Chapter 667 – 667. Fighting Pride (1)
“Three, my God… !”
Seeing the gumiho and Gerard, Erin put on a shocked expression.
“To hear Miho come out… !”
Erin knows very well what kind of life the nine-tailed fox is living confined to the shrine inside the dungeon.
Ever since she was resurrected, she has been concentrating on recovering her powers by keeping her magic clean.
It was the spirit of the divine beast to be reborn as a higher being, but in Erin’s eyes, it was just a hikikomori locked in a house.
Gerard is even in charge of cleaning her shrine and cooking, so the only thing Erin does without any activities is to regularly watch Erin’s training.
The fact that such a nine-tailed fox was out came as a shock to Erin.
“… Tsk.”
Reading what she was thinking from Erin’s gaze, the gumiho clicked her tongue as if she didn’t like her.
As her own successor who inherited the power of her divine beast, she does not know how to respect and look up to herself no matter how much time passes.
Gumiho, who has been training for nearly a thousand years to become a lofty existence that transcends providence, is a divine beast that everyone looks up to.
But to Erin, she was just an annoying teacher nagging herself.
I had made a firm promise that one day I would fix that habit and make him have the mindset of a Shinsoo, but I’ve given up now.
There was no sign that Eun-hyeon, who contributed greatly to her personality and disposition, would ever be fixed.
“Gerard! What happened!? How Miho… Miho is coming out!”
“Oh, be quiet!”
The gumiho was annoyed at Erin for making a fuss about her, but Erin, who was already in a state of excitement, neatly ignored the gumiho’s threats.
During her training, the level of internal energy she hears through one ear and out the other ear is not normal.
As many people’s attention began to turn towards the gumiho in an instant, the gumiho’s mood worsened even more.
She is as sensitive to the gaze and emotions of others as Erin, and because she has similar characteristics to Erin, it is easy to charm people with the pheromones that flow unconsciously from her body.
It was a natural phenomenon to attract attention.
Gerard answered Erin’s question with a wry smile at the fact that the nine-tailed fox was more uncomfortable than he thought.
“Because of me.”
“Yes? Are you Gerard?”
Erin asked with a puzzled expression.
“The nine-tailed fox said she was looking for an elixir to feed me, so she directly moved her steps like this.”
Like Erin, Gerard is a special human with the power of a divine beast.
The essence of that power is not the magical power of a nine-tailed fox Erin possesses, but a ferocious aura filled with the characteristics of a thunderbolt called Kirin.
Her power was ferocious and dangerous to the extent that it was on a different level from Erin’s nine-tailed fox power.
The magical power of the nine-tailed fox, which is a collection of neat and clean energy, and the magical power of the giraffe, which contains the brain energy of nature, are completely different in terms of purpose and nature.
If the magical power of a nine-tailed fox, which has been accumulated through self-discipline to reach a higher place, is a gentle dog that can be controlled according to the user’s ability, the magical power of a giraffe is like a wild foal that is uncontrollable.
The story of how he came to have the power of a giraffe is also a result of overlapping coincidences through a reckless act close to suicide.
That’s how Gerard was able to bear the power of a giraffe with a worse temper than a nine-tailed fox.
“Mi-Miho himself…”
Erin put on a look of disbelief as she turned her gaze to the gumiho.
Even Erin knows that Gerard is having trouble fully controlling the ferocious giraffe’s mana.
However, in order to solve the trouble Gerard is currently experiencing, the nine-tailed fox took his own step and came out of the shrine?
That was a separate story, a story that could never have existed with the common sense embedded in Erinn’s head.
‘Perhaps…’
It’s just that the nine-tailed fox is not aware of it himself, and he may believe in and care for Gerard more than he thinks.
“Hehe.”
Erin, who realized this first, smiled sinisterly at the nine-tailed fox.
The appearance of a gumiho who cares for others is new, but somehow it feels cute.
Usually, whenever I practice to control the power of Shinsoo, I always laugh at a very unexpected appearance, not a hateful person who always scolds myself.
“… What are you arrogantly smirking about?”
Not liking Erin’s expression, the nine-tailed fox frowned and glared at Erin.
“No? Anything?”
Erin deflected the sharp gaze of the nine-tailed fox and responded with a nasty tone and expression.
“…”
If this was the shrine of the nine-tailed fox, the nine-tailed fox would have fed her forehead with honey chestnuts immediately at Erin’s reprehensible attitude, but this place was not a shrine, but the Duchy of Armitas.
The nine-tailed fox realized that Erin was using that to make fun of him.
“That’s really…”
She was very clever as to who she had learned from.
At least you won’t learn from yourself.
It must be that he is using what he has learned from following Eun-hyeon in this way.
The nine-tailed fox, which had sprouted blood vessels on her forehead due to Erin’s provocation, was about to walk forward to scold her, but Gerard stopped her by blocking her path.
“Come on, Miss Erin. Please stop mischievously teasing Miho. Rather…”
Gerard shifted her attention to the woman who was confronting him and her nine-tailed fox with Erin as she placed the elixir on the shelf in her shop.
“May I accompany Miss Erin and ask for an introduction to the lady in her room?”
Asking politely in a gentlemanly manner, Gerard examined Siete’s appearance.
It was one of Gerard’s long-standing habits to examine and understand the opponent’s capabilities in front of an opponent who seemed unusual at first sight.
The sword he wears around his waist is a sword that looks unusual at first glance, and his confidence overflows from the posture and attitude he takes.
And since the other side of her was also staring at herself coldly and sending an analyzing gaze, Gerard, feeling Siete’s sharp eyes, couldn’t help but be nervous as well.
‘He’s a very strong person.’
Upon seeing and observing Siete, she was the first thing that came to my mind.
She couldn’t figure out her exact capabilities, but as far as Gerard knows, the strongest swordsmen are Eun-hyeon and Leo.
However, the woman in front of her couldn’t measure her competency even by comparing them with those two tests.
‘Are you on the same level as Hyun-nim or Riod-hyung? No. Maybe more… Haha, is that an idea that’s too far-fetched?’
She dismissed it and smiled, saying that the thoughts that came to her mind were nonsense.
There was no way there could be a swordsman stronger than Eunhyun or Riod in the world.
Gerard did not trust her own eyes.
“Oh right! Isn’t this your first time seeing Master Gerard!?”
“… Yes?”
“Master?”
At Erin’s words, Gerard and the nine-tailed fox tilted their heads at the same time.
The word master means the master of masters.
There is only one teacher who taught Erin various things including swordsmanship.
If so, it was easy to guess the identity of the woman Erin called her master.
“No way… ?”
“You said that Ton-Hyeon is your older brother’s teacher!?”
Gerard jumped up and put on a shocked expression.
The story about the teacher who taught Eunhyeon swordsmanship is a story that Gerard knows at first glance.
And until the news that she had already died, about 400 years ago.
However, it is more strange that I am not surprised when I see with my own eyes the fact that the person in front of me is alive and well.
“… Right.”
Unlike Gerard, the nine-tailed fox was quick to calm his agitated mind.
I figured out how a person who had already died 400 years ago was resurrected.
“Bantling. That’s what you did.”
The nine-tailed fox recalled the white ghosts who had previously resurrected in human bodies and sought him out.
A special case in which the spirits of the hundred demons were resurrected by bringing the bodies of the living beings that existed in the past against the providence of time to the present.
She twisted the rules of the underworld and made it possible because it was Erin who was able to use some of her goddess powers.
“Uh… Huh.”
She nodded and continued Siete’s introduction.
“This is Hyeoni’s teacher, Siete-sama.”
“…”
Gerard belatedly realized that his eyes were correct.
Just the mere fact that he was the teacher who taught Eunhyeon swordsmanship made him nervous and made cold sweat run down his back.
When he is silent, not knowing how to react, it is Siete’s side who opens his mouth first.
“I found this elixir first. So let me buy it.”
“…”
The nine-tailed fox twitched between his brows at Siete’s remarks, which he spoke as if it were natural.
Apart from the fact that she was Eun-hyeon’s teacher, missing out on her own favorite elixir here didn’t feel too good for the gumiho.
“As I said before, it is not an elixir that ordinary humans can handle. Hand it over to me.”
“Hate.”
“…”
Sharp gazes collided between the two women running in parallel, and the atmosphere gradually became more threatening.
‘Ah, that’s a big deal. How do I get over this?’
Erin was getting heavier and heavier, and she broke out in a cold sweat as she couldn’t overcome the tough atmosphere.
I wanted to keep Siete and the nine-tailed fox apart somehow by exchanging glances with Gerard, but the two women with the elixir between them seemed unwilling to back down.
“Come on, Miho. I’m fine, so I’ll give this elixir to Siete…”
“Leave this. I have no intention of giving up that elixir.”
The reason why the nine-tailed fox was strangely stubborn was for the sake of Gerard, but it was also because he strongly felt that if he gave up the elixir, he would lose to Siete.
Before long, Siete turned her head to face Erin.
“Clots of blood.”
“Yes yes… ?”
When she called out to herself out of the blue, Erin flinched and answered Siete’s call.
“Do you think who should have this elixir?”
“Okay. Bantling. What do you think?”
“…”
Having the power to make her decision in this situation, Erin felt her breath suffocate.
Because she felt strongly that whichever one she chose, she was a land mine.
‘What are you saying to me… !’
Her choice of whether she likes her mother or her father is completely different.
She felt strongly that she had to choose the lesser evil in order to avoid the worst, but either way she chose was the worst.
Erin’s stomach convulsed strongly as the pressure from Siete and the nine-tailed fox continued as the gaze continued to grow stronger.
‘Ah… My stomach hurts. I think I’m going to have a panic attack.’
No matter how much I waited, Erin couldn’t make up her mind, and as she ordered her to die, Siete let out a sigh.
“I guess I’ll have to make a decision myself.”
“Ha, do you want to try it with me now?”
The nine-tailed fox sneered and summoned magic.
As she tried to get into her battle stance by revealing her tail, which she had hidden at any moment, Siete also squeezed the handle of her mistletoe, which she wore around her waist, and prepared to pluck it.
“Miho! You must be patient!”
“Wait, Grand Master! You can’t fight here! The building… ! The building is collapsing!”
However, the two women had no intention of stopping the fight.
As both of them were of the same temperament, it was impossible for her to lower her tail first, as long as she had a quarrel with her.
It is no longer a battle at the level of competing for the elixir.
“I, uh… Could you please go out and fight… ?”
The drugstore owner, who had been trembling and unable to say anything until now, begged to leave, oppressed by the atmosphere.
