The Late Game Healer Is Way Too Strong – Chapter 329

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟐𝟗: 𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 2

Sometimes I wonder.

When comparing a place where you have lived for less than thirty years to a place where you have lived for over a hundred years, which one is your hometown?

In terms of time alone, there is a huge difference of nearly four times.

The weight of the memories and the amount of memory accumulated must also be overwhelmingly greater over a hundred-year period.

If you simply call the place where you lived or were born first your hometown, then Earth would be your hometown.

If you think about the vague feeling and the natural trembling of your heart, that would also be evidence that Earth is your hometown.

Siwoo floated in the pitch-black darkness.

He could see meteors passing him by.

Are they moving fast, or am I moving forward fast?

As he was vaguely trying to establish a criterion for his hometown, the last condition came to mind like a ripple.

Someone precious.

Ah, that’s definitely it.

Siwoo chuckled and sketched out the faces of those he could think of.

The problem was that the faces were on both sides.

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“Your Majesty, we searched again today but found nothing.”

“Hahaha. Is that so? That’s really unfortunate. Where on earth has his Majesty disappeared to?”

The woman lying on a large, ornate sofa answered casually while picking up a cookie to eat.

“Your Majesty. . . Shouldn’t you at least pretend to be worried?”

Kikl, the captain of the Black Dragon Knights of the 〈Empire〉, scolded her.

“What, Kikl. Are you rebelling against me, who is in the place of His Majesty?”

“Lady Rinoa. Then why don’t you focus more on finding his Majesty? Instead of just lying here and wasting taxpayers’ money.”

Kikl, who looked older than her, frowned and looked at her attitude with displeasure.

Lying around all day eating cookies, and of course, luxurious food and drinks, as well as the banquets she held every month.

No matter how much she was the Prime Minister that his Majesty cherished, she was now nothing more than an evil monarch or a lazybones who just played around.

“Your Majesty. . . I miss him too. Hahaha, but these cookies are so delicious. Try them, Kikl.”

“I have no intention of doing so, Your Majesty. I have no appetite when I think of his Majesty.”

“Oooh. Really? My appetite only increases when I think about His Majesty.”

Rinoa crossed her legs while lying down, even though she was wearing a tight one-piece dress.

It was a position that would have seemed very sensual to others, but to Kikl, it looked like nothing more than a worm wriggling around.

“The Prime Minister that his Majesty cherished. . . Isn’t that you, Your Majesty? Please put a little more effort into finding his Majesty.”

“Oh, well, I’d like to do that too. But do I really have to insist on calling me Your Majesty? Since his Majesty hasn’t returned, I might as well become his Majesty. . .”

“Rinoa!!!”

Kikl spread her black tail and wings wide and shouted at her in a thunderous voice.

Her power and momentum were so terrifying that they could swallow a huge castle whole.

“Kreeeek!!”

Rinoa also raised her silver wings behind her and bared her sharp fangs.

Her pupils glowed sharply like the eyes of a reptile.

“What is this, Captain Kikl!! Are you being disrespectful to me, who is his Majesty’s proxy!!!”

Her soft voice was nowhere to be found, and a loud scream echoed throughout the large room.

Despite her sharp attitude, Kikl did not diminish her own momentum and anger in the slightest.

Rather, her fierce aura was aimed at her like a tightly drawn bow.

“Keep in mind that the only emperor of this empire is ‘that person’!! Your status is ‘proxy’, not emperor!! If you utter such nonsense one more time, I will tear you to shreds at the cost of my blood and bones!!”

Truly a deadly attitude.

Since it was Kikl, who was known for her simple-mindedness, there was not a single lie in that sentence.

Rinoa clicked her tongue and put away her hostility.

She, too, was a warrior who was counted among the best in the empire, but she was not foolish enough to fight Kikl.

“. . .Hmph. I’m waiting too. As someone who was favored by him, it’s only natural. My previous statement was nonsense, so please forget about it.”

Rinoa flopped back down on the sofa and picked up the cookie she had been eating with her hand.

‘𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦.’

Kikl sighed deeply at the sight.

It had been years since they had known each other, but such a personality was not easily tolerated.

“Anyway, until his Majesty returns, you, Prime Minister, must play the role of his Majesty.”

“Hahaha. I know that, Kikl. Oh my, why did our Majesty suddenly disappear?”

“Rinoa. Let’s not lose the pride of our race.”

“Don’t worry about it. I’m also one of the Dragonoid Clan.”

She stroked her protruding fangs with her thumb and replied as if it were a nuisance.

The Dragonoid Clan.

They were the race with the strongest combat power, even in this place where many races lived.

The strongest, most vicious warriors who were also the most warlike and used the power of dragons.

It was said that not even grass would grow where the Dragonoid Clan passed, so great was their destruction.

No wonder even real dragons avoided their tribe.

However, despite their notoriety, the Dragonoid Clan itself was not very powerful.

This was because their way of thinking, which always emphasized ‘individuals’ rather than ‘the whole,’ and their high self-esteem, prevented them from forming a group.

In particular, the Dragonoid Clan was known as a group that was difficult to unite into one, as there were many factions within it.

The arrogant and violent war maniacs were forced to live as a small tribe in the outskirts, unable to properly utilize their strength, for a long time.

Until a few decades ago, that is.

Then, an individual emerged who subdued all the Dragonoid Clan with his omnipotent power and united them into one. That individual was the Emperor.

“Our prosperity is all thanks to him. Lady Rinoa, if his Majesty were to see your lazy appearance. . .”

“Hehehe! His Majesty would be proud of me?”

She stretched leisurely and gulped down the cocktail on the side table.

It was the same old nonsense, but today, Kikl found her appearance distasteful.

“I wish his Majesty could see this.”

“That’s right.”

“Right, Your Ma. . . Your Majesty?!!!”

Kikl gasped at the sight of the man who suddenly appeared.

“Hahaha, the captain of the knights is joking—Ack!!!”

Rinoa, who had been lying around lazily, raised her head slightly and then fell to the floor with a thud, as if she had suffered a heart attack.

“Your, your, your, your, Majesty!!!”

Rinoa hurriedly tidied up her clothes and knelt on one knee.

“Your Majesty!!”

Kikl, who had been standing there in a daze like a ghost, also knelt down on one knee and paid her respects.

The emperor, who looked very tired, shook his head from side to side.

“My room has become a pigsty.”

The emperor said softly, looking down at Rinoa.

“Ye. . . Yes? Oh, this is. . . Kikl and I were having a meeting to find your Majesty. . . Eek!”

The emperor, or rather Siwoo, grabbed Rinoa’s face with one hand and lifted it up.

“Rinoa, what did I say would happen if you lied?”

“Oh, it hurts! It hurts!! Your Majesty! Eek!”

“From now on, if you want to lie, at least wipe the cookie crumbs off your lips first.”

“Yes, yes, sir!! Yes!! Let, let me go!!”

As soon as Siwoo let go of her hand, Rinoa fell backward onto her butt again.

“Ugh! My temple!! My tail!! Waaaah!!”

Rinoa pouted and rubbed her tail instead of her butt.

It seemed that she had twisted her tail when she fell backward.

“Your Majesty. . . Do you know how eagerly we have been waiting for you all this time?!”

Kikl pleaded with Siwoo as she knelt on one knee.

In fact, from Siwoo’s point of view, his original goal was to return to Earth, and everything in this other world was just a process in that journey, but the group that followed him thought differently.

They did not know where Siwoo came from, but they did not expect him to build such a great empire and then suddenly disappear.

Therefore, when Siwoo disappeared, there was a great deal of commotion in the other world every day.

The forces that had been hoping for Siwoo’s disappearance realized that he was gone and invaded his territory.

“Our elite soldiers searched the whole world day and night to find Your Majesty!”

“. . .Is that so? I’m sorry for that, Kikl.”

Siwoo patted the shoulder of Kikl, who had been so loyal.

Siwoo had often talked about returning to his original place, but it seemed that his disappearance was a great pain to his subjects.

. . .Except for Rinoa, that is.

“Hahaha! Your Majesty, I missed you so much that I couldn’t sleep at night—Eek!! Ah, I won’t do it!! I’m sorry for lying—Eek!!”

She pouted her lips and rubbed her temples.

“Now that your Majesty has returned, I will make haste to spread the news throughout the continent! The kings and vassals of the empire will rejoice at your Majesty’s return. . .”

“No, that’s fine.”

“Your Majesty. . .?”

Siwoo waved his hand and rejected Kikl’s proposal.

Perhaps because those in the other world had long lifespans, whenever they tried to announce and implement something, they tended to take their sweet time.

For Siwoo, who had a fast-paced personality, such actions were close to torture.

It was much faster to just run and do it himself during that time.

“Rather than that, I’d like to hear about the current situation of the empire. Gather all the civil and military officials in the castle.”

“Yes. . .? R-Right now?”

“Right now. I’ll give you 30 minutes.”

“Oh, I understand!!”

Kikl bowed her head and hurried out.

“Hahaha. . . Then I’ll be going too. . . Eek!! Why again!!”

“Where are you going? Clean up my room first.”

“I’ll call the servants and clean it up—Ouch, it hurts!!”

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“Wow, what’s going on inside?”

Jin Do-wa, who had cut off Azazel’s neck, muttered as he wiped the crimson blood from his face.

The momentum and aura that made it seem difficult to even approach one by one were raging madly from the direction of the laboratory, and now an eerie chill that he had never experienced before began to creep in like a nightmare.

A coldness that was difficult to express even with the word chilling.

“This is no joke. . .?”

Jin Do-wa’s expression gradually darkened.

“Damn it!! This bastard told me to hold out for two minutes, so why isn’t he coming out!”

Ryu Ji-hwan shouted, panting.

He and Crow had been fighting Beelzebub for nearly five minutes.

Despite being hit with several attacks that were close to fatal blows, Beelzebub, perhaps because he was in a state of possession, showed no signs of pain.

At that moment, Beelzebub, who sensed the darkness emanating from the laboratory, turned his feelers in that direction.

『Creak, creak—! Dimension Gate opened. We have no business with you now.』

Beelzebub let out a strange laugh and disappeared from his seat, bursting into thousands of insects.

“Damn it. . . It looks like the first phase of the operation that Min Siwoo mentioned failed.”

Ryu Ji-hwan gritted his teeth as he wiped away the beads of sweat that were running down his face.

Prior to this, Min Siwoo had explained several scenarios and told them how to deal with each one.

The current situation was the case where the first phase of the operation had failed and the ‘Dimension Gate’ had opened.

“We have to get away cheaply. That thing is too much to deal with.”

Jin Do-wa took out a talisman.

“Behind you!!!”

At that moment, Ryu Ji-hwan shouted at Jin Do-wa.

Suddenly, a large, black egg that had appeared behind Jin Do-wa was breaking its shell.

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