I Became the Companion of the Gods chapter 0

0 – Prologue

There are many animals living in the world.

From small animals such as dogs, cats and chicks to large animals such as elephants, giraffes and rhinos.

There are so many animals that you can’t count how many there are in total.

Among them, humans have been coexisting with other animals since prehistoric times.

This symbiotic relationship is bound together with a special force today and continues to this day.

Humans call the animals they will live with ‘companions’, and animals recognize humans as ‘companions’ and stay with them throughout their lives.

The relationship of fate that is reborn as a family, leading to a contract of companionship.

In this modern age, everyone must have a companion animal.

But why…….

“Why am I the only one without a pet?”

I wasn’t the only one. That too for 20 years.

“Can’t you help it? Animals run away as soon as they see you.”

“I don’t understand that. Do I look scary?”

“No.”

I’m not proud of it, but I think of myself as being gentle.

“Then my smell is bad?”

“No.”

After washing thoroughly every day, I even spray perfume that animals are crazy about.

“Then what is the problem!”

“Hmm, isn’t it a biological problem?”

“Then you mean I have to change my genes first to get closer to animals!”

“Ah, don’t think too negatively! At least I’m not afraid of you, right?”

“If you were shunned even by your family, wouldn’t it be better to commit suicide?”

The reality of losing money to all living things.

There’s no way he’s walking around alive and well like he is now.

“If you get upset, aim for the next life or live a little more kindly. Then you might have a pet someday, right? Right, Hoya?”

“Ahh!”

“Look, Hoya says the same!”

My little sister who turns around in a bitter way.

Even the way she asks her pet fox and gets an answer that only she can understand. She was totally watering me.

“I want to praise my younger brother’s slut personality who speaks lightly.”

“You want to fight me now? Are you this dog-like oppa?”

An ordinary sibling fight that takes place on the way to school on an ordinary morning.

Every day is the same.

Mediocre doesn’t mean bad.

Ordinary is peaceful. For a peace-loving me, normality is more than I hoped for.

The only problem was that I didn’t have the normality that everyone else has.

“What, they have already arrived. Anyway, should I go first?”

“Oh, draw it. Have a good trip.”

“Have a good trip, brother. Shouldn’t we secretly miss school like last time?”

“Worried about your belly fat. Little pig who eats a lot of school lunch every day and laments that he gained weight.”

“Ait sitpal! This oppa is real!!”

She rushes away from her sister, who runs to her face with blood vessels.

As expected, are facts violence? It was a moment when I realized again that it is an immutable truth.

But to be honest, didn’t the younger brother hit the bone first with the fact?

But this time, is it normal for them to try to kill me just because I did it?

My real life sister is not a woman, she is a savage.

“Anyway, a bad pig year.”

How such a savage daughter came from a kind mother is still a mystery.

Nevertheless, her sister’s intuition was also excellent, as evidenced that she was the daughter of a good mother.

Actually, as my younger brother feared, my steps were heading toward the hill behind the neighborhood, not the school.

If you just needlessly like your senses…….

“Haa… ….”

I am 20 years old, and at this age, I am still wasting my time as a sophomore in high school.

The reason I am attending a school my age would have left after graduating was because of a traffic accident that happened three years ago.

Three years ago, a truck came into the narrow road I was walking on and hit me.

He was injured, but luckily the operation went well and his life was saved.

However, I lived in a hospital for nearly two years and couldn’t enjoy a proper school life.

So, as soon as I was discharged from the hospital, I just tried to live freely with my middle school graduate life.

Because of his mother’s earnest request to enjoy his youth, he was reluctantly attending high school.

“Youth is a piece of cake… ….”

Unfortunately, however, there was no such word as youth in my life.

A school where not only the students but even the teachers treat me as an invisible person.

Isn’t finding youth in a place like that more difficult than finding a needle in the desert?

In the first place, it was wrong to ask me, who has chronic problems, to have a pleasant school life.

The majority of people have been mocking those who do not have what they naturally have.

A society that laughs at others for not having money, lack of power, or lack of knowledge.

In such a society, what if only one person did not have a companion animal that everyone has?

It goes beyond ridicule and rises to the level of contempt, persecution, and exclusion.

This is something I can guarantee because I have experienced it myself.

Because the scars on my body are still aching…

The scars engraved all over my body were proof of that.

Anyway, youth is an absurd word for me, who can’t be treated as a person because I don’t have a pet.

So it’s natural for me to skip school and head to the mountain behind it.

After finishing the rationalization like that, I leave with a cheerful gait to skip school today.

***

As expected, mountains are the best.

Clear air, the refreshing smell of grass, and even the sense of openness that I occupy a lot of space by myself.

A mountain with all three elements is like paradise to me.

Is there a need to be in the suffocating space of a school when such a paradise is close to home?

The answer is definitely NO.

I’m sorry for my mother, but human society like school and company didn’t suit me.

So, after graduating from high school, I plan to lock myself in the mountains and become a person commonly called a natural person in the world.

I want to become a person who lives alone in beautiful nature without being constrained by the shackles of society.

But before that, this damn trait needs to be fixed…….

There is nothing around except grass, trees, and rocks, and even the sound is silent.

Not to mention the chirping of birds, and not a single passing ant.

I would understand if not a single animal lived in the mountains, but that wasn’t the case.

The animals refused to be around me.

Because of one characteristic that only I had.

I don’t know why, it’s just that I’ve been like that since I was born.

I want to feel the fluffy texture too…… !!

If you have a pet with fur, such as a dog or a tiger, you have something to brag about.

[My pet’s fur is the most fluffy.]

I don’t know anything else, but I think I’m very envious of that one thing.

I have never touched an animal before. The only soft touch I’ve felt in my life is my mother’s faux fur coat.

I promise myself every time that I will touch it to my heart’s content someday, but in reality, even animals are ostracized.

f*ck… ….

“Go away…… !”

“Huh?”

“Don’t miss…… !”

While I was discouraged by the harsh reality, the whole area suddenly became noisy.

What is it?

As long as the characteristic of being shunned by animals is not corrected, it is natural that my surroundings are always quiet.

Still, the surroundings are very noisy.

This has only one meaning.

‘Did people come to such a remote place?’

It’s a very rare occurrence, but it’s not completely impossible.

The people who come to places like this are usually garbage dumpers or middle-aged men and women who come to have an affair.

I’ve hardly seen anyone else.

Especially when it’s such a refreshing morning.

‘Hmm, should I go and say something?’

It’s not my own land, but I can’t stand having my paradise space polluted with trash and dirty moans.

Society also designates what they do as illegal, so even countries that are being discriminated against must have the right to criticize them.

I decided to give it a go.

Go to where the sound is coming from. It’s not that far. You will reach it with a short walk.

While I was going cautiously, something suddenly stopped my steps and caught my eye.

A sight too unnatural to ignore.

It had a taste that aroused curiosity.

This is too suspicious.

Heaps of fallen leaves.

The bottoms of the other trees are neat, but the fact that there are piles of fallen leaves under only one tree is a mistake.

Wouldn’t this be tantamount to advertising that it was artificially created to hide something?

Anyone would think so.

Anyway, it’s human curiosity that can’t leave something suspicious like this,

I decided to clear the fallen leaves around.

Couldn’t it be that someone took care of things here and covered them up?

I couldn’t quickly get rid of it because I was anxious, but I quickly felt a foreign body.

The tactile sensation of a solid object at your fingertips. As expected, something was hidden inside the leaves.

There was no need to hesitate any longer, so when I quickly pulled it out, a heavy oval-shaped object appeared.

“This is…… ?”

It looks a bit odd, but it’s clear…….

“Al… ?”

It was an egg of a certain creature.