episode_0004

“Ha! Whoa! Ugh… ! Ah…!”

Ker is making a loud noise.

“That’s rude, Ker. If you’re a woman, you should make a prettier sound.”

“It’s my heart!”

Ker reacts nervously to Kuen’s point.

The two are fighting at a distance from me.

It is not a serious fight, but a kind of play to relieve excitement.

“If you want to catch me, you have to move faster.”

“Eee..! Stand there!”

Kuen, who is usually like a sloth, now moves so fast that we cannot follow him with our eyes, and escapes Ker’s pursuit.

In addition, his speaking style became faster than usual, to the point where he spoke a little faster.

Kuen’s gift (superpower) is acceleration.

It is a fraudulent gift that makes you at least 5 times faster than others.

It’s not just about speeding up.

For Kuen now, the world has slowed down five times.

In other words, you can say that you are moving as usual, but the world has slowed down and appears to be fast to others.

puck-

“Ugh…!”

Kuen’s fist entered Ker’s defenseless abdomen.

He must have lost all his strength and hit him, but Ker held his stomach and whined, probably because it was painful.

“Ii..!”

Ker is so angry that he kicks the ground roughly and loses his temper.

No matter how agile Kerr is, it is impossible to catch up with Quen’s speed while it is accelerating.

Ker also knows this, so he uses his brain to chase after it, but since Kuen has gained experience by hunting countless criminals, he does not take it easy.

There is nothing you can do. In the end, Ker is thoroughly fooled.

This is Kuen’s way of playing with Ker. She likes to play around even when killing.

“Are you giving up already?”

“Ugh! no! Don’t give up!”

Kerr is attacked by Kuen’s provocation.

As expected, Kuen moves behind Ker in an instant and subdues him.

“Even if this happens, you won’t give up?”

“Ugh… surrender… ”

When Ker announces his surrender, Kuen releases Jeap.

And then I must have eased the acceleration, and my shoulders slumped as usual.

“Whoaah – cancer. As expected – Geo-eon playing with Kerr – I’m tired – ”

Kuen walks toward me, sobbing.

He lay down with his head on my lap, where I was sitting and watching.

“Zeek – How was I?”

“It was fast.”

“Sensam- That’s it~?”

“It’s about appreciation… As expected, he is an anti-personnel combat specialist. He controlled his strength well so as not to get hurt, and his subduing was excellent.”

Kuen, who was listening to my impressions, said with a disappointed expression.

“……When you ask me that- I wasn’t- so what happened- because a compliment is a compliment—”

When Kuen reached out to my face again, I blocked his hand.

“No.”

“Hmm—”

Kuen looks dissatisfied.

Now the expressions are very colorful.

“Well, instead of that–”

Kuen clasped my hand that was blocking it.

All you can do is clap your hands. It may not be possible to solve it in the first place because of the difference in grip strength.

“Ahh! Except me again!”

Ker quickly regained his energy and ran towards me, wagging his tail.

As expected, I naturally lay down with my knees on my back.

“Zeek! Pat me! Pat pat!”

“Yes, yes.”

I stroked Ker’s head as he rested on his knees.

Ker smiled brightly and wagged his tail lightly.

Just a moment ago, I couldn’t control my temper and lost my temper…

‘Simple guy.’

For reference, I say Ker is a beastman, but there are no beastmen in the world of this game.

Of course, children cannot be born between a wolf and a human, and Ker is not cosplaying as a werewolf.

To briefly summarize Ker’s backstory.

There was a culture of periodically offering live sacrifices to the wolf god worshiped by indigenous people in uncivilized remote areas.

Ker was the living sacrifice, and she was supposed to die in vain, but by chance, the real wolf god picked her up and raised her.

In the process, he received the power of the wolf god and became a werewolf. Since he was raised by a wolf since he was a baby, he began to act like a wolf.

This is what I discovered while I was living alone after becoming independent.

‘It was a big problem because he couldn’t understand the language and he was really wild and had no social skills… ‘

Ker is the first heroine I discovered after becoming trapped in the game.

Since I didn’t yet understand the atmosphere of this game, I was just excited at first.

They say a girl with naked animal ears is a heroine, right? How can you bear it?

But eventually, after being eaten by Ker, I realized that this game was not a god game, but a shit game.

After that, he approached Ker cautiously.

Since I have always liked dogs and often watched Mr. Gae Tong-ryeong’s YouTube, I also had some knowledge of the habits of wolves, a member of the same canine family.

But even so, I had to search countless times.

Through that process, I realized that theory and practice are completely different.

Through dozens of retries, I overcame all the obstacles to tame Ker.

However, there were two walls that could not be overcome.

One was my weak body.

If Ker really attacked me, I would pick him and die.

In addition, even if it was lightly scratched, it was not treated properly, so it became infected with various bacteria and died after suffering.

That’s why I tried my best to tame it, but when the old wound festered and it died, I was so upset that I almost went crazy.

I still can’t forget Ker’s sad expression when he knew I was going to die from the wounds he inflicted, and the desperation with which he licked me in hopes of healing me.

Another one was Ker at night.

Ker during the day, that is, Ker in normal condition, is quite quiet.

Even before taming it, if it wasn’t hungry, it would only growl and not attack when I got close enough.

However, when the moon rises at night, their wild nature seems to be strengthened, and they begin to run wild.

Even though we became quite close friends, he didn’t recognize me until night fell.

Therefore, people had to cover their eyes so that they could not see the moon, or take refuge in a safe place until daylight.

Of course, you can’t cover your eyes, so most of the time they took refuge.

Even now, Ker still goes crazy when he sees the moon.

At least he remembers me, who has been with him for 8 years, but other employees and pixies do not recognize him and attack him indiscriminately.

In particular, Ker at night becomes overwhelmingly stronger and more cruel than Ker during the day.

Ker during the day is fooled by Kuen, but the gap between Ker at night is large enough to be fooled by Kuen.

Therefore, you can only go out in Kerr until the moon rises and before 5 PM, taking into account the margin of error.

Additionally, in case of an emergency, a blindfold is attached to Ker’s leash.

If it weren’t for these characteristics, I would have released it freely.

I felt sorry for him, so I petted Ker with a little more sincerity.

“Ugh… ”

Ker looks at me with a relaxed expression.

“Pat my stomach too.”

Ker lay on his back, opened his stomach, and placed my hand on it.

As I patted my stomach with its clearly defined abs, I felt somewhat disappointed.

‘After all, a puppy’s belly is the best when it’s plump.’

Whether I was disappointed or not, Kerr was happy with her whole body as she flopped on the floor.

Sitting on the lawn and stroking Ker on a clear day like this, I felt something healing.

Of course, the trauma of Ker dying comes to mind, so in the end, it’s plus or minus zero.

While thinking about Ker, Kuen, who had forgotten for a moment, spoke.

“Zeek- I ask you to touch me too- I will touch you-?”

“One Ker is enough for a dog.”

“I am not a puppy! Wolf, wolf!”

Kerr always emphasized that he was a wolf.

How would Ker react if he found out that they were both of the same species?

“I heard that’s true–? Then, Ker can be a wolf and I can be a dog. ?”

“Yes! Then it’s okay!”

“I’m not okay?”

These guys are really annoying.

*

*

“……Master. Wake up.”

“Ugh..?”

It was Bir who woke me up from my sleep.

When I looked around, I saw that I was lying on the sofa in the director’s office.

Mariela was sitting on the sofa across from me processing documents, and Bir was standing by my bedside.

“What..? Was it a dream? It was definitely in an empty lot… ?”

“It’s not a dream. I brought you here in case you caught a cold.”

“Ah… I see.”

I looked at the clock and it was around 6 o’clock, and the sun was setting outside the window.

“That’s right! What about Kerr?”

“The staff returned the two to the isolation room. Don’t worry.”

“Ugh… Thank goodness.”

I calmed my pounding heart with deep breathing.

“……Director.”

Mariela opened her mouth in a quiet voice.

Instinctively, I knew I would be nagging.

“ Flirting with pixies during work hours… great. Because that’s the director’s job.”

Mariela organized the documents she was looking at by banging them on the table and then putting them down.

“But, you are too defenseless. Even though I can’t monitor the pixies, I take a nap with them and take off their restraints… If this is going to be the case, what is the reason for quarantine?”

“Ah… Sorry.”

Mariela is the person in the management bureau who knows the dangers of pixies better than me.

However, unlike me, Mariela cannot see any progress in the strategy. So she thinks that pixies can change at any time.

What if Kuen escapes and starts killing indiscriminately?

She killed over a hundred armed gangsters who were rolling around in the back world in just one or two hours.

How many civilians who cannot resist can be killed? Even if we don’t do it, won’t thousands or tens of thousands of people die?

The sight of Kuen covered in blood on top of countless corpses is clearly visible.

Kuen will welcome me when I come to catch him and say,

‘Of course it’s more fun to kill criminals.’

I wonder if it’s just me, but I wonder if other people would be worried.

In this situation, claiming that Kuen wouldn’t do that is just a crazy person carrying a bomb and claiming it won’t explode.

It’s not important whether it explodes or not, but taking out such a dangerous-looking item in the first place is the problem.

“I’m sorry. I’ll be careful next time.”

Acknowledge quickly, apologize clearly.

This is my life motto.

“Please think about what position the director holds. Just one mistake can cause numerous casualties. Of course, I trust the director, but I can’t force that trust on other employees.”

“Yes. I reflected. This thing… Something needs to be done.”

surely… When I thought about the feelings of the employees who encountered Kuen, who was released from custody, I felt sorry.

In the first place, those meaningless restraints are filled so that employees can feel at ease.

“In short, the problem is that employees are afraid of Kuen, right?”

“……Yes?”

The problem with bombs that don’t explode is that they look like bombs.

Who would be scared if it was just like an everyday bag?

“The reason the employees are afraid of Kuen is because they know that he is a murderer. Otherwise, I would just think of it as a pretty sloth.”

“……Wait a minute, I don’t understand?”

“But since we can’t manipulate employees’ memories or information, we need to make Kuen accepted with a more friendly image.”

“…….”

Mariela looked at me with a puzzled expression.

No, now it seems like I was cursing inside.

“Think about it. The risks are similar to Ker, but the employees like Kerr. We also play together. No matter how well the ker is tamed, if it accidentally bites or scratches it, it will be fatal?”

“…What are you trying to say?”

“In the end, what matters is the image. This difference occurs because Ker’s image is that of a cute large dog, and Kuen’s image is that of a psycho killer.”

“……Rather than saying it’s an image, it’s the truth.”

“Quen has only killed criminals so far, right? In that sense, shouldn’t Mr. Lufia, who is called the hero of the empire, also be treated as a psycho killer? Have you killed countless enemies of the empire?”

As a side note, it is true that Lupia is a psycho killer.

He’s more serious than Kuen, but it doesn’t matter because no one knows this except me.

“This… therefore… Ugh… Huh— So what would you do to make it a friendly image?”

I gave up trying to refute this guy.

“There is an image that just comes to mind. It’s made from sloths. From now on, I will have Kuen wear a sloth doll costume and hang from the big tree planted near the restaurant.”

“I’m asking this now, but… Are you kidding?”

“Do you know that now?”

“Director!”

As expected, Mariela has a taste for teasing.