Chapter 798 – 798. Juvenile Regression (2)
As the medicine bottles on the overturned shelves all shattered, the sound of shouting and shouting filled the elders’ room.
Of course, I couldn’t help but listen to the commotion.
The first to show up was, of course, the owner of the Elders’ Office, Nera the Elder.
“What happened… !? Uh?”
“I’m hurt… Hmm?”
Nera and Illyana, who came rushing in, witnessed the situation in front of them and put on dazed expressions.
Her fallen shelf was a problem, but her Erin lying on the floor and the little boy hugging her were even more problematic.
In the case of Erin, it was fortunate that there were no signs of serious injury, but the little boy on top of Erin was the problem.
The body covered in reagents of various colors was stained and dirty, and the white-silver haired boy, dressed in adult clothes that did not fit in size, left a strong impression for some reason.
It is a very bizarre situation, as if an adult male had been reduced to a child.
‘But it doesn’t sound like that…’
“Hey, Miss Illyana! Hyun is… ! Hyun is getting younger!”
But her thoughts were so vainly denied.
Even Illyana knows it when she sees it.
Because the coat and clothes that Eun-hyeon is wearing right now are the ones he was wearing until a while ago.
But could this really happen?
What is it that grown-up men can’t get smaller and regress into little boys?
Rather, the more common sense people are, the more difficult it is to accept.
“Really! I became so cute! Yes!?”
“Eh, Erin! Stay away for a moment!”
Despite Eunhyeon’s request, who was too embarrassed to accept this situation, Erin did not give up easily.
He smiles brightly and pulls both of Eun-hyeon’s cheeks, accepting the situation itself that has happened to Eun-hyeon’s body in a strange and joyful way.
She got up from the floor where she fell and tried to help Eun-hyeon stand up, but Eun-hyeon refused Erin’s helping hand and stood up from her floor.
“… Short.”
It’s natural since he’s gotten smaller, but the clothes he was wearing were drooping like mats.
“Yes.”
“Know.”
Immediately, Illyana and Nera approached and examined the condition of Eun-hyeon, who had turned into a boy.
“This… I can’t speak…”
“Yes? What do you mean?”
Erin tilted her head at Nera’s muttering with a serious expression.
“… Realistically, that could never happen.”
A grown man’s body suddenly regressed into a young boy?
Even with Nera’s knowledge of studying magic that defied the laws of the world, it was absolutely impossible.
“Yes? Isn’t it because of these drugs?”
“That’s probably the cause, but what kind of reagent worked together to create this result? Because you can’t see the process.”
If it was just two or three reagents, it would be possible to find out the cause through additional experiments.
“… No. Wait for a sec.”
Soon a possibility popped into Nera’s mind.
“Is this…”
At the same time, Illyana also thought of that possibility.
The possibility that the two witches came up with was about ‘immortality’.
Various theories and approaches to constructing an immortal body called immortality were recorded in the research papers Nera recorded.
One of them is, isn’t it very similar to the situation Eunhyeon is now in?
“If you regress the body by yourself and return the slow aging and disintegration of the body back to the initial point…”
Unlike ordinary humans, witches like Illyana and Nera maintain their youthful appearance in their 20s, which is not appropriate for their age, but it is possible because the aging process is noticeably slower than others, and it is absolutely not possible to realize the immortality characteristic.
But what if the process of aging is returned to the initial point as if it never existed from the beginning?
There was no possibility at all.
‘If there is one thing that worries me, it is that there are too many variables because Hyun-i’s body is completely different from that of an ordinary human…’
Eun-hyeon’s body is unmistakably human, but she possesses the special characteristics of the divine power of a goddess.
Perhaps that part of Eunhyun played a big role in helping his body return to being a boy.
“… Let’s go home at once.”
“What?”
At Illyana’s sudden suggestion to return home, Nera put on a bewildered expression.
“Are you going? Now, in this state?”
“Uh. For now, I’ll go back home, have a meeting on countermeasures, and come back.”
“But…”
“It’s also a problem to let the Mage Tower know about this right now.”
That’s not wrong either.
For a grown man’s body to turn back into a boy, there was no way that other wizards would not be interested in this phenomenon, which had never happened before.
No matter how many such people came, Illyana didn’t mind kicking them out without hesitation, but she was a nuisance no matter what.
“No. Still, I don’t know what side effects it will have on my body…”
“If it’s alchemy or pharmacy, he knows it too. Above your level.”
“…”
Nera couldn’t deny that.
In fact, I had a short conversation with Eun-hyeon, but Nera was well aware of how well-versed he was in alchemy and pharmacy in that short time.
Nera had already experienced the performance of the potions manufactured by Eunhyun distributed in the Duchy of Armitas.
Although it was slightly hurt that he was higher than himself, the elder of the Mage Tower, he had no choice but to admit that knowledge and skill.
“Ha. Okay. Okay. Please visit the Magic Tower again later. It happened in my workshop.”
This is an incident that occurred due to the reagents made by the green furnace in the workshop of the green furnace.
Of course, it was also Nera’s responsibility to deal with it.
Illyana had no intention of asking Nera to take responsibility for it, but it was very embarrassing to see her grace problem solved without her own help.
“Not here. There are so many eyes and ears to see and hear. I’d rather invite you to my house.”
“Okay. Okay. I’ll have it ready.”
Eunhyeon and Illyana set up a schedule with Nera like that.
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“This is what happened… For now, I have to go home.”
“Heh, heh heh…”
“That…”
Aden and Trev reacted similarly when they heard the whole story from Eunhyeon, who had become a boy.
It was natural for the reaction to come out that it was absurd and that it was incomprehensible.
“I haven’t seen you in a long time… You are leaving so suddenly.”
Even 20 years ago, even 10 years ago, Illyana always left the Mage Tower abruptly.
But she didn’t bother holding on to the three of them who hurriedly returned to her house.
Arden smiled bitterly, as if he had gotten used to it.
“Sorry. Inspiration. But that doesn’t mean you won’t come again. Because I belong to the Blue Tower now.”
“Heh heh, yes.”
“I will invite the inspiration to my house later. I want to show off the studio that Hyuni and I created.”
“It’s a workshop between you and that friend…”
A place called a couple’s workshop where they casually create objects that are like the dreams of wizards called the Philosopher’s Stone.
What kind of place is it?
I couldn’t help but have high expectations just by imagining it.
“Don’t expect it.”
Imagining that moment, Aden let out a laugh of her own, and she said goodbye to the three of them.
[Eight Digit Higher Magic]
[Teleport]
Through Illyana’s magic, the three returned home immediately.
The space revealed by the complete change of the surrounding background was a very familiar house.
“Sister! We are here!”
First, Erin announced their return with her booming voice.
“Sister Lily! Come quickly and take a look at Hyun!”
Erin’s voice is full of excitement, as if she had brought a lot of people with her.
“You came back earlier than expected… Oh?”
Lily, who hastily washed her hands at Erin’s call and came out to the living room to greet her master, put on a bewildered expression.
It was because I didn’t expect the appearance of a small boy between Illyana and Erin.
Lily, who did not recognize the boy for a moment, asked with a pause.
“Master… Are you?”
“… That’s right.”
Eunhyun let out a small sigh and affirmed.
“…”
Lily lost her words, looking dazed as if she had been beaten hard in the back of the head.
“Three, my God…”
As if bewildered, both of her hands lost their way and struggled in the air.
It was a rare appearance of her, who always perfectly digested the maid’s work and maintained her neat attitude.
“How can you be so lovable…”
“What?”
“Oh, nothing.”
Eunhyeon couldn’t hear Lily’s muttering voice properly.
However, there is no way that Erin, who has sensitive hearing, could not have heard the murmur.
“Right!? Has it become really cute!?”
Erin actively sympathized with Lily, who had the same reaction as herself, and gave a cute squeal.
He hugged Eun-hyeon, who was taller than her own waist, and rubbed her face.
“… Erin. Don’t stick The reagent is asking.”
“Hi-Hi. You already buried me anyway!?”
What will be different if you come and ask more?
“…”
Eunhyun let out a small sigh as she was embraced by Erin, who had no intention of ever leaving her.
In her adult body, Erin’s skinship felt like the charm of a cute puppy, but when she was bullied by Erin in her younger body, she seemed to understand why people didn’t have many large dogs that were bigger than her.
She is very spirited just by being afflicted.
“… How are you?”
Before long, Lily looked at Illyana and asked what she was doing.
“Well, there was an accident for a while. Fortunately, more than a star in the body… No. I don’t know if I should call this nothing wrong.”
Right now, Eunhyeon and Erin have overturned the reagents, and their bodies are stained with colorful colors.
He wasn’t sick or showing any side effects, but he didn’t even say he was okay because there was no way to properly explain the current condition of Eun-hyeon, who had changed into a boy.
“Lily. First of all, I need to wash Hyun and Erin. Can you prepare something?”
“Yes. Sure.”
Lily went straight into her bathroom and started getting ready.
Eunhyeon and Erin followed her to the bathroom and prepared for her to change.
Erin, who naturally entered the bathroom with Eunhyun in her naked state, said with a broad smile.
“Hyunah! I’ll wash you off!”
Erin looked like she was in a great mood.
For some reason, she seemed to be about 1.5 times more moody than usual, but now, for some reason, she even looked like she was drooling about this situation.
“Oh, no. Are you okay. I will wash.”
Eun-hyeon felt a creepy feeling from Erin’s attitude and declined.
Although she was unusually lively than usual, she was somehow reluctant.
Erin hasn’t changed.
The only thing that changed was Eun-hyeon herself.
However, could there be such a difference between seeing Erin, her wife, from her adult point of view, and seeing Erin from the point of view of her now that she has become a boy?
Her mind itself didn’t change, but Eun-hyeon’s body was reacting very honestly.
“Hi-Hi. Are you okay! Don’t give up!”
“No. Even if they say it’s okay.”
She tried to force her distance from Erin, but Erin relentlessly followed.
It’s like dealing with a sly female wolf who is drooling in front of her prey.
Even when she became an adult, she had never felt this way except for Illyana, but Eun-hyeon’s instincts, which had become a boy, warned her strongly.
Drooling!
Before long, the bathroom door opened and Lily, who had also undressed and was naked, entered.
“Master. I will wash it.”
“…”
She realized belatedly that Erin wasn’t the only one to be wary of.
