Jelly Alien Will Save You! - Chapter 87

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The Jelly Alien Will Save You!

Episode 87

“Dam…”

Older Sister frowned and mulled over the name once more.

My heart pounded, wondering if she might recognize me—

“Old man, are you kidnapping aliens now too? You really are the final boss, aren’t you?”

“If I had that kind of ability, would I be stuck here!”

Henry spoke self-deprecatingly and laughed heartily.

“…”

As expected, she doesn’t recognize me. I became a little dejected.

Well, I would have been the same way.

I knew well that even if I insisted I was Dam in this form, Older Sister wouldn’t believe me.

It would be nice if Older Brother appeared to explain like with Kwon Bora, but Older Brother was still in his Black Octopus state.

Older Brother hopped around greeting Older Sister, but she didn’t even realize that an octopus was greeting her.

It was unfortunate.

I patted the dejected Older Brother and resolved to quickly earn coins to buy human skin.

Meanwhile, Henry gave a brief explanation that he had picked me up from the street, and that I had helped prevent Shi Hyeon from being caught in the earlier chase.

“…Really?”

Shi Hyeon paused for a moment, then said,

“Thank you… Alien Dam.”

I smiled brightly.

“Not at all! But can I ask why those guys were chasing you?”

“That’s…”

Shi Hyeon scratched her head. She seemed hesitant about whether to tell a suspicious alien.

“Trying to escape from here?”

“…Uh, yeah.”

Shi Hyeon gave a short reply to my words and closed her mouth.

In the suddenly awkward atmosphere, I lowered my eyes and rolled my pupils around.

The silence continued.

“Time to sleep!”

Suddenly Henry shouted.

“Old man, I just woke up.”

“I’m not sleepy either.”

“Kids need lots of sleep to grow. How long are you going to worry about things when you’re so tiny!”

Henry shouted at me.

I froze as if I’d been hit in the head with a hammer.

“Let’s call it a day and sleep.”

Henry laid out a blanket next to the bed.

“Pretty one, lie down here and sleep.”

“Oh, I have a home.”

I immediately brought over my spaceship and slipped inside it.

“…That’s your home?”

“You’re quite attached to that box.”

Shi Hyeon and Henry said simultaneously.

Since only Shi Hyeon had the cognitive distortion blocked right now, Henry wouldn’t be able to hear my words.

I brought paper and pen from the shop and stuck a paper with [UFO] written on it in front of the box.

Ta-da!

Now you understand, right? That this is my spaceship!

“…”

“…”

A moment of silence passed.

“…?”

Just when I thought they might not understand this much—

Shi Hyeon started giggling, then burst into loud laughter.

“Ah, so cute, really. How can something like this be an alien? Does that make sense?”

Henry also laughed heartily and patted me.

“Right, so this was your spaceship. Then sleep in there.”

I nodded vigorously and went into the spaceship, curling up my body.

Henry turned off the lights in the single room and lay down on his blanket.

Shi Hyeon hesitated before saying,

“This… do I sleep with the hat off?”

“Yes, yes. Tomorrow I’ll make the cognitive distortion blocker smaller for you.”

“Yeah…”

Shi Hyeon replied quietly to Henry’s gentle words.

‘Henry really doesn’t seem like a bad person after all.’

With my drowsy mind thinking this, I must have been quite tired from the day as I instantly fell asleep.

* * *

The next day.

When I woke up in the morning, Black Octopus and Wuparupa were fighting, grabbing each other’s scalps.

“How can you be this bad at it! You’re a complete blockhead!”

“~~~!!”

Yeonjam mercilessly berated Older Brother.

Older Brother was swearing with his face, and roughly translating—

[Why are you scolding me for not being able to do at 27 what you accomplished at 2,000!]

…is what he was saying.

From the situation, it seemed Yeonjam was scolding Older Brother for not being able to do human transformation, and since Older Brother was trying his best but getting scolded, a fight broke out.

They were grabbing scalps since they had no hair, which I thought was quite pitiful, then I realized I had no hair either.

I felt a little dejected.

“Are you awake? Eat this.”

Just then, Henry handed me a cup of soup.

I sipped the soup while watching their fight.

“I’ll bet 10 coins on Black Octopus.”

“I’ll take Wuparupa…”

When I responded to Henry’s words, Older Brother looked at me with a shocked expression.

I quietly avoided his gaze.

Sorry, Older Brother. But Yeonjam has ten thousand years of experience.

Due to Older Brother’s shock, their fight soon reached a lull.

Yeonjam acted triumphant while pretending not to care. He seemed to think he had won the fight.

I thought it was fortunate and asked Henry,

“But why do you use Cosmic Coins here?”

“Cosmic Coins? Ah… those coins? They used to give leaves instead of currency, but now they’ve started giving out strange coins.”

Henry said he had collected them and showed them to me.

“…!”

My eyes became coin-shaped.

“Old man. Can’t you give me these?”

“These? What are you going to use them for?”

“They’re very important items to me.”

I put my hands together and looked up at him with shining eyes like Puss in Boots.

“Can’t I have them? Please?”

“No good? Hm?”

Henry made cooing sounds as he scratched my chin and said.

“Yeah, it’s the mood. Take it all!”

“Kehehe!”

I giggled as I collected the money. Then the coins absorbed into my hands.

Henry seemed quite surprised by this sight.

“Ooh.”

“See, I told you it was important to me.”

As I showed off, Henry repeatedly marveled while watching me absorb the coins into my body one by one.

I put coins into my hand and took them out like showing a trick, then asked.

“Ah, old man. Is there any way to contact the outside from here? I have companions outside.”

“Companions outside? Other aliens?”

“No, that’s not it… They’re earthlings who were taking care of me. But I ended up coming here alone because of the storm.”

“I see, I see, then we should contact them.”

“Yeah. They’ll be worried.”

I briefly thought of Chae Heon’s face.

Would Chae Heon be worried too? He wouldn’t be happy that the pest went out, would he?

Jae Hee and Bora must be worrying about us a lot.

It was when I became a little gloomy.

“You want to contact the outside?”

Shi Hyeon asked while yawning.

She had something like an aluminum ring on her hand, which seemed to be a cognitive distortion blocker.

I nodded slightly.

Then Shi Hyeon pulled her hood deep over her head and shuffled toward the front of the shop.

Since she seemed to be telling me to follow, I went after her.

“This.”

Standing in front of the shop, she tapped an old mailbox covered in white dust.

“Put it in here.”

“A mailbox?”

Then Henry, who had followed behind, chimed in.

“This is a place dominated by ‘anomalous phenomena.’ It means the gaps in space are all jumbled up.”

Henry grinned as he opened the mailbox lid.

The inside was empty, but strangely cool wind was blowing from within.

“In this massive quarantine zone created by those Planet Dynamics bastards, there are several ‘error points’ where spaces are strangely connected to each other. The inside of this mailbox is one of them. Where did you say you came from?”

“Yongsan Outskirts…?”

“Right, if you strongly think of that place and put in a letter, the error in this anomalous phenomenon will spit out the letter somewhere around there. It’s like reverse-engineering those freaks’ system. But you can only send about one sentence.”

“Ooh…!”

As I nodded with sparkling eyes, Shi Hyeon brought me a pen and paper.

“One sentence…”

I tilted my head in thought.

What if I wrote ‘I’m in West City’?

Even if Chae Heon might not, Jae Hee and Bora would immediately try to rush here.

Then they’d obviously get caught by those Yellow Hazmat Suits’ cognitive distortion.

But I couldn’t write out all the anomalous phenomena of West City either.

I could only write one line.

“Old man.”

I asked seriously while holding the pen.

“That cognitive distortion blocker. Could you make it really big?”

Shi Hyeon frowned at my strange question.

“Make it big?”

“Turn off all the cognitive distortion covering this entire city at once.”

“What…?”

“The people here don’t even know they’re dead and keep repeating their daily lives, right? But what would happen if the cognitive distortion suddenly turned off and they saw the real reality?”

Shi Hyeon’s eyes widened at my words.

“The entire city would fall into complete panic. Riots might break out. Then while those guys are frantically trying to control people, we could escape by blending into that chaos.”

“…”

“…”

Silence.

In front of the old mailbox at the shop entrance, Henry and Shi Hyeon stared down at me with their mouths agape.

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