Chapter 269

“Quest complete?”
Back in Middle Earth through the door, Myung-Hoo turned to Min-Hyung, who was waiting for him.
“Yes. Here.”
Minhyung answers the question and gives Ming Hu the Demon Instinct.
“Are we done?”
He then turned to Ming Hu.
“Uh, I should probably get back to work.”
Myung-hoo nodded in response to Min-hyung’s question.
“Well, I’m going to go make a deal first! I’m being inundated with offers to buy now. I’m sure they’ll sell out soon. I’ll be back to settle up.”
“Okay. I’ll see you at checkout.”
After giving Ming Hu the Demon Instinct, Minhyung first used Warp Scroll to disappear from the room.
“Dad, are we done?”
When Minhyung left, Rafid asked this time. Myung-hoo nodded once more, and at Myung-hoo’s nod, Rafid smiled and continued.
“So you’re going home now?”
“Of course.”
Ming Hu answered Rafid’s second question and used the Ring of Memory to create a portal.
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“To the portal…”
Ming Hu, the creator of the portal, glanced at the girl at the sound of her voice in his ear. The girl was staring at the portal, no longer surprised.
“You go in first, I’ll follow.”
Ming Hu smirked at the sight of the girl and let Rapid and the girl through the portal first, followed by Ming Hu himself.
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As I stepped through the portal, I saw the now-familiar sights of Asren, rather than the basement of the Black Moon Tower.
“Dad, there’s the butler!”
At Lapide’s shout, Ming Hu looked to where Lapide was pointing. The butler was running from the entrance of the mansion.
“Welcome.”
Soon, the butler arrived before Ming Hu and bowed his head in greeting.
“Oh, yeah. Everything okay?”
Ming Hu returned the greeting, but it was a formality, and he started walking toward the mansion before he heard the answer.
“I’ll report it.”
But the next words of the butler stopped Ming Hu in his tracks. To report? To report meant that something had happened.
“Not a nuisance, right?
Ming Hu stopped walking and looked at the butler. Thinking that the butler was about to report something trivial, Ming Hu couldn’t help but frown slightly at the butler’s serious expression.
“In between?
He hadn’t been away for long, if you could call it long, but usually short, and he couldn’t believe that something had happened in the interim to warrant such a serious report.
“First… The Emperor has sent a letter. It seems to be quite urgent, as the Count told me to deliver it as soon as he returns.”
“What? A letter?”
“A letter from the emperor?” Ming Hu couldn’t help but ask, as the butler pulled a letter from his bosom and continued, “A letter from the emperor?
“Here it is.”
Ming Hu immediately took the letter and opened it.
[To Count Minghu.
Come to my office].
“…”
When Ming Hu read the letter, he was speechless. The letter was very brief indeed, and Ming looked over it, wondering if there might be something hidden in it. But there was nothing.
Ming Hu opened his inventory and placed the letter in it. Then he opened the quest window to check the quest, thinking.
<Demons and Demon Beasts of the Seven Realms Beyond the Gate
7 The gate from the Demon Realm to Middle-earth has been reopened. The gate is open, but the demon king Rakuza has no intention of descending. The problem is the demons and fiends of the Seven Realms. They have rebelled against the New Demon King Rakuza and are attempting to cross into Middle-earth through the open gate. Stop them and preserve the peace of Middle Earth!
[Maltario: 1/1].
[Makusa Den Kurza: 1 of 1].
Difficulty Level: S
Quest Reward: Mark of Elgav
"I'll finish this and go.
He would have to travel to the capital city of Nexus, home to the Temple of Elgav, to complete the quest anyway. After completing the quest and entering the imperial palace to meet with Alkan, Ming Hu closed the quest window and looked at the butler.
"And the second?"
When giving his report, the General Deacon said it was the first. That meant that there was not just one thing to report.
"Second report… We have a visitor."
"Guests?"
Ming Hu shook his head.
"Is anyone coming?
No one came.
"Yeah, that's…"
"…?"
Ming Hu was puzzled by the stammering of the chancellor. The butler was not looking at Ming Hu. He was looking behind him. Ming Hu turned his head to see who the butler was looking at.
"…him?
It was the girl that the butler was looking at.
"You can't be…
Ming Hu looked at the chancellor with a puzzled expression as the chancellor looked at the girl. Then the chancellor spoke.
"She said she was the girl's mom."
"…!"
Ming Hu was a little surprised by what the butler said next. He had expected it when he looked at her, but it felt different now that his prediction was confirmed.
"Where is it?"
Ming Hu asked.
"You're in the parlor."
"I see."
Sigh
At the butler's mention of the parlor, Ming Hu turned his head to look at the girl.
"…"
The girl who had heard the conversation between Ming Hu and the General Deacon looked a little surprised.
"Your mom is here, do you want to come with me?"
"…Huh? Huh."
The girl nodded in response to Ming Hu's question. Hearing the girl's answer, Ming Hu turned his head and looked back at the butler.
"Let's go."
Speaking to the butler, Ming Hu began to walk toward the parlor, followed by Rafid, the girl, and the butler.
"There's a dragon in here, right?
Arriving in front of the parlor some time later, Ming Hu looked at the parlor door and thought to himself. If he opened it, he would find the girl's mother, the Dragon, inside.
Profit
Ming Hu immediately opened the door and stepped inside, where he saw a woman sitting in the center of the parlor.
"Is that him?"
The woman was alone in the parlor, but just to be sure, she asked the butler, who followed her inside.
"Yes."
The Deacon replied.
Bam!
At the same time, the woman who had been sitting stood up from her seat and exclaimed, "I'm sorry!
"Lulu!"
"Mom!"
Hoo-dah!
The girl standing behind Ming Hu quickly ran to the woman.
"It was Lulu.
When Ming Hu realized that the girl's name was Lulu from the woman's cries, he turned away from Lulu and looked at the woman. The woman wasn't paying attention to Ming Hu. Her attention was focused solely on her daughter, Lulu. Ming Hu watched the mother-daughter conversation in silence.
"Mom told me not to go far."
"Oops. Wrong."
"And why did you leave the Guardians behind?"
"That's… I was wrong."
"Next time you don't listen to Mommy, I'm going to scold you loudly, do you hear me?"
"Yes!"
The mother-daughter conversation came to an end. Ming Hu looked at the woman, and the woman looked away from Lulu and back at Ming Hu.
"It's you, the guy who took my daughter."
The woman smiled and said.
"Uh, Mom!"
Then Lulu tugged at the woman's collar and cried out.
"…?"
The woman, who had approached Ming Hu with a smile, looked at Lulu with a puzzled expression, puzzled by Lulu's shout and behavior. Then Lulu looked at Ming Hu and began to say something in a quiet voice.
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"…what are you talking about?
He wasn't whispering, but his voice was so low that I couldn't tell if he was speaking in Moorish, just that he was saying something.
"What did you say, and the look on your face…
It was impossible to tell what Lulu was telling the woman, but the woman's expression, which gradually darkened and hardened, suggested that it was something serious. After a while, Lulu fell silent, as if the story was over.
"Are you sure…?"
The woman looked at Lu Lu with an incredulous expression and asked. Unlike Lu Lu, the woman's voice was not low, so Ming Hu could hear her, and from what she said, Ming Hu realized that Lu Lu was talking about him.
"Yeah."
Lulu nodded. Then the woman turned her head and looked at Ming Hu. The woman's expression and eyes were a mixture of bewilderment, surprise, and disbelief as she looked at Ming Hu.
For a moment, the woman looked at Ming Hu with mixed emotions, but then she calmed down and walked over to him with normal eyes and expression.
"I didn't introduce myself."
A woman arrives in front of Ming Hu and asks him to shake her hand.
"I'm his mom, Eurena, nice to meet you."