Jelly Alien Will Save You! - Chapter 71

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The Jelly Alien Will Save You!

Episode 71

“【Pokjak Pokjak! Planet Mon!】?”

“…?!”

My mouth fell wide open.

Meanwhile, Jae Hee looked me over with his characteristically gloomy yet expressionless face.

“The youngest is still cute.”

He spoke as if nothing had happened, then asked.

“Where’s Gyeol?”

“He, here….”

When I lifted up the Black Octopus, Gyeol waved his tentacles in greeting.

Jae Hee nodded his head.

“He’s gotten fat.”

The Black Octopus opened his eyes in a triangular shape and swung his tentacles.

Then Jae Hee tilted his head to dodge while saying.

“I’ll wash up first. I’m covered in dust right now. You shouldn’t breathe in dust. Is the bathroom over there?”

Jae Hee pointed to the bathroom.

“Mm-hmm….”

Jae Hee didn’t seem surprised at all that I had become an alien from a game.

Even if Jae Hee was indifferent and extraordinary, could this really be possible? Wasn’t he going to ask why he and I looked like this? Why was I the one being surprised in this situation?!

“Dam A, you’re not going anywhere, right?”

“Mm-hmm….”

“I’ll be right out.”

Jae Hee looked slightly anxious about leaving me alone(?), but thinking he couldn’t enter the bathroom together with me, he soon turned around.

“…?”

Shane the Hamster, who had flown up, rolled his eyes strangely.

Only then realizing Shane was there, I quickly told him to turn off the drone.

This time Shane really didn’t want to turn it off and started crying, so Older Brother smacked Shane’s bottom repeatedly.

In the end, Shane had no choice but to turn off the drone before getting hit more.

After Jae Hee finished washing up, Kwon Bora woke up and the initiation ceremony of crying began.

This is bad. Older Sister started crying.

“Jae Hee, I’m sorry. Waaaah!”

“You don’t need to apologize. It was an understandable situation. If you keep apologizing, it makes me more uncomfortable instead. So stop crying.”

Jae Hee patted Kwon Bora’s shoulder. Then Kwon Bora sniffled and stopped crying.

Oh, she stopped quickly.

After finishing his brief reunion with Kwon Bora, Jae Hee spoke to Chae Heon who was standing there watching blankly.

“Heon too. Since it was an understandable situation, we can understand each other and move on, right?”

“Yes.”

“Nice to see you again.”

“Yes.”

Chae Heon, who answered curtly, went to cook ramen since he was on breakfast duty today.

I just stood there with my mouth open, watching the situation get resolved so quickly.

I had imagined us explaining things to a confused Jae Hee, but instead, Jae Hee was the one comforting us.

I followed behind Jae Hee, bouncing along as he greeted Gong Ju Won.

After finishing his greetings, Jae Hee started to pick me up but hesitated.

“I can’t hold you because my clothes are too dusty.”

“It’s okay. I don’t hurt at all anymore!”

When I stretched out both arms, Older Brother picked me up while saying worriedly.

“Still, you never know. Tell me if it seems to hurt.”

“Mm-hmm. But Jae Hee, do you remember everything that happened?”

Jae Hee rolled his eyes.

“Hmm, only sporadically when I was somewhat conscious?”

“…!”

In that case, there was a lot to ask, but we decided to eat breakfast first and then talk.

Jae Hee joked about how “adding octopus to ramen would be delicious,” got hit once by the Black Octopus with a tentacle, then emptied two bowls of ramen by himself.

Someone who usually didn’t like eating much was eating so well, it was like watching a ramen commercial.

We watched blankly as Jae Hee quickly gulped down even the broth.

“Hah….”

Jae Hee let out a long breath and put down his bowl.

Then after wiping his mouth, he said.

“Anyone have questions?”

Everyone raised their hands at once.

“Where is the Yellow Hazmat Suit’s base? Is it inside the Contaminated Area?”

“How did you end up being controlled by the Yellow Hazmat Suit?”

“Are the other people alive?”

“Jae Hee! How did you know I was a 【Pokjak Pokjak! Planet Mon!】 character?”

At my question, everyone looked at me. Why, what, why.

Meanwhile, Jae Hee asked back as if he was more puzzled.

“We played PokPok Planet together.”

“Th, that’s true.”

I nodded awkwardly at his response.

Jae Hee had started the game around the same time as me.

He said he liked games too, but I knew it was actually because he carved time out of his busy schedule to play with me.

Anyway, thinking about it that way, it would be stranger if Jae Hee didn’t know I was a 【PokPok Planet】 character.

But not being surprised was a different matter, wasn’t it?

“But why weren’t you surprised?!”

Jae Hee’s expressionless face turned toward me.

“Dam A, until yesterday Older Brother had a goat’s head.”

“Oh, that’s right!”

I lost.

Jae Hee’s adaptability was terrifyingly impressive.

Having KO’d me in one shot, Jae Hee moved on to the next question.

“Next, about the Yellow Hazmat Suit….”

* * *

Woo Jae-hee’s pale fingers tapped the table.

Everyone looked at him tensely.

“Bora, how much do you remember from Yongsan Dungeon?”

“I don’t know. I thought I was definitely going to die in Yongsan Dungeon, but when I opened my eyes, I was on top of a building….”

“I’m similar.”

Jae Hee nodded and opened his mouth, recalling his memories.

His last memory was spitting up blood in Yongsan Dungeon, then approaching Do Gyeol whose head had been severed.

He wanted to at least support his falling friend’s body. That was the last thing.

Monsters gathered and darkened his vision, and after that….

“When I woke up, I wasn’t human anymore.”

He spoke lightly, but Jae Hee clearly remembered the despair of that moment.

The place he woke up was inside an empty school in Yongsan.

Everyone had risked their lives, but they had ultimately failed.

The dungeon break had occurred, and Yongsan was contaminated.

Although people had been evacuated in advance, there must have been numerous casualties.

That made him even more despairing.

He would sometimes dwell on his colleagues’ deaths, and the terror of losing his humanity visited him constantly.

In his mind, a black tangled mass grew larger. The contamination was staining him.

He didn’t even dare think about escaping the Contaminated Area.

Setting aside whether he could even get out of this place—

What story could he possibly tell Dam if he went outside? What about the families of his other colleagues?

That’s why Jae Hee had tried to die.

But ironically, it was the Yellow Hazmat Suit who stopped this.

He had tried to die several times, but was repeatedly thwarted by the Yellow Hazmat Suit.

After that, he could only wait to become contaminated while under the Yellow Hazmat Suit’s hypnosis.

Until they came looking for him….

“Jae Hee Older Brother….”

Jae Hee gently bumped his head against Dam’s head beside him.

Her round eyes were filled with worry. Her face looked like she was fretting, not knowing what he was thinking right now.

“It’s okay. Right now I’m just grateful to be alive.”

It was humiliating and he found himself disgusting, but still….

“Thanks to our youngest, I got to see everyone again.”

Only then did Dam begin to smile as if relieved.

My cute and pitiful little sister.

Jae Hee lightly kissed Dam’s cheek.

That’s when it happened.

Bang!

Chae Heon struck the table with his spoon.

Everyone’s attention turned to him.

“…Wait… I missed something.”

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