Chapter 163 – How to Become an Alchemist
Seongil sighed at Seongil’s unreasonable behavior and started brushing his hair with the comb he had given him as a gift. Seeing this, Seong-il smiles strangely at her and tells her.
“Ohhh… You comb it well!”
“The comb needs to be combed well. What nonsense… Anyway! Don’t do that, how about the recipe…”
“Okay. Hand over that for now. Get to work!”
Seong-il, who snatches her comb and mirror from Vivian and puts them on the table in her studio, pushes her into her studio, forcing her to start her business.
Vivian sighs lightly at Sungil’s attitude and starts his work.
‘Whoa… I got my hair!!’
When Vivian sighs at Seong-Il’s cold rejection and goes to her studio, Seong-Il confirms that she is gone and grabs her hair and quickly moves to her secret room in the basement.
‘If it’s here… It won’t get caught, right?’
Seong-il carefully takes out the 『The Voodoo Doctor’s Straw Doll』 And wraps Vivian’s hair around the doll, muttering to herself.
“Now what could be?”
Seong-il tries to do various things with the doll, thinking that he should at least nail it. But the doll didn’t even move. Embarrassed, Seong-il takes a short sigh and thinks.
‘Because he’s like a goddamn gamemaster. At least I’ll kindly teach you how to use it…’
As she writes 『Emotion』, She reads the item description as a game master, but Seong-il, unable to confirm how to use it, puts her doll in her inventory and goes out to the living room, leaving her stuffy mind behind.
While Seong-il has been recharging the magical power of the 『Cursed Magic Sword』 For a long time, Vivian suddenly calls out from behind him.
“Hey! What are you doing with a sword in a house like that? Dangerous!”
“Huh?”
Vivian appears out of nowhere and looks at herself pathetically. Seong-il puts down the sword she is holding and speaks to her.
“What about work?”
“Heh! Who am I?! I’m done! Already.”
“Ooh… Well, after a while, Erica will do it for you. If you’re done, go early.”
“Yes…”
“…?”
Normally, it would have been Vivian who would have jumped out of the house with a smile when she was told to leave work early, but today she hesitates and hesitates to leave work. When she sees her like that, she asks her about her surname.
“Why? You don’t want to go home?”
“No… It’s not…”
Vivian is speechless. She hesitated for a while, then brought her up again.
“By any chance, you really don’t intend to sell that potion recipe? My father will pay you very well…”
“Not for sale.”
“Whoa…”
“But if you work hard, do you know? Will you tell me the recipe?”
“!!”
At Seong-il’s words, which give her some room, Vivian looks at him with a flinch. After glaring at him with a strange expression, she packs her things and leaves the studio without saying a word.
That evening.
“Vivian! My princess! Have you proposed to your friends?”
As if in a hurry after asking her about the purchase of her recipe the day before, Sir Brenner personally visits Vivian the next evening and asks her about her results.
“That… They say it’s hard to sell…”
“What!?”
“They say that breaking the monopoly by selling manufacturing rights when the company is already making a margin of over 1 gold per bottle is stupid… And they can’t do it.”
“Heh heh… Children who can’t even make a lot of money because of the poor distribution network…”
“I will… But he is also a rich kid…”
“It’s done! Anyway, this father is very disappointed. I definitely wanted to secure it because it might lead to the revival of my family…”
“That…That’s…”
Although it wasn’t an aggressive tone, Vivian’s expression couldn’t do anything about her father’s attitude, which seemed to be very disappointed. Eventually, she starts overdoing her empty checks to placate her father.
“That… I’d rather earn the trust of my friends and find out the recipe, so don’t be too disappointed…”
“Ohh!! There’s such a way! After all, you’re my clever daughter!”
As soon as he heard Vivian’s words, Brenner held her hand and encouraged her to steal her recipe. Vivian was taken aback by her father’s behavior, but she couldn’t express it negatively, so she smiled awkwardly and nodded her head.
“Okay! Then let’s go do business with this father. Next time, let’s exchange ‘good news’ with each other!!”
“Yes…”
Her meeting with her father was like a storm for her. Vivian goes to sleep in her own room, feeling a sudden, intense throbbing pain in her head.
Morning that day.
“Uh…? Where is this…?”
Her holy day sleeps, and when she opens her eyes, she finds herself standing in an endless stretch of desolate wheat field.
In this strange wheat field, where only the moonlight shines brightly on a dark night, her holy days begin her thoughts in fright.
‘What… What is it? Where are you?’
Since Seong-il had experienced being dragged into a bizarre space due to the curse of the soul stone of the fallen god of creation, he walks through the wheat field feeling very threatened.
‘Should I memorize the discourse again?’
Although it was a space that felt wicked, compared to the nightmarish space that was dragged by the fallen god, the scene of the wheat field felt relatively less threatening. Instead of memorizing scriptures, Seong-il walks around the wheat fields to find out where this place is.
‘…Is there an end?’
In terms of experience, it seems like he walked for 10 minutes, but Seong-il gets tired of seeing the same scene unfolding over and over again. The moment he gradually gets tired and tries to memorize the teachings of the Taoist school, a scary scarecrow appears in front of him.
‘…What is this again?!’
A scarecrow wearing an old conical hat, scattering eerie red eyes. An ominous crow with scarecrow-like eyes was sitting on his outstretched arms. The scarecrow and the crow start glaring at Seong-il as if they had been waiting for him.
“Hee!!”
Seong-il is frightened by the terrifying gaze of the crow and scarecrow, and turns his back on them and runs away.
‘Fuck!! What is that!! Is there a problem with the soul stone again?!’
Seong-il, who was running away from the bizarre evil beings. In front of him, the place where the crow and scarecrow had previously appeared appears again.
“Crazy!!”
Seong-il, who turned his back and ran away, was horrified at the current situation and returned to the spot. He steps back and tries to escape from them again.
“Caw! Long time no see! Nice to meet you! Caw!!”
“?!”
A greeting from the crow sitting on the scarecrow’s shoulder. Seong-il forgets that he was frightened by his (?) Unexpected greeting and starts talking stupidly.
“Kah… Do crows talk?”
“Yeah… Caw! Is there any reason not to talk?”
“That’s it, you’re black… I’m done. Anyway, what is this place and why am I here?”
“Oh? Didn’t the customer ask us for a voodoo ceremony during the day?”
‘…What the fuck is the customer.’
Seong-il feels that the absurd title of a crow is absurd. He desperately hides his absurdity and addresses the crow.
“Anyway…Did I come to this world using a doll from 『The Voodoo Doctor』 During the day?”
“You are correct, sir.”
“…Ah, you said you’re a customer.”
“Ah, I hope you make a displeased expression when you hear the expression ‘customer’.”
“…Call it however you like.”
Seong-il was taken aback by the crow’s eccentricity. However, when he learns that this bizarre world he has been drawn to has come because he used the 『Doll of the Witch Doctor』, His fear disappears and he feels a surge of curiosity.
“Anyway… If I came here as a ‘Doll of the Voodoo Doctor’… What can I do here?”
“Ah! That’s a good question. Caw!! However, before explaining…”
“…?”
“Would you like to come this way? It’s easier to explain that way.”
“Should I go?”
“It doesn’t matter if you don’t come. Caw!!
Seong-il flinched at the crow’s request for access. He was still reluctant about the crow and the scarecrow, but when the crow said that the world would be solved only when they collided, he gathered up his courage and approached them.
“I… What am I supposed to do now?”
“It’s simple! Caw! If you touch the scarecrow with your hand, you can enter the dream of the target you attached a body part to during the day. Caw!!”
“And…?”
“After seeing that dream, come and say ‘I want to go out’. Caw.”
“…Is that the end?”
“Of course not! Caw! After seeing the dream, if the teacher tells you how to correct the dream, Caw! I will fix the dream as you wish! Caw!!”
“Hmm… What’s the point of changing the dream? It’s just a dream…?”
“Caw! It’s just a dream!”
“…?”
“A dream is a place where the subject’s mental world is materialized. Caw! Fixing that place also means changing the subject’s thoughts and way of thinking? Caw!!”
“!!!”
Seong-il is shocked by the crow’s words that he can actually change Vivian’s way of thinking. He calms his trembling heart and continues to ask him questions.
“So… You mean you can change the other person’s thoughts and values by manipulating their dreams?”
“Caw!! It’s similar! If it’s too much, there may be some resistance… Caw!!”
“Hmm… How much of that line…”
“Caw! Well? I think it’s faster to try it yourself… Caw! Talk to me about how to transform your dream, and I’ll be able to tell you about it naturally. Sir! Caw!!”
At the words of the crow, Seong-il nods and touches the scarecrow. Then he feels something intense penetrate his mind, and he closes his eyes for a moment from the pain.
‘Ah-oh! Shiba… Why does it hurt so much!!’
It’s also a while to be irritated with a headache. The conversation between Vivian and her father unfolds before his eyes.
『Vivian! That potion is a revolution…!!”
『Yes…』
『You must find the recipe!!』
In Vivian’s dream, Seong-il sees a series of conversations between her and the person who appears to be her father. Based on the development of the dream, he begins to understand Vivian’s situation.
‘What? Look at this guy Why did I do that because I was talking about purchasing a recipe in the morning…’
She probably passed on her stamina potion that she gave herself some time ago to her own father.
‘Hmm… I haven’t used Vivian before, and I happened to give the potion to my father, but my father, a fairly well-known shop owner, fell in love with the effect of the potion and ordered me to buy or steal the recipe?’
Seong-il fully understood the whole situation. After a fishy smile, he starts thinking about playing tricks on her dreams.
‘Hmm… I guess I’m stressed out because of the potion recipe right now, as long as it appears in my dreams… Shall I try some tricks based on the recipe?’
Seong-il, who came to understand the situation, naturally thought of the crow, and then a crow and a scarecrow appeared in the middle of his dream and looked at him.
“Hee! Talk and come out! Some!!”
“Caw! I’m sorry…”
“It’s okay… Can we fix it here?”
“Caw! Yes! How can I fix it?”
“Hmm…”
Seong-il pondered about his dream for a long time. Before he revises the dream, he tries to ask essential questions about the part of his thoughts.
“If…”
“Yes!!”
“Is it primordially modifiable, like touching Vivian’s lust or directing her affection toward me?”
“…Can you do it? Kawak?”
“Oh…!”
“Correct the dream! Caw!!”
“Sorry…”
I asked just in case, but Seong-il flinched at the crow’s openly giving him a face-off. He explains in earnest about the correction plan he thought of.
“Looks like… I’ve been talking to a man who seems to be my father about getting a recipe for a potion.”
“Yes… Caw!”
“Can you correct the part where my father said not to cover ‘means and methods’ to ‘seduce me sexually’?”
“Ah! That’s easy! Caw!”
“Oh oh…!!”
The scarecrow’s mouth, which had been looking at Seong-il with strange eyes while admiring it, suddenly opened and a grotesque sound began to come out of his mouth.
‘What… What are you talking about! Crazy…!’
Seong-il is frightened by the appearance of a terrible sound. Then, the dream world around you begins to tear into pieces, and a terrible red light strikes the world.
‘Scared…!’
The scarecrow’s power that gives goosebumps. Seong-il was trembling in fear due to the scarecrow’s ability to control dreams. The terrible light disappears and a new world of dreams unfolds before his eyes.
