Inside the ship, there was a fairly spacious dining area.
Of course, it wasn’t the luxurious style of a fancy passenger ship, but it looked clean.
What was interesting was that all the tables and chairs were fixed in place. Since it’s a ship, that makes sense, but it’s a bit unfortunate that when I sit down, the distance between the table and the chair is a bit too far.
There wasn’t much of a menu in the dining area, so when we ordered, they brought out a dish made of a mixture of meat and flour, some bread, and fresh vegetables.
The first two dishes were fine, but vegetables?
I picked up a piece of vegetable with my fork.
“Aren’t these hard to store?”
“Don’t you have storage units with refrigeration back where you lived?”
Storage units?
I searched through Victoria’s memory, and something came up.
By placing a special magical field on the object and suppressing the flow, the reactions happening inside are suppressed, and there’s technology to preserve all kinds of substances by combining this with refrigeration systems.
But I don’t really understand what that means.
However, since it mentioned refrigeration, it seems like it’s a refrigerator.
“There’s something similar.”
“Don’t leave anything behind.”
Suddenly, what did she mean by that?
Victoria’s sudden twisted words seemed odd, so when I looked at her gaze, she was staring at the mixed vegetables of broccoli and asparagus on her fork.
Ah.
Now that I think about it, picky eating exists. Since Sooh was a good eater, I never really thought about it.
Back then, I couldn’t afford to be picky about food.
I thought that to myself as I brought the food to my mouth.
Munch.
“What’s this? You’re eating well.”
“You shouldn’t leave food behind.”
“Wow, you really sound like a mom.”
Is that so?
Technically speaking, Sooh didn’t raise me; she was just someone I lived with. She felt like family, but I never planned to take her real family away.
“I spent almost two years living with a human child.”
“That’s a headache of an explanation. How could such a small child raise a kid?”
“I didn’t raise her? We just lived together. And back then, I was about two heads taller than I am now.”
That was how Choseol’s body was.
It grew unnaturally due to the circumstances, so it was much taller than it should have been for my age. If I hadn’t intervened, and if I hadn’t become the sacrifice, Choseol wouldn’t have survived for long.
So, after I entered, I quickly adapted to the body.
Victoria was eating like a person possessed. Then she spoke.
“You really aren’t human, huh?”
“I told you I’m a monster.”
“You don’t look like one at all.”
Victoria quickly cleaned her plate and then ordered some cake and tea.
I thought it had been a while since I had something sweet, and waited for the cake. It came out as a cake piled high with cream and chocolate mousse, so sugary that it was instantly recognizable as something American from my faded memories.
From Victoria’s expression, this was the typical food for her. She cut it with the special utensils, and the sticky, gooey texture could be felt through the utensils.
Even a little bit of this might burst my veins.
When I brought a bite to my mouth, the sweetness exploded in my mouth.
I had one bite and felt it was too rich.
I didn’t want to eat more, but Victoria was enjoying it.
“Are you a picky eater?”
“No. Eat as much as you want. Using your abilities must be hard, right?”
“I’m really hungry.”
Victoria nodded and immediately began eating again.
She drank the tea as if to wash down the food.
I wasn’t particularly interested in the tea or cake.
Looking back at the past from my faded memories, I used to enjoy it, but in this body, I didn’t want to eat it. To me, both physical pleasure, pain, and doing nothing at all feel the same.
In a game, if a character suffers from something like panic, the player doesn’t get panicked themselves, right?
Considering that Victoria was eating more than her usual amount, it seemed like she was actually hungry due to using her powers.
So, using superpowers makes you lose weight, I suppose.
It might sell well if marketed that way. However, hoping for weight loss while wishing for the powers to activate is a gamble, as I can’t predict whether the abilities will manifest or not.
It seems like it would only change when it reaches a pathological level, but until I experiment, I won’t know for sure.
So, after waiting for Victoria to finish her food, we returned to the room together.
No, I thought we were heading back.
“How about we take a look around the ship?”
Baaang.
Just then, the ship started again, and the horn blared.
As we were about to head back, Victoria, having heard the sound, seemed to remember something and suggested to me.
There wasn’t much to do back in the room, so I nodded.
“Sure.”
“We’ll go!”
If we were to explore the ship, we’d likely see the night view outside the window or the well-decorated main hall, but...
Victoria led the way up to the deck and started inspecting the giant waterwheel behind it.
To be exact, she was checking the engine that turns the waterwheel.
She was observing the mechanical device with gleaming eyes.
However, it seems like they don’t use screws here.
Could there be some restriction? With the level of technology, it seems like they wouldn’t lack screws, but strangely, the mechanism uses a wheel-type engine instead.
While I was thinking about this, I watched Victoria, who was standing on her tiptoes, eagerly looking at the device in front of a sign that said “No Entry for the General Public.”
Then it happened.
Suddenly, a thick hand covered my mouth, and I was firmly grabbed.
When I turned my gaze, I saw three men standing there. They immediately dragged me down to the lower deck.
It seemed to be a cheaper area, like a third-class room, and as soon as I stepped inside, the musty air hit me.
At the fork in the narrow corridor, they pulled me toward the stern.
It was a very dark place with the loud sound of the engine echoing. Glancing around, it looked like a place where they stored lifeboats.
It was a place where people didn’t come often, and because it was noisy, any sounds would be hard to hear by others.
There, two large men were waiting for the three men who had brought me.
“Oh, you brought him?”
“Is he really okay?”
“Yeah. A stowaway. On a ship like this, if a stowaway dies, it’s just treated as an unfortunate accident, right?”
“Plus, the person with him is just some girl. What could she do? Besides whine?”
One of the men mockingly mimicked the sound of a girl sobbing, and the others chuckled.
From what they were saying, it seemed at least one of the people who brought me here had been watching when Victoria and I boarded the ship.
They knew quite a bit.
“Wow, look at this one. Not bad, huh? Definitely not someone’s daughter from some big family, right?”
“Look at the clothes. Look at them. They’re all stained, like some rag. Would a rich person wear this?”
They started to undress me. The clothes they called rags were the ones I wore in the second world. Since the attire was different, it would have seemed strange to them.
“Hey, get your hands off me. What are you standing still for?”
The man’s hand finally dropped.
“Hello?”
“Is this girl out of her mind?”
Slap.
When I greeted them, one suddenly slapped me. Then, grabbing my hair, he pulled my head close and started explaining what he was going to do.
Well.
It’s all very wholesome for a creature.
In a social sense, it’s a bit much, but at least it seems they chose a victim who couldn’t fight back.
“You’re a tough one. Not a tear in sight? Or maybe you don’t understand what’s going on since you’re so young?”
The five men were all watching, with one girl in the middle, who could be done with anything.
I wasn’t dumb enough not to understand what was going on.
So, I said this.
“Don’t you want to live a better life than now?”
“What?”
“Hey, Smith. Shut up and get it done. Or I’ll go first.”
“Let’s see what kind of nonsense this kid is spouting.”
The man was goaded by the others, and after scratching his head, he stepped forward. Although his face was hidden in shadow, there was a large scar where he had been injured but not fully healed.
“What do I need to do?”
“I’ll give myself to you. But after you finish everything, I’ll take everything you have. How about it?”
“Sure.”
At that moment, the man’s face cracked. His skin started to fall off like porcelain, revealing flawless white skin underneath.
No more scars. And his movements weren’t awkward anymore. He moved gracefully, and when he jumped from a sitting position, he hit the ceiling with his jump.
“Whoa. What’s going on?”
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“Whoa?”
“Brutal guy?”
The man with purple hair looked at his body in shock.
I smiled at them and spoke.
“One more time.”
“Don’t you want to live a better life than now?”
And now, everyone stepped back from me.
It was a shocking event. In a world where powerful magic, or at least someone from a higher class, isn’t around, it’s hard to heal injuries easily.
“All wounds are healed.”
I walked up to a man named Reason Brutal, who had been observing me, and tapped him lightly on the leg.
“You get stronger. You get smarter.”
I don’t know how far it goes, but it’s true that this will happen.
“You all have the chance to live a better life.”
A chance to live more brutally, to live according to one’s desires, and to harm others.
“One thing I’ll ask of those who contract with me.”
Then, I stepped into the middle of them.
“Live as a human being, doing what you want.”
The villains gathered with joy. As soon as the opportunity arose, they acted on their primal urges.
They could easily crush others.
It’s a very good harvest season.
“If you can keep my request, contract with me.”
And today, I created five harvest periods.
Very easy.