to her own mistake.
“I know it’s rude, but what’s the relationship between the red-haired young man and the blue-haired girl?”
Does everyone say that? After thinking about what to say, Roa just said without thinking.
“She’s my wife.”
“Loa!?”
“Oh…?!”
Her?
At Roa’s words, the monk looked at YuRia and Roa in turn.
A grown-up young man and a small girl who is just about to give birth to a woman… No, the woman’s womb is already showing off to the fullest.
After all, this little girl and her husband?
“I heard from this young girl that West Station is a place where there is a lot of confusion in many ways, but I never realized that it would be to this extent. Such a miserable…”
“Oh no, it’s not like that…”
Only then did Roa become aware of herself and Yuria.
Compared to herself, Yuria now looks almost like a daughter.
“Gal! Keep this ruthless group of me…”
In response, YuRia kicked her loa’s hamstrings and knelt down on her as she was, striking her on the head. The monk was taken aback and stopped talking.
“Oh really!!
“Ah! Me, sorry! I was wrong!”
“…Eh?”
Tamamo and Nuri just let out a sigh, and the monk stared blankly at the young man’s appearance as if he was being ripped off by his wife.
“That, so, Sojeo’s appearance was because he was hit by something that wasn’t his original form, and the reason he came to the East Continent was to return to his original form?”
Anyway, once the monk calmed down, he couldn’t say everything as it was, but as he roughly explained the situation, the monk stared blankly at YuRia.
A young yet mature impression.
And the monk, who saw that the vertigo in his eyes was not a child’s in the appearance of an outstanding person, looked at YuRia again.
“I look like this now, but my original appearance is not that small compared to my husband. Although it is dangerous, I left my children with an acquaintance in the western continent, but even if I look like this, I am the mother of three children.”
At YuRia’s words, the monk let out a sigh.
The girl he thought was talented was not a girl.
“I don’t know what to say about this. The young monk did not know such a thing and went out of his way.”
“No, I said something that could be misunderstood…”
It wasn’t a big deal, and the misunderstanding was easily resolved, so it wasn’t a big deal.
“But, what are you looking for here in the East?”
At the monk’s words, the party exchanged glances with each other again.
In particular, Roa said something without thinking a moment ago, but she misunderstood and kept quiet about her experience that would have been embarrassing.
After exchanging glances, Tamamo quietly stepped forward this time.
“We are looking for Yeouiju at the request of the Dragon King. The Dragon King said that if we find her Yeouiju, he will heal the woman’s condition with that power.”
“Hey, Yeouijura…”
The monk thought about the words for a while and then started to move.
“Follow me. I don’t think it will help much, but there is a record related to Yeouiju in the temple of the small monk. It seems that there was a record related to it in the records handed down from the invitation of the temple to be built here.”
“!!”
As expected, Yongwangnim had plans for everything!
The small temple in the nameless village where the monk followed was very unappealing.
I knew that this was a temple because I was introduced to it, but I didn’t think that a small thatched-roofed house was a temple.
From Yuria’s point of view, it was a very subtle feeling.
There are no dancheong or other styles in temples. It’s different from leadern Buddhism, Thailand, or any other Asian Buddhist culture. It was a different subtlety even from leadern culture.
It was a little far from the feeling of being mixed.
“Keuheum, bo, originally, the inside is not important, not the outside. The village is so small and needy…”
“…”
Squeaking and opening the door, the monk cleared his throat once again at the appearance of the interior, which was nowhere to be seen as a temple except for the single wooden statue in a lotus position, which seemed to be about 1:1 the size of a human.
He seemed to be aware of it himself. That it looks so needy.
There was not even a library, so the books piled up on one side gave a subtle feeling, although they were well-organized, in many ways the temple seemed too poor.
The monk went through the pile of books here and there, searching for a long time, and finally pulled out a book, as if he had found it.
“I found it. This book.”
Seeing the book the monk had taken out, YuRia naturally furrowed her brows slightly.
What is this language…
“Oh, sorry. Text messages are not working right now.”
At Tamamo’s words, Yuria looked at Tamamo.
Text doesn’t work? … Ah?
“Come to think of it, is it strange that Western and Eastern languages are the same?”
Tamamo quietly nodded his head.
Tamamo, who had cast a spell for interpretation but forgot to speak, secretly avoided YuRia and Roa’s gaze.
In the meantime, Nuri received the book and slowly began to read its contents.
The story of a monk who came to the village to preach the Buddha’s words was full of trivial stories, and a cow was born in the village. Whose child is married? It was full of stories like this.
Nuri, who had been turning the pages quickly in the midst of such trivial daily records for a long time, stopped at some point and stopped her hands.
-Those who seemed to be a group of people from the West Station came looking for the dragon’s dictation. He replied that he did not know the truth, but they did not believe it and broke down temples and overturned various places in the village. How to do this
“This…”
“…”
I flipped through the pages and looked more closely at the contents.
-Fortunately, no one died or was seriously injured during the misfortune, so while we were comforting each other and rebuilding the broken village, the unidentified westerners who had visited the previous day came back and everyone was very nervous and afraid. They were afraid that they would do harm again, but they didn’t do anything special and drove a big rock into the entrance of the village and left. After they left, I looked to see if they had done anything unsavory to the rock, but I couldn’t find anything out of the ordinary, probably because I lacked my legal powers.
– While rebuilding the village, I checked the rocks from time to time, but I couldn’t find anything special about the rocks, and there was nothing special about the village.
– The rock did not show any significant change. It seems that they left a mark meaning that there are no dragon marbles here, so they decided not to be wary of the rocks anymore and to concentrate on the work of the village.
This is the dragon orb. In other words, it was all the records related to Yeouiju.
“Hmm…”
“Can you tell me where the rock is?”
At that, the monk happily nodded his head.
The rock was not far from the temple.
Apparently, while building a new temple after it was destroyed, it seemed that they had built a temple nearby to keep an eye on what might happen to the rock.
And while the party who arrived at the place wondered if it was really nothing at the appearance of a rock that did not feel anything special, Tamamo wondered if he had found something.
“Tamamo. Do you have something?”
“She uhm… I don’t know. But it’s not really ‘just’ a rock, but she doesn’t even know what it is.”
Snoop here. Snoop away Tamamo, who had been looking at the rock for a long time, seemed puzzled. She circled around the rock and continued to examine it.
“This rock. Does it matter if I break it?”
“It doesn’t seem to matter since it’s a rock that the town doesn’t particularly care about.”
At the monk’s words, Tamamo immediately pulled out her long fingernails and sang her rock! And she struck down.
Dismissed!!
“Ugh?”
No one suspected that the rock would break in her tamamo’s hand, but to their surprise, when her tamamo’s fingernail touched the rock, her spark ignited, breaking her tamamo’s fingernail, and the hand bounced off.
Tamamo looked back and forth between her own hand and her rock, her little blood dripping with her fingernails broken, as if she couldn’t believe the situation.
“Tah, Tamamo?”
“This, what is this? No matter how sincere she was, she hurt the original girl’s hand…”
Of course, her tamamo’s wounds healed quickly, her wounds were gone, and her fingernails grew sharp again, but tamamo looked quite hurt in her pride.
Unlike before, she slammed her hand down at the rock again with fierce momentum, and the rock broke again! Dismissed! She does and she sparks her wildly and she starts to resist Tamamo’s hand, but she can’t seem to beat her Tamamo, who is very determined. It started.
Puff-!!
She is a rock that splits open with a strange sound.
No. The strange frame that I thought was a rock was empty inside, and there was a small box inside.
“Her?”
The monk seemed very surprised to find that what he had thought was only a rock was not a rock, and Yuria and his companions were also surprised.
Tamamo, in particular, thought she was weird, but she didn’t even think that she wasn’t a rock, which surprised her even more.
“What is this?”
“Um…”
Tamamo quietly picked up her box.
Black box.
This small box, which felt like a square ring box made of obsidian, gave off a very strange feeling.
It wasn’t particularly a curse, but it looked like something that wasn’t very auspicious, if not to the point of being ominous.
“Um…”
“I never thought there was something like this inside this rock, or something like a rock…”
Even a monk in this mysterious little box. Tamamo also thought about what to do with it.
No matter how you look at it, it seems to be a thing that has a bad influence on this village, so it is difficult to leave it in the village as it is, and I am worried that if this box is broken, something worse will be released from it.
In response, Tamamo raised an opinion.
They say there is a way to send this item to the Dragon King on the ship they boarded.
“Is there a way?”
“Didn’t the Dragon King ask you to collect the pieces of that ominous book of magic? The state of the afterlife is like that, and there’s no way we can do anything about the pieces. In fact, what can we do other than send them to the Dragon King?”
After hearing what Tamamo had to say, it was true.
“You’re the one who doesn’t really explain.”
“Perhaps she thought that the original woman would examine her ship. In reality, she did.”
Was it based on the gate connected to the subspace on the ship? There was also a gate on the ship where goods could be sent to the Dragon King.
“Then may I ask you to dispose of the item?”
“I’ll send it right away as soon as the word comes out.”
In response, the monk escorted the party to where they could see the boat, and Roa jumped onto the boat holding Yuria, and the party also jumped onto the boat and followed Tamamo.
There was a subspace gate that was really different from other subspace gates at the very bottom of the ship, and when Tamamo put the black box there, it disappeared.
“But if the box disappears, won’t something come back from there?”
“Well, judging from the records, it’s been more than 200 years. Maybe I haven’t forgotten.”
Two hundred years
For some reason, YuRia felt vague, as if she was thinking of something.
Two hundred years… Two hundred years…
Where did you hear that time?
Is it just an illusion?
As she pondered for a long time, Yuria suddenly remembered a memory she had tried to forget.
“Crea…”
“Huh? Why is that damn elf?”
“Clea must have been here before.”
Perhaps, the box is the prototype of that damned artifact using pages from the Book of Remegeton?
Then, when did Crea come here? How did she get here?
Crea was already looking for Yeouiju at that time?
No way to enjoy seeing Yuria?! And she looked at YuRia.
“Wait, then maybe Yeouiju is in the West Continent?!”
“…”
“Now, wait a minute, then what should I do…”
“Wait. It’s not yet confirmed that Yeouiju will be in the West Continent. She may not have been found by Crea.”
“…”
YuRia wrapped her hair as it was, and she pondered and thought and thought.
Even though her brain, which is not able to use her powers and cannot use her powers, is not as good as before, Yuria, who was freed from being hindered by her thorns at least, is her own. He made the most of his brilliant brain.
She thought over and over again, and after thinking again, Yuria came to the conclusion that Crea couldn’t have found her heroine.
She, or even if she found it, she wouldn’t be able to take it.
“Anyway, Yeouiju will stay in the East Continent”
“Why do you think so?”
“Crea was about 270 years old before he died. That means he came here in the early days of the organization he had just started.
At that, everyone smiled and nodded slightly.
“And even if there was, what I felt while dealing with Crea was that there was no one with such outstanding skills. What does this mean?”
“I see, there were no talented people, or even if there were, did you die here?”
“Why does that happen?”
Yuria pretended to point at Roa.
“As Loa became my companion, she actually became immortal, but even if it wasn’t for that, she would have been able to live for 200 years. If she did well, she would have lived 500 years.
What did Roa say? And looked at YuRia again.
“And the strength of loa is too strong compared to the realm of loa. You don’t have to tell me why, right?”
“I don’t know”
YuRia was staggered at Roa’s words that jumped out of her head without going through her head.
“Roa’s body was taken care of by me, and the power of a warrior and the power of a saint were overlaid on top of it. In particular, the power of a saint was clearly manifested because Loa had become a woman, even temporarily, and it was effective because it did not fit well when she returned to a man. Although it may have fallen, it has not disappeared. In addition, the power of gravity that Loa finally realized is a very great power that lightly ignores general compatibility. If you combine those points, Loa is at least three times more powerful than Loa currently has. To use It can be seen that it is ten times stronger.”
Loa was dumbfounded by that and thought again about whether she was that strong.
“Then, Loa. Think about it. If those who were at least one-third or at most one-tenth the strength of the current Loa were looking for a rare treasure called Yeouiju that everyone could covet, would they have stayed still on this continent?”
“…”
“Certainly. It seems that it was impossible with the power that Crea’s forces had.”
Nuri thought about the potential of the East Continent and said.
Tamamo also nodded in affirmation.
The technology of the East Continent, which he had experienced while interacting with the school of Baekryongmun, was by no means something that could be underestimated.
In a way, he himself is said to be of the eastern lineage, but that is an ancient thing that has already been 10,000 years old, and since he has made independent development over that long period of time, it is a little confusing that he is actually of the eastern lineage.
“But, just in case, let’s send a letter to the West Continent as well. We need to trace it over there as well.”
“If you’re on the western continent, you’ll have to search through Crea’s organizations.”
“Looks like this has gotten a lot…”
I didn’t think it would be that easy, but I felt like the work was bigger than I had imagined.
Crea Ervasion.
When I wanted to forget this damn elf, I kept getting involved in incidents and accidents related to it, and it reminded me of nightmares that I wanted to forget.
That elf was a nightmare to Yuria, but it was also a very big nightmare to Loa.
As YuRia recalled those terrible days when she and YuRia exchanged bodies and were humiliated beyond words, Roa’s breath began to tremble without realizing it.
“Roa!!”
“Omg!”
Lost in her thoughts at YuRia’s shout, Roa let out a quick breath with a pale complexion as she clutched her chest at her thumping heart.
“Calm down… Calm down loa. Krea is gone”
“Ah, I know… Ha, but…”
YuRia jumped up and jumped on him, wrapped her arms around her loa’s neck and hung her lips on her loa’s mouth.
Seeing the two of them kissing, Tamamo and Nuri sighed and turned her head away.
What can I do?
That each other is truly deeply hurt.
The reason why we are so sweet to each other may be because we sincerely like each other, but if we are not so sweet, it may also be because we cannot cover each other’s wounds.
This time, the sweetness of the two felt so bitter in a different way.
