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587 – Dog Food

587 – Dog Food

The children’s faces contorted at the sour taste of the raspberry juice and lemonade.

The shocking flavor made our entire bodies shiver, and for a while, we lost the ability to speak.

“Ugh…”

I couldn’t gather my thoughts and trembled all over.

Then, Saebyeok, the first among us to regain composure, began to wipe the children’s mouths.

I also made an effort to pull myself together and wiped the children’s mouths.

“Ugh…! The drink is spoiled…!”

Levinas cried out, banging on the table.

It seemed he didn’t realize it was a drink meant to be diluted with water.

“Levinas, it’s not spoiled; it’s meant to be mixed with water.”

“What?! Is that so…?!”

“Yeah. It’s like cocoa. The taste changes depending on how much water you mix in.”

“Coco…!”

Did the analogy with cocoa resonate well?

Levinas nodded, indicating he understood.

“Shall we clean this up for now?”

“Yeah…!”

After we finished tidying up, we mixed the raspberry juice with water again.

The raspberry juice mixed with water was sweet and tangy enough to soothe the children’s startled hearts.

‘Hmm.’

As I drank the raspberry juice, I thought about how little our children knew about the world.

They were in a learning phase and were gradually showing improvement, but it was true that they still had a long way to go.

Maybe it would be good for them to study a bit about the world.

Lost in thought, I received my smartphone from Levinas.

“Sunny, can you make a spinner for us?”

– Yes. I will make a spinner for you.

I wrote down subjects on the spinner that Sunny made for us.

Korean, Math, and even Science.

I didn’t write Social Studies since I wasn’t well-versed in this world.

“Hey, everyone, let’s study.”

“Study?”

“Yeah. To become smart kids, we need to study.”

“······!”

Did the phrase “smart kids” stimulate them?

The children began to show interest in studying.

“Gyeoul, what should we study?”

“Um… for the first one…”

The spinner pointed to Korean.

I didn’t want to start with something too difficult, so I decided to do a simple dictation.

“Let’s do dictation.”

“Dictation?”

“Yeah. I’ll say a word, and you write it down.”

“Wow! Levinas too! I want to say it too!”

“Gaeul too.”

“Um… then let’s take turns saying it.”

I handed out paper and pens to the children.

Saebyeok decided to say the first word.

“Um… frog?”

Scratch scratch—

The children wrote down the words.

Once they finished, the next person called out the next word.

“Ju-in!”

“Horned Rabbit!”

“I am… Marin.”

“Blacksmith…!”

Scratch scratch—

The children responded to the dictation with quite a serious attitude.

After going around once, I checked what the children had written.

The first word was frog, but only Haneul and Gaeul got it wrong.

“Haneul wrote ‘sound frog,’ huh?”

“Yes… Saebyeok-nim said ‘sound frog?’ so…”

“Oh.”

Did Saebyeok’s pondering sound get written down too?

It was unfortunate, but I decided to give it an X.

“Master, does that mean this is wrong too…?”

“This is…”

Marin wrote down ‘Marin.’

Even though Bomi said it that way, I had no choice but to mark it as an incorrect answer.

“Haneul got two… no, three out of five wrong?”

“Three…?”

“Yeah. Gaeul said ‘master,’ but Haneul added ‘nim’ and wrote ‘master-nim.'”

“Uh… isn’t it natural to add ‘nim’…?”

“Not really?”

“Huh?”

I corrected Haneul’s word appropriately, who looked puzzled.

At the same time, I didn’t hold back on the praise.

“But you didn’t get any words wrong.”

“Hehe…”

After patting Haneul, who worked hard, I looked at Gaeul’s paper.

Ju-in

Kkaeguric

Rabbit Horn

Marin

Blacksmithing.

All wrong, but they were somewhat similar.

“Gaeul got everything wrong, but just a little bit wrong.”

“X-ham.”

Was Gaeul satisfied with the fact that it was just a little bit wrong?

Gaeul puffed out her chest.

“I’ll correct the wrong ones; do you want to write along with me?”

“Okay.”

Ju-in had one more line than ‘master.’

When I marked the line with an X to indicate it was wrong, Gaeul wrote ‘Ju-in’ as it was and drew an X after me.

“Gaeul, that means you’re not supposed to write this.”

“Ee-keh?”

Gaeul began to write again.

This time, she wrote ‘master’ correctly.

“Wow.”

“Gaeul got the spelling right!”

Clap clap clap.

The children applauded Gaeul for getting the answer right.

Thanks to that, Gaeul’s tail wagged wildly.

“Now, can you say ‘master’ according to what you wrote?”

“Ju-in!”

“···master?”

“Ju-ing!”

“Um…”

Is this because of a short tongue?

It’s not wrong for a child to have a short tongue.

I patted Gaeul’s head, telling her she did well.

“Next…”

After correcting all of Gaeul’s wrong words, I looked at the other children.

Saebyeok and Bomi got everything right, and Levinas only got one question wrong.

“Super Ultra Cool Horned Rabbit?”

“Yeah!”

“Um… it’s not a wrong word, but it was wrong in dictation.”

“I couldn’t help it because I knew it too…!”

“I acknowledge that.”

Still, wrong is wrong.

I marked it with an X fairly.

Of course, since Levinas knew the correct answer, I didn’t correct it.

“Okay, everyone worked hard, so today’s lesson is over.”

“Wow.”

The children surprisingly seemed to enjoy it.

I decided to hold another class later.

**

The next day.

Having returned from the dungeon early in the morning, I came back to the guild.

Fortunately, I was able to return before lunchtime.

“If you spin it like this, even if it’s full of water, it won’t spill…!”

Was yesterday’s study fun?

Haneul was teaching the children about science.

Holding a bucket full of water and spinning it around, the water didn’t spill, and Levinas and Gaeul looked astonished.

“It’s upside down, but the water doesn’t spill!”

“Yes…! It’s because the centripetal force is enough to keep the water from spilling…!”

“Centripetal…! Gaeul, do you know what centripetal means?!”

“Don’t know.”

Even though she didn’t know, she showed interest.

That was the most important attitude in learning.

“I want to try it too!”

Levinas picked up the bucket full of water.

He struggled to lift it, and perhaps it was heavy, as he spilled a little water.

“Whoa!”

Levinas spun the bucket around.

After a few spins, satisfied that the water didn’t spill, he handed it to Gaeul.

“Do you want to try it too, Gaeul?”

“Ugh…!”

Gaeul grabbed the bucket.

Instead of holding the handle and spinning it quickly, she held the bucket with her hands and lifted it above her head.

Perhaps because she lifted it too slowly, water spilled out of the bucket.

Thanks to that, Gaeul got soaked, but she just laughed.

The children loved water so much that they enjoyed even such accidents.

“Hehe, Gaeul spilled all the water.”

“If you don’t want to spill it, you have to spin it faster…!”

“Hey, everyone.”

I approached the children who were playing while studying science.

The children who were playing while studying welcomed me.

“Wanga!”

“Master…!”

“Hey, everyone, shall we go out and eat today?”

“Outside?!”

“Yeah. I’ll treat you.”

I felt proud of the children who were studying without being told.

I wanted to treat them to something delicious.

“Meat?”

“Yeah. Let’s go grill some meat.”

“Ugh…!”

“Wow!”

Gaeul and Haneul, who especially loved meat among us, cheered.

Even though Levinas preferred vegetarian food, he cheered too since the children were happy.

“Are we going just the four of us?”

“Um… it would be better if all the staff went together.”

If we just went to grill meat during work hours, they might feel disappointed.

As the guild master, I thought it would be better to treat everyone to meat.

I called Shin Hae-il, the god of the blacksmith, Betty, and office staff members Hwang In-ho and Shin Ah-rang.

It would cost a lot to treat everyone to meat, but since the staff appreciated it, it didn’t feel like a waste.

“Hehe, Master, I’ll eat well.”

“Thanks for treating us.”

“Yes.”

We all went to find a meat restaurant.

It was a place where we had to grill the meat ourselves on the grill.

“Welcome… Oh? Is it a company dinner?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Then would you like to sit over here?”

“Yes. Thank you.”

We sat down and ordered meat.

We didn’t even bother looking at the price list.

I chatted with the staff while waiting for the fire and meat to arrive.

While discussing work and sharing personal stories to strengthen our bonds, I heard loud voices from a little distance away.

“Hey, what are you doing mixing all that?”

“We ate it all anyway. We have to mix it all up so they can’t reuse it at the store.”

“You’ve completely made dog food.”

“Dog food?”

The noisy voices of men and women made Gaeul’s ears perk up.

Gaeul reacted to the word ‘dog food.’

“Dog food, yummy?”

Gaeul, who stood up from her seat, approached the ‘dog food.’

Suddenly following Gaeul, I also stood up from my seat.

“Dog food…”

Gaeul’s gaze was fixed on a table.

It was a large bowl filled with leftover food.

“Huh…?”

Seeing what was commonly referred to as ‘dog food,’ Gaeul made a blank expression.

Is this dog food? Gaeul pointed at the mixed food with a look of confusion.

“Dog food, yummy…?”

“Uh… this is…”

The man who was piling the food into one place froze upon seeing Gaeul.

I could understand why he would be flustered.