chapter_0625

625 – Pierrot

625 – Pierrot

As we screamed and entered the guild building, the office staff rose from their seats.

Two employees exchanged glances, and then Hwang Inho approached us and asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Ah… something just suddenly came out, that’s all.”

“Something came out…?”

“Um… it’s probably nothing.”

Because the force of the pebble thrown at Gaeul was weak.

It was hard to see it as an expression of aggressive intent.

And as a guild Master, there was no need to say scary things and frighten the guild members.

‘I should go out for now.’

Feeling responsible as the guild Master, I opened the door again and went outside.

As I moved, the children seemed to gain courage and cautiously followed behind.

“Are you down there…?”

I whispered softly towards the underground tunnel.

Perhaps because the sound was small, it didn’t echo like before.

It doesn’t seem to be an entity that repeats words.

Did it just throw a pebble upwards?

I knelt down to examine the inside, and just as I was about to put my upper body into the hole,

“Wanga, what’s inside?”

Levinas squeezed in and put his upper body into the tunnel.

Bomi, also curious about the thing in the underground, squeezed in from the opposite side.

The tunnel was large enough for an adult male to enter comfortably, but it felt a bit tight with the three of us pushing our bodies in.

“I can’t see anything.”

“Yeah! Levinas can’t see anything either!”

“Maybe it’s because the tunnel is deep.”

To check properly, I’d have to go down, but I’m scared to do that.

What should I do?

I was pondering with the children, peering into the hole, when suddenly—

Thump-thump-thump!

A massive amount of dirt suddenly started rising from below the hole.

My reflexes were good enough to avoid it, but the problem was that I was pressed against the children and the hole.

“Agh!”

“Hukk!”

We tried to pull our bodies out of the hole, but our bodies were stuck together, preventing us from moving.

I had no choice but to endure the dirt while waiting for the children to get out first.

“Ugh.”

Bomi and Levinas, who had gotten out of the hole, spat out dirt.

I was about to follow them out when my hand slipped.

The dirt that had been pushed out of the hole reduced the friction.

“Gasp!”

My upper body was pushed deep into the hole.

At the same time, I lost my balance, and I slid down into the hole.

“Nyaaaaaak!”

I fell into the hole as if riding a slide, and I was overcome with fear.

Fear of what might be down there.

And that fear didn’t last long.

“Wangaaaaa!”

“Master!”

“Master…!”

The children jumped into the hole after me.

They just followed without knowing what was down there.

It showed how much the children cared for me.

Thanks to them, I was able to overcome my fear and come down to the bottom of the hole.

However, since my upper body came down first, I tumbled around three times after landing.

“Phew…”

When the rolling stopped, I got up and looked around.

The children came down into the hole one by one, just as my eyes met with a strange creature right in front of me.

“Yap!”

The children who came down struck cool poses as if they had planned it.

Then, they saw the creature in the tunnel and their eyes widened.

“It’s a mole!”

“A moooole?!”The somewhat strangely shaped mole glanced at us and then began digging the tunnel diligently.”

Whether the mole had a special ability or not, the dirt it dug began to fly out of the hole.

“Wow.”

Is it a magic mole?

I was watching the mole with fascinated eyes when Levinas started walking towards the mole.

“Finally, I’ve met you! Levinas’s rival!”

“Rival?”

“Yeah! The mole is Levinas’s tunnel-digging rival!”

“Ah.”

Indeed, our Levinas is quite the tunnel digger.

They were worthy rivals in tunnel digging.

“Mole, come at me!”

Levinas stood next to the mole and started digging a tunnel.

The mole, glancing at this, also started digging a tunnel as if in a race.

Thump-thump-thump!

Thump-thump!

It was an incredible digging speed that we couldn’t even imagine.

We might have been watching the race of those who dig the best in the world.

Thump-thump-thump!

We watched the underground shelter expand in real time.

Crunch-crunch-

Gaeul was eating snacks that she had somehow brought, watching the tunnel-digging race with a blank face.

The space was expanding in real time, but it didn’t collapse thanks to Jeong Yuna’s magic.

The two of them continued digging for a long time, then stopped at the same time as if they had made a promise.

“Wanga, please judge who won.”

“Fairly?”

“Yeah!”

I cleared my throat and measured the tunnels they had dug.

Levinas had dug deep, and the mole had dug wide, but the sizes were similar, so I couldn’t determine a winner.

“This is… I think it’s a tie?”

“Huk! Really?!”

“Yeah. The amount of dirt they dug is very similar.”

Levinas showed a relieved expression at my words.

The mole nodded up and down.

It seemed they both thought it was a good match.

‘That’s a really amazing mole.I wonder if it’s a Divine Beast like our divine beast.

Maybe it was a new friend who had come to us.

**

Levinas and the mole could become good friends.

It was thanks to their shared hobby of digging tunnels.

“Levinas, shall we go up now?”

“Yeah!”

Levinas blew soap bubbles with a very relieved face.

A large Soap bubble necklace surrounded us, and we were able to rise to the surface.

“Mole! You have to keep digging the tunnel diligently!”

“Kkuu!”

The mole waved its hand as if welcoming us.

We watched that amazing sight and came up to the surface.

“Shall we rest a bit now?”

“Yeah! We worked, so now it’s time to take a walk!”

We strolled leisurely through the park.

Then, at the end of the park, we found a clown handing out balloons.

“Huh?”

The children stopped in their tracks, startled by the clown’s unique makeup and the giant height due to the platform shoes.

“M, Master, there’s a scary monster over there…”

“Haneul, it’s not a scary monster, it’s a clown.”

“A c, clown…?”

“Yeah. He’s a very fun person.”

It’s hard to see clowns these days.

Even smart Haneul had many things she didn’t know like this.

“A fun person…?”

“Yeah. Do you want to go closer?”

“Y, yes…!”

Haneul and the other children approached the clown with nervous expressions.

When the clown’s gaze reached the children, they were startled.

“……”

The clown didn’t say anything, but pointed at our children with exaggerated gestures.

Then, he raised his index finger and took out a balloon from his pocket.

“W, what is that…?”

“……!”

The clown didn’t answer Haneul’s question.

He blew up the long balloon and twisted it this way and that, quickly creating a dog balloon.

“Wow!”

“Doggy!”

When the cute balloon was made, the children erased their fear as if it had never been there.

Haneul’s tiger tail, who received the balloon from the clown, also wagged gently.

“Bunny! Can you make a bunny balloon too?!”

“Gaeul is excited!”

“……”

The clown, who received requests from the children, started making balloons.

Bunny balloons and balloons floating in the air with helium gas.

The children giggled as they received the balloons.

“I want a mackerel balloon.”

“……!”

The clown made a mackerel balloon at Saebyeok’s request.

It was a long blue balloon with a mackerel drawn on it.

“Wow! Wow!”

There were no children in the world who disliked balloons.

The children giggled and were able to return home happily with the balloons.

**

Gyeoul, who returned home, went into the bathroom to take a shower.

Saebyeok lay down on the sofa and took a nap, and Bomi opened her laptop and started working.

Levinas, Haneul, and Gaeul sat in front of the television.

“The clown is a good person!”

“That’s right…!”

“Hehk…!”

Levinas came home holding the bunny balloon preciously in her arms.

The clown uncle, who they thought was scary, was a very good person.

You shouldn’t judge people by their appearance.

Levinas turned on the television with a new lesson.

“Levinas-nim, do you want to watch a movie with a clown…?”

“Huk! Good!”

Levinas manipulated the remote control and searched for “clown” in the OTT search bar.

Surprisingly, there was a movie called ‘Red Clown’.

“W, wow…”

The scary-looking clown’s face was on the cover, but Levinas wasn’t fooled.

She knew that clowns were scary but good people who gave out balloons.

It must be a fun movie.

Levinas turned on the movie without hesitation.

The main characters of the movie were children.

But for some reason, the atmosphere of the movie was somewhat gloomy.

Is it a movie where a clown makes an unhappy child happy?

The children watched the movie with anticipation.

Just in time, Gyeoul, who had finished showering, came out to the living room and watched the movie together.

“Kids, what movie is this?”

“A clown movie!”

“Clown?”

It was the moment when Gyeoul was puzzled.

The moment when one of the characters, a child, went down to the basement.

Thump-!

A scary-looking clown appeared and pounced on the child.

-Aaaaaagh!

Thanks to the scene changing with the child’s scream, the scary scene wasn’t shown, but it was enough to startle the children.

“Nyaaaaaak!”

“Squeaaaaak!”

Gyeoul jumped up and realized.

That the children had turned on a horror movie with a clown.

A word from the author (Author’s Afterword)

PIA1747014585384 Thank you so much for reading again today!

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Clowns… were so scary… but these days they’ve become funny again…!

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