Chapter 189
Chapter 189
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 189
Chapter Title: Sudden Confession and Sloth
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Isekai Destruction Gallery Episode 189 (190/467)
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- RlQKt) (mermaid con grinning with arms wide open)
ㄴ RlQKt) I love you!
ㄴ RlQKt) I love you~
I received the first surprise confession attack of my life.
From a mermaid, no less.
- What
- Wait, this is fucked...
- Still a noob, huh? Don't know the rules yet?
- Shit, follow the order!
Maybe because it was posted when all the attention was focused, the reaction was explosive.
"This is a first for me."
Getting confessed to in the gallery.
This shit ain't easy.
More than that, this was straight-up friending.
Is it because she's a fresh noob who doesn't know the rules yet?
"Or did she misunderstand?"
- I think I said something wrong
- Yeah, probably just thanks, right?
- Thanks for the tasty food, but her expression's still clumsy?
But the mood wasn't ripping her apart.
The prevailing opinion was that she'd misunderstood "thanks" while learning the language.
ㄴ Why are you guys suddenly so sweet?
ㄴ That's...
ㄴ Heh heh heh
Even so, it seemed like it needed correcting.
- Judak* In that case, say thanks
ㄴ RlQKt) lol
"Guess it was a mistake?"
So the confession bait fizzled out quick.
Just as I thought it'd pass as a lighthearted mishap.
"Word fight...?"
My back suddenly went cold.
The moment I whipped my head around at the weird feeling.
"What."
Penny was right in my face, staring at me with dead eyes.
"...Love you?"
Penny suddenly pointed somewhere.
There was the mermaid's mistaken confession comment to me.
Penny started breathing heavily.
"Hate it."
"Huh."
"Hate the mermaid who confessed, hate you for getting confessed to, Judak. Hate myself for being jealous of it."
Penny said something incomprehensible,
then trembled, muttering.
"Me... me, turning black..."
"What're you talking about, Penny?"
Penny's state was off.
The moment I tried to sit up and check,
Penny pounced like a nimble squirrel.
"Stay still!"
She pinned me back down in my half-risen pose, sealing me with limbs and blanket.
Hee hee, can't go!
Like that scene, Penny bound me with the blanket and whispered in my ear.
"Now you'll do as I say."
Penny tilted her head down, declaring with shadowed eyes.
"During the day, spend the most time with me."
"Uh..."
"Not done yet. And eat meals with me forever."
Penny kept going like a train with busted brakes.
"Don't like others seeing your word fights."
"Then?"
"If needed... I'll lock you in the basement so you only see me forever."
Penny said it more seriously than ever.
Looking at her, I thought.
'Her name's a total cheat, damn.'
If I'd known it'd drag on this long, I wouldn't have done word fight.
Sorry, but I can't get immersed.
If name change tickets existed, she'd have picked something cooler.
I met Penny's gaze silently and opened my mouth.
"I'm already doing all that."
"...What?"
"Not 'if needed', I'm already doing it."
Penny's words had a flaw.
She hates others seeing me.
Lock me in the basement forever.
But I'd already proven that by holing up in the bunker doing gallery stuff.
"How many times a month do you think I see the sun?"
"Huh?"
Penny got frustrated and dragged me out for walks sometimes.
Penny's really acting weird.
She was a kid when I first brought her, but she's grown some now.
Late puberty hitting?
"Ugh!"
Then Penny clutched her head.
Looked like a moment of pain, then her eyes calmed to normal.
Penny eyed the situation in disbelief and muttered.
"That wasn't me."
She met my gaze and said again.
"It was me, but it wasn't me."
"College entrance exam reading passage?"
"Seems like absorbing the power of jealousy affected my body."
"Jealousy?"
Hearing that, it clicked.
Penny, who loved fairy tales and romance novels, started reading those obsession-ruin-regret stories lately.
"Too hasty."
Penny said with a complicated expression.
"Then what do we do?"
"Time. Time will fix it. Someday I'll fully absorb it with my own power."
Good news: just need time.
"How much?"
"A few hundred years?"
Bad news too.
A few hundred years? I'd die, Word Fight 2nd gen would be born and die, still not enough.
"Evande."
But there was a way to suppress the rampaging power for now.
[Shop/Tape]
[Purchase confirmed!]
I immediately bought a cassette tape for playback.
"How about listening to this?"
"There's a way?"
After a moment's thought on her question, I nodded confidently.
The shop has everything.
[Construction Crusher/High Low Speed/Power-Sound Collection Tape] - 12p
Like this.
"Crusher ASMR."
Penny took the cassette.
Closed her eyes, leaned into the sound.
- Whiiiiiing!
"My mind's calming down."
It worked.
Penny, looking much more relaxed, took the cassette back to her room.
But this was just temporary.
Even that noise would wear off eventually.
"Need a real fix."
Nothing came to mind right now.
[Title: .]
Then a post with a wild title caught my eye.
*
"Is this some next-level troll post?"
No-title post.
But it had a photo upload mark, pure clickbait.
Like a toilet.
You regret opening it.
But that's what makes you click.
"No meme even."
Problem was, no meme indicator either.
True to Unique Gallery's fast scroll, it was sinking to the next page quick,
but my eyes weren't fooled.
"Click first, see later."
Curious about the clickbait, the moment I clicked the title.
[Title: .]
[Upvotes 0] [Downvotes 1]
- What is this?
- (clueless farmer frog con)
"What? Nothing there."
Content was empty too.
Literal shitpost.
Interest gone instantly.
As I went to leave and click another, something felt off.
"Wait, not just a shitpost."
Usually these are for attention.
No meme though?
I pondered, then shipped items.
[Shipped 1 'Tuna Can' and 1 '500ml Bottled Water'!]
Just a gut feeling, but she seemed to need help.
Five minutes of silence later, the post updated.
[Title: Lord Judak?]
(girl in dirty alley getting tuna can con)
(munching while teary con)
Thank you so much...
Begging and pleas for help got nothing... Thank you...
"Called it."
Not just shit.
The girl in the meme wore rags barely called clothes.
Trash piles nearby; looked like she collapsed scavenging.
- Please, anyone help... [0]
- So hungry, food trash fine, anyone [0]
- Hungry, miss mom [0]
From her posts, she'd begged multiple times, given up.
If ignored this one too, who knows.
"Getting cold out lately."
Rags especially bugged me.
Can't do shit in those.
Pondered, then shopped.
[Shop/Clothing]
[Girl's Sweater] - 13p
[Winter Extreme Cold Magic Gloves] - 5p
[Luxury Scarf] - 12p
"Send warm stuff, good enough."
Fashion? No clue.
White tee short-sleeve one-tool me, fashion's alien.
- Poster) W-Wait, for me?
ㄴ Judak* Yeah, stay warm
ㄴ Poster) Thank you, thank you ㅠㅠㅠ
Seemed satisfied.
[Shipped 5 more 'Tuna Cans'!]
Extra tuna just in case.
But core issue: no home.
Adults can't even get gigs, no place hires kids.
Orphans: city's unsolvable plague.
"Housing's cheap though."
Silver lining: medieval prices don't rage like modern.
- 2-Story Luxury House / Sale / 30k silver / High. Class. Deal. Welc. Ome.
- §§Adrian Center 2-Story / Super Deal! 10k silver / Inquiries Welcome^^ §§
Thinking of banning those ads, maybe probe gallery.
- Woah just saw a girl in Adrian, what outfit?
- Even nobles can't pull that off?
- Marketplace brand? Didn't see for sale shit
- Wanna try it too
No clue on the clothes' reception yet.
*
Between puddle alleys.
Someone rushed up, shaking the sleeping girl in the corner.
"Get up, not time to sleep!"
"...Nngh."
"Hurry!"
Reluctantly lifted her head at the urgent call.
Pin stood before the girl.
In noble-worthy clothes.
Not what alley orphans like yesterday wore.
"How's it?"
"Wow. Really. Amazing."
Curious-worthy, but girl gave soulless reaction, lay back down.
Hadn't eaten properly for days.
Hadn't washed properly for days.
Didn't care.
"Tired. Wanna sleep more."
Too lazy to lift a finger.
As she drifted off, Pin grabbed her shoulder, shaking awake.
"Hey, not the time!"
"Ugh..."
Forcibly woken, fancy clothes like Pin's shoved in her face.
"Change quick, gotta go!"
"...Where?"
"School!"
Girl eyed Pin with half-lidded eyes.
Finally lost it?
How to get into noble school?
"Aah!"
Whatever, girl checked gallery, suddenly screamed.
"Gonna be late!"
Girl bolted out the alley first, yelling.
"You too, wear what Lord Judak gave and hurry! Seats fill up!"
"Judak?"
"Yeah, Jua-cademy seats gonna fill!"
Judak... Judak...
Drifting girl mulled the name, snapped awake.
"Right, came here to meet Judak..."
Finally remembered her goal.
Pushing aside worldly laziness, reason she came to this far human city, Kelleraton.
The girl, Sloth, had come here to meet Judak.
"Judak... We'll meet soon."
Sloth's eyes gleamed ominously.
"...But first, lil more sleep."