chapter_0541

541 – Let’s Catch the Criminal

541 – Let’s Catch the Criminal

The next day.

I went to the mart again with the children and bought the ingredients.

We decided to decorate the picnic on the day of with various drawing tools.

“Wanga! Wanga! Look at the picture Levinas drew!”

“Wow, Levinas, you can even draw dragons now?”

“Yeah! Levinas might become a drawing teacher at this rate!”

Ahem.

I stroked Levinas’s head as he puffed out his chest.

Then, I looked at the other children’s drawings.

“Bomi, is this a mermaid?”

“Yeah. This is Marin mermaid, this is Gyeoul mermaid, this is Haneul mermaid, and…”

Is it the mermaid version of me and the kids?

It was so nice to see them swimming happily in the sea.

“Wow, Sophia became a mermaid too.”

“Yeah. Sophia too… but isn’t Sophia originally a mermaid?”

“Huh?”

That’s right?

Sophia and Marin were the same Beastmen.

Still, Sophia’s drawing with a fish lower body was unique.

“Shall we draw other people as mermaids too?”

“Yeah. I’m going to draw Argo mermaid too.”

Bomi drew a lizard mermaid on blue paper.

As I watched with fascinated eyes, Saebyeok came over and put something on Bomi’s drawing.

“Anchovies?”

“Yeah. Doesn’t it look like a real sea with anchovies?”

“Yeah. It’s totally the sea.”

The salty smell of the sea wafts from the dried anchovies.

Bomi seemed to like the anchovies that Saebyeok put on, so she fixed the anchovies to the picture with transparent tape.

“I’ll put it on my mouth.”

Saebyeok put dried anchovies on the mouth of the Saebyeok mermaid in the picture.

Mermaid Saebyeok really likes anchovies too.

I giggled and turned to Gaeul.

Tap- tap- tap- tap-

Gaeul was making countless dots with a black crayon.

More than thousands of dots were marked on the white paper, which was bigger than Gaeul’s body.

“Gaeul, what are you drawing?”

“Ggaemmi!”

“Ah.”

Ants.

At first, I wondered what it was, but once I knew it was ants, it looked like a pretty plausible picture.

“Shall I help you?”

“Heck…!”

With Gaeul’s permission, I picked up a gray crayon.

I have to draw gray ants and fire ants too.

Tap- tap- tap-

It was so easy to draw because all I had to do was make dots.

Thanks to that, I was able to admire Haneul’s painting while drawing.

Perhaps thanks to the blacksmith’s unique craftsmanship, Haneul’s painting skills were considerable.

He was drawing a burly, muscular Beastmen, and the expression of the muscles was amazing.

“Haneul, who is this?”

“Master…!”

“Me, me…?”

I’m not that muscular.

Does Haneul see me as this great and strong?

It’s an amazing picture, but I didn’t particularly dislike it because Haneul thought of me so well.

“Amazing. I look so strong.”

“Yes…! Master is a super Beastmen…!”

Haneul really thinks of me as great.

I have to work harder so that Haneul doesn’t feel ashamed to see me.

Sophia approached us as we made such a resolution.

“Are you all doing well?”

“Yes.”

Sophia looked at the pictures we were drawing one by one and chuckled.

This is an ant colony, and that muscular Beastmen is me.

Sophia, who recognized all the pictures at a glance and smiled kindly, began to clear her throat.

“Gyeoul, I found the one who took Gaeul’s bag.”

“Already?”

“Yes, at Yeomyeong, we also protect the area, so it’s easy to access information such as CCTV.”

“Ah…”

The guild had such great power.

It was used to catch criminals, so it couldn’t be said to be abuse.

“How about it, should I take care of it for you?”

“Hmm…”

We don’t have to deal with scary people ourselves.

Just as I was about to nod, Levinas jumped up from his seat.

“Levinas is going!”

“Levinas?”

“Yeah! I’m going to punish the person who took Gaeul’s precious bag!”

With Levinas’s words, the children jumped up from their seats.

They looked quite fierce.

“Yeah. Then let’s do it ourselves.”

It would be a good experience to deal with bad people.

Of course, it could be dangerous, so we decided to take an adult with us.

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“Ensia and Argo, please don’t step forward as much as possible. Let’s solve it among ourselves first.”

“Yes. I understand.”

“Got it! Captain!”

We took Ensia and Argo to the high school that Sophia told us about.

We couldn’t disturb the class, so we waited in the hallway for the class to end.

Ding-dong-dang-dong-

The bell rang, signaling the end of one class.

I hurried to the classroom window with the children where the culprit was.

“Wanga! The window is too high!”

“I know.”

The windows of the high school were higher than we thought.

So, we had no choice but to jump up and down to see inside.

“Huh? Why are the Beastmen kids here?”

“I know…?”

The high school students’ attention was focused on us.

In less than a minute, the hallway began to be crowded with people to see us.

“What’s going on? What’s happening?”

“I know.”

There are too many people watching.

Should we come back at the end of the day?

As I glanced at the stairs leading outside, Gaeul started running into the classroom.

“Gaeul?”

“Chatto! Chatto!”

Gaeul ran towards a group of students sitting at desks in the classroom and chatting.

It was a group of male and female students, and they were the ones who stole our bags.

It was so terrible to see them throwing away the children’s precious things carelessly while laughing.

As soon as I saw them, my ears drooped.

Of course, unlike me, Gaeul was in a very fierce state.

“Yak!”

Gaeul shouted and reached out to a group of male students.

It seemed like she was asking for the stolen bag back.

“What?”

“What is it.”

The students looked at Gaeul, puzzled.

They didn’t seem to know that Gaeul was the owner of the bag they stole yesterday.

“……..”

When there was no response even though she reached out for the bag, Gaeul hesitated for a moment and reached out with both hands.

This time, it felt quite polite.

“Juttaeo…”

“…What are you asking for?”

“Aeng…”

Gaeul’s ears droop sadly.

Then Levinas ran up and started throwing punches into the air.

“Tussi! Tussi!”

Levinas continued to throw punches, making threatening noises with his mouth.

Since the other person was a scary and dangerous person, Levinas seemed to be trying to act scary too.

“Tu, tussi…”

Haneul, who was watching this, carefully stretched out his mechanical arm.

Saebyeok, who was next to him, lightly threw a punch, and a sonic boom came out of his fist.

“Juttaeo…”

“No, what are you asking for?”

“You guys stole our bags yesterday! If you don’t give back the bags quickly, I’ll turn you into frogs?!”

Black Mana rises above Bomi’s hand.

The students flinched in surprise, so I quickly grabbed Bomi’s arm.

Even if the other person was a thief, I had no intention of using magic against the students.

“So, what kind of bag are you asking for?”

“You took Gaeul’s bag, crayons, and colored paper yesterday…”

I was scared, but I mustered up the courage to tell them.

Then the students who had gathered to watch began to buzz.

“No, seriously, they stole the kids’ crayons?”

“Are they crazy?”

“Wow… that’s really bad.”

At a female student’s contemptuous voice, the student in the center of the group flinched.

“No, why are you blaming innocent people? What if we didn’t take it?”

“That’s… we have CCTV footage…”

“……..”

The student closed his mouth at the word CCTV.

I wondered if I had mistaken the person, but it turned out that he was the culprit.

“Please give me the bag… it’s really precious…”

“Juttaeo…”

As Gaeul reached out with her hands, someone opened the classroom door and appeared.

It was a middle-aged adult man, and he looked like a teacher at the school.

“What’s going on?”

“……..”

The students began to look at the teacher and the students who had gathered.

Then, they began to wave their hands at us.

“I, I don’t know, I left it on the bus.”

“Ah…”

Then it might be in the lost and found at the bus terminal.

Our purpose was to find the bag, not to punish the students.

So, without hesitation, I turned around and walked out of the classroom.

“Wow, that’s really bad.”

“No, they stole the kids’ colored paper, not money or a cell phone?”

“Ah! I have colored paper, should I give it to the kids?!”

“Go give it to them quickly.”

The students’ image was collapsing among the students.

Delinquent teenagers in this period regarded going to the police station or jail as a badge of honor.

It might be a bigger punishment for teenagers in this period, who value their image the most.

I felt sorry, but… this is what they deserve?

I tried to erase the troubled mind and called the children.

“Kids, let’s go.”

Even when I called, Levinas was punching the air.

Levinas silently pointed at the student with his finger, then slammed his fist on the desk.

Kong-

With a small echo, Levinas rubbed his hand.

It was cool to see him maintaining his fierce eyes while rubbing it.

It must hurt, but he’s holding back.

I would have been surprised in the old days, but our Levinas has grown up.

Of course, he couldn’t hide all the pain.

Levinas’s ears were perked up.

But this was cool enough.

A word from the author (author’s note)

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