Chapter 37 – Jealousy
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“Actually, I don’t know the details either. It’s just that this mana changes according to your will. In particular, the stronger the image is in my head, the stronger it seems to be. You use it to build it up into a certain shape. It’s like Jenga.”
“Is that so? Hmm… I do not know.”
The two women sat around a bonfire and talked about magic, creating a friendly atmosphere. Cheon Jae-hee worked hard to explain, but Cho-rin couldn’t accept it easily.
Magic was a natural thing, as if you didn’t have talent, you wouldn’t be able to find even a piece of it even if you spent your whole life.
Even more, Cheon Jae-hee’s teachings were especially more emphasizing the sensory aspect rather than theory.
Even though Cheon Jae-hee repeated the same explanation several times, he did not get angry. Rather than just being kind, it was an attitude that I knew it would be like this.
The Shinsegae side also taught it, so it must have been through a lot of things like this.
“It’s comfortable if you think of it as drawing a picture in your head. In my case, I use graphs. With that, the coordinates can be specified, and it is easy to visualize. What are your hobbies?”
“A hobby? I like to cook.”
“Cooking? So what if we assume that mana is an ingredient and use it to make food called magic?”
“Food is magic… Wait a minute. I will give it a try.”
Caught a little bit by Chun Chun-hee’s explanation, Cho-rin Ji closed her eyes and raised her concentration.
On the other hand, Gaon, who was watching her like that, closed her eyes and blocked her senses, thinking that she would do well in her own work.
In an instant, the sensation that had spread outward was settled inside. Concentrate all nerves on Danjeon with complete blockage of external senses.
The storm that settled in Danjeon was very quiet. It was meek as if it were a meek sheep, but it will become a ferocious beast the moment you inject your will into it.
Of course, now it will be just a cute baby tiger, not a beast of prey, but later it will evolve into a white tiger that can bite dragons. In order to become stronger as quickly as possible, I had to work hard to collect mana and develop a whole body mana road.
The slow movement of the storm gradually increased its speed with Gaon’s will. Under perfect control, the mana rod of the whole body rotates, expanding and training little by little.
For the past three weeks, in order to hunt trolls, I had only paid attention to the mana rod located on the path to my right arm, but from now on, I had to pay attention to the entire body and seek balanced development.
Mana rotated her whole body in accordance with the rubella-like air current. After a few laps, Gaon thought it was time, so he saved his mana and opened her eyes.
“Miss Gaon. Are you done?”
“Yes. It’s lunch now. Let’s eat.”
“Here you go! I prepared everything in advance. Then, let’s enjoy it!”
Scared to mention the meal, Chorin held out the food he had prepared. When Gaon accepted, he grinned, shouted, and started eating.
Chun Jae-hee and Ga-do followed suit and picked up food and put it into their mouths. The meal continued for about 5 minutes, and while I was eating fruit for dessert, Gaon opened his mouth.
“But Lee Cho-rin. How about magic?”
“Hmm… There are no results yet. I tried to imagine her in terms of cooking, but there is only one kind of mana. I wonder how she cooks with just one ingredient. I can’t concentrate very well.”
“Okay.”
Having only one mana is a pretty serious error, but there is no point in pointing it out. Even if there are actually several types of mana, Chorin has only one type of mana.
It might be more difficult to ask him to continue his imagination with mana he could not use.
The conversation ended there.
After eating even the fruit, they took a leisurely rest until they were digested before leaving the cave.
This cave, about 30 minutes away from the troll dungeon, had a low and narrow entrance, so only one person could escape.
Gaon, who came out of the entrance first, naturally saw the breastbones of the women. Due to the nature of the prone crawling posture, that part is naturally exposed.
Not only Chorin, but also Cheon Jaehee had a voluminous feel, so it was fun to watch.
Gaon adjusted the position of his cock, which tightened her pants, and turned her head, waiting for her excitement to subside.
After a while, Chorin came out and a voice was heard.
“Miss Gaon. Go now!”
“Yes. All right.”
After completely exiting the cave, the party lifted their heads and determined their direction based on the position of the sun, then hurriedly walked in the direction of the battlefield.
Even while moving, Cho-rin and Cheon Jae-hee talked about magic. Apparently, the monsters suffered fatal blows from the war yesterday, so they seem to have been somewhat relieved.
Gaon thought about whether he should point this out, but in fact, that was all for strengthening his power, so he thought that he should just go over it today, and he widened his senses and was wary of the surroundings.
Perhaps because it was morning and they moved quickly, they reached the bloodstained land in 15 minutes.
When Gaon slowed down, the two women who were talking only then turned their heads to the front.
“Oooh! Poetry, a corpse!”
“Ugh… What is all this?”
The state of the clearing was a mess, probably because of the night birds. The corpses were all bitten here and there, and the floor was full of fallen flesh.
Also, the decay was slowly progressing, and a nasty smell was blooming.
Cho-rin and Cheon-jae-hee vomited at him and covered their mouths, only to regain their senses a little when their noses became paralyzed.
And he immediately apologized.
“Miss Gaon. Sorry!”
“I’m sorry!”
Only then did they remember what kind of place they were. Gaon must have been feeling sorry for him because he had been selling his eyes to have a conversation in such a dangerous place.
“No. It’s okay. Please be careful next time. Then Let’s go.”
Gaon, who realized his mistake and readily forgave her after seeing her apologize, took the lead and went out into the clearing through the bushes.
“For now… No survivors seem to have stopped by first.”
“Is that so? I don’t even know how to look.”
At Gaon’s words, the two women tilted their heads. In particular, it is an expression that Cheon Jae-hee cannot understand. Chorin must have known through psychometry—
Gaon squatted down and lowered his posture.
“You can tell by looking at the floor. The footprints are all traces of blood before it hardens. Proof that no one has stopped by yet.”
“Aha! Great!”
“Wow, you are great!”
“No big deal. Then let’s go further.”
The two of them, who came to the side and looked at the footprints and finally understood, showed an exaggerated reaction.
Gaon crossed the corpse and crossed the clearing, passing the two pairs of admiring eyes loosely.
‘About this… There he is.’
Gaon, who was looking in all directions, found Kim Min-joon’s body a little far from the place where he fell the day before.
The long traces from there made it possible to know how desperately he crawled. If someone I didn’t know saw it, I would feel sorry for them, but none of the people in my party here had such thoughts.
“He died after all.”
“That’s right.”
“…”
Cho Rin had a complicated expression with a sense of relief and embarrassment coexisting, and Cheon Jae Hee had a face mixed with anxiety and fear.
Since he was someone he once acted with, if he made a mistake, he might have met the same ending.
Gaon led the two silent people away from Minjun Kim. Returning to the place where he had given the first footsteps lecture, he picked up the arms scattered on the ground while receiving the gazes of the two women.
“Miss Gaon. Why is that… ?”
“Once you have it, wouldn’t there be a place to use it? It is better to be well armed.”
“It is. I’ll help too!”
“Me too!”
The two squatted down to help Gaon and took the weapons, even though they were reluctant to pick up the blood-soaked weapons.
In particular, Gaon continued to collect weapons by tying dozens of weapons by type using grass, unlike the two who quickly stood up with arms full of arms.
When the silence reached five, Gaon stood up and gazed in one direction.
“I know what you are hiding. Come out.”
“…”
At Gaon’s words, Chorin and Cheon Jaehee held their breath and clung to the side.
Gaon, who glanced at each of them with their weapons on alert, raised his spear and warned them one last time.
“If it doesn’t come out, I throw it right away. 3, 2, 1—”
“Now, now, I was wrong! Help me!”
Just before the countdown reached zero, a woman jumped out of the bushes. The woman in clothes close to rags showed that she was tired.
Gaon’s eyes tremble with fear.
“What is your purpose for coming here?”
“That, that’s to get a weapon… I won’t do anything, so please save my life. I’ll just leave like this!”
Before Gaon could say anything, the woman rubbed her palms together and begged for her life.
“Is there anyone else in the group?”
“No! I’m alone. So please save your life… !”
Looking at his expression, he seems quite sincere, but in case you don’t know. Gaon glanced at him, wondering if he was familiar with Cheon Jae-hee.
However, Cheon Jae-hee just shook his head slowly, as if he couldn’t remember.
The woman who was watching the process seemed to understand that shaking her head meant killing her, and she suddenly began to take off her clothes.
“I-I will do anything. Please save me! Yes? You can do whatever you want, so!”
Maybe this is also a trick to divert attention. Looking at Gaon’s gaze while thinking so, the woman also lowered her pants and then pulled back her panties to reveal her pussy…
“Hey, stop! I won’t attack you!”
It didn’t happen.
She had taken the crossbow that Chorin had aimed at before. Seeing that, the woman regained her sanity, albeit a little, and stopped her hand pulling down her panties.
“Lee Cho-rin. It might be a trap.”
“Yeah, but you don’t have to wait until you take it off. Right?”
“It is, but…”
Unlike before, Cheon Jae-hee has joined the current party. Considering the power of the magic bullets, no matter how many enemies rushed at them, there was no one who could threaten them.
Even if the trolls attack again, if Gaon is much stronger than before, it is possible to deal with two trolls at the same time. That’s why Chorin’s words weren’t wrong, but he couldn’t let his guard down easily.
Because of the troll’s intrusion, I went through a crisis once, so I can’t be careless anymore.
However, it is also true that from the point of view of Chorin, who does not know that, he wonders just in case. Narrowing her eyes, she asked her Gaon.
“Or did you miss it?”
“No. It can’t be.”
“Huh… All right. Then, let’s take a look at that person first.”
“Let’s do that.”
Gaon ended her conversation with Chorin and approached the woman with her kigi as wide open as possible.
Cho Rin and Cheon Jae Hee were also wary of their surroundings and prepared for any surprise attack.
“My name is Hyuugaon.”
“I-I say Lee Mi-ri.”
“Are you from Shinsegae?”
“No, that’s right. But I wasn’t even a combatant! Just, just… Well, I don’t know how to fight anyway.”
She swallowed her words as if she hadn’t been able to introduce herself as a prostitute, even though she had adapted to this world over the course of three weeks.
Anyway, I expected it, but it didn’t seem to be the kind that was hostile to him.
Gaon, who confirmed the minimum safety facts, nodded her head and stepped back from her to stare at Cheon Jae-hee.
“Then, Genius-hee. I will ask the other party.”
“Yes? Me, me?”
“Yes. Didn’t you decide to give it up? Then I will retrieve the arms as well.”
“Uh, uh…”
As soon as Gaon left, Cheon Jae-hee fell into a panic. As he was unable to say anything, Chorin managed to calm him down and continued the conversation with the woman somehow.
Looking at it, Gaon decided that it was okay to leave it, and started to retrieve the weapon again.
And time passed, and the morning of the month I had been waiting for was bright.
