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Deltan fell asleep for two days after that day.

Neither the embarrassment caused by Agnes’ strange behavior nor the shame of touching her bare skin could stop it.

Why not?

70 hours is difficult to endure just by staying awake.

No, considering that the pure research time was only that much, it was correct to say that Deltans were awake for over 80 hours.

I don’t know if he had a strong body like a knight, but he was a wizard.

It is impossible for him to dissipate the accumulated fatigue in a short period of time.

At that point, my sleep time was well over 40 hours.

Deltan frowned and opened his eyes.

I raised my upper body, clearing the interface that appeared in front of my eyes.

‘I’m dying.’

Is it because I slept for too long?

The Deltan’s body was so frozen that even the slightest movement made him scream.

He stretched out loud and rubbed his eyelids with his fingers to wake himself up.

“Count, it’s time for dinner.”

The man who happened to come in was Gerhart, the butler.

Deltan roughly waved his hand, picked up the bread Gerhart held out, and put it in his mouth.

This was his routine whenever he slept for such a long time.

“Anything special about me while I was asleep?”

“Duke Levadein left a note of thanks. A letter and some jewels… .”

“What about the cuckoos?”

“There is no new information.”

“Useless bastards, does it make sense to take money like that and get no results?”

“… They must be in a bit of an awkward position as they are told to retrieve the item after giving only their name.”

“It’s an organization like that.”

Deltan was still chewing bread with a blank face and muttering curses.

cuckoo.

It was the name of the organization he had requested information from to find information about DLC materials.

As an organization that collects all information existing on the continent, their abilities were outstanding, but the difficulty of the DLC was also a problem.

‘Except for the magic flower I originally knew, there are only two in three months.’

The pace was slow compared to pouring money into it.

That was irritating the Delta man’s temper.

Deltan manipulated the interface with a glance and opened the quest window.

1. Chambler’s Dream (Complete)

2. Heart of Gaias (Incomplete)

3. Token of Endless Winter (Incomplete)

4. Jewel of the Deep Sea (Wan)

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9. Seed of Demonic Exrias (Incomplete)

Still progress on the quest.

Deltan looked at it with an annoyed expression on his face, then swallowed the bread and stood up.

“ I’ll wash up and come out. Prepare a cup of tea.”

“Yes.”

Deltan casually took off the clothes he was wearing and headed to the shower room.

The cold shower without an attendant was also completely tailored to his taste.

*

The mansion’s study.

A Deltan sitting on a chair with his legs crossed was staring at a black hole in the air.

The identity of the hole is subspace.

It was a miracle that existed in the form of an inventory in-game, and now it is a magic created by Deltan himself.

Inside the black subspace, there was a glass display case divided into exactly nine compartments.

What was unusual was that only two of the compartments were filled, and the items were far from worthy of being placed in a display case.

These were DLC quest ingredients.

Deltan looked at the display case with the number ‘No. 1’ written on the name tag.

What is there is the brain of a living creature.

Unlike the human brain, which is divided into left and right chunks, each brain was divided into top and bottom and was made up of four chunks.

‘Chambler’s Dream.’

It was the material taken out by opening the skull of the demon of enchantment, Chambler.

Next, Deltan’s gaze turned to the spot with the number ‘No. 4’ engraved on it.

This time too, the items on display were body parts and eyeballs of living creatures.

The eyeballs of the creature, which was the size of a human head, were still repeatedly contracting and dilating with their dark blue pupils.

‘Jewel of the deep sea.’

It was a material obtained by going into the deepest sea of this land and killing a certain demonic beast.

Deltan sipped his tea and continued his thoughts.

‘Apart from the fact that they are ingredients you’ve never heard of, the names of the ingredients themselves are intuitive.’

Chambler’s dream was the thinking organ of the devil named Chambler.

The deep sea jewel was truly the treasure of the demonic beast in the deep sea.

The same goes for the magic flower Exrias. Even though it is in the form of mana, it is ultimately a flower.

‘If you knew the origin of the name, you could find the remaining ingredients… .’

Deltan’s gaze was directed to the still empty ‘No. 2’ seat.

‘… That’s what I’m looking for right now.’

‘Heart of Gaias’ was written as number 2 in the quest window.

Deltan wondered if this, like Chambler’s Dream, might be some kind of devil’s organ.

First, there are too few clues to find out information based on names alone.

In the end, Deltan was unable to continue his deeper thoughts today and closed the subspace.

‘… Okay, this isn’t important right now.’

Deltan’s expression scrunched up.

This is because he still has more urgent work to do than finding out the whereabouts of these materials.

What can I say?

The extraction of the magic flower Exrias was exactly that.

‘The deadline has been postponed. From now on, I have to slowly start researching again.’

We will look at mahwa from the perspective of a plant and test its characteristics one by one.

So, we will find a way to rip off the Demon Flower.

To do that, there was something I had to do.

‘… Damn bitch.’

I got to spend time with Agnes Levadein.

No, I even had to make contact.

-pretty. really.

Suddenly, Deltan’s teeth ground apart.

It’s impossible to say that he doesn’t have anger towards Agnes, but the most upsetting thing for him, who has a strong sense of pride, was his own reaction of running away in embarrassment at that moment.

As is usually the case at the end of nowhere-directed anger, Deltan was rationalizing his actions at some point.

‘Yes, I was very tired that day. This was because I had just completed over 70 hours of research, and my mana had been drained due to the surgery. ‘I was in bad shape.’

If I visit again, I won’t see the same depravity that day.

Deltan steeled himself and stood up.

“Gerhart!”

“Yes.”

“Go to Duke Levadein’s residence. Please contact me in advance.”

Gerhart tilted his head at the sight of the Deltan looking very angry for some reason, and then quickly answered.

“Yes.”

After all, his owner was a man who was angry most of the year.

*

From Delta’s perspective, Agnes Levadeine was still the same.

She was greeting him with the same smile as before, as if she was not very impressed by the fact that her life had been extended.

One, the greeting he gave was different from usual.

“Has anything changed from usual?”

Deltan let out a laugh.

“Well, do you want to hear that your hair looks different today or something like that? Give up. Because I’m not a meticulous person enough to pay attention to those changes.”

“Push!”

Agnes shook her shoulders and laughed.

While Deltan’s frown narrowed further at the meaningless reaction, she eventually burst into laughter and slapped the blanket.

“Wow, that’s really too much. Are you really a bad man?”

“… What kind of bullshit is this?”

“Anya wasn’t there. You must have been guided by someone else all the way to this room, but you don’t know that?”

“Ah.”

Only then did Deltan realize that the maid who guided him at the mansion today had changed.

“Anya went to the estate. I’m going to become the head maid of the lord’s castle.”

“Well, that’s good.”

“Isn’t it a pity?”

“Why me.”

Deltan truly did not regret her work.

No, I wasn’t interested in the first place.

Agnes continued with a smile that seemed somewhat satisfied with his indifference.

“So, today is your fiftieth failure?”

“No more for the time being.”

“Why?”

“Because I’m going to investigate the magic.”

Deltan said as he sat down on the chair he always sat on.

“I roughly know how to approach it. The next surgery will be performed only after further investigation of Mahua.”

“So you came today because you missed me?”

“Do you have any memory problems? I said I came to investigate Mahwa.”

“Sorry, I’m not a broad-minded person who turns a blind eye to all such excuses.”

Deltan clicked his tongue and held out his hand.

It was an expression of intention to end the conversation and begin treatment.

However, Agnes just looked at the hand blankly.

“Give me.”

When Deltan spoke in an annoyed voice, Agnes responded with a grin.

“I feel like I’ve become a puppy. If you ask for your hand, you have to give it.”

“Bitch like a dog.”

“Wow, you’re really treating me like a bitch now?”

After saying that, Agnes placed her hand over Deltan’s.

Then he spat out the words in a playful tone.

“Mung. Bruise.”

“Shut up before I sew your mouth shut.”

“Chi-.”

Deltan was very satisfied with the conversation so far.

He pressed her down without showing a single gap, and it was natural since he didn’t show any embarrassment like before.

Now all I have to do is finish the diagnosis and return.

While Deltan’s mind was relaxing at that thought, Agnes opened her mouth.

“But it’s there. Was it good?”

“What.”

“Touching my breasts.”

I flinch.

Deltan’s body trembled.

Agnes, who was being held by him, could definitely feel the vibration.

Agnes’ smile deepened.

“You said ribs, but your hand also touched your chest. And even my bare skin was seen there.”

“… It was a medical procedure.”

“For saying that, your face was red before you left. Ah, that was kind of funny. You were only looking at my cleavage until you left.”

“Don’t be a damn thing.”

Deltan’s eyes were bloodshot.

He looked like he was about to spew out anger, but right after, he calmed his expression, quirked the corners of his mouth, and gave a different reaction.

“Hey, do you like me? Why are you so anxious that you can’t be with me?”

Deltan didn’t want to show her any embarrassment.

A Delta man named Hebron was a man who enjoyed suppressing his opponents rather than being attacked.

So, in line with my personality, I tried to find my pace by responding to the opponent’s attacks.

Agnes’ eyes narrowed.

The anticipation of what she would say began to slowly build up in Deltan.

However, if she had been a woman who was so easy to deal with, Deltan wouldn’t have been in trouble in the first place.

“I don’t want to say anything.”

“Sounds positive.”

“Isn’t that what you want to hear?”

“Do you think I like you?”

“Yes.”

Agnes grinned.

“And you will confess to me. Hanging on awkwardly.”

Deltan let out a laugh, ‘Huh!’

This time, the reaction was so absurd that I wasn’t even angry.

“What confidence?”

“I’m stating the obvious. He must have seemed confident.”

“Is there evidence?”

“Yes, because I am beautiful.”

“Hey, even narcissism is a mental illness. You should fix your head before your heart.”

“I don’t want to hear that from you.”

Deltan had a lot of things he wanted to say.

Most of the words were accompanied by strong swear words.

As soon as Hana said that, the feeling of losing came to mind, so Deltan did something else instead of speaking.

He let go of Agnes’ hand and rolled up the sleeves of his shirt.

“Do you see this?”

“It’s a tattoo.”

There was a tattoo in the shape of a thorn vine on the exposed Delta man’s forearm.

It wasn’t just a tattoo.

This was like a kind of defense plan he engraved to protect himself from the demon of lust when he was in the middle of the main story.

“This is a tattoo that proves my chastity. It was tattooed to ward off the demon of lust, and it remains in effect even after the demon of lust dies. Do you know what this means?”

“You’re a virgin?”

“It means that there was no woman in this land that I liked. None of the women who seduced me were attractive enough to make me want to give them permission to do so. Do you think it would be different just because it was you?”

“Yes.”

“What confidence do you have?”

“Because I’m prettier than them.”

“… .”

Deltan was speechless.

The person who was supposed to refute it ended up agreeing with it without even realizing it.

Meanwhile, Agnes just smiled.

“But you know.”

“… What.”

“If you lose your virginity, will that tattoo disappear?”

“Oh, but you can’t do it.”

“Hmm… .”

Agnes’ smile deepened.

She was truly delighted by the Deltan showing off his virginity.

After all, it was only natural that one more trophy would be his.

Inside the half-moon-shaped eyes, the cherry-colored pupils had a tattoo engraved on the retina.

Needless to say, that look was that of a hunter.