The Baby Seizes Fortune - Chapter 60

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Episode 60

This is definitely Noah.

“Noaaah!”

I immediately reached out and hugged Noah, and Noah rushed into my arms, wagging his short tail.

The fluffy fur texture was something I had always wanted to feel someday.

“So you really were a puppy?”

Woof-

Noah barked as if to say yes.

Aww, so cute.

As I rubbed my cheek against him, Noah licked around my mouth.

Even though I had fallen into a world where no one knew me, just meeting Noah made my heart feel warmly filled.

Woof-

I couldn’t understand what he was saying since Noah’s status window wasn’t appearing, but he’s so cuuuute-

After spending about 10 minutes in ‘Noah is adorable’ time and finally calming down, I continued walking through the city while holding Noah.

‘I petted him to my heart’s content. I’m happy.’

I wandered around the city like that, having a conversation with Noah.

“But where is this place?”

Woof-

“What?”

Woof woof-

“Woof woof.”

Whine whine.

“Ugh, my legs hurt. How far do I have to walk…”

Just when my legs were starting to ache,

I see signs of people in the distance?

A person!

Whatever was standing under the dried-up bridge definitely had the shape of a human.

I gradually approached toward them.

It’s a person, right? What if it’s a zombie that fits this apocalyptic atmosphere…

I’ll just run away.

I stealthily approached close enough to check.

The human-shaped figure also seemed to see me and started approaching slowly.

Thump, thump.

“Noah, what do you think? Who do you think that is?”

Whine-

Noah just stuck his tongue out and panted as if to say how would he know.

My heart is pounding.

When we got close enough to make out each other’s faces.

I was slightly startled and hesitated at the figure approaching me with a bright smile.

‘A child?’

No dark circles under the eyes, skin wasn’t blue, and the focus seemed normal, so not a zombie.

Rather, it was a boy with pure white silver hair, purple eyes that seemed to have jumped out of some romance fantasy novel, an incredibly handsome sculpted face, and a somewhat thin body. But…

‘They say the ones to be most wary of in martial arts are the elderly and children.’

I immediately shouted.

“Stop!”

“Huh?”

And I stepped back and spoke loudly like the protagonist of a Squ*d Game.

“Stop! Don’t move from there!”

Hearing that, the boy stopped at a safe distance.

At least he’s a living being that understands words.

The boy stared at me intently.

Then he smiled brightly with a somehow very happy expression.

“It’s Chaea, Chaea!”

The boy called my name brightly.

I was startled and stepped back another step.

“How do you know my name?”

“Ah.”

The boy scratched his head as if he had made a mistake and spoke again.

“Because I thought about you every single day.”

“Eeek!”

I raised my eyebrow ends up and whispered to Noah in my arms.

“Suspicious, right?”

Grrr-

“No, that’s not what I meant, sorry. It’s been too long since I talked to someone. Were you scared?”

The boy rambled. In those eyes full of joy, complex and sad emotions seemed to ripple.

Even that was quite burdensome for me, seeing this kid for the first time.

“I, I just.”

The boy clenched his fists and made a dejected expression.

“I missed you. I just hoped you would come back and find me.”

“…Have I met you before?”

The blowing wind tickled his silver hair.

“Yeah.”

A romance fantasy material pretty boy left alone in a completely ruined world.

And he says he missed me… the problem is I don’t know this kid.

“What do you mean. When did we meet. This is the first time I’m seeing you.”

A somehow hurt expression at my firm answer.

Even if you look at me like that, I don’t know you.

The boy’s eyes wavered.

If this were the real world, I would have thought he was a dangerous guy.

“…I see.”

But he didn’t look like he would harm me.

For someone who had insisted so earnestly that he wanted to see me, he accepted it quite quickly too.

I cautiously took a step toward him.

As I got closer, his appearance came clearly into my view.

If I had met such a handsome kid before, I definitely would have remembered.

“Chaea. If you didn’t come to meet me,”

The boy with purple eyes reflecting me moved his lips slightly.

“You must have come for that, right?”

What should I call this kind of look?

A deeply hurt gaze that makes you want to kneel and apologize even though you did nothing wrong.

[Key Quest: Find and purify the gray light.]

[Quest Reward: Artifact, Gray Gem]

I pointed my index finger up in the air and said.

“I came to find and purify the gray light.”

This world, the boy, the situation – none of it was normal, so there seemed no need to hide it.

“Can you help me?”

At my question, the boy kept his head down for a long time without answering.

Then he slowly raised his eyes to look at me, smiled faintly, and nodded.

“What do you need?”

At my question, the boy’s eyebrows twitched slightly.

I crossed my arms and said.

“I’m not the type who can live comfortably while owing debts. How about we help each other out?”

A long silence passed.

Tell this big sister anything. Ahem.

“That is….”

The boy blushed and got down on his knees before me.

“Please live here with me.”

“….”

“Eat with me, sleep with me, and together with me….”

“No way.”

I cut off the boy’s words sharply.

Then the boy looked at me with desperate eyes, his face drooping.

“Not that kind of thing! I’m already living with my father.”

The boy spoke to me with eyes that looked ready to cry.

“Really can’t you?”

“Yeah. Really.”

“Then just one year.”

“…No.”

“One month….”

“…Nope.”

“No, just one day!”

The boy continued.

“Just stay with me for one day.”

With a voice full of longing.

“…Then… I’ll purify you.”

I let out a small sigh and turned around.

Noah said with a sad face.

“I’m gray, you know.”

Ah.

I looked at the boy with a surprised expression.

* * *

I followed the boy into a house in some empty alley.

As I sat waiting on the soft sofa, the boy brought over some bubbling ramen he had cooked.

“You’re hungry, right? Eat.”

“Yeah. What about you?”

“I’m fine.”

Steam was rising from the aluminum pot.

I thought while twirling the ramen with my chopsticks.

‘Does the gas work?’

On the floor, Noah was munching on dog food from a dog bowl.

It’s strange that there’s even dog food.

‘What if I can’t return to the real world after eating this?’

I suddenly thought of Persephone from Greek mythology, who ate food from the underworld and became its queen forever.

“It’s okay to eat. It’s not like that.”

The boy said as if reading my thoughts.

“It’s just that this is my domain, so anything is possible here.”

“…Your domain?”

The child nodded at my question.

“Yeah. In that distant place where bombs explode, I can’t even breathe. No, I’d melt away. Beyond my 500-meter radius, no living thing can survive. Everything becomes liquid and gas. Only within my domain does everything return to normal.”

“…I don’t know what that is, but it sounds incredible.”

Honestly, I didn’t understand half of what he just said, but I pretended to get it.

Slurp. The chewy noodles filled my mouth.

“But why did the world become like this?”

“….”

“Isn’t this a ruined world?”

Then the boy stared at me intently with a face full of stories.

“By any chance, are you a god of this world?”

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