Absolutely Do Not Touch Eldmia Egga - Chapter 11
The news that a hero had been selected by the Imperial Spiritual Assembly spread throughout the village.
They say that the evil demon king will fall and peace will finally return, and they are already preparing for a counterattack by gathering the best geniuses on the continent.
The light is finally coming back.
But when?
The warrior said he was my age. If a kid who has just turned 12 defeats the demon king, it would be a truly mythical achievement, but there is no sign of it.
The reason why geniuses are gathered is to teach the warriors. Then when will he go to the battlefield?
5 years later? 10 years later? If you have to focus on the hero even while enduring that period without a promise, isn’t it a disprove that you can’t stop the invasion of the Demon King’s army in the meantime?
What about people like me dying in the meantime? My dead parents and my poor brothers and sisters? What about the not-so-nice employees? When will we honor the spirits of the people of Yeongji, who only had the sin of living hard day by day?
It didn’t take long for the sudden thought to reach there. And the anger quickly cooled in front of reality.
I knew. I don’t know if there is a God, but there will be no salvation for a while for myself and the dead.
If you grow up like this, you will lose your chastity when the captain wants it. If the captain dies before that… well, it’ll be the same.
“Nice to meet you. My name is Eldmia Ega.”
Thinking like that, the days I just lived were fragmented.
The appearance with short black hair, which is rare, resembled the mercenary or adventurer warrior that was often seen. His back, carrying the sword, looked broad, and he looked large for his height. As if it was cut, the tight-fitting clothes made his impression look neater even though it was not flashy. That’s why, despite his thin voice, he was only regarded as an adult with a short stature.
However, the face revealed when he turned his head was very young unlike the first impression. 11 years old? 12 years old? Based on his height and size, I expected him to be a year or two younger than the captain, but looking at his face alone, he was closer to the deceased second brother. It is clear that he was never an adult.
A completely unexpected result. Looking at it that way, I felt that he was not an ordinary boy, but something foreign.
Still, the eyes were as sharp as they were. I was just staring at it without much thought. Because of that, even when the boy rushed at the moment, his perception did not catch up properly.
“Goodbye now, fuck you.”
He didn’t scream, just murmured softly, but it was clearly audible. While intuition that the captain, who had fallen backwards and fell, was killed by a kick that unfolded at the end of a movement that was difficult to follow with the eyes, the only thought that came to mind was that his mouth was unexpectedly harsh.
It just came. A stronger person just knocked down a stronger person. Just like the Demon King’s army trampled on our territory.
It’s just… the captain has changed. He changed from an ordinary strong captain to a captain as strong as a probationary knight in the territory. It seems like he’s using an aura, so that’s about it.
“Do you want to get a chance to live honestly or crawl out half asshole?”
I thought so.
“That’s right, vagabond. I’m going to make you work because you don’t look like you.”
Something completely different began to unfold.
“Have you seen it? Uncle Tex cut two more fairy tales for you guys.”
“This is Ms. Alicia, the owner and chef of the inn you will be staying in. If you have a head, you will easily feel the overflowing kindness between her lofty voice and abusive language, so always be grateful.”
“If you get up early, you have more things to do. Workers who work all day pay a lot, and if you work half a day, you can do other things the other half. That’s what I will tell you.”
They don’t take anything from them, they don’t lay a hand on themselves, and they give what they’ve never experienced since leaving their hometown.
It took me so long to realize that it was a favor. That’s why I couldn’t stand it. I had no choice but to keep my doubts in my mouth.
“I am a monumental war orphan when I was 8 years old when my village was burned down, my friends and acquaintances were killed, and even my parents were sent away in the first raid of the demon king army, which was the starting point of all these divisions. After all, I am your senior.”
The story of the demon king’s army attacking a small village. I’m sure I’ve heard that story before. The incident three years ago shocked even her parents, who always maintained a normal mind.
I was told that no one survived.
“You, Asillie…so I thought it was because I hadn’t met someone like my benefactor, the elf. I just didn’t get a chance. So I’m just giving it a chance.”
I was about to burst into tears.
A boy is a boy, but he is not a boy. He couldn’t have been a boy. It is impossible for a boy younger than himself to tell, give, or understand what adults have not told, given, or understood.
How is that possible? Even going through something like that at a much younger age than you?
Not even a noble, but just a boy from a small mountain village?
“Of course, the people of this village are closer and more precious to me than you.
boy was the light
It was a real light that shined down when I gave up everything at the end of despair.
How desperate have you been?
When he threw away his aristocratic self-esteem and self-esteem and faked his status as a commoner just to live. When he was robbed of the daily wage he finally received after gritting his teeth. When you can’t even properly resist those who interfere with everything you do and make you do nothing. When he killed a tramp who was forcibly trying to rape him by striking the head with a stone. When I cut off my long hair, which I was proud of, and went into hiding. In the end, when he was caught by a man called the captain and became attached to him like a doll.
In all those moments, I was very much in despair. To the point where I want to cry and shout how could that be possible in such a short amount of time. I cried out to myself for help.
I did.
Just when I was about to give up everything, salvation came really suddenly.
The boy’s name was Eldmia Ega.
Always talking about being an adventurer in five years and leaving town, and with his unchildlike behavior and work, he was a celebrity in Ogwen far beyond those who knew him.
It was a light that could never be missed… it rebuilt the collapsed hope that even the hero couldn’t.
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Time passed, the seasons changed, and I became 14 years old in peaceful days.
Yes! I had reached puberty, the period of stormy rage!
Whoa, whoa… An irresistible urge wriggles.
“Just wait for 3 to 500. It’s really not too far.”
During that time, his height exceeded 175. It grew about 5 cm in a year. I start pounding in my heart, thinking that if I really go on like this, it won’t be a 180 degree, but a 190 degree dream.
Even in a world where there are people who use magic and aura, basic stamina and weight class could not be ignored. As long as you don’t become taller, you gain an advantage in the fight every time you increase by 1 cm.
And I wasn’t a tall man. The effect of the exercises, which were deliberately loaded on the muscles through horsepower and continued every day, was amazing.
Of course, the biggest reason I neglected exercise in my previous life was because I was busy making a living, but at the same time, I couldn’t invest a lot of time, so the performance was insignificant. However, training using magical power was addictive because it felt like it was a week away.
Above all, time was completely on my side, as none of the distractions, such as the wandering, laziness, and urge to play, of a child did not apply to me.
Although the war with the Demon King’s army is still over, since that day six years ago, at least the Ogwen neighborhood has been quiet.
“…Eldy? You don’t just pick up and eat strange things, do you?”
“Huh? Suddenly?”
“No, even if it grows taller like a tree…”
Her relationship with Asillie has grown closer to the point where she calls her by her nickname.
Since it wasn’t farming or settling down, the older I got, the more things I could share with Asillie, and the more I shared the work, the more leisure time the two of us had. Asilie, who had become a hobby of watching me exercise alone while enjoying the increased leisure time, stared at me with a subtle expression.
“Does your muscles just grow like a barbarian?”
“No, barbarian? If you have such a refined and civilized intellect, you are a civilized warrior.”
“Real words are just…”
I didn’t understand what he was saying. Looking at my body alone, the thought that this is a 14-year-old wandering around puberty is unbearable. Even compared to a warrior who has gone through all the battles before and after, his body will not be as good.
“Where did you find and learn those exercises? I’ve seen most of them for the first time in my life.”
“Eldmia-”
“-Chan-S. Yes. Yes.”
If you pretend now, you pretend. It was pleasant, so I smiled and approached to hug him, and Asilie jumped up.
“Hey! Hey! I’m sweating! Wash and wash!”
I jumped at him with a sense of playfulness, and he laughed and evaded me diligently. For me and Ashley, the shadows in my heart that had been caused by the events of six years ago were greatly diluted.
It’s time to go to the city, so when I washed and wiped it off, Asilie smiled and hugged me. It was strange that she was looking up at me now.
“Have you become proficient in spirit magic now?”
“It’s all thanks to my sister.”
I can now use spirit magic, which was like the trick Asilie showed me the day we first met.
Things that could not be done until recently suddenly started to work and started to increase explosively. According to Asilie, the human race itself has a low level of affinity with spirits. It was clear that the spirits had grown accustomed to me after living and sleeping with Asillie for six years. Apart from my efforts, this is really thanks to Asilier.
“Well? Isn’t that true?”
“Eh?”
“Yes. There were often humans who married elves and lived with them until they died, but there was no case in which their affinity with the spirits increased explosively.”
“Isn’t it just that I didn’t intend to use spirit magic?”
“Huh. After hearing it, that might be the case.”
While holding her in her arms, staring at Asilie, who is worried as she rolls her eyes here and there… I begin to pay attention to her elf’s unique scent and the feel of her skin! Emergency Evasion! Emergency Evasion!
“That’s it! That’s right! Let’s go! I’m going to town!”
I grabbed her by the armpits as naturally as possible, lifted her up, rotated her two or three turns, and put her down. Unlike my clear reasoning, the corpus cavernosum of puberty does not at all follow the brain’s domination. Thanks to that, the recent heartache is not a word. The other person is a benefactor and an elf who has lived for 126 years.
Aiming at that gap, a bad Eldmia and a worse Eldmia appeared and whispered in my ear at the same time.
– Rather good.
hehe It’s not that I don’t particularly hate it, but fuck that’s not it! It’s a crime, it’s a crime! Are you planning to turn Asillie into a criminal?
– Chet.
The damn bastards clicked their tongues and disappeared. Where the hell is good Eldmia? I want you to save me from the candy coating of those fiends.
Certainly, the morning was the most difficult time to fight the lower body. Pretending to be as nonchalant as possible, I packed everything and got on the horse. Assilie, who had been caressing the guy’s forehead, said as if he had suddenly remembered it.
“By the way, Eldi. Did you hear? A noble was found in the village.”
“Isn’t that expression a little strange? Is it because he was an illegitimate child or something like that was revealed later?”
It’s a nuance of something like a dungeon or a hidden treasure being discovered.
“No, literally a nobleman. I also heard it through rumors, so I don’t know exactly. The last direct descendant of the family and the only survivor?”
“Isn’t it just a joke from storytellers? It’s just a topic they’ll love.”
“Whoops. That’s right.”
It’s a topic that would only come out in a story.
A few days later, in fact, the family wasn’t just nobles, but a famous wizard family. Well, they were called geniuses. It’s clear that all sorts of stories will be added, such as “I’m going to build it,” etc. Maybe
it’s because there’s little content, but people in this world like things too dramatic, so it’s a mask.