Jelly Alien Will Save You! - Chapter 8

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The Jelly Alien Will Save You!

Episode 8

It’s disappearing because I have suspicious thoughts!

I squeezed my eyes shut and brainwashed myself, thinking “This is a delicious hamburger steak, a hamburger steak made with tender minced meat and generously coated with demi-glace sauce,” then opened my eyes.

Then the melting hamburger steak came back to life as if nothing had happened.

Oh!

I picked up the hamburger steak with both hands.

“It worked! It came back!”

“Good job. Keep believing like that from now on.”

“Okay!”

Great, I should buy this.

7% or so, I can just purify it!

As I was giggling with that thought, I suddenly tilted my head in wonder.

Wait, could it be… if I purify the price tag, won’t contamination accumulate?

It might just be a ridiculous idea, but…

I’ll know if I try!

I acted immediately.

‘Purify!’

[3,900 won]

[0%]

‘It worked!’

When I purified the price tag, not only did the noise disappear, but the contamination gauge price became 0%.

I grinned at the sight.

Yes, this is it.

I’ll purify as much as my power allows and buy everything!

But while I can buy things with this trick, how was Chae Heon dealing with the contamination?

Just the instant rice, tuna can, and meatballs he ate this morning would easily exceed 20%, right?

…Don’t tell me, he gave me the food he was saving for himself?

Moved by this thought, I immediately grabbed Chae Heon and said,

“Chae Heon, Chae Heon.”

“What now.”

“Lend me a cart. There’s something I want to try.”

“What are you planning to do.”

Chae Heon had the face of an uncle tired of entertaining a child.

Hmph!

“It’s something good!”

Before Chae Heon could stop me, I pushed the cart forward and hopped on top of it.

As the wheels rattled and rolled, the display shelves swept by like waves.

‘Purify! Purify!’

Riding the cart moving forward while continuously shouting purify, the noise on the price tags was washed away one after another.

[5̷,5̷̸̴̴̴00 won̶] -> [0%]

[1̷,2̵00 won̶] -> [0%]

.

.

.

[7̴,8҈00 won̶] -> [0%]

When all the noise from the display shelves flowed away, I felt thrilled to the tips of my hair.

Having crossed to the end of the display shelves with the cart, I spread both arms wide.

“Ta-da!”

A little distance away, Chae Heon was looking at me with wide, surprised eyes.

I giggled.

“I’ll give them all to you as a gift. It’s payment for breakfast.”

Chae Heon stared at me blankly, then raised the corners of his mouth very slightly.

“Are you paying for the carrot too?”

“Of course.”

Ahem.

“See, it was helpful, right? Now you want to keep me around, right? You don’t want to abandon me, right?”

Chae Heon raised the corners of his mouth refreshingly. His already pretty face sparkled even more.

“Well, a little bit.”

Oh, he smiled.

It was at the same moment that the always stiff guy smiled.

[Quest Complete: Establishing Friendly Relations with Earth’s Indigenous Species!]

Nice!

Chae Heon must like me a bit now, right?

I giggled and started putting the food that had become 0 won into the cart.

“Let’s eat this too. Oh, that one too!”

I’m grocery shopping with a cart!

I was excited thinking I’d completed one item from my bucket list.

That’s when a chilling sensation swept down my spine, and the edges of my vision suddenly began to darken.

‘…Huh?’

My vision turned black in an instant.

“Customer!”

I heard a voice calling me.

Only then did I realize why my vision had turned black.

An employee with a gaping hole for a face was right in front of me.

Before I knew it, five or six employees had surrounded the cart I was in.

Faces that looked like empty black holes encircled me.

* * *

While I was tense, the employee asked in a bright voice,

“Customer, don’t you need any fresh vegetables?”

It was definitely a voice that would have been grinning widely if a face had existed.

“Ve, vegetables?”

At my question, the employee held up a zucchini next to their face and said,

“Yes, we’re selling this fresh zucchini at just 30% exclusively for you, customer. It’s a sale!”

One zucchini for 30%? Isn’t that a complete rip-off?

“That’s too expensive!”

“Expensive? Look at this, the zucchini is so fresh it’s jumping around.”

The employee shook the zucchini, pretending it was jumping around. She laughed “ho ho ho” as if her wit was amusing.

Meanwhile, I squinted my eyes. If it’s really jumping around, it would actually be contaminated and not fresh.

“How about it? It’s a special price of 30% just for now!”

I had no desire to buy it at all, so I tried to politely decline.

But Chae Heon, who caught my eye from beyond the employees, shook his head seriously. It meant not to refuse.

I was about to ask ‘Why?’ when I remembered.

Rule number 4.

You must buy any item that someone recommends.

I looked at the fresh zucchini with reluctant eyes.

Anyway, even if I buy it, I can purify it, so 30% should be fine…?

In any case, even if I don’t like it, I can’t refuse.

Though it felt as frustrating as having a thorn stuck in my throat, there was nothing I could do.

I steeled myself and opened my mouth.

“I’ll buy it.”

“Thank you, customer!”

Just as I was receiving the zucchini, the employee who sold it disappeared with a puff, turning to dust.

Did they achieve enlightenment or something?

As I blinked my eyes in bewilderment, the employees surrounding me each spread their arms wide.

In their hands were different products.

“How about free-range eggs? 40% off, customer!”

“Wine-aged pork, one pack for 55% off, customer!”

“High-sugar Shine Muscat grapes for 69% off, customer!”

“Huh?!”

“It’s a time sale, so now is the perfect timing to buy!”

Oh my god. A time sale? Does that mean the prices go up even more as time passes?

My mind went blank. The persuasive voices coming from all directions were suffocating me.

I hurriedly used purification and bought the eggs first.

If I don’t buy them one by one slowly, my contamination gauge will go berserk and I’ll turn into a monster!

Each time I used purification, 10% of my contamination gauge disappeared.

How many more times can I use purification now?

I shouted with an anxious expression.

“Next, the pork!”

“Thank you!”

“Customer, the Shine Muscat time sale is about to end!”

“I’ll buy it!”

My cart was now fully loaded with zucchini, eggs, pork, and Shine Muscat grapes.

The employees who had recommended purchases to me disappeared one after another with popping sounds.

Is that it now?

I can’t use purification anymore… Just as I was panting and trying to catch my breath.

“We have to go.”

It was Chae Heon. He approached urgently and pushed the cart.

I was puzzled by his anxious expression and asked.

“Huh? What’s wrong? Didn’t we buy everything?”

Then, a voice that seemed to be smiling brightly came a beat late.

“Customer, we’re having a time sale right now only.”

There’s still more left?

“■■■ is 99% off.”

I slowly turned my creaking head backward.

An employee stood there demurely with both hands clasped together.

“Would you like to purchase ■■■ for 99% off?”

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