episode_0183

“Mermaid!”

“No, it must have been a fish!”

“No! I said Sena was like a person!”

“That’s a common experience before losing consciousness… .”

Oun couldn’t finish his speech.

Ada climbed onto his neck and started biting him, causing Oun to start squealing like a little girl and start jumping around.

“Eww!!! The young lady is right!”

“Wow!”

Of course, Ada now knew that if she bit someone sincerely, someone could get seriously hurt, so she only pretended to bite them gently when she bit others.

In the case of Oun, who was becoming known as a sword expert and an ironclad defense, Ada could bite him without worry because no matter how hard she bit, it wouldn’t hurt.

“Stop.”

And when he returned home, Rupert put his hand on his temple and stopped Ada at the sight of the troublesome sight right in front of him.

“Wow!”

Ada stopped biting her nipples at the sound of Rupert’s voice and ran to Rupert and hugged him.

“Oh, stop bothering me, Aida.”

“I’m not being annoying!”

“Then what is it?”

Ada, clinging to Rupert’s arms, began to explain what had happened during the day with a very aggrieved expression on her face.

“So Sena fell into the sea and a mermaid saved her?”

“Yeah! So Ada dropped the Little Mermaid storybook into the sea as a reward!”

Rupert wondered if that was littering, but he didn’t say it out loud.

‘Mermaid… .’

Among the mermaids that exist in this world, the most famous and mysterious race is the mermaid race.

Since they originally built their own kingdom deep in the sea and live there, there is no way to meet them.

There are legendary stories handed down of people who fell into the sea and were helped back by mermaids.

So, sailors had a tradition of throwing coins into the sea in the hope that a mermaid would save them if an accident occurred.

“No matter how waterproof it is, will it be able to withstand being in the ocean?”

“A mermaid must have picked it up!”

“Yeah, our Ada gave the mermaid a gift?”

“Yeah!”

Rupert went into the restaurant with Ada in his arms and started having dinner.

Even while eating, Ada was busy explaining how beautiful the sea she had seen that day was.

The Marquis and Rupert were so busy responding to Ada’s stories that they couldn’t even eat properly.

“Brother! Remake my treasure!”

“Instead, should I listen carefully from now on?”

“Yeah!”

After dinner, Ada grabs Rupert’s leg and whines that he should recreate the Little Mermaid that she dropped in the sea.

Rupert patted Ada’s head once and then headed to his studio to work on a storybook.

“Oh, Rupert, you’re here at the right time!”

And when they arrived at the first floor of the workshop, Krun, who they encountered, approached Rupert as if he had something to say.

“Krun, what’s wrong?”

“I think I should go to the dwarf kingdom for a bit.”

“The Dwarf Kingdom?”

“Yeah. Actually, I should have gone earlier… .”

Krun soon began to tell the story of how he had become interested in the golem prosthetic arm he had made in the past.

When Krun tells Rupert that he wanted to give hope to his friend who lost his arm in a mine accident, he now understands why he was so obsessed with the golem prosthetic arm.

“There are no items to be made or developed in a hurry for the time being, so take your time and take your time.”

“Thank you. I think I need to get some supplies too. There are a lot of rare metals in the Dwarven Kingdom!”

“Okay. I’ll tell Alain about the money and have it ready.”

“Hahaha, I can’t believe there’s a day when a cheapskate like you gives permission like this.”

Rupert replied to Krun’s words that even if Krun was the richest man in the empire, he would not be able to afford to spend so much money. After a brief rebuttal, Krun said he would pack his bags and left first.

‘Still, there are many things that would have been impossible without Krun.’

Although he usually criticized Krun as a money-eating hippopotamus, he was a person who was simply grateful because the current Somerset exists thanks to him.

I can’t even imagine what it would have been like if I had missed the first brawl outside the gates of Somerset Manor.

And Sena, who helped me meet that Krun.

The fairy tale book that introduced me to Sena.

Rupert was truly grateful that all the things he had done had been woven together like a spider’s web to create the relationship he had now.

Even to the goddess who brought him to another world without his consent.

“Siri, are you still working?”

“Welcome, Mr. Rupert.”

Rupert, who arrived at the third floor workshop recalling when he first met Krun and Sena, found Siri still there, drawing.

“That’s amazing. Your drawing skills have improved so much.”

“Is that so?”

Rupert was shocked when he saw the manuscript of the cartoon Siri was drawing.

It was clear that at first it was quite different from what Rupert had drawn, but now it was a painting that could really be mistaken for another if you didn’t look closely.

“But Siri, you don’t have to be so engrossed in your work.”

“Why? Am I not of any help… .”

“No, that’s not it. Um… I’m glad you’re here, but I don’t want you to stay in the studio all the time.”

Siri tilted her head as if she didn’t understand what Rupert was saying.

“You can do whatever you want whenever you want. Of course, it’s a bit awkward to stand out to people.”

“What I want to do.”

At Rupert’s words, Siri began to stand still, without saying a word or expression.

‘At times like this, he really is like an Android.’

Now, Siri was so fluent that everyone, including Rupert, knew her true identity as a real person.

But sometimes, it’s obvious that you’re an Android, so you can’t expose it to the outside world. But if there’s something you want to do, Rupert wants to support you in any way.

“My reason for existing is to help you, Rupert.”

Siri, who had been paused for a moment, finally answered the question.

“Don’t worry about it too much.”

“That can’t be. That would be denying my very existence.”

This time Rupert was speechless at Siri’s answer.

If someone had asked Rupert whether he could give up all the promises he had made for the next ten years and all the plans he had made and live comfortably on what he had now, it would have been the same as saying that he couldn’t.

“If I ever get another reason to exist, then maybe it’ll be different.”

“Yeah.”

Rupert sat down next to Siri and picked up his pen.

Reason for existence.

When I think about what first made me start drawing comics here, it was Ada.

‘It was a story for my younger brother.’

A fairy tale book that was created to comfort Ada, who was lonely and alone while other noble children bragged about themselves.

Then I remembered being summoned to the royal palace and having to create comic books to teach people how to read and write.

“Rupert, there is an error in the drawing you just drew.”

“What? Error?”

“Yes, that’s right. What you’re drawing now is identified as a mermaid princess. The mermaid princess’s hair color is blue.”

“It’s okay. This is how it was originally.”

Rupert, who was drawing an illustration of the Little Mermaid while reminiscing, let out a hollow laugh at Siri’s words.

‘Back then, I dyed my red hair blue just in case something went wrong.’

Rupert, who was concerned about changing the hair color of the Little Mermaid at the time, changed the hair of Nero, the main character of , to red.

This time, for the new I’m making for Ada, I wanted to give her back her original red hair.

Of course, thanks to that, she also developed a relationship with Xenia, and although she found out later that it was true, Amelia also had an interesting story about how she thought Rupert did that because of her, so she thought that this might also be fate.

“I fainted while drawing, and if I think about it, there were a lot of incidents.”

While drawing , I met Yustave and Crown Prince Alex.

Looking back, it was a truly shocking moment when Alex came in disguise to punish Rupert, who was out of his mind due to addiction to vitality potions.

Fortunately, thanks to Ada, everything passed without any problems, and Alex, who became Ada’s godfather, was now called the Steel Prince, not a scoundrel.

Eustace, who had always seemed solemn in the original, now felt like Rupert’s superior and just like the old man next door.

“Surely, Rupert’s workload is too much for a human. You should cut back for your health.”

“It’s okay. I’m blessed by the goddess.”

“Yes?”

Rupert looked at Siri, who seemed not to understand, and recalled the moment when he had collapsed.

From the moment he overworked himself, overconfident in his health, to the moment he finally fainted, when Amelia came to cook for him and had a major accident, he panicked.

Alex, who showed up with one arm missing, and the saint who came to ask him to draw a picture of the saint.

It was a moment when I overcame a crisis by lying without even knowing what was happening due to sudden events.

After that, there is a series of grand stories about the eldest son Richard, who ran away from home while serializing , and meeting the secret society Crimson Warden.

‘It was the goddess’s trick, but thanks to it, I met Rash and unknowingly solved the continent’s crisis.’

Of course, I almost got seriously hurt trying to stop Satanael from escaping, but luckily I was able to escape the crisis thanks to the necklace of the goddess statue that the saint gave me.

And when Rupert met the goddess and found out why he had been possessed in another world and why the same events occurred in reality in every work he drew, he was truly shocked.

but,

‘I am just grateful now. The people by my side now are treasures that cannot be exchanged for anything else.’

Rupert looked at the illustrations of The Little Mermaid, which were already fully drawn, and thought.

If someone asked you what you would do if you were given the chance to return to Earth again.

He could confidently say no.

“Here, I want to make an ending that everyone can agree on.”

Because it’s better here now.