The Max Level Hero Has Returned!-Chapter 1145

The Max Level Hero Has Returned!-Chapter 1145

Chapter 1145
Yuria Helishana, President of the Gourmet Research Society, sweated in silence as she stared at Davey. She hadn’t expected things to spiral in such a spectacularly disastrous direction.
Heins Territory was in chaos behind the curtains. Patrol units, elven elementalist squads, and even a Shadow Division-led intelligence force were all secretly scouring the region to track down any and all dark mage cursed items.
She was certain they wouldn’t find any more out there, no matter how long they searched. After all, the dark mage cursed items had been something she herself created with help from the Lich Saintess Iro.
Rinne had then personally gone around hunting armored boars, stuffing fragments of their souls and blood into the cursed items.
If they had been able to continue their efforts just a bit longer, they could’ve perfected the meat. She never imagined that the cursed items would be discovered, let alone cause such a ruckus.
“
Ummm.
So, what are you going to do when you find the people who made those cursed items?” she asked cautiously.
“What do you mean? Not all dark mages or necromancers are evil, but anyone can see the intent here wasn’t pure,” Davey answered while shrugging.
‘But it was just a tool for preparing ingredients...’
Yuria barely bit back the words that almost escaped her lips. She thought about confessing before it got too late. Fess up that the cursed items were fakes fed with the blood of monsters, not humans, and that there was no real danger.
She began running the calculations in her head. Her round eyes twitched with a spark of lively, slightly unhinged energy.
She made her decision. She needed to stop it right there and then, before it got any worse.
“
Um.
Gracious Savior.”
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“
Hm?
” Davey curiously responded.
“I need to tell you something.”
She was just about to come clean. Even if she got chewed out, she figured the situation would at least settle down. That is, until Davey pulled something out from under the desk, prompting Yuria to clamp her mouth shut.
“What was it you wanted to say?”
“
Oh,
nothing at all.” She smiled awkwardly and took a step back.
Davey had pulled out five cursed items. One of them had an X mark etched onto the mini imp’s skull—a symbol Yuria had created for identification. However, the rest were not her creations.
‘What are the rest doing here? How interesting... The situation is getting out of hand real fast. The fake cursed item led him straight to a real dark mage! Heheh.’
The thought of maybe leveraging her coincidental contributions crossed her mind, but she shook it off immediately. She knew it was way too risky. It’d be better to pin everything on the dark mages and get the hell out of there.
She knew better than to ask for any recognition or reward. If Davey found out she was the one who started the ordeal, she knew he’d tie her up and hang her off a cliff for half a day. Or worse, disband the entire Gourmet Research Society.
Having spent years at his side, she was confident that she knew how he’d react.
‘Heheh. No way am I risking that.’
“One of them was found on Earth—just by chance. After that, I started digging and found this many. Unfortunately, tests do indeed show they all contain real human blood.”
Yuria started sweating even more profusely.
“Anyways. I feel bad for the elves, but this could affect not just humans, extending to dwarves and elves as well. As such, I’d like you to help spread the warning.”
Yuria asked hesitantly, “Will you... be able to catch the culprit?”
“It won’t be hard. I’ll have them all rounded up in a few days.”
That was enough for her.
Yuria quickly made up her mind, pulled out a small document from inside her coat, and handed it to him.
“What’s this?”
She solemnly declared, “A vacation request.”
“Now, of all times?”
“Yup!”
Her cheeky response made Davey sigh as he waved her off. “Well, whatever then. I made a big deal out of it, but most of these so-called dark mages are small fry. It’s not your problem, so I’d appreciate it if you could just give the remaining elves a heads-up before you leave.”
Another voice spoke up, “Master Davey, Rinne also requests vacation.”
‘She’s trying to get away on her own!!!’
Rinne had instantly figured out what Yuria was doing and jumped into the same boat.
“What’s going on with
you
?” Davey asked with surprise.
“Exhausted from Darian’s antics. Vacation.”
Her short, matter-of-fact answer made Davey hesitate. Come to think of it, Darian had indeed been acting up more, and constantly pulling Rinne into it.
Though she was technically the leader of an interdimensional extermination unit, Rinne had effectively been reduced to nothing more than an exhausted babysitter.
“Fine. Go ahead.”
Rinne nodded, satisfied.
Aina then suddenly appeared in Jack’s form, trying to jump ship together with them.
“I’d like a vacation as well!”
“Nope, you’re staying. Who’s going to lead the Shadows if you’re gone?”
With a dramatically crushed expression, Jack slumped over. Yuria and Rinne gave her a quiet wave goodbye. Her face twisted into an exaggerated scowl.
“The elves can do it! The elementalist unit is also under the leadership of Yuria Helishana, the head of the Moon Forest...”
“Now that you mention that, these days, thanks to the unit’s restructuring, there’s hardly any need for me to step in! I’ll leave it to you, Aina.” She chuckled, casually throwing one of their Gourmet Research Society members under the bus without hesitation.
Aina’s face twisted in disbelief as Yuria gave her a little shove forward.
“Well then, Gracious Savior, we’ll be off.”
“Yeah. Don’t cause trouble.”
“Sure thang!”
Aina opened her mouth to call her back, but eventually stopped herself. Just like that, a member of the Gourmet Research Society bit the dust.
As soon as Yuria was out of Davey’s office, she wasted no time. She immediately summoned the wind spirit and froze the surrounding air to prevent the eavesdropping of any witnesses.
“Let’s bolt to Earth,” she said with eyes sparkling with mischief. “I heard Earth has some amazing ingredients, and didn’t Gracious Savior recently set up a gate to Earth in a corner of the lord’s manor? Let’s get moving! The farther away we get, the better.”
“Rinne will act as guide. Rinne always welcomes new gourmet data.”
Tiara, meanwhile, was unintentionally caught by her grandfather Edison, the technical advisor.
Just like that, two executives of the Gourmet Research Society had used two unfortunate fellow members as decoys and launched their grand escape to Earth.
* * *
“You’re saying my ears got longer?” Evangeline said as she lightly touched her ears. “
Hmm.
They look the same to me, though.”
Now that she had Davey’s permission to stream, and with the viewers on her side, there was nothing holding her back anymore—naturally, her streams had started to change in form and focus.
Her main content was still drawing, of course. Yet even so, she found herself casually chatting about her time in Tionis more and more while drawing.
[No, seriously, I saw an older photo and your ears were all round. Now they’re kinda pointy]
[If you’re gonna say that, the same goes for the horns.]
Reading the chat, Evangline wondered why her viewers bothered arguing amongst themselves about her appearance.
Letting out a sigh, she gently ran her fingers along the straight horns on either side of her head. Ever since they’d grown in, she hadn’t been able to wear her favorite hats the same way as before. Still, after getting a custom-made one designed to accommodate them, the inconvenience had mostly gone away.
“Isn’t it kinda weird, though?” She idly fiddled with a horn using her free hand while drawing with the other, prompting a stream of question marks to fill the chat.
[Boss, you good???]
[???? What now lol]
“Why are you all like this?! I was just asking if it seemed weird, that’s all...” Her voice grew quiet, and her cheeks flushed red.
[LOL cute]
[You tease her just a little, and she reacts right away. This is why we do it hehe]
“Want a ban?” Evangeline said as she narrowed her eyes and shot a glare at the camera. She could tell that the mischievous viewers averted their gazes like nothing had happened.
She saw a bunch of English words among the flood of messages in her chat.
There was one clear difference from her past streams—her audience wasn’t just Korean anymore. Though there weren’t that many in the beginning, more and more foreigners had started talking to her in English.
Reading one of the English messages, Evangeline let out a short groan. “You think I’m good at English?
Hmm.
Maybe?”
She tilted her head, and more English messages instantly rolled in, hyped by her response.
[Wait, how do all these English-speakers know what she's saying, anyways?]
[Yeah, it's not like there are English subtitles on the stream or something.]
Seeing their confusion, Evangeline offered a simple explanation.
“
Hmm.
My dad told me something about this. When I came from Tionis to this world, apparently, a certain authority took root in my body. It coincidentally got rid of language barriers around me, both spoken and written. So basically... What I’m speaking right now is Tionis language, yet you understand me, right?” she said with a smile.
[???]
[???]
[It’s straight up Korean though??]
[No, it’s English.]
Seeing so many viewers from different countries claiming they were hearing their own languages, Evangeline grinned mischievously. “
Hehe.
See? You hear me in your native language, right? That’s the power of my authority.”
The chat exploded in amused disbelief.
[Is this auto-translator magic for real?]
[Bruh that’s insane. A person wouldn’t need to learn English, Japanese, or Chinese. Nada.]
[Wait, does that mean written stuff changes too?]
“I’m not sure about the details, I just know that there won’t be any communication issues.
Oh,
but my dad’s fluent in Korean. And English too,” she said in a prideful tone. “My dad has an absolute eidetic memory. He never forgets anything he sees, so it never takes him much time to learn any language.”
Her chat immediately went wild.
[OP AF.]
[That's seriously OP LOL.]
[He remembers everything? His brain must be overheating. Probably on the verge of blowing up...]
[Are you actually dumb? Human memory doesn’t run out of space like a computer hard drive.]
[Look at her. Hating on her dad one second, bragging about him the next. Look at how big her smile is. So cute LMAO]
“H-Hey!! My smile isn’t
that
big! Stop talking nonsense!” she snapped with bright red cheeks as she angrily drew. “And don’t you dare say stuff like that in front of my dad! Got it?”
[Sir Whatever has donated 5,000 won.]
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.
An annoying little mocking emoticon popped up with the donation message, pushing her patience to the brink.
“
Uh,
a-anyway! We kinda got off topic. My horns and ears only changed more after I started streaming. From what I heard... Apparently, the attention you all give me turns into power that merges into my body. This kind of transformation is a natural result,” she explained as she gently tapped the noticeably pointier tips of her ears.
[Okay but seriously, aren’t those straight-up elf ears?]
[Too short to be a full elf. Half-elf maybe?]
[The shape’s kind of unusual though. It feels more demonic.]
The viewers were pretty much saying whatever was on their minds by that point.
“
Hmm.
I’ve met quite a few elves in the territory, so I guess for comparison... high elf ears are about...” Evangeline set down her pen and raised both hands to mimic longer ears beside her head. “They were about this long, I think.”
“Oh my, young lady. They aren’t that long.”
“No, I’m pretty sure they wer—wait...” She froze mid-sentence.
The chat simultaneously lit up in confusion.
[???]
[Whose voice was that?]
[Whoever that was, their voice is insanely refreshing.]
Evangeline quickly turned her head, clearly startled. Her eyes went wide. “Yuria!!”
Without hesitation, she rushed over and threw her arms around the person who had since appeared on screen. The viewers went absolutely wild at the figure’s sudden appearance.
[Holy shit!! It’s a real elf!!]
[I’ve only ever seen blurry photos taken from a distance! This is the first time I’ve seen an elf so close!!]
Yuria, who had escaped Tionis by filing a vacation request, had then stopped by simply to visit Evangeline, only to unknowingly walk right into her live stream.
The thing was, Yuria hadn’t heard any of the talking or realized that Evangeline was streaming. All she saw was her pretending to mimic elf ears while muttering to herself. She had no idea a camera was rolling and capturing her appearance on a livestream with tons of viewers.
“Wait, Yuria! How did you end up here?!”
“
Aha.
Well, you see...” Yuria scratched her cheek and awkwardly avoided eye contact. “The Gourmet Research Society had a little incident... and your father got very angry. So I,
uhhh,
ran away.”
“You did?! Why?”
“That’s... a secret,” Yuria replied with a faint, sweet smile.
Evangeline’s head tilted in confusion. “What did you do this time...?”
“More importantly... Young lady, did you try the tea I gave you the other day?”
Her face lit up with excitement, “
Oh!
Yes, I did! It was so good! But what was in it?”
Yuria smiled in response.
People concerned with their own well-being would know not to ask that question, as ignorance was bliss when it came to Yuria Helishana’s concoctions. Unfortunately for Evangeline, she’d never had much experience with that pesky elf’s culinary experiments, so she unintentionally gave Yuria the perfect setup to drop a truth bomb on her.
“I dried and tightly compressed the tail and spleen of a cruel boar, then used it as a natural filter for the drink. It really deepens the aroma of the ursil tea.”
Evangeline froze on the spot. The chat also froze for an instant before exploding with dumbfounded disbelief.
[???]
[What the hell did I just hear?]
[Hold on, shit...]
[Someone tell me she’s acting. Wait, does she even know she’s live? Did I just hear what I think I did??]
[
Ugh...
brb, I need to hit the bathroom.]
[Wait a sec. Aren’t elves supposed to, like, live in forests and respect lives or something...?]
[No... I can’t unhear that now... Please, ahhh...]
[Wtf...]
[OMG]
[XD]
While the chat was spiraling into total disarray, Evangeline had to rethink about what she had just heard.
“I’m just gonna hide out on Earth for a few days. I think the Gourmet Research Society might get suspended if things go wrong...” Yuria clarified.
Hearing her casual confession, Evangeline jerked her head to the side like a broken robot.
She then saw a message from the platform moderator.
[Warning issued.]
Previously oblivious to the chaos she had unleashed, Yuria finally noticed the notification sounds. With Evangeline still frozen in disbelief behind her, she calmly walked over and looked into the monitor.
“
Wow!
So this is one of those broadcast things,
huh
? I remember Gracious Savior mentioning it. I thought it sounded cool, but I didn’t think this many people could be inside such a tiny box.”
The chat, already in chaos, exploded even more.
[Okay, yeah, she’s gorgeous, but does she have no common sense when it comes to culinary decency?!]
[Why would someone with such a pretty face do that kind of thing...]
Yuria tilted her head in a cute way, blinking at the chat in confusion. “
Hmm?
Food ethics?
Oh.
That’s a weird way to put it. It tasted great, though? Our dear Miss Evangeline loved that tea so mu—”
Crash!!
Evangeline launched herself across the room and clamped her hands over Yuria’s mouth. “D-Don’t! Please stop talking!!”
Tears welled up in her eyes as she shoved Yuria back, desperately trying to contain the damage.
Alas, it was too late. The damage had been done.
The Gourmet Research Society, having just barely escaped disaster in Tionis, had then caused a major accident the moment they arrived on Earth.

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Chapter 1145