episode_0081

“Oh, wait. I didn’t think about that when I was eating pizza. Can you guys have some cola?”

“Cola?”

Cola. I tilted my head, wondering what that was for a moment, and then I remembered the black carbonated drink I had when I was young.

It was sweet and refreshing with a tangy taste. I remember the little bubbles that burst in my mouth being fun.

The problem was the popping bubbles. When I was a normal person, I thought it was a little tingly and funny, but now that I’m smaller, doesn’t it feel like a bomb is exploding in my mouth?

“Hmm, let me try it. If it’s okay with me, it’ll be okay for Namin to drink it too. Oh, and Saekmu-sae will be okay. Parrots like carbonated water. Ham-sik shouldn’t drink it. Cola isn’t very good for hamsters.”

The moment I tilted my head worriedly, wondering if she was sick, Jihyun bravely stepped forward.

Narin, who was piling up French fries in one place and unwrapping hamburgers, smiled at Jihyun’s confident appearance.

“Ahaha, okay. I’ll give you some in a plastic bottle cap, so try it. Huh?”

Now, Narin poured cola into the bottle cap that was our cup. If it was something that could be dangerous, I didn’t have to drink it, but Jihyun volunteered to do the clinical trial for me.

So I watched with nervousness as Ji-hyun tried to drink her cola. But before Ji-hyun could drink it, Ham-sik, who was munching on French fries, barged in.

“Ah, Hamshik, no!”

Hamsters are not very good with cola. I just told you that, did you not catch that?

I quickly ran over to stop Hamshik, but Hamshik had already put his mouth on the lid filled with cola.

And then, squeak. Hamsik, who had emptied the cap in one go as if there had never been any cola there in the first place, suddenly distorted his face.

“Pokkeuk!”

“Eww!”

Not only was his face distorted, but he even spit out the cola he had in his mouth.

Yeah, it’s a good thing he didn’t drink it because it’s not good for hamsters. But it was frustrating that it was sprayed in my direction.

“Hamshik breathed! This is cola breath! Hamshik became a cola dragon!”

“Ahaha, Hamshik-nim doesn’t really like cola. It seems like he’s picky about certain foods. Oh, and he didn’t really like mint either, right.”

But even so, I gave my whole body and made Narin laugh, and Saekmusae gave Hamshik a weird nickname. Still, it was a humiliation I could endure.

Even if I just wipe my body with the wet tissue Jihyun brought, it still feels sticky and uncomfortable.

“Namina, are you okay?”

“Ugh, I have to eat and wash up later. I’m sticky.”

“Okay. Let’s eat and wash together with my sister. Hamshik, should I get you some water?”

But Narin is a hamster who licks water or tomato ketchup poured from a plastic bottle cap. Maybe she doesn’t like the tangy taste of carbonated beverages.

And when the confusion had died down a bit, Jihyun tried the cola again. Unlike Hamshik, Jihyun drank the cola like a bowl, so much so that it seemed as if the lid had shrunk, and soon her body began to tremble.

“Jihyun, are you okay? Do you want to spit it out like Hamshik?”

“Eww, no. That’s not it, the carbonation is really strong. But I don’t think it’ll hurt if you drink it.”

“Aha. Then I want to drink too!”

I was already determined to enjoy the things I couldn’t eat in my past life. I think it would be a shame if I couldn’t drink cola.

So I got my share of cola from Jola Narin. And I took a sip.

“Kyaaaa!”

The sound of it becoming refreshing came out naturally. It was nice because, except for the sticky feeling in my mouth, it felt sweet and refreshing all the way to my stomach.

While we were having fun there, Narin seemed to be wondering how to feed us the hamburgers.

“It suits your taste. That’s good. Now, the hamburger is… … .”

Perhaps wanting to erase the stinging feeling left in his mouth, Hamshik had already started eating the hamburger bun from the top.

After all, a hamburger is a food that you enjoy various textures by biting into the bread on top and bottom, the vegetables inside, and the meat.

But that was also made based on what humans would eat. It would be impossible for us to eat like that. After all, we are small.

“Would it be better to press it a bit and cut it?”

Narin asked with a worried tone, as if she felt sorry for that, but I shook my head.

Anyway, no matter what I do, I can’t eat it in its original way. In that case, it doesn’t matter if I eat it separately.

“It’s okay. It’s more fun because it’s a hamburger bigger than our body. Right, Jihyun?”

“That’s right. There’s no reason to have to eat it all in one bite. If you eat it separately, it’s healthy, right? With steak, salad, bread. Even if you put a little bit of all of it in your mouth, it’s still a hamburger.”

“Oh, really?”

I wonder if a hamburger that has been disassembled like this can be called a hamburger. I don’t know. Anyway, after hearing Jihyun’s words, I felt a little excited again.

There, Narin also happily played the janggu.

“Ahaha, I think I heard that too. They say that a hamburger is healthy as long as you don’t eat it with fries and cola.”

“Of course, if you eat a hamburger, it would be a shame to miss those two.”

“That’s right. Okay, let’s eat quickly before Hamshik eats all the French fries.”

Luckily, Hamshik had only finished half of the pile of French fries. Next, he had his share of a hamburger with its packaging removed.

Of course, after you finish all that, you might come back for the fries. Or maybe you’ll come back for our burgers.

But we couldn’t possibly finish one hamburger, so if Hamshik came, he’d be happy to share it with us.

While Narin was eating her hamburger using the wrapper as a handle, Jihyun and I were taking small bites of the hamburger with our forks.

No, maybe it would be more correct to say that you dig it out like you’re hitting a rock with a pickaxe. You break it off into an appropriate size, and you put it in your mouth.

The sesame-sprinkled bread was delicious, and the sweet and salty sauce on the other side was sticky to my mouth.

But the seasoning is too much. So, if you just tear the lettuce and put it in your mouth to balance it out, the chewing taste is a little bland.

So next time, take out the meat. Only then will the orchestra of foods unfold harmoniously in your mouth.

When I felt a little oily, I took a sip of cola and the greasy feeling went away.

While I was conducting the tiny orchestra unfolding inside my mouth, using my fork as a baton, Jihyun and Saekmusae also ate their hamburgers with gusto.

Jihyun was eating with a fork, just like me, and Saekmu-sae was eating mainly the patty, as he liked meat better than vegetables.

The irony was that all three of us were eating the pickles without even trying.

But I feel like adding sourness to this sweet and salty, refreshing hamburger orchestra would upset the balance a bit.

Lettuce and cola are enough to take the edge off the greasiness, so I sneakily picked up a pickle and offered it to Hamshik.

“Hamshik-ah, you eat this.”

Hamshik eats everything I give him. Fortunately, Hamshik doesn’t seem to be picky about sour foods.

Okay, I guess I’ll just keep eating the mint and giving the pickles to Ham Diet. We can compromise on not eating them, so it’s a win-win.

Perhaps because he was a little bored with just eating hamburgers, Saekmoose began to show interest in French fries as well.

When I ate the french fries dipped in ketchup, Narin tried to imitate me by putting ketchup on the end of the french fries he was holding with his beak.

“Torch, torch! I will light my belly with this torch!”

A magpie that made a fuss while holding a French fries that looked like matches instead of a torch, and then of course opened its beak and dropped the French fries.

The place it fell was Hamshik’s territory. Hamshik, who thought that he was given French fries, quickly picked them up and stuffed them into his mouth.

“No, my torch!”

The saxophonist slowly gnawed at it from the other end before it was all sucked into Hamshik’s mouth.

Naturally, the beaks and mouths of the two approached each other as the French fries became shorter, and eventually their feeding entrances came into contact.

“Ah, Hamshik and Saekmusae had an indirect kiss!”

“Uh… …. Isn’t that a direct kiss? Isn’t touching the beak and the lips a kiss?”

While I was teasing and Jihyun was embarrassed, Hamshik licked the beak of the seagull. It seems like the salty taste of the remaining French fries and ketchup tasted good.

Unlike Hamshik, who was acting as usual without any problem, Saekmusae spread his wings wide and froze.

Then, the seagull buries its face in its stomach and mutters.

“I lost my virginity. Now I have to marry Hamshik.”

“Phuhut! Aaah, Namin, I’m sorry! It’s too funny, stop… … .”

In the end, Narindo Hamsik spurted out the cola, and I spilled the cola twice today.