Chapter 118: Monster
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 118: Monster
A day had passed.
Despite what had happened last night, the people at the resort maintained a peaceful atmosphere, as if nothing had occurred.
“Good morning-!”
Yohan smiled back as he accepted the pre-meal bread from a cheerful hotel employee.
He dipped the bread in his soup to soften it, then lightly tore off a piece to eat. The food here was pretty good, even without his Teacher's special seasoning.
‘Is it because they’re spending a ton of money…?’
It wasn't quite like his Teacher's seasoning, which was close to MSG, but he could taste that they hadn't spared any salt, sugar, or other flavorings.
After he finished the bread and soup, breakfast dishes began to appear one by one.
“Yohan, let's go in the water today.”
“Yes, of course.”
Yohan nodded, obeying his Teacher's words. They hadn't been able to go in the water yesterday. He had gone to all the trouble of setting up a parasol and a bench, only for his Teacher to get into a brawl with Adelheid.
Thinking he would finally get to enjoy the sea with his Teacher today, Yohan continued his meal with a wide grin.
“Hekaterina, what are you planning to do?”
“I'll figure it out myself, so stay out of it.”
“…Oh, uh. Okay.”
Yohan tilted his head, looking at the unusually prickly Hekaterina.
‘What's with her? Is she on her period…?’
He immediately shook his head, knowing that was impossible for a witch who had lived for hundreds of years. In the end, he never figured out why she was so angry.
Out on the beach, Yohan set up a bench and a parasol in a suitable spot. Just like yesterday, the shore was packed with soldiers.
There were also merchants who had set up shops right in front of the beach, and the soldiers were frequenting them, enjoying alcohol and food delivered straight from the source.
Yohan worried it might be dangerous for them to drink so much and then go into the water, but then he remembered they were soldiers of the Northern Defense Line, men who risked their lives every day to protect the Empire.
It would be better for them to die swimming drunk. It might be recorded as a stupid death, but at least the Empire wouldn't be in danger.
“Teacher, would you like a snack?”
“Hm? If you want some, Yohan, go ahead and buy it!”
Hearing that, Yohan headed straight for a shop and returned with some simple snacks and a couple of cocktails.
Even though he had left a rare, white-haired beauty all by herself, no one dared to risk their life to hit on her—perhaps because they knew she was the one who had caused yesterday's commotion.
From Yohan's perspective, this was a relief. As much as he wanted to show off his Teacher, it was unpleasant to see other men openly display their lust for his woman.
“Teacher, I'm back with the food.”
“Ah, thank you.”
“It's a shame. This would have been even more delicious with your seasoning, Teacher…”
“Wh-What!?”
At the mention of the seasoning they often had back at the cabin, Evangeline looked at Yohan in a fluster.
When he gave her a look that asked what's wrong?, Evangeline seemed to hesitate for a moment before cautiously asking him.
“That… Do you want to, eat it?”
“Huh? Well, it'd be nice to have it. Better than not having it…”
“Right, okay. If you want it that badly…”
Evangeline said, taking the food from Yohan. She looked down at the plate for a moment, then carefully began to drip her saliva onto it.
Yohan, wondering what on earth she was doing, froze when he felt a dense surge of magic power from her lips.
Bweeeh— After dripping her saliva until the food was thoroughly drenched, his Teacher confirmed it was coated and then held it out to Yohan.
“Th-There. Okay. You can eat it now…”
“...Teacher, is this by any chance—”
“D-Don't say it! It's kind of awkward if you say it out loud.”
Yohan turned away from his blushing Teacher and looked at the saliva-covered food. He felt a bit hesitant, now that he knew the secret behind the seasoning he had enjoyed so much.
But it was his Teacher's saliva. It wasn't dirty. With that thought, Yohan took a bite of the food.
“─Mmph!”
“Wh-What's wrong!?”
“...It's delicious.”
“Don't scare me like that! Of course it's delicious! ...I mean, it's the same ingredient, after all.”
“Wow, so it really was your saliva, Teacher? Then does that mean all this time, the other witches…”
“Be quiet!”
Watching Evangeline snap and cover his mouth, Yohan simply nodded as if to say, I guess that's possible.
After all, hadn't he eaten stew with his own semen in it? Eating food with a beautiful woman's saliva in it was hardly surprising at this point.
In fact, it was even arousing. To think that the secret to the seasoning he had praised so highly was his Teacher's saliva…
His gaze drifted to Evangeline's lips.
“Teacher.”
“...What is it now?”
“I want more of that seasoning.”
“More? Okay, I understand. Then—”
“No, this time, like this.”
With those words, Yohan kissed her directly on the lips. Evangeline's eyes flew open in surprise, but she soon understood his intention and carefully opened her mouth, passing her saliva to him.
Because she had imbued it with plenty of flavor-enhancing magic, Yohan could taste a flavor like heavenly honey in Evangeline's saliva.
Gulp, gulp— Like a baby bird craving food, Yohan greedily sought out more of Evangeline's saliva.
Her mouth was starting to run dry. Unlike other parts of the body, the mouth wasn't an organ capable of producing such large quantities of fluid.
“Phwaa—!”
“Hnngh…”
Their eyes, filled with deep affection, met. Soon, Yohan's hand reached for her genitals—the organ in the human body that produces the most fluid…
Swoooosh—!
And at that moment, a colossal monster burst through the waves, revealing itself.
─Uooდამიანებო, მე აქ ვარq……!
Just as things were heating up, Yohan was flustered by the sudden appearance of the monster—but Evangeline simply extended a hand, unfazed.
At that, the monster's body began to shatter into pieces.
Atomic Disintegration. Watching Evangeline use the finishing spell that had become her specialty, Yohan stared at his Teacher, dumbfounded.
“Teacher, that just now was…”
“Nothing happened.”
“No, that's not something you can just brush off…”
“I said nothing happened, didn't I?”
She had used magic on a target far in the distance—an act impossible for ordinary witches. Yohan knew very well what that was called.
Awakening.
Evangeline had Awakened. …Though he found it a little absurd that she'd awakened just because their sex was interrupted.
“Now, Yohan. Hurry.”
His Teacher urged him on, as if such things didn't bother her in the slightest. Yohan, looking at her with a hesitant expression, decided to just go with the flow and kissed her again.
─жок бул эмне…….
The moment it had emerged from the sea, the Leviathan had been disintegrated down to the atomic level by Evangeline. Now, deep beneath the waves, it regenerated its body, recalling the attack it had just suffered.
It couldn't even begin to fathom what had hit it. A bizarre phenomenon where the electrons making up its body had spontaneously broken away.
It was an unnatural phenomenon, an attack of a kind that the Leviathan—nature's most powerful adversary—could not possibly know.
The one saving grace was that its tenacious life force was strong enough to recover even after the atoms of its entire body had come apart.
And it could adapt to an attack it had experienced once, reconfiguring its body to become immune to it.
Having altered its physical composition to be more cohesive, the Leviathan gained a resistance to the previous attack and prepared to surface once more.
─сиз кимсиз……?
“Hello.”
Bubble, bubble—
Thousands of meters deep in the sea. At the bottom of the abyss, where ordinary creatures couldn't even dive, let alone speak, the Leviathan stared at the human who had met its gaze.
Golden hair scattered in all directions. The Leviathan realized the human had just spoken to it.
But how, thousands of meters underwater where no air existed? It may have been a fish, but its intelligence was not that of a fish.
It knew that conversation was impossible in these depths.
“Not answering. Is it because you have a fish brain? No manners.”
The blonde human, Hekaterina, spoke as she approached the Leviathan. Creatures feel fear when faced with a being whose actions they cannot comprehend.
The Leviathan was no exception to this rule. As a highly intelligent creature, this was even more true for it.
Reason, which overcomes instinct, and the fear born from that reason, dominated its entire being.
And—the being before the Leviathan was one who could read that fear better than anyone.
“Heeeh… You're scared right now, aren't you.”
Hekaterina grinned, her body trembling with a sense of elation she hadn't felt in a very long time, and used her magic.
The next moment, her body began to grow until it was as large as the Leviathan.
A monster. The moment it saw Hekaterina, that's what the Leviathan felt.
[Time to eat.]
A monster twice its size began to chew it to pieces. Its survival instincts screaming, the Leviathan started to struggle frantically.
But being devoured by a larger creature was the law of nature.
It belatedly tried to synthesize a deadly poison, but it was useless. The creature before it wasn't just a giant monster; it was a monster a witch had transformed into.
Crunch—.
With the sound of the Leviathan's head being crushed, the ultimate weapon born of the planet vanished.
“What are you two doing.”
Yohan, who had been enjoying some outdoor play on the beach, was startled to see Hekaterina trudging out of the sea.
He had been at ease, since the soldiers and others who knew Evangeline was a witch wouldn't come near, but he'd forgotten that Hekaterina, also a witch, had no such restrictions.
Trying to change the subject, Yohan scrambled to think of something to nitpick her about.
“...Where have you been that you're coming out of the sea?”
“Just a little fishing.”
“Fishing? What kind of fishing do you do by going right into the water…?”
Having found his opening, Yohan started to press her, asking if she was a haenyeo [female diver].
Hearing Yohan's nagging, Hekaterina covered her ears with a fed-up expression and ran away.