chapter_0554

554 – Adults

554 – Adults

“Eeeeeeeeh.”

-Eeeeeeeeh.

Levinas, who was watching television, perked up his ears at the siren harmony coming from beside him.

He wondered if something serious had happened, but it didn’t seem like it.

“Gaeul, you mutt, what are you doing?”

“Icku Gaeulik ttarya!”

-Icku Gaeulik ttarya!”

“Uing?”

Levinas realized that the doll was mimicking Gaeul’s words.

Levinas was also flustered because it was his first time seeing a doll that mimicked words.

“Gaeul, you mutt, why is the doll mimicking words?”

“Ggaemmu!”

“Monster… Monster?”

“Heck…”

Even as Levinas and Gaeul were talking, the sunflower doll was mimicking their words in real-time.

This might really be a Monster.

The moment he had that thought, Levinas took an offensive stance.

“Iyap!”

Levinas did a taekwondo stance he had learned from television.

He even showed off a clumsy kick, but the sunflower doll didn’t react.

“What?!”

-What?!

Even though he took an aggressive stance, the sunflower doll didn’t react.

He pretended to be careless, thinking it might attack suddenly, but it didn’t ambush him either.

So Levinas couldn’t help but be even more flustered.

A Monster that only mimics words, Levinas had never heard of such a Monster.

“Naughty snake!”

-Naughty snake!

It mimics bad words when he says bad words.

Hmph!

Levinas, who was pouting, suddenly came up with a fun plan.

If it mimics all words, then he just had to say good words.

If it didn’t want to say good words, it wouldn’t mimic him anymore.

Levinas thought his plan was perfect.

“Levinas is the strongest Horned Rabbit!”

-Levinas is the strongest Horned Rabbit!

“Heoeok!”

Levinas looked at the sunflower doll mimicking even good words with Horned Rabbit eyes.

He thought it was a bad Monster, but maybe it wasn’t.

“Gaeul, you mutt, Levinas figured it out!”

“Aratto?!”

“Yeah! The strategy for the sunflower doll Monster is to say good words!”

Ahem.

Levinas, who cleared his throat, stood in front of the sunflower doll.

He intended to say good words to Gaeul through the doll.

“Gaeul, you mutt, is the prettiest in the world!”

-Gaeul, you mutt, is the prettiest in the world!

“Gaeul, you mutt, is a fashionista!”

-Gaeul, you mutt, is a fashionista!

“Hogok?!”

When the doll said good words, Gaeul’s eyes widened.

Gaeul realized that the doll was only mimicking her words and had never provoked her first.

It was clearly Gaeul herself who had said bad words to the doll first.

“Ggaemmu pretty!”

-Ggaemmu pretty!

“Ggaemmu the best!”

-Ggaemmu the best!

When she said good words, the doll also said good words.

Thanks to that, Gaeul learned the importance of saying good words first.

From now on, she was going to say a lot of good words to many people.

Gaeul, who laughed happily, hugged the doll tightly.

**

After briefly visiting the Dungeon, I returned to the Ggaemmi Guild building.

Which Dungeon did you go to today?

How much did you earn today?

After reporting to the staff, I took a short break.

“Euhya.”

While taking a light stroll through the park and enjoying nature, I spotted Saebyeok loitering around.

She looked somehow different from her usual self.

“Saebyeok, what are you doing?”

“Uh… something feels strange.”

“Strange?”

“Yeah. It feels like something evil but with a good aura, I guess.”

Evil but with a good aura.

I thought of the Evil Spirit in the Ggaemmi doll that had become a Divine Beast.

The Evil Spirit of the Ggaemmi doll was somehow evil yet friendly.

“Could it be an Evil Spirit?”

“I don’t know? I don’t know what it is either. Maybe it’s just my imagination.”

“Hmm…”

Saebyeok’s body was a bit different from ordinary Beastmen, but she was still more sensitive than ordinary people.

If Saebyeok felt something was strange, then there really was something there.

I also focused my senses and looked around, but I didn’t feel anything in particular.

“Since there might be something, let’s be on guard for now.”

“Okay.”

I walked around with Saebyeok, looking around.

Then, I could sense something running towards us in the distance, panting.

It was Gaeul and Levinas, who were only bright and cheerful without any evil.

“Jjuin! Jjuin!”

“Gaeul.”

“Jjuin pretty! Jjuin the best!”

“Yeah. Gaeul is pretty too.”

Gaeul giggled and ran around me at my answer.

Her tail was wagging because I said good words, but I didn’t know why.

“Gaeul, what’s wrong?”

“Anni!”

“Are you just doing it?”

“Naeng!”

Wudadada-

Gaeul, who had been spinning around me, started spinning around Saebyeok this time.

Her overflowing energy made me feel good just by looking at her.

“Black Jjuin the best!”

“Thank you, Gaeul is the best too.”

Saebyeok’s tail was also wagging gently.

It seemed that Gaeul had learned an important proverb.

That kind words beget kind words, an important proverb of life.

“The best! The best!”

Gaeul, who had been hopping around the park, soon ran towards the Ggaemmi Guild building.

Saebyeok and I followed Gaeul, looking around.

“Gae, Gaeul-nim is the best too…!”

“That’s right, Gaeul is totally the best.”

As we entered the Guild, Haneul and Bom were smiling happily.

Did she spread happiness to Haneul and Bom as well?

Heehee.

I was feeling happy with my family.

Hanyeoreum, who had a worried expression, opened the Guild door and entered.

“Heoeok! Totally pretty Summer has arrived!”

“That’s right…! Totally pretty…!”

“Pretty and even cool.”

The children, infected with Gaeul’s good words virus, praised Hanyeoreum, who had just entered.

Then, Hanyeoreum smiled happily as if she had never been worried.

“What, why are you suddenly making your sister happy?”

“Gaeul is doing good words, and we got infected by it.”

“Really? It’s a happiness virus, literally.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

Heehee.

I cheered up Hanyeoreum with a smile.

Since Hanyeoreum seemed to be in a good mood, I decided to ask her what I was curious about.

“But is there anything bad going on? You looked worried when you came in.”

“Hmm… I wouldn’t say it’s bad, but should I say it’s frustrating?”

“Frustrating?”

“Yeah. Sehee unni is from Lotus, but she sincerely repented and gave us a lot of information.”

“That’s right?”

Everyone in the Guild knew that Im Sehee was repenting and atoning for her sins.

There was no reason to worry about her actions now.

“So the Guild gave Sehee unni a little freedom, right?”

“Freedom as in…”

“Just, to be able to walk around the neighborhood. It’s stuffy if she’s trapped inside the Guild all the time. Of course, she still had to wear a tracker.”

As expected, the Guild trusted Im Sehee to some extent.

However, I knew that Hanyeoreum was saying this because something had happened.

“Did something happen on her outing?”

“Yeah… suddenly the tracker signal just disappeared, what do you know?”

The tracker signal disappeared.

Im Sehee, who had been repenting and living happily, why suddenly?

I didn’t want to believe that her heart had suddenly changed.

Im Sehee had been repenting every moment and donating her talents to us.

There was no reason for her to betray us now.

“Im Sehee is not someone who would betray us.”

Saebyeok said with a firm expression, as if she had the same thought as me.

The biggest victim of Lotus was saying this.

Saebyeok had the biggest heart among us.

“Yeah. Of course, I think there’s a high probability that unni would do that, but the problem is that there’s a low probability that Lotus is still around. It’s almost completely annihilated.”

“Wouldn’t there be a few remnants left?”

“Hmm… maybe?”

Hanyeoreum stroked her chin.

We took some time to think, but no reason came to mind.

“Should we track something down for now?”

“Yeah. The Guild is tracking it down, so it’ll be quick… Saebyeok, what’s wrong?”

Hanyeoreum stopped talking and turned to Saebyeok.

Naturally, I also turned to Saebyeok, but Saebyeok’s condition seemed strange.

“Ajusshi…?”

Trembling pupils and sweat falling on her cheeks.

Even the children were nervous at Saebyeok’s unstable reaction, who always maintained a blank expression.

“Saebyeok, Ajusshi? What are you talking about?”

“Th, that is, the adults…”

“Adults?”

After thinking for a moment, I realized.

That Saebyeok was able to become who she is now with the help of adults.

Of course, I didn’t know exactly who they were either.

“Uh…”

Saebyeok, who had been hesitating, suddenly started running somewhere.

We didn’t stop Saebyeok and ran after her.

We had run a considerable distance, but no one was struggling thanks to the stamina unique to adventurers and Beastmen.

‘This is…’

The place where I first came to this world.

The place where I raised my head from underground.

Woong-!

A familiar yet awkward place was rippling with a dark red portal.

Unlike ordinary Dungeons, it was full of ominous energy.

“Grudge Dungeon?”

Hanyeoreum muttered, looking at the Dungeon.

A Grudge Dungeon is a Dungeon that can only be created when someone holds a grudge, but why suddenly in a place like this?

Before I could even think about it, Saebyeok ran towards the Dungeon.

Her back looked somehow urgent.

And we weren’t so cruel as to send Saebyeok into the Dungeon alone.

“Levinas is going tooooo!”

“Ggamang Jjuin!”

Levinas and Gaeul ran after Saebyeok.

I also ran after those children.

I didn’t know why the Grudge Dungeon was created, but I had nothing to fear with the children.

Author’s Note

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