45 – 045 – Oinoi and the Little Stationery # 9
045 – Oinoi and the Little Stationery # 9
It was like a town party.
People spread mats in a nearby vacant lot and started drinking or grilling meat. It was a very noisy and hectic sight.
“It was like that 10 years ago! In the meantime, times have changed so much. What is the 5th industry!”
“Do you like it then or now?”
“I like living now, but my body was younger and stronger back then!”
Maybe it’s because there were a lot of stories to share with the people in the neighborhood who haven’t been together in a long time? Everyone couldn’t keep their mouth shut, and it was the same with the wife who returned to the arms of her family after 10 years.
“Lee Seon-ah! You are Lee Seon-ah! You’ve calmed down! My daughter, I do not recognize! When did you grow up like this? Did you get a job? Marriage!”
The wife at the moving center hugged her daughter tightly. It was very touching and someone even took a picture with their cell phone.
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“Honey, can you recognize me? Me!”
The owner of the moving center was also very happy. How happy she is that her wife, who she thought was dead after 10 years, is back alive.
Will I be as happy as when I rose from D to C? Maybe it could have felt better than that.
Oinoi seemed to be in a good mood as well.
“This Oinoi, I thought there would be other nymph sisters… ! I am very happy to have another nymph sister… ! It is thanks to the owner of the house… !”
Oinoi, who was the only nymph in this world, seemed happy to meet her own people. Until now, she hadn’t shown it, but it seemed that she was very lonely and forlorn because she was the only nymph.
Soon, Corris, the nymph of ice water, spoke.
“Thank you for saving this Koris… ! We nymphs do not forget grace… ! Someday, I will never forget this kindness and will definitely repay it… !”
It seemed so.
Meanwhile, I met the eyes of the owner of the moving center again.
The boss came up to me, took my hand, and continued to bow his head.
“Thank you! I have nothing more to say than that! Let me know if you move in the future! I’ll do it anytime for free! Thank you so much! You did a great job! It’s like raising a dead person!”
When was the last time you received such an intense thank you from others? It seems to have happened often in the past, but it didn’t seem to have happened after it became fixed as a D-class in later years.
Maybe that’s why this situation was very awkward for me, and I wondered if it was true that I had done something to be thanked this much.
I turned my head away with a feeling of embarrassment.
“So Arya, how are the people? There are people who have been stuck in a crack for 10 years, and Lee Jin-ah did a lot in this situation.”
Shut-.
Yua Lee, who came after receiving my call from her, placed her finger on Lee Jin-ah’s wrist to check her pulse.
In today’s 5th industrial era, what kind of pulse is it—you might have wondered, but since Yuari had super senses, he could pinpoint his pulse more precisely than most machines do?
“Jin-ah suffered some internal injuries, but she will get better if she rests. And Gongju, Jin-ah’s mother, doesn’t have any particular health problems. Her mother’s side is rather healthy.”
That’s right.
It was fortunate.
Soon, Koris, the nymph of ice water, approached Yuari.
“I want you to see that this Koris is also healthy… ! This Koris has evolved into a nymph of ice water while she was confined… !”
“Evolution?”
Yuari seemed very surprised.
And I too was very surprised by this situation. It was because the nymph, Koris, was not very afraid of Yuari.
Oinoi was afraid of Yuari.
But Corris didn’t seem to do that.
“There doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with your health.”
“Woman in white… ! I mean thank you… !”
Nymphs are the kind of people you don’t even know.
Shut-.
Soon, Lee Jin-ah, who pulled her sleeves up to her wrists, stood up.
After hu-sighing, he came towards me and said.
“Thank you. For saving her mom. And for saving me If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t have thought that this day would come. Honestly, I gave up.”
With that said, Jina Lee looked at her floor or kicked a nearby stone with her foot. It seemed he wasn’t used to saying thank you.
Pod─.
Now he ran to his family.
Since it’s a family reunited after 10 years, there must be a lot to say.
# # #
The next day.
Weekend morning.
“This oi noi, this mini car was given as a gift… ! It is said that there is a gold motor attached to it…. This Oinoi also has a car… !”
Oi Noi grabbed the square box and she was very happy. She seemed happy to have a car of her own.
“But she doesn’t know how to assemble…” ! Even looking at the manual, she found it very difficult… It is a very nymphophobic manual… !”
Not everyone assembles a minicar.
When I was very young, I only had memories of trying to do it myself and then breaking it.
At first, I played with RC cars that were sold as finished products.
Just controlling it with a controller.
Poof-.
Soon, Oinoi threw the mini car box into the corner. Oh noi guy, she just threw it out when she lost interest.
As I was picking up the box, Ohinoi now looked at the arcade machine in front of the stationery store. It was a machine that put 100 won in and played.
The game is Mechanical Snail 3.
There was a place where this was still there.
As I was reminiscing, Ohinoi said.
“I want to try this oi noi, this arcade… ! This Oinoi has something called a coin—”
Short-.
Oi Noi took out his coin purse. Inside were the coins Oinoi had picked up from the yard, from under the bed, and from the desk drawer.
In the words of Oinoi, “This support coin keeps appearing out of nowhere… !”, But to be honest, I couldn’t understand what he was talking about.
Dalgak-.
After putting in 100 won, Oinoi was sitting in front of the arcade machine. Oi-noi often did not know something, and he remained silent like this.
“This is shooting a gun. This jump this is the bomb You can move it with something like this stick.”
I taught Oinoi how to play the game.
“Ah—! That’s right… ! This oinoi, this gun shoots… !”
Ohinoi was killed by mutant crab monsters as soon as he started. The 100 won went away in an instant and Oinoi was very angry.
“It’s more of a game than Minesweeper… ! The 100 won that Oinoi had been searching for and collecting had just disappeared… ! hehehe… !”
“It was originally like that. Instead, those with good skills can do it for a long time with 100 won.”
“Oinoya… !”
Then, from afar, someone waved to Oinoi. It was Koris, the nymph of ice water. Did you spend last night at Jinah Lee’s house with her mother?
Having spent 10 years in the rift, the two of them developed a bond like a family in their own way.
“What were you doing?”
Lee Jin-ah asked me.
He yawned tiredly, probably because he hadn’t slept well last night. She must have been talking about this and that with her family all night long.
I pointed to Oinoi and said.
“I was teaching you how to play the game.”
“Really? Besides, did you teach nymph how to use the shower when she first came home? How to use a water purifier.”
For some reason, it seems like it’s being drawn in front of my eyes.
When I nodded her head, Jinah Lee saw the mini car assembly box in my hand.
“Uh, what is it? That’s a mini car It costs 15,000 won. Are you trying to assemble it?”
“No.”
“Can I do it?”
Jinah Lee said that after borrowing things like screwdrivers, glue, and lighters from a stationery store, she sat down and assembled the mini-car in less than an hour.
And in less than an hour, Ohinoi spent 5,000 won on the game machine.
“hehehe… ! This Oinoi’s wallet keeps getting smaller and smaller… ! These nymphophobic crabs are killing Oinoi and Corris… !”
“This arcade machine is so much fun… !”
There are times when even one nymph can feel a bit noisy, but when the two of them are together, it’s even more noisy. Lee Jin-ah gave Oinoi an assembled minicar.
“Come on. Get back on the track over there. This here is the switch.”
“Ah, what a nice car… !”
Shun-.
A minicar that vibrates when Oinoi operates a button.
Soon, Oinoi put the mini car on the stripped track and the little car whirled around it very quickly.
Shhh, shhhhh-.
Oinoi was almost crazy about it.
“It is incredibly fast… ! It is clear that no one has a nymph with a car as fast as this Oinoi… ! That’s really awesome… !”
“I’m envious of Koris and Oinoi… !”
The nymphs seemed to be full of childlike hearts just like their appearance.
There was a time when I was crazy about car toys.
When I was thinking about that, Lee Jin-ah said.
“I have always liked cars. To be precise, I liked being on wheels. So I had no complaints about working at a moving center, but in fact, there was another job I really liked.”
“Really?”
“So, from now on, I am going to try again. There are people who are older than me, but I am young enough now.”
“It sounds like you’re talking about me, but I’m still twenty-seven. Aren’t you old enough to say that?”
“I am very grateful for this work. I’ll give you this.”
Shut-.
Lee Jin-ah held out candy to me. It was junk food, candy with three traffic light colors in one bag.
Red, blue, yellow.
It’s been a long time since I saw this candy.
“Thank you.”
“It’s not just candy. I’ve stored my magic If you eat according to the color, your emotions will change. Red will be angry, Blue will be calm. And yellow is candy that makes you feel good.”
Candy that makes you feel good.
From what I’ve heard, it seemed like a very illegal thing.
Lee Jin-ah added her words.
“By the way, if you feed them yellow candies, their affinity for the person in front of them may increase a bit. It’s not dramatic, but it is.”
“Nice. Just in time, there was a guy I wanted to be friends with.”
I already feel better at the thought of feeding him this yellow candy. Would she say that she wanted to go home soon?
Looking at me like that, Lee Jin-ah said.
“There is someone to feed. Do you have someone you like?”
“No, not really? There was no time for that, and the situation was bad.”
“Really? This can be happen. Then tell me whenever you need that candy in the future. I’ll pay 10,000 won for each bag.”
“100 Won candy is 10,000 won?”
Isn’t that a complete overkill?
When I said it like a joke, Lee Jin-ah said.
“Hey, that’s 350 won. There is another generation gap here.”
Jinah Lee cut me like she was teasing me and stuck out her tongue.
There was a pink candy on top of it.
“What is the effect of pink?”
“I won’t tell you.”
# # #
“You mean this is an angry candy?”
Heading to the well house, I sat down in the living room and took a bite of the red candy in my mouth. Then I started to get a little angry inside me, and my mind sharpened.
Feeling the adrenaline rush?
The will to fight surges.
I felt like I could ask for a refund without hesitation even from the fussy shopkeeper now.
I felt like I would be able to ask the landlord to fix a broken door, and I felt like I could dance on the street.
“Very nice. Then how about blue?”
This time, I tried biting a blue candy.
Then, as if I hadn’t been angry before, my mood instantly calmed down.
It felt like someone had poured ice water on me.
“Oh—. These can be used in battle.”
The effect of the traffic light candy was obvious.
Then how about yellow-.
They say eating yellow makes you feel better?
Could it increase the likability?
“Then there is only one person to feed this to. hehehe—”
I rubbed my palms and opened the window.
As I listened, I heard a loud noise.
– Bang bang… !
It was the cry of an animal.
Bang bang.
It’s a creature I named, and it was a dog squirrel that competes with Kyeongkongi, the leader of the village, every day, fighting over the territory of the village.
What if I fed him this yellow candy?
Then you might be able to tame an animal that’s as powerful as a squirrel.
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I looked at the yard.
In the yard, an arcade machine obtained from a stationery store was installed, and Ohinoi was actively playing Mechanical Snail 2.
“hehehe… ! It is that nymph-hating mummies keep appearing… ! The coins sponsored by this Oinoi suddenly disappear because of the mummy… !”
“Oinoya, you said there was a high probability that it wasn’t a stomping dog squirrel, right?”
“It was like that… ! Rather, this 2 percent drink is very nymph-friendly and delicious… ! The owner of the house wants to buy more… !”
“What kind of animal is Kwangkwang?”
The grandmothers and grandfathers in the neighborhood said they had only heard the thumping cries but had never seen them. The only one who knew of the guy’s existence was Kyeongkong, who was fighting with him every day.
“Perhaps they are very wary of people who stomp. What do you think?”
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“As expected. After all, I don’t know what a kongkong is.”
I installed the drone on trails, fields, and rice fields where thumps are likely to come and go. These guys will become the camera and capture Kwangkwang’s true identity.
hehehe – I waited for the time to pass with overflowing anticipation.