Hunting and gathering are long-standing human instincts, and the psychological reward obtained when they achieve results through them is a long-established kind that has been passed down from ancient times.
So did I. Having obtained something very valuable in my search, I felt as if I was flying through the sky. The fact that this place is the abyss, and the fact that it is the deepest abyss in the sky, did not hold my joy.
Besides, it didn’t take long. After taking a short walk in the morning, the dog asked, I got these with the same amount of effort.
I’m lucky it’s still there. It’s a level 3 national secret, so it’s the top priority to be destroyed.
Feeling good again, I grabbed Aji, the number one contributor to this harvest, and messed up my hair.
“Oh my, it’s cute! How are you so cute!”
“bruise! bruise!”
An ordinary person would be wary of what he might do if someone suddenly hugged him and said he was cute.
But Aji is a dog who can’t do doubt. Aji, the king of dogs, was purely delighted with the compliments without context.
Aji, who was barking happily, looked at me and said.
“Now, do you like going for a walk?”
“Only for today, it’s adorable.”
“bruise? love?”
“I mean it’s super good.”
“bruise! me too! I love walking!”
‘… love?’
Did I say that the human heart comes out of the barn? The thicker the pockets, the more generous you are. This carnivore only looks cute these days.
The two of them walked out of the wreckage, ecstatically.
“okay. I mean, I will continue to be kind like this.”
“I’m actually kind!”
“What is good? If there’s something I don’t like so far, I’ll show it right away. growl, say.”
“growl?”
As if it had never happened before, Aji took off her shichimi. No, it may not have been the shichimi, but rather the deletion of unfavorable memories. Dogs have no shame.
where Humans are smart enough to remember.
I exposed my teeth to Aji and let out a growl. Then Aji tilted her head, raised her tail and followed me.
“Uh-uh, le?”
“okay. Don’t growl. Do not build this in the future. don’t even try to ask Even if you have any complaints, you should just use your tongue for now. okay?”
“bruise!”
“I know you know.”
‘Don’t build this… . Only the tongue… . no way.’
That was when I went out having a serious conversation with the dog.
From somewhere, a cold living thing flew and pierced me.
‘Light clothes. Maybe already? No, I didn’t have much time because I came down right away.’
The returnee was staring at me with a cool expression.
uh? live? why?
While I couldn’t react in embarrassment, the regressor put his hand behind his head. With a tap, an invisible sword gripped her finger.
‘Anyway, is this an attempted criminal? great. Let’s kill it.’
“Wait a minute!”
I grabbed her by the shoulders and pushed her forward. Aji stared blankly at the returner, unaware that I was using him as a shield.
Hiding behind Aji, he hurriedly shouted.
“I don’t know what you’re thinking, but it’s all a misunderstanding!”
“What’s wrong?”
“all! From the beginning to the end of your unscrupulous thoughts!”
“Is it stupid? I? Are you not talking?”
“okay! You who have a head full of obscenities!”
Sreung.
Oh, I took out the cherries and picked it up. I screamed as I leaned close behind Aji’s back.
“Well, the only thing your eyes can see, your thoughts are the most impure in the first place! What the hell are you thinking of me?”
The returner answered with cold eyes.
“beast.”
“That’s weird!”
Now the regressor has a truly severe delusion. It’s so absurd that it’s embarrassing rather than embarrassing.
No, my god. I’ve been framed quite a few times, but bestiality charges are the first today. They’re even trying to impose the death penalty on allegations that others would have scorned or laughed at! From suspicion to judgment, it’s more than a military state!
He shouted at the returnee approaching with a vicious face, with a desperate sincerity.
“Dog? Don’t be funny. What kind of person in the world has a relationship with a dog!”
The regressor came up with a few people in his head. If you read it roughly, they are probably the guys who tried to fall in love with a dog in a certain episode.
Damn, will we lose our humanity in the near future? Like human figures. I touched my forehead and cried.
“I know. That there are people in the world that cannot be understood by common sense. But at least not me! I’m just a person with ordinary tastes!”
“… You keep treating Aji as a dog.”
The returner pointed to Aji’s shoulder, which I was holding with a chinen.
“Are you doing this on purpose, or do you really think so?”
“What else?”
“He is not a dog. The king of dogs, the king of beasts in human form.”
Aji turned to look at the returner with a fierce expression on his face. A face full of curiosity with large eyes. Breathing hard as if you had just sprinted. A girl with frizzy blond hair.
Appearance is a little lively, a girl full of health. In any case, the appearance.
However.
“Shay trainee.”
“Now do you understand? You were always treating Aji as a dog. Ah… .”
“Are you crazy?”
When the regressor flinched at my stern remarks, I exclaimed, pushing Aji forward to the fullest. Aji opened her eyes and moved as I led her.
“Student Shay, tell me! Is Aji a human?”
“What? what it is.”
“Answer me! Is Aji a person? Are you beautiful?”
“Uh, what.”
The regressor murmured in a slightly defensive manner to the outspoken question.
“Sa, did you take the form of a human?”
“Did I ask that? So how about watching! When you see Aji, do you even go crazy?”
“Cool! That can’t be!”
“Why are you talking like that only to me? Are you ignoring my dignity?”
“That, that… .”
‘You’re too close with Aji, and you’re the only man there… .’
Are you suspicious just because you’re a man? It’s so absurd that it doesn’t make sense. Aji is a dog before being a female, dog!
for a moment. Come to think of it, you’re dressed as a man too!
It’s so embarrassing that it makes me angry. With a passive and weak disposition, I usually stand still even when I get hurt, but I can’t stand being questioned about human morality and dignity. I pride myself on not falling out of the category of an ordinary human being, but how do I compare myself to that kind of human being?
“Student Shay, listen carefully.”
When anger reaches its peak, there is a moment when the head becomes cold and reason returns. For me, now was that time.
After taking a deep breath that surged from the depths of his heart, he began to speak calmly to the returnee.
“Someone who throws a ball at someone and asks them to ask, and someone who says hello to someone in the morning and asks if they had a good meal. Which of the two is normal?”
“That, that… . A person who greets you in the morning.”
“I know you well. Then the person who throws a ball at the dog and asks him to ask him and the person who greets the dog and asks if he ate delicious food. Which of the two is normal?”
“That, that.”
‘Dog, though.’
you know your sins What do you say to me when you know it too?
I lit the twin wicks in my eyes and shouted at the returner.
“okay! It’s normal for a dog to be treated like a dog! It’s weird to say hello and ask if you had a good breakfast!”
“Ha, but.”
“Aji has a human form? Ohh. If so, can you think of Aji as a human being? With those disgraceful and lustful eyes, you can pretend to treat Aji like a human being and think he’s aiming at you!”
“Oh no! I!”
“You are a man too! same as me! Rather, you are more suspicious than me. Why do you always treat Aji like a person, stalk him, and keep doubting what kind of relationship it is? Are you even jealous?!”
“It can’t be!”
“It’s just words! Look back on your actions!”
‘Ugh, if it wasn’t for men’s clothes… !’
The returnee, who was disguised as a man, was unable to respond. I was elated and took one step at a time, arguing and listening. Aji, who grabbed my shoulder, thought it was a funny joke, smiled brightly and walked as I led.
“okay? It’s you who’s weird!”
Reason knows the answer. Even the returnees know. Whose statement is logically correct and whose attitude is more rational?
At my attack using only the theory, the regressor faltered and retreated.
“bruise?”
Of course, Aji, who can’t understand more than two words, is looking at the returnees with a puzzled expression. This is proof that Aji is a dog.
dog is dog. He gave a stern tip to the regressor who overlooked this obvious fact and became overly engrossed in it.
“An empty word to a dog. You’re weird giving it a meaning! okay? I can say I love you a thousand times and ten thousand times! Because I don’t really have any feelings!”
But, for a moment, I missed an important point.
Aji is a dog, but at the same time, the king of beasts, a being the world occupied in order to communicate with humans.
I don’t understand the meaning of words well, but I know that you can hear me.
“bruise?! Don’t you like me?”
“hem?”
Aji looks up at me with big eyes full of suspicion. The tail, which had always spun around, hangs helplessly, and the ears that have always stood up are sinking.
Oh, there’s no time to panic. Aji cried and said.
“Do you hate me?”
“Oh, that’s it. Oh man, I have a lot to say about this.”
“bruise?”
for a moment.
Well, wait a minute. Let’s think about it.
The king of dogs is dogs. It cannot be explained in complex words. I won’t listen to you no matter what I say here and now.
In other words, whatever you say here to drive the regressor, Aji takes it seriously.
Well, it’s a matter of choice. Are you going to cut down on Aji’s favoritism in order to further push and tease the regressors? Or will you keep the favoritism and let the regressors go?
… I can’t help it. Is it a momentary pleasure or in the future?
No choice. You can’t do anything wrong with the little entertainment of the moment.
Having made the decision, I spread my arms out and smiled all over Aji.
“Of course it is a lie. I really like Aji a lot.”
“very?”
“okay. very. So where can you find a child who is as kind and cute as you?”
It’s not necessarily wrong. It’s much more helpful compared to the scary vampires and the insane regressors. become willing
I wish I could read the atmosphere a little bit more, be a little more patient… . It would have been much better.
But this is also a characteristic of dogs. have no choice but to accept
“I like?”
“Because it’s good.”
Whether you’re naive or stupid, just one word can change your mood.
Oh, maybe both.
However, since humans feel a sense of security in such a lack, it can only be called ironic.
I’m laughing out loud
“bruise! Do you love me?”
‘… love?’
Are you really asking me this when someone is watching? Has anyone ever provoked you?
No, who taught you the word love in the first place? Who taught a dog useless words?
Oops, they were both me!
Shit. weighed down by the calamity it has brought on its own. I can’t help it. It’s a disaster I’ve brought, so I have no choice but to get rid of it.
I nodded slowly, ignoring the cold gaze of the regressor who had regained his composure.
“okay… . right.”
You can say “I love you” to a dog a hundred times. There are many people in the world who love their pets more than the same person.
However, to do it in front of a regressor who is staring at me with a cold gaze… It was so burdensome.
Still, it is inevitable. Swallowing saliva, for some reason, in an atmosphere that became serious. He moved his lips, which did not come off, and barely formed words.
“I love you… .”
Then the tail flaps. Although it is said that words have no weight, it was like everything to Aji, who took even the slightest emotion out loud.
Aji smiled brightly and extended her arms towards me. I leaned my body at an angle, leaving all my weight on me.
It was a sign of belief that the dog completely surrenders itself to only close people.
Pure kindness fills his face. Laughing like a fool, Aji raised the corners of her eyes.
“bruise! I like you too! I love you!”
“okay… .”
I never thought I’d whisper love to a dog in my life. ha.
Aji jumped and jumped into my arms. I stroked her hair with a trembling hand.
And as always.
‘really… . I can’t let go of my heart.’
The returner is even more wary of me.
oh stop. don’t look at me with those eyes Don’t even fiddle with the handle of the knife, contemplating whether to kill or not. I’m not that kind of person.
Because I only like them as pets.
‘If that guy was an instructor in the military, according to my assumption, and if he came to this Tantalus voluntarily. I can also explain the power he has. So you have to be even more careful.’
Oh, and honestly. I also understand your feelings. I would despise anyone who proudly had a relationship with a beast.
I don’t have the heart or ability to do that, but even if I did, I shouldn’t try to kill people. The death penalty for loving animals. It’s weird from the sentence.
No matter how much I think about it, I can’t get rid of the idea that it’s overreacting… .
‘… A member of the military special task force. A secret society that manipulated the kings of beasts according to the will of the military to destroy the enemy nation.’
Uh, wait.
what? secret association?
‘The lord of all things. A group of racists who are experts in dealing with animals and hate beasts more than anyone else. It is highly likely that he belongs to him.’
Various images flash through the mind of the regressor.
In the unrecorded past, she stood on the plains. A sword lighter than the wind was held in her hand, but her chest was heavy.
Feeling guilty for not being able to stop the end. A feeling of helplessness that she alone could not change anything. In this lifetime, too, she failed. Everyone around her will die. But in the end, she will defy death and open her eyes, and go on to find another future.
A line of frightened people stood next to the returner. Cold sweat dripped from his hands and his eyes trembled with fear, but they dared not even think of running away.
If the opponent was the same human being, he could have asked for mercy. Even if they died, they could have prayed that only their family would be spared.
However, the opponent who comes to kill them this time is not bound by the rules created by humans. They were in human form, but they weren’t human.
The horizon shakes. the ground shakes In the frenzied run, with a few dots in the lead, thousands and hundreds of beasts rush in like a veil is being pulled.
face is different. There are four-legged animals and there are two-legged animals. Some have human form, but have beast ears or long tails waving at their waists. Suin, the sons and daughters of the sins committed by humans in the past. The blood of an animal born as a human, but not treated as a human, used the things obtained from humans to kill humans.
And in front of them. There were humans who exuded a heterogeneous aura.
king of beasts.
Those who represent a race.
The King of the Beasts is strong, but does not project power. They are the spokespersons of the tribe. They are representatives of the race and convey their will to humans.
One, if the will of the race is to rebel against humans. If the will of the species is firm.
The king of beasts acts on behalf of the people.
And among the people, the prisoners who could not overcome the persecution and harbor hatred took the lead.
Blood, flame, smoke.
Beasts attack humans in iron and flames… . They were wild and wielding weapons, it was like a disaster.
And, those who have the largest number of people who betrayed humanity.
The king of the beasts who led the overwhelming majority of rebels and stood before them.
The rattling past fades away, and reality approaches me. What I had just read was so vivid that it seemed as if the sight was still engraved on the retina.
It is the past and the future at the same time. One aspect of the apocalypse that the regressor went through, and that I too would suffer if there were no other variables.
With trembling hands, I placed my hand on Aji’s head, rubbing his face in my arms. The ears, as wide as a piece of paper fluttering on the desk, rise slightly and then sink.
The king of dogs with his mouth shut and putting his weight on me.
Loyal to humans, and a beloved pet’s favorite.
In the future to come someday, he was smiling with his whole body covered in blood.
‘The King of the Beasts is a being that the world occupies. If we kill him here, the next king will be born somewhere in the world.’
Why was it overlooked?
There is no way that the returner’s worries could simply be inadvertent.
‘As long as Aji is relying on him like that, I can’t deal with that man hastily. It’s hard to be sure that that man belongs to the lord of all things. But in this situation, that man is most likely to be the cause of the runaway. There’s no reason not to watch.’
That’s right.
Aji’s body was warm and soft. The hand that was slightly curled so that the toenails could not be seen showed that he was considering not to injure me. There was no way I would have thought of that, so I must have instinctively avoided hurting anyone.
What the hell happened to get these curled hands full of blood?
Apparently, the future is much harsher than I thought.