Chapter 4

Chapter 4

I Installed a Dating App and Girls from Another World Became Obsessed with Me.

Episode 4: Matching (4).

Resilia, who had turned her scorn towards the queen she once served, turned her head towards the citizens staring at her.

“People of Pelledia, the World Tree has ordered the deposition of the current queen, Iris Remeria Bayart Pelledia.”

“?!”

Though it was expected that Resilia, who had taken a stance amounting to treason, had impure intentions, the nobles were all speechless at her blatant remarks.

Of course, this was only true for a single elder and the nobles.

“First Elder of the Council of Elders, Biglis Harun Hartz. I will follow the World Tree’s command.”

The wrinkled First Elder uttered shocking words.

‘What is that crazy old man saying…?!’

‘Wasn’t he supposed to have no interest in power?!’

‘…This is dangerous.’

‘If it’s the opinion of the First Elder…’

The anxiety of the high-ranking nobles soon became a reality.

“Second Elder of the Council of Elders, Alanya Remond Provina. I shall follow the World Tree’s command.”

“Fourth Elder of the Council of Elders, Amal Florence Khashka. As the noble and great World Tree commands.”

“Seventh Elder of the Council of Elders, Raiken Ban Pitell. I will follow the command.”

Except for a few absent elders and the Sixth Elder, who had rebuked Resilia for framing the queen, all the elders agreed to the deposition of the current queen.

“What, what kind of behavior is this!!”

The Sixth Elder shouted at the elders of the same Council of Elders with an expression of utter disbelief, but the elders did not respond.

“Your Majesty? No, Iris?”

“Resilia!!”

Iris, who had finally lost her composure, reached out to Resilia, but was stopped by an unknown figure in black who appeared from somewhere.

It was the appearance of the fourth master-level powerhouse.

Even Iris, an 8-circle archmage, had no chance against a master-level knight once she allowed them to get close.

Besides, even if she had lost her composure, she could not commit the atrocity of using magic in the holy land.

“Hmm? Since when did Your Majesty’s hands become so light? Oh, you’re the former queen now, aren’t you?”

“What…! What did you do to the World Tree?!”

“Oh dear…”

Resilia’s expression, looking at Iris with an air of pity, was mixed with clear mockery.

“People of Pelledia! As the World Tree has commanded, I, Resilia Runbanien Parun Pelledia, hereby declare my ascension to the fifth queen of Pelledia!”

It was a series of remarks and situations that the brain could not comprehend, even while seeing and hearing them.

The former queen, a wise ruler, was rejected by the World Tree, and the woman who appeared as the chancellor framed the queen and even dared to touch the World Tree’s body. She was a heinous criminal who deserved to have her entire clan exterminated.

And now, such a criminal was the new queen?

The citizens were not easily shaken from the confusion caused by the series of catastrophes.

But only for a moment.

“…Long live the new Queen!”

“Long live Queen Resilia!”

“Long live the World Tree!”

“Glory to Pelledia!!”

“Long live! Long live!!”

For the elves, the choice and will of the World Tree, their only god and mother, were more than enough to captivate the masses.

No matter how wise a ruler Iris was, believers gave absolute faith and loyalty to their god.

After that, things progressed quickly, and Iris was sentenced to eternal imprisonment in the underground chamber, wearing a powerful seal that suppressed her mana.

She would never be able to leave the prison until she took her own life or died for some other reason.

Iris, who had become a heinous criminal and was imprisoned overnight, kept asking herself with a blank stare.

Why did this happen?

Why did Resilia do this?

‘Why…?’

Thump-

Even until the moment the prison door closed, no one appeared to answer her questions, and thus, 200 years passed.

Perhaps due to the influence of the app, Iris, the person involved, recited the story, which was hard to listen to, calmly.

‘…200 years.’

Just thinking about it seemed to take my breath away.

As a mere human who had lived only 21 years, it was a long time that I could not even dare to fathom.

I couldn’t even describe in words how she must have felt, spending all that time alone in this place.

Iris’s eyes, having revealed all her past, returned to normal.

“Don’t you want revenge?”

I tried my best not to show it, but it came out on its own.

“Revenge…”

Iris seemed to be somewhat detached.

“Who can I blame now? Seeing through the essence of others is also a virtue of a monarch… I just had no eye for people.”

Iris, who seemed to be blaming herself, looked calm, but also somewhat sad.

“But you don’t want to stay here forever, do you?”

“That’s true, but…”

“Then it’s decided.”

For me, the most satisfying ending would be for Iris to take revenge on a woman named Resilia, but I had no intention of forcing someone who didn’t want revenge.

In any case, the person’s will was the most important.

“Revenge or whatever, let’s get out of here first, shall we? That much is okay, right?”

Besides, it was not right for an innocent person to rot in prison for life. For now, that was all I needed to think about.

Iris was too pitiful to be trapped in this dark and damp place for the rest of her life.

“He, here…?”

Iris’s voice sank heavily.

“Thank you for your words… but that’s impossible.”

The place she was pointing at was a huge door. It seemed to be about 5 or 6 stories high.

“The only exit is blocked by the World Tree’s barrier, and I can’t use much mana because of the seal.”

It wasn’t that she had been idle for the past 200 years.

Even in a situation where her mana was limited by the seal, she had tried to break the barrier, but at this rate, it would take about 1,200 years just to analyze the barrier.

Of course, it was absurd for a mortal to analyze a god’s barrier, but even if she finished the analysis, breaking the barrier with her current physical condition was another problem.

“Hey, things are different now than they were then.”

“Yes? Different how?”

“I’m here now, you know.”

Was there really no way to escape from here without breaking the barrier?

I didn’t think so.

Even in department stores, there were escape artifacts made for situations where ordinary people were trapped in gates.

Of course, the problem was that they were incredibly expensive, but if I asked Iris for her understanding and gathered some of the World Tree’s roots scattered around, I could probably buy one quickly.

However, there was one fact that Kang Hyeon-u overlooked here.

Earth, where magical beasts had existed since the beginning of human history, was overflowing with various artifacts and magical tools, but the existence of gods had not yet been revealed.

In ancient history, transcendent beings were occasionally described, but whether they were gods or just extremely powerful beings like S-class hunters was still a matter of debate among experts.

As a result, Kang Hyeon-u had no idea what kind of being the World Tree, a god that actually existed in this world, was.

That was usually how shallow imaginations worked.

He didn’t even consider whether a god’s barrier could be penetrated with artifacts developed by humans.

Kang Hyeon-u would learn about this fact later.

“I came from another world called Earth.”

“Yes…? Another world??”

I explained to Iris in as much detail as possible how I came to this place.

Except for the part about the dating app.

It wasn’t that I was trying to meet women, but my pride wouldn’t allow me to say that I was dragged here while using a dating app.

Of course, Iris wouldn’t know what a dating app was, but there might be a situation where I had to explain it later.

At first, I didn’t know how to explain what a cell phone was, but it seemed that the development of magical tools in this world was quite remarkable.

“…So, you’re saying that you, Hyeon-u, traveled to our world through this communication device called a cell phone from your world?”

“Yes.”

With just a little explanation, she seemed to understand the cell phone.

She grasped the essence despite my poor speaking skills, which wasn’t my forte. However, her reaction to dimensional travel was more subdued than I expected.

‘Is it because it sounds too absurd?’

She seemed more interested in the cell phone. You could tell just by looking at her, even if she didn’t say anything.

“Would you like to try using it?”

“Is that okay…?”

“Of course.”

“Th, thank you…”

I handed the cell phone to Iris, who had been staring at it as if she were possessed.

Then, I explained various things to Iris, who was happily fiddling with the cell phone, satisfying her curiosity.

The sight of her being disappointed when I told her she couldn’t access the internet right now was so cute that I wanted to take a picture.

An elf’s reaction while using a high-end cell phone? If I uploaded it to NewTube, it would easily get 5 million views in a day.

‘By the way, it seems that the ‘Otherworld Dating App’ is only visible to me.’

Just in case, I tried to show Iris the Otherworld Dating App, but she didn’t seem to see anything.

It seemed that this app wasn’t matching me with women from another world, but rather sending me to places where women with my desired conditions were.

‘I think I could be sure if I tried matching a few more times.’

But that was a distant prospect for now.

“Um… Sir Hyeon-u…”

“Yes? Why are you calling…”

Without thinking, I turned my head and was shocked as if someone had hit me on the back of the head by what Iris showed me on the screen.

There was a very familiar picture on the screen.

It was a picture of an AV actress with her large breasts exposed without any mosaic.

It was a recent acquisition of mine, but why was Iris showing it to me?

‘…Ah, I forgot to tell her not to go into the gallery?’

Even though it was a relatively recent picture, I had saved other pictures after that, so if she was showing me that picture, it meant she had already seen pictures that were more explicit and to my liking.

“Do… do you like this kind of thing, Sir Hyeon-u…?”

“…”

I couldn’t say anything.

It felt like showing my dating partner my favorite porn and lewd pictures. Of course, I had never been on a date.

-Just kill yourself.

I even heard a hallucination as if my instinct was talking to me.

“If… if it’s okay…!!”

Just when I thought it would be better to die by sticking my face into a plate of water, I heard Iris’s pitifully trembling voice.

Iris, who came closer with her face flushed red as if it would burst, held my hand tightly.

“Would you… like to touch my breasts…?”