Jelly Alien Will Save You! - Chapter 29

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The Jelly Alien Will Save You!

 

Episode 29

 

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[The doors are closing.]

 

Whirrr-

 

The three of us stood side by side in front of the subway that had dropped us off and was now closing its doors.

 

Chae Heon had dead fish eyes, Captain Gong Ju Won was sniffling, and I was sparkling with excitement.

 

Just as I thought, everything went smoothly after I shouted ‘It’s a pervert!’

 

Chae Heon reading my move and playing along helped a lot too.

 

“Captain Gong, how long have you been targeting my butt…?”

 

“It’s, it’s a misunderstanding! I never had such impure thoughts, not even a speck! And look, I only have one hand…”

 

I chimed in too.

 

“Using your one and only hand to go after Chae Heon’s butt…”

 

“Please don’t interpret it that way!”

 

Unfortunately, Captain Gong Ju Won was just being cornered without understanding what was happening, which made him look even more like a guilty culprit making excuses.

 

The commotion made all the passengers start looking at us and whispering.

 

“Down with homosexuality!”

 

Even the old man who had been waging a Heretical Conflict shouted at Captain Gong.

 

Come to think of it, I think Captain Gong Ju Won started sniffling from that moment.

 

Still, I was relieved we could get off the train safely.

 

Bounce bounce bounce bounce.

 

We started walking toward the Lost and Found Center.

 

Only Captain Gong Ju Won, who should have been the happiest here, had the atmosphere of a funeral home.

 

I patted Captain Gong Ju Won’s leg to comfort him.

 

“It’s unfair, right? But you’ll be able to find your arm, so just bear with it.”

 

“…”

 

We arrived at the Lost and Found Center in that long silence.

 

[Lost and Found Center]

 

Creeeeak-

 

While Chae Heon opened the door to the Lost and Found Center and Captain Gong Ju Won held it, I entered with Older Brother.

 

The Lost and Found Center was bigger than I thought. Lost items were lined up endlessly on metal shelves along the walls.

 

An employee at the counter by the entrance looked us over halfheartedly.

 

Of course, I couldn’t see his face clearly, but that’s how it felt.

 

Gong Ju Won stepped forward immediately.

 

“We’re here to find lost items-”

 

“Yes.”

 

The employee cut him off halfheartedly as if he already knew.

 

When he touched the tablet in his hand once, there was a short electronic sound.

 

Beep-

 

The employee raised his hand and pointed at Gong Ju Won.

 

“Left arm is R-1320.”

 

Then he pointed at Older Brother on my head and me, continuing.

 

“Octopus is G-333. Jelly is U-201.”

 

Huh? Why us?

 

“We didn’t come to find anything though?”

 

“Then don’t take it.”

 

“No, no!”

 

That won’t do!

 

“That’s not it, do we have something we lost?”

 

“Who knows, next customer~”

 

I was ignored! There aren’t even any other customers besides us!

 

I opened my mouth in bewilderment.

 

Meanwhile, Captain Gong Ju Won started moving toward the R-Zone without hesitation.

 

I looked at Chae Heon and then hugged Older Brother.

 

Since Older Brother had been in Yongsan all along, it wouldn’t be strange if he had lost something.

 

But I still couldn’t understand how there could be a lost item of mine.

 

When I first woke up in Yongsan, I wasn’t even wearing clothes?

 

“Are you going to check it out?”

 

“Yeah.”

 

I headed to G-333 in the G-Zone where Older Brother’s lost item was.

 

Bounce bounce bounce bounce…

 

The G-Zone looked distinctly different from other areas.

 

That’s because all the lost items placed on the low display shelves lining both sides of the corridor were abnormal.

 

One bag was half-unzipped, and something was moving with a squelch inside.

 

‘Eek!’

 

A pair of shoes had human ankles attached and were convulsing intermittently.

 

I tried not to look at the other items and moved around looking for the numbers written on the display shelves.

 

[G-333]

 

“Found it!”

 

Boing boing boing!

 

“Oh, this is…”

 

I opened my eyes wide when I saw the item placed on the display shelf.

 

But Chae Heon sitting next to me picked it up with his hand first.

 

It was a badge with the letter ‘Q’ written on it.

 

“An item?”

 

[Queisa’s Badge]

 

Gives vibration alerts when a registered person is nearby.

 

Queisa’s Badge was an item that reacted when guild members were nearby.

 

Older Brother had made it in case they got separated in dungeons…

 

Just then, Older Brother snatched Queisa’s Badge from Chae Heon’s hand with his tentacle.

 

Then he pressed it firmly into my hand.

 

Actually, I knew this item had a different main function.

 

To find people.

 

In other words, it was to find the bodies of guild members who never made it back from dungeons.

 

The reason Older Brother always wore this was probably not so much to protect someone, but to take responsibility for his comrades’ end.

 

I bit my lip and gripped the badge tightly, while Chae Heon quietly stared at my hand holding the badge with an unreadable expression.

 

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

 

“Like what.”

 

Chae Heon stood up abruptly as if he never did such a thing.

 

“You’re going to the U-Area, right?”

 

Then he took the lead walking toward the U-Area.

 

Bounce bounce bounce.

 

I hugged Older Brother and followed behind.

 

The U-Area was different from the G-Zone again.

 

Mostly sizeable machine parts were displayed.

 

From large devices with circuit boards attached to pipes and cable bundles.

 

I became even more puzzled. There’s no way I could have lost something in a place like this.

 

U-198

 

U-199

 

U-200

 

And when I finally found ‘U-201’, I couldn’t help but freeze with a shocked expression.

 

There were dented cardboard boxes scattered here and there on the display shelves.

 

I could tell.

 

This wasn’t just a cardboard box.

 

This was a broken ‘spaceship’.

 

And not mine, but someone else’s spaceship.

 

‘Then….’

 

Is there another jelly alien in Yongsan besides me?

 

Or, was there one?

 

‘…?!’

 

As I was startled and tried to touch the spaceship, it made a cracking sound and suddenly split into four pieces.

 

Gasp!

 

Even when I picked up the pieces and tried to put them back together, the quartered spaceship had no intention of returning to its original state.

 

“Uh, uh, uh….”

 

As I fumbled around lifting the pieces, there was a snapping sound and a corner piece of the spaceship broke off.

 

‘Hiiiiiik!’

 

I completely broke it!

 

Chae Heon watched this scene with dead fish eyes before casually saying.

 

“This is completely unusable now.”

 

I know that! Just as I was getting annoyed and about to smack Chae Heon with the corner piece.

 

[Gravity Control Movement Module Sticker (For Spaceships)]

 

Want to move your spaceship? Install this module on your spaceship!

 

‘Movement module?’

 

Looking closely at the corner piece, there was a sticker shaped like a hot spring symbol (♨) attached to it.

 

‘Ah, this is that thing. A spaceship item….’

 

In the original 【Cute Cute! Planet Mon!】, sticking stickers on boxes would give spaceships various functions.

 

‘Ooh.’

 

If I attach this, my spaceship won’t just be a cozy cardboard box anymore.

 

I carefully peeled off the sticker and stuck it on the back of my hand.

 

Chae Heon watched this and asked.

 

“Is that yours?”

 

“From now on it is.”

 

I responded shamelessly.

 

Whoever the owner was, this spaceship was clearly unusable now, so wouldn’t it be more beneficial if I put it to use?

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