episode_0014

“Wow, I’ve never seen a toothbrush like this before! Just bite it and put it in and out, and you’ll be able to clean all your teeth.”

“Then, the roof of your mouth and tongue will be all scratched. Brush them carefully. I’ll just do that for today, and I’ll find something like a hamster toothbrush for you.”

Interdental brushes are strangely shaped. They are literally made for cleaning between teeth, with the bristles inserted around a metal core in the middle.

Can I use this for its original purpose? Hmm, it seems difficult. I tried poking around a bit, but the gap was too narrow.

So, I should do as Narin said. Just put it in your mouth and roll it around in your mouth while turning it gently.

Suck, suck. Isn’t it inevitable that you instinctively suck on something that’s already in your mouth? The only thing is that the 1890 toothpaste just tastes like a mint, so I didn’t really want to swallow it.

I noticed the phrase on the toothpaste that said, “18-year-old teeth until 90.” Does that mean that even if you take care of it, it will be difficult until then?

Well, I’ve heard that the original life span of a human being is 30 years. So after that, aging begins and you die.

If you think about it that way, maintaining it until you’re 90 isn’t that hard. That’s why they do advertisements like that.

Anyway, I brushed my teeth, being careful not to accidentally poke the iron rod into my mouth.

Even if it can’t fit through the gap between these, it can still poke the inside of your cheek, gums, tongue, etc.

I hate being sick. I hate bleeding. If I were to get surgery or something to get better, then it’s inevitable, but everyone hates being sick.

“Let’s see… … . Ah, I guess hamsters don’t need to brush their teeth separately.”

While I was brushing my teeth, Narin muttered while searching on her phone while wondering what to do with Hamsik. Surprisingly, it seems that hamsters don’t really need to brush their teeth.

Why doesn’t this guy have to eat the same food? Do hamsters pull out their teeth like sharks when they get hurt and grow new ones?

Oh, wait. Now that I think about it, I heard that hamsters and rabbits grind their teeth. If you think about it, isn’t it okay since their teeth keep growing?

As teeth continue to grow and we eat hard things, they wear down, leaving no room for damage.

… … Should I be jealous of this? Or should I feel sorry for him and think that he must be having a hard time because he has to keep grinding his teeth?

Of course, there’s no need to feel sorry for him since he just lives that way because he looks different. So instead, I wanted to tease Hamshik.

“Hamshik-ah. You’re so pitiful. You can’t feel the refreshing feeling of brushing your teeth… …, ugh! Sister Narin, Hamshik-ah learned something bad!”

“Ahaha, that’s right. I learned how to use a water cannon.”

Even though he couldn’t understand what I was saying, he must have been able to read the mood, because as soon as he thought I was making fun of him, he started spitting water out of his mouth, so I stopped.

When on earth did I last have water in my mouth? Of course, it wasn’t as plentiful as when I was taking a bath earlier.

In the meantime, I learned that rather than just spitting, if you make the stream thinner, it will go farther. Even though it didn’t make sense, aren’t hamsters actually smart?

While I was brushing my teeth, Narin also brushed her teeth thoroughly. Meanwhile, Hamshik was moving around the sink, leaning over here and there.

And when Narin spat out the toothpaste foam that filled her mouth, I spat it into the sink too. When she put water in her mouth to gargle, I also reached into the sink, grabbed some, and put it in my mouth.

Hamshik also took advantage of the opportunity to put water in his mouth. He didn’t brush his teeth, but it seems he feels better if he does what we do.

We watched with excitement, wondering if Hamshik would follow suit and spit out the water we gargled with. Hamshik also followed suit and spit out a stream of water.

And then Hamshik, who was boasting that he had been spitting the longest. No, his facial expression didn’t change, but his confident pose gave off that kind of feeling.

After brushing our teeth, Narin carefully wiped away the moisture on us with a towel. Of course, the moisture didn’t dry just by wiping it with a towel, so Narin took out the hair dryer.

“Keeek! Keeek!”

As soon as the sound of the wind blew from there, Hamshik suddenly screamed. It seemed like he was startled because the sound was too loud.

It was so loud that I had to cover my ears. When Narin saw that, she turned off the hair dryer and asked.

“Is it too loud? Maybe it’s because you guys are small that it sounds so loud… … .”

“Yes, my ears still hurt a little. I still feel stuffy.”

“There’s nothing I can do. Let’s not use the dryer. I’ll close the door and use it by myself, sister. She’s playing outside. Hmm, clothes… … .”

“I’ll wrap it in tissue paper! I often make clothes with this.”

“… … Okay, I’ll make you a proper outfit later.”

Because we are small, that kind of noise is especially loud. To Narin, it might just be a little noisy.

Well, this is also like Hamshik’s teeth growing. It’s just a lifestyle that we have to accept because of the difference in size between us and Narin.

“Let’s go, Hamshik!”

So when Narin let us out of the bathroom, we just ran around her spacious studio apartment excitedly.

Hamshik jumped right under Nalin’s bed. However, since there was a closet underneath, the gap wasn’t that wide, so he tried to squeeze through it for a while but gave up.

I followed that hamster and kept talking to him.

“They say hamsters like dark places. Are you going to go somewhere like that? But you know, my house. When I close the door, it gets dark there too. Isn’t my house no good?”

Of course, Hamshik left for another trip without even responding to me. Was the house that bad yesterday? It seemed warm and nice.

Oh, of course it’s a bit rough because it was made in a hurry with a box. But didn’t Narin put her heart into it?

There’s a door, a window, and a bunch of fluffy toilet paper on the floor… Oh. That was the problem.

Hamsters have a good sense of smell, so maybe that house doesn’t hold very good memories for Hamshik.

Because it will probably smell like the place we used to live in. If you think of it as the smell of people who abandoned us, you might not like it very much.

So, I’m wandering around like this, trying to find a new house, not even realizing that this whole place is our house.

But I could understand that feeling. When I was young in my previous life, I had vague thoughts about buying a big house and living well when I made money, but I never wanted a house this big.

In reality, even a decent palace would be smaller than this. Oh, but there are already buildings and such.

To me, this house is a building with each floor being several tens of meters high. It’s also very spacious, so if I had twenty more hamsters, I could probably play soccer.

Anyway, Hamshik kept wandering around looking for a place to stay. Otherwise, he would have to spend the night in a house that would bring back bad memories for Hamshik.

Hamshik ran into the kitchen, which didn’t have any partitions, but still had some space separation. He decided that there was nothing more to see where the bed was.

I didn’t even bother looking under the desk right next to the bed. It was just placed against the wall, so it was clearly not a place to hide.

But the kitchen sink was blocked off, and there was no space underneath the washing machine built into the wall opposite, where a hamburger could fit.

The same goes for under the refrigerator.

“What should I do? It seems like there’s no room to fit in.”

At first, I thought I was just going to tease him, but when I saw Hamshik wandering around here and there and eventually failing to find a hiding place and falling down, my heart ached.

However, Hamshik’s will was not broken yet. Hamshik’s nose was tickled and his gaze was directed upwards.

I wonder if he’ll even think about climbing up the kitchen cupboard. But how can he do it? No matter how nimble Hamshik is, he can’t climb up the wall.

But Hamshik was smarter than I thought. He jumped towards it as if he was trying to climb up the closet handle.

But even if he ran in place or did a running start, Hamshik’s short legs did not allow him to jump very high.

Hamshik, who had been staring up at the sink for a long time, finally turned his gaze towards me.

It seemed like he was asking me to help him get up, so I rolled up my sleeves and stepped forward.

Even so, it was just clothes roughly wrapped in tissue paper, so there were no arms to move them, but anyway.

“Okay, Hamshik. Watch what I do and learn! I’ll show you!”

I started running as fast as I could, keeping a small distance from the chest of drawers, trying to do exactly what Hamshik had been trying to do.

After running the distance of 5 hamsik, I bent my legs a little more and then straightened them. The force of my legs pushing down in a direction perpendicular to the ground pushed me up in reverse and lifted me off the ground.

And as if dunking a shot, he slammed the handle of the dresser. Okay, so Hamshik will look at me with admiration…?

I looked back with a sense of pride, but for some reason Hamshik was looking in a different direction than me.

I followed Hamshik’s gaze and turned my head a little more, and there was the bathroom where Narin was still drying her hair noisily.

As I tilted my head wondering if Hamshik had heard something I hadn’t, someone knocked on the door.

“This is a delivery. Is Mr. Inamin here?”

Ah, so Hamshik heard the sound of someone’s footsteps first. He may not have been able to jump higher than me, but his ears were better than mine.

It’s not that it’s pitiful, it’s just different.

“Just a minute! My sister is drying my hair right now!”

“Who’s out there?”

I couldn’t hear the voices outside the door, but when I got to the bathroom door and shouted, the sound of the hair dryer stopped because they must have heard me.

“Yes, the package arrived!”

“Oh, sorry, I’ll be out soon!”

“No, it’s okay.”

But come to think of it, the name I heard outside just now was my name. If I were to come looking for you, I would have to come looking for you, but how did you know my name and come looking for me?

Oh my, is this voice phishing? But since I don’t have a cell phone, they come to me through this service and do door-to-door sales.

… … Even when I thought about it, it seemed like such a ridiculous idea. No matter how hard I thought about it, I couldn’t come up with an answer, so I just tilted my head. Then, Narin came out, covering her body with a towel.

“Hehehe. Sister Narin is similar to me. I have tissues, and you have a towel!”

“Ahaha, I see. Can you please make sure the ham doesn’t come out for a second?”

“Yes! Hamshik, hold me. It’s cold outside.”

Fortunately, Hamshik didn’t react even after seeing Narin open the door. I was worried that he might stay still and then suddenly run out, but it seemed that Hamshik knew that it was cold outside.

No, how could I not notice the cold air rushing in from outside? I was dragged along, shivering and clinging to the hamster that was going all the way inside to avoid the cold wind.

Then I saw that Narin was receiving a much larger delivery box than we were. Maybe even bigger than the box we had brought home last night. And the box on top was the size of two hamburgers.

“It’s already here.”

“These days, courier delivery is fast. Please sign here… … . Yes, that’s enough. Good night.”

“Thank you, thank you for your hard work!”

Narin signed for the delivery man and received two boxes. I asked her the question I had just asked.

“Narin-i, unnie! That old man called my name.”

“Ah, my sister bought a cell phone and a house with Na-min’s support money. To be exact, if you bring the receipt for the purchase, they will cover it with the support money… … . It already came. I thought it would come tomorrow or the day after.”

Ah. That’s what it was. It was called by my name because it was a cell phone registered to me.

I was already excited about all the things I could do with my phone, so I asked Narin in an excited voice.

“Wow! Is this my cell phone? Then I can call you when you go to work?”

“Ahaha, but don’t do it too often. If you get a call while you’re working, other people will notice… … .”

“Of course. If it’s not urgent, I’ll do it during lunch time or something!”

“You’re smart too. Okay, let’s open the box. First, let’s start with the Hamshik house… … . Ah.”

Hamshik watched as Narin opened the box, perhaps noticing that the large box was her home.

But guess what? It was a big box, so I thought a house would appear right after opening it, but it was just a box full of parts.

“This… … . I guess I have to assemble it.”

Narin, who had spread out the plastic-wrapped parts on the floor, began to ponder over the manual, and in the meantime, Hamshik ran as if he thought this was the moment.

It was a hamster who made the box his home.