How to Steal the Protagonist’s Woman 453

Chapter 453 – Chapter 453 Yggdrasil (4-1)

As soon as morning broke at Atler, I returned to the ship.

Even though the light of the sun, a sign of dawn, was coming in through the window, Louise couldn’t get out from under Karin’s bed.

According to Lena, it was confirmed that she was not sleeping by seeing that some movement was detected.

In the end, I left the room after carefully putting Karin and Anna to bed in order to create an opening for Louis to escape.

After that, I watched in secret out of fear that Lewis might do something stupid to Karin and Anna just in case he didn’t know….

“Still, it’s Ji’s mom and sister, so she didn’t do anything stupid like that.”

He quietly returned to his room.

It’s just that he limped like a zombie all the way… Something like mentally or physically hurt?

“Probably nothing big will happen while Suho is away.”
“Great!”

It reaped an unexpected harvest.

Karin and Anna.

I put those two women into my grasp.

“Louis… You have a mother and sister who are as pretty as her handsome face…. Thank you.”

Despite my hearty smile, Armonia continued to talk with an expressionless expression.

“First of all, the Zodiac side sent 1 million Enel this time.”
“Oh… He gave me a lot.”

It was a much larger amount of Enel than what he received every week. It seemed that Armonia did a good job reporting it.

However, it was also said that this story would be reduced further if there were no exceptional reports.

And this time, especially because he used a lot of magic, the level of his magic power and some attributes went up little by little.

-[Magical Power LV 15], [Anti-magic LV 1], [Magic Circle LV 43], [Fire Lv 5], [Water Lv 3], [Wind Lv 5], [Earth Lv 1], [Thunder Lv] LV 13]-

I sighed as I looked at my temperament window floating on the desk.

“It’s really creeping up.”

This time, he made the most of his magic and proceeded with the goal of growing, but in the end, only a small amount of abilities were raised.

“Growing up is not easy. It’s better to focus on earning Enel and then raising your abilities.”

The bottom line was that Enel was the best.

Armonia proceeded with the next story.

“The next destination is Yggdrasil.”
“Great. Ah! Right!”
“… ?”
“Let’s go there after we go to Yggdrasil.”
“… Where is it?”

Armonia just stared at me with a questioning expression on its face.

I said, extending my finger to Armonia.

“Demon King!”

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There is always something to do when you come to Yggdrasil.

“Hmm~”

It was to put the fresh air of Mother Nature into the lungs.

And what’s in my lungs….

“Does the temple smell like scented candles?”

The smell of incense smoked when commemorating the dead came in.

[Probably because it is the place where the dead live.]
‘But… When I first entered, I was so distracted that I didn’t have time to smell it.’

Where I am now is the second floor, the stairs for the dead.

After finishing the boss battle on the 1st floor, I received a preferential treatment because I gave up nonsensical results.

In fact, the fairy explained at length that it was a privilege, but… Nothing really touched me.

Strange at first, there was nothing I could get from the City of the Dead.

There is no shop, and it is impossible to trade with the dead.

At least, there was one part that was not a little helpful to others other than me.

‘Everyone must be busy arranging protection.’

A blessing that grants a person their own unique passive ability.

Among our members, there were only two people who had already decided on Gaho.

It was midsummer with me.

Midsummer had a rare fraudulent protection, and I had the protection of receiving an alarm when that rare fraudulent protection was activated.

It’s ironic.

‘I thought regression was omnipotent. Will I be able to become like a frog in a well someday like midsummer?’
[Then, the mindset is good. No matter how talented you are, it’s always good to be vigilant and deliberate about your actions.]
‘Five… Is it an experience story?’

When I said it playfully, Armonia responded immediately in a low tone.

[That’s right.]
‘….’

It was a joke, but I changed it to something heavy.

Let’s change the subject.

I finished the story I told you on the ship before.

‘Did you get a call from Zodiac?’
[Answer has come saying that it will be prepared soon.]
‘Great… Keep it a secret from Lena.’
[All right.]

I smiled as I looked at the sky full of gloomy mist.

‘Would he like it if I took him to his hometown all of a sudden?’
[You will like it. There is no way that Lena has forgotten her separated family and her longing hometown.]
‘Okay… I hope you like it.’

I smiled at Armonia’s words and looked blankly at the dull sky again.

‘Let’s go in now. There’s really nothing to see here….’

After confirming that the sky in the city where the dead live is also gray, they return to the Grave Keeper’s Castle.

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Neo Niflheim.

This clumsy name was the place for the second floor where the dead were gathered.

Yggdrasil was completely cut off from its stem and root a long time ago by the twilight war called Ragnarok.

The problem was that the upper layer, the stem side, and the lower layer, which was in charge of the dead, were completely cut off, so there was no space to accommodate the dead in the upper layer.

Fortunately, Yggdrasil turned the entire second floor into a place where the dead were accommodated to solve this problem.

Those who died on the upper floors lived on the second floor as souls without bodies, and when their resentment was resolved or disappeared, their souls were absorbed into Yggdrasil, serving as the basis for rebirth into another life.

A place made to make such a cycle of life work well….

“This is Neo Niflheim!”
“Okay.”

Everyone in the party, including me, was listening to the story of the god of death with a pleasant skull face.

This reaper-like being who introduced himself as a gravekeeper was the caretaker of this place.

The dead, of course, caused problems, and solving those problems was the task of the gravekeeper right in front of us.

“Hohohoho! I never dreamed that I would see a living person like this while I was alive.”
“Are you sure you are alive?”
“Puhaha! Sorry! I must say while dead!”
Haha….”

Delightful.

There was calmness in the frivolous smile.

When he laughed, he laughed lightly, and even when he stopped laughing, he had the skill to continue that atmosphere.

He must have spent an incredibly long time managing the dead, so he seemed to be very good at talking.

The gravekeeper rattled his jawbone and said to me,

“I heard that you came here through Cerberus.”
“Yeah, to be honest, I’m still blushing. Aren’t you in a bad mood because you pierced Cerberus?”

It was a word that he uttered in the hope that the being who manages the dead might have something to do with Cerberus, the gatekeeper on the second floor.

However….

“Puhaha! No way! If I see those Cerberus eyes, I’ll numb my hamstrings and collapse. I’m the manager of this place, but… After all, I am also dead.”

The existence that prevents the dead from leaving and the living from entering, Cerberus.

It was a story that the graveyard was also a dead person, and if you recklessly tried to leave the second floor, you would become food for Cerberus.

Min Ha-yeon, who was sitting to my right, leaned against the back of the chair and sighed as she stared at the ceiling.

“Hey… It was so scary to see it alive, but isn’t it said that it’s even scarier when you die?”
“How the hell did you deal with such a monster?”

Along with the words of Hanbom, who was sitting on the left, colleagues around me began to stare at me.

Among them….

“Huh….”

There was also midsummer.

‘Did you feel refreshed after masturbating with the jewelry I gave you? You’re snoring….’
[….]
‘I need to make my nose bleed later, not my snoring.’

I smiled heartily, imagining the flow of nosebleeds in midsummer.

“What have I done… Everyone worked hard.”
“Suho, you are too humble to wear a mask.”
“Right, uncle. In times like these, you need to be a little bluffing.”

Min Ha-yeon and Han Bom started playing around by patting my sides and shoulders.

The trio also smiled softly at us, and the grave keeper who had been watching us looked at us and was pleased… He seemed to be smiling.

It’s a skeleton, so I can’t tell if it’s laughing or crying….

“It is a great camaraderie. I am thinking that I wish I had colleagues like you in my lifetime.”
“Uh… ? What was the gravekeeper like when he was alive?”
“Ho-ho-ho! Unfortunately, I don’t remember.”

If he had been dead for a long time, he would have forgotten.

You might think that memory while alive is worth doing, but in the end, the limit of memory for living beings is only the few decades we live.

It was my idea that even the memories of beings who live longer should not be evaluated by our standards.

However, the gravekeeper’s words meant more than I thought.

“Soul is energy. It is not a place to store memories.”
“Yes? Well, that’s nonsense. If you can’t store your memories, shouldn’t the dead people living in this village eventually lose their memories too?”
“Ho Ho… The memory of the dead… All remain in the minds of the living.”

Ghosts or spirits as we know them.

Such beings exist.

However, the gravekeeper’s explanation was that they couldn’t voluntarily accumulate memories.

“The dead… There is a saying that leaves a name, right? That’s it. In order for the dead to keep their memories, they have to let others remember them while alive.”
“In other words… The less you accomplished in your lifetime….”
“The speed at which the soul returns to nature also speeds up.”
“Her….”

It was an interesting story.

The memory and personality of the soul were determined by the creatures that looked after it during its lifetime.

“However, some memory remains before his corpse rots in nature. However, when the body completely returns to the earth, the soul lives in a way that others remember it.”

If you live as a wicked person, you become an evil soul, and if you live as a good person, you become a good soul.

But other examples also existed.

“The lives of ordinary people as souls are the same, but the lives of famous people’s souls are different.”

No matter how good your heart is, if you remain as a bad person in history, you will become an evil spirit.

And those who are famous enough to decorate a line in history maintain their souls for a long time due to the will of others.

“The more famous you are, the longer you will survive as a soul.”
“That’s right. It’s just that you forget who you really are.”
“I guess the gravekeeper was very famous? Seeing how long you live?”
“….”

The gravekeeper tilted his head as if thinking about something else for a while and looked out the window for a while….

“Ho-ho-ho! Come to think of it, that might be it! Seeing as I can’t remember my age, I must have been really famous! Ho ho ho!!”

It seemed he wasn’t interested.

He is the kind of person who doesn’t care about himself even though he explains it….

The gravekeeper, who was laughing cheerfully, nodded his head as he let out a laugh.

“It’s so nice to talk to living people like this.”
“Aren’t there souls in castles too? I think you’ll get along well….”
“Ho-ho-ho… They are good friends, but they all just repeat the same story.”

Want to live

I want to try something I’ve never done before in my life.

It is said that there are only two of them.

“Perhaps the residents of this place who have seen you will see you, forget about yesterday, and run again like yesterday.”
“Gosh… I need to get out as soon as possible.”

There was nothing to gain on the second floor anyway.

I decided that it would be wiser to go up as soon as I decided on the protective protection.

“For a moment… But how do I get out?”

The concept was that if you use the right-of-way at the exit on the 1st floor, you will come to the 2nd floor.

However, the second floor had no entrance and exit.

Then how do I get to the 3rd floor?

The gravekeeper listened to me, nodded his head up and down, and rattled his chin.

“I also heard of the fairy this time and found out. The way to get to the 3rd floor is that you can freely use the right-of-way from anywhere.”

The concept was to simply take out a pass from all over the second floor and head to the first or third floor, thinking of the desired floor.

“Aha… We’d better fix it up and leave sooner rather than later.”

As I said that, the colleagues around me began to nod.

“Okay, let’s go as soon as we decide on protection.”
“Right. If I stay here all the time, I think I will only cause trouble to the ghosts.”