256. East, Cheonseon Academy (21)
A man throws a chunk of his meat dripping with blood onto the floor.
“Eat it. It’s your favorite ironclad meat.”
Steel Puck!
The sound of chunks of meat hitting the floor echoes through the cave.
However, there was no sound following as usual, so Wii Zihan had doubts.
“Where has this guy gone…?”
The deer that Wei Zihan raised in Yungui Valley was a strange animal that the Blood Demon had captured from the northern part of the East and presented to him as a gift.
As you can tell just by looking at Ouija Han’s attitude, he wasn’t raised because he liked him.
Unusually for a deer, it was said that ingesting the flesh of this spiritual creature that enjoys eating the meat of a demon can improve one’s internal energy, and it was just waiting for it to fully grow and gain weight.
I’ve never eaten human meat, so I shouldn’t have any problems.
Around the time when Wei Zihan decided that and was about to move on.
“…Are you here?”
I sensed the presence of a man approaching me.
“Yes.”
The man got down on one knee and answered.
He was a blood-religious human who assisted Wei Zihan by his side.
“How did it go?”
“That’s…”
The subordinate hesitates to answer.
“Don’t you ask what happened?”
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Wui Zihan’s pupils, which contain plum blossoms, sparkle.
“That’s… Before the plan even started, I ran into Joe the white dog, and everyone was overpowered in an instant. I decided that silence was inevitable…”
“It’s done. It’s clearly drawn in your eyes.”
“I have no face.”
“Tsk… Things are getting more and more annoying. Now that it’s like this, we have no choice but to expect the battle to intensify.”
“I’ll do my best.”
“I don’t have enough time, so I’ll trust you. However, since you’re stepping out yourself, you shouldn’t be tied up like those useless guys. I’m sure you know what that means. “
“I will make sure that it can be dismissed as a ghost that appeared in Ungwigok.”
I saw strange letters engraved on the tongue of the man who was saying that.
“Yes, there is no time. Hurry up.”
The blood mage, under Wii Zihan’s orders, disappears in an instant.
“……”
Left alone, Wiza Han looked around the quiet cave and moved his feet.
‘I’ve never given human meat, so I won’t run into any cadets or students.
***
“Wow…!”
ㅡ Kkadudeuk!
Following Crank’s scream, the sound of a heavy shield being ground pierced my ears.
“What kind of a deer has such vicious teeth…!!”
The deer was not difficult to find.
You could find it where you previously subdued a group of bandits with your crew.
The only problem was that the deer looked twice the size of Jangsan and had the sharp teeth of a beast of prey.
The thief, licking the blood that had been scattered on the floor as the thieves broke out, rushed ferociously as soon as he saw us.
[ It must have tasted human blood. ]
Crank shuddered and covered the deer’s mouth with his shield, when Sierra murmured in a low, nonchalant voice.
My reaction was no different.
I was watching to see how far Crank and Jangsan could defeat this monstrous deer.
“Zeto…! Cut this guy’s head off quickly!”
Jangsan, restless, called out to me.
“Now that I’ve found the deer, isn’t my role over? Why don’t I step out myself after forgetting to eat?”
“…Shield Sohyeop’s life is in danger…!”
As I hardly drew my sword despite my desperate cry, Jangsan eventually rushed at the deer himself.
“Oohhhhh! Take it!
Jangsan bangs the deer’s side with his fist.
ㅡPaba Park!!
But his fists couldn’t even hit his thick hide.
As if the deer didn’t care at all about the long mountain, its eyes were focused on the crank that was rolling on the floor.
“Hit harder!”
“Choi, I’m doing my best…!”
Jangsan, exhausted from beating his fists, sits down on the floor first.
“Haa… Haa… This deer, chubby, looks like it’s going to have a lot of meat… Now how about we get out…?”
Jangsan, who was breathing heavily, spoke to me.
“Hmm…”
It was only then that I moved my feet toward the deer.
ㅡSuddenly!
With a clear sound, the deer’s thick neck is cut with a single knife.
“Ugh…!!”
A crank that closes the deer’s jaws and then gets crushed by the deer’s huge body.
I bent my knees and looked alternately at the two disgraced people.
“How… Did you feel anything?”
“Keuk, deer in the east eat people too?”
“Shouldn’t be easily tempted…?”
The crank that barely pushed the deer and the long umbrella scattered on the floor spits nonsense.
“That’s not what I’m asking about combat.”
[ Was there a battle…? ]
“…The crank is all good, but the attack power is noticeably poor. This can be supplemented with weapons, but learning a new weapon now wouldn’t be such a good choice. I recommend changing to a shield.”
“A shield capable of attack and defense…?”
“If you ask the blacksmith, he’ll understand what I mean. And long acid… You’ve figured out the downside of the wave blast, right?”
“I can only see the downside…”
“When looking at the wave strike, the biggest downside is that it rapidly loses effectiveness when not attacked. So, even when dealing with this deer, you probably needed to get the deer’s attention before the crank.”
“Isn’t it okay if you step out?”
“Yeah, can’t I block it with a shield and Zeto cut it like now?”
“…There is no guarantee that I will always be by your side.”
“”……””
“I hope to make good use of it in Capture the Flag this time.”
“…But couldn’t you explain it first?”
“Is that so…?”
Jangsan grumbled, and Crank nodded his head.
“Well, think of it as tuition.”
He smiled as he answered the two who were drawing question marks on their faces.
The next time I was going to take the deer.
Crank wondered as he looked down at his decapitated deer.
“Anyway, is this meat edible…?”
I put my arm around that crank’s shoulder.
“As a reward for your hard work, I will give you a chance to taste venison for the first time. How is it?”
“……”
Crank’s face turned blue.
“If there’s any poison, don’t worry, I’ll treat you with acupuncture.”
I didn’t mean to bully him, I said it because I was really confident in treating him, but it didn’t seem that way to Crank.
“Trust me.”
“……”
I decided that it would be better to show a confident feeling so that there would be no misunderstanding.
This isn’t it.
***
Of course it wasn’t an ordinary deer, and fortunately there was nothing poisonous in the meat.
On the contrary, it was a rare meat that increased the amount of mana it possessed. If it was in the game, it would have been a special food marked with a maximum mana increase.
‘Can I get over it?’
Deer was something that even the students at the academy did not know about.
It seems that the guy who savored human blood and had the teeth of a non-grassivore beast did not live on grass alone.
I don’t know who it is, but thanks to that, it’s like taking an elixir. The members of the crew were also excited and ate the meat.
By the way, Crank did the cooking.
For some reason, he felt accustomed to cooking in a harsh environment.
His cooking skills were so great that I could picture in my head what kind of life he would have been before entering the academy.
Anyway, when the crew members fell asleep one by one after filling the stomach like that.
Assuming that I was a sentry, I was cleaning the ‘Sierra’ alone at a distance where the members of the crew could feel the spirit.
—-Sure.
I don’t know if it’s because it’s been a long time since I’ve been grooming, but Sierra’s face is reddened.
I was lost in thought, wiping my urethra with a cloth soaked in blood.
There were three things I was worried about.
What are the prerequisites for Cheonbando?
And who is collecting the blood and how is it collected?
The last question was ‘When will the urethra collector come to me?’
Honestly, urinary collectors are not worried.
This is the guy who collects 8 bags for the old demon ring and covets my ‘Sierra’ with the 9th bag.
I was honestly wary when there was no information about him.
But when I actually met him and found out that he was trying to use skills like Gudoma-Hwan, I stopped caring.
Gudomahwan is exactly that level of swordsmanship.
Ghost swordsman gave up all the merits, and what was left was ‘cool’, and it was more effective to learn ordinary non-swordsmanship to use it.
I would rather have them deal with the old horse, but if there is no ‘Sierra’, the old horse can’t be completed, so I think it’s more difficult for collectors who don’t deal with the old horse.
Anyway, he still puts it on the back burner.
Because it’s not an emergency.
The moment I fell in love with the prerequisites for the Cheonbando.
I felt a sign approaching me.
“…Miss Eisel, you’re awake.”
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“I can’t sleep.”
Eisel came up to me while I was grooming the ‘Sierra’ and sat next to me.
I paused my grooming and quietly hid the bloody cloth.
“……”
After a moment of silence, Eisel, who was crouching with her knees together, raises her head to look at the sky hidden by her clouds, and holds back her sigh that was about to come out of her mouth.
“You seem to be worried.”
“I feel lost… Lost…”
I thought I knew what that meant.
The goal must have disappeared.
What was the greatest goal of Eisel, who was a regressor?
It was ‘survival’.
However, having managed to survive, what remains is an uncertain future.
And it must have been unfamiliar to her.
“Then let me show you the way.”
“The way…?”
“Oh, you’re saying it’s unreliable because the blind man tells you the way?”
“That, not that…”
Isel shook his head urgently.
“hahahaha, just kidding. Miss Eisel, what ending do you want our story to go through?”
“The ending… Well, I’ve only vaguely dreamed of it. I don’t think I’ve ever thought about it deeply.”
“I like fairy tales with obvious stories.”
“When did you read fairy tales again?”
“My teacher read it to me when I was little.”
“So what do you want to say?”
“Children’s fairy tales. They always end with the same sentence.”
I turned her head to Eisel and gave her a smile before continuing.
“I lived happily ever after.”
“It’s pretty obvious…”
“But it’s ideal. What could be better than taking care of longevity and happiness?”
“A happy life is an expression that doesn’t come close to me.”
“In general… It would be an ideal and happy life to start a family, have children, leave a legacy, and finally die as comfortably as possible with the person you love.”
“Heritage…”
“…It’s just a very ordinary, general case. Everyone’s happiness is different, isn’t it?”
When I straightened her fingers and smiled, Eisel, who was looking at me, sighed and burst into laughter.
“Puhyuk, I know that much. It’s an ordinary happy life… I wonder if there’s another word that’s as ideal for me.”
I thought so.
Because her life so far has been far from normal.
“…Hey, Zeto.”
“I’m listening.”
“I think I’ve found my way.”
“I’m glad my story helped.”
“I mean. I want to have children.”
“…Isn’t it early?”
At my question, Eisel shakes her head.
“I don’t know. I want to have children.”
“It’s not bad to aim…”
At that moment, Eisel rushed at me.
Her tongue goes right into her mouth and ensnares my tongue.
At my meager resistance, Eisel’s lips separated from me for a moment.
“Wait a minute. The crew members around…”
“It’s okay. Everyone can’t see anything.”
Her pupils, containing the clouds of the dark valley that spread all over her and obscured her vision, emit a faint light.
At that time, Eisel kissed me again, and our breaths were mixed.
Once again I pushed her away.
“Did you hate it…?”
Eisel asked me cautiously.
I shook my head slowly at her question.
It wasn’t like that. Can you not like it
If it’s just sudden, it was sudden, and unlike her thoughts, she has ‘eyes to see’, so it’s just a concern.
First of all…
“That’s not it… It’s a red raid. The Five Gyejo are here.”
…It was because the presence of those who were accustomed to feeling touched.
“Ah…”
Eisel withdraws from me with her short shrieks.
Then he lowers his head.
“…Miss Eisel?”
“Haa…”
“Isn’t it okay to kill Miss Eisel?”
It might feel like asking something obvious, but I had no choice but to spit out those words when I sensed that Eisel was going to kill me.
Nevertheless.
Eisel’s eyes disappeared in an instant, and the answer was the same as the last time.
“Why?”
Eisel asked back, with a quiet but vicious lifeblood coming out of his eyes.
“That’s… Training…?”
“……Okay.”
It was only then that I was relieved by Eisel’s slow reply.
I couldn’t sit back with a sigh of relief though.
I ran holding Eisel’s hand to wake the crew.
They should have noticed that we were here now. That’s also true, because the opposing group has Kaen, which can sense emotions.
A surprise attack at night, looking at the numbers, it was not at the level of reconnaissance.
That’s why it was a strategic retreat.
“No matter how you think about it, don’t you think you need to buy some time to retreat?”
Eisel, who was almost being dragged along by me, asked that.
“I guess so. The distance is closer than I thought.”
“Then I have time…”
“No, I’ll buy you some time. Miss Eisel, please go and wake everyone up and run away from here as far as you can.”
“…Why is it always Zeto?”
“hahahaha, I’m sorry.”
Could the current Aizel buy time against the Five Gyejo without shedding a single drop of ‘blood’, which will become the food of the heavenly peninsula?
…I can’t believe that.
wow that’s cool Eisel