episode_0020

The story doesn’t necessarily have to have a set theme. It doesn’t matter if the sound is empty.

You can just be together and say something if it suddenly comes to mind. You can talk about how you feel at the moment.

So, eating together is a really fun thing because you get to share the same experiences and talk about them.

The menu may be different, and the place where you eat may be different, like this time. But if you can see each other’s faces and talk to each other, you can say that you are spending time together.

No, it’s okay if we don’t talk. Just being with someone I like is nice.

So, it was fun to eat with Narin. The food she prepared was delicious, and Narin said she was eating deliciously on the other side of the screen.

Then, people passing by would tell us that we were cute, and would always ask if the hamster was big or if I was small.

It’s lunchtime and Mr. Cheoksu, the distribution manager, and Mr. Ghost, the chef, come to greet you warmly.

Ah, I think I’ll look forward to lunch time every day from now on. Everyone will greet me with a smile.

I wonder if they did that because they thought we would be adopted by someone else anyway. Everyone treated us with blank expressions or frowns.

Oh, except for the one who abandoned us. That old man was the only one who spoke kindly to us.

If it weren’t for that old man, I wouldn’t have had toys. I would have just been getting shots every day to keep myself from getting sick, eating, and rolling around.

“Hamshik-ah. I’m so glad that our Na-rin was picked up by her older sister. Right?”

So what I thought was, we got lucky.

Of course, if you think pessimistically, you could say that you were unlucky to be abandoned like that. But in fact, you were lucky because you were able to be picked up by a good person like Na-rin even after being abandoned like that.

It’s lucky that I died and opened my eyes again to become a small and cute girl like this. If I had been unlucky, I would have been born as a pig or a chicken and would have become delicious pork belly or chicken by now.

At least that’s not it. Luck doesn’t necessarily have to mean winning the lottery.

Hoping that raindrops will dance and brush away my body when it rains is like wishing for a miracle. Just as it can be considered good luck to accidentally bring an umbrella or to find an umbrella in your bag.

Narin, who happened to be passing by, happened to be a nice person and picked us up.

Ah, isn’t this actually a miracle? We could have been found after we froze to death, or the person who picked us up could have been a bad person, but we met Narin despite all odds.

And of course, Hamshik didn’t care about that. He just finished eating and was moving to take a nap.

Hamshik, who had been waiting quietly for me to dry my hands, then wriggled his way to the edge of the sink and threw himself down.

The hamster that fell to the ground like that crawled into the house I had built yesterday.

Even though he made a hiding place out of boxes, looking at him going into the house on the second floor and lying down, it seemed like he thought of that place as his real home.

I was secretly proud and touched. The moment I was about to go down with my phone in hand, the scene where we had eaten caught my eye.

It looks clean because Hamshik licked it clean. But even so, it was a container that contained food, and Hamshik’s saliva would be on it.

“Eww! Hamshik, you didn’t want to do the dishes so you went to sleep alone! That’s fatal!”

Of course, there was no answer. Of course, Hamshik didn’t know how to wash the dishes, but what if he was with me?

I don’t think I need to wash the dishes I ate from like this. Narin never asked me to wash them either.

But I don’t want to do that. If I were a pet, I could really just roll around and do nothing.

But I’m Narin’s younger sister. Shouldn’t we at least clean up what we ate?

So I held the bowl I was eating with Hamshik over my head and jumped down to the sink. Then I put the faucet down while checking the trajectory of the faucet above my head.

Fortunately, the faucet wasn’t fixed in one place. I thought it would be okay to just place the bowl here, go up, and aim.

Before spraying water, you should first spray some dishwashing detergent. Pong pong, pong pong. When I tried to press it with my hand, it kept lifting, so I had to go up on top of it and roll my feet.

With three pumps, a green, apple-scented mucus sprayed into the bowl. As I watched it for a moment, I suddenly wondered what the detergent would taste like. The scent was good, but what would the taste be like?

Of course, I know that eating detergent is bad for your health. But since I wash the dishes with detergent anyway, it’s not necessarily bad for your health.

Even though I rinse the dishes with water after washing them, there will still be a small amount left on the dishes, so I guess it’s okay to eat that much.

Likewise, wouldn’t it be okay to just taste it? If you put it on your tongue for a bit and spit it out, it should be okay.

On that impulse, I put some detergent on my finger and put it on my tongue. But what the heck, it definitely smelled sweet and fragrant like an apple, but when it touched my tongue, it was just an incredibly bitter taste.

“Uwaaa.”

I quickly turned on the water and washed my tongue. Still, perhaps because the detergent was made to dissolve easily in water, the terribly bitter taste quickly disappeared.

After I got rid of that bitter taste, this time Hamshik was looking at me from above the sink.

Why was he looking down at me with those round, black eyes? I had a feeling that he was just looking at me in a pitiful way.

I thought to myself that he must have postponed his nap to come because I was doing something, so I decided to be happy for now.

“Oh, Hamshik! Are you here to help me?”

Hamshik jumps down to the sound of my happy voice.

But can he do the dishes? Hamshik has hands, but his arms are short.

At that moment, Hamshik ran straight to the bowl from which water was pouring out. He put his mouth on the water that was overflowing from the bowl.

… … I see. Hamshik came because he was thirsty. No, wait a minute. But I put detergent in there, and if you drink it like that.

“Keeek!”

Fortunately, Hamshik didn’t swallow the water, but as soon as he put it in his mouth, he spurted it out. The stream of water hit the wall of the sink and scattered into pieces.

The water flow was on a completely different level than when I was taking a bath. It seemed to be quite tasteless. No, it wasn’t tasteless; it was terrible.

“Did you think I could eat this just because I put it on my tongue? I said it doesn’t taste good. If you’re thirsty, I’ll pour you some water. Wait. This is tap water… … . Hmm, can I drink it?”

I tried to give him some water, either in a cup or a small plate, from the water purifier. Perhaps because he wanted to erase the horrible taste that was still on his tongue, Hamshik put his mouth directly into the pouring water.

Looking at that, it looks like there’s nothing you can’t drink. Since the purifier covers the entire house, it will purify even tap water.

Anyway, Korea’s capital is clean, so they say you can drink the tap water as is.

And as if trying to catch the water stream, he waved his hands to maintain his balance. Before he knew it, his stomach was soaking wet.

After filling his mouth with water and spitting it out several times until his cheeks were swollen, Hamshik, who had stepped back from the running water, stared at me.

A look in his eyes as if he was resenting me for not stopping him. But I also feel a bit wronged, because he jumped in without giving me a chance to stop him.

“I turned on the water to wash the dishes. Look at your stomach soaking wet. Come here, I’ll wipe the water off. Aah, where did Hamshik go!”

There was a dishcloth hanging on the sink, so I tried to wipe some of the water off Hamshik’s fur with it. Whether I picked it up or not, Hamshik was already upset, as he was trying to get away from there.

However, Hamshik was unable to climb up because the wall was too smooth, and the jumping height was too low, so he was trapped in the sink.

In the end, I had to put off washing the dishes and rescue Hamshik. First, I roughly dried off the moisture, then went out and pulled out a pair of chopsticks and put them down for Hamshik to grab.

Hamshik grabbed it, and I picked up my chopsticks and pulled Hamshik up.

“Oh my, it’s hard. Hamshik, if you’re thirsty, just say you’re thirsty, okay? … … Oh, you can’t talk, right. Hmm, should I just pour you some water and let you drink when you’re thirsty? ”

The structure was set up for now. The problem was what to do next.

Well, let’s just think about it together with Narin. Right now, we have to finish washing the dishes first.

The dishwashing detergent had already dissolved in the pouring water and turned into foam, so I just had to scrub it with an acrylic sponge to remove any remaining grease or ham-staining saliva.

Just wipe the bowl thoroughly without leaving a single spot untouched, rinse it with water, turn it upside down, and you’re done.

I got soaking wet while doing that, and the toilet paper kept ripping and melting.

It’s okay because you can make toilet paper rolls again. The only problem is that you get quite tired after moving around like this.

So I went down the rope like an airborne unit, holding my phone in one hand and the rope in the other, and I just slid down.

If I felt like I was going too fast, I could just hold on to the rope to slow down, and then I would let go of the rope and my body would gently lower itself to the ground.

It would be okay to just jump down like Hamshik, but then the cell phone I bought for Nalin might get broken.

As I went down, I saw Hamshik standing with his two front legs stretched out toward the window. It seemed like he didn’t like being wet either, so he tried to dry himself in the sun.

I also sat down next to him and stretched out my arms and legs. After moving around a lot and lying down in a place where the boiler was hot, I quickly fell into sleep.

“Come here, Hamshik. Rub your belly and sleep for a while.”

There were some twists and turns, but Hamshik obediently let me hold his belly fat, knowing that I saved him.