45 – A Night in Hyperion Castle – 10
The morning after the monster attack occurred in the Constellation Palace, I went to Irina’s office.
Smart…
“Come in.”
I knocked on the office door and heard Irina’s voice from inside.
According to her words, I opened the door to the office and went inside, where Irina, Lee Seo-joon, and Seo-yoon were all looking at me.
Lee Seo-joon looked pretty brisk as if he had already been cured.
“What happened? I thought I’d be stuck in bed for a day or so.”
“…Thanks, Shivalum.”
“It was just a simple hello, don’t feel too bad about it. And didn’t you think it would be okay to meet me?”
“…………..”
What is it, why are you so depressed? It was just a simple joke. Just Joke.
“Hmmm… To put an end to the touching reunion, I have something to tell you.”
“What is it?”
“Your Majesty will return soon.”
Your Majesty…Emperor of the Empire? You said you were definitely one of the top 4 on the continent, right?
In fact, if the Emperor had been present, this incident of the mixed flame attack would have been passed without much damage? Because the mixed flames didn’t look stronger than the Beast King, one of the four major powers on the continent.
“There are more than 100 knights who died in this raid alone. If you add the servants and servants together, the number will be close to 200, and within a few days, the story of the attack on the imperial castle will spread all over the continent.”
“So to the point.”
“In other words, the second older brother, who was the supreme ruler at the time, will not be able to escape probation. On the contrary, you who solved this case will receive a great reward.”
“Hmm…”
Actually, I didn’t defeat the mixed flames, but I know that the people of Hwangseong fought the mixed flames one-on-one and won.
To be honest, my conscience is a bit pricked, but what can I do? No one knows the truth but Veronica and me.
“I’m sure you’ll get a big prize.”
“For example?”
“Hmm… It depends on what your Majesty thinks, but he’ll probably give you enough gold coins to play and eat for the rest of your life.”
“Oh…That’s kind of interesting.”
Actually, when I left the Kingdom of Beasts, the King of Beasts gave me a little bit of money to spend in the Central Continent.
But how petty this guy is, he only handed over 10 silver. I found out later that 10 silver is only about 100,000 won in Korea.
“Of course, in addition to the reward her Majesty will bestow on her, there is also another reward for saving her original daughter from her conspiracy.”
“……Isn’t that what you gave yourself?”
“That’s right.”
No f*ck. What kind of slave rewarded his master?
Of course I’m a (phone) slave, but…
“…Okay, let’s hear what it is.”
“I will grant you one wish. Everything the original woman can do for you.”
Wow… That’s f*cking useless.
“……I don’t need it, so just turn it off.”
“Annit?! Her original daughter’s wish rights are not so common, yes!”
Wow…What to do with this? I’m bored to death If you keep saying you don’t receive it, there’s a 100% chance that it will bother you that much…
Hmm… Come to think of it, isn’t there a good way?
“Then I’ll give the wish ticket to Seoyoon.”
“Eh..?”
“Huh..?”
At that moment, Seoyoon and Irina looked at me with puzzled expressions.
“You did something wrong to the child. Hit it with one wish ticket.”
“That…That’s already forgiven…”
“Forgiveness is forgiveness. Since I can’t forgive, please grant me a wish when I say something nice.”
“Ga… Gaon… I’m fine… Besides, the princess did a favor to me yesterday…”
I’m not okay. If you accept the right to wish, it’s obvious that you’ll bother me all day, just like the mana contract. I can’t see that kind of thing again.
“Just accept it. They say the princess grants wishes. If you don’t like it, sell the wish vouchers to the pork aristocrats who have bulging belly fat. If it’s a wish voucher approved by the princess, whoever will buy it?”
“That…That’s kind of…”
“Then you just use it. Is Irina okay?”
Let me look at Irina with a menacing look. She sighed and weakly agreed to my words.
“…I see. I’ll grant Lee Seo-yoon’s wish instead of you.”
“Good.”
One annoying problem solved!
“Then that’s all I have to say.”
“Is it over?”
“I see, from now on, shouldn’t we have a conversation with the people from our hometown?”
Irina smiled mischievously while looking at me, Seojun Lee, and Seoyoon in turns.
Then she quietly rose from her chair and walked toward the door of her office.
“I’ll keep the outsider out for a while.”
Thump…
After that, Irina quietly opened the door and went out of the office.
Then silence came into the office.
Up until a month ago, when we met, we would laugh and talk hahahahahoho, but where did that look go?
“…..Why are you so quiet?”
I was the first to break the silence. To be honest, I’m not very awkward, but the attitude these two treat me is very poor.
Seo-yoon seemed to have some fear left over from her killing Alex yesterday, and Lee Seo-joon was avoiding my gaze with her head bowed down as if she had become a criminal.
Thanks to that, I used to be the least talkative among the three, but now it’s the opposite.
“…Actually, Seojun and I have been together since we were transferred to another world, so we don’t really have anything to say…”
“So?”
“…So…Wouldn’t it be okay if Seojun and I could talk to Gaon once in a while…? I want to talk with you alone..”
“…Let’s do that.”
As I nodded as if I didn’t care, Seoyoon quietly opened the door to the office and went out.
“…You two talk first, I’ll be waiting.”
Thump…
Since Seoyoon left, silence came to the office again.
Originally, Lee Seo-joon is a talkative guy, but I don’t know why he’s like this.
Was life in another world that hard?
– Hmmm… That man named Lee Seo-joon seems to have feelings of guilt towards the king.
‘Guilt? Could it be because I sent you a site link?’
-It seems so. The king and Lee Seo-yoon’s lives were turned upside down in an instant because of his prank, so he feels guilty about it.
‘I thought he wasn’t paying attention because he was so confident, but it seems he isn’t.’
-Originally, the outside and the inside of a human are completely opposite. It’s the same reason that the king, who was a bad boy on Earth, is a madman here.
‘…Are you swearing?’
-It can’t be.
Is it my misunderstanding that Veronica seems to be smirking as time goes by?
“…… Gaon.”
At that moment, Lee Seo-jun opened his mouth for the first time.
But why are you holding so much weight?
“I’m sorry…Seriously, this wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t played around…”
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“No, but something like that.”
“I’m really, really sorry! You can curse at me if you want, so you don’t have to pretend you’re okay!”
….I never pretended to be okay…?
“Wait, there seems to be a misunderstanding, but I’m not pretending to be okay, I’m really okay…”
“You’d better hit me! That won’t make you feel better!”
“No, listen to the f*cking b*tch b*tch#@!#!%$!!”
After that, I tried to solve the misunderstanding by talking with Lee Seo-joon.
But this bastard still seemed to think I was pretending to be okay.
Coming to think of it, Lee Seo-joon has been like this ever since he was little. Are you the type of person who just thinks about something and agrees? Anyway, the bottom line is that it’s a f*cking annoying style.
“I’m sorry…If you think about how hard you must have suffered…Kuhh…!”
“Now go off and call Seoyoon.”
If I keep talking to this guy, I think his head will hurt, so I forced Seo-jun out and called Seo-yoon.
Kikkik…
“…Is it okay if I come in…?”
“Oh, it’s over.”
“But why is Seojun crying…?”
“…….”
I don’t know Shang.
****
“Sit down.”
“Thank you…”
I sat Seoyoon on the only chair in the office.
“So… You seem to have a lot of questions. Let’s listen.”
I asked her while smiling at the look of her seo-yoon wriggling her lips with her spleen expression on her face.
“…..Where did you fall when you first came to this world…?”
“Me? Umm… It was a rather large cave.”
Yes, the Labyrinth of the Abyss is also a cave in terms of topography, right? Except for the fact that the dungeon is large enough to connect continents and is full of monsters over level 40, it is no different from a cave.
“I see…Then how did you get to know the princess…?”
“I met you in the beast kingdom. The entrance to the cave I was transferred to was inside the beast kingdom territory.”
“Ah…Then…What level are you now…?”
I hesitated for a moment at Seoyoon’s question about my level.
My current level is 56. According to Irina, Seoyoon, Alex, and Seojun are also very high level cases in another world, but compared to me, they were nothing more than new blood.
Then, the problem here is, is it really okay to tell Seoyoon about my level?
…..Well, doesn’t it matter?
“56.”
“……I didn’t lie on Earth…But something must have happened…”
“Hey there?”
“Have you ever had a serious head injury… Or something really traumatic… Haven’t you had anything like that?”
Why are you suddenly being treated like a psychopath? Are you sure you don’t believe me?
“No, he’s really 56?”
“Your condition seems to be worse than I thought… How do I heal my mind…”
“………”
f*ck.
“I’ll have to ask the princess later…”
“No, it’s true…”
“Could it be because of the black flames that appeared last night…? They said that contacting them would cause mental problems…?”
“I’m immune to those flames…”
“Whoa…It’s okay. Even if it can’t be cured, I can live with it for the rest of my life…”
Coming to think of it, Seoyoon had a problem just like Seojun Lee.
That’s because he had too much imagination. Of course, he could think what the problem was, but Seoyoon’s problem was that he believed what he imagined to be true.
Thanks to this, Seoyoon seemed to be convinced that I was mentally disturbed by the flames of chaos.
“Yes, no matter how you think about it, there’s no way that kind Gaon could kill Alex, right? There must be something wrong with his brain.”
“…Can you at least imagine it in your mind? Don’t live-stream it verbally.”
“Don’t worry! I’ll definitely return it to its original state!”
No, why are you like this?
“I’m perfectly normal now, Seo Yoon-ah.”
“No, that can’t be the case. Right now, Gaon, you have a mental disorder.”
“No, I’m more sober now than I was on Earth.”
Because I had a [Cool mind], I could be sure that my mind would be fine in any situation.
Of course, there was no way Seoyoon knew about it, and he wouldn’t.
“I’ll be sure to treat you… So… So…”
“Admit it now, I’m normal.”
“No! No! There’s no way the Gaon I know would do that…He was just sick for a while…So…I must…”
It seemed that Seoyoon wasn’t the one with the mental disorder right now.
In fact, if you look closely, Seoyoon was sweating all over her body right now, and her pupils were shaking abnormally. Like a real psychopath.
-…Huh…This child’s mind is unusually weak. If the normal human mind is as strong as a tree, this child has a weaker mental strength than Yuri.
‘I heard that he became mentally unstable due to trauma when he was young…’
-This is just an innate mental weakness. Of course, it cannot be said that there was no role of trauma in the reason why his mind was weakened like this, but even thinking about it, Lee Seo-yoon’s spirit is very weak right now. By the numbers, he seems to be more unstable than a 4-year-old…
‘…What the f*ck.’
-Besides, this child already had a major defect in his mind even before he met the king. It must have been that she was constantly under stress because she couldn’t adapt properly to this world.
I sighed as I looked at the restless Seoyoon sitting in the chair.
-I think it would be better to calm down first… But it seems like it will be difficult.
‘Yes.’
“No, no, no… No… No… No… No way…!”
With her head bowed, Seoyoon was tearing at his hair with both hands and spitting out the same words over and over again.
Just when I was contemplating whether I should return my mind to normal with [Innocence], I heard Veronica’s voice.
-I have a good idea, King.
Baronika seemed quite amused, as if she had any good ideas.
‘What is it?’
-Anyway, this child is currently on the verge of collapse. So why not use Void mana instead to hasten the Mental Collapse?
Are you kidding me? It sounds like the building is about to collapse, so it’s no different than calling to tear it down yourself.
…But if you think about it, it might be a good way…?
-If you use void mana to destroy that child’s mind, he will definitely awaken with a void egg.
‘…Reasonable…?”
-Isn’t it a great way to create new void eggs and restore your sanity?
‘…But do I really have to make a void egg?’
-The more void eggs, the stronger the power of the king. Besides, void eggs basically have a compensating effect on mental strength, so they will definitely be of great help to this child.
‘Well… If so…’
Anyway, there must be a fraudulent ability called [Purity].
Then Seoyoon, who came in contact with the void mana I spewed out, began to tremble all over.
“No, no, no, no, it can’t be, it can’t be, it can’t be, I’ll send it back to the way it was, so don’t worry too much, yet, still, still, it’s okay, it’s okay, yet he’s still there. “
After roughly five minutes, Seoyoon, who was muttering to herself, collapsed on the floor without strength.
“It hurts, hurts, hurts, hurts, I’m sick, no, I’m not okay, it’s okay, no, I’m not okay, it’s not okay at all, no, he’s not okay, I’m okay.
“…Is this okay…? It’s a little different from Irina’s time…?”
-Every human being has a different appearance when their minds are completely destroyed. It’s a child who has been weak from the beginning, so it’s only a little severe.
I looked at Seoyoon, who kept muttering to herself with her head on the floor with her dead eyes closed, a little pitiful. If I had stayed in Korea, I would have lived a normal life, but seeing them suffer after being transferred to another world for no reason made my heart hurt a little.
Of course, thanks to [Sober Mind], My heart didn’t actually hurt.
[A new void egg is born.]
‘Oh, that’s it.’
As soon as I saw the system window that the void egg was born, I immediately used [Purity] On Seoyoon.
After a while, Seoyoon’s eyes came back to life, and at the same time she trembled and struggled to raise her body.
“Do you come to your senses?”
“…Gaonah…?”
As soon as Seoyoon raised her body, she groaned as if in pain from her sudden headache.
“Ugh… My head hurts… What happened…?”
“…Can it be that you don’t remember?”
“…What happened…?”
Unlike Seoyoon and Irina, she didn’t seem to remember the conversation she had with her before.
….Maybe this is a good situation…?
“Nothing happened. Really.”
“…Really…?”
I sent her light smile at Seoyoon, who was holding back her headache with a frown on her face.
If I told the truth for no reason, something bothering me could happen again, so I decided to just get through this situation by lying.
“But what did we talk about…?”
“Uh…Just had a very constructive conversation about adapting well to this world and living hard.”
“I..Really…?…On second thought, it seems like that…”
“Isn’t it? But aren’t you hungry? Haven’t you eaten anything since yesterday?”
“Yeah…I’m hungry, but…”
“Then let’s go get something to eat.”
I’m going to talk more and get black again.
“…Huh…?”
“What’s wrong?”
“No…It’s nothing. I’m just a little surprised to see a question mark next to the status job box. But why is there a question mark…?”
“…………”
-It’s originally displayed like that. It takes time to become a perfect egg.
I don’t know anything~ Ah~ I have to go eat~
By the way, where is the restaurant?
****
Seoyun quietly looked behind Gaon as he headed towards the Hwangseong kitchen.
‘…I’m sorry, Gaon. I actually lied…’
She actually remembers all the conversations she had with Gaon.
She had dreamed of becoming an actress in her own way, so pretending to have lost her memory was simple for her.
‘…I’m sure…Something was strange…’
During the conversation Seoyoon herself had with Gaon, she was aware that something was wrong with her. The fact that she was mentally weak she had known for a long time, but this time it was especially severe.
‘..Hate it…Of course…There’s no way I’d like a woman like this…’
Seoyoon let out a sigh and looked at Gaon again.
At that moment, she felt something strange about her.
-Serve the King.
‘…..What is it?..Feels strange…’
-Obey the King.
‘Ugh… Why are you doing this… My body seems to be getting a little weird…’
Unbeknownst to Lee Seo-yoon herself, her obedience to Gaon was blooming in her heart.