episode_0361

[Jeff. Where are you now?]-Sister.

It was a message that arrived for Shine just as she was about to leave the building after finishing her meal.

It was just a normal message asking where I was.

The moment I was about to move my fingers to reply, Amy, who had been walking ahead, stopped in her tracks and waited for me.

Her gaze was directed at my hand.

I guess it’s okay to reply later.

With that thought, I put my phone in my pocket.

“Let’s go together!”

If you frequently show yourself using your phone in front of Amy, she will likely unconsciously take out her phone too.

So I also had to refrain from using my cell phone.

Amy, who had been flustered due to the cat play, returned to her calm appearance as time passed.

Amy grabbed my hand as I approached her and began to walk forward.

“Where should we go next?”

“Umm…”

I was lost in thought over Amy’s question.

They say that people who have played before play better.

Since I had never had this kind of experience before, no place came to mind.

“Hey, where do you want to go, Mom?”

“Um. I…”

Amy also wondered if there was anywhere she could go.

As I was walking down the street, my eyes caught sight of a small doll grabbing machine and a punching machine installed on the street.

doll.

Yeah, claw machine.

It was also a subject that often appeared in the comic books that Rain showed us.

I grabbed Amy’s hand and led her towards her.

“Mom, this is it! I’m playing claw machine!”

“Umm… claw machine?”

I hung up on the claw machine and looked at the prizes inside.

There were large and small dolls mixed together.

I could see a large tail stuck between the dolls.

It’s a green tail.

It was long and stretched out, with fluffy protrusions rising up from it.

This guy is definitely a dinosaur.

I banged on the machine and yelled at Amy.

“Mom! There it is! There’s a dinosaur over there!”

“Shall we give it a try?”

Amy held up her card to the machine with a small smile, as if she had no choice but to accept my request.

After setting the number of times and completing the payment automatically, a song started playing from the machine and the clamp moved slightly.

It started working.

Amy began to manipulate the lever with light movements.

The slowly moving pincers headed towards the giant tail I was pointing at.

The moment they got close, Amy pressed the button.

“Eight!”

Zzwuk – The pincers lowered down and gently touched the dinosaur’s tail.

But the upward-moving tongs caught nothing.

“Ahh…”

“There’s still time!”

Amy moved the lever again as she let out a small groan of regret.

After repeated attempts, the claws were able to grab the dinosaur’s tail.

As the large tail rose, the large body buried underneath was revealed.

The green Tyrannosaurus dinosaur had a very cute expression on its face and was holding meat in its mouth.

“Wow!”

At that moment of such excitement and cheering, the claws suddenly lost their strength and the dinosaur was lost.

“Aaak!”

It was truly a pity.

Amy also seemed to be absorbed in the game, showing incredible concentration.

“What? Is it over?”

The machine stopped working with it.

Amy wiggled her eyebrows and took out the card.

Amy holds her card up to the machine and starts repeatedly pressing the number setting button.

Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep!

Dozens and hundreds of additional opportunities are added.

I swallowed dry saliva.

And so Amy’s fight began.

The giant dinosaur must have been as heavy as its body, because it kept narrowly missing me.

I was so angry that I stamped my feet.

Keep falling apart.

Could it be that the machine is bad?

As I was thinking like that and trying to raise my abilities, Amy opened her mouth.

“Jeff?”

“Yes, yes?”

“Did you try to use your powers?”

“Uh…yeah…”

“Don’t use it, I’ll pick it for you.”

Amy spoke to me with a stern look.

I nodded, hiding my crackling fingers behind my back.

And so, Amy’s infinite farming began.

Perhaps feeling that she needed to check if there was anything wrong with the tongs, she started pulling out other dolls around the dinosaur.

One by one, the dolls kept being pulled out, filling both arms.

“There’s nothing wrong with the tongs.”

Yes, that’s right.

It was just bad luck.

The tongs steadily pulled out other dolls.

Was it because our behavior was peculiar?

People walking along the street began to stop one by one and look this way.

It was a time when the number of dinosaur draws exceeded 200.

Amy let out a big sigh and raised her fists high in the air.

“Hey, Mom!”

I shouted urgently.

With her brute force, this little doll grabbing machine would surely be crushed in one blow.

The fist that was swinging downwards stops in midair.

Amy took a deep breath again with a calm expression and gently touched the button.

Click-

With a small sound, the tongs fall again.

The dropped pincers slipped quietly into the dinosaur’s mouth.

At that moment, I could see.

The tongs fit perfectly into the exquisite holes.

A small hole between the meat and teeth in a dinosaur’s mouth.

The tongs that had entered it did not come out even though they were raised up.

Could it be because the tips of the tongs were slightly blunt?

The dinosaur began to fall into the claws, stretching out in a precarious position.

“Wow!”

The dinosaur draw is finally over.

The moment the claws that had been pulling the dinosaur to the exit opened, the dinosaur fell into the exit.

Amy took out a large stuffed dinosaur and handed it to me.

“Ta-da! Here’s a cool dinosaur!”

I hugged the dinosaur with all my might.

The giant dinosaur was slightly smaller than me.

Is it about rain?

I placed the dinosaur gently on the ground and gently patted its head.

Amy, who was stretching with a somewhat refreshed face, turned her gaze to the punching machine next to her.

The corners of her mouth rise slightly.

I walked over to her side, staggering, holding the large dinosaur in my arms.

Amy was pulling out a card from the punching machine.

I swallowed and took a step back.

In this day and age, punching machines were designed to be very robust.

This means that it is very strong enough to withstand the punches of most power-up users.

After the punching machine payment was made, Amy began to assume her position.

Legs spread shoulder-width apart, arms hanging limp.

Aim for the striking point in a comfortable position.

Piririk – With a small mechanical sound, the punching machine started working.

At that moment, Amy’s hand stretched out in a straight line.

Straight line, straight.

Ppaang!

The wind that burst out late spreads in all directions.

The wind was so strong that it made the hair flutter, and the onlookers began to stir.

The number of punching machines begins to increase very quickly.

400, 500, 600, 700…

Result score – 732.

Amy came in second with a score of 780.

A score that can never be achieved with a normal punch.

It was clear that the first place winner was a person with the power of reinforcement.

Amy looked at it and the corners of her mouth twitched slightly.

There are three chances in total.

Amy still had two more left.

Amy’s posture begins to change.

The gap between his legs widened further and he began to pull his fist back.

Beep-!

The moment the machine started working, Amy started moving.

Kwajik!

The ground beneath Amy’s feet warps slightly.

The small rotation that started from the legs traveled up Amy’s body and reached her waist.

She twisted her waist slightly again.

The muscles in her entire body twitched, and a white aura flowed out from behind her back.

The force contained in the rotation continued to move toward the shoulder without stopping.

bang!

In that moment, just when I thought I had missed the movement, a huge roar erupted.

As if a bomb had exploded, the machine was so crushed that its shape was barely recognizable.

Amy lifted her feet out of the sunken ground with a relieved expression.

The machine was completely destroyed.

I hugged the doll tightly, shivering.

People around them began to cheer for Amy’s new position.

I was dizzy from the sound of applause and whistles.

Not long after the machine was destroyed, a man with a pale face ran out from inside the building.

It seemed like he was the owner of the machine.

As he approached, Amy held out her card as if to tell him not to worry.

That’s when Amy was calculating the cost of the punching machine.

The cell phone in my pocket started vibrating.

A phone call, not a message.

I immediately took out my phone and checked the other person.

[Sister.]

A call from Shine?

I pressed the call button while looking at Amy’s expression.

[Jeff! Where are you now? What area are you in?]

“Huh? I’m playing claw machine with my mom right now…”

[Hey, go into any building with your mom right now!]

“, why…?”

[Hurry up! Urgent!]

Shine’s voice sounded really urgent.

“Okay. Okay. ”

Her voice sounded urgent, but there was no sound around her.

It was fortunate that it didn’t seem like it was in a dangerous place.

The moment I ended the call, I understood why Shine had been so urgent in telling me to go inside the building.

Dark clouds began to gather in the distant sky.

Dark clouds.

An artificial calling, not a natural phenomenon.

Tingle-

The hairs on your skin begin to stand on end.

The current inside the body slowly raises its head.

It’s Rain’s call.

She was calling out to the storm clouds.

Oh, this is not the time.

It was not the time to just stare blankly at the sky.

I shook my head and clung to Amy.

“Mom!”

“Huh? I’m calculating right now. Could you wait a moment?”

“Hey, shall we go over there?”

I pointed to a nearby bakery and shouted.

A pastry shop, a pretty good choice.

Except that it hasn’t been that long since I last ate.

“Hmm. It hasn’t been that long since you ate, right?”

“Yeah, but still!”

“If you eat like that, you’ll gain weight?”

Amy gave me a small laugh at my whining and poked my cheek.

Her soft cheeks squished under her fingers.

“Oh, anyway, let’s go quickly!”

“Okay, take your time~”

After finishing her calculations, Amy started following me, led by my arm.

I dragged her into the bakery, carrying the large dinosaur on my back.

“Hoo… Hoo…”

Once I entered the building, I felt relieved.

I opened my mouth and glanced at the view outside the window.

It wasn’t reassuring.

An absolutely unsettling sight was unfolding before my eyes.

The dark clouds were getting bigger and bigger.

If this continues, it will cover the area where Amy and I are.

“What do you want to eat?”

Amy, who had not yet discovered the dark clouds, asked me with an affectionate expression.

I felt a cold sweat running down my back.

I pointed to the large loaf of bread with trembling hands.

“This, this is it!”

“This one?”

I moved my stiff body at Amy’s words.

The bakery wasn’t a good choice.

Amy was still standing with her back to the store entrance, unaware of what was happening outside the window.

But it was only a matter of time.

At the sight of the dark clouds growing bigger and bigger, the people inside the store turned their heads one by one.

The roar grows louder.

“Hmm?”

Amy also turned her head away.

I couldn’t stop her.

“Rain clouds?”

The moment Amy muttered that, a large thunderbolt struck from the sky.

Flash-

The vision blinks.

The world brightened up a few seconds later, and a loud noise erupted.

Kwarrrrung!