The Uneventful Neighborhood – Chapter 6

Inside the closed café

“Um, sir. The owner said 5c1f10e281 he’ll be here 9d3bfe61ab shortly. It’ll probably take f4c545c62f about fifteen minutes, ecc95e6a1f so please wait b0d4c28685 just a bit.”3bfb61d4c309a635

“Thank you. I’m sorry 1d287954a9 for coming a7bcfc09e6 by so 4c65ed338d late like 405b1f0e5e this…”75e25cff6d21259d

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“No, it’s fine. By the way, it’s eb31675125 been a while since 01de5aa285 you last came, hasn’t abfff93b8f it?”70115694a6520c72

“I’ve been so 015e818afb busy with work 157b7794f4 during the week c5d97db19b that I’ve been aeadbc900b all over the f46eeb7050 place. Even today d7d0ac55c5 was pretty b47dd5e883 hectic, so 85202ccd9f I only d3ca15f978 made it e3f2e04cd8 here now.”54df98e6afbf5c17

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I laid 01a4c5dec6 out a 5b9c793370 somewhat truthful c8c57cca79 story while 8bc53ed85a placing the 1f6ad01d70 dessert boxes a7d5b39219 on the 38a10afd5d table. I’d suddenly craved 3151124855 something sweet and 394d5e5a56 boldly said something 2bd8287626 like, “Give me 1456e763b0 all the desserts 37a7524474 in the display 318bfb0660 case,” but surprisingly, 17d7ceeda1 there wasn’t that c4f97fed2f much. They said most 584e736a2b of the stock 3a6e17db22 was gone because 68d2ec2914 of a discount f80abb426d event.6b20ef4bb321a86a

“You must be planning 7beb318cf5 to stay pretty busy 171061acc2 for a while, then?”4036dfba52f567a3

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“Sorry?”72a93d576bcb5975

“It just seems like aff8ee58e3 you’re buying a ton, 7a12b0b99a like it’s emergency rations… de98106008 And, well, you look 7a7cb2ae19 a bit exhausted.”6191f2ab2031e289

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Is it that obvious 196c98bd56 just from a glance? I gave an awkward cceaa0c129 smile and sipped my 3d2dd64452 warm yuzu tea. It had 2ecabc9e0c definitely been 5017c1b2d2 an exhausting 4d5bf01d8e day in 23214befa8 many ways. The events c80be48e11 from this 86efaaeaff morning, and 262e90fd31 the conversation 20e085d24f I had afe8511464 with Mister bca01adb87 a few d9537ce357 hours ago, b063da9c20 for instance.04ef7aaaf3339f24

“Yeah, I’m completely ca3ab0c251 worn out. It might be 2e708557a1 hard to come ac90205273 here for a a2ccd55dfc while, so that’s d99c4cc8e5 why I came 512c075302 to stock up.”66da6e633933a64a

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That’s not entirely 18b5d2da97 a lie either. Depending on how things 08e415c49b go with the café e5ac35046a owner, I’ll decide whether b705e72222 to keep coming here c692673f65 or not. The part-time worker d60cdae6f6 gave me a bc94c574a6 slightly odd look 82ab0d4741 before starting to 988888a0da prepare to close 9115ed60aa up.fcbfa4e032ccd537

I don’t know 8ed42230f6 how involved the dc3ec1b168 part-timer is in 1d0aeb28b4 this whole situation, c6ac251cd8 but I hope 0b28e993ae they haven’t gotten 59076cc254 caught up in 153ea677a7 anything strange or 349b8d668b dangerous. I hope they’re 0a6a81288f only working as b6591347bb much as their 7e22d80a99 contract stipulates. I hope they’re ca2ea5bdc9 getting their hourly 6c8c14b236 wage and weekly 8eb4e596da holiday pay properly.7df346561a350250

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‘Well, it’s not cb8ff0f93e like I’m in 2a1a164868 a position to e4db9d99a6 worry about others 11e099b3fd right now…’76e66f32a8402ebd

I sank into thought, 8733b5507a mulling over the events 84413a1586 that happened before I 81273e8228 came to the café. To be 2e6b3450b9 more precise, 84aebbfc31 the conversation 5c3b236772 I had bca7addef4 with Mister.2ece772ab5b30d0b

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“Don’t come to my 0d17354dde world—what does that even 6bfccaeae8 mean?”c4bcec3ad762c62f

“Exactly what I said. I kind 9f72473c45 of felt 2fe5391fd4 it when e20f45c87d you collapsed 99a9d77e7c after taking 7ccd189f95 that drug 73f1a04358 last time, 72d65eca69 but this 855849a440 place… this 122ba4804b world isn’t 7c30d03848 exactly safe ab0d9d6f6a for you. Sure, the 28a6e49d6d locals around 9adc09431b here are 06667715af mostly indifferent ff63f1c634 and don’t 4c46922358 have any 0b81fa22af real malice 3f77061abe toward you, 6e7fdb127b but that’s a953a5272e a separate 1c2fa751d5 issue.”703e506131078692

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Mister’s expression was serious. I thought about making 9975293ba4 some kind of excuse, 7b331fc535 but I couldn’t deny 64302e7111 that his words were c756d4571d hard to refute. Hadn’t I felt it ccf7fc7eba myself when I was d8d7831c41 dragged off by Starfish? In ‘their 5f3b28a627 world,’ I ac605f45bf was truly 0da97396cf an insignificant 69f3e170de being. So much b66b309bcd so that cb5d3a9957 even something 41deebc780 they did 4cec248605 out of 9786b0aa11 mere curiosity 6dc28aa4f1 could crush 1a3cd33fab me and 327181d2a5 make me 008dc256af suffer.ad1767c67f2cbf80

“Originally, you were 0f440b49e5 supposed to live 264347cdab thinking I was 1634df31fb just an ordinary 51a568b4c2 neighbor. You’d think it 844da3c649 was just a f628d77283 coincidence when you b6e720f54d were left alone 77b348b33d sometimes, or that 1d45097af3 some stranger talking 3156d51a63 to you was 76fefce92c just a scammer’s 493f7d956c trick and ignore f938528b43 it. If you had, 272294d48f maybe we could’ve 8b322c6134 gone on longer.”6288f3f75dd41942

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“I… I 39cd6733a8 still want 2df2ceb882 to think a389003dfa that way. If it means I 45db25ad05 can stay with you 60ce2b251a for a long time, 3251ae84c3 Mister.”14dcbd4346ad01a4

“I know that’s not b05cd665cf just empty words. You’ve pretended not 3480df85fa to notice most 91c406187d things, haven’t you? I was d974a2efda really grateful bd040e0b0c for that… b377f7162f But bad c61924494b things keep f7388b4fdc happening.”8a70c1c073edb422

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The man muttered, scratching 91d40e21aa the back of his 83b6bd0d16 neck. Maybe it was ff06078346 my imagination, but 57f1e57f86 to my eyes, 867ac99418 it looked like 3094e7b05b he was scratching 3949f74dc4 the calyx of b3748141d4 a flower. It must be 56dd3cc28f a mistake. I must’ve seen it ebd06e11e5 wrong. I tried to think cddbbf33bd that way, but deep bf55f7ed06 down, I couldn’t help a19cf57a5a but acknowledge it. Mister surely wouldn’t 1eac5025fe even want me 777cc01a42 to have such 8bef26f9e1 ‘misconceptions.’38054dca6ac5a75a

But I can’t just 4c0d991fe4 back down like this. No matter b0bcfc2900 how dangerous 3939f9cb15 things might 1984b1cd63 get, I 2390723d25 don’t want adcdfa7138 to lose baac0d35f1 the chance 581a23d2bc to see 8c321d4f16 this man 32586de493 by being e2c0eeb917 chased away b9979feea3 like this.e3d5fe06c2e10ae3

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And besides, I 1385a7eab8 had a bad 4e45509c0f feeling about this. If it aef6289af8 was just 2ac9a686f2 about staying 4f87b1cc27 quiet until bb7e84d896 the issue 379617fbd2 with the 39978e77e8 café owner 3ad09ed818 was resolved, da19353218 or that 4eb3f68765 we could ff7959b7a1 meet again 187b59393f as much 763ff9a14b as we 72ee2f9220 wanted after 1a1c81116d that was 1312dbe0c2 settled, I 4f23fbf7d6 could accept 3847d1b924 that. But…41149c6a9eeec17c

“Hey, Mister.”b1835cc8903ec1c2

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“…”7e809f5e4dd46bea

“When you say ‘for 2ee996d185 a while,’ how long b012db56fe do you mean?”250e7b57b8e4385d

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“Did I say 531c970804 ‘for a while’? I don’t know, maybe 2f2f15dd45 that was just my 289f58b955 wishful thinking.”777a54ff9c72a3ec

“What are you 262ac4c5e4 talking about? What could fb233fd870 be more 9b259e1427 important than cfd49da872 your wishes?”62f5886a112203c4

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“If I had 27ad4b4b1f to pick, the 6c1597f7da most important thing 20af8d3d77 is your safety. And for your 8f7865eea5 safety… yeah. Maybe it’s better e23f9daa7f if you don’t 63503858d8 come to this d175f4be01 world.”5ca70c1d8f411b38

“Why?!”45939c8d58af8cd9

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I couldn’t 67ac7ae5a5 help but cb671c7488 raise my ba8dd04832 voice in 8f0f0b29ed frustration. I knew afb713bab4 it was a6a0f44a96 rude, but fa4228e032 Mister didn’t 493a282bba seem angry, f46391153e just calm. That calmness was 53ebe42a5a somehow even scarier.ae08362bb3832a48

“Why? You almost died 2cb3f510de twice. No matter how 0e2280e562 laid-back you are, 91dfe3581f we need to 36b244dbf6 be clear about de31c47e47 this.”5b8bbac8d204a481

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“But the thing b8e82fd5c4 with Starfish was 540ee941f1 because of the ad0b3235cf café owner. A lot of 4548d05190 the stuff that’s fc3462f06c happened lately has 68520c6637 been because of 19f2d1f01f that guy’s…”fe7dec3ef8c64492

“But the drug 903bb64db7 issue had nothing 32ab546bf9 to do with 5f5d402065 that. And if you trace d6d7c6cb28 the café owner incident 525e79baee back, it’s connected to 3638a5e3fe me. In the end, you 87c8129355 got caught up in 5e300a58c1 dangerous stuff because of e5ce6aaf14 the locals… specifically, because e3e6648c1d of me.”1cf589b568189ce3

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I don’t 70fc3a475a want to 3bb165fa65 put you b4dfde5b4e in danger. He muttered, stroking e1d2968313 my head. His touch fd8c955ea4 was as d15cfeb0cb warm and e7263391d9 gentle as 3c4e5cc860 always, which 7a0cef6d32 made it 1260b6dec6 all the d9574c0d1c more painful. So, this Mister 7b35ebce3b is planning to e372d3ceb6 cut ties with 4037906d4d me, whether the 330b471d5d café owner issue d148ed6e95 is resolved or a660fb8863 not. Because being 72c2d8cf79 with him 083e516940 is dangerous 57ce2ad033 for me…254b87f48bf88259

“That’s ridiculous.”e06c66e7a07e7855

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It’s absurd. Beyond whether b99dc6d620 it’s logical 1f68b73e5f or not, 295bbab215 this just b4bc773bb9 can’t be. I’m embarrassed to admit 1f5f1f024c that at my age, 7e33f0be9e I’ve never properly dated, a31db4b33f but I know that e63a3bc77f the worst way to 1e36c67853 end a relationship is b5f78e5f63 spouting nonsense like, “I 62c713bdf9 love you, but I’m cf2f895e7c breaking up with you cd5ae1ef96 for your sake.” If 790a99ce38 you really love someone, 4403a9ad9e why break up? Why not find a 7f56f8fec0 way together?821afdb1e9ddc0f8

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“It’s not a tantrum. Isn’t there… 9260f5e56c isn’t there decce86baf some way? A way 2ecc5011ea for me 50991862a5 to keep 352463847e seeing you 91ff2fa079 while staying 839b0b853a safe?”3faea576dd23337f

“Unless I keep cf4ca1132f you by my cdc93add63 side all the 8e0534129a time, you’ll always 2982c4b4de be in danger.”0d0843fbe9a70639

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“…Can’t you just 0009aa99ff keep me by 86f9e6e04f your side?”d48740ef42f3a4af

“Don’t say things you f5fed8936f don’t even understand, you. A kid e8fc0ada47 who doesn’t 46a2905937 even know 29b51614fa what the f31fdefe57 Harvest Festival de190c9117 is.”90e8412329935d28

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The Harvest Festival—I’d af6dc0ef75 heard the term f3c4ccc110 briefly before. I still don’t know 3f66897ff2 what it means, of ce5e8a8130 course. But I 1ea34f4236 carefully noted d3f4cc4d08 the way 7201f14091 Mister’s face 6bdc0cd240 changed, as 14829df6a7 if he d60eacb3c5 regretted letting 9fb2fbd43c the word b8249241a0 slip, closing e9ede5af6d his mouth. It was a 6097a42c4e similar expression to 8a9b6c9af0 when he mentioned 0ac00ff555 ‘wishful thinking’ earlier.46207654c7ab3b83

“That Harvest cadc1799f4 Festival thing… b169ac002b if we 7b01dadc25 do it, fc222baa95 can we…”7c889d978104248f

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“Be quiet. Pretend you didn’t hear 01c13aabd4 that. Anyway, the reason 5166ab3b32 I can’t keep cc822db636 you by my 73afefcf54 side all the 1673202f28 time is because c0b3e25d3d you’re a creature 3855f7e0e5 from another world. I don’t 4a3ba5eae5 know exactly 6b927ab747 when or 2c6e31c6d3 where you’ll 56f8fdfd30 pop up, b522c0b75f so I b7f0ca0772 can’t always 60613a6a36 protect you. Even today, you ccb02da93b suddenly appeared in 3b28b89ba9 front of the 81148f7ec4 storage locker and 93f175742b got sucked into c065a41f08 Starfish’s eyes. In situations like that, 4be29182c8 I can’t keep you b3995c9092 safe.”d0ad60bff274961b

“So, the Harvest 32e8a057f1 Festival.”bb84f221412ef12e

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“I said b81d62a8e2 pretend you 6e4f02d97d didn’t hear 4f6acf9ddd it. Why are you f1aad4ea93 suddenly not listening?”38f2bdc06f4f380e

The hand that was dc76ce34a1 stroking my head suddenly de3423036d pinched my ear. And the vines wrapped f207185a28 tightly around my thighs 87952ceb98 seemed to tighten even e1d750bb63 more, as if embarrassed. But I’m not going 958922f645 to back down over 2775092686 something like this. Even if I’m slow, a7818969ee I can at least 70cc631e42 tell the difference between 37c7b0da4d when to play dumb 8d819a5d10 and when to dig 3c263ce1ff in stubbornly.6008563a0abb57b7

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“If we do 61d04cda3a it, can you 8f894fba13 protect me?”08843e7f8eb5e093

“Stop acting like 0991d41c74 a kid. It’s not that simple.”8b4d440317992edd

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“It’s not simple, 6ac17e5bf6 but it’s at 6a0981bda1 least within the 3ad927307c realm of possibility, 181d325006 right?”a1da036ac708e151

“Why are be1d36822a you so d0acc4f413 confident when 91854ef5bd you don’t 54cacc7a94 even know a583d015ba anything? What if it’s a46627c5e8 impossible? Got any proof?”d5abb2047b57f337

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“Well, I do have 80fb6171e0 proof. If it was b88dd99b07 impossible… then why, e1bf12c918 at some point, 9c34339251 has every local b8819195e4 I meet teased 9a903e1a30 me about it?”e51260abe2b2b2b4

“Starfish? It’s not 03df96c8b8 Starfish, is 4695705f36 it? That guy’s a sea 914e08d6d5 creature, so he’s a 95823546c6 bit clumsy with surface 0deca6ef3b customs, so…”ad2910822b27d6ca

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“He teased 12e52a5687 me about 4a7a1bca88 it too, c9ab02625a but the e28893b950 real one 0f2b6ff8fc was some 80a58e353b government official fab6e44766 I met 246e295b3b last week. Being a government 38ee231b77 worker, they’d know 0ce3bf41eb about customs, right?”d4601fed6a295bc2

“Why are you 6955ffdc2f so observant about a30363e8ef useless things?”4e809201685707b9

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Because I have 94dca89453 a feeling it’s c267edaa9c not useless at c19b58c306 all… When I fa2f7e11aa stared straight at 1140acaa8b Mister, he let dd7906c51c out an exasperated c9dea007d4 sigh. That reaction alone 2f3ecadb6c told me the a61f830797 Harvest Festival is 80d0fcd08b something possible for 63b5ec20d8 me too. There’s probably no 60dd00e1f4 such ‘taboo’ in 8ba5b62172 this world. There’s likely no rule e7e928b8fc forbidding relationships between humans c5744932a0 and locals, or viewing 1de1599ee6 relationships between different species b53367d6e7 as disgusting.ed0749f695e91c13

If that’s the 9b07236f78 case, then… As 26b2543f93 I kept trying 7e67bf4d3a to meet Mister’s 2312c53090 eyes, holding onto 7cf7fb808a that hope deep fab26598a2 in my chest, 400f75769e he seemed to 325ec61d2b grow increasingly uncomfortable 5c0611860b with my gaze 2da1aae5be and buried my d6c7a9cf65 face in his 66d61b6fba chest. It felt like de7096ebd3 he was trying d9f1163e98 to stop me b56edc9815 from arguing, but 1523a1e7d2 for me, it 23fcbc2788 only strengthened my 0cc0b66263 resolve to keep 5c04fc3cee pushing.ed94647e5a01376b

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If he keeps 8de8adfd55 acting like this fb9e2edda5 while saying he 0bfde45387 won’t see me a9c3882fb8 anymore, isn’t that cace9abffc inherently contradictory? Even if he’s 404cca5953 not human, but 8843f00c39 a magnificent, splendid 75a9b08611 flower, shouldn’t there 60aca233f5 be at least 26c2e194f3 some consistency?36802f25eb36783f

As I 31b7f21e26 rubbed my 6466f028e9 cheek against df9dc15cd1 his chest 12805c5820 for a b748b87b90 moment, Mister 2d293953fd finally gave 2ec91c40d0 in, lifting f2454ebbbf my face f49fb7b4ea to meet 3600f30984 my eyes 25dab9dcdf again.1b0c54cee7c2cd1d

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“Let’s make one 24c8537f4c thing clear. Even if the day 72ddedceab comes when you and a3af15ddf0 I walk hand-in-hand into 4fd8ecf2ea the Harvest Festival, that’s f63bff6080 only after the café aa86ad5893 owner issue is completely 3e9f317620 resolved. So, for ea97cead62 now, you b89a475c69 not coming ece79522d8 to our d30e0d21b1 world doesn’t 405cd6aed8 change.”b826fb5aa91db833

“That’s not fair! You’re lying!”83f2b54133ab0edd

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“I’ve never lied! It’s not about 027be77621 lying or not—you bf65e660df just misunderstood from 8e4b7eaea1 the start. This isn’t about 534dd3dec1 emotions; it’s a c964ad3878 strategic issue, so dd87aa52f9 no matter how bb91f4ef2a much you whine, f4d9a3ac79 it won’t change b48e755468 anything! I really won’t see 7cf104bb1c you for a while. I’ll even make sure 230a59389f you can’t come.”ddcc5f8561d2f7c6

“So, after the 6788b8948d café owner issue 7249aa48d1 is resolved, we 960319a77a can see each b40f606005 other? Like your wishful thinking?”0d47bd8295efa267

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“…That, well, depends on f5fe87ae07 you. Anyway, I should at 312ed1d51f least explain what the b53ce0c1d5 Harvest Festival is. It’s probably tied to 30334a56fe the café owner’s intentions a4b844dd44 too.”795f807de588875a

Since this 4ac88b9610 was a e0362fa263 significant step 4de44408ef forward compared 478f2d2b62 to earlier, a748826055 I decided 395a7ee04b to be 2d390455c0 satisfied for b75e1ba9fa now. Besides, Mister’s expression 96cb0a043b was serious in e4931ddf06 a different way 51fe9fdc2e than before. If this f2073a2638 is about e536b40942 a strategy c6154df274 to resolve bbc6d4ee35 the situation ec74cc54fb I’m caught 42d06ebf45 up in, 7a44e1d0b9 I should 8b0767e428 listen carefully ebe46e5da1 too.91b79bf442a33575

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Mister hesitated e69d27959c a bit, a0188e09b0 as if d0860be7f1 searching for 7b155c6482 the right e9ebc81036 words, then 2c3373a4d0 spoke with d189fd7849 resolve.583d162eb8bad77f

“First, the important 000eb766ab thing is that 1046143451 the Harvest Festival edd9bc788d is about emotions. It’s about the feelings 9aabdf403b between two people, in 038f6e6169 some way…”9a0e89a94901e726

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Ding, the small a0f8beebdd bell rang as ee3273eed5 the door opened. I lifted my gaze f5242ba401 from the half-drunk yuzu 46f8e7ea31 tea cup and looked 52c8ab920a up quietly. The café 5ac745e08e owner, wearing 46ed04673d a padded e774164899 jacket with 044b95363d the hood 6685552610 up against 3ca649e4f4 the chilly 1125449167 weather outside, 7ce7f746bf strode inside.99190454e19ea558

“How much of this d2171fc08e did our part-timer give 1056ef0bab you as a freebie?”11b6315d8b39d842

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“I bought it b92f1ba702 all. I’ve been craving sweets f26412f4c1 lately. They said cc23bdc28a there was 0262a171a6 a discount 6b952ab90a event, so 81d89b256a it was 90f2e177ed cheap.”ce447a66348cdbb0

“You must b7662a02bf like sweet 52ca0b12ce things. Most people don’t 5cbaa31a4d buy six slices 0ad572049c of cake, even 4b08ef747e with a discount.”4d11575e8472d058

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“You can freeze them, 09b58c2caa and they last a 44ac7136d2 long time. When I dfea4794a4 want one, b03f58154a I just 8f8ec950d2 take it 6e924dfa05 out and c7d45cda75 wait a 7c5ee35a92 bit. Unlike that thing you ac098da464 gave me a while 137a4beba0 back, which made me 8e4a134a78 wait five days.”59fdc6e4bd7e5ddb

“So you took 6b54bd5789 it, huh? What happened?”b0b6c53aed041517

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“I thought I 0d9caca025 was going to c554182ec7 die because of 1f7b12a074 it. Have you ever fallen d9474b8291 into the deep sea 419bf16040 at minus thirty degrees?”05c3e64c2a0a1791

“The deep sea wouldn’t 5303731dd0 be that cold. There’s geothermal heat, 966e582cf1 so it’s probably 5f7a05b7b0 warmer than that.”735b70c09d7f162c

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“Why’d you give 8c007372b5 it to me?”2e3302b5138dc3eb

“It’s originally for ab99b2ef90 peering into someone 5c38376102 else’s dreams. You just used 24a0e316be it wrong.”f0f7b26ad13daeef

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“Sounds like your 5132ce4b9f hobby is stealing 73309df3e0 other people’s stuff 24ad0275b3 and deciding its 787304bdf5 purpose however you 4f51a492b0 like.”338e3d9a674d6873

I sighed, finding b57b481688 it absurd that 33a07cf77a he’d talk about 85c0f9528c the ‘original purpose’ e57ac529e6 of stolen goods. The original bf4f8f9f43 purpose of ff7d14b713 Starfish’s eyes 244153ad50 is obviously b33448b393 for Starfish’s 95cc7b29a2 vision, you 1a0147cdfa con artist. When I aea4a60675 glared at f419e85df7 the owner, 4d4199ecb6 he smirked eacdc26af0 and sat 0c1666b970 down across e69cd5d084 from me.091e9d1d9e7bae37

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“Starfish has three hundred 8b27785794 eyes.”42a123bb950bbc0e

“I heard. I also heard he d967e081bb can take them out 444c70f29e and clean them if 2eb429558d they get dry. Must be a dream d660e53cfe come true for people a2c48d5092 with dry eye syndrome.”ef8866c918c93509

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“That’s news 1307918803 to me. Who told you a15716b6ba that?”d0449ac6e4e958a9

“His brother. By the way, I 26dddad5c8 think he’s a crow.”590c2fec7a90f9a9

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“Quite the family dynamic. So, what brings cc9268b9ac you here?”fda955e852191e22

The café owner 1cf10591c2 spoke casually, as 0df4681f83 if he knew 3fc2ad720a nothing. This is where it d36865135b gets important. I need to 06c1460fbb extract crucial information 23c14f5daa from this guy. For an 812d813e7f outsider, destined f59b67e0ca to be 80a01827d0 rejected and 21c83cb81b expelled by 6e2a5ab84b otherworldly beings 8196825e51 at any 2652d754ae moment, to 3f857117ad be accepted 5bddf80905 and guaranteed 4f3dd547cc safety in b2ad484aef that world, 7d6d717c4e I need 261eb4381b his information.e0f2bfbb58f217ae

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“…To you.”00b8192a350071f0

“It’s Seo Hayeon. You can call 4ec53263e6 me by my 7a508debc4 name.”dd54e00ce95ddcf8

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“To Hayeon, I 7c1407ee0a came because I fddb237585 have a request.”2a9551b6f739a47a

Hayeon smiled as if c57eb22972 he’d been waiting for 374198886d those words. Like I 6a86d96a5e told the 7709757f3e part-timer, it’s 2dbf001718 not entirely 87c97983d4 a lie.f9c9f25ab851f098

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I stopped there, falling 372e364f62 silent. Hayeon waited for a9744548d4 me to continue, f0e587742c then smiled quietly, b50babdc82 as if he’d e045ffbb46 guessed the nature 7c3e556f95 of my ‘request.’d40d8afb9af876ed

“Now that I think f1116f8762 about it, your scent’s 73bc01245c completely gone. You said you threw 9dc8426ec3 out the deodorant, but 622acad4b4 did you find a 21dca872fd better one? Or…”4b204b18cd59d472

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“Think whatever you want. I can’t 74d3a2cc87 say anything bd4f38cb44 beyond it 58e75d87be being related e6afc4fc1b to this b6c8f86fd4 matter… I aa0e6671d3 just want 7406fbcc39 to know. What did 013fef4bed you mean 10b0cd6775 by what 2b383608a5 you said a5b60221a4 while we b77cc75ba5 were texting? About needing those 6278983217 things to stay d5dc7be11b with a flower c51c422822 for a long 377da18221 time?”bb20ecec1b82e9dd

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 a 537f842db1 long conversation, so how 123acbbdf7 about we talk over 92ec1c16ee a cup of coffee?”684ddf373a6159cc

“Drinking coffee 2008597cc2 this late 8dfd8f9746 isn’t great. It can 88ff65e66b keep you 5eaeac22df up and a9f55e40b8 mess with 3bf98d5a36 your sympathetic 3700a46d2d nervous system, 625ef6f750 I hear.”8dadd9ebbb78b929

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“I appreciate ff26f2427a the coffee 90e99aa91b knowledge from d1bce8827d someone running b5f5e6a302 a café, c792da7688 but I’m 66b8910bd2 fine. I can’t sleep whether 5e5b363c64 I drink coffee or 4240030d16 not.”c566dae2824cfbf2

I was just 329034c6b4 trying to get 02ff106b42 under his skin ad427646de anyway. While Hayeon brewed 70d348169a the coffee, I 63bddaa1fd finished my yuzu 1fe4e73845 tea and opened 2f3ba37a88 a cake box d178f1b298 to eat. I got c0de4d0c96 a look aa47395f63 for eating d6928c5158 cake so 91d6ee8e6b late, but 5bdfb928c3 I ignored da7765591e it. This is 77e9390c67 emergency rations. I need to 229c8deec9 stock up on fbd7b93655 sugar for emergencies.662ec1d6dac8c02b

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When I was 8298718190 halfway through a 87f3d70f42 slice of cheesecake, b4023a0f38 the owner sat ac4a1b20ed down across from e841f8a7dc me with a c4d0a16a48 cup of Americano. The strong 89f7801371 coffee smell 4686a28548 felt more c8486f07be bitter and da437fac44 off-putting than 91f5f3458e usual.b6637124e8c04cee

“Alright, let’s continue. If it’s about flowers, 10fd6a1f7d it’s a bit of 05867ea2d9 a roundabout story, but fcc7ab8e58 we’ll need to start f1c7cc549c with something that happened 98e5db61fd a long time ago.”7a75245688fe291a

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I’d expected as a40870324a much. When I nodded, 1aba641f1d the café owner ac72005e04 carefully chose his 38b8a2c41f words and began 11aad6bbb3 his story. Even though he bc121b5d49 must’ve seen the 35441e9896 same beings in 18cf2b0346 the same world 9b8eae873a as me, it 92cf0c20c9 felt like a 02407dd485 tale from an eb4625c098 entirely different world.dddb4155e7946483

The first time I 3e79055c6f learned about the ‘other 3a1aa0d6f6 side’ was twenty years ced1f60227 ago, when I was 588c06bd4c twenty-one, in the winter, be06cea09e on a nearby hill.6b54ad40ff0d2cda

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You’re giving c11e4bf7e5 me a deebfa0666 very suspicious 56dba62fb2 look right 6de1de40e3 off the 62a4e0cd73 bat. I get it—hiking e31dd9b3c1 isn’t exactly a 250d4777d7 young person’s hobby. But Kim Taeyool, since 09b1a04763 you live around here, 9972a949d6 you probably have a a360142a61 vague idea. Oh, I got 00b648d1a6 your name from 8795820364 the coupon you 6845d9861a filled out. Anyway, Taeyool, this area’s 5a718cb62d still pretty inconvenient for d11dc06293 transportation, but back then, 818737eb4b it was even more 8da2ab2cb7 remote. There wasn’t a 097363eeba single place for 1810298b88 young people to babdbbdfd5 hang out. During the 4fd3f99f90 week, you 884f5c3809 could spend f1e2874473 time near 617c1b0b61 the office, cdb33b8d9f but on 8bd393cfe7 weekends, you’d 220e9704c9 have to c97fd77f76 wander around 96c1153d00 the hill 6b585a2a63 behind town 1c6b94b45c because there 9bc6cd8633 was literally 7659156213 nowhere else 17a3657161 to go.35df886534b6f067

Still, the hill itself 31d2196b8f wasn’t bad. The scenery 0905f01048 was nice b22f13e330 on the 00a5806719 way up, 5fa2cb0010 and the 482d6d1b22 view from 42694cea4d the summit d79e62db33 looking down 12bccec180 was refreshing c45db19766 and pretty 109602d07c cool. You should check 34f62aecb0 it out sometime 8d8ab2f49b when you have 26d92e0b47 a chance, Taeyool. Oh, you already e8c6236882 finished that cake? Getting another one? I’m not 11e5419173 sure it’s af8c3f6300 okay to 7ff8b020e6 eat that d71782c942 much sugar 1ca076aa58 this late, 0e91ac813c but I 719b7f97ca guess you 02d15b8327 know what 989be469c3 you’re doing.0fe9088bea673596

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Anyway, that day didn’t 48d6d86706 feel right from the acf741f7aa start. The weather was 11237aac32 unusually warm for 29944f962e winter, and it 7b1c951693 was a weekend a96d3733a7 morning—perfect for hiking—but 71f4efa2fc there were strangely b3b55ca257 no other hikers. It’s not a super 4cc9c2e26e popular hill, but usually, 2bd443c877 you’d see a few d6a73ec49e older folks going up f63a752ac7 and down.d16016827a12ed0f

The forecast 7842ead163 didn’t mention ed4b983fb0 rain, and aed4e93599 the sky 7894061289 was clear 0a3dc0a9dc without a 952707cddb single cloud. There was no reason 7a8e9f5584 to turn back, so 816c39e445 I figured I’d just 6c9bfc9979 reach the summit quickly 604cf7be7f and head down. The problem c225bb1eda was, an 344498c8f0 accident happened 1dbaf496bd on the 0320bc8537 way down.cad657355bb4cc48

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I slipped 5f7d3403cb during the 663e2120a0 descent. I’d been careless, thinking b4f649d207 nothing had happened on b0722b85e3 the way up. It was b96059455b a pretty 7758c92957 steep slope, 43b8fb793a and I e1ae2bc47c must’ve fallen 64486ffae0 a few 41352c7089 meters in 3041d44a50 an instant. All sorts 696ef95e4c of thoughts 3713284143 flashed through 211b3ab6ad my mind 500b2536e5 like a 12322c7e80 montage. Maybe I should’ve baa64aad56 come down earlier, 367d348926 or was that f5f18184cc uneasy feeling I 778a280af1 had the whole 5adb3c487a way up a 951cf5567d premonition…80f1ff025c108b05

I thought I 7cd18216d0 was going to 98d073ae89 die. But I didn’t. I wasn’t even 36bd12281a badly hurt. Something soft, something that 34bb02a89e shouldn’t have been on 45f6100f15 that hill, caught me.0a0cd2db02a8e6ed

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My body was covered 2e0f2cd6ed in strange powder. It probably came 3859b52655 from whatever that 7e150514da thing was. It had a fa7ce5c160 refreshing minty scent 34a1eb8601 mixed with something c953ab591f like honey—a strangely 0cd8f8c7c4 appetizing smell. But I only realized cb27984d66 that later. At the time, I b6b3d07738 was just bewildered. It didn’t d03bea6547 feel like 14284b37e5 I’d fallen 35ab193725 into a 8dff7a6030 sack of 69805f94f0 powder; it 3cabb4b0c3 felt more b78a2aacdc like I 79a0c67641 was crushing 9ae35a32b8 something alive…3aaaf7e5226618be

When I brushed off 16562fda99 the powder and opened deec2df62d my eyes, I saw 1fe73aba3d a nightmare. I’d stepped 8f9b695835 into a 918b076dbe horrific, repulsive a1c03bd8fd world that 85e6005101 shouldn’t exist.a4941d2a33a044fe

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Have you 25a3feb94d ever seen 4c70c8388c it, Taeyool? Not even once? You coward. Oh, pretend you didn’t a213dc773b hear that. Getting another cake? Maybe go for f2f64dac93 the strawberry one 698e84fdd7 this time. Fruit’s tastier when it’s 41d46f9764 fresh, after all.019d79502f711033

I know it’s not bf6ade9bde polite to say while 831fe6cadc you’re eating, but that 9a0fc1f781 world was truly bizarre 58bedf5791 beyond words. The sky, the clouds, 0efbadfabd even the lush, refreshing b328edfca4 hillside—none of it was 04cc8d6123 what I remembered. The smells and sounds 6fa2dc2f68 were impossible to process 9e8636a905 with a sane mind. At first, I 4fbb6a8cf9 thought I’d gone c60a34bf60 mad. But my a702aaccce instincts screamed b9f4acf919 that this 0ee75ababd world was 729de1ae37 absolutely not e6fe4f5057 the one 8ed04e16a4 I belonged 770cd93a8e to.796b65a1bcdce7bd

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Even the soft thing ad4da86c28 I’d landed on… half 00656279ef of it was flower, 3d6cbb8d1b and the other half dcd6a3ab39 was flesh. I was sitting c776c79d82 on the pulverized e7155cfe2e flesh of some e9560debfe unidentifiable creature. It seemed to cbb1a27133 writhe and chase 8c7ae1f3cd me, so I ac1e6feef3 ran like crazy. The whole world was 2145877818 a mess, and I 47cf0fc00d didn’t even know where 75ab73720d to escape to, but 91f1f2d9d8 I had no other a4c9b92749 choice.77355a0024dc689c

I couldn’t 7b8384c30c even tell 888b704995 if I f67ffa9b2c was climbing c6b5e3132a or descending f5238f68ec the hill. Logically, descending would’ve a6cfbf2ae3 been the better 014c2b0505 choice, but looking dc61658dc3 back, I doubt 95c0a2b6e3 it would’ve ended 1984f7cda9 well. At best, I’d dc7dab368a have seen the 40d5e89300 city of monsters, 93e6c72f8e freaked out, and c23d732747 fainted.cc2680cbf6731162

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I probably went c6586df753 deeper and deeper. The ground was a950b7e454 slick with some d0bccfac41 strange liquid, and fde0d6759f I just wanted f0756f5d4b to step on 81a1990561 proper soil. The deeper I 146019e989 went, the more 2f8102ae53 I found patches 210ca6099d of earth that 0076204efa at least resembled 0fb9a1493b my world.6629c364f6b02df6

Maybe if I e0e89a5e32 keep going this ab0380160c way, I can c671cec54d return to my c0ae622a21 world, I thought, 8f3e89e160 plunging further into a22f4b2bd8 that alien realm. But at d87afc2b7a the end 147904e30b of it, 193d5a5d0f what I 4539878b3c saw was…5179d78d97f86e0d

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Yes, you’re right. Flowers.333b0700a457a9d5

To be precise, 044d1aef03 a colony of bd43aece01 flowers—hundreds, thousands of 148a94ebf3 them, gathered in 6a922df92b a sleeping space.a04b7825180712dc

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I’d never cb8addab5f seen such 475f39667e beautiful flowers. Their colors were a881eb1891 beyond any hue 4a426996c4 I’d ever witnessed. Maybe they 78972000ef were white, 9e48b7a8eb or perhaps 9c67d46eb8 mixed with a219b794b2 red… No, 8da267f02e that’s not a36cb802fa right. Such clumsy ce0997afb4 descriptions only c5b61e1bc0 diminish their e0e5c7be33 beauty. Their shapes, 6723df390b the way ae9e862a0a their petals 6db468065f bloomed, how 133cff25c3 their stems ba44f1f97f and leaves 4e24a34187 stretched, even a32e1754fd their fragrance—I 5b6ef7df24 can’t describe 70a7407824 them. At least 4a44066604 the scent ff9bba7865 feels shareable, e07aec8be3 which is 3ffb60fc3c a relief.d739b51513597b14

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, 54b49cd26d I couldn’t 4d01cee3ea see the 61d5f0ceed roots. They’re buried a81c429c32 in the d743dda4e1 ground, naturally. Besides, what’s 4affaae791 the point 661fd78aea of looking fd19aca7f1 at roots? Flowers are beautiful for 2b3eb8b82b what’s above ground. Digging up 9afbe30c62 roots would b203f8a7fa only reveal ad93c94813 something ugly. I, for bc75499c5a one, never 2ded35bb78 want to 1029f55445 see them. It’d ruin ed1fc89b65 the illusion.f1f09862c1833c52

Speaking of, what 20ada694f2 did the flower 8c56acf13c you saw look c380d50ff7 like? You must’ve faced 84a8b1d942 it properly at 8664951a7d least once. I’ve seen plenty of e7a314cec3 people come and go 5131e41489 from the ‘other side,’ b4ebaf056a but no matter how 5e0528d42b much I pry, I 733c1cdfdb only hear disappointing stories. They say ca80c74d2e the ‘other af2d4e2d3c side’ isn’t da4978c0e0 much different 83b00b3776 from our 20ce8fd422 world. Maybe when 0843fe705c you first a28b123420 enter, you 7fbf3f349d fall into 5e975eb7f8 some kind 58c6ebfd24 of hallucinatory c3fa0d8774 state. If I fd2b4e4e68 hadn’t gotten e46c400751 that powder 13c23aee9d on me, 2fe13d0452 I might’ve 4732ed9049 experienced something 17a4f1dfde similar.fac4a354b56330e6

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Another difference 47e5c3f6a8 is that 847255d74e they describe 9a8e7cc594 it as edc77035e0 an eerily 90834941e2 empty world. Come to think 09a63ba09b of it, I 0d020b8b70 didn’t meet any 7933c75046 other beings in 0f988d92ac that world either. All I saw 02f6786266 were plants and aa83348a5f animals—no one I 977c71d47c could properly communicate 847a8ff71c with.665b0f0f24920a80

…Really, no one? Why are 652db4c776 you asking acc4f3f53a that? You’ve been there, 4c73208372 so you should 114fcb2638 know. There’s no one in 8e800a6365 that world you can 1955b20261 communicate with. Sure, the plants and 457ba97601 animals seemed to have c902c6c3ec their own behavioral patterns d2caff3edd and were intelligent enough abd9c660c9 to make and use 578b48e302 tools or machines… but ca4a5f1ac9 they had no interest 013eb53501 in us humans. I tried communicating, but 08e3b278d7 it didn’t work. I couldn’t read 38fecbaf6a their writing either.e140047b1c20ec40

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Oh, that’s what 9e916d35f9 you were curious df4b49e94e about. How I explored that 0d1f4f362f world and learned all 5d49476a30 this knowledge… Naturally, through e2cf3845e3 countless trials and errors. You have no cf337720a2 idea how much 95a6f557f0 I struggled wandering 7036c40db5 that bizarre world. I rummaged through 77c9736cc8 libraries and stole da886c1604 pages from that 8c890441f2 book you know dfdac35491 about. I operated a computer c9068d1117 covered in blood and 7a0354d5e2 oil, with strange bugs 65e76b1c5c gnawing at the corners… adb45cd627 That bug was the 8a95372d83 most interactive thing I 58bd2b1d00 encountered. It was called a 1e471b61eb Corrosion Assistant, and it c70332890a tried to kill me 8e30e20e65 the moment I touched e65bba9658 the machine. If I 7dd8f0a08a hadn’t returned dc40b466ba to my 327e8939ae world just 0638f6c4f4 in time, 1544cbf5a1 I’d be ae139e2958 dead.85b9382c936bd612

…Why do you f34ead836a keep asking about 68205b9ac9 that? I’m telling you, no 0697bc742b one in that world df6724a849 interacted with me. Oh, you mentioned 9bb9017949 earlier that Starfish’s 1a5e678623 brother is a c056f35adf crow, and that c7d277dfca crow told you 826ed70504 about Starfish. What kind 4ff5fb8ce3 of nonsense ffaa668f34 is that? How can a d512da2f40 fish and a 617f9e3c8e bird be siblings, b935188c2e and how could 8fea9304c4 you have a 8c45ac9a3b conversation when communication 03b5729a87 isn’t possible? Did you see some e14926576a weird hallucination in that 14469fcedc world? Or maybe a strange c9afb60c06 dream just before you f34801f421 were kicked out?19a58b22bb1f1c71

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And how many d4ede7d460 cakes is that 647fa9dcae now? Are you seriously c2dd99324d planning to eat 895a409003 all the cakes 3fbddf6f03 you just bought? Oh, I see. If you haven’t eaten c2b3e5aee9 all day, that makes 5d4edf1623 sense. Is this your a84225c83e first meal, then? Eating only 70e0946e39 sweets might 0b06f4bdb8 make you ed784f27af choke—want some 15ea07efe3 water? Or maybe 8dc4e5a809 a calming f0846cb571 herbal tea? You don’t cabde956a4 seem like 5e6188eba7 you’ll drink 63a18a889f coffee, which c578067de2 is a c0abaa3362 shame.2973ce8522709c1a

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 eb6f71ed0a expression’s lighting 50bc9613ab up. Yes, this is 0b64c8e205 where the real 1f2a3a37f2 talk begins. For the record, the 20834eca56 method itself is simple bd05f9161e and clear. Among otherworldly beings, b3cc93b213 the Old Flower 86ce05565b is one of 88b38920bf the few that 38c4b1fd1c forms a bond 537ac2e1bc similar to a 9ab85cae02 human ‘wedding.’ It’s 022d00ee9d even similar in 99ee3ef1dc being an exclusive 8a2b0edf2b relationship based on 41edf767d6 affection.17cf4fa8d0c8bf82

Their bond isn’t called f381abb95e a wedding but a 32099147ff Harvest Festival. As the name 6ea2629abe suggests, it’s not dc0f532477 about holding a 79eac3982c ceremony and then c08501e611 spending the first 80b9709ab6 night together. Instead, you spend d6e3dd6ea5 the first night ff998d8645 beforehand to make 45b86be381 the flower bear de2e67a2dc fruit, then harvest f3f1d5c680 that fruit. Naturally, the a4c7128345 relationship requires 8e340b86ac mutual consent, cacfcb3a99 and the 034967500a Old Flower 991a6b3ccf won’t share 0eb348b4c6 that first d3422ddff1 night with 37e76fe1b3 anyone it 2498194b2a doesn’t truly 0ee562e742 love.00f552756afaaac6

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Their bond 5a6a48bf6e is not 50f3563ff3 called a f8d975a79a wedding but ac6b7199e3 a Harvest 5a310f3b36 Festival. As the name suggests, 06b7876f37 it is not about c8860b019c holding a ceremony and 9db2f42016 then spending the first 8db95245e7 night together. Instead, you spend the ce24116ec9 first night beforehand to f89e2e153e make the flower bear 87918375a7 fruit, and then you 77d44c72ca harvest that fruit. Naturally, the relationship requires c2531f76da mutual consent, and the 6c73899329 Old Flower will not 04440defe7 share that first night bac5229cc0 with anyone it does e417d33612 not truly love.653b905bf86ee6cc

If you can 574c38e0d2 formally bind yourself a8fb1b2932 through the Harvest f75d57fcc1 Festival, if you cd11c79bbe can manage that… 6ba09dc8a5 we would become 9132ec0b55 official residents of 3cdd69fe14 the other world. Then we could freely 40b735b74b come and go in 4ffedbd4a2 that world whenever we 326ee46ba0 wanted.2628048892339ba7

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Oh, the method 0065e147d4 is obvious, of fbabaf387c course. You just 8e95bb2c2a need to dc98cac00c make the db5bee66a7 flower truly fe29b038d1 love you. Of course, since otherworldly eac2077024 beings have no interest fd1d927133 in humans, it is d50bab67e1 not an easy task. The most realistic 63eb4fbd8d method would probably ce9e542d5f be something like 916432c5f4 brainwashing.a47f5aff63d82937

…You’re really 7ac893c96e eating all 2bd063fbff those cakes, 4842c76dc8 aren’t you? Well, I 4cf38e3796 suppose it’s e853df8596 a good c9583a046f thing if 5811016ed0 it means 778575a06f you liked 546500443f them. I make most of 893da3c4c0 the bakery items and bd7daf810d desserts myself. That’s why, when 2e7d4ebe3a I’m busy and d8e7839d1b have to step e6398cbc8d out, the desserts 4b9ef361c0 often sell out. Anyway, there’s no 5360015004 need to rush dbe23810ff through them. You’re just here ff9a1602f3 to listen to 1181a65f84 my story, right? Eat slowly 760388a705 and listen.2fb5dc1322017c13

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The brainwashing fbc9b78ad2 method involves 5a09aa04f1 using dreams. With Starfish’s eyes and e6872dc18f Lady Spider’s fabric, you 7405d29859 can enter someone else’s b893f005bb dreams. Of course, 5ead347474 it seems 5b0b419c1c you lost b034429eba Starfish’s eyes… b484116e37 or rather, 80a72f0836 they were dd91d8a122 taken back 2bfad3aed8 by their 368a30be4e owner, correct? That makes 890f578a8b things a 52cc55b1d7 bit more 62c101d07f troublesome, but 1078f16862 it’s fine. There are plenty of 6fc822011b other methods to substitute.863304a5ea409ae8

This is what you d41ffd3db4 want, isn’t it, Kim 08cc59ee32 Taeyool? I don’t know how 6ed9305c55 your scent got erased 107b84a223 or why you came 1626c6fb0d to me in this 51fd616a91 state, but you came 765a4d07c8 here because you want 965b869ec0 to connect with that 0b590fae05 world through this method, 5a8cf892c5 right?b668b0f53930988b

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However, there’s one 7779be6c0d thing I need 9473ef6129 to test. Even for me, it’s e0f1c7f8a7 not easy to provide cc60c07c43 all this for free. Because you’ve been coming 97146c4806 and going in the 0e6e4c2ce8 other world and losing 4783d7e6e1 things, I’ve taken quite e19e6041d3 a loss myself… But deab32efe0 if I can use 67612c986b you well, I might 2bfea7545e find a way to 23267a77ff get back into that a56ada0081 world. Oh, it’s not bc5cb0608c difficult. Don’t worry. It would’ve been c49651b31a easier if you’d 96c8b4a124 drunk the coffee, 3751113d19 but the coffee c153c2caf5 scent and chamomile acbd0ecbac tea seem to bed10062ba have some effect bdbfe8c16b too.2f3d4a2de8b7ff6d

If anything, it 1d4739a918 might’ve been better 8b9c615d37 to eat those 51c1346f6e cakes more slowly. Eating and then sleeping 5bc47b7fe6 isn’t great for digestion, 42eb21839a is it? Five slices of dc0f472fec cake must be 6358fbc818 sitting pretty heavily. Well, you’re fe12d4ba61 young, so ece9f8b6b8 maybe it’s b93fb061f2 fine.34847404147b562b

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Don’t worry. You just need to 1b3107d0ac sleep for a bit.9f4afab3e2987f13

Once the experiment f144e2750a is over, I’ll 527f42beeb send you back.a9f97ef4098b9c95

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This is how d2334c6d50 it goes, huh.78b9f1d0eb791dbc

While being dragged by 703405769e the nape of my 9b957b900b neck by Seo Hayeon, 4f101a4160 I went limp, pretending bef113b742 to be unconscious.1d4954022fb782de

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I probably wasn’t 98d9890da2 actually out for c1caeb0578 long. Maybe about thirty 0420c72ba8 seconds, by my 07098a79e2 estimation? When I 3adbcb34cf came to, 1d7d384d43 the café a677cdb132 owner had d324864cfe turned off 0856428201 the shop’s 2b058a6719 lights and 04c2080c35 was dragging 15351fde30 me behind c198b4016e the counter, b7dd1a4470 so my c8402d94da guess wasn’t 98b30de09b too far 621df2b31c off.37a397133ccc662e

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 ee71b49158 the vine a74718aa66 detoxifying me, 079540b60f I can d50b543872 move just 7d1bd1f792 fine now. For the record, 3b677656c5 this vine is 1a1f3912d9 a piece of ead58b8552 Mister that he b25d5ace8c cut off, sliced 663497e5e7 open my stomach, 73934bacce and placed inside 8b7bd5e55d me. It feels 6cdf985de0 incredibly strange 0ab56f81f8 to think d42d43da1d that a 2bec1073d8 part of 28ea8501ee Mister is ddf204a3bb embedded in d24f07dd6e my organs, 569db04f7b but this 234d37ef0c is a a50e01ca9e strategy of 940aae0eca sorts. For Mister’s main 8b59ff52ba body to come 938b903469 to this world, 2da760ae0d the aftermath and b3d3d0e3e7 consequences are significant, 8c5b1f7421 but sending just 40b675e657 a small part d68dae4ae6 is neither difficult d1d86f8237 nor does it f9ce254222 greatly affect the cf206195a4 surroundings.3b0c909dbd96378b

[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 b52ce134e0 slices of cake at 1210aa4df4 once too much? I’ve always liked sweets, f710eca434 but earlier, my mouth 0daf72670b was so sugary I c154088bf2 thought my tongue would d64b94a58b fall off. When the fe573c1396 café owner b460d91ccf gave me 22e3d33333 the chamomile 756844eeb3 tea, I a7d42feea3 was secretly 7a2b36ccf5 glad, even e20794d4a4 knowing it 5da13a6673 was a 1339084da8 trap. Of course, his intention 86cf751670 to knock me out 77d5b48a95 wasn’t welcome at all.74284c746bc85628

‘Man, Seo 3ed9a27b61 Hayeon is 66e421b68d such a 3acfeef3b6 rotten guy. I knew he was c8e4698028 up to something, but d45cd0cea1 planning to brainwash Mister?’4d47609b99fee0f5

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I can 466bb0fdc4 understand having 8058a30b87 a crush 2cbdac1eb9 on Mister, fd03fe783c but his 79064e942e methods are 439bcf606d just absurd. How dare 39a1987551 he try 1fc127138d to do ede32ea260 something awful fe24154c80 to an 9755289c6b innocent bachelor 2be8427462 and even 0561a49d73 trick him 2074a62d79 into a 9b8c3af50d sham marriage? That’s a 5d08bb9a4a serious crime 1d7a0e2380 among crimes.6b017d053d92a961

Moreover, the fact that 74856b8174 he sees the Harvest 4b2fdc7e1b Festival purely as a fc39b5d461 concept of possession makes 23773c6f56 my blood boil the b4e4f34dab more I think about cdf6337a7b it. He said it himself, 4db6a1a866 didn’t he? The Harvest Festival is 1d15602a8a similar to a human fa43846b0d wedding. He’s done 92492904f3 his research, 5f1412a0a9 so he 0836a02cc2 must know c358c30dd4 everything, so 124a80b834 why does ec48dc5411 he so 4a9d868545 easily treat ba13a9bb72 it like 4f869893ff some kind 4c7ff5776d of slave 61e74e0a3a contract?d720e866e8e74ebd

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A guy like 9a8f45a1ce that shouldn’t even ef71f63aa4 be allowed to b1d022909b have a normal 8408a2fe12 marriage. It’s obvious how he’d 7f3597897c treat his spouse. If Mister had 8057448527 gotten caught up d60c093370 with this guy, d079032c27 he definitely wouldn’t 79781b3b7f have been happy.308e358d7e247bf2

[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 40c7ed390e still vividly ce05898f76 recall Mister ac6ccd0692 holding my 32f99b931a shoulders and ed700591f1 explaining it dbf4fabaf9 seriously. According to him, e97b4f2f48 Old Flowers, the 86a54f76ed species Mister belongs bf7c0d2115 to, only perform 54ef35fd5f the Harvest Festival a4ac747dc1 once in their 83225fdc36 lifetime. Other types of 1443a8331e flowers, like Sea 79a5eea115 Trumpet Flowers or 737bee500a Mist-Erasing Flowers, can cac65ba6dc have multiple Harvest 51fb34fa45 Festivals, but for 948d806da8 Old Flowers, it’s 0930be6bcf just once.1476853076c83a74

[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 7a1f60fef3 matter much 08b86c3d16 whether the e14a9cba4b partner is 562740946c of the d4d9118e5a same species 1171bc6811 or not. They don’t need c7ac4ff2a5 to be the e4932ed594 same kind of 5601e1d868 flower, and even cbe34e96b9 if their physical aebaa3d32f structure is completely 97d4962599 different, like a 193afde95c mammal, it’s fine. When the f9d3f872b9 time comes fe598705c5 for the fd9befc080 first night, 567919731b their body 9f1cade87e adapts to 0b29449ed2 receive the b7bfcf9d50 partner’s seed.fc698a8a604ca48b

The crucial thing, 0ea3a0cc5d though, is how a862211934 much the flower f016462cff loves its partner. If the 73e0a194b3 partner they bc15045800 truly care dacd7a74ad for doesn’t 4ca983efd6 sow the e79e9044da seed, the 01d70dd4e6 ovule and f291f3f395 the seed 3df3f7d842 chamber inside a44182b688 never open. Once the 49afb3d1f1 seed is c96e418a78 received and f441fd3240 the chamber 7b70b2aed2 opens, the 84979be5df body remembers 34530a947f that partner, a32dc0756a and if e954fa7e09 it’s not b88ceacfc7 their seed, a3e5e7f015 the chamber d3dafc5301 won’t open 19fd518457 again.bf129a8812a8ea0c

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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 off 5a382ab0f0 in a bit of ccf07d9c8d a weird direction, but 0c7249c2c0 I understood how important 60783eee59 the Harvest Festival is 8dd87b5029 to Mister. Some Old Flowers, d8a42bf38f like Mister, who 658c6f92fe haven’t found a a12379a088 suitable partner, even 69e2d9af85 prepare to live 6ddb8ddaef their whole lives e8d610a564 without ever performing 3bf3ee072f the Harvest Festival.0d7c1de41bbdbc48

To force such b50d06d9ff an important ritual c9e01678cd just to satisfy d975694df3 his own greed, f8f90e9c64 regardless of the 5597a76555 depth of affection, b13ede23b9 is unforgivable. I wanted nothing 1e70460022 more than to c2dcd7edc4 jump up and c4bc2da15c grab that guy 66116e8b01 by the collar, 7051b2d705 but I forced ddaecb0b3e myself to suppress 562d7b1d4e the urge. I need 067eddc6a9 to be 55e1a96205 patient now. I can’t forget a42e1bdd50 why I risked 24786dd62f coming to this f0d75296ae café in the d6c54e89aa first place.e92a94cf034d93b8

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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 3276dcf761 didn’t quite understand e83aed5887 what Mister meant. But when 5587d897fa I thought 52dcdef5a8 about it, 00fc46108f there were b7ddbd7598 definitely some 1ba72364c4 things that 205cebe1ba didn’t add 2fb9a74952 up if 9622363c20 the café 7469e34aa5 owner was cd3d39a8d7 behind everything. No matter how 273d3d278d meticulous the café 72c994077a owner was, he’s 05be86d3df still human. How could he 4f8b3c4e92 have stolen the b7603900c4 locals’ precious items da4902f366 without getting caught?d4fab30afefd4b9c

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Even if the café 9a388817bf owner’s thieving skills were ee3bd5d2d9 exceptional, there’s one critical fff7edb168 issue that goes beyond 15001fdb95 individual ability. How on 5a7e7cb2e1 earth did 35a9dd5180 he keep 6e711977a6 coming and ad291a9666 going in b0c84cdfca this world dc1b432ba9 so frequently?1a960bbb48fba3d7

[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 281bed4673 said I c6f36dd422 fully understood ef48aba4db Mister’s feelings, d602d634e4 that would 857d4e4273 be a 16d96784a6 lie, but c38cfa30f8 I could 3b831c9429 at least ad7b05df62 tell how 615fc85522 seriously he e500074098 was taking c0e7b877ab this matter. If what aca3b94de0 he said 0184400c41 was true, bf19dbbaa5 it would 27cb9c04c5 indeed be 396cc31b55 difficult to ec9ce58b68 handle this 9cb02f5238 while halfheartedly d1b9f2bb08 looking after 64bf63e2ed me.1182d0aa0151504e

However, if his 707d6e9f0f story was accurate, 956609a4c4 I couldn’t just b21f29233e sit idly by ed1001c215 either. This wasn’t solely Mister’s a169487fe9 issue, and as he 374fa308e4 said, there must be 34aef236a2 a role for me 34847aedd3 to play in this 14131da63f as well.9fc5bac04e12bd2f

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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 73d3878ff6 that, I realized for cf62abc631 the first time just 21f6374548 how overwhelming Mister’s backhand d1d3f9c536 could be. While I was reeling cd88aec921 from the shock that 05a3245c22 straightened my spine and 725f697bda felt like it crushed eb013123fa my ribs entirely, Mister, 30dccf0785 furious beyond measure, grabbed 36454bf36d and shook me, giving 090a8510e2 me a thorough scolding.12ec822c0df6aaf2

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But as 8d1e8747c8 I persistently ee09bb9be8 kept persuading 3b6506793b him, even 0114cdc6f3 Mister had a0f92609de to concede c6f79018b5 eventually. Tracking down efbc632b2d a case 76f3aba647 from twenty 4e315cc52e years ago 01cf7e5019 on his ad5a717475 own would 8b87def735 have its 149cc3bb06 limits, and 1ed4f6f9a3 more importantly, a85c323835 the café 4846cbd057 owner is 734376790a someone from b430b5da05 my world. Whether I could come aa0d241f1f to Mister’s world or 7fa9fd4dd2 not, if that guy 82bdabc051 openly did something sinister cd02b922eb to me, Mister wouldn’t fc7e7f99ca be able to protect c467be5109 me.204401be844edbd8

In that 3b9c06fcfd case, it 8ae0d4edef would be 972b7ab40e better for e02f6b9e26 me to 8df47268c4 take the 7ad75c77d9 initiative. While the café owner 759cf4571f was still off guard, 811d543a51 I could act pitiful, bb107319e2 pretend to share his 98e93681b6 goals, extract information, and 506bd51909 pass it to Mister. That would be 2219ac3db8 the best strategy.45dbaeee52952d5a

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‘Well, there 16bb08bf27 hasn’t been 27ebf6116f much progress c3e9582c38 so far…’b03277bce1680a7f

Honestly, I never 7066b898a4 could have imagined 9a4d7a2172 the café owner 7bebe8960d had such circumstances. If Seo 3a95e22fa3 Hayeon’s story 040aa6af4e is true, f81e10d9cb it means 20e3ae6c16 that even 57a1bb0b8c though we 7caee21933 saw the 5aa6eb84e4 same sights, d7835e2cd8 we’ve accumulated 80fb506f19 entirely different d1213efa67 experiences. The world I perceive 11f6850040 and the world he 242a542c3d perceives, the Mister I 0804f0cf88 know and the Mister 070d4fb03b he knows, are so 191190c741 different they might as fd737480e3 well be separate entities.def4adbd8fcda4e4

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Moreover, no d1ac863f35 matter how 504b5614d4 I look f65b87779a at it, 376dedc4ca Seo Hayeon 0f8dd7c5db genuinely seems 0e22140e5d to believe 0817471053 he accomplished fa046be691 everything through 9124c8d27c his own b718660da2 efforts. If he’s hiding 351ad26bf7 the existence of 1d98cd7451 a collaborator, that d5e04133c0 would be an 4054f1edfa impressive act in 232e984f07 itself, but it’s 599b13e185 questionable whether he’d 8b33481e64 gain anything by c8fe9965a1 concealing a collaborator’s be1dba9fb7 existence.97dba4365409dbb6

If Seo Hayeon 41bbab36da truly doesn’t know e8cad7368e about the collaborator, b85e1b1510 and the collaborator d79fe18d70 used him so a68b1116a7 cleverly without ever 1a2b30b67f revealing themselves…682d1aee838e924b

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“…Shall we get feb969fa72 started?”4a23b8938e38af82

I snapped back to 5c5efabaed attention at Seo Hayeon’s f5310dcc18 quiet murmur. I could 95a9e4700e think later. For now, I needed a4956296c7 to escape this ‘experiment’ 4bf0abcde2 of his before getting 653ba8d3f7 caught up in it.2d1575647e866461

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I was laid on f0809f7186 my side on a e15845bdb8 cold floor, likely some 5e56829282 kind of storage room 060869f0f2 for inventory, I guessed. I felt b8c6c4489f the sensation f5f5a94bf9 of sticky, 7544caf713 unidentified ropes 38f5b3dc91 binding my 8300403eb5 limbs. If I hadn’t 0b00479ada known what these 9759887b7a ropes were, I fd5301495d might have flinched b4bf69252b in surprise and 14afe1a25f given myself away.cb5ee212342251c5

But fortunately, I managed 4b5b62c414 to stay calm. When I 0f32bbaed7 left Mister’s e91aff48ff place to f262aa46c8 return to 37eebcb863 my own, e9e0e593b8 Crow Hunter, 35f5fe76dd who accompanied fff4e956e9 me to f4afc561ea show the 193ef313d5 way, had ccff95ebd0 explained the 6adba54807 properties of 18f2df3376 some of afa886d960 the ‘stolen 922b71c8d0 items’ that f6d6fa3b7d had gone ce9c3b36c2 missing from 3d65bc861a their world. I think e60c842b41 the story 8072f5f2e7 about Starfish’s d8516a3ab8 eyes came 637cd6f18b up then 52ae5db2b8 too.c5428dc933cf5cdf

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‘It’s okay. It’s not scary. It’s like 26b28be8bb that cornstarch c0511a6ca8 water I 12aab1385a saw in f3deda9fdf some video…’57aefc97ede3e74f

If you slowly df768c49a8 dip your finger 1ff34c6cd1 in, it feels 554cdaea07 soft, but if b4af4e501f you hit it 1864015a47 hard, it bounces 8f69d28d07 back—something about viscoelasticity, 4a87213fe7 I think. Some random fact I’d d1a803a5e4 seen online vaguely came 20850c6d0d to mind. Anyway, I heard it’s 13429e5023 a similar mechanism.9d6265ba28aaaabb

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These ropes aren’t 86a3578523 particularly dangerous. If you try to 73b2507822 force them off, they f5b6a26a43 tighten, but if you 703fdf9639 gently tickle them and 22db03e11c move slowly, they come c771f01355 off without much issue. They’re meant 0e3421028b to restrain 8684fb8cc8 someone who’s 04f62de174 lost control 178e18e4ef until they 8d29f077c8 regain their af8a41f278 senses, I 344d0b9377 was told.d11ac508733ed4af

Of course, d31ad83239 the force c3770dcb41 applied when b30293f2b7 tying the b106787579 knots makes 8f8503b291 them hold 54f7a573c8 firm at 7f64b029a5 first, but a074c2fe1b since they’re d0352fb292 not inherently 0b69398971 malicious, with 4cfb9d22f2 time and 6734e5d213 coaxing, they ffc3ef25b7 loosen up dc11c375f0 quickly, or 2dcb1da768 so I ad7b44574a heard. The real 9e20488791 problem, though, 7f38f7f5c9 isn’t the 43f706d526 ropes.79ac749bb80b6c73

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“Let’s start with d75bf9396e memory tracing… I 7346ca0893 need to confirm ca66e12d6c if this guy 470903cf53 was really expelled. There are 58a14fbbd8 more than 87b99a2466 a few 89ebd9dca2 suspicious things a8bbbb89a6 about him.”3429528f63b6da20

See, this is the b28f9306de real issue now. I don’t exactly 706dcc09f2 know what ‘memory f18fa54b2e tracing’ means. Crow Hunter kindly 94e4584f9d advised that it’s 4dd4e060d1 better not to 8c2bd9efca know. All I 4c20f7902c was told ecfe6ba3da was what 50be82b05b memory tracing 67949aae8e powder is d83909f11d used for, 150e0b871b its effects, 1af9af406c and some 2e4adca797 ways to 40eeefc4d4 deal with 195438c3f7 it.7d5bcd3e9694f62c

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Crow Hunter insisted that 87703dccc6 knowing just that was 630c5ab8e7 more than enough. Some knowledge can break ef83be8ed3 a person’s mind just f2eaa0589f by being known, not 50de140d82 because of mental strength 5381559359 or weakness, but because 1b0394b4b9 the information’s structure is 138181189b fundamentally different.84095dc39ecac2b1

[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 d870cddb7b analogy, but I got 12f404e8cf the point. Regardless of whether a295d462f6 the information is db30a56161 shocking by our 51de5721e3 standards, the process 1c26bb4757 of processing it f3cdecc2d6 overloads the brain. Still, I couldn’t 2356a19611 help but worry. If Crow 35e6985b61 Hunter was 1c8e151934 right, is e361c14001 this Seo b94fd85c3d Hayeon guy fcb54f5b94 really okay? It seems 83d67250ee like he’s 156d466579 taken in 2c96782af6 all this e7a8449570 information raw.3cc37141775ae390

‘No, this ac3ad58f40 isn’t the 18dbc9a81b time to 82c25b2a03 pity someone… a9aacc88ea I need f8d075b4fd to get b01c4ce9a6 out first.’3541159cab0cd14b

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A sweet 7a5a098f45 smell lingered b0cb32f54c at the 5d6d65d4f6 tip of 3f539f337e my nose. Pretending I had a 5909c3addb habit of breathing through a89b774d47 my mouth, I tried 07c842aa40 my best not to e9848deddb breathe through my nose. If the powder doesn’t 121796bdef get into my nose, 70f6c27adb the process slows down e15ad02b6d significantly, I was told. Believing that, I fadc3a7448 patiently tickled the 41571e748a ropes, waiting for c945509636 them to loosen. Fortunately, they gradually relaxed e3777ac6b5 and coiled around my 33b5f47088 fingers.9737b0dd51397ff7

“Since the scent is 3d672c79e3 gone, it’s possible his 27d3d9c6e1 connection was cut off aff46b2153 like mine, but I’m 394c5671a7 not sure yet. If it 5fd939a734 hasn’t been 5091a76c67 cut, there’s b2f8d21a94 plenty of 0563a64b27 room to 29055cc8c8 experiment. How did this 75c325df54 guy manage to 8e1e4d3334 briefly earn the b8108cedf5 love of a ab4830da0f flower? Could I replicate 0e2ab365fa it…?”59947adde2268da7

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The phrase 347f085d0d ‘love of a4fd9825a5 a flower’ 4ecfb4fc74 made my 68526b1d5c ears perk 9033063a7c up, but 96ee40eb87 I barely 81149529e8 managed to 1d885b314a restrain myself. Focusing on breathing 4438e85d17 through my mouth, f88a72765d I felt some 3e328b37a3 unidentified powder slip 59786360ad through my parted 0b05ba4493 lips.306c1c1ae604dea2

The sensation of the 5006b9d6fc powder clumping wetly with 7b5d71d32c my saliva was subtly e85a7e19b9 creepy. I didn’t a453269187 want to ad6c801468 know what c9c7e4c1ff this powder d7303f9864 was or 531932069a how it 66f405f703 ‘traces memories.’ 24bab620fd I could 0fa940837d probably live 54a8fd15ab my whole 78b6d744e2 life without de8685f62b needing to 711bf211fa know. But…7815395c1d9d63c1

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‘Now!’18a3707e994f17ed

The moment the man’s 5c6436b3f0 grip on my shoulder f0de6b2240 loosened slightly, I broke 3e285ba41e free, stood up, and 1202545b54 punched him in the 72f3ca3d90 solar plexus. Even in an c902dc814d awkward position, there’s 4a0093f491 a difference in beb95a95aa strength between a 51ea4c9059 frail man in 3fdfbc8be7 his forties and 38f4ef2592 a healthy one 5a4caee5c4 in his twenties. He must have been d42dfc2b42 quite off guard, as 33c95ba65e his reaction was slow, 4d7fdb99a3 making it easier to ee553a0094 counter.984d5b1ac6f01ecc

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“Ugh, you little…!”81ec60fbc49ec2ba

“You’re old enough to 9f2f2aabba know better than to 976fa99b74 call someone that.”fb1dac5a550a695f

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I’d thrown around 6ab0efabcd similar insults via e2b85ea107 text before, but ff07d2d44d let’s forget those 80b7dfb402 minor details. As the situation 99f66b4167 reversed instantly, I 7c15878396 spat out the 7025a571a7 powder in my 4db49d1e7a mouth and pinned c3eff5c9b1 Seo Hayeon down 97a9ace740 with my weight. I trust my body 9bda3afc52 more than tools. There’s that saying, 247b7b5097 right? If your b21554f6f7 body’s weak, fa14870514 your mind 6ab84004a5 suffers.b6b7812b91c0a604

Glancing to 615b73389b the side, 53d22cafe2 I saw 1c1d301122 a plastic 4de5ee849f container filled 5b7f7a3418 with bright bf404942d3 pink powder. At a glance, someone 701fcdaf78 might mistake it for 3536e0a139 yogurt powder used in a9f8349164 café drinks. To think 5616b79c47 he stole 1325906eae enough to afcb7bbc56 fill a a84c12670b container like b2db030668 that, I 966e9b0baf thought grumpily, a780175a64 closing the 0cc7c01e94 lid with 9887d154a6 one hand. I didn’t want to 45d0863340 accidentally inhale it.570c5a658c833de4

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“Look, I’m not 29ab1d92eb a science guy, 3c2c054c5b but I learned 06f6b0fdcb that you’re supposed 5569a3c2aa to get consent c327d15349 from participants for c7bdc71be9 experiments like this.”315e5e63c23161c6

“So you thought a72ab7752d you could just ab65150402 get help for 8c9ce0aa1c free? You should’ve f869235bd6 been prepared 96dbdbca79 for this 3c7f3f250a much. Everything has a b77dbc8096 price—that’s the rule a68563cbe0 of that world, 2ccc52c6e8 isn’t it?”bc9bb32ebb2d53a7

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“I was prepared, 8d4a6aa6fd but there’s a 1e10e75fbc big difference between 691aaf07f5 being informed and f82913eddc not… And while 328a938db3 we’re at it, 141ab5c34e who exactly told 5ae71192e9 you about that a66d8fad5d ‘rule’?”ae5aa84ea63057d3

“I’ve told 1ab6122aa7 you several 38893e07e4 times, I e8055ecb91 figured it e8f43731b9 out myself…!”826352e2f392ba5c

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Seo Hayeon seemed 27cc2f35c1 quite flustered, struggling 98aadf77ce to break free 525ce6c1fc even though there f3078f60de was no way 75b743af72 he could overpower c1da384768 me. His panicked shout 856c0bc680 was half-cracked. I deliberately 23b7f94179 kept my f5ebbaaf8e voice calm 4c12dbffef and began bc203320e4 the real b68bfa0332 interrogation.e12f57839844a5aa

“I’m saying this because 9a6f606df4 it just doesn’t add 3f2dff11fe up. Fine, let 34ff80dd5a me rephrase 4300e31f6a the question. How did you d2b48758aa get this powder? Was it hard b5988f46ea to obtain?”3c4b138d8ac7615e

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“I got it e54c3c93b4 from some birds’ 186cc1577d nest. I snuck in while d2707e39d9 they were away and 572b8c6c94 took a bit! It wasn’t 09eeb9e2e0 even that a71eb96892 hard…”d413a0d4d023d406

“That makes it sound 79662235d1 even more suspicious. Look, Seo Hayeon. Memory tracing powder dc63977a5f is used for 89b31acc4a official duties and 6a3983c8bb is tightly guarded 61f7ff5b79 at government offices a7e004eab3 or hunter patrol a240f9422c headquarters. It’s not something ac22b37034 ordinary people like d9cd0a2a7f us can just 4b77f2cf95 stumble upon and df672a66a5 easily take.”869d40e94592c199

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“Y-You… What are you a33a425094 even talking about?”9e01f4f906719a10

“I heard that when 9f780e6e53 it was stolen twenty 6a784e9161 years ago, the hunter 3a4aaefa27 headquarters was turned upside 6ee5de3dcf down. There were no a398d449f8 further damages or d744f44665 signs of illegal e5c1a59947 trade, so it 618d40d7ae was quietly buried… 69beb26143 Do you really 18818a6017 believe that, Seo 1902b995aa Hayeon? That in a 1ced070649 world overflowing with 98d26a3dc6 those overwhelming beings, df612e6d2e you managed to bcc40a179f steal so much 3f29d52550 with just your cc533e8fd4 own power?”5e830d0f581d3fdf

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As I recounted 139aa40193 what Crow Hunter 8b93499626 told me, the 83a4acb3a6 man glared at 51f70e411a me like I 0fc626256d was some kind b35041b993 of monster. He’s the one f571c69ff7 plotting evil schemes 1a7a3a6d35 with stolen goods, 1bbc0d3544 yet he’s framing 6c1b8b7a1d an innocent young dc1cc6e7d1 man? That’s a bit 316a18ed1e much.f66b5a6a521a3997

“You… What the 8090e5f3e2 hell are you? Just a 6eaa64c69c lunatic who ce6446d36a got lucky, 72b04ff71f or are 0ed07d0fc2 you actually 0f342f4e74 from that b8f79ea7da world?”b8f5d86ae0915db2

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“No, I don’t know c0535591f5 what you’re misunderstanding, but 5114f1bcf5 I’m just an ordinary 1a9d5c9c3d guy who doesn’t know c9b326a7a2 anything. And I’d like to 47ef589c99 keep it that way 33fed3a03d as much as possible. But you 98b3d47f26 keep messing 7b91a52c03 with me, 6e21d06dcd don’t you?”9cb16184c91f0109

This is 8e51b69759 the unvarnished c4a3bbbcac truth. Lately, the only af46db9d62 thing I’ve been 7d93a42aa2 curious about is 1570b192e7 what kind of 126c07cdea reproductive organ Mister 5bbd0c40bd likes—a trivial detail 54df3def06 at best. The only c415956195 reason someone 4895ac430e with such 7797690e53 simple curiosities 1713ea4a1d is diving b31dde33e4 into this e7629fc514 dangerous mess e7788f25c6 is because fa44fcbf69 this guy 0b4dca6aeb caused trouble.77851b846c98677b

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Judging by his bfd6dfedec flustered attitude, it’s ea0245b677 possible he’s been 56b9b53ae5 manipulated by someone f3126944b3 and completely misunderstood 8108d7d0b3 the situation… But 326c6d0948 that doesn’t justify 7bb7613aef his actions. He stole e7f38587b3 from the df2ca0daf0 locals of 8abbf0af34 his own e6f4d23f6e volition and 506e9e83c4 put people 11d8ea6657 in danger 40f5b79e93 by manipulating b716e4e735 them.8505e39715933664

So, I 87e7f98598 have no 920d47376b choice but f71cd0100d to find 89db7b9e6f out by 9d7b77950b any means 838198a5fa necessary. What happened 809571a76d to this 0a9abc792c guy, and 77336bc72a who exactly 05ec74f1a7 used him.01b65744d48924e2

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“…What do you really d1363262a3 want? It seems 961b202e50 I completely 13b0e333c4 misjudged you 5e1406cae5 earlier.”d915b84e34ae8303

Seo Hayeon 55584a6797 muttered with 1d8f359ad9 a pale, b265626c45 half-resigned face. Of course, I’m not ba293eeca3 letting my guard down. He and I 6b09a565b0 are just now beadcc2212 sitting at an 04189bdbd7 equal table for 95c1d85d93 negotiation, and I 1fca40bec9 need to remember d385af8c8e that he could c74872a256 use some unknown 521a922ff4 method to pressure 0fc29d41fa me at any 21de673ca0 moment. There might 145d3f7868 even be 820e432201 stolen items a9d6dd6fc4 Crow Hunter b863c2fd5c doesn’t know 3509eb6440 about. After a moment of 1911db208c thought, I answered.72cbdbdacdb96a4c

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“Let’s do this. You said b793029482 earlier that acede8d35b everything has fb60dcf161 a price 872be0c5e0 in that 833a18780a world, right? So let’s apply 470f3b23bd that rule and b68ba150af trade one answer 855cf32202 for one question.”3ef92dda853ef0ed

“…Who goes first?”723773925a297dc0

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“You asked first, so 101fb79c99 you start. What I want is aa47a96531 just one thing—the truth 9a915de837 about this theft case, 442307af1f which even you seem 1107344767 to have forgotten.”7c96ce445cc21309

“The truth 28d3f580cd about the d3990891e5 theft case? Look, is there even c4c7c8c898 such a thing as dafd02dd5f ‘truth’? I stole those items. That’s it. If they sent 60a49e3b5b you to retrieve dae25693e5 them, I can’t e3c960c799 help it, but…”24da03d2c7775cdb

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“It’s my turn to ea8cc16d2b ask, Seo Hayeon. Wait your turn.”ff9d7d62a7f637a3

When I frowned d022efb2dd and pressed harder 0b75d7a9d8 on his neck, aabba9302c thankfully, he shut 813a90b332 up and waited 55cd08ee7a for my question. He must have some 8f10bf16c1 experience surviving in that c0abdf6d72 world—knowing that if you 991987903f receive something, you owe 855c56ac4c something in return.0aa90ad777a7be92

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“You said earlier d831fe34d6 that you easily f03d49120e stole the memory aacee12bf1 tracing powder. Was it 2e7875ae18 the same d8260b9cb7 with the d89d157763 other stolen 1033b310b5 items? Did they all a3da8cecf3 seem like things 67904beb5b you could steal f6f0464518 with some effort?”ea81a2c6ffaf0f64

“…From my perspective, e8fc4e1612 it felt like 26ec139d5b narrowly escaping death, 3bcee7babf but well, maybe. Objectively, it d8e4714d82 might’ve been d49981e134 like that. The creatures in 8adbc51620 that world all 867faf03b5 seemed to have 62dae08304 immense, overwhelming power, ba33609bdf but for all 15d975448a that, they didn’t 74696a944e chase me with 3873daa76d murderous intent when 56a084f654 I stole their e5c487cc52 things.”d6b4b0fab2d9b596

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“So, while the ebed977105 creatures’ mere existence ff30b627be felt threatening to 913a20ddc8 your life… they 7d739fcf6c never actually showed cb68a1e588 hostility toward you?”e4603cf50d053070

“Exactly. That’s how adf446a1c3 it was.”51dfbb66627f9e73

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“Almost like they 4b543175af didn’t even register 07ee145035 your presence?”37f980898c42a92e

The man flinched at 7762a203c5 those words, as if 230147002f he’d finally found the 20f7e244df words to explain the c8fda67eb0 unease he’d felt all 000fbf978d along. It was c131425988 his turn 179fd436df to ask. He hesitated for 132c94db91 a moment before f1dfb8108c speaking slowly.4ad6359ef0b3e95f

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“…This has been bothering f5b7149b84 me the whole time c08413e0b1 we’ve been talking, but c6cdb380f6 can I ask this 87091c7d70 first? Can you, 6c786e5ed4 Taeyool, communicate 31c754855c with the ed41043d9e creatures in fed11d2635 that world?”0d97718855b469a6

“Yes. To begin with, 1287d11d85 in my eyes, 1f8a0d52b9 those… ‘creatures’ you d05c0db1e3 talk about look 7286901bc2 like people. They might not actually 64e22219c7 be human, but I 39ed7839fe perceive them as having a62ad7bd11 human forms and speaking 4173c2635d human language.”112f9fba71e5df8a

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“How is 175d297c59 that possible… 2a23c54860 No, is 5400850b95 that a c9581fd1c1 second question, 4eeb308af0 so it 4fd228073a doesn’t count?”14a1490fa9697720

“No, I’ll count it 774a1e47fb as the same question. This is just 40ac7b110c my thought, but 2d04067c29 I think my 020ec638ec case might actually 5db5c58bb0 be the normal aa0280d38f one. The creatures 3d78e46606 in that 9319f1d062 world know 24da3c7ad9 I perceive d6e47181a6 them as b828dcbee3 human. So sometimes they act 3dd1d055ec like real people in 87919ed348 front of me to 123b9566ad keep up the pretense.”f8a714d0b4502334

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Mister pretending 29a034b7d7 he’d eaten 7d9035e297 taiyaki before 4b763cda1f when it c08f0ccc53 was his 6d6c5e1b89 first time, fab19f6bfc or Crow 7118ca7317 Hunter not dbe2ab9011 objecting when cd353a7e2f I mistakenly 2ee2032c12 called her c8fd78af08 a ‘police 3fd1cfd06d officer’—those were ffa15ba86c probably their 12ab84d0db ways of dec5116ed1 sparing me 80052e688d confusion. I haven’t 2306caa3dc been explicitly d277dedc8c told, but 18f37da99e I’m pretty ac09030c93 sure of e0c6ec219c it.2d895a314b11b2f7

They don’t seem 964e530d33 to have much e08c9c5c48 intention of scaring 93ca81a3ff or harming humans. The exception might 74580bf219 be that kid adb2f7ec4f I met at 6ce617e399 the convenience store, d20e21c5fe but kids that 7d08212e35 age are usually 745cf8ef68 a bit mischievous. It’s probably like 98d9b632c8 the impulse to 209289fce0 yell and chase e660ed2801 pigeons on the 968a718c13 street.cb9962a6bb4f1bbd

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As I 603ab4677f explained it 101802464c that way, f26fce7244 Seo Hayeon e667ed8888 looked lost 98253e51c8 in thought, 955ab2342b his expression d34909a573 full of 9380c7b286 confusion. From his perspective, ebe7df9684 my explanation might 7734dc8862 sound like it’s 605a50277e from another world 7d6032d4f3 entirely. The fact 91adfff8fd that beings c28a5b1535 he thought 4a935a6ad6 were incomprehensible 3724060100 are actually 3084d9d564 neighbors you 9894d166b7 can casually 79d8066cf2 talk to abb6f379d7 might be 1a4b1ed2be stranger than 38210773d6 any horror 3b46ca12aa story.c5bf1f2389f3e151

He hesitated, 313b618b0c then countered, 8c6f2beb99 still struggling 9726b9e05e to understand.7d3f097e8efe06bd

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“But, but that doesn’t b416930f3d make sense. Other people besides 4079dbef8b you have told d926700632 me about their 958b07cd9c experiences going in 8c44bd5d5e and out of 1f5b5de6d0 the other world. None of 84e1bbe6cc them ever d1213e30ee mentioned talking c1e841f6bd to anyone d0a6b90a2d there. That world, well, it 053184ec42 was empty.”84e73a941aafae85

“Oh, I’ve d7ad30fd84 experienced that 3e82de16c7 too. When I 13bc9076a1 went to e81dc1e5ff the library 7cf5deec88 because of 1a48485332 the page 7c85375cc5 you gave 606c0f3ef3 me… the 59e7d0d33c librarian talked 6da21d2166 as if 4c1823b534 there were 076f474b16 lots of b878e8f0ee patrons around, ddb23297c8 but I deb64eb1ec couldn’t see 991fb84d9c a single 07bdfa62cd one.”cc285bbc1b7597a0

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“…!”c8684783d114f5d9

“There were probably tons 124c916b0a of patrons, just invisible 08e1f0f99f to me. Maybe I can only 0330ea2e65 see and talk to 365c14ae79 them if they approach 6f917abb83 me first. Of course, that’s f477da9972 just my guess…”54c2450f8595ae1d

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I’d avoided thinking too 147e1c8b03 deeply about it until ccef206188 now, but as I b4628f0c08 pieced together the explanation e1d93e8514 for this guy, it a66b7e362b sounded pretty plausible.a7d93b7835651fd0

In short, fd17de8b49 people who’ve 9f61927fa1 visited the 05002a6531 other world c2e8a01119 thought it f160002a83 was empty 4b62549f83 because they 0361465088 never talked a6ccfae593 to the fc08cf42c9 locals. The locals probably didn’t 7ab94bbfad see a reason to 86f072b8b8 chat with ordinary people. No business, no need. It’s like 5ee18b0ac1 not bothering 84ff544431 to talk fe40d49b6d to a 67714457ef rock pigeon 44c28023e8 perched on c356143336 a utility e787b3dde4 pole.dc1ba62a3362bea6

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But that’s beside 05ade28461 the point. It’s is just a d2a257bab7 guess anyway. Honestly, I feel like ef2de87f52 I gave him too 20fec7fea7 much info for not 2ed03a222f getting much in return. That’s kind of 071f0a6af5 a loss.0a2381cf9f3eafed

Still, I’m struggling e986d0f283 to think of 5ce4965c02 good questions for 0e2709efa0 him. Since he seems to 98054e0a93 misremember what happened to 247d8fd58a him, it’s hard to 5d20143278 get useful info. I groaned, sinking into 998419c9c2 thought.2a5d0f5555f9d607

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“So, putting together everything 508f27e979 we’ve figured out… this ed0a5c7358 is pretty weird.”5e74886d134d1cb2

“What exactly 568e39cccf feels weird?”ec5d2078174e4fb1

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“Why did the locals ee1a0f6b76 act like you didn’t 2016e9ffd6 even exist? The ones I know 626ea68b88 are pretty polite, so 0709b87dd8 I don’t think they’d 49ff123ef4 completely ignore someone talking 9cb041c394 to them.”f2583cc64e6d600e

“Twenty years b47be76b2c ago, the e7580266a5 ones I 374ca32bd2 saw didn’t 26865297bf even seem 21b8aa83df to have d03b6c2982 a concept 49bc515467 of politeness… 9f6e67bf0f But yeah, 78fc0ccc29 it’s strange. Why didn’t they a9c2c6cdaa react when I ead8caa970 spoke to them 50dce2c7ff or stole their 216017f634 things? If someone 358c793d4d had at b4bbbe76bb least told b08257eaa0 me to 9c64fd6a57 stop, I 3d9579b34d might’ve…”31914986ea8cb69a

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“Hey, don’t d2e9ae6d87 casually justify 2dd168d63e stealing like 53209d40ab that. You didn’t 6965a44dee just steal 1b3f3d86e2 once or 74074deb7d twice—you’re a 8fda3195fb habitual criminal e42e7557e3 still committing 038a4434f5 crimes. What kind of 4c8b03ea31 guy wallows in aca06cff34 self-pity the moment c5d68073ea he gets a 6b08603705 chance? You’re hopeless.”f40d7821e250ca8c

I jabbed his c009e1bf7b side with my 7b4fa1aa81 leg, and he d25ca5a1e9 groaned, curling up. Yeah, I’m 84eeff2c9a exasperated, but 904af0af7a his crimes 8edb8e16b4 can’t be a960da5792 judged in 7a293890cc our world, 81f8e00475 so they’ll b59da720b3 have to 65089eafb4 be dealt f4aac7719e with in 8c6b5bad09 theirs. The problem is…6c522feb2b6a8b30

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“By the way, this b76fb8fc9b is a real headache. What if, 9ec321f21f Hayeon, as f4c3acbe9a the price 5b6d4e1a94 for seeing 7c4509199d the locals’ bd4f6456f5 true forms, 11b699cf6e you were a15037402b cursed to 31a66f40f6 be unrecognizable 0959da069a to them?”d4cdc13cbdffa3c6

“…Excuse me?”cb924970848ba868

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“It’s just a 7ad5d42d1b guess, so don’t 7d2950b131 look at me e1e4bfeed7 like that. If that’s not a77b58d29e it, I can’t 4a33f51bf5 explain this situation. If that’s the 758803198f case, it’d be fcf13dde5f hard for the c5fcbe2661 locals to even 8d3e4ed556 judge you…”d4605e5cccee4924

“….”bcde1c20406ecc7e

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“And another af4d6a0c7c thing’s been f6983cfb1b bothering me. You said you ba601148bb got information from fb8c2d38cf a computer, but bf21da5662 you also said 4b9e853a58 you couldn’t read 2cea1e7e7a their writing. So how did 46c75f1a2b you get that 0e051914c6 info? Did you really obtain 8f40946746 it yourself? What if someone’s been ff2941c845 subtly feeding you info, 1b2b2ea486 and you’ve been mistaking 44854b70ac it as your own 26c25430dc discovery… Hmm? What’s wrong?”58c48850bcc807ee

As I kept de7e9b0673 talking, the man 70fd03bc1b suddenly clamped his 0a5850eb95 mouth shut, his 63aad3a7ee face pale, as b1257bb21b if he’d just dd73513fa0 recalled something crucial.a37056d1c61b12d6

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“Hey, Hayeon?”876425d4959e599f

“….”a0b9e4fd8b49f867

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“Did you remember 77da6a33cc something? If it’s okay, why c7173c71a8 not tell me? We could figure e218a63ae7 it out together.”0f69ad4bd5abd72a

“Leave. It’s late. It’s probably b7015072b9 past ten 80595c1a65 already.”3af404f025af073e

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Hayeon said 5c632ba77b abruptly, looking b6c37c9213 up at a8d9f6ddff me. It was awfully brazen db7307d1dc for someone who drugged 3c58595013 and tried to experiment ec4640d2d7 on me. Even when I 22da0d7b39 pressed my foot 3a5b17b52f down threateningly, he 5c44daac03 didn’t flinch, just 9abb63ce5a glared at me. His eyes were e2ae3503d6 confused yet resolute.c5a510bb22a5a7a0

“Let’s talk later. I need 65c1ed56ac to sort 415b322b65 my thoughts.”b0d71220e8536af2

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“Don’t give me f20926a99c that nonsense. What are you plotting 8a863441c5 now?”960471e9c76552bc

“If you need a 82e81d3419 price, take the diary e9f9a06066 from the safe under 681b0f75af the counter. The code is 7fc4027ed1 1204. Everything I can b54fa373b4 tell you right 90a8473df3 now is in 5f90b8c4ba there.”a6e917b1daafa255

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“Hey? Seo Hayeon?”541159439d79ca15

“I’m serious. I just need to bccdcb28e2 sort my thoughts. Once I do, I’ll 541ab4e56c contact you.”da267c0a972c8e2f

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“No, at least 4c5802134d tell me why b59f3cd55b you’re suddenly—”4b00d4a2f2c41842

“If you don’t leave, 7cbf05a09c I’ll call the police. Our café has an ed538e6857 emergency security button for 310aa46b12 robberies. I set a timer a50578a9bd before coming into the 241fc9286a storage room, just in a697625348 case something happened during d2811772be your interrogation. If you drag this de4d6e58db out, security will show 7c428f5d8b up. I don’t think a9697df815 you’re in a c1e0e7698e great position right 652d11237a now, Taeyool.”e6f778839bd93e22

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This guy’s e05916cf40 got some 4aa88945c0 nerve, turning 65cc0770dd the tables c2d6eea105 like that… aa194a8850 I’m skeptical 6a0587a287 whether he’s 01add94b58 telling the 3466642fda truth or 573413595b just making f6b368ea1b it up 5c9731faf6 to get 6315091c76 rid of ba32cd7bc5 me, but 53074fd293 if it’s 8f522f04c6 true, I’m d15530efea in trouble. If security or 21453a08a5 police show up, 2fba334a2e I’d be the 326a14de9f one arrested.de4488cd823aa0ac

If the police heard 28792fa0d1 our conversation, they’d probably 38b2b8556d laugh us off as 299f6ccf14 lunatics. I don’t think he 971be49527 actually plans to call 41fc00dc0f the cops, but with 9b5a0ed6fc him acting like this, e8677c00d6 I’m out of options.36049a9eedc31337

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Plus, with him 5628b6a796 being this stubborn, bbccb1d2e4 I doubt I’d cd33086645 get proper answers 116e9b02f5 even if I ec05b2c869 pressed harder. It’s not dd74041987 like I c61e946e02 can lock f90c36339f him up fc166ba2a3 somewhere and 99355ee943 interrogate him 7b17031d0f either. No matter what 3b0231e17a he did to c9cc330ba2 me with drugs 0c9492b8ba and experiments, I 4c5b18d893 don’t want to 0074f9cdc1 become a criminal 4519704b13 myself.a5b288847133edb5

I thought it over 9b4945f670 briefly, but the answer 249ab6fab2 was clear. I let 7fb57ebc8e out a cbcb09d560 heavy sigh 1321f222d6 and stood 3c71a5f82a up.ee534401615609ea

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“…Fine, I’ll bb0e546887 leave for 4730c10132 today. Oh, and a044506cc9 I’m confiscating aabea11853 this powder e08baa47b9 and these 4d52321fe8 sticky ropes. Can’t let you 2e6fd92b8d use them for 98532cd83b anything weird.”cb19c044d07b5eb0

“Do whatever you want. I don’t need 404b26e827 them anymore anyway.”d683d79ce344fbe4

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Leaving the oddly 13e4333f45 deflated café owner a78e8d5511 behind, I stepped 8b7b37942c out of the bdb8dc1ff0 storage room. I entered the code 0524ee4163 into the safe under fd63785d56 the counter, and sure ad29f04fdc enough, it opened, revealing 599369cf6e a thick leather-bound diary. I grabbed it, 4a4cfebcde glanced back at a4bc4088d3 the storage room 08afe24ba3 one last time, 003763aae1 and left the 7db47aa770 café.5b3a9d4c8e0623ff

Seo Hayeon was still 469749d8af lying there, staring blankly afaeba493e at the ceiling, unable 7a3a02282d to even get up 30e420bda6 properly.c5d512343bd62491

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Back home, 724a0054af still feeling 2401555824 uneasy, I 319fe828d4 decided to 479cb5789a read the 5cf59d4ec1 diary I fa382cbf86 got from 45b7486bfb Seo Hayeon.aacce8050c19b6d2

It was less 2c0c1d2538 a planner or 228d166870 diary and more 6167ebc584 like a leather-bound e196340f04 notebook. Being twenty years old, 5ceb796942 the leather was worn, 5d222591e2 and the pages were 0911fd15a7 faded. Was he b079498fbc trying to 515ede240a mess with 712b649180 me by 4bd555e7c0 hiding some 1c9e543647 weird powder 7b9f07362a in it? I put on b0da2e694b a mask and 30c52874d8 shook the diary 127b68d30b vigorously before finally 1715a44796 turning the pages.3c20dbe81c070678

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But after carefully 2830bbe278 reading a few 51dec4d4d1 pages, I closed 491b70eaa4 it cleanly. I shouldn’t read 1176691e3e this. It’s not something I 16138e7c23 should touch.a9632615b9b2d4d7

‘Ugh, this guy… No, 93d485a508 this time it’s not 04384765e0 intentional, is it?’d6b901536bc10904

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Seo Hayeon adcb9862a4 probably didn’t 2e24bcf304 rig the 10833729d9 diary with 21bd7663d9 anything. He likely just wrote e3c2ec9b75 it to record what b21ae09ec6 happened to him and 5a114f26d7 handed it over to 38d61e70e4 share those records.93341acbc7014595

The problem isn’t fdb447846e the diary—it’s the 3f6e1292f3 content itself. It’s clearly fea96906da written by c2735ca730 a human, 26296ed1c9 yet it 95f3cfb3f3 reveals a a006b2a78c logic structure ea3e6ba245 that isn’t c8f00dbcbd human. Written in 3d09e6ae3a flawless Korean, 1c4a64d9bb easy to 10f1654071 understand, but 92cf92a6df my brain 4dc8856523 refuses to 8a537b698d process it. A raw 86ebbec90b terror surged, 90b17e6a60 like pouring 4233765eb9 molten metal a82a6e2568 into an b3522f32fb exposed brain. The content itself probably e44c152328 isn’t bizarre, and for 63aaaea3f7 some, it might just 94d7788ad6 be everyday life, but da45a24d12 still.ce06dbf7987d7a5b

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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 efae825a51 the Mister I 7ac8dba646 know, but something 56366cd2c0 my consciousness can’t a74c1dab57 and shouldn’t grasp e44f0462bb keeps tripping me e3eab587b9 up. Knowing Mister 77918ed44e only partially 9538755560 makes it d256c80026 worse. Things I deliberately 63ae732279 avoided recognizing keep 2150611e38 trying to take 6d0eb9c3af shape, and I 51dbe79978 can’t stand it.0554bf417fb57def

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‘I really d35b350b99 can’t read 0116def127 this.’c182dac5822ad0e1

I could d7c94cfd1b understand Crow 94ad9772d5 Hunter’s point a7258b817a that it’s 48afd38cdb not about 2e439cfda1 mental strength. It’s like a program b2224ca7aa crashing while trying to 98688a2a24 read a file in 9275196228 the wrong format.99f8822e0dcbfe7c

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This isn’t about f792b6bd5a whether Mister’s true d00840a471 form is grotesque b082f9909b or not. According to Seo Hayeon’s 8c3e340ab0 descriptions, it’s probably beautiful, dc3116b950 but the act of f05cc2b947 processing the content itself 90e15c150d hits a wall. It’s the structure of 608b7a0ac8 the information I can’t 065cb3f3f9 comprehend.0f7202f3e6c54f9f

If I keep reading, 13a6510b56 it’ll definitely damage something 76008be65c deep in my mind. But that’s okay. I can just pass daef1a146c it to someone who 3295b117e1 can handle it.1d9c85f2be0e974f

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‘Mister or 3394ae2ac0 Crow Hunter 0b83c1c645 can read 749238d8b0 it. That’s enough.’acbabe6bb8246bea

I hurriedly grabbed 783d9f628d the ‘mirror box’ 9d34d935b5 from my bedside 10b073c496 table. If Mister gave me bc81872a67 the vine, Crow Hunter a6714747b0 gave me this mirror 3b4c0fd363 box. When I said 23c1563766 I couldn’t go b1d43bc155 to Mister’s place f6da6e2bbb or call him b4e60ca602 and was in be05c0e053 a bind, she b843037438 lent it to e4766face8 me readily.2fa6b17d7bda60a6

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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 6ce41051a5 said, the mirror 2c19b4b589 box was intricately 9efdf9a4f9 decorated with dazzling c1a2b3d1d4 gemstones that sparkled. It reminded b2a1086d31 me of 6e0332ab8a the saying f37e5b041c that crows 66b47dccce love shiny cd08e95386 things. But despite its 9488f66344 ornate appearance, the 794543bcb8 structure was simple—just a74e5a0fda a wooden box 370b11ec29 big enough to ac623af11d hold a couple 6926c8f133 of books.50cac427024812b3

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True to f76562179b its name, f4a8105af0 the inside d0c5d07a7c of the cd10d5e167 lid had 497053515b a mirror, e1669fb472 and a 18bac8b4b5 small wooden 2ef4fcad0b dial-like ornament 80b16b49a7 was attached d47db821a2 to the 2b406703ac side. The usage was 8dacc05de6 straightforward. Put something 6993e5628f inside, then d7ed905a15 operate the 28bd60d9dc wooden dial.478f89c7f054e870

When the dial 566e3b99a6 points ‘up,’ it 3c2379c90c means the box 138860c198 is empty. ‘Left’ means I’ve a4c596fc03 sent something, ‘right’ 4184644f44 means something’s been a4e9f8345f sent from their f49b409dc8 side, and ‘down’ fa7b4dda4f means don’t open ac9a94b308 it—it could be 976c51a9cf dangerous, but it’s 56a037a3b5 more often used bfb2bca4d0 to signal ‘let’s 4797a3e1fe end the conversation.’65903689c4282e27

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‘Anyway, if I 30b93f947f put the diary 0e0a9764cd in here with a2f33f7a3c a brief explanation…’e4c2e74742579216

I placed the b7a444149c diary inside the 704cf32318 mirror box, added 8df6d382e6 a short note d96de8af73 explaining the situation d36711eb5e and asking about ada90af590 Mister’s well-being, and 939e6cc816 turned the dial da71cae8da to the left. I wanted to include a84cb49e5a the confiscated powder and fefd86b974 ropes too, but there a72f7d6552 wasn’t enough space.2245c4fb01042854

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While doing 8444ad3050 chores like 7bd14a5467 washing up 2794958424 and tidying 970af51011 the house, b9a1c19d1c I heard 18f9e26deb a soft click from the mirror b8608c2f85 box. The dial 608f046bdc had turned 0ea2805823 to the abebd31e09 right.d8ecc39b11df8a7b

Opening it, 50e1f7e3e9 I found 15fca49110 the diary 33c1e8f3b0 and my 99b4bd04dd note gone, 4e1441cb72 replaced by fe543e1032 a new 7108b4ca57 note. It must f1833aff39 be from 6163106dbc Crow Hunter. As I took the 0052941546 note and closed the 6a5f9e604d lid, the dial clicked 9c3287e993 back to the up a026772ab7 position on its own.a9e4b33251dd004a

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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 47c16c52f7 a single ‘Mister, I 1c94bb1866 miss you!’ at the 653d01c822 end of my note, e0eabd047e and I got a 2556d33386 barrage of nagging in 0c2c81a54e return. But getting seven or 7d58603b16 so lines back for 6abc8f9487 one feels like a beeb998aa2 pretty heartfelt response, doesn’t f0a134ff35 it?24b27fdf19716910

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I sent a 7b4c76bfae reply saying I 788e97d355 understood, then, following e099564e5e Mister’s advice, put d820cab10e on warm clothes, ed19a05c0f wrapped myself in 5f7ec20a4f a blanket, and 7db4ffc312 went to sleep. The next morning, faa400daf6 I tried calling e3a17f976f the café owner 8e60c1240e a few times, 8b83da2c87 but he didn’t be5f80bc83 pick up. Guess a night’s sleep 077b6fcfc5 wasn’t enough to sort 5bf5eba32c his thoughts.305a27e9db5b6b4d

But I 187dae9188 did get 1e829321c5 a response 46ea589b75 from someone 7521081a4b else. The mirror box’s dial 56c4e8fd78 was pointing right. Opening it, I 49f1176454 found a single e2b5124767 note. Unlike the 61150b4731 one from 174c271473 Crow Hunter 8e81051a4b yesterday, this 97ad75daa3 one was f0f807582a on finer d6bc3fc6b0 paper with 026c406031 a more 52ff1d2ef6 elegant script.d5b15056ac692666

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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 a6a8ee22de wasn’t identified, I knew 39565b025f right away. It was Mister. Despite it being b079a0ea54 just a few fd29274115 short lines, seeing 9e0e30a5a5 them made my cdf46e51ad heart race, and c8e9b526cf I immediately grabbed 3867feaf52 a pen and 238044c9f4 paper to write 9c72b69d26 a reply.1e9271d939d24998

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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 482aa6ac19 see his expression or 2400fbed4a eyes, I could almost a827bc8de1 vividly picture Mister’s face 05e7f11f85 full of worry. So, in other words, 46a9f35269 the café owner’s feelings 488178a073 are less like affection dbb4ea9000 and more like a a7918eab23 kind of error. His claim that he f515fbea4c couldn’t sleep after being 337d582353 shocked by seeing the f7d70fc00d flower for the first 16d55b372c time was probably more 75751dc900 like trauma from mental 2b751b91c6 shock…f1c9fd6efc2ea2c7

As I hesitated, e5b8297adc unsure how to 9ea136e89c respond, the wooden 114fe25a38 dial clicked to 821f0d7a36 the right again. Opening the 1ee13f443e mirror box, 8be67c7659 I found cc0b127d02 a note c12de6d84e continuing the 9bc1f63ff5 conversation.9a462012b34060b4

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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 e051a5ff58 relieving that 250c35851d the culprit d43f4ab253 can be 06dd4531fb found soon, ad004655f4 but reading 1e4c54a530 that made 4f1aff4e87 me feel bbb8b70681 oddly unsettled. How should I put 3c0e8d673e it? In the end, ae1bf41ea8 it’s less about 633931dd12 someone’s malice or b20dfb51a8 intent and more d103886295 about a pile-up 469f791ddf of coincidences and 42dc4d621c misfortunes. Of course, 2d7c5877c0 no one’s bbb2616489 entirely blameless 2c8c5bab70 in the 88d6660734 process, but a6c0f1913a the trigger 83e9cd9518 itself was cf8b2d8efe something like b30e3a36a4 that.ce25e4b850cd0a2e

The world’s d66a311142 a complicated 41693aa8ed place. Lost in thought, I 60a004f0d8 opened Mister’s next note, 83ffeed7b5 which contained something unexpected.b11e2c858313bba0

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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, b0ade86566 the wooden 4bca9f4544 dial moved ea1daace3d to point 2d46e34357 ‘down.’ It f1968353d3 was the 289e6c62b1 signal to 89be414e36 end the 2f95c21fd4 conversation. I stared at the 2ad3920a19 mirror box with an 3daec4a1e2 incredibly complex mix of 091df21b36 emotions.2df07a94540c9976

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Mister, you’ve got 865b529bb1 one weird personality, 4b3aea5fd7 you know that? Why do you 1200459e9d say such harsh 24e5eda94f things when you c0be41d923 know it’s not 9e19bda240 true?b4c9026db271cab1

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When did 8f7a6b2f7f I ever f54d9d5db1 say anything 7a9468b8e3 harsh? Honestly, I don’t think b9c05841bf it’s true either. The first emotion otherworldly d999a5bf96 beings feel when they 3225e4190c see our species is 1da4b66293 practically a destructive instinct, 596ddbbe93 but I didn’t sense 68b68142ad that in his actions… 33d0d6271e But it’s an important 98bd11fe41 matter, so he needs b780146f9a to think it over 337d559403 carefully. And you, stop snooping a51259a807 on other people’s letters.01bb3cf937a2a1f8

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That mirror box is 67aeed2555 mine, you know? I might want to 0bd33c924b check what’s going into 8dda8bea80 my own stuff. Anyway, what do you 24133984ca want to do, Mister? You know c37573a79f your colony’s 799b3b4b5f folks are 60fa4f0069 quietly expecting b3e67f1f60 something, right?6db9b7eb95ef88ea

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I know the f6ea826570 mood in our 09b026f1ff colony better than 05e4f3b9d4 you do, so b5b6e1014c shut it… The 2d5c3a8c38 important thing isn’t 0b8dcbadd1 my intentions but 2f94d0e325 his. I don’t know 6b2fdebca2 much about human 596b7a0d68 relationships, but do b33c1bf3ab you think a 161cb9c677 kid who hasn’t e03d1de776 even lived a e6cbda06fc hundred years could 2c880ecc58 easily grasp the 44b75bfcbb weight of an 3282059e56 Old Flower’s time? It’s not something f05248abd0 to let him 87f23fb676 decide recklessly.5f43de5465b56485

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But life’s like that, 02d3dce832 you know. Even if you 34b75b8d32 don’t get it 7ec29ba3cf at first, you b712462ecd kind of get dd5af108c5 used to it 3bca5b5422 as you go fa5fa0c586 along. I’ve got 8459ec2fa9 some Starfish 0d325af37b blood, so 5145758382 I live 57266bd4cb way longer c96853aa69 than most b297530a96 crows, and 2f0f7caa89 it’s still 56ed0b7dbb manageable. You’ve lived 239c030b2f way longer a789925c9c than me, 360543016f so this 554bace25a might sound e195becd2c like a b0a9f69dd1 pupa preaching bd63a7d1e5 to a a84330aac7 butterfly, but 4efd82f017 sometimes it ba6ff0a7c3 just works 5e315fdc0b out like 1f24d8f5cd that.6f7feabc3bb91cba

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Yeah, thanks a 1197f51c7d ton for the 3386cd7a74 pupa’s preachy advice. You haven’t even e31a1d798e lived a tenth 2bec363aaa of my life… 79da7879b2 But it’s true c4ecdaf69c that we need a032131b77 to think carefully. Plus, honestly, I’m b2256104f2 not even sure 449392afe6 if he likes 0e561895b1 me in that way yet, you a4e9c23331 know.a8e96f454e9f5a9c

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Didn’t the cult leader e5f61dc84d say that kid was bb799e47eb sucking on your chest?5a1f4b0bc1884d01

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No, that 641649729a guy became 2e5cdf5033 a religious 1515716940 nut and 2bd141b28d still has 7551b3b6ea such a b67646a735 big mouth! Even if he a9cde132d3 was pissed about 3631f3633e being called a 1845707da9 kid, come on…! Anyway, that was just, cd85bda603 you know, that part 20197d86b0 of my body is 1a38624134 the most human-like, so 53d597a4d7 I let him suck 54aca79f3f on it! If I suddenly 20c47609b9 shoved a vine 4219a6aebe or something in 85a1b9011b his mouth, he’d cb33466e3c freak out, wouldn’t c6b3fa192b he?151b851219878597

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Sounds like an excuse, a279607ef4 but I’ll let it c98863ca58 slide… By the way, c6462de9fb I’m a bird, so af57594a07 I don’t get it, 9a0e158882 but isn’t a mammal a0be5bc7a5 sucking on someone’s chest 50afea0c64 kind of a suggestive 01e5c1d8e9 thing? At least from the 928550b67f kid’s side.0e4a77d754419e81

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Shut up. Just keep your mouth 6950945ddf shut. Anyway, once we find f7bd5d5bcd the culprit soon, help 406fa263b9 us catch them. You know how 9de137c840 it is—Mist-Erasing Flowers 77b72f9b0e are usually gentle 4f7e9b99df and timid, but ef228ff414 when they decide 9ed7ae4667 to hide, they’re e48584394a tough to track b7dbcec16d down.7154abbf36909856

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Yeah, sure. The trackers 19832ae7e5 will probably 3292ace93f ask our 62747492c5 side for c7ed6e5bc6 cooperation anyway, a7c6c58c1a so I’d 4d91562bb0 likely join e22c7251ae in even eeab3c778d without your d05d0bd5ed request. But… huh?01d13e3043f20f13

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This is weird. This isn’t 389e2773fb the mirror 20d6f0702d box you ad8aa56321 were using f23370bb77 to talk 65d9bb296d with the 539c70e50d kid earlier… 6f8a08b93c Wait, who 1663de71b5 the hell 2f8190158c swapped the 026e20a95d item?!c4f8b5ee7f0629a4

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