A Stuffed Cheonma in my Head - Chapter 242



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Episode 242. May the protection of snow and ice be with you.

The dawn when the sun doesn’t rise.

I yawned and came down to the first floor.

There, Sherwood’s staunch ally, Lord Monde, sat at the table with a gloomy face, waiting for us.

“No, who is this? It’s my partner, Lord Monde.”

Monde Kyung glared at me.

I smiled and ordered breakfast from the innkeeper, who had gotten up early the day before as I had asked him to do so.

Because if you want to run around a lot, you need to eat a hearty breakfast first.

“You too?”

Monde nodded reluctantly.

I pre-ordered Monde’s meal, as well as the other guys’ meals who hadn’t come down yet, and then sat down opposite him.

Then, he greeted Lord Monde, who had been drinking alone since morning, with a warm morning greeting.

“Did you sleep well?”

“……no.”

“Oh, my. Looks like you can’t sleep because you’re so excited.”

Monde Kyung fiddled with his glass, flinched, and glared at me.

“… … Excited? Are you excited about going beyond the barrier and into that white hell?”

“Mr. Monde. Sleep is a good medicine. Even if you go on a picnic outside the walls. If you don’t do it often enough, you won’t be able to play with the demons in a sound mind.”

Lord Monde emptied his glass and looked at me with a somewhat displeased look.

“It looks exciting.”

“Well then. How could it not be exciting? It’s a thrilling journey to an unknown land that no one has ever been to, and beyond. You can’t even guess what might happen. Would you suddenly be attacked by a Class A demon? Would the ground beneath your feet suddenly collapse and you fall into an endlessly deep crack? Just thinking about it makes my heart race.”

Monde sighed and shook his head slightly.

“… … This guy was Sherwood too.”

“What does that mean?”

“Change my team. I can’t do it with you. I’d rather go with that little brat from Geum-an.”

“That’s ridiculous. You can’t even sign.”

“Fuck. But I’m better than you.”

Monde muttered a curse and emptied his glass again.

Then he pointed to one side and said.

“I brought supplies.”

“Supplies?”

When I looked at the place that Monde had pointed to, I saw a pile of thick, warm cloaks on the table.

It looked like a pile of fur comforters, as if they were quite thick.

The place we are going is a white, frozen land of death where no life can survive.

The cloak was also completely white, which not only served as a protective color against the white land, but also made it look like it would be easy to get dirty.

“The Duke sent it to me. I heard it has heat-resistant magic built into it.”

“oh.”

“They say that when sending scouts beyond the barrier, they must wear it. Otherwise, they will either freeze to death or become slow and fall victim to the devil.”

“The magician doesn’t wear things like that.”

“That guy is half ice wizard. What could he have done?”

“aha.”

Squeak-

As Monde and the others chatted, the Sherwood men began to come down the stairs to the first floor one by one, accompanied by the sound of old wooden planks bending.

Sorou came down the stairs calmly, his eyes sparkling like blue crystals.

Dauphin yawned and stepped off the railing without using the stairs, and stepped down lightly.

Schmidt came down the stairs, still holding Linda who was sleeping soundly.

… … The way it comes down is also varied.

Because they’re such individualistic guys.

The guys sat down at the table one by one, and soon the food they had ordered arrived.

The hot meat soup seemed to warm me to the core.

While we were eating, Sorou spoke to me with a particularly enthusiastic expression on his face.

“When do we leave?”

I answered, looking out the still dark window.

“When the sun rises and darkness begins to gradually break.”

“I see.”

Then Sorou spoke to Lord Monde.

“It’s been a while. How is Riley?”

Monde Kyung answered in a very unenthusiastic voice.

“I’ll be fine. Unlike me, who has to go out over the barrier at dawn, I’m sure he’s sleeping in a warm blanket with a woman next to him in some inn. Damn it.”

“… … .”

Sorou looked at the disappointed Lord Monde for a moment, then silently concentrated on his meal.

I looked into the guy’s blue eyes and asked.

“What about hearts?”

“Still sleeping.”

“aha.”

I forgot.

He was originally a guy who slept a lot.

Dauphin, who was still yawning and eating his soup, giggled as he looked at Linda, who was nodding off with her food in front of her.

Then he grabbed the swaying green head before it could finally sink its head into the soup.

“Sister. Are you sleepy now?”

Linda opened her sleepy eyes blearily.

“Eung… … ?”

Seeing that, Dauphin chuckled again.

“This guy is still Sherwood. He’s about to go over the barrier, but he’s so relaxed.”

I looked at the two of them and recalled the words Dauphin had called Linda.

“You’re my little sister… …?”

Dauphin looked at me while holding Linda’s head.

“If she’s my little sister, she’s my little sister. And isn’t this guy Sherwood too? She’s my little sister.”

“hmm.”

When I think about it, that’s what happened.

At some point, I noticed that the distance between us had naturally narrowed, so I was a little embarrassed.

Shushuruta tried to blend in with Sherwood by gathering information from the members and making various efforts, but Linda, on the other hand, had already closed the distance without making any special efforts.

“But are you older than Siri?”

“Well, I don’t think he knows that either. He doesn’t seem to have really counted his age.”

“I see.”

At this moment, Linda’s picnic partner, Schmidt, pulled his chair closer to her, came over to her side, picked up his spoon, and started putting soup in his mouth.

“Ugh… … .”

Dauphin smiled and spoke in a soft tone.

“Little sister. I know you’re sleepy, but you need to eat. That way, you won’t get tired and can go on a picnic.”

Dauphin held the guy’s head while Schmidt fed him soup.

Schmidt on the left, Dauphin on the right.

Looking at it this way, it couldn’t be that Sherwood’s precious younger sister was in his care so much.

I wonder if this guy has infiltrated Sherwood before I knew it.

In the moment I took my eyes off her, Linda had become a full-fledged member of Sherwood.

In a way, it’s great.

I finished my meal quickly before the other guys, then went to the innkeeper and asked for some beef jerky that I had asked for in advance.

As I was doing my final checks before leaving, the darkness outside the window began to slowly clear.

I left the inn as soon as I saw it.

“I’ll go out first, so let’s meet outside.”

After saying that, he walked slowly down the street, breathing in the cold air.

“Whoa… … .”

As we walked, stretching our bodies here and there, Cheonma spoke.

[Disciple.]

“Yes, Master.”

[What if the demons come while I’m out on reconnaissance?]

“You don’t have to worry too much about that.”

The interval between monster waves should be at least one week, and at most two weeks.

That means it’ll take at least a week for them to come back again.

In order to come in like a wave, they need to gather a certain amount of force.

[But aren’t your expectations off in many ways? You said it was going to start later than usual.]

“… … That’s true.”

It used to start in the middle of winter when the weather was at its coldest, but this time it started earlier.

But even so, a second wave won’t suddenly hit the next day.

Even if they come rushing in, their huge size cannot be unseen, so they can just bounce off the wall.

[Hmm. I see.]

Cheonma was convinced.

[But why are they coming in a group? As if someone gave them orders.]

“It’s truly a mysterious thing… but no one knows about it.”

Northerners now regard monster waves as a natural phenomenon, like earthquakes or tsunamis.

Why, why do they come in groups every winter?

I don’t know why, but it just happens every year, so I just have to prepare for it.

I walked towards the barrier that was waiting for me, answering Cheonma’s questions one by one.

As I approached the barrier, a soldier standing guard noticed me and greeted me.

“Hello.”

“good morning.”

“It’s not that good. Lord Ashvan, are you right?”

“That’s right.”

A soldier dressed in fur looked at me blankly.

“Are you leaving now?”

“exactly.”

“… … Aren’t you cold? I feel like I’ll freeze to death as soon as I go out.”

“The cold has already been beaten down.”

“I see. What about the others?”

“I came out first, thinking I’d go for a walk.”

The soldier nodded as if he understood, then nodded to those behind him.

Two other soldiers, waiting for his order, placed their hands on the wall.

It seemed as if a faint light was shining where I put my hand.

Part of the wall gradually faded away, and soon a passage large enough for one person to pass through appeared.

It was amazing no matter how much I looked at it.

It’s like seeing a mirage.

Is this the ancient magic engraved on the walls?

But I didn’t show it on the outside like a country bumpkin.

He spoke in a nonchalant tone as he walked down the passage past the soldiers.

“Okay, thank you for your hard work.”

The soldiers greeted me.

“Please take care of yourself.”

“May the protection of snow and ice be with you.”

As the walls were thick, the passage was not necessarily short.

It’s like a small cave.

As we continued through the somewhat dark cave, we soon reached the end.

As if dawn was just beginning, light was beginning to shine outside.

As we came out of the long passage at night, it was a snowy landscape.

In the midst of the pure white, the falling snow greeted me.

Seeing the calm wind, I thought it was a good time to go on a trip.

“Whoa… … .”

As I exhaled deeply, the hazy breath dispersed into a white cloud.

I decided to take a walk around for a while and enjoy my time until the guys arrived.

As I walked in front of the castle walls, watching the sky break, the remains of the battle from the day before were still scattered everywhere.

It seems like they didn’t take it because they thought it had no marketability.

As I was walking around like that, I noticed a person moving around on one side.

“… … .”

I approached him step by step and spoke to the madman in black robes who had been fiddling with the devil since early morning.

“What are you doing?”

The man looked back at me.

He smiled brightly as if he was happy to see me.

“Ah, Lord Ashvan! It’s nice to see you again.”

“That’s right.”

The same one I saw the day before, fiddling with the devil’s testicles.

It was the warlock Adrian.

“What brings you here so early in the morning?”

“I got a reconnaissance mission. What about you?”

“Oh, I was also working hard to help.”

“This early in the morning?”

“Haha, there are such wonderful specimens waiting for me outside, so I can’t just sit still. Besides, as time goes by, the spirit fades and the vessel becomes faint, so I have to hurry as much as possible.”

“I see.”

I don’t quite understand what he’s saying, but I understand that he’s a magician obsessed with research and that he has to be quick when it comes to using black magic.

“But isn’t it cold?”

He was wearing a dark robe over his head, but it didn’t seem to be doing a good job of keeping him warm.

“Oh, it’s okay. When my hands feel like they’re freezing, I go inside the barrier and warm myself by the bonfire the soldiers have prepared for me. At least I won’t freeze to death, haha.”

“Are you sure?”

“sure.”

“… … Even when it’s not the time for a monster wave, there are times when a curious demon will visit, so be careful.”

“Hahaha, of course.”

As I was talking to Adrian for a moment, a passage appeared in the wall again and voices were heard from it.

The Sherwood guys must be here now.

As I was naturally watching the area, I saw Dauphin slowly leaning out.

Doppeng, who was looking around outside, soon found me and waved at me.

“Brother! Come here for a moment! We have a guest!”

“customer?”

Following Dauphin’s words, I got up from my seat and went back into the passage… … .

“hmm?”

Of course, the other Sherwood guys in their supplied white cloaks, and Lord Monde himself.

A fat snowman was looking up at me, smiling brightly.

“… …Lily?”

Cheonma laughed quietly.

[The princess has come out to see you off.]

The princess was wrapped up so tightly that she became fat like a snowman.

The Duke had strict orders not to let him go beyond the barrier, so what brought him here?

Come to think of it, that’s why he couldn’t come out of the hallway and called me.

I asked Lilia.

“What are you doing here?”

“Come cheer for me!”

“Cheer?”

“Yes! I told you. The reason I came all the way to Tudra.”

“… … ?”

“Boost morale!”

Pick I burst out laughing.

Are you saying that you came out this early in the morning, fighting off sleep that was weighing on your eyelids, just to cheer me on?

The princess gestured, and I walked towards her and held out my hand.

Princess Lilia looked up at me, holding my hand tightly in both of hers.

“Hero. Please take care of yourself. Ketel is watching over you, so I don’t need to worry about you, right?”

He gave a sly smile.

“of course.”

“Cheer up! Even though I can’t go with you, I’ll be here cheering you on!”

Then he put a lot of strength into the hand he was holding.

It felt like I was receiving warm energy through my hands, and it really gave me strength. It was amazing.

From the side, Lord Monde interjected in a gruff tone.

“Princess. Me.”

“Mr. Monde, do as you please. Don’t hold back the warrior.”

“… … .”

Then he whispered in a small voice so that only I could hear.

“You have to do it like this to work hard.”

“aha.”

You are such a wise princess.