episode_0561

The sailing was smooth.

I didn’t know how to read, but there was someone who interpreted for me.

Today we have reached the wind-free zone.

We folded the sails.

And now it was just moving forward using the steamer’s motor.

Learning to write was not easy.

But I learned how to write from Priest and Juul, and I know what it means.

“Thank goodness? Da pyo-um character-l.”

The women had strange expressions on the first day, but not now.

Everyone is enjoying playing cards and such.

“I was born. ─, 100 years ─── There is language reform─.”

I could only understand half of what Edeline said.

From the context, it appears that there was a language reform before Edeline was born.

“There was a language reform about 100 years before I was born.”

I repeated the words I did not understand over and over again.

“There was a language reform about 100 years before I was born. I understand.”

Even though it must be embarrassing to say the same thing twice, Edeline doesn’t change her expression.

“Language reform──── Reason. For the common people.”

“The reason why language reform occurred was for the common people.”

I don’t know under whose leadership this happened, but it was very nice to hear.

I nodded, following what she said.

“Replace ideogram─── phonetic character─── but ──────.”

“All ideograms were replaced with phonetic characters, but failed.”

“What was the problem? Ah, I understand.”

“Education system─ insufficient────.”

“The education system was inadequate.”

Edeline continued speaking in a confident tone.

‘Hagiya.’

It took hundreds of years for Hangul to fully take root in Korea.

In that small country! But Pangea is not like that.

Because this world is an incredibly huge supercontinent.

“I’m curious about this, so stop. So what happened?”

“We recognized the effectiveness of phonetic characters and filled in the gaps.”

Edeline had a wistful expression as if she was feeling nostalgic.

“It was my first job as a Dragonia.”

How cute he is shrugging.

I want to bite you hard.

‘Why on earth did I give up on this person?’

I couldn’t understand the dragon’s thoughts at all.

“Looking at it like this, it really is a baby.”

It was Lexi, lying upside down on the bed.

She was doing foot swimming and looking at me with her chin resting.

With a faint smile.

It seemed like he had a high hand.

“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

“It doesn’t mean anything. It’s just because it’s cute.”

“Suddenly, what kind of childish treatment─” Boom!

A knocking sound on the cabin caught everyone’s attention.

When I looked out the window, the shipyard superintendent was looking at us.

“────. Sea───.”

The oral structure of an auger is different from that of a human.

Because of this, I couldn’t understand most of what was said.

Excluding Seth and Edeline, who do not speak Horus as their native language, the context is just right.

While everyone hesitated.

I got up, opened the cabin door, and went out.

“Horus-Learning the language-. Although I am inexperienced, please understand- please?”

The shipyard manager opens his eyes and looks down at me.

Just for a moment.

The shipyard manager chuckled and went to the deck.

He gave me sign language.

Pointing to your own eyes, pointing to the beach, etc.

“─── ── ──.”

I don’t know what that means, but the ladies came out of the cabin one by one.

With a very anxious expression.

The shipyard director saw ‘hell’.

So it was just a warning to me.

From the women’s perspective, it was just a situation where an ogre was on the verge of eating a person.

It wasn’t that the shipyard director was bad, but he had completely lost the trust of his wives.

“──── ──. Sea─ ────.”

Anyway, I followed the shipyard manager to the deck.

He points me to the sail ladder and then to the observation deck above the main mist.

I climbed the rope ladder, and only after climbing on it did I understand what the shipbuilder said.

‘Go up and have a look. The sea is beautiful.’

My heart is speechless at this amazing sight.

─Because the sea was shining.

My heart is pounding.

At this age, the corners of my mouth were torn like a child.

“Come up here…! Come on─!”

Even as I called my wife, I couldn’t take my eyes off the scene.

The Milky Way and thousands of stars beyond the horizon.

And the shining sea coming toward us from the horizon.

I don’t know what is the sky and what is the sea.

They fit together like mirrors, and I felt like I was sailing on the stars.

The same was true for the women who started coming up to the observatory one by one.

“Maal…”

“Wow…!”

Pangea is a sea of stars in a windless area that no one has ever seen.

When the current breaks due to the force of the ship moving forward, the star struck by the ship burns like a flame and then disappears.

Contrary to the saying ‘dark ocean’, the underwater part of the sea was so transparent that it was not shiny.

What about the Milky Way flowing under the sea?

The ocean feels like a kind of mirror world.

While everyone was in admiration and ecstasy.

I feel like there is no sound.

As I looked around, I saw Edeline looking intently down at the sea.

“What’s wrong?”

“···That is marine plankton that grew up eating solar coral.”

Edeline couldn’t take her eyes off the sea.

In a different sense than other wives.

“Deep sea fish are largely divided into two types. Driving with deteriorating eyesight. It is a nocturnal animal with keen eyesight.”

“That big thing is a deep-sea fish that grew up eating marine plankton.”

Those were strange words.

A diurnal type with deteriorated eyesight or a nocturnal type with sensitive eyesight?

It didn’t make sense to me because it felt like a play on words, but my heart went cold at the next words.

“The reason the sea shines beautifully means that the creatures in the sea are scared.”

A whale the size of a large ship was swimming in the sea.

─Lebaatan.

It swims through space like a mighty man and is still circling around us.

But even for a moment.

When it touched the Milky Way flowing under the sea, it pulled away as if it was startled.

And then it runs away, to another place.

─As if he was scared.

That whale with teeth the size of a blue whale!

Soon I realized something.

The Milky Way means that stars flow like a river.

Compared to the surrounding area, where there is almost no wind and the ocean currents are weak, the Milky Way is flowing somewhere.

‘Something is sucking up the water.’

I don’t know what that is.

However, I couldn’t stand still.

Nature is a beautiful yet cruel place.

Especially the sea.

‘Nothing happens in nature without reason.’

This is because all entities that behave for no reason are dead.

I kept an eye on where Leviathan was leaving and used the constellations to estimate its location.

This guy is definitely going against the current.

In that case, we too must go against the current.

“···Now that we’ve finished looking around, shall we go back to the cabin?”

Shir glances at me.

“Why? I want to see more?”

“It’s pretty. It’s pretty, but…I’m actually afraid of heights.”

“What?! Fear of heights?!”

There is no situation more frightening than experiencing panic at sea.

Even if you get an injection, it would be right to comfort the person after receiving it.

Shir was busy giggling, but Isabelle and Lexi were different.

“Okay. Let’s go down now.”

“Let’s continue playing cards.”

but.

“How do you get on the back of a flying dragon when you have a fear of heights?”

Shir’s eyes turn to me at Seth’s transparent question.

It was the same with Anne.

“That’s what I heard?”

“I can’t believe there’s something Lee is afraid of?”

“Aren’t you hiding something again?”

“No way, again?”

I glance at them, secretly enjoying them as they attack me.

Just for a moment.

I couldn’t come up with an excuse quickly enough.

This was a tacit affirmation, and all the women’s eyes turned to me.

The one who stole everyone’s attention was Edeline.

“I asked for it.”

Edeline glanced at the sea.

“···Sea creatures are scared.”

“Yes? Are you scared?”

“That light is for chasing away enemies. This is because large predators are attracted to light.”

“What does that mean? The entire ocean is shining like this.”

Shir looked like he was just trying to laugh it off, but his expression soon hardened.

Soon, this dreamy and beautiful scenery returned as a warning that stimulated fundamental fear.

everyone knows

But no one was out of luck.

“···Ouroboros.”

While everyone is scared.

Only Lexi and Anne steal glances from people without understanding.

“It’s okay. Since it’s a living creature, it’s right to eat at least, right?”

“All creatures in nature starve to death if they cannot find food.”

“That’s why animals don’t get too big.”

I comforted the women and leaned on the railing of the observatory.

“Still, wild animals are reluctant to let anyone get close to them, so you just need to leave some space.”

“···How do you know what Ouroboros eats?”

Shir, who had seen Ouroboros in person as a child, felt extreme fear.

Due to Ouroboros’ struggle, the mountain collapsed and the volcano erupted.

If it weren’t for Julia, we all might have been buried alive.

The sight of the old Shir made me uneasy.

By nature, Shir was a coward.

To the point where he uses a shield to hide from those who are weaker than him.

Then he committed his first murder for me and almost broke down.

At the same time, I realized that I was strong.

“Look at oxygen. You’re so big and strong, but you eat grass? It’s because it’s difficult to find food.”

“Meat is very precious. Imagine eating a hundred pieces of oxygen as a daily meal for that mountainous bastard.”

“No matter how wide the sea is, the seeds will dry up!”

Shir, who lost his ‘rationality’ like that, wore a mask.

The same was true for Lexi, who received Venus’ blessing.

The arrogance and confidence so far were due to the servant’s power, and were by no means Shir’s true nature.

That’s why I joked and reassured the women.

“But there’s no way they’re going to eat us, right?”

“···Then what do you eat?”

I pointed to the shining sea.

“Those, not us.”

Isn’t it because they are being eaten that their bodies shine like that?

Shir tilted his head.

As if the interest had shifted elsewhere.

“···How do you eat the sea?”

How to eat the sea?

I easily thought of a blue whale.

“Usually, you suck in water and spit out the water that enters your mouth with your tongue…”

─Swallow the dry matter.

The women’s expressions turned pale.

As if I was hoping it was a lie, I was hoping that they would deny it because I blurted out the ending.

More than that, my head was burning hot.

“Go back to your cabin right now! Right now—!”

I grabbed the rope and quickly slid down.

Lexi, who sensed a crisis situation in advance, grabbed Shir and Anne with both hands and her wing hand, and grabbed the rope with her other wing hand and slipped down.

“”Kyaaa?!””

I couldn’t take my eyes off this situation.

The two screamed like rabbits being snatched away by eagles and quickly ran into the cabin.

“──── ─────?!”

The shipyard superintendent was impressed by Lexi’s crazy acrobatics.

But there was no time to accept it.

Edeline, Seth, and Isabel are descending the rope ladder one by one.

Lexi, who was burning the rope ladder at incredible speed, glided down holding Edeline, who was the last behind, with both hands.

“Aaaagh──?!”

Edeline screams and flies into the sky.

However, when I reached the ground, I jumped into the cargo hold rather than the cabin.

“What on earth ── ───?!”

“Sea─ ──── ── ────!”

I don’t know what the shipyard manager is fussing about.

Therefore, I left only one word that could convince the shipyard director.

“Ouroboros.”

Even though all languages are different, some words refer to the same thing.

For example, the name of a servant or a dragon.

Pangea, highest mountain, sky lake.

And Ouroboros.

The shipyard director was no longer the flagship.

I turned the wheel toward the place where Leviathan fled.

It was an insectivore that had been stealing our meals for the past few weeks, but today there were no angels.

chin!

But the wheel starts spinning and stops.

As if caught on something.

It was true that it was caught. On the finger of the shipbuilder.

I couldn’t understand the English, so I looked at the shipyard director.

Looking at me, the shipyard manager pointed to Isabelle and Seth who remained on the rope ladder.

“Slowly. safety. Be careful.”

A word with a relatively clear pronunciation and short paragraphs.

But those words were worth more than a thousand gold.

“···Thank you.”

No matter what language you learn, the first thing you do is say thank you.

As Isabelle and Seth come down from the rope ladder, the shipbuilder gently turns the wheel.

Like driving a large truck.

Nevertheless, I can feel the boat tilting perceptibly.

Clap! widely!

Edeline took Hwajeong from the cargo hold and threw her into the steam engine.

At the same time, open the water supply and pour boiling water into the body.

I picked up the barrel and poured all the water into the water supply.

After that, I closed the lock.

“I’m in the cabin!”

“What about Sihyeon?!”

“I’ll go in a little later too!”

The steamer left the scene of predation as quickly as a ship caught by a favorable wind.

The ship is clearly moving quickly.

but.

Moving forward and moving forward. No matter how far you go, the sea shines.

─All the way to the horizon.

I held on to the deck railing and looked into the sea.

The direction in which deep-sea fish escape is still the same.

Nevertheless, they are still running away.

How far did it go that way?

Guuuu────

The sea cries.

It sounded like a whale crying.

But not a whale.

Whales cannot cry so loudly that the ocean roars like this.

The sea is literally shaking.

It’s as if you filled a glass of water on the speaker and turned it on.

I instinctively realized this.

The fact that Ouroboros’ meal has begun.