Jelly Alien Will Save You! - Chapter 23

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The Jelly Alien Will Save You!

Episode 23

“C-Colonel Cha? Are you really Colonel Cha?”

The gun’s owner was looking at Chae Heon with disbelieving eyes.

He was one of the people who had been running away in terror from something earlier.

Colonel Cha… was he talking about Chae Heon?

“Colonel Cha. I don’t know what’s going on, but please… slowly step away from that thing.”

He gulped and steadied his trembling hands. Then he glanced at me and said,

“It’s dangerous.”

…Me?

Just as I was feeling puzzled,

Ding!

[You have obtained the title ‘Ferocious Predator Jelly.’]

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Click, click!

When Chae Heon lit the lighter, flames rose in the furnace.

I crouched down beside him, watching the fire grow, and asked,

“So titles are created based on how people perceive you?”

“That’s right.”

Chae Heon spoke as if quite surprised.

“I didn’t know jellies could get them too.”

“Hehehe.”

I felt pleased for some reason and opened my survival handbook.

[Title]

– Ferocious Predator Jelly

Appears more ferocious and squishy. When looking ferocious, the intimidation effect on opponents doubles; when looking squishy, the happiness felt doubles.

The reason I suddenly got a title was probably because of those people who were at the factory with us, right?

I put my hands behind my back and casually walked out to the courtyard.

They were sprawled around the courtyard, maintaining their guns and organizing their gear.

“Ahem.”

When I cleared my throat, the startled Special Forces agents’ shoulders jumped.

As soon as they spotted me, they dropped to their knees.

I didn’t know why they were so terrified of me, but—

Is this what power tastes like?

‘Delicious.’

I felt pleased for no reason and grinned widely.

Then the Special Forces agents trembled like herbivores. According to my title, my intimidation should look twice as strong right now, right?

Ah, this is fun.

“Stop teasing them.”

Chae Heon, who had come outside at some point, grabbed my ear and shook it up and down.

My bouncy body went up and down.

“This is just a jelly, so you don’t need to be so scared.”

“Hiss.”

Yah! Yah! Yah! I hit Chae Heon with my jelly fists.

Squish! Squish!

The Special Forces agents stared at us blankly.

I felt even more annoyed because they seemed to look up to Chae Heon with admiration.

When I obediently just stuck out my lips, Chae Heon put me down.

Plop.

Chae Heon flicked my protruding lips, then went into the kitchen and brought out a table piled with rice and retort side dishes.

“The table’s small, so figure it out yourselves.”

The Special Forces agents’ eyes sparkled when they saw the rice.

However, when I took a seat at the table, they quietly took just rice and side dishes and sat anywhere in the courtyard to eat.

‘They don’t need to go that far. Am I really that scary?’

Waah.

As I was thinking this while eating, exclamations burst out from various places.

“It’s eating… It’s really eating…”

“It eats rice too…”

Everyone was looking at me as if amazed.

When I, having suddenly become the center of attention, fed rice to Older Brother too, one Special Forces agent said the octopus was eating rice too and kept hitting the person next to him.

What! First time seeing a jelly and octopus eat rice?!

Rude guys. When I glared at them disapprovingly, they quickly buried their faces in their rice bowls.

“To think we’d eat such a meal here.”

“I never dreamed we’d actually get to eat rice.”

The Special Forces agents made a big fuss, shuddering with emotion over just instant rice and canned side dishes.

I was like that at first too, but having eaten it several times, I had lost interest and looked at them with disdain.

Getting excited over something like this, what easy guys.

I thoughtfully put a sausage side dish in my mouth. Actually, I was eating enthusiastically, but the quality was much lower than even the tasteless hospital food I used to eat.

Hmm. Now that ‘auto hunting’ is possible too, it might be time to seriously try farming.

“Have you been staying here all this time, Colonel Cha?”

Among the guys who had been making a fuss while eating, the first to come to his senses was naturally Gong Ju Won, the team leader.

At this quite leader-like question, Chae Heon shrugged and answered.

“Well, mostly…”

“I didn’t know you were still alive. I’ll report to Higher Authority and arrange a return operation…”

“Forget it. What did you come all the way here for?”

My ears perked up at the mention of a return operation, but Chae Heon waved his hand dismissively as if completely uninterested.

Why? Does he want to live here forever?

Older Brother also looked very puzzled. (For reference, I can read octopus expressions.)

Gong Ju Won looked a bit bewildered, then soon revealed why they had come here.

“Ah, we’re looking for an anomalous phenomenon that purifies contamination, code name VM.”

“VM?”

“Yes, Vending Machine. An anomalous phenomenon in the form of a vending machine.”

Code name vending machine…

“Hmm…”

I nodded thinking, ‘So there’s something like that too.’

Right, there could be a vending machine in the Contaminated Area. All sorts of things happen in this neighborhood.

But I kept feeling a strangely piercing gaze.

When I turned my eyes, Chae Heon was staring intently at me.

Huh, why. What.

I tilted my head, then at a sudden thought, put an exclamation mark above my head.

Huh? Is it mine?

I rolled my eyes around. What did my vending machine do to cause this?

While I was hesitating, Chae Heon, who had cleanly emptied his rice bowl, asked.

“What orders came down from Higher Authority?”

Good job, good job.

Gong Ju Won put down his spoon and straightened his back.

“Orders to secure the contents of the unidentified anomalous phenomenon, VM.”

Chae Heon’s eyebrows moved very slightly.

“Secure the contents?”

“Yes. We received witness accounts that purification occurred immediately after drinking the contents.”

Instant purification? Chae Heon and my gazes crossed.

Chae Heon sent me a look asking ‘did you really make something like that?’, but since I didn’t know about it, I just blinked.

“Contents secured. Then what about the vending machine itself?”

“If possible, simultaneous retrieval orders.”

What? Retrieval? They’re going to take my vending machine?!

Chae Heon glanced at me as my eyes turned triangular, then asked Ju Won instead.

“Why simultaneous retrieval?”

“Well… outside right now, the VM is incredibly hot topic.”

“It’s absolute chaos. New materials and whatnot.”

“Turn on the news and that’s all they talk about for pages.”

The other Special Forces agents chimed in one by one.

Who knew my vending machine had become hot outside without me knowing…

But the Special Forces agents seemed utterly incredulous.

“They say as soon as someone drank one bottle of water, their contamination level dropped by half instantly. Could something like that really exist?”

“It’s probably just another ridiculous rumor.”

Well, it was understandable they wouldn’t believe it. There’s no substance in this world capable of instant purification.

Even with incredibly expensive purification equipment installed, it takes a long time to purify contamination.

They’d think ‘there’s no way such an ability to instantly and completely purify contamination could exist’… but there is.

A jelly capable of instant purification.

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