Jelly Alien Will Save You! - Chapter 74

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The Jelly Alien Will Save You!

Episode 74

…Did I make a mistake saying I’d do it?

“Dam A, should we just go back?”

Jae Hee older brother also asked me, as if he hadn’t expected the pond to be like this either.

I was trembling all over and shook my head vigorously.

‘I am a money bird. I am a money bird….’

After repeating it several times, I distributed the white boiled eggs to everyone.

“How do we do this?”

Kwon Bora older sister’s eyes sparkled with interest.

“We put these eggs on fishing hooks and wait for the golden carp to eat them, then catch them.”

In 【Kiss Kiss Plus】, there was a bug where new golden carp would respawn in the same spot when golden carp ate boiled eggs.

We were trying to exploit that.

That’s when older sister asked.

“Do we only catch golden carp?”

“Huh?”

“Can’t we just catch everything?”

Older sister asked the question innocently.

I blinked stupidly, then smacked my palm with my fist.

“Ah…!”

That’s right!

This wasn’t real fishing.

In other words, we didn’t have to catch them one by one with fishing rods.

Besides, we had someone here who could turn all the fish into electric grilled fish at once!

* * *

Dangling.

I hung from an extended tree branch, swaying back and forth.

Kwon Bora older sister and Jae Hee older brother were sitting on a tree across from me, waiting for the signal.

I looked down below. White mist was thick underneath.

Dadadadak!

Dudadadak!

Dadak! Dak!

I could hear the sounds of fish gathering, drawn by the food.

Just from the sounds, there seemed to be an incredible number of them.

The boiled eggs had been scattered below in advance.

Though I couldn’t see through the mist, only golden carp eat boiled eggs, so if I heard something approaching and eating, it meant golden carp had come.

Ugh, so creepy!

I desperately tried to think of other things.

“Chae Heon, do you remember? I used to hang you like this because I ate your carrot before.”

Chae Heon, who remained on the tree I was hanging from to serve as both guard and signal sender, spoke as if feeling sorry.

“I never intended to kill you though….”

“I’m not planning to die now either?!”

Grrrrr! When I bared my teeth, Chae Heon made a deflated sound.

“I do all sorts of things because of you.”

“I told you to call me older sister.”

“You have to act like an older sister to be called one.”

“Anyone older is automatically an older sister. If you’re upset about it, you should have been born earlier.”

“….”

“And….”

“And?”

I glanced up at Chae Heon and said.

“…I want to hear someone call me older sister too.”

In my narrow circle of relationships, Chae Heon was the only one younger than me.

Naturally, I came to expect to hear him call me older sister.

“….”

“Never mind if you don’t want to.”

That’s when it happened.

I could hear greedy chomping sounds from below.

“Ugh!”

Did they come?

When I looked at Chae Heon with a grimace, he sent a hand signal.

Flash!

Flash!

Simultaneously, Kwon Bora older sister’s lightning began striking the mist.

Once, twice, three times… six times.

“Older sister, are you getting a lot of coins?”

When I shouted the question, Kwon Bora older sister made circles with both hands.

“Oh yeah-!”

When I giggled, Kwon Bora older sister laughed along with me.

“I collected 50,000 coins!”

“Oh!”

I clapped for Kwon Bora older sister, then tilted my head.

But that’s less than I expected? Maybe it’s because I’ve gotten used to the easy money from the vending machine?

That was the moment.

Dadak. Dadadadak. The running sounds suddenly stopped all at once.

“…?”

Why are they doing that? Just as I was wondering.

“…?!”

Question marks and exclamation marks appeared above everyone’s heads simultaneously.

The mist that had been thickly gathered below was forming the shape of a giant hand.

“Huh?”

It suddenly began shooting upward.

I didn’t even have time to say anything.

With that sight as the last thing I saw, I was swallowed by the giant mist.

* * *

I began being dragged somewhere by the mist flowing like a fierce current.

I wanted to scream at least-

“~~~!”

I, I can’t breathe!

I was suffocating as if I had fallen into water.

I covered my mouth with both hands and flailed around desperately like I was swimming.

However….

‘My strength is draining…!’

Since I couldn’t breathe, my strength gradually faded.

Moreover, the mist that had been sweeping me away had somehow become real water.

Water rushed into my carelessly opened mouth.

Gurgle!

My vision spun round and round.

‘Am I, going to die like this….’

The strength left my body.

Facing death.

Being unable to breathe properly was also familiar.

“….”

As the familiar helplessness rose up, my body began to sink.

Just as I was about to fall to the bottom, into that deep abyss.

“Dam A, not yet. Not yet…. So please hold on just a little longer. Father is asking you. Don’t give up. Please….”

I snapped my eyes open.

‘Father.’

It was Father’s voice that I heard whenever I wanted to let go of everything.

‘That’s right. Not yet.’

I mulled over Father’s words as I lifted my head up.

A thin light was seeping in from above my head.

‘Light….’

I swam toward it with all my strength.

“Puha!”

Having barely escaped from the water, I flailed and swam to shore.

“Huk! Heouk! Kek kek! Koolleok!”

Rough coughs burst out.

Only after a long while did I finally catch my breath and belatedly lift my head.

Moonlight was falling around me.

Though mist still lingered here and there, it wasn’t as thick as before when I couldn’t see an inch ahead.

At that moment, I heard someone’s crying.

“Huk… heuk….”

I narrowed my eyes to see who was crying.

Then I saw a partially collapsed pavilion.

One side of the roof had caved in and several parts of the railing were broken.

Among the broken roof tile fragments floating on the pond, someone was crying on top of the pavilion.

“Huk, huk… heuik….”

I stiffened my body and panted.

Listening to the crying, tears were flowing down my eyes as well before I knew it.

I wiped my damp face. The tears wouldn’t stop.

I was being assimilated by something’s sadness.

Seeing that it had this kind of power, it wasn’t an ordinary mutant.

At that moment, the moon floating right above the pond caught my eye. It was so low that it seemed I could reach it if I stretched out my hand.

The moon tilted its head as if looking at me. At the same time, the pond rippled violently.

“…!”

My heart sank in an instant.

What was floating on the pond wasn’t the moon.

It was the eye of a giant carp.

That moon-like eye….

‘It’s the Millennium Carp…!’

Millennium Carp.

It was an extremely rare boss that was hard to see even in the original game.

Though it was a spiritual being, the setting was that it couldn’t ascend to heaven because it had touched worldly food, so it wandered around the pond….

‘It’s huge….’

I continued to shed tears while looking at the carp. While desperately suppressing the urge to keep wanting to enter the pond.

The Millennium Carp was a Siren-type boss.

Just as one gets enchanted by a Siren’s voice and gets sucked into the water, if you become assimilated by the Millennium Carp’s sadness and enter the water, you die.

I quietly stepped back.

Since I had suddenly disappeared, everyone would be looking for me. I didn’t know where this was, but I had to go find them.

As I turned around to run away at full speed, I tilted my head at a sudden thought.

Wait.

But didn’t this boss give rare items as rare as it was hard to see?

My steps stopped without me realizing it and my eyes rolled around.

If I had just that, I could get much more money than catching a few golden carp.

That’s when it happened.

A fin like thin cloth wrapped around me.

“…!”

It carried me and flew gracefully up to the pavilion.

Sitting on top of the pavilion was a Beautiful Boy with moon-like silver eyes.

“I thought I had cut away worldly desires myself to ascend to heaven….”

The hand reaching toward me was black.

Not just the hand, but beyond the elbow was stained black.

It was contaminated.

Though it had torn off only the uncontaminated parts from the main body that had become Xion to create the form of a boy, even that seemed to be getting contaminated.

The boy continued speaking while shedding tears.

“Only when faced with a single frog do I understand. Desire wasn’t gone, it was merely sleeping.”

“…?”

What?

I thought this was some nonsensical talk.

Kkoreureuruek!

A loud stomach growl rumbled from the boy’s belly.

You mean seeing the frog made you hungry?!

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