I Became a Mythical-Tier Tamer Due To A System Error Chapter 83
While moving to the livestock shed, I recalled what had just happened.
The silver-haired woman had been staring at me.
Her hand was even gripping the sword at her waist.
‘That was dangerous.’
I let out a small sigh of relief.
She was a second-year senior, Karlus von Linne.
One of the main characters of the main story.
‘Depending on how you choose the route, she was an important character whose story changed along with it.’
She could become a reliable ally, or the scariest enemy more terrifying than any boss.
Therefore, she could be the most dangerous and also the most important figure.
‘Of all places, to meet her at the orphanage. This is the first time I’ve seen her in person, isn’t it?’
It was quite unexpected.
Linne had a rather busy position, and since I had never run into her at school until now.
‘Since I got out quickly, it won’t affect the main story.’
After all, she wouldn’t know who I was hiding behind the mask.
‘Anyway, setting that aside…….’
Before reaching the livestock shed, I stopped running and summoned Hwayo into my palm.
Popong.
A weak ringing sound.
Hwayo’s condition had been strange for a while.
When I looked closely at Hwayo, a hologram appeared.
Soul Flame ‘Hwayo’
Level: 19
Mood: ???, Stress 31%
Perhaps due to a bug, part of the ‘Mood’ text was obscured.
“Hwayo, are you sick somewhere?”
Popong.
An irritable look as if to say not to bother anymore.
His stress level had already surpassed 30%.
‘……Did feeding him crab meat earlier give him a stomachache?’
The crab meat shouldn’t have been the problem.
‘I ate it too, and it was only tasty, not spoiled.’
Neither Shurk nor Boogie showed any problems.
Only Hwayo was groaning in pain.
‘Well…… I can’t even get medicine to give him.’
Even after searching the General Store, I couldn’t find anything like medicine for spirit beasts.
And Hwayo himself was glaring as if telling me not to interfere further, so I couldn’t force it.
“If it gets unbearable later, tell me.”
I sent Hwayo back into the system.
Looking at the screen, he had curled his tail and fallen asleep in the nest.
‘He’ll probably feel better after some rest. I’ll check on his condition again later.’
Thinking that, I returned to the livestock shed.
When I removed the mask, it faded into the air and Shurk’s ability was released.
‘……Still here.’
Lapin was quietly playing harmoniously with the animals.
“Villed.”
Noticing my gaze, Lapin looked at me.
It was a kind of greeting.
I met his eyes and nodded.
Just as I was about to enter the storage room, I turned back to Lapin.
“Hey, weren’t you in the same dorm as Karin?”
Lapin nodded gently.
“We’re going to eat something delicious this evening, so bring her along too.”
Karin had come by several times to cook me meat soup, saying she wanted to cheer me up.
‘You could call this repaying the favor.’
Though honestly, it was more like sharing leftover crab meat than repayment.
“Okay, I will.”
Lapin replied, then immediately had a question mark pop up above his head.
He approached me and closed his eyes.
“Sniff sniff.”
As if concentrating on his sense of smell.
After sniffing, Lapin tilted his head and asked me.
“Where did you go?”
“…….”
Right, his sense of smell was really sharp.
Since I didn’t intend to hide it, I decided to answer honestly.
“I went to the sea.”
“The sea?”
His eyes sparkled brightly, full of curiosity.
“Why, do you want to go too?”
“Yes.”
His face was expressionless, but his eyes were earnest.
Lapin must never have seen the sea before.
It wasn’t like it would cost me anything to take him along.
“Follow me.”
I spoke as I stepped into the storage room.
To Lapin, who had followed me inside, I pointed at the drum.
“This is the passage to the sea.”
“?”
Lapin blinked repeatedly, not understanding, then furrowed his brows.
“If I go inside this barrel…… the sea comes out?”
Lapin asked back as if I had said something ridiculous.
“Yeah.”
When I answered as though it were obvious, Lapin came closer and raised his arm.
I wondered what he was doing, and then he placed his hand on my forehead.
“……No fever. Villed, are you okay?”
Lapin asked seriously.
No matter what I said, he probably wouldn’t understand.
I decided to demonstrate, so I placed my foot inside the drum.
“I’ll go in first, so follow me.”
I stepped into the drum.
In the blink of an eye, I moved through a wide passage and crawled out the other side.
I stood up and spoke toward the passage.
“……You there?”
“Yeah.”
Beep!
So he did follow me. Did the sea otter come too?
A small sound came from the passage, and soon Lapin’s face peeked out.
“……”
Lapin crawled out of the passage and slowly stood up.
He was speechless for a while as he looked at the vast blue scenery.
Seeing the sea for the first time after only reading about it in books must have been moving.
Lapin stood on tiptoe and gazed at the horizon.
“I can’t see the end.”
“It’s the sea, of course you can’t see the end.”
Beep.
The sea otter also looked at the ocean with wonder, then slipped out of Lapin’s arms and waddled toward the shore.
Splash.
The waves rolled onto the sandy beach.
After the waves swept past, white foam was left behind.
Then the waves returned and washed away the foam cleanly.
Perhaps because the sight was so fascinating.
Both the sea otter and Lapin were playing in the waves that lapped at the shore.
‘……I’ll let them play for now.’
Leaving Lapin to play happily, I used Shurk’s ability and dove into the sea.
It was then.
Sudden Quest cleared!
‘Finally shows up.’
I thought the quest had disappeared, but apparently, this solved it.
But……
“……Where’s the reward?”
No matter where I looked, there was nothing that could be called a reward.
‘Was that crab meat supposed to be the reward? No, that was loot, so it’s separate.’
Of course, I hadn’t caught it expecting a reward.
But since it was promised, it was only natural to accept it.
‘……Don’t tell me the reward is something like peace for the sea, right?’
I let out a hollow laugh at the absurd thought.
Just as I surfaced to breathe again.
Bubble bubble.
Not far away.
Fish leaping high and streams of bubbles could be seen.
It looked like they were desperately searching for me.
‘……So there were still monsters left.’
I took a deep breath and dove back into the sea.
Bubble, bubble.
Large bubbles rose from the ocean floor.
They looked like a dense tree growing beneath the sea.
Jellyfish swam around me as if dancing.
As I looked down toward the bubbles, countless schools of fish appeared, swimming past.
‘So it wasn’t monsters—it was them looking for me.’
At the center of the swarm, the largest and most dazzling fish swam up to me.
Perhaps as a sign of gratitude.
It spat something from its mouth and placed it in my palm.
The reward given by the quest was this.
‘……But what is this?’
I thought it might be a jewel, but it wasn’t.
‘It’s soft and squishy, and really small.’
It was a round jelly with a black core inside.
With a doubtful gaze, I looked at the large fish that had given it to me.
‘……It can’t be something it ate and spat out, right?’
As I looked at the fish, which seemed to answer with eyes saying not to misunderstand, I thought carefully.
‘……An egg?’
It looked exactly like tadpole eggs I had seen in textbooks.
‘So this is a spirit beast’s egg.’
But can tadpoles even live in the sea?
They were freshwater creatures, so how was that possible……
It was strange, but I decided to accept it naturally.
‘Well, if it’s a spirit beast tadpole…… I guess it could live in the sea.’
From the beginning, the ✿Animal✿Farm✿ in Yggdrasil’s world was an abnormal system anyway.
There was no need to apply common sense.
‘But…… can it even hatch if I just leave it in the sea?’
Where to put the egg was an easy decision.
‘I had that.’
I opened the Animal Farm system and took out the incubator.
Its overall color was pink.
With a transparent lid, the inside could be seen clearly.
It looked like a toy steamer for infants.
Goddess’s Incubator
When you place a special egg inside, a new Animal friend is born with the Goddess’s blessing!
Hatch a new Animal friend and bring it to your farm!
Please place the Animal friend’s egg inside!
‘It looks like a steamer…… but since it’s called an incubator in the description, it should be fine.’
I placed the egg inside the incubator.
Through the transparent lid, I could see that the egg had settled properly.
????’s Egg is growing!
Even if placed in the farm, growth will continue!
A gentle light shone around as the message appeared.
‘So it works even if I put it into the system.’
I returned the incubator into the Animal Farm.
Afterward, I opened the system again to check.
Egg Growing!
A new banner appeared at the corner of the farm.
When I clicked it, I could see the incubator locked in place in a sea-background location.
????’s Egg
Incubator Location: Sea
Required Time: ????
The time it would take was hidden.
‘……I wonder what kind of creature will come out.’
I returned to the surface.
By then, a golden sunset was rising.
Evening, as the sunset darkened.
I lit a bonfire on the beach.
I took raw crab meat out of the icebox and placed it on the grill.
Sizzle!
A pleasant sound and aroma spread.
When the crab meat was grilled just right, I poured sauce over it and divided it onto three plates.
“It’s done.”
When I said that, Karin, Lapin, and the sea otter each happily took a plate.
Beeeeep……!
The sea otter wept tears of joy as it brought the crab meat to its mouth.
“It’s so tender!”
Karin had been exclaiming nonstop.
“Aren’t you getting sick of eating only crab meat?”
“But I just can’t get tired of it, no matter how much I eat! Right, Lapin?”
“Yeah.”
Watching them eat the crab meat so happily, I placed more from the icebox onto the grill.
“Villed, aren’t you going to eat? You’ve just been grilling since earlier. Let me do it now.”
“I’m…… fine.”
Just looking at crab meat was making me queasy.
It felt like I had filled myself with crab all day.
I was full, and honestly sick of it.
“I wonder who the kind person was who left this behind? To have caught such a big crab…… must have been a professor?”
“Probably.”
I had told Karin and Lapin that when we arrived at the sea, crab meat had been waiting there.
Karin had found it utterly random and strange.
But well, what could I say.
That was my story.
‘……There really is a lot.’
I looked at the large container beside me.
I had grilled a huge amount of crab meat and packed it full, intending for Karin to take it home when she returned to her hometown.
‘Even like this, I still couldn’t finish it all.’
Inside the cold cave, more than half of the crab meat still remained.
Since the cave was chilly, it could be stored for a few days.
In that time, I could eat it too, and feed it to the spirit beasts as well.
‘Come to think of it, what about Hwayo?’
Focused on grilling crab, I hadn’t checked Hwayo’s condition.
When I opened the farm system, I saw Shurk running around frantically and Boogie watching with concern.
‘……What’s this?’
His condition had gotten worse.
Hwayo was drenched in cold sweat.
Could spirit beasts even catch illnesses?
I put down the tongs.
“I’ll be back for a bit.”
“Hurry back!”
Leaving Karin waving her hand behind me, I dashed away.
A quiet place with no one around.
Beneath a tree, on soft soil, I carefully summoned Hwayo and set him down.
“Hey, I told you to tell me right away if you were sick.”
Popong.
Breathing heavily, Hwayo closed his eyes.
As he curled up in pain, a faint light began to radiate from him.
What!?
Seeing the hologram message appear before my eyes, I held my breath.
The condition of Soul Flame ‘Hwayo’ is……!