chapter 44
44 – What should I really do?
Now, let’s see my condition.
Above her head, the hem of the night’s robe swayed and covered the blue sky.
Under your feet, silky white sand tickles your toes.
If you raise your head and look ahead, you will see the dark blue sea waving in waves and seeing off the fading sunset.
The sweet sea breeze refreshingly wiping the sweaty nape will make any wooden stone become a poet with sentimentality.
“Growl!”
“Hmm…!”
However, if you take a step forward.
You will understand why the great British writer said that life is a comedy when seen from a distance and a comedy when seen from close up.
This or that would be funny.
The sea in front of me is a mire that never knows when it will swallow me.
Because on either side of me, there were pretty girls with strength and backgrounds that weren’t light on each other, snarling at each other with me on my side.
“Hey, guys?”
If I had to get a little lucky to sort this situation out somehow…
“You, stay still”
“What can I say to my child!”
“Who’s who’s the kid!”
“My sister said that. The person you love should be cared for and protected like a baby!”
“What!?”
I’m going to think later about how to teach a view of love under the sea.
After being swept away by the waves earlier, it has been like this ever since.
Fortunately, the night breeze was still hot in the early summer, so it was nice to dry myself and be blown by the sea breeze.
My clothes showed no sign of drying out from cold sweat from the pressure of the flowers on both hands, or the sea kings that surrounded me and the mountain army.
“So… You mean they grew up together on the island of Pasos?”
“Isn’t it?”
“Right! An inseparable bond! How much Dia likes me!”
What should I say?
If Neri was a Chihuahua groaning for fear of having her bones taken away, Atalanta was a Doberman contemplating how to cook these bones.
Even if a chihuahua eagerly hugs her bone and squeals, in the eyes of a Doberman, it’s just a bite like a bone or a chihuahua.
However, the Chihuahua holding the bone she raised her hands on was so rebellious that she seemed to be getting annoyed.
‘But that Chihuahua isn’t an ordinary Chihuahua…’
If you have to, you could bite it, and if you turn it over while crying, the whole area could literally turn into a mess.
From what I’ve heard, Neri seems to be the youngest of the hundred or so sisters, so both her father and mother said she was very pretty, not to mention the hundred or so sisters.
There were times when the bullies who messed with Neri got sucked into the waves and came out of their minds.
It was famous in Pasos that a stupid backstreet kingpin was found drowned while plotting something with his gang at the word that he was a nymph.
‘I have to mediate between the two somehow…!’
Otherwise, even if one of the two is really evil, it can fly big…!
“Neri? Is that your name?”
“Nesneria! Don’t call me by that name! I never gave you permission!”
“Huh? Wait, then Dia…?”
“Dianes is Dia! Don’t call this one either! Dia never allowed it!”
Even though she was already a nymph who went through a coming-of-age ceremony, Neri, who looked particularly young, was even more childish with her innocent words and actions.
Because of that, I also accepted Neri, who was constantly entangled with her, and Atalanta was also wary of her sudden appearance, but she seemed to be getting more and more venomous at her childish appearance.
“Ghmm… What am I doing with my child…”
He was very wary of the opponent who would catch and snatch the bone he wanted, but the Doberman sighed and backed away at the fact that the opponent was such a petite Chihuahua.
“So, tell me in detail, what happened?”
“What are you talking about! Dianes and I were planning to live together on the island of Pasos!
But a strange half-person, half-horse took them on their own!”
“Half man, half horse? You’re not talking about Master Chiron!?”
Although she was an Atalanta who tried to pursue me with her wifey tone reprimanding her husband for cheating on something.
She’s hot-tempered as expected, so perhaps she’s not a hunter, so the voice stuck to Chiron being called strangely went up.
If you look at the two of them arguing so nonstop.
For some reason, I felt like I was becoming an endless asshole, so I wanted to put my head down.
It was only in my previous life that I came out of the facility and was preparing for the GED, a part-time job and a gosiwon.
In my previous life, it was a battleground or an office on the day of the fictitious war in order to conquer Murim, fighting in the dark within the Demonic Cult.
There were women I spent the night with, but there was no relationship that approached me like this.
The woman I was willing to give my heart to, she devoted everything to revenge and left without a catch.
Since then, she seems to have been wandering around the mountains because she was a heavenly horse and nabal, and everything was annoying.
‘…Come to think of it’
How did I die?
“Hmm?”
A subject I had never thought about before came to my mind, but the question did not last long.
“Dianes?”
“Uh, huh?”
Because Atalanta’s grasp gripped my wrists and arms as if they were shaggy and caught in a noose.
“So… Is everything he said true?”
“What, what?”
Atalanta was forced to smile at me with her glowing eyes to the extent that the question of what my death was like seemed trivial.
“What! That we danced together on the beach! The fact that we held hands and toured the market together!
And again…”
Every time Atalanta spoke her words, a tantrum surged up inside her.
“Hal Epharos… Hmmm, the high priest of Zeus himself gave me the engagement vow!”
And even Neri, who delivers the final critical blow.
No, wait.
What?
“Is it Neri?”
“Why is that?”
Grandpa Eparos gave you the engagement vow?
No, when I was stunned by the story that I got engaged without my knowledge, Neri widened her eyes and tilted her head as if asking why.
“Don’t you remember?”
“No, what are you talking about?”
First of all, this is Greece in the age of mythology.
People are dying because of lightly thrown jokes.
It’s a place where I’d be better off dying alone drunk and talking behind my back.
Especially in the case of oaths such as contracts, oaths, and promises, no matter how small a prank, I never took it lightly, because I did not know who would be listening.
I wonder if what temples teach is not to swear recklessly and not to make promises you can’t keep.
By the way, even though I was getting smaller in Amman, did I, the Heavenly Demon of Central Plain, who treated my oath as gold with gold powder face wash and proverbs, got engaged and forgot about it?
This is impossible.
“I did it! I do not remember!?”
“Hey, Neri? Could you calm down and speak slowly?”
Even if I look back and search through my memories in Amman, I don’t have any memory of the engagement ceremony with Neri at the temple of Zeus.
Grandpa Epharos even didn’t know about the other kids, but he didn’t even allow me to drink wine because he was afraid that I’d get drunk and be treated harshly elsewhere, so there’s no way I can’t remember because the film is cut.
This ingenious fairy was so confident that she was calling me her fiancé.
– Aww…!
“Uh..Heuuu!”
Aside from Atalanta, who is almost squeezing my arm as if I would fly away if I hold it like this.
“So… In the past, King Poseidon sent me pocket money! Do you remember?”
“Oh, then?”
I’m sure… Yes, after the third time I practiced the windbreaking spear at the beach. For some reason, Neri was carrying a large tuna that was three times her size.
It was too big for the two of us to eat because it was baked on the spot, and we had to pay attention to public opinion in the temple once.
She took it with Neri and donated it to the temple.
Thanks to this, the orphans ate the giant tuna, which even fishermen find difficult to catch and eat.
“But?”
“It was then! Epharos Hal…Khmm, the high priest said…”
‘Dianes, Poseidon blesses you and Lady Nesneria. Cherish the relationship.”
“He said!”
So you are my fiancé!
, Neri boasted and hugged my arm tightly.
“…Ha?”
“Um…”
I lost strength in Atalanta’s hand, which had almost squeezed my arm.
I could have done it, but I couldn’t help but laugh bitterly at Neri’s innocent misunderstanding.
“Okay?”
“Nope…But…”
“What is it? What do you want to know?”
Perhaps he understood what I meant, Atalanta let out a deep sigh, half dejected and half complicated.
It’s ridiculous that she was jealous of Neri, who even she thought, her mental age, and seemingly a 10-year-old child, and fought like that.
“Whoa… First of all, Neri, nice to meet you again”
As soon as we met again, a series of major accidents occurred, but even so, meeting Neri again was a very happy event for me too.
“hehehe… Really?”
“Okay then, shall we introduce ourselves again? This is Atalante, a senior to me in the Forest of Heroes, and Atalante who served as my guide today.”
“…What are you doing?”
“Please adjust a little bit for now”
I’m not doing this to stop you from being dragged into the sea.
Suddenly, when they tried to greet each other casually, Atalanta frowned at her.
Whether it’s a mutual agreement or a misunderstanding of me on the nice boat, I had to avoid this place right now.
100% Of the hundreds of older sisters watching the maknae’s love business in the sea must be keeping their eyes open.
“Hooheung! I am Nesneria. She is the woman of the waves and the singer of the sea. Nice to meet you. Atalante”
Nesneria, with her hands on her hips and her chest stretched triumphantly, was her child herself.
She’s me.
Atalanta only let out a sigh as her face, which had strangely turned into a hyeonta.
“…I’m Atalanta, the leader of the hunting team in Chariclo, in the Forest of Heroes. She meets the sister of a thousand waves”
But first of all, the opponent is a sea spirit born from a god and a goddess couple.
Atalante politely bowed her head and greeted Neri.
“Yes, Atalanta. Who is Dia? Do you understand now?”
“…Are you kidding me, unilaterally declaring the engagement without the other person’s consent?”
“What?!”
…Of course, Atalanta didn’t pass quietly.
Still, the forest fire has been reduced to the level of residual fire, so it’s a relief.
…But, what should I really do now?