Jelly Alien Will Save You! - Chapter 84

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The Jelly Alien Will Save You!

Episode 84

“Older Brother can do it, right? He can become human, right?”

Yeonjam leisurely nodded his head.

“B-but why can’t I…?”

“No matter how long I’ve lived, I don’t know how to handle a god like you. But the octopus is a similar existence to me, so the same method I use should work for him.”

“Ah…”

I nodded my head.

It was disappointing that even Yeonjam didn’t know how to handle a higher species like me, but I had another method left.

‘I have the human skin after all.’

I checked the coins I had collected so far.

[Cosmic Coin Holdings: 860,580]

The goal was right before my eyes.

If I earned just a little more, I could buy the human skin.

Moreover, if Older Brother could become human on his own, I wouldn’t need to buy another human skin.

I thought about the items to add to the vending machine while chomping down on my sausage.

There were many things to do one way or another, but let’s turn Older Brother into a human first!

I looked back at Yeonjam, who was quietly staring at me.

“What are you doing?”

“Waiting for preparations.”

“Preparations? What preparations?”

My head tilted, then my eyes widened.

“Don’t tell me something’s needed when transforming into a human?”

Wuparupa shook both his gills.

“That’s right. Time and a clear place are needed.”

Where am I supposed to find time and space here?!

I opened my mouth at this ridiculous demand.

“We’re already struggling just to secretly escape, but if you need time and space, what exactly are we supposed to do…”

But then it happened.

The sound of dragging slippers could be heard.

I looked up in surprise.

Some elderly man was standing at the entrance of the alley.

‘A foreigner?’

Thick eyebrows, deeply carved wrinkles, gray hair and blue eyes.

He had an actor-like face.

But what he was wearing was an old hanbok and slippers full of holes, an outfit that didn’t match his face at all.

‘Why does his face seem familiar.’

As I racked my memory, the elderly man made eye contact with me.

“…”

“…”

After a brief silence.

His gaze moved up to the top of my head.

He was looking at Older Brother, who was perched on my head.

His gaze came back down to me.

The elderly man took a step closer.

“A puppy wearing an octopus hat…”

“…”

What, why is his Korean so fluent.

I rolled my eyes around.

Somehow I had a bad feeling about this.

“There, there, pretty one. Want to be our shop’s mascot?”

“…”

I refuse. I shook my head back and forth.

But my body was lifted up in the elderly man’s two hands.

“Who abandoned such a cute thing like you.”

No one abandoned me.

I tried twisting my body hard, but the elderly man, who was firmly mistaken, didn’t seem to have any intention of letting me go.

“Oh my, I’m not trying to harm you.”

I tried somehow to escape, but the elderly man’s strength was stronger than I thought.

In the end, I decided to use my last resort.

“I, I’m not a puppy. Human.”

I spoke.

But the elderly man’s eyes sparkled even more.

“You can even bark politely. You’d be good at catching thieves too.”

“I can’t catch those!”

I swung my jelly fists around vigorously.

Look at this! How could I harm anyone!

“That’s right, that’s right. That’s how you do it.”

He was an elderly man who completely didn’t understand.

He couldn’t understand even when I spoke – just how strong is the cognitive distortion affecting the residents here?

It seems like because I’m an unknown existence in the large anomalous phenomenon called ‘ordinary city,’ I appear distorted as a puppy…

“Let’s go to our shop. You’ll love it too.”

“Shop?!”

Just as I was about to struggle again, a thought suddenly crossed my mind.

Wait a minute.

Yeonjam definitely said that earlier. That time and a place were needed.

Maybe…

“That’s right, that’s right.”

The laughing elderly man walked into the alley while holding me, lost in thought, in one arm.

“Ah, no! Don’t just go! Spaceship! Spaceship!”

When I flailed and pointed at the spaceship, the elderly man picked up the spaceship.

“Almost forgot this.”

Once he picked up the spaceship too, I finally became docile.

The elderly man held me in one hand and the spaceship in the other as he passed through the alley again.

After turning through the alley about twice and coming outside, a small corner shop appeared.

[Gyedo Sanghoei]

The elderly man immediately pushed open the glass door and entered.

Ding-a-ling.

A bell rang.

The inside of the shop was wider than I thought.

Shelves lined the walls, with ramen, snacks, and canned goods neatly stacked on top.

Mixed in between were maps, radios, and unidentifiable metal parts.

I narrowed my eyes.

‘A corner shop… right?’

Meanwhile, the elderly man set me down on the cashier’s chair.

“Now, from now on this is your spot.”

“…?”

“Greet customers from here. Finish eating your sausage.”

I quietly rolled my eyes while holding my sausage.

“…”

It was a corner shop, but it was a quiet space with clean energy.

Perhaps….

I looked at Yeonjam.

Yeonjam spoke as if he had been waiting.

“This place at least has clear energy lingering in it.”

As expected! Light sparkled in my eyes.

I hopped down under the chair. The spaceship was placed right next to it.

I put Older Brother and Yeonjam down in the spaceship.

“You can do it here, right?”

When I whispered quietly, Yeonjam also replied softly.

“For my god’s sake, what could there be between heaven and earth that I cannot do?”

“Thank you.”

I gently patted Yeonjam’s head and then looked at Older Brother.

Older Brother nodded. As if telling me not to worry about anything.

What could he possibly do right now? That foolish Black Octopus.

I pressed my forehead against Older Brother’s head.

“I’ll protect you, Older Brother.”

Older Brother’s tentacle caressed my cheek. As his soft tentacle touched me, a fluffy sense of relief bloomed.

But there was no time to be lost in sentiment.

The Foreign Old Man- no, the owner of this strange shop was humming while dusting the shelves.

I glanced at him and climbed back up onto the chair to sit.

I was planning to fulfill my mascot role properly for the time being.

Right now I need to stay quietly attached. Like a well-behaved puppy!

Since I’d become the shop mascot anyway, I was determined to treat customers hospitably too.

Just then, the bell on the door rang softly.

Ding-

I raised my head.

What entered the shop was a hunched-over Grandmother. Judging by the shopping basket she dragged along, she seemed to be a local resident.

“Oh my, here again.”

The Elderly Man spoke nonchalantly.

“Just give me two ramens. Don’t you have kimchi?”

“I keep telling you we don’t have kimchi. We have pickles, pickles.”

“Pickles? Who eats ramen with pickles! This is why Yankees are….”

“Pickles are surprisingly tasty, you know?”

The shop owner took ramen from the shelf and put it down on the counter.

The Grandmother’s gaze stopped on me.

“Huh?”

I looked at the Grandmother and blinked my eyes.

“There’s a dog?”

“Our shop mascot. Cute, right?”

“I am the Gyedo Sanghoei mascot, Grandmother. I’ll handle the payment.”

I spoke politely and spread both hands.

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