Chapter 698 – 691 a Sage Who Calls Himself a Disciple of the Great Sage
Dalgrak dalgrak, dalkak, sabaksabak, vomit.
Ji Ha-ryul, who turned with his back to Hwan-in, wondered if he had turned over for no reason.
That’s why the sound of chatter coming from behind bothered me.
‘And it smells so good…’
The smell of tea is unmistakable, but it’s a smell I’ve never smelled before. Despite the fact that the tea he drank while traveling all over Nionebreth was quite good.
A sweet yet pungent, bitter scent. It’s your favorite scent.
= It smells good. What kind of tea leaves did you brew it with?=
=I mixed the dried pruguini leaves with the petals that Suanade’s mother told me about.=
Ah, Prugini. Certainly the yellow leaves had a pungent scent.
… But what about Shuana? That Shuanade of Turcion?
He felt his heart grow cold and looked back.
I see two women who hesitate in their gaze. The Lukerang woman with amber hair and big breasts like a cow, and the tall Fleur woman with silver hair, proof of the royal family.
Which one is the one who said that earlier?
No, nothing to think about. Turcion is a member of the Fleur family of Merianol. Everyone in the family has silver hair, which is proof of pure blood.
Just before her subterranean Yul’s eyes turned ferocious, Isilite held out her teacup towards her.
=Here is a good tea for a hangover. If you drink it, your stomach will feel better.=
“Uh, uh… ?”
Subterranean Yul was a little taken aback when the voices he had just heard came from Luke and the woman, not Fleur.
“…”
The world is wide. It wouldn’t be strange if there was another woman named Shuanade.
Ji Ha-yul acknowledged his error in thinking and stared at the slightly yellow herbal tea held out to him for a moment before silently accepting the cup.
‘It’s warm…’
In that warmth, another memory emerges from the depths. She closed her eyes tightly, feeling that she was about to burst into tears.
She holds back her tears, but instead the area around her eyes is burning hot.
Why is it so hard to control your emotions today? It must be because of the pounding head and sore stomach.
Jiha Yul, who hadn’t even taken a sip of tea, put the teacup down on his table and stood up, speaking in a sharp tone.
“… Don’t mess with my house If it wakes up, I’ll go out right away.”
Let’s wash up After washing in hot water, this feeling of being rotten and rotten will feel a little better.
As she vanished beyond her cherry blossom-engraved paper, Isilite bowed her head to her phantom with her slightly somber face.
= I’m sorry. I think I offended the great sage…=
Hwanin, lost in thought trying to infer some facts from the words and actions of a girl called the great sage, smiled softly at Isilite.
“You did nothing wrong. The great sage seems to have sharpened his nerves from looking at the past.”
Past? Was there an action that could infer the great sage’s past?
While her female friends were tilting their heads, Hwanin looked at the slowly cooling yellow tea and then raised her own teacup.
“Anne. The Turcion royal family makes many enemies.”
= Huh? No, I’m rather against it. I am very friendly with other royal families, and I am very friendly with the representatives of minority groups in the council. When there is a good harvest, it gives grace not only to the area in charge of the capital city but also to the surrounding area, and the popularity of citizens and residents is high… Why? Does the great sage hate Turcyon?=
Since she couldn’t have asked such a question for no reason, Anne asked with a slightly surprised face.
“When Isilite mentioned her mother-in-law’s name, she sensed a faint but murderous intent in the great sage.”
= Ugh. If it was your mother’s name… Earlier, as soon as Seul Lee said her mother’s name, what happened was Turcion… Then you would have to be angry with me, but why… ?=
“Hearing Isilite’s voice, she must have thought that she was the same person.”
The women’s expressions become complicated and serious.
Ayoung raised her hand slightly and opened her mouth as if whispering.
=Then the great sage… Are you from Merianol? Seeing how you hate Turcion and how you set a knife on your brother, did the Turcion family of Merianol do something bad?
= It’s very likely… It was more than 200 years ago that her mother came over to the Astum family in advance. If her mother was in the Turcion family, how old is the great sage now… No, when did she come over to your one breath? =
= Wait a minute, Miss Anne. So Dae Hyeon-ja is a Korean like himself… Didn’t she say that by Earth time she was over in 2016? Doryeong came over in 2023, and a day over there is a month here, so if you say roughly 7 years… Hick, has she been living in your one breath for over 210 years? =
The eyes of the women widened at Yurupa’s calculations.
“I don’t know what the great sage’s job is, but he dealt with at least three attributes, elemental power, and magic power. Seeing how he used martial arts with a martial arts spear, he must be at least a rare professional. It wouldn’t be strange to say that he knows how to extend his lifespan, since he calls himself a great sage.”
It’s not a world where there’s no way to increase lifespan.
= Self… Is that okay? The great sage didn’t even intend to take the question, and he said to leave as soon as tomorrow morning…=
In response to Yurpa’s concern about whether he would be able to achieve the purpose of finding the great sage in the current situation, Hwanin thought again of the reaction the girl called the great sage had shown.
Although he was so drunk that his nose was crooked, the wave of calm immediately stopped his attack as if he had recognized our true identity.
It means that you have strong mental power and reason.
Even though I was upset and full of resentment, I showed the minimum courtesy and brought this into the house.
It is a story that even if you are attacked at home, you have the confidence and skills to fight back.
Still, he never asked himself any questions. Proof that you have enough intelligence and wisdom to infer the situation and identity of this side to some extent with just a few clues.
Hwanin, who was analyzing her personality and abilities, recalled the question he had felt in the brief conversation a while ago.
‘Why didn’t the great sage return to Earth?’
As soon as she heard when she tripped with Neo’s Breath, she figured out her age and questioned it.
If she received a lot of her scars from Ni One Breath, wouldn’t it be strange if she became disillusioned and returned to Earth?
Although she has lived for over 200 years, she looks like a high school student. Even if she returned to Earth, she would be able to live without any problems.
‘Considering that angry look, it’s hard to believe that there are precious people in this world. However, to say that he couldn’t find a way to return to Earth, the great sage’s inaction and the time he has lived in this world are absurdly long.’
The environment in which the great sage lived on Earth was worse than here. Or maybe a particular grudge is so strong that the soul is bound… We’ll have to talk a bit more about this to find out.
Hwanin, who organized her thoughts while taking a sip of water, opened her mouth to her girlfriends who were looking at him.
“The time allowed by the great sage is until tomorrow morning, so there is time until then. Isilite, it’s late, but I’d like to ask you for dinner. Bean sprouts soup with red pepper powder, rice, kimchi stew with aged paper, and chueotang… Do you like or dislike it? Bring me some soybean paste stew.”
After reading the meaning of Hwanin’s specific diet request, Isilite replied with her eyes sparkling.
=Yes. Since the food is ready, you can prepare it right away.=
“Please.”
After soaking in hot water for a while and washing off the heat with cold water, Chi-Yul left the bathroom feeling his hangover go away.
‘Ha… How can someone like me commit such an indecent thing?’
He seemed like a person with a very lively soul, and when he saw himself wandering into the house, he attacked him without hesitation, thinking that his children had sent someone.
If I had been a little sane, I would have noticed that it was strange, and if I had, I wouldn’t have had to bring a slim-looking man into the house.
“…”
Thinking about it made me feel annoyed in addition to heartburn.
How could all the men who came into this world be like that? If you see a little pretty girl, you’re busy making a fuss. The guys from Radsea go a step further and don’t want to look at them condescendingly, pretending to be kings.
That thin guy looks capable in his own way, but that’s why he’s worse. He carries not two, but six women? You’re a complete flirt!
“Ah, it hurts me.”
Maybe it’s because he’s sloppy without snacks, but every time he opens his mouth, the rotten smell of alcohol flows out, making it painful. The feeling of being squeezed in the stomach made me sick.
At this time, if her mother made kimchi stew…
I can’t even remember her face now, but the kimchi stew her mother made is still vivid in my mind.
This is why it is said that the taste that was cultivated in childhood does not change.
“Turn it off.”
As soon as the burp came out, Ji-yul frowned and held his nose at the terrible smell that seemed to come from a food waste dump.
God, is this what I smell inside? I must not eat anything.
“How many ricoli berries are left…”
Because her cooking skills are devastating, she has lived a life close to Seongsik, not on her own will. I have no complaints about him, but at times like this, I miss the warm food touched by human hands.
Ji-seom-ju-seom took out any clothes and put them on, Ji Ha-yul pouting his lips.
I miss people’s touch so much, but I hate it more than that. No farewell, no goodbye, no parting, everything…
After dressing up like that, Chi-Yul, who came up from the basement to the first floor, was awakened by the smell passing by the tip of his nose.
“This, this smell…”
The spicy yet sharp smell, the smell of kimchi stew with aged pork that stimulates the salivary glands as soon as you smell it.
The smell of boiled soybean paste is very savory, like sliced green pepper.
Underground rate staggered as if possessed and moved towards the smell.
She, too, had sought the food of her hometown because of her bitter homesickness.
It’s terrible cooking skills, but I borrowed the hands of a colleague at the time to get cabbage and red pepper powder to make kimchi, and I found soybeans and made tofu and soybean paste.
But all of that was not 2%, but 98% was lacking.
Kimchi was made with sauerkraut dyed red, and soybean paste was boiled in soybean soup.
I couldn’t help it. Before I was tripped, I was Jamsoon, who didn’t get my hands wet and only went back and forth between home and school to study.
“… !”
Following the smell, Ji Ji-yul went around the corner of the hallway to the living room, and his eyes fluttered wildly at the sight of the food on the large table in the living room.
Pure white rice with white steam blooming.
Spicy and spicy pork kimchi stew that makes your mouth overflow just by looking at it.
Tofu soybean paste stew with sliced red pepper that will make your stomach scream.
The red pepper powder bean sprout soup that Dad liked the day after drinking alcohol, braised short ribs and jangjorim with eggs, neatly sliced kimchi, simple seasoned vegetables and diced radish kimchi, and even steamed egg before tofu.
All the food I longed to see even in my dreams.
The nostalgia for hometown food had accumulated and hardened so much that she couldn’t even feel the nostalgia anymore. She felt the accumulated nostalgia pouring out like a flood as it piled up on the table set in front of her.
“I’m sorry. Because I was looking for the great sage, I only had a rough dinner.”
“…”
Trembling, hesitating.
Because of that, the sound of Hwanin’s words touched her eardrums, but her underground yul couldn’t move even a single step.
It felt like if I moved even a little, I would lose my self-control and run for the food.
“It seemed like he was suffering from a hangover, so I prepared a meal for a hangover. Would you like to share it?”
“…”
If I had accepted him as a guest and treated him with some manners, I would have accepted him as if I hadn’t won.
However, Ji-ryul knew well that it was polite. How unlucky and disrespectful his actions were to the other side.
So I couldn’t even run into that invitation.
See, I accepted that invitation. How stupid would that be How strong does it look like a pig to have a gluttony?
But I couldn’t even turn back.
How can I turn back when the food I have missed for nearly 200 years is in front of me.
Anne, who had read her worries as she stood still, unable to come or go, carefully grabbed her arm and pulled.
= Daehyeonja? I have plenty of food, so eat at least a little bit. You seem to have a bad hangover, but if you eat something hot, it will speed things up.=
“…”
It was weak enough that even a child could resist it, but the underground rate was dragged and sat down like a giant pulling it.
As soon as she sat down at her table, she could tell.
The food in front of her is not a Korean food cosplay she recreated with her vague knowledge, but real Korean food reproduced in the hands of someone who knows Korean food well.
“Eat.”
=I will eat well!=
=Miss Dew, I’ll eat well~.=
= Huh? Hey, Ayoung, you shouldn’t eat meat!=
= Oh right… ! Whoops! I can’t even eat galbijjim right in front of me… !=
As soon as the man stopped talking, Yul Ji-ah started eating in a more family-like atmosphere than her family. Carefully, with her trembling hands, she placed a spoon on the kimchi stew from the 1-person earthenware pot.
“…”
The moment a spoonful of red soup lingers on the tip of the tongue and goes down the esophagus, an electric current starts in the stomach and runs through the body before exploding in the head.
This… It tastes like this I missed him to the point of feeling depressed after waking up from a dream… !
“… !”
Ji Ha-yul, who was relieved of his self-restraint by taking a bite of the spicy kimchi stew soup with shredded red pepper, started eating in a hurry from then on.
Each time the spicy kimchi stew and the savory soybean paste stew disappear, her thoughts disappear as well.
She didn’t even notice her surroundings. Every time she cut the cutlery, the food disappearing brought tears to her eyes.
A spoonful of rice and a spoonful of kimchi stew, a spoonful of rice and a spoonful of soybean paste stew.
The rice is moderately sticky, so you can feel the texture of the rice grains, but it’s never dry or chewy, so it’s good enough to scatter in your mouth when you eat it with soybean paste stew and kimchi stew.
The sweet yet soft braised ribs are eaten by hand, and the salty and salty boiled egg is chewed and swallowed whole in one bite.
There are two types of kimchi, fresh kimchi freshly made and well-ripened kimchi, so it’s hard to decide which one to eat.
Taste? The taste was beyond words. Because it was several times more delicious than the taste of my mother’s hand with memory correction added.
As soon as the bowl of rice disappeared as if you were sweating and hiding your crab eyes, a refill of the rice bowl was added as if you had been waiting.
It was gobong rice, but I think it’s not too much, let alone burdensome.
“Kuh, Kellogg! … Ha ha!”
I hurriedly ate my throat and hit my chest when a glass cup filled with cold water was pushed out from the side.
Ji Ha-ryul, who emptied it at once, burst into tears.
“… ! … !!”
I suppressed my crying, but the tears wouldn’t stop flowing.
Wheein-
The harsh night wind that came over the mountain through the verandah scattered her hair.
Jiha Yul saw visions of her family and home in the wind.
Her happy family of four, her mother who only prepared her favorite food for lunch on her birthday. Dad tempts us to go out to eat for dinner. Even her younger brother teasing her that she eats like a pig.
Now, everyday scenes that can never be seen again are far away into the darkness.
In the taste of food from her hometown that she had seen for the first time in 200 years and the memories of her family that she recalled after decades, Jiha Yul shed her tears and gobbled it up, literally.
And in front of her stomach bursting with satiety and the empty food bowl, Jiha Yul belatedly came to her senses and her face turned red.
She realized how disgustingly she had eaten her food.
= Oh, I ate well. I almost died of hunger from eating some of her rice balls all day. =
= Still, since I eat well at bedtime, I feel a sense of immorality… It’s a strange feeling.=
= Belle, who ate five bowls of rice, what do you mean? =
=… Ayoung, you ate your bowl too… !=
=But since I am a vegetarian, I am less than you.=
= Ugh~.=
=Miss Dew, are you going to wash the dishes later?=
=Yes. It’s such a beautiful and neat place, so I’m going to wash up after I leave the mountain.
“…”
Nobody cares about themselves No, I am not paying attention.
Hae-ryul hurriedly wiped away tears with his sleeve, closed her eyes, and glanced at the top of the table as she saw Hwan-in quietly gargling with holy water.
Everyone’s eating manners were so neat that there was no food waste at all. Only the place where he ate was messy and the rice paste and soup were all gone.
…
Her ears were hot, and she quickly made a short handshake.
The light of the blue water spread from her hands and covered the dishes, leaving only the dishes that were polished clean after a while.
“Okay, sleep in the living room. The blanket over there… It’s in the closet.”
Ji-yul, who couldn’t stand the eyes on her, jumped up to the second floor as if to run away.
If she had kept her sane even a little, she would have noticed her Hwanin’s meaningful smile, but she had that much mental composure left with only her shame for ravenous food and the embarrassment of crying in front of her people. There was no
While arranging the dishes on her table, Anne gave Hwanin a thumbs-up with an expression of ‘as expected.
To attack that picky-looking great sage with camouflage?
Isilite lightly pinched Anne’s side, and she placed her index finger on her lips as if telling her not to say anything strange.
=Wow, the blanket is very soft. I don’t think I’ve used it for a long time, but it smells good…=
After arranging all the tableware, Baek Ryeo-gang brings a bed from the closet and spreads it on the living room floor, admiring it a little.
Yurupa also brought a soft and fluffy futon and spread it beside her, groping in amazement.
= This is all magic. It also seems to be a circular permanent maintenance secret technique… Is it clean and restored?=
= Yes? The endowment ceremony is one of the hardest, right? …=
= If you look carefully, the whole house is endowed with secret magic. It’s like a rechargeable battery, but it’s amazing that you put a secret trick on your house to keep dust from accumulating…=
Ayoung, who took off her magenta flower and changed into light pajamas, asked Yurupa while putting on her makeup with the help of the spirit.
= You say you have the skills to be called the great sage. 3 types of attributes, spirit magic, occult… Since you said that you use even higher energy, magic, isn’t it a rare job, not the only job?=
= It seems like that, but the aura was too thin… What do you think? =
“It is certain that he is an extraordinary talent. It seems like she’s sending her person to the point where it’s annoying to recruit her somewhere.”
=If you think of the geography here, you can say Heathlon. Anyway, it seems that Dew really liked the food, so I hope you can answer at least one question.
After taking off her lighthouse top and accessories, Anne put her light shirt and pants on the futon and murmured. Ah-young, who had put on her makeup, quietly went and lay down next to Anne, listening to her words. Received.
= But she was surprised that suddenly she burst into tears. It must be because she ate food from her hometown after a long time, right? =
= Maybe?=
= There was no trace of food being eaten in the kitchen. When I was cooking, I saw that the ingredients were only fruits, herbs, and salted and dried meat… The great sage is probably someone who can’t cook. Master, lie down here.=
= Oh, there are people like that sometimes. People who seem to have become poison because their sense and talent are too much. Then, you will have experienced the taste of your hometown for the first time in 200 years. … Wow, that would make me cry?=
= Ugh. I don’t understand that. Cooking is also a combination. It’s a sense to make delicious food like Isilite unnie, but isn’t it just enough food to eat just with the right amount?
=So it’s not poison?=
= I see… ?=
After brushing his teeth, Hwanin also takes off Cheonleung’s coat and jacket and hangs them next to him, then lies down between Isilite and Anne.
To be honest, I didn’t expect the great sage to have such a big reaction.
Since she was just hungover, I thought she would feel a little more sympathy if I quenched her stomach with the taste of hometown, but she never expected to shed tears.
Considering that the amount the great sage ate was enough for her to serve 4 people…
= Master. How should I prepare for tomorrow morning?=
=… How many fish left.=
=There are 4 large sea fish and 15 small freshwater fish.=
“It should be about grilled fish, lightly seasoned vegetables, and clear miso soup.”
=Yes. I’ll do that.=
As Isilite said, the great sage must have Yorichi. Whether you know how or not, there is no doubt that you cannot return to Earth.
= It’s somehow nice to sleep together in a living room lit by moonlight like this!=
= Me too…=
= The house is similar to Radsea’s, so it feels good… Ha ha… I think it’s good…=
= I’m full and the futon is comfortable…=
Hearing the whispers of his girlfriends, Hwanin looked for a way to make an appropriate deal with the great sage.
If you suggest the ingredients for Isilite’s Korean food recipe and seasoning recipe as a trade item, they will answer at least one question. Handing a jewel rat doesn’t seem bad either.
Hwanin thought for a moment and hugged Anne and Isilite lying on her left and right, feeling the soft touch of their breasts and closing his eyes.
You can feel that you have a debt to this side when you see that they guided you to the bed at the end, so you can look forward to the negotiations tomorrow.
