Chapter 14- The Ancient Language

Earth POV:

A sharp pain at the back of my head was felt and memories started flooding in as my consciousness was coming back to me.

I remember it all! Shit! To think he made me forget we had sex! And it apparently was mostly him toying with my body!?

My eyes which were closed snapped open, only to look directly into another pair of green beautiful eyes. My first reaction was trying to punch their owner in the face with all my strength.

"Oy! What do you think you're doing?"

He caught my fist before the contact was made and I glared at him in return with hate in my eyes.

"Punching the source of my agony of course!"

"Hahaha, too bad you are too weak to do that"

He is fucking laughing at me in my face! I'll kill this bastard for what he did to me!

"I'll curse you to death!"

"Oh? Is my wife unsatisfied with something?"

"Who the hell is your wife?! I'll never marry a prick like you!"

He looked at me with a bit of shock in his eyes, which satisfied me greatly.

"You sure can talk! I'm a bit surprised"

"Why? Is it because your IQ is so low that you thought I'll forgive you for what you've done?"

Suddenly his face contorted in anger, and for some reason, because his face were so beautiful, the result was so terrifying that I shivered. Only now I realized that this whole time I was being held in his arms as he was seating on the floor. I couldn't escape.

"Dear wife, you better learn how to treat your husband proparly, or he'll never teach you magic."

I panicked at his words.

I forgot I was depending on him to teach me magic....

"No, no, please! I'm sorry! Please teach me magic!"

I was too afraid to lose this chance that I didn't even retort on him calling me wife.

"I don't know...I don't think you truly understand..."

"I do! I do! Please! I'll do anything!"

He stopped and seemed to be thinking for a second before smiling at me in a way that gave me shivers again.

"Then I'll teach you first how to use your ability [Eye Of God]"

"huh?"

This is definitely not the response I was expecting from him.

"Really?"

"Yes. Maybe once you see my stats you'll show me a bit more respect"

So this is what he was thinking....

"Can you let go of me first though? I can't properly concentrate like this"

"Why? Am I too distracting to you?"

"...."

"Oh?"

"Just teach me please."

"Fine..."

He let go of my body and I crawled away and sat in front of him on the floor ready to receive my first lesson.

"Are you comfortable now?"

He seemed to be unsatisfied.

"Yeah."

"Then let's start."

He now wore a business look on his face.

Shit this look can melt your eyes! Stupid Ikeman!

"To begin, you need to read the description of the skill in your [Status Window]. You don't actually need to see all of your statuses right now, so just think 'Status Window Eye Of God description' in order to see just this information"

"It's that simple?"

"Actually no. In order for a normal person to see his status window they have to use some mana, and to see only specific things costs even more mana."

"Really? But when I first opened the status window I didn't see any mana deduction".

"That is odd...maybe the God helped you out".

"It doesn't matter anyway. I'm gonna try doing what you said".

I thought of the words [Status window Eye Of God description] and a window popped in front of my eyes, but what I seen were words I did not recognize.

[Eye Of God]

העיניים של אלוהים. מאפשרות לאדם לקרוא את המידע של כל חפץ ובעל חיים שיבחר ללמוד עליו. על מנת להפעיל יש צריכת אנרגייה של 10 MP לפריט. בהמשך כשהיכולת תתפתח צריכת ה-MP תצנח. אם תבחר להשתמש ביכולת תאמר את המילים ״האר עיניי״.

I was dumbfounded.

Didn't the God say he gave me the ability to speak and read the language of this world?

Seeing my confused reaction, Deai-San spoke.

"What's wrong? Why are you making this stupid face?"

I glared at him in response.

"I cannot read the description. It's in a language I don't understand"

"Oh? But I thought you were given an ability for that?"

"Me too...."

"Please copy the text to this paper for me to see"

As he said that he handed me a paper and something that looked like a see trough pencil with no lead or ink inside. I was looking at it with doubt, thinking how is it supposed to write.

"Your old world didn't have etim?"

"Huh? We had something else we wrote with...how does this write without any ink?"

"Why would you need ink? It uses magic to write"

"Really?"

"Why are you doubting me?"

"I wonder why really?!"

I couldn't help it this time.

He gave me a stern look before pointing at the paper rushing me to start writing.

After I finished copying he took the paper and looked at it. Then, a look of surprise spread on his face.

"Huh? What is it? Can you not read it as well?"

"Stop jumping to conclusions! Do you think your husband is dumb? Of course I can read it!"

"You are not my husband! Anyway, tell me what it says."

"It's in the ancient language of this world. It is barely used anymore"

"Huh? Is that why I couldn't read it?"

"Probably. What was that God thinking writing with it? You could have died before finding someone who can read this!"

"But you can read this...?..."

"Well yeah...but I'm not just anyone."

"So what does it say?"

"I think it will be more efficient starting to teach you to read this language a bit yourself first."

"Huh?!?! Why?! I have you to read me!"

I really don't want to start learning a new language just to use magic.

"Because if the description is in the ancient language, the ability probably will show you the information in that language as well."

"What? No way!"

"I only said probably, but it is most likely true."

"Shit! This God totally made a fool out of me!"

Deai-San looked at me with pity in his eyes, which only made me more annoyed. Sensing that, he finally got to the point.

"The ancient language got 22 letters and is written from right to left. The first letter is ׳א׳ (Alef) and can be pronounced as 'Ah' or 'Eh' when written alone. In order to make other sounds you have to write it with the letters:(yud) ׳ו׳, ׳י׳ (vav) and ׳ה׳ (hey). When ׳אה׳ is written you get the sounds 'Ah' or 'Eh', depending on the word. ׳אי׳ is pronounced like the name of the letter, 'E'. And ׳ו׳ combined with another letter like the letter ׳א׳ sounds like 'O' or 'U'. ׳ו׳, ׳י, and ׳ה׳ are the letters in charge of the sounds the letters make. Do you understand so far?"

"I think so... In order to write 'Ah' or 'Eh' I use ׳ה׳, so it is practically equivalent to the letter 'H'. In order to write 'U' or 'O' I use ׳ו׳ with another one of the letters, and in order to make a sound like the name of the letter 'E' makes, I use ׳י׳ ?"

"You got the idea pretty fast! I'm impressed! Just don't make a mistake. This letters are also letters that have sounds themselves. For example, ׳ו׳ is equivalent to 'V' on her own. Vav (׳ו׳) is also used as equivalent to the word 'and' when written at the start of most words. For example, lets take two words with this letter from the text you copied."

"Ok, how about: ׳לקרוא׳ and ׳ובעל׳?"

As I could not read the words I only pointed at them.

"Excellent! ׳לקרוא׳ is read like 'Likro" and the meaning of this word is 'To read'. Here the letter Vav (׳ו׳) is used in order to make another letter sound like 'O', this time it's the letter 'Reish' (׳ר׳), which is the equivalent to 'R'."

"What about the other word?"

"The other word is ׳ובעל׳. It is read like 'Vebaal' and means 'And owns'. Here the letter Vav is used as the word 'and'. Well, anyway, for now this language is to complicated for you so I'll translate the copied part for you in the new language which you can read"

To tell you the truth I was starting to get a headache from all this information, so this statement made me feel better.

"Thank god...so what does it say?"

"It says: 'Eyes of God. Allows a person to read the information of every object or life form he chooses to learn about. In order to activate there's an energy consumption of 10 MP per item. Later when the ability evolve the MP consumption will lessen. If you choose to use the ability say the words 'Haer Einai'."

"So in order to use the skill I have to use words from the ancient language?"

"That's what it says. Try saying the words"

"Har Enai"

I tried repeating his words but it did not sound right.

"Not 'Har' it's 'Haer'. 'Har' means mountain, 'Haer' means enlighten or light. Also, it's not 'Enai'. That is not a real word! It's 'Einai' which means 'my eyes'."

"So 'Haer Einai' means 'enlightened my eyes'?"

I must have said the words correctly because information started flooding my mind. I was surrounded by numbers and words all over the place which caused my head to hurt like hell, consumed my MP like crazy and made me feel faint. The longer it continued the more tired I became as it ate my MP away.

"My head....ah....Make it stop!"

"If to activate the skill you say 'Haer Einai' try saying 'Hachshech Einai'...'Ch' is like when you clear your throat, when you are gargling or when you are growling."

"Ha...hach..Hachshech Einai!"

Suddenly all the information disappeared and I could breathe again.

"What was that?! Is that what the God sees all the time?! This is crazy!"

I was still in mental pain from this experience just now. Suddenly I felt warmth surround my body as it was taken into the embrace of Deai-San. I was baffled by this turn of events and just froze there. His body was so warm and comforting unlike his personality, and I just wanted to let myself be hugged by him.

"I'm sorry you had to go through that. I should have known that it will be to much for you in your current level, but I wanted to prove a point and ignored the voice of reason, causing you to feel so much pain."

I was stunned.

Did Deai-San just apologize to me? There is no way that just happened right? Right?!

He was hugging me so gently that I couldn't help but be moved by it.

Maybe he is not as bad as I thought he is....?

In the end we stayed like that for a long time before we both fell asleep still hugging.