How a Hero Lives as a Writer

33 – Α and Ω (2)

“Are you leaving the castle?”

“That’s it.”

“….”

The academy will open soon.

Then, curious scions from aristocratic families flock from all over the world.

How would they see me living in Ochlia Royal Castle?

So I had no choice but to leave.

Since the saintess who came much later than me also left the castle in the old evening, it was time for me to leave as well.

“I was given a manor this time, and it is where the theme park will be built.”

Reina must have been shocked that I was leaving the castle, but she didn’t seem to pay much attention to my words.

Come to think of it, I was the one who had the most private conversations with Reina in this royal castle for the past half year.

At first, she thought it was a pity that she kept taking up only 4 hours of her time, but unexpectedly, Raina seemed to be enjoying this time the most.

But when I become independent, I will go back to my old life.

So it must be complicated in many ways.

“Reina.”

“Yes.”

“At this point, would you like Reina to become independent too?”

“… Yes?”

“It’s cold here.”

It’s cold even with a fireplace.

No matter how cold it is, you definitely won’t feel how cold it is.

If you spray boiling water into the air, it will freeze and fall to the ground.

Even though I’ve stuffed a lot of wood into the fireplace, when I open my eyes in the morning, it’s cold enough to turn me into Rudolph’s nose.

Auchlia is such a place.

It’s cold that even healthy people get sick, but it’s deadly to Reina who is suffering from the disease.

“A vacation home, a vacation home.”

“Villa… ?”

“Let’s keep warm this winter.”

“What do you mean by that?”

“Is it a mole?”

“Yes?”

Ah, this is called ‘Ondol’.

“I will invite you when it is made later. If you spend a day on an ondol, you’ll be asking the king for yourself, right?”

“Is that so?”

“Maybe the king will say that he will have to live in the house I built for the winter?”

“Ahahahaha!”

Reina covered her mouth and smiled shyly, as if she had heard a joke.

I’m not kidding… ?

In Korea, teachers talk about the four beautiful seasons as if they had promised, but this is not a very beautiful phenomenon.

If you look at the facts alone, the Korean Peninsula is still an unsuitable area for people to live.

For example, Baesanimsu, which is emphasized in geomancy, is the survival wisdom of our ancestors.

In summer, a cool breeze blows from the stream in front, and in winter, the mountain at the back blocks the bone-chilling wind.

That’s why I preferred Baesan Forest, but in winter, even that Baesan Forest reached its limits, so ondol was developed.

It is a masterpiece created by our ancestors to survive in a place where the annual temperature difference is over 50 degrees.

“Let’s see, lady.”

“I’ll leave it to you.”

Even if it’s warm, you’ll notice how warm it is.

But, well, it’s not a bad feeling.

This is better than that shocked expression earlier.

As expected, rather than a day being 4 hours long, I think the most difficult part was that those 4 hours were boring.

“Then let’s go.”

“Yes. Have a nice day today haam….”

Reina, who had been dozing off, fell asleep.

I laid her Reina down on her bed, informed her waiter that Reina was asleep, and went back to her room.

“If you think about it, I won’t be able to leave my room when winter comes.”

ㅡ Unlimited canned food!

“I’m a human too, shouldn’t I take it easy….”

Since it is winter, I spend a lot of time in my room.

So, it would be nice to have some games that can be played in the room.

ㅡ Have you decided to stop being a writer now?

“I also have to write.”

ㅡ This is the artist… ?

“Keuugh!”

Certainly I haven’t been writing lately.

After the cooking contest is over, I should focus on my writing again.

The cooking contest is scheduled to end in early October, and Lady Volume 4 is scheduled to be released in early October.

Ah, come to think of it, the story of comics will come out soon, but something is missing?

I’ll have to visit it sometime.

ㅡ This is the artist… ?

“That’s true.”

Humanities starts with the 3rd Department and the 4th Department.

It is natural that when literature develops, it affects other fields as well.

ㅡ What exactly are the 3 departments and 4 departments?

Uh, um… Anyway, something like that.

I think there was grammar, arithmetic, and music, and there seemed to be astronomy too….

“Anyway, when literature develops, other things are also affected.”

This is what happens after all, because I only acquired broad and shallow knowledge for intellectual conversation.

I went to see Helena’s Hun-mari before she took another hit.

“Ah, author….”

Marie, who greeted me, seemed a bit sluggish for some reason.

“Is the manga not going well?”

“Yes….”

The number of fishermen has increased in Marie’s workshop.

Now that only 15 people are lined up in the school hour, there is no big problem in drawing the cover and illustrations for Lady’s hardcover book.

But there is no story related to comics….

“Writer Bright.”

Among the fishermen, for some reason I felt like a leader approached me.

“I tried to sort out the problems that arose while drawing the manga you instructed.”

“Thank you.”

It must have been waiting for me to come here from the beginning.

I must have prepared materials like this and waited because I had been wandering around all this time.

As I picked up the paper and headed to a nearby sofa, the fishermen prepared tea and refreshments on the table.

And then, something that looked like a cartoon storyboard and work was put down next to the car.

First of all, you should read the part where the problem is written.

Let’s see….

First of all, it is a matter of adaptation.

Marie is an avid reader of Lady, so she was in charge of continuity and adaptation.

However, it is said that the adaptation process was quite difficult.

This is an inevitable part.

If all lines in the novel are expressed in cartoons, even ‘Two Much Talkers’ will become an explanatory cartoon.

“Is this the continuity part?”

“Yes.”

I held the storyboard that Marie probably drew in her hand.

Sarak.

Siraksarak.

Siraksarak.

Every time I turn over the paper, Marie trembles.

You don’t have to worry so much.

“I think you did better than me?”

“Really?”

“Uh. Good job.”

“Thank God….”

This was sincere.

Even if I had worked on the adaptation myself, it would have been difficult to come out better than this.

Marie did this by herself?

“Mia unnie helped me.”

“Sister Mia… ah.”

You are a spy girl.

An unexpected connection.

“You know what? My older sister Mia is the writer who wrote ‘The Lady in the Autumn Field’.”

Apparently, Marie became close with the spy girl named Mia while talking about her work.

She said that then she came up with a comic story and she helped with the adaptation.

“First of all, there is nothing wrong with my eyes as the original author, so I pass this adaptation.”

In the first place, the core of this paper was this lower part.

“Uh, so this is a cartoon based on continuity, right?”

“Yes, sir.”

I decided to check the work that the fishermen brought.

After a while, I was able to see the problems written on the paper with my own eyes.

ㅡ The lines in the picture are a bit clumsy.

Isn’t it?

It doesn’t stand out that much on the cover or illustration of the hardcover book, but it stands out in the comics.

Some pages had torn paper after turning a few pages.

It looks like the paper is torn when I draw with a sharp nib.

Under it, there were also marks where the ink had smeared and turned into a circle.

ㅡ I think this lacks contrast compared to the cartoons I saw on my smartphone?

Oh, this page?

ㅡ Yes, that.

It must be a tool problem.

I use a tool called the G-pen to draw thick and strong lines like those in boys’ comics.

It is a pen that changes the line thickness according to the pen pressure.

But since Lady is a romance manga, I thought that a regular pen would be enough, but it doesn’t seem to be the case.

It seems a bit difficult to draw manga with the current pen tip.

I should have had the tools to draw manga, but I was impatient….

“I think I need a tool for drawing manga. It’s not your fault.”

I don’t know if the merchant can solve this.

“For now, please stop working on the comics and finish the continuation and hardcover work.”

“Yes, I understand.”

For some reason, I slightly bowed my head to Marie, who was sullen.

“I’m sorry. Was it hard?”

Until now, I didn’t pay any attention to him because he was hanging around.

Other fishermen are grown-ups, so they can easily brush them off, but Mari is still young….

“Oh, no….”

“Did you hear that the theater company is doing a play this time?”

“Yes. I heard you.”

“Shall we go see a play with friends from the monastery?”

“… Can I?”

“Of course.”

That’s cheap enough.

You must have suffered a lot in the past, but I have to do this.

ㅡ Shouldn’t the machine you’ve been working on break down?

You’re talking too much.

I listened to Marie and the fishermen’s grievances and returned to my room.

I thought that the cooking contest would start soon and once it was over, I wouldn’t be involved….

It feels like something is constantly being added.

ㅡ Ah, don’t forget that this is ‘ondol’ anyway~

… There was that too.

***

I asked the store for a nib to be used when drawing comics, and asked a contractor to build an ondol-style house on the site I was going to receive.

The former explained that it would take time, while the latter said that it could be prepared at any time.

So I asked for the builders first.

“Ummm… Do you have any more detailed blueprints?”

“….”

ㅡ Ah, this is called ‘Ondol’. I don’t know because I only saw the video.

aaagh!

This is so blocked….

I know the principle of Ondol.

I watched a video of how it was built.

That’s also true, because ondol would come out every time a Korean who had transferred to another world and a spiritual creature met.

If I want to write a novel in that genre, I need to know the contents, so I did a rough search.

But architecture is more delicate than you think, so you need a blueprint.

But how do I draw a blueprint?

ㅡ Is this the limit of broad and shallow knowledge?

“Well, I will prepare the blueprint later.”

“Can I go back?”

“Yes….”

I’m going to look embarrassing.

“Are you okay?”

“Yes….”

Lord Lewis doesn’t seem to know what to say.

It must be embarrassing for a human who confidently brought up the story of ondol to be babbling like this.

I’m shy and I’m going to search.

ㅡ Let’s see, Lady.

Gyaaagh!

I caught all the sh*t in front of Raina, but she really wanted to die.

Still, she had to try something, so she lifted her head.

Then, a duo with a unique combination caught my eye.

One was a blonde man slightly taller than me, and the other….

ㅡ Are you a dwarf?

“Are you a bright writer?”

“Yes. What about it?”

“I am Kruger. I came to see you from the Elvens!”

Gukjimul rules.

… The mithril on the back mountain, the dwarf on the next mountain, the elf on the opposite mountain, and the dragon on the front mountain!

A wild side mountain dwarf has appeared!