episode_0044

by fnovelpia

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“You didn’t wear that suit or anything today?”

“Ah, I recognized you as expected.”

Unlike her previous clothes, which were thought to be combat uniforms, the woman’s clothes this time were clearly closer to everyday clothes, and there seemed to be no place to hide a weapon.

Even before, I didn’t think it would really harm me, but the current outfit made it even more so.

The woman’s expression was not visible.

However, as evidenced by her behavior, she did not seem to be a hostile being, and looking at her clothes, she seemed even more so today.

I was just curious.

Why do I keep coming here?

“Are you here to catch me?”

“No? I didn’t intend to do that from the beginning. I came because I wanted to talk to you.”

“Do you know me?”

“I know well. Although it is one-sided.”

Is this like a stalker or something?

The woman pulled up a chair next to her and picked up the last paper cup filled with lemonade and drank a little.

But strangely, the woman’s face could not be identified.

Only a faint smile can be seen on the lips.

“What did you want to talk about with me?”

“Anything. If you don’t have anything to talk about, you don’t have to. You and your friends play like that too, right?”

“Stalkers are bad.”

You’re a stalker, right?

I wonder if I should report it or not.

“Stalker… In some ways, he is a stalker. But don’t worry. Because I have no intention of doing anything in particular.”

She waved her paper cup and said that she would really only drink lemonade and then go back.

Wouldn’t that be no problem?

She didn’t really say anything until she was halfway through the lemonade.

I watched the birds gathering over the fence and looked at the flowers in the garden.

Sometimes I watched people passing by.

Just looking at her posture, she looks like an unemployed girl who has no choice but to be idle because she doesn’t have a job.

However, the expression on his face when he looked at people didn’t seem that good.

Do you have any bad memories?

But it wasn’t a bad expression.

What can I say?

It was complicated.

It seemed bitter, sad, and disgusting.

And his face was blank, looking into the distance as if he was reminiscing about something.

But how do I know if I can’t even see your face?

“Why do you frown every time you see someone?”

Unable to overcome my curiosity, I spoke.

I thought I shouldn’t provoke him by talking to him, but what kind of curiosity is that guy?

A child’s curiosity is so scary.

Even though I think it might be dangerous, I can’t bear it.

Maybe it’s a crow’s habit, like crow’s wings?

She looked surprised, as if she hadn’t expected my question.

“How did you know?”

“It just looks like that.”

“Well, children were originally sensitive to adults’ emotions. I forgot.”

She was worried.

It felt like he was wondering how to answer my question.

“What do you think when you see adults?”

“Adult? Who?”

“Just an adult.”

Because I’m an adult.

I don’t really have any thoughts.

Everyone was so nice to me that I never thought much about it.

ah.

“Pity.”

“Pity?”

It seemed like my words were a surprise to her.

She adjusted her leaning position by resting her elbows on the backrest and leaned towards me.

“Why?”

“Everyone has a lot of scars. So pitiful. Everyone looks heartbroken. I am happy every day, but for adults, every day seems difficult and painful.”

Jihye, who first met me, was like that.

He looked desperate and sad, perhaps because he had sad memories of losing children like me.

And he acted as if he was being chased by something.

The adults here were like that too.

Everyone went about their daily lives pretending like nothing was wrong, but inside they were harboring a pain that they couldn’t reveal to anyone.

Perhaps because the adults had the experience of losing something precious, they were scared every time they saw the children, but they missed them.

Although he misses people, he is afraid of meeting people and struggles to escape from old memories, but in the end, he cannot escape, so he rots alone holding the wounds in his heart.

Even the old man at the photo studio.

Maybe even the old people at the billiards hall.

Even my neighbors here are afraid of me.

I don’t know what happened.

I wonder how deep the wound was left in my heart because of that.

So I’m lucky for them today! It was just a small bit of luck.

“I see.”

She seemed upset about something and frowned as if she was about to vomit out what was inside her, but she looked at me, lost in thought, and then sighed as if she was giving up and said,

Was the reason why I tried to bring out what was hidden so tightly inside me because I was giving up because there was no use in taking it out?

Or is it out of concern that I might get hurt because I’m too young to bring it up?

She also seemed to have a lot of injuries.

“You too?”

She was once again startled, as if it was an unexpected question.

Then he waved his hand and pointed above his head as if he was saying something strange.

It was a distinguishing pin that distinguished biobots from humans.

“I am a bio bot. Would a machine that doesn’t know people’s emotions be able to get hurt like a human being? No matter how young you are, you know that, right?”

“No, biobots are people too. Smile when you feel good and cry when you feel sad. Why do you talk like you don’t have any feelings?”

She held back.

I don’t know what I’m holding back.

After a long time, she spoke in a slightly choked voice, as if she were choked.

“After all, no matter how human you are, you can’t hate a child.”

There was barely any lemonade left in the paper cup she put down.

“I wish people in the world were like you.”

Her expression was bitter.

Of all the people I have come to this world, you are the best.

She looked young, but she seemed exhausted and weighed down by something, as if she had lived her life thousands of times.

Perhaps, if it weren’t for the reason she lived now, she seemed like someone who would die herself.

I felt like I had seen someone with a face like this somewhere.

“Bye, see you next time.”

The article I saw this morning didn’t seem to be necessarily correct.

We definitely talked and drank juice.

He looked sad.

More than anyone else in the world.

*****

Well, I can say that I made some gains today.

I don’t know what the pocket money adults gave me or what my image is like in the village, but looking at the expressions on the faces of my neighbors who left, I can see that I have succeeded in making improvements.

I whined and dragged the chair, but I couldn’t even get to the desk.

When I dragged the chair to the corner of the garden and went out the door again, the desk from before had disappeared again.

omg.

Ghost service is very good.

I quickly ran into the house and saw Doldol fiddling with the desk.

“Turn around! A ghost lives in my house.”

“Trespass by unauthorized entity? Not detected.”

“But you helped me like this when I made lemonade.”

Doldol had an expressionless expression, but his eyebrows twitched slightly.

“A good ghost.”

“It’s a good ghost. But when did you wake up?”

“From the time you rolled me up in the blanket.”

“I see.”

The other sleepers in the house were quiet as if they hadn’t woken up.

Even on weekends, everyone doesn’t wake up until late.

But I’m starting to feel hungry.

Doldori must have sensed my thoughts, so he went into the kitchen, put a fried egg on some simple toasted bread, and gave it to me.

The bread was ordinary.

“But hasn’t everyone woken up yet?”

“It’s usually like this on weekends. I don’t know.”

“That’s right.”

“I guess he felt that way because he woke up earlier than usual.”

is it?

My waking up time was a little earlier than other days.

Usually, I overslept more often, so most of the time, Jihye or Ina came and woke me up.

Anyway, Doldol and I finished our small meal and were wondering what to do now.

At the moment I was thinking about it, the sheep and the shining human opened the door as if it was natural and came out and hovered by my side.

Moo

The sheep put its head on my leg.

And he kept repeating that action, and although I didn’t know what he wanted from me, it seemed like he had something he wanted to say.

Are you asking for food?

Do they eat too?

With that thought in mind, I lifted the remaining bread on the table and shook my head.

The shining human took a picture of us like that, but where on earth did he come from?

I roughly know that it happened because of me, but it suddenly appears while I’m sleeping, so I can’t figure out why it suddenly appeared.

Yang was so frustrated that she ran around in place and came back with her smart phone in her hand.

It was Jihye’s smartphone. Why did she bring this?

The sheep announced something by ramming its head into Doldori’s leg.

“?”

Doldol looked around in great confusion as if he felt something shocking, but he didn’t see anything.

Of course.

Those born with my characteristics were invisible to the naked eye of others.

It was the same for the biobot and the camera as well, so no amount was captured.

However, because they are beings that can exercise physical force, problems like this often arise.

“A real ghost? It can’t exist. Morning work is mine…”

Me and Dodoldol Jihye’s smartphone.

What does this mean?

After thinking about it carefully, I remember a little something.

“Ah! Lucky letter!”

It was like that.

In the beginning, I kept posting chain letters.

I even wrote a different repertoire each time, but I wrote that looking at previous articles would not be effective and that I would have to read a new chain letter to see results.

I turned on my smart phone and checked, and before I knew it, the number of views of the chain letter had increased explosively compared to before.

Is this about a moderately popular SNS user?

There were quite a few people who asked where they all went and said they felt lucky thanks to this letter, and that their lives were saved thanks to the good fortune in their daily lives.

That’s an exaggeration.

Anyway, since this kept happening every time I read the letter, there were quite a few people who thought it was a real lucky letter.

When I checked the comment, lucky particles poured out from my smartphone.

omg.

I bought a lottery ticket and forgot about it for a while, but when I checked, I felt like I had won the first prize.

I quickly prepared to write a new chain letter.

“Doldori! Let’s write a new chain letter!”

Doldol silently lay down, grabbed his smartphone, and waited for the next command.

There are a lot of people writing chain letters this time, so I’m going to include a lot of good luck.

But I don’t have that much luck.

How to chat.

I gave good luck to people in the neighborhood with Lemonade of the Day, and since I gave good luck whenever I thought of it, I didn’t have much luck.

With that thought in mind, I looked down at the sheep and wondered if the fleece was shiny and shiny for some reason.

I thought it was because there was a glowing human riding on it, but the fur itself was shiny, so something seemed suspicious.

The wool wasn’t like this originally.

I grabbed the wool and pulled it with force.

Then, the hair wasn’t pulled out, but wouldn’t something else that was on the fur be pulled out instead?

It was white luck.

“Hoo.”

The wool needed trimming.

Maybe every day.

I don’t know why, but the sheep shivered as if it felt cold, and the shining human disappeared somewhere without taking a picture.

The shining human is also suspicious, so I’ll have to look into it later.

I used strength in my hands and pulled out the good luck from the fur.

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