Chapter 247 – 247. Adventurer Erin (1)
Kruck!
Erin’s rapier pierced the belly of the kobold that was flying towards her and charging at her.
The abdomen exploded and the dismembered upper and lower body of the kobold fell to the floor, spurting dark red blood that stained the floor.
Erin looked around her and let out a small breath.
“Whoa… End with this…”
After confirming the annihilation of the kobold horde that was dealt with by the hundred demons, return to the dukedom and report that the ‘kobold horde’ ordered by the Adventurer’s Guild has been wiped out.
In order to prove that she had practically wiped out, Erin ordered the white demons to dismember the corpses of the demons scattered on the floor.
“Hundred Ghosts! Help me dispose of the corpse!”
Disassembling all the corpses of nearly twenty monsters was too much work for Erin alone.
At Erin’s polite request, the White Ghosts followed Erin and began to dismantle the kobolds.
[Through the contract, the souls of noble warriors who followed me… Making them help with the bodies of the corpses of mere low-level demons…]
‘… It’s Miho.’
[Don’t call me by my name pretending to be friendly. I am a miraculous person who has accumulated demonic power over countless times…]
‘If you’re not going to help me, stay quiet.’
[Such a cheeky thing!]
The nine-tailed fox was indignant at Erin’s resolute words and yelled at her.
Recently, Erin was able to find a way to deal with the nine-tailed fox.
The remaining thoughts of the nine-tailed fox in her body were very high in self-esteem.
Whenever she had a chance, she would quarrel with herself and disappear back into the depths of her consciousness to fall asleep. One time, she felt a fever from Erin, so she immediately said to a nine-tailed fox in her mind, ‘Hey!’ Have been shouting
She rose to the surface of her consciousness in a rage and shouted at Erin, which was the start of the first conversation between the two.
The nine-tailed fox, as a mysterious being who has been in existence for over a thousand years, tended to hate being ignored by others, and because he was a soul with very high self-esteem, he yelled at Erin for making comments that disrespected him.
[… Tsk.]
Erin didn’t listen to Miho at all and started to dismantle the beast with the dismantling knife she wore around her waist.
Even though they were bickering about this and that, in the end, the white ghosts and the nine-tailed fox did not refuse to help Erin.
It is a way of respect that can only be expressed by those who have watched every single one of her appearances for nearly two years, until a girl becomes her lady.
The reason why I was able to dismantle the work silently while frowning at the bloody appearance of the corpses of the beasts is all thanks to Eun-hyeon’s education.
‘Now I’m used to this… She even vomited on the floor when she first grabbed her knife and stood in front of her corpse…’
The image of Eun-hyeon when he gave the slender girl her dagger and told her to dismantle the body of the demon himself came to mind.
“It was really bad. How could you make me do this?”
The intestines and dark red blood that flowed out of the stomach when it was cut open, the nasty smell of blood that even made you frown, and the sensation of the blade slicing through your flesh.
This process of dissolution is more horrifying and unpleasant than just swinging a sword to deal with demon beasts.
Hearing Erin mumbling and grumbling to herself, the nine-tailed fox sneered at Erin inside her.
[Hasn’t he gotten quite good at things he hates so much?]
“Yeah… If you do it several times, you will get used to it and your hands will move naturally. And how can you say no…”
Erin had never once rebelled against her Eun Hyun’s education.
Even though the education given by Eun-hyeon is difficult and arduous, its efficiency and results are thoroughly rational to the extent that there is no theory.
Moreover, she was afraid that if she rebelled, she would abandon herself as if it was a reaction to the harsh yet kind care she gave her and her happy daily life, so Erin couldn’t do that.
The tendency to be overly dependent on Eun-hyeon, which had already piled up, even looked like an obsession.
However, it did not mean that Erin did not harbor feelings of dissatisfaction or dissatisfaction with her Eun Hyun.
“And that’s not what I’m complaining about. How could she teach such a thing to a poor girl?”
Erin’s lips pouted out as she was dissatisfied with Eunhyun.
It was just around this time in the spring of last year that Erin first learned of her breakup before her wedding.
As part of her adventures, Eun-hyeon, who often went hunting together, taught Erin the basics of her adventures and various knowledge.
The materials of the monsters are useful in many ways, such as weapons, armor, and alchemy reagents, so technicians with dismantling skills were an essential element in the party.
Therefore, it is only natural that dismantling of the Demonic Beast, which is essential among the skills required for adventure, was also included in the education Erin was taught.
[It’s probably because he doesn’t treat you as a girl or a fragile being.]
“That is the problem. You don’t see me as a woman.”
[… Is that important?]
“I am important to me!”
She involuntarily raised her voice and shouted at her nine-tailed fox, who was talking to her inner self, and her white demons, who were working on dismantling her, stopped her work all at once and took her Erin. Looked at
“Ah, ahaha… I’m sorry. Screaming… Please proceed again.”
When she followed her words with an embarrassing expression and gave the order to resume, the eyes of the hundred demons withdrew and started working at once.
[…]
The nine-tailed fox did not understand why her Erin, in an attitude that was familiar to her, mixed her short speech with her, while being polite and showing her respect for the white ghosts, who were no different from her own servants.
In general, shouldn’t it be the exact opposite?
The mind of a young girl who was about to become an adult was a way of thinking that was completely incomprehensible to the gumiho.
“For me… It’s an important issue. Hyun is… Are you really not seeing me as a woman?”
[Of course.]
“…”
[That guy already has two great spouses, but who would like a bloody lump like you who is not even an adult? Furthermore…]
The nine-tailed fox recalled the existence of a god who was destined to be by his side someday.
When he glimpsed Eun-hyeon’s past memories through the past energy drain, he noticed that one of the three goddesses who made him an apostle had special feelings for Eun-hyeon.
“Furthermore?”
[No, you don’t need to know this.]
“Huh?”
[Anyway, the feelings you have for him are nothing more than the admiration of a young girl who reached out to him in difficult times.]
At the point of the nine-tailed fox, Erin moved her dagger and stopped her hand from dismembering the beast’s corpse.
“I longed for it and embraced it… Is it wrong?”
[The fault is… No But isn’t he the only creature called a man in this world?]
Erin frowned at the nine-tailed fox’s question.
She moved her hand, which had stopped, and resumed dismantling the beast.
[Why are you trying to hang yourself? There are more than enough people around you who are showing favor to you, counting them on both fingers.]
In fact, recently, since the beginning of this year, the number of men favoring Erin has increased dramatically.
Armitas Knights, who were basically trained like Erin, and often matched up with opponents in sparring.
As she started acting as an adventurer, the adventurers she often talked to in the name of friendship.
And there were countless men who pursued her, possessed by the spirit of her adventurer, her guild staff, and the nine-tailed fox that unknowingly wandered around her street.
It was very daunting for her at first, but she was gradually getting used to it, and Erin was gradually getting over how to get her nerves out of those stares.
[Actually, from the standpoint of the men chasing you, there are probably a lot of men who approach you with the expectation that they might benefit from just being close to you.]
“They don’t all approach me because they like me.”
Erin’s current position within her duchy is very important.
Although her status is only a commoner, she became the son-in-law of a duke’s family, and she is a disciple of a man called the ‘Serpent of Mercury’, a very noisy topic within the kingdom of Pernias.
As she is a girl who has connections with the duke’s family, there are plenty of people who approach her with a snobbish mind that has nothing wrong with getting close to her.
“What do you want to say?”
[This means that you should not waste your time and effort by clinging to something that has no chance of winning.]
“…”
[No matter how hard you try and how hard you work, no matter how desperately you act to be loved and not hated, don’t expect him to respond positively to the feelings you send him.]
“It’s okay though.”
Erin shook her head and refused at her gumiho’s advice.
“I only have strings.”
As she falls from the rooftop of Aether, she is trapped in the barrier of time by the tree of wishes, and it is Eun-hyeon who first finds herself in her ghostly state.
When no one helped her, it was Eun-hyeon who reached out to her.
Eun-hyeon brought her happiness by leading her into the bright world outside, in her own bleak and dull world.
In Erin’s mind, the choice of ‘another man’ did not already exist.
It shouldn’t be this man.
“It’s okay even if you don’t get anything in return.”
It wasn’t that she made up her mind to tell her how she felt, to accept herself as she was.
“Because Hyun is my hero.”
[… Okay. If you want it.]
After hearing the girl’s decision, the gumiho did not add any more words.
Hearing the gumiho’s advice, Erin smiled happily.
“Thank you.”
[What are you talking about?]
“Are you worried about me?”
[Hmph, nonsense. It was so pitiful to continue dragging on a fight with little chance of victory, so I tried to give advice as an elder.]
“Okay. Okay. Thank you.”
[… You guys are always disrespectful towards me. So, when are you planning to convey that ‘heart’ of yours?”
“That…”
At the point of a nine-tailed fox that had suddenly stabbed her in a painful spot, Erin paused her disassembly and shuddered.
“I was originally going to do it early next year. Hyun-i decided to grant my wish if I achieved 10 consecutive victories through simulated sparring with the knights. Then she tried to talk…”
Before she left for her honeymoon, she recalled that she had given her a rapier she had made herself as a gift, and that if she reached 10 consecutive victories, she would grant one wish.
The next year, when she becomes an adult, she proudly said her wish while winning 10 consecutive victories, and like Illyana and Eleanor, she hoped that she would accept her as well, so she tried to convey her feelings.
“Who would have known that the surroundings would suddenly become so noisy with demons…”
Thanks to this, the inside of the duchy is also very noisy at the moment, and the knights of Armitas, who have honed their skills through training, have been busy with their eyes open lately.
There was absolutely no room for hanging out with Erin through her simulated sparring.
Erin was also looking for ways to improve her own skills, and chose the path of her adventurer.
She smiled bitterly and expressed her regret.
“Eutcha! Got them all! Thank you! Hundred Ghosts!”
The bones and intestines were separated, kobold skin and teeth purified from the mana polluted by the nine-tailed fox’s magic, and a small amount of meat to eat while returning to the dukedom.
Sweeping all of her things into her sack, Erin briskly lifted her huge sack, the size of her own.
No matter how much mass and weight she sweeps, the bag that doesn’t tear, let alone nod, shows off its efficacy as a magic bag specially crafted by Eunhyun.
When she waved her hand with her wide smile and thanked the Hundred Ghosts, all six Hundred Ghosts waved her hands in line with Erinn’s actions.
[Those are also…]
The White Demons, who had been loyal to themselves but saluted in a restrained manner, felt astonished to see Erin, who had welcomed her as her new master, warmly wave her hand and bid her farewell.
“Okay then. Shall we go home!”
Even while carrying a backpack containing a camping tent and an adventurer’s set, Erin, who was carrying a bag that boasted of her enormous weight, containing the materials of the dismantled kobolds, did not show any signs of difficulty.
