Chapter 198 – Episode 190 Post-Womb RPG ~The Truth About Mascots Revealed

“We had a hard time training today, so let’s eat our fill and rest.”

“Yes.”

Woomi nodded at Joo-hyuk’s words and walked down the street. The damage caused by the elf attack was almost completely restored, and the village came back to life.

Several village residents recognized Woomi and Joo-hyuk’s faces and greeted them. When Umi saw people leaving Pink Worm goods inside the shopping mall, she turned her head with a somewhat uncomfortable expression.

It’s already been two weeks since I fell into the gaming fantasy world. Although time passes by helplessly, I should say that I am glad to know that the flow of time in the real world is different. If Joo-hyuk hadn’t shown up and told him, he would have been worried about the exam period, which was already over.

Even so, you can’t be at ease.

Woomi and Joo-hyuk walked into a restaurant with a red glow. The atmosphere of the people sitting at the table in groups of twos and threes chatting was gentle and warm.

As I was about to go inside to find a suitable table, I noticed a group of people gathered together.

“Oh, oh… ! “Eating more here?”

“Oh my god, I can eat a set meal for 10 people by myself…” What happened to the disguise?”

“Plus, I don’t feel like I’m being forced to eat at all! “Isn’t there a black hole in your stomach?”

People shouting around a table. Meanwhile, an adventurer is licking his plate.

“… Hehe♡ Poor~ If I can’t eat this much, what happens to my image as a mukbang YouTuber?”

“Heeju, you… No matter how much you say that, you know that you spend a lot of money every time you eat, right?”

“Hehe~. Let me eat as much as I want. “It would be difficult to eat as much as you want in real life anyway.”

The two women sitting on either side are talking in a tone familiar to such a glutton.

“This voice… !”

Umi pushed her way through the crowd and pushed her face towards her table. In the meantime, she made eye contact with the people who were cheering.

“-Heeju, Gina, Ara… Everyone?!”

“Uh… Uh? Ah, it was in this town as expected.”

Patting her plump stomach, Heeju licked the meat juice off her fingers.

“… It’s been a while, Heojeop♡ How have you been?”

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“I see. Pink Worm goods were summoned through [Inventory Summoning].”

Umi and Joo-hyuk sat at the same table as the other magical girls while listening to the story.

I remembered the magic Heeju used while practicing with the kids for sports day. It was clearly a magic that had the same performance as the magic used in Alchemic Fantasy, and was capable of creating items in the game with no level limit, limited to once a day.

“I am indeed. Although it was a game that allowed for experience farming due to production, I never would have thought that experience and reputation points could be increased in that way. Do you know how surprised I was when this strange item was created?”

“How bizarre!”

Protesting Hee-joo’s words, Woo-mi slammed the table.

If it’s weird enough, the mascot next to Heeju, Stormuck, is also quite impressive.

Apparently, this side, which steadily tried to level up through adventures, raised its level significantly and was able to summon familiars and mascots.

“… Well, in any case, the plan to lure other magical girls to this village through Pink Worm goods was a success.”

Umi nodded her head at Joo-hyuk’s words.

When eating with other magical girls, I remembered that there was a difference between the number of Pink Worm goods sold and the number of experience point increases.

The reason was simple. The reason why Heeju obtained the Pink Worm goods was not through trading, but through [Inventory Summoning].

Heeju, who had seen Woomi’s womb several times, realized Woomi’s whereabouts and came to this village to find the source of her item.

There had been so many battles and incidents during that time that it was impossible to solve the problem in one night.

Woomi ate some savory French fries while checking the levels of Heeju, Gina, and Ara, who had risen to an incredible level.

“At this rate, it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to go catch the devil.”

“Huh… Because I’ve also caught a dragon before. In fact, only the final hurdle remains.”

Can you catch a dragon too? At best, this is an unthinkable statement from Umi, who was practicing magical transformation.

“Anyway, I never imagined that Joo Hyuk would come to this world. Umi, I knew you were in that state, so I wondered how you would survive without Joo-hyuk, but you had a really rough time the first two days.”

After hearing the story from Umi, Gina muttered while taking a sip of the foamy beer.

Ara next to her has returned to the form of a mature woman with voluptuous breasts, as if her youthful appearance due to her lack of magical power has been resolved. Thanks to this, she is pulling out just as much juice as Hee-ju.

“By the way, the mascot… It looks like it’s possible to summon a familiar? “I guess I’m still not at the level because it’s impossible.”

Umi spoke up to take care of something that had been bothering her earlier.

A foot floated next to Gina. Leg Tech. Next to Ara, snow was floating. Go watcher. And next to Heeju, who is pounding her stomach, her stomach is floating. Stormuck was naturally taking its place.

“Ah. You mean ‘mama’? Yes♡ If you raise your level to 30, you can summon a familiar. Then that means you’re still a bastard who isn’t even level 30♡”

“Huh… Since I’m still level 28, I only need to raise it twice… “Wait a minute.”

Woomi frowned at Heeju’s attitude, which was different from before.

“… “Mama?”

Hee-ju was shown to be acting like a child with her mascot, and Stormuck was seen talking to Hee-ju in a placating manner.

“Huh. Mama. Stormuck was actually Mama.”

“Heeju. Wait for a sec…”

Gina was shocked and tried to stop Hee-joo, but she couldn’t stop her next words from hitting Woo-mi.

“Have you not figured out the identity of the mascot yet, Umi?”

“… What do you mean?”

“Huh… Do you really not know? But. After waking up from fainting in the subway incident, nothing was said… “You don’t remember what happened there?”

Heeju’s words made Gina unable to hide her confused expression. Realizing that she couldn’t swallow back the words that had already spilled out, Gina lowered her hands as if she couldn’t.

Woomi realized her unusual mood and asked Heeju.

“… What? The identity of the mascot.”

“Before coming to this world. Inside the flask, I saw for the first time the face of the man I thought had driven me to my death.”

Heeju continued her words while lowering her fork in front of the food.

“I think he hated losing me, his precious friend who played games with him. What… “He probably called me to this world because he wanted to play a game with me at the end.”

But Heeju looked at Woomi.

“I’m not dead.”

“Huh?”

“I wasn’t the one who ate the poisoned food.”

As Heeju said that, she looked at the mascot floating next to her face.

“… It’s mom. Her mom ate it for her. To be exact, he just ate his food a little faster than me. “It was just a narrow miss.”

“… What are you talking about. Heeju, your mother…”

As Woomi asked, she remembered what Heeju said during her sports day practice.

It’s true that she had a mother, but she can’t remember where she went. As if the world had changed.

“Then…”

“Magical girls aren’t dead. It was as if we had chosen this path ourselves to save others who had died instead of us.”

Ara continued Heeju’s words. Woomi’s shaking pupils slowly become smaller, but soon return to their original shape.

“… Did you know from the beginning?”

“… No. In terms of timing, when we first met Umi, neither of us knew. But… Even after I realized the truth, it wasn’t something I could share casually, so I was wondering when to reveal it to everyone.”

As Ara said that, she glanced at Gina. Gina also looked embarrassed because she didn’t know that this story would suddenly come to light.

“Then… Terus too… !!”

Umi sighed, her hands shaking, and then stood up. Then she chewed her lower lip and got nervous and then ran outside.

“… Umiya!”

Joo-hyuk jumped up and looked in the direction where Woo-mi left. Ara drank the rest of her beer and motioned to Joo-hyuk.

“Catch me and comfort me. So that Umi won’t have a hard time even after regaining her memories.”

“… Okay.”

Joo-hyuk answered Ara’s words and followed Umi outside.

A night street with two moons shining brightly. I could see Umi running past people in the distance. Joo-hyuk hurriedly ran after Woo-mi.

“Umiya!”

“… Hmm… Eww. Ugh…”

Running while still in the womb must have been too much of a burden, so Umi stopped not long after.

Umi sat down while stroking her uterus.

“I remembered.”

Umi said that and turned her face towards Joo-hyuk.

“Terus was my older brother. That day… Trying to save me… Instead of me…”

“…”

Woomi realized something after seeing Joo-hyuk’s shocked expression and pursed his mouth.

“You’re not as surprised as I thought.”

“… “I used to think it was strange.”

Joo-hyuk goes to Woo-mi’s side and asks about what he has been thinking about.

And she talked about how she had a premonition about the identity of Gina’s mascot.

“… A promise to somehow bring your brother back… It has become difficult to listen to.”

Umi moved from the street and sat down with her legs together where she could see the moon.

“… Ah. It was something like that. Somehow he’s a Terus guy. He continued to criticize me and be mean to me. That’s exactly what my brother used to do.”

“… Really?”

“Anyway, it’s a gift, and you’re giving me a surprise box. Don’t we often make fun of the DNA level? Although my brother was unlucky…”

Nevertheless, he was my precious older brother who gave up his life to save me.

“… Maybe that’s why she became a magical girl and threw herself without hesitation to save others.”

Umi continued her words, wiping away her tears.

“Haaa… “I wonder what her brother would think if he found out that her younger sister, whom he saved, was being treated like this.”

“… Ugh.”

Joo-hyuk scratched his head with a frown. When I thought about it, I realized the strange nerve conduction Terus had shown me… Is that really the case?

In the situation of Terus, who was mediating the six-slave contract, even if he does not have memories of his past life, he cannot help but point to Joo-hyuk.

“… Let’s go back.”

Now that he knows this fact, he is worried about how to deal with Terus even if he is summoned…

Umi stood up from her seat, shaking her ass in the moonlight.

“In order to see the end of this story, I have to escape this world.”