Chapter 449 – How to Win Without Fighting
Chapter 449: How to win without fighting
“I heard that the King of Hwan is sending reinforcements, so I thought he would arrive after winter…”
Rumika sighed blankly.
“The news of the fall of the Humpback Whale Fort seems to have stirred up the government.”
Soldier Choi Hoon replied with a chuckle.
Rumika laughed at that laugh.
“I thought they were nobles playing backgammon in Poseokjeong Pavilion, but I’m very fortunate.”
Rumika looked back at the words she said unconsciously.
However, the soldier Choi Hoon didn’t care much and answered in fluent Akkadian.
“I thought the warden and the jingol aristocrats would be playing wind music while floating their drinking glasses in the water.
However, it seems that the capture of the far-western base was major news even in Asadal.
I’m glad anyway.
Now that the warden can live with us.”
“Thank you, old soldier!”
Rumika grabbed her hand and shook it in gratitude.
Stella leaned out of the tower and looked around the outside of his extension.
“Master?
Master!”
I still haven’t seen the figure of the bihyeongrang.
Doo doo doo doo doo-!
Shu shu shu shu shu shu!
Puck! Tuck! Kwajik!
Enemy soldiers collapsed in a rain of arrows.
“Listen to the pole!
Block your way!”
Even if the spearmen blocked it, he flexibly drove his horse around and turned,
Wedge liquid!
Tuck!
“Kuuk!”
Subdue straight away.
“My God, that’s the sound of a bow… ?”
“When General Adolf hears it, he will feel good.”
Since it is a bow shot from a horse, of course there is a limit to its size.
So, the composite bow was created.
Although smaller than Adolf’s great bow, its power is formidable.
Chara la la la la rock!
Big la la la la la rock!
“Second enemy dragons!
Everyone falls to the rear!”
“Queen, get ready!
When we signal, let’s sortie with Jim!
Today is the day to catch those lizards!”
“Yes!”
Stella nodded at Rumika’s words.
I saw Rumika’s ship.
‘… So called
Perhaps today will be the last day for the Demon King to lead the battle.’
And maybe even himself.
***
“It must have been spectacular?”
“Right?
I’ve never seen anyone other than the queen open a dimensional gate like that, and that on a large scale.”
“Hee hee, I’m too far away.”
Far from being offended, Stella seemed to shrug her shoulders at his teacher’s praise.
Seruk.
Before I knew it, Rumika waddled up on the bed next to me and sat down.
Seeing her holding on to her bulging stomach like a mountain made my heart ache.
“… Why?”
“Can I touch your stomach?”
“Of course.
I’m the baby’s father.”
Lumica holding my wrist and placing it on my stomach.
Bean.
“Oh?!”
“Oh, are you kicking?”
“Interesting… !”
“Baby~
Nice to see you, Dad. Let’s do it.”
I put my ear to her belly and felt her child’s kick.
Is this my child… !
The mystery of life… !
For some reason, my heart is full.
“””…”””
The three women who were watching it all climbed onto the bed.
“Hey guys…”
Rumika twitched and sprayed her eyes.
However.
“That, that, that, that…
Hee…
The baby is happy to see his father…”
“Kuh… !”
Seeing Mari’s bright eyes, Rumika shook.
“No… Shall I… ?”
“Kuu… !
This woman learns strange eyes from pervert mew… !
Don’t look at me like that!”
Then the rest of the women came up slowly.
“Kuhm!
Because she is also my husband…
You should introduce the baby to the baby’s father!”
“Isn’t it time to need the warm touch of the lord… ?”
Rumika sighed heavily.
“Ehh.
All right.
Instead, do naughty things.”
“””Because we don’t reveal it?!””
That’s how I said goodbye to my children, and the story continued.
***
Chara la la rock!!
Big la la la rock!
The blue and silver dragons with tentacles protruding from their eyes raised their claws and tried to grab the Hwarangdo.
“Keep down!”
Those who run horses like they fly.
Bingle!
Horse archers quickly hide inside the horse’s belly and run.
Truly a human being.
Whoa- Whoops!
A blue dragon that flew quite high to avoid colliding with the ground.
The blue claws turned on the waste and passed by.
But.
Kwajak!
“Aaaaa!!”
Hee-hee-!
The silver dragon, having learned from watching it, flew even lower, firmly grabbed the horse, and threw it.
“Shoot!”
A commander shouting in the language of the Hwan Dynasty.
Everyone climbs back on their horses, twists their waists and shoots the dragon.
Shu shu shu shu shu-!
Pupper puffer puck!
Kyaaaaa!
A dragon that has been eaten by its tentacles loses its intellect and can’t use magic, but it has the ability to regenerate, which is a headache.
In particular, piercing damage such as arrows recovers quickly.
“Then… !”
Baaaaa!
A Hwarang draws a bow by putting a short arrow in a barrel.
The one who puts an unusually cut Duke feather into his hat.
“Baby on a horse… ?
Can I do that?”
“Normally not.
It will be that person.”
If dogs, cows, or baby meat could be shot from a horse, the Hwan Empire would have unified the prairies as well.
“But arrows won’t be able to tamper with the dragon’s wings… !”
Rumika’s words were overshadowed by the blue aura that drifted around the bowstring.
Oh oh oh oh… !
Kipa and a special move!
Last whisper!
Tuhwaaak—!
It wasn’t an arrow, it seemed to be shooting a pillar of light.
Damn it—!
The arrow led the light, split the blue dragon’s wings,
Chara la la la rock!!
Kwak Kwah Kwah Kwah… ! Courage! Kwak! Bang!
The blue dragon lost lift and crashed.
“Oh my god!”
Admiration.
And quick judgment.
“Second Commander, how about opening the castle gate and going out?”
“Yes?
Ah… !
Alright, it’s the right time.
Berserkers, Beastmen, Ready!
Line up behind the gates!
Hit and go!!!”
Sudden rear attack.
One water dragon and about a thousand mounted archers.
It is an amazing feat, but this confusion is short-lived.
Therefore,
‘Ride the flow!’
“Go ahead!”
At Rumika’s command, I opened the castle gate and jumped out.
Ridge-! Ridge-! Ridge-! Ridge-!
Aaaaa!
“The giant’s footsteps echo the heavens and earth!
The roar of the berserker will bring down the mountain!
Advance!!”
“” “Balak! Ballack! Ballack! Ballack!”””
“Who has the heart of the beast?!
Prove it!
Primordial bravery!”
“” “Adolf! Adolph! Adolph! Adolf!”””
Hand-to-hand combat specialist units advance,
“Balack, right!
Adolf, left!
Clear the front of the castle gate, open it on both sides!
Blucher!
Face!
Keep pace with the Chonghaejin Navy Land Squadron!
Long spearmen, firing!
Hide the lost crossbow behind you!
Soldier Choi, go downstairs and lead the soldiers!”
Second-in-command Ezio, who took command during Kamyu’s absence.
At his command, the troops moved in perfect order.
Chuck! Chuck! Chuck!
The Demon tribes spearmen, led by Blucher, were heavily armed and formed a dense forest of spears.
“The horny bastards are out!
Step on it!”
Doo doo doo doo-!
The lancers charge, but
“Row 1, sit down!
Aim for the leg!
Row 2, bend!
Middle!
Row 3, stand!
Aim for the top!”
A wall of long spears that blocks both the top, middle and bottom.
Perpuck!
Hee-hee-!
“Cheuk!”
Courage!
The lance charge, which was too hasty, could not penetrate the window wall, and the knights fell off their horses.
The charging knights could not beat their own speed and were stabbed with long spears.
“Chit!”
Cacan! Visor!
He took out his sword and ax and tried to slash the spears, but the three-layered spear wall stretched out like a porcupine fiercely resisted.
However.
“Shoot!”
Wedge liquid!
Tuck!
Hee-hee-!
“Aww!”
“Cheuk!”
Courage!
The knights who lost their speed fell victim to Cheonbono.
Cheonbono, a crossbow that can be loaded only when the mechanical device is used while pushing with the legs instead of the arms.
Kirik, Kirik, Kirik!
The loader from the back loaded it and handed it to me,
“Three o’clock!
A black bear-patterned knight!”
If an observer observes,
Wedge liquid!
Tuck!
“Heuk!”
Shooter fires
“Go, the armor is pierced!”
“Bar, raise your shield!”
“Then I can’t hold the reins… Whoops!”
A combination of a dense long spear wall and a Cheonbo veteran with good defense penetration.
Step by step, but surely pushed.
Wow aaaaa
Ballack and Adolf flanked the left and right sides.
Leading berserkers and beastmen, respectively, they caught and killed stopped knights, or began to pounce on enemy infantry.
Catherine-kun is in confusion after being attacked from the front.
The troops at the south gate were shaken.
“Kuh, keugh!
Let’s back off!
Retreat!”
“Who runs away without orders?!”
Despite the commander’s encouragement, the soldiers were confused.
In the meantime, a fierce melee.
A true monster battle unfolded in which dragons and dragons and dragons and Mir intertwined.
Tup!
Kwazijik-!
The demon king’s black dragon Karamit bit off the fallen blue dragon’s neck.
“Haaaaa!”
Wedge liquid!
A blonde angel diving above the clouds.
Quaggagak!!
Drive a phantom rapier into the top of your head, and hit the brain with a special move!
“Glacier… Torrent!”
Damn it!
Chara La Rock!
‘The power is too weak to finish!’
Nuvacane was caught with this, but the opponent was a dragon that was eaten by tentacles.
The ability to regenerate is different.
Whii-ik-!
Angela whistles to call the Royal Griffon.
Jump up, ride on the back of a griffon, and soar again.
“Caramit!”
[Leave it to me!]
The black dragon Kara Mitt bit the scruff of the blue dragon where Angela froze her head.
He twisted her body, kicking the ground with her foot.
A Death roll to rip her head off her torso.
As a black dragon that lives in swamps, it shows off crocodile-like skills.
Quadd deed… !
Twisting the blue dragon’s neck,
Quaaaaa!
Acid breath while biting her neck!
Jijijijijijiji… !
A blue dragon that freezes in ice and melts in acid.
Bingle!
[!!!]
The blue dragon turned in the same direction as Karamit, trying not to have its neck torn off.
Tentacles protruded and tied around the wound like a thread.
[Here!
Hurry!]
I love you so much!!
Not an arrow
A blonde angel riding a Royal Griffon.
[Angela♡Camyu]
The only difference is that they wore goggles with rather embarrassing words engraved on them.
‘I can understand a little bit of the realm I saw with the fusion special move!’
A method of mana management of the moon passed down through the Valentine family.
In addition to the mana inside the body, it is a technique that uses the mana from the outside.
‘Similarly, if you draw… !’
Oh oh… !
The cool moonlight on the phantom rapier.
Chuck!
A sword that extended from a sword aimed downward.
It was straight and long like a spear.
“Kaaaaamuuuuu!!!”
Become one body with Griffin, double-descent.
Charge.
Double Battle Dive!!
Pierce it with a spear of swordsmanship made with the magic of the moon!
Coo-kung-!
The sky darkens momentarily.
A scary technique that makes the moon rise even in broad daylight!
Angela Valentine’s Super Special Move!
Moonlight Sword!
Wedge liquid—!
Kwah kwah kwa—!
Angela herself became a single sword and pierced the blue dragon!
Pooh!
The exploding dragon’s body.
[Good job!!]
Big la la la rock!
Karamit’s roar.
Let go of her neck and back off.
“Dynamite Cannon!”
Puffup!
Rurrrr
Just in case you want to regenerate it, Rumica will definitely burn it up.
“I got it!”
“Thank you, Demon King!
What about the other side?!”
Whoops!
Chara la la rock!!
The silver dragon was chasing the blue dragon swimming in the clouds.
Flash!
Whoops!
Fuhuaaaaagh!
A cross between Lightning Bombardment and Breath.
Fierce air battle.
Doo doo doo—!
Blowing a horn, Hwarang ran in front.
The extremely handsome handsome man, unusually, was swinging dual swords with his eyes closed.
“Whoa!!”
Hee-hee-!
A horse that resembles its owner and has lost its head.
Jumped towards the dragon.
Unusual twin swords.
Red and blue swords, respectively.
Coo coo coo… !
When it comes to qigong, the most powerful qigong is, of course, natural qigong.
I will pick the flame qigong and the ice qigong.
Rurrrr
Cooooo… !!
Then, what if you could harmonize those two conflicting energies?!
Sword Saint Sadaham Special Move!
Taegeuk Yin-Yang Jiwido!!
Kwa Kwa Kwa Kwa Kwa Kwa Kwa Kwah!!!
“What is that?!”
Paint a picture with fire and ice!
A pair of swords wielded on a horse.
The red and frosty blacks are intertwined like two snakes,
Damn it!
Hit the silver dragon directly.
“Oh my god… !”
It was an amazing blow to those who watched.
“I threw my sword spirit into the sword wind… ?”
Rumika’s keen eye.
Practice is the main factor in improving skills.
Kieeeee
The silver dragon’s wings froze and were shattered by a fire explosion.
Kukkoom! Courage! Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa… !
The fallen silver dragon fights and resists.
“Whoa!”
Deuk deuk… !
Rumika flew in wearing Valkyrie armor and tore off her jaw.
Wood deok!
I pulled my chin out.
And.
“Haaaaa!”
Rumika rushes into the torn jaw.
A red-haired angel with an annihilation hellsword embedded in its torso
“Cheongji bursting dance!”
Kwak Kwa Kwa Kwa Kwa Kwa Kwak!!
Instead of the ground, the dragon’s body splits here and there,
Puffup!
Roaring!!
Exploded and burned!
Aaaaa!
“””Rumika! Lumica! Lumica! Lumica!”””
“” “Angela! Angela! Angela! Angela!”””
A great warrior’s dance that could only come out of a fairy tale.
The cheers of the soldiers accompanying them.
Practical joy of taking control of the air supply.
The tide has turned!
“Gather the soldiers from the East, West and North Gates!
Fix the formation!!”
Marquis John’s cry rang out loud.
***
“So?!
What happened?!”
“I safely joined the reinforcements of the Hwan Empire and advanced outside the Demon Castle.
The siege has been lifted.
Now you can build a fence outside the castle and receive external support and supplies, what is it?”
“Whoa!
Thank god… !”
A sigh of relief.
“Whoop whoop.
Is that why you said you can rest more without worrying?”
Marie knelt down on her lap and stroked my hair kindly.
“I know.
There were too many people in the castle, so if it was a long battle, there would have been a pestilence and food shortages.
Now that the siege has been lifted, it is much better.”
“Right, brother.
It was inefficient because there were too many troops to put up only on the wall.”
“By the way, are you facing Marquis John’s army outside the castle?”
“Huh. They are converging due south and facing off.
They may be waiting for pilgrims who will come from afar to join the temple.”
“Right…
I need to sort it out.”
“What?”
“I need to sort it out.”
“What?”
“Enemies.”
“How?”
Rumika tilted her head.
Even if you have a child, a beautiful girl with twin tails looks good on you.
Very rare.
This child’s eyes are more dazzling than the diamonds shining in the crystal tiara on her head.
“It’s a secret~”
“Ah what?
Ah… !”
“Why?!”
“Ugh…
Hungry
It stings.”
Rumika grabs her mountain-like belly and corrects her posture to sit down.
He takes out her medicine cabinet from her arms.
“What is that?”
“Stretch mark cream.
The belly skin is stretched, so it hurts.”
“…”
“Why?!
Why are you looking like pervert again?!”
“Because they have curious eyes?!
Who do you know as a kid?!”
“If you’re curious about stretch mark cream, you’re right?!
You’re not saying you’re going to apply it?!”
“Stretch mark cream is perfect for married couples!”
“No!”
“It’s the same as applying tanning oil in the sea!!”
“Don’t insist!
I’m ashamed to show my stomach!!
Girls always want to look pretty!
Let go! Let go!
I’ll go to my room and put it on and come back!
Kyaaaaagh?!”
Bang!
Tickling!
“Kyahahahahahaha!!!
Surrender, surrender!
Sorry, I was wrong!
Kyahahahaha!
Okay, bala, bala!
I’ll take off my luggage, everyone get out!
Haha!
Why why?!
Haha!
Okay!
Stay, everyone stay!
Ahahahahahahaha!!!”
A guy who breathes heavily and surrenders.
Good good!
Seruk.
Rumika’s face turned red, and she rolled up her black maternity dress.
The pearls embedded in the dress are stylish.
“Hmm.”
“Why why?!”
“It’s so amazing that my stomach, which used to have 10 days old abs, is swollen like this.”
“… Strange?
Ugly?”
“Not just pretty.
She’s my girl.”
Chop Chop!
Rub the cream into her hands to warm it up,
Snug.
Apply gently.
“””…”””
Three pairs of completely curious eyes.
“You, don’t look too hard… !”
Rumika, who is embarrassed and speaks in an overbearing tone.
“Wow…
I’m puffed up like this too… ?”
Stella staring.
I haven’t called this much yet.
Stella will not give birth until next spring.
“Pregnancy is a mysterious thing… !”
Angela just admiring it.
Cook Cook.
Marie touching my arm with her finger.
“Why?”
“I-I’m hungry too…”
“… Don’t twist your body.”
This guy, I’m sure he knows now.
A saint whose body is a weapon!!
Dangerous, dangerous!
“Me too!”
“Me too… !”
“Take permission from the owner of Cream!”
Chorong Chorong Chorong!!!
“Kuu… !
Really… !
Are you trying to make Jim a bad girl?!”
In turn, I applied it gently by rubbing and rubbing it.
***
“General!
I congratulate you on what you have recovered!”
Including Ezio, the second-in-command who knows how to stand in line,
“”””Reduce it, General!””””
Liberal officials, military ministers and generals come to town.
“Thank you for your concern!
Thanks to you, I feel so much better!
Haha!!”
It’s false.
[I can get up and walk around, but I haven’t recovered enough to fight and go to work.
Mr. West.
Be careful, be careful again.
Know that, sir Angela and I, we’ll both stick together.
Otherwise, you are prohibited from going out!]
Marie, the head doctor who puts her hand on her hip and nags her.
Beside her, Angela, the Guardian Knight, placed her hand on the hilt and nodded her head.
Even now, he is standing right behind me.
“… That woman is the general’s concubine?”
“I heard you brought a human concubine from the battlefield…”
“Besides, didn’t humans praise those big breasts as saints?”
“It must be spoils.”
…
Gossip in the castle.
Things that are difficult for the general public to understand, including the Demon King’s Munmu and the White House.
I woke up early because I was afraid of this.
I’m going to take care of the work, and I’m going to have a good time.
“Camyu-sama, absolute stability.
You know?!”
On the outside, Mari doesn’t call her Mr. West and is careful with what she says.
So cute.
It’s cute that that innocent face always makes a determined expression.
“What is it that you must deal with?”
Angela with a needlessly hard face.
On the subject of being weak in bed.
That gap is unbearably cute.
So it goes
“We have to drive out the enemies.”
With a newly acquired trump weapon.
“Yes?!”
“It’s unreasonable to fight now!”
“Are you okay.
I will win without fighting.”
“”?””
He smiled at the two bewildered women.
***
“The infantry is deployed here…”
Catherine’s camp.
Marquis John, the staff, the commanders of each unit and the mercenary commanders are shown and having a meeting.
“Fu, Marquis!!”
Flutter!
“Yeah man!
What kind of reckless behavior are you doing during the strategy meeting right now!”
“That, that… I think you should come and see!!
Me, me, me, there… !!”
“… What is it?
If it’s not cheesy, I’ll punish you severely!”
Marquis John and his staff come out grumbling.
And.
Coo coo coo coo… !
“What is that… ?”
An aerial structure much larger than the aerial fortress that was destroyed in the Hydas River battle, the ‘Sword of Adim’.
Rather than a fortress or a castle, it’s like…
“Palace… ?”
A golden enchantment stone embedded between pure white bricks.
Crystal pillars and golden beams.
A golden sun carved into the spire.
That…
“Unbelievable!!
Ahumazu’s villa, a floating castle… !!”
Since the reaction of the marquis was this much, not to mention the reaction of knights and ordinary soldiers, as well as pilgrims and fanatics who came to participate in the crusade.
“Ohhh!!
Heavenly lord, Ahumazu… !”
“You must have come in person to join the holy battle… !”
“Heaven is fighting… !
Bring it to the palace like that in front of the Demon King’s castle!!”
“Hurray!
Celestial reinforcements have arrived!!”
“You came together to defeat the demon king!
The heavenly lord of the myth has come to help!!”
“” “Ahumazu, long live! Hurray! Hurray!”””
You’re welcome.
Tring-!
[At the request of player ‘Kamu Bernstein’, we have summoned the ‘floating castle’ awarded as a victory reward for player battles and a reward for becoming a player at the designated coordinates!]
[It has been summoned in a subordinate form to the player.]
[Ownership and operating rights are transferred.
Owner: Ahumazu =〉 Kamu Bernstein.]
Tring-! Tring-!
[Floatability does not consume additional magic attribute and propulsion when floating in an appropriate orbit.
However, please note that driving power is consumed during high-speed movement and certain terrain movement.]
[Buildings and structures of floating castles, machinery, magical devices, furniture, and other fixtures are transferred to the final state of preservation.
For detailed explanation, please refer to the manual of the message box.]
Coo coo coo… !!
A scale large enough to block the sun and darken the ground.
It is different from the sword of Adim, the aerial fortress for combat.
Floating Castle, a recreational palace originally built by Ahumazu, the lord of the heavenly castle, to wander in the air and travel here and there.
Flutter, Flutter!
Paaaaa-!
And a blonde angel and a silver haired angel flew above them.
“Hey, it’s an angel!”
“Ahumazu-sama’s angelic soldiers? ?”
I couldn’t see it well because I had my back to the sun.
“Oh no!
That’s Valkyrie Armor!
Marianne, the Saint of the Sun, and Angela, the Knight of the Moon!”
“What?!”
And in the meantime, a demon general with wings of fire flew in.
Flutter! Wow!
The demon general wearing an iron mask stretched out his arms as if to hurrah.
And he exclaimed
“Me!
The Demon General, Iron Mask Kamyu!
Defeat the evil God of Destruction Alberic!
I am back from the dead!”
“” “No, what is that… ?”””
Astonished crowd.
Kamyu’s voice was amplified by the magic arts, and it resonated everywhere.
“I met the white sun, negotiated, and was recognized!
I will lead the unification of the two religions!”
“””What, what are you talking about?””
The confused Catherine-kun, the demon army, the demon castle crowd and Stella-kun.
While everyone was watching, he proudly shouted a lie.
“As a token of that, I received the floating castle from Ahumazu, the lord of the sky!”
“””!!!”””
First of all, the visuals in front of us were so strong that everyone was at a loss for words.
The angel soldiers and the floating castle flew up with the sun behind them.
Demons in the middle.
This contradictory sight.
“Because I am the black sun and the white sun!
Now all the powers of the sun are with me!!”
Coo coo coo… !
Floating stars move behind his back,
Dig!
The human saintess and guardian knight were together with the demon general.
Camyu, who was wearing an iron mask, shouted vigorously.
“Those who came with self-interest!
Those who participated in the war were deceived by those who misrepresented the war as holy!
Do you think blood can wash away your sins and avoid punishment?!
Just as you cannot be saved by offerings, so you cannot be saved by blood!
This is the message from Ahumaj, the lord of the heavenly castle!”
It’s a lie.
I’ve never heard of such a thing.
But that doesn’t matter.
Persuasion is important.
The position of the lord of the heavenly castle in the Sun God is on an equal footing with Angmar, the founder of the demon tribe.
Ahumazu, who represents the beneficial tribe, is the leader of the celestial world.
Ahumazu’s life and death are unknown, but his authority cannot be ignored even if other celestial lords succeeded him.
However, since a city in the air the size of the Devil’s Castle even appeared in the air, I couldn’t help but get sick of it.
“Go back!!
You are guilty of aggression!”
The Saint of the Sun who puts her hands together and prays by his side.
“That’s right…
I, too, entrusted myself to the Saint of the Two Suns, General Iron Mask, in order to repent.
According to the will of the Lord of Heaven… !”
“””!!!”””
And the daughter of a war hero and the famous Knight Commander, the Moon Knight.
“It is said that the sun god raises the hand of those who keep chivalry!
Are we fighting a just war?!
The Lord of Heaven has commanded me to stand on the right side!
This!
Proof of that!”
Foot!
The Marquis let out a laugh.
“Huh, true!
Haha!
On the subject of apostates!
You’re making fun of your dirty mouth!
If you bring the wealthy castle, will you become the representative of the lord of the heavenly castle?
Who is going to fall for that kind of agitation?
Is it not?”
John looks to the side, his face hardened.
Dump.
“Ah… I repent… !”
“I came because I said that if I participated in the war, I could go to heaven… !”
“Heavenly castle is on the side of the Demon King’s army… !
Are we guilty… ?!”
Fluffy.
Pilgrims began to kneel here and there.