I learned another truth of the world.
I had found out what the chicken I had been so curious about was.
I see. So that was what chicken was. So that was how children were born.
They weren’t picked up from under bridges, they weren’t delivered by Mr. Stork, and they didn’t come about when a man and woman held hands while sleeping. They were made at chicken restaurants.
There was no way Father would deceive me, so the books I’d read had deceived me.
How could they deceive a person like that?
My teeth chattered with betrayal, and my head spun.
No wonder men and women had different body structures from the start. There was a reason for everything.
Why had the books written false information instead of properly telling me such important information?
When I thought about how much of a nuisance I would have been if I’d gone into a chicken restaurant without knowing anything, chills ran down my spine.
When I return to Earth next time, I should avoid chicken restaurants as much as possible.
I can’t disturb the people making children, after all.
- I hope you only do chicken with someone you love.
“But what exactly is love?”
If chicken was something you did with someone you loved, then what exactly was that thing called love?
It was an emotion I couldn’t understand, even though I had seen it in books a few times.
It wasn’t something that could be clearly distinguished like joy or sadness, and since things that changed from moment to moment were explained as the emotion called love, it was difficult to understand.
Something that could be joy, pain, sacrifice, or possessiveness.
Since they called an ever-changing emotion love, I couldn’t find any common point, so I was extremely curious.
- The form love takes can’t help but differ for everyone. Even if you can’t know right away, the day will come when you understand it too.
There’s no need to find out in a hurry, so I decided to think about it slowly. Then they asked me to tell them what had happened on Earth.
“!”
Oh, right. The story about Earth.
I had really wanted to tell them, but I’d forgotten.
“Father. Mother. Grandfather. Thank you so much. Thanks to you, I was able to protect what I wanted to protect.”
[Many Constellations are looking at you.]
Because I had received their teachings and grown stronger, I was who I was now.
I told them one by one about the things that had happened on Earth.
A huge number of gates had opened, and it had been dangerous.
Even so, I had power, so I was able to resolve it.
I flew all over the world and saw many places, and there were so many truly beautiful ones.
I’m looking forward to when I return to Earth again someday. When I told them things like that, a question came back.
- How did you fight on Earth?
“? I fought with magic.”
[The Sage of the Star Archive cheers.]
[The Unicorn that Calls Thunder cheers.]
[Many Constellations swallow a groan.]
“???”
- Eat first, for now.
“But why am I not hungry?”
Could it be because of Maid’s Dignity?
Maybe the part about maintaining the best condition applied to this too.
For the sake of experimenting, I wanted to go hungry for an even longer time, but.
- Eat even if you aren’t hungry. I’m worried.
“Gasp. I’ll eat.”
They would worry if I skipped meals, so I ate deliciously.
As I ate, I felt like I understood a little what love was.
Om nyom nyom.
After finishing my meal, I took some time to train.
Power that cannot be controlled is nothing more than a risk factor, and only by properly controlling my strength could I respond to every situation.
Since I focused only on training at ease on the rest floor, I was able to quickly grasp how to control my strength.
“V.”
[The Watchman of the Sword Realm cheers.]
During training, I mastered the Maid’s Dignity V-shaped slash.
Now that I could show off peace in another way, who could stop me?
[The Spear that Pierces All Things bestows grace upon you.]
“?”
- Do a V-shaped thrust with a spear too
“Gasp.”
I was stopped immediately.
A V-shaped thrust. How was I supposed to do that?
I took out a spear and thought about it.
A thrust was a point attack, and a V-shaped thrust was a line attack, so they couldn’t coexist.
I could use magic to send out a V-shaped shockwave at the same time as thrusting the spear, but it was ambiguous whether that could be called a V-shaped thrust.
“…! ……! …!”
This was harder than Maid Cosmic Triple Flame Tornado Double Peace.
Perhaps I might not be able to pull it off even if I trained my entire life.
The mountain I had climbed was nothing but a tiny hill.
Just when I had reached the summit and was about to fall into overconfidence, I never thought I would face such a towering mountain.
This was why one had to live humbly.
“I’ll show you later. I think it’s a bit difficult right now.”
[The Spear that Pierces All Things cheers you on.]
Let’s believe in the future me.
I can do it. If it’s me!
And if I can’t, then oh well. I should know how to flexibly give up on things that can’t be done.
Now that I’d gotten used to controlling my strength, should I start heading to the next floor?
There was no particular need to stay on the rest floor any longer—
- Yuyeon, how long has it been since you slept?
“Gasp. A long time. I’ll sleep.”
I have to sleep if I want to grow taller.
Thanks to Maid’s Dignity, I wasn’t tired, but I still needed to secure an appropriate amount of sleep.
Maybe the reason I wasn’t growing taller was because my sleep schedule was irregular.
I should practice Maid’s Dignity Sleep Triple Peace while sleeping too.
“vvV…”
[Many Constellations look at you fondly.]
Practice and more practice until I could cast it unconsciously.
There was no end to practice.
***
The place Han Yuyeon had left behind.
Humanity on Earth continued damage recovery work and helped one another.
If there was anything astonishing, it was that starting with Korea, the countries that had quickly received Han Yuyeon’s help had almost no damage to buildings or human lives.
[Title: I felt this when she was casting grand magic as easily as breathing on the 6th floor too, but]
Author: I’mGonnaBeAMagicMaster
(A gif of Han Yuyeon doing double peace)
This incident made me realize that Yuyeon-nim’s level is truly beyond reach…
As if filling us up with mana, divinity, and aura wasn’t enough,
with Maid’s Management she even subtly reduced our fatigue and raised our condition,
then she went on a world tour under her own power, closed every single gate, and wiped out all the monsters,
and on top of that, she apparently went around putting barriers on everything so that buildings and citizens wouldn’t be harmed…
(Hoeeng… wizard emote)
Yuyeon-nim is a god…
- Maybe her magic power stat is around 5000
ㄴ 5000, ffs lol wait why does it actually sound like it’s 5000…?
ㄴ Divinity and aura are probably around that too
ㄴ How is she continuously using magic on that scale while sharing it with people all over the world…
ㄴ She somehow controlled her strength without breaking Earth…!
- Her strength is strong, her magic power is strong, her divinity and aura are insane, what even is Yuyeon-nim?
ㄴ Yuyeon-nim is humanity’s famous maid
ㄴ Humanity is amaaaaziiing
ㄴ I ordered chicken to preserve my dignity
As the aspiring magic master said, Han Yuyeon’s deeds were close to myth.
A peaceful daily life suddenly shattered.
At the moment everyone was under stress from the fear and pressure that threatened humanity, she had suddenly returned to Earth, resolved every situation, and restored peace.
[But then what happens to Hell?]
Around the time such a question arose, Johann Conrad shared the contents of his conversation with Han Yuyeon through the Hunter Association.
“She said that Hell, unlike the other difficulties, has a time limit after returning to Earth.”
“She said that if she doesn’t return within that time, someone else will be dragged into Hell difficulty.”
“That’s why after returning to Earth, she only resolved the situation and hurried back to the Tower…”
“Perhaps she was worried that something like this might happen again while she was away, because she took out even more S-rank weapons and told me to send them to the Hunter Association.”
Even during the short time she had returned to Earth, she had been unable to rest and had done nothing but fight repeatedly.
Then, in order not to increase the number of victims, she returned to the Tower, but out of concern for us, she left behind a very large number of S-rank weapons.
At these shocking words, the hunters of the Tower Gallery stirred.
[No, then she really only fought while she was on Earth and left]
[Because we’re small fry, she couldn’t even rest… I see… I’m sorry… I’ll just dieee…]
[She normalized Earth, she’s clearing Hell, if she does everything like this, what’s left?]
Because we were weak, Yuyeon-nim hadn’t been able to have even a moment to rest.
Everyone’s hearts began to grow heavy at the excessive level of devotion.
“Yuyeon-nim… said that she isn’t particularly sacrificing herself, and that she’ll always be happy, so there’s no need to worry.”
Even if Johann said that, few people believed those words at face value.
Because it could be felt that even Johann himself, the one saying it, was worried about Han Yuyeon.
“…Yuyeon-nim said that next time, she would become even stronger, and if something like this happened again, she would win without a single sacrifice.”
Even though it was a miracle that the casualties ended at this level, Han Yuyeon was not satisfied with the result and declared that she would become even stronger.
As if she could not tolerate the fact that casualties had occurred in this manner at all.
Just as the hunters who had been listening continued to stare at the Tower and sink into anguish, the Hunter Association made an additional announcement.
“The S-rank weapons Yuyeon-nim sent to the Association will be issued to hunters who must handle high-risk gates or hunters who wish to climb the Tower again.”
- What
That was right. There was no need to use such powerful S-rank weapons solely for gate handling.
If one had an S-rank weapon while climbing the Tower, things would become far easier, and one would be able to grow stronger much faster.
The Hunter Association also knew that letting S-rank weapons sit unused would be a loss, so they had brought this up.
“However, we cannot issue S-rank weapons unconditionally to hunters who wish to climb the Tower.”
“There will be a capability test to determine how effectively you can handle an S-rank weapon and whether you can survive and return from the Tower.”
“If you cannot return from the Tower even with an S-rank weapon, that alone is a loss for humanity.”
- Hmm, that’s true
- If they just hand them out and only end up losing S-rank weapons for no reason, that’d be a huge loss
If they passed the capability test, they could receive an S-rank weapon and challenge the Tower.
Through this incident, the vast majority of hunters had keenly realized that stronger power was necessary even to preserve peace, and this was a golden opportunity to become stronger.
“We can’t rely on Yuyeon-nim forever while staying weak.”
“If we want to give Yuyeon-nim time to rest, we have to become stronger too.”
The hunters who had made up their minds and visited the Hunter Association headquarters were able to see traces of Han Yuyeon from the entrance.
They saw Arc Gargoyle Barkel standing firmly at the entrance like a gatekeeper, and Han Yuyeon on top of Barkel, maintaining double peace while repeatedly cheering them on.
“Y-Yuyeon-nim?!”
“The one on my head is not Han Yuyeon, but Han Yuyeon’s clone.”
“She left a clone here?! That was possible?!”
“There is nothing impossible for Han Yuyeon.”
Fighting. Fighting.
Han Yuyeon’s clone merely repeated the same words, but the hunters who heard that encouragement felt power welling up from within.
“Don’t tell me, to keep cheering us on…?”
“That is correct. Since she learned that listening to this encouragement restores your energy, a broadcast of Han Yuyeon’s clone cheering will soon be transmitted to the entire world.”
“If she does that, Yuyeon-nim’s energy will be consumed too much…”
“Who is worrying about whom? Han Yuyeon is not so weak that you need to worry about her. Simply accept it with gratitude.”
“Ughh, sob…!”
The capability test mentioned by the Hunter Association began with Arc Gargoyle Barkel’s judgment.
“You have such a severe lack of combat talent that it is alarming. Go back.”
“Kkwaang! I’m sorry, Yuyeon-nim!”
“You only need to fix your rashness. Go in.”
“Shakkiyahoo!!!”
“As for you, rather than entering this place, it would be better for you to enter over there.”
“Isn’t that a café?”
“If you go in, Ravina will be there. Go and receive advice on how to utilize divine formulas. It will be of great help to you.”
“……! Thank you.”
“How is Yuyeon-nim pretty, cute, and strong all at once?”
“I don’t know. You go in too.”
After Barkel first determined their potential, an additional capability test would be conducted, and then an S-rank weapon would be issued.
While the Association’s employees and the hunters were busily moving around.
[Hell Difficulty Climber - Han Yuyeon (Maid) (17 years old) (11th floor)]
Han Yuyeon’s 11th-floor broadcast turned on.