Jelly Alien Will Save You! - Chapter 39

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The Jelly Alien Will Save You!

 

Episode 39

 

“Whoa…!”

 

It looks like something special.

 

On the outside it’s just an old junk TV, but…!

 

‘But why is something like this alien artifact in our house’s warehouse…?’

 

Come to think of it, it wasn’t really surprising that something like this would be here. This house was the place you’d go to when you pressed the ‘Home’ button in 【Sparkle Sparkle! Planet Mon!】.

 

“Is this what you wanted to show me?”

 

Older Brother nodded at my question.

 

He must have seen it when he followed me to the warehouse earlier.

 

“Do you know what this is?”

 

Older Brother blinked his eyes and nodded ambiguously.

 

But even if I could read a jellyfish’s expression, it was hard to understand detailed explanations.

 

I brought my hand to the TV to check the information.

 

[Cosmic CCTV]

 

Cosmic satellite-based observation system. Can observe areas scanned by satellites from above.

 

Just then, Older Brother poked me with his tentacle and pointed at the TV screen.

 

“Hm?”

 

[Battery less than 1%…]

 

No battery…?

 

“Ah!”

 

I immediately took out the energy injector.

 

Beep!

 

With a cute sound, a laser shot toward the TV.

 

Bzzt! I heard the sound of electricity flowing, then…

 

Crackle-crackle-crackle-

 

With a noise sound, the TV screen flashed on.

 

When I carefully turned the dial next to it, the channels switched rapidly.

 

The first channel ‘Base #1’ showed our house. When I changed channels, it switched to Base #2, Base #3, showing different scenery.

 

It felt like looking through CCTV.

 

My vending machines were displayed as Base #2 and Base #4 respectively.

 

‘How do you designate targets? Bora Older Sister, Bora Older Sister, come out!’

 

And when the channel switched to Base #13.

 

Hooooong-

 

A low, long sound echoing through the speakers.

 

It was the ship’s horn sound I had heard on the rooftop.

 

“Bora Older Sister?!”

 

A giant shadow covering the sky.

 

And toward that shadow… bullets?!

 

The bullets flew across the screen.

 

Crackle!

 

“What!”

 

As I exclaimed in excitement, rough breathing sounds leaked from the TV speakers.

 

Human voices. Multiple people’s voices.

 

The voices were urgently mixed together making them hard to understand, but a few words came through clearly.

 

【The bullets aren’t working!】

 

【Aim for the eyes!】

 

【No! Get away!】

 

The next moment, the screen turned black. The view was blocked by something, then opened again.

 

A giant tail swept across the sky, blocking the screen.

 

Hooooong-

 

The ship’s horn sounded again.

 

My palm naturally touched the TV screen.

 

“She’s being attacked…”

 

Someone is targeting Bora Older Sister.

 

From their appearance being similar to those we met at the hospital, they seem like Scavengers.

 

I gritted my teeth.

 

Then, Older Brother’s tentacle firmly grabbed my wrist. As if telling me to calm down first.

 

“But Older Sister is…!”

 

But before I could finish speaking, Older Sister’s mouth slowly opened.

 

It looked as if the sky itself was being torn apart.

 

It was large enough to swallow an entire city.

 

The Scavengers quickly scattered.

 

Some threw themselves behind containers, others under the collapsed overpass.

 

Bang! Bang! Bang!

 

Gunshots rang out in succession.

 

Bullets hit near Bora Older Sister’s eyes, but she didn’t even blink.

 

Hooooong-

 

【No! Here it comes again!】

 

One Scavenger screamed. His body floated up into the air.

 

Two people nearby grabbed his legs and pulled, but it was useless.

 

A black whirlwind formed inside the giant Xion’s mouth, and a person was sucked in like a piece of paper.

 

【Aaaaah-!】

 

Older Sister opened her mouth again.

 

This time even wider.

 

【Shoot! Shoot!】

 

They fired all at once, but it had no effect.

 

And soon everything began to be sucked into Older Sister’s mouth.

 

Older Sister didn’t stop until the screams erupting from everywhere died down.

 

“…”

 

I watched that scene in silence with my mouth open.

 

Older Brother seemed to smile as if saying ‘See? Nothing to worry about.’

 

As Older Brother said, there seemed to be nothing for me to worry about just because she was being attacked by Scavengers.

 

But new worries welled up.

 

Could I save Older Sister? It didn’t seem possible with my current purification ability.

 

Older Sister was different from the mutants that Prey caught every morning.

 

‘…Older Sister has become a ‘Xion’.’

 

The title of Xion doesn’t just appear randomly. It refers to beings of terror that humans cannot dare handle… cannot approach.

 

That’s when it happened.

 

The giant whale began descending from the high sky.

 

“…?”

 

I rubbed my eyes, wondering if I was seeing things wrong.

 

Strange. It seems to have gotten a bit smaller.

 

As I continued watching, I could confirm it wasn’t an illusion.

 

When the body that had been above the clouds descended to the height of high-rise buildings, the size change became clearly visible. The body that had been dozens of meters long was shrinking in stages as it descended.

 

‘Why is the size shrinking?’

 

That’s when it happened. Older Sister, who had clearly shrunk, moved toward the rooftop of a building.

 

On the rooftop, there were outdoor units and several old office desks gathered near the railing, but the center was relatively empty.

 

Older Sister descended precisely toward that empty space.

 

Hooooong-

 

Then came the sound of crying.

 

Crack- Crunch-

 

Along with the sound of bones snapping into place, Older Sister’s body began to transform.

 

“…!”

 

I covered my mouth and couldn’t tear my eyes away from that grotesque sight.

 

Crunch-

 

When the transformation finally ended, what stood there was a single human.

 

Older Sister, now in human form, began stumbling toward where old desks were gathered.

 

A whale’s tail that hadn’t fully transformed into human form swayed below her waist.

 

Thud.

 

Thud.

 

Thud.

 

With each step she took, equipment and food supplies fell from her body. They must have belonged to those Scavengers from before.

 

Older Sister didn’t even glance at the equipment and only picked up a few emergency rations. Then she went under where the office desks were piled up.

 

There, small stuffed dolls were lined up in a row.

 

Older Sister placed the food in front of the dolls, sat down, and smiled softly.

 

【You were all hungry, weren’t you? Hurry and eat.】

 

I stared blankly at the screen, at a loss for words.

 

That scene from before wasn’t Scavengers attacking Older Sister.

 

It was a scene of Older Sister plundering food from the Scavengers.

 

To give food to the dolls she believed were Guild Members….

 

In front of the dolls that showed no reaction, Older Sister drew her legs together and wrapped them with her whale tail.

 

【I’m sorry for losing the Guild Leader. The Guild Leader must be hungry too….】

 

Older Sister’s eyes, wandering over the empty space among the dolls, were clouded over. Like someone under a spell.

 

【Without the Guild Leader… I’m worried about Dam….】

 

Suddenly hearing my name, I unconsciously flinched when—

 

The energy injector’s effect wore off and the TV shut off with a beep.

 

Looking at the blackened screen, I clutched the keychain doll tightly. She’s sad because she lost this….

 

My eyes grew hot. My chest ached, and my throat tightened.

 

I wiped away my tears with the back of my hand and looked at Older Brother.

 

Tears were also falling drop by drop from Older Brother’s bright yellow eyes.

 

I wiped Older Brother’s tears with both hands and said.

 

“Older Brother, let’s go save Older Sister.”

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