Chapter 179 – 179. Winter Elf 2
“Gasp.”
“Ugh…”
This is Seunghee and Mina’s reaction when they see Anna for the first time.
What… I understand that. Anna’s appearance is a bit unrealistic.
I think it’s probably more because she’s a foreigner. If she’s Korean, even if she’s pretty, she’ll say ‘Wow…’ .’ It would have ended with this much admiration.
Anna is a completely different kind of beauty. Okay. Unfamiliar beauty.
Se-ah, who has already seen Anna, is not as surprised as Seung-hee or Mina, but she looks a little anxious.
Do you really think that her position will be diminished because of Anna?
She’s not that narrow-minded… But what does she keep mumbling?
“Uh… What do you say hello over there…? Oh, I don’t know English well, but what kind of Russian is this? Uh… Ugh. I have no idea.”
Se-Ah is fidgeting alone without even knowing that I am coming next to her.
“What are you saying?”
“Aww! It’s a surprise!”
When Se-Ah screams, everyone looks at her.
Se-Ah feels very embarrassed as all eyes gather.
Oh my. Are you doing this because you’re worried that someone might think you’re not cute? Me indeed. I feel like a fool for misunderstanding.
“Okay, let’s sit down. Uh… Sit down. Ah, this is English. It’s driving me crazy.”
As they all sit down, they tell Anna to sit down with her hand movements, and Anna takes off her parka and sits down as well.
The body that is revealed when you take off your parka. Seunghee and Mina keep glancing at Anna.
Oh my. Why not just look confidently? Like me. What is that? Ugh.
“Okay, let me introduce you. This is Seunghee.”
“Ah… Hello.”
Anna tilts her head.
“Name. The name is Seunghee. Seunghee. Name.”
“Ah! Shit?”
“Uh… It’s similar, but Seunghee. Seung. Hee.”
“Sss. Hee.”
“Isn’t that too much?”
“Yes… I’ll be satisfied with that.”
Seunghee, who admits that her name is difficult to pronounce, suddenly became Seunghi.
Anna is just innocent and doesn’t know what’s going on. She seems to be enjoying this situation.
“This is Mina.”
“Nice to meet you.”
“Mina! !%#@$&$&@$& Mina.”
Of course, I couldn’t understand what was being said. However, judging from the self-confidence that it is a good name, it seems to roughly mean ‘it is an easy name.’
Or not.
“This is Se-Ah.”
“Se-ah! !%#@$&$&@$& Se-ah. @%&^%. Se-ah, Mina, Se-ah.”
“Oh. That’s right. Seunghee. Mina. Seah. And I’m Seongcheol.”
“Songcheol.”
“Yes, Songcheol. I guess Russians just can’t pronounce Siot. Or are we saying it wrong?”
Everyone just shrugs their shoulders and says nothing.
Well, everyone has to know something to answer.
“And this is Anna. “He speaks Russian, but I don’t know exactly what country he is from.”
Women nodding to each other. I introduced my name and said hello, but that was the end.
There is nothing more to say or say. Even if I want to, I don’t have the confidence to communicate.
Ah-oh… I didn’t bring you there early. What trouble is this? Even if it was just half a year longer… This is all because of Seung-gyu.
“Uh. Ah. It’s frustrating. How old are you? How should I ask this? It’s really frustrating.”
After racking my brain for a moment, I got some paper and a pen.
Then, he gave me a piece of paper with 25 written on it, Mina with a piece of paper with 22 written on it, and gave Seunghee and Se-ah a piece of paper with 21 and 20 written on it, respectively.
“Age. Okay?”
“Ah! Age. Age.”
Then he took a piece of paper and a pen and wrote 23.
“Twenty-three. Okay. Twenty-three. No. If I do this, I don’t know how to listen? Twenty-three. Ah. I don’t know this either. Twenty-three. Oh. This is English.”
I am sitting alone filming a monodrama.
And Anna smiles when she sees me like that.
Seunghee, Mina, and Se-Ah look confused as they don’t know which part is funny.
I knew how old you were, but now I really, really have nothing to say.
It’s not just me, it’s the same for everyone, so I’m in a dumb situation.
Is this what it feels like when you meet an elf who doesn’t know the common language in a fantasy world?
A blonde-haired elf living in the north.
And Healer Seunghee, Healer Mina, and Thief Seah look frustrated at the elf. I am? What is there? Wizard?
Anyway, there is no choice but now is the time to use an international language.
I guided Anna to a small empty room and made gestures with my hands and feet to finally make her understand that it was Anna’s room.
He must be quite frustrated, but he still seems to be trying his best to communicate with us.
That’s a good thing. If Anna had been quiet or depressed, she would have been in even more trouble than she is now.
I showed him around the inside of the bunker until quite late in the day, and after working hard, I was able to teach him a few words.
Simple words like bathroom, kitchen, food, sleep, etc.
When it was legally okay to sleep, I told Anna to sleep and let her into her room.
When Anna enters, all four of them sigh loudly without making a sound.
“Ugh…”
“It’s frustrating.”
“What should I do? Does it have to continue like this?”
Seunghee, Seah, and Mina each say a word quietly. There is no obvious way for me.
Damn Russia. How can you speak in a language I’ve never heard of? .
“I wish I could at least become a translator.”
“Ah! Smartphone app!”
“I already tried it. Russian requires an internet connection. But the internet doesn’t work now, right? We probably won’t be able to do it.”
“Ugh… Did you receive anything?”
“Uh… Korean word cards for kids?”
“Just give me that first.”
At Seunghee’s urging, I handed over the item I had received from Yujeong.
Seunghee looked inside, was disappointed to see that there was nothing of great help, and reluctantly fiddled with word cards.
It’s a word card with a picture on it, so you can find out what it means when you touch it with your hand.
First of all, we need to have a conversation as much as possible.
“Ah!”
Mina suddenly exclaims.
“Why?”
“English-Korean dictionary! No, it’s Russian, so it’s a Russian-Korean dictionary!?”
“There is no internet, so there is no such thing.”
Se-Ah’s weak voice. But I knew what I was talking about.
“Book?”
“Yes. A Russian-Korean dictionary in book form! It won’t be available in bookstores or anywhere!”
“That’s right! Wow… Mina is so smart! Awesome!”
I hugged Mina.
However, as Seunghee and Se-ah looked at me with cold eyes, I slowly loosened my grip.
“Anyway… I’ll have to go get it as soon as it gets bright.”
“Let’s go now.”
“Huh? Now?”
I was a little taken aback by Se-Ah’s words and asked back.
“Yes. Let’s go before Anna wakes up. If we wake up, and we can’t talk to each other, we might die of frustration.”
“Uh… I see. Okay, then I’ll come back now. Okay, that would be better.”
Seunghee and Mina are also not in a mood to stop them. This is a situation where we have to move on.
Well, I feel more comfortable that way.
Rather than showing off with body language like before, it would be better to open a dictionary and talk to each other using random words.
“Then I’ll come back. It might take a long time, so if you’re tired, sleep first.”
“Yes. Come back.”
“Take care! Be sure to bring it back with you!”
“Take care of yourself!”
Receiving enthusiastic messages from the three women, I got ready to go and went out.
I need to practice my skills… Suddenly, I decided to go on an adventure in the middle of the night to find a dictionary.
No. Let’s think of it as both a business and a business. If you go out anyway, you might run into someone.
You can think of it as a coin bee.
Since I didn’t know how common Russian-Korean dictionaries were, I rode the electric wheel.
I wish it was in a bookstore in this neighborhood, no, I wish there was a bookstore. These days, it’s hard to find a local bookstore.
That’s why I’m thinking of going to Seoul instead. Because I’m sure I’d rather go to a big bookstore in Seoul than wander around looking for something in an unknown place.
If it’s a large bookstore, there’s at least one. Even though paper dictionaries have largely disappeared due to the Internet, that doesn’t mean they won’t exist at all.
However… Where is the large bookstore?
Let’s think about it. I definitely knew something… It was somewhere east of Seoul… Where was it?
When did you go… There… Ah! Yes, reunion.
Okay. There is a large bookstore there. I remembered.
First, head there. If it’s Sangbong, you can get there in 30 minutes.
Rather than wandering around in a harsh place, let’s go to a place where we can be certain. It would actually save time.
Ride through the wind on a winter night on an electric wheel.
Of course, after about 10 minutes, I terribly regretted going out, but there was nothing I could do.
Because I can’t drive out at night. Let’s be patient. This is the best.
Turn on detection.
A peaceful night street with no sign of anyone.
It’s not a very busy place now, so it’s natural that you can’t find it. There is no benefit to staying in a place like this.
Either they come together to eat each other, or they disperse to survive on their own.
The guys who are left in limbo right now are the ones who haven’t decided on their course of action yet.
We need to catch and eat those guys before they all go extinct.
The more coins you keep, the more they inevitably disappear.
It is consumed as food, disappears as a skill cost, and is left unattended somewhere… Anyway, it can’t increase any further.
What was the population of Earth? 7 billion?
Then the coin is 3.5 trillion. Although it is a very large number, it can be seen as very small.
The number of coins that people have destroyed over the past four years must be enormous, and that is the global standard.
Half of them are from China and leader, and the rest are from places like the United States, Europe, and Africa…
In South Korea alone, there are 50 million people and only 25 billion coins.
How many of them have disappeared? How many coins are left?
Goods that can no longer increase because there is no new inflow.
And as people die, natural consumption will decline steadily, although it is said to decrease.
In the end, even if you master a skill later, there may come a situation where you cannot learn it because there are no coins to learn.
If they are scattered and hidden, it is difficult to find them. In the end, you have to save up a lot in advance before that happens.
And without dying.
While thinking about such random things, I ran for another 10 minutes.
Suddenly, an apartment complex comes into view. Is that Taereung? That’s right.
After passing over there is Seoul. How many people are there?
I wish there were as many as possible. If possible, go outside.
Or a place that can be infiltrated.
If you’re stuck in an apartment, there’s no way to catch it now. You wouldn’t know if SeAH was there.
There are probably very few people out there at this time of the year.
In the end, we arrived near a large bookstore, but there was no sign of anyone.
Okay. It’s bland. I never thought there would be this much.
Is it because it’s close to Namyangju? Did those bastards from this company get away with it once?
They’re annoying guys. I have to kill him quickly.
They must have a lot of coins, right? Do I have to collect it to learn skills?
Anyway, let’s think about those guys later and find a bookstore.
Where was this… Ah. I think it’s this way. I remember coming.
A quaint-looking apartment. And a large commercial building in front of it.
As I approached the building, I felt the presence of a person.
