He and It Chapter 46: A God’s Marriage (17)

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Chapter 46: A God’s Marriage (17)

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: GaeaTiamat

 

“Are you going to tell the Lord of the Ice Sea about this?” Yan Yan asked quietly after they went out.

Yun Chi didn’t hesitate. “Of course we have to tell. He hasn’t come to the land to see things for a long time. Only he doesn’t know, and what these gods are engaged in is the worst…”

“But first, find a place to sleep for the night.” Yun Chi looked up at the darkening sky. “Too much time was wasted. Things haven’t been bought.”

“I’ll take you to the hostel.” Yan Yan excelled his professionalism as a valet, and quickly found Yun Chi a small building in the uptown area that was a tavern and a hotel combined.

With a singer sitting next to the wine cooler and the fireplace blazing against the brown and red brick walls, Yun Chi ordered the hostel’s speciality, a roast of meat slathered in spices and precious honey that was good on the crispy edges, but in the middle, the honey and spices were not enough to cover the meat’s lack of tenderness and juiciness. – People in colder regions like to overcook their meat.

The main course, with its obvious drawbacks, was a pleasant surprise, as was the honey malt wine. Normally, beer stored in wooden barrels would tend to be sour, but served in crystal or glass, it tasted cool and refreshing, and with some crushed ice, it was a perfect match for a warm fireplace.

Yun Chi ate two pieces of grainy bread and a plate of ceviche ¹ to accompany the grilled meat with his beer. He used his skills as a lobbyist and bought several bottles of honey malt wine from the owner to take back to Sa’gya to try.

After dinner, Yun Chi went up to his room and took a look at the layout of the room. The brown wood bed, the cascading carved candelabra, the brass dressing table, the bath tub covered by a floral screen, and a few realistic paintings hanging on the wall…Even if someone said this was a 21st century vintage style resort hotel, Yun Chi would be convinced.

However, obviously, even after only one day out, he was already missing his home on the island. The Odd House had a bigger and higher wooden bed than this one, and the floor was smooth as a mirror, with a soft carpet on which he often rolled around with Sa’gya in his bare feet…

Yun Chi turned upside down on the bed to experience the feeling of lying down. To be honest, the bed was soft and the quilt was smooth. If he wasn’t used to sleeping on Sa’gya’s warm, soft fur belly and getting more used to being cradled in the arms of a big sea otter, he would have liked the sleeping conditions here.

It was easier to be frugal than to be extravagant…

Yun Chi shook his arm idly and looked absentmindedly at the slightly swaying bed canopy overhead.

I don’t know what Sa’gya is doing…Is he sleeping, still with his eyes open and insomnia like me?

Ah, the bright moon had risen.

Noticing the moonlight coming from the window, Yun Chi lifted the bed tent and gazed at the round and large silver disk cut into several pieces by the window pane.

Will Sa’gya be looking at the same moon with me at this moment?

“…Silly.” He came back to his senses and gave himself one. “And hurry up and go to sleep.”

Meanwhile, on the island of the ice sea.

Sa’gya sat alone in front of the door, and looked up at the moon in the sky.

He wanted to go to land with Yun Chi, he thought, and feel his constant emanation of joy like the sun, because the joy of the pup was almost equal to his own joy.

But Sa’gya couldn’t.

Yun Chi walked for a whole day. The West Wind carried a whole day’s messages for him, and Sa’gya counted every second with his palms and his hands, as he counted the days like years.

Would he be afraid? No, the cub was brave and should not be afraid…Would he be hurt then? What if the demons of both the West Wind and the Earth were negligent in their duty and allowed him to be discovered by the new gods?

What if someone let him not get his way, or someone belittled him because he lacked the common sense to live in Kaleva? What if he wanted to buy something but didn’t bring enough money…What if he was attracted by the bustle of the land and never wanted to return to this lonely and cold island?

Sa’gya looked at the bright moonlight, and the stardust in his eyes swirled in confusion and bewilderment, just like his thoughts at the moment.

Now, will Yun Chi and I look at the same moon together?

Sa’gya sighed a melancholy sigh. Only that thought in his heart could bring him some meager relief.

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The next day, Yun Chi woke up early in bed.

Last night, he didn’t know when he fell asleep, but getting up so early could only mean one thing.

–Morning market.

“Morning market!” Yun Chi quickly washed and wiped his face, then put on his disguised divine clothes. “Go to the morning market!”

Yan Yan waited at the door. Sweet cakes and wine had been placed in the inner space, and still kept piping hot and cool respectively.

Yun Chi, who was carrying his bag, took a bite of oyster meat, threw a few pieces to Yan Yan, and walked along, refreshed. “Morning market!”

Yan Yan’s usual stereotypical face appeared faintly blurred, and he echoed, “Yes. The sun has just come out on the hill, so it’s the time of Astolfo’s morning market.”

Yun Chi whistled through the fog and followed the sparse stream of people towards the morning market in Midtown. It was still hazy, and those who could visit the morning market at this time of day were mostly shopkeepers who wanted fresh ingredients.

Yun Chi was the first to find the grain market. Unfortunately, there weren’t many vendors selling rice, and he had to line up behind some merchants and small noble purchasers.

“This way, you go first to that line,” Yun Chi looked around, “I’ll line up this one!”

For this kind of small thing, couldn’t he just use the power of the magic monster to facilitate it?

Yan Yan was a bit confused, but when he saw Yun Chi’s insistence on not disrupting the crowd, he didn’t disobey, so he obediently responded and went to wait next to him.

The merchant finally got to Yun Chi who grabbed a handful of grains from the rice bag and sniffed them carefully. The fragrance of green grass and the smell of earth mixed with snow came to him.

Although the size of the grains wasn’t as big as the full aged rice in the temple of Sa’gya, it was good because of the new aroma.

According to the Astolfo city-state’s unit of measurement, a bag of grain weighed about six hundred grams, and it was forbidden to hoard more than the number of heads in each household. Luckily, Yun Chi, a gentile, could follow the standard goods of the rice merchants and didn’t have to follow the rules of Astolfo.

He hauled back 130 bags of wheat grains from the grain market according to the standard of buying as much as he could, as well as mixed grains and beans of different colors. He collected as much wheat flour and dried fruits as he could, and used silver grains at all the checkouts. He was regarded by the grain market as a great fortune from heaven, and finally sent away with a thousand thanks.

“Good, the main food is almost all bought. Next…Condiments and spices!”

Even in that prosperous trade city-state, the selection of spices was still very poor in variety. In addition to a class of dried brown leaves that approximated anise, all that remained was a hard fruit that looked like cumin and tasted slightly numb and bitter.

“The spices here, too, come from city-states farther inland,” the boss explained. “As our mountain towns are not equipped to raise such good seeds.”

Yun Chi felt sorry for the rich variety of spices in the temple of Sa’gya, which were only inedible.

Never mind. It was better to have them than not to have them, so let’s buy them.

He bought a lot of rough and cloudy salt in the spice market, as well as a little finely ground, fine salt called snow salt by the locals. There was also a kind of crystals extracted from sour fruit, which could replace the role of vinegar. As for soy sauce and oyster sauce, don’t think about it. The current technology still hadn’t advanced to that point, and even if there was, Yun Chi couldn’t buy it in the existing market.

At the end of the spice market, Yun Chi was unanimously and briefly adored by merchants of all sizes because of his generous nature. As he was leaving, the salt dealer pulled him stealthily into a corner and pulled out a jar of crystalline yellow nectar with a light-colored deposit at the bottom, offering Yun Chi the luxury item of luxury items.

Yun Chi exchanged a gold grain for the precious jar and left happily.

In the next market, the blacksmith’s store sold fancy kitchen knives and ovens; the pottery merchant’s grocery store had flat-bottomed pots and pans and rustic tableware; in the weaver’s store, after buying towels, Yun Chi took a glance at a wide woven rug. It was a pale seawater blue canvas with sails curling up, right near a lonely island.

Of course, those goods, like the previous ones, were all swallowed up in Yan Yan’s bottomless stomach.

At the livestock market, Yun Chi bought milk and cheese made from milk, as well as rich animal fats; at the fruit and vegetable market, Yun Chi gave up on the small, sour and expensive fruits and threw down a lot of money at the wild vegetable stalls.

Instead of freshness, Yun Chi found a dried fig-like dried fruit that was so sweet that Yun Chi ate only one and had to pour down a lot of water to wash away the sweet flesh hanging in his mouth.

“…I’m all in!” He wiped the corner of his mouth and waved his hand boldly, “I’ll take as much as you can sell.”

Until late afternoon when the sun was slanting in the west, Yun Chi finally got all the options on the list.

Yan Yan looked at his spirited, not at all tired back, and silently pondered.

The ability to shop, ah…

He approached Yun Chi and asked, “Where do you want to go next?”

“Next…” Yun Chi stroked his chin. “Go back, since we’ve finished shopping.”

“Are you going home now?” Yan Yan was a bit surprised. With the prosperity of Astolfo city-state, even the sun couldn’t help but favor it a little more, to give a degree more light. Yun Chi was only 17 years old and at the age of loving adventure. How could he come for only two days, and then want to return to the lonely island of the ice sea?

Could it be…For the Lord of the Ice Sea?

Yun Chi scratched his cheek with embarrassment, “I’m not sure about leaving Sa’gya alone on the island…”

Uneasy? What do you worry about? You don’t worry that he will kill in the sea?

“He is so afraid of loneliness. I don’t know how sad he was after I left.” Yun Chi shook his head. “Forget it, go back.”

When he thought of leaving the island, he made a secret decision not to be a person who relies too much on Sa’gya, but not long after he came out, he quickly overturned this idea because he missed Sa’gya…

Alas, have I also become a homebody?

As the West Wind ran around happily, Yan Yan looked at Yun Chi with a complicated expression and nodded, “Since this is your order, I will obey it.”

Yan Yan’s cart had just delivered Yun Chi to the edge of the island bordering the land, and the teenager had jumped down, when he saw a huge figure looming in the fog, waiting in the same place as the moment he sent him away.

“Sa’gya!” Yun Chi bounced high in place, and waved excitedly at the big sea otter. “I’m here! I’m back!”

The sea otter ambled down and stared at Yun Chi, who was whirling restlessly in place. His chest rumbled and vibrated, and he couldn’t stop shaking as he waited for Yun Chi to come running toward him.

“Hey!” The West Wind sent a gust behind him, and Yun Chi jumped straight into Sa’gya’s arms as he wrapped his arms around the sea otter’s plush neck. “How have you been these past two days? Did you eat well and sleep on time?”

Sa’gya hugged the teenager almost blankly, as he held him firmly over his heart.

“Ate…I ate, and I slept on time…”

He stammered out an unskilled lie, or rather, his brain could no longer control his tongue as Sa’gya’s entire attention was gathered on Yun Chi.

The pup had returned?

So quickly and so easily, without even the extra wait…He just came back?

…Was this a fact or a vision that existed only in his sleep?