Chapter 97

Posted by Kuze, ? Views, Released on February 22, 2025

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The medieval people had never had the chance to see a whale.

Even if there were witnesses, it was just a creature passed down through legends.

Only a handful believed in its existence.

So, I decided to make an appearance myself.

– “Ahhh, wtf!”

– “What the hell is that?!”

– “W-why is it so huge?!”

The Whale Merfolk appeared in Elard.

It looked to be over 10 meters long.

“It’s not that big, I guess?”

But when considering the type of whale, 10 meters wasn’t that extraordinary.

The problem was the two arms attached to the whale.

[Title: Head of the Gallery, Head of the Gaaaallery!!!]

Author: Full-Peel Elf

(Whale merfolk running on two legs meme)

(Elard Forest getting wrecked meme)

(Full-Peel Elf panting from running, sweat glistening on the neck meme)

“Help me, please!”

– “Oh”

– “Haha”

– “Haha, should I help you, Deputy?”

Full-Peel Elf: “You bastards!! I’ll remember this and ban you later!!!”

“Whoa.”

“Go, Merfolk, you can do it!”

“Come on, you big whale, you got this!”

Thanks to those limbs, its size increased even more.

It was strangely grotesque.

Honestly, that was scarier than if it had looked horrible or brutal.

“That’s definitely a monster.”

But in the end, the whale was still one of the merfolk.

It was only big; ultimately, it was weak.

After all, the arrows shot by the elves were piercing its body one by one.

– Full-Peel Elf: “It works!”

– Full-Peel Elf: “Shoot more, more!”

No matter how tough a whale’s skin was, it couldn’t withstand the bowstring pulled by the elves.

– “But what will we do after capturing it?”

“Huh?”

“Ah.”

– Full-Peel Elf: “Don’t shoot! Stop shooting! Stop!”

The problem was what to do after catching it.

Let’s assume they succeeded in capturing the whale merfolk; how would they dispose of the corpse?

What if they couldn’t decide and ended up leaving the body lying around?

Whale Merfolk: “Leaving me here is hurtful.”

“Huh?”

Whale Merfolk: “I’ll become toxic TNT.”

It would turn into a ticking time bomb, creating chaos aboard.

“What if a whale carcass explodes in the middle of the forest?”

All kinds of rotten smells would infuse the woods, and blood would pollute the trees.

This was certainly not a matter to be taken lightly.

But was whale meat even delicious? No, it wasn’t.

From the start, merfolk meat was treated more as a quantity food rather than something for taste.

[Title: My Review After Tasting Merfolk…jpg]

…

“Seriously, you shouldn’t eat it… I’m not joking…”

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– “Why?”

“Just don’t eat it, you idiot.”

– “Honestly, it’s not that bad, though… lol;”

“Isn’t there a marketplace? Why bother?”

“If you’re really a broke gallery student, then go buy it; it’s not terrible.”

“What’s a gallery student?”

“Related to the gallery.”

“LOL, I hear there’s a school for that too.”

Whale meat isn’t that bad.

The problem was that a marketplace showed up.

All sorts of stimulating modern flavors were being distributed massively at ridiculously low prices.

As someone from the Great War generation, whale meat seemed like a decent option, but it was more of a “do we really have to?” situation.

– “Let’s just close the Elard marketplace.”

“Right? LOL, we’d probably eat well if that happened?”

So, the conclusion that came out from the gallery was to close the marketplace.

– “That can’t happen!!!”

“Yes, it can.”

– “If you don’t sell soju, I’ll just die!”

– “If you close the marketplace, you won’t see elves anymore!!”

Cornered, the elves tried to bait themselves for capture, but…

– “Oh!”

“Please, Head of the Gallery, close the marketplace…”

– “Alright, let’s stick with this.”

It was ineffective.

Rather, the gallery rejoiced at the thought that the elves would go on strike.

“Hey, how about we actually try closing it?”

I was intrigued too.

Even if we left the marketplace for survival, it wouldn’t hurt to cut back on the soju.

Unlike food supply issues, soju was solely for the enjoyment of elves.

Besides, it was common for elves in a drunken state to leave racist remarks in the gallery or stir up trouble.

– Head of the Gallery*: “Should we?”

“Oh!”

“Ooooh.”

“Head, Head of the Gallery…?”

(The stunned Elf Con froze in shock.)

So, jokingly, I left a comment like that, and then elf comments started igniting.

Elves didn’t really help much.

Because of this image, the elves who were already cornered finally decided to take action.

– “If you don’t help the elves… if you don’t help us!”

– “LOL, what are you gonna do about it?”

“I’ll grab your ears and drag you away, haha!”

“I won’t post adult content tonight!!!”

– “!!!”

– “!!!”

With their usual attention-seeking tendencies and tipsiness, they specialized in drawing attention.

Thanks to that, after beastfolk, the elves were the next race to post adult content in the gallery…

“Catching monsters quickly is the right thing to do.”

[Anaesthetic Gun] – 720p

I immediately bought an anaesthetic gun from the shop.

What’s the role of the Head of the Gallery?

To normalize the gallery.

I had to catch that whale merfolk quickly for the sake of the Elard forest environment.

That’s what the Head of the Gallery is for.

It was definitely not for the sake of elf adult content.

*

Up until now, huge monsters had existed.

But that was mostly during the Great War; now it was hard to see.

At most, it was like the last Bond Dragon or maybe the monsters during the Elard Invasion.

“Th-this is bigger than a tree.”

“How are we supposed to catch that?!”

Suddenly, a whale merfolk, easily dozens of meters long, appeared in the forest.

It was even larger than many trees, and the elves felt overwhelmed.

The figure blocking the sun was enough to make their pointed ears droop.

Full-Peel Elf: “I appreciate it… but…”

Full-Peel Elf: (Meme of the whale merfolk larger than a tree)

Full-Peel Elf: “Will this really work…?”

Full-Peel Elf and Eliana looked at the items sent by the Head of the Gallery.

The gun called a “great magic” by the Head of the Gallery.

They had no doubt about its power.

When that small hole emitted light, it could pierce right through monsters.

But the size of the whale merfolk was huge. Really huge.

Head of the Gallery*: “It’s designed for catching wild animals, but I adjusted the potency.”

Head of the Gallery*: “It can put an elephant to sleep in under a minute, so just trust me on this.”

“What do you mean… adjusted… increasing the potency?”

Eliana tilted her head at the Head of the Gallery’s explanation.

But she let it slide, thinking it was just an explanation about the great magic formula.

To be honest, compared to the machine gun he handed over during the last Elard invasion, this seemed terribly small…

“This is something personally sent by the Head of the Gallery.”

He always showed something beyond what one could imagine.

Having climbed to the tallest tree nearby, she looked down.

“Help, please! Save me!”

“C-can I stop running now, Head!”

There was a whale merfolk distracted by elves.

Her subordinates were willingly grabbing the attention of the whale merfolk.

“How can they sacrifice themselves like this, Elhhuuh…”

“You bad commander, just shoot already!!”

Amazed by her subordinates’ spirit of sacrifice, Eliana slowly aimed at the whale merfolk.

Of course, some of the mixed elves could also get hit…

“I won’t forget this sacrifice…!”

Eliana pulled the trigger.

Then, the dart shot out from the gun, heading towards the whale merfolk at breakneck speed and struck!

“I did it!”

Eliana clenched her fists and stood up.

She had successfully hit the whale merfolk.

But…

“…Why isn’t there any reaction?”

The whale merfolk wasn’t injured at all, not even a scratch.

She looked back and forth between the gun and the whale merfolk.

It was strange.

With the Head of the Gallery’s magic, there should’ve been some insane explosion or something of equivalent impact, right?

“Commander, commander!!”

– Grroooar!

While Eliana was tilting her head at the still lively whale merfolk,

“Hmm?”

At that moment, the movements of the whale merfolk started to slow down.

That massive body, bigger than a tree, began to wobble.

“Ah, but I didn’t even land a hit?”

The only thing that struck was a tiny dart.

With that, you could hardly kill a person.

Blinking her eyes, she watched the scene, and before even a minute had passed…

– Grrrr…

That gigantic whale merfolk finally buckled and collapsed to the ground.

– Kuuuuuh!

The elves present stood frozen, blinking, watching the whale merfolk lie motionless with its eyes shut.

Then Eliana, who had put the whale merfolk to sleep, muttered while staring blankly at the gun.

“Huh?”

*

[Title: I Did Catch It…]

Author: Full-Peel Elf

(Meme of the whale merfolk lying asleep in the forest)

(Meme of it tied down with ropes)

I did hit what the Head of the Gallery gave me, but… I still don’t get it…

Just a tiny dart hit it, and that monster that was rampaging has now fallen asleep.

Even with a bow aimed at it and weapons drawn, it’s just sleeping like it’s dead…

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– “How did you catch it?”

– “Why is it sleeping?”

– “Without any wounds, how did you bind it?”

Full-Peel Elf: “It fell asleep after I hit it with a dart.”

“No way that makes sense!”

“How could you force something that size to sleep? LOL, this is ridiculous!”

“Really, if you’re going to make up a story, better say the Head of the Gallery came from the far future or something.” ㅋㅋㅋ

Anaesthetic that can put even an elephant to sleep.

I had purchased something stronger than that to send here, and thankfully, it seemed to work.

As a result, there wouldn’t be any unfortunate incidents of the whale merfolk corpse rotting the forest.

– “But… how do we move that to the sea?”

– (Elf Con): idk

– (Dumbfounded Elf Con)

“Ah.”

But there wasn’t really a way to clean it up.

It was too far to move it to the sea.

If they killed it, it would start rotting immediately, and the concerns they initially had would be no different.

“Now the problem is moving it.”

Even if they wanted to kill it, they had to do it in the sea.

While my head hurt from the new issue, a new conceptual post popped up in the gallery.

“Right now isn’t the time to be looking at conceptual posts.”

But I had no desire to check it out.

Conceptual posts could be viewed at any time; I needed to resolve the whale merfolk issue in Elard right away.