182 – Jack Dionel (3)
“·······.”
I looked at my past self with a somewhat bewildered feeling.
In the stomach of a ghost wolf, a princess and a mercenary are sharing a passionate kiss.
···However, I think we can understand if we dig into the psychology of the two.
Because my past self had an underlying mentality that Adela must be saved.
I probably think of it as love.
‘And Adela…’
At the age of 18, young Adela must have been afraid.
For the first time in her life, she faced the fear of dying.
That’s why she needed a strong protector she could rely on, and that was me, who lost her memories.
In other words, the way she responded to my kiss was similar to that of a drowning person desperately trying to find something to hold on to.
“Chu-eup… Haa… Haa… Chu-eup…”
Is that why it is like that?
Adela was passionate.
To forget about the pack of wolves that are always looking for them, howling angrily.
He desperately clung to me and licked his tongue.
And the past me, who knew her psychology well, also hugged Adela dearly and was absorbed in her kisses.
“·······.”
How much time has passed?
The wolf pack that failed to find us began to leave one by one.
Because they were covered in the blood of their own kind, they failed to trace our scent.
If I had just run blindly instead of hiding in the dead wolf’s stomach, I would have definitely been caught up by them and would have been killed.
“···Let’s go out.”
Anyway, as soon as the wolf’s presence disappeared, I took Adela outside.
We were a complete mess, covered in wolf blood.
“···Can we survive?”
At that time, Adela asked that question with her anxious expression.
However, with a relaxed expression on her face, I cut out the intestines of the dead wolf and held them out to her.
“Stop talking like that and take this.”
“······?”
“It’s a gift. A gift that will save our lives.”
“What is that…”
“Monsters are sensitive to smells. “You can avoid danger only if you can smell the predator’s feces or blood.”
I said so and cut the wolf’s fur.
He said, looking around at Adela, who was looking at me with her bright eyes.
“In short, you are pretending to be a ghost wolf. If you move to the ghost wolf’s prey area while wearing fur and holding your internal organs, you will be able to avoid attack. “A monster wave is a phenomenon of intense anger among monsters limited to humans.”
“····You really know a lot. “How do you know all that?”
“······.”
In the past, I stared into space.
Think about why you have this knowledge.
But there was no way I knew the answer.
Because the memory of who he was was completely sealed away.
“Well. Anyway, the important thing is to survive. “It’s not about how you know this.”
After saying that, I took Adela and moved on.
Footprints left on the ground and the stools of monsters scattered everywhere.
And with the ‘feel’ accumulated over a long period of time, they moved to the area where ghost wolves prey.
I have been exploring this world since the days of ‘The First Possessor’, and there was really nothing I didn’t know.
“I’m hungry…”
But after a while, Adela quickly became tired.
She has always trained herself to fit her mold, so it is difficult for her to endure this raw situation.
“···Then I guess I should rest for a bit. “Are you hungry?”
Adela nodded her head to my question.
She was complaining that she had no strength, perhaps because she was hungry.
She was the grand princess of a noble ducal family, but once she stripped down, she was no different from any other girl.
“Eat.”
I eventually found some fruit worth eating and handed it to Adela.
And while Adela was eating her fruit, Adela sat down on her rock and got down on one knee in front of her and started massaging her feet.
Adela said in surprise.
“What, what, what—!”
“Be quiet. “Because I’m trying to release the mana blood.”
I said that and started massaging the feet again.
The massage I gave was definitely a massage that helped with the circulation of distorted mana.
The reason Adela felt tired so quickly was because mana management was disrupted due to the continuous tense situation.
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“Uh, uh, uh, where! Impolite!”
However, when I pressed Adela’s chest, she got angry.
My past self answered while tilting her head.
“Why do you stay still when kissing her?”
“Oh, no… Between that and this…”
“There was more kissing. “Is it a mixture of saliva?”
“Oh, no…That’s….”
Adela’s face turned bright red like blush.
My past self said with a grin.
“I’m trying to help you, so be quiet. “Your mana is concentrated in your heart, so you need to release this area well.”
“······.”
Adela looked at me with her blue eyes on.
Soon, I released the clogged mana blood, and mana began to circulate properly again.
Adela took a bite of her fruit and said.
“You are so… Interesting. He’s a sword master whose knowledge and skills are impeccable… But he can’t remember anything. “The subject is very young.”
“···I plan to find out when I get out of here. “What was I doing?”
“···Well, that means…! “Can you get out of here?”
“No. “I can’t go out with luggage like you.”
Adela looked at me with puzzled eyes at my continued words.
However, I continued with my expressionless face.
“I’m serious. Now you are 100% buying and selling. When that happens, either we will both die, or I will have to abandon you to live. “The area where the monster wave occurred is like that.”
“······.”
Adela’s expression hardened again.
I put down the fruit I had been eating deliciously.
“···Then you should have just thrown away someone like me. “I was the one who created this situation in the first place and the one who put you in danger…”
The past me looked at Adela for a moment.
Adela wiggled her fingers and chewed her lower lip, as if blaming herself.
Soon, I stood up and said.
“Why did I abandon you?”
“······.”
“I promised you. I will definitely protect you. And somehow, after thinking about it carefully…”
I looked at Adela in silence.
Adela looked at my past self with her nervous face.
Soon I said.
“I think I like you.”
“·····!”
Adela’s pupils widened.
He hiccuped and said something somewhat absurd.
“Nothing, nothing, nothing, rude—!”
“·····?”
Then my past self looked at Adela with a face as if she was saying some nonsense.
Adela hastily corrected herself.
“Oh, no… So rather than being rude…! “Well, why did you speak informally earlier?”
“······Phew.”
I just burst out laughing.
I answered, picking up my sword sheath that had fallen on the floor and fastening it to my waist.
“You’re more shy than I thought. “Have you never been in a relationship?”
“Hi! “Uh, huh…?”
“The hitting feels good. “I won’t be bored.”
As I said that, I stabbed the wolf intestines I had brought with me with my sword.
As blood began to leak out, he wet her hands and then approached Adela.
She looked at me with her new red face.
“I need to reapply it. “That’s when the smell fades away.”
I said that and applied blood to Adela’s cheek.
Adela whined quietly and looked at me.
Soon, I said with a grin.
“That’s it. Makeup complete. Let’s move first. “It’s still too early to feel safe.”
I said that and held out my hand to Adela.
Adela, who was staring at my hand, then grabbed my hand and lifted her body up from the rock.
Adela felt that her body had become lighter and looked at me with a surprised expression.
“I found it. “Temporary shelter.”
How long did I wander through the forest with Adela like that?
Finally, my past self was able to find a safe place to hide.
A cave of the appropriate size was discovered.
“Let’s go. Follow me carefully.”
I went straight to the cave with Adela.
However, there was a group of monsters already living in the cave, and my past self slaughtered them all at lightning speed.
And then he looked back at Adela, who had a nervous expression on her face, and said.
“I need some help. “Please move the body out of here.”
“····Yes.”
Adela nodded and used the spatial movement technique.
This is to move the monster’s body out of the cave as I requested.
After getting all of her body out of her with Adela’s help, I looked back at her and said,
“Now we will mark the area.”
“·····? “Area marking?”
“Yes. Wild monsters mark their territory with the corpses of their prey. “It’s like a warning that if you come over here, you too can end up like this.”
“Ah…”
“Then let’s go mark the territory.”
So I took Adela and started marking her territory.
If an area is too large, friction may occur, so we marked an appropriate area so that there is no friction with nearby monsters.
And among the areas I marked, there was also a place that connected to a valley.
Water is essential for survival, so they secured territory up to the road leading to the valley.
“Let’s take a shower. “We’re in shambles.”
When I arrived at the valley, I took Adela and went into the water.
The deepest water was just up to my waist, so it was great for washing my body.
“Whoa… I think I’ll buy something now…”
Eventually, Adela, who had washed away all the stubborn dirt and hardened blood from her body, spoke with a relieved expression.
However, as she became aware of my gaze, she suddenly blushed and said,
“Why? “Why are you looking at me so intently?”
Her breasts visible through wet clothes.
Adela, conscious of this, lowered her body and went into the water, sticking out only her face.
Then he spoke to me in a voice that seemed to be grumbling, but without any sincerity.
“Well, you know what? What you did to me… It’s a serious crime. He stole the Grand Princess’ lips, touched her breasts, and didn’t use her honorifics. “Do you think your father won’t leave you alone?”
Her words were said in a somewhat joking manner.
However, I hit back at her words quite forcefully with an expressionless face.
“Then, considering what he did after this, he will not be able to escape the cruel punishment.”
“······? What are you talking about.”
Adela covered her breasts as she said that.
However, with my face still expressionless, I said something completely unexpected and absurd.
“We are going to collect your feces.”
“··········?”
Is this crazy?
She looks at me with a face that says exactly that.
Soon I said.
“Did you think marking territory would simply end with laying out corpses? No, the key is the smell of urine or feces. As I said before, monsters in the wild are sensitive to smells.”
“······.”
Adella looks at me with a shocked face.
However, I paid no heed and continued with my next words.
“So we plan to mix our feces with the feces of various monsters. “If I want to portray the mutant monsters that live here, I have to do at least that much.”
Adela looked at me with an expression that made no sense at what I said.
She looked at me for a while and said with a tearful expression on her face.
“···Are you serious? “I have to give you my, my, my stool…?”
“······.”
I saw her.
Meanwhile, she suddenly filled her hand with water and splashed it on her face, brushing her wet hair behind her.
I answered with an expressionless face.
“Actually, it’s a lie.”
“······.”
She looks at me with a bewildered expression.
Soon, she screamed.
“Hey! “I thought it was real!”
“You said nonsense that didn’t make sense, so I said some nonsense too.”
“Wow… You are real. I am the grand duchess. “What if I remember all this and take revenge?”
“Then you become a petty grand duchess.”
Adela looked at me as if I was dumbfounded.
Then, out of nowhere, I started laughing.
It seems to have stimulated a strange point of laughter that I cannot understand.
“Ah… Today is really… The most… Fun day of my life. “I’ve never met someone like you.”
Adela eventually stopped laughing and looked at me as she said that.
In a strange way, the eyes looking at me became profound.
Why does this kind of talk make me look like that?
This was something I couldn’t understand.
“···Well, shall we leave now? “It’s dangerous to stay near the water for too long.”
However, as I felt awkward in the strangely thick atmosphere, I suggested that we go out of the water.
Soon, Adela and I got out of the water and headed back to the cave.
I didn’t miss collecting useful wood for scrap along the way.
“You can start a fire, right? “I’ll get you something to eat and something to use as a cot, so just wait.”
After saying that, I came out.
Then, I used all my knowledge to gather edible vegetables and fruits, and then hunted edible monsters.
Afterwards, we cut down and brought in a lot of trees that could be assembled into beds and soft bushes that could be used as mattresses.
“Get out of the way. “I’ll make a bed.”
He then kicked out Adela, who was warming herself by the fire in the cave, and made a bed for her.
Even though I made it on the spot, wondering if the genius engineer Jjambap had gone somewhere, it was a pretty great bed.
“It’s done. Now listen. Let’s eat.”
After finishing the bed, I started cooking.
Where on earth did he learn these survival skills and cooking? It seemed like he had been doing this for a long time.
“Listen carefully. “I’m going to tell you what I plan to do next.”
After finishing the dish, I started explaining my plan while eating.
To summarize, the plan was to train Adela sufficiently so that she would not interfere with me, and then get out of here.
“····Yes. I will study hard. Please take care of me.”
“Okay. “Then let’s eat.”
After explaining the plan to Adela, I finished eating.
Thanks to survival skills and cooking skills that I can’t remember where I learned them, it was a meal that was both delicious and plentiful.
However, as soon as I filled my stomach with food, I started to feel drowsy.
Come to think of it, we went through a lot in just one day.
“Let’s sleep.”
“···Yes. “I’m tired too.”
Soon, we lay down on our separate beds.
Nodding…Nodding… As I was feeling drowsy, I heard Adela’s low voice.
“···Hey, are you sleeping?”
“·····Uh.”
“···You’re sleeping. Suddenly, I thought of something I wanted to say… But today… I said thank you. “I feel like I couldn’t say that…”
“···It’s enough to know.”
“···Yes. And… After thinking about it, I think I kind of like you too. This is my first time doing something like this… Anyway… I won’t tell my dad. “If you get out of here… They will give you a lot of money… Let you eat a lot of delicious food… And give you a knighthood… Anyway, you have achieved success.”
“·····I see. Thanks.”
I said that and turned around.
However, Adela was still looking at me with a very red face.
It seems like there is still a lot more I want to talk about, with a look of regret on my face.
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“····Hey, Jack.”
“······.”
“···Since when? “He came to like me.”
Since when did you like me?
At that question, I opened my eyes, which had been quietly closed.
As I turned to the side, I saw Adela’s face staring at me.
With her new red face, she avoided my gaze.
“···I think it was from the beginning.”
I have the underlying mentality that I must save Adela.
Perhaps because of that influence, my past self felt a strong attraction to Adela the moment I first saw her.
And I thought that attraction was infatuation.
“The moment I first saw you… I thought I wanted to protect you no matter what.”
“······.”
Adela bit her nails as she listened to my answer.
However, rather than being nervous, her actions were closer to not knowing what to do.
She was smiling like that and answered my words as if she was cooing.
“Then… It’s okay. Even if you commit a lot of sins here… “Well, as long as it’s not a disaster, everything is fine.”