Jelly Alien Will Save You! - Chapter 45

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The Jelly Alien Will Save You!

 

Episode 45

 

Sharp eyes glared at Chae Heon.

 

Black tentacles rose up from behind Do Gyeol. Countless bright yellow eyes attached to the tentacles all flashed open at once.

 

“Even with my eyes, I can’t see you.”

 

After becoming Xion, Do Gyeol had gained the ability to see countless ‘truths’ that were invisible to the naked eye.

 

But the boy before him was shrouded in thick darkness. So much so that he couldn’t even tell if this was really Chae Heon.

 

If this was due to contamination, then Chae Heon should have lost his mind. He should have become ‘Xion’ like himself or Kwon Bora.

 

“I don’t even know if you’re really a living person.”

 

This was why he had tried to separate his younger sister from Chae Heon.

 

Because he couldn’t tell what that thing really was.

 

“Says the Do Guild leader who goes back and forth between octopus and human.”

 

Do Gyeol snorted.

 

But his words weren’t wrong either. If someone asked him ‘Are you really human?’, he wouldn’t have an answer either.

 

Do Gyeol suddenly recalled the first time he met Chae Heon during joint training.

 

Back then, he had been surprised by his more youthful face than expected.

 

He had been more concerned because he was around the same age as his younger sister.

 

Now he looked more mature than back then, but to Do Gyeol, he still seemed quite young.

 

Recalling this, the strength left his hand that was gripping Chae Heon’s collar.

 

When he couldn’t give a definitive answer himself, how would this kid be any different?

 

“…”

 

After a moment of silence, Chae Heon slowly blinked his eyes.

 

“You said I could ask if I had questions.”

 

“What?”

 

“Why did you suddenly move me to the rear?”

 

At that time, Chae Heon was supposed to be at the very front strategically. It was something that all the Team Members and even Queisa had agreed upon.

 

But when they entered actual combat, Queisa had pushed Chae Heon to the back.

 

Do Gyeol laughed at his question.

 

Asking such a question now? This guy is still the same.

 

He muttered and answered.

 

“You were a minor.”

 

Leaving those words as his last, Do Gyeol became a jellyfish octopus.

 

The jellyfish octopus opened all its eyes. Countless bright yellow eyes turned toward him.

 

Chae Heon stared intently at him like that. As if Do Gyeol’s gaze had no effect on him whatsoever.

 

The jellyfish octopus turned around as if finding it uninteresting.

 

“Phew…”

 

After briefly leaning his head against the wall and sighing, Chae Heon followed the jellyfish octopus outside.

 

The pink alien scooped up his older brother who was clinging to him.

 

Tears streamed down from Jelly.

 

Jelly hugged the jellyfish octopus and bounced into the spaceship.

 

He couldn’t understand why she insisted on that spaceship even when offered a room.

 

Chae Heon approached Jelly and wiped away the tears falling from her round eyes with his fingertips.

 

“Sniff!”

 

Why was this jelly so tearful? She was a jelly that required a lot of attention in many ways.

 

Chae Heon thoroughly wiped away her glistening tears.

 

The jellyfish octopus poked at him with its tentacles, seemingly displeased that he was wiping his younger sister’s tears, but Chae Heon didn’t mind.

 

Jelly finally stopped crying with red, swollen eyes after a while.

 

Watching her, Chae Heon finally brought up the question that had been lingering in his mouth.

 

“Are you Do Dam?”

 

Do Dam nodded her head.

 

“That’s right.”

 

Then she sniffed once and said.

 

“Sniff! Call me older sister. I’m one year older than you.”

 

Chae Heon let out a hollow laugh. As if he was just now realizing how absurd the situation was.

 

Eventually, he buried his face deeply in his hands.

 

‘I thought their behavior seemed similar.’

 

He suddenly recalled when he first caught the carrot thief.

 

Hollow laughter kept escaping as if his lungs were filled with air.

 

Chae Heon stared at Jelly again as if glaring.

 

He still couldn’t quite believe it.

 

That was natural.

 

What were the odds of his first love, whom he thought he’d never see again, appearing as an alien?

 

With such absurd events happening one after another, it was hard to be suspicious as usual.

 

Chae Heon crouched down next to Do Dam and lifted her long ears.

 

“…Really Do Dam?”

 

“Yes, yes.”

 

Do Dam’s eyes sparkled.

 

Seeing Chae Heon let out another hollow laugh, Do Dam carefully asked.

 

“We briefly met and greeted each other once before, do you remember?”

 

Chae Heon, resting his chin on his hand, covered his mouth and said quietly.

 

“Twice.”

 

“Huh?”

 

When Do Dam asked back, Chae Heon looked down.

 

“I said we greeted each other twice.”

 

“Eh, did we?”

 

Actually, he had seen Do Dam unilaterally many more times. It wasn’t intentional, the situation just worked out that way.

 

While Do Dam was racking her brain about when she had met Chae Heon, Chae Heon recalled his first meeting with Do Dam.

 

During their first meeting, he couldn’t even manage to greet her.

 

Well, because…

 

Do Dam, whom he saw through the hospital room window at the time, was standing on the bed holding an IV stand like a guitar.

 

“Give me a beat!”

 

Then Do Gyeol played a song on his phone and clapped from the side.

 

…Because Do Dam was passionately singing Benson Boone’s ‘Beautiful Things’ while playing air guitar with her older brother.

 

Chae Heon, who had chased Do Gyeol all the way to the hospital to catch him for skipping joint training, couldn’t count how many question marks he had in his head at that moment.

 

“These beautiful! things that I’ve got!”

 

The two were singing with their souls as if it were a karaoke room, and Chae Heon could only stand there dumbfounded without even knocking.

 

‘A frail, sickly beautiful girl?’

 

He recalled Do Gyeol, who daily appealed about how sickly and frail his younger sister was.

 

In Chae Heon’s mind, a frail, sickly beautiful girl was definitely not someone who would hold an IV stand and play air guitar in a hospital room, though he wasn’t entirely sure.

 

Chae Heon, who lacked the audacity to barge in while the siblings were playing, waited blankly until the song ended.

 

That was their one-sided first meeting.

 

Chae Heon vividly remembered Do Dam getting scolded by the nurse at that time.

 

“Do Dam, you’ll break your arm again if you do this!”

 

Chae Heon often thought about her after that day.

 

Well, most of it was-

 

‘How wildly did she play for her arm to?’

 

Those kinds of thoughts.

 

And three days later.

 

When he went to the hospital to look for Do Gyeol for the second time, Do Dam, whom he saw through the hospital room window, had a cast on her arm.

 

‘She really did play enthusiastically.’

 

Such thoughts came to him naturally.

 

“Do Dam, don’t you have any sense? Why are you wearing a cast again?”

 

“Aunt, why do you always say things like that?”

 

“It’s okay, Older Brother… Cough! I’m sorry, Aunt. My immune system has been weak lately, cough! Cough!”

 

On the day when relatives came to check on her condition, she was truly a frail, sickly girl.

 

The person called Aunt got startled as soon as Do Dam started coughing and stood up from her seat.

 

“You’re leaving? Cough cough! Get home safely~”

 

Do Dam raised her uninjured arm to see off the relatives. Then, as soon as they turned around, she stuck up her middle finger.

 

‘Yeah~ Don’t ever come back~’

 

Do Dam didn’t forget to mouth those words as well.

 

“…”

 

Chae Heon, who had been standing by the window, quickly moved behind the door in case Do Dam spotted him.

 

That day too, he couldn’t bring himself to knock.

 

While he was wondering what to do, Do Dam drove away her older brother who kept coming to the hospital to visit, scolding him as she sent him out.

 

Only after Do Gyeol left the hospital room did Do Dam cough for a long time.

 

“Cough! Cough! Cough!”

 

Do Gyeol waited in front of the closed hospital room door until his sister’s coughing stopped, and Chae Heon also stood quietly without rushing him.

 

“Sorry, let’s go now.”

 

“…”

 

It was then that Chae Heon first understood why Do Gyeol kept going back and forth to the hospital.

 

After becoming Do Gyeol’s dedicated tracker, Chae Heon often saw Do Dam. Whenever Do Gyeol disappeared, he was always at the hospital where Do Dam was admitted.

 

Do Dam was surprisingly different from the image Do Gyeol always sang about (a frail, sickly girl).

 

She would sing passionately, call other patients to set up gambling games, or play hide-and-seek by herself.

 

Even Chae Heon, who had found Do Gyeol’s constant escapes from training annoying, began waiting for Do Gyeol’s escapes at some point. As if he was waiting to meet Do Dam.

 

To Chae Heon, Do Dam was someone who made him curious about what she might be doing at any given moment.

 

Nevertheless, Chae Heon never once managed to knock on the hospital room door.

 

He felt that the moment he knocked and made eye contact with her, she would notice that he had been thinking about her a lot.

 

So even though he frequented the hospital like that, he had only exchanged greetings with Do Dam twice.

 

And one of those times was something only he remembered.

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