A Stuffed Cheonma in my Head - Chapter 41



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Episode 041. If you have any complaints

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“Ugh. I ate well.”

He muttered, wiping his lips.

I ate all the ginseng without leaving a single root.

Shushuruta, who couldn’t eat sam, looked at me like that and gloomily ate only dried fruit.

She saw that I was eating it so deliciously that she tried to eat it again for some reason, but then she spit it out on the floor again, and I hit her with two more chestnuts.

“… … .”

I came all the way to Sam, but instead of receiving any compliments, I got hit with a chestnut and saw her sitting there, looking down and eating dried fruit…

I wasn’t feeling very well.

I glanced at her, who was still exhausted, then scratched my head and spoke somewhat sheepishly.

“Then why did you come forward and say you wanted to eat it again?”

“… …It looked delicious.”

Shushuruta answered gloomily, his gaze fixed on the ground.

I looked at her with a slightly crooked expression, then picked some red berries from the tree and handed them to her.

“Here. Eat this. It’ll be edible.”

“… … .”

She reluctantly accepted the fruit, then carefully picked one and put it in her mouth.

“hmm.”

After tasting it, he nodded.

Looks like you like it.

Shushuruta glanced at me as he pulled the fruit towards his body as if he was hunting it, then in an instant, he soared into the air.

So she climbed up the tree and, with a slightly brighter face, began to stomp her feet and put the berries into her mouth one by one.

I watched Shushuruta like that, smiling, and then sat down under the tree she had climbed.

“Shushuruta.”

“Something.”

“I’ll make some breakfast. Please take care of the dharma.”

Shushuruta answered brightly, eating the fruit.

“Just leave it to me.”

There was quite a bit of energy accumulated on the ship.

“Phew… … .”

I was used to controlling the energy I gained through elixirs.

That would be the case, since he had repeated it ten times in the forest where the foggy cliff was. He had become accustomed to it.

As before, I extracted pure energy through my breathing and expelled other turbid energy.

I collected the pure energy and stored it in the lower abdomen below my navel.

And then, after recovering some of the internal energy I had expended, I opened my eyes.

As soon as I opened my eyes, the sound came back.

Knock knock. Knock knock.

The faint sound of a bonfire burning ahead could be heard, as if it had emerged from underwater.

The darkness was growing thicker.

Shushuruta had already come down from the tree and was curled up near the campfire, sleeping soundly. In some ways, he looked like a wild animal.

I looked at her for a moment, then checked the internal energy that had built up in my danjeon.

“hmm.”

I was quite satisfied.

This was because I had gained internal energy equivalent to eating three pieces of ginseng in the forest near the foggy cliff.

Is that why? My eyes were drowsy. Even though it was time to sleep.

I must have gained some internal energy. I can’t even sleep.

I tried to briefly bring back the bloody world as a test.

The Heavenly Horse is an uncontrollable force, so they told us to restrain ourselves, but if we know how to use it, we can control it and have self-restraint.

“Hmph… … ! Hmm… … ! Lower pressure… … !”

I tried to recall the feeling at that time as much as possible, and tried various things while frowning as much as I could.

In the end, it was a failure.

I was just a man in the woods, groaning alone in the middle of the night.

“Whew.”

Finally, I exhaled deeply and relaxed my posture.

First attempt, failure.

But that’s okay.

Because there are still 378,913,563 attempts left.

My body felt a little chilly, so I went to the fire and warmed myself up.

Knock knock. Knock knock.

He broke off a branch and threw it into the fire.

I stared at the flickering fire for a moment as if entranced, then looked at the stray cat snoring and sleeping next to it.

Then I gently untied the bandage that was tightly wrapped around my arm.

Inside, the usual green ointment was carefully applied to the wounded area.

“… … .”

I wrapped the road bandage around my neck and looked at the stray cat that was sleeping and making noise.

“Master.”

[What is it?]

“This guy saved me?”

[Yes. Do you know how much that tiny thing suffered to save you?]

“I don’t know, so I’ll ask.”

[I picked you up and ran for hours without stopping. Carrying a body twice my size while sweating profusely… … It was like watching an ant carrying a blade of grass bigger than itself.]

“… … .”

[That’s not all. I cleaned your wounds and applied medicine all by myself.]

I looked at Shushuruta, who was sleeping, with a confused face.

“……why?”

[You can ask that guy.]

“… … .”

No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t understand it.

Why didn’t you kill me?

There will never be a better opportunity than this.

No, that aside, why didn’t you take a dagger?

Didn’t she come with me in the first place to get her hands on the legacy of Oposus?

I stared blankly at the sleeping Shushuruta and poked her cheek.

“Yeah… … .”

I watched Shushuruta squirming as if in discomfort, slightly frowning, then took out the dagger from my bosom and flicked the blade of the sword for no reason.

A clear metallic ting sound rang out.

The words she had said came to mind one after another, resonating with the clear metallic sound.

‘Why don’t you share food with your colleagues?’

‘Are you planning to kill your comrade?’

‘Chasing after each other. What are you talking about with your colleagues?’

‘Don’t be so rigid. Aren’t you a comrade who will share life and death with me?’

‘Ashvan is not a demon with red eyes, he is my comrade. Be careful what you say.’

‘How can you not trust your comrades like that! You even found the elixir for me. How can you not trust your comrades like that?’

… … She was strangely obsessed with the word colleague.

In the end, people are driven by self-interest.

What does this guy want? Is it really all he wants to do?

No way. Where in the world is there such a fool?

If you were trying to gain something from me, and that’s why you approached me, it’s better to know clearly. I feel at ease.

But what on earth is this? It feels like I’m wandering through a hazy fog.

“… … .”

I fiddled with the dagger and sat lost in thought.

This guy is the one who openly attacked me, aiming for the dagger of Oposis.

But even though I only exchanged a few words with him as I let him go, he persistently chased after me, and I ended up going with him without thinking.

He used the Thieves Guild to fend off his pursuers, and this time he even saved my life.

Although they say they are colleagues, I thought they were actually aiming for the dagger.

So I thought he was constantly trying to sneakily intercept the dagger.

But when the opportunity to take the dagger came, I didn’t take it.

‘why?’

Why didn’t you take it?

What on earth is this guy after?

Why didn’t you take a dagger?

If you don’t want a dagger, then what do you want from me?

Why do you keep following me around like this?

It was confusing.

‘colleague?’

Well, that’s fine.

Instead, I felt the wall in my heart growing thicker.

If you think about it, it’s a strange thing.

Someone saved his life, but instead of being grateful, he is suspicious. A person like that is definitely the worst person in the world who deserves to be beaten to death.

But the worst bastard in the world. That was me.

I’m such a loser that my thoughts only flowed that way.

[… … that loser.]

Cheonma’s words are right.

I am a loser.

I wonder if my head is going crazy because I got hit in the back of the head by an axe I trusted so much.

But what can I do? This is me. Me, who has been chiseled and chiseled by this fucking world, and has been shaped into this rough and tumble shape. Me, who has become dirty and worn down from rolling around in the mud and getting covered in blood.

If you have any complaints, let them go and swear at the world that made me this way.

[Tsk tsk tsk… … .]

I heard the sound of the horse clicking its tongue.

I put the dagger back in my pocket without saying anything.

Sometimes, inexplicable good intentions are more frightening than malicious malice.

I’ll take this opportunity to find out what this guy is and what he’s thinking.

It will no longer be glossed over as a secret.

“Do you understand, you little cat thief?”

I poked Shushuruta’s cheek and asked, but she only let out a raspy breath.

Knock knock. Knock knock.

As my body warmed up, the sleepiness crept in like a woman having an affair.

I sat down with my back against a nearby tree as usual and closed my eyes.

With the crackling campfire as my lullaby, I fell asleep holding onto the hilt of my sword.

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A new day brings a new sun.

Actually, I can’t be sure of that.

It could be that it is not a new year, but the same old year.

Isn’t that right?

It may be that they briefly hide below the horizon during the night and then sneak their heads out again.

I was so absorbed in thinking about the truth of the world that I cut off the enemy’s neck.

Chomp!

Blood was sprayed and the enemy who suddenly attacked from the grass fell.

After the noisy battle with the flute-playing wizard, enemies began to arrive one by one.

Now, there is no use in being blind, so the blindfold has been completely removed.

I wiped the blood off my sword and asked.

“Is there more?”

Shushuruta nodded.

“I hear someone chasing me from behind.”

“check.”

Fortunately or unfortunately, none of them had great skills.

At best, he could utilize mana to some extent. There were no aura users.

If you came to take the mercenary rank test, wouldn’t you have been given a silver medal?

I realized once again how strong the brothers who died and the flute-playing wizard were.

Meanwhile, on one side of my head, thoughts about Shushuruta were constantly spinning.

I glanced at Shushuruta walking beside me.

She was walking slightly ahead with a light, bouncy stride.

The Shadowless Ghost Swordsman Shushuruta.

What is this guy’s identity?

I decided to start my deduction from the thieves’ guild she belongs to.

She said that she ran a thieves’ guild with her own mouth. Judging from the way the acorn man, the head of the Scarab Thieves’ Guild branch, treated her with respect, it seemed to be somewhat true.

So what exactly is your position within the Thieves Guild?

The exact organizational structure of the Thieves’ Guild is unknown, but it would be difficult for anyone other than an elder to exert that level of influence…

“Die!”

I turned around, holding the hilt of the knife.

Crunch!

There was no need to even clash swords.

The sword cut off my arm before it even reached me.

“Ugh… Aah.”

The scream died down as Shushuruta’s dagger was thrust into the bastard’s chin.

I kicked the bastard in the side before his body collapsed and knocked him to the side of the road.

After giving a quick prayer to the moth that had jumped onto the dagger, I turned around and continued on my way.

As I walked, I wiped the blood off my sword and put it away, and Shushuruta also took out a cloth and wiped the dagger.

‘Hmm. At such a young age, she has the influence of an elder in the guild, and she also has outstanding skills… … Unless she’s a promising princess of the underworld.’

A princess. Even I thought it was so funny that I couldn’t help but chuckle.

Shushuruta stopped wiping his dagger with a rag and looked at me.

“Why are you laughing?”

“No, just.”

“Just something.”

I felt like he was asking me something, so I snapped back.

“I just… … laughed because it was funny. Why, do I have to tell you every single reason I laughed? Do you feel like a princess or something? Huh?”

Shushuruta looked puzzled.

“No, I just… … .”

“If someone makes you laugh, you should laugh. How can you hold it in forever? If you hold back laughter, it’s a disease, a disease. Are you sick? Are you retarded?”

“… … .”

Shushuruta closed his mouth.

We walked along the road for a while, quietly admiring the surrounding scenery.

How long did it take to walk like that?

At some point, a mountain range towering in the distance appeared.

I asked.

“Is that it?”

Shushuruta glanced at me and answered in a slightly stern tone.

“right.”

I nodded.

“We’re almost there.”

I felt energized when I saw my destination.

Now, all you have to do is go there and meet the descendant of Hans’ disciple, Gunther, and get information about the dagger of Oposis and the legacy. Of course, he won’t give it to you easily, so you’ll have to go through a process of persuading him, but that’s also fun.

The end of a journey, whether short or long, was approaching.

If we were to compare it to a play, this could be seen as the end of Act 1.

Anyway, as I was walking with the strength I had gained, and my speed slightly increased, I came across a fork in the road.

There was a large tree growing at the fork in the road. Go straight, and then turn right. The road split into two.

Our destination was ahead, so I went straight ahead without hesitation.

Shushuruta called me out like that.

“for a moment.”

Shushuruta stopped at the fork in the road, looked up at the tree carefully, and pointed to the right path.

“This way.”

I tilted my head.

“Why? Anyone can see that it’s not going straight.”

Shushuruta raised his hand and pointed at the tree.

A black cloth was tied to a tree branch growing to the right.

“The informant is here. He will give you a brief overview of the current situation.”

“Oh. It’s an interim report.”

“That’s what it is.”

This is good news to hear.

Before entering Scarab, I met the Acorn Man and was able to pass through the gate easily.

I think you said you didn’t know the identity of the royal knight back then. Maybe you do now.

If not, it will give us useful information such as who is following us, what to watch out for, etc.

“hmm.”

Come to think of it, this was also a good opportunity to ask about Shushuruta’s true identity.

Because no one knows this better than an insider.

“Let’s go.”

I walked along the road that curved to the right, following Shushuruta.