The Heretic Chef: Exaworld Online

The Eyrlburn Curse

"This village looks better than ever." Nier smiled with satisfaction at the state of Eyrlburn village.

Not a week he left the Village, and now the Village has improved greatly. The gate that was once destroyed, has now been replaced with a sturdy wooden gate.

While walking into the village, Nier also noticed that the houses were well built and the environment also looked cleaner.

"In this way, I hope they don't suffer anymore..."

Right, now they can all live properly. But without Nier realizing it, he began to consider the village of Eyrlburn as his own responsibility.

After a long walk, Nier finally saw the villagers gathered in front of Gord's courtyard.

'What are they doing?'

Out of curiosity Nier immediately walked up to them, and after getting close enough suddenly someone shouted while pointing at Nier.

"Master! The master has arrived!"

Everyone's eyes immediately fell on Nier.

Nier simply smiled and continued walking towards Gord who was already standing and lowered his head towards him.

"Master, you're kem–"

Just before Gord finished his words, a brown-haired young girl jumped into Nier's arms.

"Sister! You're back!"

"Geely!" Unknowingly Nier's hand also hugged the girl.

"Sister's gone too long, Elyu misses you so much..." Elyu did not care about everyone's gaze and continued to hug Nier happily.

"What a long time, it hasn't even been a week." Nier lets Elyu hug her, and his gaze turns on Gord.

"Gord, what's going on? If there's a problem just tell me."

"There's no serious problem, we're all discussing the construction of the village."

"Ohh, it turns out that way," Nier stroked his chin, "...Well then let's discuss it with a little food!"

Nier immediately took out all the ingredients of his cooking and started cooking with a very large amount.

"Horeee!"

"Life Master!"

"Master is the best!"

The residents cheered and continued to praise him.

Nier already knew that they were all starving, which is why he bought a lot of cooking before he left.

"Master is too kind, we will never be able to repay him if Master is this good." Gord said it sincerely.

After putting all the ingredients in the pot, Nier sat down with the villagers.

"So what was the outcome of your discussion?" Without further ado Nier immediately asked at the core of the matter.

"We're planning on building an office and public toilets."

"office? And a public toilet?" Nier frowned. According to what he thought, the main problem of Eyrlburn village was not the office and the toilet but rather the security issue.

Why have an office and a toilet if the bandits could easily plunder them again.

"You must build fences and training grounds." Nier's voice was not loud, but everyone could hear him clearly.

"But what is it, sir? Aren't the bandits gone?" Gord asked with a confused face.

Instantly Nier's expression turned grim.

'Naif, they were all too naive, had they been slaves for too long to finally have this kind of personality.'

"Look, what would you do if there were some surviving bandits back in the village?"

"...!"

"Master's not right, is he?"

All of them were shocked and speechless, they all recalled back with the bitter happenings of the past.

"What would you do if that bandit kidnapped your family and took all your property?"

Nier keeps reminding of the dark story they want to bury and forget. It did sound a bit cruel, but Nier didn't want them all to be this naive.

"Now do you understand?"

"......"

The villagers were silent and no one dared to raise their faces.

"We-We understand!"

The cowardice is deeply ingrained in them. And Nier knew clearly that cowardice cannot be changed with just a little persuasion and advice.

'They need a little stimulation.'

"Good, great, now take this and collect all the materials to make the fence!" Nier threw 100 [Iron Sword] as if it was trash.

"Now Sir?" Gord asked nervously and his eyes did not dare to stare directly at Nier.

"Now!"

"Ba-Good!"

The residents immediately took a sword and ran towards the forest.

"They all have to get used to this cruel world."

Instantly Nier's forehead wrinkled as she remembered her being unable to fight Arie even though they were both human.

"Right, I must also grow stronger!"

Nier let out a long sigh then his eyes turned to the pot filled with food.

"Damn, I forgot to feed them."

Since the villagers had left and no one would eat the dishes, Nier put all his dishes and equipment into the Inventory.

"In hindsight, what did they eat before I came here? Let alone hunting monsters, catching rabbits I'm not sure they can do it..."

"We eat fruit that grows in the forest." The unexpected answer came from behind Nier.

"Elyu? You're not leaving?"

"Ehhhh? Why do I have to go? Did you throw me out?" Without guilt Elyu clings to Nier's hand.

Nier immediately shook his head.

"But Elyu, isn't it very dangerous in the forest? A lot of monsters are running around and you're taking them with your bare hands?"

Even Nier himself was unsure of being able to live in this forest with only his bare hands, let alone those without experience and fighting abilities.

Elyu was silent for a moment and his face looked sad.

"Sister... Do you know why we live here even though we could run to the capital?"

"Hm... Is it because of the bandits?"

"Not... It's a curse."

"......"

"The curse makes us unable to leave the forest, and if we keep forcing to leave the forest... Three days later we'll be dead..."

"Ely..."

"But fortunately the curse keeps us from being shunned by monsters, even the biggest monsters will run away when they see us." Elyu smiled as he said all that.

"Who dares to curse you? And how do I get rid of the curse?" Nier did not remain silent, as much as he could have to help this village.

"Free sister, this curse will not be able to be removed." Elyu smiled as he shook his head.

"Because the one who cursed us is our own ancestor..."

"......"

"And they delivered a will to keep Eyrlburn's inheritance until one day a man with a golden crystal came and took it."

"That's too cruel! They forced his own son to guard the inheritance and cursed it with a deadly curse, is it still called family!?"

"Right, and our job is to protect that inheritance to the death." Elyu once again smiled as he hugged Nier's hand.

"Dam... They're all crazy..."

Nier was silent as he stroked his temple, he kept thinking of a way to solve the problem of Elyu's curse, but after a long time there was not a single piece of information he remembered relating to the curse.

"Do you want to see Eyrlburn's legacy?" Elyu took off his embrace and stood up.

"What's? Aren't you guarding the treasure with your own lives?" Nier doesn't believe what Elyu has to offer.

But Elyu instead laughed and pulled Nier's hand, "Foolish with inheritance, for me big brother is more important!"

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