I’ll Be Taking A Break For Personal Reasons - Chapter 166
As if Ilho was possessed, he coveted space language. A space fish dozens of times larger than that disappeared in an instant, leaving only bones.
“There are plenty of hoho dishes, so eat slowly.”
And the empty plates are gradually piling up.
After a while, Ilho gasped for a rough breath with his stomach protruding like a mountain. Beside him, Esmeralda smiled happily and looked down at Ilho with lovely eyes.
“It’s the first time I’ve spit out so much ink. how is it? Did you like my cooking?”
Ilho suddenly raised his thumb.
“It was great! You’re beautiful and you’re good at cooking! The person who will marry the princess must be truly happy!”
“I’m so ashamed of you, kid.”
Esmeralda caressed her flushed cheeks with her tentacles and turned her head shyly.
After hesitating for a moment, she whispered carefully to Ilho as if she mustered up courage.
“In fact, Mr. Ilho, in my hometown, there is a custom of courting a loved one by offering him a dish he has carefully prepared.”
“Oh, such a custom! What a loving custom!”
Ilho smiled happily.
Ilho suddenly remembered Antti, the saint of his hometown.
A holy, noble, and beautiful person that one cannot dare to surpass.
Although she did not dare to woo him, how happy she would be if Antti would eat the dish she had carefully prepared.
“Wow! Ilho! It’s so so delicious! What is this dish?”
“Chuck! Here comes the recipe I’ve been learning in space! Do you like it?”
“yes! I am so happy!”
thud! thud! thud!
Just imagining it made my heart burst.
Swoop.
At that time, Esmedala came closer to Ilho, who had fallen into a happy imagination.
When Ilho was about to ask for the recipe for this cosmic fish dish, she opened her mouth.
“Ilho-nim, please save this great universe with Esmeralda. Our universe needs the strength of the hero.”
“huh? Are you already looking for it?”
Then, Esmeralda’s eyes, dark as the universe, glowed like starlight.
“no. This means that you want to be my companion. The great warrior Ilho. Please marry me and become the emperor who rules the great universe.”
[ Marriage is the grave of a warrior. ]
“No. This means that you want to be my companion. The great warrior Ilho. Please marry me and become the emperor who rules the great universe.”
Il-ho was taken aback by Esmeralda’s sudden confession, but hastily made up his mind. He politely knelt before her tentacles.
“I am grateful for the princess’s heart, but I already have someone whom I love for the rest of my life. And I’m just a dumbass who only knows muscles, and I don’t dare to be the emperor’s lumberjack.”
“You are humble. If the hero who single-handedly defeated the gods of destruction and brought peace to the universe lacks the qualifications, then who is qualified to be the emperor?”
Squeak slither.
Tentacles gently caressed Ilho’s body as if tempting.
“The original hero is followed by many women. Ilho, be with the woman you love. I don’t care if it’s just a tool to inherit the imperial family’s legitimacy. Marry me and become emperor. Then all wealth and glory in the universe will belong to Ilho.”
Along with Esmeralda’s voice as sweet as honey, the sticky tentacles stretched toward Ilho’s private part.
Damn!
At that moment, Ilho resolutely threw out the tentacle.
“Lee Il-ho?”
“You misunderstood the person! I am not a hero! He is just an ordinary man who loves and wants to protect a woman!”
“You’re doing too much…”
Esmeralda bit her lip as she touched the red tentacles.
“princess! I’ll pretend I didn’t have any work today! Enough!”
Ilho resolutely turned his back on her and tried to go outside.
“…I’m jealous of the woman that Ilho loves.”
At the same time, Esmeralda’s voice was cold like frost.
“And I hate it. You make me into a bad woman after all, Mr. Ilho.”
Whirik! Whiririk!
“The late princess?!”
Esmeralda’s tentacles wrapped around Ilho’s body.
“Ugh!”
Embarrassed, Ilho tried to free himself from the tentacles, but was unable to move.
Ilho was greatly surprised.
Could it be that this weak woman was hiding this level of strength?
There would be nothing she couldn’t escape if she used a rigid body skill or giantization, but she was afraid that she would get hurt.
Ilho exclaimed earnestly.
“Calm down! princess!”
“haha! Look into my eyes, Ilho.”
Exhaling in excitement, Esmeralda pressed her face to Ilho.
“Did you ask if there are any members of the God of Destruction left? yes there is still one left. An ugly, foolish woman possessed by jealousy!”
Tsutsutsu!
Esmeralda’s eyes, tinged with a radiant glow, shone as if they could pierce Ilho’s soul.
“Aaaaaaa!”
At the same time, Ilho’s consciousness fell into abyss.
* * *
After a while.
When Ilho opened his eyes, he was in an empty white space like the open sea.
‘Where is this place?’
In fact, it was not a real space, but a mental barrier created by Esmeralda.
Ilho didn’t exactly grasp the situation, but he knew that he was being attacked by Esmeralda.
‘We must escape quickly!’
Instinctively, I thought it was dangerous to stay here for a long time.
“Genuuuuuuk!”
Ilho opened up the muscles of his entire body.
Blazing!
Ilho, who had transformed into a body covered with strong muscles that seemed ready to explode at any moment, struck the ground with his fist like a mace.
bang! bang! Kwak Kwa Kwak!
A light sound resounded as if a fighter jet was bombing, but the white space did not move at all.
In fact, what is needed to escape from the suggestion of a spirit-type ability is strong will and mental strength.
Ilho’s actions were nothing but meaningless outbursts.
It must have been.
Time passed.
Time in mental space does not flow like reality.
Half a year has passed.
bang! Kwak Kwa Kwak! Kwak Kwa Kwak!
Even so, Ilho’s fist did not stop.
Already his fists have lost their shape.
It was just something that was once made of bone and flesh.
However, it contained an indomitable will not to give in to the enemy and a longing to save his compatriots and the woman he loved.
Great! Blasphemy!
The white space, which had not even moved at first, started cracking and cracking with each blow of Ilho’s fist, which had already lost its shape.
“Keun-yoo-woo-wook punch!”
Kwak Kwa Kwa Kwam!
Ilho poured all of his energy into the rift, heating it even more.
Chaechaechaeng!
Ssssss!
Then fragments of the rift were scattered and someone’s memory penetrated into Ilho’s head.
‘hmm? This?’
A beautiful and antique palace resembling a dragon palace.
“Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!”
There was a girl crying in the arms of a beautiful woman wearing a star-shaped crown in a huge mother-of-pearl bedroom.
The woman comforted her by gently stroking the child’s back.
“Don’t cry, my sweet Esmeralda.”
The child asked the woman, wiping away the dripping tears with her tentacles.
“Hey heck! Why do I look so hideous unlike Mama?”
“That is proof that we inherited the blood of the royal family of Cthulunia, a descendant of the God of Destruction. So don’t think of it as ugly.”
“A god of destruction is an evil demon that destroys the legendary world. Isn’t the fact that you inherited the blood of such an existence itself a curse?”
The woman shook her head.
“Originally, God of Destruction was not an evil being. Just as life and death circulate and create harmony in all things, he also acted according to the providence of the great universe.”
There was a deep sadness in the woman’s eyes.
“However, as the creator god died, the harmony of the world was broken, so he is a pitiful person who has reached a point of no return. As descendants of the God of Destruction, we must believe in Him and earnestly hope for Him. May he one day find his lost partner and regain his original divinity.”
The woman held her crying little daughter Esmeralda in her arms.
“Don’t think of yourself as ugly, Esmeralda. this mother believes Even if the mark of blood kinship does not disappear from you, a companion who will beautify my precious treasure with a beautiful and warm heart will appear…”
Passus.
Ilho’s final blow hit the floor with someone’s memories scattered like a mirage.
Quarre quack quack!
Then, the mental barrier that bound Ilho was torn to shreds, revealing reality.
* * *
For a moment, Ilho had a hard time accepting the reality in front of him.
Statues of vivid tentacles are scattered everywhere, as if they would come to life at any moment, and bloody, self-luminous skeletons are embedded in the floors and walls.
A strange place reminiscent of a cursed temple.
It’s different~ It’s different~.
However, what was resonating there was a joyous wedding march.
“You are awake.”
In front of Ilho, I saw Esmeralda wearing a pure white dress.
Like her, Ilho was wearing a tight-fitting tuxedo.
“It’s really amazing that you can get out of my mental barrier with only your will.”
Esmeralda’s voice echoed through the veil covering her face.
“But our wedding is already over. Mr. Ilho.”
“A chaff wedding?”
Ilho felt like a thunderstorm.
Are you saying you got married without knowing it?
But this wedding was odd.
There was no one but them in this gloomy, strange, temple-like space.
A lonely wedding with only the bride and groom and no guests to bless the marriage. It is also a forced wedding that the groom did not even want.
He roared as he tore the tuxedo Ilho was wearing with one hand.
“What the hell is this! princess! This marriage is invalid!”
Esmeralda shook her head.
“No, Ilho. Our wedding ceremony has already been officially announced throughout the universe. As my husband, you are now officially qualified to succeed the Grand Universe Federation’s throne. Now, if it is not for Esmeralda, you can be crowned as the emperor of the Cosmic Union.”
“Shut up! princess! I didn’t say I wasn’t interested in the emperor’s position…!”
Il-ho was enraged again, but he was hardened like a stone statue at her words.
“What did you just say?”
“I told you to kill me. You asked me if there are any more left over from the God of Destruction? yes. there is.”
Esmeralda’s tentacles pointed to her own chest.
“That Esmeralda is the last god of destruction left in this universe. Come on, Ilho, do your duty as a warrior.”
“What do you mean by that? princess. You’re the God of Destruction’s fist…”
Ilho was confused. A self-deprecating laugh escaped from within the veil.
“You already know, don’t you? You must have peeked into my memory. The blood of the God of Destruction runs through the royal family of Crullunia.”
Esmeralda lifted her tentacles into the air.
Then, the ceiling was enveloped in darkness and images of the monsters that Ilho had annihilated came to mind.
They serve the God of Destruction with huge eyeballs and hideous tentacles.
“It is no coincidence that they only targeted and attacked our fleet. It was all brought about by the blood flowing in my body. They seek a queen who will reign over them and destroy the universe!”
Shuwook Shuwook!
As if the images of the monsters floating in the air were being sucked in, they penetrated Esmeralda’s body.
“They died at your hands, but the desire for destruction they left behind united me with their master.”
Hard!
Beyond the temple they were in, an asteroid-sized battleship shuddered with the energy emitted by Esmeralda.
“I’m desperately suppressing it, but this destructive grudge will soon outgrow my will. When that time comes, no one can stop it. So, before that, Ilho-nim, please finish it.”
It is Esmedal with her tentacles neatly gathered around her chest like a bride waiting for her groom to kiss her. She begged Ilho to end her life.
“Keugh!”
Ilho bit his lip and raised his fist.
Gooooo!
This evil energy emanating from Esmeralda must have belonged to the God of Destruction.
As a warrior, an existence that must be annihilated for the sake of the world!
But he couldn’t swing his fist at Esmeralda.
“I can’t…”
Ilho lowered his fist dripping with blood.
How could a man kill a woman who loves him?
“You are doing too much, Mr. Ilho. If you couldn’t give me love, I wanted you to give me death instead…”
Esmeralda’s shoulders shook as if she was sobbing.
“If you don’t want to kill me…”
A dark and ominous light flashed inside Esmeralda’s veil.
“As a blood relative of the God of Destruction, I will kill you! Hero number one!”
Crispy! Chaaaak!
Esmeralda’s pure white dress was torn to shreds, and hundreds of tentacles rained down like a waterfall and swallowed Ilho.
It’s different~ It’s different~.
It was the moment when the joyous wedding march turned into a funeral song.
-die! Die! Ilho!
The appearance of Esmeralda, who was screaming raw, had already changed beyond belief that it was her.
Giant tentacle monsters over 100m that filled the temple.