After packing everything I needed at the gate, I set off for home. I slept inside the gate, so there was no problem. The only thing that bothered me a little was the white night.
“Would you be fine alone in the white night?”
Nyaang!
That’s right. If Hoya says so, then it must be so. People still feel salty and there are parts like that. Hoya and I walk around outside like this, but White Night is not allowed to go outside.
If Midnight Sun comes out, it would be perfect to be misunderstood as literally the gate debacle in the novel. I tried to take Baekya out of the gate just in case, but I couldn’t. It feels like the gate doesn’t allow you to cross the midnight sun. Bran chicken was able to be brought out of the gate alive. But is the reason why the midnight sun is not available because it is a threat? I can’t say anything about this because I don’t know anything about it.
“Hoya. Did you miss Grandma and Grandpa?”
Nyaang!
That’s why I’m loving it. Especially, my mother loved Hoya. He said he really liked the child because he looked dignified. So even when I was half unconscious after losing Hoya, my mother didn’t say much to me.
“Ah, thinking about that time makes me feel bad again.”
Nyaang.
Hoya licks my hand holding the stick. How hard was the time Hoya was away from me? How heartbreaking it must have been to feel that I was thrown into a situation that I did not understand, since my intelligence would not have been as high back then as it is now.
“sorry.”
As he strokes Hoya’s hair, Hoya sings Golgolsong and gently lies down on his bed. Then he starts grooming his front paws. Seeing Hoya like that makes me feel better. Maybe it’s still early, so the traffic is not blocked, and the air is good, and it’s a good day in many ways.
***
“I’m here.”
“Are you here? hey come in But what did you bring so cheaply?”
“Something for our family to eat.”
“Where did you get this?”
Even as you say that, your face is smiling. Then Siyeon came out.
“Brother, what!”
“what?”
“Why is your skin like that?”
“Did you ride it?”
“I knew you as siblings, but was there a secret about your birth?”
Siyeon’s skin problems are no joke these days because she’s studying. As a high school student, the academic stress must be severe. That’s why I brought pineapples there in the first place.
“Actually, you’re under the bridge over there…”
“Didn’t we live here then?”
“So this is your hometown.”
“is it? Is that why it was nice and comfortable here?”
“Do you believe?”
“Can you believe it? You played with the old brother-in-law. Anyway, so what’s wrong with the skin?”
“Take this.”
I said that and threw the pineapple in the barrel.
“what?”
“If you eat that, you will become like me.”
It was then. Apparently, the pineapple barrel in Siyeon’s hand disappeared in an instant.
Tick.
And the pineapple goes into the mother’s mouth.
“You’re still young, so it’s okay. I am in a hurry.”
It’s not wrong, though. There are more.
“There are many mothers.”
My mother’s expression hardened at my words.
“Say it sooner. Now, eat Siyeon.”
“Wow, do I really have to go under the bridge and look for my parents?”
Si-yeon glares at her mother and me. Well, that’s the age.
“Let’s all sit here.”
My father, who has been listening to the story of the three of us, says. I think you’re talking about gates.
“yes.”
We took a seat at the table. Then my father looks at me and says.
“Tell me yourself.”
“yes.”
I took a sip of the water in front of me. Then, while stroking Hoya, he said.
“Hoya, you all know that I lost it, right?”
Mom and Siyeon nodded.
“Hoya entered the gate then.”
“What?”
“what?”
I explained what had happened. And what kind of things I bring with me. After hearing all of my story, Si-yeon put on a blank look, and my mother put on a worried look.
“Who but us?”
“Good luck.”
“Well, if it’s good, I’ll trust you.”
“Yes, Sunwoo was a hunter. So I got some help. But what Seonwoo knows is that I got a gate with an island shape. I don’t know about the ingredients that raise the ability level from there.”
“Um… wouldn’t Seonwoo feel sad if he found out later?”
Your mother is also right. You might think it’s embarrassing. But I intend to hide it until I can. If it was the time to tell, it would be a situation where Seonwoo would have to fight. However, there seemed to be no danger right now, so I feel sorry for Seon-woo, but I won’t inform him right away.
Then, the parents look at Si-yeon.
“why? what? Where do I go and talk? How much of a miser I am.”
“Are you guys using the word miser too?”
“My teacher is doing that to me, why?”
“No, because kids these days don’t use it. It doesn’t mean anything.”
In fact, surprisingly, women may be better at keeping secrets than men. Although it is a personal opinion.
“I’m not stupid enough to tell family secrets outside.”
“I will believe you.”
“Of course. So, is this pineapple like that?”
“Uh, these pineapples are good for your skin. I’ll cook with this. It is better to eat it.”
“Oh yea!”
“What kind of mother will do the cooking?”
mother steps in
“No. I also have that cooking skill. It tastes great, so wait a little bit. Did we have an oven at home?”
“There isn’t. I didn’t write it.”
I know that ordinary houses don’t use ovens well. The same goes for our house. The person who built this country house installed an oven, but since we bought that house, it’s still there.
I rarely use the oven for Korean food, so at first my mother made some snacks and everything, but then stopped. Sometimes it is said that it only wipes the dust.
“That’s all right. Wait.”
I left Hoya with Siyeon and started cooking right away. What to eat for lunch is pineapple pizza and sweet and sour pork with pineapple sauce. The meat also tasted good because they brought wild boar meat.
The dish I created had the same effect as the one made inside the gate, and my family, who had no resistance to pineapple pizza, enjoyed it. However, Siyeon was annoyed at the part where she had to be forced to eat, but she couldn’t give up her skin.
“Wujjujju, my ho, were you alone in such a scary place? How hard was it?”
Siyeon bit and sucked Hoya and made a fuss. Hoya was annoyed by such a demonstration, but did not hate it, so he put up with it. Cats are often tolerant of humans. He hates being hugged, but puts up with it for a while because people want to. That’s the case. Of course, it doesn’t last long. If you forcibly hold it for a long time, you will be hit with a cat punch or your body will get hurt.
“You are suffering a lot.”
I can’t save Hoya. Because I am the weakest here. Siyeon is the maknae, but she’s the maknae with a big age difference from me, so I can’t win. because the child is gone So, I raised Onyaohya, and this is becoming a demand. You need to catch me and educate me. Like cutting pineapple.
“Hehehe.”
“what? What about that disrespectful laugh?”
“Demonstration.”
“why?”
“Are you thankful for your brother?”
“What, what?”
“Perhaps the pineapple effect will start after a few hours? So who can get me that pineapple?”
Siyeon flinched at my words.
“Brother?”
“Are you filming historical dramas?”
“Little girl, you call your older brother ‘brother’, so how can you say that your older brother is upset?”
“Wow, goosebumps.”
I spent time arguing with Siyeon. And it wasn’t until it was time for the ship to go off to a certain extent that they served tail gomtang made from orphaned minotaur tailbones.
“Everyone, try a bowl of this.”
skills arise. I don’t know what will happen with this skill. They said that if you think about it, you’ll get a skill, but I didn’t say you’d get a Minotaur’s skill. It was just said that the skill was generated randomly.
So, the skill called ‘fear’ that I have must have been randomly generated.
“What is this?”
“If you eat this, you will have a skill. randomly.”
“random?”
“Yes, I mean it happens randomly.”
“Your mother knows that much English, too, doesn’t she?”
“Oh, sorry.”
“So you’re saying that the skill that hunters use will be created?”
“Yes, but it’s a random skill, so you never know what will happen. It could be a production skill like cooking, or it could be a useless skill. And it may not happen more than that. The status window is not open except for me.”
“But then it wouldn’t make sense for things like physical strength and intelligence to improve.”
I nodded my head at Siyeon’s words. My family has already eaten ingredients that raise their abilities. Stats such as stamina and intelligence also increased. In fact, Si-yeon said that she was able to focus more on her studies and felt that her comprehension had improved compared to before when looking at the same problems.
‘I’m not like that…’
My intelligence seems to have an effect on my ability to use skills.
“So, even if you don’t develop a skill, don’t be disappointed. If you go inside the gate later, you will be able to acquire the skill again.”
“Yeah, I got it. If you come now and acquire a skill, what will it be different?”
“Your mother is right.”
My parents seem to think of it as just a fun event. but······.
“What are you doing?”
Siyeon suddenly poured water into a bowl and bowed.
“Ugh! Do not disturb the sacred rites.”
“Mom, what kind of drama is he watching these days?”
“I don’t know. Is it a night when the moon doesn’t rise? Somehow, in modern times, dynasties are still alive, and vampires are appearing.”
“Well, like that…”
“Girl, I am ready.”
“Hey, there’s no way that kind of line will come out there!”
“How do you know brother? Did you see my brother?”
“Oh, did you forget I’m addicted to printing?”
“Sheesh! anyway give it Now I’m going to raise my teeth. Let’s take one of the good ones.”
Even though Siyeon’s behavior was absurd, I thought that if I had done something like that, I might have gotten a much better skill than ‘Fear’. It’s similar to thinking that all human beings are there.
Except for me, my family members reverently ate tail gomtang. very reverently. He said no, but it seemed that his parents were expecting it as well.
It was then that he emptied each bowl of tail gomtang.
-Do you want to grant gate access with the authority of the gate owner?
“suddenly?”
There’s no gate here, so are you going to grant gate access? Is this all nonsense?
While this was doing something, the alarm popped up again.