The Baby Seizes Fortune - Chapter 61

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Episode 61

“Well.”

And he smiled brightly, but somehow I didn’t want to ask any more questions.

The boy poured water into my cup several times for me as I struggled with the spicy food.

We had conversations.

The boy didn’t tell me much, but he knew a lot of things.

For instance, it was fascinating that he knew about the popular YouTubers from the era I had lived in.

He even told me truths about them that I hadn’t known, like gossip.

We also played games.

They were video games, and I won twice.

When I was full and a bit tired from playing to my heart’s content.

Before I knew it, darkness began to fall outside the window of the gray world.

“Night is coming?”

“But I don’t like it when it’s completely pitch black. It’s scary.”

So I thought night wouldn’t come.

I lay down on the mattress with the boy.

The silver-haired boy lay facing me beside me, looking into my eyes.

In those purple pupils, I was reflected completely.

“I like you, Chaea.”

“That’s embarrassing.”

“I like you.”

The boy’s voice echoed.

I don’t know what kind of existence this boy is, but he probably had been waiting for someone in this gray world for a long time.

With an endless deep longing.

‘I think I know how to purify.’

He’s been telling me continuously since earlier.

Maybe since earlier, he’s been saying it continuously.

‘I wasn’t listening.’

And I reached out and hugged the boy.

His body was cold, but I could feel his heartbeat.

In the deepening night, I whispered to the boy.

“I like you too.”

The gray light turns white.

“I like you.”

So that was the purification spell.

Something so simple.

To hear that, this child said he liked me so many times.

With the feeling of white light enveloping my body, I returned to our house bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror.

I was still wearing pink slippers, and Dog Noah who had been sleeping in a corner of the mattress had disappeared.

No, he had returned to the status window.

Pant pant- Woof-

[૮₍ •ᴥ• ₎ა♡]

My heart was still pounding.

Who was that child?

Like a dream that briefly came and disappeared, I felt dazed.

‘But… I feel like I’ll meet him again someday.’

As if to prove it wasn’t a dream, I was holding a pink compact-shaped tool and one gray gem in my hand.

‘Is this the artifact…?’

I carefully opened the compact that looked like I should transform when I opened it.

Inside were five spherical spaces like slots for inserting eyeshadow.

I took the gray gem and fitted it into one of the five spaces.

Then the artifact’s border sparkled gray.

At the same time, a pink status window appeared before my eyes.

[Artifact Quest has begun.]

[If you find five keys, open five doors, and collect all five gems, you can fulfill any wish you desire.]

[Progress: 1/5]

…Really?

For real?

If it can fulfill anything, would becoming the US President work too?

World domination?

Anyway, there must be a reason why that noble pink status window is so confident.

Let’s try collecting them for now.

Since this was a gem obtained by purifying that boy, this Quest was a bit bewildering and bitter, but since it wasn’t difficult, I should be able to collect the next gems too.

By the way.

‘My assets increased by ten million won as a Quest reward!’

The main Quest clear window appeared brilliantly.

* * *

Inside an operation control room with dozens of monitors filling one entire wall.

Multinational researchers in lab coats were busily moving around working.

The monitors had noise, and a boy’s voice mixed with mechanical sounds could be heard.

-I like you, Chaea.

A white female researcher with her hair tied back approached the man in a suit sitting at the head seat.

The man in the suit was wearing black sunglasses and sitting in a wheelchair, his facial expression hidden behind the sunglasses.

“A202RK showed movements different from the predicted scenario.”

The man briefly looked at the report the woman brought and let out a small sigh.

The woman continued speaking.

“The artifact scenario was what we were most concerned about. In the worst case, A202RK could have harmed the child. But in this situation, A202RK showed a surprisingly friendly appearance.”

“Bring up the previous scenario.”

The woman nodded and gave the command, and assistants operated computers to display a scene on the front monitor.

The image quality was very low and couldn’t be properly discerned, but it was certain the scenery was terrible.

The building’s steel frame was burning and dangling, and on the ashes, a young man in a lab coat was trembling and backing away.

And the figure standing in front of him was a silver-haired boy with purple eyes.

The researcher was screaming in terror, but the boy’s face was filled only with coldness.

-No, no. This monster, monster machine. G-go away.

But instead of backing away, the boy began approaching the man step by step.

The flames emanating from the boy’s body grew closer and closer to the man.

-$%@@QQAASF.

The boy’s lips moved but no one could understand those words.

Those cruel lips that showed not a hint of emotion moved again.

-@$J

Then the researcher’s body was instantly engulfed in flames and began burning.

All the researchers stared blankly at the scene in the crude screen.

The man in the suit with sunglasses didn’t even twitch his lips.

As if it was something he already knew about.

“A202RK, who was so violent, purified himself as if he had been waiting, even speaking human language. In front of that child called Gu Chaea.”

“…Amazing.”

At the man’s words, the female researcher looked puzzled.

Was he talking about the child, or about A202RK? It was unclear.

Contrary to what she thought would be panic, the man actually sounded satisfied.

“Then the subsequent artifact scenarios will be…”

“It seems there’s no need to worry.”

“If that’s the case.”

“The scenario will continue. This world is an ark, after all. That guy is the flood.”

“….”

“So you all should do what you need to do.”

As always, the researcher showed a momentarily confused expression at the incomprehensible words, but soon nodded his head.

This was a man who showed things like magic that couldn’t be understood at all with current technology.

And he was the one investing astronomical amounts of money for this research lab.

His current reaction must have some meaning as well.

Among the countless monitors, black smoke generated on the leftmost monitor swirled around the screen, then a withdrawal message appeared showing that tens of thousands of dollars had been withdrawn from the man’s account.

A computer program that automatically thinks and spends money, though not as strange as entities like A202RK.

This too was currently an existence that could only be observed and recorded.

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