38 – Episode 35: Stagnant water rots – 5

Yes, I was finally able to live a somewhat normal life.

The dorm was still cramped, and Kyoko’s sleeping habits were terrible, but as the aftermath of that d*ck faded, she was able to face the remaining tournaments more refreshed.

As a result!

We succeeded in making a profit of 15 silver coins in just one day!

It was a really unexpected result.

All of the competitions held in the morning failed to do so, but in the cooking competition, Rin’s dish unexpectedly received rave reviews and came in second place.

Thanks to that, we were able to get our hands on a whopping 15 silver coins.

“No, Rin, did you learn anything like cooking?”

“Nothing. This is thanks to her mother’s cooking lessons since she was a child. It’s so basic that it’s so delicious that it’s praised… ”

“no. Rin, is this very delicious? No, why didn’t you tell me you’re so good at cooking? From now on, Rin should do the cooking for me! Now, can we expect to eat these delicious things every day?”

Kyoko and I hurriedly ate the leftover dishes after submitting them to the jury, while praising Rin.

Wow… I’m not going to lie to you, since I arrived in this world, no, even when I was on Earth, I had never eaten food this delicious.

Even though there was not even a strong spice in the ingredients that I had never seen before, Lin quickly made such a delicious soup.

Rin must have been a devilish culinary genius.

“Joo-hyeok, you don’t have to flatter me that much.”

“Really. Lin is really talented!”

“Is that so…! Hmmm, then I have the intention to do it. Wouldn’t it be natural for a person of a large country to pay the people of a small country something in return?”

Rin’s mouth lifted slightly for a moment, then a hurried cough cleared his face. Then, in a tone that seemed satisfied, he replied that he would understand.

During my future adventures, I was really lucky that I didn’t have to eat tough, tasteless beast jerky.

At that time, Kyoko felt an unknown sense of danger.

Looking at Rin, who seems to have a talent for cooking, an indescribable anxiety was born.

“Kyoko, do you have something to say?”

“Ah, nothing!”

When I asked Kyoko, who was suddenly staring at Rin and me, she screamed in surprise, then started eating the soup again.

She didn’t know why she felt that way, so Kyoko had no choice but to blame it on her feelings, leaving behind the unpleasant feeling.

As I was eating for a while, it suddenly dawned on me that I was forgetting something.

Ah, we have to catch the demon king.

All three people, including me, completely forgot about this obvious fact.

Being an adventurer, earning a living day by day, and focusing only on making money, he had forgotten the most important fact.

Looking at Rin, who had been making a happy expression from earlier, and Kyoko, who was absorbed in eating, suddenly began to worry.

Until now, we had never even seen the hair of demons, let alone the demon king. In this state, returning to Earth was out of the question.

In the first place, I was fundamentally not even trying.

We must not settle down and prepare to defeat the demon lord even now.

I called them with firm determination.

“What do you have to say, Joo Hyuk?”

“What’s going on?”

The girls tilted their heads and talked to me, and I spoke to them with a serious expression.

“Let’s go really seriously now. I’m saying this because I think I won’t be able to return home even when I’m old and die.”

To my words, they seemed to agree.

That’s how we decided to devote the rest of the festival period to the tournament, and then focus on matters related to the demon lord.

First of all, it was more urgent to make money now.

…

A few days later, the festival finally came to an end.

Numerous competitions were held, and we won several smaller awards than expected. Among them, the contest that won the most absurd prize was the writing contest.

You may not believe the winner here, but it was Kyoko.

It was a competition to read aloud one of her own writings, and the words Kyoko said out of her mouth were so high that she couldn’t even open her ears to listen to them.

Let me tell you about one of the most terrifying passages.

“She cried and cut her hair wwww, like short-haired wwww”

f*ck does this make sense

I couldn’t understand the judging criteria.

The writing she wrote had already been passed on to the organizers and I couldn’t read it, so I couldn’t help but be embarrassed.

What was even more shocking was the reaction of the people present at the event.

The translator given by the goddess must have been activated, and everyone was sniffling and shedding tears.

I knew it was because of the translator, but since I was moved by hearing that, I was in a frenzy from my point of view.

“Chop! Awarded wwwww”

Kyoko is very proud of winning and has not stopped bragging all day long. He had a talent for writing since he was young, but he continued to brag about it to the point where his ears hurt.

Thanks to her, a large amount of 30 silver coins came into my hands, so I couldn’t say anything, but I couldn’t understand it at all.

The truth of the case that Joo Hyuk was curious about was like this.

…

Kyoko was reading the concluding part of a short story she had created.

It contained memories of the male protagonist who lost his life in an unfortunate accident, and it was a scene where he cut his brown hair, which he often praised as being pretty.

“She took a pair of scissors and cut off her own hair. Snip. Snip. It was as if the memories with him were being cut one by one with the scissors.

Why?

Tears kept leaking from her eyes.

Emotions that may be regret or longing mixed with tears and flowed down.

Even if she cuts off her hair, she continues to cut the memories with scissors, knowing that it will eventually grow back.”

The sound of the writing, which was added to the effect of the translator, gave a great impression to the judges, and despite the influx, Kyoko was able to win first place.

Only Joo-hyeok and Lin, who couldn’t know him because of the damn translator, questioned the prize.

It couldn’t have been ironic to everyone.

…

That’s how we were able to collect a total of 50 silver coins during the tournament, and finally had the conditions to purchase proper equipment and weapons.

Now it was the turn to obtain information from the Demon King.

To purchase equipment and obtain information, we decided to return to Pelter Village again.

Before leaving, I handed the paper containing my secret to the bulletin board grandpa and told him to use it again when the name was having a party in the village.

Grandpa was very grateful, but I knew.

That once the name was brought down, similar things would surely happen in the future, and this would repeat forever until the village disappeared.

But it was no longer my business, so I left the village without looking back.

Now, it was time to focus on the hero’s responsibilities.

***

In front of the 1st port wharf of the Davonnell Castle Kingdom.

A woman wearing a black robe down to her head approached the scalping stall.

Then she stared at him without saying anything.

“miss! Where do you plan to go?”

The scalper asked the woman standing in front of him. Then the woman pointed with her finger at the huge ship right in front of her.

“That ship is a ship leaving for the port city of Tillans. I’ll ask you again. Are you sure your destination is there?”

The scalper pointed to the ship, explained its destination, and asked to double-check.

“That’s right. You speak. the exact facts.”

“That’s true… what I mean… you should know. So do you have money to go to Tillans?”

Isabel nodded, brushing her blue bangs lightly at the scalper’s words. Then he took the money bag out of his pocket and continued to look around.

“This, this is a gold coin… !”

The scalper, who confirmed the amount of money handed over, was shocked to the point of shock.

That would be the case, because what Isabelle placed on his palm was not a single silver coin, which was the original price of the scalping ticket, but a whopping one gold coin.

“Be quiet! will result A terrible situation.”

Isabelle, paying attention to the stares around her, hurriedly covered his mouth. Then he put a finger to his mouth and gestured for silence.

“You quietly burn me. Then you get to that Ship. a lot of money. But tell someone this fact. You will go with your relatives. Hello.”

Horrified by Isabel’s fierce eyes warning him as if to kill him, the scalper swallowed dryly and nodded his head.

…

As the ship got farther and farther away from the Davonnell kingdom, Isabelle was able to breathe a sigh of relief from within.

Isabelle was deeply relieved at the fact that she had finally escaped the kingdom, but she looked back, wondering if the pursuer might have caught up with her all the way into the ship.

“after… ”

Fortunately, there were no pursuers behind.

It was really nice to be able to rest comfortably for a while because this week was really chasing and chasing, literally flesh-trembling chase.

The belated fatigue came at once and Isabelle lay down on the deck of the ship. It was the time when the sun at noon was gradually leaning toward the horizon, turning into sunset.

‘What should I do now?’

A vague question lingered in Isabelle’s mind.

Even the translation that the damn goddess had given her seemed strange to people, even the palace servants couldn’t understand her words well, and she felt so frustrated with the situation.

In addition, the routine in the original palace was so terrible, he wanted to die like this, robbed the nobles’ donation box in the cathedral, took the funds, and ran away recklessly.

However, the situation after that was not taken into account at all.

So it had to be really hard.

It’s a shame because the stupid nobles and high-ranking priests were hoarding a lot of money in the donation box.

If he had been penniless, he would have been caught by a chasing party sent by the church before he even got on this boat, or he would have starved to death in the woods somewhere.

Isabel blinked her heavy eyelids after hiding the precious money pouch in her arms, not wanting someone to steal it.

“I don’t know everything. It’s possible. somehow.”

Thinking deeply didn’t fit her personality.

Closing her sleepy eyelids, Isabelle began to sleep.

With her on board, the sailboat pierced the murky waters and rode the sea wind toward the port city of Tillans.

“A relationship does not come by itself.

You have to run hard on your own feet and finally find it.”

As if to prove the proverb handed down to those who work in the boat, a new relationship to meet in Tillans was waiting for her while she was soundly asleep.