Chapter 487 – 487. Water Gate Territory Tirnis (1)
Only silence lingered in the encampment as they stared blankly at the soup bubbling in the pot.
Eun-hyeon’s campsite, which is located far away from the current royal family and the knights who escort them, is filled with only the sound of crackling firewood and the sound of ramen boiling in a pot.
In the end, unable to bear her solemn and serious atmosphere, Erin secretly covered Eleanor with her hand and asked in a low voice.
“Miss Eleanor. What is that food, is the princess like that?”
“Well…”
Eleanor smiled bitterly and shook her head.
In fact, even Eleanor did not know anything about the ramen that Eunhyeon was preparing.
The secret of Eleanor’s previous life and Eun-hyeon’s immortality is a fact that only a few know, and Erin does not yet know that Yuria was an Earthling in her previous life.
She only knew of Eun-hyeon’s plan to lay the groundwork for her to get a good card that she could later present to Yuria, using the common ground she lived on Earth.
She hadn’t expected that she would react so madly.
“If you look at the color, it looks really tasteless…”
Erin looked unwilling as she stared at the ramen bubbling in the pot.
Looking at the noodles and vegetables that are ripening in the bright red broth, it is a visual that makes you wonder if it is the food that demons eat just by looking at the exterior.
“Well, this color of soup is not common here.”
The basic staple food of most of the Archena continent, including the Kingdom of Pernias, is soup and bread made with flour, corn, or milk.
As white or similarly bright soups are popular, there is no choice but to be unfamiliar with the bright red soup in front of you.
“You don’t have to eat if you don’t want to eat. It will actually be a little spicy.”
She had already prepared food for Eleanor and Erin to eat and left the expedition.
The ramen soup developed this time is originally a spice with a strong spiciness from a foreign country that is not handled in the Kingdom of Pernias.
It was probably a food that Erin and Eleanor were not very familiar with.
The purpose of Eunhyeon putting this on the dinner menu at the campsite was purely to catch YuRia.
“Um… But I want to try it first.”
Eating rice prepared by Lily has become a daily routine these days, but before Lily came, Eun-hyeon was in charge of cooking in her house.
As much as she knew his cooking skills, Erin didn’t just reject him.
The visual itself really made me hesitant to eat it, but perhaps because of the belief that it was being made by Eunhyun’s hand, there was no lack of curiosity about a new kind of dish that I hadn’t tried at all.
“Still? Do you think it’s done?”
YuRia, who had kept her silence and stared at the ramen as it was cooking, finally opened her mouth.
“Shouldn’t I learn more?”
“What are you talking about! Before the ramen is fully cooked! You have to eat when you flirt!”
“That’s individual differences, isn’t it?”
“I-I’m a flirt!”
Seeing Yuria’s straightforward way of revealing her taste, Eunhyeon smiled bitterly at her as if she couldn’t help it and put her ramen in her bowl and handed it to Yuria.
“…”
Gulp
Having received her bowl, Yuria swallowed her saliva at the smell of ramen rising from under her.
The smell, which she thought she would never be able to smell again, evoked nostalgia in YuRia’s mind.
He picked up the noodles using the chopsticks that came with him and immediately put the noodles into his mouth.
“… ! Town!?”
The broth from the soup soaked in the hot noodles spread in her mouth, and Yuria’s eyes widened.
Curly hair
The reaction was so intense that Erin, who was next to her, wondered if she had been poisoned, and waited for YuRia’s reaction.
Even though she had already swallowed all of her noodles, the scent of her spicy sauce continued to linger in her mouth.
“Ah…”
YuRia sighed a little at the taste she hadn’t felt in a long time and shivered at her body.
Hurgh!
She moved her hesitant chopsticks, sucked her noodles, and resumed her meal.
Slurp!
She brought the whole bowl close to her mouth, ate all of her noodles, and when that was not enough, she gulped down her broth. There was no such thing as culture and elegance as a princess of a country.
She was absorbed in inhaling ramen, enjoying the feeling of recreating the meal of memories and returning to herself in the past, called Earth.
“Ha…”
It took less than 5 minutes for Yuria to finish her meal.
Yuria’s face was filled with satisfaction as she emptied not only her noodles but also the soup in her bowl.
Erin asked with a surprised expression when she saw YuRia smiling at how good she was.
“… Princess. Did you like it that much?”
“… Huh.”
Yuria immediately nodded her head and looked at Eunhyun with a slightly regretful expression.
“But is it a little less spicy? Couldn’t it have been more spicy?”
“If you make it like that, Eleanor and Erin might not be able to eat it.”
“… Yes.”
It was unfortunate for Yuria, but she was satisfied enough just by being reproduced to this extent.
However, she came up with another possibility in Eunhyeon’s words.
“By the way, does that mean you can make it even spicier here?”
“It is.”
“… Great.”
Ramen is not the end with just this once.
It was enough for her to hear that she would eat again if she got the chance.
Thinking that she should postpone her pleasure until later, Yuria gently closed her eyes and enjoyed the lingering lingering scent of ramen that lingered in her mouth.
‘I’m glad I was alive.’
A single tear streamed down YuRia’s eyes as she felt great satisfaction from her.
“Princess. She gave her report to Hubei… Why are you crying?”
Alex, who belatedly visited Eunhyeon’s camp again, sat still and made a puzzled expression when he saw that tears were flowing from Yuria’s closed eyes.
“…”
Eleanor and Erin couldn’t bear to say, ‘The ramen is so delicious that they’re crying.’
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It’s been about two weeks since I went out from Pernin.
The long line of wagons of the royal family and the Knights of Artia finally reached its destination and came to an end.
Erin opened her eyes wide and opened her mouth at the sight she saw as soon as she crossed the gate after being checked.
“Wow… !”
The vast sea with blue waves reflecting sunlight is like a huge jewel whose size cannot be measured because the end is not visible.
Erin looked at the sea for the first time in her life, and she admired it.
“Is Erin seeing the sea for the first time?”
“Yes! This is my first time!”
She was born in Pernin, and the reason why she moved out of the capital city was that she moved with Eun-hyeon.
Prior to that, Erin, as she turned 20 years old, she did not remember seeing a single ocean.
She had only recently explored every corner of her adventurer job, but to her Erin, the sight of the ocean now in front of her was like a new world that made her heart pound.
“I’m sorry, but I came here for work. Let’s go sightseeing later.”
“Ugh. Yes. All right.”
Erin felt regret at Eleanor’s hand stroking her hair with a wry smile on her face, but she had to endure it.
First of all, Queen Diane’s carriage procession, which preceded them, was heading towards the mansion of the lord who currently manages this territory, ‘Tirnis’.
“Tirnis…”
Erin muttered the name of this estate and recalled her memories in her head.
She said that recently, perhaps because she had been studying her knowledge of the history and geography of the Kingdom of Pernias from Eleanor, the place name of this territory was not too unfamiliar to her.
She said, “I must have said ‘Sumunyeongji (水門領地)’…”
“That’s right. Do you remember?”
“Sure. Eleanor-sama taught you.”
Perhaps because it was confirmed that she remembered the knowledge she had learned, her expression on Erin’s face looked very proud.
“Then do you remember why this territory is called ‘Sumunyeongji’?”
“Uh… Ah! That door! Because of that door!”
Erin kept searching for the memories in her head and pointed her finger at the two huge floodgates installed on the border of the land and the sea beyond her window in her wagon.
The seawater flowing in from the open floodgates flows in through the huge waterway installed inside the manor, and the seawater flows out through the floodgates installed elsewhere.
“I heard that the water gate usually serves as a checkpoint for the territory.”
“That’s right.”
Eleanor nodded her head in satisfaction with Erin’s answer.
The two water gates installed adjacent to the sea of Tirnis play the role of a checkpoint to manage ships entering or leaving through navigation.
In addition, there is also a salt farm area that draws in the seawater and produces salt in the interior of the manor.
Salt produced in Tyrnis is also one of the main specialties of Pernias Kingdom.
The spices Eunhyeon used to develop ramen are also one of the main products distributed by merchant ships arriving here.
Tiernis territory is also the center of very active maritime trade, which is comparable to other countries.
“Then, would you like to talk about the special role this Youngji has?”
“Uh, um…”
Basically, territories basically have the role of an administrative district that protects and manages the people and territories belonging to the territory, but there are other territories that are given special roles.
A typical example is the Mograf Frontier, which plays a role in protecting the borders of the Kingdom of Fernias at the forefront.
As it was given a special role to block the invasion of foreign enemies, including witch beasts, at the forefront, it had a stigma that could not be laughed at as the most dangerous and suffering territory in the kingdom of Pernias.
Erin experienced some of the horrors by witnessing many people who were injured during the demonic flooding incident in the past when the demonic beasts started rampaging.
Like the Margrave of Mograf, which was given the role of blocking and protecting the invasion of foreign enemies, if this territory currently visited, Tirnis, had a special role, what would it be?
Erin immediately recalled the geography of this estate and put her own guess into his mouth.
“Are you blocking the enemy’s offensive from the sea?”
If the borders of Mograf protect the kingdom from foreign enemies coming from the mountains and land, wouldn’t the territory of Tyrnis have the role of protecting the kingdom from foreign enemies coming from the sea?
Erin’s guess was very simple.
“That’s right. And another one?”
Unfortunately, there was one more role assigned to the Territory of Tiernis besides managing the people and invading foreign enemies from the sea.
“Sorry, sorry… Other than that… Lol.”
Erin smiled awkwardly and tried hard to hide her embarrassment.
She must have explained it to Eleanor, but her own head didn’t seem to remember it.
“Can I give you a hint?”
In order to help Erin, Eun-hyeon, who had been quietly listening to her conversation, smiled and gave it to her.
“Hint?”
“Remember why we came here.”
“Uh… So, obviously, to hold the king’s funeral… Uh?”
Erin, frantically thinking in her head, asked Eleanor, her eyes wide open.
“The tombs of the previous kings of the kingdom… Are you here?”
“That’s not right. Exactly… This territory is just a halfway point to go through it.”
If you have to go through this territory, the place that comes to mind is, of course, the sea, not the land.
“Then… No way… ?”
“That’s right. There is no place on this continent where the successive kings of Pernias are buried.”
Eleanor continued, gazing at the endless expanse beyond the window of her wagon.
“The most important role of the Territory of Tyrnis is the island where the royal families of the past are buried. Manufacturing and maintenance of a sailboat to go to ‘Orbis’.”
