194th
Hassan, the Necromancer of the Black Star
194 ? Black Star Necromancer Hassan #5
Early morning.
Luna and I had a modest breakfast at a nearby inn: dry bread, a mung bean stew with meat pieces, and lukewarm milk.
I don’t know if it’s because I don’t have an appetite because it’s morning or if it just doesn’t taste good, but it really didn’t taste good. But I can’t skip breakfast to live another day, so I have no choice but to eat diligently.
It wasn’t just me who had a hard time with these meals.
If you look at the guests eating their meals at the inn early in the morning, you will see that they too have a wrinkled expression on their face as if they are undergoing some great asceticism and just bring their spoons and forks to their mouths.
Of course, there are some people who are not like that.
“Oatmeal. Oatmeal stew is delicious, isn’t it?”
Luna ate the same bland breakfast every day as if it were really delicious. After spending a lot of time with Luna, I felt that Luna’s tongue had a slightly different sensitivity.
Was there a quirk called “Eater Lover” among Luna’s quirks in the first place? Does that mean she literally likes strange foods?
Come to think of it, Luna seems to have eaten strange things often. Like squirrels…
As I watched Luna fiddle around with her balls here and there, I began to wonder if Luna’s eccentricity wouldn’t be cured if she got slapped in the face by me.
But since there’s no way I’ll ever hit Luna in the face, I quickly change my mind and say something subtle.
“If you eat all of this, you’ll go to the hospital.”
“Oh, right, I told you so.”
Today is the day after it rained heavily.
On a cool and pleasant morning for a summer morning, Luna and I hurriedly got ready to go to the treatment center.
“I don’t have any pain, so it seems like a waste of money to go to a treatment center.”
Luna had no doubt that her body was healthy and in perfect condition. But Luna had said something like that before falling asleep due to the curse.
Even if the human body looks healthy, it can collapse irreversibly at any moment. So it is good to have regular health checkups.
“The medical bills will be expensive.”
However, Luna seemed to be worried about the expensive treatment fees at the clinic. Although Luna started her business and my adventurer work also got on track, my income increased rapidly compared to before.
But when I thought about the future, I was seriously short on money.
I don’t know how much silver it would cost for a simple basic checkup. If you don’t have any pain, you might feel reluctant to spend that much money.
If you think about it, it seems like it was the same in Korea in the 21st century.
While some people make a fuss about going to the hospital even for the slightest pain, there are others who do not go to the hospital even if their situation seems quite serious.
Since childhood, we have been brainwashed to learn that happiness is not proportional to material things.
It is true that rich people are relatively healthy, and it is also true that healthy people have higher happiness indexes, so isn’t it true that having a lot of money leads to a happier life?
As I was thinking that, I saw Luna emptying the plate of stew cleanly.
“Let’s get up after we’re done eating.”
“okay!”
We calculated about 10 coppers as breakfast and headed towards the city center. Thinking about it, it seems like this is the first time I’ve been to a clinic since settling down in this city.
I haven’t been injured seriously enough to need to go to the hospital, and any minor injuries were treated with just a light ointment.
The clinic I went to had a garden full of roses and thorns in front of it. There were so many roses.
I wondered if it was a treatment center managed by the Temple of Venus, but there were peacocks with their tail feathers hanging loosely running around in the garden.
coo.
Luna shouts brightly as she looks at it.
“Hasan, look at that, it’s a tail feather! Juno’s symbol! It looks like Juno’s jurisdiction is here!”
“What kind of bird is that with its tail feathers up? If not a peacock?”
“Of course, other people call him a peacock.”
“I see.”
Luna’s new idea of ‘뀡’ seemed to have a fairly comprehensive meaning.
While we were looking at the peacock or the tail feathers, we soon went inside the triangular roofed building.
The interior was quite pleasant and cool. There was a faint, unidentifiable scent, which made me feel at ease.
“Hassan, doesn’t it smell good?”
“I know.”
Is it like therapy?
“Welcome.”
The one who greeted us was a woman wearing a pink silk dress. The flowing silk clung to her body, revealing her figure perfectly, and it was very captivating.
Like the priestesses of the Temple of Venus I saw last time, her long, wavy blonde hair, her languid blue eyes, and her slightly plump face are all very pleasing to the eye.
She looks like a young wife from a wealthy family. It seems like the therapist is good at making money. She says with a smile.
“My name is Plata, the therapist. What brings you here so early in the morning?”
“I came to see a doctor!”
Luna shouted with real interest, wondering where her reluctant attitude of worrying about the medical expenses had gone until just now.
The therapist, who identified herself as Plara, led Luna somewhere with a friendly, welcoming smile.
“Then this way-.”
So, just as Luna and I were about to follow them.
“Men, please wait there.”
I was denied entry to the clinic, as if there were some kind of rule for the Geumnam Clinic. So I ended up having no choice but to sit in the lobby and wait.
Glance, glance.
People walking around stare at me as I sit blankly on a chair in the lobby. It’s only natural for them to look at me, since I’m a strange-looking Samaritan.
So I tried to scare them by saying, “What are you looking at, kid?” But since they were all young women and this was a central street clinic and not a slum, I just stayed still.
But really, all the patients are women. It seems like there are a lot of mothers with quite large bellies.
Is this clinic similar to an obstetrics and gynecology clinic?
I thought about it and it really seemed like that.
According to a book I read at the library, Juno was the queen of heaven and the goddess who protected home, community, mothers, and the safety of women.
I came to the women’s hospital with Luna now.
Thinking about it like that, I felt a little embarrassed about this place and turned my gaze away. I came to a women’s hospital. I think I know why the women were giggling when they saw me.
Sval, that’s embarrassing.
What I saw was a leather newspaper lying on the table.
Sodomora Weekly.
It was like a common newspaper or information magazine in this world, made of cheap leather that was thinly spread and hammered out, and letters were engraved on it with a brush. Since there were many leather sellers, it had quite a few pages.
Since I had nothing to do while waiting for Luna, I decided to take a quick look through it. When I opened it up carelessly, the first thing I saw was this.
Women’s amulet earrings that are trending these days. How to steal that man’s heart-.
Is this a women’s magazine? Earrings with a strange water drop pattern are depicted in considerable detail.
Seeing the detailed description of which store it was being sold at, I wondered if the store had sponsored and advertised the creation of this leather magazine.
That’s funny.
A newspaper.
There may be more information than you think. No, rather than an old-fashioned encyclopedia, wouldn’t a weekly magazine like this have more important information for adventurers?
As I said before, adventurers must always keep an ear out for changes in the world.
So I decided to take a look to see what else was written.
How to know if he is a cheater. 10 types of behaviors that a cheater may exhibit.
What is this?
There was a fairly interesting article, so my eyes naturally turned to it.
First, they are increasingly concerned about their appearance.
Second, they go out a lot.
Third, it often comes with an unfamiliar scent.
Fourth, expressions of affection may suddenly increase. On the contrary, they may decrease.
Fifth, there are many secrets.
This is so annoying.
Ji-i-ik.
Even though I knew that damaging someone else’s property was a crime, I tore off the page and put it in my pocket just in case Luna couldn’t read it.
However, he destroyed the evidence by chewing it and swallowing it, thinking that Luna might find it after putting it in his pocket.
That was a close call.
So I flipped through the leather pages to see if there was any other dangerous content written there.
Flutter, flutter-.
Thieves Guild – Is Hydra really destroyed? Circumstances showing that absurdity is still alive and well. The world is also criticizing that it is just an illusion.
The Social Wars, a few weeks later. Has Pluto’s power really waned?
Enya Sardic, the only daughter of a count. Her health is in critical condition.
In addition to information that young women would like, newspapers and magazines also seemed to have a good deal to say about rumors and gossip circulating in Sodomora.
if.
Do you have any stories about me?
I’m a new adventurer who’s been doing quite well these days. So I’m looking around the page to see if there’s anything written about me.
But there wasn’t any.
Sval, I was secretly looking forward to it. It seems I’m not good enough to be in the newspaper yet.
There was a piece about Hippolyta and Antiope, something about the ‘perfect sisters of Mars’.
There are articles about such delusional women, but no articles about me, who has been struggling so much for the city these days. I’m a little upset.
Who writes the article?
To become a Gold Tier Adventurer, you need to not only level up, but also become famous. Then, shouldn’t you be mentioned in the newspapers like nothing else?
“Sval.”
At that moment, something seemed to come to mind that I would call my life’s goal.
It’s on the front page of the newspaper.
I thought that if I set a more realistic goal than the distant dream of becoming a gold tier adventurer and worked towards it one by one, I might be able to achieve my big dream someday.
So I flipped through the leather pages, wondering what method I could use to get my name printed big enough to be on the front page of the newspaper.
Then, on one side, you can see letters written quite large.
A village near Sodomora, attacked by monsters again!! The number of goblins continues to increase!! Is there no solution!? Both the Mars Guild and the Minerva Guild are helpless!! The city council reviews the cause and solutions-.
It was an article with a lot of exclamation marks.
The goblins are growing in number.
There certainly were a lot of goblins around the city.
It is natural that goblins do not appear in groups near inhabited villages or cities, unless they are runaway goblins who have strayed from their original group.
As I felt at the site of the abandoned sanctuary, there have been quite a few goblins swarming around recently.
Come to think of it, didn’t the Iron Adventurer Party do something about the Goblin King?
What if I catch the goblin king or whatever and bring him his head?
Sval, wouldn’t it be a good idea to get at least a front page article?
I’m tired.
I thought about it and it seemed like a very plausible idea.
“Hassan, what are you looking at?”
Just then, Luna came out of the examination room and walked towards me from afar.
It doesn’t look like it has changed much.
“What? Did the test go well?”
“There’s nothing wrong with it! In fact, they say it’s very healthy!”
“okay?”
Only after the specialist treatment center confirmed that there was nothing wrong did I finally feel a little relieved.
I guess it’s safe to say that the curse that was on Luna’s body has completely disappeared. While I was feeling satisfied like that, Luna poked her head in and looked at what I was seeing.
“Hassan, can you read a newspaper?”
“Yeah, I guess so.”
“The more I look at Hassan, the more he seems different from the savage I imagine. Wasn’t he really the son of a tribal chief in the land of Samaria?”
“It wasn’t like that.”
“Hassan, you look smart!”
Did the sight of someone reading a newspaper seem quite intellectual? In this world, just being able to read and write is considered intellectual in its own right.
I decided to subscribe to a weekly newspaper on the way back, and I headed out into the street with Luna.
* * *
When I came back home, there was someone in the yard.
After setting up the yard, I kept getting annoyed by the peddlers coming by, but upon closer inspection, I found out that they weren’t peddlers but paranois.
Paranoia is playing in the yard, catching ants.
“Hassan-nim, Luna-nim! Where have you been…? I’ve been waiting for you…!”
Paranoy stood up from his seat, shaking his palms. Luna hugged his waist as if she was glad to see the nymph of the ditch water.
“Today, there are a lot of things to make, so good! I have to extract the secret ingredient!”
“Do I have to do that again…?”
“Why? You don’t like it?”
“That’s not it… .”
Paranoy, who was held tightly by Luna’s waist, glanced at me and checked my mood.
I don’t know for sure, but it seemed like he was asking, “Hassan, can you please take me with you today?” Maybe he didn’t want Luna to exploit him for his secret ingredient or something.
But I couldn’t take Paranoy with me today because I had something to do.
This afternoon I have to take a lesson from Hippolyte, and I also plan to meet with Antiope to hear about Pluto’s cultists.
What if you take Paranoia there?
Surely Paranoy would make things worse by making a fuss about things like “Antiope, the warrior! You are now my subordinate!” and eventually get caught by Hippolyta, and both Paranoy and I would get beheaded and it would be in the newspapers.
I don’t like it when it’s in the newspaper like that.
“Paranoy, I’ll take it easy today so you don’t get hurt!”
“Heeeeeeeee-!”
As I watched Paranoy being eventually caught by Luna and dragged into the cabin, I became a little curious as to what the secret ingredient Luna was talking about.
The secret ingredient of nymphs in special elixirs.
I was really curious, but I couldn’t bring myself to ask because Luna said, “Sometimes, you have to eat it without knowing the ingredients to get a better effect!”
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