Puhuhuhu…
Olga, who was watching Sia’s broadcast on a computer made of trees in Politie, couldn’t help but smile cheekily.
“Is the broadcast fun?”
“Yes, would Elder Antamia like to join?”
“I’ll pass. I don’t really get it.”
As Olga sipped the sweet tea Antamia had made, she raised the corners of her mouth while looking at the broadcast screen.
[Did I get caught again?! Kyaaaah! I’m really going crazy!]
– Hahaha
– Who’s been writing Meat Fairy since earlier? Lmao
– These guys are so persistent! LOL
– That’s already popped up three times.
– So you’re not going to do it again? Haha
– If you spent points, you should do it!
[….I don’t know who it is, but if I really get caught, I won’t let it go.]
By human standards, Sia looked like a woman in her early twenties, but with her well-toned physique marked by subtle muscles and a bursting thigh, she appeared somewhat older for an elf.
As Sia pretended to be a magical girl, acting cute and using ‘Kirat★’, to an elf, it was akin to watching an older mother in a childish pink uniform making a spectacle of herself.
Strangely enough, even though Sia’s appearance was ridiculous and laughable, it somehow suited her quite well.
Sia imitating the Meat Fairy is secretly cute. Hehe.
At first glance, Sia’s broadcast might seem like a simple attention-grabbing show, blending chaos, embarrassment, shock, and shame appropriately.
In reality, staying faithful to the concept, Sia made herself the target, playing the role of a method actor whose sincerity and feigned insanity drew not just the viewers but also the gazes of the elves in Daesanrim.
However, Sia’s true aim wasn’t just soothing her loneliness or creating bait content.
Despite the concept of the broadcast being chaotic, Sia’s real purpose was to filter out the impurities mixed within Daesanrim.
Specifically, she was looking for the Chaos Ants disguised as elves.
Initially, Sia had requested an inquisition from the Elder Council, but the elf elders had a basic distrust of Sia as an outsider.
Moreover, as the elders didn’t want to escalate matters, they came to a provisional conclusion that there was just one suspected imposter found by the Lotus Lake Knight Order.
If the inquisition had been conducted as Sia requested, she wouldn’t have to visit every household for days on end without rest. However, Sia didn’t seem tired and, for more than five days, visited the homes of elves without even a sigh of sleep.
If Olga hadn’t been tipped off beforehand, she would have viewed Sia’s visits as just the crazy saint’s crazy elf home visits.
Moreover, it seems she is healing every elf she meets.
While the viewers burst into laughter at Sia’s absurd antics and her expressions of wanting to die from embarrassment, Sia quietly used her miracles to heal elves’ ailments discreetly.
As Sia visited house after house without sleep, word of her visits began to spread among the elves.
Naturally, the elves rejected and disliked Sia.
It didn’t matter if there were reasons or not.
Sia was an outsider and thus a being shunned by all elves in Daesanrim.
Yet curiously, the elves’ perspective of Sia, who at first appeared to be a wicked and detestable outsider, began to change gradually.
The first rumor to spread was that she had healed someone’s illness.
Gerard began to boast, saying that Sia had healed his mother, almost like a fanatic. Some even claimed she was the saint guided by the burnt World Tree.
On the first day, most elves dismissed it as nonsense.
But the next day.
And then the following day.
As time passed, the elves increasingly stopped seeing Sia as a repugnant outsider.
Some elves would giggle, watching as Sia bashed her head against a tree, seemingly bashful while exclaiming, “Kyaang!”
Gradually, the number of healed individuals under Sia’s care increased.
“Our house had the Meat Fairy doing strange poses.”
“Haha, it was funny how her face turned bright red after she did it.”
“Initially, we were on guard, but if you think about it, outsiders seem like just people like us.”
“Right, that outsider Isia wasn’t the one who touched our mother World Tree.”
In simple terms, Sia had used somewhat extreme methods to break down the boundaries between herself and the elves.
Although her broadcasts might appear to cross the line, paradoxically, Sia never did.
Without disturbing others’ feelings. If there was ever a sign that she might have crossed a line, Sia would bow her head in apology and perform the miracle of great healing to win the elves’ favor.
As a result, even elves who were unaware of Sia began to lose their hostility towards her.
Could it be… Sia intended all this?
[Th-this wicked meat demon lord! The meat warrior Isia shall eliminate you…]
[Oh, it’s lunchtime. Want to grab a bite?]
[Sure….]
– Hahahaha
– Lol
– Aww, that’s so smooth of a response, lol
– Check the streamer’s face, haha
– I can’t get over this, lol
– Huh?
– Why so quiet?
[Shut up, you damn things…]
Eh, no way.
Seeing Sia mumbling near a perfectly cooked bean meat while holding back tears gives no hint that she had intended it all.
However, aside from that, Olga felt incredibly grateful and a bit sorry for Sia.
Olga didn’t hold that much power within the elves.
The current situation was serious, requiring her to formally request Sia’s assistance from the Elder Council for support, yet Sia was helping Olga with significant limitations as a mere guest.
If she had been just a bit sharper.
If she had succeeded in persuading the other elders.
Then Sia wouldn’t have had to visit the elves one by one without sleep.
Sia, an extraordinary being known as the Mangja Seongnyeo, didn’t seem bothered but managing to meet elves without sleeping, identifying the disguised Chaos Ants was something no one but Sia could accomplish in this world.
On the third day, while she was catching up with other elves, Olga once asked Sia.
Sia, why are you helping me so much? I can’t possibly pay that much. If money were your goal, it would be better to catch a decent dungeon and do a few broadcasts rather than coming to the elves’ Great Forest.
However, even upon hearing that, Sia replied with her typical cheerful, seemingly carefree smile.
“Is there really a need for a reason when a person helps another?”
………!
“Is it weird for a Mangja Seongnyeo to say that? Well… if there really needs to be a reason, then it’s just that the crazy saint wanted to help the adorable Mangjidan. Please think of it that way.”
Hearing that, how could Olga not feel joy?
Without even realizing, Olga smiled.
“Olgania, would you like more?”
“Oh yes, it’s delicious. I love it.”
Come to think of it, when did Elder Antamia come to our house?
Well, the tea was delicious, so maybe that’s fine.
There’s nothing strange about Elder Antamia visiting our house. It’s natural.
Sia… I can tell her…
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A day, two days, three days, four days, five…
And it became six days.
A week passed.
“Phew, broadcast is over…”
-Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap
-Great job!
-Haha, that was so funny!
-Can’t stop laughing, seriously!
-Streamer, just one more Kawaiihorned, please!
– Lol
“Shut up! I did that seven times just yesterday!”
[‘I’m selling fried leaves!’ donated 10,000 won!]
Hey, Meat Fairy, just take this and quickly do the Kirat★!
“Damn★!”
– ?
– ??
– A bit different?
– What is this? lol
[‘KawaiiHorned’ donated 100,000 won!]
Does this work?
“Kirat★!”
Drawing a black star in the air with Seongnyeok, Sia struck a cute pose and winked before plopping down where she stood.
The Mangja Seongnyeo Isia, who reacts gently to her rewards, might just see people vanish from today onwards.
“Ah, I’m done. I really won’t do it anymore…”
Of course, she wasn’t broadcasting with the drone camera for the entire week.
During the day, she had to keep the drone camera charged under the sunlight and met every elf residing in the Great Forest while barely taking a moment to rest.
Naturally, she was refused at times.
Being called a disgusting outsider, she sometimes faced rejection even before entering homes.
Still, the fact that the elves didn’t resort to violence against her, despite their aversion to outsiders, was likely due to Sia being a guest of Olgania, the last child of the World Tree.
Nonetheless, Sia did not give up.
With her distinct my-pace personality, regardless of whether the elves were hostile or not, she managed to confront and converse with them.
She healed the sick and spoke rationally with the antagonistic ones.
She searched for malignant scents, scouring for decay for a week.
As if to show that Sia’s efforts weren’t in vain over the week, the elves’ hostility began to extinguish, and they even burst into laughter as if they were watching a clown.
“Hey, outsider, aren’t you doing the Meat Fairy today?”
Ugh, oh, I’m not!
“Haha, come eat some bean meat later! Isn’t it well-known that the outsider loves bean meat?”
It’s not that I love bean meat; it’s just that bean meat is the only thing to eat! Sia swallowed that statement and waved at the elf with a forced smile.
The taste of bean meat?
The taste of bean meat essentially felt like canned ham stripped of saltiness and sweetness.
It’s not entirely inedible.
Rather, the bean meat made from beans personally cultivated by the elves was a superb ingredient, far tastier and cleaner than the general bean meat she knew, but at the end of the day, it was still bean meat.
In this Great Forest filled with vegans and vegetarians, the only thing that somewhat matched Sia’s tastes was the bean meat made by the elves themselves. As she visited each home, she accepted it gratefully, making the elves develop a minor misunderstanding that Sia had developed quite a taste for bean meat.
She treated the unidentified epidemic that had been circulating among the elves, and the feeble growing dislike gradually disappeared.
By the way, the epidemic among the elves was due to someone contaminating their water source.
Whether a Chaos Ant in disguise vomited some formic acid or pheromones into the water source was unknown, but regardless, Sia managed to face every elf in the Great Forest and heal their ailments, uncovering the impurities she’d originally sought.
However, there was a problem.
…there are quite a few.
The number of disguised impurities was beyond what Sia initially assumed.
There were about 30,000 elves in the Great Forest, and among them, Sia was convinced that there were at least over a thousand beings that she deemed impurities.
Yet among them were many that lived nearly perfect elven lives, held jobs, consumed their food, and followed their culture, seemingly unaware of their impure nature.
It was as if they didn’t even realize they were ants.
And it turns out even someone unexpected… is an ant.
Sia, under normal circumstances, would have immediately disposed of any impurity upon discovery.
She thought about smashing the heads of any imposters she met like the one found by the Lotus Lake Knight Order or sneaking off to grill them at a campfire.
She even considered changing the broadcast title to “Grilling Chaos Ant Exoskeletons Directly.”
But if there are so many of them, it’s pointless…
Sia pinpointed where malice lurked the moment she met an elf.
She sensed truth and lies through conversations with the elves.
However, Sia realized that almost all disguised elves firmly believed they lived as elves, following their lifestyle, culture, friendships, and families.
After all, soldier ants lack a self.
The soldier ants of Chaos Ants lack self-awareness and rationality, functioning merely as instruments or tools for the queen’s commands.
It would have been better if they had started without any rationality or intelligence.
They would neither feel loss as loss nor experience emotions as emotions.
But this time, the soldier ants had gained intelligence and self-awareness by disguising themselves as elves.
Would those disguised soldier ants… wish to revert back to Chaos Ants?
Rather, they may find satisfaction in their elven lives, completely forgetting that they are imposters and would live as elves without any issues left on their own.
The elf-like imposters had blended in so thoroughly, even down to the smallest details.
Particularly, the longer the time the imposters disguised as elves lived, the closer their physical forms became to elves, and even those who knew they were Chaos Ants were almost… not at all present.
I’m not trying to say cancer cells aren’t life.
However, if those cancer cells transformed into other cells and fused with the body, then it’s another story.
Should the ants who’ve gained a sense of identity as elves be regarded as ants?
Or should they be seen as elves?
Well, no point in thinking too hard about it.
I’ve already come to a conclusion.
Let the impurities be impurities.
