Chapter 254 – 1. Ufuji Room (12)
It’s been two days since I came out to sea.
YuRia, who was fidgeting in Roa’s arms, thought something was wrong with her.
Finding Yeouiju now, who has no ability anyway, was actually the role of Nuri, who knows the East Continent the most quickly, and Tamamo, who can feel and track the most.
And even those two couldn’t figure out where to start exploring Yeouiju as a standard, so for some reason, while halfway hit by a ship that was sailing automatically, they put their heads together and discussed this and that. We fell into each other’s hobbies.
But it was strange.
Why hasn’t the ship reached shore yet?
Wasn’t it to go up to the inside of the land by riding the river?
Ugh, wow! Whoa, that’s great!!
Somehow, the sound inside doesn’t leak out. The sound outside was less than that, but I couldn’t hear it inside unless it was quite loud, but Nuri’s voice was quite loud.
Yuria too at Nuri’s voice full of excitement. Roa also heard her ears prick up and looked in the direction where she heard the sound, and soon their eyes met.
Shall we go?
Let’s go
The two got out of bed, got dressed, and prepared to leave.
* * *
Flutter!
The big fish that twists and jumps vigorously, Nuri bangs her head with the capital as it is! As I hit it down, I congratulated and stretched out.
“What is this? It’s the first fish I’ve ever seen.”
It was good to catch a really big fish, but it was the first fish he had ever seen, so Nuri was a little embarrassed.
The fish was so strong that it was barely able to catch it after strengthening its body and limbs through qi. This monstrous fish looked bigger than itself even though it was not so small.
Sigh.
Just in time, Yuria and Roa, who opened the door and came out to the deck, could see Nuri, and Yuria opened her mouth without realizing it as she saw the gigantic fish convulsing.
“Northern bluefin tuna?”
The taste was so outstanding that it was forcibly restored through genetic manipulation according to the fish species restoration plan.
However, because it was difficult to create the breeding environment, large-scale farming was carried out by forced terraforming on a planet whose entire surface was the sea, and Yuria was a fish that she had tasted several times.
No, no. If you think about the location where the child originally lived, not the breed, is it now a southern bluefin tuna? Is not it?
“Is it just going to be a Pacific bluefin tuna…”
Since this side of the sea is the Pacific Ocean, this standard remains the same.
“Does Eun-gong know this fish?”
Nouri was happy to catch a big fish, but she was a little confused by the appearance of the fish, which she did not know what to do with.
Yuria tilted her head more closely than her tuna.
She was a bit different from the Pacific bluefin tuna she knew.
It was hard to explain what and how she was different, but she was different anyway.
“Something subtly different from the guy I used to know, but I think it’s a fish called bluefin tuna.
Then I thought something was strange.
If you can catch tuna, isn’t that what you want?
“Huh?”
She looked up at the sky, and Yuria looked around her for a moment.
There was no land or seagulls to be seen around.
“What, what? Where are we now?”
As was her habit, she waved her hand once in the air, then Yuria slightly frowned and shouted again.
“System call”
After activating her interface, Yuria gestured in the air and called up information about her surroundings.
And as a result, I realized that the current position of the ship was not in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but rather far away.
For two days the ship had been moving in a straight line from land to sea.
What’s going on? Does Yongwangnim have something else to do?
“Is this fish that good?”
“Yeah. I’ve eaten here a few times in my hometown…”
Literally like her habit, Yuria tried to raise the Psi blade at the tip of her finger, but Jjiing! She did and her bangs came ringing.
“Kyaaak-!!”
“Yu, Yuria?!”
“Eun Gong!!”
Yuria, who had collapsed, couldn’t get up because the sky was spinning.
Her head was spinning so that now she couldn’t tell if she was lying upright or face down. She did and something leaked from her eyes and nose.
“Ah, ugh…”
It’s not just her head ringing, her ears are ringing too, and Sia is also weird.
It hurts… It hurts…
Watching Tamamo jump out of her dizzy mind and Roa and Nuri continuing to shout something in her deafened hearing, YuRia flinched and lost her mind.
Oh that’s right, tuna.
I need to bleed…
If you don’t bleed quickly, the taste is…
* * *
Ugh…
YuRia, who had lost her mind, began to regain her consciousness as she felt a strong headache in her forehead, as if a wad of wet compressed cotton had been pressed tightly into her head.
For some reason, this savory taste that lingers in your mouth…
“Yes…?”
YuRia, who had struggled to come back to her senses, saw Roa scooping and feeding her some kind of fish porridge to herself.
“Yuria… Are you feeling better now?”
“It’s good…”
It was a weak voice, but when I saw her say this, Roa, who thought that she had regained her energy, sighed and sighed.
“Yuria, do you know that you almost got into trouble?”
“Ah…”
In a situation where her ability was sealed, she tried to use her ability too openly.
This tuna is bad.
“Sorry…”
In any case, it is true that she unintentionally caused great concern to everyone, so the fish porridge Roa scooped into YuRia’s mouth came back shyly.
YuRia, who was eating her fish porridge, somehow looked at her face and smiled at her.
It’s good.
There were really few times when she felt that food was delicious while eating, but this is quite delicious.
“Are you out of your mind?”
“Yeah. I’m still dizzy.”
“Do you like tuna roe porridge?”
“Ah, was this tuna roe porridge? It’s delicious. It’s been over 20 years since I ate it… Eh?!”
YuRia, who quickly turned her head to her side, was startled by the sight of a woman next to her, and her hair stood on end.
It was a very strange feeling to see her hair floating down while she was sitting calmly down, but it was only for a moment that her hair was floating like that.
Her ears resembled the fins of a fish or the flippers of a reptile, and on top of her head were small but dainty baby deer antlers, and her hair was barking, dark, dark blue, and her eyes were black.
To be precise, it was just black with no warping.
The vertical cracks that looked like pupils were a little different, but they were all black.
Above all, the sharp teeth between the slightly open mouths were telling us that the being in front of us was definitely not a human.
But even so, her appearance was very docile and beautiful.
If YuRia’s appearance is a bit sharp and angular, this woman in front of her has a round and round appearance, even though she has pouty features all over her appearance.
“Who, who?”
“The girl is called ‘Cheong’. Although the training she has accumulated so far has been in vain, she is able to practice again thanks to you, so she comes here to repay her kindness. Went up”
She glanced and saw that there was also a long tail growing behind her ass.
It’s similar to Er’s tail, but definitely different from it.
If Er’s tail felt a bit chubby, her tail was long like a snake.
She actually seemed to be a little longer than Er and had a tuft of hair at the end of her tail.
I was about to laugh for some reason as the tail waggled like that.
It was the first time I had heard the name Cheong, but there was one part that made me guess what it was.
“It seems that the dragon king helped me.”
“That’s right”
With her answer, Yuria said she was virtually convinced that her guess was correct.
As she was about to get up, she started dizzy again and Roa hurriedly grabbed her as her body staggered.
“Don’t overdo it. If it wasn’t for Cheong, she might have died.”
“Oh?”
Though her current condition is definitely not good in many ways, Yuria looked at Cheong thinking that she was in such a serious condition.
“There is some exaggeration in the description, but it’s not impossible.”
From what I said, it seemed that my condition was really serious.
Before I lost consciousness, I even felt something dripping from my eyes and nose, but Tamamo hurriedly treated me as I was shivering with blood flowing from my ears and mouth. It never showed any signs of getting better.
And. It was Chung who came to me then.
At first, he was very wary of the unusual appearance, but he came to the direction of the dragon king. Han Cheong took out a black crystal bead the size of a newborn baby’s head from his sleeve and lightly touched it to the fragment of the crown embedded in Yuria’s forehead. It was said that Yuria’s condition stabilized in an instant and she fell asleep right away.
“…”
Yuria then figured out the true identity of her bead.
“Yeouiju…”
“That’s right. Although she lost most of her powers to throw away her distorted appearance, Yeouiju is Yeouiju.”
It is not the Dragon’s Yeouiju, but the Imoogi’s Yeouiju, but she is the Yeouiju of the Imoogi.
“With the method I learned from the Dragon King, I was able to undo some of the thorns in her head. The Dragon King said that if you’re careful for a while, you’ll be able to use some of your abilities.”
The feeling in her head was still a mess, but after hearing Chung’s words, YuRia definitely felt that the depth of the range where she felt the headache had decreased a bit.
“Oh, tuna!”
“Hey! Are you saying that you die and come back to life is a fish term?!”
Seeing Roa screaming in anger, Yuria flinched and shrugged her shoulders.
“Take care of yourself… How worried I really was… How heartbroken I thought I was really going to die.”
“…Sorry. That, but he’s a really good guy.”
At YuRia’s words, Roa sighed and sighed.
“Cheung took care of that too.”
“To?”
“It was the first time I knew that fish had to be bled. It was also the first time I knew that fish blood was red. Is that fish a bit unusual?”
What about Roa? YuRia, who was doing this, remembered that what Roa had been feeding her was porridge made from tuna eggs.
In other words, it was the sound that the tuna had already been dismantled.
“Hey…?”
Even in the midst of his dizziness and heaviness, Yuria’s lips went up for some reason.
When was the last time you ate it? I wasn’t sure if it was that good back then, but now that I think about it, it seemed pretty good.
That’s because it was rare enough to count on the hands of people who came to this world and really felt that it was ‘delicious’.
Even in those days, it was still delicious enough to eat without any special cooking, just drain the blood and season it moderately, so wouldn’t it be a delicacy that can be counted among the best in this world?
For some reason, feeling as if saliva was forming in her mouth, YuRia growled again and lost consciousness.
Oh, I want to get well soon. It should be eaten while still fresh.
Ah… Did tuna taste better when it was aged?
YuRia, who almost passed out, was smiling for some reason.
Because of her poor condition, although her complexion is pale and her eyebrows are slightly furrowed, she licks her lips for some reason, and the way her mouth rises is a bit startling.
Or was it that the condition seemed very dangerous, but in fact it was not so dangerous?
If that’s not the case…
Loa glanced at Cheong.
Her appearance was very sharp and pointed, so she looked scary and ferocious, but ironically, she looked so docile and round.
Her teeth were also sharp, terrifying, suitable for biting off and devouring the flesh of something, and her eyes were all black, and her hands were sharp dragon hands, not human hands.
Still, only that feeling is a dragon’s hand, and it has all five fingers like a human’s hand, and that tuna… ? YuRia, who was called “I’m sorry,” Was also preparing the fish that was so delicious, but…
“How was Yuria’s condition?”
“You seem to be very worried.”
“Yeah…”
Her Qing lowered her head as she lightly closed her eyes at him.
She said, “I don’t know much about her, but she probably didn’t have a problem with her life.”
The parts that really have a big impact on her life tend to be concentrated on the inside and back of her head rather than the front.
Especially around the junction of her neck and head.
“What I heard from the Dragon King was that the situation was so urgent that I didn’t hear much, but I heard that the main area of her brain that was hit was the area in the frontal region where the ability was manifested. He said it was only a blow from the wind and not a fatal wound.”
“That’s right?”
“If I had been late to use my hands instead, I would have been a fool for quite some time. I still have that effect a little bit.”
At those words, Roa looked at YuRia with a slightly confused expression.
Ha, indeed.
She had been going back and forth so many times that her life almost came to an end so often, she wondered if she had become too insensitive to this kind of thing, but I wondered if she wasn’t too aware of the crisis.
No matter how delicious the fish is, it’s okay to catch that fish again, but you care about the fish first than your own condition.
“…”
As he patted her and comforted Yuria, Yuria burrowed into her arms more and more and began to rub her hair again and again.
Roa, who was a little careful not to touch the splinter on her forehead while correcting her YuRia’s posture, suddenly had that thought.
Most of her internal organs were thrown away as inedible, but the eggs from the large fish and the edible internal organs were all put into the largest pot in the boat and boiled in a broth made from the bones of the fish to make porridge.
Surprisingly, Yuria took it all in one go and ate it all up to the point that her little belly bulged out a bit as if she was carrying a baby.
So Roa still doesn’t know the taste.
“Is that fish that good?”
“I don’t know, but when I lived as a big beast without reason or intelligence, they called that fish, tuna. The memory of catching and eating tuna remains hazy. It’s probably because it was the most delicious subconsciously.”
“… But how did you know that the part of the fish that you shouldn’t eat and that it’s good to eat?”
At those words, Chung smiled faintly.
“Where do you think the town I lived in is?”
“…Sorry”
Come to think of it, the village she lived in was her fishing village.
Of course, the main food would have been fish, and since I have eaten a variety of seafood, I would have known where to eat and what not to eat for each type of fish, even if it was not perfect.
A past that can no longer be returned.
It wasn’t to the extent of the reverse, but there was no doubt that it was a sensitive part.
Ahh!? What, what is this!? Wow!?
At that moment, Nuri’s shrieking sound was heard again from the deck.
“…”
“…”
What will happen again this time?
Roa, who had laid YuRia, who had been sleeping peacefully in her arms for a while, on her bed, went out onto her deck with Cheong.
Pooh! The fish jumped out of the water and rushed toward Nuri like an arrow.
As the long, pointed snout, like a bar, rushed in as if it were going to pierce the abdomen, the frightened Nuri hurriedly escaped, and this bizarre fish flopped on the boat for a while, then flopped over the boat as if it were underwater, and then regained its posture, restoring itself. Ran towards
“Ugh!? What, what is this!? Wow!?”
Food Deok!!
It was said that she felt cold only when she soared from the water, but now that she came out of the water, Nuri, who thought that nothing would happen, jumped in fright at the completely unexpected situation that happened in the middle of the night like a redhead.
And just then, Roa, who had just opened the door and came out to the deck, grabbed the long snout of this strange fish that was running frantically on board and picked it up.
Food Deok! Flop! Flip!!
“Oh?”
Loa struggled harder than expected and lifted the fish with his arms tight.
“It looks smaller than him, but is it very strong?”
The fluttering of the fish stopped when Chung, who had just followed, poked the head of the fish Roa was holding onto with his fingers.
And as soon as he pricked the bottom of the left and right fins of the fish with a pop, blood began to gushing out.
“Isn’t this guy’s grooming method very different from hers?”
“There isn’t much of a difference.”
As we did the last pick and cut off the flesh on the tail, the blood started pouring out more and more.
“After draining some more blood like this, disassemble it and soak it in seawater to drain a little more blood.”
Noori sighed as she threw a bucket with a rope into the sea and drew seawater to sweep away the blood on the deck.
“Is this guy going to like Eun-gong too?”
“Probably, the taste isn’t quite the same.”
Gradually, as time passed and the leaking blood gradually decreased, Cheong began to dismantle the fish.
A sharp hand itself, without the need for a knife, was an excellent dismantling tool.
Open the belly, split open the innards that can be eaten, sort them separately, throw the innards that should not be eaten as they are, throw them into the sea, separate the head with a snap, peel off the skin, and chew it. Maybe it was at the beach, Tamamo started draining the last blood by pouring seawater into a large lump of water with her magic.
Nuri picked up the flesh and intestines drained of blood and carried them to the food storage area, and Cheong, as she did before, opened wide her mouth full of sharp teeth and began to chew on the head she had separated earlier.
I must say that it is truly bizarre.
“Delicious?”
“The fish head is the most delicious, but it is difficult for ordinary people to taste it.”
This sight was second to Roa, but the taste seemed to be difficult to understand as she said.
It’s a head full of hard-looking bones, but what kind of taste is it eating?
The taste is delicious, but it was really strange how long it had been since he ate the tuna head, and how that big thing went all the way into Cheong’s stomach.
It looks small because it is human, but is it because it is actually a big snake, no dragon, no serpent?
But wait.
If we say that hair really tastes the best, would you be disappointed if there is no hair after Yuria wakes up?
For a moment, I wondered if the loa had to be dried, but in that moment, the head of the fish had already disappeared, leaving only the long spear-like snout that Cheong was using as a handle.
“Ah…”
… There is no difference.
If hair is really good, another chance will come someday.
But Roa didn’t know.
How far in the future the ‘next opportunity’ that Roa thought would come.
