Chapter 508 – I Hate the Look.

As I continued along the trail, I saw a large puddle of water. No, the word pool was more like an artificial lake that was ridiculously wide. However, its purpose was to prevent enemy invasion rather than aesthetics.

“Wow, it’s a moat.”

When I saw the moat filled with water, I suddenly felt longing.

“…”

It seemed to be the same for Mina. She didn’t respond to my words and just stared at the moat.

But, it’s been a really long time.

I forgot because I was so happy these days, but I was from a hero in a medieval fantasy background. The moat, an important means of protection of a castle, could be seen in any large city, and it was strangely welcome to see it in modern times.

While I was thinking about the old days, I heard a low voice next to me.

“… I don’t even want to see it.”

“Uh?”

“Jiheon. Aren’t you going to leave?”

She immediately turned her head and looked at Mina. She, who usually lived an expressionless life, frowned slightly between her eyebrows and openly showed her displeasure.

It was so embarrassing to see him hate it even though he didn’t miss it like I did. As I walked away, I asked why.

“No, I am going there. What’s the matter?”

“It’s nothing, Jiheon. I will move quickly.”

“Is something going on?”

“No. Jiheon. I think we should go down those stairs.”

Mina kept trying to change her subject. Embarrassed by her unfamiliar appearance, I was so curious that I asked her just once, really just once more.

“Can you tell me why? I am very curious.”

“…”

At my words, Mina stopped her steps. Then he looked at me next to me and asked.

“You are asking seriously.”

“No, well, if you don’t want to talk, you don’t have to.”

“No.”

“I can’t even talk.”

“Jiheon is curious, right? I will tell you.”

It took a little while for the next words to follow. When he said that he was like that, and asked to leave now, his mouth, which had been tightly closed, opened.

“I have been in a moat.”

“Uh?”

“After meeting Jiheon. While on the move after receiving a message from Jiheon, she had to infiltrate the castle. She thought she would die trying to get over the moat to the ramparts.”

I didn’t know it was such a serious story. If you don’t pass, you lose your life.

“The smell was so murderous.”

“What. Was that a story?!”

“Did you know what Jiheon was talking about?”

“No, she almost drowned or something like that…”

“The water was shallow, so I could just walk on it.”

“Then what does it smell like?”

“The water was stagnant and gave off a rotten smell.”

I moved my steps back to the story that was not as big as I thought, and Mina continued the story as she followed me.

“As I passed the moat full of rotting water and met the soldiers, they avoided me.”

“Is it?”

“It was more shocking than I thought to see men who were looking at me insidiously avoid me. Maybe the cause of my emotions is not Jiheon, but them.”

“Hey, that’s not it.”

“It is a story that says so.”

“But are you looking at me slyly?”

As she climbed the stairs she pointed to earlier, she spoke with a sinister gaze. At that time, she was in the middle of her secondary sex characteristics, so her body was not much different from that of an adult woman. Plus, her breasts were big, so she deserved attention.

But that’s it, do you dare to look at Mina that way? Although her body was an adult, her head was still a child. Plus she couldn’t even make eye contact with me.

Just when I thought that if I went to another world, those bastards would be the first to do it, the stairs ended and a flat field came out. A little further on from there, another moat caught her eye.

This time, as the moat seemed deeper than before, I suddenly remembered this question.

“It’s Minah.”

“Yes, Jiheon.”

“Do you think you can swim if I fall here?”

“Jiheon, don’t you know how to swim?”

Oh, I don’t know What I learned to swim from the Demon King. No, she wasn’t completely ignorant, though. I thought I could swim, but I didn’t know I could float.

Correcting my thoughts, I announced that I could swim and float.

“I know I can fly. I learned from Sohee.”

“Is that so. If so, let’s think about it on the assumption that you know how Jiheon rises.”

“It’s not home, it’s real.”

“The results are in. Assuming it can float,”

“It is not an assumption.”

“I think Jiheon will drown halfway through.”

“Hey.”

“This is the result of a cold calculation, Jiheon. Please surrender.”

“No, I can just swim.”

Listen to me.

As we talked, we got closer and closer to the castle. The more that happened, the more tourists like us became around, and the eyes of men who were looking at Minah began to gather.

“Come to think of it, Jiheon.”

Even after receiving that gaze, Mina always changed the subject, saying, “This is always the case.”

“Where would you like to go for summer vacation?”

“Uh, suddenly?”

“Did Jiheon bring up the topic of swimming? Wasn’t it because you wanted to go to the summer?”

“It’s not.”

“Then don’t you want to go?”

When I asked if I wanted to go or not, of course I wanted to go. Before enlisting, I wanted to play as much as possible, and it was obvious that it would be fun if it was a summer vacation with her girlfriends.

“I don’t want to go.”

“Then think about where would be nice. Would you prefer the sea or the valley?”

“It’s a valley rather than an ocean.”

“Why do you think so?”

“Just, is the sea salty?”

It wasn’t that I didn’t like the sea because it was salty. I only set foot on the beach, but the sand that followed me to my house was annoying, and I didn’t like the fact that my wet body became sticky when it dried.

When I said this, Minah nodded her head and asked.

“Jiheon. Then, how about the place you visited last time?”

“Where?”

“The reservoir in front of the closed school.”

“Oh no! No way!”

Then her memory came back. In addition to the dreary emanating from the old school, she also discovered a suspicious girl playing house by herself in the closed school. I don’t know if it happened once, but I didn’t want to go again even though I knew it.

“Why is that, Jiheon? You liked Jiheon too, didn’t you?”

“What am I!”

“Did you enjoy playing teacher?”

“Yeah, that was it!”

It wasn’t that there were only scary memories from the closed school. Mina, who has excellent acting skills, spent the night performing a situational drama as a teacher. He threatened to leave me here alone if I didn’t do it, but I enjoyed it.

Mina, who probably enjoyed the night more than I did, talked about what to do if I went again. Maybe she was going to go together differently than before, but this time the number of people increased a bit.

“I think Jiheon will be fine surrounded by female Iljins this time.”

But there is no one on my side. People have grown so much.

“There, Taeyeon helps, but Taeyeon also goes astray.”

“No, why is Taeyeon suddenly appearing?”

“I think she would be a good fit for the role of Taeyeon’s depravity.”

“She sure seems like it.”

Uncharacteristic of a mother, she was innocent on the bed, but became active while hanging out with us. Like Minah said, she seemed like a good fit for a depraved role.

… No, this is not it!

“I’m not going to close the school!”

We had been talking as if going to the school had been decided for a while. If I hadn’t noticed here, she would have gone straight to the haunted school.

“Did you catch it?”

“Did you think I didn’t know?”

“You didn’t know until a few seconds ago.”

“Ouch. See if you’re going over there.”

“Jiheon. Don’t talk back.”

Minah ignored her words and pointed to the street where there were many tourists. As she continued to cross the moat, the entrance to the castle was approaching.

To get away from the story earlier, I openly changed the subject.

“I wonder what the castle structure looks like here. Is it very different from the kingdom?”

“… Yes, it will.”

Mina, who was silent for a moment, seemed to have decided to go along with my words. As she walked alongside me, she told me what she thought.

“There is no magic here, so the defense system will be very different.”

“I will. At best, it’s all about bows and spears. Oh, but wasn’t there a gun here too?”

“Yes that’s right. However, the firepower was not developed that much, so the structure of the castle did not change much. Instead, the fighting style has changed considerably.”

“How has it changed?”

“With the advent of artillery, more field battles occurred than siege warfare. The reason is that the power of the cavalry sweeping the battlefield has declined.”

I had seen Mina like this at the entrance of the park. Then she continued to speak of what she knew, and her eyes sparkled as she spoke, looking more excited than ever.

But suddenly, a small doubt arose.

“But where did you find that out?”

“●This is no wiki.”

“Oh little.”

“Look at the rock in the wall here. One side of the wall was completely filled in. The dog is big, really.”

“Yes that’s right. Looking at the sign here, it says that the higher the loyalty, the larger the rock was offered.”

“Okay?”

“By the way, my heart for Jiheon is big, so my heart is also big.”

“What, no, hey!”

“Jiheon also has a big heart for us, so things are big.”

“… I see.”