The Regressed Young Master’s Guide to Living on Easy Mode

Chapter 127 : Learning the Correct Way to Use the Profound Other (14)

A castle so huge that it would make one gasp in admiration at a glance was situated there.

The exterior of the castle was covered in pure white marble.

Trickle.

Water, more precious than gold, was flowing everywhere. Looking around, the air was filled with the scent of grass and flowers, and various creatures were present.

Just then, a beautifully formed spotted deer, which was drinking water, met her eyes. Looking at the clear eyes of the spotted deer, Fatima felt as if the harsh life she had experienced so far was a lie.

The old woman led Fatima and said.

"Please come inside."

A completely different attitude from when they first met.

In a way, it was showing respect, but Fatima knew that this old woman's behavior could change immediately. If she didn't follow the old woman's words, she would become as violent as when they first met.

Fatima purely followed the old woman's words.

"Yes."

The place the old woman guided her to was also a place that was unimaginable in the desert.

Fatima, looking at the place, was so surprised that her eyes widened and she froze.

She was simply overwhelmed.

Gush!

An entire space was filled with water. The amount of water here was enough for hundreds of people to live for several days without worrying about water.

Such a thing was flowing, overflowing, and being wasted without rest.

The old woman said.

"You must go to see him soon, so please wash your body clean."

As she stood still, the old woman stared at her intently.

"Do you perhaps need maids to attend to you?"

"N-No!"

Fatima quickly answered, fumbled with her clothes, and soaked her body in the water. The water was warm enough to make her body feel languid. And whether they had sprinkled perfume in the water, she didn't know exactly what it was, but it smelled good.

Fatima soaked her body in the water for about one shichen, and then the old woman came and guided her to another place. There, new clothes were prepared, not the shabby clothes she had been wearing before.

"Please wear that and follow me."

As she picked up the clothes, the silk flowed down her hands. It felt smoother than anything Fatima had ever felt before. Of course, like before, it was something that could not be easily seen in Tianzhu, where everything was lacking. When she had finished wearing the clothes made of pure white silk, the old woman came in. The old woman briefly expressed her admiration at Fatima's appearance and then walked ahead. Fatima followed her.

Soon, a huge door appeared, and the old woman stopped in front of it.

"Please go inside."

When Fatima was wondering how to open this door, the door opened on its own with a creak. At the sight revealed inside, Fatima was surprised once again.

The Eight Legions lined up on both sides.

They were the living legends who supported the huge city of Tianzhu.

Such people were paying their respects to only one person.

There was only one person in Tianzhu whom the Eight Legions served.

The one sitting on a pure white chair.

When they had met before, he had been wearing a chicken mask, but now he had revealed his bare face.

When he lifted his hand and beckoned, the huge door that would take three or four strong men to open closed on its own with a thud! Fatima understood how the door had opened earlier.

Fatima opened her mouth.

"The bird demon."

A human who had appeared in Tianzhu one day and called himself a god.

In reality, he also possessed god-like abilities.

However, to Fatima, the guide of God, his true identity was naturally visible.

"Interesting. You are the first to survive twice after saying that in front of me."

Fatima knew who that person was looking for.

That's why she also knew why he was keeping her alive.

The unfocused pupils, as if transcending the desires of the world, move. They gradually focus and head towards one place.

For a moment, Fatima felt an overwhelming feeling. A sensation as if facing not a human, but another being.

She tried to forcibly lift her head, which was about to bow on its own, but it was impossible to defy her instinct.

Trembling, Fatima bowed her head. Her knees were already crouched towards the bird demon, just like the Eight Legions.

The bird demon opened his mouth as if this scene were a matter of course.

"I ask you. O guide."

Leaning his body, the bird demon, the current leader of the Secret Cult, said.

"Where is the former leader of the Secret Cult?"

She had only been asked a question, but Fatima hurriedly covered her mouth, which was about to open on its own. In her heart, she was being urged to quickly answer that question.

She covered her mouth, but she couldn't stop her actions.

Trembling, her arm rises.

Tears were streaming down her eyes.

For a moment, Fatima bit her tongue. And with her other arm, she was able to grab the arm that had been lifted.

"Oh!"

Seeing that, the bird demon let out a shallow exclamation. To Fatima, it sounded like a sneer directed at her.

-If you try to find me later, come to the □ side.

Fatima knew where the former leader of the Secret Cult was. To be more precise, she had an idea of where he might be.

Because he had told her himself.

"Promise me!"

"Are you trying to negotiate with this Cult Leader?"

"Yes!"

It was a life that should have died already.

She had survived due to the sacrifice of the villagers.

After that, she had lived her life on the run to repay the debt of her life.

She scammed.

She told lies.

She was not without guilt, but she had no choice but to survive.

But she couldn't let others experience what she had experienced.

So Fatima came back.

However, she had not yet given up on her dream.

"Give me enough water and food for hundreds of people to eat to their heart's content for at least a few days!"

"What do you plan to do with that?"

"Distribute it to the people of the village who were harmed by me. If you grant my request, I will also tell you. Where the former leader of the Secret Cult is."

"Hmm."

A slightly hesitant attitude.

Fatima watched it with tense eyes. Soon, an answer came.

"Alright. I will grant your request. You know what will happen if you don't keep your promise, right?"

"Of course!"

I'll die. And I'm not afraid of dying.

Right after, a supply team was formed. Fatima watched all of this. The supply team loaded numerous supplies and went out of the castle. And after a while, they returned. With all the water and food they had taken out, just as it was.

Fatima was now facing the bird demon again.

"The promise has been fulfilled."

"It's different from the promise!"

Fatima knew what had happened. Because she had asked as soon as the supply team returned.

But she didn't want to believe reality.

The supply team had diligently headed to the village that had been damaged by the Mad Wind Unit. However, as if it were a ghost town, there was not a single person in the village.

There was a high possibility that the people in the village had all died, just like the people of the village where Fatima had lived in the past.

"The promise has been fulfilled. You must know the reason too, right?"

"B-But!"

"Do not demand my patience any longer."

Swoosh.

The bird demon stood up.

He had only stood up, but unlike when he was sitting, the pressure was no joke.

"What I am about to say is an order."

An indescribable energy that filled the space.

For a moment, the crows around the man cried out with an unpleasant sound.

Fatima, just as when she had first faced the man, was bowing her head towards the man without realizing it.

"Speak, where is he?"

This time, she could not resist.

Her mouth opened on its own.

"W-West... T-That's all I know."

Thump.

The bird demon approached. Fatima, unable to even make eye contact, trembled.

A question from above her head.

"Is that true?"

"I-It's true."

Fatima, who had answered, lost consciousness as it was. The man, passing by such a Fatima, said.

With an expression as if looking at a piece of trash that had become useless.

"Get rid of it."

The gate of the great hall opened, and the martial monks who were guarding outside came in.

"Do we kill her?"

The man thought for a moment and then opened his mouth.

"Keep her alive for now. Just in case that damn monk has hidden himself again."

"Yes, sir!"

* * *

Fatima regained consciousness on a cold floor.

In front of her stood the old woman.

A lattice was blocking the space between the old woman and herself.

Fatima realized that the place she was in was a prison.

She had roughly guessed that her end, having served her purpose, would be like this.

"You're calm."

The old woman's words had returned to the informal tone of when they first met.

"I was expecting it. The reason you kept me alive is in case I lied, right?"

"You're a capable child."

When the old woman smiled, the wrinkles on her wrinkled face became even more wrinkled.

'Ugh! I don't want to get old.'

Although she couldn't anymore. When the old woman opened her eyes, the unlucky white eyes were visible.

Looking at it this way, the old woman was indeed blind.

'How did she open her eyes then?'

"This is for just in case."

The old woman came in, opening the closed door of the lattice.

She took something out from her bosom.

It was a small, disgusting-looking bug with a dozen or so legs.

"D-Don't tell me it's not?"

Bad premonitions always come true.

Fatima covered her mouth with both hands. The old woman grabbed her wrist. Even though it was an old, wrinkled hand, it was so strong that the wrist covering her mouth was moved away.

She kept her mouth tightly shut, but the old woman's hand forced her mouth open.

The old woman put the bug straight into Fatima's mouth and made her swallow it by hitting her throat.

And the old woman took out another bottle from her bosom. Inside it was the same bug as the one she had fed her.

"It's a pair of male and female gu-bugs. These guys have one characteristic, they have a habit of dying at the same time on the same day once they are paired. So it would be better not to run away. If I kill this one, the one in your body will die and release its poison."

The old woman leisurely left the prison. Fatima immediately put her finger in her mouth and tried to vomit, but only white stomach acid came out, not the bug.

What will happen to her fate now?

To say it again, Fatima did everything she could.

Fatima remembered the character written on the bamboo slip that had disappeared from the fortune-telling tube.

-West (西).

She had dropped it before she was captured.

It was nothing more than a desperate struggle.

* * *

The first thought that came to my mind when I opened my eyes was that I had finally died.

If so, is this heaven or hell?

"You've managed to wake up."

At the awkward voice I heard, I turned my head, and there was an unexpected person.

"You are?"

"Yes. I am..."

"Gura-jeul?"

"...It's Gurat."

"Ah, sorry. I'm not good at remembering people's names."

"It's a strangely unpleasant word. Is it a curse?"

"No. There's no such word in the Central Plains."

"I'll believe your words."

Seeing Gurat, it seemed this was indeed the afterlife. And Gurat was a crazy guy who had even touched his own innate qi to kill me.

Then is this hell?

"Gurat, is this hell?"

"You must have committed quite a lot of bad deeds in your life."

"Not as much as you, though."

"Ahem. I have nothing to say."

"If you've come to your senses, get up and come out. The preparations are just finished."

"What preparations?"

"You'll see when you see it."

Gurat went out.

I got up. I couldn't feel any strength in my body, but there was no particular pain.

I had a glimmer of hope that this was not the afterlife, but I gave up immediately with the symptoms just now.

If I were alive, a tremendous pain should have washed over my body by now.

I left the room I was staying in. And I couldn't help but be surprised, sticking out my tongue at the scene outside.

"W-What is that?"

"I see. You must be seeing it for the first time. Since you just woke up."

First, quite a lot of people were gathered together. About a hundred people? They were eating something like porridge amicably, although it wasn't proper food. Their appearance was shabby, but their expressions looked comfortable.

I saw the Sword Demoness and the Mad Demon over there too.

I immediately made a gloomy expression.

In the end, they both died too.

"Captain! You're awake!"

"Jae-ha!"

Still, they both had refreshed expressions, as if they had no lingering grudges in this world.

I gave a warm hug to the two who were approaching.

"J-J-J-J-Jae-ha?"

I could feel a rapid trembling from the Sword Demoness quite vividly. As if she were alive.

Look at the realism!

After hugging for a long time, I had something I was curious about, so I let go.

One thing that had been catching my eye since a while ago.

"What's that?"

A white pillar lying alone in one place.

"Huh? Captain, you don't know that guy?"

At the Mad Demon's question, I nodded my head.

"What is it?"

Just then, the white pillar moved. Wriggle?

And then it vomited something out of its mouth.

Huh?

It was a person.

The Mad Demon said.

"Baek-ah saved us. By eating us all like that! Ha! Another one came out! Isn't it amazing?"

The Sword Demoness continued.

"And this is the place where Gurat-ajusshi's people were staying. In the Central Plains, would it be like a safe house?"

Ajusshi? When did you two get so close?

Gurat took over.

"That's right. The people here are those who have lost their original villages."

I couldn't understand what was going on.

Wriggle?

By the way, is that really Baek-ah?

(End of Chapter)