Ch.222222 – The Little Prince and the Roses 3

# 222 – The Little Prince and the Roses # 3

The box I received from my mom and dad. The item inside was more extraordinary than I expected.

If it fell into the hands of someone with malicious intent.

My peaceful daily life would be thrown into chaos.

But no one knew exactly what the contents were. A situation where I had to find something without knowing what it was.

While I was thinking about how troublesome this was, Muhan spoke.

“I have restrictions that prevent me from leaving this shop. So I’d like you to find that item for me instead. I’m certain it’s somewhere in this city.”

“How am I supposed to find it?”

“From what I’ve heard, the Secret of Creation likes to dwell within people. It can completely transform a person into a different being. It gives them power. They could even become beings like us.”

A power that completely transforms a person. Even to the extent of turning them into an Aion, a conceptual symbol like “The Clock of Eternity” or “Master of Infinity”?

Just as I was thinking this didn’t quite click, Kwon Sua blurted out what she was feeling.

“It must be like an Evolution Stone!”

An Evolution Stone. If someone like me or Muhan obtained such a thing, we could become something even more extraordinary.

That meant many people would be after it.

“It might be somewhere around you. Aions like us tend to attract each other. The fact that I, an infinite being, met you, an eternal one, was actually because of our mutual attraction.”

Shop owner Omega. She said our meeting was destiny. I suddenly wondered how many beings similar to me existed in the world. They must all be strange people.

Anyway, it seemed plausible that whatever escaped from this box would likely have taken residence in someone around me.

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“How are we supposed to find something when we don’t even know what it is?”

Yang Juhui asked, looking around after we left the shop. If someone asked how to find something without knowing what it was, honestly, I didn’t have a clear answer either.

“We’ll have to pound the pavement. Since there’s a high probability it’s around me, shouldn’t we just meet people around me? That box’s item is probably…”

I recalled a dream I had once.

A dream where someone projected a powerful image into my mind. “Please find me,” they said. Someone had told me that.

At the time, I thought it was just a meaningless dream, but wasn’t the Aion’s box found open after I had that dream?

It might seem like I’m just connecting dots, but I thought it was a distress signal sent to me by the Creation item.

It had been drawn to me and came to me like fate.

Although I had lost it briefly, I had a feeling we would meet again.

“Come to think of it, Lim Huiyeon and Gong Yerin have been acting really strange lately.”

Jeong Sojin, who had been quiet for a while after finding the entrance to the shop, spoke up. Lim Huiyeon and Gong Yerin were girls who worked as housekeepers at my mansion.

They were our former classmates and also once our great enemies.

“Strange how?”

Jeong Sojin also occasionally worked as a housekeeper at my mansion. She originally had dreams of becoming a doctor, but that was her parents’ wish, and she herself didn’t particularly want it.

So she worked at my mansion to earn money and meditate while searching for her dream.

“Those two keep whispering to each other lately. And they sneak out somewhere at 1 AM every night. Maybe they’ve gotten their hands on that mysterious power?”

If Gong Yerin and Lim Huiyeon had obtained the Secret of Creation and become beings similar to me, the world would truly fall into chaos.

“Let’s go check it out right away!”

Yu Dahui shouted, clenching her fist.

I drove the car I had left in the parking lot toward the mansion. After about 30 minutes of fast driving, we arrived at the mansion.

After the main gate opened automatically and we drove along the garden road, Mrs. Danvers rushed out from inside the building.

“Weren’t you supposed to stay out tonight? What brings you home? You hardly ever come home these days.”

Mrs. Danvers was the head manager of this mansion, both before and now. She was still a strict woman, but she did her job well.

Since I became a young heir and the owner of the mansion, I was always wandering outside, so she could be considered the actual owner of the place.

“Mrs. Danvers, where are Gong Yerin and Lim Huiyeon?”

“I’m not Mrs. Danvers, I keep telling you. And Gong Yerin and Lim Huiyeon should be in their rooms. More importantly, we picked some strawberries from the garden, try some!”

Mrs. Danvers was like a grandmother to me.

She always tried to take care of me whenever I came to the mansion. She still thinks of me as a child.

Even though I’m twenty-five.

Anyway.

We entered the mansion with great anticipation and headed to Gong Yerin and Lim Huiyeon’s room. Bang! We flung the door open, and twenty-five-year-old Gong Yerin and Lim Huiyeon jumped in surprise.

“Eek!”

“Yikes!”

Why are they so startled? They must have been up to no good. They must have it, I’m sure of it.

The best way to deal with people like Gong Yerin and Lim Huiyeon was to be direct and take control from the start.

I shouted loudly to prevent these cunning housekeepers from scheming.

“You’re hiding it here, aren’t you? Hand over everything you’ve got. It’s originally mine.”

“W-what are we hiding? That’s ridiculous!”

“I-I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Gong Yerin and Lim Huiyeon’s eyes moved in unison from side to side. This attitude was definitely that of people hiding something.

Soon Yu Dahui shouted.

“Let’s beat them up until they spill it!”

Dahui liked beating people up these days. Is writing “I Became a Legendary Raccoon” too difficult? Maybe she wants to release her creative frustrations somewhere.

Whether Dahui’s sincere threat worked well or not, Gong Yerin and Lim Huiyeon trembled as if frightened.

They probably knew well that getting hit by Dahui, who had been learning boxing as a hobby since she was twenty, would be very painful.

“What do you think we have!”

“Yerin, it’s no use. Let’s just give it back.”

Lim Huiyeon, who had a relatively softer heart, sighed deeply as if she couldn’t bear it anymore.

They soon rummaged under the bed and handed us a large box.

It was more like a cage. Inside was something very strange that was wriggling, a sky-blue, fluffy creature. It looked like cotton candy or a cloud.

—Gyuiing.

“Ugh, what the heck is this?”

I was startled to see it making such a strange sound. What on earth was this? While we were on guard, Gong Yerin opened the cage door with a click.

Soon, the cloud-like thing inside trembled and floated up into the air.

—Ingingyaing.

“This is Ingingi. Isn’t this what you’re looking for? It was flying around near your office, so we caught it and have been raising it. We were just taking care of it for you!”

“That’s right. You abandoned it. We’ve been feeding it and everything.”

What abandonment? I’ve never seen such a creature before. Could this be what was inside the box? I narrowed my eyes and looked at the strange creature called “Ingingi.”

Honestly, I wasn’t sure. But I had a feeling that this creature wasn’t what I was looking for. Just a hunch. This Ingingi was just a mysterious animal like a wolf spider, flying squirrel, or giganoto.

There were many mysterious animals in Gaeryong these days.

“Let us keep this one!”

“Yeah! It feels good when you lick it!”

Gong Yerin and Lim Huiyeon grabbed Ingingi, which looked like a fluffy cloud or cotton candy, and started licking its body with their tongues.

They looked like cats grooming each other, or like addicts taking drugs they shouldn’t.

“Heehee! It tastes amazing!”

“I’m addicted!”

—Grrrr…!

Of course, the cloud named Ingingi made a thunder-like sound and charged itself with electricity, crackling. It seemed to dislike being licked by people.

What could it taste like? I was curious in many ways, but that wasn’t the important thing.

“So it was a wild goose chase.”

I thought the Secret of Creation was in Gong Yerin and Lim Huiyeon’s hands. Seeing my obvious disappointment, Gong Yerin asked.

“What are you looking for? Planning to do something weird again?”

“Have you noticed anyone around you who’s suddenly changed recently?”

“Not really?”

“Someone who suddenly changed… I know! Kim Geonho, he’s been acting weird lately!”

Lim Huiyeon, who was somewhat passive yet surprisingly cooperative, shouted as if she knew something. It had been a while since I heard Kim Geonho’s name, so I was momentarily lost in memories.

“Kim Geonho is acting strange?”

“He’s always been a bit off since high school graduation. But lately, it seems like he’s gone beyond that? He’s restless like an anxious person. He must be hiding something.”

Kim Geonho is hiding something—. I had a slightly uneasy feeling. And generally, my uneasy feelings tended to be accurate. Come to think of it, I hadn’t seen Kim Geonho for several years.

I don’t even know where he is or what he’s doing. I heard he became a world-renowned fighter and made quite a name for himself.

Have I been too indifferent to him? He was a person to watch out for. I started to get an ominous feeling, as if a spider was clinging to my back.

—Kang kang…!

“Ah, Kangkang, you rascal.”

Yang Juhui removed the large spider Kangkang from my back. Yang Juhui was originally terrified of spiders, but she seemed fine with the mysterious spider Kangkang.

With Kangkang on her shoulder, Yang Juhui said,

“I know where Kim Geonho is. His recently opened shop is near my hair salon. He even gave me towels, asking for my support.”

A shop? Did he retire from fighting and open a shop?

The next day. We went with Yang Juhui to find the shop that Kim Geonho had supposedly opened.

And I was shocked.

“Arminyon Nail Art Shop”

“Kim Geonho opened a nail salon?”