episode_0074

Sahagin’s den, which I visited after a long time, still looked the same.

“Wow! Here it is!? It’s completely different from what I imagined!?”

-Iknow, right. It reminded me of a cave-like place, but to see this old-fashioned stone building…

Letel and Rael look up at the temple-like building and excitedly go inside.

“As expected, Sahagin is nowhere to be seen…”

I glanced down at the eye tattoo on the back of my right hand.

There is still a lot we don’t know about this eye tattoo, which has a small eye drawn inside the pupil.

“Mr. Han-gil. Why don’t you come in?”

“…I have to go in.”

I walked away, trying to ignore Noeul, who was snoring and resting her chin on my shoulder.

“Huh, Mr. Han-gil, you are surprisingly in good shape. Do you exercise at all?”

“I just think it’s normal.”

I only remember struggling with helplessness and despair for the past 10 years, but when I was working at an ‘ordinary small and medium-sized company,’ I trained my body through exercise and exercise.

Since my body would have remained the same in the space of nothingness, my current state of body would probably be the same as my body before entering the space of nothingness.

“It’s nice that you’re humble~”

“……”

What kind of thing is there in Noeul’s eyes?

“Hey, Mr. Noeul. Is that fascination not going away?”

She frowned at my question.

“Uhm~ But I don’t like it because you keep treating me with respect, but it makes me feel distant. How old are you, Mr. Han-gil?”

“Huh? Uh…I’m twenty-three years old.”

No, wait a minute, does the time spent in the ‘space of nothingness’ also count as age?

Then you turn 40…let’s just pretend it never happened.

My body hasn’t aged, so I’ll be fine.

“Ah! Then you are my brother! Can I call you that?”

“…follow your heart.”

Honestly, it’s more familiar and comfortable to call me that.

“Oppa! Hehehe. Then you can speak informally now too, okay?”

“…I understand. Noeul.”

“Yes! It’s much better! It feels like the distance has been narrowed! Hehe!”

The tension is so high that it is difficult to follow.

When I glance sideways, I see her holding her hands and clasping her hands, brushing her blonde hair behind her ears and looking up with wide eyes.

“……”

To be honest, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t excited, but I shook my head and suppressed my emotions.

It would be too cruel to add more to her dark history that is accumulating in real time.

“Hangil! What are you doing there!? Come in quickly!”

-Hangil. Don’t make fun of me and come in.

Where on earth did Rael learn such a word? Is it me?

“Okay…yeah, I understand.”

As I hurriedly entered the stone building, I was greeted by a familiar internal structure.

A strange feeling arises because the altar was still there.

“I can’t believe I have to do this again… I think I’ll be really angry if I don’t get 1000 points…”

“Oh, no way! A window has popped up for me and Noeul, so you won’t give it to me?”

“I guess so? It has to be that way.”

I sat down and looked at Letel, Rael, and the sunset gathered together.

-…Noeul. How long are you going to hold Hangil’s arm?

“Huh? What does it matter to you?”

-It doesn’t matter. but…

Rael thought for a moment and made a sad expression.

-no. It was a mistake. It was pointless meddling.

Looking at his expression, I see that he is self-deprecating again. It’s obvious even if you don’t look at it.

As someone who knows many of Lael’s strengths and great points, I really don’t like the habit of putting himself down, but I have no idea how to fix it.

…Will it be fixed if I become a real person?

I think something like that would be possible with [point stores].

“hmm…”

The problem is the point.

In the first place, points are not a good that can be handed over for free, but if possible, I want to let her use the points she earned through hard work.

If you can do that, you can raise your self-esteem.

“Oppa, what are you thinking?”

“Huh? Ah, it’s nothing. Are you all hungry? Should we at least prepare a meal? Kanpal, Heanna, Bug Berry.”

“Wow! What is all this? Can I eat it?”

“Yes. Kanpal is similar to a sweet potato, Heanna is drinking water, and Bug Berry is a fruit.”

“Oppa Han-gil was a man of great ability, wasn’t he? Awesome!”

As Noeul flirts and clings to him, Letel and Lael stare at him intently.

Feeling more embarrassed than before, I slightly pushed her away.

“Uh, Noeul. Would you please slowly leave?”

“Nope?”

“…If you don’t like it, there’s nothing you can do about it.”

I don’t know if it’s a racial trait, but she’s stronger than me.

It would be virtually impossible to remove it without using skills or abilities.

Rael made a pouty expression, but then quickly turned his head and began to use his telekinesis to prepare the food.

“Hmm, but don’t you have any meat? It seems like it would be harder than I thought to last a month with just this…”

“There are many things I wish for. Then, Letel. I will summon a wild boar now, so you can hunt it.”

“Okay! That’s easy!”

“Then you will summon me right away?”

“However much!”

When she nodded, she immediately chanted her name.

“Manish.”

“Kuweeeek!”

Kwazijic!

Manish roared powerfully as soon as he was summoned, and his head was cut off in an instant before his cries subsided.

“Gurgling, gurgling…?”

It was quite grotesque to see it fluffing its muzzle to roar without realizing that its own neck had been separated, but none of us were disturbed by such a sight.

“Kya~ Hangil oppa! I’m scared~”

“……”

Although there was someone acting.

-Hangil. Do you not make aged meat mannish?

“Huh? Oh, come to think of it, I couldn’t explain it to you then. I had to sacrifice my soul to summon a creature with imagination. That’s why I suddenly collapsed while vomiting blood.”

-…Never do this in the future.

“Hehe, thank you for your concern.”

Rael, who used his telekinesis to drain all of Manish’s blood, skillfully peels off the skin and divides the meat into parts.

“Oh! Look at the stain! Does this look delicious? Wait a minute! I’ll make a fire!”

Crump! Puddeuddeuk!

Even though visibility was limited inside the building, she pulled out a large tree from outside, cut it into pieces the size of firewood, and started a fire in an instant.

“…How did you do it?”

“Huh? What?”

“No, even if you brought the wood without looking at it, it’s not dry firewood, it’s fresh wood, but there’s no smoke at all.”

“Ah, that? If you rub the space and create frictional heat, even the moisture will be blown away.”

“…?”

I just gave up trying to understand.

Well, it ended up being more comfortable, so that’s probably a good thing.

“Let’s wrap the remaining meat in leaves and let it age properly. Oh, I’ll do the grilling. I’ve done it a lot, so I’m almost an expert.”

As I made meat skewers and grilled them skillfully, Letel’s eyes sparkled and his mouth gulped.

It seems that Noeul was hungrier than I thought as she moved away from me and came closer to the campfire.

“where…”

After wrapping the kanpal in leaves and throwing it into the fire, I applied an instant marinade made by mixing the sweet water of heanna and the sour juice of bug berries, and the meat became shiny and shiny.

“Now, everything is cooked, so everyone eat it.”

“Me first!”

Retel bites into the steaming meat and lets out an exclamation.

“Wow, it’s so delicious! There’s almost no spicy taste and maybe because it’s high in fat, it melts in your mouth!”

“Oh… that’s really true. Honestly, I didn’t expect that much…”

-Your skills are still the same. It’s really delicious.

After happily watching the three women eat, I also took a bite.

“hmm…”

To be honest, in Radish Space, we mostly ate Mannish meat, which had condensed extreme umami, so it wasn’t delicious, but it wasn’t bad because it felt like it had its own seasoning added when we all ate it together.

After chatting moderately and eating a hearty meal, we sat there and savored the afterglow of our meal.

“Hmm, it’s been like this for a month… I guess it’s going to be a little boring.”

“Retel. You don’t have to worry about that anymore. If you just endure each day, it will pass faster than you think, so be patient.”

“Oppa Hangil. Can you summon other ingredients?”

“Huh? Well… you can summon a Sahagin, but it looks like a human so it might be a bit difficult for beginners. It tastes like the fish itself…”

The first time I ate sahagin in the space of nothingness, I felt quite resistant to it.

“Still, I want to give it a try! Summon me later!”

“Okay, I understand.”

“Ah! And I want to see the night sky here! Han-gil oppa! Come with me!”

“I guess so. It’ll be quite a sight to see if you go up to the building. Let’s all see it together.”

“Hmm… I want to see Han-gil oppa alone…”

“……”

When I lightly ignore it, Noeul frowns and hugs me by the arm.

“Oppa. Do you hate me?”

“What’s there to dislike? I don’t like it.”

“Then why are you being so cold to me? Maybe you don’t like me?”

“There probably aren’t many men in the world who aren’t your type…”

“You said you don’t have a girlfriend? Then you can date me?”

“…If you can say that even after the charm wears off, I’ll reconsider.”

“Really!? I understand!”

I felt Lael’s intense gaze, but I was confident that Noeul would not do that, so I was confident.

“Wow…there are so many stars.”

“I know…”

As soon as you climb up the building and look up, numerous stars are shining to welcome you.

“…Hangil. Are you okay now?”

“what?”

“No, you’ve been in the void for so long. I was wondering if there were any aftereffects.”

“It’s surprisingly good. I’m surprised too.”

As I smiled, Retel also smiled calmly and nodded.

“Then that’s a good thing… Oh, by the way. Didn’t 088 say this was a ‘brief trial’? So if we complete this, won’t the Constellation know our location?”

“Hmm, doesn’t it matter? I think our location will be discovered through 088’s trick anyway.”

“That’s right. Well, then you shouldn’t be worrying about how to survive, but how to get back on track.”

“Huh? Can’t we just go back?”

Noeul, who heard our conversation, tilts her head with a puzzled expression.

“Oh, now that I think about it, I didn’t tell Noeul about the voiceless dimension or the ordeal… Now, I’ll explain everything that happened.”

As I relayed all the remaining information that I had omitted to explain as briefly as possible, Noeul’s complexion gradually turned pale.

“Wait a minute! Well, well, then it’s not a big problem!?”

“It’s a huge problem.”

“But why are you so calm!? We have to find a way somehow!”

“We want to do that too, but there’s no clear way, right?”

“that…!”

Noeul, who was gaping, fell silent with a serious expression and held my hand.

“So we have to live here forever?”

“No, I have to go back someday. The problem is whether there is a way to evade the constellation. Or, at the very least, I can go back with peace of mind even if I only know whether our dimension is Earth 44 or an astral dimension…”

The moment I lay down, muttering as if complaining, I saw Romenel’s face looking down with a bright smile.

Even upside down.

“…Wow!?”

It was something completely unexpected, so I screamed and stood up, and Romenel took a step back and said something.

“You can rest assured about that. I guarantee it.”

“yes yes?”

“Gu, Director!?”

“What brings you here!?”

We jumped up and raised our voices, but she didn’t lose her composure and put her hands on her waist.

His confident appearance was truly reassuring.

“You turned back time, but you have no choice but to find the cause of the problem. It caused a huge problem. The management bureau, which detected the time reversal, is now in a state of chaos.”

With her purple eyes flashing brightly under the night sky and her purple hair swept up, she looks directly at me.

“It’s a bad road. It looks like it happened because of the constellation…is that right?”

“Oh, that’s right, but…do you remember me?”

“Ha! I hope you don’t underestimate this body too much. Just returning to death can’t affect me.”

“…That’s amazing.”

When I gave her a sincere exclamation, she raised the corners of her mouth and spread her shoulders.

“You’re saying the obvious. Anyway, I don’t see any intention or incident, so I’ll just head back.”

“Uh, wait a minute. Already?”

“Yes. The rest of the problems are for those here to solve. Besides, if you stay in contact with the trials for a long time, the constellations may notice this body. We have to protect our dimension as well… Oh, and the problem of dimension transfer, but you can come back without worrying. “This body guarantees the safety of this dimension.”

It sounded arrogant, but hearing her say it made me feel reassured that it really seemed possible.

Is there anyone to whom the term deus ex machina fits so well?

“Then I’ll just head back. I hope you don’t die if possible. If you die in another dimension, no matter how much I do, there’s no way I can bring you back. Then, I’ll leave.”

“Ah, sleep…!”

I tried to ask her because I thought she would know whether our dimension was Earth 44 or the Asexual Dimension, but before I could even open my mouth, she disappeared without a trace.

He just said what he had to say and then walked away. He’s still a storm.

…It’s a person, right?

“…Anyway, I’m glad. With this, I have one less thing to worry about.”

-That’s right. I was worried because I thought I wouldn’t be able to eat food from that world.

While everyone was sighing in relief, only Noeul was holding my collar tightly with a stern expression.

Now that I think about it, Noeul seems to be secretly wary and hostile toward Romenel, but why?