Ch.210210 – The Raccoon Dog and the Winding Little Devil’s Nayuta 2

# 210 – The Raccoon Dog and the Curly Little Demon’s Nayuta #2

Nayu blocked the closet entrance with her back, waging a desperate struggle to protect it.

“Get out of my room now! Privacy invader!”

Her attitude was extremely suspicious.

Dahui began to flare up with anger as she watched Nayu.

“Nayu! Come out of there! If you don’t, your big sister will punish you!”

“I’m in middle school now! I’m not scared of you!”

“What?”

Dahui’s expression turned cold.

Nayu was putting up resistance as if it was nothing, but I was scared. When Dahui got angry, she became terrifying.

Slap-!

Dahui’s hand finally grabbed and pulled Nayu’s cheek.

Stretch-!

The middle school girl’s cheek stretched like rice cake.

“Owowow!”

Nayu stood on her tiptoes in pain. Dahui skillfully controlled Nayu’s cheek like a fisherman reeling in a fish, making her move away from the closet.

Click, creak-.

The closet door finally opened by Dahui’s hand.

Nayu panicked.

“Ah!”

“Huh?”

Dahui, who had boldly opened the closet door, was also taken aback. There was nothing in the closet except clothes. It was just an ordinary closet.

Dahui searched more thoroughly, taking out clothes and shining her phone light inside. But as I said, the closet was just an ordinary closet.

“There’s nothing here?”

“That’s right! There’s nothing! You’re mean, sis!”

“……”

Dahui wore an expression of disbelief. She thought she had just caught evidence, but it was a huge disappointment.

“Apologize! Privacy invader! Invader Yu Dahui!”

“I can’t apologize! You’re clearly lying to me! How many times have I told you lying is bad! And what’s with calling me Yu Dahui!”

“I didn’t lie! Apologize!”

“You did lie!”

While Dahui was bickering with Nayu, I looked around Nayu’s room. It was a room full of cute dolls.

Some of them were ones I had bought for her.

If you were to draw the room of a middle school girl who loves cute things and project it into reality, wouldn’t it look exactly like this?

Of course, this room didn’t just contain romantic items for a middle school girl. I noticed something slightly sticking out from under the bed.

It looked like some kind of tail.

A thin, long tail.

The end was curled up like a lollipop.

“You’re stupid, sis! That’s why Baekseol the cat keeps going to Yang Juhui!”

“Baekseol just… likes to wander around! It’s not like she specifically goes to Yang Juhui!”

Dahui seemed too focused on the closet and Nayu to notice what was hiding under the bed. Aha. The desperate defense of the closet was Nayu’s trap.

She was smarter than I thought. Kids grow up and become more cunning faster than adults imagine. Like raccoon dogs that suddenly grow up and dig up fields.

“Whatever! Do what you want!”

Hmph-!

Finally unable to bear the argument with her sister, Dahui left Nayu’s room.

Nayu let out a sigh of relief and relaxed her shoulders.

“I won!”

She seemed pleased about beating her sister.

I pointed at the tail sticking out from under the bed.

“What’s that?”

“Eek! Th-that’s… um… my new… raccoon dog! I found another one in the field!”

Is she trying to pass that off as a raccoon dog? Nayu, being the much younger sister and the baby of the family who received lots of love, seemed to think she could easily fool adults.

Her sister, mom, dad, and grandfathers always indulged her whims and pretended to lose whenever problems arose, so maybe she underestimated adults.

“If it’s a raccoon dog you found in a field, we should get it rabies shots, right?”

I pretended not to know anything and reached for the strange tail-like thing. Nayu panicked, sweating as if she’d entered a sauna, and couldn’t stay still.

“Ah! You can’t!”

Swish-.

I finally grabbed the tail with my hand.

It felt surprisingly firm to the touch.

Pull-.

As I pulled the tail, whatever was hiding under the bed struggled and resisted as if trying not to be dragged out. Just when I felt like I was fishing, the creature under the bed finally shouted.

“If you pull the tail, it will come off…! The tails of these curly-nois, little demons, are very precious and like life itself…! Don’t pull the tail…!”

Pop-! Something jumped out from under the bed.

I saw bright red hair with ends curled up like an octopus-shaped Vienna sausage.

It was wearing red sweatpants that seemed to belong to Nayu, and it looked about the same age as her.

“No! Gubulnoi! If you’re caught, you’ll be exorcised!”

Nayu shouted loudly.

Gubulnoi. Was that this little one’s name?

The Gubulnoi who had fully revealed itself in the room shook its arms from side to side.

“Dance of the Curly!”

It was the Dance of the Curly. It was similar to the dance moves that Yang Juhui sometimes performed, with the effect of making people’s minds completely curly. In some ways, it was exactly like Dahui’s “Hurukuruhoo.”

However, having been subjected to curly attacks from both women many times, I had developed considerable immunity to this “Dance of the Curly.”

I remained unfazed, which surprised both Gubulnoi and Nayu.

“Hieek! This Gubulnoi’s Dance of the Curly doesn’t work…!”

“Gubulnoi! Run away! If you’re caught, you’ll be exorcised!”

It was truly a troublesome situation in many ways.

This makes me look like the villain.

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“Muhehe, this Gubulnoi is a demon…! A terrifying being…!”

After calming down a bit, Gubulnoi introduced itself.

Its name was Gubulgubul Gubulnoi.

It said it was a demon.

“A demon?”

The demon Marbas I met on the third floor came to mind. Just thinking about how much that guy cornered us still makes my teeth chatter sometimes.

To think that such a demon would appear in our daily lives again. I need to exorcise it. While I was thinking that, Gubulnoi trembled and corrected itself.

“Not just a demon, but a little demon…! An imp…! Gubulnoi is a demon but prefers picking up shiny coins over playing tricks on people…!”

Its insistence on its harmlessness made it even more suspicious.

When I narrowed my eyes, Nayu stood in front of Gubulnoi, acting as a shield.

“Gubulnoi didn’t do anything wrong! I was walking with Kengkengi when Kengkengi brought Gubulnoi from the field, so I’ve been living with it!”

Nayu said that while walking with her raccoon dog Kengkengi, she followed it when it suddenly ran off toward an orchard.

That’s where she met Gubulnoi.

“This Gubulnoi originally lived in a land called Japan with the name Kunekunekunenoi…! There are lots of coins dropped by farmers in rice fields and fields, and I liked picking them up…!”

Gubulgubul Gubulnoi was called Kunekune, it said.

“But the tails of little demons like this Gubulnoi are very valuable things, so many people target them…. When about to be discovered, I would dance a very curly dance to escape danger…!”

This was the moment when the truth behind the famous Japanese Kunekune urban legend was revealed. A little demon who likes picking up coins, and exorcists who target such little demons’ tails.

Gubulnoi became curly to survive and avoid exorcists.

Is my understanding correct?

My sense of reality flew far away, feeling all curly. What’s certain is that this creature can harm people.

“I can’t leave things like this.”

“Gubulnoi is my friend! You can’t exorcise it!”

Hug-.

Nayu hugged Gubulnoi and shouted.

She must want to protect Gubulnoi.

“I want to ask you something. Were you the one selling items in the shop?”

“Muhehe, running the shop was something from the past…! I liked collecting things and exchanging them for coins…! It was my only hobby after being trapped in the nightmare one day….”

It seemed that Gubulnoi, who had been living peacefully in Japan, was captured by some woman and trapped in a nightmare. She was a very young and beautiful woman, but a bit sharp and scary.

It was probably Yang Juhui’s grandmother from the previous timeline.

For various reasons, Gubulnoi was trapped in the Nightmare Corridor and ended up running a shop, which helped me a lot.

If you ask whether Gubulnoi is a really bad guy… for me, it could be described as a benefactor. I suddenly became curious.

“You said you pick up coins? What do you do with the money you collect?”

“Muhehe, that’s a good question…! Little demons like this Gubulnoi live all over the world…! Places like that Nightmare Corridor exist all over the world…!”

“Really?”

I had roughly expected this. The Japanese soldiers trapped on the 3.5th floor got trapped there while exploring some ruins somewhere in Southeast Asia.

The recent business trip to Japan by Jeongseok and Jin Seoyeon was probably because they suspected that entrances to alternate worlds like the Nightmare Corridor might exist elsewhere in the world.

In conclusion, places like the “Nightmare Corridor” existed in several locations around the world.

Places like the “Shipwrecked Ghost Ship” at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and the “Mountain Where Gods Dwell” somewhere in the South American jungle were such locations.

The “Clock of Eternity” was sleeping in the Nightmare Corridor. Then what else might be sleeping and waiting for us in the supernatural spaces that exist around the world?

There might be something like the legendary Holy Grail.

That’s why we were investigating and collecting various legends, myths, and urban legends from around the world, beyond just Korea.

In other words, we were adventurers exploring the unknown, and our adventure was still continuing.

“Gubulnoi is Nayu’s friend! You can’t exorcise it!”

Nayu finally started crying profusely.

Gubulnoi also hugged Nayu and cried.

“You can’t take this Gubulnoi’s coins…!”

“What to do.”

I pondered for a while and finally came up with a good idea.