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532 – The Gammi Guild Will Dominate the World!

532 – The Gammi Guild Will Dominate the World!

Levinas’s body sank sulkily.

Lying flat on the grass, he stared blankly at the sky.

“Come on, Levinas, let’s get up.”

“Ugh…”

“I’ll explain everything, okay?”

As Jeong Yuna rubbed Levinas’s belly, he reluctantly lifted his head.

“I’m a little sulky.”

Not too much, just a little.

Levinas wore that expression.

“Do you know that the internet world is anonymous, Levinas?”

“Anonymous?”

“Yeah. Look, there are a lot of comments here, right? Do you know who wrote these comments?”

“No! I don’t know!”

“Right? I didn’t know you wrote this comment either.”

“······!”

At Jeong Yuna’s explanation, Levinas sat up.

Then, noticing something odd, he tilted his head.

“If someone who isn’t Levinas writes such comments, is that bad?”

“Well, it probably is, right? Wouldn’t you be scared if a stranger asked to hug you?”

“Umm…! Not scared at all! Levinas likes hugs…!”

Levinas hugged me tightly.

Then Gaeul smiled brightly and clung to me.

“Gaeul is the best!”

“Hey, guys…?”

Jeong Yuna blinked in surprise.

She looked as if she realized something was wrong.

“Guys, wouldn’t it be scary if someone suddenly came and sniffed around like this?”

“Huh? Why is sniffing scary?”

“Oh my?”

Jeong Yuna moved her lips as if she was about to say something.

A situation arose where they couldn’t understand each other.

Having experienced both Beastmen and humans, I decided to explain.

“It’s natural for Beastmen to sniff when they meet. They gather a lot of information from smells.”

“Ahh…?”

Understanding that there was a difference between Beastmen and humans, Jeong Yuna slowly nodded.

This time, Levinas expressed his doubt to Jeong Yuna.

“But hugging is pretty natural, isn’t it?!”

“Huh? Who says that?”

“Summer said that a long time ago!”

That’s right; she did say that.

So, as an experiment, I went and hugged a stranger.

What could be the reason for reversing what was revealed as truth back then?

I too became curious and stared at Jeong Yuna.

“Oh dear, kids…”

Jeong Yuna wiped her face with one hand.

She looked like someone who had witnessed something shocking.

“What’s wrong?”

“…I think we need to re-educate our little ones.”

“Huh?”

When Jeong Yuna looked up again, she had a surprisingly resolute expression.

**

“This can’t be.”

I couldn’t help but be shocked by the common sense I learned from Jeong Yuna.

It turned out that people in this world also don’t hug unless they’re particularly close.

‘I sat on a stranger’s lap, though?’

I had sat on a stranger’s lap and even when I wasn’t particularly close to the guild members.

But was that not okay?

In a flustered state, my mouth fell open.

“I thought people hugged easily and stuff…”

“Well, I might have lied a bit because I wanted to get closer to Gyeoul…?”

“I see…?”

“Yeah… I’m sorry for lying. I have nothing to say.”

“It’s okay. Thanks to that, we could get close so quickly. If we hadn’t hugged, I would have been sad if we were further apart than now.”

Seeing my words reassured her, Jeong Yuna placed her hand over her heart.

Then she changed her expression and raised her index finger at us.

“Okay, what should you say if a stranger says, ‘Come here, I’ll hug you~’?”

“That’s great!”

“…Gaeul, are you really going to hug someone who might be very bad? They could pretend to hug you and then do something bad!”

“Whoa?!”

“If a stranger asks to hug, you must avoid it at all costs. Of course, it’s fine if family members ask. Got it?”

“Okay!”

We spent about thirty minutes learning common sense from Jeong Yuna.

Thus, we were able to wrap up the day with new knowledge.

**

The next day.

I woke up early, harvested crops, and entered the guild.

The blacksmiths were already at work.

“Master, could you come to the blacksmith for a moment?”

“Sure.”

I moved to the blacksmith at Betty’s call.

Shin Haeil was holding a mask in the blacksmith.

It was an ordinary yellow dust mask that could be seen anywhere.

“Gyeoul, do you want to try this?”

“What is it?”

“It’s a mask for adventurers; I made some light modifications. It should be more effective than a regular gas mask.”

“Hmm…”

Sometimes there were creatures in dungeons that emitted gas.

Sometimes monsters, and sometimes the terrain would emit gas.

Does this block such gas?

As an adventurer, I couldn’t help but be interested.

“Do I just wear it?”

“Yeah.”

I put on the gas mask that Shin Haeil handed me.

The fit felt like an ordinary gas mask.

“It’ll block gas emitted by monsters up to about level five dungeons. It’s small, so carry it with you all the time.”

“Okay, I will. Thanks as always.”

As I was trying to feel the fit, moving around with the mask on, the blacksmith’s door opened, and the kids came running in.

“Juin!”

Gaeul came running to me with a giggle.

She tried to cling to me and lick my cheek, but she couldn’t because of the mask.

“Juin! What’s this?!”

Was it a serious issue that she couldn’t lick my cheek?

She pointed at my mask with a face that was almost horrified.

“This is a gas mask.”

“No! I don’t want it!”

Gaeul shook her head firmly.

It was a mask with amazing features, but it had the worst drawback of not being able to lick my cheek.

Of course, from Gaeul’s perspective, it was a drawback.

“Should I take it off then?”

“Huh…!”

As I took off the mask, Gaeul smiled brightly again and licked my cheek.

Seeing her happy, Shin Haeil crossed his arms.

“Are you looking for a mask that allows for gas protection while keeping the tongue free? That’s harder than you think.”

“Yeah… There are more considerations than a regular mask…”

“Rather, it might be better to build a wall of Mana over the mouth area?”

Shin Haeil, Haneul, and even Betty.

The blacksmiths began to seriously ponder.

There was no particular need to create a new mask, but I didn’t want to interrupt their serious brainstorming.

“Gaeul, shall we go outside?”

“Okay!”

I went outside the blacksmith with Gaeul.

As we opened the door, we could hear the kids laughing from the swimming pool playground in the distance.

Gaeul and I ran towards the swimming pool playground as if we had made a promise.

“Wow.”

The water columns rising from the swimming pool playground were lifting the kids high.

It seemed Marin was playing with the kids in the playground.

“Hey, kids.”

I called out to the kids who were going up and down on the water column.

Levinas and Bomi were laughing joyfully, while Saebyeok was lying down looking at her smartphone.

“Wanga! Gaeul, the puppy!”

As Levinas waved, the water column gradually sank.

The kids who came down from the water playground approached us.

“Wanga, why is Gaeul the puppy wearing this?”

“Huh?”

I looked at Gaeul following Levinas’s finger.

Somehow, Gaeul was wearing my mask.

“Is Gaeul sick?”

“No.”

“Huh? But why are you wearing a mask?”

“Gaeul is a tool.”

“Tool?”

What does tool mean?

It was a moment of contemplation.

Gaeul lifted the mask towards her eyes.

The mask covered her eyes, and her tongue peeked out.

From that action, I could roughly guess what Gaeul was doing.

‘Research?’

The blacksmiths were researching a mask that could allow licking even while wearing it.

Was Gaeul participating in that research too?

Though still clumsy, I felt proud that Gaeul was researching something.

“Gaeul is amazing. Then you can lick even while wearing the mask.”

“Huh…!”

“But if your mouth is exposed, the mask won’t work, what should we do?”

“Huh?!”

I couldn’t see Gaeul’s eyes covered by the mask, but I could tell she was wide-eyed.

I decided to give Gaeul some time to think again and approached Saebyeok, who was still looking at her smartphone.

“Saebyeok, what are you doing?”

“I’m checking for bad comments.”

“Comments?”

“Yeah. I’m managing the guild’s reputation.”

Saebyeok handed me her smartphone.

Inside the smartphone was an astonishing post.

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[I heard the people who went for the Ggaemmi Guild interview yesterday hit the jackpot.]

[They pick two out of a hundred interviewees, and they connected all the others to Yeomyeong and Shinseong.]

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[Is this real?]

[└Yeah, my friend connected me to the Magician Association through the Ggaemmi Guild.]

[└Wow…]

[Let’s admit it. The owner of South Korea is Gyeoul.]

[└I agree, lol]

[Gyeoul…! Please let me get a job too…!]

[Isn’t it the kids who joined the Ggaemmi Guild who are the most wronged? The rest all got into big companies, right? lol]

[└What’s with Yeomyeong under Ggaemmi?]

[The Ggaemmi Guild will rule the world!]

“This is…?”

There were a lot of playful comments directed at me and the guild.

Indeed, the humor of internet people was something I couldn’t get used to.

“…Saebyeok, there weren’t any bad comments, right?”

“Yeah. Nothing in particular.”

“I see…”

Thank goodness there were no malicious comments.

It was a moment of relief.

Bomi approached and pointed at a comment.

“This is the comment I posted earlier!”

[The Ggaemmi Guild will rule the world!]

I exchanged glances with Bomi over the outrageous comment.

“Uh…”

If they found out that Bomi wrote this comment…

If they found out…

Hmm…

Nothing much would probably happen.

Since it was a comment written playfully by a kid.

Having nothing much to say, I could only scratch the back of my head.

A word from the author (Author’s note)

Thank you so much for reading today, PIA1747014585384!

Thank you for the comment recommendations too! They always give me strength…!

It’s the last day of the Lunar New Year…!

Did everyone have a joyful Lunar New Year?!

I was happy to be able to show you the children’s stories!

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