Chapter 491 – [A Guide for Transcendentalists Traveling in the Post-Apocalypse]

I have no prejudice against homosexuality. Rather, I was also a reincarnated person, and I had stormy lesbian sex with Shion until relatively recently, but it’s rather strange to have it.

When it comes to love, there are no boundaries such as gender, borders, or age. They say they like each other, so is there room for them to tackle?

That’s why Martian civilization allows homosexual marriage.

The opposite? Shit, if there were bastards who were against it when I returned to being a woman, I couldn’t marry Xion, so I changed everything!

Anyway, just because a man and a man have a relationship doesn’t openly show it as if it’s a right, I can understand it.

“Originally, it’s difficult for even a guild like us to recruit a shaman, but it’s because of a connection.”

“What connection?”

“I decided to take care of that child’s hometown. With that as a contract…”

Shaman is an expensive body. If you raise it well, you should be able to burn down a village with your own body. Reinforcing soldiers are also reinforcements, but compared to having to receive serum and having aptitude, shamans have a great advantage because they are innate.

In addition, as if the attribute that can be used in figs is the ignition type, the spiritual power rises in the form of burning. Besides, if you can use spiritual power, your lifespan will be as long as Baek-hee’s… At least until you die, you should be able to use it to the fullest.

If you go under the nobility, you may be treated well, but it is true that it corresponds to a fully matured shaman.

A shaman with a power he doesn’t know how to handle is still nothing but a burden. If you could find a noble who would invest time to grow and train it, there would be some nobles… If it was for the safety of others rather than the individual, it would be rare for anyone to do that.

“I was still on my way to that child’s village. This trip up is a kind of investment.”

“Hmm……”

It’s not a business that loses money from the merchant’s point of view. It would be worth it if I could gain loyalty instead of helping a village and receiving and raising a shaman.

……Even if it’s not simple loyalty, it’s a little bit if there’s even a physical relationship.

Anyway, I’m not talking about a tackle girl. This is a legitimate contract and deal that child wanted. It may not be an unreasonable contract, but if the child wants something he doesn’t have in exchange for what he doesn’t have, and both agree on that, it becomes a fair enough deal.

“But the worst one seems to be a reinforced soldier, just like I saw on the black market…”

“Well, that’s right”

“Are you attending a wandering nobleman?”

“As you guessed”

“Excuse me, how long have you been traveling?”

“If you’re going to worry about someone’s health, I’d like to advise you not to.”

“That’s not it…”

“Do you consider the possibility that the health of someone I am talking about is someone other than the person I serve?”

I shut the mouth of the top of the fire water who was trying to dig deeply. It’s pretty annoying to ask for skewers.

I haven’t crossed the line yet, so I’m looking after it… But if I have to, I can break everyone’s neck.

What he wants to ask is the health of the nobility. Unlike today’s humans, who have evolved to suit the desert environment and have dark skin, the white skin of nobles cannot withstand intense sunlight.

Even on an ordinary Earth, people with very fair skin get burned by the sun, but it’s a shame here.

However, Zion is not like that. In the first place, since Shion’s body is nothing more than a human imitation, let alone sunlight, there is no way she will get burned by a board sunbathing leisurely next to the sun. And Baek-hee… After hearing the story, I secretly applied the force field?

Of course, it wasn’t to the extent that I sometimes walked to Zion, but only a little bit. At most, about 1 percent of the force field I use unconsciously? In terms of overall percentages, it should be rounded down to the decimal point.

I don’t have to worry about dying from a blind arrow anywhere, let alone burn that much…

“May I ask where your destination is?”

“I can’t tell you the details, but I’ll tell you that I’m going further south than now.”

“Then, the direction is the same. Then, how about we accompany you for a while?”

“I don’t think it’s bad, but…”

Even if we go by ourselves, we can solve most of the problems, so there is no particular disadvantage. However, as many as many have their own advantages.

Perhaps the Gravel Wolves from earlier would have attacked without hesitation if they had discovered us first instead of this guild. Because on the outside, they would be looked down on as one of the few people in the group.

However, if there are many of them, that alone becomes a source of strength, and few of them will not be disturbed. It was because there were so many of them earlier, and usually, even sand tigers would run away if there were this many.

Besides, since these guys said they were going to the village… I thought it wouldn’t be bad to replenish water there and take a short break.

“Well, for now”

It became a short-lived companion. Will this accompany be long?

*        *    *

No major problems have arisen since the gravel wolf attack. In the first place, in the desert, threats like the pack of gravel wolves we saw earlier were rare, and humans were more frightening than them.

No, this is a common feature of post-apocalypse. This is because it is much more dangerous to be threatened by survivors in a nuclear-destroyed post-apocalypse, unless there are monsters like mutants caused by radiation.

Animals eating humans is just a competition for survival, and there is no malice in it. In comparison, humans… Can sometimes become uglier than beasts.

“The guy from Sangdanju, who was called Hwasu. It looks like we have a lot to do.

“Be patient, I’m the one who wants to see if I don’t cross the line.”

“It’s a bit like that person keeps trying to come closer to us.”

“Really? Shall I rip you to death?”

“……Isn’t there a big difference in treatment from me?”

“One is just a companion and the other is a wife. Of course, shouldn’t it? Who values ​​another woman more than his wife? Even if there is, it’s probably a daughter or a younger sister.”

Of course, there is no such thing as there are no children in our family yet, let alone a daughter. Hmm… Personally, since I don’t have to have a family, I wish I had a daughter.

“If we had a child between us, which one would you love more, me or the child?”

“You know that question is an unanswerable question like Do you like mom or Do you like dad?”

“Answer?”

“I’d rather bite my tongue and die than answer that.”

I’d rather compare the universe with my wife. Of course, the answer to that question will obviously be immediately answered in the latter.

Are you at the level of rubbing against the majority of people you don’t know and your wife? Even if that is the case with countless humans in the universe.

“I don’t have a loved one”

“I’ll listen as a compliment”

Anyway, the top of the hwasu still hasn’t crossed the line. No, rather, as a merchant, I don’t know if I’m quick-witted, or I’m figuring out the line I shouldn’t cross and checking my liver.

If this was Earth, there would have been people who crossed that line quite often, but the other side knew that I was a reinforcement soldier, that I was an escort for wandering nobles, and that I had seen mad dogs turn mad dogs into what used to be mad dogs on the black market.

He knows better than anyone else that he will be left behind if he attacks in this place where military force precedes and death is near, so he will not cross that line recklessly.

“If it’s as Muhwa said, you’ll arrive at the village tomorrow.”

“Hmm”

“We intend to stay in the village for a few days, but if there are no other plans…”

“For now, we’ll stay in the village, but it won’t be long. After that, we’ll be on our way again.”

“That’s right, I understand.”

The sound of him approaching our group to get something to eat means, on the contrary, that there is no one near the fig. Everyone just doesn’t say anything, but they seem to know roughly that Sang Sangju and Fig are in a relationship.

Come to think of it, on the black market, they were selling her brother and sister as a set, not twin sisters.

The prevalence of homosexuality is higher than expected…?

“Oh, the worst”

“When I hear you from the kids, I feel a bit uncomfortable.”

I’m used to hearing honorifics, but even to the kids, it feels weird. Is it the feeling that the humanity that still remains in me appeals to children not to be touched as much as possible… No, what to do with killing children too.

Fig was still young, so the line was pretty thin for a man, putting that aside. Even if he grows up like this and considers his secondary sexual characteristics, he will become a handsome man who will attract women.

He was born with talent as a shaman and good looks, but he was not born with reality. If this was a place with its own society, it would have been able to grow comfortably while receiving its own treatment, but now it is just used as a plaything for a rich man.

“To make such a choice at such a young age must mean that you yourself have come to terms with it. Even if it was a choice made out of despair in reality.”

“What are you talking about…”

“I know roughly what you’re doing at night, so you don’t have to hide it.”

If you look closely, there is a shadow over the fig’s eyes. She is saying that she herself doesn’t enjoy it.

No, honestly, who would like a man beating a man unless he has a problem with his gender identity?

“That……”

“You’re saying that you have something to do while giving your body to someone like that, right?”

“……..Yes”

I slowly listened to the story of fig.

The village he lived in is a small village where he lived along a water source, and he has lived without any problems until now, but it is said that the water volume has decreased significantly due to the last sandstorm.

I heard from Ruri that existing water sources disappear and reappear naturally dozens of times a day due to sandstorms, but it seems that it has become one of those villages.

“I couldn’t even get enough water to drink… It seemed that the water source would one day dry up if I continued like this. I had a baby and lack of food to go out to find another water source, so it was impossible, so…”

“You who were born as a shaman are like that instead.”

“Yes, it was possible to send one person to the city.”

Migration is a great option. If you’re used to it, it’s better, but if you stay in one place because you’re lucky, you get used to it and you can’t get out of it.

There the boy realized his worth. He sold himself to save the village.

It is self-sacrifice on the one hand. The part of self-sacrifice, whether it is Buddhism or Christianity, is so great that it is given a noble noun.

However, sacrifice requires two conditions.

However, it will not be forced.

Two, not planned.

Sacrifices by coercion or planning, both, are but sacrifices. The fact that I killed Dr. Alion was also done as a price for an inhumane and unethical act, but on the other hand, it was because I was angry with the mind that called it a sacrifice.

“Did you think of that yourself? Or did the villagers push you against it?”

“I was the one who said he would go to the city and sell me”

“Without forcing anyone?”

“Yes”

“You didn’t know it would turn out like this?”

“It was a bit unexpected, but still… I won’t hit you. That’s fine.”

“You’re a strong guy”

Maybe the world made the boy this way.

The only way to save a precious person in a barren world was to sell yourself. Even if it meant throwing away his dignity, he had no choice but to do so.

The child was only in his mid-teens at most. They are about the same age as the children I deprived of their basic rights the other day, but there is a big difference.

You can show a weaker side in front of pain and reality. He is still a child He doesn’t point the finger at someone as ugly just because he cries.

It’s like a weed No, it sounds like an insult to say this, but on the contrary, it’s a compliment.

It’s ugly, but it’s because it somehow sprouts with its tenacious vitality.

“Yeah, that’s it”

The reason I came to this post-apocalyptic world is to see how ugly humans can become, but on the contrary, to see the goodness of humans that blooms even in that ugliness.

It is good that human beings have this duality. What he may have pursued for his own happiness and pleasure, he moved for the sake of others. It deserves respect.

When I came to this world, I saw the bottom of human beings, but on the contrary, I also saw the goodness of human beings. Eh, I’m satisfied enough. Rather, it feels like a missing piece has been filled.

It’s like eating grilled meat and eating fried rice on an iron plate.

“For now, it’s a fair deal, so let’s see”

“Yes?”

“I’m just remembering”

I have no intention of interfering in a legitimate transaction. Muhwa sold himself, and Huashu Sangsanju bought him. There is no room for me to intervene.

But the fig showed me what I wanted to see. This is also a transaction on the one hand. Then shouldn’t I do something for him too?

“Ah! That’s our town!”

“It came sooner than I thought… Huh?”

A small village comes into view in the distance. A wall made of stone walls stands out, but…

The faint smell of blood wafts through the sandy wind.

Along with the smell of rotting corpses.

It was the kind of rotten smell that came from the mouths of mad dogs that I had smelled somewhere.