2 – World 11. Stray Cat Girl (2)
“Nutrition porridge. It’s a stewed dish with beef and various vegetables.”
I answered simply and handed him an empty bowl full of porridge along with a spoon.
The girl looked surprisingly wary, but did not refuse the porridge he handed over.
“It’s hot, so eat carefully.”
Not to be outdated, the girl blew on a spoonful of porridge and carefully put it into her mouth.
“…!?”
At the same time, the girl opened her eyes wide, and before long she shivered as if she had tasted heavenly food she had never tasted before.
Seeing that the hand holding the spoon, her face, and even her hair trembled, I watched the girl in silence until she calmed down.
However, the girl hurriedly moved her spoon as if she had lost her temper and mercilessly ate the nutritious porridge I handed her.
‘I don’t know if it’s okay to eat like that.’
well, it’ll be fine
If it hurts, you can heal it again.
‘······But did healing even cure an upset stomach?’
After thinking about it for a while, the girl finished the bowl in an instant and started staring at the pot again.
I served another bowl of nutritious porridge to such a girl.
After waiting until I finished the two bowls, I decided to start a conversation.
“If it’s okay, can I get your name?”
“I’m Ren.”
wren?
“Yes, Ren. My name is Sungmin Lee. It would be nice if you could tell me what this place is like first.”
Then, the girl whom I introduced as Ren tilted her head slightly while still looking at the pot.
At first glance, it seemed like they were talking to the pot, not me.
‘Was it too difficult a question?’
Thinking about it, I lowered the level of the question a little more.
“Do you know what the name of this place is?”
“Mallverton City, District 4.”
“Are there many starving kids like you?”
“Yes.”
“Where is everyone staying?”
“It’s on 20th Street in the 4th District.”
When I asked carefully, it seemed that I was currently in the 4th district of Molverton City, and the others seemed to be living here on 20th Street.
The story that there are many starving children was a bonus.
‘Anyway, there are many children who starve…’
No wonder there were people starving everywhere in the world.
“On the other hand, are there people who eat full?”
“Yes.”
It seems to be a world where the gap between rich and poor also exists.
However, I couldn’t find out anything special so far, so I asked straight-forward.
“What crisis is this world facing?”
Knowing the world’s crisis would make it clear what to do here, so I asked him openly, but Ren just tilted his head again.
“・・・・No water?”
“water?”
“People said that drinking water is getting less and less.”
Why does the water suddenly come out?
‘It’s probably not going to be a world where it doesn’t rain.’
Thinking about it, I still wondered and opened the subspace where I had collected various things.
When he took out a bottle of mineral water from the subspace, Ren stared blankly at it with a mixture of admiration and surprise.
“Player…?”
“player?”
“is not it?”
I felt the conversation break for a moment, but I answered calmly.
“no. I don’t even know what a player is in the first place.”
At my reply, Ren shifted his gaze for a moment and looked at my left hand.
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Do you have something in your left hand?
As I thought about it, I showed my left hand, and Ren looked at me alternately with confused eyes.
“Not really.”
“Because it is not. What is a player?”
“…”
Unfortunately, it was hard to explain, so Ren kept his mouth shut.
What appears on your left hand when you become a player?
Anyway, when I handed the water I took out to Ren, he quietly hid it in his inner pocket without drinking it.
“Aren’t you drinking?”
“Because I can sell it.”
······Can’t believe it was resold.
‘But if I could sell water, it would be easy to make money.’
Water was something I could create with my own abilities.
I was able to take out the bottled water I had as I do now.
Thinking that it would be easy to make money in this world using this, I gave Ren one last bowl of nutritious porridge and packed a pot and tools.
“Okay, thanks for the answer. Eat slowly.”
“…!?”
At my continued words, Ren looked at me with a rather shocked face.
To put it a little more exaggeratedly, it was the face of a great betrayal by a person he trusted.
“…”
what did i do wrong
In the middle of his thoughts, Ren spoke faster than before.
“I know a smart person…”
For some reason, this time it was Ren who spoke his mind rather than passively responding.
Anyway, what is the reason for talking about a smart person?
‘Looks like he noticed that I needed information.’
Then, on the contrary, why did you say that?
I was able to draw a conclusion based on the expression Ren showed me earlier and the answer he gave me now.
“Do you have nowhere else to go?”
nod-
Instead of answering, Ren nodded timidly.
Thanks to that, I understood the situation, but even I couldn’t move with Ren in a situation where I didn’t know what would happen in the future.
‘There’s no way, though.’
There are only two or three ways that come to mind right away.
Among them, there was a way to make a place for me to stay, so it didn’t matter if I took him as long as it didn’t cause any problems.
Of course, I can’t take responsibility until the end, so I’ll have to be self-sufficient after that.
“I have nowhere to go either, so let’s discuss it later. You know someone smarter than him?”
“Yes.”
“Well. Can you guide me?”
“…”
However, despite my request to guide him, Ren just quietly looked at me.
“…”
“…”
Because of that, only a strange silence came and went, but somehow he seemed to know what Ren wanted to say.
‘I think he wants me to make a decision right now.’
Interpreting it as asking him to make a decision on what to do with myself who has no place to go, I looked at Ren with a new feeling.
I’m still not sure if it’s because of my personality or the environment I’ve lived in, but it seems like I want to do this for sure.
Well, I didn’t mean to look bad.
However, trying to make a ‘transaction’ with just one guide is outrageous.
It was because I showed pure goodwill by giving him medical treatment and even feeding him.
Even so, looking at Ren trying to make a deal, I also thoroughly deal with what I want…
“I will guide you.”
huh?
At that moment, Ren changed his attitude in an instant.
Reversing his attitude again, Ren put the bowl in his hand on the floor and slowly stood up.
It was such a quick change of attitude that even I was bewildered.
‘Could it be that you predicted what I was going to say with a nunchi?’
If so, it was a great feat.
It’s because you guessed my intentions by not showing anything but favor with a single glance.
Anyway, I was at a loss for what to say because I backed off first, so I nodded helplessly, grabbed a bowl, put it in the subspace, and got up.
“Okay, then guide me.”
“Yes.”
* * *
nutritional porridge.
The shock Ren received when he took a bite of the food with that name was enormous.
This is because the taste spread in the mouth on a different level from the so-called ‘multi-stick’, which is the so-called human feed, that we have eaten so far.
The savory taste of rice grains and sesame oil and various flavors created by various vegetables.
And even the salt that holds the center.
Of course, Ren didn’t understand most of the taste of each ingredient, but he was sure to imprint one fact that it was delicious.
To exaggerate, it felt like my mind was blown away for a moment.
‘I don’t want to miss it.’
Originally, Ren expected to be reaped by the man he introduced as Lee Sung-min, but now he felt that desire grow even more.
Wouldn’t that be the same as eating nutritious porridge every day?
But the man gave me this delicious food and said let’s break up.
For a moment, it felt like my heart sank.
That’s why he wanted to hear a definite answer right away, but at the moment, he noticed that the man’s expression had changed slightly, and Ren bent his opinion.
It is because she realized that the words that will come out of a man’s mouth afterward with her natural sense and sense will never benefit her.
But just because you gave up your opinion doesn’t mean you’ve given up.
“Old Man Hayden is the smartest in District 4. A lot of people are looking for it.”
“You are the old man?”
“Everyone calls me that.”
What the man needed was information.
Knowing that, Ren brought up everything he knew.
It was also aimed at hoping that thoughts about themselves would change favorably.
Originally, Ren, who was always weak, wasn’t the type to talk more than necessary, but today, maybe because he ate, his whole body was full of energy.
Bubbly-
Entering District 4, 20th Street with him, Ren glanced around as usual.
On 20th Street, I began to see people sitting on the sidewalk and watching with dying eyes or with wary eyes.
Of course, he wasn’t looking at himself.
I was looking at the man walking next to me.
It was because he had known him for a long time, but the man next to him was the first outsider he had ever seen.
‘I have to say something…’
Shall I tell you not to care? Should I be careful?
Continuing his thoughts, Ren looked at the man’s face for a moment.
“…”
The man was just looking around with a calm face, not paying attention to the gazes that were gathering on him.
People’s eyes and the atmosphere they create.
Ren, who had been sensitive to them all his life, felt that the man he was now was very foreign.