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new business
164 ? New Business #4
The group of men I thought had gone away turned their heads towards me again.
“Excuse me, are you Hassan from Samaria? Can you sign it for me?”
“sine?”
“Here, on my axe, you just need to make a wound with an iron bar. I heard you disbanded the Thieves’ Guild this time. I’m really fucking surprised.”
“aha.”
Adventurers are always open to rumors and hearsay.
This is because you always have to be sensitive to what kind of work is profitable and what kind of work you should avoid.
So these men also seemed to know about me defeating the Thieves Guild Hydra. Soon, each of the men spoke to me.
“You’re still in Bronze Tier. Someday, I won’t see you on the streets of the West anymore.”
“Won’t you soon be going to Dongmun Street, where only the rich live?”
“As a souvenir of our previous meeting, please sign the weapon… and give me some of the warrior’s protection, hehe.”
When I was praised by adventurers who seemed to be quite skilled and men who seemed to be not much older than me, I felt a tickling sensation in my chest and a pounding sensation in my chest.
My face got even hotter from receiving compliments than from drinking alcohol.
So I pretended not to care and scratched myself with the men’s axes and swords.
Knock knock, knock knock.
When I engraved the word “Hassan” with great care, the men were really happy and smiled brightly.
“Huh, I should go to Svalbard and brag about it.”
“It was at this bar that I was able to meet Samaritan.”
“I just got your autograph, but I feel so much stronger. It’s like my weapon has been enchanted.”
The men left, each talking as if getting my autograph was some kind of big deal.
I also apologized several times for flirting with Luna, who was in my group, so my temporarily angry feelings were able to soften considerably.
I thought you were so happy just because you gave me your crude autograph.
I would have been really excited to get an autograph from my favorite pro gamer or YouTuber, so I decided to do so soon.
Now I’m really a celebrity.
I’ve always wondered what it must be like for famous celebrities, YouTubers, athletes, and professional gamers to live like that. But when I actually thought about being treated like that, I was so shocked that it didn’t feel real.
You’ve done all sorts of things.
I pulled myself together and sat down at the table. Luna, who was looking at me with her elbows on the table and her chin resting on it, said something.
“Hassan, there are a lot of people who suddenly act like they know you these days.”
“Yeah. I guess I’ve become a bit famous.”
“But I knew this would happen. I have a great eye for materials. From the moment I first saw it, I felt a pang in my head!”
“…okay?”
Luna’s words made me feel so embarrassed that I sipped my empty glass and roughly covered my face.
I was thinking about ordering another drink, but Luna and I were both afraid that if we drank any more, we would black out, so we decided to just sip our drinks.
“Hassan, you’re really going to be gold tier!”
Luna raised her hands high in joy as if it were her own. If Luna hadn’t been there, would she have been able to become this strong?
If I hadn’t been able to level up with Luna’s Totem, what would I be doing now?
Thinking about it that way made me curious.
Why on earth can I level up with Luna’s Totem?
Could it be that my meeting with Luna was something truly fateful?
When I drink, my thoughts become more erratic and I become more emotional, so I can’t think of any plausible story other than fate.
It feels more romantic that way.
That’s why I couldn’t understand even more why Luna, the daughter of God, was drinking cheap beer in a shabby tavern.
A baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility.
In this world where even daughters of nobles are treated with great respect and live precious lives, why is Luna, the daughter of a great being called Nox, wandering in such poverty?
I’m curious.
But I felt a bit frustrated because I had no one to ask.
If Luna and I ever become separated because of Luna’s birth.
For example, if Luna were to leave me due to some sort of political marriage with a god, like Luna had said before, would I be able to bear that?
I wondered if simply becoming a gold tier hero would solve all of those problems.
So I asked myself,
Luna.
What the hell are you?
* * *
Luna was so drunk that she couldn’t walk properly, so I had to carry her on my back all the way to the cabin.
My strength had really gotten stronger, and Luna herself wasn’t that heavy, so it wasn’t that hard.
Suddenly.
As you open the locked door of the cabin and enter, you see the living room on the first floor where all kinds of elixir materials are scattered around without being organized. Soon, a rainbow-colored bridge emerges from the jar with a rattling sound.
Woof woof.
“Okay, I’m here.”
Hyoong…!
I guess my courage has gotten stronger as I’ve been through various things, and now I can have a conversation with that spider guy without getting nervous.
Come to think of it, talking to a spider seems more like a mental breakdown rather than an increase in courage.
Anyway, I put the sleeping Luna down on the deerskin on the second floor. On the second floor, Paranoy was already asleep, so I don’t know when he arrived.
Since her last stay, this little nymph has often used this place as her home.
But the reason I just left it alone was because I was really going to be a part-time worker who made elixirs for Luna day and night.
It also feels like I’m a graduate student being kicked out of a professor’s lab.
“Sleep next to Paranoy.”
At that moment, I was about to cover Luna’s body with a blanket.
Why is Luna, who had fallen asleep, waking up with her eyes wide open?
“Ouch… I need to wash up and go to bed…!”
As expected of Luna, who likes things neat and tidy, she couldn’t sleep in an uneasy state.
But looking at it this way, Luna seemed perfectly clean for someone who spent her days rolling around in the dirt, collecting insects, and digging for herbs. Her skin was also white.
Luna’s body always has a subtle menthe scent, so there’s no need to frown.
What is the reason? Is it genetic? Because I am the daughter of a goddess? While I was thinking about such things, Luna staggered up, went back down to the first floor, and entered the bathroom.
I can hear the sound of clothes being taken off, slap slap, and my dick really starts to grow.
Come to think of it, there’s a cute girl taking a shower in the same house right now.
The excitement is running high along with the tension.
Squeak, squeak, squeak-.
“Ugh, it’s cold… .”
There was a sound of cold water dripping along with the sound of a faucet turning. Thinking that Luna was soaking in water inside, I felt like taking a peek.
But Luna speaks first, as if she had read my mind.
“Hassan, don’t look at me-!”
“don’t worry.”
Sometimes Luna just reads my mind and strikes first, which really surprises me.
They say that when a man and a woman date, their thoughts become similar. Isn’t this something of that kind?
Creak, creak.
As my head was filled with such thoughts, I heard the sound of a faucet closing. Soon after, I heard the sound of fabrics brushing against my body.
Interesting.
The door to the bathroom, roughly made of wooden planks, slowly opens outward.
“Wash up Hassan too! Isn’t it convenient to have a bathroom at home?”
“It’s definitely good. It’s fun to make money.”
“Later, I’ll make a yard to plant herbs, and I’ll even make a kiln site myself. I’ll buy all the warehouses around here… and… expand the site…”
Luna goes up to the second floor talking nonsense, perhaps still drunk and sleepy despite taking a bath.
I also went into the bathroom and washed my body clean.
The water was really cold because there was no hot water, but as the summer deepened and I was drunk and feverish, the coldness was just right for me.
So, the heat in my head cooled down and my body felt refreshed, so I happily went outside, where Luna was snoring loudly, covered with the blanket with Paranoy.
It’s a shame, but I was thinking of going down to the first floor and getting some sleep.
Swish.
My eyes were drawn to her bare legs exposed outside the blanket, her thin calves, and her thighs that looked soft and smooth.
Bulky, bulky.
Just that alone made my lower body extremely stiff. Today, the blood rushes so frequently that it feels like I’m back in middle school during puberty.
Luna didn’t like it when people touched her body without permission.
Since she’s sleeping so deeply, wouldn’t it be okay to lightly touch or rub her? Once Luna falls asleep, she won’t come to her senses even if someone picks her up.
Swish.
So I slowly reached out to Luna’s sleeping body.
This feeling of your heart pounding and electricity running down your back, neck, and head, as if you’ve done something terribly bad.
Swish. Swish.
What I touched was Luna’s thigh. A thigh with slightly soft flesh.
A firm and toned body like Hippolyte is good, but legs that are soft and smooth like these are also good. How good would it feel to sleep on something soft like this?
Swish, swish.
This flesh feels great in your hand.
I show my impenetrable wall to other men, but I’m really excited to think that one day this soft flesh will all be mine. What will my official first night with Luna be like?
I think it would feel really good, like I could fly.
Hmm, I want to get stronger quickly and become a gold tier. This is now a firm goal that increases my motivation to live.
Swish, swish.
I stroked Luna’s thighs and calves as if I had starved for several days.
Today, I walked a long way from the Mars Guild to the Venus Temple, so my calf muscles and soft soles seem quite swollen. You must have had a hard time. Your legs look like someone else’s.
“Hhhhhh… .”
A woman’s voice groaning as if in pain.
Luna, who was sleeping, reacted just by having her leg touched? Did she wake up? That was when I was feeling a little anxious.
Booths.
Something rose up out of the darkness.
“My legs… feel strange…”
It was the nymph Paranoy with short scarlet hair. Paranoy, who had been sleeping soundly next to Luna until just now, woke up and rubbed her eyes as if she had just woken up.
What is Sval?
I couldn’t help but feel very embarrassed.
However, this is something I realized only after Paranoy woke up and the blanket was slightly lifted off. The thigh I was touching was not Luna’s, but Paranoy’s leg.
It must have been confusing because there were several legs sticking out of the blanket and the surroundings were dark.
The eyes of the paranoia that met my eyes really got bigger. I felt like, shit, this is a sign of life.
“Ha, Hassannieuuupup-!”
Paranoy opened his eyes wide and was about to scream as he noticed that I was touching his leg. I quickly covered his mouth so that Luna wouldn’t wake up.
“Ugh-!”
“Hey, come on. Shh, shhh… Be quiet. Okay?”
But perhaps the problem was that he was so flustered that he covered his nose and mouth at the same time. Paranoy struggled as if he couldn’t breathe.
So, the nymph of the ditch lets out a deep sigh, “Huh-.” as she lets go of his hand in regret.
“… Hassan, uh, why are you taking my body…?”
How should I explain it? I thought it was Luna’s leg, so I touched it, but it turned out to be your leg. Will that excuse work? Even I honestly thought it was a ridiculous excuse.
Also, the picture of Luna touching her leg, who is a virgin, was strange. What is the best way to explain it?
So, at the moment when I was thinking about it for a moment, the trembling Paranoy spoke first.
“I knew that Hassan-nim usually looked at me with sinister eyes….”
“No, when did I ever look at you with a sinister eye?”
There was something a little unfair about it. Paranoy’s body type was smaller than Luna’s, so it was a bit far from my taste.
Also, my face itself looked young, so what could be called my morality also put on the brakes.
“We, small nymphs, can feel it… I always knew that Hassan-nim’s gaze towards me was unusual…”
Paranoia usually had a tendency to get trapped in his own world.
It was like arbitrarily giving names to my actions like special moves, and it was like I was shaking with fear as if my palm was going to pop out of a dark shadow.
Such delusions seem to be at work even in the present situation.
Anyway, I thought I had to clear up the misunderstanding. That’s why I thought it might cause trouble if I made a lot of noise next to Luna. I grabbed Paranoy and went down to the first floor.
“Huh, huhhh… .”
She was a nymph of the ditch water, shivering violently as if something really big had happened to her.
“Where are you taking me…?”
“Sit here.”
I brought that paranoia to the first floor and had him sit down on a chair and spoke to him calmly.
“First, let me explain. You misunderstood. I gave you a massage.”
“…Are you talking about a massage?”
“okay.”
“Why are you giving me a massage while I’m sleeping…?”
That’s true. I did say something roughly. Why am I giving a massage to a sleeping paranoia? So I racked my brain to find a good way.
“I was going to give you a reward because you’ve been having a hard time lately.”
“Hard work…? Good…?”
Paranoy is a bit of a naive guy. So, if I open up a bit, wouldn’t it be easy to fool him?
“Yes, Sangiya. You’ve been very active lately. You were a great help in dealing with the undead and all in the underground. And then… ”
I racked my brain trying to recall the scenes where Paranoy was active. But maybe because I was drunk and flustered, nothing came to mind except the magic circle drawn in the basement.
Didn’t you not do much in the first place?
So, when I’m in a difficult situation, here’s a paranoia to add.
“Right? If I hadn’t been there, you would have all definitely died from the machine birds…!”
Mechanical bird? I wondered what the mechanical bird was talking about. I could recall the merciless killer drones I had fought during the Venus Temple quest. Even then, Paranoy had helped me by singing a nursery rhyme.
“Yes, Paranoy. I couldn’t have done it without you. That’s why I gave you an award for your hard work.”
Shit, I’m talking like this. I felt like I was the beast of my own feet. I’m a dog. Even if I were a paranoid, I didn’t think I’d be fooled by such words.
“Hassan-nim, why is it that you touch me… . Is it a reward…?”
As expected, Paranoy wasn’t fooled. He’s smarter than I thought. I gave Paranoy half a star in my mind.
Paranoia adds a few more words at that time.
“Hassan, are you really that great of a person…? Did you touch me and bless me…?”
But it seemed like he wasn’t as smart as I thought.
It was as if there was a gap between the enemy team’s defenders. I decided to take a desperate measure and break through the gap to shoot.
“Oh, yeah, what is it? Actually, I can see that he’s a really great person, but at the same time, I can’t see that.”
“Wow, are you really the son of some god? I had a vague idea that you had come down to earth to have fun…”
“Son of God?”
“Black hair, large build, and eyes as black as Tartarus. Are you perhaps Pluto’s son…?”
I never thought I’d be asked, “Am I Pluto’s son?”
Still, I figured it was better than having a weird misunderstanding and hearing Paranoy say to Luna, “That bastard touched my thigh while I was sleeping.”
But of all the things I have to be careful about, why Pluto’s son? I hate Pluto’s kids.
“That, that’s what… .”
“At the brazier shop last time, didn’t you turn off the brazier…? It was clearly the magic of hell and death…. Lord Pluto, I have never seen a Pluto believer loved so much…!”
I tried to recall what it meant to put out the fire in the brazier. I remembered the superstitious spell I had performed the day before fighting the headless Minotaur, throwing sand into the brazier.
I put too much sand in and the fire went out.
But it seems that Paranoy understood it differently. Certainly, Paranoy’s attitude itself changed a little from that time.
“Hassan, are you perhaps the Archduke of Hell who came to this land to bring hell upon it? Am I right…? Isn’t that right…?”
Unlike the guy who had been flustered until just now, Paranoy started questioning me as if he was a detective interrogating a criminal.
Honestly, I had a hard time responding because I couldn’t understand what he was talking about.
As expected, Paranoy is an idiot. Since it has come to this, he has no choice but to take advantage of the situation.
“Yes, that, that is. I am the son of Pluto. I came to this land to bring hell.”
[Work Review]
By the way… I’m trying to write each story densely if possible ㅠㅠㅠ…
I hope it is written well as I intended…
