episode_0176

Jules ended up staying at Dennis’s old place.

When I laid Jules down on the fairly spacious bed, it was full.

From what I heard from Douglas, it seems that no one has been able to approach Dennis’ house since he contracted the company disease.

That’s what company sickness was like.

Thanks to me, it has gotten better as if it has been washed away.

“The rotten swamp is too dangerous. Do you know why that place is off-limits?”

“I don’t know.”

“The black water of the rotten swamp itself is deadly poisonous, but as it boils, a poisonous fog rises. It’s so poisonous that some people die from just one breath of it.”

Douglas spoke as if to scare him.

Seething? Is there even hot spring water flowing out of the swamp? But it didn’t matter.

“It’s okay.”

The same goes for black smoke at a fire site, which can go to waste with just one inhale or two.

Plus, I have the Precious Blood.

“It’s not okay. If you go and die, who do you think Juyul will blame?”

It’s a straight argument. But, why do I make such frustrating noises?

Is this person’s only friend?

“A person has been sleeping for five days. Neither coma nor fainting. Just… sleep. If you leave it like this, I can’t blame you!”

“This is something my friend won’t like.”

Of course, it’s not easy at all.

Inhaling most poisonous gases can permanently damage your lungs. It will definitely be more toxic than you can imagine.

And as a hopeful observation, Juul may wake up in the middle.

“If necessary, sometimes you have to do things your friend won’t like to make things right!”

“It is sophistry.”

“Sophistry? Even if I don’t go in the first place, Mr. Douglas will lose a friend. But if I come back, at least I can save my friend.”

“······.”

“If he wakes up and complains to Douglas, just shoot him. Please know that I am grateful. I will also sell from the side.”

Douglas looks at me bored.

“···Is there no possibility of recovery at all?”

I do not know. However, I had to get permission.

“There is no problem physically, but mentally there is no hope.”

Douglas glanced at Jules lying on the bed, then turned his gaze back to me.

“What on earth is this method of meeting Pluto? What does the Rotten Swamp have to do with servants?”

Douglas’ question was natural, and it is the most difficult to explain.

Would someone sitting at the top of the legal profession really believe in such superstitions?

“It will stimulate the ghosts buried in the rotten swamp and make them go crazy.”

─Ghost.

Douglas’s entranced face soon frowned.

Apparently, he was not a person who believed in ghosts.

“Ghost…? Don’t you need the black water of the rotten swamp? There is no way something like that exists───.”

“Douglas.”

Dennis?

When Douglas heard his name called, he turned his attention to Dennis.

“Yes.”

If there is “ri, it exists. I guarantee it.”

This is a one-sided defense without any basis.

But the person who defends it is Dennis. Douglas was speechless and could not ask any more questions.

“Yes…”

Douglas glanced at me again, then immediately removed what looked like a clothespin from his sleeve and held it out to me.

“If you need my name, show me this. It is a kind of proxy certificate that can be used to enter Ymir’s tomb.”

“Thank you.”

It is a golden clothes pin with a laurel drawn on it.

I took the clothespin and pinned it to my chest.

It’s like I’m a member of the National Assembly.

“If you show the clothespin to the swamp keeper in Rotten Swamp, he will help you enter the swamp.”

Douglas untied the clothespin and pinned it on my sleeve. It seems that the meaning is different depending on where you put the clothespin.

“Okay.”

“Never fail.”

My luck has run out.

It was Douglas who stood up first.

I guess I came here because I had some time during work.

Douglas glanced at the sleeping Jules again, and eventually sighed.

“Foolish bitch. I thought I would get hit hard at some point, but… Instructor General. I’ll go back first.”

“Thank you for your help.”

“It’s natural to help my friend. If you need my help, please feel free to come to me at any time.”

Douglas greeted Dennis politely and left the house first. Now I have to prepare to leave too.

After pouring about ten quarters of the Precious Blood into an empty wooden container, I poured water from my canteen into it.

“Dennis. Fill this wooden bucket full of water and feed Jules for breakfast, lunch and dinner.”

“Didn’t we decide to go together?”

“I didn’t know about poison gas. It’s very dangerous, and I’m planning to ask Shir to fly to the Rotten Swamp and get there as quickly as possible.”

“····.”

“Please do me a favor. If you’re bored, you can take some pictures.”

As I laughed and joked, Dennis also smiled.

“Okay. May Diana illuminate your path.”

“I’ll be back.”

“Take care of yourself.”

After briefly saying hello to Dennis, I left Dennis’ house with Shir, who glanced at me and got up from his seat.

*

“How much more do I have to go in?”

“Who can see it?”

This is the second time that Shir changes into something other than human. I think the fact that I was hit with a crossbow and fell to the ground was a very big trauma.

“Okay. It’s not something that others will see.”

How far did he walk like that?

Shir gently touched the blood-smelling coat and began to take it off.

Shir glanced at me and smiled thinly.

“What are you thinking?”

“It’s no big deal.”

“Really?”

Shir took off his top first and handed me his top.

“I have decided on a wish.”

“What is it?”

“I want you to button my clothes from now on.”

“···No hands?”

“You can’t wear backwards clothes by yourself.”

I accepted the clothes Shir gave me.

Wow! Puddeuddeuk!

Soon, Shir’s body, wearing only underwear, began to twist.

Its back was torn apart, its wings protruded, and its fur began to grow a little fuller.

I was thinking of an animal like a giant eagle, but it looks like Shir is just going to pull out the wings like a siren.

The wings grew bigger without end.

As the wings grew larger than those of a normal siren, Shir glanced in my direction.

“Let’s go.”

“Wait a minute.”

First, I put my shirt on upside down and fastened the top and bottom buttons.

‘Isn’t there a seat belt somewhere?’

It looked like a rope that could be held in place… Shir tilted his head, walked towards me, and hugged me tightly.

“Surely, let’s go like this?”

I can never go on like this?

“No.”

humming!

Shir hugged my back and buttocks and immediately started flying towards the sky.

Hugging the princess.

It became dark before my eyes.

“Shir! Why do you hug someone like this?!”

My body comes to mind…!

There is a distinct feeling of defying gravity.

If Shir’s hand falls here, I will be blown away by the force in my body.

To put it in a good way, it felt like riding a roller coaster.

To put it worse, it feels like riding a roller coaster without wearing a seat belt.

In an instant, the ground moves away…

“Wait.”

This is not it.

“Huh?”

“Well, let’s just walk.”

scary···!

I might die. No, you will die!

Quaaa—!

The sound of air being torn apart is terrifying. I never imagined what it would feel like to be lifted into the sky by someone.

I am already flying at a height that far exceeds the heights I have climbed since I was born. no! Updated in real time!

But at this height, only two thin hands are holding me! It wouldn’t be like this if I were riding in a car or plane, but now that people are carrying me around, I’m so anxious that I feel like I’m going crazy.

“Aunt doesn’t have time.”

···yes.

Allayed the fear. That is correct. I closed my mouth and gave permission. Shir began to fly even higher.

The sound of the wind tearing is deafening.

The land continued to move further away. It’s like riding a Ferris wheel.

Before long, it reached almost the same height as Ymir’s tomb, and at some point, Shir stopped flapping its wings and began to ride the wind.

As my body trembled slightly against the wind, I unconsciously hugged Shir tightly.

How long has it been like that?

As I clung to Shir, I was finally able to understand the sense of discomfort I felt in Shir’s body.

The body has become thinner.

“Do you feel like your body has become a little thinner?”

“This? I found out during the battle. There is nothing good about having a big body. In the first place, there is no opponent who can defeat me by force, right? So I compressed it as much as possible and it ended up like this.”

Somehow, the waist fits comfortably in one hand.

“Sihyeon.”

“Why?”

“······How many people have you killed so far?”

My heart was pounding. Soon, the dead people pass through my mind like a panorama.

What kind of question is this all of a sudden?

“It’s not something to brag about, and I don’t count it.”

“As a rule of thumb.”

“More than two hundred people.”

In fact, there were over three hundred.

Now that I see it, I am a murderer so great that I have revived Korea’s death penalty system, which is virtually non-existent.

He truly deserved to be called a demon.

About a hundred people were killed during the battle.

It reminds me of the old days. The first time I played Convenience, I put a knife in my heart like I saw in the movies.

However, the knife got stuck in my sternum, and the knife slipped and pierced my lung. It was very dangerous because the man was struggling and choking on the blood filling his lungs.

He eventually drowned in the blood that filled his lungs, but after that he began studying human vital organs.

“The faces of those people come to mind.”

“······.”

“Killing people is not something I can do. I can’t forget this for the rest of my life. For life.”

Good to know.

I will never let Shir do something like this again──

“I’m like this too, but you risk your life to do that. When it became an arrow holder, it looked like a target?”

“Pfft!”

A burst of laughter broke out.

It was really dangerous back then. When I think about it now, it is clear that the optimal body given by Venus was also optimized for functionality.

I didn’t realize it when I was running, but my running speed was closer to that of an animal than that of a human. It’s a miracle that I’m alive now.

“That’s right. I thought I was going to die too.”

“But why are you pushing yourself so hard?”

······Why are you asking me this during the day?

I think I’ve said this before. I don’t know why Shir keeps saying this.

“Because it’s something I can do.”

If a person has to overcome something they cannot handle, they should not think. You have to push forward without giving yourself time to think.

“When I look into your heart, it seems like you act like the main character in a play or novel. Such an ideal human image.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Do you know that emotions are unnatural?”

···my feeling?

“No. I don’t know what you’re saying all of a sudden.”

“Even if you don’t want to do it, you try anything that sounds right or reasonable.”

Shir’s argument felt sad.

Have you tasted the bitterness of life yet?

That’s what life is like. Do whatever you can when you can. There isn’t always opportunity.

“Originally, all living things live by doing things they don’t want to do. That’s what you said to me. There is a time for everything.”

“But pretend you don’t like it. Even you are worked for nothing in return. Even if you smile in front of me, you have to be angry inside, right?”

······.

“But you suppress your anger and don’t even show it! If I mess up my work, I get angry. But do you know what’s funny?”

Shir looks in my direction.

“The reason you are angry is not because you are worried about the disadvantage that will come to you, but out of pure guilt about failing. You can’t hate your aunt.”

I was seeing right through it.

Just like the MBTI test. Hearing it from Shir’s mouth, I was both scared and grateful.

He observes and watches me that much, and the fact that he says this means he is pouring out his emotions to me.

“How do slaves get paid? If you keep anger in your heart, you will become sick, so you suppress it. And you can’t blame others for messing up what you were doing.”

“You are not suppressing. You try to forget about difficult things by thinking about something else. You’re trying to keep up with your aunt.”

Shir is trying to touch my back.

“···Why does it continue like that?”

“Because you are doing that. My aunt is not someone we can keep up with. Do you think your aunt is a ‘white wolf’ for no reason?”

know.

No matter how much I eat raw meat, borrow the power of immortality, and try desperately, I cannot walk next to Jules.

That person is the sun.

It shines brightly, but is too high to reach.

“When you wake up your aunt, let’s go with me to a place where no one knows. If you say you’re leaving, your aunt won’t catch you. If it’s burdensome, I’ll live as a human from now on. Appearance doesn’t matter.”

Shir looks at me intently.

Is that so? I also subconsciously felt that Jules was pushing me away. To be precise, I am preparing a way for me to leave.

Those words and words create an atmosphere.

Juul will probably kick me out in two to three years. Because I want to start a family.

“···I’ll think about it.”

···If Jules gives permission, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to go away with Shir.