86 – 086 – A new family! # 2
086 – A new family! # 2
Dawn when the nymphs haven’t even woken up yet.
Since it was summer, the town woke up early in the morning to the hooh-huh-huh cry of an owl.
It’s four o’clock in the morning.
Oinoi, who usually sleeps from 10:00 pm to 7:00 am, seemed to be awakened by the sound of owls resounding in the neighborhood.
Suk-.
Oinoi came out into the living room wearing pajamas rubbing his sleepy eyes.
Oinoi said while looking at Kalinoi, who was sitting in the yard flapping her wings.
“The owl of goddess Athena cries at night, but the tiger owl cries in the morning… !”
Another morning that came with that feeling.
“What kind of owl is so big?”
“It’s a complete fighter. Fighter plane.”
Today, the elders of the neighborhood came to the front of the yard once in a while to see Kalinoi.
The existence of the large tiger owl, Kalinoi, seemed to be great even in the eyes of the local residents, who had high expectations thanks to otherworldly animals such as squirrels, honey ants, and ghost spiders.
The chief of this Dog Squirrel Taecho Village and a professor who can be called a doctor watched the condition of the tiger owl from a distance and said.
“Would you like some leftover meat? Even when I was a child, an owl like this lived in this neighborhood. I used to just grab the cat with my paw and grab it and fly away!”
The professor put a lot of meat in a black bag.
It was raw pork belly, but I thought it would be delicious to eat it grilled.
Shut-.
I slowly approached the tiger owl, Kalinoi, and held out a plate of pork belly.
-…….
Kalinoi looks at the plate without crying.
According to Oinoi earlier, it seemed that meat was the best way to tame an owl.
So I gave him the meat, but Kalinoi didn’t even look at me and turned his head away.
Looking at that, the professor said.
“You look like a b*tch, but that’s right. If you haven’t eaten anything since yesterday, you must be hungry. Would you like to eat this? There is a Korean beef that I received as a gift a while ago—”
Two Plus Upjinsal, which is said to be delicious among Korean beef.
As we took it out and grilled it on the outdoor BBQ grill, the owl Carlinoi turned its head towards us with a swish.
Soon after, he waddled over on his two feet, ate only the meat cooked on the plate, and then waddled away again to distance himself from us.
Looking at the scene, the head of the village and the wildlife doctor and professor of Taecho Village came to a conclusion.
“The taste is very advanced. I don’t think I’ll even look at it unless it’s fairly expensive and good meat. I won’t even eat raw meat or raw meat.”
It was.
Kalinoi was a tiger owl with an elegant appetite befitting its elegant appearance.
Originally, it was a nymph, not a real owl, so it was only natural if it was natural.
It seems that even when she was a nymph with a normal body, her taste was picky and luxurious.
“Me and Oinoi still eat a simple cereal for breakfast.”
What is this?
Who should I bill?
Seo Yerim?
Cha Yu-ra?
I don’t know!
Anyway.
The Telos company, which came early in the morning, built a separate house for Kalinoi on the roof of the well house.
It was a very fluffy house with fluffy feathers on the red carpet.
Ahn Young-eun, the general manager who oversaw the construction and Seo Ye-rim’s secretary, said while looking at Kalinoi.
“What a really big owl! Wasn’t she originally a nymph? So can you hear me? Can I stroke you? Wow, this is my first time seeing an owl this big!”
Kalinoi was popular because he had a nice appearance and a quiet corner.
Of course, it was a fearsome bird of prey, so no one wanted to touch it.
Also, even if someone reached out to touch it, it was impossible to approach it easily because it spread its wings and flew away about 10 meters away.
Time passed like that, and around lunchtime-.
Bureung-.
An old truck slid through the neighborhood and stopped in front of our yard.
Koris and Lee Jin-ah descend from inside.
“This Koris has arrived… ! This choris is that this slush filled with ice grains is very delicious… ! I want to share it with Kalinoi as well… !”
Corris held up the juice-filled slush with both hands toward the owl sitting on the roof.
Next to him, Lee Jin-ah, lightly dressed in only a thin cotton tee and jeans, looked up at the rooftop and admired it.
“I heard about the story from Corris. Looking at it like this, the power is no joke. In terms of monsters, I think it would be at least A rank, right?”
It was as Lee Jin-ah said.
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The tiger owl, Kalinoi, was one of the most powerful animals I’ve ever met.
Because it was hard to deal with Kkong-kung, Bang-kwang, and Ang-angi.
“If you tame that guy, won’t Hail become your ultimate? I think it would be really awesome to bring him to the rift and fight. Wow-.”
Jinah Lee couldn’t contain her admiration as she saw the wonderful creature.
I spoke softly to Lee Jin-ah.
“It’s okay to be friendly, but wouldn’t it be a little pity to take him around and fight in the cracks? It didn’t happen because he wanted to.”
“Is that so? But to be honest, you wouldn’t have imagined it either.”
That was it.
I also imagined what it would be like to enter a T-class rift or B-A class rift with that tiger and owl, Kalinoi.
It was sure to draw people’s attention.
It was clear that the nickname would also change from “Haildo, the squirrel launch pad” To “Haildo, the tiger owl’s perch.”
Smooth-.
Looking up at her rooftop, Lee Jin-ah opens her slender eyes.
“But I don’t think it will be easy to tame them. I feel the fear. And her vigilance is strong and she is angry. Emotions are swirling around that tiger and owl.”
Here, Lee Jin-ah, who has yellow hair and is noisy like a bully, has a constitution that is particularly sensitive to the emotions of living things.
It was thanks to Mana as a sensing system that Jinah Lee possessed.
Lee Jin-ah very accurately and quickly grasped the condition of the tiger owl, Kalinoi, and concluded that it was difficult to tame.
I thought so, so I called Lee Jin-ah.
“You have the candy you gave me. Traffic light candy. Then she tamed the stomp with the yellow candy she gave me.”
– Bang bang… !
Pot-.
Thinking that I had called her name, she sat down in the shade of a golden apple tree and woke up.
Then she climbed up from my leg to the palm of my hand.
ㅁHooong… !
“Here, Kwang Kwang Kwang, was originally a friend who was wary of people and had difficulty. But I was able to tame it right after eating the candy you gave me. Wouldn’t that Kalinois be the same?”
“This isn’t all-powerful either. The “Strange candy” I make amplifies the emotions I have. Intimacy can be increased, but—”
Chojal jjal-.
Lee Jin-ah accurately explained the efficacy of the candy she made. She
She said that candy doesn’t make ‘you’ out of ‘nothing’, she makes ‘a lot of you’ out of ‘you’.
“In other words, Lee Jin-ah, what you are saying is effective in increasing the intimacy with animals that are originally friendly to me, right? Can’t you suddenly turn a bad guy into a good guy?”
“Yes. That’s it. Different colored candies too. Blue makes a calm mind more calm, and so on. Red is the one that enhances the existing will to fight.”
That’s right.
After hearing it, I understood.
“Kwangkwang, you must have wanted to be friends with me from the beginning. So he ate the yellow candy and became closer to me.”
Suk-.
I stroked Kwangkwang’s back with my finger.
ㅁHooong… !
She stomped and started singing like her hum, as if she felt better.
“A spider is singing. You will see all kinds of strange sights. Well, even without the help of candy, wouldn’t Hail be able to get close enough to that owl if it were you? Although it may take a little while.”
I guess so.
I would also continue to try to be friendly.
And Oinoi and Corris also seemed to have put in a lot of effort for Kalinoi.
Shut-.
Cucumber Noi came out into the yard with a bunch of garlic in his hand.
“It’s Carlino… ! Eating garlic… ! It is clear that if you eat garlic for 100 days, you will be able to return to your human form… !”
“This Koris has been picking mugwort… !”
The nymphs went up to the roof and held out garlic and mugwort to the owl’s beak.
Of course, the owl did not like garlic and mugwort very much and only shook the nymphs away with its wings.
Seeing that, Lee Jin-ah asked.
“Feeding garlic and mugwort?”
“You know Woongnyeo. Cucumbers and nymphs seem to believe that if the tiger owl eats garlic and mugwort for a long time, like Ungnyeo, it will return to human form.”
I don’t know if it will be real or not.
She wished it well.
To me, Lee Jin-ah mumbled.
“This is just a story. Strange grass grows in an anomalous rift that someone I know found. Feeding it might ease the owl’s emotions a bit.”
“Really?”
The story of the special ‘vegetation’ that grows in the cracks has always been interesting. All kinds of different animals and plants have different effects.
“Where is the crack to enter? What is your grade?”
“The grade is about C. It was difficult in many ways. So, I was thinking of going into that rift sometime tomorrow? I’m thinking of going to get some gear before that, how about-“
Scratch scratch.
Even if Lee Jin-ah had a mosquito on the bridge of her nose, she scratched her face as if she had been bitten.
# # #
The Awoken Shop.
It was literally a place that sold a lot of things that could be used by the Awakened.
There was a large complex in Myeong-dong, Seoul, and until Oh Inoi came, I had a deep connection with making money and buying things there.
At that time, I was a D-class in my later years, so I bought a lot of items with the feeling that “Equipment should be good.”
“Wow, that’s no joke.”
Lee Jin-ah admired.
There was a corner that literally overwhelmed people in the huge complex shopping street where all kinds of goods were lined up.
Apparently, Lee Jin-ah seemed to be the first Awakener shop.
“There are everything from a cheap place over there to a luxury store where A-level and S-level people buy things. Look over there Seo Ye-rim’s face is stamped on a billboard, isn’t it? That’s a luxury hall.”
“Well, it has no ties to us.”
That was it.
That’s where at least A-class Awakeners enter.
How many hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on a single 「Superconductive Leather Gloves」?
“So, when did you come to buy something?”
I asked Jinah Lee, a novice buyer.
I had to decide what to buy so that I could live well within my budget.
When you plan well, there are no variables and the success rate goes up.
In that respect, in a way, shopping was similar to breaking through cracks.
“Me? First of all, I was trying to find a new weapon. A melee weapon would be nice. Melee weapons can hit with ’emotion’ in many ways.”
I didn’t know what it meant to hit with emotion on a weapon, but I had a recommendation for a place that sold great weapons.
I was thinking of starting a new ‘family’ just in time.
The shop I went to was in the basement of this shopping complex, and it was a place that smelled strongly of burning oil, gunpowder, and iron.
Said the woman with an eye patch over one of her eyes.
“Hey, Haildo. Still not dead The limbs still seem to be intact. He didn’t even show up at the 1st generation reunion for several years.”
The hands and legs of the woman wearing a military cap rattled loudly with mechanical devices, but it was more like a cyborg than a human.
When Lee Jin-ah opened her slender eyes at that amazing presence, I decided to briefly introduce Lee Jin-ah and this woman to each other.
“This is Dan Kim, my classmate from my freshman year. And this is my Class C classmate Lee Jin-ah.”
“Nice to meet you. It is called Kim Dan by writing the character Dan (鍛) for charcoal in a metal ruler.”
Clap-.
Dan Kim pushing his mechanical arm forward.
When Lee Jin-ah awkwardly held her hand, I quickly told her business.
“Take the [Weapon aptitude test] To Lee Jin-ah here. And I’m thinking of getting a firearm into the family this time. I’m thinking about a shotgun for now, but-“
Firearms.
Meeting Cathy left me with the scars of a broken heart and at the same time gave me room to grow.
I don’t think Cathy was just saying something when she told me that a shotgun would suit her.
However, Lee Jin-ah tilted her head as if wondering.
“Weapon aptitude test? What is that?”