27. Holiday on a deserted island (1)
*Chapter 26 has been completely revised. Thanks again for reading…
It’s been three days since I killed my nemesis, Hydra.
The island was so peaceful.
Although there were some zombies roaming around.
Still, since they dug a puddle in front of the dungeon and drew acidic poison from the swamp to create an acidic swamp, there weren’t too many zombies roaming around the forest.
“When will the bite come…”
I sat on a chair made from the bones of a hydra and watched the beach while holding her chin. Doing this made me feel like a king.
No, isn’t that wrong? Come to think of it, I gave the bosses tickets to the underworld, so now I am the king of this island! Even if you shout out, no one will deny it. If you really shout, you’ll be treated as a strange person, but it’s a part-time job. There are only 3 people here anyway.
No, there are 3 people?
Anyway, I was enjoying this little holiday.
Has there ever been such a peaceful day in my life on a desert island?
There are no worries, you don’t have to worry about trap management, and it’s a pleasant day just by staring at the beach on a protruding rock.
Ah, I got a bite.
As soon as the rod started shaking, I immediately grabbed it and pulled it.
“Oh, that’s great.”
I looked at the wide-bodied fish and licked my lips. This fish is pretty good. I don’t know the name.
You don’t even need to call me by name anyway.
It’s just a matter of dividing it into safe fish and dangerous fish. For reference, dangerous fish are fish that remain poisonous even after being grilled, or fish that are difficult to eat due to many dirty thorns. I hate prickly fish.
It’s annoying to eat while peeling off one by one. The fish with moderately soft thorns, so you can eat it together, or if it is small enough to peel it off, is the best fish.
“Shall we go back soon?”
Only 4 fish caught this morning. This was enough for today’s lunch. Me and Lenny eat a lot, but if you grill it and cook a soup with it, you’ll have a full lunch. And dinner…
“I need to grill a lot of Hydra meat.”
People say meat that has been aged for a long time is not tasty, but Hydra meat is a different story.
The chewy texture, full of umami and lightness to the point of thinking that it was born to be eaten, became the driving force that made us cook and eat all kinds of dishes for three days, enduring all kinds of trouble. The amount is generous, so if you marinate it well in salt water, you can eat it for another month, so it will be like that for a while.
I don’t know if it’s because of my mood, but my body seems to be overflowing with energy.
Still, it would be nice to have more ingredients to add flavor to a delicious meal, so I was relaxing and fishing.
“John. Did you catch a lot?”
“Caught four.”
A sweet voice from behind. I answered awkwardly and got up from my useless fancy fishing chair. It was okay to sit still, but I was still nervous when I talked to Karina. It’s really hard to talk to a beauty.
I don’t even know what to say.
At least the conversation was established because Karina kept talking to me.
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What does Karina think of me?
I don’t think you’ll hate it, but… I don’t know the distance. Meeting a person after 10 years is like saying that it is difficult to accurately measure the distance with a person during those 10 years.
“What is the name of this fish?”
Karina pointed to the last fish that looked like a halibut.
“I don’t know. I have never thought of the name of the fish caught here. As long as you can eat fish.”
“I see…”
There was a break between me and Karina. The only thing that can break this uncomfortable silence is sudden, but I know and Karina knows that avoiding the seat every time isn’t the best way. So, in this uncomfortable silence, Karina and I noticed each other.
“Karina.”
“…Ah, yes. What are you doing?”
“I have a question.”
“Are you curious?”
Karina looked at me as if she was saying something. Is it any wonder that I ask this question? Come to think of it, I think it’s the first time I’ve asked Karina like this.
“Why did you cross the sea by boat?”
“Ah … She was crossing the sea to enter Calon Academy. But the boat…”
Having received the answer to a question I had been curious about for a long time, but put off because I was busy, I turned my gaze back to the beach and lost myself in thought.
So before the game starts?
Since attending the entrance ceremony was the content of the prologue, the game story hasn’t started yet… No, since I’ve been here for over 15 days, it might have already started.
Then what will happen?
An academy without a main heroine. Since there are a lot of parts where Karina is active throughout the early, middle and late stages, there must be a lot of holes in her story progression.
I don’t know who the main character is, but it’s so pitiful that he has to endure that hardcore school life without a healer.
If Karina can’t return like this…
“Huh, John?”
“Do you have any questions for me?”
“How did John end up on this island?”
“I don’t know either. When I opened my eyes, it was an island, and I started a desperate struggle to survive.”
Except for the fact that he was possessed, it was 100% true. When I really woke up, I woke up on this island, and from then on, I started drifting to an uninhabited island that I couldn’t hear without tears.
At that time, I thought that I would not be able to last even a month, living on a day-to-day basis, let alone 10 years.
I really don’t know what the world is like.
“Don’t you remember the past?”
“I don’t remember. I don’t really care. At the point of living on this island, it won’t be very important.”
“…If you get out of here, I’ll help you find Johann’s past.”
“You don’t have to.”
What do you mean? It is difficult to guess the intention behind Karina’s words. Because human-to-human conversation was so difficult for me. It’s better if it’s simple ignorant like Lenny, but is it true that it’s difficult to have a conversation with a complicated person like Karina?
…It would be more accurate to say that I convey when I speak simply because the other person is a beauty.
But I can’t help it. The transcendent beauty, whose eyes are hard to take off her face, smiles at me while looking at me with a good-natured gaze. Even if a real man comes, there is no choice but to save money. She doesn’t, but she can’t say outright, “Wow, man, Jonah, you look ugly.”
“Yo, John?”
Ah.
Ah…
Ah……
I kicked off the ground and jumped straight into the sea.
Let’s go to the continent like this. Right now!
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“John?!”
Karina was frightened when she saw John suddenly jump into the sea.
It was embarrassing. She suddenly jumps into the sea. Carina, who was about to call Lenny with a confused look on her face, shut her mouth when she saw Yohan disappearing while splashing around in her water.
“Look…”
Karina couldn’t bear to keep her vulgar words out of her mouth, so she hurriedly shut her mouth and followed John’s back with her eyes as she moved away. His face is hot It was the first time in her life that Karina had been subjected to such direct flirting.
‘I’ve lived alone for 10 years, so that’s understandable…’
It’s not someone else, it’s a life saver. Even if Karina said something like that, she could understand.
It was strange that she didn’t go crazy just imagining living alone for 10 years. Besides, there was nothing strange about her saying something like that since what she’s been through the past few weeks is work.
Karina, too, sometimes when stress builds up, she secretly goes out of the temple to see her downtown. Considering her occasional deviations, it wasn’t even that strange… Karina convinced herself.
It’s not strange to think that she’s looking at a woman if she’s lived alone for 10 years…
‘What am I thinking.’
Karina looked at the blue horizon, taking her gaze away from him, whom she could barely see now. As she gazed at the endless blue horizon, Carina suddenly turned her gaze back to John.
‘What does John think of me?’
Ambiguous relationship.
Karina thus defined her own relationship with John. As a life saver, she is grateful to him, but she is a person who is difficult to get close to as more than an acquaintance.
But since she met Lenny, she became the first person she depended on.
It’s hard to call her a friend, but more like an acquaintance.
In this half-way relationship, Carina would wonder if she should take her step or should she just stand still and wait.
It was the first time she had been this close to a man, so she couldn’t tell what Karina was.
It would be more convenient if I could politely decline, but I don’t want to.
Karina turned her eyes and stared in the direction John had disappeared.
Unlike the mainland, which was surrounded by countless people’s eyes and could not move freely, only her heart mattered on this uninhabited island.
‘Time will solve this, right?’
Regardless of whether we leave this island or not, we will have to stick together for a long time.
Carina turned her body around, holding the bucket of her floundering fish.
“I hope you don’t come too late…”