episode_0449

After Jules’ sense of smell permeated me, I felt like I had discovered a new sense.

I hear sounds I couldn’t hear and smells I couldn’t smell.

“Who on earth gives away personal items like sanitary pads like that?”

Isabelle was still angry.

If you were to tell me that you recognized the signs of menstruation by smell, you would be hit hard, right?

Even thinking about it makes me uncomfortable.

“You know how dangerous the southern seawater is───”

“Those guys can handle it on their own!”

“That’s right! I catch sea water by myself!”

Anne and Isabel take sides and bite me.

It was really cute to think that the people I taught were like that.

It was not possible to travel on sidewalks adjacent to military bases.

That’s why we headed west, sharing the animal paths that formed in the forest. The surrounding geography is pleasing to the eye. Anne didn’t have much of a problem walking the animal path.

“You’re not answering?!”

“I traveled with the White Wolf for 6 years. Isn’t it inevitable to know a lot about women?”

“Do you know? That sounds really perverted!”

“Even if you take care of me, what can I say?”

I had to ignore Isabel’s death.

How far did it go that way? There was a strong creepy smell.

“Why are you acting like this all of a sudden?”

“There might be something behind that ridge.”

Isabel furrows her brows and glares at me.

The gaze went towards the ridge I pointed out…

“···What is that?”

He opened his eyes and asked me.

‘Could it be seen through the wind?’

Anyway, it was good. It’s like you revealed your secret to me.

“I don’t know. You’ll have to wait and see…”

“What is it?”

“···Something is dead.”

He lowered his posture and moved forward, taking out an air rifle.

A curved sword came out of Isabel’s waist.

When I climbed up the ridge like that.

“Ha.”

What was found was Grootsrang’s body.

An animal so large that it can eat an unusually large cockatrice in the south.

Wide shoulders and legs that are narrower than the shoulders, like a man.

Hook-like teeth on the nose and bear-like limbs.

At the same time, the fingers and toes are long.

“Is this it? With Groots. You caught it at the coming-of-age ceremony.”

“Yes.”

Isabel, seeing Groots for the first time, was speechless as it must have been such a refreshing shock.

The body itself looked like it hadn’t been in a long time.

“···I guess she died while giving birth.”

“It looks like she was pregnant with twins.”

“Twins?”

“An animal that emerges from its parents’ womb after growing to some extent is at risk if it becomes pregnant with twins.”

For example, animals such as cows, deer, elephants, and horses.

When these animals have twin pregnancies, they either miscarry or die while giving birth. This is especially severe for animals such as horses and elephants, and the probability of giving birth to twins approaches 1%.

This was the rest of the words.

“In addition, it is an older individual. I guess she got exhausted while giving birth.”

‘Usually it’s a miscarriage.’

Groots and I are monogamous.

It was clear that the male fed the female by hunting food himself.

So, as long as you don’t approach that corpse──

“···This is my first time seeing something like this.”

I approached, touched, and sat down!

My eyes watered at the creative suicide attempt.

“Do not approach!”

“Yes?”

Why did you sit and pet a dead animal as if you were communing with a corpse?!

Who steps into a crime scene in the first place?!

“Right now…! We must run away now!”

“What’s wrong? It’s a corpse.”

“Groots and I are smart!”

“···Do you mean that thing is pretending to be dead?”

Isabelle shrugged and pointed at the female Grootslang.

You don’t know what you’ve done.

“···Groots is the non-human personality I mentioned earlier.”

“So? I know about Groots, too. You live with one partner for the rest of your life. Then wouldn’t your husband have gotten old anyway? Or dead.”

How come one knows and the other doesn’t?!

“···I have defeated White Wolf and Grootslang several times.”

Don’t you realize how erratic having a personality makes a creature’s behavior?

“Grootsrang goes to the village of the person who killed his child and tramples all the children in the village to death in front of their parents. They know the concept of revenge.”

“So you’re old?”

“Yes. I’m old. I’m old. However, being young does not mean you are good at hunting. Hunting comes from years of experience!”

No matter what kind of attack you receive from Grootsrang, it is natural that if you receive it in a human body, you will die in one hit.

So wouldn’t it be more scary to have someone with a deeper level of experience?

Isabel’s face hardens, as if she is finally beginning to understand what I am saying.

“Let’s say your lifelong companion dies, and there’s a strange smell coming from his body.”

“The smell is that of an animal, and it is alive.”

“Then are you going to wait and see?”

A sigh came out.

“The remaining male, Groots, will give up everything he has for his life-long companion, and will try to kill you.”

“I can say without a doubt that Groots has the best sense of smell of any animal on earth. I can’t run away.”

Moreover, Isabel is about to start her period.

No matter how much I think, I can’t find an answer!

“···Is this something to be so afraid of? I looked at the book. Sihyeon said he caught that guy when he was an adult.”

“That was because he was stupid. In human terms, it was like offering your head and telling you to stab it. ···Ha.”

Let’s calm down.

First, you have to remove the smell. therefore···.

“I have to stop by Mirror Lake.”

* * * * * * *

Mirror Lake.

This is the place where I was hit with a heavy crossbow by Mira and turned into a beehive.

“Take out the Yeokrin.”

As Isabel caught Yeokrin, an intangible energy began to spread in all directions.

Eventually, Nucker pulls his head out from the water.

“Dantalian’s agent… Oh, a rare guest has arrived. What’s the matter?”

“I hope you can remove the corpse smell from our bodies.”

“Is that all?”

“Yes.”

Knucker crawls out from the water’s edge and holds out his hand to me.

Isabel was so appalled by Nucker’s unapproachable appearance that she could do nothing.

The long mouthparts, horns, and legs that are small compared to the body resemble an oriental dragon.

“Wow, this is my first time seeing a dragon up close.”

Anne walks closer and looks at the dragon with curiosity.

Seeing that, Isabel seemed to have deceived her fears at least a little.

“Skeep my skin.”

“Thank you.”

When I took a large piece of Knucker’s skin, something similar to a transparent gel came out.

I took half of it and gave it to Isabelle, and applied the rest to my body and clothes.

“···I will go back.”

“Thank you for your help.”

It evaporates coolly like an alcohol disinfectant.

It didn’t feel sticky at all. The smell isn’t too bad.

Thanks to this, I was able to apply it without hesitation.

“Now let’s go.”

It cannot be crossed except during the rainy season, when the soldiers’ visibility is limited.

We left with that in mind, and in other words, there should never be any setbacks.

I hadn’t considered this situation.

“You must not touch anything without my permission. Do you understand?”

“···Yes.”

If Nucker hadn’t helped us, we might have had to run back to the ogre’s lair.

I hope he doesn’t notice us.

* * * * * *

It is said that animals are most dangerous when they poop.

The reason dogs or cats approach you when you sit on the toilet is to protect the defenseless owner.

A rustling sound is heard.

This is because there is so much seawater around, so you have to take cover even when doing your business.

It’s so natural to poop when you eat, but it was so strange to see Isabel doing that.

‘Why does the goddess poop?’

Like a person who cannot face death and believes in heaven and hell, there is something instinctively that is very disturbing.

“Why do you poop?”

“Yes?!”

Pop!

I got a nice slap on the back from Anne.

“It’s a joke.”

“Don’t say anything weird! Don’t even look here!”

“I don’t watch it.”

A heartless laugh flowed out.

I spent hours pressing the air pump endlessly.

Cheek─ Cheek─

‘Now you just have to do it a thousand more times.’

A quite pleasant wind blows. Just when I was trying to relax my mind.

─There was a stinging smell peculiar to a carnivore.

It was tracked.

That is a non-human personality. Just like humans follow traces, this guy just followed traces.

“Groots is following us.”

“What do you mean?”

“I guess they tracked your scent all the way to Mirror Lake. And he identified you with his hearing and sight.”

“···By what means?”

“We leave no traces, but nature leaves traces.”

It is a tracking technique so horrifyingly precise that it is difficult to think of it as an animal.

“First of all, you would have realized that it was a bipedal human by looking at the footprints. The shape of the shoe’s footprint is very unusual.”

But no matter how great a hunter, no one except Isabel can surprise me.

As long as I feel emotions, his deception tactics don’t work.

“···How?”

“It’s clear that the trick didn’t work.”

Maybe I need to charge it faster.

Oh my gosh!!!

A sound like a goat’s scream rang out.

Before we knew it, the guy was following us closely. At the same time, they were carefully observing us.

The goal is to scare the marine animals in the forest and push them away.

‘You’re so smart, but you can’t accept that your wife died of exhaustion.’

In some ways, it’s like a person. Is it because he is a personality?

Where Grootsrang was, only anger was felt.

The kind of anger that spreads like a haze like a blazing fire.

The marines who were chased by him run towards us.

“Sea water?! Is the sea water coming?!”

“He was pushed away by Groots and had no choice but to run away. We also have to run without facing them.”

If you fall for this trick, the smell of blood will paralyze your nose.

Taking advantage of that opportunity, Groots will take the lead and lie in ambush waiting for us.

“Do you understand? You must not kill even a single animal.”

As I run, Isabel runs along.

As soon as they don’t get caught, Grootslang, who senses their plan in real time, rushes in.

I immediately pulled out my halberd and glared at him.

It was that moment. Groots and I run away from me.

Ujijik! simplicity and honesty! Kkkk!!!

In the distance, a tree fell over and a thick branch broke.

I get goosebumps.

This was the most annoying category.

An old man who has been through many hardships and hardships, who does his best with each rabbit.

“Oh, are you coming?!”

“No.”

It is a fight between hunters and hunters.

Never do anything revealing.

Groots and I continued ahead, and Isabel looked at me with wide eyes as she heard the distant sound of shredding.

“···I guess you’re not interested in us?”

“It hates us to the point of killing us, but we are on guard.”

It was clearly an entity that had battled with demi-humans.

“I was planning on picking a fight with Haesoo, but when we noticed and started running away, I decided to go ahead and set a trap first.”

“···Isn’t Sihyeon suffering from delusions of grandeur? It’s just moving away?”

“Did you cheat on Groots?”

“Yes.”

Now that they have made their prey nervous by stimulating them, they realize that a surprise attack will not work.

“How far can you maintain it?”

“Almost 1 rubit… ah.”

Isabelle furrows her brows and looks at me with eyes full of questions.

“···I left.”

“It was probably located a day or two further away. They will smell us from afar and prepare an ambush.”

“It doesn’t make sense. What…”

“Didn’t you look at that guy’s nose? They are the ones who can find smells beyond 10 rubits, let alone 1 rubit.”

It would be the right thing to do to go back in a big way, but if you do that, the rainy season will end and you will not be able to cross the Rhine River.

“We have excellent detection skills, so we have to hold on somehow, otherwise we would have already been caught up in the psychological warfare.”

“···I don’t know.”

Isabelle may not be able to feel it, but I can smell it.

The other sea creatures were terrified by the smell of Grootslang and were only watching the Absolute’s thoughts like baby fish hiding under a rock.

‘It would be good to match this.’

Although he is an old man, I also learned about the South from a monster named Jules.

In the first place, it is advantageous to preserve physical strength because it takes the lead and chases away most of the sea water.

“Never relax.”

“···I understand.”

Isabel grunted uneasily and began to walk ahead.