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Chapter 169

Causing rain to fall was a rather easy job for athered water particles in the atmosphere and created cu day

"Oh, here he co rain drops, I entered the roadside tavern while raindrops slid off the large straw hat I earing at the ti for me with stunned faces

"Fella, you have the divine touch!"

The first guy to talk to ed his way through and occupied a seat right next to mine

"Haha Barmaid, a bowl of rice and soup, please" (Sae-Jin)

First things first, I ordered food Meanwhile, the guy askedof curiosity

"How did you know?"

"I siod, that’s all" (Sae-Jin)

Both eyes of the od?"

"Well, so!"

While we laughed and conversed in not very irub was placed on the table

And well, I could see that the amount had doubled compared to yesterday

"Ohh, looks delicious" (Sae-Jin)

"You know, the next district to ours is also suffering through a drought, so, is it possible to find out when it’ll rain over there?"

Hearing thethe rice in my mouth

"Most likely, about two days later" (Sae-Jin)

"Two days later… Ah, dang it We haven’t even introduced ourselves, yet, have we? I aredients~"

It was then, a refreshingly open and honest voice tickled uy followedjust fine, huh She’s the e, you see She’s a bit on the young side, but well, her age’s just about right to get married, don’t you think so?" (Yi Si-Eup)

"…"

To call her the , but she only seee to me Couldn’t be sure whether such a vieas because of the era I was in or not, though

I shtly and shookfor tu done yet?" (TL: Sangtu is a hairstyle reserved only for "adult" males in the Joseon-era Korea)

"…Keuo back horettable Huiveman over here"

However, Yi Si-Eup received only half a bowl and as a side dish, and received an earful of complaints The barmaid, the tavern owner as it turned out, told hiazed at the two, then felt a pair of eyes on irl in the county’ staring at me quite openly

"Heup!!"

When our eyes aze, soht aze oncenow"

In the end, she left the tavern as if running away

"Heuhmmm"

Hmm Without a doubt, the ‘value&rsquo

; of reat, no matter what era it was

I swept my hair back, full of unnecessary pride

But, well – it seee were farthe rain, rather than how I looked like

A short tiers rushed in to the tavern

As if the ru villages showed up hurriedly and asked about the rain

"…You et some rain at your side around four days froe?"

"You don’t have to worry, as it’ll rain there very soon" (Sae-Jin)

After that day, I soods

But I found it quite fun, being a within the village, even a few housewives developed a sort of ‘interest’ in irl’ in the village was included in that group, but well, ether with Yu Sae-Jung for so long… I ca an aimless wanderer, and politely declined all of their advances

A ent by, and the tio to ‘sleep’ arrived onceoff now?"

"Yes I shall return in three rettable You were indeed the only person I could talk to properly around here Folks around these parts are too sihtforward, you see"

"Haha I actually preferred that, Yi Si-Eup ong" (TL: "Ong" is an archaic form of honorific, used to address an older male)

I lowered et to stop by"

With the dignified farewell frorew rather fond of during this short stay

Beneath the deep sea that seeht, I opened one by

I checked the alert s first Too bad, the Leviathan Forroan autoroan morphed into a violent underwater storm and rushed towards the surface Startled silly by this mistake, I quickly reined in the ard floater and reverted back to the huot to the shore, I yawned out loudly and stretched e

It’d been only three e, the one as said to like me very much, had settled doith another dude already The husband was a far honest and hard-working She was soratulated with a generous smile

Yi Si-Eup welcomed h – but did inquire if I’d be willing to help out during the Autureed to do it Well, I was confident of working harder and smarter than a cow, at any rate

However, I realised how difficult it was Harvesting required skill, far th, as it turned out

But, maybe due to the Goblin’s Craftsmanship Skill, I was able to rapidly adopt to the job By the end of the fourth day, I had beco so as far as to take on the entire village’s workload by myself

The week’s worth of time flew by like an arrow as I helped out with the harvest, and I had to go and sleep once more

I bid everyone a much harder farewell compared to the last time and returned to the ocean

Afterwards, every three e

The villagers alelcos always happened there

This was a si

However… the villagers and I weren’t living on the saan to occur

Three years later, the very first person to engage me in small talk, Yi Si-Eup, contracted tuberculosis and passed away

Two years after that, his wife also passed on

A year after that, the barmaid of the tavern I frequented came doith an illness Naturally, the tavern had to close

It was over six years to them It was just over threeby, it becae anye one bit Sood, while a few idiots who thought I was soed

And so, I had to leave the village for good

Afterwards, I never re, and wandered around without a destination

Flowers bloomed and wilted countless times; round white es as my duty, a job that I had to do and lived on, while disinterestedly watching the world flow by

Coincidentally, I ran into ‘Dasan’ Jeong Yak-Yong (TL note at the end)

Just as he was known in the history book, I got to see his saint-like actions first hand

And then, the period of In-Law Governance of the Joseon era, that would eventually cause the downfall of the kingdoetand callous than before; and the nu travelers increased as well

When Gojong beca seized all political power

He controlled all the royal relatives, pursued isolation policy, and enjoyed his rise to prominence for a while

But his wild a

An unidentified battleship entered the territorial waters of Ganghwa island

It was the Ganghwa island incident of 1875

Completely hun the Treaty of Ganghwa on February 27, 1876

On Gapsin-nyun, a coup happened But the gallant youths couldn’t even endure until the first signs of snow hak Peasant Revolution failed, and I witnessed the announcement of the Protectorate Treaty between Japan and Joseon

And on first of March that year, I watched as the sadness and anger of the citizens who had lost their country spread out like the undulating ripples on the water’s surface