Chapter 251 – 1. Ufuji Room (9)
Distant past. Although not as old as Tamamo, it was thousands of years ago.
There was a dragon and a dragon who loved each other.
The first meeting with each other can never be said to have been beautiful, but they continued to connect with each other, sometimes talking happily, sometimes fighting and colliding, and the two of them started to waste time even separating from each other at some point.
In a sense, it would be a taboo relationship.
But in the end, the two became lovers and laid an egg between them.
Unfortunately, however, the two dragons and the dragon ended their lives without even seeing the egg hatch, and the egg, accidentally found by an elderly couple, hatched in the old couple’s house.
Could it be because of the last legacy left by the mother and father to their unhatched offspring? Born in the form of a human child, she grew up as the child of an elderly couple who had no children.
The girl was very clever and strong, and all kinds of animals followed her. Even if she didn’t eat, her energy didn’t wane, her body didn’t get tired, and as long as she wasn’t tired, she didn’t have to sleep.
The villagers found such a girl strange, but she was very pretty and had a good character, so they didn’t really have a problem with it.
Rather, it wasn’t until the harvest every year after the girl came, but there was no great famine. Watching each year pass by safely, I was very careful, thinking that it might be a fairy that had fallen from the sky.
Decades later and before the old couple died at the end of their lives, the girl was still young.
Seeing such a girl, the villagers were almost certain that the girl was a fairy, and although she looked young, they treated her as a big adult in the village.
As the last day of his life neared, the old couple revealed the secret of his birth to the girl.
How the girl was born And where did the egg from which the girl was born come from?
After the old couple died, the girl governed the village and suddenly became curious.
Is she really a fairy herself? Or is she something else?
Therefore, the girl chose a few good, kind, and wise old men to replace her with the village, and her parents told her to visit the place where her egg was born.
She wondered if she might find something there, but there was nothing there.
Her disappointed girl tried to go back to the village and continue her village administration, but she met a blue-haired man in the process.
Feeling different from her normal person, the girl stopped her feet for a moment and her man clicked her tongue in a pitiful tone.
And her girl could hear her own identity from him.
The girl’s mother was a dragon, and her girl’s father was a dragon from the western region. It was a being called a dragon.
Their union was a meeting rejected by both races, so the girl was not accepted by either race.
Her blue-haired man was the girl’s mother’s brother, and although he was against her union with the dragon of the west region, he could not completely ignore her sister’s daughter, so he visited here every day to give her a little help. It was a story that came.
Her girl’s mother-in-law cannot take her because her dragon society won’t accept her, but she gives her two booklets to her so that she can at least find an identity for herself. Gave.
It is the training method of the dragon tribe and the dragon’s magic book.
Originally, the dragon tribe’s training method was not left in a book, so he compiled and recorded it himself for several years.
Hoping to find her own identity, whether as a dragon, as a dragon, or as a being caught between the two, the mother-in-law who left the two books requested that she burn the books after memorizing them.
After that, the girl memorized all the books, and after burning them away as her mother-in-law said, she worked in the village during the day. She spent many years practicing at night.
And one day The girl felt that the village no longer needed her care, so she set the rules and norms of the village right, and after straightening her hierarchy, she decided to devote herself to her training to return to heaven. For this reason, she climbed the mountain and devoted herself to training in earnest, day and night.
How long had it been since she started to devote herself to her training like that?
There was an uproar in the village, and the girl who was doing her training stopped her training and came out to see what was going on.
Although she didn’t abandon the village, she was one. She thought she was no longer needed in the village. The village was very different from before.
But even so, this town is her own town.
She had no intention of abandoning the village until the day she ascended to heaven, even though she no longer needed his help.
In the village, there was someone who seemed to be a westerner.
Those who seem to be from the place where her father, the dragon, lived.
The beings of her western region she saw for the first time were interesting, but she did not like that they were persecuting her own village, so she kicked them out.
After that. The beings of the West Station visited several more times.
In the visits of people who may or may not be like those who have come before, sometimes gently. Sometimes, during the visits of those who behave as viciously as before, the girl met a very unusual person.
Non-human beings.
The meeting with the young man, who was close to a boy with green hair like the leaves of a tree, wasn’t good from the beginning, but he gradually came to her side naturally, and the girl started to consult him a lot from somewhere.
At first, it was about dragons in the knowledge of the West.
Asking this and that and listening to her answers, he made a proposal to her girl while getting closer.
‘Do you know why you can’t become a dragon?’
That made the girl a little angry, but she answered his question.
Although her blood is not pure, it is still because her own practice is short and shallow.
The young man told him this.
A dragon ascends to heaven by creating a yeouiju, but a dragon strengthens itself by creating an organ called a dragon heart within its body.
Since the girl was of dragon-dragon blood, she said the girl’s condition was very uncertain and she had to make a choice.
Will you take out the dragon heart or Yeouiju that is not in your body and make it into Yeouiju? Or will it be perfectly fixed with a dragon heart?
The young man said that the girl’s training was already at a level sufficient to become a dragon.
A dragon is a being that naturally becomes stronger as it ages, even if it breathes.
That ability greatly reduced the time required for training as a dragon.
The girl chose to become a dragon without hesitation.
Dragons are a very powerful race, but they are said to be a race that lives on the ground and then disappears from the ground. The girl who grew up hearing that she was a fairy had a desire to ascend to heaven like a fairy, even though she would never really become a fairy.
In order for her to do that, she had to become a dragon.
Why was it?
How easily did the girl trust the green-haired young man?
Was it because he wasn’t human?
Or is it because no one has ever cheated on him and he has always lived up to it?
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『Greuk… Grrrr… 』
A lofty existence that has lost its reason.
The noble man who had fallen into a beast in the middle of the day saw a large bead that seemed to be made of brilliant golden jade placed in front of his eyes.
Even in the midst of losing intellect and rationality, the being, who had not forgotten even in his instincts, was a very small size considering the size of a snake, but he licked up the soil and stones of the ground at once and swallowed them.
Nuri, who was watching the scene from inside the boat, wondered if it was really okay as it was.
“They sent those boxes to the Dragon Palace, right?”
“Yes, Eun-gong. I sent it safely.”
Yuria felt very bitter seeing Nuri.
Did she say don’t be new to life?
Yuria thought that she would no longer be able to live a life unrelated to Methuselah in this world, and that she would have no choice but to live a life far from civilization in many ways.
However, since she lost her powers, there is also no way for Yuria to enjoy civilization again. She is also able to find a way to meet Methuselah again.
But when she was just happy, the dragon in front of you, who wasn’t even a dragon, was so pitiful.
“Eungong, what is the identity of this snake?”
“The mixed blood of a dragon and a dragon. And it’s probably the result of Crea playing a big prank on such a person.”
Dragons and dragons. The two are beings who seem similar to each other but pursue completely different paths.
The dragon seeks his own power and wields dragon hearts.
The dragon accumulates training, not strength, cultivates the Way, and avoids reaching higher heights.
That’s why they seem to be similar to each other, but they are almost opposite beings.
I don’t know exactly what Crea did now that I don’t have the ability, but I’m going to find out where I can find out through this ship that the dragon king made. As a result of reasoning taking into account Tamamo’s knowledge that she was synchronized until she lost her ability, her condition was indeed a great irony.
Characteristics of dragons that raise their status through training. A dragon’s ability to become stronger with just breathing.
With both, she looked so perfect, but she had to make a choice.
Dragon Heart and Yeouiju cannot coexist.
Dragon Heart completely melted that authority into himself and turned it into strength. The dragon gathered them together and placed them outside his body, thus separating his discipline and power.
This village was a device to take her dragon core out of her and forcibly convert it into her heroine.
Abusing the dragon’s ability to become stronger with just breathing and the ability to build up a spirit through the dragon’s training and training,
Even though I don’t know what she did, I took her dragon core from her and sealed it in her village, and gathered all of her divinity, including her discipline and power attack, into her dragon core.
Her body, which was abandoned, was a body with the characteristics of a dragon that gradually builds up training and cultivation from a being close to a small object, and a body with the characteristics of a dragon that becomes stronger with age. Even taking away all of them led to bizarre results.
Only the body grew and grew and grew again.
Getting stronger As she grew larger, she became a machine that produced stronger spirituality, and more and more she became like a sake pot that matured Yeouiju stronger and faster.
She has become a beast herself.
Watching her purring and exhaling, YuRia sighed softly.
Her existence has already gone too far to turn back.
Even if Yeouiju is recovered and her intelligence and rationality are regained, her already changed body and direction of growth have already reached a situation where she can no longer become a dragon or a dragon.
She was already too fat for her ascension.
Even if Iji, tied to Yeouiju, had returned, her strength had long since turned into that gigantic physical body.
Gugguggggg…
Slowly. Tamamo flinched greatly at the sight of the snake raising its head, but the snake’s eyes showed a certain reason, not a beast like before.
The snake slowly turned its head and looked around the village.
Town where you were born.
A village where parents who raised you with love were born and died, although not the parents you gave birth to.
It’s almost a half-misunderstanding, but the village where the people who called themselves fairy and served and followed them, called themselves cheonnyeo, was destroyed so badly.
No longer, she herself could not even return to human form.
She regained her reason by recovering Yeouiju, but she already maintained her own strength in this huge body, and the huge physical strength that came from this huge body became all.
How did it become like this?
And her own dreams. Contrary to her own wishes.
The daily life and the ideal that she hoped for. Tears began to flow from her big eyes at this situation, so far removed from anything else.
She has become a monster herself.
Although it is a village that gradually drifted away while building discipline to become a dragon, it did not mean that the village was not precious.
She became a monster herself and destroyed the town herself.
What is really left of you now?
Tamamo looked at the snake and quietly moved forward.
「Proceed to the great sea」
『!?』
“Since the Dragon King is there, he will accept you.”
The girl blankly looked back at him.
It’s a big mess. If you go there, will you have a future for yourself?
But she looked behind her again.
She herself became a monster.
And the village that was destroyed by himself who became a monster like that…
“There are no dead people. And the destroyed village will be revived by ‘I’ and ‘I’.”
At those words, the girl looked at the fox in front of her eyes again.
Now, he had nothing left but this body, which had grown to such an extent that he was sick of it, and the ignorant power that emanated from it.
Healing the sick and covering lies and arguing.
To bless the land. It also drives appropriate rain clouds to prevent drought or splashing water.
There was nothing left but the strength to really smash something.
Why are they trying to help you?
What else is left of you…
After thinking about it for a while, she didn’t understand everything about her, but eventually she turned around and headed for the distant sea.
It was as if she had already lost everything about herself.
She couldn’t stay here anymore, and she had no place to be, so in the end, whatever the reason, there was nothing left to do but find a place that might be the only place she could be.
Watching the snake leave quietly with such a sad look, Tamamo also felt stuck in many ways.
Even saying that the village is truly miserable is not enough.
Even the houses, which seemed to have preserved their shape from afar, were bursting and cracking here and there, and were in danger as if they were about to collapse at any moment.
Returning to the scenery where it would be faster to build a new one than to repair it, the villagers collapsed into their seats, stunned.
However, those who remained at least were the lucky ones.
The whole terrain was completely crushed, and those who were lost were just helpless.
Haha…”
“Yeah, but thanks to them, I didn’t escape the loss of the village and living a life of wandering.”
Even if the house site was lost, the village site survived.
If everyone diligently adds their hands and makes an effort, they will be able to rebuild the village again somehow.
“Is there anything special? For the time being, shouldn’t we live together with our in-laws or somehow try to live together as much as possible?”
“First of all, let’s repair the most unsafe temple. Shouldn’t we ask the monk to put at least the elderly and children to sleep there somehow?”
“For now, let’s collect at least intact materials from collapsed houses.”
Thinking that there was hope as well as despair, the villagers scattered to the destroyed village one by one with a buzz.
Collecting wooden poles and beams that could be used again, the children also began to search here and there to collect household items that were in good shape.
Gradually, tools and materials for building houses were gathered in the village square, and the villagers began to pick up the tools the children had found and gradually speed up the work.
And in the midst of that, Tamamo also started to add a hand.
It lifts a collapsed house to make it easier to collect the materials of the house, and it knocks down a house that is difficult to touch because it stands clumsily. Mi pushed it to one place.
Right now, Tamamo’s food spirits began to help the villagers carry the materials needed for repairs and renovations of the temple.
Even though it looked like a little girl, the villagers were amazed at the sight of the two grown-up men lifting and carrying the rafters, which were difficult to lift even by two adults, as if to prove that they were not human beings.
With everyone’s help, the village began to regain hope little by little.
YuRia saw Roa returning to her ship with her a little tired look. Lying on the bed and looking at this and that, she closed the hologram window and rushed to Roa’s arms.
“Was it hard?”
“Oh, no… Well. It wasn’t that hard.”
Nuri, who was trudging toward her room behind the door that had not been closed yet, came into her eyes, and Yuria and Roa entered the room and closed the door.
“It’s a bit ambiguous now, but I’ll be able to get back to my old self soon.”
“Wouldn’t it be difficult in the short term?”
“It would be normal, but we should help a little.”
This disaster was also a disaster that occurred because of a certain semantic theory.
This Yeouiju Seokjin, who lost control of Crea, lost its function someday and the current disaster may have occurred on a larger scale, but thinking that the dragon king had led them here for a reason, she actively intervened in this village. And that’s what happened as a result.
If the dragon king felt sorry for her and sent them to help her, maybe something of her could help her more.
With the value of this ship, of course. Considering the numerous tips and tricks that can be learned through this ship after regaining the ability later, there may not be any help because I have already received a great value in advance.
“Crea already knew the Pacific route. If she didn’t know, like me, that the world was round, she wouldn’t have known.”
“…”
“How far did that damn elf reach?”
Her relationship with him, which she thought was over, was still sticky and did not fall off.
“It’ll be fine. Now Yuria can talk to us and share her wisdom while inside her ship.”
“I think that’s fortunate. I was wrapped in a sense of helplessness that I couldn’t really do anything, but now I can do something.”
Yuria lightly waved her hand in the air before groaning softly.
“Call system window”
The spear rose again in the air, and small holographic rings appeared on Yuria’s fingertips and wrists.
“After all, this point is annoying because I don’t have any skills. From one to ten, everything is manual.”
On the screen, images of Tamamo and her shikigami appearing, doing various things for the village, with their eyes shining even in the pitch black darkness.
“Originally, it would have taken several days just to clear the debris and maintain it, but the finish is already being built.”
“…”
As YuRia manipulated the screen, the sound connected to Tamamo.
“Tamamo, she’s working alone, isn’t she a bit boring?”
「Kk?! Wow, what a surprise! No, weren’t you surprised, afterlife!”
“You seem surprised because it’s a little unfamiliar way of communicating.”
Tamamo looked around here and there, then looked at her belly and kuck! She barked once.
In response, YuRia also manipulated the screen so that she could see the front of Tamamo, and had a conversation.
“Would you like to hear the voice of the West?”
“Huh?”
“Huh? Does this even transmit my voice?”
「Kya-hang-?!」
Surprised, Tamamo’s hair stood up again, and Tamamo glared at him a little angrily.
“Seo-sama’s voice too?”
“I’m watching Tamamo with Roa in the boat right now.”
“Eww… Saying that she has become extremely weak, she is loafing around alone.”
Yuria scratched her cheek because what she said was actually true.
“It’s farm. However, it is true that it is definitely suitable, so can you sing a song for me?”
At those words, Yuria smiled and started to operate her screen again, busily using her hands.
“Me and Roa will have a good time and sleep, so I’ll stop talking. And she’ll play the song as requested, so don’t be so lonely with her.”
“Hey, wait a minute? Turn it on?」
Yuria played one of her songs so Tamamo could hear it.
The music of her own era seems to be too shocking, so Tamamo seemed a little surprised when she selected and played an appropriate piece of her moderately super ancient music, but soon she nodded her head and went to work at night. He looked at Roa quietly.
“I-I can’t do it yet…”
“That’s what you mean”
As YuRia twirled in the air and manipulated her screen with her hands, something strange about her screen appeared in the air.
“Eh, what is this?”
“The screen looking at the inside of Roa’s body. Well, it’s hard to understand properly, so if you just talk about the results, it means that it’s already healed.”
For some reason, she still feels a little sore inside her body, but is it all better?
“Of course, if I keep doing it like that, I might go boo!”
“Hee!?”
Yuria lay on her bed with a mischievous smile.
“Come here”
“Uh, um…”
Roa was lying on her bed in a strange feeling, and she felt faint for some reason at the mysterious sound of music she didn’t know where it was coming from.
“I like the music. What kind of music is this?”
“A song that was popular in my world a very, very long time ago. How should I say it? It should be said that it is a song that goes along with a kind of play. It is music made with the theme of love between a certain ghost and a man in the East.”
Ghosts and people. A love between the living and the dead that probably shouldn’t have happened.
In a way, wouldn’t that be similar to Loa and herself?
Although there were no lyrics, only the sound of her instrument playing, YuRia kissed Roa and hugged her tightly.
“Yuria…”
“What’s wrong? It feels a little different than usual.”
Roa grumbled at him and fell into trouble.
“Because you don’t want me to be violated?”
“Yes?”
“I guess that’s right. But I can’t remember what we said together.”
What about Loa? And looked at YuRia.
“I don’t like the act itself, but have you forgotten that I like feeling the love of a loa in that relationship?”
“But you said that if you can feel love in a different way, it’s better not to.”
YuRia put on a slightly sad expression at those words.
“It’s okay… But if you really love each other, there’s no way to feel the love of the other person as deeply as this.”
“It hurts… You said”
“…So I’ll beg you.”
After a while. The bedroom became hot, and the heat did not last long, leaving only a slight fever.
