110 – Beach walk (3)
People live confined in buildings. It is said that there are not many buildings high enough to pierce the sky, but there is no need for such a tall building.
A residential area where a labyrinth of buildings is formed by filling it as tightly and densely as possible to make the most of the limited site.
There are rows of stalls lined up where merchants somehow manage to set up their stalls even if the boards are roughly intertwined, and there are not many places where you can even walk on the street.
The world was full of buildings and people, and this was even worse in the capital, where people of all kinds flocked every day in pursuit of success and a new life.
Chester doesn’t hate people, but because of his father’s love of nature, trees are rare and the streets of the royal capital full of people, buildings, and desires often feel dizzy.
It didn’t change much because it was inside the duke’s mansion or the academy.
Actually it was harder. There were few people there, but desire, shadyness, and the arrogant and irritating attitude of the nobles filled the place.
A procession of innumerable nobles who were so zealous that they came from the edge of the kingdom to the royal capital to meet the duke, almost without spare time every day. Their behavior of rolling their eyes greedily to get what they want.
At the academy, all sorts of flattery and obvious tricks from the nobles who cling to Monia and the prince, and the eyes and behavior of the nobles sent to the common people.
That’s why Chester liked the time he spent quietly looking at the sea at the villa.
The vast sea and the distant sky, where you can clearly see the horizon beyond, with nothing obstructed, and the clouds and sun embroidered there.
The oppressed feelings that remain in the memories of the royal capital days and the memories of being trapped in the world are all blown away, and you feel an infinite sense of liberation.
So today, I started taking a walk on the beach with Monia as a change of heart, wanting to see the sea from a different angle and from a different place.
It was because I didn’t know how to melt the ore, so I thought and thought about it.
So I found it while walking away from the villa and walking through a field full of sharp rocks cut by the waves every day.
The moment she found it, Monia almost fell in surprise, and ‘it’ was so terrible that Chester, who hurriedly supported the falling Monia, turned his hair white.
When they first saw it, Chester and Monia thought it was seaweed carried in by the waves. This is because it could not be regarded as the form of a living organism at all.
But the moment it moved, Chester and Monia were horrified to discover that it was a creature.
how.
How could such creatures exist?
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Look at the body that looks like a broken egg that has fallen to the ground, and those legs that are scattered like limp seaweed.
“Ugh.”
“I-what is that?”
Its shape, which distorts every time it moves, is like water in a bowl, and looking at this place with square, flat, horizontally split eyes that do not seem to be living things at all makes me want to avoid my eyes without realizing it.
And what about the color?
that body! That bright red body, as if covered in blood! The bizarre color added to the bizarre body that seems to be shaking makes the eyes dizzy and the mind dizzy.
“Devil?”
Chester unknowingly put into his mouth what Monia had thought of seeing the snake before, and Monia nodded hastily to see if she agreed.
“That must be the devil! How could something like that exist!”
People in the world who know its existence say this.
It’s an octopus.
* * *
The octopus was swept away by a huge wave and unknowingly landed on a drifting island, then looked at the three monsters that suddenly appeared in front of it.
It was a bizarre being that lived in the sea and had never seen it before.
How could such a creature exist! Oh my God, can I live with a body like that?
I got goosebumps looking at the horribly distorted figure that didn’t fit the ecosystem of the ‘sea’ at all.
But at the same time, a curiosity for an unusual being that he had never seen in his life raised his head from the depths of the octopus.
Slowly, the octopus crawled towards the monstrous creature, and the two large beings hurriedly backed away while hugging the small being.
“It moved! It moved!”
“Hey! It’s coming!”
“Why are you moving like that?!”
“My God, what is that! Your head is bent backwards! You didn’t die in that state?!”
“Is it immortal… !”
Chester hurriedly pulled out a wooden spear and aimed it at the octopus as he turned around.
– Krrr… !
Ant, held in Monia’s arms, was wary of crying at the octopus, but Monia blocked Ant’s mouth, saying not to do that.
“Write! Ant, are you nice? You must not provoke the devil!”
‘Please stay calm!’
Monia hugged Ant tightly and prayed like that.
‘How do I escape?’
As you can see, the devil seemed to be sluggish in his behavior.
‘Has your strength weakened after coming to the ground?’
Unlike that terrible appearance, which is literally the devil itself, it doesn’t seem to feel any threat… … .
At that time, Chester, intimidated by the octopus’ shocking appearance and forgetting the basics of checking his feet, stumbled.
“Oops!”
As I moved my arm to somehow regain my lost foot, I accidentally threw the wooden spear in my hand forward, and the octopus hit me.
“Kyaaa!”
“aaa!”
The octopus stabbed by the wooden spear spat out ink in surprise, and Chester and Monia, who saw it, trembled again.
“It’s the devil’s blood! It’s the devil’s blood!”
“Demons have black blood?!”
“Are you cursed if you touch them?!”
“Kyaaa! fuse! fuse!! Oh, not here! oh my god… … !”
“The island is polluted!”
The two fussed for a long time, and when the octopus didn’t show any reaction even after shedding blood, they shrank and looked at him.
“… … Bar, no response.”
“Iknow, right.”
“Isn’t it that he did his best to rise from hell to earth? Isn’t that too small to be called a devil?”
“That, right? Maybe.”
“… … Can you handle it?”
“Oh no! Then what if it spurts blood again!”
“Ugh! It is too.”
Chester carefully backed away from the octopus.
blood… So, the octopus that spewed ink was surprised when it was suddenly pressed by something sharp and tried to run away, but on land it was not as fast as in the sea.
“… … .”
“… … .”
Chester and Monia whispered together as they stared at the octopus trying to escape.
“Does that look like it’s trying to run away?”
“Yeah, I guess.”
“Can you win?”
“… … !”
While the two were talking, the octopus found a narrow gap between the rocks and began to squeeze its body towards it.
“uh? uh?! uh!”
“What is that!”
“D-Come in! Where are you going?!”
“Nonsense! Is your body even water?! How do you get in there!”
“Don’t run away, you demon bastard!”
Fuck!
The octopus that was hit by the wooden spear that Chester swung as hard as possible flew away.
Fondant.
Watching the octopus disappear into the sea, the two of them were wary of the devil coming up again.
After a long time, there was no sign of the devil coming up, so the two of them sighed in relief and, with the joy of being free from the devil’s clutches, stopped walking on the beach and returned to the villa.
“I’m afraid of demons… .”
“Damn it, black blood. You’re so blazing. How could that be? Didn’t I ask somewhere?”
“Um… I didn’t ask. Ant, are you okay?”
– Huh?
That night, even though they weren’t particularly religious, they prayed deeply and went to sleep, fearing that their souls might be cursed by contacting the devil.
* * *
“Captain Rottin, the fisherman caught an octopus.”
“what?”
With the chart open, Rottin, who was calculating the expected route of the island through the compass and the information he had gathered on the floating island sightings so far, frowned when he said he had caught an octopus.
“octopus? Are you poisonous?”
“Nope. He’s a good guy to eat.”
“Hmm. Aren’t you hurt?”
“The newcomer touched it without knowing anything and tore off some flesh on the sucker.”
“Disinfect it by dropping it into the sea.”
“All right.”
After Rottin cleaned up all the charts, he went to the ship’s kitchen and saw several sailors boiling octopus.
“Oh, that’s crazy.”
“Okay, Captain. Would you like some?”
“yes. Give me one leg.”
“Yes, please wait a moment.”
After a while, while chewing on the boiled octopus leg, Rotin suddenly remembered the day he discovered the octopus shortly after leaving for a trip.
At the time, Rotin saw an octopus sold at a street stall in a foreign seaside village and made a fuss about it by himself, calling it a devil.
‘I beat the guy who teased me, but damn, until the day I left that village, I was teased as a coward who couldn’t act as a man. Shall we stop by after a long time on the way back with Monia?’
Rotin swallowed the well-boiled octopus, which tasted sweet the more you chewed, and drank the strong rum.