episode_0099

Ugh-

Do Yu-jin felt as if she had climbed the height of a ten-story building without stopping, and as soon as she reached the top, she let out a breath she had been holding.

‘What kind of gentleman is this in the corner of the mountain? If he didn’t know how to enhance his physical abilities with shadows, he would have fallen while climbing up.’

Do Yu-jin took a long time to catch her breath and then finally turned her head towards the shrine that was the purpose of this trip.

The gentleman’s first impression upon seeing it was simple.

‘It looks much more shabby and creepy than I thought.’

All over the place it was broken and shabby, and the yard was overgrown with weeds.

The atmosphere was so strong that it seemed as if no one had come here for a long time, and it looked more like an abandoned house than a shrine.

“Is this where Eugene was going to come?”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

Doyujin said that while watching Erio wandering around here and there, and then walked towards the forest behind the shrine, where there were large trees and large torii gates standing here and there.

Shudder-!

As soon as he entered the forest, Erio shivered slightly and made a strange expression.

Do Yu-jin was purely surprised when she saw him.

‘Wow, I can feel the welcoming presence in the forest just by feeling.’

The forest they were in now had a welcoming circle, a sort of barrier, that prevented humans from approaching.

‘So the setting is that no matter how hard you try to get to the center of the forest, you can’t… … Well, that has nothing to do with me knowing how to get there.’

While walking along the torii gates that all looked similar, I used them as landmarks.

Hit-

Do Yu-jin stopped walking and looked at the center of the forest.

There were four huge torii gates made of stone, facing in all four directions, and in the center of them was a lake as clear as a mirror, reflecting the night sky.

‘It looks a lot more plausible than I thought.’

Do Yu-jin thought about that and before she knew it, she and Erio were back on their backs and they approached the lake.

Then, a bluish, plump crescent moon appeared in the center of the lake.

‘It will definitely open tomorrow.’

When Do Yu-jin was so relieved while looking at the moon over the lake.

Phuss …

Suddenly the forest shook and an unnatural silence fell.

After confirming the change, Erio immediately got down from behind Doyujin and slowly increased his magical power.

At that moment, a faint voice was heard from beyond the forest.

-Go away… …

A hollow and eerie voice, like an echo.

The two people who heard him looked at each other for a moment and then spoke one after another.

“Should I turn it off? It might interfere with your search.”

“No, it’s okay.”

Erio said that and switched the [Insulating Restraint] on his head to OFF mode.

“This is enough.”

-Go away… …

Then once again, from beyond the forest, a creepy voice was heard.

“Over there.”

Phage crackle–!!!

Erio, who had completely recovered his suppressed senses, struck the direction where the sound came from without a moment’s hesitation.

“Gyaaak!”

Instead of the eerie voice that had been heard as the lightning struck the tree, a woman’s scream was heard.

He looked in the direction where the sound came from and saw a person fallen from a tree and collapsed on the ground.

“I didn’t see any signs of attacking, so I just stunned him for now.”

“Hmm, an assassin? No, this is more like an assassin… … ”

Do Yu-jin quietly looked at the woman who had fallen unconscious and muttered without realizing it.

“Ninja?”

Do Yu-jin was dumbfounded even as she said that.

That would be the case.

“Why is he here?”

Of all the videos Do Yu-jin had seen so far, he had never seen a ninja suddenly pop out like this.

‘Could it be that something has already happened without me knowing?’

While Do Yu-jin was worrying about something like that.

Phew-!

From far away, from the forest, countless spears and shurikens flew in.

‘How many did you throw?’

For a moment, Do Yu-jin hesitated, and in response, the shadow inside her clothes swayed like a snake.

But before Do Yu-jin could do anything, Erio moved.

Phage crackle-!

It fired golden lightning, repelling all attacks.

Dismissal-

Erio looked out into the forest with slightly furrowed eyes, a small bolt of lightning flashing across his hand.

Anyone who knew that Erio’s facial expressions usually had very little change would have been able to guess how upset she was right now.

“Jiri… … Huh?”

Erio was about to summon lightning again when he felt something familiar approaching and turned his head.

And there it is.

Percussion-

“Why are you here, Erio?”

A man stood with his back to the moon, his face covered by a familiar mask and wearing an unfamiliar ninja outfit.

“… … ”

Erio didn’t say anything even though his name was called.

The man with his back to the moon judged it to be some kind of fight, but it was nothing of the sort.

‘Who is it?’

Because Erio was just wondering because he didn’t know who he was.

It may be misleading to see him always hanging out with Do Yu-jin, but Erio was not friendly with other people and was not interested in them.

Tan-Tan and Memori from Do Yu-jin and Cosplay Club.

These three cases were unusual, since Erio usually didn’t open his mouth unless absolutely necessary.

As the silence continued with such a different smell, fortunately a new person appeared and the atmosphere was instantly turned upside down.

“What the heck, Fuma Shigure? Why is he here?”

“Ugh!”

After hearing Do Yu-jin’s words, Shigure was shocked and let out a gasp of shock.

That would be the case, because until he opened the door and made a sound, she had not been aware of Do Yu-jin’s existence at all.

‘Who is that guy?’

So when the three of them were confused for different reasons.

“Hahaha! What is that, is that guy Shigure’s friend?”

From somewhere came a loud laughter and a voice that could only be described as hearty.

“What is it?”

“Air?”

“Okay, wait a minute… … !”

At that moment, Doyujin and Erio turned their heads in the direction of the sound, and Shigure was flustered and about to say something.

Kuuung-!

A man with a large body that matched his voice landed in the air with a loud noise, then belched out sand dust like smoke.

Shigure, who saw him, tried to say something urgently, but he opened his mouth faster than he did.

“Looking at it, it looks like they’re the kids my daughter became close with at the circle! We can’t leave our guests like this!”

Do Yu-jin, hearing the word daughter, looked at Shigure without thinking.

And as expected,

“Ugh!”

Shigure was seen biting his lip and looking back and forth between his father and them.

Whether he knew him or not, the man smiled faintly and spoke cheerfully again.

“We invite you to our village!”

◎ ◎ ◎

The two people who were invited to the village, no, kidnapped by the village, were naturally dragged away by them without saying a word.

That doesn’t mean I was treated particularly rudely by them.

No, rather, the hospitality itself was impeccable.

Because they even held a banquet just for them.

Yum yum-

Well, if someone were to ask if I wasn’t embarrassed by that, I wasn’t.

“Oh! You look like you eat a lot, but you look like you’re a big eater!”

As I was just blankly staring at him, a man next to me suddenly spoke to me.

“Yes?”

When Do Yu-jin looked in front of him, he saw that the bowl that was originally full was completely empty.

It seems that while I was lost in thought, my body smelled food and moved on its own, shoving food into my mouth.

“Ah… … I’m sorry. The food was so delicious that my hands moved without me knowing.”

“Hahaha! It’s okay! If you’re the kind of guy who says things like you eat a lot, you shouldn’t have invited guests in the first place.”

“Then! Then!”

“The leader is right!”

The people around them tilted their glasses and shouted loudly at Do Yu-jin’s light flattery.

At the center of it all was the muscular ninja who had appeared with the sand dust a moment ago, Shigure’s father and the leader of this village.

“Haha, yeah… … ”

As it turned out, he had become Shigure’s friend and was invited to a banquet and even had to borrow his bed, but apart from that, Doyujin’s head was in a very complicated state.

‘I thought Shigure’s family was all dead? Did I move too quickly and mess up the flow of the story?’

Do Yu-jin moved her chopsticks and organized the information about Shigure in her head.

Of course, Do Yu-jin didn’t know the details of the story because it wasn’t something she was interested in.

But still, since Shigure was a character that appeared quite frequently, I knew quite a bit of fragmentary information about him.

‘The keyword for entering Fuma Shigure’s story was to realize that she was attending the circle disguised as a man.’

ha-

‘I tried not to even make eye contact with him because I thought it would be okay as long as he didn’t touch that part, but I never thought I’d find out his true identity so absurdly like this… … ‘

Sigh-

Do Yu-jin sighed inwardly and looked at Shigure on the other side of the banquet hall.

A look with deep purple eyes and refreshing green hair that is half-tied up.

Her appearance was clear and elegant, but at the same time, she gave off a feeling of being a poisonous flower.

But what caught my eye the most was her appearance.

That would be the case.

Well well-

Surprisingly, Shigure was sitting there, eating, with his mask off, which he never took off, and his men’s clothing off.

Even though she exudes a pure and innocent feminine aura, she could be called Yamato Nadeshiko.

“Shigure, how’s school? Is it fun?”

“Have you made a lot of friends? Oh, do you have a boyfriend?”

“Haha! If there are kids who come looking for you like that, you must be good at it!”

The sight of them talking about various things with their families while eating looked completely different from the way the circle kept its distance from other freshmen.

ripple-

In many ways, that is.

‘How on earth did she hide such large breasts?’

At that time, Do Yu-jin was wondering like that.

Swish-

Shigure’s gaze moved slightly towards Doyujin, and then he slowly opened his mouth.

“Father.”

“Oh, what did I tell you to call me when I’m home?”

Shudder-!

At those words, Shigure rolled his eyes and opened his mouth.

“… … Dad.”

Shigure’s face turned red with embarrassment as he barely managed to utter a single word.

“Hmm? You usually call me dear papa.”

“I never called you that!”