The Outer God Needs Warmth Chapter 72

"What should I do?"

I have to cook with the ingredients soone brought .

The problem is, I don’t know how to cook this.

Wait, do I even know how to cook?

I do know how to cook, but most of the mories are from other worlds, so the standard is different. The four n living here have never cooked for themselves, so the biggest problem is not knowing what these ingredients are or what to do with them.

"Can you cook?"

Around dinner ti, an old woman tossed so ingredients at a girl and asked her.

The girl shook her head. Her face and hands were swollen, as if she had so illness. It looked like the palm of a bear. Disease is common in this world.

Even if soone has special powers, it doesn’t an that they are granted to everyone. The world where the faded man lives was like that, and even more developed worlds are the sa.

But more than that…

Are they asking to take care of this child too?

This dilapidated cottage on the verge of collapse, the food just tossed around, and the servant who is almost at her breaking point—this is the petty malice of the Heavenly Demon.

As for , fine. But what do I do with this kid? Should I just steal its warmth?

If I turn it into a monster, it’ll be cold, but at least it won’t suffer. Or, is that not the right thing to do?

I could turn it into a Harvester, but in this situation, turning it into one would only extend its pain.

What should I really do with this child?

While I was pondering, the tiny child started trying to do sothing with the cooking ingredients. Her hands, swollen like a bear’s paw, couldn’t move easily, and her fingers didn’t work well.

I decided to let her do what she wanted.

Tomorrow, the Heavenly Demon might change his mind and try to strike down.

No, kid! Don’t hold the knife like that!

I was losing my mind.

I snatched the knife from her. No, even if she looks up at with those sad eyes, I can’t allow it.

Every mory related to the kitchen has one thing in common: first, slap their cheek hard, and then teach them not to handle knives recklessly.

I understand, but still, doing that to a child like this feels wrong.

It’s only sothing you do to soone who is soone’s child, right? This child will understand if I just talk to her, right? And she’ll have to learn to handle knives soon.

Whether for cooking or stabbing soone.

At least in this world, the back end is easier to live in.

No, should I rather turn her into a Harvester and make her more human?

If I fix her appearance and make her have children, I could create a lot of Harvester descendants.

Hmm.

The faded man’s mories are surprisingly quiet. Usually, they shine like a vivid highlight at monts like this.

Looking through the mories of the four Harvesters, I can see how the ingredients should be used, so I’ll cook it and make do.

But there’s no fire.

There’s no tool to light a fire in the kitchen, nor is there any fuel like firewood.

So I twisted reality a little, put water in it, and searched for a pot to heat it in. I found one that was rusted, threw it outside, and made a new one.

I also brought so dishes.

Clank.

Since I made a bit too much, the kitchen cracked. It’s a weak world.

But it’s shrinking slowly, so by tomorrow, it will heal.

Cooking done.

Honestly, it beca dog food, but I planned to take it to my room and eat it. When I entered the room, it was chilly, so I went back to the kitchen. There was still heat here, so this place was warr.

First, I’ll feed the child and think.

I scooped up so of the food and tasted it. It wasn’t dog food, but it was thick gruel.

I failed with the water ratio. Tomorrow, I’ll do better.

I sat down carelessly in the kitchen and ate with the child.

“What’s your na?”

At my question, the child mumbled sothing. I couldn’t hear it. She seed to have vocal cords, but could it be the muscles are the problem?

From the shape of her mouth, she doesn’t seem incapable of speaking, but she must have lost the ability to speak.

The faint glow coming from her body suggests she has parasites. This.

But just like I did, I can’t steal her warmth. If I did, she would beco a monster and tear herself apart.

Would it be better to take her warmth and let her die? Or should I turn her into a Harvester?

I looked at the child, who had her mouth full of gruel, thinking about it.

Dawn.

It’s extrely chilly here, possibly because there’s water nearby. There’s a decaying blanket in the room, so I just left it there and laid the child on the kitchen floor by the fire.

The fire seems strange. It won’t go out, even though there’s nothing to burn. Is it sothing like nuclear power? It couldn’t be dangerous, could it?

No, if it were radiation, I’d be dead by now.

I might not know, but this child is human.

That said, sothing interesting is happening right now.

Gabja, who returned to his duties as a law enforcer, is currently on watch. Of course, it’s not like he’s standing guard outside. He’s sitting in a much better place than the house I live in.

In reality, the people actually standing guard are of a lower rank than Gabja.

Anyway, in front of Gabja, soone extraordinary appeared.

She’s the daughter of the forr leader of the church.

She’s a very famous person, known to all four Harvesters. She must have left the Heavenly Demon Church for a while but seems to have returned. She sohow persuaded Gabja to let her in quietly.

The Harvesters all know that the current Heavenly Demon treated her well, but it seems their relationship is unexpectedly bad?

She told Gabja that she didn’t want the Heavenly Demon to know she had returned.

Gabja nodded and agreed.

Gabja knows the rumor that the forr Heavenly Demon’s disappearance was caused by the current one. And, including Gabja, the three of them all think well of the forr Heavenly Demon.

No, strictly speaking, there are four of them.

Yes.

Jeonyang also thinks well of the forr Heavenly Demon.

I don’t think he was truly a good person, though.

Why?

Because the one who created a system to put bugs into people’s bodies can’t be a good person. This isn’t a system created by the current Heavenly Demon.

It’s rather the system that existed from the previous generation or even earlier.

Anyway, Gabja allowed the forr leader’s daughter to enter.

Gabja could have set so conditions, but he just let her pass and sat at his post, chuckling to himself.

It seems he has a plan. Once she becos a Harvester, I won’t be able to know what she’s thinking unless she directly speaks or uses sothing, which is a sha.

Of course, I could read her thoughts, but I’d have to decipher the countless nerve clusters in her brain.

No, what should I do?

I can’t.

So I just watch Gabja chuckling.

Eunchun and Byeongil are sleeping, and Jeonyang is deep into his training with the Heavenly Demon Technique, practicing in the place I saw yesterday.

It’s quite funny watching the Heavenly Demon waiting outside the training room. Unlike when he threatened , he’s sitting in a posture that’s almost feminine.

Is gender confusion a tragedy? I’m not sure.

Honestly, I don’t care about the Heavenly Demon.

What interests more is the group of sorcerers who summoned .

The summoning thod unrelated to Yasle’s.

If I could gain mories from this side, it would be great...

To do that, I might need to increase the number of Harvesters to reach the sorcerers.

The Heavenly Demon Church reveres power.

In other words, they’d do anything to obtain power.

If they knew that Harvesters give powerful strength, there would be many volunteers. Considering the environnt of the Heavenly Demon Church, it’s likely that there are sorcerers among them.

That’s why I’ve let them know I’m here.

The two n who brought the food will spread the word about .

Because they are the kind of people who don’t need to keep quiet. They’re the ones who can talk easily to anyone.

If soone important had brought it, the Heavenly Demon would likely treat as an important person, but luckily, I’m mostly being neglected.

I’ve also gotten a petty revenge in the process.

Heh.

That’s fine. I was anxious because they were wary of , but this way, I can act pretty freely.

Oh, thinking about revenge, who was it that had the eye of the first snow? I broke it because I could.

Before I remade the body, it was almost like a living corpse. It had grown that way from the start. It was completely cut off from the senses, and under drugs, consciousness was trapped in a hallucinatory state, with the body’s functions at a bare minimum.

Most likely, it would have died before adulthood.

It was ant to be used before reaching adulthood.

Human sacrifice?

But after looking through the mories of the four Harvesters, there’s no culture of human sacrifice in the Heavenly Demon Church. The identity of the first snow is still unclear.

mories only begin to take shape around the age of three, and from then on, the first snow had already been raised. But I don’t see anyone like the first snow around.

If it had a purpose, they would have made several of them, but there’s no one in the sa situation when I go through the first snow’s mories.

Moreover, judging by when it was raised, it was before Jeongha ascended to the Heavenly Demon’s position.

The Heavenly Demon Church itself is similar to the demonic sect in the faded man’s mories, but hidden within is sothing far darker.

The sorcerer group that is almost separated from the Heavenly Demon Church.

Sothing that had the eye of the first snow.

And a huge structure built on karst terrain.

The relationship between the forr leader and the current leader.

There are many secrets.

It ans I have to work hard to create an automatic harvesting system so that I don’t fall into the sa trap as the first world.

I’ll give it my all.