episode_0025

Finally outside!

It’s a little chilly now, probably because it’s sunset. There’s mostly rocks and sand around, so the daily temperature range is probably big.

And I realized that the cold outside and the cold that was biting into my body were two completely different things.

If the cold is something you feel at your fingertips after stretching out your arms, what I usually feel is a cold that digs into the center of my heart.

I once thought it might be something else, but now that I feel it, it feels strange.

I looked at the sky to erase that feeling.

The sky is awash with sunset, the west is filled with glow, and beneath it stand scattered, weathered stone pillars.

If you look down a little further, there is a wide rocky desert with rocks ranging from much bigger to smaller than me, and in between there are cactus-like trees standing here and there.

It looks more like a wilderness scene from an American movie than a Middle Eastern desert.

Seeing the world through human memories and actually experiencing it are different. Compared to my memories from when I was human, it’s like a completely different world with different colors.

Or maybe I’m just seeing things differently.

I set my feet on the ground.

And then jump up and down.

A little over a span in height.

I didn’t get particularly strong or anything. I just needed to do some exercise to maintain my body. I warmed up while recalling a video I saw when I was a human.

It’s also called stretching.

There is someone looking at me like that with a very strange expression. It is none other than Hyungkesuni.

Maybe it’s because the weather is chilly, but I’m sitting in a place where the sunset is shining, and he’s looking at me with a questioning expression.

“Do you not exercise, Mr. Hyungkeshuni?”

Joanna approaches the hunched over punk and asks him a question.

“Huh? Oh, I’m fine. This body won’t change even if I train.”

I feel very comfortable with Joanna. We seem to have spent a similar amount of time together, but she treats me differently.

No, I understand that I look dangerous.

But it just looks dangerous and never actually does anything bad, right?

But you said you were a foreign correspondent. Then, should we do something like a foreign correspondent?

Of course, I only think that way.

I warmed up my body and ran at a moderate pace. There is a lot of flat ground around the village, so it is easy to run around.

At first, Hyungkeshni was watching me run while holding the cane tightly, but soon he put the cane down.

Because Joanna, who is running next to me, is really fast. How can she run so fast?

I think I’m running at a youth level, but Joanna is ridiculously fast. I guess her body has changed a lot since she changed like that.

Of course I didn’t know. You’ve been looking at Joanna from Joanna’s perspective so far. At night, you go to the place where the warriors are training and train.

If you look at my physical strength and ability to move, you are at the top among those who have received my blessings.

I find it odd that it doesn’t apply to my body, but isn’t it the case in many fantasy works? They use all their talents to contain someone.

Isn’t it that kind of thing?

I think it’s quite heavy, and I have to understand.

Instead, think differently.

We need to think about what to do in the future as we extend the harvest period.

The main goal has been achieved successfully and we are on track to achieving even better milestones.

Bless three people every day.

And those who have received my blessing, after a little training, now go out to the battlefield.

So, I can see something.

The country that Jerome held a grudge against was most likely the Kingdom of Ancellus to the southeast.

At first glance, it appears that they are sending people evenly to the three largest kingdoms in the area, but there are many people who leave with a specific mission in mind, rather than simply going to liberate tyrannical regions or to convert.

Or, among those who returned from success, there are many who went to the Kingdom of Ansellus and returned after successfully completing their mission, receiving blessings in return for their devotion to the Church of Future Hope.

I’m sure he’s an extraordinary person.

I’m thoroughly gathering information and preparing something.

But he didn’t tell me anything. He kept the contract, knowing that I’m not a god named Ksaxshibal. Then I’ll move as I please. I won’t do anything more than that.

If I were smart, I could figure out Hieronymus’s intentions and make a deal.

If I were more advanced, I could move Hieronymus as I wished.

But unfortunately, I don’t have the ability to go that far.

Rather, if you try it rashly, there is a high chance that you will die immediately.

So I just keep my head down and live by accepting the food he gives me. I don’t want to go against his nerves and go back to that cold place.

Because he has the power to pick someone to replace me.

Huh? Wait a minute. Something just crossed my mind.

What the heck?

No, yes. He called me.

Even though it was an act like fishing, there was a technique that could call me into this world.

It seems like they originally intended to call someone else, not me.

In other words, if you designate me, you can call me.

Even after the Future Hope Church collapses, there is a way to call me.

The means by which I can come here.

This is it.

Hehehe.

Yes, I found my next goal.

Up until now, when I have blessed and planted seeds, it is literally like planting seeds and praying for them to grow as they please.

Rather than calling it farming, it’s a method worse than ants scattering seeds and coming back later. In fact, some ants do farming. They grow fungi and eat them.

In comparison, this is gathering. It is literally harvest season.

So what if I sow it but it doesn’t grow and I fail?

So first of all, we need to find a way to prepare for this eventuality.

How can you call me into this world?

Anyone who knows can guess.

There are two people: Hymns and Jerome.

But they are both very wary of me.

So how do I make a contract with you?

I need to think about it slowly.

And it was hard to continue thinking about it any further.

Because I fell flat on the ground. It felt like I had stepped wrong.

Oh my.

widely!

“Rebecca!”

As I fell to the ground, Joanna, who had been running in front of me, came running to me in a hurry. Hukkeshni, who had been sitting far away, also came to me holding a cane.

“Are you feeling okay?”

“Yes, I lost my balance.”

I put my hand on my chest. My heart is beating hard. It’s not beating. When I first came into this body, it was so noisy that I changed it.

I’m used to the sound of my body now.

I already changed it so I didn’t need to change it again. Is it a heart problem?

If you examine his body, there are no injuries except for the scrapes on his knees and hands from the fall. His heart and blood vessels are functioning without any unusual noises.

As Joanna was getting very excited, Hyungkeshni came right up to her and put his hand on her waist.

“Calm down, Joanna.”

And then he came towards me.

“Your hands and knees are scraped. You get hurt just like people.”

“I don’t know if you forgot, but is this body a human?”

I am in the body of Rebecca Rolf.

“I know. No, I thought I knew, but I thought you wouldn’t make this mistake.”

Huh?

Hyungkesuni examines my hand with strangely careful hands.

Then he turns around and searches his waistband. He glances and sees a small bag between the sheets. He takes out a bandage from there. He also takes out a blue bottle.

Hukkeshni opens the blue bottle and sprinkles it on my wounds.

It’s bitter.

That’s what the body says.

Spray on your palms and knees and wrap with a bandage.

If you look at the expression on his face, half of it is a look of study and half is a look of pity.

lol.

indeed.

Do I look more human after getting hurt? Do I have the ability to empathize with someone’s wounds?

It’s not fun.

Joanna, who is next to me, also feels relieved when she sees Hukkeshni treating me. If you think about the child, it is educationally better to just shake off these kinds of wounds.

But that’s not something I’d say to Joanna, who lost her child before she could hold him in her arms.

And I’m not Joanna’s child.

Of course, it could simply be that he is worried that the person he has given his affection to is hurt!

I held up my palm and checked the slightly yellowish bandage. It wasn’t dirty, I guess it was just that color.

No, the original bandages were bleached once? Or is it the difference between flax and jute? I have a vague idea about this, so I can’t tell the difference.

There’s a high chance that they weren’t the same species in the first place.

But at least there seems to be a concept of disinfection, so you don’t have to worry about infection. Or maybe you can infect someone in the first place.

“Okay, that’s it. Are you sick?”

“It stings.”

“Yeah. That’s right. That’s the right medicine. But you’ll get better quickly, so don’t worry about hurting yourself.”

I nodded at those words. Now the emotion looking at me had almost turned into pity.

Then, as if something occurred to him, his expression hardened.

“You’re injured, are you going to continue doing this kind of exercise?”

And then he asked, “I guess something is bothering you.”

I nodded.

“I’ll keep going. I’ll be careful not to get hurt next time.”

So how does Hyukkeshni react?

“Okay. Be careful. Will the time come out at this time every day?”

I feel a little relieved. That means I have to come forward. So you want to see me contacting someone?

Or are you looking to find someone who is trying to make contact?

Either way would be fun.

Well, it’s a little too dark now.

I need to move forward in time to make it easier to get mixed up.

“I will do it after I fulfill the contract with Hieronymus.”

“Performance? Oh, you mean blessing? Yeah, I got it.”

That means you’re passing it on to Jerome.

As soon as my story with Hyungkeshni was over, Joanna hugged me and walked into the room.

I don’t know what this person is thinking.

I think so as I watch Joanna’s expression in her arms.