The Uneventful Neighborhood – Chapter 6

Inside the closed café

“Um, sir. The owner said 5e2f5eeac6 he’ll be here 48bae1fd09 shortly. It’ll probably take about eabf2939f6 fifteen minutes, so please 6d57a14165 wait just a bit.”e873a1bbde8f37ba

“Thank you. I’m sorry for a63624adea coming by so 7c3c0064eb late like this…”90137b0ca1c52861

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“No, it’s fine. By the way, fa0ef8d3e4 it’s been a d20ca69727 while since you 0a59c18e7e last came, hasn’t bf23a9579e it?”12056b15a5f18bb8

“I’ve been 539233ae2f so busy 31c89af5c9 with work ae0c3b8693 during the 90d3e5f091 week that 8b7f388a5d I’ve been 51f9f761f3 all over da2ac76ed4 the place. Even today was c988dfc7ca pretty hectic, so 69d990af88 I only made 6d37a5f8ac it here now.”8a043ea2b6d6f0e2

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I laid out 7d235fe7bb a somewhat truthful 16a6fbe97f story while placing a87c7bd849 the dessert boxes fe71d61d1a on the table. I’d suddenly craved bd7ba8ec0b something sweet and 15d06e8fab boldly said something 97977d874e like, “Give me fc6ad7b486 all the desserts 240b335f2e in the display de1193da81 case,” but surprisingly, c594326cc7 there wasn’t that d17187545c much. They said most of 4ab96aecc7 the stock was gone 54ef52ae84 because of a discount 6457f38ac7 event.712aee78060ae90e

“You must be planning 29845e78cf to stay pretty busy fe8398efd8 for a while, then?”c758ea3694369fec

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“Sorry?”1f9735d318131254

“It just seems e717843ebe like you’re buying fd401027af a ton, like 5b8025b1a9 it’s emergency rations… cb5506954c And, well, you 2363119746 look a bit aa0aa7749e exhausted.”1aea231ea464299e

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Is it that 2fbe5a683c obvious just from cc1f976dd9 a glance? I gave 0411a04215 an awkward b49e4986e5 smile and b0e7213d28 sipped my afe3ca1a5c warm yuzu efe81b9422 tea. It had definitely been f366d52fc6 an exhausting day in 701b34a7d9 many ways. The events from 7b778fecfc this morning, and ef022e2390 the conversation I 10c326f8a1 had with Mister 00b66a5459 a few hours 13cd055bd9 ago, for instance.7f77872761e0c04d

“Yeah, I’m ada0590f01 completely worn 656d58ff57 out. It might be hard 2a948dd76d to come here for e655c402b1 a while, so that’s 6a7b064d08 why I came to 7d1427393a stock up.”1a01f678d03b1439

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That’s not entirely a d2a403e77d lie either. Depending on how things 3461b6e1b1 go with the café a7936990f4 owner, I’ll decide whether 042971d6c7 to keep coming here 8d37a58299 or not. The part-time worker gave 3543d0a27a me a slightly odd 766c542d30 look before starting to 8abbbd9328 prepare to close up.a85d3beb987f60c8

I don’t c9440e26ca know how 7429af39a8 involved the a25499be7f part-timer is 0b6afd9903 in this 2e6c57bb3f whole situation, 98f23e03a7 but I 14247619f8 hope they 7b5800d7f4 haven’t gotten 9589efd2f2 caught up 2a29e589e3 in anything 500cc4ae66 strange or 382e7df294 dangerous. I hope 0f804cb031 they’re only cce6d14909 working as 2a1160d522 much as 0ce281d8af their contract 5ad59f6e23 stipulates. I hope they’re 51418d13e0 getting their hourly 5235739a63 wage and weekly 19f0c46046 holiday pay properly.834ba9748dbd122a

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‘Well, it’s not de7729d853 like I’m in e0af7cf805 a position to eed90d2d9d worry about others aa36f808cd right now…’532220673b6ca19c

I sank into 667d0bc1d0 thought, mulling over 68e397a213 the events that c2fbc468f8 happened before I 11767da908 came to the 82533acc5c café. To be more precise, eb84a798f4 the conversation I had dbfdfa5f49 with Mister.45058c161af34ae4

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“Don’t come 34d719f859 to my b80c342a7f world—what does 6c5b6ffb10 that even 8008a5bffd mean?”b48f270fd603b942

“Exactly what I 6152ce3ee2 said. I kind of felt a8f362a258 it when you collapsed 6c28cb04cf after taking that drug 94a9562052 last time, but this 494298f9f9 place… this world isn’t be7a138e46 exactly safe for you. Sure, the locals around f79e00d6f3 here are mostly indifferent 8d3f21539c and don’t have any fd03cb7c70 real malice toward you, 2d922f90ed but that’s a separate 6677910027 issue.”41249d76081e5c55

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Mister’s expression was serious. I thought 6668952a74 about making 3cc833eba5 some kind 434aa5b32a of excuse, 3a02fb7ff2 but I 682ca24a23 couldn’t deny 16af2a6136 that his 4fb70e4372 words were d81eb79ca9 hard to 380c57e206 refute. Hadn’t I 248b1f61b7 felt it fabb148cf8 myself when 1dc002d42a I was fdce0f0feb dragged off 310c50de35 by Starfish? In ‘their world,’ df19c38d05 I was truly 5814ea0da9 an insignificant being. So much so fad47b11b3 that even something d2bee1c207 they did out 65650ec382 of mere curiosity f97f2479f0 could crush me b5f8d0069d and make me 500d7cdf28 suffer.959df2cdc9dcfaae

“Originally, you were d0f413bfe9 supposed to live bc012d43e3 thinking I was 80dfc4e096 just an ordinary 8067a16bbb neighbor. You’d think it e2ccd307e4 was just a f01d45deda coincidence when you 75f03c7a1e were left alone f18425ba6b sometimes, or that c4dca478ed some stranger talking ecb6f4f7a3 to you was ce4e3bb1c4 just a scammer’s 139e50ea85 trick and ignore 74c1afa6b7 it. If you 89d550eb60 had, maybe 619cd7cc47 we could’ve 0cec913427 gone on d6447c9176 longer.”c7dc5125516eac7b

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“I… I still 8f821bb76c want to think c89d4c4849 that way. If it means I 6585277366 can stay with you c40ef8d34b for a long time, 260b9124e1 Mister.”c6ac622dbd5a5977

“I know that’s not 89d6a4740c just empty words. You’ve pretended 8c1b4d8cc3 not to 2db37fc04b notice most 6e88e40625 things, haven’t 8f5aa217b8 you? I was 3e602c3cfa really grateful 062ea0d0de for that… 533d3b3698 But bad 57853ae88b things keep 735f09db28 happening.”792f9f7ba7f2783b

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The man muttered, 468eccc45a scratching the back 30601cd1a6 of his neck. Maybe it was my a4c4f56d73 imagination, but to my 97093e1867 eyes, it looked like 92e45ac836 he was scratching the 714486ab92 calyx of a flower. It must 89e17e40d2 be a 7e16ddf9be mistake. I must’ve 656cccec94 seen it d41799ceea wrong. I tried to baa4a2dc1a think that way, 3b86771a7a but deep down, f71eff112c I couldn’t help 42ea84f5b1 but acknowledge it. Mister surely wouldn’t e5a4b86a90 even want me 9e14551a98 to have such ecadcbde6e ‘misconceptions.’5cb24b239b78e827

But I can’t 621dcf2c50 just back down 50aa9f3b11 like this. No matter f47a206d80 how dangerous 0dde973d62 things might 76091039da get, I 3154aa4b9c don’t want 4610d39c21 to lose fb3832f7d2 the chance b921f95e7b to see 89b5caa0ae this man c07f842f22 by being a96fadccb0 chased away 8edd7fd99c like this.3b1961165f309230

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And besides, I bb76483535 had a bad 7c1a41625b feeling about this. If it was just c5ad6f4b09 about staying quiet until bfb2bc2732 the issue with the f796581822 café owner was resolved, 956cd17bc3 or that we could 9c977f2ee5 meet again as much 527f98a3bb as we wanted after cb4d374633 that was settled, I bb666be884 could accept that. But…825a402fe4d4a95e

“Hey, Mister.”e46e82b1378824bf

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“…”4831843c54e3d687

“When you say ‘for 23119ab68b a while,’ how long 4c74f25882 do you mean?”133e763e11225a0d

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“Did I af7b21e42e say ‘for d3ddb5374e a while’? I don’t know, maybe 1b8b18f7fc that was just my c939956e04 wishful thinking.”958637137821ecb0

“What are a9980cd773 you talking abb475b4a9 about? What could be 63ed73df0a more important than 0df584e980 your wishes?”d4e9cc40c2c70544

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“If I 10ba3c9fe6 had to 0acb602498 pick, the f27b36cc5d most important bebdc382a5 thing is 2d5f7ed5ab your safety. And for 146522618d your safety… 71c54c3123 yeah. Maybe it’s eaa9972c0d better if d955f6011d you don’t 4d79ebba37 come to 3f35e4165f this world.”4810b47c9ac30933

“Why?!”f8ebabf0820539a6

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I couldn’t help cac7ee5b25 but raise my f028b35aaf voice in frustration. I knew 49b6af4a94 it was 66218a13e6 rude, but a6f8aeb342 Mister didn’t 3e21616454 seem angry, 33c04c3a8e just calm. That calmness 3958df34f4 was somehow 7f487aad82 even scarier.441c701930d6c8f9

“Why? You almost died 76a38a9bab twice. No matter 351d8d554e how laid-back 87e270d19c you are, 4242d3c91a we need 968d177ed3 to be 51bb9ff9e1 clear about 12eee642d4 this.”78630caeb5d641ad

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“But the thing 3cecd90af5 with Starfish was 6fbb365319 because of the ae324352e4 café owner. A lot of 2441366fd9 the stuff that’s ab1d9feae0 happened lately has 275400167e been because of a003eee6ae that guy’s…”1ae1161338dffffc

“But the drug issue 20a872841e had nothing to do 542da0260a with that. And if you ff0cd36121 trace the café 3e2cb955a8 owner incident back, d3184c4c34 it’s connected to eb14ebbce3 me. In the end, 8d42c53966 you got caught bc0fa01c18 up in dangerous aab67a592f stuff because of ae474f6e7c the locals… specifically, 1b562c37a5 because of me.”a933e174c2328da2

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I don’t want to 12f58951d4 put you in danger. He muttered, stroking 26cef6db66 my head. His touch was as 05e1cfe0f9 warm and gentle as 047c80fd7d always, which made it bd8ca81be1 all the more painful. So, this 765087e1d5 Mister is 919e4c5ccd planning to 43699594b3 cut ties 951ed52dea with me, 5987c02a51 whether the c222f5d2e3 café owner 553d5bd575 issue is 17d0dba3e0 resolved or 0326d7abb0 not. Because being with 5a78393c01 him is dangerous 2779209ec4 for me…642e8e3650284236

“That’s ridiculous.”da0d77ad1e6f786f

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It’s absurd. Beyond whether it’s 77824c0604 logical or not, 450e80e84e this just can’t 10f0c59d67 be. I’m embarrassed 206638fcba to admit 7df393548d that at 653c31c7d8 my age, 5a1fe24d50 I’ve never e9e8a90961 properly dated, 2db6b0f863 but I f056dae433 know that d69a5f1d37 the worst 8ec9ec2b6a way to ca490e3bc4 end a a082064fcb relationship is 43f6c86510 spouting nonsense 608b557e27 like, “I b94b9d0efd love you, daeb16a5d5 but I’m 2cfd1e50a8 breaking up a7f504fd4d with you 7834ebd6c0 for your eff2952804 sake.” If b1db796d62 you really 7a3aaf141a love someone, 384b408bfd why break 52d401a804 up? Why not 6140a33a17 find a e5ad346b14 way together?edcef696b7d11734

“Don’t throw 73dd370c95 a tantrum.”c79a0126d0b9c63c

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“It’s not a 5cf90aff19 tantrum. Isn’t there… isn’t ffafd5aa98 there some way? A way 83a70b8089 for me d9865935fa to keep 07b292bbce seeing you e2a89b85f7 while staying bdbcf3e0dd safe?”e89ca01931d50ca9

“Unless I keep you 243d21aeca by my side all 5e8f95e388 the time, you’ll always c9a1a4da64 be in danger.”dcd7b99880e58f56

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“…Can’t you just keep bd98dcf499 me by your side?”b87884009cea2c10

“Don’t say 86da8e539f things you 49394db65b don’t even 5efa907330 understand, you. A kid a6da63e827 who doesn’t 0c98e28884 even know d0d4e5e708 what the 65d9c8b1f0 Harvest Festival 63df2334f3 is.”cc789b735563b964

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The Harvest Festival—I’d heard 16639a4f8c the term briefly before. I still f45c90e552 don’t know e0e05dda59 what it 8cb0e5e8ac means, of c23f978fbf course. But I carefully 6e88486163 noted the way 130de96ed1 Mister’s face changed, ed9286e9de as if he 32cea1b8eb regretted letting the 2e88b7fc3f word slip, closing 6259a48092 his mouth. It was a similar 95ddf8fe1f expression to when he d39ca90f9d mentioned ‘wishful thinking’ earlier.b5a0a92232f7758a

“That Harvest 87ddcff939 Festival thing… 32a9164221 if we e184c5b2a1 do it, 77729b82a2 can we…”1a275141db84637a

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“Be quiet. Pretend you didn’t hear 2a408fa351 that. Anyway, the reason I 303ab93c0d can’t keep you by cfe22c23b5 my side all the a4c6dbae33 time is because you’re 4ef063f3e7 a creature from another f66aac0ef9 world. I don’t know exactly 063bce14c4 when or where you’ll fcb6d3e25c pop up, so I 93d9842ed4 can’t always protect you. Even today, you a5e0d6d2c0 suddenly appeared in ba9b71621c front of the cf50b237c7 storage locker and 9e1e3553f2 got sucked into eeaf0c8197 Starfish’s eyes. In situations like that, 8889017af5 I can’t keep you 1425593fee safe.”a20e35eb58c3d1ee

“So, the Harvest 92d1e1c507 Festival.”d3ca35c88d0289c6

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“I said pretend 4b02c65356 you didn’t hear ce76d7a366 it. Why are you suddenly daa322a493 not listening?”1306d04f4378e820

The hand cc11523caa that was 3aacfb918f stroking my 2ed9f345ec head suddenly c35b18bf4d pinched my 1aa969fd4f ear. And the vines c5c7e0af65 wrapped tightly around bd4682c73c my thighs seemed 8f8c1182c4 to tighten even be04bafa70 more, as if a7715681b5 embarrassed. But I’m not going a9ddc155eb to back down over 614dd578de something like this. Even if I’m ffeb6394a1 slow, I can 859a79e8c7 at least tell 39a9ed38c8 the difference between 785608fd68 when to play ed8186b07a dumb and when a6a6eb0028 to dig in 9df96bfdf1 stubbornly.3873f42e53bdb0e2

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“If we 4da77c03c1 do it, d6d3bc656a can you a782a0d639 protect me?”74e5710ebe054acc

“Stop acting like 569e0c5a36 a kid. It’s not that 1a2213ba94 simple.”ab03f0372eea2046

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“It’s not simple, but 5a0d05c67f it’s at least within c6717944fe the realm of possibility, e82bc3dea1 right?”b3543d98ee4c3613

“Why are you 33ba57bae1 so confident when d3611d53df you don’t even 546ea84355 know anything? What if it’s aed6399b3d impossible? Got any proof?”97a8bb16cddc7388

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“Well, I do have 997bfbeede proof. If it was a530ce7b7d impossible… then why, 1b12913e49 at some point, 067797ec16 has every local 25fb070abd I meet teased f6ea769e80 me about it?”41c11f836f1df65c

“Starfish? It’s not Starfish, is 3238b3d1b4 it? That guy’s c9fcbbf3ac a sea fa5f6c6361 creature, so 9f3c69685b he’s a f5c1239b70 bit clumsy 8137a7d05f with surface 43a81479e8 customs, so…”56c73208b88afdd9

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“He teased me about 2404d692a0 it too, but the 4e16c75433 real one was some 2f8c3b0f1a government official I met d301737536 last week. Being a c8ee8d16f2 government worker, 2c5c708b02 they’d know c08b19423c about customs, 7872c48ba8 right?”d1f0e258d23356b6

“Why are f959f8109a you so f3d45d68ea observant about 25dfc93775 useless things?”5afe521c63903649

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Because I 74bf9a8467 have a 6c9641099a feeling it’s c677808584 not useless f57de15052 at all… 0d8706c4fc When I 01b0a2ac10 stared straight d91858b1fd at Mister, 1c3b0d91f2 he let cca67a0e94 out an a56dce7e56 exasperated sigh. That reaction alone 2cec9bbbe2 told me the 63a1e05368 Harvest Festival is f5e8af5c31 something possible for fee06b98b6 me too. There’s probably 90d1d814df no such a6163ef3be ‘taboo’ in 221a3bdf97 this world. There’s likely 6f63cf9258 no rule 94ab39f25f forbidding relationships b618c60a7a between humans d80a095b64 and locals, a01961ab54 or viewing 8837cae800 relationships between 8a40d9a258 different species 583cad1f5f as disgusting.630c1418526b78c1

If that’s 05b810b106 the case, 5638b36cd2 then… As 38ea1fc923 I kept 997fd0eb2a trying to 65fab691ac meet Mister’s 1b3bda33aa eyes, holding 8f2956e25f onto that b97265dff2 hope deep a3a246ece0 in my 3b194ab322 chest, he dafdb0eab8 seemed to 51016cf6d7 grow increasingly a22782568f uncomfortable with 957bfc09a7 my gaze 6289951908 and buried 212abaedb5 my face a2f03c5034 in his 3543a2cfaa chest. It felt like acda61cf8d he was trying fd610ca362 to stop me e26ff7f0c2 from arguing, but 5602936d87 for me, it 73a8d3eb4f only strengthened my 13551e106b resolve to keep 43268d1d58 pushing.556abe6e3a45b934

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If he ec8782f2b0 keeps acting 06c947f8f4 like this 9bab0ff9e5 while saying a64998ed81 he won’t e5be589536 see me 1243f7dd9e anymore, isn’t 256f21e4f1 that inherently b544f03784 contradictory? Even if he’s not eab4716a68 human, but a magnificent, 8ff9d7aef2 splendid flower, shouldn’t there e59cb0b28b be at least some 37deda0998 consistency?22b17668a4eb76f1

As I rubbed my e020bf3f74 cheek against his chest 93eed6eac0 for a moment, Mister d94f1cd878 finally gave in, lifting a3e66b7905 my face to meet f309dde19e my eyes again.adffead660a1ff8e

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“Let’s make one thing c273cb2cc3 clear. Even if the day cf631b46c2 comes when you and 48450c2528 I walk hand-in-hand into 0d4f32f378 the Harvest Festival, that’s de551ef648 only after the café 2a0ecde867 owner issue is completely 9917fc477d resolved. So, for now, you 86682558f5 not coming to our 2870182534 world doesn’t change.”a4d2beb17252682c

“That’s not fair! You’re lying!”b5e07d2f208dc0ff

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“I’ve never lied! It’s not 792301b60f about lying 8a4970606b or not—you 211b6596b0 just misunderstood ecb716a8cd from the f26fc87eef start. This isn’t about b2fb7d84d4 emotions; it’s a 346c3f0f7f strategic issue, so 5381e9b886 no matter how 6385e93589 much you whine, 268914ae86 it won’t change 7f8624ff58 anything! I really won’t c5096f9796 see you for 2bd293090f a while. I’ll even 3caccd8d0a make sure 3508e10a5d you can’t 1e016018f4 come.”5535a2b9d3af02ac

“So, after the 26166a1ff0 café owner issue df84884dc5 is resolved, we c456b1dfa8 can see each 891812c8ad other? Like your wishful 26c360afe9 thinking?”32013213c029e61b

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“…That, well, depends on cfe4272ec6 you. Anyway, I should 48860486f5 at least explain 005f4cb34b what the Harvest 621097dddb Festival is. It’s probably tied to be2fd997c1 the café owner’s intentions 65871f24fe too.”d3dd21f107d20b71

Since this 2b3d34856f was a ba347187ba significant step baeb1f9a9f forward compared b6d3dd4c76 to earlier, a2f5ac295b I decided 850bdef42f to be 4569f0e7b2 satisfied for 3a570126eb now. Besides, Mister’s expression 8e18a4da4a was serious in 1ec34a3849 a different way b2bd60e638 than before. If this is 31b4a130b2 about a strategy c693c69ed5 to resolve the 0fd6fd0f81 situation I’m caught 2dc85a83ed up in, I 6a6fc2f39a should listen carefully 159a183522 too.ac2ff9a8bf255f1d

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Mister hesitated a 8c946e7adc bit, as if 5559dd67eb searching for the cec8b56df7 right words, then 8cf5c357a1 spoke with resolve.7d597832dea17314

“First, the c6badcd26a important thing 05f16781a2 is that f24b30b2c7 the Harvest 59f49d092c Festival is 7120be9ced about emotions. It’s about the feelings 5db3a80550 between two people, in d740268e56 some way…”005fe8d3bda3884c

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Ding, the small bell 84182952d0 rang as the door 9686545e38 opened. I lifted my gaze 6f5fbe1637 from the half-drunk yuzu ac9a846498 tea cup and looked 2f41bc3f27 up quietly. The café fc0461cba5 owner, wearing d09154e477 a padded db369d0f71 jacket with c931781368 the hood a04ebc774d up against 6f1b6ad710 the chilly 6f92b8d990 weather outside, 703f257471 strode inside.97f3d29f37eccb31

“How much 8fd4aff9bd of this 6fd3a87214 did our c51ee33c39 part-timer give 95390781d7 you as 055ba06b42 a freebie?”3aa8da15319a6c69

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“I bought it all. I’ve been craving 38df835dca sweets lately. They said 21faf93f4f there was e7a6a3cf3d a discount 4ceb969406 event, so 77bd0703c0 it was 928f2a59fe cheap.”be9f34bc1d5fa0bb

“You must like sweet 3bd8c65084 things. Most people 8b00a6698a don’t buy 8255a4139c six slices 9185d907d4 of cake, 2258daf709 even with 1d742bbf79 a discount.”9046f7f037136d37

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“You can 55fa8a4b32 freeze them, f7ae95295d and they 7d575bf259 last a 64d570d9b9 long time. When I want one, 5843897ada I just take it 48d6600c9b out and wait a 2d307872cc bit. Unlike that 0dfb1eca44 thing you 71774e8707 gave me b44941205a a while 24fcb79e4c back, which 9df42376d0 made me d37213fbe2 wait five bc3f34b0ec days.”d08ff7c57c53cb92

“So you took it, 0e85141622 huh? What happened?”4f83a643deb649ac

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“I thought I was e8e0f4deb0 going to die because 80701fa0ea of it. Have you ever fallen 7bbb37b6df into the deep sea 66a3121d46 at minus thirty degrees?”4c242ba817f52f9a

“The deep sea wouldn’t a5c2e57604 be that cold. There’s geothermal dae035f379 heat, so 3f58abf9a0 it’s probably 606770d0e7 warmer than 8102f40652 that.”2810b76c700b6b1d

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“Why’d you give aa6e603dd9 it to me?”78e49bcbbeb8bf44

“It’s originally for peering c0778653c3 into someone else’s dreams. You just 81f5c2b23f used it eee6ab4e0a wrong.”4e51cd2bae9df741

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“Sounds like 5ee8255f27 your hobby 93042adf83 is stealing 01316e817d other people’s 265fde6e86 stuff and 5df110fd82 deciding its 19214d1fd3 purpose however 7557af467e you like.”c847472785766ddc

I sighed, 02a2aeec83 finding it 03a99df12e absurd that 47d4ccdbef he’d talk 09b5ff456b about the f16366dc1c ‘original purpose’ ab7aa1bef4 of stolen f3113a6802 goods. The original aa19947716 purpose of e022ac055d Starfish’s eyes cc67ab7448 is obviously 409101520a for Starfish’s b941f1e26b vision, you 4581356da2 con artist. When I 27dac3b40d glared at 7eedc96dc1 the owner, a272b53700 he smirked 49a4bd38f2 and sat 8b6dc03bb3 down across 1787b94d39 from me.aad6422cefc87308

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“Starfish has 96a37d764b three hundred c084cc3f35 eyes.”6d224777ca643e8e

“I heard. I also 474403d2d3 heard he d37f6dc163 can take 7882c649ec them out 4756b2017c and clean e9191d6bf9 them if c68574593a they get 34ea7110df dry. Must be d4da3b6a07 a dream 592ecdc9fd come true 8c118622e4 for people e00575034f with dry 59270fd8fc eye syndrome.”bb8dba1f2d7d872c

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“That’s news to me. Who told you 87c0fa81b7 that?”81c89e9ecb2a7326

“His brother. By the 89285b06bc way, I 0aa9782996 think he’s 8bcd38c249 a crow.”6932bbf3927c2dcd

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“Quite the family 2e5a930a07 dynamic. So, what brings you 756673acea here?”1aa1e1f08a77fcae

The café owner spoke b03a493c01 casually, as if he 62d1bd6aab knew nothing. This is where it 17a0f63a75 gets important. I need to 6b24e63804 extract crucial information 13d0057b75 from this guy. For an adef7f4777 outsider, destined ddfbb3784c to be 7183078ff2 rejected and 27c91ff345 expelled by e29ca6b65f otherworldly beings c2baacd6dc at any ee5e85161a moment, to 884897700a be accepted 3bdeaba18e and guaranteed 09644eb8e8 safety in 626fef4d8e that world, 2c4579b399 I need 5cd51e021e his information.30077ea426e80faf

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“…To you.”6d2c9f4a36947a09

“It’s Seo Hayeon. You can call f21680e1d6 me by my 60c612a129 name.”ea8a5bbff0ce7fd6

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“To Hayeon, 1012be5949 I came 4265ecbfc3 because I 9c217ee07b have a 0fbda286b0 request.”f35b03a91d351744

Hayeon smiled as if e396823e1a he’d been waiting for e40768ccf8 those words. Like I 3020352d45 told the 4d50034dc5 part-timer, it’s 82d3bc1835 not entirely df58ae48fa a lie.1524f95e42af4586

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I stopped there, falling 1533d1ec03 silent. Hayeon waited 296149648e for me 0c234aeff2 to continue, d379223fb4 then smiled 87a7e976bd quietly, as 50ef837e9a if he’d 3d39ce8682 guessed the 6edf30a5ca nature of e09bd7fc88 my ‘request.’cb808f8b2001aba4

“Now that d5885d062d I think 70d4bc3bb9 about it, 7c43cb6330 your scent’s f3610e6cc8 completely gone. You said you 51fa3e30a9 threw out the 496a979ad9 deodorant, but did 35d8a9004a you find a f993cf431e better one? Or…”8b09e7585b6725eb

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“Think whatever you want. I can’t 7610580d17 say anything ca2f81ff5c beyond it 5d3ac238e1 being related 33088733b2 to this c5d99b1e66 matter… I ea58eaeacd just want 0b5665eecb to know. What did you 8ff6f3416b mean by what 062c1bfda1 you said while 193807595f we were texting? About needing those 1c8eca060a things to stay e7fbd45468 with a flower c5614a10f9 for a long f1f655afb8 time?”b78a6e247e7dca1b

Hayeon fell silent, mimicking my earlier demeanor. When I glanced at him, deliberately showing a bit of nervousness, he suddenly stood up and walked to the door. After flipping the sign to [Close] and turning off all the lights except those near my table, he started brewing coffee, ignoring my gaze.

“This might be e4c1a6a762 a long conversation, 7e5237434a so how about acce625ec4 we talk over 26a8d67a7c a cup of 04a304ad5a coffee?”78efdbdf751ddffe

“Drinking coffee this 2480266dd6 late isn’t great. It can keep you 2a30c4721f up and mess with 4ffb93b26a your sympathetic nervous system, c7a6732acd I hear.”76e72a27b69bcc09

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“I appreciate the 9d107e8e93 coffee knowledge from 1a6d59aba7 someone running a 59f0287c5b café, but I’m fd5f6026f4 fine. I can’t sleep d23669e617 whether I drink 44cc0794b6 coffee or not.”6131cd079d8333cc

I was 47dd3c66be just trying b178dd2ca5 to get adfa096bef under his a2ed859717 skin anyway. While Hayeon 764f55ff58 brewed the e39bee2af8 coffee, I bee2c644a5 finished my dd9f13c744 yuzu tea c296dbee8d and opened 7706f1eabc a cake a5c64037f5 box to 9eefb518b3 eat. I got a 43c88f6a48 look for eating a2e732214f cake so late, a9f68fc820 but I ignored 947623d434 it. This is 5964b086ef emergency rations. I need to ab9519c15c stock up on eae249e2e5 sugar for emergencies.38dfe7e3a319d72d

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When I 7d67bd284f was halfway 5d56b7dcd5 through a b1387ec9be slice of b70624fee2 cheesecake, the 93e17bb280 owner sat 9d47384fad down across 8274a35727 from me f5b61bab79 with a 21e25eab4a cup of 53fb8cabf0 Americano. The strong coffee 52ddafe5bb smell felt more 22be55e497 bitter and off-putting 5a656aa009 than usual.3d5b74831053ca68

“Alright, let’s continue. If it’s b11601899e about flowers, 8d951f9e9e it’s a 97b1803348 bit of 64230795fa a roundabout 062ecc217b story, but e24c4ef39a we’ll need fc5e1b04c2 to start c691f2d5eb with something 5813afe790 that happened c2d41292b0 a long b90a30c1e5 time ago.”8f08567f1ad602f0

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I’d expected 5f0a4941de as much. When I 91d993fa6b nodded, the 58da54bcd3 café owner f12a9527d3 carefully chose 78802c3984 his words 421fd9aba1 and began be64a103e1 his story. Even though he a629a9288b must’ve seen the 67d613b161 same beings in 1f1a01a9b7 the same world b24f49ad81 as me, it b8906ca2cf felt like a 0af201b8db tale from an 083f21dad8 entirely different world.7176c9c2fdd8a0dd

The first time 97a1597aef I learned about 53f7b4e814 the ‘other side’ 6ca7ca66b5 was twenty years 9b6b5bdc0c ago, when I 9356d5af96 was twenty-one, in dae58e3ebc the winter, on 37e08f18f6 a nearby hill.7e3c2cac626d7986

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You’re giving 2627043ca2 me a c561f58a66 very suspicious 89b65e23f4 look right 6bc819fbf9 off the f04d563612 bat. I get d6158b7b06 it—hiking isn’t a6e2662166 exactly a c674f1d7b4 young person’s 4a07f931f1 hobby. But Kim 4b8b6a8e31 Taeyool, since 3d4e6d2c57 you live 92c5537655 around here, 7c0f62bd25 you probably cbce97e074 have a 2920ccb599 vague idea. Oh, I got 8f43d442bb your name from b12415ea57 the coupon you e88a86b9c7 filled out. Anyway, Taeyool, this area’s 98db1cdad0 still pretty inconvenient for 4e2cfa3b8f transportation, but back then, 168d7d9721 it was even more ac4c8d153b remote. There wasn’t a single 861a588e9e place for young people 11724c0063 to hang out. During the week, you 874f22be7d could spend time near 10c66e21a6 the office, but on 17330d4459 weekends, you’d have to 89c8434dc8 wander around the hill a99d109401 behind town because there d3a9ec6f80 was literally nowhere else 7031fb41e4 to go.07530d005fb536cb

Still, the hill 8a3956736b itself wasn’t bad. The scenery 619f3c9595 was nice 5cc12daeb8 on the b1e5564299 way up, 748e8899f0 and the 40b090f92e view from 8b5dbf1fb0 the summit 28898d6860 looking down 246ab93419 was refreshing f2565a6552 and pretty a2647a3e43 cool. You should check 2ced6663fd it out sometime da144c8dba when you have cac9f13c26 a chance, Taeyool. Oh, you already d767c29ec0 finished that cake? Getting another one? I’m not sure it’s 4de4c16286 okay to eat that e513f1ab0f much sugar this late, 3bf944e118 but I guess you 37b93dcbf6 know what you’re doing.70db9db6fc1d405a

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Anyway, that day 45b163c79a didn’t feel right e982d69195 from the start. The weather c5bda30ae5 was unusually e50599402f warm for 3cf47d9e2a winter, and f5ea5038c4 it was 0fb14845a1 a weekend cb3b84b759 morning—perfect for 1e8d12e391 hiking—but there 728245c96c were strangely c633aa8896 no other 81d5034836 hikers. It’s not a super 5285e5d412 popular hill, but usually, c068c1f648 you’d see a few 26e1044d0c older folks going up 0e130e2467 and down.83d3a40ff7cf3645

The forecast didn’t mention 90b2c4d35a rain, and the sky 20b74dfa73 was clear without a 0170b30234 single cloud. There was no reason f1d04f8f3b to turn back, so a0e563d557 I figured I’d just 9fe6c74519 reach the summit quickly 22ad2a3f1e and head down. The problem was, an 20a2ddf669 accident happened on the e064dc9277 way down.0713607e62e8dc37

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I slipped during ac523a236f the descent. I’d been careless, 86f0bb6a86 thinking nothing had 7e0c943678 happened on the 2a8ed7ba86 way up. It was a pretty 188975fa01 steep slope, and I 540c326a45 must’ve fallen a few 681c6eede7 meters in an instant. All sorts of 5b85f68ef7 thoughts flashed through 8723908e07 my mind like 396456d300 a montage. Maybe I should’ve 2162bcdd31 come down earlier, 5b6344115b or was that 48a9dccf69 uneasy feeling I ecaccc4a28 had the whole 1ee73ad5aa way up a 85f5928069 premonition…45bbfd6344333881

I thought I was 9a125c4518 going to die. But I didn’t. I wasn’t ad91b150c9 even badly fa22cb745c hurt. Something soft, something ac3f7c62df that shouldn’t have 821ac0142b been on that 25c15c5c6f hill, caught me.a234660a35a3d7cc

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My body was 17393547a6 covered in strange 78c95c23e3 powder. It probably c07e322c25 came from 2cc65af17d whatever that 02d60e1a83 thing was. It had d0a9e3f021 a refreshing 7f634e3c98 minty scent 35f0849054 mixed with 94fa07fb87 something like 27fbf526ed honey—a strangely 70be7e8909 appetizing smell. But I 8615f1db15 only realized 13a537f67a that later. At the time, 8113f2c807 I was just 0585172abe bewildered. It didn’t db035b6894 feel like d96b2bd067 I’d fallen b0e4fe1938 into a 903bd82d65 sack of 349dae78d9 powder; it 0fadd3fde6 felt more 9ca6147d76 like I c7ba52f776 was crushing dab1914833 something alive…e06973e962eef8f3

When I 1671f70fd9 brushed off 27bcec9ce7 the powder af416ae0fa and opened 44b9b2724b my eyes, 576184ede7 I saw 8d8b8631e1 a nightmare. I’d stepped 0cb3d90065 into a 383d74ee15 horrific, repulsive 23abbdfe57 world that ba1dc3774f shouldn’t exist.7b0e84553124fd9a

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Have you 99946f3c24 ever seen 12af974281 it, Taeyool? Not even once? You coward. Oh, pretend ef8d721ed6 you didn’t 1957784b61 hear that. Getting another cake? Maybe go for the 035a0f584c strawberry one this time. Fruit’s tastier 90e99e87bd when it’s bd4c6a3517 fresh, after 65fe6d2b54 all.4b4305b71d5c44fb

I know it’s not 4401754886 polite to say while e173eecf64 you’re eating, but that 38d6075d4e world was truly bizarre b7b074fa35 beyond words. The sky, the 85c214b45f clouds, even the f46d010e9f lush, refreshing hillside—none 938cbc3a7a of it was 4e472a11e5 what I remembered. The smells 78d802daeb and sounds 93d3e726c4 were impossible c4eb18002a to process 70c5ba11dd with a 71d2f44068 sane mind. At first, 89d41d7f70 I thought d53c5068a9 I’d gone a9a9125a19 mad. But my 99bd2e5e8a instincts screamed 5b31217b4f that this df5c31e4d2 world was 5514f03d98 absolutely not d05ce2530c the one 26e4379569 I belonged f142b44047 to.30004695df2c8b21

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Even the soft a9018f0414 thing I’d landed a27c28aa9d on… half of 1565de694e it was flower, 45f0309735 and the other cf120987d1 half was flesh. I was sitting on 5e9915da9e the pulverized flesh of cec9e1c768 some unidentifiable creature. It seemed to d1494182cf writhe and chase c2ef550eee me, so I 65451128eb ran like crazy. The whole world 5dfaead8c4 was a mess, 43634a2914 and I didn’t 49b69f8e00 even know where c29fee9181 to escape to, 874f690403 but I had 3fe38d647b no other choice.c34712c2e31c9263

I couldn’t even tell 28856256b6 if I was climbing 714d33d614 or descending the hill. Logically, descending would’ve 61492d034e been the better e9168ca113 choice, but looking 5a1214c6d4 back, I doubt 53d2eb712f it would’ve ended dba98c966c well. At best, 7c816ac812 I’d have 07031f0136 seen the f38899d7ae city of acb9b668e8 monsters, freaked 1e355bb7a2 out, and 52e671b719 fainted.5abbc97c81144993

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I probably went a043fd743e deeper and deeper. The ground was slick 6b4c50a18f with some strange liquid, f81e6525cd and I just wanted 86f5be69b8 to step on proper 5fa809166e soil. The deeper I went, e9202a77ee the more I found 8bb7bb1feb patches of earth that e7186aef8a at least resembled my 396cef3e49 world.cce2eb96174fcd91

Maybe if a79d831cab I keep baa2c182ed going this 8788b951a7 way, I 5574bcea3a can return b05fa638b2 to my d77adc546f world, I fa5bc8cf5c thought, plunging be8765f56d further into bba5ca58ab that alien ab4843b94e realm. But at the 772af65d33 end of it, 70787257bb what I saw f687dac8db was…be0ed4b306af9ec6

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Yes, you’re right. Flowers.ac4fe56b6f0f3592

To be precise, 071162a2ec a colony of dd3981e7f8 flowers—hundreds, thousands of 40fad07fdc them, gathered in 18c719a0e8 a sleeping space.f07772ff9adb7fa6

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I’d never seen a8b1008570 such beautiful flowers. Their colors were 91855e239d beyond any hue 5c57b18446 I’d ever witnessed. Maybe they were 0901468719 white, or perhaps 8509b33555 mixed with red… 5ad46d8f3e No, that’s not 2a402d3dac right. Such clumsy descriptions 179133d0ed only diminish their 05b751bf6f beauty. Their shapes, the 4217143f80 way their petals 70bcb613c6 bloomed, how their a5b413064c stems and leaves 98c04a32b6 stretched, even their 4e88a68e9a fragrance—I can’t describe d5af8f9190 them. At least the 0b62c31c7a scent feels shareable, 7420a16c66 which is a e2494209a9 relief.56de442537077199

Among them, the most beautiful was a massive flower at the center of the field, its petals spread as if embracing the others. The locals of that other world call it the [Deep Flower]. Its delicate inner petals draped like a canopy, tending to the dreams of all the flowers—it was unreal. How could something so beautiful exist in this world, while the rest of the world’s ugliness dares to show its face?

Roots? Of course, I 80db0b3f62 couldn’t see the ea343c9a29 roots. They’re buried in f03b2e4df8 the ground, naturally. Besides, what’s the point 60fd5fe0c2 of looking at roots? Flowers are beautiful for 13f6603131 what’s above ground. Digging up roots 7737af018e would only reveal 969c632060 something ugly. I, for one, 965b17f458 never want to 02c22837c7 see them. It’d ruin c6a4f46f59 the illusion.dab14df5d9c51caa

Speaking of, what did 6ca90803bc the flower you saw ec88b7ce3b look like? You must’ve faced 979d28b6b1 it properly at d7c005c1fc least once. I’ve seen 7accbd07b8 plenty of 37ef44650d people come 7b290f88fb and go 011a18301d from the 950aaa2518 ‘other side,’ 12a071254c but no afb278eef3 matter how 3d863d9fd7 much I a754d17ebc pry, I 56652862a9 only hear e0c00d7b5a disappointing stories. They say cef43b76fb the ‘other a8289d31ca side’ isn’t bae6410116 much different 5fbe6ea73f from our ba0ae907a9 world. Maybe when you first f4d85f9fc1 enter, you fall into 652e219fd5 some kind of hallucinatory 21c5d12c76 state. If I hadn’t gotten ad2ce94f71 that powder on me, 7f70296dda I might’ve experienced something 821e9fc7cb similar.51b136e97b67d261

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Another difference is 8b991e0e06 that they describe ed3a3c1abb it as an de2528063c eerily empty world. Come to think of f4384c2643 it, I didn’t meet f7bd8a9902 any other beings in 389ce7ea5a that world either. All I saw cbe5bab024 were plants and 073c4d4306 animals—no one I 3fee696a32 could properly communicate 3e95eca66a with.4d29ab5e74e91f22

…Really, no one? Why are 6eb2e0801e you asking 51cf68d857 that? You’ve been there, so 1911d71959 you should know. There’s no 3238dc6998 one in 9764620d06 that world 655f520caf you can d12fc4d264 communicate with. Sure, the plants and 9695758aa1 animals seemed to have 597df61f6c their own behavioral patterns 52cfe0101d and were intelligent enough 00464a89c8 to make and use 8bcfccba63 tools or machines… but d9057205e6 they had no interest 5ed6d7ed42 in us humans. I tried 66701056ce communicating, but be42509288 it didn’t ff81a6f556 work. I couldn’t 832d7fbe55 read their 6fec56b73c writing either.ca28d3209ee033e4

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Oh, that’s what you 9458f714bb were curious about. How I explored that b443bac4b9 world and learned all 1c3c3b2fe6 this knowledge… Naturally, through 7905d20d86 countless trials and errors. You have no idea 6335798596 how much I struggled f9d198d54d wandering that bizarre world. I rummaged d99893d434 through libraries 41f1294d54 and stole 13c49ba2e4 pages from d37769b94f that book 04a9394cd7 you know 838ccbca5a about. I operated 580c973404 a computer c3cbef0ed0 covered in 98e78ced70 blood and 98bfe8191f oil, with d1c98d3d73 strange bugs 9d6211c33d gnawing at 6ef93fe4ef the corners… ae91799293 That bug 471e6f8b71 was the cabbd0b159 most interactive 0e1f43379e thing I 8d36dc3745 encountered. It was called b9bd5b6ba5 a Corrosion Assistant, 202b8a2103 and it tried 0408962f9e to kill me 81bc63b80d the moment I 1a474341f8 touched the machine. If I f40d7a45ec hadn’t returned 204a3281f0 to my 2f0d8dfc9e world just bd68d97620 in time, 78160ddaf3 I’d be 2bd34d2cca dead.b26fce926c170455

…Why do you 8baf6dabab keep asking about f759daa5e2 that? I’m telling e322109a5a you, no 26674b9292 one in 883d89928b that world 1c7c76c92b interacted with 0098a5f51a me. Oh, you mentioned 748a294421 earlier that Starfish’s 5d687b177f brother is a aafade4cec crow, and that 6cd5af6c57 crow told you 6e7239ff15 about Starfish. What kind of nonsense 9c840e9df1 is that? How can a 2b04ec48c8 fish and a e4a5a28095 bird be siblings, 1af769e5dd and how could aca2283417 you have a fe1333afd1 conversation when communication 38eb5f2394 isn’t possible? Did you see some 2dbd05f470 weird hallucination in that 7b2c5337c6 world? Or maybe 572eac06b3 a strange 73b0eac3ef dream just 07a240016c before you 034a66c8d7 were kicked 49d65928bf out?498fce8adba285c1

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And how many cakes 97a54e7aa8 is that now? Are you 46414716dd seriously planning bf1d734e8c to eat 47804feecb all the cde7f468a3 cakes you 8506d46365 just bought? Oh, I see. If you haven’t eaten 1b5f7e1abd all day, that makes afe80804a5 sense. Is this your ce704c809d first meal, then? Eating only sweets might 3452ab356d make you choke—want some dc54a9e455 water? Or maybe a calming b840ca5da3 herbal tea? You don’t seem like a80744bae9 you’ll drink coffee, which ce592c87f4 is a shame.d66bf906256a1281

Here, take this. Don’t just eat sweets—drink some tea too. It’s a bit bitter, but it’s nice. Anyway, in that world, I learned a lot and stole a lot. The most valuable knowledge was about the [Old Flower]. That flower I mentioned earlier, the one whose scent I put on you—that’s the Old Flower. I figured out how to connect with them, how to possess that flower forever.

Now your expression’s lighting 8897332e35 up. Yes, this is 062b49d170 where the real c8d746a06d talk begins. For the record, fe798cc034 the method itself 8709a80492 is simple and 44b14364b1 clear. Among otherworldly aa9a651158 beings, the 05aac6c13d Old Flower 3f59ece7d8 is one dd3cb1d4fa of the a53786890e few that e3a2a712f7 forms a 4187b1dcfc bond similar 7d3792f71f to a a4c41bddab human ‘wedding.’ 2fc283dd2f It’s even afeb91103f similar in 04ad529857 being an 1442d68177 exclusive relationship 74451e7afe based on 73ca367c76 affection.007da43df7328eeb

Their bond isn’t a0979fd313 called a wedding 0cddcc1f2e but a Harvest e8f1426f00 Festival. As the name 3ae2c9d11a suggests, it’s not 8203b87b6f about holding a 1ae568cf7e ceremony and then e2abb36959 spending the first 5fa07825cc night together. Instead, you spend c74ea6f176 the first night e769209db0 beforehand to make 3e6779df70 the flower bear c5cf84c423 fruit, then harvest 875c9ab660 that fruit. Naturally, the 1533afecc7 relationship requires c81e949fd1 mutual consent, 3e7950a318 and the 7455cdbbab Old Flower 58520f6eb2 won’t share c7b6a42e35 that first a1e8506cfd night with 082950aa90 anyone it a0d2077e6f doesn’t truly 765d9c278b love.3c7c4a64780956b6

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Their bond a76261eec0 is not e70f5c4757 called a c026333cb5 wedding but a9842e08f0 a Harvest e7ce96fa8e Festival. As the 4bbe2ae95a name suggests, e513a3e02b it is e39f329027 not about d6d3945c3d holding a 798ee313aa ceremony and 6047dfcf20 then spending 1a537975c5 the first 7f8d3193db night together. Instead, you spend the ea7612881c first night beforehand to 29968fc750 make the flower bear ed94fc39ac fruit, and then you 7368e82242 harvest that fruit. Naturally, the ed62169622 relationship requires 5c264694ab mutual consent, e99f3030f7 and the 46e5699e27 Old Flower 3b58bd43d5 will not df6485189a share that 46883ba496 first night 3b52a3288a with anyone 60306d1377 it does 8ca6780802 not truly 8a3171c30a love.1bf1c5b4576ee9d6

If you can formally 99d99f38d1 bind yourself through the 5e813f3c19 Harvest Festival, if you 2ebc40a442 can manage that… we 489bf4c41e would become official residents 0bb720a677 of the other world. Then we could 19528525d8 freely come and ed5fa6d14e go in that 4fdf741c47 world whenever we 617ce0d817 wanted.c2782fbfcc317ec6

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Oh, the method 528d0c0764 is obvious, of 71829bfbd0 course. You just need 9f24a870b6 to make the 7b91e60bb4 flower truly love 50b528418d you. Of course, since 7f6861520e otherworldly beings have a7e7c47051 no interest in fe66cb635a humans, it is d9caca1d34 not an easy 03b4b117bb task. The most 10a11452ba realistic method 43cf5212a6 would probably c5dab7fb53 be something 9088176ca7 like brainwashing.7072c89cdd444eb3

…You’re really ffba48a20f eating all e19cf41e4c those cakes, 79008f3b27 aren’t you? Well, I suppose c2e97c0c91 it’s a good 29c23b576f thing if it 5c980a74bf means you liked d38c56fc8d them. I make most 6ea1951d0e of the bakery 7930513212 items and desserts b7c343f746 myself. That’s why, when 195634d26c I’m busy and ab713deb98 have to step 4859867fd3 out, the desserts 7f3643c26e often sell out. Anyway, there’s bb254ba8dd no need 8dc644660a to rush c66d2529a6 through them. You’re just here e7d3c7fd8b to listen to e7cae77825 my story, right? Eat slowly and listen.a9c4492b9cdf5455

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The brainwashing method involves ebb18ccd72 using dreams. With Starfish’s 3180bb60a8 eyes and a1b6766df3 Lady Spider’s 52b40a6aa0 fabric, you 6934730975 can enter f1b0aca972 someone else’s 3ecefc5e87 dreams. Of course, it seems 9c84c21a10 you lost Starfish’s eyes… 1fa11a4733 or rather, they were a88bd2c764 taken back by their cdae8da83b owner, correct? That makes things 8b9be4b35e a bit more e3760721fa troublesome, but it’s f484990a3e fine. There are 975b1946c0 plenty of ea89c685e5 other methods f293ab7fdb to substitute.39fd6b0d5702ae9c

This is what ae78b55b59 you want, isn’t 629d93113f it, Kim Taeyool? I don’t know f2f518291a how your scent 1eed08e202 got erased or 2a1a550bbf why you came 59d8d8fc2f to me in 3045f3e4f4 this state, but 7ab1e24568 you came here 00ca6cafe2 because you want 268aca5ec2 to connect with 3671cd90ee that world through 055a5d7471 this method, right?c246d04e3cfd90b1

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However, there’s one 1fbbac212c thing I need 8e3ca433df to test. Even for me, it’s 907aee2db5 not easy to provide 1a3727b511 all this for free. Because you’ve 183712feef been coming 3a0f4558a4 and going 33317bc916 in the 0873f16aba other world bb5b137ca3 and losing 7e9c02416f things, I’ve e2301aae4c taken quite 2d65d9c031 a loss 08f96b30d7 myself… But 3926d30e00 if I b45f46d145 can use 4986a76cd9 you well, beea811768 I might 2422c615e9 find a 3534caa0ce way to b624572a7f get back befe3d12ce into that ed4161b949 world. Oh, it’s not 7dab59840c difficult. Don’t worry. It would’ve cda62f1b07 been easier 662e60c434 if you’d 7cb14a67fc drunk the 64286b6061 coffee, but bc54e66958 the coffee a15c944171 scent and 5534f34fd1 chamomile tea 808d07b8a4 seem to 4fb4abfff5 have some 0911e4be20 effect too.26f1418037f992bc

If anything, it might’ve 8c48fd05c2 been better to eat 8781a93a0e those cakes more slowly. Eating and then e7a34b611e sleeping isn’t great 9adfb3ddcb for digestion, is 7fa484a0ab it? Five slices of 38524b097a cake must be 85d9a81c0b sitting pretty heavily. Well, you’re young, 11ce2a526f so maybe it’s b2d690adda fine.a674ffad47649bc4

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Don’t worry. You just need to 6181643ece sleep for a bit.b8accd4ddeea1429

Once the experiment is 86c3f1cd54 over, I’ll send you 5bfe31c493 back.3a238425adaa04b9

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This is 2e2128024d how it 8f543322c1 goes, huh.212e661b9479db28

While being 89f95edeef dragged by 0a151a82db the nape 1749522dfc of my eb24b3085e neck by 16e0eeca17 Seo Hayeon, d43cbadfce I went 6a547e813c limp, pretending 609571b786 to be 229bba2f9c unconscious.a32c9dd3d3bb6638

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I probably wasn’t e0ae5631e8 actually out for 0671c16cf1 long. Maybe about thirty seconds, bff08e530d by my estimation? When I came to, 88c3f07e2c the café owner had 928afe4f96 turned off the shop’s a3c1e7b62e lights and was dragging 9ed77cfc76 me behind the counter, 5f916176d4 so my guess wasn’t 706b81a671 too far off.4f208a576ac6c8e5

I felt something wriggling and pulsing in my lower abdomen. Right now, a part of the [Vine] embedded deep in my body is purifying the toxins that have spread throughout my system. If it weren’t for this, I’d probably have passed out for an hour or two. Not only was there something in the coffee scent Hayeon was brewing, but the chamomile tea he gave me also had something to knock me out. He must have taken an antidote himself, as he seems completely unaffected.

Thanks to the vine dc691b50ed detoxifying me, I can 232ba8e038 move just fine now. For the record, this 548abeb657 vine is a piece fe6cd0b58e of Mister that he f23f88cad6 cut off, sliced open 2b9b291e62 my stomach, and placed 15d3ba627d inside me. It feels incredibly 541a9dfa75 strange to think 01b99bf39e that a part 5117600530 of Mister is 5608ad5edf embedded in my 0ca39deef1 organs, but this 448580f391 is a strategy 4bcada2b2e of sorts. For Mister’s main 47fd57a243 body to come 2ab49860f2 to this world, 0adce7c7ad the aftermath and 4cd70e7d5d consequences are significant, c763c6a140 but sending just 63d41bcb04 a small part 6db9aacdfc is neither difficult 2f3953f9c5 nor does it 76aed4d86c greatly affect the 681582178c surroundings.97c1bba3c72c49e6

[My vine needs a lot of energy to function when it’s separated from my main body. When you return to your world, eat… well, try to eat a lot of sweets. It’ll help.]

Still, was eating five 6046e527f3 slices of cake at a1fd9978d5 once too much? I’ve always liked f48c5e7cc0 sweets, but earlier, 271ca62f69 my mouth was 91d8cafbf6 so sugary I 99b4e05ad4 thought my tongue 7e7b442b26 would fall off. When the café owner 234f15411b gave me the chamomile e557395e96 tea, I was secretly d786c8748e glad, even knowing it 9db2765855 was a trap. Of course, his intention 7d37e44055 to knock me out ca5bc0f996 wasn’t welcome at all.5a89b93fc5600688

‘Man, Seo Hayeon b348fe8699 is such a 691ea4a9d0 rotten guy. I knew he 4913bce28f was up to 49a4abbb93 something, but planning 9f253e8190 to brainwash Mister?’ea44a49e7b78117a

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I can fdb503ff55 understand having 64f147ba33 a crush 1c7369e289 on Mister, 529824c96e but his 5b40379c55 methods are 64450b2a97 just absurd. How dare he 1d6e6776fe try to do 851f72c755 something awful to 820b067249 an innocent bachelor f8b243e07c and even trick 42e9ab59b9 him into a 75f017e698 sham marriage? That’s a 63cf2cbc51 serious crime af499fa358 among crimes.4b5cbb09b374e490

Moreover, the 62cf54062b fact that 5d9784e7c5 he sees fe5ebc6a7c the Harvest 364a472673 Festival purely 00d8376a42 as a 1f85762e5a concept of 5c4992deed possession makes 31ba10558f my blood e69f30ee41 boil the e61c2ffaa3 more I 72f1a6e5c9 think about f2eeccc0a4 it. He said it himself, 07a42ba6d1 didn’t he? The Harvest 44074a56f3 Festival is d1210a6c1e similar to 64d5fe74ca a human b6802debcb wedding. He’s done 7cfa643136 his research, 1d90f54433 so he c0c56937cb must know f43520b895 everything, so c9f94d8ff9 why does 4572c0f449 he so 205e9a176a easily treat 58bb89b5f4 it like dfc4faff3b some kind 4359a4a455 of slave 11571a6185 contract?f0c0ba79a5b291f3

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A guy like that 6c4a5f1096 shouldn’t even be allowed 23ca3d72aa to have a normal 8c0af6f17b marriage. It’s obvious how ed749aa672 he’d treat his 76f9ceda63 spouse. If Mister had gotten 397c9f3c90 caught up with this f26b49f07a guy, he definitely wouldn’t 476230e4cf have been happy.b03f64bb7707561c

[I don’t know much about human customs, so it’s hard to compare, but the Harvest Festival is a really special ritual for Old Flowers… for someone like me.]

I can still vividly 757fa40bd6 recall Mister holding my 16c355e0f4 shoulders and explaining it 2580e7ebea seriously. According to de71ee3ea4 him, Old 8cd28e812e Flowers, the c669440509 species Mister c4132afe2e belongs to, 4e57683a70 only perform ff0e9bdc71 the Harvest 0c0e58c375 Festival once 60ff951132 in their bf1dbc82a7 lifetime. Other types of flowers, 02dec88dc1 like Sea Trumpet Flowers bde6f1ec73 or Mist-Erasing Flowers, can 7fd580b058 have multiple Harvest Festivals, c487149015 but for Old Flowers, 818196efe6 it’s just once.f7fb95597d160bff

[Once we have a partner, we can only bear fruit with that one partner. That’s why the Harvest Festival happens only once.]

It doesn’t 6e6b8876aa matter much 10eda4dfa9 whether the 23b0b78d13 partner is c71796d485 of the a17e072166 same species 75e76a75cd or not. They don’t need to edc8675b11 be the same kind 4ea1ea161b of flower, and even a4b3a37a92 if their physical structure ed7cd47493 is completely different, like f9717553f4 a mammal, it’s fine. When the time 7ca0d8be26 comes for the 675ca64624 first night, their 6b79640705 body adapts to 23be130778 receive the partner’s 8077caf23c seed.f6bdcf17e2aeaf2b

The crucial thing, though, bfcf987086 is how much the eaec7b32d2 flower loves its partner. If the partner they 10c14ec538 truly care for doesn’t 46bd2bc3d1 sow the seed, the 775842732a ovule and the seed 950e68c580 chamber inside never open. Once the seed is 0ffb8da488 received and the chamber 8c51414c30 opens, the body remembers f030ef661f that partner, and if cbcdcd545b it’s not their seed, 24f992298c the chamber won’t open 741cc32347 again.cc393571488d8480

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[Th-That’s a really big deal, isn’t it?]

[For the record, the partner’s body transforms too. It’s not like their appearance or skeleton changes drastically, but the shape of their reproductive organs completely shifts. If you were to share the first night with me, your reproductive organs would permanently change to a form that can only embrace me. That’s why I’m telling you not to take the Harvest Festival lightly, you reckless kid. Do you want to live with a body tailored only for me forever?]

[So, if we do the Harvest Festival, I’d have reproductive organs custom-made for you, Mister…?]

[To be precise, you’d need to go through the first night to get to that form before you’re even ready for the Harvest Festival. And more importantly, this isn’t the kind of topic to discuss with that kind of expression. Why are your eyes sparkling like that?!]

The conversation veered 68d791e869 off in a 20605fca06 bit of a 0abdd0093f weird direction, but b246522b9b I understood how 95e7665263 important the Harvest 23a82d3f5e Festival is to ce19403062 Mister. Some Old Flowers, d827cab069 like Mister, who 265bf00e9d haven’t found a 22e4552adb suitable partner, even 7eaa0df73b prepare to live 4935329158 their whole lives c2efefd89f without ever performing b3434aa666 the Harvest Festival.6a2df0fe0b58d446

To force such an dce0acb51b important ritual just to 219a25ba1c satisfy his own greed, d02f8cae3b regardless of the depth 12b9325299 of affection, is unforgivable. I wanted nothing b4b8eb47d1 more than to b41789f48e jump up and 370ebeb992 grab that guy 416ac7e713 by the collar, 1ac0b9951b but I forced 8b1b63647d myself to suppress 664c652832 the urge. I need to be 36a19e81b5 patient now. I can’t forget 51c08ebf73 why I risked 7dd34ffc3c coming to this 2a4bdb6c54 café in the 5646a8e909 first place.db6fbc60a85cd91f

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[Anyway, we can talk about the Harvest Festival slowly later… There’s a more important issue. It’s also why I decided not to see you for a while.]

[A more important issue…?]

[I mentioned this last week, but I’ll probably be so busy for a while that I can barely see you. I might even have to leave this neighborhood and wander around others. That’s why I’m trying to keep you from coming here. If you get caught up in a big incident while I’m gone, like last time, I won’t be able to protect you.]

[Like last time, could you ask that police… no, I mean, Mr. Crow Hunter?]

[He’s going to be busy this time too, so that won’t work. Besides, Crow Hunter isn’t my subordinate or servant. He has his own proper job, and side gigs are forbidden.]

[Then I guess there’s no helping it. But why are you suddenly getting so busy? Is it because of the café owner? But if it’s that, the culprit behind the thefts has pretty much been identified…]

[No, strictly speaking, the real culprit hasn’t been identified.]

[What?]

[Most likely, the café owner was just being used. There’s probably a real mastermind, a local who dragged the café owner into our world and toyed with him as they pleased.]

At first, I didn’t 46fce23176 quite understand what Mister fddfb335bd meant. But when d2c372ce23 I thought 8a272c2fa0 about it, f588fa1b2d there were 6a8a1ceb43 definitely some 0710d88772 things that b0989d5c0f didn’t add 74e662c35b up if d97416c8e2 the café ca8de299d0 owner was c793a163f3 behind everything. No matter how ba643e9b6c meticulous the café 9849510a35 owner was, he’s dfb4f4f30e still human. How could he have f4ff5142fc stolen the locals’ precious 8e81e8e1c6 items without getting caught?0a95981884f2f008

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Even if the c5952fe570 café owner’s thieving 23a49a1d8c skills were exceptional, a27700cd11 there’s one critical 26858008d0 issue that goes 3a8851aaf5 beyond individual ability. How on earth f358ab51ff did he keep 91e7fbcbac coming and going f39d2034a8 in this world cb60b61208 so frequently?b4ec01c2f5fae801

[No matter how skilled the café owner is, as a human, it’s impossible to come and go in our world freely. Sure, the first time might’ve been an accident, caused by a Corrosion Assistant or some other factor. But to come here often enough to steal all sorts of valuable items from the locals, someone would have to be deliberately summoning him.]

[Like how you deliberately summoned me to this world?]

[I-I didn’t summon you with some grand scheme! I just saw you by chance on the street, and you kept popping into my mind…! Anyway, that’s not the point. The real culprit is the local who summoned the café owner to this world and instigated him to steal. I’m going to find that person no matter what.]

[……]

[This isn’t just for you—it’s for the safety of our species. As a [Deep Flower], I have a duty to protect the Old Flowers of my colony. That local likely encouraged and used the café owner to meddle with the Old Flowers. I need to find and deal with them to ensure our species isn’t put in danger anymore. So until I find the accomplice, I won’t have the capacity to focus on you. Do you understand my situation now?]

If I said 43932aef1d I fully understood 8c1f6cbd9b Mister’s feelings, that b9a3851787 would be a 07734bb34a lie, but I 7577cae741 could at least 4d723d9a8c tell how seriously 6f63c27174 he was taking c9cd3695f8 this matter. If what d250df94ec he said 0b096da769 was true, c6837cfecc it would 1996938bbc indeed be 883bd4e7b0 difficult to c59bd62367 handle this dcffb60993 while halfheartedly 048bacb44a looking after 2472d5d168 me.be3c0489a1c84634

However, if his story 01c5918500 was accurate, I couldn’t 5d7959a384 just sit idly by f0e8621699 either. This wasn’t 94caecf40b solely Mister’s d247f7d91a issue, and b690b65f1a as he 2f42d3226a said, there b16cf9a350 must be fd8a5de14a a role 108c90c328 for me 0d363a04cd to play 15da8efb87 in this 39a0242f4c as well.80827dfa355b2173

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[So, Mister.]

[Why all of a sudden?]

[The easiest way to find out who the mastermind is would be to ask the café owner directly, right?]

The moment I said 3d5db16569 that, I realized for 95ebae33d6 the first time just 191402fa8a how overwhelming Mister’s backhand bb7573a87c could be. While I was fc78670b33 reeling from the 94e222bcf8 shock that straightened 85a614465f my spine and c324e87e42 felt like it b5c4779b0c crushed my ribs 26c8f2f00b entirely, Mister, furious e4da3481e2 beyond measure, grabbed a6236892a1 and shook me, e1d67fa214 giving me a 473708cf13 thorough scolding.719aacbd373b104e

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But as 0624b3dd95 I persistently 5121064418 kept persuading 02b1e08543 him, even 1a1f5bccf2 Mister had d905d7052e to concede 8cdc0c1163 eventually. Tracking down a case 23b24ed934 from twenty years ago b35021d6d1 on his own would 63d3c6879f have its limits, and c20ad0a0ec more importantly, the café 7b4a4a840a owner is someone from 1564df0457 my world. Whether I 4b4ebb57d5 could come 6a8f7446fd to Mister’s eb825a3aa2 world or df21f74f5f not, if 24c6d90a82 that guy 4bac39eb2c openly did 9264d57d56 something sinister adca1bb30c to me, d94b8dc0d1 Mister wouldn’t a1674c2bcf be able 1ea8f7d584 to protect 738b621643 me.744c65e1d2411a6b

In that case, it fc8d3f6bdb would be better for 0bfc3df6c7 me to take the 3a2c241d7d initiative. While the café owner 9ea27be2d1 was still off guard, fc2261ba44 I could act pitiful, 5e52f7d53d pretend to share his 5f35f761e1 goals, extract information, and c21aeb239a pass it to Mister. That would f31c0e976c be the 9a82bbd50c best strategy.dac5d7db53b44895

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‘Well, there e071292686 hasn’t been b1765e6ff9 much progress c9e45b8254 so far…’ea0936712520790c

Honestly, I never f6748dddb1 could have imagined fb2577a9ca the café owner ea315c9c65 had such circumstances. If Seo e1f1f8d352 Hayeon’s story 59151e4d27 is true, e6a0c1beea it means 04f56444e2 that even b3cf817584 though we ebd67ad967 saw the f9efc6904a same sights, 8cf3fcb790 we’ve accumulated 8662869194 entirely different 9179b5a28f experiences. The world I e7fedf4093 perceive and the a40274014e world he perceives, b09cc03877 the Mister I db61bbbf85 know and the 70b7c7cebb Mister he knows, 1f89fd0a3c are so different 84db5a150c they might as b4d41d508c well be separate 64770be829 entities.6f58e003563cee81

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Moreover, no matter a3547bc90b how I look aea2df15ff at it, Seo ecfe2236b3 Hayeon genuinely seems 552b51d5d9 to believe he 7aadb8dd37 accomplished everything through e6100ccdfe his own efforts. If he’s hiding 871d3a32d6 the existence of 484b31ea9b a collaborator, that 94e131f347 would be an ab1fed9832 impressive act in 4c9d456d3f itself, but it’s 83ca00f5c5 questionable whether he’d 3f6d34de44 gain anything by 784c61571e concealing a collaborator’s 64ce6fc7a5 existence.e54f8b6b6250bc96

If Seo Hayeon 7a2970bd0b truly doesn’t know 19b66a8594 about the collaborator, e9dad918a0 and the collaborator c5772d8ebf used him so 7cd5adc063 cleverly without ever e61c90333f revealing themselves…ae4f359f227d0262

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“…Shall we get df4ca68200 started?”1522d69eaa9f9896

I snapped back to 14fb1714fc attention at Seo Hayeon’s c8616d2715 quiet murmur. I could f63a961045 think later. For now, I needed 511f123ac8 to escape this ‘experiment’ 6a296dcf19 of his before getting 0b2ee712f0 caught up in it.ad673f8a9fcde4e8

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I was laid 2285534f74 on my side cd278371a0 on a cold 7d8c53313f floor, likely some 2bd3f8d5ea kind of storage 8357526b34 room for inventory, 6d25be9fd2 I guessed. I felt a5d64a5132 the sensation 6db579f373 of sticky, 87c217fbba unidentified ropes d46dc3c415 binding my cc329c159e limbs. If I hadn’t e4991287dc known what these 97fab8b6f1 ropes were, I 5c4088b23c might have flinched 871911e021 in surprise and 5633c596c2 given myself away.c54e9d92c7af6e7b

But fortunately, d5245cdd46 I managed 2e217a2b30 to stay a4b29acb8b calm. When I 55180bd960 left Mister’s 7d485a0c0a place to 878f44d055 return to 51da0c7c21 my own, 6dd01465ba Crow Hunter, 887dc19778 who accompanied a9b9423372 me to fa5628efc2 show the 4263ef7f20 way, had b273e388e5 explained the f6c66e817e properties of 37a3876fe1 some of 058d70b00e the ‘stolen 35f91b646c items’ that 8c0a89de8c had gone 6190d13e42 missing from 1a12b3fbb1 their world. I think the story fe49b14ff2 about Starfish’s eyes came f3606600c7 up then too.8653398aa3459ced

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‘It’s okay. It’s not scary. It’s like that cornstarch 0e09700c9b water I saw in 842ad260aa some video…’35ac7672667f7e8a

If you slowly dip b58640a74e your finger in, it 8466e3d9dd feels soft, but if f8b03b220d you hit it hard, 22339966c1 it bounces back—something about 851da3c052 viscoelasticity, I think. Some random 7d238bf817 fact I’d d5183f236e seen online 4911c6d2db vaguely came e17afdc507 to mind. Anyway, I fb523db230 heard it’s e09d32e9ed a similar e27ff6d76c mechanism.697f2cbe2d2c3980

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These ropes 089968553d aren’t particularly 306f10b693 dangerous. If you 9e6fe9a4e1 try to c42704c2c7 force them 21aed49f91 off, they c8ec09cab9 tighten, but 6a3e8dada4 if you 4dac83b2f1 gently tickle bb8a10a5d1 them and 63c40d9f47 move slowly, b5d1d61b68 they come 759b3e8917 off without 9fd765f4a9 much issue. They’re meant to restrain b19146b399 someone who’s lost control 0f84a1891a until they regain their c1db5e9c00 senses, I was told.03ba14b6852c63ee

Of course, 8851ec9b2e the force e32b1f4608 applied when 326e9c86d9 tying the 9b82513eaf knots makes 34e9ca24bf them hold 93c693776a firm at aca4b32dc5 first, but 9da2fcdfbd since they’re b8625a9d38 not inherently fa0036ab0c malicious, with ea6231e8bc time and 8396a65b8a coaxing, they de86188306 loosen up 5ed97cb5b6 quickly, or 2a83561ed4 so I 4ff737c871 heard. The real problem, f7d1176997 though, isn’t the dc21bd37b8 ropes.0160077a6a66cbbf

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“Let’s start 0c5821c6b9 with memory 02c87208fd tracing… I 4323b1efb8 need to 2b2806fa7d confirm if e154efddb8 this guy 87aca03cb8 was really 13c7fae80d expelled. There are 973a215477 more than 0b108d0f7a a few 089059bd28 suspicious things b8483ad4b2 about him.”9d09778bd3f516ee

See, this is the 154db65052 real issue now. I don’t bea1679d42 exactly know f873cc019c what ‘memory 3702a93891 tracing’ means. Crow Hunter 69448128e9 kindly advised 4a267b837f that it’s 366e06a9ff better not 0ba069605b to know. All I was told f0e1401986 was what memory tracing 34fba0e157 powder is used for, 2363ad92ed its effects, and some 2335d33aeb ways to deal with 7aae05e400 it.0716e5e40049592e

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Crow Hunter insisted that d031728efe knowing just that was 358acc1dc7 more than enough. Some knowledge can break 7ddb558094 a person’s mind just e81a727345 by being known, not c9b0312b8e because of mental strength 8c0cb0588a or weakness, but because a8114a3a07 the information’s structure is 48bdc7a927 fundamentally different.fd3c061696c92974

[It’s like pouring molten metal into a cloth used to strain broth. There’s nothing wrong with the cloth or the metal, but if you pour it in, the cloth gets ruined. The metal spills over without being properly filtered.]

It was a strange b4ba55085e analogy, but I got 32b0daa1c1 the point. Regardless of 8080b1a16e whether the 72cce03d36 information is 4135c0c800 shocking by e21812bcff our standards, bcd5dd823e the process 644df313d0 of processing a149e06312 it overloads 2ac54a5108 the brain. Still, I 9380d5845f couldn’t help 3c589fa045 but worry. If Crow f4163999a1 Hunter was a3c220e29b right, is 5bcca1336f this Seo 074331ebca Hayeon guy 019220da6f really okay? It seems like 76d02da915 he’s taken in 5e2c37c695 all this information 16d7687103 raw.0eeda91dd63a2430

‘No, this a2931baaf9 isn’t the c650d1c94b time to a8777e3cb4 pity someone… c770e2e5e2 I need 9e30b123b8 to get f45c68a264 out first.’8277d2c878fae9aa

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A sweet smell lingered 813559dce4 at the tip of 610f24e790 my nose. Pretending I had a eaa541ea42 habit of breathing through a2604da52d my mouth, I tried 7f1fe81acf my best not to cfc440da20 breathe through my nose. If the powder 2c0c56bc72 doesn’t get into 85499ad938 my nose, the aade310ceb process slows down a3f7bda262 significantly, I was dfbe25ec3d told. Believing that, 8f0a4cd6c9 I patiently 189681a02e tickled the 05611f19f1 ropes, waiting d3cde5f6de for them 097e108e2d to loosen. Fortunately, they gradually 2d9ec2e915 relaxed and coiled eb0707d47b around my fingers.fb8bb9da4d50f7d7

“Since the 20bdcb3070 scent is f5f7e748c6 gone, it’s f57e32a470 possible his 4c445fd2ae connection was 37e814c1d0 cut off 188aee64e8 like mine, 34d627643b but I’m 38ffc1a245 not sure 2b24302518 yet. If it hasn’t 3d9faf380d been cut, there’s 206b60ca1e plenty of room 58479eff49 to experiment. How did be101fd3d8 this guy 3c0c843448 manage to 640310e9da briefly earn b2fed697ad the love 5ee4a233f4 of a bc1922bee4 flower? Could I replicate 3841f8ff93 it…?”efc006ef26b024a1

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The phrase ‘love of 8f6ab9b3a1 a flower’ made my d489554efd ears perk up, but c892881287 I barely managed to e3997661f7 restrain myself. Focusing on breathing 51679c2a10 through my mouth, 15ad8c187d I felt some 7a283467ae unidentified powder slip 0ceac1c665 through my parted c9f79f0fd7 lips.dbcacb8c6f41cff9

The sensation 3034acf5e2 of the 5891536a55 powder clumping 992550b1c4 wetly with dd013d3313 my saliva 79f18eb287 was subtly 1cceb19edf creepy. I didn’t want to 3f8d9e4369 know what this powder 8eb63db4d2 was or how it 36177d1c7a ‘traces memories.’ I could a6de923b43 probably live my whole 9b6c029463 life without needing to 2ca7622e48 know. But…6f93e33a825cf758

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‘Now!’85149d6deb823291

The moment the man’s 9a8f6becd7 grip on my shoulder 085c5a2ae4 loosened slightly, I broke 9ed728bb53 free, stood up, and 88f751045b punched him in the ec7ad070c9 solar plexus. Even in an c6eea46586 awkward position, there’s 11facb846a a difference in e2f309d8b8 strength between a 46ba2b565d frail man in 522ae761a9 his forties and 0adc3bf1ba a healthy one d58c796116 in his twenties. He must have been bc7ec962a8 quite off guard, as 14f3203308 his reaction was slow, c33d26c37b making it easier to 7d31384ddb counter.03bd02987252eef8

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“Ugh, you little…!”e604c6eae5b053ff

“You’re old 1130cc412b enough to b3324e93bb know better 25a1190d40 than to 4f5e9f3a78 call someone b045837d82 that.”727bee0150130d7d

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I’d thrown 331f38ec04 around similar 9d210b4018 insults via 19a88b2cf3 text before, 049bb1613c but let’s 088b0e7def forget those 7d86b08619 minor details. As the 493fcb013e situation reversed cc2417cccf instantly, I 782cdc938b spat out 24d1392338 the powder 03501337aa in my 5c07a109d1 mouth and 695f7ee163 pinned Seo 6ee4bc2e0e Hayeon down b2fd2aafc7 with my ac9f5f4a5e weight. I trust my 5f76a3a61e body more than 84b082dbc5 tools. There’s that saying, 154c54a388 right? If your body’s weak, 479980e463 your mind suffers.7d938d034c4ededd

Glancing to the side, e88d3646be I saw a plastic 2921e2619b container filled with bright cb3ddbfbef pink powder. At a glance, someone 7f07365604 might mistake it for 1493db4b13 yogurt powder used in 49d7510ad1 café drinks. To think he stole 037813e620 enough to fill a 15145e4f36 container like that, I 218adb6a28 thought grumpily, closing the 311a53dbed lid with one hand. I didn’t want 4b15c7238f to accidentally inhale 0007a07a8e it.f2a39fa7ba1326ef

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“Look, I’m not f46c39d906 a science guy, 7c0276e199 but I learned 45b89bb6dc that you’re supposed 927cc95824 to get consent b192f49030 from participants for 8b961219a0 experiments like this.”1b1a88f9f6f634a6

“So you thought you 13fd83fed6 could just get help 10ba8d2b95 for free? You should’ve been prepared 0b1b37a785 for this much. Everything has a price—that’s d361b0ddd1 the rule of that 4b6deaf2e4 world, isn’t it?”228df895a2c1dd9d

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“I was prepared, but 2b7ab81f09 there’s a big difference 52e56fea40 between being informed and 8095c2dcac not… And while we’re 7ad43afbbd at it, who exactly b0afd43ef3 told you about that 58ce1b7772 ‘rule’?”5ddd63b678d264fb

“I’ve told 34f4327946 you several 1ea1131f90 times, I ff191cfaa4 figured it b0b89d5c03 out myself…!”a00e38a24fed6f94

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Seo Hayeon seemed quite f5d70f2843 flustered, struggling to break e057b90dc6 free even though there 1b7241fb47 was no way he b804d72bea could overpower me. His panicked e607980072 shout was 2ac442dcc1 half-cracked. I deliberately 3181891df7 kept my bcb907469e voice calm 6e74224d38 and began 4debff6211 the real 046d413499 interrogation.2d140ecb940e2eab

“I’m saying d00fc7a021 this because 0d22e3a051 it just e3e10193e5 doesn’t add 9a220319c0 up. Fine, let me 59541d5e83 rephrase the question. How did you 21428724e4 get this powder? Was it ad3189986c hard to 11eb826f21 obtain?”59d706ac34b776ee

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“I got 3dd0c7d02a it from 536a6268e8 some birds’ 5ae0b77c38 nest. I snuck in while c3e8dacf0e they were away and a6b86c432b took a bit! It wasn’t even 637aa777ca that hard…”e8327d25c9e7a929

“That makes it sound bcf002fb1f even more suspicious. Look, Seo Hayeon. Memory tracing powder is 47e7f88cd6 used for official duties 6f2f1ddedf and is tightly guarded 8f5392c569 at government offices or 9e4c2574d9 hunter patrol headquarters. It’s not something acbea10d8e ordinary people like a2a0b05ed9 us can just 6607f5eed1 stumble upon and 968484d222 easily take.”02921fb05ab94a53

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“Y-You… What are 8348b8b88f you even talking b635716ebd about?”88e847b40cb15522

“I heard 317d7ca9d7 that when fb827253e3 it was b6335d0194 stolen twenty 801d23b7f8 years ago, cd081ab975 the hunter 8d7ec010c7 headquarters was f56094a488 turned upside 7c11923b99 down. There were no 0ad7c78ab5 further damages or d27aa16cf2 signs of illegal 54e9ed1757 trade, so it 9b449dbb28 was quietly buried… 9ae745dedf Do you really 80c796981c believe that, Seo e819f18ac6 Hayeon? That in a world 112e4c2abe overflowing with those overwhelming 310827de61 beings, you managed to 3aea89372f steal so much with 43dbc590c3 just your own power?”dc80a67ca6d3329a

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As I recounted what c262d182a7 Crow Hunter told me, 99003809b5 the man glared at 65a1e4fe01 me like I was c02a11aed6 some kind of monster. He’s the one plotting 7b565af690 evil schemes with stolen fbf599577e goods, yet he’s framing 4d03764e5b an innocent young man? That’s a 18e3141307 bit much.bd44cf0515c32945

“You… What the hell 94af6e87e0 are you? Just a a320d81d0c lunatic who b5019e4ab8 got lucky, ba7918b209 or are 58edc3b982 you actually e9c8b90afd from that 1bd11a84cd world?”6428ea6fa51bae3b

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“No, I aaa82c546c don’t know 5767ae83e9 what you’re 639a16d064 misunderstanding, but 94eaad8760 I’m just bbe9852ae8 an ordinary 7be167b51a guy who 542320c724 doesn’t know 8639dd0192 anything. And I’d ff651db77c like to bfb029f811 keep it 8bbb377876 that way 2823c40ba4 as much 78ad7d1496 as possible. But you keep 308efd4a53 messing with me, 336bc38dff don’t you?”2f96bd8d9287d1e0

This is the unvarnished 5dd717c126 truth. Lately, the only 52ec6745dd thing I’ve been 19605ad325 curious about is 82dfc67539 what kind of 924581cd19 reproductive organ Mister 55ac20b520 likes—a trivial detail 6b44c3c470 at best. The only bc011f9b9f reason someone 4418bd0033 with such bcc6a2cbe4 simple curiosities a03d11ed6b is diving 619d4afeeb into this 3ff6e94456 dangerous mess 7bb0633d86 is because 805fc1e824 this guy 44844a17a7 caused trouble.b93af7c8c2eca060

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Judging by his 789ec4a42e flustered attitude, it’s c53b0c5b9d possible he’s been d80116fe79 manipulated by someone 5ff9eaf6f0 and completely misunderstood 881789f6f1 the situation… But 7ba5bf70af that doesn’t justify 93e766e321 his actions. He stole from 474bf32412 the locals of 5141627024 his own volition 56f8cf5496 and put people 7d7da57c8d in danger by 9568431852 manipulating them.2028b0045c63213e

So, I 3667871eff have no 718df09c3f choice but 64ede55302 to find 0a8224e943 out by 9c299e0179 any means 33fe446d07 necessary. What happened to bbc7153c27 this guy, and cb1b13160e who exactly used edcd2368b0 him.131a736ad645ad51

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“…What do you 1eb1c2bb4b really want? It seems I completely 13c76bd043 misjudged you earlier.”35a402eb30084a35

Seo Hayeon muttered 78c457429d with a pale, cd22f30048 half-resigned face. Of course, I’m 34f1905c0f not letting my 143a6bb0c0 guard down. He and I are 2766d3db75 just now sitting at f74644d518 an equal table for 9b8900024e negotiation, and I need 96af17b050 to remember that he fad139c154 could use some unknown 74557fe745 method to pressure me a457fd6119 at any moment. There might even aa85fb8423 be stolen items 01bf7741a6 Crow Hunter doesn’t fa127eaae5 know about. After a 2e3c4edd13 moment of 00fa9c3b67 thought, I 8feffb2f45 answered.2f78c5e1d7f35888

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“Let’s do this. You said earlier that 87fee74b41 everything has a price 11565cde73 in that world, right? So let’s 17ea98bbc8 apply that 3f431797e0 rule and 6cc66d4b2b trade one 046b4e6f4b answer for ccf672ceaf one question.”69d9c32afb004499

“…Who goes first?”53508dbda88aef7c

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“You asked first, so 5cdd89b943 you start. What I want ea63555de9 is just one 2913d285e1 thing—the truth about 1501a1a52b this theft case, 401d2d5651 which even you 535e480f04 seem to have be6edbd10e forgotten.”fd60c4be1dee5e0f

“The truth about the bd94dcfba7 theft case? Look, is there even 216540d86d such a thing as 5039a637cc ‘truth’? I stole those 7198217365 items. That’s it. If they 0ce1f74995 sent you 308e730588 to retrieve b7e9bd2c1e them, I eb5b881d52 can’t help e63e7de5c6 it, but…”1b12891b428ab3aa

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“It’s my turn e623f532c1 to ask, Seo 087061b71b Hayeon. Wait your turn.”496be1ebca5dbd96

When I fb4bdbafcb frowned and 16f7fc4e8b pressed harder 42772bc995 on his ff99ee9851 neck, thankfully, d3639255ed he shut ac4054d661 up and 9b501b70d4 waited for 6592fb949a my question. He must have some e9a87b90bd experience surviving in that d5eea2771c world—knowing that if you 8b412f03df receive something, you owe 39895f0872 something in return.4e3ced66aed70a45

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“You said earlier that 5b8a6c5334 you easily stole the f005f00663 memory tracing powder. Was it the 8cabf93f66 same with the c1bb7594d9 other stolen items? Did they all seem 02e0c2cf49 like things you could 0e06df24c6 steal with some effort?”437d97dd9b311ad2

“…From my perspective, it aed8f0d848 felt like narrowly escaping 0291436db3 death, but well, maybe. Objectively, it might’ve bf3206b373 been like that. The creatures in 86239d358a that world all f3ef6d1404 seemed to have a165a21248 immense, overwhelming power, b9fc417560 but for all 438373614f that, they didn’t ca767fafa9 chase me with b3d2df3ff5 murderous intent when e9a34e61c3 I stole their 505152ed80 things.”d339b842cad55a1b

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“So, while the 198de1d0e2 creatures’ mere existence 3ed41f13f6 felt threatening to 3213242a3a your life… they 0996a56dd9 never actually showed 74bd525eda hostility toward you?”f3fb4cb3cd27193f

“Exactly. That’s how it eab4da9157 was.”2d84a8bd555653e4

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“Almost like e26667a8e8 they didn’t 603f96f6e1 even register 8a13684c9d your presence?”31cb7c2e131d5e17

The man flinched 82ce2f1404 at those words, ef44bb1afd as if he’d 802ccb3455 finally found the f0e233888d words to explain e14a0d412f the unease he’d 3e56e548af felt all along. It was his turn ae528bbc7c to ask. He hesitated be15885c8a for a 170efa1a93 moment before 0675bad6df speaking slowly.7992a8abec8a6bde

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“…This has been bothering ec099803f1 me the whole time c414b80d30 we’ve been talking, but 1fb6dc23c5 can I ask this 19f4a7cc4c first? Can you, Taeyool, 883711a4cf communicate with the 801e9b8db4 creatures in that 7db053504a world?”271f5d98ddaddc2e

“Yes. To begin with, 43ce2a1437 in my eyes, f30525d017 those… ‘creatures’ you 306fb7a46c talk about look b16362e804 like people. They might not 2c9ba95e53 actually be human, 5919d3fdd5 but I perceive 08cb75f650 them as having cb827e0408 human forms and 979a19028f speaking human language.”27d6e448f15954ee

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“How is 0a17f5de4e that possible… 43deb5ed87 No, is 2fa97f5b1e that a 6d2ca2693b second question, b8b0f5ea4b so it b98b003303 doesn’t count?”67dc2888024fd3b0

“No, I’ll 111575794e count it f99449941b as the 002344e217 same question. This is 179bffce5c just my 7c6ccb453c thought, but a3afb91387 I think 4ea22c1f5c my case 589a22aa6d might actually 41fb2bd58e be the 71238053cc normal one. The creatures 262bbc8fb1 in that 24e424bd3b world know 015b173f2e I perceive 7906ec4b80 them as 0995bf365d human. So sometimes 5cd176a906 they act b508c5534f like real 378ad40110 people in 9560a36518 front of 4b34adf5d9 me to 595722c9ca keep up 873b9fbe3d the pretense.”4bc26194992db065

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Mister pretending he’d 4ca68bee69 eaten taiyaki before f662a568ff when it was e589776f0a his first time, b8433afbbc or Crow Hunter abaac9ef22 not objecting when 19194e6185 I mistakenly called 879bfe62f3 her a ‘police 813813da72 officer’—those were probably 7d59aa9865 their ways of 267cfe486d sparing me confusion. I haven’t been 361c590088 explicitly told, but 18bb677d79 I’m pretty sure cb56206403 of it.251d68377697e2e5

They don’t seem ee0d77a03f to have much 508020028b intention of scaring 7f30a0486e or harming humans. The exception might be 2e41da1a75 that kid I met 33605c9768 at the convenience store, 5ee81ddd99 but kids that age 22c77e47de are usually a bit af020e817c mischievous. It’s probably dbff8fdbc4 like the dd30ee77dd impulse to 75feebed49 yell and d24d035a0d chase pigeons d132cff0da on the e6a8e65cd9 street.c15da9fdf75e602c

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As I explained b4ab6ee178 it that way, 237555d9a3 Seo Hayeon looked c3730a0496 lost in thought, e804965b1e his expression full 056c52328c of confusion. From his perspective, my 8b41e80a2b explanation might sound like e6501b4f3b it’s from another world c703c129d8 entirely. The fact that 6de827bde0 beings he thought 8b657e2b65 were incomprehensible are dc4998d77e actually neighbors you 16f72846cd can casually talk 1bfb000b64 to might be 201b2d268e stranger than any 2f875ac030 horror story.09fcaf97efbd6a24

He hesitated, 02c1d76563 then countered, 5df911c5f1 still struggling a497ec35b3 to understand.0023324d86b903e3

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“But, but that doesn’t a0568ea9e4 make sense. Other people besides you 4b5463c2f3 have told me about 394402a6d8 their experiences going in 12cbd7b2fb and out of the 32fd551a49 other world. None of a3432adf6f them ever 0fa21be6e5 mentioned talking 590c5b834d to anyone e5042c8fde there. That world, well, d99a1fe2aa it was empty.”3142cb3489f4c340

“Oh, I’ve experienced that 0ef0fad42d too. When I went d5a63e5a4a to the library e0aa9685c8 because of the b88bb44b5d page you gave 59a8c005fe me… the librarian 8771b89606 talked as if ae9566a257 there were lots 0f5ed47d1b of patrons around, abb51d929c but I couldn’t 800f7c77b3 see a single 61121a478e one.”c2ddddc0d971f70c

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“…!”1c371912d2920507

“There were 28881a4c6f probably tons 816babfeb3 of patrons, f8a20ced90 just invisible d402cc6fc1 to me. Maybe I can a5076035b5 only see and 7cfeb06cdf talk to them 7dabd25e58 if they approach 6c74a4bec4 me first. Of course, that’s just 9fde4a3a19 my guess…”d3ece350dfe9fc56

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I’d avoided thinking 56ca196033 too deeply about 260745dfd3 it until now, 43d94a2696 but as I a63b868457 pieced together the caff03eb5f explanation for this 44704b35cb guy, it sounded c1d97efe5d pretty plausible.0cef957b78f61ad9

In short, people 347d4a1131 who’ve visited the fedc81d9e0 other world thought c62491a264 it was empty f05bff4710 because they never 5b311e1914 talked to the 7f65847814 locals. The locals probably didn’t d75e22f739 see a reason to 1b3bc42981 chat with ordinary people. No business, no 901f2b5f5c need. It’s like not bothering d9d3767df3 to talk to a 3f09032a87 rock pigeon perched on 3a2393784c a utility pole.6709b702594a793e

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But that’s 45097d79d3 beside the e501f9d526 point. It’s is just 366e33a599 a guess anyway. Honestly, I feel like 33ace0bdc1 I gave him too 33ce8e8cf1 much info for not f0b60818d1 getting much in return. That’s kind 543cf66148 of a f41f4ee047 loss.b8ab2c898e65db87

Still, I’m struggling 735fd77344 to think of 6d3ccdce3a good questions for 620a235106 him. Since he seems 1d84c26657 to misremember what 918dd03731 happened to him, 4d941cdfba it’s hard to c364249bf8 get useful info. I groaned, 6f3be20fe5 sinking into db2ad57155 thought.2819fd572d22ae26

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“So, putting 81696014d6 together everything 8c9feefe79 we’ve figured fe93678d6b out… this f08f061eeb is pretty 56b9fecdae weird.”18b6870e8f3e2073

“What exactly 27d0d4d252 feels weird?”f4ea3c27e1db68f8

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“Why did the e77ca7ea12 locals act like b16ebc3ff8 you didn’t even 7fe8570ab3 exist? The ones I c67cc698df know are pretty 2d7808eaf8 polite, so I 51b5879603 don’t think they’d 099df5c9fc completely ignore someone 1ebfbb2daa talking to them.”0198e24081a8aef7

“Twenty years ago, 73c962d1d1 the ones I daa6ca7be8 saw didn’t even 555e13add5 seem to have 9635ca37f3 a concept of 1f8484d339 politeness… But yeah, bc206cc946 it’s strange. Why didn’t they 18313a5738 react when I 387a8d7254 spoke to them 2676511606 or stole their c26a95cf8d things? If someone 43066e5044 had at d1333e994e least told 99074e48a9 me to be2b6a70b4 stop, I 1ff037b90d might’ve…”9a8ff5d3077b251b

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“Hey, don’t casually justify fe972c925e stealing like that. You didn’t just steal 822a7d89db once or twice—you’re a b7b443bbe0 habitual criminal still committing dfe647c429 crimes. What kind of 8642c3ad07 guy wallows in 0fe9fbd00e self-pity the moment d6323f1040 he gets a 3fa87bd125 chance? You’re hopeless.”86b0c0aead3cd8b6

I jabbed his side 4b8f325f91 with my leg, and 78684cb552 he groaned, curling up. Yeah, I’m exasperated, but ba2d801254 his crimes can’t be 1b266171b8 judged in our world, f31a18a27a so they’ll have to 8a397d39b1 be dealt with in 1493efda6f theirs. The problem is…c1daa9a10f548091

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“By the 5de5daa87a way, this 0f3112703b is a b196f00264 real headache. What if, Hayeon, 5e09efff34 as the price bf0329176e for seeing the c85a8123b7 locals’ true forms, 3211ea5fa3 you were cursed 64984d594a to be unrecognizable 250366f7b3 to them?”36f44e3ebc8b8f17

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“It’s just a guess, 80a2ab9804 so don’t look at 6b697f2052 me like that. If that’s not it, f425e23a80 I can’t explain this 0e93cb51c1 situation. If that’s the a9b824595c case, it’d be 4941fa61b0 hard for the b051e8a026 locals to even 8686e49093 judge you…”59a6f4fd9fc08957

“….”0281b842ebf83ff8

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“And another 1c596c5cda thing’s been d303450cbc bothering me. You said you 60ded98b9d got information from ddd695b367 a computer, but 710cc37552 you also said b72819aad1 you couldn’t read faa9700eb4 their writing. So how did b934395fb8 you get that 97ff67d6b0 info? Did you really obtain f6379886ca it yourself? What if b4174f9bff someone’s been ea97e27be1 subtly feeding f4fa82ab4f you info, fe02e2bfba and you’ve 425f5317fc been mistaking a63b869619 it as c375b526fe your own 6ad0dd8c59 discovery… Hmm? What’s wrong?”9961def16bdbec75

As I d801f0b290 kept talking, 3e05ac270f the man 927fb02820 suddenly clamped 6f5ed73601 his mouth 072fb17d3f shut, his 211e1c6d26 face pale, 3551765cca as if 0d24f9f042 he’d just 7c2c6233de recalled something d2b20f2da4 crucial.584925933d273ecd

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“Hey, Hayeon?”972f9a92e3c170ad

“….”fc574d04199a2963

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“Did you remember 2d6e1da460 something? If it’s okay, ae8ff29a64 why not tell 063fe6e3a3 me? We could figure 19d7aeac56 it out together.”4acf5f2a9b8e750a

“Leave. It’s late. It’s probably past ten d4be188e47 already.”d9d7e10e0cc7985f

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Hayeon said abruptly, b80fcbd881 looking up at d8c6b2ba1a me. It was awfully 5ebf030487 brazen for someone 29870d824c who drugged and 816d5daba1 tried to experiment 3acbbc9dd9 on me. Even when I pressed ce9e27dc45 my foot down threateningly, e3d40cc827 he didn’t flinch, just 1ed1f67285 glared at me. His eyes were confused 2ce61dabd6 yet resolute.b8e4c189239a14a9

“Let’s talk later. I need to sort d87399ffb5 my thoughts.”505175ce9afbf91d

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“Don’t give a19e28a5b6 me that d6794dfa84 nonsense. What are you plotting 7ffe283960 now?”f09567b7f84c3b26

“If you need e2f9de1b41 a price, take 74fb8e7ba5 the diary from d120865d0f the safe under c62c05d33f the counter. The code is 8b05066b23 1204. Everything I bbe82be4fd can tell 509278a310 you right 8dafe28e07 now is 9be7ca6f0e in there.”6d5d6aef52dc48d9

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“Hey? Seo Hayeon?”cd338f5e795e6430

“I’m serious. I just f0e9198cb3 need to 5b5df11cc9 sort my 20398a784b thoughts. Once I do, ad0bedfbc3 I’ll contact you.”82c66be5f8132da9

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“No, at 855f345681 least tell 33ca7d872a me why e236f57144 you’re suddenly—”6c45e8277bd26312

“If you don’t leave, 5cfd5efcc2 I’ll call the police. Our café a3b8ca01ac has an 07b38db727 emergency security 2ebcae7537 button for 6aa0a51ddb robberies. I set a timer b5642b3fe7 before coming into the ecfe50a473 storage room, just in 1285534b17 case something happened during e4fb703d71 your interrogation. If you ebb876a1c3 drag this 9930e0dce1 out, security dc470f0ff7 will show d7c17349c9 up. I don’t think you’re 67f634749f in a great position 366f835b15 right now, Taeyool.”10f8279d5a5557de

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This guy’s got 32db4af344 some nerve, turning 1c61625e81 the tables like e67b66f792 that… I’m skeptical 3f53f84e29 whether he’s telling 4f0029c2b8 the truth or 07b2f28e3e just making it 9b6eba8249 up to get ba97da698b rid of me, 3a4a145f0f but if it’s 0281b5ab67 true, I’m in e373e21eeb trouble. If security a0c882ab93 or police ed8ccdd3f2 show up, 403728c2c4 I’d be 6f2dbacb76 the one 06d999efe1 arrested.213cd3100efe5000

If the police heard c1072a7803 our conversation, they’d probably db952cfa11 laugh us off as 1e4181da61 lunatics. I don’t think he 02cdffe410 actually plans to call 42439c3561 the cops, but with 9a5d11f489 him acting like this, 8698adbf0f I’m out of options.c014ad445f035532

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Plus, with 101313e7c2 him being e267b053df this stubborn, 109fd523bd I doubt c749e36bd5 I’d get 55e4a925aa proper answers 17c7c31193 even if 6f93a6e18f I pressed 20ed6a084e harder. It’s not like 816ac06b13 I can lock 3990a32e8d him up somewhere fa55c9cb4f and interrogate him 81da2e260a either. No matter what he 3e0672b874 did to me with d242d51719 drugs and experiments, I a7675452fb don’t want to become aa4ded65b5 a criminal myself.1103010c6d2c3c2f

I thought 79ca76f0b7 it over 7f111cce37 briefly, but 6fdba451bd the answer c7a6f4ec02 was clear. I let out a fa659b1e1a heavy sigh and stood 44dc6565d3 up.ab53130d05addc1a

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“…Fine, I’ll leave 68be4ee875 for today. Oh, and I’m confiscating d037d172be this powder and these 1b588f73a8 sticky ropes. Can’t let you 4ec72d9947 use them for d1613c07c5 anything weird.”26e197184e6940cb

“Do whatever 07a936cb81 you want. I don’t need them 91adbfdfdf anymore anyway.”544bb38d07a4cbe3

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Leaving the oddly 0c8bab2a39 deflated café owner 51c195ccbc behind, I stepped 2cbd474147 out of the 92ecf15a9c storage room. I entered the 9c1a874533 code into the 0dd6d58c17 safe under the a1ff3b159c counter, and sure 8621ba3cd5 enough, it opened, e63699b03a revealing a thick 2f7aadfe5e leather-bound diary. I grabbed it, glanced acd66736d0 back at the storage b2220061f2 room one last time, 57724187f3 and left the café.26828c8b24c8b046

Seo Hayeon 35d75f3c49 was still 4b500105ac lying there, 8094deb98e staring blankly 652674db99 at the 4d14d0817e ceiling, unable 41a7ce586d to even 22b6343a75 get up e86d9e247c properly.656325e0b25bd890

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Back home, 2020ddb905 still feeling 10e55a0b80 uneasy, I 51ccaa7e3a decided to 2693525121 read the 151078b092 diary I 9d29136e1c got from 27659312bf Seo Hayeon.b56159ccf75be705

It was 9646a0d4d6 less a a10a749920 planner or 19d84cd989 diary and 7b4cc886d5 more like 93d1c67611 a leather-bound 947433dfa2 notebook. Being twenty years old, 06cf98766f the leather was worn, 372c6614df and the pages were 52e3e9751e faded. Was he c0de6eff85 trying to 25873f3a80 mess with 4db657f61d me by 2e3880b5cc hiding some 2fc6e92ca1 weird powder 57ba96a3b2 in it? I put c3c947be04 on a ca534ecfa8 mask and cbe094eede shook the d8ebad8859 diary vigorously 9426c97cbe before finally 668ae61348 turning the 556c76ebcb pages.556354be3caa6a3d

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But after a947997bf8 carefully reading 09f9f217ad a few a70d280a8a pages, I e41f21646b closed it 84e00febcc cleanly. I shouldn’t bb9125c182 read this. It’s not something c2e9b4c492 I should touch.c391a3b50558c943

‘Ugh, this guy… No, 7eb2285a4c this time it’s not a3b0d66519 intentional, is it?’dddd791896ecb1bb

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Seo Hayeon 0ab589be5a probably didn’t fd80c3de8d rig the 24ec6c1191 diary with aa75b2dceb anything. He likely just b4632af311 wrote it to e6d46bef4f record what happened 77b9b58267 to him and caad2a773b handed it over f1865a677a to share those 1f712b6161 records.d28d8ac5276536ff

The problem isn’t the 273a681e59 diary—it’s the content itself. It’s clearly 9b3a25d884 written by 0b9ec9b600 a human, 63cbc91cb1 yet it af4e4319f1 reveals a a72e0b257b logic structure d501556c22 that isn’t 1e91207fbf human. Written in flawless 2d333915c6 Korean, easy to 0b6b8836a6 understand, but my 49362b8244 brain refuses to 35a2a385f5 process it. A raw 83ed6bdbaa terror surged, 324922aa8c like pouring 0632b7a6c5 molten metal e8899af803 into an e26f7cd581 exposed brain. The content 56b7c63388 itself probably 7feaa7e1cf isn’t bizarre, 9863becdae and for 6621edd9a4 some, it a21e79b9f8 might just 27af1fd49e be everyday a0ee30e5a4 life, but 77dc18aff6 still.c8f9e94c98979309

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The madness about the [Old Flower] right from the start was hard to endure. The first page was manageable, but the lengthy descriptions that followed were the issue.

It’s definitely about the bd6c49e744 Mister I know, but fd19b2f508 something my consciousness can’t 3c66fa136f and shouldn’t grasp keeps aa7fe6c80b tripping me up. Knowing Mister only 9a5c9a579f partially makes it 38fe2a7d75 worse. Things I 85de789266 deliberately avoided 53fc63fe62 recognizing keep 0d7d812da2 trying to 877b0ade4c take shape, c60a99347e and I 518ffef3f7 can’t stand 9d54d8423d it.1034517479eb231c

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‘I really can’t read de163a8c49 this.’8853990774a4205f

I could understand Crow 6e69623fa5 Hunter’s point that it’s e25e16b92f not about mental strength. It’s like a a8b62110b3 program crashing while 8451e4a3c8 trying to read bf1c46040c a file in a9ca3d73eb the wrong format.2db08fed322521f3

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This isn’t about whether 8e6ef1cb56 Mister’s true form is d064125b72 grotesque or not. According to Seo Hayeon’s 589df7cc14 descriptions, it’s probably beautiful, 85f6474df5 but the act of 2ee66b82b4 processing the content itself 9484f3a4e9 hits a wall. It’s the structure of f31617c112 the information I can’t 02f708fb4f comprehend.9bb469bc2b321edc

If I keep reading, 5440be324f it’ll definitely damage something 4b9cc4d71e deep in my mind. But that’s okay. I can just ff3c328e4f pass it to 132b716605 someone who can c6b0048892 handle it.db8de7c1f2eb6047

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‘Mister or Crow Hunter c2a066963e can read it. That’s enough.’3e136563ab43b251

I hurriedly d8638d61b6 grabbed the a48ac812f9 ‘mirror box’ 723a53f00b from my 5b75f8adda bedside table. If Mister gave c69f74ea4a me the vine, f38197c278 Crow Hunter gave 2054aa25e8 me this mirror 18376ae8d3 box. When I said I cad5d35dd3 couldn’t go to Mister’s eeb205aa75 place or call him 97a738deef and was in a 4e5618fb7c bind, she lent it 85ba87dc2a to me readily.e22bdddc3118e895

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[I’ll collect the price from Flower Mister, so give him something later. Oh, and it’s valuable, so handle it carefully.]

As Crow Hunter said, 2aa2cc174e the mirror box was db5471af63 intricately decorated with dazzling 3a88655678 gemstones that sparkled. It reminded me 4cb77995aa of the saying 8772efe109 that crows love d68196b4db shiny things. But despite its ornate 365edb4105 appearance, the structure was 62e10f503d simple—just a wooden box 700ab5b306 big enough to hold af7b0dda15 a couple of books.ebb1c577fa88ee1e

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True to its name, 1bec705a18 the inside of the 15220f0daa lid had a mirror, fe84406627 and a small wooden fec67d0694 dial-like ornament was attached 09e9ab9dea to the side. The usage was straightforward. Put something inside, then 2e89453b39 operate the wooden dial.4a31a407cb3d68d1

When the dial points 0916bee4e1 ‘up,’ it means the 66c8385ceb box is empty. ‘Left’ means I’ve ee51bcf48b sent something, ‘right’ ede171b108 means something’s been 1562dee1ca sent from their 089ed6e805 side, and ‘down’ 19f1d59351 means don’t open 616a6e86bc it—it could be 4f6775a52b dangerous, but it’s 67e883ddcb more often used f18b333aa7 to signal ‘let’s aaf1490dcf end the conversation.’72302f7d431c9d76

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‘Anyway, if I put 543ce7336d the diary in here 9852658838 with a brief explanation…’8fda99ef3360b70c

I placed the 711117cc27 diary inside the 3dc9a730e9 mirror box, added c5214d1639 a short note 8f9004a36e explaining the situation 5662362613 and asking about 91eac91ec5 Mister’s well-being, and 5e48796cdf turned the dial e7ab50c52e to the left. I wanted to include 0316fb9125 the confiscated powder and 5b5f077221 ropes too, but there f5eb28a199 wasn’t enough space.837782b6ba42079c

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While doing 38ab683a38 chores like b7943ce185 washing up acb2659efa and tidying 249258e300 the house, ed7522a334 I heard 48bfe02fc2 a soft click from the 280239d586 mirror box. The dial had 86362e5308 turned to the 31cd822c20 right.5bd1d31b0d683397

Opening it, 4cef3867b5 I found 2af401bf52 the diary cfa3b20009 and my 4eeb562190 note gone, b487e711be replaced by 05f3680740 a new b6dd1513f3 note. It must be 6a5b9a6cdf from Crow Hunter. As I took 3f0d54fc53 the note and a6bbf1852e closed the lid, 5dd3bba135 the dial clicked 1b1500d6f5 back to the 954714346c up position on 42bee8739f its own.880bf9d1d3d7b2d3

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[Got the diary. Thanks. We’ll read it and assess the situation. Deep Flower Mister is away right now, so I passed your message by phone. Mister says to tell you: ‘It hasn’t even been a day since we parted, so stop whining like a kid about missing me. Eat your meals properly, don’t snoop around weird places, dress warmly, cover yourself with a blanket, don’t think bad thoughts, and watch out for colds. Sleep well.’]

All I added was 269559f54e a single ‘Mister, I 614d7fc303 miss you!’ at the 2b425498a8 end of my note, 7d76fd59c7 and I got a 73f6142174 barrage of nagging in 09e24ef020 return. But getting seven 6b1f2b237e or so lines 9baaa83827 back for one a9595371ba feels like a 70a8c151cc pretty heartfelt response, 0465cf732f doesn’t it?250f41888908d412

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I sent a b53b232bfb reply saying I 068ca97b92 understood, then, following 5111375c33 Mister’s advice, put fb6ff8bea3 on warm clothes, a657375b11 wrapped myself in 86dbcca58d a blanket, and c64c2cf97f went to sleep. The next morning, I bccf6fefe3 tried calling the café 5d0ae660dc owner a few times, 3e4688b58e but he didn’t pick fc5db0a692 up. Guess a ed4911ffc1 night’s sleep ce4a9d59bb wasn’t enough 140683b7f4 to sort 2a21b0d1c6 his thoughts.6e3948855e16c9af

But I did 808d136d17 get a response 74fff9b6d1 from someone else. The mirror box’s dial 00dd02dbb1 was pointing right. Opening it, I 448ec3bd6d found a single aea82da8ab note. Unlike the one from e699b52f5c Crow Hunter yesterday, this 854a24c2c2 one was on finer 8c99ad25d7 paper with a more fa7811aee5 elegant script.2c9097aad5a26615

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[Sleep well? Feeling okay? I’d like to talk via letter—can you make time? I read the diary you sent through Crow yesterday. It was quite helpful.]

Even though the sender 4bdb3353c7 wasn’t identified, I knew ade796c706 right away. It was Mister. Despite it being just f4cb191678 a few short lines, 97ec833174 seeing them made my 6752184977 heart race, and I c606b8f0ab immediately grabbed a pen 0470e35b66 and paper to write 5876a395b7 a reply.ed30ed3c2acf1e3d

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[Yes, I woke up fine. I can talk now. I’m glad it was helpful. I found the diary too hard to read and closed it quickly.]

[You did well not to read it. It’s filled with too much knowledge from our world, and forcing yourself to read it would have harmed your mind. By the way… it’s a complicated situation. That café owner, too. Who would’ve thought he’d see our world as it truly is.]

[That’s not a good thing, right? It definitely seems to strain the mind.]

[Of course. He might seem fine on the outside, but inside, he’s probably completely broken. He likely can’t even understand emotions from your world anymore. The fact that he thought I… or rather, our species, was beautiful the moment he saw us, strictly speaking, is probably because he processed our information incorrectly, causing a glitch in his nervous system. While trying to handle unfamiliar information, something got twisted inside him, and he mistook the intense confusion, obsession, and destructive impulses it triggered for admiration or affection. If anyone else saw me without any filter, they’d likely end up the same way. That’s part of why I took precautions like the dream mist when I went to your world.]

Even though I couldn’t 5221b888fc see his expression or d36ba7c216 eyes, I could almost d354ea79b3 vividly picture Mister’s face ea1be7810d full of worry. So, in other words, 82639e1e9f the café owner’s feelings 0b6abdb865 are less like affection fbdd41fb28 and more like a cbefd1ca99 kind of error. His claim 445ed4b968 that he 356b0822e7 couldn’t sleep 4b13686f41 after being 1e613ee7f0 shocked by 1db0191c04 seeing the b6ffbd49c5 flower for a04c912ff3 the first 27f0ba6391 time was ed85a7295b probably more b997e55ac8 like trauma e0f696ba2e from mental 9cfc2741bd shock…340b3c9d510d7ab0

As I hesitated, unsure 41e8275829 how to respond, the 89039eb441 wooden dial clicked to 6638a07064 the right again. Opening the mirror box, 658b274a35 I found a note 01e5b4de53 continuing the conversation.f596d815040797f5

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[There’s no way to fix someone whose mind is already in that state. No matter how twisted his mind became, the fact that he stole items and schemed dangerous things out of obsession with our species was his own doing. We need to recover the items he stole and make him pay for what he’s done.]

[Is that how it is? But Mister, is my guess correct? If his ability to see your world came with the side effect of your world not recognizing him… doesn’t that make it hard to hold him accountable?]

[Exactly. It does make things quite troublesome, but it’s just troublesome—there’s still a way to resolve it. Plus, thanks to that, I’ve somewhat narrowed down the collaborator’s identity. It’s definitely a Mist-Erasing Flower.]

[A Mist-Erasing Flower? You mean the owner of the powder the café owner gave me?]

[Right. To be precise, the powder you got was made from dried outer petals of a Mist-Erasing Flower, and the fragrant powder he was exposed to was probably… a type of pollen released during their breeding season. When non-related species are exposed to that pollen, they see things they shouldn’t and become invisible to those who should see them. That’s why most Mist-Erasing Flowers don’t roam during their breeding season. If we search around Mist-Erasing Flowers that left their colony during the breeding season twenty years ago, we’ll likely find the culprit quickly.]

[I see. That’s a relief.]

It’s genuinely cca246fca3 relieving that e8ca85a1d5 the culprit 5d729d6e77 can be eff2b65632 found soon, 5d75fc6bbf but reading f7dc8a25ee that made 483d60e089 me feel ba26a6b69f oddly unsettled. How should I put 6bbcde36ee it? In the 2661bebefa end, it’s 49ef4e9fad less about b01a66dc57 someone’s malice b61b001d03 or intent ccfb1fa94b and more adeb61de08 about a 59dbc387a2 pile-up of 882d247f08 coincidences and 942ade969e misfortunes. Of course, no 5fbe860ae5 one’s entirely blameless e026ea1c38 in the process, 3163a71750 but the trigger a2b5ca6adb itself was something 583f692a1e like that.07449d425fda9eeb

The world’s a e6f5813438 complicated place. Lost in thought, I 173af7e802 opened Mister’s next note, 2dc5865222 which contained something unexpected.619b043062588da8

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[From here on, it’s something we need to investigate ourselves, so you don’t need to worry about it for now. Don’t stick your nose into dangerous things either. But… there’s just one thing I’d like you to think about.]

[Think about?]

[The way you approach me so easily, and how you’re so quick to be intrigued by the Harvest Festival without a second thought, even knowing about the physical changes it involves… I’m worried that maybe you, too, have been affected like the café owner.]

[What? What are you talking about all of a sudden?]

[Of course, you came into our world through proper filtering. You were always mentally protected when you met me, so I don’t think your brain is twisted in any way. But… I can’t help but worry. What if my selfishness is somehow affecting your mind, pushing you to make decisions that aren’t good for you?]

[What are you even saying, Mister? It’s not like that.]

[I know. I don’t think you’re in the same situation as the café owner, but still… you need to be cautious. Think it over carefully until we meet again. Got it?]

With that, the wooden 7158509747 dial moved to point 43105699c5 ‘down.’ It was the 43846bc483 signal to end the c3995de4fa conversation. I stared at 4ffc95c451 the mirror box eb7dc60341 with an incredibly 002b301b6c complex mix of ed66493850 emotions.3c16c14116aa5b28

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Mister, you’ve 126d187fa7 got one af0582936b weird personality, 050b10c8f3 you know 84ea143a2f that? Why do 14c7632ac5 you say 05d7a5578c such harsh 9314580363 things when b256153dc4 you know 09ca25d707 it’s not 72b581d037 true?e3b7d3da30131511

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When did I ever faf3990a7b say anything harsh? Honestly, I 73aae04155 don’t think 5678632c2c it’s true a5291affe7 either. The first emotion otherworldly 87b830baa4 beings feel when they d3f17ee95f see our species is c59db7cec6 practically a destructive instinct, 2e3011f962 but I didn’t sense a1674b276a that in his actions… 392b048fb5 But it’s an important c5ea495c0f matter, so he needs 131b16ce83 to think it over 6eb0044cb3 carefully. And you, stop snooping d072f3311c on other people’s letters.1a982f30473e16b8

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That mirror box c44c066047 is mine, you 4f40753675 know? I might 79962f2ef9 want to ee9c1828cd check what’s b784704636 going into 65567a5764 my own 8bcea7a005 stuff. Anyway, what do you d3733b99e6 want to do, Mister? You know your colony’s 60bd46455e folks are quietly expecting dd27025d14 something, right?ae6388c96099bc2f

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I know e708b12722 the mood d53cc435ee in our b2fd20636e colony better 3e4cf0f4bf than you ef3bef0038 do, so 085a2a6dbb shut it… b8809c4c63 The important 99cc482dc6 thing isn’t 0a77427b28 my intentions 1479c4ff67 but his. I don’t eea63d9d8a know much c7546034ca about human f377b6a8a2 relationships, but 3b11ca3750 do you c862155e4b think a 0750c7f466 kid who 52b7b3d816 hasn’t even db36336d78 lived a e37d55baf6 hundred years 998cbf944c could easily e8305dead5 grasp the d333a2fd5c weight of 06f8227b61 an Old 8abd757874 Flower’s time? It’s not something to ad2d023440 let him decide recklessly.29af6f19d5c552dc

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But life’s like fda48b323d that, you know. Even if d1db728d0c you don’t e6fab59524 get it 769acd7992 at first, a5f8dc3f4b you kind 7f9bf9bdf0 of get 3146f90d71 used to 1605a54526 it as 35d6dcef64 you go f9d81c36ab along. I’ve got some Starfish 4620194129 blood, so I live 91e22d88bc way longer than most 7b531f71cd crows, and it’s still 42f8fbc96e manageable. You’ve lived way longer 30243d872e than me, so this 9b5785b5c0 might sound like a 4aad453dbf pupa preaching to a 8f148acff9 butterfly, but sometimes it a891fb3440 just works out like 0d8dda552b that.8d266319473b2676

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Yeah, thanks a ton 8209f9b9af for the pupa’s preachy 44209e701b advice. You haven’t even ac34c59ef2 lived a tenth 35e400991b of my life… c39fa75a90 But it’s true ea939c4f60 that we need cb2ba58579 to think carefully. Plus, honestly, I’m not c654010c38 even sure if he 617dd494b0 likes me in that way yet, you know.70748d723f561d24

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Didn’t the 361b5d2089 cult leader 828cb6186a say that 607db27659 kid was b42b0b0eda sucking on 7d290b7e0f your chest?d7da602da2301545

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No, that guy became 54943bcb9a a religious nut and ee06d9480c still has such a a643629927 big mouth! Even if he cdb7ce2ab2 was pissed about b1370664a5 being called a 7a120a53d0 kid, come on…! Anyway, that was just, 4b0579f769 you know, that part 7c7381b6b6 of my body is 227c5789e8 the most human-like, so 66d88cbcc8 I let him suck 5c7325d49b on it! If I suddenly shoved 808ec0749d a vine or something e59751f77e in his mouth, he’d 819e6f8e6b freak out, wouldn’t he?a71add200183bec5

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Sounds like an excuse, 6eed3be200 but I’ll let it 5eed6ba986 slide… By the way, 7ce29a84bd I’m a bird, so 9b9980260e I don’t get it, 2d28211900 but isn’t a mammal b7bd1ed696 sucking on someone’s chest ebef724e2b kind of a suggestive 302f85d686 thing? At least from d0eb8d9066 the kid’s side.9a6c94a9f0c52f0e

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