89 – After the Storm (4)
“This was a blind spot.”
Grid looked at the table with a large amount of food, as usual, and frowned.
Grid has the appearance he had when he first met me.
“Would you like to eat it all?”
“Ummm….”
The grid perfectly mimics the structure of the human body.
As a result, the stomach was not too different from that of humans.
With such a structure, how can a normal adult male eat enough food for 3-4 servings?
“Humans are so inconvenient.”
While saying that, Grid began to eat with his chopsticks skillfully.
It was a complicated feeling because the movement was strangely feminine.
I know it’s uncomfortable when I eat if I don’t sweep the side of my hair behind my ear.
Both the author and Yuna always tidied her side hair like that when eating her meals.
So this is a natural behavior, but I don’t know why I feel so complicated.
Grid has a rag in his mouth, is quite cynical about humans, and is moody and hot-tempered.
So, even if he said he was voiceless, I thought of Grid as a bit of a rebellious pet or a nephew of a man suffering from middle school disease.
“What are you trying to do, Brave?”
“Are you going to keep living like that?”
“Hmm? Of course not. Because the human body is more uncomfortable than you think.”
Grid pondered with the chopsticks in his mouth before reaching out his hand to me.
“What?”
“Let me check for a moment. Reach out, Brave.”
The outstretched hand of Grid caught my eye.
It’s white, thin, and pretty.
No, damn… Did it come into heat as the body became a monster?
I pinched his thigh with my left hand under the table to regain my composure, then reached out to Grid.
Grid’s hands were soft and slightly cold.
What are you trying to do?
Grid grabbed my hand and frowned.
At that moment, my nerves were on edge….
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I shook Grid’s hand and distanced myself from him.
That wasn’t what I intended.
My body suddenly behaves on its own….
“Hmm… I think it should stay there for at least 2-3 days. They are unwilling to accept my control.”
Grid wiped his hand in the air a few times and started eating again calmly.
I looked at my hand with a blank expression.
“So… Particles of monsters? What’s ignoring your control?”
“Yes. I mean, it’s amazing. It’s just that 4 nuclei at the level of a D-class monster reacted to each other, but that much power came out….”
Grid nodded his head, saying that he still needed research.
In terms of games, he muttered arbitrarily that nuclear is like a multiplication operation rather than an addition operation, but I don’t know what he is saying.
First of all, one thing was certain: the grid had to be out like this for at least two or three days.
Until this point, I had no idea.
It’s just a bit inconvenient~ That’s how it felt.
***
“The human body is really inconvenient.”
When I returned from eating and washing the dishes, I saw a grid hanging down on the bed.
“Don’t you have a computer?”
Grid is the end of Internet addiction.
He is a warrior who gets thorns in his mouth when he is not using the computer, and when he is bored, he jumps up.
A guy like that is lying on the bed, sighing.
It was very strange to see a different appearance than usual.
Why do you keep showing yourself like this?
“The human body is too uncomfortable, Brave.”
“Then go back to the fairies.”
“I have learned the structure of the human body perfectly, but fairies are imaginary creatures, so it is difficult to organize the inside even if they can imitate the exterior. So the energy consumption is greater than expected.”
Oh, is that so?
I thought it would consume less since it’s small.
“Since I ate rice, I have to stay with this appearance until it is digested. I will die of discomfort.”
While saying that, Grid began rubbing his chest.
… I don’t know where to put my eyes.
“It’s heavier than I thought. If the author is bigger than this, he must be dying every time, keuhehehehe.”
Ah, laughing like that makes me feel better.
“So why aren’t you using the computer today?”
“I am sleepy because I ate.”
“Oh, is that so?”
You must be true to your instincts.
The current time is 7:00 PM.
It was too early to go to sleep, but Grid was lying on the bed like dried fish.
In that state, I am enjoying web surfing on my smartphone.
Haa….
If it were Grid, he would have kicked it and snatched his smartphone, but with that appearance, he was reluctant to do such an action.
I decided to do a computer after a really long time.
What I was looking for was a news article about this monster incident.
Well, that’s sh*t.
An article about a monster presumed to be A-rank that appeared in Hapjeong this time was being updated in real time.
There was so much information that I felt like I was going crazy.
“Are you looking for information about that monster?”
“Yes.”
“In an incident that occurred at midnight on August 20th, a monster appeared with the sound of shells exploding.”
“Huh?”
As if Grid had already finished his investigation, he started playing with his smart phone and gave an overview of the case.
Beside the monster was the hero Brave, who has been doing great as an intern recently.
Due to the monster’s attack, Brave got stuck in a nearby building and fought a bloody battle with the monster for quite some time.
It is presumed that Brave judged that it would be advantageous to delay the time because he used the hero emergency call even in the middle of his mind.
However, the heroes who arrived at the scene were no match for the monster.
As the body hardening ability judged as A grade and the body strengthening ability judged as B grade collapsed in one blow, the other heroes left the scene.
It was under the pretext of transporting the seriously injured hero to the hospital, but there were still many citizens who could not escape.
The point was that Brave, who had become a wreck in such a state, fought the monster and won.
“Restrictions on hero equipment will be completely lifted, Brave.”
Regulations on equipment that were slowly being lifted will be completely lifted.
Now, like the US, equipment for monsters will start pouring out in earnest.
This part was not passed in Korea due to security issues, but the monster that came out this time must have been that shocking.
“There is a story that in order to hunt an A-class monster, firepower strong enough to erase Seoul must be mobilized. It is inevitable that such a monster has appeared.”
Since long ago, it has been said that if an A-class monster appears in Korea, the country will be overthrown.
However, 20 years have passed without an A-class monster appearing in Korea.
Everyone was suffering from insensitivity to safety, but this time the incident must have happened properly.
“Still, it’s strange. The scale of the damage is not so great, but everyone reacted more violently than expected.”
“It must be to divert attention.”
It was difficult for Korea to handle this monster uproar.
And the reason was too many regulations.
If that regulation disappears, nothing like this will happen in the future, so stop biting and biting.
I guess that’s the story.
“Look, Brave. A better-than-expected video has been uploaded.”
While saying that, Grid showed a video flashing with blue flashes.
To be honest, I don’t know if it was filmed well.
“… Doesn’t everyone know that I’ve become a monster?”
“Because it was far away and I couldn’t see it from the sparks coming from all over my body. He was also wearing a suit.”
“Ah, by the way, where is the suit?”
Could it have burned out with that spark?
“It’s right in front of your eyes.”
“Huh?”
“Here, here.”
Grid pointed at himself while saying that.
No way?
“Your body is unstable, so you can’t make a new nucleus. I’ve used up all my cores fighting that bug. It was an inevitable choice.”
So the suit I was wearing became Grid’s body… What is it?
How is that possible?
I must have heard that it is made by mixing various substances with the corpse of a monster….
Ah, the rest of it might have been burned by sparks from my body.
Something complicated.
So, to put on the suit now, I have to wear that grid’s body….
Perhaps it’s because of the influence of the monster, bad thoughts keep coming to my mind.
I need to do something about this situation….
***
It was really annoying that Grid was a human.
It was the same even at night.
“You wouldn’t let a woman sleep on the floor, would you? Superhero Brave?”
“… f*ck.”
“It’s been a while since I’ve seen you swearing so directly, keuhehehehe.”
I never thought that the day would come when I felt so anguished because of Grid.
“Brave.”
“What.”
“If it’s that hard, I’ll go to the bathroom at least. But, hehehe.”
“You bastard, you’re hungry.”
“To return kindness with insults… What a dog-like hero.”
You curse at the map.
It was definitely like this with Jieun, but I don’t know why.
… It must have been because there was a grid back then.
No, the grid still exists….
Now it’s time to get some rest, but I couldn’t sleep.
It was in the middle of such anguish.
Something stumbled and lifted my blanket.
No way?
“Hey.”
“If you think about it, isn’t it the same whether you play alone or like this?”
What Grid put out was something I hadn’t seen in a really long time.
Surely, if you can do something like this, that person who made it… It has a hole modeled after a specific part.
“….”
“….”
I immediately grabbed it from the grid and started beating it with her hand.
“Kuh, billion, that, stop it, brave!”
f*cking bastard.
I can’t.
I’m in this state, as Grid said, maybe it’s because I’m a eunuch.
I think I need to get used to women a little bit.
I can’t believe that my heart is shaken by something like a grid… !
I relieved my stress by slapping what was Grid’s ‘hand’.
“Stop it, trash!”
The stress of being sick is better than that kind of stress.
I didn’t know when the grid was parasitic on my body, but it’s so uncomfortable when it comes into my life and stands out.
It was the moment I realized that.
***
After a stormy night, morning came again.
Grid was still sleeping, fitting the saying that it was difficult because it was a human body.
For some reason, looking at the hair that was sprung from fighting me made me feel guilty.
Even though he’s just a monster kid.
I washed my body as usual and prepared my meal.
Ah, this is more troublesome than I thought.
I’ve been living on my own for several years, but I felt quite troublesome when I tried to do what Grid used to do.
It was at this moment that I remembered Grid’s words that once a person becomes lazy, he is doomed.
I felt like not only my body but my entire life was invaded by the grid.
“Hey, get up and eat something.”
“Huh… I want to report you for domestic violence, Brave.”
“Beating a monster is not a crime, you worm.”
Grid heard me and sneered as he ran his hair through his head.
“What makes this appearance look like a monster?”
“If you don’t shut up, won’t you feed me?”
“… A buggy bastard.”
Grid sat quietly at the table while clicking his tongue.
Ah, I’m tired.
I wanted to go back to normal as soon as possible.