Chapter 7: Tell me what you want from me

For her, who had dealt with the bandits in an instant, to be the person I had to deliver the letter to, what a miraculous coincidence this was.

No, maybe it wasn’t a coincidence but an inevitability, since the number of people staying in this place would be limited in the first place.

Well, whatever, isn’t it okay if Set and I are safe? Still, since she helped me, I decided to express my gratitude.

“Um… thank you. Not only I, but Set, could have been in danger.”

“Haha. It’s natural to help people in danger. Especially since there are so many bad things happening in Ionia these days, it’s dangerous.”

I knew it, but after actually experiencing it, it was not something to be ignored. If that’s the average for bandits, then ordinary people wouldn’t be able to resist at all.

Thinking that, I recalled what had happened earlier, and the right wrist that had been grabbed started to tingle. I didn’t know it before I was conscious of it, but once I realized it, the pain suddenly rushed in. Aah!

Seeing me suddenly scream, Jina was puzzled, but soon realized the reason and handed me a glass bottle containing a red liquid.

“Drink this. It’ll ease the pain a bit.”

“What is this…? It’s something I’ve never seen before.”

“Every generation, region, and family has its own folk remedies. Among them, there are also treatments that are so excellent that they cannot be compared to others.”

She winked at me and urged me to drink the liquid in the glass bottle. It seemed that this liquid was a type of recovery potion.

I had no choice but to open the glass bottle and drink it all in one gulp. Unlike the taste I thought would be very bitter, it tasted like cherry.

After drinking it all, I could confirm that the pain I felt in my right wrist had subsided. It felt like my stamina had recovered by about 150.

But thinking about it, I had just been saved by someone I met for the first time today, and I had also received a recovery potion that looked quite expensive, judging by the fact that it was so effective.

How am I going to repay all of this? Looking at me like that, she spoke to me as if telling me not to worry.

“Don’t worry. Actually, that potion is something that can be easily made with just a glass bottle and one other ingredient.”

“Eeh…”

What? Did my thoughts come out in words? How did she know my thoughts and say that…?

“It’s all over your face.”

Oh….. Umm…..

Junshik. No, that’s not it. Oh well, whatever. My expressions must be obvious.

Thinking that and giving up, I felt much more comfortable.

“Hah… I understand. Still, it’s true that I received a favor, so I’ll repay it if I have the opportunity later.”

“That’s a very pleasant story. Then, could you please give me my letter that you have?”

Ah! Come to think of it, I was forgetting the purpose of coming to this place in the first place. I quickly handed the letter I had with me to Jina.

Jina received the letter I gave her and read it right there, and suddenly her expression turned grim.

Ah, this is dangerous. I don’t know the contents of the letter, but that means it’s definitely not good news. Thinking that she might get angry at me too, I said goodbye and turned around to leave.

“Excuse me, just a moment.”

Oh no. It looks like I can’t escape. I’m really unlucky today.

“Umm… why? I delivered the letter properly…”

As much as possible, I spoke to her in a tone that I had nothing to do with this, and she listened to my words, chuckled, and said to me.

“No. It’s not that, but I was wondering if you could take my reply with you. I’ll write it right now and give it to you, so please go and deliver this letter to the person who sent it.”

Hearing those words, my body, which had been tense, suddenly relaxed. Did I misunderstand too much? Still, she was the one who helped me.

“And please be sure to convey this message as well. Tell him that if he sends me such a letter next time, I won’t hold back either.”

Yeah. I think I misunderstood. After all, the feeling I felt was not wrong. You must never make that person angry.

What on earth is this person asking of me, who is just an ordinary citizen…

“Ye… Yes!”

I didn’t have the courage to refuse those words, so I agreed with a trembling voice. I waited until Jina finished writing the letter, and as soon as I received the letter, I said a simple greeting and left the place.

“I really am. Even though I was angry, I reacted in a way that was too immature.”

Jina said, watching the woman who delivered the letter disappear from her sight.

“Anyway, that person never looked for me before, but now he’s calling me out. I’m experiencing all kinds of things as I live. For that person, who prioritized peace more than anyone else, to tell those old men in the Senate to prepare for war first if they want peace.”

Recalling the image of that person who used to say that he was the voice of Ionia, she murmured as if she couldn’t believe his changed attitude now.

“By the way, the woman who came here with that little child earlier… If she was an ordinary person, she wouldn’t have any stamina left to fight the bandits after coming all the way up here… Well, does it really matter?”

Anyway, even if we meet again later, nothing much will happen. She didn’t say the words she thought after that out loud, and she moved her steps to the place where her disciple would be waiting.

But…

“If you become stronger than you are now when we meet next time, you might be worth looking at.”

…She, who had been ‘watching’ the attack she attempted on the bandits a little while ago, whispered quietly.

On the way back home, I thought. Even though I was conscious of it, I had been living with a too lax mindset.

Even so, I think I took my life too lightly in a world where it wouldn’t be strange if something happened right away. Is it because I spent too peaceful days in the original world?

Anyway, I felt that just building up my stamina now was not enough. I desperately felt the need to get stronger more quickly.

Then, thinking about what I needed right now, I realized that skills and strength, these two things, were absolutely lacking for me.

I had never learned skills because I had never had to fight in the previous world, and strength… needless to say.

Okay! Then there’s no choice but to train my skills. I have to create them myself, since I haven’t seen anyone use fingernails as their main weapon until now, so I won’t be able to learn from other people.

Then the only thing left is strength… I have no choice but to make a schedule for the evening or morning and do it every day. Come to think of it, there was an effective exercise method that a classmate told me about in the old days…

Ah! That’s right! I remember it being 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, and 10km of running.

If I do this every day, I’ll definitely get stronger! Even though he was bald, he was quite popular with other friends and he was strong, so I can trust what he said.

Then shall I start tomorrow right away!