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657 – The Impulse of a Cat

657 – The Impulse of a Cat

Cat ghosts, huh?

That was a truly amusing idea.

Here, I decided to punish the cat ghost as Gaeul wanted.

“You rascal.”

I picked up the cup with a light scolding.

When I made a scary face at the cup, Levinas and Gaeul imitated my expression.

“If you keep being scary, I’ll ‘tte-jji’ you?”

“Jju-ing.”

Gaeul tugged at my sleeve, which I was using to threaten the cup.

Wondering what was wrong, I turned to look, and Gaeul shook her head hesitantly.

“Gaeul, what’s wrong?”

“No ‘tte-jji’.”

“Really? Should we not ‘tte-jji’ since it’s too scary?”

“Neng…!”

Thanks to Gaeul’s consideration, the cat ghost was able to avoid the ‘tte-jji’.

Of course, it wasn’t a real cat ghost, but I was happy to see Gaeul’s kind heart.

“Don’t do that again, okay?”

I pretended to scold the cat ghost and wiped the moisture from the bottom of the cup with my sleeve.

Then, I put the cup back on the table and said to the children.

“I scolded it, so it won’t move anymore.”

“Really?!”

“Yeah. Want to see?”

At my words, the children sat in their chairs and watched the cup.

It would be boring to just keep watching, so we also chatted.

It wasn’t a grand story, just about the Animal King animation.

“Since Levinas is the Horned Rabbit, the hero of the Fire Dragon, how about Gaeul being the Ultimate Lightning Puppy?”

“Lightning joah!”

“Then… Heok! Matta! The cup…!”

“……!”

Levinas and Gaeul, who had momentarily forgotten, were startled and checked the cup.

The cup, which had been wiped dry, hadn’t moved even a millimeter.

“The cup didn’t move!”

“Uwak!”

Did they think I had punished the ghost?

The children cheered and rejoiced.

Just as I was about to tell the children the truth, Saebyeok appeared, opening the door.

“……”

Saebyeok looked at us and moved towards the refrigerator.

She took out water from the refrigerator, tapped the paper cup next to the sink, and dropped it to the floor.

“Ooh.”

Seemingly in a good mood, Saebyeok’s tail wagged gently.

Saebyeok, with her strong feline instincts, sometimes relieved her instincts in this way.

‘Would it be fun?’

No, it would be fun, right?

I also had some feline instincts, so I could fully understand Saebyeok’s feelings.

Of course, I could control it to some extent…

“Juin-juin.”

I was watching Saebyeok pick up the dropped paper cup when Gaeul tugged at my sleeve again.

“Gaeul, what’s wrong?”

“Black-juin ttaek annya.”

“Yeah. Saebyeok doesn’t ‘ttaek’.”

Unlike the cat ghost, Saebyeok cleans up after herself.

And she never throws things that break or spill and are done for good.

As I stroked Gaeul’s head, telling her it was okay, Saebyeok approached us, drinking water.

“Am I ‘ttaek’?”

“No, Saebyeok isn’t ‘ttaek’.”

“What about me?”

“Yeah. Actually, someone was about to throw a milk cup down, so I scolded them.”

“Who was it?”

“Um… Friction?”

“I see.”

Saebyeok sat in the chair next to us.

Watching Saebyeok gulp down water, I couldn’t help but become curious.

“Saebyeok, you have strong instincts, right?”

“Yeah.”

“Then, is the satisfaction you get from relieving those instincts also strong?”

“Yeah. It’s strong.”

“I see.”

Just how much satisfaction is it?

Is it comparable to the satisfaction of clearing a Dungeon?

I was lost in my imagination when I belatedly decided to explain friction to the children.

**

I was playing with the children when I got a call from Yoon Chaerin, telling me to come to the guild building for some bungeoppang.

I arrived at the guild building to find a big commotion.

“Ugh! Sweet food! I want sweet food!”

“Ah, really…”

“Bring more chocolate! No! Bring it all!”

An adventurer I sometimes saw at the training grounds was causing a ruckus.

He was always polite and well-mannered, but suddenly he was acting like someone who had lost his mind.

Faced with this strange situation, I had no choice but to grab a nearby adventurer and ask what was going on.

“Um, what’s going on…?”

“Oh, he just touched the wrong item in the Dungeon.”

“Item?”

“Yeah. It’s a compensatory item that amplifies impulses…”

It slightly enhances abilities in exchange for amplifying impulses.

It was said to be an item that needed to be used carefully because of its clear demerit.

‘He said sweet food, right?’

The adventurer causing the ruckus usually refrained from sweets for the sake of his muscles.

Now, because of the item, he couldn’t control his impulse for sweets.

An item that messes with impulses.

I was staring at the adventurer with curious eyes when…

“……”

He approached me with a very angry expression.

He definitely said he couldn’t control his impulses, right?

Why is he making such a scary face?

As I cautiously took a step back, he reached out his hand towards me at an incredible speed.

“……!”

I was startled and flinched when I noticed it.

He was holding chocolate in his hand.

“Gyeoul, eat chocolate.”

“Y-yes…”

As I received the chocolate, he ran towards the guild building with a satisfied expression.

…What?

Did he just want to give me chocolate?

I thought he was going to be violent, but he wasn’t particularly violent.

“I’m sorry, Gyeoul. I’ll get him treated soon.”

“Yes.”

I watched him leave, receiving the apology of another adventurer.

He looked quite satisfied, probably because he had eaten chocolate.

‘Impulse amplification, huh.’

What would happen to me if I used that?

Would I be unable to hold back and unleash a lot of wildness?

That would be very dangerous.

As I was imagining myself unable to control my impulses, Saebyeok came up and tapped me on the shoulder.

“Gyeoul, do you want to try using that?”

“Um… It’s not that I want to try it, I was just imagining what it would be like if I used it.”

“If Gyeoul used it…”

“You know how I used to get really fierce a long time ago? Wouldn’t it be similar to that?”

“Wouldn’t it be a little different from that?”

“Is that so?”

There are so many different items in the world.

Perhaps knowing a lot about the functions of items was an essential virtue for an adventurer.

**

I shared bungeoppang with the children in the park.

Everyone liked bungeoppang, but Bomi seemed to like it the most.

“Hey guys, let’s ask them to make Marin bread later.”

“Marin bread?”

“Yeah. It’ll definitely be more popular than bungeoppang.”

“If it’s Marin, it probably would be.”

Because Marin is pretty.

Kihihik, as I was laughing while eating bungeoppang, I spotted our Master walking through the park.

“Ahjussi.”

I ran up with the bungeoppang and put it in Master’s mouth.

Master accepted the bungeoppang I gave him without refusing.

“Where are you coming from?”

“Just, I went to check something.”

“Check?”

What did he go to check?

I tilted my head, then noticed the lightsaber tied to Master’s waist.

“Correct! A new weapon!”

“…Correct.”

Master stroked my head, saying I was right.

As expected, you have to have good observational skills.

“Hehe.”

I looked up at Master with a happy smile when someone called my name from afar and ran towards me.

It was the adventurer who had given me chocolate earlier, unable to control his impulses.

“G-Gyeoul…! I’m really sorry about earlier…! It was because of the item…!”

“It’s okay. It was because of the item.”

I looked at the item the adventurer held out.

It was an item that looked like a red ruby.

Why do most items look like jewels?

Is that a good way to bring out the item’s abilities?

As I was examining the item, I heard Master’s voice from above.

“What did you do?”

“I gave her sweet and delicious chocolate.”

“Hmm…”

“The chocolate was really delicious.”

I want to eat it again.

As I was thinking that and tapping the ruby, a red aura began to spread from the ruby.

“Uh…?”

“……?!”

The ruby’s red aura seeped into my body.

I could intuitively tell that this was the aura that amplified impulses that I had only heard about.

“Ah…!”

I reflexively squeezed my eyes shut.

I covered my face with both hands, and after a few seconds, I slowly lowered them again.

“That aura just now…”

The aura that amplified impulses had entered my body.

I quickly checked my condition, but I didn’t feel particularly violent.

I didn’t unleash any wildness either.

What is it?

I thought my feline ferocity would be amplified because of the impulse, but it wasn’t particularly like that?

As I was looking around my body, I sat down on a nearby bench.

“Gyeoul, are you okay? Something flashed just now.”

“Yeah. It seems like the item’s aura entered me, but it doesn’t seem like anything has changed…”

I stopped talking and looked down at the bungeoppang bag.

Looking at the bungeoppang bag sitting alone on the bench, an irresistible instinct began to erupt from the depths of my heart.

“Ugh…!”

“Master…! What’s wrong…?!”

“This is hard to resist…”

“Is it… some kind of beastly instinct…?”

Haneul, thinking it was a dangerous situation, looked anxious.

But fortunately, what I couldn’t resist wasn’t some kind of beastly instinct.

Tok-

I knocked the bungeoppang bag off the bench.

Watching the bungeoppang bag fall weakly, an unknown sense of satisfaction began to fill me.

“Hehe.”

This is fun.

My tail wagged gently with satisfaction.

Author’s Words (Author’s Afterword)

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