episode_0123

My eyes didn’t open, but my consciousness did.

I was out of my mind. The bed that supports your body is soft and the blanket that covers your body is extremely warm.

And my right hand was pretty cold.

– Haaam…

Perhaps because of the lingering sleep, I suddenly yawned. I was careful to see if the sound would be loud.

I safely let go of the yawn and closed my open mouth.

My mouth is stuffy, probably because I just woke up. I raised my upper body, clenching my mouth to hydrate myself.

The blanket fell off, and a familiar voice was heard right next to me.

“You woke up early.”

After wiggling his fingers for a moment, he turned on his power of observation.

A round ceiling with the night sky still spread out, and a bed in the center.

Me and I who just got up from that bed…

“How is your body? The bed was so high-quality that it would have been fine to sleep in.”

Baek A-rin, who was lying in the same bed, waved her hand and said.

It was shaking… my hands were shaking too. A cool feeling came from my strangely familiar hands, as if I had been holding them all night.

Waking up in the same bed as another person is a very surprising… or even shocking, event that can make you fall asleep.

“……”

I thought for a moment and nodded.

[yes]

[Good morning]

I was quite used to being surprised.

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The streets were quiet on Sunday morning.

I left the facility that resembled a planetarium and walked down the street, but I didn’t meet a few people.

This was partly because the floating population was small to begin with, and because it was early Sunday morning, there tended to be even fewer people.

“Oh, come and go~”

[Table 11. Menu has arrived]

As I was about to go back to the dormitory, Baek Arin invited me to eat breakfast with him.

After thinking about it for a while, we went into a nearby restaurant together and ordered food a little while ago.

The only guests were me and Baek Arin. Perhaps because of that, the food was prepared quickly.

Food brought by a serving robot was placed on the table.

Steaming hot soup and pure white somen rolled into circles. Toppings and dried seaweed powder on top…

The menu was banquet noodles, nothing special.

In addition to banquet noodles, there were side dishes like dumplings on the menu, but Baek A-rin didn’t seem to like them at all.

She asked if I wanted to order dumplings, but I didn’t bother to order either.

“I will eat well~”

[thank you for this food]

Baek A-rin picked up her chopsticks. He picked up a handful of noodles… and opened his mouth.

“Don’t you eat it?

[yes?]

The noodles were still on the chopsticks. Baek A-rin stopped trying to eat the noodles and looked at me and the chopsticks still on the table.

[ah]

[Eat first]

He tilted his head with his hands on his knees and invited me to eat first.

Baek A-rin made a strange expression and took a bite of the noodles.

I pursed my mouth and only after confirming that Baek A-rin had swallowed the food did I pick up my chopsticks.

I roughly stirred the noodles with my chopsticks to dissolve them in the soup, and then picked up a small amount of noodles and crumpled them into my mouth.

I munched on somen and swallowed it. I flicked my chopsticks with a strange expression, then lifted the noodles again.

To be honest, banquet noodles are not my favorite food.

When I was hungry, I was good at picking up bugs and other things, but when I became a pig with a full stomach and a warm back, I started to eat various things.

Among them, the banquet noodles were bland and bland… and even with the pepper, they didn’t taste that good.

‘Not bad.’

It wasn’t bad now. He sipped the soup with a strange expression.

It’s just a feeling of warm water… but honestly, the soup of Janchi Noodles I felt before felt very similar.

Even if we call it banquet noodles, isn’t it just noodles made by boiling wheat flour somen in a broth made with anchovies?

Since the original taste was boring to begin with, there was little sense of discomfort or discomfort while stuffing somen into my mouth.

“This is my first time here, but the taste is better than I expected.”

[yes]

[I was fine too]

As I constantly used my chopsticks and ate the soup with my spoon, I was able to empty the contents in no time.

Thanks to matching Baek Arin’s eating speed across from me, I was able to get up from my seat almost at the same time.

“Should we go for a walk on the way back to clear the boat?”

[yes]

[great]

The body of an adept requires more food than that of an ordinary person.

So, I also started eating more. In the past, I wouldn’t have been able to eat a few chopsticks, but now I could finish a bowl by myself.

I rubbed my bloated stomach and nodded at the suggestion for a walk.

The poetry cradle is wide. There is a park for walking, but since it is so large, just heading towards the dormitory becomes an appropriate walking course.

‘It’s been a while since I went back.’

On the way back, we walked and chatted because we were bored just walking.

While we were holding hands and playing with our legs, it suddenly occurred to me that it had been a long time since we had gone back to the dormitory.

At the library during the written evaluation period, at Hong Yeon-hwa’s dormitory after the tournament preliminaries, and again at Master’s dormitory after the finals…

Returning to the dormitory after almost a week. A basic purification spell would have been applied, so no dust would have accumulated.

When I go back, I have to train really hard now.

Even though it was called an intermediate evaluation, it seems like the training was too easy.

Of course, there are things to do during vacation, and considering the growth trials that will occur at the beginning of next semester, your qualifications will increase significantly then…

“Oh, that’s right.”

My continuing thoughts were interrupted by Baek A-rin’s exclamation.

When I turned my head to see something, Baek A-rin asked in the same way as usual… that there was nothing strange about it.

“Don’t you hear a lot about engagement?”

[yes?]

The topic was just unexpected.

Engagement.

Rather than holding a wedding ceremony right away, it is a relationship in which a promise is made to hold a wedding ceremony later.

There may be many reasons.

They say they are too young to hold a wedding ceremony right away, or the situation does not support it, etc.

Or perhaps for political purposes, which is what I think about the concept of engagement.

“No. I think you must have received a lot from the beginning, and now that the mid-term evaluation is over, I think it will start to take off in earnest.”

Baek A-rin stared at me as she added her explanation. Seeing that he was curious about the answer to the question, he nodded hesitantly.

Beginning of semester.

Even when I couldn’t prove my qualifications yet, I received strange calls.

Where are we in the family… power… who are we in the clan, what are your qualifications, blah blah blah… my child is pretty good too… let’s form a blood relationship blah…

An email full of rhetoric. I tilted my head and threw the first one or two into the trash can as if they were spam.

But as time passed, more and more kept coming. It’s not just one or two, if you look at it, you’ll see ten piled up every day.

In addition, the content changed, so there was no heavy talk about engagement, and there were a lot of light messages about wanting to meet each other.

Although I was shocked at the time, I remembered that it happened in the original.

An engagement for political purposes.

From what I remember, it was a culture that only existed in the days when there was a monarchy and an aristocratic class.

It’s not like it doesn’t exist in modern times… But isn’t it normal for Cheolsu from next door and Minji from our house to hold an engagement ceremony?

At least that was the common sense I had in the original world.

It was a little different here.

In fact, the beings called superhumans and the power they have gathered can be comparable to or greater than the nobles I know.

In fact, the boundaries of the nation have become blurred, and the ruling power in each region is selecting and manipulating administrative personnel as appropriate.

Not Korea, but the Korean Peninsula or the Korean region.

Not China, but old Chinese land…

In fact, it has been a long time since names such as China, Korea, and Japan were used to refer to regions rather than countries.

“Indeed… there were many people who thought they were guaranteed to win anyway.”

…Isn’t this person next to me, wide-eyed, asking if he got a call on the first day of the semester, also the heir of such a powerful force?

Heir to the Changhae family, which rules the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, Primorsky Krai, Khabarovsk, etc.

At this level, it seems like he is actually a person similar to royalty or nobles. On the contrary, he used more authority…

“What do you think, Hayul? Engagement story.”

At the time, I was once again experiencing Baek Arin’s tremendous status.

Baek Arin, who was nodding her head and muttering to herself, suddenly asked that question.

“……”

At that question, my legs suddenly stopped.

Baek Arin stopped after me and was staring at me with her bright blue eyes.

Engagement… I ignored it when I thought it was a spam email, but after seeing the flood of emails, I gave it some thought.

– Sigh…

The confession necklace creaked.

[no, I do not want]

– Kakagak….

The sound was like a feeling of rejection, like scratching on a blackboard.

[I don’t like it]

Baek A-rin looked surprised at the firm denial that the necklace uttered.

[I have no intention of discussing other people’s circumstances]

I missed the look on her face and added an explanation.

[It’s not that I just feel rejected…]

[uh…]

[therefore…]

How should I explain it? I stamped my feet feeling strangely anxious, then found a reasonably suitable answer and spit it out.

[I feel burdened]

” Feeling burdensome?”

[yes…]

[It’s too much for me]

Betrothal, a relationship that promises to marry.

Marriage is when two people become a couple and start a family.

If you get engaged, you will get married, and if you get married, you will start a family and establish a marital relationship.

If that happens… I’ll probably have children too.

I thought about it up to that point. When I put myself in that thought, I felt pressure as if my body was being crushed.

To put it bluntly, I wasn’t confident.

I didn’t have the confidence to make my spouse happy.

I had no confidence in giving birth to children, raising them safely and happily, and helping them to be happy in the future.

Right now, I’m in this state of confusion.

Who do you make happy, raise and teach?

If I don’t solve the curse right away, I don’t know when I will die…

“Indeed. I understand. Honestly, it’s normal to feel burdened at this age.”

‘uh.’

Only then did I come to my senses and grab the necklace.

Somehow I ended up complaining about my thoughts. Although it was cool, my thoughts naturally poured out as my soft hand massaged my chin as if everything was okay.

Although he did not reveal his deep feelings, he did say that it was burdensome and unreasonable.

Baek A-rin listened to the explanation and nodded, saying that it could be so.

Then he pulled my hand again and started walking.

The conversation stopped. Baek Arin seemed to have something to think about.

Then, I checked to see if there was anything strange about what the necklace said.

Luckily there wasn’t. It was just an emotional complaint that said it was burdensome and pointless… I had no confidence.

I really regretted that too… but fortunately, I didn’t have to worry about the useless history of the past.

It was worth putting a lot of effort into controlling the Necklace of Confession.

“Now, we’ve arrived!”

Finally, we arrived at the dormitory.

[Thank you for bringing me here]

[I had a lot of fun yesterday too]

Standing at the entrance of the dormitory building where I live, I bowed my head and expressed my gratitude.

I really mean it when I say it was fun. At least it wasn’t a bad memory.

“I feel relieved to receive confirmation from you again!“

Baek A-rin smiled brightly and responded.

It looks like he wasn’t offended by the complaint just now. I was relieved at that and was about to loosen my grip.

“Mr. Hayul.”

Baek A-rin raised her hand, which was holding ours, in front of my nose.

“If you are having trouble because the engagement is burdensome, we can help.”

[Help?]

“Yes, help.”

When I tilted my head at the incomprehensible words, Baek A-rin smiled strangely and took my hand away.

“Please just know that. If you feel like you can’t bear it because it’s too burdensome, I’ll help you.”

In short, it means that if you contact us when you are having a hard time, we will help you.

[thank you]

[I’ll ask you a favor if I feel tired]

In any case, it is a good intention expressed willingly.

I bowed my head, and Baek Arin also smiled and waved.

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I returned to the dormitory after a long time. It’s only been a week, but it feels like a long time has passed.

I walked down the hallway feeling a strange feeling.

After getting out of the elevator and walking around for a while, my dorm room finally came into observation range.

It’s not someone else’s house, it’s my house. There was no need to refrain from observation.

With that in mind, I didn’t bother to observe.

– Blah blah blah… blah blah…

I recognized the egg of origin with gold running in real time.

‘…oh my god!’

I froze like a stone for a moment, then ran out in a huff and opened the door.

The corner of the living room sofa.

The egg of origin was shaking left and right, scattering debris.

The force field blocking observation shook. It was a sure sign of hatching.

‘oh my god…!’

Even though my eyes were closed, my emotions were so heightened that I was sure the eyes inside were sparkling.

‘It opens, it opens…!’

Egg of Origin.

A hidden piece that I thought I had secured properly.

And the Hidden Piece showed no signs of hatching, raising suspicions that I had been scammed…!

That opens. They are hatching in real time now. Opening soon…!

My heart was pounding. Kongdak calmed his heart in anticipation and squatted down in front of the sofa.

‘What will come out?’

There is a lot of anticipation. My body keeps shaking.

‘Elixir of polarity?’

An elixir that greatly contributed to the formation of the bizarre stats of the 11th ‘Diamond Warrior’?

‘Or a two-sided mirror?’

A one-time artifact that allows the 3rd ‘Three Kinds’ to copy one unique ability?

‘I like the retrograde order.’

A one-time use artifact that created the 5th ‘Reverse Magic’.

To be honest, it might be difficult to use, but that’s something. Even if you don’t use it, if you just put it up for auction, you can make an absurd amount of money, even by the standards of a superhuman’s income.

As someone who assumes that they will never hatch, I can happily accept a simple elixir set.

I can eat it, and if in doubt, I can leave it to the appraisal and then take it or sell it.

Anything is fine.

Still, if I had a wish… I hope it comes out immediately so that it can be used during vacation.

Of course, I plan to provide insurance, but since I plan to do something dangerous, I hope that something useful will come out quickly.

– Blah blah, blah blah!

As if meeting my expectations, the hatching speed of the Egg of Origin was increased.

In the end, a large crack was engraved dividing the egg in two.

The station is still the same. However, upon closer inspection, the shell was already cracked at the top and bottom.

‘Is it open?’

My heart was beating violently. After taking a few deep breaths, I carefully stretched out my hand.

– !

The egg of origin shook loudly once. The top of the shell was crooked. My hand stopped due to an unprecedented violent reaction.

The eggs shook one after another. It’s a reaction as if there’s something inside.

‘?’

My hands were shaking. I felt a slight, instinctive sense of anxiety.

and.

– Damn it!

A hand protruded from the crack dividing the egg.

Small arms with pale skin that stand out.

I thought I was scribbling around for a moment as if I was looking outside, and then, blah blah! And the arm popped out on the other side as well.

Both arms, which had been fluttering around, suddenly went back in place. After a while, a hand peeked out and lifted the shell covering the egg.

The small hand went up, and the shell went up with it.

Eventually, the being inside also appeared.

“Pyaha!”

A roaring laugh without any worries.

Just like her pure white hair, which shows no trace of any other color, her eyes are pure white and full of purity.

It was a baby with an unusual appearance…

No, it’s not just a baby.

There was a truly unique part.

A pair of wings flapping behind the back of a gurgling baby.

Unlike the previous pure white color, the translucent and beautiful wings show off their splendor by incorporating five colors…

‘……’

My head stopped. My thoughts suddenly stopped, and my headache became stronger, as if my skull was pounding.

Bleep- My tinnitus is almost ringing. My legs felt weak and I felt like I was going to fall backwards.

At that moment, the baby, who was vigorously waving his hands, looked at me.

Since he was squatting in front of the sofa, his eye level was quite similar to that of the baby sitting on the sofa.

The baby’s mouth opened.

“Ah, bah!”

My ears rang. The sound continued.

Oh my…

Dad…

dad…

dad…?

To whom?

To me?

– Boom!

That moment.

Suddenly, I was struck by an intense headache and pressure that I had never felt in my life.

The area before my eyes, which was already dark, became even darker…

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[The egg of origin accepts the origin of the manifester]

[Search for conditions suitable for the expressor…]

[The egg of prayer hatches]

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[Fairy Knight… Fairy Knight hatching complete]