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525 – I Am a Fool

525 – I Am a Fool

Weeeeee-!

The sound of a drill, stimulating fear, and the unique scent of a dentist’s office.

Goosebumps erupted, and the hairs on my entire body stood on end.

“U-uwa…”

It was a different kind of fear than a ghost-infested Dungeon.

I’d almost rather pluck them out with thread at home.

“Juin ikguannya.”

Gaeul shook her head firmly and stepped out of the dentist’s office.

Saebyeok blocked Gaeul’s path.

“Gaeul, Gaeul won’t need that drill.”

“Annya?”

“Yeah. That’s for people with rotten teeth, but Gaeul’s tooth is just wobbly.”

“……!”

Gaeul regained her confidence at the good news that she didn’t need to have her teeth drilled.

Thinking it was nothing if it wasn’t for the drill, she strode to the desk.

“Annyattaeo.”

Bow.

Gaeul gave a deep bow to the nurse at the desk.

The nurse seemed pleased with Gaeul’s polite attitude and greeted her with a bright smile.

“What brings you here today?”

“Ikgu, ttaejukttaeo.”

Ah.

Gaeul opened her mouth and wiggled her tooth with her finger.

The nurse saw the wobbly tooth and tapped on the keyboard.

Then she pointed to the waiting room on one side of the dentist’s office.

“Could you wait over there for a moment?”

“Naek!”

The dentist’s office had fairy tale books and toys for children.

While playing with them, it was soon Gaeul’s turn.

“Please sit here.”

Gaeul sat in the chair at the dentist’s gesture.

When the chair automatically reclined, Gaeul giggled.

“Jjui…”

A pair of tongs appeared before Gaeul’s eyes as she giggled.

Gaeul’s laughter stopped at the sight of the gruesome object, whose purpose was unmistakable.

“Okay, open wide.”

“…Ing?”

Ah.

Gaeul opened her mouth and looked at me with wide eyes.

As the tongs approached her mouth, Gaeul’s eyes widened as if they would pop out, showing the whites all around.

“I’ll pull it out on the count of three.”

“……!”

The hairs on Gaeul’s body stood on end as the tongs entered her mouth.

When the dentist counted to one, he pulled out Gaeul’s canine tooth in one swift motion.

Pop-

Pulling out the tooth seemed to trigger something, and Gaeul froze like a statue.

Even when the dentist gave her gauze to bite on, Gaeul remained with the same surprised expression.

So, the dentist had no choice but to push her jaw shut himself.

“Looks like your friend is very surprised.”

“……”

Gaeul didn’t move even after the extraction was over.

It was as if only Gaeul’s time had stopped.

“Gaeul?”

Daeng-

Gaeul didn’t move.

Since we had to go outside, Saebyeok picked up the startled and frozen Gaeul and moved.

“Thank you for the treatment.”

I paid the bill and came out of the dentist’s building.

Even when we returned to the park, Gaeul was still not moving.

“Gaeul.”

Poke poke-

When I poked Gaeul’s cheek, her mouth opened slightly.

That was all the movement Gaeul showed.

“Wanga! Gaeul the puppy isn’t moving!”

“I know this. Gaeul’s lagging.”

Lagging.

It kind of seemed like that.

“Gaeul, were you very scared…?”

Even though I apologized, Gaeul didn’t move.

How big of a shock did she have to be this frozen?

I was just watching Gaeul, feeling sorry, when.

Pop-!

Gaeul’s extracted canine tooth instantly grew back.

With the grown tooth, Gaeul, who had been frozen, began to move again.

“Ikgu! Ikgu natto!”

Gaeul giggled, pressing the tip of her grown canine tooth with her finger.

She acted as if nothing had happened until now.

“Gaeul, are you okay?”

“Naek! Gaeurik ikgu natto!”

She was surprised that her tooth disappeared, but it grew back, so she’s okay.

I asked Gaeul, just in case.

“Gaeul, did you think it would take a long time for your tooth to grow back?”

“Naeng!”

“How long did you think it would take?”

At my question, Gaeul took out a 100-won coin.

“Eng.”

Is she talking about 100 days?

Surely not 100 years?

I felt like I knew why Gaeul was so surprised.

“Juin ikgu.”

Gaeul handed me the extracted tooth.

Gaeul always gave me anything that looked good.

“Gaeul, you have to give the tooth to the tooth fairy, not me.”

“Yojok?!”

“Yeah. If you put your tooth under your pillow when you sleep at night, the tooth fairy will give you pocket money and take the tooth while you sleep?”

“……!”

Gaeul, with her tail perked up, handed me the tooth again.

Her eyes were sparkling, as if she was looking forward to the tooth fairy.

“Gaeul, the tooth… Ah.”

Come to think of it, I’m Gaeul’s pillow.

It seemed like it would be okay if I took Gaeul’s canine tooth.

“Okay. I’ll give this to the tooth fairy.”

“Haek…!”

I put Gaeul’s canine tooth in my pocket and thought.

The pocket money was a lot of 100-won coins.

**

After the dental office commotion, we returned to the Ggaemmi Guild building.

Having nothing to do, I watched Shin Hae-il teach Haneul and Betty.

“To find out the hardness of a Monster Magic stone…”

Haneul is learning step by step from the basics.

As I was silently thanking Shin Hae-il for teaching them well, two people opened the guild door and came in.

It was our Master and Hanyeoreum.

“Gyeoul, hello.”

“Hello.”

I ran to Hanyeoreum and Master.

Just standing in front of them made me giggle.

“Are you here to hang out?”

“No, today we came to have a serious conversation between Masters.”

“Heok?”

I’m the Master of the Ggaemmi Guild.

Are they here for official business, not personal?

I quickly brought chairs for Master and Hanyeoreum.

“Would you like some dandelion honey tea?”

“No, not today.”

Master sat in the chair with a rather serious expression.

I also brought a chair and sat in front of Master.

“What brings you here?”

“I have a job to assign.”

“A job? What kind of job?”

At my question, Hanyeoreum picked me up and sat in the chair I had been sitting in.

I naturally ended up sitting on Hanyeoreum’s lap.

“The guild regularly manages beginner hunting grounds, you know? It’s for the purpose of helping beginner adventurers and finding hidden talents.”

“Yes. I know that.”

I also received help from several guilds at first.

But I didn’t improve for a long time, so I just caused trouble.

Thinking about the past, I suddenly lost strength in my shoulders.

“I didn’t have any talent, but I was always helped, so I was very grateful…”

“U-ung… hehe…”

Hanyeoreum smiled awkwardly.

It was not a good past for her or me, but it was not a past I wanted to forget.

“After all, we met like this. So, it remains a good past for me.”

“…Is that so?”

The awkwardness disappears from Hanyeoreum’s smile.

As she gently stroked my head, my tail began to wag.

“So, the job you want to entrust to me is…”

“The guild is going to be a bit busy this time, so I’d like Gyeoul’s team to take care of this.”

“I see.”

Helping beginner adventurers grow.

I, who used to receive help, have come to the point of helping others.

For some reason, my heart started to beat faster.

“Yes. We’ll help you.”

“Thank you. Then let’s go to the hunting grounds together tomorrow morning. Tomorrow, I’ll show you how to do it.”

“Yes. Sounds good.”

The first guild task I received was to help beginner adventurers.

I was already looking forward to it.

**

The next morning.

Gaeul ran to me as I was preparing to go out.

She must have just woken up, but her eyes were sparkling.

“Juin! Jjuuiiin!”

“Gaeul, what’s wrong?”

“Ikgu!!!!!”

Gaeul held out her hands to me.

A lot of 100-won coins were placed on Gaeul’s palm.

“Wow, the tooth fairy must have given you money.”

“Haek…!”

Gaeul hopped around like a Horned Rabbit.

At the commotion, the children appeared one by one, rubbing their eyes.

“Gyeoul, are you already getting ready?”

“Yeah.”

Bomi yawned and took out her laptop.

She skillfully tapped on the keyboard and wrote down our work schedule.

“Wanga! Are you going to be a teacher?!”

“Yeah. Today, I’m a teacher at the beginner hunting grounds.”

“……!”

Levinas, who had shaken off his sleepiness, ran to the bathroom.

That’s how we finished our preparations simply and came out of the house with Hanyeoreum.

“Um, but which beginner hunting grounds are we going to?”

“Horned Squirrel hunting grounds.”

“Horned Squirrels?”

“Yeah. Because Horned Rabbit won’t do.”

Hanyeoreum whispered to me.

Certainly, a hunting ground with Horned Rabbit would be too difficult for us with Levinas.

“Teacher! Levinas teacher!”

The beginner hunting grounds arrived with Levinas’s song.

Despite it being early in the morning, quite a few people were out hunting.

“Hey! The Horned Squirrel is going over there!”

“Drive it!”

“Hey! There’s one more over there!”

Children running around playfully, and adventurers hunting quite seriously.

Among them, I could also see skilled adventurers who had come to help beginner adventurers.

“Ugh, why are Horned Squirrels so fast?”

“They’re fast because they’re four-legged beasts.”

“But they don’t do any damage.”

Poke poke-

The beginner adventurer was poked several times by the Horned Squirrel’s horns.

The Horned Squirrel was more aggressive than the Horned Rabbit, but fortunately, it only caused minor scratches.

“Hey, don’t be too careless. There was someone who got stabbed by a Horned Rabbit in the stomach in the past.”

The person who came to help the beginner adventurer warned.

I couldn’t help but be embarrassed by their conversation.

‘Are they talking about me?’

I couldn’t help it because I didn’t have Mana back then.

My ears drooped at the gloominess.

“Hey, I know you want to scare them, but what idiot gets their stomach pierced by a Horned Rabbit?”

“Hey, it’s true, okay? This is a pretty famous story?”

“Hey.”

Watching the beginner adventurer wave his hand dismissively, I lay face down on the ground.

It was a famous story.

Why didn’t only I know?

I, who had become an idiot, became listless.

Author’s Note

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