Chapter 416 – Irreversible (4)
The cold air of the Dragon Mountains rake snowflakes along the mountain ridge and scatter them across the village. Just as the winds of the valley cut across the canyon and slashed down on the northern land, so did my mood. What the hell am I supposed to explain to Artie? In front of the rare gate, I stood in agony.
“Fuck.”
It was good that he came straight from Yeongji to Rare, saying with a serious face, ‘I have something to take care of urgently’. But I was at a loss as to what to explain to Artie. What should I say? You want me to polymorph you because you have to eat Dagon? No matter how nice Artie is, won’t he see me as a beast if he hears me say that?
It felt crappy to explain everything in detail, but when I thought about it, there was no other way. I knocked on the door of Lair with a smile on my face. Artie’s front door, as if it came to life, opened wide before I could touch it and beckoned to me.
Beyond the door was Arus. Like a raptor in a movie, she leaned her back slightly, tilted her head, looked at me, and lunged at me with a broad smile.
“Dad!”
“Oops!”
Arus’ head-butt hurt more than Sieri’s jump. What is my daughter’s strength stat? After suppressing the pain in her chest, she lifted Arus up and spun it around. Arus was so excited about my plane that she shuddered and shuddered. I said.
“Arus. How have you been?”
“Yes!”
“Oops, yes. Is Mom?”
I brushed Arus’ hair and asked where Artie was. The last time we met, Artie said she was busy researching magic circles. It was ridiculous to call her for her polymorph sex her, but she had no other choice. When Arus heard my question, she pointed to a small alcove in the corner of Leah and said,
“Excuse me!”
“There?”
There was another door to the warehouse where her poison was kept and Arus’s room in her. A blue magic circle was shining in front of the door, and her silhouette was visible through the gaps in the hazy mana waves. I said while kissing Arus on the forehead.
“Arus. Is your mother very busy right now?”
“Yes! He told me to play alone until dinner… So I was bored.”
Arus drew an arrow on her floor with a melancholy face. I put on a bitter expression and stroked Arus once, then looked at Artie’s door again. There were too many lives tied to this magic circle to parallel her research her while playing with Arus. As Arti, one of the two must have been sacrificed.
“Arus. Shall we hang out with Daddy until dinner?”
“Really?”
“Yes. OK.”
As for me, it was okay to disturb Artie right now because of the polymorph sex. Did she notice that I came? I took Arus’ hand her and walked into her room her. Come to think of it, every time I come here, I have never looked at Arus’s room her.
Arus’s room was much neater and cuter than I expected. Flowers and butterflies were everywhere, and light bulbs in the shape of fluffy bees glittered on the ceiling. The circular carpet on the floor gave the feeling of being in the middle of a flower field with the combination of pink and yellow, and the wallpaper was in the middle of the sky with the combination of light blue and white. As soon as I entered, Arus began to move around and take out her toys one by one.
“Dad. Dad, I’ll show you my toys. This is Jimmy.”
The toys she took out were similar-looking dolls. Only the costumes were slightly different, but Arus spoke as if these dolls were all living characters.
“Jimmy loves to play the guitar and she sings very well. She especially likes the songs of dragon people, so she sings a song with dragon words at least once a day.”
“Okay? Something she wants to hear.”
I told her to try singing, smiling at her imagination of her arus her. Arus smiled broadly at that, then took her pillow from her bed and hugged her tightly, then pointed to her Amy and said,
“Sing Jimmy!”
“Okay, sweet girl!”
And the doll called Jimmy answered in a gruff tone like a dubbed movie played by a broadcasting station. Come to think of it, she was a rare dragon, so there was no way she could play with a doll with no function. Jimmy strummed her guitar, pulled out a cool tune, then looked at me and winked.
“Ooh.”
“Chew…”
Barely holding back the insults, I tried to smile. I thought I was unlucky from the morning to receive a wink from a boy. I pushed the Jimmy doll with my hand and said to Arus.
“Arus. Anything else?”
“Ah yes! There’s another one! I made this…”
Outside, the sun hid westward across the mountains diagonally as Arus showed off the pretty dolls she had made, the fancy ornaments, and the byproducts of her magic practice her. A gloomy shadow descended, bringing an even harsher cold to the entire mountain range. I felt the unique chill of the deep mountains seeping into the warm rare, and I walked outside.
“Oh.”
Artie was lying there. She closed her eyes for a moment on her sofa, then when she saw me coming out, she jumped up in amazement. Did he not know that I would come out of Arus’s room her? She was naked, with bits of stone and dirt all over her body, a by-product of magical experiments.
“Oh, when did you come? Lucius. You have to tell me that you are coming. If you suddenly come in like this, that… Are you ashamed?”
She covered herself and slipped back into her room. I sat on her couch where she was lying and waited for Artie to come out again. Arus, who came out before Arty, started whining that he was hungry.
“Mom. I’m hungry.”
“Okay. I will leave now.”
Artie opened the door again and appeared. She was wearing a neat white dress, and the soil and stone fragments that had been buried on her body had been neatly removed. In that state, she gave Arus a hug and headed to her table her. The warehouse door burst open, and thick chunks of meat and bread were sliced and stacked neatly on the plate. As her sandwich was made, Arus tried to bite it right in with her huge mouth her.
“Arus! Say hello and eat.”
“Ah, I will eat well!”
She said hello and was about to bite her bread again. Arty once again restrained Arus and said.
“Arus. Did you wash her hands of her?”
“Yes.”
Arus jumped up again and entered the room. When I heard the sound of turning on the water tap in the room, Artie pinched my cheek and said,
“Really, I don’t know why people don’t understand the desire to look pretty. Lucius. It’s embarrassing to always come here without saying anything. I’ll make a transmitter for you while I’m here, so please contact me with that next time. Got it?”
I nodded and replied.
“Thanks to you, I had a good look. Do you always take off your clothes at home?”
“Because of research. You only get naked in your room. There are a lot of by-products from digging up mana stones during research, isn’t it annoying to wash them all? If you just take it off, you just wash your body and that’s it.”
“How is your research going? Mimir, Dagon, and Theoter. You said you would meet and talk.”
“First of all, I’ve figured out how to dismantle the magic circle. Now I think I can hold this result and meet and convince them one by one. Mimir is no longer Mimir. I think she will like it if I say let her go freely, and Theo Terre will like it because she can meet you freely. I think Dagon will probably agree.”
“And, if you open the capital city gate, will Evangeline save the connection with the Demon World?”
“I guess so. I don’t know what the purpose was, but the theory Evangeline presented to me was certainly persuasive.”
“Evangeline could be cheating on you. Artie.”
“If you’re like me, I wouldn’t do such a risky thing to deceive you. Do you know how to build a dam?”
“A dam? It is made by stacking piles of soil one by one from the ground up. And then I put soil and wood on top of it again.”
“To put it simply, what Evangeline suggested is literally building a dam with our own strength. If we send our power to Evangeline little by little like a pile of dirt, Evangeline will use that power to build a dam between the demon world and the human world. And then Evangeline paints over the embankment with her own power her, completely severing the connection between the two.”
“I just don’t know how to listen. Is it really safe?”
I was new to magic, so I could only assume that if she was safe, she would be. Because I couldn’t point out the loophole in the problem. Artie nodded her head.
“It’s strange, but I have no choice but to know right away when I use it. Because the barrier itself is temporarily focused on the door.”
“Okay.”
I tapped my fingers here and fell into trouble again. Isn’t it time to talk about it now? But before I could open my mouth, Arus came running, waving his washed hands.
“I washed my hands.”
“You have to clean up.”
Artie said, and with a single finger she wiped the water off her hands. Arus sat down again, showing off the back of her hand her to me. I asked Artie as she was cutting off her bread for her.
“Artie. Then when are you going to meet Dagon?”
“Dagon? Well, if you want to go together, shall we go see Dagon first?”
“Ah yes. Actually, I had a favor to ask of you, Artie, regarding Dagon.”
“What’s with Dagon?”
“Artie.”
Artie smiled and nodded her head. I took a deep breath. If you take him to Dagon without hesitation, Dagon, whose communication skills are atrocious, could have conveyed a distorted story in some way. So I had to do a good job explaining it here. Artie looked like she wanted to hear more as I waited. He said holding my hand tightly.
“Lucius. What’s going on? What difficult request did Dagon ask?”
I opened my mouth.
“…Could you teach Dagon about Polymorph?”
Artie had a face that did not understand the words. She pondered for a moment, then narrowed her eyes, and she looked at me in amazement. She took another look at me and asked back with a look of disbelief.
“Uh… Lucius? I’m a little sorry to sound like I don’t trust you, but that… Isn’t that what I’m thinking of? Right? No matter how much you like all women, that… I thought you still couldn’t cross the racial barrier? So, that… Isn’t it?”
I had to answer well. Really.
