Chapter 277 – Horseman of Death (3)
Doctor of Archeology?
It was when I felt ominous about an unexpected, if not unexpected, position. Dana’s eyes lit up like a girl who met a girl group who used her pocket money to buy her albums as a child.
“Also! After all, you are Professor Hi Romain!”
Oh this Sipal. An ominous hunch is not wrong. He was a doctor and he was also a professor. Hi Romain awkwardly scratched his cheek.
“Professor. It’s almost an honorary position. In fact, the experience of taking classes at university is about to be counted on one hand. Seminars are often held.”
“Ah, that’s right. Hit! Is my introduction late? I’m Dana Verbeia. I am a junior doctor with a background in academia, and these people here are close friends with my family.”
Dana pointed at me, so I reluctantly said hello.
“This is Nord, her husband. I look forward to.”
“Yes Yes. Thank you so much for saving me earlier.”
“Nope. It’s okay if you don’t say hello that many times.”
I drew the line just enough not to be offended. To be honest, if I had known he was a professor, I couldn’t say for sure who my javelin would have aimed at first, High Romain or half-human, half-horse.
A female archeology professor who is close to Unicorn. I know one bitch who is 90% identical to you except for the race.
My hands are itching already. I know how you feel about a bloodthirsty killer.
Of course, I am not a murderer, but an earth warrior who fights for justice. If the opponent shows their back, they don’t blow the chidori.
‘If it’s Professor Kingchiman, wouldn’t it be okay to have a ‘brain break’?’
I stroked the window sill feeling the urge to take a break.
You’re kind, you’re kind, our Mimi-chan (Mithril-Mithril Spear). I know you miss the professor’s blood, but wait. Dana is excitedly talking about it, and if I do the ‘Gigantic Drill Stinger’, our Nunna won’t even look at me for at least a month.
“Ah, I’ll treat you from where you were injured.”
“I beg you. I don’t have much, so I don’t have much to give for treatment, but…”
“No no! You don’t have to worry about medical expenses!”
Fuck the world. Is that right for our eyes? I gaped.
Damn that sister, didn’t I pick up something weird when I jumped into the driver’s seat? Dana chattered merrily while treating her wounds, like a lady at a hair salon who paid 7,000 won for her haircut.
“I read the professor’s book. 〈 Insulam De Aeternum (Insulam De Aeternum) 〉 is always number one in my favorite book rankings. Of course, I also read papers published in academic circles. You would be surprised to know how many of your articles were cited in the thesis that I completed my PhD.”
“Ahhh. If it’s a book, I don’t know how to say it myself, but I’m confident that it’s definitely made of porcupine. I received a lot of help from the descendants of Erinn during the writing process.”
Dana laughed awkwardly at Dana’s sincere rave. When Dana, who was stingy with her compliments, expressed her accolades, her hand stroking her window sill quickened.
“Cook cook. What, are you jealous right now?”
Dana, who found me like that, said as if she was a little glad that I was jealous.
“Professor Hiromain is the authority on Ulster research. Why, did I say that I also carry the essays written by this person? I gave you a book to read back in the day, don’t you remember?”
“No, if my older sister and I are talking about the old days, wasn’t it three or four years ago? How do you remember the author of the book you read when you were just getting used to the lab? … Ulster?”
I twisted my head.
As I’ve said before, there are very few scholars who study the culture of Ulster. It is because there are no relics, so money is not available, and it is fucking difficult to investigate the culture that is passed down by word of mouth.
A researcher from Ulster. Is that also a doctoral + professor level greeting?
Then, even in the entire academic world, you can almost count them on your hands.
‘Hyro Main. I think I’ve heard of it.’
Where were you? It felt like it had been mentioned before, as well as Dana, or not. I tried defragmenting the hippocampus’s hard disk.
Ulster, Erin, Professor, Thesis… Seminar?
“Ah.”
It came to mind. Who was he? Was it the old professor who sexually harassed Tyrsi? I think the bastard was talking when he answered my question.
‘Didn’t he say that after watching Return of the Beast, he heard an oral tradition with a similar effect at Professor Hiromain’s seminar?’
No, I said that I had heard that mantra 《Pray to the Sky God (yáǵeswō deiwōm dyēus)》 at a professor’s seminar.
‘Perhaps that’s this person.’
It’s not just one or two points of contact with these bastards.
So suspicious If you play peekaboo with 〈 Lightning Missile 〉, won’t it blow as it should? If you don’t like doing it to people, I think going to the room of truth with the unicorn baby over there is also a way.
First of all, let’s do a verbal ‘interview’. I opened my mouth.
“Ah! Professor Hi Romain! I’ve heard of it. I’m sorry I didn’t recognize you for a while.”
“No, what? How can I be inconvenient after being indebted to you like this?”
The kind smile seemed sincere as if he really thought so. But I’m not fooled anymore. Yerna, don’t look down on my mind trained by that dick bitch.
Now, while watching Caster’s review on the departure video trip, I was confident in distinguishing between jam and no jam.
I brushed off the yaburi. Professor, take off your mask and reveal your personality!
“We tried to help, but it must have been very heartbreaking. How did you end up being chased by such a monster?”
“I don’t know. Alice——Ah, I was just walking down the street with that horse over there, but he suddenly appeared and attacked me.”
High Romain talking while looking at his wounds.
Is the name of that broken horned unicorn Alice? It seems that he was ambushed by the first bread and injured his arm.
“It’s fortunate that the long-distance slashing attack is slower than Alice’s feet, otherwise I would have died already.”
“That’s right. That… It’s hard to ask, but what about the people who came with me?”
Hi-Lo Main blinked her eyes and smiled.
“Ah, I have no company. Since I’m a field scholar, I’ve been on research trips with that kid alone since before. The university that accepted me as a professor also hired me as a professor because I was a rare Ulster scholar.”
“I’m glad I heard you. I was also anxious about what would happen if the professor’s party were harmed.”
Dana, who heard me, half-opened her eyes. This kid looks like he ate rat poison. It must be because even my wife knows that my anger control disorder manifests as a professor slayer.
But this fucking sister. How you feel right now is how I felt before.
“So, what was that monster?”
She noticed how Dana was feeling, but she pretended not to know.
I am no longer dominated by anger. The reins of fury are in my hands. The trigger for the growth of Beast Return was something that had to be controlled by my will.
Suspicious things are suspicious, and now I had to hide my doubts and dig into the true nature of that middle-aged female professor.
“The one you just got is probably Nukelaby.”
Victoire, the peddler, intervened again. This guy really likes to talk.
“What about Nutella?”
“Nukelaby, nukelaby. In this area, the… It’s a ghost story close to folklore.”
Fuck you, you’re from another world. The one that shows off his knowledge until he asks 1Q without explaining it.
I tried to ignore it because I thought it was like shit and I had already heard about the monsters I was close to, but Hi Romain bit the rice cake.
“Probably right. Nuckelavee, Knoggelvi, Nykur. There are many names, but they all refer to a type of river demon, kelpie.”
“You just said crab kelpie? It’s a bit different from the kelpies I know.”
Dana asked as Hi-Ro Main explained, putting on her cast.
“Ah, in Gorgalia, ‘Kelpie’ is a general term for all the evil spirits. In fact, if you categorize it correctly, nukelabi are the demons of the sea.”
“Ugh. Ulster is a bit like that. Isn’t it difficult to study because it’s a central heating place like a bard’s poem?”
“Once you get used to it, it’s like listening to an old story, so it’s fun. Miss Dana is probably a descendant of Erin, is that correct? In your culture, it refers to a demon in the form of a cannibal horse, right?”
As an Ulster authority figure, he was a High Romaine who recognized our Nunna’s race. Dana introduced her hometown as if she were familiar with it.
“Yeah. I am a descendant of Ulster Inn. In my hometown, kelpie stories were like cruel fairy tales told only to children.”
“Oh. So you must be from the Pict side of Erinn? Whoop whoop. I also apologized for the villagers there, but that was already more than 5 years ago. Mmm. Anyway, back to Nukelaby.”
Hi Ro Main, who fell into Samcheonpo for a while, spoke with a straight face.
“According to tradition, Nukelaby is a very powerful evil spirit. From what I’ve heard, it’s a real fantasy species that definitely existed during ancient civilizations.”
“Did you just get rid of it? Were you young?”
I pointed to the corpse of the half-man, half-horse that had been pursued.
A very powerful legendary demon (slashed by a spear).
“I don’t think so. The Nukelaby in the legend is presumed to be a single entity. There was no legend about defeating the Nukelaby… It’s definitely a more futile end than I thought.”
Hyromain was wary of Nukelaby’s corpse as if it were strange. I slung the spear pole over my shoulder.
“It must be fake or something. Isn’t it common for evil spirits to borrow forms?”
I didn’t even think I was so damn strong that I 1-Qed a legendary demon.
A monster from the era of ancient civilization, which was the heyday of mankind in another world, is transmitted to the modern other world? That means that Nukelaby is really a mythical demon.
Although Britannia was and still is a small country, isn’t it a bastard who passed down knowledge to ancient humans, even Ulster people? I didn’t think a monster like that would go to the goal with my javelin 1Q.
Perhaps that guy was likely to be a fake that a wicked chewy mimics the legendary evil spirits.
Victoire straightened his collar in disgust.
“A monster that eats people. It’s very creepy. Let us either leave quickly or not.”
“Yes. I just burn the body. There may be poison, so everyone please stay away.”
I bit people, gave them 〈 Burning Hand 〉, and set their bodies on fire. Since it was a meadow, I did not forget to dig up and bury the soil so that the fire would not spread.
“Fire in the Hole.”
─Roaring!
As I poked at the corpse with the breath of the golden sun, I made a frown.
‘That bitch doesn’t lag behind.’
Did you say it was the evil spirit of the river or the sea? As he said, his body was so wet that it did not catch fire.
Finally, oil was applied. It’s a pity, but I can’t help it. I don’t know if it’s a common mob, but it’s not polite to not clean up a ghastly corpse like this.
– Lively.
After properly checking the burnt kelpie and burying it, I returned to the wagon. The group was packing up their belongings.
“Professor Hiromain? Where are you going, Professor?”
“I’m going to the village of the descendants of Erinn in the east. I am acquainted with the villagers, so I am thinking of saying goodbye to them after a long time and going to the University of Romania.”
“Ah, our destination is close.”
Is this the angle you’re going to go with this fucking lady?
The feeling of wanting to say goodbye and kick her butt is the maximum, but she runs so fast that it’s not long before we stop by the village.
Flusmirror Forest.
That was the place Dana and Veronica assumed to be the location of Gorgalia’s Holy Tree Forest. I plan to get off at Flusmirror Village adjacent to the forest, stay overnight, and then go to the sacred place of Bicorn.
The party members—even Dana— looked at me.
It seemed like he was asking me what to do. Because I am the party leader.
Maybe our party members will starve here on the street where I am the professor! Hey! Even if I spit out abusive words like that and ran away, I wouldn’t say anything.
Still, I had to worry enough to write an impression.
‘If this meeting is an opportunity, it’s an opportunity.’
A unicorn with a broken horn, like a warlock.
A professor who seems to know my knowledge of Beast Return.
Both of them seemed like fucking dangerous opponents, but there was no doubt that the drop items or drop information would be invaluable.
To be honest, it was good to say that it was almost luck.
While playing samba samba with Veronica, I gained a lot of Odin-related knowledge, but there are still a lot of mysteries entwined in my life.
“… Come with us. It will be comfortable to move together while the paths overlap.”
I said that while watching the liver carefully.
How the warlock unicorn of 〈 Immortalis 〉, who was close enough to share magic knowledge with Yerna, regained the appearance of a god.
And who was the person who inscribed the magic of beast return on the tombstone?
This was the only information that could not be obtained even if I tried to get it in my spare time. Even at the risk, it was worth putting that professor in your company for a while.
“Can I bother you that much?”
“Sure. Instead, I would appreciate it if you could talk to me and my wife. In fact, we are scholars and their families, so we have a lot of interest in old stories.”
She pretended to do her favor and grounded her. What kind of knowledge and how much would you spit out if given the opportunity. In the worst case, I have to become a professor slayer and dig up information by force.
Professor Hyromain nodded happily, as if he hadn’t noticed that I was sharpening my knife secretly.
“If that’s the case! In fact, I had very few people to talk to about my research, so I ended up practicing my lectures with Alice!”
Haha. Research students in the lab don’t like the professor’s private talk, do they?”
“Yeah? Nope. I don’t have a research student or private lab.”
“Ah. That’s right——Wait a minute. What do you say?”
I was dazed as if I had been hit in the back of the head.
A professor who doesn’t treat research students——graduate students?
