Chapter. 15. Can someone who has seen the end of the world plant an apple tree? (12)
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The next morning. Fortunately or unfortunately, the Rakshasha leaves with the Moon Shadow ship, saying that he will return to his destination first on the ship that came here. The professor explained the rough schedule and plan to the captain and crew, saying that they would end up in the largest tribe in the desert ruled by a person named Kauladi.
I expected him to express his disapproval since it was interfering with a war between tribes, but surprisingly he readily agreed, so I asked him why.
‘Anyway, no matter what happens, we have to stay together until the end.’
‘No, even if I walk into a dangerous situation on my own? why?’
‘Oh my gosh, you’re asking the obvious! What the Sun God hates the most is someone who changes boats. Because the situation has changed, some people get off at this oasis and some people drive empty boats and go out to the desert. Then wouldn’t those who left eventually die trying to fill the empty space? This is one of the taboos that every sailor knows. Anyway, if I return and leave you alone, the baron won’t give me any money, and then we’ll all have to starve to death or end up on the streets. What are you going to do?’
‘you’re right. If you want to go out, you have to go out together and finish the voyage, even if it means grabbing the guy who tries to get out on his own and tying him to the dock. But… there is no one among the crew who can tie you down, so we have no choice but to go together. I’m used to this, not just once or twice.’
‘…So even if you break such a taboo, quicksand will come after you? ‘Change boats?’
‘no? ‘They say that the person who betrayed you will die unluckily in some way?’
‘I saw this! The guy who got off alone after taking a big hit ended up in the grave on the way back!’
Well, things have come to this. I didn’t have to worry about arranging for a boat to return later. It turns out that when you drive a boat in the desert anyway, you often go back and forth between territorial disputes like this, so they say it’s not that rare. Since we were going to meet anyway, it just became a destination.
Haaaaaaam-
“Ugh… Anyway, that means we ended up getting involved in the turf war between the desert tribes… haaam. You probably understand it, right? “Well, the crew and the captain are all desert people?”
“Hmm. That’s right…”
“Keuhum hmmm!”
“I understand that, but… I know you had a good time, so please don’t show it in front of us. “They are all men who miss the wives and lovers they left behind in their hometown.”
“No, I’m not particularly sleepy because of that…”
“Uh-huh. There’s no need to hide it though. Likewise, aren’t they guys? There’s no way you wouldn’t understand. You seem to be lacking sleep. Please go in and get some rest. “It’s the territory of Kauladi, the ruler of the Twelve Steps… I guess it’s not that far.”
It’s not really.
It was true that I didn’t have enough sleep. After hearing about the current state of the desert from the Rakshasha and agreeing to fight on their side in return for being introduced to a descendant of the desert kingdom, she dragged me into her tent.
‘No, Rakshasha. I think this is a different story…’
‘Oh my, you are so sneaky. I don’t mean that too, do I? If you pretend to be lovers in front of so many people and the professor sleeps with you separately… what will people think? For your information, a woman abandoned by a man in the desert is not treated very well, right? Of course, the same applies to men who abandon women. You will stay here with a fake identity and then leave. If that label is given to me, who still has to remain in the desert… a very sad and painful future awaits me as a woman, right?’
‘No, hey…’
‘Do you believe that he is not a bad man enough to leave such a scary label on a girl who has no one to take responsibility for? So sleep. Please come in quickly. You’ve slept hugged like this before at the Tobrunn Inn, right? Just holding hands with nothing going on. Honestly, I was hurt.’
‘Ah Okay! Okay, so don’t stick to me, don’t stick to me!’
‘Umm~ It’s warm~’
The Rakshasha seems to think that I am some kind of superhuman of patience. At that time in Tobrunn, I just roughly logged out from outside and crawled into a safe area inn where I could log out in automatic mode. Of course, since there was no player, the character would just sleep no matter what the Rakshasha did lying next to him.
but. I’m more alert now than ever.
‘…Hyde. ‘What are you doing there?’
[hmm? ah. Six hours spent with open eyes last night. I’m trying to figure out where to store this dinosaur-sized memory.]
‘…Please take it away.’
[no. I will use it when my blood pressure drops and I run out of oxygen. Is it effective enough?]
‘No, please.’
I really couldn’t rest for even a second. I wonder why the Rakshasha tosses and turns so much in his sleep. Why are his clothes so thin?… Ugh, wow…
‘Becoming a water magician was a matter of heavenly luck.’
[To be exact, it’s thanks to my ability to control my blood.]
If something like this happens again next time, I’ll have to get some sedatives from Ottoman. Either feed it to Rakshasa or eat it myself.
…Honestly, no matter how foolish I am, I know at least how Rakshasa approaches me. Like she said, it must be to steal back my stolen heart.
Honestly, I’m just grateful… but that doesn’t mean I’m not.
Just like Rakshasha said. If we have to keep the order, at least Dana goes first….
[Uh.]
‘Uh.’
[Uuuuuuu.]
‘Uh….’
[Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! Youoooo!!!]
‘Uoooooooooo!’
[Playboy! In the end, are you planning to have flowers in both hands? Damn it, he’s my father too! Awesome!]
At a sudden thought that occurred to him, Hyde suddenly stood up, held an armful of memory beads in the form of a monster, and began to throw them away. As if I had organized it in advance, the breathtaking images of the Rakshasha and the memories of her from last night began to flood my mind.
‘It’s unconscious. Forget it. Please forget it!’
[Um~ Should I show my face outside for the first time in a while? I hated it because I didn’t like my vocal organs, but ah, I want to talk about it so much! The king’s ears are rabbit ears~ A bad man won’t hesitate~]
‘Teacher Seo! please!’
[Um~ If I go outside, it’s 3 days of autonomous activity. There are a lot of things I want to try.]
‘….12 hours.’
[48 hours! I can’t see you anymore!]
‘Haru! Damn it, I’ll give it all to you in one day! ‘Look at me, you bastard!’
I’m crazy. What on earth can you think in what order? What on earth can you think in what order? What nonsense are you thinking…!
[Does that make sense?]
‘You can’t do that, you idiot!!!’
No matter how much I deny it, I can’t hide the thoughts that have already come to my mind from Hyde.
This guy sticks out and [Professor Park. actually. The moment I say something like this, the people in the chat room who were watching with their eyes lit up explode, Dana explodes, and my life explodes as well.
“Look, look! Saladin! Saladin! ….professor!”
“Ugh huh?”
“If I ask you to call me by a pseudonym and you don’t understand, wouldn’t it be a waste of words? If you’re sleepy, go ahead and get some sleep. “The preparations for departure are complete, but the ship can’t go out because there are people on deck who are distracted.”
“Yes… then I would like to ask you a favor…”
I’m sleeping. These delusions come to mind due to lack of sleep. It wasn’t just that I stayed up all night, I stayed up all night with my eyes open and all my senses on edge.
[Are you just paying attention?]
‘If I meet the plague world tree one more time, I’ll ask you to be eviscerated!’
[Ebebebebebebebebe-]
In the end, the professor, who had been on edge all night, was unable to overcome Suma and collapsed as soon as he entered the dock.
“Sale-ho! The goal is the twelve steps of a giant! “Go to the third step!”
“Hey!”
“Hey!”
“Hey!”
“Hey!”
As the professor falls asleep, the ship inflates its sails again and heads toward the desert.
The professor had a dream while sleeping on a boat that swayed with the curves of the sand. Lying on his shabby sofa, he held a rakshasa in one arm. A dream of him falling asleep with Dana in his other arm.
‘Seo-bang~’
‘Professor~’
‘Hehehehehe….Kaaaaaaaa!’
It was a dream in which the Rakshasha’s sharp dagger pierced his chest as the mood was getting better, and Dana watched him with a smile as he was electrocuted to death by unplugging and unplugging the connector’s cord.
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“So the name Saladin is not an ordinary name. “This is the name given to the guardian who stood by the king in the ancient desert kingdom. If an ordinary person had used it, we would have protested, but since we saw its power with our own eyes, we thought it suited it, so we left it alone.”
“….”
“hmm. Saladin. Dead? Saladin Saladin?”
Knock-knock-
Watchtower watchman Naruka was surprised that such a loud sound could be made even when hitting a person’s face, and shook the man in front of her to wake him up.
“Off- off- off-”
Day 6 of the voyage. weather. It’s fucking murderously clear.
Two days have passed since we left Oasis Village. The boat is still rocking. Unlike Notum, who adapted a little, the elf, who did not change easily, was still living with the bucket.
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuongbuniii….is this aaaa…?”
“Let’s see.” Hmm… compared to my skin, which is a sailor, it still looks a little pale, doesn’t it? “It still seems a bit white to use the name Saladin, doesn’t it?”
“Ssui…Bua….”
I had done nothing wrong and was hanging from the mast, facing the murderous sun.
What is the reason? This is because the sailors who heard my ID card and new name liked it, saying it was much better to call me a saint or a professor, but they also raised questions.
‘Saladin… It’s a good name for a man like him, but don’t you think he’s too white for a desert person?’
‘uh? Oh, they say that what will happen if you burn it properly during the voyage?’
‘Smudge? No matter how much we wrapped ourselves in clothes and protected our skin with things like palm oil, would it be possible to catch up with us, who have been sailors for over 15 years, in just a few days? ‘He’s someone who would be killed right away if his status were found out, so it’s a bit unfair to do it in vain.’
‘Uh… Is that so?’
‘Saladin, the last time I saw you, you were shedding your sandy skin like it was some kind of skin. Is that possible at any time?’
‘yes? It’s not like shedding her skin, but new skin growing inside?’
‘but. Even after jumping into the sandy sea, he came back to his feet. Okay then. Follow me. Unless there is a big accident, we can drive the boat by ourselves. Let’s start by giving your house an appearance that matches its name. I’ll tell the captain.’
The navigator, who frowned as he looked at my mercenary badge and his face, thought of a good solution and led me to the watchtower on the center mast.
Then, he stripped me down to just my underwear and told me to tie him to the mast.
‘If possible, it would be better to take off your underwear. If I wrap my arms around you and expose my pale buttocks-‘
‘But you can’t do that, you human! ‘My pride won’t allow it!’
‘Tsk. Okay. Then, if you think you’re going to die, tell me and I’ll take you down, give you water, and hang you up again.’
So, under the guidance of the watchtower sailor, I entered the chat room and listened to the man’s voice saying, ‘The service is not enough, what should I do?’
To be honest, I was aware of the discrepancy between the name and appearance, and before departing separately on the Moon Shadow Ship, the Rakshasha talked about this one more time and agreed to burn the body.
“Ooh-oh-oh-oh-oh-”
“Oh-oh-oh-he’s dead-”
“Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-”
“Naruka-ah- He shouldn’t die-”
“He’s still alive-”
“…. “I heard you’re not dead yet?”
“To the awards ceremony. “They say that the apostle of foreign media has such a strong reputation.”
“It will arrive in a little while now. “Do you think you can make it on time?”
“I guess that’s why you’re hanging on like that.”
“He’s a guy.”
“then! “There is no other man like Saladin!”
“Shut it off—-”
But I never dreamed it would take this long. The sunlight was so strong that if you threw an egg at a sunny mast, the shell would fall off and the cooked egg would stick to the pole. When I first started hanging, I thought that if I worked hard for about half a day, I would have a nicely tanned body.
‘Ha Hyde…. Regeneration…. Power….’
[It’s holding on to the very roots. This is suppressed as much as possible. If I had left it alone, all the transformed cells would have been replaced and it would have been the same as before. Still, it looks like it’s pretty ripe, so hold on a little longer.]
‘S….ba….’
Regenerative power. The problem was its regenerative ability.
For the first hour or so, I held on with the thought that I was going to die because it was so hot, but only the flesh turned very red and peeled off, and the body was not a copper color like that of sailors, but a light ripe color.
When a certain level is passed, the body discards the cells that have been transformed by the sun and regenerates them back to their original form.
Thanks to this, my skin, which had been slightly tanned on the way here, recovered and returned to its original state, becoming whiter than before I hung on, so I was able to receive the envious looks of the sailors.
Meanwhile, the ship is going. The desert ship, which was faster than you could imagine, quickly crossed the sand and reached the destination where the Rakshasha was waiting.
If this continues, I will end up as an outsider using the name of a desert person, so I decided to hang on until my regenerative power is suppressed as much as possible.
“Fuck off- Fuck off-”
How much more time did I have to spend naked and hanging from the mast like that?
“Hmm… I guess this is just the beginning?”
“Huh huh huh huh….”
“Hmm? “What does Saladin say?”
“Hu…hu…ㄹ hoouh…. hehehiha…..”
“Hul…. ul…. water? Muldallagupsyo?”
Shake, shake, shake –
After the sailor perched on the watchtower frequently compared his arm with my face like a test paper. The professor who got a passing grade was able to come down after enduring the torture without any regenerative ability.
“no way. “It burned me too much.”
“You idiot. It should have been burned properly. Can I compare you to the guy who works at the watchtower? “You rode harder than us.”
“what. “He’s going to turn white if you leave him alone, so wouldn’t it be right to burn him a little dry?”
“but. “That could be possible.”
Gulp, gulp, gulp!
‘Damn bastards, damn bastards, damn bastards!’
Among the sailors who were looking at the professor in his underwear with a haze rising from his body as if he were some strange creature, the professor was swearing and gulping down the most delicious water in his life without stopping. Even for him who was accustomed to all kinds of pain, the experience of his body suddenly drying out was painful enough to count on one hand. Moreover, as a water magician, he felt an indescribable discomfort that ordinary people could not feel.
[Still, it was a good ride. Perhaps because it burned while regenerating slightly, it didn’t burn like a lump of charcoal, but burned very well, like a real desert person.]
‘Ugh… Is it worth watching?’
[huh. He looks like a big bald slave from an old Egyptian movie. All I have to do is wear one chain and it will be complete.]
‘Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.. It’s so different while playing the game…’
Just like that. After going through a process that would have killed an average person five more times, the professor was given a body worthy of the name Saladin, and the sailors, who watched it in real time and realized that the professor was a greater person than they thought.
“Stop!”
“Fold the sails! “This is the territory of Khauladin Pal Mossad, the successor to the great desert kingdom! Reveal your identity and submit to interrogation!”
The ship was finally able to reach its destination, the Giant’s Twelve Steps Oasis colony.
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