Everyone Else is a Returnee - Chapter SS11

The Gods' Marriage: Ertha's Story

"Yoo ll-han. I want to change my image."

"Why do you suddenly think that way?"

It was the afternoon after the wedding.

After brunch in the late morning, Ertha, who was still in Yoo ll-han’s arms, suddenly brought up the topic, and he had asked her that, with his eyes wide open.

However, Ertha replied in such a natural tone.

"That’s because my character and Mi-rae's are overlapping!"

"No. You have a very unique character."

"It overlaps, it overlaps! It even means I'm less competent than her."

"B-but, you are not."

Yoo ll-han loved Ertha very much, so those words just came out. Ertha tried desperately not to show her agitation.

Ertha was also a higher-ranked magician, but Kang Mi-rae pioneered unique magic, and she was born much later than her. She had an enormous ability and even opened the door to becoming a higher-ranked being.

She had risen on top of the God of magic, so in fact, it could be said that Ertha was less competent with Kang Mi-rae in terms of ability.

"I became a higher-ranked being first. If this was a novel, I almost became your main heroine."

"That's true."

If it was a novel, Yoo ll-han thought, Riera might be the main heroine, not Ertha, but reality was not a novel.

The first day of marriage should be their happiest day, but he had experienced it before, so Yoo ll-han calmly dealt with it.

"Ertha, you have your own charm. No one else can replace you. No one is more or less competent, so relax."

As if she was a child, ll-han kissed her on the cheek, and Ertha's face slightly loosened. But she couldn't feel relieved yet. Rather, it was the beginning.

"Yoo ll-han, do you really love me?"

"Of course."

"You don't put me in the way of other women?"

"That can’t be true."

Actually, this question and the answer came from Ertha all the time before they got married.

She had a lot of worries, but they were more about the relationship.

When she was affectionate for Yoo ll-han, Riera had already secured the seat next to him. In fact, there wasn't much she could do to appeal to Yoo ll-han, even with a growing number of strong competitors.

As a result, Ertha has come to think that Yoo ll-han has no reason to love her. she came to think quite extreme thoughts, even for a higher-ranked being.

'It would have been nice if I could have noticed the anxiety in advance and healed it, but at that time, I lacked in many ways.'

Even now, ll-han couldn't believe she thought like that.

He held her warmly and said in a sincere voice, like he always did when she was anxious.

"Being a higher-ranked being has indeed broadened my heart, but that doesn't mean it's enough to get me a wife I don't love her. You said it yourself. You're the main heroine. As you said, it was you who suffered from the bottom of the Earth and first suffered a cataclysm. Ertha, you are very special to me. You are a special person in your way."

"Really?"

Hearing Ertha's voice, which seemed to be a complaint, Yoo ll-han put a smile on his lips. She was so cute. Actually, he knew from the very beginning that she was very cute.

"Really."

"Well, then... will you kiss me?"

"I'll do more."

Yoo ll-han served her as she wanted.

Ertha was greatly relieved and curled around his arms, flushing her cheeks.

"Then, I won't change my image."

"Well thought."

"We won’t talk about it anymore," Ertha spoke to herself and turned off the phone she was holding in one hand.

No, Yoo ll-han took the phone before it fully turned off.

"Can I ask what you were looking at?

"Oh, it's nothing. Nothing!"

Usually, when it came out like this, it was not just nothing.

Yoo ll-han checked the phone, and there was a message titled 'Gather all the Dragons who deserved to be loved-Private.' It was about an internet cafe.

"Ertha?"

"Oh, it was just for a moment! I just went in for a while because there was a cafe where only married female Dragon Spirits gathered!"

A cafe that exudes negative auras, he thought, just by looking at the title.

At a glance, it talked about the husband’s affair, or depressed newlyweds, characteristics of an unloved wife, tips for earning living expenses from the husband, and a lot of talk about depression during parenting.

"It's all only depressing stories!"

It was hell for those who deserved to be loved! No matter how loving and confident a woman was, those who had been in this cafe for one day only would fall into all kinds of suspicious mental diseases and became depressed!

It was surprising that the number of Dragon Spirits has already increased enough to create such a community!

"I just wanted to see if there were any helpful stories. I won't go in again."

"Are there any other cafes?"

"T-there is no such thing!"

There was.

Yoo ll-han didn't do it on purpose, but by activating the Declaration Skill, he knew that Ertha searched all kinds of sites and cafes with multiple IDs. There were many positive meetings, such as cooking classes, musical instruments, and magical studies. There were also quite a few sites similar to the Dragon Spirits Cafe that he found.

"Leave all of them."

"Ah. Ahh."

He didn't think Ertha had been to that kind of cafe because she liked it. She would have searched for people to share her situation with to relieve the increased anxiety she had.

Even the cafe's management staff could not have imagined that Yoo ll-han's wife was reading their depressing articles after joining the cafe.

"If you have spare time, do other things. If you feel uneasy, don't enter a cafe that negatively affects people, but rather come to me."

"C-can I do that?"

Yoo ll-han tried to stop thinking about glaring at Ertha, who was also trying to look away cowardly.

"I already said you were a precious and special person to me. You are the one who can bother me anytime. No, just be a little confident! Even Yoo-na runs in and kisses me, right?"

"B-but Na Yoo-na is the Goddess of Beauty......"

Yoo ll-han narrowed his eyes.

"Then, Riera is okay because she is the Goddess of Love, and Helliena is the Succubus Queen, so she is okay? Even Mi-rae is also a Goddess of Magic, and she is okay?"

"A-a re you angry? "

"No, it was just amazing. I wonder if the insiders who saw me in the past would have felt this way."

Ertha, who didn't know how to recover her self-esteem that had hit rock-bottom, made an impression and refuted it as soon as she heard what Yoo ll-han said.

"But, aren't you being too harsh now?"

"Your condition is worse now!"

She wouldn't do it. No, this woman needed extraordinary measures.

'Mystic, did you hear it?'

[You are the worst, Master.]

Yoo ll-han declared to his beloved family, who denounced him without reason, "You will run the world for the next ten days."

[What!? Alone!? You must be crazy, die! Are you dying, Master?! Are you going to die and just hand over the new throne to me?!]

"I'll hand Orochi the throne."

Mystic thought for a moment before replying.

[l-it's not like I really want it, but still, if the Master has urgent business, what can be done by that guy with an empty hand? I really hate working with him alone, but if you really need it, I'll be patient!]

"If you don’t like it so much, I will order another-"

[O-Orochi will be good enough. You don’t need to make trouble for the others. Orochi is easy to pamper, so it’s okay!]

Seeing how Mystic treated Orochi these days, he wondered if he had read a book called 'Tsundere's Classic.'

Really, even though they seem to stick right away, these cute guys could not take a decisive step. At this opportunity, the stone was very different, and the flames were burning. Yoo ll-han also sent a message to Orochi.

Then he turned to Ertha, who was smiling.

"Ertha, let's go on a trip."

"Yoo ll-han, it seems like you just left ten days of your job to Mystic..."

"Yes, we will go for ten days. I'll go along with you."

Hearing that Yoo ll-han, the ruler of the world, was away for ten days, Ertha cried out.

"l-it's too long!"

"Yes. Ertha, you get me the longest."

He had traveled with other wives, but none of the travels had been ten days long.

When Ertha realized the meaning, her mouth was twitching, her shoulders shrugged, and her eyes twinkled.

The impressions might change by getting to know each other deeply, but it was rare that Ertha reacted severely.

"Where do you want to go? I will take you where you want to go."

"Well then, the Heaven. And Darew, ah, the Earth, too."

Heaven was not a place of the so-called higher-ranked beings where many Dragon Spirits lived.

On the other hand, Darew was a popular place with pure Dragon Spirits. It was full of energy, good for training, and all the conditions for becoming stronger were optimal.

The Earth was one of the most culturally developed places among countless worlds, and it had the status of a downtown area that lower-ranked beings dreamed of.

To put it all bluntly, all the places she talked about were areas crowded with people. Perhaps she only wanted to show off her being with Yoo ll-han to other beings.

"Can't I?" Ertha asked carefully. Yoo ll-han thought that it couldn't be and shook his head.

"I told you that we go wherever you want, right?"

"Yoo ll-han..."

Only then did Ertha cling to him with a smiling face. Soon after, she frowned faintly at what else she didn't like. She stared at Yoo ll-han and again asked carefully, "Can I sit on your head?"

"Calm down. It’s impossible, considering your size."

"But, you have a stable terminal."

"Then, I’d rather put you on my back."

"Can I do that?"

It was all empty talk, but Ertha's mood went uphill immediately. Anyway, the only purpose of this trip was to listen to everything Ertha wanted, ll-han carried Ertha and started moving in earnest.

"Then, where should we go first?"

"The place that every angel is proud of—No, I think it would be better to go to the place where I worked as an angel first."

It was as if Ertha had already confessed everything. Yoo ll-han went straight to Heaven, as his cute wife told him to.

He had passed by Heaven on his way to Elio Cartra with Helliena before. Now a little more time has passed, and Heaven and Elio Cartra were farther apart.

"What did you do in the Legion of Heaven before meeting me?"

"Haven't I told you about it? Riera... No, if Riera was doing a field job, mine was more like a white-collar job. Watching out for the magical movements outside the mainland, or preparing for a magical accident and..."

Ertha mumbled as they entered the realm of Heaven made of fluffy clouds. Yoo ll-han slipped some words into her answer.

"And secretly joining the community of the lower-ranked beings."

"That’s right. At that time, angels secretly signed up for social media and were caught by Spiera. It was such a... It never happened. I never secretly joined the community of the lower-ranked beings!"

Ertha was easily trapped and spilled out information. After all, it must be because of Ertha that some of the angels misunderstood social media! ll-han was deeply impressed to find out the secret that he had been curious about for many years.

"No, have you stepped back into the community after what happened before?"

"Well, it's not like that happened. I’m not a leader. I've never answered questions like I'm human!"

He flew through the sky, patting Ertha, who was suffering, recalling the past when he was punished for breaking the taboo. Soon, Dragon Spirits, who were once angels, found them and chattered.

"It's Ertha."

"I know. She had a wedding with God yesterday."

"She is carried by him."

"Yoo ll-han is carrying Ertha."

"Aaah... so jealous."

"She was underestimated because she was only the fourth wife."

"But, we couldn’t even be the fourth."

Of course, they used the cryptographic telepathy developed among the angels to talk in their ears and were confident that God would not even hear them. That was a stupid thing to do because they didn't know that higher-ranked beings mastered language skills.

"Everyone is envious of you, Ertha."

"O-of course. I am your wife, after all."

Ertha had a lot of strength in her shoulders. The baby girl had changed a lot from before, but she probably hadn’t even noticed it; what a cute little fellow.

Yoo ll-han held her firmly and went around Heaven.

Ertha shrugged every time the Dragon Spirits looked at her and made a noise, and it continued, passing through the sky, passing through Darew, and circling all the sights of the planet.

Doing so continued until there was no doubt that Yoo ll-han loved her.

"What a nice person."

"I also want to have Lord Yoo ll-han nearby. It's okay if I'm not not the fourth, but even to be the fortieth...!"

"If I could be with him overnight..."

As a result, rumors that Lord Yoo ll-han cared for his wife spread as a bonus and a rush of Dragon Spirits who wanted to see him at least once, did so. Riera firmly scolded Ertha not to keep her husband for herself.