Chapter 18 – Repayment
‘Hmm, what is this?’
A brilliant ray of light fell on the shadowy full moon constellation.
The electric eel, whose body, which had been slowly cooling down from the warmth of the beam of light, had warmed up for the first time in a long time, was puzzled but cheerfully stood up.
It wasn’t certain, but for some reason, it felt like this beam of light was calling me somewhere.
‘Oh, I see. Is it time to repay the debt?’
The electric eel slightly stuck its neck out of its nest to look around the lake, and soon found out why.
There was that guy in the middle of the brilliant light that illuminated the lake.
He was a young human who fed and talked to him during his difficult final years.
‘What did I do to fall into this devil’s den? Tsk tsk. When I was bouncing around here and there, I thought something like this would happen at some point.’
The electric eel clicked his tongue and put his will into the two horns on his head.
The will that permeated the horn soon became a weak electric current and spread throughout the lake.
-Hey, you guys. That guy is not prey. So go away quickly. Otherwise, I’ll get scolded by this guy again.
Pop! Pop! Pop!
Pyeokkeukkeuk
The minnows, which had no proper will, were startled by the electric current passing through their bodies and hurriedly hid in various parts of the lake.
Although the big-headed ones were dissatisfied with the electric eel’s will, they respected him for protecting the lake for a long time and listened to his last command.
However
-Where does Yeongtaeng, who is about to die, give orders?
The bold catfish who became the new owner of the lake refused his orders.
He circled around the young human as if to intimidate him.
-Tsk. It’s annoying.
The electric eel was once again caught off guard by the guy’s behavior and began to think about what to do.
Thanks to the beam of light, I had the energy to move, but it seemed difficult to go and save the young human.
While thinking about it, the electric eel noticed that the young human was looking at it with startled eyes.
Is what he said so surprising?
The electric eel smiled, forgetting the situation, and soon a good idea came to mind.
‘Yes, is there really a need for an old man who is going to die soon to suffer? It’s up to the young guys to do the hard work. The old man just needs a little help.’
The electric eel nodded to the answer he had thought of but was filled with admiration, and poured the warmth of the light and his last remaining vitality into the Yeouiju, which had been neutralized in the past few days to make it easier for young humans to digest.
And then spoke to the young human,
-Children, open your mouth wide.
After opening the mouth,
-Thank you so much.
He sent off to Yeouiju with a final greeting.
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“Whoop!”
Jun, who was blankly opening his mouth as the electric eel told him to, soon realized that something had entered his mouth and gagged reflexively.
He tried to spit out something that was in his mouth, but Fortuna hastily stopped him.
“Swallow, Jun! Just swallow it! That’s Yeouiju, Yeouiju! What the electric eel had!”
“Ugh gulp”
Jun, who belatedly realized the identity of something, did as she said and swallowed the eel from the electric eel down her throat.
She was worried about a moment that a woman’s fist the size of an adult’s fist might get caught in her throat, but she was for no reason.
The moment he decided to swallow her liquor, it instantly melted and flowed down her throat.
Pajik! Puzzle!
Yeouiju, which entered her stomach, soon became an intense cerebral energy and began to travel all over Jun’s body.
But Jun didn’t feel any pain.
Rather, he forgot about the situation and his body shivered happily due to the coolness of his hair turning white.
Even while he was trembling with pleasure, Noeki was busy moving according to luck and the original owner’s will.
It burned away all the waste that had accumulated knowingly or unknowingly throughout the body,
The growth elixir that was not digested due to excessive intake and remained throughout the body was heated to make it easier to absorb.
With that alone, Jun’s physical performance increased dramatically.
However, it was an unintended side effect.
Ugh! Whoosh!
The light came back to the two cores that had lost their light due to excessive operation.
As if that wasn’t enough, it has become even bigger and more powerful.
It was an unprecedented opportunity and miracle for Jun.
Because once a core loses its light, it almost never regains its light again.
After a miracle of that magnitude was achieved, the luck and the original owner’s will contained in the brain machine were almost exhausted.
However, even after performing such a miracle, the brain energy that the dragon-blooded eel had condensed in the Mana Spot for 300 years still had energy left.
According to the last bit of luck and the original owner’s will, Noegi escaped from the young human’s body, electric-grilled the bold catfish, and then tried to return to nature.
Of course, Fortuna had no intention of leaving it alone.
She is a lucky angel.
As her main job was her main job, she knew that just as she had to row when the water came in, she also had to make the most of it when luck gave her.
Jiing~
The white cartwheel rotated clockwise and scattered light clumps.
The clumps of light soon came together on Fortuna’s hand and formed a huge lump.
“Go!”
Fortuna quickly shoved the huge lump into Jun’s stomach before her brain energy disappeared.
That was the moment when another piece of luck came to Jun.
Pyeokkkeo
A huge catfish swallowed Jun and Fortuna whole.
-Kkkk! Yeongtaengi! How do you feel!
Poopkkuk Pukkuk
The catfish, which swallowed the two in one gulp, opened her mouth and laughed at the electric eel.
Meanwhile, the electric eel, which had completely lost its vitality, looked at the scene calmly.
And then beyond the guy’s throat
Keyring!
When he saw the two clear blue lights that reminded him of Yeouiju, he immediately laughed at him in the same way.
Meggy, feeling somewhat anxious, said.
-… What are you laughing at? Am I finally crazy?
-Clark. It’s crazy, why is it funny that I’m young and can’t tell what’s okay to eat, and what’s not?
-Are you saying that young humans and fairies smaller than minnows shouldn’t be eaten? It must be like that for you, Yeongtaeng, who is on the verge of death.
-Ah, out of all the affection I’ve had, I’d like to advise you to spit out the ones you swallowed right now. I don’t want to die.
Talking smugly until the end about a topic that bothers you!
The catfish didn’t want to hear the electric eel talking anymore.
It darted towards him and opened its mouth to its limit.
To swallow him in one bite like when he swallowed the young human and fairy that he had told me not to touch.
Keyring! Keyring!
I didn’t know that guy.
The clear blue light seen beyond one’s throat was shining brilliantly as if it were filled with lightning.
Keyring! Pajik!
-Yes, electricity.
Pajik! Puzzle!
-That’s how it happens.
It’s a joke!
-Quoong!!!
“Uggyaaaaah!!!!”
The screams of a huge catfish and a small fairy(?) Echoed widely in the wide lake.
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A few hours later.
The downtown area shines brightly even in the middle of the night.
Inside, an unusually large mansion.
Ttogak ttogak ttogak
A Miao woman in office attire walked calmly.
She was heading somewhere with an armful of documents in her arms. When she arrived in front of the room she was aiming for, she took a deep breath and knocked on the door.
“Boss, I have brought you the last report of the day.”
-Come in.
Permission was heard quietly.
Before entering the room, the Miao woman finished all her preparations by checking the condition of her clothes and taking another deep breath to drive away any tension. She then slowly opened the door.
A spacious and luxurious office.
The owner of this room, who was working on documents at an equally luxurious desk, took her gaze from the documents she had just finished checking and looked at the Miao woman with dry eyes.
When the Miao woman saw the eyes of the owner of her room, her boss, her body trembled without realizing it.
It wasn’t a particularly negative emotion, but the black horizontal lines in his yellow eyes felt somehow ominous every time I saw them.
Although most goat people have an inherent eye characteristic, the boss’s eyes were particularly severe.
“What are you doing? Don’t hurry and bring it.”
“Oh, sorry.”
The Miao woman, who came to her senses after her boss’s point, quickly handed him the bundle of documents in her arms.
As if the boss had no intention of pointing out anything more, she calmly handed over the documents and quickly looked at them one by one.
Then she frowned as she looked at a report.
The boss was a man whose expression never changed to the point of getting tired of it, so the Miao woman was puzzled and asked the reason.
“Boss, did you find anything wrong?”
“… In the end, we failed to kill our target.”
The president handed the document he was looking at to the Miao woman.
The Miao woman took one look at her documents and quickly remembered what had happened.
“You are talking about killing a child who played a major role in exposing the corruption of the chief of Primuni Village.”
A Miao woman calmly says she is going to kill a 10-year-old child.
She had seen worse things than this with her own eyes and had done them with her own hands, so she felt nothing like this.
“The village chief is our line, and the village chief’s family directly requested a request, so we assigned the appropriate number of people, but… Yes, they say it failed.”
“Were there not enough people?”
“That’s not it. She had stigmata and an ability specialized for running away, so I was quite concerned. They were a two-member group of fairly famous mercenaries. Their skills and trustworthiness were high, and they were on the verge of becoming adventurers by learning their special skills and even incurring debt to us.”
“… Why did so many people fail?”
“It is said that during the massacre, the target fell into a famously dangerous lake nearby while rescuing a child who was accidentally caught in the massacre. “We tried to properly check whether the target was dead, but the rescued child went to the village one step ahead and dragged the villagers with us, making it impossible.”
“… How did you survive?”
“I’m not sure about that. According to a report from our personnel in Primuni Village, the villagers simply found him lying on the edge of the water. Oh, one thing that was unusual was that there was an old electric eel next to the child.”
“Was it a spirit object?”
“I think that’s highly likely. “Just in case, I looked it up and found a record from about 300 years ago that said electric eels lived in that lake.”
“… I did something pointless.”
After saying that, the president did not ask any more questions.
I just endlessly looked at the documents that contained the incident.
Seeing that, the Miao woman asked carefully.
“Shall we reintroduce personnel?”
“… I’ll think about it, so I’ll just leave.”
“I understand.”
In response to her boss’s greeting, the Miao woman greeted him and immediately left her room.
After a while, when the woman’s footsteps could no longer be heard, the boss carefully opened the desk drawer and took out a black crystal ball the size of two fists.
Afterward, he took out a large magic stone, laid it out on the desk, and placed a crystal ball on top of it.
The crystal ball began to glow dimly.
“Sorry. They say it failed.”
-… I’m disappointed. Anyone with stigmata should be destroyed as quickly as possible.
“Shall we send people again?”
-That’s enough for now. The exact goal is different, but there are people other than us targeting that church. Let’s decide what to do after they’re done.
“I understand.”
-I’ll end the communication now. For Him.
“For a world where everyone will be equal under Him.”
After singing the chorus, the president calmly pushed the crystal ball and magic stone into the drawer.
After that, the only sound that rang out in the office was the sound of documents being examined, as if nothing had happened.
