episode_0239

Jeong Yushin opened his eyes.

It was still a shelter, but the location was different. A little further inside, it was the hollow where he first faced the Ogre.

‘Did I lose consciousness for a moment because my magic power and mental strength were exhausted?’

Whether it was because of the effect of the Revenger engraving or because the party members used recovery potions, his condition had improved considerably.

He got up and looked around.

Unfamiliar explorers and party members were sitting huddled together in front of the golden coffin, looking at Jeong Yushin.

Karin, who was sitting right next to him, gently took Jeong Yushin’s hand.

“Sca, are you feeling better?”

“I’m fine. How about the others?”

“We are all fine. Except for a few who were eaten by the Ogre.”

A middle-aged human with a thick beard said.

I see.

Anyway, it seems that no other monsters attacked besides the Ogre.

Just as he was thinking it was fortunate.

Suddenly, Kenneth opened his mouth.

“Sca, I have something to confess.”

Jeong Yushin turned his head and looked at Kenneth.

A confession out of the blue.

What on earth does he want to say?

“What is it?”

“I like children.”

“…”

Kenneth’s tone was different than usual.

Jeong Yushin realized what Kenneth’s confession was.

That there is a shadow in the Child Lover engraving as well.

Just like the Grandma Lover engraving.

Jeong Yushin’s expression twisted.

“Why are you telling me that now?”

“I realized it when you left the cave to save Armin. That sincerity exists within the party members. I wanted to show you my sincerity too.”

“Are you saying you didn’t trust me until now?”

“…”

This is absurd.

Jeong Yushin got up from his seat and kicked Kenneth in the chest.

Thud!

Kenneth clutched his chest and rolled on the floor.

“If you were going to hide it, you should have hidden it until the end. Why are you telling me now?! You son of a bitch.”

As Jeong Yushin swore and took a step towards Kenneth, the explorers and party members clung to Jeong Yushin.

“C-Calm down!”

“Sca!”

Jeong Yushin pushed people away with a annoyed face.

“Let go of me. Ha, I’m going crazy. Kenneth, tell me honestly if you don’t want to die. By any chance, did you do anything to the children…”

Kenneth immediately shook his head.

“No. None of our clan members have ever harmed the children. We want them to be happy rather than in pain.”

Jeong Yushin stared at Kenneth for a long time before letting out a deep sigh.

“Hoo. Kenneth, just die.”

At that time.

A bearded human man intervened.

“Sca, isn’t the Child Lover engraving acceptable?”

What is this again?

Jeong Yushin turned his head.

The bearded man. Come to think of it, he was one of the explorers who was watching the battle with the Ogre.

“What did you say?”

“Since you saved my life, I have to be honest too.”

The bearded man cleared his throat once and continued.

“Ahem! I have the Married Woman Anus Enthusiast engraving.”

“…”

A cold silence passed.

Karin quickly covered Armin’s ears.

The eyes of the bearded man sparkled like stars.

“I really like the dark wrinkles on the plump butt of a married woman. It makes my heart race and makes me feel alive. But! I do not succumb to such impure temptations.”

The man continued.

“A person is not an existence that succumbs to engravings, but an existence that must overcome and conquer them. I have no basis, but I believe that this elf has overcome the temptations so far.”

Jeong Yushin stared blankly at the bearded man and turned his head.

‘The person I saved is a married woman anus enthusiast.’

A deep sense of disillusionment came over him, and he wanted to sit down on the spot.

Then he looked at Kenneth again.

“…”

In fact, Kenneth’s eyes were similar to Einhofer’s.

Dwarf blacksmith, Einhofer, who had the Stamina Depletion and Tremor engraving.

He was reminded of his precious friend who was trying not to succumb despite the curse of the engraving.

Jeong Yushin, having made a decision, slowly opened his mouth.

“Kenneth, you can live.”

“That’s right.”

The bearded man nodded in agreement.

Jeong Yushin glared at the bearded man.

“You sit down and think carefully. Whether you are someone who deserves to live or not. A married woman butt enthusiast. You’re like the darkness of the labyrinth.”

“…”

Jeong Yushin turned his head and looked at Kenneth.

“Kenneth, report to me from now on. The financial status of the orphanage, the people who work there, and all the names of the children who stay there.”

“I understand.”

“Sca, are you going back?”

He nodded at Karin’s question.

“I have to. Everyone seems out of their minds.”

Jeong Yushin looked around at the party members.

Armin was bowing his head and muttering something.

Kenneth’s iron bow was dented.

Karin’s equipment was also damaged. Of course, so was his.

In addition, there was one more problem.

‘I seem to have become too vulnerable to madness.’

He had no idea what was happening to his mind.

Jeong Yushin got up from his seat and put on his sword and equipment.

“Let’s go. There’s nothing to gain from staying here any longer.”

“What about the Ogre corpses outside?”

One of the explorers asked Jeong Yushin.

“We should only take the leather and tendons. I don’t think they will all fit in my subspace.”

The bearded man chimed in again.

“Sca, we will help you. Consider it as a repayment for saving our lives.”

Jeong Yushin nodded.

“I understand. While you’re dismantling them, take your share too.”

“Is that okay?”

“It’s okay.”

Jeong Yushin sat on the edge of the cave entrance and watched the explorers gather around the Ogre corpses and work.

During the dismantling process, the explorers looked embarrassed.

“T-The leather doesn’t cut well?”

“Even if it’s an Ogre, isn’t it too tough? Could this Ogre be a special individual?”

“That could be the case. It was too strong. Although we were careless too.”

Then he looked at Barbaroi, who was sitting and resting at the entrance.

Barbaroi, who was looking blankly at the sky of the highlands.

He was stained with sweat and blood, but because he was so handsome, it naturally became a picture.

“He wielded a broken greatsword to tear this thick leather and cut off his head?”

Someone muttered.

“That’s not the important thing. He fought with his eyes closed, didn’t he? Honestly, is that even possible? I still feel like I’m dreaming.”

“Do you think my explorer association friends will believe me if I tell them?”

One of the explorers thought for a moment and shook his head.

“Who would believe that?”

“Let’s just hurry up and get this done.”

The explorers stopped talking and resumed working next to the Ogre corpses.

A little later.

The explorers who had finished all the work carried their luggage and approached Jeong Yushin.

“Here it is.”

Jeong Yushin summoned the golden coffin, put in the Ogre’s byproducts, and stood up.

“Let’s go.”

Jeong Yushin led the party members and explorers to the 17th floor transfer stone.

Whoo-ah-ah.

A red portal and a blue portal were created.

“We will go first.”

“See you in the city.”

“Thank you for saving us.”

The explorers thanked them one by one and entered the blue portal.

Jeong Yushin looked around at his party members.

They looked tired and exhausted, but they were all safe.

He was satisfied with that fact alone.

If you are alive, opportunity always comes.

Jeong Yushin smiled slightly and stepped forward.

Flash!

He landed on the ground with a sense of floating.

At the same time, he felt a strong sense of liberation.

‘Did I get another engraving?’

He looked around and waited for a while, and the party members began to emerge from the magic circle one by one.

Armin, Kenneth, and Karin.

Just as Jeong Yushin was about to open his mouth.

Armin’s body was enveloped in light.

“U-Uwaaaack!!!”

At the same time as the flash, Armin disappeared, leaving only his clothes behind.

What?

Jeong Yushin looked at Armin’s robe with surprised eyes.

Armin’s face wriggled and popped out from it.

“W-What is it?”

Armin crawled out of the robe.

Jeong Yushin’s mouth immediately dropped open.

“W-What is this?”

He could not believe the sight before his eyes.

Armin’s body had transformed into a dog-like creature with fluffy white fur and a short tail.

But.

The head remained the same as his cute, pretty boy face.

Armin wore a blank expression as if he could not believe his body.

“W-What kind of engraving is this?”

Karin laughed at the sight.

“Armin, you’re somehow cute and funny…Huh?”

At that moment.

Karin’s body was also enveloped in light.

Flash!

Karin also disappeared.

Jeong Yushin hurriedly ran to where Karin had been.

Among the leather armor, shirts, and miscellaneous equipment.

A young wolf beast girl with a huge leopard-print bra on her head was sitting blankly.

“Huh?”

“…!”

Jeong Yushin couldn’t close his mouth.

Because Karin, who always boasted a confident and voluptuous figure, had become a small girl.

The small Karin looked at her body with a large bra turned upside down.

“W-What is this? W-Woe…”

Jeong Yushin looked at Kenneth.

Kenneth shrugged his shoulders.

“It seems I didn’t get any engravings.”

“Turn your head away.”

“…”

Jeong Yushin took out an emergency blanket from his backpack and covered Karin’s body.

Karin had become so young that even her underwear size didn’t fit, so she was almost naked.

“S-Sca.”

Karin teared up and hugged Jeong Yushin tightly.

“Calm down. First of all, that. What was it. Ah.”

Jeong Yushin, whose mind had turned blank, stammered.

“Hah?! N-Now is not the time for this! We need to check on Eru, Eru!”

Armin, regaining his senses, quickly moved his short legs and tried to run.

Jeong Yushin quickly moved his other arm and grabbed Armin’s body.

Armin flapped his short legs while suspended in the air.

“S-Sca hyungnim? We have to go now! Eru is…!”

“We need to stop by the exchange office. And report the request.”

Jeong Yushin stuffed Karin and Armin’s clothes into his backpack and walked out of the magic circle. A priest smiled bitterly and greeted him.

“Explorer-nim, you have worked hard.”

“You’re welcome.”

Jeong Yushin headed to the exchange office in front of the labyrinth magic circle with Kenneth.

The exchange office receptionist managed to hold back a smile as she saw Armin’s cute appearance.

“I have confirmed 10 bottles of mountain troll blood. Combined with the Ogre’s leather and tendons, it is 12 gold coins. Ah! And you can take the Stone Wolf to the monster dismantling center. We will purchase it after deducting the dismantling cost there.”

Jeong Yushin thought for a moment and shook his head.

“I will take care of the Stone Wolf myself.”

“Yes. I understand. Thank you for your hard work, Explorer-nim.”

He left the exchange office and headed to the southern district.

The gazes of the people on the street were focused on Jeong Yushin and the party members.

How could they not be?

It was one thing for Karin to have become a girl.

But Armin’s bizarre appearance was hard to take your eyes off of.

As they got closer to the inn, he put down Armin, who was struggling.

“Eru!”

Armin quickly moved his small body and ran into the inn.

Jeong Yushin handed Kenneth 6 gold coins.

Whatever the thoughts of that lecherous elf bastard were, a promise is a promise.

He could not give him a disadvantage in the compensation distribution.

“Kenneth, don’t forget what I said. Behave yourself.”

“I understand. Sca, thank you.”

Kenneth bowed deeply and thanked him before leaving.

Karin, who was in his arms, perked up her ears with a reddened face.

“S-Sca? Let me down too.”

Jeong Yushin looked down at Karin.

Her skin, which had originally been flawless, was now smooth.

Her eyes were much softer, and her eyes were large.

One cute snaggletooth poked out between her moist lips.

Jeong Yushin stroked Karin’s hair.

“Go inside the inn.”

“U-Ung.”

Karin blushed as if she was shy and lowered her head.

Jeong Yushin opened the door to the inn, and Armin slipped in between them.

“Eru!”

Eru, who was wearing a maid outfit, raised her head while sitting at a table.

“Sca-nim, you’re here?”

“Did anything happen?”

“No.”

“Eru!”

Eru swept her bobbed hair behind her ears and looked around. She kept hearing Armin’s voice, but there was no one around.

“I’m here!”

“Eh? A-Armin-nim?”

Armin was at her feet.

His body had transformed to be similar to a dog’s, and only his face was normal.

Armin ran towards the flustered Eru with shining eyes.

“Eru, show me your panties!”

“Eh? L-Let go of me!”

“Moomoomoong!!!”

Armin bit and clung to Eru’s skirt.

Jeong Yushin smiled as he watched Armin and Eru bickering.

Armin backed away and quickly shoved his head under her skirt.

“Gasp?! Bulge?”

Armin, with his eyes wide open, staggered backwards. Tears welled up in his round eyes as if he could not accept reality.

“E-Eru? Were you really a man?! M-My pure heart…?!”

Jeong Yushin sat at the table and smiled.

“You’re alive. Let’s have a drink.”

Armin trembled and lay sprawled out on the floor, flailing around.

“T-This is a lie! Guwaaaaang!!!”

Autumn, before winter.

The voice of a boy awakened from an egg echoed through the inn.