Chapter 174 – #38_Friendship?
#172
One.
As expected, no matter how monstrous a creature is, the head seems to be its weak point.
I made a long lance like a jousting spear and stuck it right in the middle of my forehead (I don’t know if I should say it), and the monster flinched and died without a single scream.
Flesh that melted as soon as the light disappeared from the remaining 8 eyeballs.
The body, which had been glistening black like tar, became almost liquid and seeped through the cracks in the rubble.
At that time, I saw shiny objects all over the black liquid.
It was none other than the eyeballs, or crystals, embedded in the body of the mother homunculus.
“Uh….! Uh! Uh!”
“Sharon! Pick it up quickly!”
Fearing that the homunculus might go into a final rampage, Sharon, who had been clinging to Siu’s side, suddenly screamed.
Sharon winced and picked up her crystals one by one with her hand, and Siu quickly ran to help her retrieve them as well.
Even Siu didn’t want the crystals, which were as valuable as gold hail, to be lost in the cracks of the building and more expensive than gold.
I thought it was like a scene from a movie about Sen and Chihiro.
Siwoo and Sharon hurriedly gathered their decisions for such a long time.
It was easy to say, but the harvest that Siwoo gathered for two hours by mobilizing even the clumsy Yeomdong was as follows.
A total of 4091 homunculus crystals.
The total weight of Sharon Fischer is 5.4 kg.
If you bring it to the location point, you can receive a bounty of 5.4 billion won.
“Oh… Five… Fifty-four billion…”
Seeing her last count, Sharon staggered with her mouth hanging open.
Of course, I thought she would jump around and like it, but it seems stiff because it was such a large amount.
She stumbled and was about to fall, so Siu supported her by supporting her waist.
“To earn 5.4 billion… 600,000 hours working at a convenience store…”
“Yayaya, calm down.”
“It’s crazy, I’m so happy, what should I do…”
Even this can be seen as a lottery, but Siwoo discovered something additional.
There is a heart-shaped piece near the heart of the homunculus.
Everything else melted except for the crystal, but this one kept its shape.
While looking at Sharon, who was almost fainting, Siwoo looked at the heart in her hand with a trembling expression.
It was only the size of Siwoo’s fist, but it looked very disgusting.
Even if you put it in a glass tube right now and put it on display, it will look like a heart specimen in formalin.
“Sharon, what do you think this is?”
“Neither I nor I don’t know… Ehe… Ehehe… 5.4 billion… 5.4 billion…”
Eventually, Sharon clings to Siwoo while grinning like she is drunk with morphine.
She wasn’t just over-skinning, but her soft breasts were rubbed against her arms as they hugged her tight.
“Ugh.”
Seeing her like her, Siwoo laughed on his own.
In fact, Sharon is the kind of person she seems to have to live with, with little reciprocation.
While harboring such sentiments, Sharon’s limp body, which had become a mollusk, suddenly stiffened.
“Oh…!”
She reminded Sharon of something she had forgotten.
Right Della.
Sharon was defeated by Della and her hunting grounds were stolen.
In other words, if she is doing this here, Della may wander around and steal all of her today’s spoils.
“That, that can’t be…”
Shiu looked at Sharon with a curious expression as she began to tremble like a squirrel in danger of losing all the acorns she had collected for hibernation.
“Let’s go back quickly. ASAP.”
“Why are you doing something?”
Sharon felt sorry for her.
If she says it’s because of Della, then the fact that Sharon saw through Shiu’s lie is exposed.
So Sharon immediately straightened her back and let her smirk tremble.
“Ah, that’s because I’m so tired. Let’s go home today and have a late-night snack while watching a movie.”
“You said you were living today, right?”
“Tell me what you want to eat! My sister will shoot today! And I want to wash up a little.”
Sharon stretched out her arms as if to ask her to see herself.
She is soot from the fire and grey, covered in dust from head to toe.
It was the same for Siu, so the two of them laughed at each other’s dirty looks.
Anyway, today’s hardship ends here.
Siwoo and Sharon left behind the appearance of the barrier gradually shrinking and disappearing and returned home together.
2.
I prepared dinner on the way home.
I got tired of eating half-and-half pork feet, makguksu, and greasy pork feet at a jokbal restaurant that was reputed to be delicious, so I added a bowl of tteokbokki, or a bowl of tuna sashimi because I needed something refreshed after eating something hot and stimulating.
Finally, ice cream to enjoy as dessert is ready.
Siwoo, who had been sitting across the table and sharing food, began to discuss the issue of distribution.
“No, how can I take all of this by myself…”
“How are you? I told you. It is enough for me to increase my magic skills.”
Naturally, Siwoo said he would hand over ownership of all decisions to Sharon.
Anyway, as long as he has the black card that Count Gemonai gave him, it can be assumed that Siu will not suffer from lack of money.
And the view of life itself is Siu, whose greed for money was not that great.
“If I have enough money, even if I don’t have it, I think it’s right for someone who needs it a little more to have it. What am I supposed to do with saving up more money? You’re living in abundance anyway.”
“But you did all the hard work… I don’t think it’s something that only I took away so quickly, Siwoo… Let’s think about it again.”
“It’s because it’s A. I didn’t have the elemental magic you taught me anyway, and I died from being dog food today.”
It was true.
In the first place, the grafting that gave mass to the law of shadow would have been impossible without Sharon.
“Because it’s too burdensome…”
I was grateful and sorry when I said that I would give you a decision in the low 100 million won that I hunted at a department store, but I still thought it could be.
But it is 5.4 billion.
5.4 billion.
A lump sum that can cancel 1/10 of Sharon’s total debt.
Sharon wasn’t brazen enough to be taken for granted as a favor.
Sharon expresses her burden several times, and Siu repeats, “It’s okay, put it in her pocket.”
In the end, the harmonious quarrel between the elder brother and the younger brother ended with Sharon’s tears.
“Okay, what is the burden? No it’s really good oh, don’t cry why are you crying?”
“…You are such a good person… Whip… Thank you… Thank you really…”
“Yes, yes, if you’re grateful, pack some wraps.”
“Yeah… I’ll pack it…”
While shedding tears of joy, Sharon put her pig’s feet on top of her lettuce and sesame leaves, and made a nice wrap topped with makguksu and raw garlic.
This is so…
She is a little embarrassed, but also happy to see Sharon, whom she likes to the point of shedding tears.
“Ah… Ah… Do… Whimper…”
Siwoo was surprised to eat the ssam Sharon handed her to her mouth.
Sharon got up from her seat and hugged Siwoo’s head from behind her.
Sharon’s soft breasts supported the back of her head like a cushion, and when he glanced over her, Sharon’s crying tears fell on Siwoo’s forehead.
“Thank you Siwoo… Really.”
It was so nice to see her smile wide.
3.
After the meal, Siwoo, who roughly cleaned the table, placed the heart on the table.
The flesh, glowing in a subtle red light, was vivid as if a living heart had been removed, but there was no smell or movement.
“What is this?”
At first, of course, Siwoo thought it would be a legacy.
Sharon had been tampering with her heart for a long time, but she couldn’t easily identify it.
“I don’t think it’s a Gnosis egg… No, I don’t think it was a legacy in the first place.”
Usually, the legacy of a homunculus is such that you can see its purpose at a glance.
If it’s a rare potion, it’s a potion, if it’s an artifact, it’s an artifact, if it’s an egg of Gnosis, it’s an egg, if it’s research literature, it’s literature.
However, even after examining it piece by piece, I could not predict its use.
“Shall we dissect it?”
“Is it okay to just split apart?”
“Anyway, this by itself is useless.”
Two people struggling with their heads together.
At the end of the discussion, I decided to split the heart.
Siwoo pulled out a very small amount of shadow and made it like a scalpel to cut his heart.
Contrary to its appearance, it was very hard and the texture was more like a stone rather than a piece of flesh, so I had to apply quite a bit of force to crack the inside.
“Uh….”
And when the heart was split in half, something appeared.
“Is it a decision?”
That was the decision of the homunculus.
It was also quite large, about 5 cm in diameter.
Contrary to what I thought something great would come out, it was just a decision.
“I thought it would be grandiose, but nothing special.”
“……”
However, Sharon held her chin and looked at the homunculus crystal she had taken out of her heart in the light.
The expression is serious.
“Why? Did you notice anything strange?”
“Oh, that’s really weird.”
“What?”
“Originally, after a homunculus dies, the body slowly disappears except for the legacy and the crystal. Did we see you today too?”
“Right?”
Sharon made her decision and held up her broken heart.
“But this remains. This is not a decision or anything.”
Siu, who lacked general knowledge about magic, could not easily understand what Sharon was trying to say.
Sharon opened her mouth with a serious expression.
“Someone intervened.”
“Intervention?”
“Yeah, I don’t know who it is, but I took magical measures to this homunculus’ decision. Because it was interfered with from the outside, even if the homunculus dies, it doesn’t disappear.”
“So, does that heart even control the homunculus?”
“I don’t know about that. Whether it was enhanced, manipulated, or something we don’t know… Seeing that the crystal is wrapped inside the heart… It’s probably shamanistic enhancement through human sacrifice…”
Sharon began to open the heart piece by piece.
In the meantime, when Siwoo heard a word that he couldn’t pass lightly, her eyes widened.
“Human sacrifice?”
“Yeah, so it seems… It seems like a feat. Anyone can see that this is a human heart.”
“I didn’t expect it at all.”
A heart suddenly split in half looks grotesque.
Somehow I thought it was too small for that big monster, but damn that was a human heart?
“But there is nothing too complicated to think about. Anyway, I just have to report it while leaving the decision to Location Point tomorrow.”
“Is that so?”
“Yeah, so leave the rest of this to me and get some rest today. You had a lot of trouble.”
Actually, as Sharon said.
I was so exhausted mentally and physically that I had no time to think about miscellaneous things.
Considering today’s performance, I think it’s okay to take a good night’s rest without complicated thoughts.
It is a necessary reward.
“Are you going to watch a movie together today?”
“Yes.”
“Then, I’ll wash up and leave. I want to relax a little with warm water.”
“Okay, what movie did you choose?”
“Today has been a busy day, so I want to see it as something calmer. How about you?”
“Me too.”
After roughly deciding on a movie to watch together, Sharon went into the bathroom to take a shower, and Siwoo lay down on the sofa and sipped a cold beer.
