episode_0021

by fnovelpia

Unable to overcome the morning sunlight streaming into my eyelids, I woke up forcing my closed eyes to open.

And Seoina thought.

‘Is it morning?’

It was more of a habit rather than a feeling of doing it with some will.

And as soon as I woke up, I noticed something different from my usual morning.

Seo Ina was a child who was unable to sleep well at night due to the shock of losing her older sister.

So, I always couldn’t sleep properly to the point where I didn’t know when I fell asleep, and when I did fall asleep, the day I wanted to forget would follow me into my dreams like a curse and I would have nightmares.

So, without knowing the circumstances, those around her judged Seo Ina to have always been a nervous child.

Since I couldn’t sleep well and even had nightmares, my stress piled up and I couldn’t help but be sensitive.

why?

Because I’m tired.

No one could properly look at the wide-open wound in the child’s heart, and even the parents who were supposed to play that role were unable to overcome the shock of losing their child and ended up fighting at home on an empty day.

It was a vicious cycle.

Since we couldn’t get over the shock and forget what happened, we fought and couldn’t stand the stress, but we were still stressed.

Of course, there was no time to pay attention to the child.

Originally, the family was so busy that they neglected looking after their youngest child.

This did not mean that the family was broken, but it was a family where the older sister took on the role of parent because the family was not economically wealthy.

Thanks to this, the child who was supposed to grow up seeing happy and good things and establish good values grew up to be sensitive and easily angry due to deep wounds in his heart.

It was only natural that her older sister, who played that role, passed away without receiving proper care from her parents.

Even though the country has changed and life has become easier, that situation has not changed.

We fought over when to take care of the child, and because we didn’t want to go home and be stressed, we went outside to avoid each other and found hobbies that we never came home from.

The parents were so traumatized that their minds were distorted and they became people who neglected the minimum duty, so the child was neglected and did not feel the affection of family for a long time.

I moved on, thinking that my sensitive child would still think positively of me as a parent, and that since my older sister played the role of a parent, he unconsciously thought that there would be someone to take care of him.

That doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt, but it was more hurtful and stressful to have my parents at home.

So, except for the occasional day when her parents fought when she came home, Ina’s daily life was usually very quiet.

It was natural for me to live alone in a house where four people lived, and since there were no common household robots, the only noise I made in the house was when my child was eating alone or playing with various things on a tablet.

Loneliness consumed the child.

Sometimes I couldn’t bear the weight of that terrible silence, so I sometimes had that thought when I was lying blankly on the sofa and looking at the empty garden.

Am I the only one left in the world?

Of course the child knows.

Unless you’re an idiot, you go to school. Why don’t you know that there are other people in the world?

But those thoughts came to me when I was alone in a house with no one around.

Maybe there are no people left in the world.

But daily life here was a little different.

It was a calm daily life, not that noisy, but not quiet either.

A girl named Yeji, who looks like her older sister who lives here, is such a troublemaker that she sometimes gets into trouble while playing with the machines in the house. Even if you spend just one day, you can get a rough idea of what daily life is like here.

But even in the noise, I felt warmth.

A child named Ye-ji was so attached to the robot that she often gave it a name and played around with it, and a woman named Ji-hye sighed as she looked at the traces of the children’s actions.

But that’s why I felt affection.

We all gathered together, ate, and talked a lot.

We all gathered together, watched TV, laughed, and asked questions.

For Ina, who had lost sight of the concept of family and now only felt scared and bothered, it was the warmth of home that would never exist again in the world.

So is that so?

I didn’t have any nightmares, and my body felt vitality like never before.

Ina found it fascinating, but also felt a little grateful, so she turned her gaze to the side of the bed.

At that place…

I saw a black child picking up a clump of his own hair and stuffing it into his mouth.

And drooling too.

Ah, no matter how much I thank you, this is too much.

*****

When I woke up in the morning, I saw a child looking down at me with an expression of arrogance.

Why do you do that?

He spat something strange red out of his mouth and his body recoiled, causing him to jump upright.

“This body is resurrected!”

hmm.

It’s a perfect mood.

The child grumbled harshly at me, but now that I knew full well that the child was a growing tsundere, I accepted it and started my daily life.

The morning started with a poor meal prepared by Jihye, who was not a robot for some reason.

Just right.

“Ouch!”

“You were dissatisfied with the meal I just prepared you, right?”

“No? Ohande?”

“Manage your facial expression first and say this.”

what?

Is it mind reading?

Anyway, all I could find out during the resumed meal time was that the child’s name was Seoina and that after the meal, Ina was going to school.

Ina had already finished eating, washed up, and was getting ready to go to school, and I was leisurely watching and finishing my bread.

“Why are you doing that?”

“?”

what?

Is this a new fertilization method?

It wouldn’t be surprising to see him eating.

“Meals.”

“?”

what is the problem?

Jihye seemed to be thinking a lot about something.

Maybe it seemed like he was very dissatisfied.

“Aren’t you going to school?“

“Me?”

“I told you last time that I had to go to school.”

“Is that today?”

“I told you yesterday.”

Did you?

I got ready to go out wearing the clothes provided to me.

“Tell the teacher that you only have class this morning and you have to go to the hospital this afternoon. I told the teacher, but just in case.”

Why should I go to the hospital?

Is it like a health checkup?

I skipped it over and went out.

Ina, who had already finished preparing, was looking curiously at the birds gathering in the garden. The birds seemed to be unable to distinguish faces and asked, ‘Is this the person who usually feeds them? But why don’t you give it to me?’ With this feeling, they would come near Ina and nudge her clothes with their beaks.

It wasn’t a sound made because it resembled my wings, but because crows are famously intelligent birds, it realized right away that Ina was not a human or a robot who was feeding it and began to caw.

Doldori opened the drawer where he always kept it, took out pine nuts, and sprinkled them on the birds waiting in the garden.

After finishing my lucky farming, I placed a pine nut in the hand of Ina, who was watching quietly from the side.

Of course, Ina, who knew what to do because she was watching from the side, carefully tried to reach out and touch the birds, which were eating deliciously sprinkled with pine nuts, but failed.

It was said that the animals here were surprisingly not afraid of humans, but whether they would quietly allow themselves to be touched was a separate question.

Let’s think about it.

How many creatures can remain still when a giant hand larger than their own body covers their body?

Ina seemed disappointed and stretched out her hand a little more, but the birds followed the direction of her hand and scurried around to peck for water or feed.

However, the crow, which was quite large and smart, seemed to firmly believe that it would not harm him and crowed as it leaned into the outstretched hand.

Only then did Ina’s expression, which had felt a little sad, widen and it seemed like a bond was forming.

Kiiing

“?”

A strange sound was heard.

When I looked over the fence to see what the noise was, I saw something huge approaching my house.

That huge something seemed familiar to Ina, and she spoke calmly as she opened the door.

“Let’s go.”

“Where?”

“You’re an idiot for saying you’re going to school.”

Kiiing

It seems that the concept of school buses was created in Korea.

It looked very different from a typical car, but anyway.

The huge black box moving quickly, hanging from something similar to a wire, had the shape of a bus.

The body of the car is so thick and curved that it feels like a tram rather than a bus.

The box, which was floating in the air hanging on something that looked like a thick wire, had something that looked like a thick, huge iron pillar pulled out from a hole underneath and was moving along with its support on the floor.

It looks like a giant spider.

It’s really not common.

From what I heard from Ina, that huge wire-like thing is the spider robot’s private road.

I just thought the electric poles here were just big, but there was a reason for that.

Those electric poles and huge wires don’t look like the electric poles they used to be.

It is said to be a new mount for a very expensive and important person, and it is said to be sturdy and capable of fighting if the situation is not favorable.

There are not many robots that use dedicated roads, so they are used to transport important items, and there have been no cases of traffic accidents.

When an emergency occurs such as a power line being cut or something urgent happens, it not only moves along the road, but also uses its spider-like legs to climb over buildings or walk along empty spaces on the side of the road. I wanted to see it.

The giant spider moved slowly towards us, and when it got close, a long cylinder suddenly came down in front of us from the giant spider’s stomach.

“It’s an elevator.”

Ina must have noticed that I lacked a lot of common sense somewhere, so she went out of her way to explain something without even asking.

As expected, as Ina said, Wontong opened the door and waited for us to get in.

As we got in, the doors closed and the elevator moved.

Meanwhile, in this large space, holograms appeared to advertise something, but most of them were advertisements for drinks or snacks suitable for children.

It’s like music that appears in memes or something like that on Mutube.

[Vegetable chips made with 16 healthy ingredients! Umaumight!]

[Even if you don’t drink it! This taste you can feel! Are you afraid to drink beverages for fear of gaining weight? You can’t even trust Zero Drinks? Then, let’s try a drink using this gas! The scent has become 1.5 times stronger!]

“An ad was made with an out-of-date meme again.”

Ina muttered like that.

When the door opened, familiar children were sitting in seats bigger than their size, chatting wildly.

After all, are kids kids?

It seems that there were separate seats, such as individual seats where people could sit alone and group seats where two people could sit together. We sat in the corner with me, so we couldn’t be seen by other people, and the kids who actually said hello to us once in a while didn’t pay attention to us because they were playing among themselves. .

Once we were seated, our seat belts were fastened.

[Protection activated.]

As we boarded, something that looked like a blue aurora unfolded like a curtain and soon disappeared.

Although I couldn’t see anything, I could clearly see that the Aurora from earlier was protecting us.

The giant spider walked to the wire with long strides and connected its body to the wire.

[Next destination is school.]

But I feel like something is going to happen today.

Suddenly, I felt something uneasy.

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