10 – Episode 10. Yerina Frost (2)
“Is there only one tent…?”
“Yes. Unfortunately.”
Swipe.
Yerina said, hiding her backpack containing her spare tent behind her back.
Only one cramped tent.
What will this man do in a situation where he has to spend the night in this deserted mountain?
‘You came to Palana on the cross-country train for sightseeing? Alone? ‘It doesn’t make sense.’
No matter how you look at it, it’s suspicious.
Palana is a place with such inconvenient transportation that the number of tourists who have visited it over the past 10 years can be counted on one hand.
You tried to walk this mountain path alone in Palana without any guidance from locals?
I couldn’t believe it.
‘As a monarch, I need to take a test.’
Overlord of Falana, Yerina Frost.
Coincidentally, while she was out collecting snails, she met this suspicious man.
There is no clothing or accessories to prove that he is a monarch, and there are no weapons at all.
To this man, I would seem like an ordinary village girl.
Yerina decided to take advantage of that and give this man a test.
“It gets cold here quickly at night. Should we come inside the tent quickly?”
“Write it down. I understand…”
Once we brought the man into the tent, it became very awkward.
The tent was so narrow that even if we tried to stick to the walls on either side, our backs had no choice but to touch.
The inside of the tent was soon filled with the sound of the wind blowing outside and the sound of the sleeping bag rustling.
“Can I use this sleeping bag?”
“Yes. Why? Do you have any complaints?”
“No. There is none.”
They intentionally threw a thin and poorly insulating sleeping bag to the man.
But the man accepted it without any complaints or complaints.
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It didn’t seem like they were from a group that was criticized for being the recipient.
‘Wouldn’t this man do anything even if he were to sleep with a pretty, true, cute, pure and innocent-looking country girl like me?’
The right answer is to nip criminals in the bud in advance.
If he tried to do something foolish, he planned to immediately tie him up and throw him as food to wild animals.
Yeri closed her eyes tightly and waited for her demons to come.
The moment he touched a single hair on her, he was ready to tear it apart, but
‘Huh?’
Nothing happened for a while.
Yerina felt something strange and glanced behind her.
She then noticed her man, who had already covered her head with his sleeping bag and turned his back to her.
‘Am I crazy? ‘To touch a woman who tears open a bear with her bare hands?’
At that time, Eugene was chattering his teeth in fear.
Even at a quick glance, I can see that she looks very nervous, with her ears spread out.
She seemed to see a future in which she would be locked in an armbar and howl like a girl just by touching her, so she decided to just pretend to sleep.
No matter how she looked at it, she saw that Eugene showed no signs of moving, so she gave up and lay down.
‘You must not relax. ‘She might be trying to pounce on you while you sleep.’
You might let my guard down and do something stupid in the middle of the night.
Yeri I sniffed her nose while thinking so.
For some reason, her ears drooped as if she was disappointed.
“Hey. Are you awake?”
“······.”
Tuktuk.
Every now and then, whenever her back is touched, I feel her flinch on the other side.
When she tried to address this, she flinched even louder.
After realizing that she was not asleep yet, Eugene had no choice but to open her mouth.
“Yes. It’s so cold that I can’t sleep well.”
“What’s your name? I haven’t asked you that yet.”
“I’m Eugene.”
“What is your family name?”
“This is the Yu family name.”
“Phew. It was a joke, right?”
“Yes, well…Let’s do something like that.”
You are an interesting commoner.
However, for a commoner, his appearance, attire, and manner of speech are quite gentle.
It looks like he received a fairly good education.
I thought he might be the child of an employee of a noble family.
“What is your name?”
“My name? My name is… Catherine.”
“Huh. Catherine. That’s a pretty name.”
Eugene couldn’t stop laughing at her pseudonym, which seemed to have come up after some thought.
In the first place, the name Yerina came from Yekatrina.
In the initial setting, it was Yekatrina, but there were opinions that it was too long, so it was cut down to Yerina.
In fact, the person involved had no way of knowing the story behind my name.
“Katrina. Let me ask you just one thing.”
“Ask.”
“You are willing to take me to Falana, right?”
“······.”
A dull question with no hint of laughter.
Yeri I kept her silent for a moment while choosing words.
There was no way I didn’t know what that question meant.
‘You’ve noticed that I’m going in circles instead of going straight to Falana.’
The man’s voice I just heard seemed to contain a little bit of fear.
From this man’s point of view, I must be suspicious.
It will look like I am trying to kill you by making you wander up the mountain.
I realized it too late and bit my lip tightly.
It was difficult to be misunderstood.
“I’m sorry! I didn’t intentionally take a wrong turn with malicious intent!”
“Haaa…”
“Eugene?”
The moment I quickly looked back to resolve the misunderstanding.
Yeri I noticed that Eugene was making strange breathing sounds and she placed her hand on his forehead.
It’s cold.
His breathing and pulse are irregular, and he does not become conscious even if his name is called several times.
“Hypothermia…!”
I lost a lot of body temperature.
Only then did she remember that, unlike the beast people, the humans were much weaker to cold.
Because I didn’t take him to Falana right away.
No, it happened because I threw a thin sleeping bag at it.
“Please don’t die…”
Yerina quickly broke down in tears.
She must survive somehow.
If this man dies, it’s all my fault.
“Tsk… Tsk tsk…”
It was a waste of time to even consider other methods.
Yeri quickly took Eugene out of the thin sleeping bag and moved him into a thick sleeping bag.
But this alone will not be enough to raise her body temperature.
“Ha. Haaa. Hold my hand. What should I do? It’s so cold…”
Without hesitation, Yerina stuffed herself into that cramped sleeping bag.
In a cramped tent, and even more cramped in a sleeping bag, her man and woman were tangled together, sharing her body heat.
Her fluffy tail curled around Eugene’s cold legs.
Eujin’s hands are as cold as ice.
Yeri I desperately prayed for her not to die, and she played with her pale hands all night long.
***
“It’s arrived now…”
“It’s closer than you thought?”
“I’m really, really sorry…”
“hahahaha. No. It’s okay.”
Early morning with birds chirping.
Two hours after departure, we finally arrived in Palana.
She smiles awkwardly at Ye Rina, who has been apologizing like a parrot ever since she woke up.
It’s really good.
If I thought I would die from hypothermia, I would have already become a cold corpse during cold weather training.
Thanks to you, I was able to sleep in close contact with Yerina’s warm, hot body, so it can be said to be good.
I was actually conscious at the time, but it was unsightly to shiver in this much cold, so I deliberately pretended to sleep…
I never dreamed that such an event would occur.
“Oh.”
After passing through the rough forest and clearing away the tree branches, the view is filled with a panoramic view of the city.
Just looking at the smoke coming out of the chimneys of the tightly packed wooden buildings is enough to make you feel hot.
It is a place that is completely different from the square modern city of Petersburg or the Renaissance European city of Hameln.
I like it because it is definitely an oriental city and has a high population density, so it has a strong smell of people living there.
“Could you please give me a guide to the city?”
“Yes, well. I did something wrong, that’s about it… Ah, ah! Of course, I’m a simple country girl who doesn’t know much about the city’s nooks and crannies!”
“······.”
Do you still plan to continue working on the concept?
I got a little sick of it.
I walked around the city with Yerina’s guidance.
Of course, everything was the same as the game settings, but exploration cannot be done in vain.
There may be settings that have been changed or added to compensate for holes in the system’s plausibility, so there are some things you should check.
“Palana exports numerous natural resources, including iron, sulfur, and gems. There have been numerous invasions by powerful countries that coveted those resources, but we have repelled them all. All of Palana’s citizens receive basic military training. “I’m receiving it.”
“······.”
This setting reminds me of a country in Northeast Asia that is enforcing conscription for all adult males.
“And this is the palace. This is where the Overlord, Yerina Frost, lives.”
“Is it okay for me to come in here?”
“Of course it’s okay. That’s right…”
“Master. Are you back?”
Finally reached the royal palace.
The servants who came out to meet Yerina quickly put a fancy fur coat and crown on her.
Then, Yerina’s eyes turn around and look at me, full of pride.
It’s an expression that seems to say, “Are you surprised?”
“Wow. Wow. It was the Frost Lord. I never imagined it.”
“You weren’t surprised at all!”
“I was surprised.”
“Lie!”
I was surprised.
Yerina’s acting skills are worse than you can imagine.
What’s most surprising is that she really thought it would work.
“Ugh…!”
Yeri I think she felt somewhat insulted by my reaction, so her face blushed.
Yeri glanced at her waist and parted her lips.
“Do you think you use a sword?”
“Yes. I learned swordsmanship.”
“Then, let’s spar with me. Of course, if you think you’re going to lose, you can leave me out.”
It seems that our Frost Lord wants to take out his anger on me.
They beat me up legally.
The opponent is one of the strongest men in the world who can tear a bear apart with his bare hands.
On the surface, it looks like there is no chance of victory at all.
No matter how you look at it, it seems better to be a coward by getting out of here than to get beaten up.
“Okay. Let’s have a round.”
But I willingly take the hand that Yerina offers me.
Yerina’s eyes slowly widen as if this was a completely unexpected answer.
Everyone has their own thoughts.