24 – Mimiky Monster (2)
Conversing with the author, I felt that the image was somewhat solidified.
Grid said he needed a nucleus.
So I’m thinking of preparing a hero suit with motion that inserts the core like equipment.
Yes, it’s a rider suit.
It feels like using a special move by inserting a box containing a nuclear into a belt worn around the waist.
ㅡ Accel!
Yeah, something like that.
At this point, I think it would be okay if you say something every time you use a special move with a mechanical sound.
Unexpectedly, shouting out the technical name is more popular.
ㅡ Humans also know quite a bit about romance.
I went out of Seoul on a bus early in the morning with Grid, who was strangely spitting nonsense.
The place we arrived was a secluded mountain in Gapyeong, Gyeonggi-do.
There would be no detectors here to detect the waves emitted by the grid as it nucleates.
I hurried to the depths where no one would ever come.
ㅡ It would be fine here. Sit back.
“Set up the tent first.”
I brought a tent because I didn’t know how long it would take.
I started setting up the tent I had brought with me, thinking that I might have to camp out.
ㅡ Time is gold!
As I set up my tent and prepared for camping, the still grid made its hands and started helping me with my work.
It was a movement that made me feel a little nervous.
“Is it that good?”
ㅡ It is similar to the emotion you felt when your pepper grew to 23 cm.
… For some reason, I felt like I knew what it was like.
If you think about it, it’s an important organ equivalent to the human brain or heart, so of course you want to have it.
ㅡ Catch it there.
“Come.”
I set up a tent with Grid and sat down with a campfire in front.
ㅡ Whoops!
The moment Grid started to cheer up, his body began to lose strength.
It felt like something was suddenly draining my energy.
My mind went hazy and I lay down in the tent.
I just closed my eyes.
……
…
ㅡ Get up.
Tuk-tuk.
When I opened my eyes at the feeling of a light tap on my cheek, a tentacle that was strangely smaller than last time was looking at me.
“Grid?”
– Yes.
“Are you successful?”
Grid proudly held out to me the small stone he was holding in his tentacled hand.
A nucleus about the size of two thumbs.
This was enough of a core from a D-class monster.
ㅡ I need to accumulate more power. It consumes a lot of stamina, so I can only do it at least once a week.
Grid said that and carefully wrapped the core with the handkerchief he had brought.
It was like handling fragile glass or jewels.
It was only after he wrapped the core wrapped in a handkerchief with a towel once more that Grid showed signs of relief.
“The core isn’t that weak, is it?”
ㅡ Um….
The core is harder than you think.
At least it’s not to the extent of making a fuss by wrapping it in a handkerchief or towel.
ㅡ means that it is so precious to me.
“Is that so?”
In terms of human beings, it’s the same place as the heart or brain, so is it reasonable?
Grid has strangely come to think like a human being, so he might think similarly.
ㅡ Now it’s time to replenish your energy.
“Yes.”
Using psychic powers on people suffering from psychic syndrome was not something I expected in return.
It was just an attempt to resolve the lingering lingering feelings of not being a hero.
But now I feel like I’m going to help them for some not-so-honourable reasons.
Somewhere, I felt a bit desolate in my heart.
ㅡ This is called a win-win strategy.
“There is no winning or losing when it comes to helping people?”
If you want to help, you help, otherwise you don’t.
ㅡ It means to think comfortably. If you pick up money on the street and take it to the police station, you can get a mandatory 5-20 percent from the owner. It’s like that.
“It’s a subtle feeling.”
ㅡ A baby like a sweet potato.
Grid clicked his tongue, saying that if he were himself, he wouldn’t even go to the police station.
“Are you like a bully? Even if it’s just 1 million won, 10 million won?”
ㅡ First of all, take care of it and hide in a direction where there are no CCTVs. Check the amount and make sure it is not a counterfeit bill. A check would be a nuisance, so I’ll have to go to the police station.
“Uh… okay….”
I was surprised that it was a more logical approach than I thought.
My body was already quite tired, and it was the time when the sunset was starting to set in the surrounding area, so I think I will have to sleep on my own.
I laid out the items I had brought for camping.
ㅡ It’s more comfortable than back then.
Grid put a twig into the nearly extinguished ember and rekindled it.
Then he put rice and water in the bowl and started making rice.
“It’s comfortable.”
ㅡ Khehehehe.
I boiled water in a pot, drank tea brewed with a tea pack, heated retort curry, and mixed it with rice.
The mountains in April felt a bit chilly to enjoy camping, but it didn’t feel too cold because of the grid guy.
ㅡ Now is the design of the suit using nuclear weapons!
After shouting, Grid went through my luggage and took out a notebook.
Then I started drawing with a ballpoint pen.
Overcoming the crudeness of manipulating my body, it is now a grid that handles tentacles like its own hands.
What is the drawing skill of Grid, who freely handles the tentacles sprouting from my wing bones as if I were using my right hand… It seemed to be at the level of the college entrance exam.
ㅡ Khehehe.
Letting out a strangely addictive laugh, Grid laid out a picture he had designed.
It was a design in the form of a rider suit, but they all had something in common.
“Something feels like an exoskeleton?”
ㅡ It’s like a vestige organ from when he was a monster.
“Is that so?”
The rider suit, equipped with an exoskeleton like armor made of bones, looked pretty good at a glance.
ㅡ The point here is the belt.
“A belt?”
ㅡ This belt is pressed like this.
The
Grid lined up product descriptions that were opened in a one-touch format.
ㅡ When the belt is revealed obliquely like this, it’s a way to insert the core here.
“Put the nucleus in a circular barrel?”
– Yes. And here is the point.
Grid pointed at the setting he had written down with a pen.
“Ummm… When the nuclear energy is used up, it pops out like a double barrel casing?”
ㅡ Yes!
As I was watching Grid’s excitement, I suddenly remembered the old days.
I definitely felt this way when I received FIRST’s figure as a birthday present from my parents.
ㅡ I also looked for information about the man called First.
“Really?”
ㅡ Monsters appeared all over the world and many people were killed. And the man who appeared like a comet when the second monster appeared in this country.
“Yeah, that’s right.”
The monster was strong enough for its size, so it was impossible to hunt it with normal firearms.
Tanks, helicopters, fighter jets, etc. Were mobilized, and numerous missiles that only took up space in the warehouse were launched.
The result… You can easily imagine it without saying it.
At that time, a man appeared who defeated the monster with a single punch.
What did he look like in people’s eyes?
You probably thought the same as I did when I was younger.
ㅡ It’s dope… Do you mean
“This bastard?”
It wasn’t long after the beginning of February that the grid entered my body.
And it is now April, and about two months have passed since the grid entered my body.
It seems Grid has now acquired the ability to peek into my memories to some extent.
ㅡ Even if I were you, I think I would have said it was a joke.
“… Right?”
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I like it better if such a colossal monster is evil and is defeated by an apostle of justice.
For me at the time, First was the real god and invincible.
ㅡ You really have become like a god now.
“… Hey.”
You mean that?
– Yes.
“This bastard….”
The last time First appeared in public was five years ago.
It really disappeared without a word and was never seen anywhere again.
Some believe that First went on a monster hunting trip.
Others are already tongue-in-cheek that Furst either retired or is dead.
Perhaps it is a metaphor for God in that respect.
He is a very rude guy.
“First will be alive.”
ㅡ What is the basis?
“I believe that it will be so even without any evidence.”
First is a legendary hero who single-handedly stopped even an A-class monster.
Basically, monsters get bigger as their rank goes up.
That’s why it takes the shape of a raid, which is commonly said.
The hero who dealt with such a monster by himself suddenly died?
That’s even harder to believe.
ㅡ If that’s you, then it must be like that.
***
Jinwoo and Grid finished camping in the mountains and went back to Seoul.
Their plan was successful, but the monster detector didn’t even respond.
“I hope I can make good use of it now.”
ㅡ No problem. Because I already have some sense.
“Have you got the hang of it already? Oh….”
ㅡ I need your help.
“My help?”
ㅡ The ability to prevent deterioration. You use your ability to block the wave that spreads out the moment you use nuclear energy.
“Ah, that’s the way it is. But my abilities are not so omnipotent? I don’t know if it’s while standing still, but if I use it while moving, will it last about 2 to 3 minutes?”
ㅡ No, maybe that’s why it’s more romantic.
“What?”
ㅡ An enemy that cannot be dealt with with the current power, a limited power with a time limit… It’s a burning law.
Jinwu, who heard Grid’s words, felt his heart pounding for some reason.
They were different, but somehow they were slowly becoming similar.
And there was an existence watching them from a distance.
“Hon, pine nuts… word? No… There is a flow in the conversation.”
That being alone watched Jin-Woo, who opened his mouth.
Humans sometimes open their mouths even when no other humans are around.
Except for eating, it is an action only performed while holding a certain square object in one’s hand.
But Jin-woo opened his mouth without saying anything.
Wonderful.
In particular, the most suspicious thing was the faintly felt presence of a nuclear nucleus.
Monsters can react sensitively even to inactive kaiju’s core.
Just as Grid was able to detect a monster without a nucleus, the entity was also able to faintly detect a nucleus with no wavelength.
A human who talks a lot to himself while carrying around the core of a monster.
I thought maybe he was that being.
The monster dragged his legs and approached Jin-Woo.
At that moment, Jinwoo turned his head toward the monster.
The eyes of the monster and Jinwoo met.
The monster caught Jinwoo’s appearance in his eyes.
“Kuh, find… I did.”
That person is strong.
The one who can find us mixed in with humans.
Having nukes means that we killed our own people somewhere?
The mimicking monster will soon be killed by the man in front of him.
The monster instinctively realized that.
But he wasn’t afraid or afraid of it.
“Kuhh, heh heh, heh.”
All that came out of that mouth was a twisted laugh.
The first emotion they felt while hiding in the human world and imitating humans was joy.
They imitated humans, but before they knew it, they were approaching a way of thinking closer to humans.
Grid might be First?