Chapter 27: Why did you come to my house (1)

Jiying

A target board comes up 100m ahead.

A large red circle with a red dot drawn in its center.

It is a target board that contains the creator’s intention to not allow anyone to hit anything other than a vital point.

Clink-

He turns the slide of the pistol over, checks if there is a bullet, points the gun toward the floor, and pulls the trigger.

Click.

A silent gunshot.

After confirming that there is no bullet in the chamber, Yooseong puts the magazine in and pulls the slide again to load it, handing the pistol over.

“Think of the gun as the tip of a sword and always be careful not to point it at people.

Unless you intend to kill the other person.”

“Yes…

Master!”

Hoyeon, who accepted the automatic pistol Yooseong handed him, slowly raised the pistol as if he was holding a grenade with the pin pulled out, very tense.

Since Yooseong had already test-fired it once, Hoyeon also had a general understanding of pistols.

He had already fully understood that guns were long-range weapons that hit distant targets like bows.

However, even if he understood it in his head, doing it himself was different.

Unlike the sound of an arrow that only makes a single shot of air, a gun makes a thunderous sound.

Even adults on Earth who indirectly know about guns through various media are nervous when they first shoot a gun.

How much more so must it have been for Hoyeon, a child from another world.

He couldn’t help but feel fearful of the gunshot that rang in his eardrums and the unknown weapon that struck his opponent at an invisible speed.

Still, I have to get used to all of this.

I have to make him familiar with it in advance.”

“Spread your feet shoulder-width apart and point the gun forward.”

After observing Hoyeon’s condition, Yooseong judged that he was ready and opened his mouth next to him.

“Grip with your right hand, wrap the handle around it, and support it with your left hand.

Don’t bend your arm, and put your finger on the trigger.”

“Yes!”

When Hoyeon answered, Yooseong nodded his head at the correct posture after checking Hoyeon’s posture.

“Okay.

Now focus and shift your body’s center of gravity towards the gun…

Place your finger on the trigger…

Fire!”

-Ta-ang-!

At Yooseong’s signal, Hoyeon pulls the trigger while aiming at the target above the crosshairs of the scope.

“Hic!”

As soon as the gunshot rang out, the muzzle of the gun Hoyeon was holding rose, and the recoil from the barrel made Hoyeon step back.

Even though Yooseong had already shown him how to fire a gun and told him that there would be some shock, he seemed surprised by the resonance of the gunshot and the shock transmitted to his arm when he fired himself.

Even if he’s a genius in understanding the art of sorcery, he’s still a child…

Yooseong turned his gaze away from Hoyeon, who was watching him closely at his mistake, and looked at the target board.

‘Still.”

There was a hole right next to the red dot on the target board.

“Not bad.

Good job.

But you were just too tense.”

“It…

when I heard it up close..!

It was so loud that I was surprised.”

“Well..

the Suin tribe has a well-developed hearing, but I can’t give them things like earplugs.

They need to get used to the sound of gunfire, and it’ll be much louder in an actual battle.”

“Earplugs are okay!

I’ll try to get used to it, Master!”

Hoyeon perked up his tiger..

cat ears as he answered, and Yooseong smiled and patted his head.

Maybe it was because Hoyeon was a cute kid.

Or maybe it was because Yooseong had an extremely generous personality towards those who came into his enclosure.

Seeing that made him feel like he wasn’t meant to be a cruel master.

‘Since you’re not ready for training yet..

I’ll just let you experience the taste of shooting.”

“Let’s wash up and eat first.”

“Wash…

you’re washing?”

“Really.

Are you planning on eating like that?”

Yooseong asked Hoyeon a little harshly.

Currently, Hoyeon was wearing tattered bearskin clothes and his face was caked in dirt.

His hair, without his bear hat on, was also shiny and greasy from not washing it for days or months.

Just now, while stroking Hoyeon’s hair, he could clearly feel Hoyeon’s cleanliness through his hands, so Yooseong, who values cleanliness, thought that he should hurry and wash Hoyeon so that he wouldn’t get sick.

“Master…

all the lakes outside are frozen…”

“There’s a bathroom in here.”

It was a base that was completely renovated from the lair where dragons reside.

It had everything, including a large bathroom, kitchen, and bedroom.

“There’s a bathhouse..”

“Why?

Do you not want to wash?”

Yooseong asked with puzzlement at Hoyeon’s appearance, who seemed to have an aversion to washing.

“T..

That!

It’s not that I don’t like washing!”

Hoyeon shook his head and hands vigorously and answered.

‘Kids this age might not like washing.”

“Then let’s go.”

Yooseong grabbed Hoyeon’s hand tightly and dragged him to the bathhouse, worried that Hoyeon might run away.

He approached the automatic door with the bathhouse sign on it in a corner of the base.

Jing–

He walked inside the door that opened.

Along with the hallway that usually reminded him of a public bathhouse.

Two doors with marks indicating men and women appeared.

Naturally, the men’s and women’s bathhouses were separate.

“I’ll explain what’s inside, so listen carefully.”

Before going in to wash, Yooseong went into the women’s shower room with Hoyeon and explained how to control the water temperature of the shower and the purpose and use of the soap, shampoo, and body wash, which were custom-made for this world.

“After you’re done washing, dry your hair with a hair dryer, dry it well with a towel, and don’t put your dirty clothes back on and wear a bathrobe, okay?”

“Yes…

yes!”

Hoyeon nodded absentmindedly as Yooseong explained various things like a nagging mother.

He seemed to be preoccupied with something else.

Yooseong thought that a child who could understand the design drawings of mechanical devices wouldn’t understand this much, so he left the shower room and headed to the men’s bathroom alone.

Swish…

He filled the bathtub with warm water.

Swish…

“Whew…”

He soaked his body in the bathtub.

As if he had entered a hot spring, the hot water inside the bathtub warmed his frozen body.

Compared to the snowstorm outside, the inside of the base was relatively warm.

Even so, it was only the difference of being able to endure the freezing cold of the Arctic.

For Yooseong, who had the specs of an ordinary human who had trained his muscles, he felt goosebumps even inside the base, and even his artificial organs felt as if they were freezing.

“Even a transmutationist…

It would be convenient if he could strengthen his body with mana.”

The unmanned person strengthens his strength and endurance by implanting processed mana, aura, into his blood vessels and muscles.

The magician creates a ring and circle made of mana in his heart and supplies mana to the blood vessels of his body, which increases his recovery ability.

Each combat job had a way to strengthen his body using mana.

However, transmutationists, who were classified as a production class, could only apply their magic power to using transmutation.

They made a gravity bomb and enlarged their vessel with a single magic burst.

Yooseong, who absorbed the magic power in the dragon heart of Bingryong Liupleia, the owner of Rare, and possessed magic power far beyond that of an average great magician.

His physical abilities were not even up to the level of expert low-level knights or circle magicians, so he couldn’t help but feel regretful.

“But it’s fortunate that Hoyeon is a beastman…

His basic physical abilities are different from humans.

He’s definitely better than me…

Wait…?

Can’t you strengthen Hoyeon?”

Yooseong muttered to himself and then suddenly got up like a scientist who discovered a new theory.

“If you grant him the warrior profession, Hoyeon can also put magic power into his body!”

Yooseong’s eyes lit up as he shouted that.

When the Demon King brought up the topic of the warrior profession granting, Yooseong was also interested in the warrior profession granting.

He thought that there was nothing better than the warrior profession, which could strengthen the body with the magic power of light, as a way to overcome the chronic problem of the physical limitations of the enchanter.

However, Yooseong lost interest due to the restriction that “those who are already strong cannot be granted the granting.

In this world, being strong does not mean someone who fights well, but rather is based on how much magic power one possesses.

Yooseong, who already possessed half of the magic power of a dragon heart, obviously couldn’t be the target.

“But Hoyeon would definitely be able to do it.”

Hoyeon was only a little kid, about 10 years old.

Unless he was born a dragon or a fairy, he wouldn’t have a lot of magic power, and especially considering the nature of the job of a magician, he couldn’t train his magic power like a wizard or a warrior, so he usually had little magic power.

The problem is that there are only 5 people he can bestow it on..”

If it could be given to a limited number of people, it would definitely be a selection of the best talents on the continent.

Considering the requirement that they have low magical power, it was likely that they would target teenagers who were not much older than Hoyeon.

Those with combat class and talents recognized by everyone.

With such elites waiting in line, would they really give the warrior job to the girl who was the lowest-ranking “transmitter”?

“Of course I should.

Whose disciple is she?”

Yooseong had already decided to give Hoyeon the warrior job.

He would make Hoyeon competitive enough to not fall behind other elites, but far surpass them.

If he did that and still couldn’t give her the warrior job, he would use his friend SeYeon’s influence or even a show of force to take over the authority of the warrior job.

“Since she’s my disciple, it’s only natural that she should become the strongest transmitter.”

Even though it had only been a day since he became a disciple, Yooseong had already become a person who could only think of his disciple.

Perhaps because he had been wary of all the people of this world, he cherished the relationship he had made after such a long time.

“Then, shall we push the timing and go out…?”

Suddenly-!

The bathroom door suddenly opened wide.

“.”

Yooseong froze in the same position he had stepped into the bathroom.

Who..?”

This base had ice walls and various magic defenses installed, so there was absolutely no room for anyone who was not allowed to enter.

Then, the only people in the base were metal skeletons working, but the AI of the metal skeletons with rust-prone steel frames and mechanical hearts would never have decided to head to the bathroom full of water.

“Master!

This disciple will scrub your back!”

The automatic elimination method concluded that there was no one else but his disciple, Hoyeon.

Splash!

Yooseong immersed himself in the water again in the same position he had gotten up from.

“Hoyeon.”

“Yes, Master?”

“Really, it’s okay.”

He said with a stern face.

“Huh?”

Hoyeon stared at Yooseong’s face with her blue eyes wide open.

What did Hoyeon look like now?

Since he was wearing something white, I almost thought he had covered himself with a robe or a towel, but after the steam that had been blocking his vision passed, all he saw was foam all over his body.

In other words, Hoyeon had confidently run in naked, wearing nothing at all!

Even if they were children, they said that boys and girls should not sit together until they were seven years old.

Although they cared for their disciples, they were by no means close enough to enjoy a bath together naked.

“Still..!

As a thank you for teaching me many things, I really want to push your back, Teacher!”

“I’ve already washed..

everything, Yeon-ah.”

Hoyeon confidently shouted without even a hint of embarrassment, and Yooseong replied while pretending not to show his embarrassment as much as possible, expressionless like a mask, even though he hadn’t even pushed his back yet.

“…”

At that, his bright face from before quickly distorted.

“Sob.

sob..”

Hoyeon suddenly started to tremble and shed tears.

“Why..

why are you crying all of a sudden?!”

Yooseong eventually looked at Hoyeon in a bewildered voice and asked, looking at the unpredictable situation.

“Is it because Master thinks I’m a dirty..

child and doesn’t want to wash with me?

The other kids were the same..

They said they would never bathe with a half-sister like me!

Sob..

sob..!”

Hoyeon sat down in an extremely sad look and burst into tears.

Yooseong, who was wondering whether he should comfort Hoyeon who was crying outside the water, said,

‘Other children…?

Half-water people..?”

Among the words Hoyeon uttered, he found a clue to the reaction he was seeing.

Water people are treated as subhumans, but due to the nature of their race, their animal blood is strongly expressed and they have strong animal instincts.

However, as they become adults, their reason suppresses their instincts.

When they were young, their instincts were stronger than their reason, and they made many mistakes in various social areas.

In the water nation Animas, in order to solve such problems, they established a school to manage young water people who were close to animals, and they had a system in place where children would gather together and train and grow up from a young age.

And the children who entered the school played together, eating, sleeping, pooping, and washing together, just like wolf cubs under their mother wolf.

Of course, just like animals, there were only the weak and the strong in their lives, and there was no distinction between male and female or gender.

The problem is that Hoyeon was born into a full-water family and was a half-water child.

When visiting a sect in Animas, children of the Wansu tribe tend to be sent to the sect managed by the Wansu tribe warriors, and children of the Bansu tribe tend to be sent to the sect managed by the Bansu tribe warriors.

However, Hoyeon is a half-race child born to the Wansu tribe.

In order for Hoyeon to avoid being discriminated against, he should have been sent to the Bansu tribe sect, but considering that the relationship between the Wansu tribe warriors and the Bansu tribe warriors is almost like mortal enemies, it would have been difficult to send Hoyeon to the Bansu tribe sect.

“It’s obvious even without looking.

There’s no way that the Wansu tribe brats, who are driven by instinct, would have hung out with Hoyeon, who looks different from them, right?”

Even when they were washing together, Hoyeon would have discriminated against him because he was a half-race and not bathed with him.

Since Yooseong had trauma about that, he told him to use a different bath…

“Doesn’t this guy think I’m dirty too, so he told me to wash separately?”

Yooseong came to that conclusion.

“.”

Splash..

He got out of the bathtub and walked to the chair in front of the mirror and sat down.

“Um..

Now that I think about it…

It seems like there’s a part of my back that I didn’t wash enough.”

“…”

“Yeon-ah.

Can I ask you a favor?”

“Yes…

Four!

Master!”

Like a child, he quickly felt Hoyeon running towards him, his gloomy mood quickly disappearing.

“I should go back and leave Hoyeon’s education to Iris.

Yooseong felt the need to teach Hoyeon the basics that he, as a man, couldn’t teach…

“Magician.

It seems like Yooseong and I have completely drifted apart.

Is there anywhere you can guess?

**A place you can guess where he’s going..?”

Karen’s face looked a little tired at Sylvia’s question, and she patted her shoulder and started thinking about ‘where Yooseong might have gone’.

‘Wait a minute?

Since he said he was going back.

He might have gone to Metallica where his house is?”

And Karen, who thought of Metallica, the house of the meteor.

“Uh…

um, I can’t think of any place!

Sorry.”

She lied naturally.

‘I’ll sneak out on my own!”

In Karen’s view, Sylvia was the same type of person as herself.

A competitor with the same goal of being a meteor.

Although I ended up joining them by accident, if there was a way to get rid of them, I had to do it.”

“Why…why are you looking at me like that!?”

However, Karen instinctively felt that something was wrong from the gaze of Sylvia who was staring at her with her purple eye.

“Karen Redleaf, Court Magician.”

“..Huh?”

“Do you know that a wizard and a warrior of the same level can never win in a one-on-one fight?”

“You…are you asking me to fight you right now?

Sylvia Sylvester?”

Karen glared at Sylvia, hugging her staff with a nervous face.

Sylvia was right.

According to common sense, in a battle between a warrior and a wizard of the same level, a wizard would not be able to stop a warrior who is charging at her.

Sylvia opened her eyes slightly at Karen’s appearance and smiled.

She slowly moved her purple lips and continued speaking,

“If I saw you using magic on your own or something…

I think I would slightly…

‘misunderstand’ and let go, Wizard.”

At Sylvia’s voice adding,

‘A Grandmaster-level unmanned vehicle can stay up all night for a month without any problems,

“Got it!

Got it!

Just say it!

I have a clue!

I have a clue!”

Karen, who had lost the war of nerves, ended up revealing that Yooseong’s workshop was in the Iron Road capital Metallica.

“You’re quick-witted girl…!

Do you think you can let me go alone?”

Even though they hadn’t yet arrived at Yooseong, the two were engaged in an intense war of nerves and restraints against each other.