Chapter 331 – Chapter 331 Yggdrasil (3-39)
To be honest, there was one thing I expected when I came to Yggdrasil.
Elf.
It’s a world where monsters of all kinds appear, but I thought that elves would appear.
Even so, the reason I didn’t pay much attention to that thought was because an elf-like woman was standing right next to me.
Because Min Ha-yeon is a person who truly encompasses both Eastern and Western appearances.
But the real one came out.
“I watched your actions from behind. It should be shameful for her to carelessly touch a woman’s vital parts.”
“….”
A straight nose, long ears, cool eyes, and flowing golden hair.
In the mid 170’s, she had the tallest height among women in this place.
Her face was exposed coolly, her upper body was covered with greaves with beautiful patterns, and her lower body was wearing leather pants for mobility.
Although it wasn’t the sleek image of jumping from tree to tree that I knew, it retained an aloof and strong image.
It wasn’t me or Min Ha-yeon that awakened my mind, which had been so blankly feeling the touch of her wrist.
“What are you, bullying my guest?”
It was the vendor at the stall that Min Ha-yeon and I were looking at.
I didn’t know she was wearing a dark cloak, but when I saw her face exposed, I couldn’t help but be quite surprised.
‘Eh? Elf?’
[Once you look at the different skin colors, it seems that they are of different races.]
As Armonia said, the physical appearance of the Elves was similar.
However, the skin color was dark purple, so it gave off a completely different atmosphere from the elf holding my wrist.
Unlike the elf holding my wrist, it was male and had a middle-aged appearance.
However, even though she was middle-aged and a man, it seemed that she was not inferior to the title of beauty.
The elf holding my wrist opened its mouth expressionlessly without much reaction to the man’s rough voice.
“I’m sorry I interrupted your business, but it was because I couldn’t stand this man’s behavior.”
“Hey, aren’t you stupid? Rather, I think you are the one who can’t look at his behavior?”
“… ? What are you talking about?”
The pale man in front of us snorted and opened his mouth.
“Looking at it, it seems like a lover. Rather, don’t you think that you interfered?”
“Nonsense…. You can’t carelessly touch your lover’s body like that….”
“I….”
Min Ha-yeon bows her head in the middle of the two and makes a shy expression.
She said cautiously to the elf who was quietly holding my wrist.
“Thank you for your consideration. You can let go of my wrist because I am a friend with that kind of relationship.”
“… Okay. All right.”
The golden-haired elf closed his eyes, nodded, and carefully released my wrist with an expressionless expression.
I politely let go of her wrist, but she opened her mouth with a serious look towards me.
“I’m sorry. I deeply apologize for any misunderstanding.”
“No. What… It’s okay because I was misunderstood.”
“Then I am….”
The elf seemed to turn around and go on his way, his golden hair waving.
‘Sorry… I wanted to see more.’
It was a person who could feel a strange feeling for a moment just by looking at it, perhaps because it was a very heterogeneous existence.
It could be said that it was a wonderful experience to actually see the existence that I only saw in games or novels.
However, her steps did not last and she had to stop.
“Hey? To be so rude and just go?”
“….”
Hearing her words from her pale merchant’s mouth, the elf stopped her steps and quietly turned her head away.
“I apologized.”
“Ah… Do you mind if I apologize? Are you saying that just by talking to that lofty daytime resident, everything will be resolved?”
“….”
Despite the pale merchant’s sarcasm, the elf’s expression remained the same.
However, it was the fact that her hostility was clearly visible in terms of the atmosphere itself.
Moreover, the hostility was not limited to merchants.
‘What? The villagers seem to hate this woman?’
The villagers were looking at the elves with displeasure instead of curious eyes like they used to see us.
The elf pondered for a moment, then she looked at us and she politely opened her mouth.
“Come to think of it, I have made a big mistake for you guys. If you don’t mind, I’d like to treat you to a meal.”
… What kind of cake is this?
..
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After that, we found ourselves in a position to come and eat at a restaurant in the middle of the night.
But there were no regrets or annoyances.
Oh, of course, only midsummer with me….
“….”
At first, it felt like Min Ha-yeon, Han Bom, and the trio were also looking at me in awe thanks to the existence of elves, but soon they were looking at me with disapproval.
I led the conversation with the elf as much as possible, avoiding the gazes of Min Ha-yeon and Han Bom, who were particularly glaring at me.
“Come to think of it, I should introduce myself. I am Sung Soo-ho.”
“This is Lucien Lux Solis.”
After that, starting with Min Ha-yeon, everyone started to introduce themselves.
The woman who identified herself as Lucien started nagging me at the same time as she apologized for what happened earlier.
“If you are a lover, I think it is one of the few deep bonds in your life. I think it’s better to treat them with a little more affection.”
Haha… Yes.”
“I can’t force my ideology on people who come from another world, but I think it’s good to cherish the person you love with the thought that it’s the last.”
“As… I will keep that in mind.”
Han Bom and the trio looked at each other with expressions wondering what was going on, but luckily they were able to stop there.
With those words, Lucien quietly put her food into her mouth without making a sound of her utensils clinking.
But she had a presence that stopped her hand.
“Mr. Lucien… Aren’t you uncomfortable with the armor?”
As Hanbom said, Lucien was eating her food while wearing her armor.
She quietly put the food that had already been stamped on her fork into her mouth and finished it, then calmly opened her mouth.
“You don’t know because you’re on the first floor, but there’s a war going on upstairs.”
It was a story I had heard before.
The story of a large-scale war taking place not in our small area, but in a large-scale upstairs….
But what does war have to do with wearing armor and eating? .
“No matter how neutral I am, I am a soldier in the war. It’s just a natural thing to do.”
“Aha….”
Hanbom was admiring her strange eyes.
Lucien Lux Solis… She was a line that made it clear what kind of character she was.
She is not flexible at all, but on the one hand, she is a person who sticks to her convictions.
It can be a bit frustrating, but Han Bom and Min Ha-yeon seemed to like it a little.
People like that usually don’t have a frustrating side… No, there are a lot of them, but instead, there were effects that didn’t seem false.
While everyone was looking at Lucien with curious eyes, a warm man’s voice suddenly came from beside her.
“It’s a mission… What is your mission?”
Everyone’s eyes were focused on where the words came from.
‘What’s wrong with that bastard’s voice all of a sudden?’
[….]
Midsummer, who usually spits out a dull voice, suddenly starts to set the mood with a warm voice.
“….”
Min Ha-yeon and Han Bom looked at him with bizarre eyes, and the trio also looked at him with strange, but slightly different eyes.
But Lucien, who couldn’t read the mood of the other women, explained quietly without feeling strange at all.
“It is not a big task.”
“Hmm? Are you having trouble talking?”
If it is a mission during a war, it will not be a level that is virtually difficult to say, but a level that must be absolutely kept quiet.
As I thought of her, she shook her head with a serious expression and opened her mouth.
“I’m sorry, but I can’t tell you about that either.”
Haha… Okay.”
Despite Midsummer’s awkward smile, Lucien treated her as if she wasn’t interested.
‘Kya… Even if Midsummer is handsome, is it because he is an elf, so he usually sees a guy like that? It doesn’t come over at all.’
The women I’ve seen so far looked at him as if he was bewitched.
Ah, minus Hayeon Min and Bom Han.
And the person who decorates her third was Lucien.
She had a serious expression on her face from a while ago and only gave a rough answer to Midsummer’s words, but she didn’t show any kind of liking.
“By the way, you seem to have a bad relationship with the merchants and other people, as well as the residents here…. If you don’t mind, can you tell me why?”
She couldn’t understand rather than bad intentions.
Lucien was because she seemed like a good person to anyone.
She was hostile to such a good person because she wondered if the villagers here were evil.
But after hearing her words, Lucien could understand why they hated her.
“I am a day resident. And the inhabitants of the day and the inhabitants of the night were hostile to each other. The war I mentioned earlier is also a battle between the two camps.”
To put it simply, it was a camp fight, but Lucien, a daytime resident, was not treated well when he came to the area inhabited by the nighttime residents.
But question here.
“Then, how are you here? You say you’re at war?”
“On the first floor, all areas are neutral, so NPCs can never launch a preemptive attack.”
“Aha….”
Now I know why the guys upstairs came here and ran amok.
Upstairs, NPCs as well as summoners were threatened, but at least here, the threat of NPCs disappeared, so I thought it was because it made me feel safe.
We wanted to hear more details, but Lucien stayed silent as much as possible, and she ended up with a conversation that provided basic information.
“The work in front of the stall earlier was rude. Then….”
Lucien didn’t show any regrets, and she went right on her way.
‘… Too bad.’
[I understand that you’re disappointed, but I think it’s better to understand the atmosphere.]
‘Uh… Well…..’
Min Ha-yeon and Han Bom were staring at me.
‘Ruined. I just can’t sleep today.’
[….]
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Next day.
“What is it really….”
We arrived at the village empty-handed, just like yesterday.
The evening glow was shining towards the village, and the residents were slowly starting to wander around the village.
Residents of the night who still look at us curiously….
However, the appearance of such residents was not important to us at all.
‘It’s a big deal. The contract with Midsummer is about to end….’
Even if Han Yeo-reum returns, there is no problem with her memory because this time she has to take Min Ha-yeon and Han Bom with her at the same time.
However, her desire to move forward gradually grew, and even if she returned, at least she wanted to know how to obtain the token of this place.
[There are two days left.]
‘… They say it’s two days, but the last day ends during the day.’
The exact time the contract expired was daytime.
‘I have to do my best until then.’
We started wandering around the village today, hoping that we might find some hints.
Feeling slightly impatient, I made a suggestion to the party members.
“Why don’t we all scatter and search this time?”
I suggested attaching Hansuman to Hanbom and then looking for the rest of the members by themselves.
At first, everyone seemed a bit worried because it was the middle of the night, but soon saw the residents walking around briskly and nodded their heads immediately.
“It’s rather scary during the day here, and it’s nice to be able to walk around at night without worrying about that at all.”
“Yeah, it looks like Korea.”
Everyone smiled and nodded at that, then started moving.
“Then see you at the inn.”
“Yes~.”
In a sense of urgency, without realizing it, I began to quickly walk around and dig up information.
But the answer that came back was the same.
(Well… We can’t tell you anything.)
(I’m here to buy stuff.)
(If there were as many summoners as before, I would have bought them with points or obtained information, but now I can’t see anyone but you.)
I sat down on a bench to catch my breath and looked up at the night sky.
The beautiful silver full moon was really beautiful.
“Ha… What would you do if you were beautiful?”
Even the full moon that seemed to pierce the sky could not clear my stuffy heart.
It was when I was sitting on a bench and staring at the full moon.
“Looking at you like this, it seems like you and I have a connection.”
“Yes?”
Her ears pricked up at the sudden, crude woman’s voice, and her head automatically turned.
Beside her stood Lucien looking down at me with a serious expression on her face.
“Looking at the people I met when I first visited the village and the people I met when I left, it seems like there is a connection.”
“Oh, are you leaving?”
“Yes, it is. Then please have a peaceful trip….”
She didn’t turn a blind eye to me and greeted me despite the fact that she could have just passed me by because of my image or annoyance yesterday.
But that was it.
‘Wow… I’m just going to say hello.’
After she had just said her true goodbyes, she began to direct her steps toward the entrance of the village.
[She is a person who will never give up on her beliefs, even if it’s a trivial thing.]
She is a person who never breaks the standards she has set for herself, no matter how small or trivial it is.
Although it would not be possible to define Lucien only with these fragmentary parts, I also agreed with Armonia’s words.
I was close to her empty words towards her, but I told her to be careful.
“Be careful of the Red Summoner on the way, just in case.”
“… Is the Red Summoner in this area?”
“Yes, it’s not to the level of being covered with dirt, but I get around quite a bit. Because of that, I had a hard time when I first came to the first floor.”
“….”
Lucien stared at me with serious eyes, then suddenly she turned and started coming towards me.
And… He sat down next to me and opened his mouth.
“Could you please elaborate?”
