A Stuffed Cheonma in my Head - Chapter 53
Only Noblemtl
Episode 053. Tea Party
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Linda clapped her hands twice.
Then men with masks on their faces came out and approached the table.
They began to make tea with neat movements, making the teapots clank.
I couldn’t see his expression because I could only see his eyes.
‘What are these guys doing?’
If I kill Linda, do I have to kill these guys too?
While thinking like that, I watched the process of them manufacturing the car.
I made eye contact with a man.
He looked into my eyes for a moment, then turned his head and became absorbed in making tea.
“… … .”
For a moment, I read the man’s gaze.
‘Please save me.’
These men do not follow Linda willingly.
I just put that fact in my head.
As I was watching the men making the tea… …I looked at the bright-eyed madman across from me.
She was staring at me with a big smile on her face, as if something was so wonderful about her.
I met her eyes silently and spoke as if I was scolding a child.
“You crazy bitch. You should at least introduce the food to the customers.”
The masked men preparing the tea flinched at my words.
Some looked at me with puzzled eyes, while others hurriedly glanced at Linda.
“Oh, sorry!”
Linda apologized.
“Look at my mind. Of course, you have to explain!”
The masked men glanced at Linda with even more surprised eyes.
It seems that few people spoke carelessly to that madman.
But what can I do? I’m a man who acts as I please.
Linda explained.
“The first car, of course. It’s a pitcher plant car.”
As soon as the manufacturing was finished, the men who had been gathered around the table and chatting stopped what they were doing and all took a step back.
A man approached Linda carrying a teapot.
Linda scolded the man.
“We have to serve the customers first!”
“Oh, excuse me.”
A masked man approached me holding a teapot.
It was the man whose eyes met mine a moment ago.
He carefully poured tea into the cup.
Slurp.
“It’s hot, so be careful.”
A brownish liquid began to steam.
Linda continued her explanation.
“It’s made by boiling the roots of the pitcher plant for a long time. And… … .”
Another man approached me with a small bowl, scooped up some bean-like white fruit with a spoon, and floated it into the tea.
There was a black dot in the middle of the fruit, which looked like an eyeball.
“Put some white bainberries on top and it’s done!”
The two men went to Linda and poured her the same amount of tea.
Linda smiled, lifting her teacup.
“Drink comfortably!”
And then he hit a one-shot.
Linda chewed on the fruit, then swallowed it and laughed.
“It’s brewed well and delicious. The tea has cooled down just right. Come drink it!”
Dalgrak.
I followed Linda and lifted my teacup, then observed the tea.
It looked like eyeballs were floating in the mud.
I brought my nose up to it and took a sniff… … For a moment, it felt like my nose was paralyzed.
My eyes also felt prickly for some reason.
“Oh… … .”
I frowned and took a moment to catch my breath.
Linda laughed out loud.
“It looks pretty, right? It tastes good, too! Try it!”
I raised my internal energy as I had learned from Cheonma and created a kind of thin film inside my mouth.
Then, it spread all the way to the stomach and spread the blockage to the stomach as well.
This thin film will protect my body from that madman’s venom.
Then, I drank tea.
Huruk-
Honestly, I almost spit it out as soon as I put it in.
Because my tongue feels like it’s burning.
But I held it in and drank it all down.
“Hmm.”
A situation where you can’t bring yourself to swallow it and keep it in your mouth.
My mouth was burning.
I felt grains floating inside it.
It was the eyeball-shaped fruit I saw a little while ago.
I chewed it without thinking.
In that moment, a small bomb exploded in my mouth.
“Ouch!”
I almost spit it out, but I managed to hold it back by pursing my lips with all my might.
Aduk―
My fists clenched and my legs became strong.
They tasted like shit, but since I had already exploded the bombs, I decided to explode them all and chewed on the eyeball-shaped bombs.
It was so painful, like my teeth were being pulled out raw.
I gritted my teeth, chewed everything thoroughly, and then swallowed it.
This time, my esophagus burned. Then my stomach burned.
From deep within me, a curse came out on its own.
“What the hell.”
Linda asked.
“Isn’t it delicious? Is it delicious?”
I barely suppressed the urge to burst that madman’s head in half and raised one hand.
“Wait a minute. I need to savor the taste.”
I sat cross-legged and channeled my energy.
He pulled up the energy in his dantian and directed it toward his stomach.
A fierce battle between the poison that had invaded my stomach and my internal energy continued.
Sweat flowed like rain.
“Hmm!”
The war ended in victory for the internal forces. The poisonous spirit raised both hands and surrendered.
I dragged the defeated soldiers out and moved them along the bloodline.
He slid his hand under the table and drew the poison out through his fingertips.
The black poison that had formed on his fingertips dripped down.
Chiiik… … .
I could hear the ground melting.
Only then did I open my eyes.
“Phew… … .”
My whole body felt hot.
It felt like I had just been submerged in lava.
When I raised my head, Linda asked with bright eyes.
“How is it? How is it?”
I answered honestly.
“My whole body feels hot.”
Linda smiled, satisfied with the answer.
“right?”
I nodded and asked.
“What’s next?”
“Yes! The second tea! It’s a tea with sliced blue-ringed octopus boiled in water with finely ground white dandelion! It’s called Cold Death!”
“… … Cold death?”
The first tea is called Prickly Pear Tea. Why are there suddenly scary words in the name of the tea?
My question was of no importance.
The men came to the table again and made tea with a clinking sound.
After a while, the men arrived in a sky blue car.
On top of that, finely chopped octopus legs are added as a topping.
The octopus’s legs were dotted with ominous blue ring patterns that resembled rotten eyeballs.
For a moment, I had the illusion that those eyes were all staring at me. Was this a hallucination?
I felt dizzy. Could this be a side effect of drinking the dandelion tea?
I almost threw up without thinking.
“looks delicious!”
Linda drank tea first.
This time it was a one shot too.
She said, munching on the octopus leg.
“Chewy and chewy, it’s a real treat! This bursting taste. Mmm!”
Linda closed her eyes and shivered.
I glared at her, took a deep breath, and poured the tea into my mouth.
As soon as I put it in my mouth, I realized why it was called ‘Cold Death’.
This time, my mouth was frozen cold.
It felt more like a burning cold than a chilly feeling.
As I chewed on the octopus leg, a lightning bolt struck my head.
It was a mind-blowing taste.
Before I knew it, tears were flowing down my face.
My nose was also running.
Fortunately, my mouth was tightly shut so no drool flowed.
I gritted my teeth and swallowed it.
Cold lightning struck me madly as it went down my esophagus.
As soon as I swallowed it, my internal energy was raised.
This time, a war broke out in the stomach. The poisonous creatures resisted fiercely, but after a long fight, they surrendered.
He pulled out the defeated poisons and sent them out with his fingertips.
Chiiik―
The place where green grass used to grow was now completely black.
“… …How does it taste?”
Linda asked cautiously.
I wiped away my tears and snot and smiled.
“It’s the end.”
Linda clapped her hands and cheered.
“I’ve never seen anyone savor tea so seriously as you do!”
I nodded.
“Because it’s worth it.”
Linda covered her mouth with both hands and looked at me with a helpless expression.
“Oh my… … How could this be!”
I’m not sure, but I thought that’s what a normal girl would look like when she falls in love.
Normally I wouldn’t know, but now that I’ve consumed poison, I feel the urge to slap him in the face.
Is this a side effect of the poison? Or is it because I hate her for creating such a strangely shitty thing?
My head was hot.
“So romantic! Can I bite your nose?”
I answered with my eyes tightly shut.
I held back my urge to curse with superhuman patience.
“no.”
“Ugh.”
slam!
Instead, he slapped me hard on the cheek and pulled me to my senses.
You can’t kill that guy until the tea party is over.
Are you going to blow this great opportunity to become stronger?
This kind of pain. It’s nothing.
Think back to the days when you swung your sword in the dark, in the pitch-black despair, without being able to see the path.
The helplessness, despair, and invisible hope that were eating away at my whole body. That was the real poison.
Compared to the terrible loneliness I felt back then, this is just poison. It’s sweet. It’s so sweet that my teeth will rot! How much sugar did you put in it?
I bit my tongue hard.
He tasted the bitter taste of blood and raised one corner of his mouth.
Blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
“Next. Bring it quickly.”
Linda laughed heartily.
“huh!”
After that, cars that were even better than that came out one after another.
“It’s the tongue of hell! It’s made by mixing the venom of king cobra, crown of thorns, and fly agaric!”
A sinister purple car, like the tongue of hell.
“This guy’s name is Magma! He used the venom of the marble cone snail, box jellyfish, and death stalker scorpion!”
Tea as red as lava.
“This… I haven’t named it yet. If you think of a good name, just let me know! Isn’t the color pretty? If you mix the venom of a golden poison dart frog, a wandering spider, a stonefish, and a Lonomia larva in a certain ratio, it turns into this color.”
A car with a bright yellow fluorescent color.
I took out those fucking guys one by one.
I am a man who is accustomed to pain.
I’ve been hit many times, stabbed and cut many times.
But… … this kind of pain burning from within was unfamiliar.
It was a pain I had never experienced before.
My eyes felt like they were rolling back. It felt like a volcano had erupted inside my mouth. It felt like my stomach was going to burst. I had visions of veins writhing in my temples and finally bursting. It felt like my mouth was melting. Sometimes I could barely breathe. I checked to see if my tongue had been pulled out. Suddenly, my nose started bleeding.
It seemed that the inner energy barrier did not completely block the poison.
But I silently emptied it out, leaving not a single drop behind.
He knelt down and wiped away the poison with his fingers.
Knock knock.
A dark circle spread out in concentric circles around the table.
Before I knew it, the area around the dining table had become a pitch-black land of death.
“Hehehe.”
At some point I was laughing.
“Hehehe.”
Linda laughed along with me.
No, did I laugh along with her?
I don’t know.
I suddenly felt sleepy, but I had a feeling that I would never wake up if I continued to sleep like this, so I held back by clutching my thighs.
“You devil! It’s the last car!”
Linda got up from her seat, staggering as if she were drunk.
“Hehehe! If you eat this, you’ll be my friend!”
She staggered and hit the table.
Then he swept away the tea sets that were there with his hand.
“Eight!”
Wow!
The teapots poured out.
Into the empty space that had formed, Linda picked up a teapot and set it down roughly.
Then he took something out of his pocket and poured it haphazardly into the kettle.
He took out a small vial and poured liquid into it, and at other times he held something strange and squeezed its juice into it.
It looked like he was just throwing whatever he could get his hands on.
It looked like a mad wizard mixing up some potion.
She said with a smile.
“I can’t tell you what this tea is made of! It’s a secret! Hehehe!”
Linda hummed as she brewed the poison, her arms waving as if she was dancing.
After a while, she closed the lid of the teapot and shook the teapot violently while laughing creepily, “Heeheehee!”
Then he walked towards me and poured me some tea.
Chorus-
The water poured out.
No, it looked no different from water.
It was transparent and had no particular smell.
“Hehehe.”
How much of a shit is this?
My heart was pounding.
Linda proudly placed both hands on my waist and explained.
“This is my masterpiece! It’s a bit embarrassing for me to say this, but this is the ultimate poison! Hehehe!”
Linda returned to her seat and poured some tea into her own cup.
She looked at me with sparkling eyes, holding her teacup.
“It’s the last train! I’m so nervous right now!”
“Hehehe. Me too, you crazy bitch.”
“I have a good feeling. I feel like I’m going to have my first friend!”
I followed her and lifted my teacup and asked.
“I guess you’ve been looking for a lot of friends so far?”
Linda nodded.
“Yeah. But I couldn’t become friends with anyone!”
So she’s been forcing people to come over and sit down and having tea parties.
Of course, no one could survive by eating this kind of thing.
Whether it was the Tea Party or whatever, the end result was that they tortured a healthy person to death with poison.
Mad Linda said, holding a cup of poisoned tea.
“The last one is a little difficult for me too. I have to risk my life for this one!”
“I see.”
“Are you ready?”
I raised the corners of my mouth.
“of course.”
“Let’s go!”
Linda took a shot and then slammed her head on the table.
… … Dead?
“Hehehe.”
I looked at my share of colorless, odorless poison and poured it into my mouth.
And then I lost consciousness.