episode_0041
by fnovelpiaPrecious moments pass quickly, memories fade, become embellished, and some are forgotten.
So people take pictures of that moment to make memories.
I ran excitedly with my Poloid camera.
Even before I changed my body, this old camera seemed strange to me, perhaps because it was something I only knew about.
The unexpected gift made me feel full of energy and light, so I ran and jumped, and my wings flapped excitedly.
Then, wouldn’t it remain floating about 10cm in the air for a moment?
“Gasp.”
I was even more excited by the thought that the wings, which were considered a kind of fashion, might actually be practical.
It was closer to the feeling of floating for a moment and then gliding, but wouldn’t flying be possible in the future anyway?
“Don’t go too far!”
When I came out of the photo studio and ran outside, Ina, who had put all her stats into int, couldn’t keep up and was out of breath.
Doldoli followed me, taking care of Ina and maintaining a certain distance.
I picked up the camera and took a picture of a tired Ina with a slightly flushed expression.
The camera spit out a picture after some time.
Well, maybe because it’s my first time, it’s not a very good picture.
Perhaps because I couldn’t hold it straight, the picture was a bit messy.
I think this is a matter of my skills because Ina was a beautiful woman with a definite future that would make many men cry in the future.
Or Ina doesn’t get any pictures.
“ But it doesn’t look good in pictures.“
”Hey! Who wants to take pictures? And if you take a picture while shaking it like this, of course the picture will look strange!”
As I was quietly looking at the photo, Ina approached me and grabbed me by the back of my neck.
Great INT girl.
However, I think I need to build up some stamina.
Anyway, I walked around and took pictures of the daily life on the streets.
I returned to the photo studio earlier and took pictures.
Through the glass, the photo shows an old man with a slightly sad face sitting in a chair and looking at a computer.
I went to the supermarket earlier and took pictures, and I also took pictures of an arcade that was so old that there were almost no working arcade machines.
The old arcade machine itself clearly showed the history of the place, and the old coin exchange machine had a key inserted and a few coins visible inside.
I wondered if someone would take it, but there were no more customers here, and the last person who came here didn’t seem to want to steal a few coins from the arcade filled with memories.
Or maybe he left it behind.
I left the arcade and entered a place called a billiards room.
There, two very old-looking old men were playing ball in the corner with long wooden sticks. They seemed to be enjoying each other’s game, not even realizing that we had come here.
“Did Mr. Park go this time?”
“Yes. We’re the only two people coming here now, right?“
”Hehe, it’s been a long time here too. He’s probably about the same age as us.“
Hearing those words, the short old man sighed and said with a slightly gloomy expression.
“If we don’t come, no one will come here anymore.”
“This person, even when we were young, this hobby was treated as old-fashioned, so what is it like now? How flashy are kids playing these days?”
“Well, I saw the kids playing these days and there was something sparkling. I thought a wizard from an old hero movie appeared.”
“You’re talking about that Marvel movie. At that time, I was imbued with strange ideas, so I only made strange movies and they failed.”
“At one time, it was a company that only made masterpieces, but is it natural that it was treated as old-fashioned and even hated by people like us?”
“Oh, do you know that? Kids these days don’t go out and play, they just lie down.”
“What is that? Sleeping in a long coffin?”
“They say it’s not sleeping, it’s like playing computer games in the old days.”
“I don’t know how that can be called fun. I was scared of that.”
“I guess that’s because it’s time for you to go in there.”
“Huh~ This person.”
The two old men chatted a little loudly as if they owned this building, and it occurred to me that they might actually be the owners of this lonely place where no one visits.
He put his finger near his mouth and showed it to Ina and Doldori.
Doldol and Ina nodded as if they understood the command to be quiet and hid near the pool table to watch the elderly people.
I had no other intention, just took pictures and left quietly.
“Huh? What is that?”
The old people were talking musty-smelling words just to listen to, and then they looked in the direction where we were hiding and said,
They probably aren’t talking about us.
Our concealment power is comparable to that of special forces…
“It looks like black wings… Crow?”
At those words, I quietly turn my gaze towards the wings.
Doldori and Ina also squat down and look at the wings of the turtle.
Hmm, the problem was that the wings couldn’t support my abilities.
“Hello, grandfathers!”
“What.”
The elderly people seemed quite surprised by our appearance.
He was so surprised that even though his eyes were wide open, he felt it was difficult to properly express his surprise, so he expressed his surprise by leaning back wide.
When I think about it, I heard that elderly people are often surprised by even the smallest things.
In that case, an appearance like this could possibly be an assassination attempt.
“Old man Heo… Am I looking at it wrong..?”
“No, I can see it with my own eyes.”
But the grandfathers’ reaction was very strange.
Because I suddenly appeared and surprised you?
There was a saying that the billiard room was an old-fashioned pastime that no one visited anymore, but even taking that into account, should we say that there was something strange about the reaction?
They seemed to be focused on something other than the fact that a child had appeared here.
“How… Weren’t they all dead back then? ?”
“Mr. Kim, take slow, deep breaths. Calm down your emotions.”
He was a person with a weak heart.
“Sorry. The grandfathers were very surprised.”
Ina pointed out my tone with an expression of admiration.
“Are you really just speaking informally, whether you are young or old?”
That’s something that can’t be helped.
After all, this is a speech style limited to characteristics.
I followed suit and patted the back of the struggling old man.
I was doubtful as to whether my thoughts would help or not, but wouldn’t it be good if I could help?
Ina and Doldol followed the old man’s actions of patting his back, and a scene unfolded in which they all patted his back with their small hands, and a total of four fists pounded the old man’s back.
Anyway, I don’t know if it helped or not, but the old man who was struggling recovered quickly, and we shouted hurray for him.
The old man sat helplessly in the chair and looked at me.
Why?
From now on, I felt like I was the only one seeing it.
“Are you okay, Mr. Kim?”
“Okay, by the way, honey. Are those wings real?”
Only then did I understand the reason the old man was looking at me after hearing his question.
It’s definitely not easy to see, especially if people passing by, as well as neighbors, are staring at it, but it doesn’t seem like it’s something that doesn’t exist in the world.
I thought it was worth at least asking if I could touch its wings because they were strange, but no such thing was said and everyone was cautious or avoided me, so I think it might be some type of rare disease in this world.
Even if you search for this information, last time, Ji-hye discovered that the child was viewing information that the child should not see, and the children’s safety guard was activated, and they blocked the child from viewing content that is slightly dangerous to the child. Information about these winged humans is also very basic. If it only covers the content and goes into historical stories, it will never allow you to see the results of the search.
“It’s true! Is this your first time?”
“No, I saw it a lot in the past. At that time, my granddaughter…”
“Mr. Kim, let’s stop there.”
Just when I was expecting to finally hear who I was, a stop came in.
It was always like this.
Just when someone was about to make a mistake about me or the past of these types of people, someone else got really angry or blocked me from hearing it, and it was the same this time too.
At this point, I was wondering if something big had happened.
Well, I guess what the old man was trying to say was some unimportant, everyday chatter about how his granddaughter was similar to me, right?
I gave up listening to the answer from the short old man next to me and moved on to achieve my original goal.
Just as I was about to talk to Ina next to me, I was once again puzzled by her frozen expression.
How much happened?
Still, I didn’t ask.
Looking at people’s reactions, it seemed like what happened to the rare disease patients related to me was not a very good thing.
So everyone be careful and get hurt as you please.
I thought I would find out naturally later anyway, and if I forced myself to dig up the past, it would also hurt someone, so I decided to just quietly pretend not to know.
Sometimes, what you don’t know is the cure.
In fact, as soon as the Internet was opened in underdeveloped countries where the happiness of the people was high, that level of happiness was immediately shattered and many people became pessimistic about their own situation. Knowing is not necessarily a good thing.
I shook Ina’s shoulders to help her come to her senses.
“Do you want to take a picture?”
“No. I took a picture earlier. Let’s take a picture quickly.”
“What is Doldori?”
“I will take it.”
I asked Ina to take a picture, and Doldori and I got permission to go up on the billiard table and take a picture of the two of us holding long sticks and hitting the ball.
It may have been made for adults, but it was too big, long, and heavy for me to lift.
This meant that it could not be held and hit.
When we talked to the old men with a slightly gloomy expression and asked how to play this game, the old people who awkwardly taught us started talking to us in a familiar way as if they had never done it before and taught us diligently.
My first reaction was that I thought it might be because older people feel lonely a lot.
People here suffer from loneliness a lot.
After taking pictures and playing for a while, I took pictures of the street on my way back home.
I took a picture of a dog passing by looking at me blankly, and I also took a picture of a biobot that appeared to be a newcomer who was tormenting me by absentmindedly stinging a bee.
I worked so hard on filming that I already used up half of the film.
Before we knew it, dusk had set in on the street and it was getting dark, and Jihye’s call came on Ina’s cell phone, asking where we were.
[where are you? I’ll go pick you up.]
“It’s near my house. I think it will arrive soon.”
After spending the day taking pictures, I lay down in bed and lost in thought.
I enjoyed exploring the streets today, but for some reason, I felt like everyone I met wasn’t very nice.
For some reason I couldn’t sleep, so I opened the window and looked at the street outside.
A dark street where the many biobots are rare and no people can be seen.
In the past, when there were many people, the cold air of dawn and the quiet, dark streets felt charming, but for some reason, I first felt that the dark streets of this city were lonely.
In the past, the streets at dawn were quiet, but sometimes cars and people passed by, but is it because they are especially invisible in this area?
It was lonely and quiet.
And the darkness of this quiet street is as quiet as an abyss and black without any light.
The darkness hoped that the lonely person would sink further into that dark place.
I took out the photo I took today and looked at the elderly people.
As science has advanced, complete noise blocking walls and light blocking filters installed in each home have helped people in the house sleep comfortably, but going one step further and blocking people’s faces from being seen is somehow too convenient. I thought it would be the perfect technology to remove human odor in this city.
The sadness buried between the fine wrinkles was full of joy and longing on his face when we met and took a picture together.
I prayed to the transcendent being who sent me here.
I hope that smiles will come to the people of this city like the smiles shown by the elderly people in the photo.
I closed the window, snuggled into the blanket, and immediately fell asleep.
It seemed like a sound came from somewhere.
In the photo the child left in the window, white luck gathered together and a child made of light was born.
The pure white child was very small, about the size of a finger joint. He blinked and looked at the poloid camera, then created a camera made of light in the same shape and held it in his hand.
The child made of that light picked up a camera and took a picture of the old man smiling. Then, the picture taken from the camera the child was holding showed a cute little girl who looked exactly like the old man being held next to the smiling old man.
The child was flapping its white wings and smiling brightly in the old man’s arms, and the old man was also smiling brightly with tears in his eyes.
Unless he was a fool, the old man and the child seemed to have some sort of relationship, and anyone could see that they were happy.
Small children were being held by elderly people in the billiard room, and next to an old man working in a photo studio, a small child holding a poloid camera was smiling as he took pictures of each other with the old photographer.
The child made of light jumped out of the window, jumped on the back of a fluffy sheep waiting below, and headed to another place.
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