A Stuffed Cheonma in my Head - Chapter 40



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Episode 040. I’ll come back stronger

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“Ashvan. Where are you and what are you doing?”

My heart sank when I heard that.

I glared at the captain with wide eyes.

The captain met my gaze quietly and asked.

“Aren’t you coming back?”

I bit my tongue hard inside my mouth.

I didn’t feel any pain.

“… … I’ll go back.”

“when?”

Suddenly, my eyes felt sore and I closed them. When I opened them, the Sherwood mercenary men were already gathered around their captain.

Sitting next to the leader, standing behind them with your arm around their shoulder, leaning your arm on their shoulder, crossing your arms absentmindedly, resting your chin on your hand, sitting with your knees together, or putting your arm around their shoulder.

The guys who had taken up space near the captain looked at me with a smile.

“Ashvan. When will you be back?”

Wow… … It was so damn nice to see you all, it felt like it had been a long time since I last saw you.

It was nice to see it even in my dreams.

It was inevitable that longing would surge along with joy.

I said with a snicker.

“You guys… … Remember? The day I got beaten up by that noble brat. You teased me so much, you little shits. Do you remember?”

The guys snickered.

I think I remember.

“You should remember. Because I remember.”

I looked at each of the guys’ faces, made eye contact, and then shouted.

“I’m going to be a fuck!

“Wahahahaha!”

The guys laughed loudly.

“Hahahaha!”

I laughed along with them.

We laughed heartily around the campfire.

After a good laugh, the captain looked at me with the corners of his mouth raised.

“You crazy kid. Do you think you can beat me like that?”

I also raised the corners of my mouth as I looked at the captain.

“You know what I wish for? To knock you out. I can’t wait for the day I get to kick your ass.”

The captain’s smile grew deeper.

“I’m looking forward to that.”

“Of course. That’s right.”

The captain spoke to me on his behalf.

“Come quickly.”

I nodded.

“Okay. Hurry up and go.”

Suddenly, my eyes met with the red-haired wizard sitting next to the captain, looking at me with warm eyes.

She told me.

“i’ll wait.”

The moment I nodded, the burning bonfire exploded.

Flash.

My eyes opened.

Knock knock. Knock knock.

Before my eyes, a hastily built bonfire was dancing shabbily.

I don’t know who made it, but it was extremely poorly made.

I admired the pitiful dance of the bonfire for a moment… … and checked my physical condition as was my habit.

The first word that came to mind was one.

‘cold.’

I felt a chill all over my body.

I looked to see where the cold air was coming from, and the wounds that the ice arrows had passed by were stinging and spitting out the cold air.

And then, I felt a faint warmth behind my back.

“… … ?”

When I looked closely, the warmth I felt from behind continued like a belt all the way to my stomach.

I lay on my side, tilted my head slightly, and examined what was wrapped around my stomach.

Two slender arms were holding my stomach with their fingers interlocked.

“… … .”

I slowly released his hand and carefully sat up.

“… … Huh!”

There was no holy place.

My whole body felt like it was on fire, but I tried to ignore it and got up.

Cheonma greeted me like that.

[Are you awake?]

“Oh, Master.”

[Tsk tsk… … I survived somehow. What a loser.]

“… … .”

I felt really refreshed and happy when I got scolded as soon as I woke up.

I sat up halfway and looked back to see Shushuruta sleeping soundly.

“……what?”

As I expected, Shushuruta was sleeping with me hugged from behind.

I looked around and tried to assess the situation.

A faint, faintly burning bonfire in front of me.

A sleeping cat hugging me from behind.

Nevertheless, a chilling cold was felt all over my body.

… … I guess it was to warm my body.

So that’s why it snowed in my dream.

I checked my bosom belatedly.

The dagger of Ophiuchus was still there.

“… … You didn’t take it?”

Just in case, I took out the dagger and examined the patterns engraved on its cross-section in detail.

It was the same pattern I remembered.

Cheonma said as if he felt sorry.

[It’s not fake. Stop looking.]

“Oh, yeah.”

[There was no time for that. That little thing was running around like that, screaming to save you. You can’t even say thank you, but the first thing you do as soon as you wake up is doubt. Tsk tsk… … Pathetic, pathetic.]

“… … .”

Even if I were careful before, I would have been sitting up and sleeping.

This time, he collapsed as if he had fainted as soon as the battle ended.

How dare you leave me like this without taking the dagger.

You even saved me?

As if to represent that fact, bandages were wrapped all over his body.

I stared blankly at the sleeping cat.

Cheonma scolded me for that.

[Don’t look at me like that. First, do something about the cold.]

“……yep.”

I sat cross-legged and developed my inner strength.

He moved the internal energy he had created and swirled it around as if he was checking the blood vessels throughout his body.

There was frost everywhere, flowing in from where the ice arrows had passed.

‘It was because of this.’

It was a scary magic.

An ice arrow that drives the cold air in like a wedge just by brushing past it.

If even one foot had been properly planted, the entire arm might have been frozen solid.

I moved my internal energy and drove away the culprits of the cold that had clung to my blood vessels.

“Hoooo… … .”

Cold white breath flowed out of his mouth.

Only then did the warmth return and the cold go away a little.

Gulp.

I took out the jerky, held it roughly over the fire, and chewed it.

While I was appeasing my hunger like that… …I started by reviewing the battle.

The battle with the mad wizard. It was really dangerous. More dangerous than any fight.

I thought hard and planned a strategy, but the bastard cornered me with his devil-like appearance.

In the end, I chose to run away, but at some point, my vision turned red and I felt a surge of strength.

What the heck is this… … .

“Master.”

[okay.]

Cheonma answered as if he had been waiting.

“Did the master do it?”

[I didn’t intervene in any way. I was just watching with interest.]

“Oh, yeah… … .”

I’m feeling a bit irritated.

It seems like he was watching me while I was rolling around excitedly, munching on some beef jerky.

“Master. So what? What happened?”

[To cut to the chase, several blood vessels connected to the upper abdomen were suddenly punctured. They opened up like a dam had burst.]

“Top battle?”

[It’s something in the head. It’s something that you have to devote your whole life to training to even begin to show any signs of opening up. This is the first time I’ve seen something like this.]

I asked with sparkling eyes.

“Is that good then?”

[It’s hard to see it as just good.]

“why?”

[What good is uncontrollable power? No matter how great the power is, the moment it is uncontrollable, it becomes a disaster. There is nothing worse than being swayed by your own power without being able to control it.]

“… … That’s right.”

[It was fun to manifest in a moment of crisis, but try to refrain from doing so in the future. I almost fell into a state of obsession with money by a hair’s breadth. My energy was boiling like crazy and the wind was raging wildly, causing strain all over my body.]

The tingling sensation all over my body seemed to be the result of that.

I thought it was because I got hit by an arrow.

It wasn’t like I was going to do it anyway.

Even when fighting a wizard, it would turn on and off on its own.

“Understood, Master.”

I nodded obediently and examined my danjeon.

Only a very small amount of internal energy remained in the danjeon.

It was like looking at the ashes that remained after a magnificent fire had burned down the forest.

I remember moving my whole body like crazy, as if my internal energy was igniting on its own.

The enemy can invade again at any time.

I need to recover my internal energy.

The moment I thought about that, the ginseng that Shushuruta had brought suddenly came to mind.

I poked Shushuruta’s cheek while he was sleeping soundly.

“Hey. Hey. Cat burglar. Wake up.”

“Umm… … .”

Shushuruta opened her eyes slowly, still dreaming.

“… … Ashvan.”

“Yeah. It’s me. Wake up.”

But Shushuruta didn’t get up right away, but rather shrank even further and muttered.

“cold…….”

I clicked my tongue and tended to the campfire.

“Idiot. It’s cold because you made it so hot that all the heat escapes.”

They stacked relatively thick branches tightly together to trap the heat, then gathered more branches from nearby trees and added them to the bonfire.

Knock knock. Knock knock.

The flames burned steadily, growing taller than before.

As the fire was kept alive, Shushuruta wriggled like a caterpillar and approached the fire.

“Are you feeling better?”

“warm…….”

I stared blankly at the stray cat, who was warming himself by the fire, exhausted and let out of his exhaustion.

‘You were holding me from behind while you were putting me by the fire in such a cold weather?’

We watched the crackling campfire in silence for a while.

Shushuruta, who had been warming himself by the campfire, glanced at me with eyes that had only just begun to recover from their sleepiness.

“Ashvan. Are you feeling okay?”

“are you okay.”

“Let me give you a hand.”

I obediently extended my hand.

Shushuruta held my hand with both of his hands, touched it, and nodded.

“Hmm. It was as cold as ice. It’s a little better now.”

Then he muttered with a smug expression.

“It looks like my first aid worked.”

“… … .”

In reality, it was a bet that circulated and drove out the cold air that was stuck in the blood vessels… … .

I nodded.

“Yeah. It’s all thanks to you.”

Shushuruta laughed, making a strange sound.

I glanced at Shushuruta like that, then turned my gaze back to the bonfire and asked.

“… … What’s going on? Why are you camping out here when this perfectly fine village is left behind?”

Shushuruta licked his lips and answered like this.

“I couldn’t help it. Other guys were rushing in.”

“They came rushing in? Who?”

“Who could they be? They are the pursuers who came for the dagger. The battle was so loud. Those nearby heard the noise and rushed in all at once, so I had to get away.”

“ah.”

Well, it was chaos because the crazy wizard was casting spells like crazy.

Moreover, it seems that the pursuers had come quite close because time had been lost while searching for the bastard.

I nodded and asked.

“What about the kids?”

“The rescue operation must be in full swing by now.”

“Rescue operation? Who?”

“After I got away from my pursuers and secured a safe distance, I sent word to the Thieves Guild.”

I blinked.

“How do you know the location?”

“You kept mumbling in your sleep that the kids were in the basement.”

“ah.”

Thank goodness. Something that had been weighing heavily on one side of my chest was lifted.

I absentmindedly tried to put my hand on Shushuruta’s head, which was lying face down and warming itself up, but I took it back.

“Shushuruta.”

“Something.”

“Do you have any?”

“three?”

Shushuruta tilted his head.

“You brought it to me when I was having breakfast last time. I told you to take it with you to eat for dinner.”

“ah.”

Only then did Shushuruta rummage through his bag and take out a large bundle of hemp wrapped in cloth.

She put her nose to the tree and sniffed.

“Is this edible? It smells weird. It looks weird too.”

“That’s right. Give it to me.”

“Take it.”

After I received the sam, I took out my dagger and roughly scraped off the dirt on the sam.

Shushuruta asked.

“How do you eat this?”

“Raw.”

“… …Raw?”

Shushuruta looked at me with suspicious eyes.

“Is it delicious?”

I nodded.

“Well then. How delicious. It’s so delicious that it brings tears to my eyes.”

I originally planned to eat it all by myself, but I thought it might be okay to share a little bit.

After all, this guy is the one who found it.

Mana, ki, and knots are slightly different. In any case, aren’t they both from nature?

There’s no harm in eating it.

After roughly shaking off all the dirt, I cut off a thick root and handed it to her.

“Chew it thoroughly.”

“……i get it.”

But she hesitated to eat it, continuing to sniff and sniff.

Unable to stand it any longer, I reached out my hand as if to snatch it back.

“If you’re not going to eat it, give it back. It’s so precious.”

“Oh, no. I was just about to eat it.”

Shushuruta avoided my hand and put the sam in his mouth, chewing and eating it.

“Ugh.”

Shushuruta put the sam in his mouth and spat it out as soon as he did.

It was a truly amazing reaction speed.

“Hey! That damn thing!”

I couldn’t stand it anymore and hit her on the head.

F*ck!

“Yanyak!”

Shushuruta glared at me with tearful eyes, covering the spot where he had been hit with his hand.

“Why, why are you hitting me!”

“Aren’t you going to pick that up and eat it? Do you know how precious it is?”

“Ha, but… … It’s too bitter. It’s too bitter. How can you eat something this bitter?”

“Idiot. Haven’t you ever heard that bitter foods are good for you? Because they’re bitter, they’re good for you. Hurry up and eat them.”

“Oh, I understand. Don’t be angry.”

Shushuruta carefully picked up the spit, shook off the dirt, and put it back in his mouth.

“Ugh.”

And then he spat it out again at the speed of a ray of light.

“this!”

F*ck!

“Ugh!”

Shushuruta, who had been hit with another chestnut, glared at me with tearful eyes.

“Don’t hit me! Why are you hitting me after I dug it up?”

“How precious is that? If you won’t eat it, I will.”

Shushuruta looked flustered and flustered.

“Huh? Hey, don’t eat that. Why would you eat that dirty stuff? It’s all over my saliva.”

“Get out of the way. That cutie that escaped from your mouth is mine. It escaped because it wanted to explore my mouth in the first place.”

Shushuruta stopped me with a red face.

“Don’t eat it. Even if I tell you not to! I’ll dig up as much as I want, so don’t eat it!!”

“This kid. I’ll chew and swallow every last one of you without leaving a single one behind.”

“I told you not to eat it!”

“Kwang!”