Chapter 71
“For tonight, I’ll have A-rank and above Hunters patrol the surrounding area. In case any of those terrorists’ remnants are still around, they might be thinking about revenge.”
“Is that so.”
“Yes. Still... I’ll keep quiet so the young lady won’t know. She might get scared, so I don’t think there’s any need to tell her.”
“I understand.”
Eve herself didn’t know it, but just in case, around five A-rank Hunters from the British Hunter Association were told to stay near Claridge’s and stand guard for the night.
At that moment, Eve was pouring all her strength into posting on the gallery while in the car, right on the verge of falling asleep.
“Uu, uuu...”
Eve kept blinking the world’s heaviest eyelids and tapping at her phone keyboard with her tiny hands. The car interior was warm from the heater, and after walking around all day, her body was exhausted too.
If the angle of the car seat’s backrest had been even five degrees lower, she would have fallen asleep right away.
Meanwhile, on the gallery, people were talking about who had stopped the London Eye terrorist incident that was currently all over the news, popping up in online articles, and becoming a hot topic everywhere.
[ㅇㅇ : No, damn it, that’s the gallery star, isn’t it
(photo)
Isn’t the person in the picture the gallery star’s maid? And even the gallery star is in London right now]
-ㅇㅇ : Wow, damn, it really is her lolㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Elreuel : The gallery’s best output, for real
ㄴ ㅇㅇ : The gallery’s best output is the former gallery star, though, yeah
ㄴ Elreuel : That person doesn’t even use the gallery, so why is that person the gallery’s best output?
-Hustar : This is a true legend
-KimHeukgan : But how does that even make sense? Can you really make the London Eye like that?
ㄴ ㅇㅇ : Exactly, I can’t even tell what her ability is
ㄴ MacHamTong : Wasn’t it a summon-type ability? It’s insanely weird either way
-ㅇㅇ : Her ability’s versatility seems completely busted
ㄴ ㅇㅇ : That maid is insanely strong too
-Gyahong : Our princess, pleeeaseㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ Smash the terrorists, smash Londonㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
In an instant, dozens of upvotes came in, and more than a dozen posts related to it went up on the featured board, but none of the other posts registered with Eve, who was so sleepy she felt like she might just fall asleep right this second.
Drawing on years of gallery-lurking experience, Eve quickly wrote a post with half-closed eyes.
[MyLifeIsntRuined : I saved the world tody
I made the London Eye into a golem, then a terrorist showed up so Eloise seemd to have fallen for me]
Of course, since you don’t get mentally trained by lurking the gallery, the content was a complete mess.
-ㅇㅇ : Damn, the gallery star of Korea’s largest Awakened community really is different lolㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-ㅇㅇ : Showing up in person is respectable lol
-Elreuel : lolㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ what is this content, you must be sleepy
ㄴ ㅇㅇ : At 1 a.m., the gallery star is already supposed to be asleep lol
-Ciortos : This is on a truly international level, isn’t it
-ㅇㅇ : Please don’t leave, tell us the story, damn it
ㄴ ㅇㅇ : No way. It’s the princess’s bedtime.
-CheonggyeDragon : What the hell did I just witness lolㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Yubuyasking : That was insane, seriously crazy
ㄴ Yubuyasking : (mint twin tails wearing a crown)
-ㅇㅇ[ㄹㅁㅎ] : I worship our princess
ㄴ Doshungjwak : Agreed lol
-YanIgiDog : Starting today, I’m an Igi-dog
ㄴ ㅇㅇ : Igi-dog is a bit much;
“Heehee...”
Watching that from the side, Ophelia raised her open palm and rubbed it against Eve’s face.
ㅡsuk-suk
“Uu, ueh...”
“Please sleep, Princess.”
“Auu...”
The moment she lowered her eyelids, Eve slipped right into sleep. Surprisingly, it was the first time in a very long while that she’d gone to bed without taking a bath.
* * * * *
At Claridge’s, a peaceful noon arrived after a safe night passed without incident.
“Myaaaaaaahhh!!!!!”
Waking up with that massive stretching sound, I found Doggy next to me with ZZZ... floating over it on the screen, as well as my neatly folded outing clothes.
And somehow, without me even remembering it, my body had been changed into pajamas too.
“W-when did I get back..?!“
In the memories that followed, I had definitely turned the London Eye into a golem first... Ophelia had dealt with the criminals...? After walking around while listening to Big Ben’s New Year’s bells, I had said my final goodbye to Eloise....
“Ah, so we really did get back.”
Whatever happened, as long as I made it back to the room safely and slept soundly without any problems, that was fine.
ㅡswish swish
“Doggy, wake up. What time did I fall asleep yesterday?”
ㅡbeep...
When I grabbed the body of Doggy, who had been sleeping beside me, and shook it back and forth, the Z’s gradually dwindled one by one and Doggy woke up.
[AM 01:48]
“Hmm, looks like I slept enough!”
It’s already past 12, so even by rough estimate it’s been over ten hours, right? I was really tired yesterday, and I also used way too much mana, so I even got a nosebleed.
“Then today is... huh!!!!”
And so morning arrived. Today is none other than January 1.
“No way! I was going to take the first post of the New Year..?!“
ㅡbeep...
But if I think about it, back then I was walking around listening to the bells, so maybe it would have been kind of weird to take the first post after all. Besides, being on the gallery with my phone at midnight on January 1....
“I did that last year and the year before, too, huh.”
I guess I’m not really in a position to say anything.
“But where did Ophelia go..?”
After looking around, I couldn’t see Ophelia anywhere. I tried to get up for a moment, but maybe I’d taken my pants off again in my sleep, because the bottom half of my pajamas was gone. It was cold, so I didn’t want to get out from under the blanket, and I just absentmindedly fiddled with Doggy beside me.
After pulling myself together for a bit, just as I was about to pick up the phone on the nightstand.
“Th-this..!?!“
A gift card with Robux in it. And not 500 or 1000, but a full 1500 Robux. It looked like Ophelia had bought it and left it there; when I scratched off the back, a code appeared that I could enter in the Redeem box.
“Heehee.”
As my completely empty Robux balance suddenly jumped to 1500, I became the richest person in the world. Ah, this is already fun—what should I spend the Robux on? First I’ll dress up the default character and some other stuff I didn’t like, and maybe spend a little on Dragon Adventure and Blade Ball.
“No, wait, where the hell is Ophelia really?”
I keep trying to find Ophelia, but then I think about the gallery and drift off into Roblox instead. I should at least call Ophelia once.
“Hello? Ophelia?”
“Princess, have you woken up?”
“Yep. Where are you, Ophelia?”
“I am speaking with people from the British Hunter Association. We are briefly discussing what happened yesterday.”
“Ah... where is it? Is it far??”
“The first-floor restaurant.”
“It’s far.”
My room is on the 5th floor right now, so going down to the 1st floor might be a little difficult. I guess I should just rest here and play with Doggy for a bit.
“It’s New Year’s Day, so let’s see what the gallery rats are up to.”
[ㅇㅇ : So I’m telling you, it’s just an alchemist << that’s what it is
It’s obviously a golem made using the London Eye as material, right? Why can’t these bastards understand what I’m saying?]
-ㅇㅇ : But seriously, then wouldn’t you just be able to make an Earth golem?
ㄴ ㅇㅇ : Idiot lol, there’d obviously be limits
“Uing.”
I was slowly looking over the main gallery topic, and it looks like this is about me. There were all sorts of theories about my ability on the featured board too, but most of them seemed to be similar.
“Mwahaha.”
There’s another kind of post that’s the most fun to use in situations like this.
[MyLifeIsntRuined : A fact no gallery rat knows, damn
I’m a gallery rat too, so I don’t know...ㅠ]
-ㅇㅇ : Holy crap, instant upvote lolㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-ㅇㅇ : Finally here, damn it
-Elreuel : Did you really alchemize the London Eye?
ㄴ MyLifeIsntRuined : idk lol
ㄴ Elreuel : Ah, shitpic incoming
ㄴ ㅇㅇ : Rengoku loaded and ready
ㄴ Hustar : Hey hey hey
-ㅇㅇ : No, seriously, what kind of skill is that? Isn’t this the first time anything like this has happened?
Most people seem to be guessing that I’m an alchemist. It’s a little different, but in a way maybe it’s kind of similar too? Alchemists are pretty rare as a class, but there are also alchemists who make potions or enchant items.
There are also alchemists who make golems using stone, metal, and the like. But the golems made by those alchemists are all dumb, only diligently doing repetitive motions, or else they’re mostly inactive guys that just follow and guard a certain area or person as programmed.
Because of Minyum and Suri that I showed last time, the prevailing opinion is that if I were an alchemist in the golem-creation line, I would have to be the strongest among all Hunters of the same class currently in existence.
[GreatWitch1 : It looks like you’re misunderstanding something
Golem production doesn’t end just because you pump mana into it, damn it
You have to shape the materials, connect circuits, make joints, program it, and even the easiest quadruped type takes at least a month, by B-rank standards, of going absolutely nuts just to make one golem that can pull its weight]
-ㅇㅇ : But Princess just straight-up made a London Eye golem, though, right?
ㄴ GreatWitch1 : Exactly. There is absolutely no way she can be a golem-maker
-Gyahong : Then does that mean the Princess is SSS-rank?
ㄴ GreatWitch1 : No, it’s not even a rank issue because the production method is different to begin with; if you turn the amusement ride you’re currently on into a golem, that’s just a different profession
“Huh, I see.”
Since there are so few golem-creation alchemists in Korea, it was something I didn’t even know about either. As the gallery atmosphere grew more and more vicious, the mod announced he was going to stomp out the bait.
[Hustar : I’m going to drop the skill bait now
Can we talk about something else too?]
Then the gallery brats, who were extremely petty and furious, started hounding the green mod’s post.
-ㅇㅇ : If you’re not going to tell us the gallery star’s skill, please just lock the thread already
ㄴ ㅇㅇ : I’m so curious I can’t sleep
ㄴ Hustar : That’s a bit much lol. Besides, the skill is a trade secret
ㄴ ㅇㅇ : Then I’ll leak my own trade secret of spamming Rengoku and Gojo shitpics right now
ㄴ Hustar : Fuck;
Even after the green mod declared the gallery topic would be changed, the bait about my skill kept pouring in nonstop.
[JoblessWarrior : Pushing the skill bait
Now cut it out already. You know it’s going to start causing trouble for ㅇㅇ personally if this keeps up, right?]
In the end, the rare head mod showed up and carried out a super-strict crackdown.
[ㅇㅇ : I don’t care about the skill; if Princess is cute, upvote lol
(photo)
Princess is such a London cutie lol]
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“Hmm...”
If I wrote a post now, it looked like it would go straight to the featured board... but it felt like I’d be setting the gallery topic on fire again, and I couldn’t do that because I felt bad for the shitpic cleaners.
“Let’s see who got the first post of the New Year..?”
[UtahasWaterdropFan : Utaha panties
(photo)
Thanks.]
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“Gasp..”
A photo of Big Sis Utaha taken during battle had gone to the featured board as the first post of the New Year. For some reason, even though I wasn’t the one who did it, I somehow felt bad.... Sorry, you ugly gallery brats!!
Of course, for me it shows up as a blacked-out image. Honestly, I kind of want to see it.
ㅡding-dong
“Ah, it’s Ophelia.”
Just then, Ophelia opened the front door and came in, and the door lock made its beep.
“Princess, how are you feeling? You used a lot of mana yesterday.”
“I’m fine! Totally fine.”
Ophelia nodded in relief, then went over to the open suitcase and started gathering clothes.
“What are you doing, Ophelia?”
“Princess. This is sudden, but something has come up. We’re also going to eat there, so would that be all right with you?”
“An appointment?? Where are we going?”
The clothes Ophelia was holding were that princess outfit she’d made for me before.
“Eek, why those clothes..?”
“We’re going to the headquarters of the British Hunter Association.”
“Uing.”
That’s way too sudden.