episode_0144

After listening to me, Fran no longer offered to pay.

He very obediently and shyly conveys his intention to challenge for the round of 12.

‘I don’t know why people are so perplexed that these words work so well.’

After all three of us ate, we grabbed some simple desserts for the kids who were playing and headed toward the valley.

You may have run out without eating with the intention of having fun, but after having fun, you will eventually receive a signal from the ship.

We had just arrived at the valley and we couldn’t split up again because we were hungry, so it was better for us to take some food with us.

“Guys, it’s the guy over there!”

“I’m the boss~! Hey, come in! “I love this place!”

As soon as we arrived at the valley, the kids heard us and waved as if they had noticed us in advance.

Fran held up the basket of food for the children to see, and the eyes of the children playing lit up.

“It’s food!”

“I was hungry, but it was good!”

“let’s go eat!”

As expected, the children rushed out of the valley.

We spread out our mat on a flat, wide rock and took out our luggage and food on it.

Rebecca gave each child a large towel to wipe their bodies with.

Fran distributed food, and I set up parasols and chairs so the kids could rest more comfortably.

To be more precise, I would say that I am creating a place where I can rest.

“Are you setting up the chairs as soon as you arrive?”

“You need it to eat and rest.”

“It’s not what the kids need, it’s what you need.”

“You’re not going to go into the valley, are you?”

“I’m going in, don’t worry.”

“Are you two fighting again?”

Sasha approaches, wiping water droplets from her body with a towel.

The first thing that caught my eye was her wet pink hair, and then I saw her pink eyes forming a kind half-moon shape.

The swimsuit she wore was pink, which suited her very well.

“It’s not that we were fighting, it’s that he kept saying strange things to me… “That’s what it is.”

The moment I turned my head to point at Rebecca and speak.

I was so embarrassed that I barely suppressed myself from coughing.

Rebecca and Fran were in swimsuits without knowing when they had taken them off.

“Hehe.”

Rebecca saw the momentary change in my expression and smiled sinisterly.

“Sister, how are you?”

“… … .”

I will never answer.

It was even more so because I could feel everyone gathered here looking at me.

I took off the t-shirt I was wearing to ignore the guys who were only thinking about making fun of me.

“Oh.”

“!!”

It was at that moment that the situation turned around.

The kids fell silent when they saw that I was only wearing a swimsuit underneath with my upper body exposed.

The shape of muscles is different for each person.

Even though I didn’t know his face, I knew that his body was close to what women prefer.

That’s why I was able to take off my clothes with confidence.

The children, who had escaped the shock(?) of seeing my body, each expressed their appreciation.

“Aww, it’s hot. hot.”

Shine couldn’t take his eyes off my body even though he was fanning his hands and saying it was hot, and Baine was surprisingly seriously evaluating my muscles.

“It’s a body that has been trained for a long time.”

Since they were experts in training, they started criticizing my body without hesitation as soon as they saw it.

It’s rather strange that Shine blushed while saying it was hot.

‘He’s also secretly a pervert.’

“How much training do I need to do to get to this level?”

“You weren’t an awakened person. That makes it even greater.”

“Oh! I see?”

“If you built this body without being awakened, it’s really no joke. Can you see that it’s tightly compressed with real muscles? Sir, can I just touch here a little bit?”

“Why not?”

“Seeing, it’s too much.”

Shine pouts at my harsh rejection.

“I’ll touch it for you.”

Rebecca suddenly intervenes and presses my chest.

“Isn’t elasticity a joke? It’s so hard.”

It feels like receiving a butcher review.

Rebecca’s touch became more and more unrestrained on my chest, and the children’s faces turned red when they saw her unrestrained touch.

“Sir, teacher. It’s so dirty.”

“…The stimulation is too strong.”

“Ah! Sorry. I’m just out of habit.”

I sighed as I looked at Rebecca, who had fallen from me, and the children who were once again upset by what she said, and focused again on setting up the chair.

Because there were so many people, it took quite a while to even install the chairs.

After finishing setting up the chair and checking how sturdy it was, I told the kids.

“Don’t be inconvenient and eat there. There are seats here too, so sit down and eat.”

“What are you going to do now, boss? Are you going to just sit there again?”

“No, I’m going to go swimming for the first time in a while.”

Awakened people know that swimming without stretching will not cause any problems to their body, but since they are not yet very aware of being an Awakened person, they take the time to stretch.

Then I went to a place where I could dive and took off my shoes.

Because of his mercenary life, he didn’t really like swimming.

‘Especially that shit was the worst.’

Memories of having to go into dirty shit water instead of clear water like the valley water here, damaging the waterway.

What if you made a mistake and ended up drinking poop in the process?

‘Wow-’

It was natural to drink some water since I was always in situations where I had to jump into the water and couldn’t enjoy it comfortably.

For example, to run away when encountering a monster you can’t handle, or if there is nothing you can do because the monster is on the other side of the river.

Going in just to enjoy ‘swimming’ like now was something that was impossible when I was a mercenary.

‘Now I have to enjoy these things without feeling rejected.’

But back then you were working as a mercenary, aren’t you retired now?

In the past, I couldn’t help but hate it because it was ‘work’, but now that I’m doing it again to enjoy it, I decided to give it a try and decide whether I like it or not.

with a plop-!

“oh!”

“100 points!”

And swimming, which I tried to do for fun rather than work, made me feel pretty good.

As the cool water of the valley enveloped my body, all unpleasant memories of the past were forgotten.

‘It’s cool and feels good.’

The water was deeper than I thought, but my joy was greater than my fear.

Perhaps because it was after I became an awakened person, it wasn’t difficult to hold my breath.

‘You can hold your breath for a lot longer.’

It seemed like if I used my magic power to strengthen my lung capacity, I could last for tens of minutes.

This is why the Awakened is a fraud.

It is easy to overcome human limitations simply by being awakened.

‘If you have this ability, you can probably catch the Kraken.’

The Kraken is incredibly large and lives deep in the ocean.

I was curious how they could catch such a guy, but I think if someone with the ability to control water like Baine had gone into the sea and dealt with him, he would have been able to catch it.

There is already less than 40% of humanity left in the survival zone.

Although the rate of pollution is slower than that of land, it does not mean that the sea is completely unaffected.

If the Kraken were to settle in the coastal waters, the entire fishing industry could be ruined, but as long as there were awakened people, it seemed unlikely that the entire sea would be taken over.

‘That’s great.’

I liked the view I saw when I opened my eyes in the valley water more than the view I saw out the window of the villa.

It was nice to see the fish swimming leisurely, waving their tails, and I also liked that the water that touched their skin felt clean and clear rather than dirty.

I was swimming for quite a while, captivated by the scenery, when I felt someone enter the water nearby.

When I turned my head that way, I saw a glimpse of white hair shining.

‘franc?’

I heard that Fran had prepared a pretty hot swimsuit, and I couldn’t stop my eyes from moving in that direction as I actually saw her in the swimsuit.

Just then, as I was swimming in the water, Fran’s eyes met mine.

‘mister!’

Just by looking at their facial expressions, I can tell that they are happy to see me.

However, she may not have been a good swimmer, but she tried to come towards me by clumsily splashing in the water.

‘It’s too deep here.’

I shook my head to tell Fran to not come closer because it was dangerous, but she didn’t seem to understand what I meant, so she stubbornly approached me with a clumsy splash.

‘If you get caught up in something like that, you’ll be in big trouble.’

Just because you’re an awakened person doesn’t mean you won’t die even if you fall into the water.

There is a long time to endure, but what good is time to a panicked person?

It was not easy for someone facing death to remain calm.

In the end, I also swam and headed to Fran.

‘mister!’

I quickly grabbed Fran’s hand, who was smiling brightly.

‘Why did you come so dangerously here? It’s really deep here.’

When I use my finger to make her look down, her eyes widen.

The ground beneath me was so deep that it was scary to look down.

‘I did not know.’

‘It’s dangerous, so go back.’

‘no, I do not want. ‘I want to stay with you.’

‘Ha, then at least hold my hand. Because it’s dangerous. If you think you can’t bear it, tap me like this.’

‘yes!’

Although I was worried, Fran was a child who was about to become an adult and an awakened child, so I thought something big would happen, so I decided to move with him.

“Puh-ha!”

A dive that lasted for a long time.

Leading Fran upward, he comes out and breathes the sweet air.

“Haa~!”

Fran also smiled broadly and took a breath of air.

“It’s so fun! Let’s do it one more time!”

The water-soaked hair was sticking to Fran’s skin.

Without realizing it, I raised my hand and took it off.

“Wait a minute, you’ve never learned to swim before?”

Looking at him struggling with his clumsy arms and legs, he definitely didn’t look like a kid who had learned to swim.

Fran blinked for a moment at my question and then said.

“I wasn’t that good at swimming?”

As expected, the movement from earlier seemed to be closer to struggling rather than swimming.

What would be the point of swimming while living in a cult?

It is not a daycare center that takes care of children with good intentions.

“It seems like he’s doing this, but his posture is strange. “It looked dangerous because it was struggling with its arms and legs.”

“Is that why you held my hand earlier?”

“Even if you are an awakened person, you have to be careful in the water.”

Fran laughed and said.

“You’re good at swimming, but if I’ve never learned it before, can you teach me?”

“For safety reasons, it’s better to learn how to swim.”

Although I wasn’t very good at swimming, I had enough knowledge to teach beginners.