Chapter 30
Chapter 30
Sian’s yellow eyes narrowed like a snake’s.
“Terezia is read as ‘Regina’ in the kingdom language.”
I couldn’t help but exclaim, “Ah.”
Because ‘Regina’ is the most famous person appearing in the legend.
“…Regina is the name of the ‘hero’, right?”
“That’s right.”
Isiel, who had been looking only at me and speaking as if trying to ignore Sian’s existence until now, looked at Sian for the first time.
“‘Regina’ sank their homeland under the sea in exchange for saving the world.”
“…”
“The name of the most splendid and beautiful city that sank under the sea is ‘Orsha’. The etymology of ‘Orsha’ is ‘Obedih’.”
Isiel was asking Sian Terezia.
Are you the legendary hero ‘Regina’, and did you sink your country, the ‘Obedih Empire’, under the sea in exchange for saving the world?
I take back what I said about Isiel having a good personality.
Cancel, cancel.
I thought he was just a high noble with a good personality, but he’s scarier than I thought.
I trembled, sandwiched between Isiel and Sian.
I was worried that Sian Terezia might get angry like last time.
Ah, will Cassis come running again this time?
No, before that, what if Isiel Lemiere dies?
He’s a magician of sorts, so he won’t die, right?
And here I am, thinking these useless thoughts.
Fortunately, Sian didn’t seem particularly angry.
No, I just couldn’t figure out his emotions at all.
He was just smiling like a person with a dark inside and a suspicious background.
“That’s right. It’s better to ask me directly if you’re curious.”
“That’s right.”
“So, our chosen Irina, aren’t you curious about anything?”
I opened my mouth and then closed it.
Why did I have to say ‘chosen’ back then to suffer like this?
“Mr. Terezia.”
“Call me Sian.”
“Yes, Mr. Sian.”
“Just Sian.”
The people here seem to be very obsessed with names.
Cassis is like that, and so is Isiel.
Instead of calling him by his name right away, I asked what I was really curious about.
“…Are you really royalty?”
“You could say that.”
“Of that Orsha, no, the Obedih Empire?”
“Don’t make me answer the same thing twice.”
“Yes.”
He seemed to be royalty, judging by his unnecessarily prickly attitude.
“This is my first time seeing royalty!”
I heard Isiel grumbling beside me in response to my comment.
“You said it was your first time seeing a high noble when you met me.”
Of course, I gently ignored Isiel.
“So, I feel a bit uncomfortable just calling you by name, Mr. Terezia.”
To think that the world almost ended once a thousand years ago.
And the person who saved it is this person in front of me.
Actually, shouldn’t I have served Sian as my master instead of Cassis?
‘No, System. Why on earth didn’t you tell me that it almost ended a thousand years ago too?’
System, please come back quickly.
I’m feeling a bit anxious now.
“Do as you please.”
“Yes, Mr. Sian.”
This should be enough, right?
Isiel had a slightly regretful expression beside me in response to my reaction.
I thought there might be some problem, but he just shook his head.
“No, it’s nothing. I just feel sorry for Cassis.”
I don’t understand why Cassis, who should be perfectly fine, is being summoned here.
I just left Isiel alone and asked about various trivial things.
Sian answered some things, but for most, he didn’t even open his mouth.
He just asked back with unfocused eyes, “Is that the one question you demanded as compensation?”
When I was racking my brains because I had nothing more to ask, Sian asked.
“Are you two siblings?”
“No, we’re not.”
“Oh? I thought you were.”
I immediately felt good and laughed out loud, “Hahaha.”
Isiel seemed a bit upset that I laughed.
“Why are you laughing?”
“Well, Mr. Isiel. It means I look like the most handsome man on the continent, right?”
“Ah, because of that? Well, feel free to like it more.”
As Isiel and I were exchanging compliments, Sian tapped the desk as if telling us to stop.
“Well then, Irina. Have you asked all your questions for now?”
“Yes.”
“Now it’s my turn to ask.”
He came closer.
He bent down and whispered softly, as if trying not to let Isiel hear.
I’ve been wanting to ask this all along.
“You, where did the power you used when I first saw you go?”
“Pardon?”
“When I first saw you, you were clearly exuding holy power from your whole body.”
Holy power?
“…?”
Was the power he kept talking about the ‘holy power’ that appeared in this genre of literature?
“That’s why I thought you might be the pope of some temple.”
He poked my shoulder with his fingertip.
The power that had gathered at his fingertip dispersed with a ‘whoosh’.
“But now it’s gone?”
Thanks to Sian’s question, I could guess the form of Sian Terezia’s power.
Both he and I have the power of God.
If for me it’s in the form of a ‘system’, for him it’s in the form of ‘holy power’.
It seems that the form of ‘holy power’ can have a physical impact, like how it messed up the room yesterday.
“It seems you can sense this ‘power’, Mr. Sian.”
“You can’t?”
“No.”
He muttered with a strange face.
This is going to be a struggle.
“Is this ‘power’ related to why you happened to wake up in that lake, Mr. Sian?”
“Who knows.”
“Mr. Sian…”
“Irina, is that the compensation you requested?”
He’s really sharp.
I decided to save it for now because I couldn’t waste such a precious question like this.
The details can wait until the system returns.
* * *
Ding-a-ling-!
I was in the middle of marveling again at the enormous debt while flipping through the files.
I was thinking ‘I could never pay this off without the system’ when suddenly there was a sound like turning on an electronic dictionary.
“System?”
[SYSTEM | Do you want to reconnect to the system?]
“Yes, yes yes yes! Yes!”
[SYSTEM | ‘Yes’ has been selected.]
[SYSTEM | Reconnecting to the system.]
[SYSTEM | There are updates to the system. Please check the updates.]
And then, like when you run an executable file on Earth, a long bar quickly filled up.
[SYSTEM | Update completed.]
[SYSTEM | Player ‘Irina Seike’. Welcome.]
After the system’s welcome message, the system window that I had missed so much appeared.
It seemed like its appearance had changed a bit.
New buttons had appeared too.
I giggled and immediately called out to my gods.
“System!”
There was no response at all.
“…? System?”
What, have I been abandoned?
[81머kl d*(1ksl “L:)$@la]
[!LEK afdk(아믖 ; ㄴ ㅏ82@?~₩ 나dwk )]
A bunch of broken chat messages popped up.
Although I couldn’t read any of it, just those chat messages were reassuring.
So I haven’t been abandoned.
“Welcome back!”
[82 !ㅓㅏㅇ ㅁjkdi!!]
“I don’t know what you’re saying, but please resolve it and come back. I’ll be looking around this changed system!”
[0F! y E 스!]
I checked various things in the system with relief.
Actually, what I’m most curious about is the debt.
[Remaining balance: 99,992,810 jurang]
Well done, well done.
Kim Irina, you’ve already paid off 7,190 jurang.
Now the remaining debt is 99,992,810 jurang.
“…”
When will I ever pay this off?
At this rate, it might take about 100 years.
I didn’t just work since coming to the north, I sometimes went ice fishing and cooked too!
I worked an average of twelve hours a day, but I’ve only paid off that much.
Should I be satisfied that I haven’t incurred more debt by sorting out the existing deficit businesses?
Just as I was tearing my hair out, a system message arrived.
[SYSTEM | Isiel Lemiere lost 200 jurang in the mansion, and now there’s 99,992,610 jurang left until the debt is repaid.]
“…So money lost in the Grand Duke Luwin’s territory still belongs to Luwin, is that it?”
[SYSTEM | Luwin Grand Duke’s territory X]
[SYSTEM | Luwin Grand Duke’s residence O]
Now the system is even talking to me.
“Could it be you, God?”
[SYSTEM | ㄴ]
“I see.”
Well, I’ve checked the debt.
Among the newly appeared buttons, I checked the part I was most worried about before collapsing.
[SYSTEM | Your Luck stat has decreased by 8 due to the forced disconnection penalty.]
[SYSTEM | Luck 7/12]
“…”
What’s wrong with my luck?
I opened and closed a few quests.
I wondered if there would be any progress, but it was improving little by little in its own way.
I’ve already replaced the chef and reached the truth of the lake.
[I R I ㄴ 앙 ㅏㅈ912. @ ??]
“It still looks broken.”
[J E G 3s kd387@$*A아 ㄹ ㅏ ㄹ]
Thinking it might take ages waiting like this, I took this opportunity to look into my inventory, check the quests I’ve completed, and so on.
While checking the rewards as well.
Even after checking everything, the god didn’t return.
I pressed the newly created button again.
