The Uneventful Neighborhood – Chapter 6

Inside the closed café

“Um, sir. The owner said 57c23214a5 he’ll be here b4f130c4c3 shortly. It’ll probably ff886cd403 take about 6956eb80cc fifteen minutes, c9aa18e934 so please beb0da2979 wait just fc499040a1 a bit.”075874c43bad0404

“Thank you. I’m sorry for 8bf384e742 coming by so 749e0ef812 late like this…”1018d3bbb0c41157

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“No, it’s fine. By the way, it’s 158c31f369 been a while since 0302a7e879 you last came, hasn’t ccc89d4ad9 it?”d5144b48981c25d1

“I’ve been so busy 132fc57dec with work during the 6fcc9e4be7 week that I’ve been cf37375b16 all over the place. Even today was a5a79c10d5 pretty hectic, so ef02aca755 I only made b984f3e858 it here now.”74a1eadca6c374d7

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I laid out 356027ed98 a somewhat truthful 9a3c8d9252 story while placing 05d1bb4b62 the dessert boxes ba39599016 on the table. I’d suddenly craved something 1106d849f4 sweet and boldly said 2cf848b6a9 something like, “Give me 416a330d46 all the desserts in bc304be3c2 the display case,” but fd247ee76e surprisingly, there wasn’t that d5b773993d much. They said most f93746bed8 of the stock e1092b4735 was gone because f00e506458 of a discount a57a296a59 event.19a7dff5f6d19088

“You must be 69c621d40d planning to stay 5dcaf5ca4b pretty busy for 7e83ebeafc a while, then?”85c6971b0c817186

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“Sorry?”eaa3d63c09c72675

“It just 6a54e7a63d seems like a329fcc53e you’re buying 45c5ae5ca8 a ton, 076ac66bb4 like it’s 054ba0eb6a emergency rations… d923111261 And, well, 666cb4fb25 you look 23183f2ff7 a bit 5b793b2bc8 exhausted.”447dea6444faa699

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Is it that e9e5338c36 obvious just from bff3f4b42a a glance? I gave an awkward 5c0dec1502 smile and sipped my 56ab0de0f4 warm yuzu tea. It had definitely 6944897a0d been an exhausting b517110abb day in many d96d200ef0 ways. The events eb562cea95 from this 43e6884808 morning, and 7d809ae99b the conversation 4c9c0acde3 I had 4f5f227c4b with Mister f4fb9f6587 a few a9d2fdc778 hours ago, 7b886fd0e5 for instance.a4635dc6bfcf7c4f

“Yeah, I’m completely worn 038b597087 out. It might be 8c1af15ee3 hard to come e82cbf6889 here for a 50fc098c96 while, so that’s 17460b6201 why I came e686bccb4f to stock up.”a22fd3894c967ac5

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That’s not entirely 09526061d7 a lie either. Depending on 4a24f20dad how things c1167d06a2 go with 4d0848e8c6 the café 6610971463 owner, I’ll 8b6d0dc402 decide whether 47aa24f4ec to keep 84376f6397 coming here 14e906b32b or not. The part-time worker gave 6f6e7de0ce me a slightly odd 0149cd7420 look before starting to bedb425b25 prepare to close up.b82cf9dd22437068

I don’t e2f6297cb3 know how 0b149c2d0d involved the 6b62ed1838 part-timer is 7a408d2a8a in this d5f700f170 whole situation, faa05af558 but I 42fe3b0968 hope they 5376309522 haven’t gotten f1246f603a caught up c2ddb810c1 in anything 83b29e7786 strange or 0934759fc6 dangerous. I hope a44777c61d they’re only dc11008bea working as f45927ba46 much as 5d6ab87fec their contract c4a24684f1 stipulates. I hope c58ce42992 they’re getting 58969a4c1c their hourly f0267f24a0 wage and 3a5bc0db54 weekly holiday 8e4ffb7c3f pay properly.4be11cdf32e5148e

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‘Well, it’s 403f230208 not like 411aa2cb60 I’m in bed58397b2 a position 3e6a84ba82 to worry d4b83e86af about others f1002c81b1 right now…’76ebc654a8924053

I sank into thought, b08eac0563 mulling over the events 8e5d290235 that happened before I 670404313c came to the café. To be more precise, 1782f36bd6 the conversation I had b0484f55aa with Mister.bd48dbd222139595

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“Don’t come to bc774d23b1 my world—what does 0f171e2710 that even mean?”47333fc32be14a68

“Exactly what I b9c20f06ef said. I kind of felt 7c3c82d5a7 it when you collapsed 310ff4ed04 after taking that drug 9d8d72e2ca last time, but this 4c5451c65b place… this world isn’t 8ab016f374 exactly safe for you. Sure, the 5053869509 locals around 424594d11d here are a8088d257a mostly indifferent 8da34cb1f5 and don’t a331de7f83 have any fbd95dbf50 real malice cf3e6cede6 toward you, 796e56b983 but that’s 8b8f030a7e a separate a013ac9129 issue.”0aeb3cb125bb1139

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Mister’s expression was serious. I thought about making 4f52792e2e some kind of excuse, 7366b145db but I couldn’t deny c9ae8ec348 that his words were e9fc3fdfdd hard to refute. Hadn’t I felt 58784ddcd1 it myself when 87d593c618 I was dragged 2d2db5741a off by Starfish? In ‘their world,’ 7121b5e072 I was truly 2a663d0bd1 an insignificant being. So much so that 703d8459d1 even something they did 439edb31db out of mere curiosity fb26fd3cb2 could crush me and 53dc7a519f make me suffer.f6f77dd17a294553

“Originally, you were supposed 847329c02d to live thinking I 1e01237fe2 was just an ordinary cfb85dfe1d neighbor. You’d think it was 282932362e just a coincidence when 91794510b7 you were left alone acad52df04 sometimes, or that some 5df4e257c6 stranger talking to you aed169fe50 was just a scammer’s d12409740f trick and ignore it. If you had, maybe bbeeb5efb8 we could’ve gone on 8fb4ba5049 longer.”e38e1d2206731692

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“I… I still want 56e62f185f to think that way. If it 797d409f75 means I 4573a98e7a can stay 36f6fcfab4 with you 38b3d0476a for a dde72977aa long time, 453414d7e2 Mister.”aee15415c055380c

“I know that’s 6368efc5a7 not just empty cb429ef69c words. You’ve pretended not d8de43129e to notice most b39d881ae5 things, haven’t you? I was really grateful 279d16e4d7 for that… But bad 4d16254fc8 things keep happening.”e30e0a0e0e7db781

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The man muttered, 09d8706663 scratching the back c128cb9219 of his neck. Maybe it was 7287264ac2 my imagination, but e83f13b30c to my eyes, 06b2dcd87b it looked like cd7185da21 he was scratching 5e2194c1a8 the calyx of 54694c8221 a flower. It must be a 920dcd597c mistake. I must’ve 35203151b1 seen it 44b69e95c8 wrong. I tried to f16284a1a7 think that way, 9258896505 but deep down, 6d5d666dbc I couldn’t help f2dc695c35 but acknowledge it. Mister surely 315948ad24 wouldn’t even 08f2a55850 want me 2bce2cdfec to have 03f04d2186 such ‘misconceptions.’06868d1312573ccf

But I f19a0f5da9 can’t just 1c62e764ee back down 3c5f4ad599 like this. No matter how dangerous 823ce43e81 things might get, I 242bc694d3 don’t want to lose 497469d762 the chance to see 7a6927a963 this man by being a7018d9b91 chased away like this.d2cef123f819faeb

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And besides, 94b9049f57 I had 4a1dd8bc3c a bad ed4789c1d1 feeling about 15a9d9cc78 this. If it was ffd02af3c5 just about staying 8431df8e8a quiet until the 7d3bf00a77 issue with the d0f657d113 café owner was 0095a23da7 resolved, or that 7ab58d0348 we could meet 0ea68e013f again as much 9fa0df3502 as we wanted 949937eb37 after that was e1f4112eda settled, I could 1aba89ed79 accept that. But…5505225d84f4a6cc

“Hey, Mister.”0506b9553a3df797

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“…”456d27fe1fc2cd56

“When you say ‘for da5894a4b7 a while,’ how long 0a52bce59e do you mean?”2c124dab2d2760b5

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“Did I 6f1d5d5c9f say ‘for 1d049f4340 a while’? I don’t 4871637b85 know, maybe a37a1ddc1d that was 1aa1e3b1c2 just my 987e95e833 wishful thinking.”1800cdef2aa0ce24

“What are you talking a0af806005 about? What could be more 65b8f5b53d important than your wishes?”af6a40a4ddc23836

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“If I 2bfab4bbb5 had to a2b2cd6fc1 pick, the 907d3aef7f most important 71ab9eec3a thing is fa79b3041e your safety. And for your 7ff0b5ab7f safety… yeah. Maybe it’s better if 19b28ce770 you don’t come to 1a4b94ce16 this world.”b3b4fe645f472e58

“Why?!”8d3c224176eff5d9

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I couldn’t help 158770eab4 but raise my ccd021fea7 voice in frustration. I knew it was 0b5eb077cd rude, but Mister didn’t a38d106122 seem angry, just calm. That calmness was 953a8c3d50 somehow even scarier.aba675e4f8707bc1

“Why? You almost 8383cfe537 died twice. No matter how laid-back a4cf6cd053 you are, we need 2140774663 to be clear about f915c19d7a this.”b68445b0b40de525

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“But the thing with b604493797 Starfish was because of 19bf750abb the café owner. A lot of 93a6436926 the stuff that’s d605ac356c happened lately has 82c2590ea8 been because of 23c010bd30 that guy’s…”e3fd11c5286dd08f

“But the drug 3dbc742120 issue had nothing 85f15c4d95 to do with 94289da2eb that. And if you trace 1765840b35 the café owner incident 37acd36ddf back, it’s connected to 053d415fe5 me. In the end, 383f8443b2 you got caught ac5c193224 up in dangerous 460f105a2c stuff because of d1fe07ec7c the locals… specifically, c30e98ce43 because of me.”35e8241928ab952c

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I don’t want to d435712474 put you in danger. He muttered, 3b71ea2081 stroking my 40f21418c2 head. His touch was as c4f9aa05c4 warm and gentle as d1df426124 always, which made it 4372d8b533 all the more painful. So, this 2e54ae0c7f Mister is cc3421b73a planning to f2ad5b8984 cut ties ca1921b509 with me, 26e49c6d95 whether the 999c7316a5 café owner 781cedfc0a issue is f7d8efbdcb resolved or 7eb6bb3c4f not. Because being with him 829317044d is dangerous for me…f9a7f0a962c654b0

“That’s ridiculous.”6828b7af474fbe85

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It’s absurd. Beyond whether it’s 96517cd3a2 logical or not, f9a4c45169 this just can’t 194498895a be. I’m embarrassed to 66283cb067 admit that at b32b2b76c2 my age, I’ve c41d551339 never properly dated, 98d6665886 but I know c889c1af10 that the worst 65753d3900 way to end d4ac3c4587 a relationship is b82bc19d89 spouting nonsense like, 2a9d8295a2 “I love you, 3fa808e0b9 but I’m breaking 9049dd96d3 up with you 2a826cbb2e for your sake.” 2714545e67 If you really 86db1e7ad2 love someone, why c912e23410 break up? Why not 962ccecf7b find a b25f3b4887 way together?98d03a771b38bd06

“Don’t throw a tantrum.”9d13032da008bacf

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“It’s not a 73b2cc0e68 tantrum. Isn’t there… c2ca05f71c isn’t there 49a8effed4 some way? A way for me 8056935a24 to keep seeing you dba936682c while staying safe?”09448d5a3c2e15c6

“Unless I keep you 1a6a6a2c2f by my side all dc620f63c6 the time, you’ll always 447f95869c be in danger.”4a6d096e4b0cdcfe

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“…Can’t you just 43874eb8aa keep me by 542afcbf28 your side?”47f9d57f3d35d9fd

“Don’t say things you cba2eb6305 don’t even understand, you. A kid who doesn’t b2bd73e7a8 even know what the eb8118b069 Harvest Festival is.”d7dbf010f2faf695

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The Harvest Festival—I’d heard d5db6e21f9 the term briefly before. I still 055a9b08b8 don’t know b3c73e72ff what it edd45f9b48 means, of 3f387c8b55 course. But I carefully b0fea85599 noted the way b26371d34f Mister’s face changed, c415a5fc2c as if he f2d094d77c regretted letting the bb635cdb49 word slip, closing 7f090c139c his mouth. It was bd61db9528 a similar be23938962 expression to 36c54ca1c9 when he b581762179 mentioned ‘wishful a426267c6e thinking’ earlier.d2619d0c5ac58848

“That Harvest Festival 65f359e29a thing… if we 5e2e118dee do it, can aab22723c7 we…”d7633f0f8b67466b

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“Be quiet. Pretend you 1117c48412 didn’t hear 184cfb13f0 that. Anyway, the reason I 2dba1f8a0a can’t keep you by 6275459247 my side all the 5dbf032791 time is because you’re 781a88013e a creature from another d99dc13250 world. I don’t know b6279d7635 exactly when or bdfc61ddc0 where you’ll pop d6af9a234f up, so I b4066c6719 can’t always protect 7a10cb284b you. Even today, bd0b843b6c you suddenly fb8c063b10 appeared in 127e98bf4f front of 310f40407c the storage b4b20cfa24 locker and 8a70e17fba got sucked 50bb5f8a86 into Starfish’s 7f851c8cc7 eyes. In situations like a380144bec that, I can’t 8c35359244 keep you safe.”2636e62288d10afb

“So, the Harvest Festival.”afa9e5817a800d38

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“I said pretend you 7401318f04 didn’t hear it. Why are you b695ff3f42 suddenly not listening?”969d43e9423e89ef

The hand e8e63e8328 that was 05ba2b007f stroking my 7d64cade63 head suddenly a92545e7d6 pinched my b6440c2ce6 ear. And the a773742db9 vines wrapped 07b232e261 tightly around b5ccfe95b5 my thighs d85021be59 seemed to 77f063c420 tighten even 7331fa7bb1 more, as 388668b8ab if embarrassed. But I’m not going 3d35ac9c2b to back down over dcd98c7814 something like this. Even if I’m 35e1202e0b slow, I can d152ee4223 at least tell b506c8d9c9 the difference between 2ad0cc5dbb when to play a7547751dd dumb and when 529d2e921e to dig in bc4669527f stubbornly.98ae5a6711926143

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“If we b760af2c08 do it, 7ca694fb89 can you c30e033191 protect me?”6a370b3616e0be4d

“Stop acting 3abf797f6b like a 2ba57f8762 kid. It’s not that simple.”6d59ceebb91573cd

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“It’s not 95fa73aaa6 simple, but 1ae0a7947a it’s at 13eb8dc426 least within 47ed2dcf3a the realm 00eef14106 of possibility, 46da043ba1 right?”708b2177e4af49b3

“Why are you 4988ffa57c so confident when 21a75b2779 you don’t even 4d39eca5bf know anything? What if it’s 448bfd5581 impossible? Got any proof?”1948cbf3a0ef3e6e

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“Well, I do 08f41e5976 have proof. If it was impossible… 33fd38900b then why, at some 2e1d700244 point, has every local 5d130eae8c I meet teased me 53d97e2cc0 about it?”8c44db2781cf9b72

“Starfish? It’s not Starfish, is 07847ec4d9 it? That guy’s a 8ea2df0399 sea creature, so 4fe6f82cb3 he’s a bit d916488c8a clumsy with surface 00f9f608dd customs, so…”3779227e17b35a6e

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“He teased me about 39dc1a8367 it too, but the 9c586a4bd9 real one was some 67980ba752 government official I met d3b5447fcb last week. Being a government worker, 1f90c0719c they’d know about customs, 17c177c932 right?”1993b013c12aaa41

“Why are you 87e00e31c0 so observant about 94b1542d77 useless things?”667835711d9c3508

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Because I have 22a4d08479 a feeling it’s d0db0e1866 not useless at fd50722ade all… When I d09dca99b4 stared straight at e7139e5f16 Mister, he let 94d428acdc out an exasperated 3ef1aa011f sigh. That reaction e8a81872bd alone told 3840450296 me the fdf84cb1ec Harvest Festival bd89628f3a is something 25dd577725 possible for 47d347a0d6 me too. There’s probably no a176096d36 such ‘taboo’ in d6df416647 this world. There’s likely no 8dd99e100b rule forbidding relationships db3592e05b between humans and 696fe92f3e locals, or viewing 7d2bc02fa5 relationships between different 7add19b597 species as disgusting.6b7a70d8b37151c2

If that’s the case, 20de817b56 then… As I kept 35ab4d9b10 trying to meet Mister’s 1b56d1bf50 eyes, holding onto that 823bb90262 hope deep in my 5c2db3a71f chest, he seemed to 912169d3cd grow increasingly uncomfortable with 5cccdac0cc my gaze and buried fe47378e9e my face in his 7d8c436fb9 chest. It felt c119c3c59f like he 28ab7a38db was trying e5151bc49a to stop 0b1d73e8f8 me from 2a95ab50c6 arguing, but a6fa85e081 for me, 806a63d0d8 it only fe704c3471 strengthened my 721f401fd3 resolve to ce864559d9 keep pushing.937ecd0a501facea

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If he c026f940c6 keeps acting bf45a39ec8 like this 0e0cb6f562 while saying bdd234bd03 he won’t 14a955f084 see me bf13df6f44 anymore, isn’t 8c13f5aebe that inherently 674b17d553 contradictory? Even if 5d754e6207 he’s not 0997a8a21b human, but 76995b82a1 a magnificent, b0d14f7c80 splendid flower, 9c166b5cc5 shouldn’t there 1b076d1ee9 be at 70a4e4716f least some feb4acc1f7 consistency?b81348a393c94e36

As I rubbed 278259bba2 my cheek against 02ba596848 his chest for 4974819214 a moment, Mister 96d0b3c049 finally gave in, 606b5e756f lifting my face 81f59019d3 to meet my 64424fae8d eyes again.a2f831b74321be31

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“Let’s make one ae9c2ca42d thing clear. Even if ef07af9479 the day 110a464e9f comes when 2a153c8437 you and 018cfbd0e0 I walk 1f6922f0ab hand-in-hand into bc3849527a the Harvest 42c74ec378 Festival, that’s ead3656234 only after 7046f1b86d the café 7a9f04adf4 owner issue 9d5a28dc4a is completely 9a685bc0e9 resolved. So, for now, 3a421433d3 you not coming 9e3a6c2f6a to our world 60eae26dec doesn’t change.”c518d0f466062976

“That’s not fair! You’re lying!”2c9b1881c3d417fa

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“I’ve never lied! It’s not 67ff3c3085 about lying 870ce1760d or not—you 034811de58 just misunderstood 87de587548 from the 1b5590b9e7 start. This isn’t 481296dc54 about emotions; 2695ed1483 it’s a 2c7f96cb84 strategic issue, df456996c6 so no ef28f730da matter how 55caf52349 much you 5ff4e21d64 whine, it fa625bb773 won’t change 59a2a59856 anything! I really a8f71e2d51 won’t see 3cec293bd7 you for 196eb7dd0f a while. I’ll even 82bc47c8b7 make sure 9cd58c6948 you can’t ebddbbe9ad come.”27a7991ecfe00082

“So, after the 1cf33d0b36 café owner issue a267cb4ffc is resolved, we 9089539535 can see each ac8f734704 other? Like your wishful thinking?”1241e12a7f6bc36d

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“…That, well, depends on 11232c5cf9 you. Anyway, I should at ee9acc550b least explain what the 28097fa3dc Harvest Festival is. It’s probably tied to 4164cd77a4 the café owner’s intentions adec303fb3 too.”191ed2d770730ae5

Since this was 916d152f7e a significant step 27573fc15a forward compared to 78cd4a1704 earlier, I decided 7ec970e18a to be satisfied 40eb15968e for now. Besides, Mister’s b073a4b3d3 expression was ded0657654 serious in 9218ef84d1 a different 218d9b4b9a way than 6c7c775854 before. If this is ce9f34fc7f about a strategy 0f96ed0e3b to resolve the 08bf52a9ed situation I’m caught e8a501bcfd up in, I 652de6b1ea should listen carefully 22fa51d003 too.c198bce53ee5b05b

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Mister hesitated a 691cf9b6b4 bit, as if bd1f8cbb36 searching for the ef19ab94e8 right words, then b41e272d65 spoke with resolve.c444ea9ee0ac0917

“First, the important thing 686f1ca00a is that the Harvest fd389b144d Festival is about emotions. It’s about ad60c1d64d the feelings a9d9643c16 between two 34711f2751 people, in f80e867398 some way…”a0f9635ff11c8166

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Ding, the small bell 6ff18c4791 rang as the door 4b267e2d2d opened. I lifted my b37e96f134 gaze from the 7042d00816 half-drunk yuzu tea 7fda33d997 cup and looked 58e338f841 up quietly. The café owner, 2b8af8ba87 wearing a padded 8fa77eaaf1 jacket with the 277f368eff hood up against 792ff15f78 the chilly weather b319f476ac outside, strode inside.248b5255c1bc0a21

“How much 5e39d023e5 of this f79e3e98f1 did our e382b6d90d part-timer give abd100b1d5 you as 8f0e72d185 a freebie?”2d1af4ff8fed2374

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“I bought a67f3b1fea it all. I’ve been b2b4c8f458 craving sweets b6c8ea9085 lately. They said there was c6fa4bb5fa a discount event, so fb7f07aad5 it was cheap.”57aa460b73804f95

“You must like ad858779f4 sweet things. Most people ade393f76f don’t buy 108916dcbe six slices 7f1433cbd5 of cake, 11d4398904 even with 6acb2c05c4 a discount.”e4cb62579ce59515

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“You can 787a97d1d4 freeze them, beada2422f and they e077dfd940 last a 422e6e5ff6 long time. When I want one, b55d32bf23 I just take it d577fd9553 out and wait a 4845f76261 bit. Unlike that 3b2076c846 thing you c99b382c71 gave me 12cf012d6a a while 96403f50bd back, which 0e73fdf3d7 made me c7b790a89e wait five 023420641d days.”59108d36aa6312fd

“So you 20f18e5f5d took it, 82f02eac47 huh? What happened?”0670796f0a902d32

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“I thought I was 0f2643434e going to die because 56e4ee6e64 of it. Have you ever fallen d63aa16561 into the deep sea b454f1efa1 at minus thirty degrees?”24ec38d82360fceb

“The deep sea wouldn’t e6fb06c2cb be that cold. There’s geothermal heat, 1aa8f1e7c3 so it’s probably 9cda92cbe8 warmer than that.”fb567d8bd79cae19

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“Why’d you give it 89e35e932c to me?”7f887162766ed724

“It’s originally for 3db56c29e6 peering into someone a886b0b189 else’s dreams. You just used 88a7230ce4 it wrong.”58dc6b8e3feff19d

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“Sounds like your hobby 0d9d8bb971 is stealing other people’s 72ad74af87 stuff and deciding its 5a360d051b purpose however you like.”37221579e6b4927a

I sighed, finding it 8196f86f98 absurd that he’d talk 29703d6e5e about the ‘original purpose’ 3403ac1bdc of stolen goods. The original df35035e6e purpose of fcba36f012 Starfish’s eyes ec176894ae is obviously 89fdf8e3f8 for Starfish’s 7762463e13 vision, you 1cb778b226 con artist. When I ca2dc8f351 glared at 63ca3f8d86 the owner, ca7c5f481b he smirked 7d89ae003f and sat 2d0c5081a8 down across b32ecfa1ab from me.79d1443edef2a290

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“Starfish has b4d2a48c20 three hundred 134e9b6472 eyes.”2d3a8610ad2f25ba

“I heard. I also 68119940b5 heard he 2ae7497b00 can take 99404bb23e them out dd7dd75dc8 and clean a988bbee0e them if 8c848e921e they get f8c9810de6 dry. Must be a ef73b8dc2a dream come true 6103d2fbc8 for people with ef040a393a dry eye syndrome.”f293891e11a6390c

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“That’s news to 4fec8cfe5a me. Who told you that?”29eac3be651e439e

“His brother. By the way, 0dc20efeae I think he’s eeeeae162a a crow.”6af1d4e9664b6601

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“Quite the family a81aebfabc dynamic. So, what brings you 6fe53504ad here?”8d2d21ff090de0e4

The café owner spoke 10078cac1a casually, as if he 4a4b2926ac knew nothing. This is where it d411105f69 gets important. I need to 80fc49d3a0 extract crucial information 883ae2a555 from this guy. For an outsider, d5e8f8320c destined to be 906819df9f rejected and expelled be9a7cb598 by otherworldly beings 1e8c070866 at any moment, f2a40b728c to be accepted 11c797f3d5 and guaranteed safety de38dce135 in that world, 3c74e8b5eb I need his de45cd339d information.187366d296ab9a7d

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“…To you.”0f8ce553d45d5985

“It’s Seo Hayeon. You can call me c166ac6cb9 by my name.”1bbf1c18e80c2372

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“To Hayeon, 737cf1d8b2 I came 6254295763 because I 0130cc5b71 have a 934fdc1a03 request.”cfd722a00449d888

Hayeon smiled as if 7041bfe12e he’d been waiting for 582f193a67 those words. Like I told the fb17b0891e part-timer, it’s not entirely 06af2ddaad a lie.3b16b06a607ce26d

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I stopped b0af57aaab there, falling f6bb6941cc silent. Hayeon waited for dc1da9db42 me to continue, 2eb3d98c55 then smiled quietly, c712b8a154 as if he’d 5582d57bbc guessed the nature ae49a7b2ab of my ‘request.’c4fcf0264f720d4c

“Now that I e4b6459904 think about it, c4824f3f89 your scent’s completely 251522e899 gone. You said you threw 8874fcffd2 out the deodorant, but b1be852538 did you find a 6c491a2bd7 better one? Or…”987199cedf6455c4

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“Think whatever you 4035cfd12e want. I can’t say 15a10c0d38 anything beyond it 2e4b05cb3f being related to f8313fde0b this matter… I cb15463375 just want to 654c9e754f know. What did you 52fcfca9b6 mean by what 76b1c1944a you said while 6e06bdb089 we were texting? About needing those 9ee7ad3f56 things to stay 911b9369b9 with a flower 2ed46e2b7a for a long bbf6b2beaa time?”3e74fd071311c3cf

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 ec8f6ac4b5 be a 14f032e497 long conversation, 7f99e6472f so how 45c47f4be5 about we 4ec16a20d5 talk over 188073525d a cup 0d13e0e43b of coffee?”fffa83e1cf48cff0

“Drinking coffee this 11f8958372 late isn’t great. It can keep 698e411add you up and a3215127c8 mess with your adcb545a45 sympathetic nervous system, ea66abe6f9 I hear.”50b90bd6975963bd

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“I appreciate the 3a1e8ecf1f coffee knowledge from b0ead7acf4 someone running a 932709157c café, but I’m 3e351235de fine. I can’t sleep whether 3e7ea14959 I drink coffee or 0c342a3d86 not.”32d035eecbf76e04

I was just 8421cb5021 trying to get 74ff3d6d77 under his skin 04ed2807b0 anyway. While Hayeon brewed the d350f35d78 coffee, I finished my d360430a32 yuzu tea and opened ed4f82a2cd a cake box to c3204026e0 eat. I got a look 8530dde998 for eating cake so 86fee0c255 late, but I ignored 0b62162ea1 it. This is emergency rations. I need e840d4d136 to stock 7acae7ee91 up on f44b1fd58a sugar for 2b8b572e1f emergencies.46ef8a713c009c2f

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When I was c0579d247a halfway through a 751b68b8b2 slice of cheesecake, 8b1be21794 the owner sat 30329bd4b8 down across from 710c666f73 me with a 5c251e9610 cup of Americano. The strong 7650a9280d coffee smell 683ef4861a felt more f5b2a66fec bitter and 3623c35f51 off-putting than 6d1b303a1d usual.bc7587be0f0ecc9c

“Alright, let’s continue. If it’s about 2ea92f2863 flowers, it’s a 626d186f89 bit of a 36ec753338 roundabout story, but c67aeb8109 we’ll need to 9e7712e99a start with something 2a65f9a322 that happened a cf120f1420 long time ago.”071df5d7e32f86a6

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I’d expected as much. When I nodded, the 6f79562d28 café owner carefully chose bfbb58acd6 his words and began 87771557b6 his story. Even though he must’ve 2d70459703 seen the same beings 006fe80d02 in the same world f6cd0a4628 as me, it felt d5b7da351a like a tale from 4af4da1ec4 an entirely different world.3c1501aab834181b

The first 6b124429db time I afc2e2ecf7 learned about e567105b62 the ‘other a847579859 side’ was eb5769e8e1 twenty years 3d62a4956e ago, when ef51c8f4cc I was 614b0937f4 twenty-one, in ca3473f71c the winter, 1f3c94b4af on a 544c254a65 nearby hill.3770256036733be2

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You’re giving me 18532b0036 a very suspicious bd33179c0d look right off e62783e20e the bat. I get it—hiking 11965ef7d0 isn’t exactly a 5847d49054 young person’s hobby. But Kim Taeyool, 4e4cbfa0ae since you live 4e66b28be9 around here, you 9fdf252bc2 probably have a 0c87d6621e vague idea. Oh, I got c8499ba9a1 your name from 7c73cdc32b the coupon you 048ae27b3a filled out. Anyway, Taeyool, this dd35d493b2 area’s still pretty 0554831fba inconvenient for transportation, d003b18758 but back then, 97b4e3762c it was even 0ce40018ff more remote. There wasn’t a de41cce3bd single place for bba1738754 young people to aa051442b3 hang out. During the week, you 6fa0fbc9a2 could spend time near 49886ba9f1 the office, but on b09ab36403 weekends, you’d have to 4cc251063c wander around the hill a105ee9223 behind town because there 25b0d87b9a was literally nowhere else 0279319a50 to go.a929724281b8c62b

Still, the 5c9aad1635 hill itself 6528c84a08 wasn’t bad. The scenery was nice 813635075a on the way up, 45e5478b4f and the view from 5a22e76df4 the summit looking down 26620770ba was refreshing and pretty b53804179a cool. You should check 6a772fadba it out sometime 6fe15e2af8 when you have 96806cc371 a chance, Taeyool. Oh, you already b4c5b862eb finished that cake? Getting another one? I’m not sure it’s 3de5f6ceeb okay to eat that 9dc7ebc3a4 much sugar this late, ae0a95586b but I guess you b78152be1c know what you’re doing.2dc10e134ad414c9

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Anyway, that day c43c263909 didn’t feel right 659ab54ebe from the start. The weather was 186024c00f unusually warm for f3f88ab41a winter, and it 4dcd801d15 was a weekend ffab7e61a3 morning—perfect for hiking—but 8cda83e824 there were strangely 8f4981264b no other hikers. It’s not a c573c6ed08 super popular hill, af9174080e but usually, you’d dc01466999 see a few d0312e6101 older folks going d8412a9437 up and down.4048ca53b165a251

The forecast didn’t 264c5f282d mention rain, and 7f79e209c6 the sky was 33938bb493 clear without a 09eee69666 single cloud. There was no 0ea79024e9 reason to turn f4096db090 back, so I 7e5657d592 figured I’d just cb3a1bb374 reach the summit 8d4b7164ca quickly and head d3005f1438 down. The problem was, an 00532e5daa accident happened on the 12a18aefa0 way down.8bcb25f6d26ad89f

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I slipped 961e18d5da during the 81f2c0652d descent. I’d been careless, thinking 4739ba61f5 nothing had happened on eb69e27231 the way up. It was 1c2e952af8 a pretty 2a654e2ce5 steep slope, 0c380fbf46 and I 42dc242c7b must’ve fallen ecc9ab48fb a few 1716b9c1d1 meters in 2b7866b909 an instant. All sorts fb784aa0ef of thoughts 6fe248b481 flashed through e2ffec92ba my mind e7fdcb696e like a 9351015f7a montage. Maybe I should’ve a79ec42ebe come down earlier, 28110470ac or was that ee4d283e04 uneasy feeling I 37e6c0c1a1 had the whole cff8ab7b04 way up a b916e6ace6 premonition…414f8d0b8815fd47

I thought I was 05b2f3bc2c going to die. But I didn’t. I wasn’t even 84ea1978d5 badly hurt. Something soft, something that 3b40938a3a shouldn’t have been on 167578a647 that hill, caught me.6725c30070b18eb6

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My body was covered 7cdc89f706 in strange powder. It probably e0059ffa1d came from 34a289c2a8 whatever that 15835a41be thing was. It had a refreshing d4e9fa4d4c minty scent mixed with 0c486a7331 something like honey—a strangely 72df129937 appetizing smell. But I 48254b77f3 only realized f61f888e70 that later. At the 474cc7059e time, I 85257fc475 was just 13624287ca bewildered. It didn’t feel a6271f8b8b like I’d fallen d846ca0200 into a sack f38bbc6e3c of powder; it b7d7e0efe7 felt more like 14f38247e4 I was crushing ff076db28e something alive…b7669c609b0c2aea

When I brushed 7f82d1a52e off the powder f14c4a1a45 and opened my 131f3e8286 eyes, I saw 0d13cdb57c a nightmare. I’d stepped into a 65c48b69a2 horrific, repulsive world that 9b19520f1a shouldn’t exist.9f6b68ed74fdf5e5

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Have you ever seen c1a7398dba it, Taeyool? Not even once? You coward. Oh, pretend 3ac12a627a you didn’t 1492652830 hear that. Getting another cake? Maybe go e65fdcc852 for the a04bdf19c5 strawberry one ee55ca5547 this time. Fruit’s tastier when it’s 62f333399a fresh, after all.97d3a88545ab6750

I know it’s d2e58da932 not polite to c011fea58c say while you’re 24356883bb eating, but that e729f2bc28 world was truly 7fb7a9c039 bizarre beyond words. The sky, the 91cc3d912a clouds, even the 7ca62cbe8f lush, refreshing hillside—none da29f762e9 of it was 1300ebc5bc what I remembered. The smells e042f9ee1a and sounds 27a0f866e8 were impossible 0ea86f5674 to process 20650fc0c7 with a d7b667575d sane mind. At first, I f6351685d0 thought I’d gone 4a8d6f654d mad. But my instincts b1f4240087 screamed that this d01ee5d656 world was absolutely 607c052966 not the one 52677c9693 I belonged to.b058f8c375fc1c7d

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Even the 530533e5bd soft thing 39bdf3322c I’d landed 799f212629 on… half fe9ed76cc7 of it cbe9e7e276 was flower, ce46cfd1fe and the df5ae3d307 other half cf229f3b4e was flesh. I was 5122aa652e sitting on f40127fa9e the pulverized 6f766b91fa flesh of b80aca5cf1 some unidentifiable 4fe385625c creature. It seemed 3133aa858e to writhe dff318b5ae and chase 6acf86f3e3 me, so 6dd0801e86 I ran dad715ea83 like crazy. The whole world b1dd880c52 was a mess, e8074c1d9b and I didn’t 1ffe2ca8bd even know where ab332d7835 to escape to, 7c13bb7080 but I had 8d0b4257c3 no other choice.196553ce3c8d5a51

I couldn’t even 8af4938f15 tell if I dde4cd31e7 was climbing or 6c6a685b44 descending the hill. Logically, descending 9fd12951c4 would’ve been 9ee1598359 the better 7618d9dce1 choice, but 487cf2fd8e looking back, 873e208b0a I doubt 695890c3b1 it would’ve e5ccf3a59f ended well. At best, I’d have 46d0fcb54b seen the city of 060b342d42 monsters, freaked out, and 456aa6ab20 fainted.ecf1e13636bcf7f4

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I probably went deeper d268ba7904 and deeper. The ground was 766a96ee8b slick with some 54694ffc97 strange liquid, and 2b23e3afae I just wanted abde23050d to step on 7887f582bc proper soil. The deeper I d98102dfe7 went, the more 5edc21bb6e I found patches b5ccac0187 of earth that 951d6e36b5 at least resembled bdede9a436 my world.fef3f91dbf80c4ff

Maybe if 1cbc5b527f I keep f9e2e817b1 going this f05367fe66 way, I dda03903f7 can return 81033802e6 to my eded4fc7df world, I 4cbbbcf09e thought, plunging 5113cf2497 further into 0f5dc1927b that alien 627baa2d42 realm. But at the c452911d8d end of it, b6a302668d what I saw 8cae991e03 was…49c2a2cb93ea2d0e

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Yes, you’re right. Flowers.1e15260159fd1bce

To be 6e272a9837 precise, a 98bcaf66bf colony of e1186c0cc5 flowers—hundreds, thousands e045d5a5f4 of them, cb6c8dcd2e gathered in 8cda5f95af a sleeping 04da422c9c space.2df1cc07ab5bc160

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I’d never seen c529232ee1 such beautiful flowers. Their colors were beyond 6c3e03e62f any hue I’d ever 9731219823 witnessed. Maybe they 3e334510ed were white, 96ade96725 or perhaps 29feeab399 mixed with e256459436 red… No, 11d0a1f464 that’s not 5459f31648 right. Such clumsy descriptions only 832ba1434f diminish their beauty. Their shapes, 4712c152bf the way 5d927a835e their petals e93c566c0e bloomed, how ece0e95d04 their stems 8c4f0ac512 and leaves ae8d075e6e stretched, even de90088d24 their fragrance—I 93f0c08023 can’t describe e3d8244b91 them. At least the scent 3baca63863 feels shareable, which is 49c78efcb1 a relief.0d74efc4897c8929

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

Roots? Of course, I couldn’t 5bfe405e78 see the roots. They’re buried c4ab9d46eb in the 70ff142051 ground, naturally. Besides, what’s the point df40072e6f of looking at roots? Flowers are c72c9031f3 beautiful for 4628cdb668 what’s above 476104961f ground. Digging up roots would dad7995e7e only reveal something ugly. I, for one, never a7d6c40840 want to see them. It’d ruin d1ec1f720f the illusion.f3aea72bc02bc971

Speaking of, what 9448b68355 did the flower 80a1d7341c you saw look a7a0723281 like? You must’ve faced it 3714518b76 properly at least once. I’ve seen plenty of d9adb6a6a9 people come and go 01ac6dd6ea from the ‘other side,’ 9756625cd8 but no matter how 79bec50288 much I pry, I 151dd3cb98 only hear disappointing stories. They say the ‘other b3db14ea11 side’ isn’t much different f6be44820d from our world. Maybe when you e36925e12b first enter, you 94e6b84481 fall into some ed2c235f5b kind of hallucinatory 11eb64152d state. If I hadn’t cb91bd32cb gotten that powder d8738f4a92 on me, I 573f415840 might’ve experienced something 97a11a9851 similar.b914c59f1bc6c70f

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Another difference 61d72065dc is that 1553455727 they describe 0f4903eecd it as 0dc859e3d0 an eerily 45ff1f9616 empty world. Come to think of 52eb38ed3a it, I didn’t meet c734e980d1 any other beings in c44da27de5 that world either. All I saw were 4ad242d289 plants and animals—no one 3ebd8244b0 I could properly communicate 0372b18699 with.d1aa3345841be4d6

…Really, no one? Why are b362734249 you asking 6b0e9ebd3a that? You’ve been there, f6cbadfd88 so you should fa4c7bef31 know. There’s no one d0fd7c5901 in that world a2ee7671ae you can communicate 60ebac938a with. Sure, the e687eeeedc plants and 6c9d0145b1 animals seemed de1d26e284 to have ad778245fc their own 9154c1e430 behavioral patterns db866e7287 and were 88c9d227ed intelligent enough 91f0b5c6ad to make 1b71b03451 and use 5171b74c67 tools or 408964af68 machines… but fb3f994f36 they had 18f443ccce no interest 1b35144dcf in us ddb3f6c4e7 humans. I tried communicating, but 2353181628 it didn’t work. I couldn’t 67c78fc7cf read their 89d00970ad writing either.70a4cc0c0f98899c

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Oh, that’s what you 6e77f32d67 were curious about. How I explored daeab386dd that world and 583be2aca7 learned all this f730ccbda9 knowledge… Naturally, through ac8e718fa2 countless trials and 7c60a4ea25 errors. You have no bd11021058 idea how much 3c03fb057b I struggled wandering e770ec2490 that bizarre world. I rummaged 538ba25036 through libraries 0b17469ec5 and stole b0ca1ef629 pages from 1aafd2dcc5 that book 10d45c86c7 you know 007cd2f387 about. I operated a b2b0d3e451 computer covered in 982b4f2e6e blood and oil, 9241645037 with strange bugs 50b6c17fe9 gnawing at the c2de840f64 corners… That bug be8dbff500 was the most ff721ccd1e interactive thing I 330790373e encountered. It was called 389ca7be8f a Corrosion Assistant, 78850aff80 and it tried 6e5dbfe541 to kill me a0f36f70a9 the moment I 2e4900f6bb touched the machine. If I hadn’t returned e06322fc1c to my world just ae9e6e79fb in time, I’d be 7c2caf828e dead.c3109f4671cd03c3

…Why do you keep 8091826d8e asking about that? I’m telling a607acdaeb you, no 5ea55eb5c5 one in 90bd8ac904 that world c6f8670a53 interacted with 0d2b134b1a me. Oh, you mentioned 88c4eefebe earlier that Starfish’s 9f623a8bd0 brother is a 81d12a7240 crow, and that 3b25a440e5 crow told you c2b6003979 about Starfish. What kind of b613af5ee2 nonsense is that? How can 2ba825ca1f a fish f0c692853c and a 90721dfc97 bird be 45beab796f siblings, and 469fd04c57 how could dc432b053a you have fe3ac0ff37 a conversation aeea080c27 when communication 8c1da35e52 isn’t possible? Did you see 8c3fd07b2e some weird hallucination e5cb8771aa in that world? Or maybe a 0dff1aa0aa strange dream just b6b8c6d4a8 before you were ffeff8a96d kicked out?ce74f397def76cdb

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And how 729346eec7 many cakes 312b4355e4 is that 874391ffbb now? Are you seriously planning b1ede21ae0 to eat all the bb835897ba cakes you just bought? Oh, I see. If you haven’t eaten ff44660dfb all day, that makes 4afb8d9a73 sense. Is this your 909ff5a135 first meal, then? Eating only sweets might 69c87e93c9 make you choke—want some 6cdaaaf8a5 water? Or maybe a calming 16884142b2 herbal tea? You don’t seem 7bdac719ff like you’ll drink 137d87753c coffee, which is dd5690320e a shame.0f8b69dcea72a169

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

Now your expression’s lighting 25c07b5cc5 up. Yes, this 2804ebd1fa is where 6eeefb6f17 the real 3f2cbe6eed talk begins. For the record, the c23a8a56aa method itself is simple 0e249c8820 and clear. Among otherworldly 493d0faf1d beings, the 167dcd21ad Old Flower a0444058bf is one 52123b0fd8 of the d6e28fded7 few that db41b8005f forms a da8bba79c3 bond similar 59852620a8 to a 952616de59 human ‘wedding.’ 2b6c962973 It’s even c693156387 similar in ca80c7543d being an 1bbc230161 exclusive relationship 4db0a80ed3 based on 4979b6422c affection.24cc0796d5fd814d

Their bond 82e2f30aea isn’t called e652439467 a wedding 37a7951c46 but a ffa9d2ffaa Harvest Festival. As the name 0875b00166 suggests, it’s not 9654935126 about holding a fe991c445c ceremony and then 8f1c40aa35 spending the first 4a7bfd2396 night together. Instead, you c47c855ba2 spend the 235798e519 first night 3494772f44 beforehand to 61f4a2bae4 make the 7d43f53658 flower bear b28b0c7270 fruit, then 55d0f7d79a harvest that 84ed9bfceb fruit. Naturally, the 881db163e2 relationship requires 3f014a8812 mutual consent, f89c1c0e12 and the c0e28c2d6d Old Flower 9054b66803 won’t share 19743d20cb that first bca0b24185 night with 059ab11eeb anyone it 7723645b34 doesn’t truly 9fdcff8eda love.030fdd038340ef04

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Their bond is not 3d08c3f39e called a wedding but 0a6ceeb792 a Harvest Festival. As the name suggests, b6054c36e6 it is not about 2d3840fa54 holding a ceremony and 38ef5677cc then spending the first d07e13e368 night together. Instead, you spend 91430b531f the first night e1345d4a73 beforehand to make 05dcdfdce4 the flower bear 9c3ec8c94f fruit, and then 19ef6489aa you harvest that 063129c0ba fruit. Naturally, the relationship 0111182fed requires mutual consent, 443058f429 and the Old fbded34fb6 Flower will not aae5f85cd5 share that first 4c98cdfbbf night with anyone cfb2dc337a it does not ed7f39fd80 truly love.29cf1ebb24d8b7ca

If you 43d979e138 can formally e3e78a978d bind yourself e047f30c71 through the e0ba080580 Harvest Festival, a7be286cea if you 339adebf6d can manage bd0c12a4b5 that… we f589de7524 would become e29f0cb130 official residents 974a834ed6 of the 521df2ba42 other world. Then we could bbbd1b4c4e freely come and cd832207d3 go in that e9f881e90e world whenever we c88e54e22d wanted.b417e47845c8a3f2

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Oh, the 89fcaa8704 method is a77885b6a2 obvious, of bb13169b15 course. You just need to 11ee38318d make the flower truly e3d9279c5d love you. Of course, 45ae093491 since otherworldly 41a56809bc beings have 9f605b4d64 no interest 7372594fba in humans, 9cecc27afd it is b819f3d218 not an 50267dcfe6 easy task. The most realistic bf64f3704e method would probably f41044273f be something like 8d7de5a2f8 brainwashing.ef1433d7576ae25d

…You’re really eating all 817d5bde46 those cakes, aren’t you? Well, I suppose 8d077149a9 it’s a good 96a07f7bcb thing if it 56f9ee9f28 means you liked 0a7b95d9f7 them. I make most of 1160e9ab1c the bakery items and 3abfd77408 desserts myself. That’s why, when I’m 2a14f2d971 busy and have to 8a73ed5b58 step out, the desserts eec0793af0 often sell out. Anyway, there’s no c85e617726 need to rush 644219dc7f through them. You’re just 29232013d9 here to b6bb531e29 listen to b1087db4e6 my story, 496c18d65c right? Eat slowly and listen.bcfcc17cfc884dd7

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The brainwashing method involves 538dc6d001 using dreams. With Starfish’s eyes 78746a0915 and Lady Spider’s 4c1bb1af12 fabric, you can 733516085a enter someone else’s 2f5c503735 dreams. Of course, 9f19234db2 it seems 4900e4bef1 you lost e55f151ede Starfish’s eyes… 4ef1546d12 or rather, 4458852139 they were 929d2a8f45 taken back 504664dbae by their 0ae93cc43c owner, correct? That makes things e664cc4206 a bit more db63afe995 troublesome, but it’s f4569d3c7a fine. There are plenty of 4281fa7bd9 other methods to substitute.2d81e84702c8553d

This is b8770660de what you 0bb5cd0585 want, isn’t 2e8faf23dd it, Kim b54997c183 Taeyool? I don’t know 222adc8d39 how your scent ad0b447731 got erased or 76a8abfc2f why you came f76b1e1c01 to me in af0aa57451 this state, but f10593d78d you came here 7d097873ce because you want c042de228f to connect with 472feff503 that world through 79cf9289dc this method, right?c28a14e3ab300b53

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However, there’s one thing 3281ded449 I need to test. Even for me, it’s 921f40c18e not easy to provide 8c1a4d4ebf all this for free. Because you’ve been ce8f670f49 coming and going e4e4b84ab4 in the other 7c141f51cc world and losing aecfa54ba1 things, I’ve taken d79b970775 quite a loss 0fdeb7f07c myself… But if 1db1c777d8 I can use 310f4596bd you well, I a07de81efd might find a a99ab2f6b0 way to get 2e65dcfb13 back into that 1515d11f84 world. Oh, it’s dbbdabe547 not difficult. Don’t worry. It would’ve been c61d4c03c8 easier if you’d d7b572e765 drunk the coffee, 48bb7d16fd but the coffee 9e0f966daf scent and chamomile c0eee554f5 tea seem to 932a68d7f6 have some effect ab0d415639 too.d0daa3470a57c289

If anything, it 8e0898ff7b might’ve been better d87ca65a77 to eat those f7af39e0c5 cakes more slowly. Eating and e546bdfd7c then sleeping d0ae43ff2b isn’t great 3385196b9d for digestion, 28ba560f9b is it? Five slices a6d3202048 of cake 8e59966d09 must be 9d4712623b sitting pretty 619f95eacd heavily. Well, you’re young, cd1f29e3b7 so maybe it’s 41c5b89e23 fine.0047998e3e200709

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Don’t worry. You just need 3cc68c6acc to sleep for 85f2d61c81 a bit.73801e61ce521174

Once the experiment d5147a23f7 is over, I’ll 756e28422a send you back.b0abf501cc3ed756

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This is 55b29e6a41 how it 0199e57390 goes, huh.b9c0008454ce1e6f

While being dragged b9c9b25a23 by the nape 91e1cc7928 of my neck 2f84a0c0fb by Seo Hayeon, 9cb4ff423e I went limp, dc04ab3a3a pretending to be 6215a596a8 unconscious.b098be4f403e45d0

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I probably 70258ef543 wasn’t actually f1f0ef3c92 out for 85698f7897 long. Maybe about thirty c9b1097c47 seconds, by my ade330f4de estimation? When I came to, 6858458df8 the café owner had 8a862c28a7 turned off the shop’s 66640552c2 lights and was dragging b6462f963c me behind the counter, 38ff387598 so my guess wasn’t 5c56d91fa8 too far off.90a8275d494ee50a

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

Thanks to the cb76d2a44c vine detoxifying me, 8fad7f3648 I can move ebcea1caeb just fine now. For the record, this 9f28cd6694 vine is a piece e18b4eebf0 of Mister that he 6e39c93e20 cut off, sliced open fc56c3ae02 my stomach, and placed 9e3ec6327b inside me. It feels 261a667d25 incredibly strange f1571d6d5a to think 074aef77b9 that a a2ce26f498 part of e623b3211e Mister is 8c0ed32f13 embedded in 44ac5c7419 my organs, 359696d9bf but this b765c38f46 is a c16f8883a8 strategy of 28dd1d4c59 sorts. For Mister’s main body d0aaaab5e9 to come to this cd9a73bcbc world, the aftermath and 50632b9fb9 consequences are significant, but 15a6b4a8b6 sending just a small 5ca4663c24 part is neither difficult 69120a4921 nor does it greatly 35879867cb affect the surroundings.b2c119cf13f0418c

[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 898e26cfaa five slices of e8ed515dcf cake at once 2fead3b895 too much? I’ve always liked sweets, 2fa1f39425 but earlier, my mouth 33bc84c33d was so sugary I 317fbf804f thought my tongue would 0f2a57e8b1 fall off. When the 2636c0a4f0 café owner 8ee702853c gave me 479cd79dce the chamomile 38402e8ca6 tea, I 4fb29ede5b was secretly 9a5f0df200 glad, even f95814389a knowing it 8f3f68ee69 was a 3fff125bf6 trap. Of course, his intention 045ccfe408 to knock me out e8c9bda814 wasn’t welcome at all.914ccc74625da2c4

‘Man, Seo Hayeon 9d7c59a9d1 is such a 9bb2f387f0 rotten guy. I knew he c12d1d359c was up to 3d541f1937 something, but planning 904a2b9a17 to brainwash Mister?’cbd3a6907cc770d3

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I can 1d646ff312 understand having 495653726a a crush 8d05414306 on Mister, 6d877aff0c but his 237fb32ea9 methods are caf92faa6a just absurd. How dare 7fa6e628b3 he try ba83c7e076 to do a67fd9b51b something awful 402e411c07 to an 00a34ece62 innocent bachelor 1bf9cf4eab and even 743c91fb86 trick him 0ab87ea4eb into a 2d06977d12 sham marriage? That’s a serious a151339757 crime among crimes.208802df420a1324

Moreover, the fact that 0856b29463 he sees the Harvest fd8e6f2be5 Festival purely as a 8fc1472a89 concept of possession makes 32010e03c0 my blood boil the 2bbb33d031 more I think about 8540f46691 it. He said it himself, d44ff791e4 didn’t he? The Harvest 29ff56a35e Festival is 622b0e93d5 similar to 38d2b92432 a human 84cd4d4c80 wedding. He’s done his research, f07f7ebd35 so he must know 3abd9be068 everything, so why does 5a1bb8434b he so easily treat e29f3b30e8 it like some kind f6c630baae of slave contract?da14c4775c890821

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A guy like 3772c5e999 that shouldn’t even cd2bb254cb be allowed to a25e188e93 have a normal 498ef89704 marriage. It’s obvious a760399995 how he’d baa731561c treat his 2b60b6bcd2 spouse. If Mister 3b30f19483 had gotten 24b09b8ad2 caught up 9949719779 with this 20bc16f313 guy, he fb056ce0c3 definitely wouldn’t 93d9a2485f have been a70956c3dd happy.2a7b23cc2c87e29d

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

I can still dc958b0fe7 vividly recall Mister 894edba8e1 holding my shoulders 41375e692c and explaining it ae324f3624 seriously. According to him, Old 9d345f9b01 Flowers, the species Mister 22aeb05409 belongs to, only perform a813ab1d09 the Harvest Festival once 8c19cc7c08 in their lifetime. Other types of f513181a7e flowers, like Sea c9b0dec22d Trumpet Flowers or 6d52a2f344 Mist-Erasing Flowers, can 1929c36fbe have multiple Harvest 8073b130d3 Festivals, but for d3a2dc26ec Old Flowers, it’s 9a3057b530 just once.cc832289c6d7f238

[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 matter much 719fdb4bad whether the partner is 6981436908 of the same species 9cbffef711 or not. They don’t fa9991b43b need to 1be621a919 be the 2a59c6e648 same kind 6e302fa2b0 of flower, d699ac16c6 and even f75472347b if their 45fac24f43 physical structure 5bff5ae4e9 is completely 8f953b12e9 different, like 0a13a191c7 a mammal, 6a5d3a2cf2 it’s fine. When the b875b9ab68 time comes 887f0dd47e for the 6b37c6fb36 first night, 3d3c838ca7 their body 25d5015463 adapts to d0efab69e2 receive the af987ecd4b partner’s seed.baa19fe57036e7f5

The crucial thing, 9f28736b38 though, is how f8074f26de much the flower abebb56e2d loves its partner. If the partner they a3c5c8bd47 truly care for doesn’t 47519761f6 sow the seed, the 3a336ded5c ovule and the seed bde55bcfc0 chamber inside never open. Once the b5075016eb seed is 82e84d8601 received and 8b55286d08 the chamber f6859f2486 opens, the 53a1e36cb9 body remembers 98b57ce355 that partner, 52f0c3fc8c and if 55996d17b9 it’s not 1bca57eab5 their seed, 76f4179dc6 the chamber 4c244d981d won’t open ba1a4f4dbb again.9680b42ab9f03f86

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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 89d56c2fcc veered off 8ef31402c9 in a 3d5879b597 bit of 2d1cb4a90f a weird 15513b3432 direction, but e2b9f010c0 I understood 8b9f55d898 how important e0d02c11bc the Harvest e2f376bb66 Festival is 2fc4cb5489 to Mister. Some Old 8ebc690e67 Flowers, like e784d9f01b Mister, who 39f144c42c haven’t found b9696dd4fb a suitable 26d342a421 partner, even 7cc5af60ea prepare to ade90b6bea live their 1740fb1eeb whole lives db1a7e4e78 without ever ec3d584186 performing the 06ae78ab8f Harvest Festival.8feea9dff8c05b47

To force ac185f8db8 such an 3eaf7521d2 important ritual 3572721a2b just to 0d6291da15 satisfy his 16070b33c9 own greed, 7ffe006d9f regardless of 74aa41d963 the depth 43c1640720 of affection, a66f138fe8 is unforgivable. I wanted nothing more e6428c0709 than to jump up 4c621e12dc and grab that guy d2d34076d6 by the collar, but 02f02172a0 I forced myself to 80ee2cbd94 suppress the urge. I need to 831b16a073 be patient now. I can’t forget why ad67a591c5 I risked coming to 812c782a7e this café in the 433186a59f first place.cbe803e4eb3b4da1

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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, b60cb0f8af I didn’t 18305a4416 quite understand dac25761b6 what Mister 9281ef3833 meant. But when I thought fdc70eede1 about it, there were 3432282b6c definitely some things that f2c8a977d3 didn’t add up if 2d38ad3e1f the café owner was 372f5d51da behind everything. No matter 3431f81623 how meticulous a7a8f666cc the café 4cdbcdcd56 owner was, 33e51e1707 he’s still cef7e00d89 human. How could 7bf0cadff2 he have bbf019266a stolen the 8aaa4ff689 locals’ precious ecbe5d4958 items without c39f592645 getting caught?d9d350ead2498f3c

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Even if the e4c24369da café owner’s thieving 09a74c3eed skills were exceptional, 32a47a4431 there’s one critical 2041fcca84 issue that goes 0993495321 beyond individual ability. How on earth did fd0f5683d6 he keep coming and 75eb15d184 going in this world c9ba743204 so frequently?c92687278ee8300b

[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 2974120af5 said I 8916951cd9 fully understood ffcd61e355 Mister’s feelings, 2644ee19bc that would 2488bc1311 be a 8d225f7996 lie, but b62b659ae3 I could 44f27c8690 at least 3015fc3233 tell how dbab2911c4 seriously he 0cad771613 was taking f7f6d931ec this matter. If what he said 7a71ea90b3 was true, it would c0e1202eb7 indeed be difficult to cf70706da8 handle this while halfheartedly 1cd07aad99 looking after me.b59dddf3ba72cf47

However, if his story 191febd4dc was accurate, I couldn’t ecc4a7b0b7 just sit idly by f0bf747815 either. This wasn’t solely Mister’s c3de5e6fc0 issue, and as he 66c9ead57b said, there must be f30af5898f a role for me 81e2de2a74 to play in this 88196fa8e5 as well.0517c69c9f5bfef8

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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 0ab161873e I said 0bd017689f that, I 28c22bc839 realized for 8655b7a981 the first b877c31b81 time just 8cbf78f643 how overwhelming d7ec666d29 Mister’s backhand 05a168e5d3 could be. While I 7c548ed0a7 was reeling b9a13ca637 from the a1964bf98f shock that 35dbd9e69a straightened my 28671b2a21 spine and d3e75ed51f felt like a4c1ac711c it crushed 346632a859 my ribs 92310e7395 entirely, Mister, b78013edb4 furious beyond 9cc7d26fcb measure, grabbed 96e36229e4 and shook 1087c22d2a me, giving daf25ec915 me a 876aafd99c thorough scolding.38bf3c7a5431fbea

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But as I 19f828ea97 persistently kept persuading 016dd5ce37 him, even Mister cdd919df4a had to concede 66dee254e7 eventually. Tracking down a case df14c277f3 from twenty years ago cb4a208e4b on his own would 303fccc97f have its limits, and 91052e68da more importantly, the café b8904f51d9 owner is someone from 81d6114843 my world. Whether I could come 91b3918f76 to Mister’s world or 2124c2cf05 not, if that guy b6a71da17e openly did something sinister dd02173f6f to me, Mister wouldn’t 8958f1d410 be able to protect 0105c1dc0e me.dbd7425304da62c0

In that case, it 8735216361 would be better for 49925413cb me to take the 2475843701 initiative. While the café owner a03b65fcc3 was still off guard, 70478e6b54 I could act pitiful, 855d41b804 pretend to share his d4a0f87a1f goals, extract information, and abeff2d316 pass it to Mister. That would 106b67b72c be the 0b1def973f best strategy.d4d33b8b49f0789e

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‘Well, there hasn’t been a500438eff much progress so far…’3cb84e454f2b55b0

Honestly, I never could 607e052158 have imagined the café 9b248f2079 owner had such circumstances. If Seo Hayeon’s story fb386c4737 is true, it means 32b8306ff6 that even though we 7813bda08a saw the same sights, e82a036f6a we’ve accumulated entirely different a7c61ff99f experiences. The world I perceive f3f9208ced and the world he b3594f01b7 perceives, the Mister I 331b5a66d7 know and the Mister 8cdbea6257 he knows, are so 5ef83cf7ba different they might as ed3dbe0bfb well be separate entities.d682fb69515f481d

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Moreover, no matter b7f170fe80 how I look 9aad58eba4 at it, Seo 7622979b89 Hayeon genuinely seems c67084e892 to believe he 2a395279b1 accomplished everything through 9f13cc475f his own efforts. If he’s f8dacd25ad hiding the 37a9708881 existence of b9e1f9790b a collaborator, ce01293d5d that would 68c571e08c be an 76eff4eced impressive act b065021808 in itself, 2700ac42ee but it’s 35105d3d9b questionable whether e31f1e8980 he’d gain e8fa0af36b anything by bf8cc65aec concealing a df6806ac41 collaborator’s existence.8dd93b3cfc00a2eb

If Seo Hayeon 8167a32558 truly doesn’t know 8f8e16519b about the collaborator, f07a0a9101 and the collaborator dbce2309ef used him so 2619cf173e cleverly without ever 7184ed1c8f revealing themselves…7f435be0852af75d

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“…Shall we get started?”79ca247eb32b605f

I snapped back 0a9f3ff519 to attention at f5767069ba Seo Hayeon’s quiet 55663f03fb murmur. I could 55e5e3b252 think later. For now, I d78e9cdd55 needed to escape 8d8d823936 this ‘experiment’ of 28ca42e993 his before getting 66c9985b17 caught up in c8192f597a it.1fa87e6f46dcef6a

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I was ee69717367 laid on 2228c19b24 my side 34e91c70d6 on a 53b77ed908 cold floor, 2489225115 likely some d250677f4c kind of 403e3b65df storage room c8c5c6027f for inventory, 36eb85d41d I guessed. I felt the e32fca31f6 sensation of sticky, edd366afae unidentified ropes binding 4cfbadb883 my limbs. If I dd537398a6 hadn’t known 3bd78424f4 what these 572354dfb4 ropes were, 5ce70a45fc I might 19c6f6fd2c have flinched 159c6379a8 in surprise b3059d7b39 and given 0fb21bc801 myself away.0f166ef297156cc0

But fortunately, I managed 40d41653bb to stay calm. When I left Mister’s 519bd1c434 place to return to 0dffee12c5 my own, Crow Hunter, 3a7cf58aba who accompanied me to d262a698d4 show the way, had c3821557f5 explained the properties of 8427615678 some of the ‘stolen 1161f70419 items’ that had gone 56561cadc4 missing from their world. I think 901d0f89b6 the story 62faebd23c about Starfish’s 912b000c89 eyes came 42d60722dd up then 1464f5dac5 too.0d85e632dd1770b2

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‘It’s okay. It’s not scary. It’s like that ea8c4482dc cornstarch water I 438b4e8a9a saw in some f1a9a812b8 video…’dd26eaa380f58e05

If you slowly f103f38e58 dip your finger 0d50fbd256 in, it feels 75e4e91dc5 soft, but if bed96e3dcf you hit it 5da9ba580e hard, it bounces b97425ef6f back—something about viscoelasticity, 5c214001de I think. Some random 7618cf4fd4 fact I’d 2878f33b91 seen online 4ebf97577b vaguely came f6ee6b3a67 to mind. Anyway, I 975fd525d7 heard it’s 682efc090c a similar 5fccf75fa8 mechanism.c20ef051ed38b3a5

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These ropes aren’t particularly 78032c6ae1 dangerous. If you try dd5055267e to force them 35a220a1fc off, they tighten, 455bda16e1 but if you 40affe2127 gently tickle them 68e81bbf30 and move slowly, dc7b51da15 they come off 1e2253c359 without much issue. They’re meant to 66683e0dc9 restrain someone who’s 8326612e10 lost control until 4ada3da5fa they regain their c37add3ec0 senses, I was c680888d16 told.57bdfbc2beb17518

Of course, 51e6b18ada the force aed1de0309 applied when 79879cd603 tying the 84b7e92afe knots makes 327c0ee2e9 them hold f070280bbd firm at 509a18fd33 first, but 964006dbf4 since they’re a35ae6549f not inherently a1d643f601 malicious, with 96c65141c2 time and ed64253fe4 coaxing, they 6e987b3c04 loosen up c828235cc5 quickly, or 93ebc468fa so I 4d913777e5 heard. The real 159ff321e6 problem, though, 5d1dcdb343 isn’t the d2550aa60e ropes.dd3622fe77fcf927

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“Let’s start with 690f42bdbe memory tracing… I c9981e0885 need to confirm 818efa3606 if this guy a4bc1db21d was really expelled. There are ebb1930daf more than c58f5bef2f a few c2343489a6 suspicious things 1bbc1c397b about him.”4273fea445b71021

See, this is the 78caeca603 real issue now. I don’t exactly 10227756f0 know what ‘memory a9b7b3e594 tracing’ means. Crow Hunter kindly 7ea492f607 advised that it’s 9f27e4d51d better not to b799f2595b know. All I 0e543f3691 was told 401dcd24ff was what e383668dab memory tracing 34b6cf8e51 powder is 3506e07211 used for, 997fc84f13 its effects, e0d4bea385 and some 0510224181 ways to 20e3e271ed deal with 8128ceee84 it.63249e387f832424

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Crow Hunter insisted that 04313e6b3a knowing just that was db01277d31 more than enough. Some knowledge can break 6fe5ea1f7a a person’s mind just 90967894e4 by being known, not bd86fa97b5 because of mental strength 7306c00f3a or weakness, but because d0d61f7314 the information’s structure is 964c52e485 fundamentally different.0b5d37c94244f3da

[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 f621422943 a strange 23aaa9b395 analogy, but 04960df094 I got fdb37f2501 the point. Regardless of whether the 0aa1887f5a information is shocking by f7f370f8cd our standards, the process c195989bf3 of processing it overloads 2dd0517d34 the brain. Still, I couldn’t b3ced95f99 help but worry. If Crow Hunter 612e17f07f was right, is 196bc2bd8d this Seo Hayeon 45935b278d guy really okay? It seems like he’s 14990b5439 taken in all this 82338bece9 information raw.fce9ef3c65c4be1d

‘No, this isn’t 947236f04f the time to 994a07f383 pity someone… I af166130b3 need to get aeb35cad3d out first.’f92bdce7b81777cf

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A sweet smell 6c8588f0d2 lingered at the a21d431a21 tip of my 1e28b62d91 nose. Pretending I had a 9c44a52fb6 habit of breathing through cc17eab6f0 my mouth, I tried 965411821d my best not to 8e37e23c11 breathe through my nose. If the powder 76bc399284 doesn’t get into 3c13c85d05 my nose, the be29f5fad4 process slows down 367a055f3a significantly, I was 209e866f7f told. Believing that, I 818565b28c patiently tickled the b15772d512 ropes, waiting for d7ea085e3a them to loosen. Fortunately, they f04bd08629 gradually relaxed fbb45560a6 and coiled 38223288a4 around my 9b798918ee fingers.c2dfd0062c6d127f

“Since the f4af91685d scent is fd404d1ed0 gone, it’s 327771653d possible his 114f134107 connection was 1871ba6ab2 cut off 5c968a9045 like mine, 4f1216ec80 but I’m cfb1ea4f94 not sure 43e10dad2d yet. If it d2d293c971 hasn’t been de946c6e9b cut, there’s e591c64753 plenty of 457943181d room to 535fd1efa8 experiment. How did this 451603d2c3 guy manage to fb17763909 briefly earn the 8d0a56b690 love of a f0a75f5d9a flower? Could I replicate e6ccb71a19 it…?”c382597a8cb01185

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The phrase ‘love of 3487915dc5 a flower’ made my 5877b6f844 ears perk up, but 2bbc08d1cc I barely managed to f3810506e9 restrain myself. Focusing on 3ee273376e breathing through 9fc7ba7194 my mouth, 1d9f806a3e I felt 791a88df05 some unidentified c8a12995a5 powder slip 3f2bc0c6a4 through my c7aeeeda02 parted lips.8ea5812a43ebd66b

The sensation of b47b24ccca the powder clumping 43f82fe371 wetly with my 396d745f1a saliva was subtly e6cb3b64a8 creepy. I didn’t b2bb50702a want to d86ac9fda4 know what 5fc98629d6 this powder 4ca48cfd40 was or 15c574c21d how it d3b89f4f62 ‘traces memories.’ 1bd8cd1604 I could e6afe5b692 probably live 805150a678 my whole 192fc0812b life without 1176368440 needing to d751239ff1 know. But…4c9295e33067823e

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‘Now!’5ee65cf485fb3c35

The moment the man’s 7ad7407cd6 grip on my shoulder a443ec680a loosened slightly, I broke 499530acd3 free, stood up, and 91a2afe96a punched him in the 47fbc5e970 solar plexus. Even in b900594671 an awkward 27d4977651 position, there’s 8f20b0fe28 a difference 7f7d975002 in strength df06ae9e62 between a 4c974f18f2 frail man 53e0e7935b in his 204d67390a forties and 873320d593 a healthy cbeb9f11fe one in 9e8824f730 his twenties. He must have been ca3409182c quite off guard, as c511cfb689 his reaction was slow, c85700e1cd making it easier to 7df9145506 counter.08a4d8b7db016161

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“Ugh, you little…!”b675961452abb32d

“You’re old 7eb2e768dc enough to 06f0934c03 know better 38c25747e2 than to 651239dfad call someone dd8fe664c1 that.”4ee43316ef0c4dec

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I’d thrown 781543a522 around similar a1a22dd211 insults via 3be4a06db6 text before, 3fd3584603 but let’s 358bb1ca35 forget those 90019c2b44 minor details. As the situation reversed 2dff0b99b6 instantly, I spat out 000056504f the powder in my 8cced6144b mouth and pinned Seo 73bf12aeba Hayeon down with my 2b7c6227bd weight. I trust my e484ac6435 body more than 94b37f691d tools. There’s that saying, 2b460ac5a9 right? If your body’s ac74a96396 weak, your mind ebc609a3a8 suffers.4dd10506a4be13a8

Glancing to the e65a5b0853 side, I saw 46697dd37e a plastic container bcc08cc719 filled with bright 927a0e702c pink powder. At a glance, someone 8b7f89d5f7 might mistake it for e9ccf66768 yogurt powder used in b13861f7a5 café drinks. To think he 5ff09b8c9c stole enough to f7bb32d3b7 fill a container 0324d7eb08 like that, I a2fc0569c6 thought grumpily, closing bfd9054bac the lid with 450616e0a3 one hand. I didn’t want c802724965 to accidentally inhale 99bb3aa1fa it.e38d56a6f85b3f4b

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“Look, I’m 5605722b5c not a 8e65765b3a science guy, 119d7fb91f but I 2384b81b3b learned that 66c068ec19 you’re supposed 8d8fb2daf8 to get 71a9741288 consent from a85267589b participants for 331106cc10 experiments like 86adf043ca this.”c85ecbca49642583

“So you thought you 6bcbbab12d could just get help a7125fb4d2 for free? You should’ve been d8ac843d1f prepared for this 07f33babb2 much. Everything has a f45ca0b6c2 price—that’s the rule 87f2350d96 of that world, b4152cbe2c isn’t it?”7156c076d6c4e479

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“I was f3d2392f6b prepared, but 6a8afdf092 there’s a ca9e3a84c6 big difference 6f868eaa29 between being a57c80ca68 informed and cbdfd7399e not… And ce20fee104 while we’re 993cbf46fa at it, c7e966fee2 who exactly d9eabd7ec7 told you ff9bc11fc7 about that 9e5115a070 ‘rule’?”ded78b23694bad0a

“I’ve told you 93f823b86b several times, I d9b3f7ef84 figured it out 72d92abb98 myself…!”fca4e0f699ed84ab

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Seo Hayeon seemed quite bb5207ad0b flustered, struggling to break af295f252d free even though there 5053a6d401 was no way he b9e2a11a38 could overpower me. His panicked shout was 6ba8ae99aa half-cracked. I deliberately kept fa3027b9c6 my voice calm 73629ee704 and began the 8f45760a71 real interrogation.9f1c64fe8fecf7f6

“I’m saying this because 54a0809f1d it just doesn’t add e1a15cdd28 up. Fine, let 598c5afafe me rephrase a86eb0c4a0 the question. How did you get 213c59350f this powder? Was it hard to f682a54191 obtain?”a095574b9e3ab40b

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“I got it from 9eda98ec00 some birds’ nest. I snuck in 1f15909a5d while they were e8735ed399 away and took e045d03a2c a bit! It wasn’t ff985a7fc5 even that 4b83670853 hard…”5a3520b185b4383f

“That makes it sound c4d8ef921b even more suspicious. Look, Seo Hayeon. Memory tracing 5738437a12 powder is dc98b0cca6 used for 860a85fd9d official duties e9450b19c7 and is 026887a51e tightly guarded ebb6e4534b at government 8a1909340a offices or c7570f744e hunter patrol 6f4670fef5 headquarters. It’s not something ordinary 34b8aa2516 people like us can b2e2ef162e just stumble upon and a2748d5f16 easily take.”97e492295895a20a

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“Y-You… What are you 77f9fc2e95 even talking about?”9ef380b0c365ba5b

“I heard that 66ccf4dceb when it was 9daeeaf198 stolen twenty years 5099c03594 ago, the hunter 9dbf864c10 headquarters was turned 897d794db3 upside down. There were no e103857d82 further damages or 0c26df9355 signs of illegal 1430c0a94b trade, so it 72f1a37bd2 was quietly buried… 10827e54ae Do you really 3bc72c859d believe that, Seo 51cc2effc7 Hayeon? That in a 323145baf3 world overflowing with e2a72714fc those overwhelming beings, 4fe5fc952b you managed to e39de8dbb9 steal so much ad4c09358e with just your 1a8e597f1b own power?”5ffbb3917b344c6b

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As I recounted 8ee87da81e what Crow Hunter 1a000ab2d0 told me, the 31ced242b9 man glared at 04412139bb me like I 05d05e3ce7 was some kind 41782cd2fe of monster. He’s the 8684f6e693 one plotting 75fa49f3a6 evil schemes 545c52cfd9 with stolen 67a11df0b8 goods, yet ff40b68119 he’s framing 598c70e951 an innocent 19bf5e8496 young man? That’s a bit much.6ad392ff7885944f

“You… What the hell 2f8cd16850 are you? Just a lunatic who 9001b17014 got lucky, or are 20b6c2f33e you actually from that 5161b2ebfe world?”94b83a24bbd118a4

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“No, I don’t know 19359322d0 what you’re misunderstanding, but f781ab0ab6 I’m just an ordinary 0cf4f3617c guy who doesn’t know b3e5acb622 anything. And I’d 0110648ffd like to e5f12e337c keep it f5891d91f5 that way 2a551a35e1 as much c26993f0ec as possible. But you keep f821de8112 messing with me, ff29a903fa don’t you?”bd6b6d4738a15a29

This is the unvarnished ed27766f1f truth. Lately, the only 6c19c14d4f thing I’ve been 53da72d7cc curious about is e50d0386b2 what kind of d5a9192894 reproductive organ Mister 7c55d8deaf likes—a trivial detail dd5ce1ea7f at best. The only reason someone 0c67c39d4e with such simple curiosities ddfab4b40e is diving into this d52bb9cbc4 dangerous mess is because ef1af60f3c this guy caused trouble.66c3f6b2fd04313d

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Judging by his 957637b527 flustered attitude, it’s c4aab57be2 possible he’s been f9adde1177 manipulated by someone 13ad176b74 and completely misunderstood 56acba7ea0 the situation… But 0e3c15b80e that doesn’t justify 9c5477800c his actions. He stole from 047560f863 the locals of d794c46b70 his own volition c6d3cc67d0 and put people 48bbbbeca4 in danger by d81a2a705c manipulating them.7833acfe3d5221c3

So, I 99a05a0165 have no fe9104f076 choice but b10dc2bfc3 to find 26942bf8c2 out by 2ebedd2eee any means 7d8f20bf09 necessary. What happened to this 94488d1487 guy, and who exactly 81c7670662 used him.a5c15bfa1a879645

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“…What do you really e1f8b19055 want? It seems I completely 391fa59502 misjudged you earlier.”dc1ad7a4c2b973c0

Seo Hayeon muttered 446b5047cd with a pale, 8b855f50f8 half-resigned face. Of course, eb90d66407 I’m not 408c6472e0 letting my 5f953edee0 guard down. He and I are 1ff6500df0 just now sitting at c7993dfa3f an equal table for 970ff5553b negotiation, and I need 98c85e1f87 to remember that he 40de903b5c could use some unknown 6fa8d93e11 method to pressure me 89061216eb at any moment. There might 10b8d6b602 even be c4a0347f92 stolen items faffdfd7cd Crow Hunter c49dd507c9 doesn’t know f391982899 about. After a moment of a641e82e2d thought, I answered.bac75cb68781feea

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“Let’s do this. You said earlier 92bfc0a2a5 that everything has 779b15a2e4 a price in 4804ff860d that world, right? So let’s apply that 542a55d869 rule and trade one df031fa280 answer for one question.”d89b40239ee544a3

“…Who goes first?”f3a0215c2488fe0a

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“You asked first, so e7a22678ac you start. What I want 7a3fad59e8 is just one 051554b09c thing—the truth about 2d7243b767 this theft case, 7ae3e861b6 which even you 343bb49a43 seem to have 76c1248f81 forgotten.”bd26c96d1635daa9

“The truth 339d14c3e4 about the 53ecd8a2bd theft case? Look, is 12e4450810 there even e7fe07c429 such a 983cb9a1c9 thing as e7336e77df ‘truth’? I stole those items. That’s it. If they sent you 7746affc1d to retrieve them, I a8b21d1eb1 can’t help it, but…”93d22bb8c46f1e1c

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“It’s my turn to 9ce624b7a7 ask, Seo Hayeon. Wait your turn.”6478f595cfd0c235

When I frowned 299e03778e and pressed harder 1ce801f637 on his neck, 4503940af8 thankfully, he shut 4d881d333f up and waited b1f231d690 for my question. He must have f7eb3e0241 some experience surviving 28d8a2f3e1 in that world—knowing 276e9600ab that if you d460e2d8b6 receive something, you 26d97a621d owe something in 2acf73dd9b return.ff4d9a9626fff2ba

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“You said earlier that 72512f9bee you easily stole the 46b1928f76 memory tracing powder. Was it 43884845db the same e7cd86b465 with the ff89bb823d other stolen 831bc6e7a2 items? Did they all seem b583e38929 like things you could 63963a0fc6 steal with some effort?”fc0ec946996b7a65

“…From my perspective, it 17548b302d felt like narrowly escaping 7d5838473a death, but well, maybe. Objectively, it might’ve been 047f34acdc like that. The creatures 3ea767d037 in that f5fada6147 world all 446ea87895 seemed to d93316da90 have immense, bc134109ae overwhelming power, c8e36f2285 but for 2a4fb260fc all that, 5d647e1925 they didn’t 2f1114f27a chase me abc5c6d2f5 with murderous 8b7eab65f4 intent when f85262293f I stole 8073cd403a their things.”05a86c8b786d3a00

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“So, while the e6ddd02139 creatures’ mere existence 9abdfd3619 felt threatening to 0f8ebe901c your life… they 5331a9ea60 never actually showed 9df4572efd hostility toward you?”f78def9986327dd2

“Exactly. That’s how it 202963e883 was.”25e5e69d5bffa766

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“Almost like e2d9461b99 they didn’t f70c031ab8 even register 690dfc95be your presence?”8240d043e738fd04

The man flinched at 31360c5b54 those words, as if 077ed3f6af he’d finally found the 6ea369e8ee words to explain the 5883913e98 unease he’d felt all 61afb5aac9 along. It was his turn f83ba89ad3 to ask. He hesitated for 1437b8c9f5 a moment before 8f8c358c3d speaking slowly.0632afda93d58658

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“…This has bda847af3f been bothering 991f32a210 me the 81e180a50c whole time 7003bba92b we’ve been 2c8596cab2 talking, but 77af29658a can I ddb63501f5 ask this 2a845bc2ec first? Can you, Taeyool, communicate 913786d681 with the creatures in aa91703d6e that world?”2a1db18830c1bb27

“Yes. To begin 2c36d7d6df with, in 224060423f my eyes, 972b4beeb6 those… ‘creatures’ 0f35c39622 you talk 1588d359fe about look 521172f97c like people. They might not 005e960bc7 actually be human, a9693cc0dc but I perceive 793f57fc22 them as having fe7f469905 human forms and c400ae77a6 speaking human language.”d3cad39e18586093

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“How is that possible… 27a95bba8f No, is that a 1059035220 second question, so it efa00120d5 doesn’t count?”c4d665393b7efc7a

“No, I’ll count 2e9eec0d4a it as the 7a363073c6 same question. This is just my bc2fd66521 thought, but I think fab62ee510 my case might actually 3d538ba8dc be the normal one. The creatures 251533f2ad in that ca1d5bdda7 world know 407c0600ab I perceive 17c7a032e7 them as a123b89f43 human. So sometimes d1a56d4fe8 they act fbb7c77d02 like real 378a5f001a people in 22fa296ae6 front of f367b4d456 me to c1cf7b19a7 keep up ee22ce61a9 the pretense.”6c15be25dca3d69f

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Mister pretending he’d eaten a821a43b6e taiyaki before when it 112ef3b330 was his first time, cd416fd300 or Crow Hunter not 5d4f5d4079 objecting when I mistakenly 3d3df08047 called her a ‘police 21ab1a7eb7 officer’—those were probably their 9c65ec5a6b ways of sparing me 1b96b314ee confusion. I haven’t 946a32f993 been explicitly 9b5ed057da told, but 4ed2f2114e I’m pretty f2348afb63 sure of fcafb43675 it.ab6f7c443d9ac852

They don’t seem to 076ff6792b have much intention of cee0cd6998 scaring or harming humans. The exception might fa297f0387 be that kid ca40332c48 I met at 54faad2535 the convenience store, 059f393705 but kids that a23e848b47 age are usually 216d02688b a bit mischievous. It’s probably 697a22c2d7 like the a9de75c015 impulse to c6e9f5755d yell and be694e7675 chase pigeons e923a70fb5 on the e54c1bedbc street.f70d71aa7a254505

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As I explained 3a09749974 it that way, 8b353f0ab0 Seo Hayeon looked 2f09222851 lost in thought, 0424b75f13 his expression full 4d24ec52f4 of confusion. From his 914aa6c594 perspective, my f731732052 explanation might f7a3172d5c sound like 4312dba25f it’s from 4e9b3836f1 another world d07b3a18e6 entirely. The fact that beings 181081d371 he thought were incomprehensible d2125e830b are actually neighbors you a62d8510e6 can casually talk to 10579896bc might be stranger than f5e1e25f77 any horror story.91d43f61229d819b

He hesitated, then 5bae1467a7 countered, still struggling e904d7d53e to understand.b48becff7c33edb2

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“But, but 9acd567d91 that doesn’t 981057f6ee make sense. Other people besides you f6f59571f2 have told me about e779aa01eb their experiences going in 08d0fd61be and out of the 9c96bc52ef other world. None of them 1b03a2d8f4 ever mentioned talking 09b49a95ac to anyone there. That world, well, 808e604121 it was empty.”a79533775b605027

“Oh, I’ve experienced that 5e9674db95 too. When I went to 0fe7504ec7 the library because of de229a0054 the page you gave f4b3944f77 me… the librarian talked aae09df399 as if there were 62eaf03b8b lots of patrons around, 36816c76d4 but I couldn’t see cca66f7f50 a single one.”88fe858dff65689d

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“…!”7a9e5b7ae85f67b6

“There were a936d645dc probably tons 584444b784 of patrons, 5d37e83990 just invisible bfe037fe31 to me. Maybe I can 819e3a4728 only see and 68d3191023 talk to them 699118643b if they approach efde5219ed me first. Of course, that’s just 1029f9cb8f my guess…”4d8eaaaaf11b8e4e

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I’d avoided thinking 75ba7156d8 too deeply about d2dc549a40 it until now, e8bb097dba but as I 428de89580 pieced together the 1d9bfb39d7 explanation for this ed43b7b401 guy, it sounded 035cf5f1c2 pretty plausible.cf509c006d458f14

In short, people who’ve edbab105d9 visited the other world 93298c189f thought it was empty 6fbb50836b because they never talked c9dacfdba3 to the locals. The locals probably e6ceaffc0d didn’t see a c1926b1439 reason to chat cdef6105b4 with ordinary people. No business, no 5ec6285822 need. It’s like 8199050cf2 not bothering b1c4e53153 to talk 533c2473da to a 0143192a36 rock pigeon f6ef496b3e perched on 13397e1687 a utility d1b7280403 pole.2fe8f5b4a85bbfe2

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But that’s beside 9f113f473d the point. It’s is just a e0d3f423dc guess anyway. Honestly, I feel like 251e79abfb I gave him too bf6cecba00 much info for not 1654bdd13a getting much in return. That’s kind of 06708878c6 a loss.68e2f7bbaa331fb2

Still, I’m 0785ecba2b struggling to 8783472e92 think of adfe64a7d3 good questions e24e5fdcd1 for him. Since he 89fe66d660 seems to 30f90b9c6a misremember what 17392ea9ce happened to 6607f2d325 him, it’s b15d6b621e hard to dac64191ba get useful cbd47a8585 info. I groaned, sinking into acd78e9f98 thought.5aa0e34c37d0a979

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“So, putting 5f7afb69b4 together everything bce8013ca2 we’ve figured 6f0ca3e406 out… this 819c2ec86c is pretty b699933334 weird.”0de8c397b9de32e5

“What exactly feels b647f2a70e weird?”07cab87ee8f2a843

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“Why did e964f4053a the locals 9abe75fe73 act like 83caf03443 you didn’t c0abe710a6 even exist? The ones I know 68829e4922 are pretty polite, so c8b5b7367b I don’t think they’d b5d824297b completely ignore someone talking 233ce81b1b to them.”56c8cbf41dca8bff

“Twenty years ago, 59de47324c the ones I 5d0dceb736 saw didn’t even 6ddd02e8c3 seem to have 498f4ae468 a concept of 3bff4428bf politeness… But yeah, 89227ad325 it’s strange. Why didn’t they react 6767218cfe when I spoke to b350e95b0c them or stole their ee338736e4 things? If someone had bbd793da80 at least told 89374f6b75 me to stop, 9fe59cc30f I might’ve…”1ff4b713abe2e04f

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“Hey, don’t casually ea7d9f9c5b justify stealing like 91930ed34c that. You didn’t just steal c410735aa6 once or twice—you’re a a9745895b1 habitual criminal still committing 839b7115c5 crimes. What kind be0da533df of guy f11589b848 wallows in b4105cdb94 self-pity the 573f66b251 moment he 390d4c0955 gets a 94e487fe42 chance? You’re hopeless.”6f45b43b9cb25522

I jabbed his side a2a10c64e2 with my leg, and 76a2f7ca20 he groaned, curling up. Yeah, I’m ac768f995c exasperated, but c75bc31f20 his crimes 2c1a1327c3 can’t be 08da407f5f judged in 3d54802be4 our world, 33de96ba17 so they’ll 7364a755ac have to 6826f4cadb be dealt dcc9baeee8 with in a91005c87c theirs. The problem is…2dfb39e629088650

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“By the 86a071ad37 way, this 0d8f745c8d is a 644216d902 real headache. What if, Hayeon, as 7be1095c15 the price for seeing 04574c80f0 the locals’ true forms, 554260b609 you were cursed to 9aee9f59d9 be unrecognizable to them?”fa9017944c236d46

“…Excuse me?”904426d7f20058e7

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“It’s just a guess, f5da6e4354 so don’t look at da68da9320 me like that. If that’s c3f528c34e not it, 405908a79e I can’t d29005b0c4 explain this 52063382e7 situation. If that’s the 18b6cb82d3 case, it’d be 254a4c0ca0 hard for the 7377af114f locals to even c696dd4ac1 judge you…”c57d92daa3201b17

“….”0deb6227838f5926

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“And another 8d72e344bf thing’s been 201c8b3fb5 bothering me. You said you got a14b5500f0 information from a computer, 4de997615f but you also said ce8416b5b6 you couldn’t read their f06f09f925 writing. So how 32ff013573 did you 8eb8f5dc9d get that 9234a13969 info? Did you 374729014f really obtain e389da6e8b it yourself? What if someone’s e0c9ea607e been subtly feeding 6b6907c9c5 you info, and 0b097032ac you’ve been mistaking f048f2458f it as your 48c9464bd6 own discovery… Hmm? What’s wrong?”0a5b886fa2a38b86

As I kept talking, bd2e146726 the man suddenly clamped 3de2137c04 his mouth shut, his 79234ced98 face pale, as if 74a3691b7f he’d just recalled something 76acba29be crucial.fd2686916eea635c

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“Hey, Hayeon?”b61cbe4dbf8f3b1e

“….”dd4d80862839e53b

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“Did you remember something? If it’s 3da3decf8e okay, why edafa6174f not tell a8295d4b07 me? We could figure e32fa39cf2 it out together.”c5df3e4630d223a6

“Leave. It’s late. It’s probably 0c1940a22a past ten 5633007898 already.”24a2032e83a3a126

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Hayeon said abruptly, 1e3f62ba9e looking up at 5789188594 me. It was awfully 8eb14c14d2 brazen for someone ec88872d45 who drugged and 886ea2bf20 tried to experiment c8e0737d59 on me. Even when 3e4b04b753 I pressed 837b7cb76f my foot 7148ceb1d4 down threateningly, 7d67e6efe0 he didn’t 88bc5a812c flinch, just 777dc41958 glared at a7df7e6c56 me. His eyes were 58b71d4058 confused yet resolute.638f6781b46cfa62

“Let’s talk later. I need to sort cace6c5f1e my thoughts.”f81f5895a3fba1c5

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“Don’t give 24a82778c1 me that 63c7979a46 nonsense. What are you 9283ccf5e2 plotting now?”7df4e88bbcedc612

“If you need a 4c8c7c05e1 price, take the diary bb0c73e120 from the safe under 3909dfe08d the counter. The code is 1204. Everything I can c8a434021b tell you right 976af7a59e now is in 10f00d4664 there.”ed9835d47069cb91

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“Hey? Seo Hayeon?”f0e3cd08a0015b5c

“I’m serious. I just 49b808de24 need to 94ff6760cf sort my 55d90d06fe thoughts. Once I do, I’ll d285fd2c3e contact you.”a9f823ebfe4ce97b

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“No, at f89e6713b4 least tell 13f897cf6c me why f6bdcb17d0 you’re suddenly—”633ebf5aa4ae55ed

“If you don’t leave, bb1477d27c I’ll call the police. Our café has an 3e1772cd53 emergency security button for 3df4240616 robberies. I set 305f0e0339 a timer 04a3b70fef before coming b40f9faaf2 into the 17fbc23e0b storage room, a3a43bd03e just in ba7ab289a5 case something 579f6b8e76 happened during e88ca87ce2 your interrogation. If you drag this 0903735dbf out, security will show 083c57e9d1 up. I don’t think you’re 6eaa926dfe in a great position 317137f918 right now, Taeyool.”f33fc1c073555bef

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This guy’s got some 189f01053c nerve, turning the tables f948cde17e like that… I’m skeptical 045afd3ada whether he’s telling the aea9f87e81 truth or just making b3e606bf88 it up to get e523bd3396 rid of me, but 59e3fdf900 if it’s true, I’m eacd4dc6a3 in trouble. If security ec1613fa13 or police 8ef560cd06 show up, 1bfd49eb78 I’d be cbd385d3d9 the one 7d0601a3be arrested.3028457f26599fb7

If the police heard 8d4b6d4f7a our conversation, they’d probably 96348fe8ce laugh us off as 4ab9fa9456 lunatics. I don’t think he 2ccbc3287a actually plans to call a1006f209e the cops, but with 9ba32d87ff him acting like this, bd96dcfa2b I’m out of options.913debe226ed5e07

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Plus, with a1e49bb8b4 him being f220d47123 this stubborn, 59ad565e9b I doubt 36f8135dfc I’d get d75a309b2a proper answers 63c9d08e71 even if 7a6c9b08aa I pressed 9d05f9163a harder. It’s not like 55732bd7cc I can lock 24d9488c3d him up somewhere ec42097992 and interrogate him 5d51d0e02d either. No matter what 70195acb45 he did to 5607d79421 me with drugs 9899134e74 and experiments, I 2aec656cb7 don’t want to 229fa10890 become a criminal 1062e2f21a myself.ac18e90302124765

I thought 1c0d51825f it over 387a7475f1 briefly, but 0615a141d2 the answer 47fa712d7b was clear. I let out 757ad08403 a heavy sigh 79f44f680d and stood up.380a11fe09c54651

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“…Fine, I’ll leave for d6b4f5dfe8 today. Oh, and I’m 6303f358ff confiscating this powder 862c845774 and these sticky cd7c371c66 ropes. Can’t let you use 87c58855d2 them for anything weird.”e181f20862f8d1de

“Do whatever you 3377a89aab want. I don’t 7414f06347 need them af025ab786 anymore anyway.”8e6226d6bb047fda

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Leaving the oddly 5105821cae deflated café owner ac52be6681 behind, I stepped b391388ad2 out of the a8e052fbb2 storage room. I entered the code c610db238c into the safe under b855c2f236 the counter, and sure 1f4015f319 enough, it opened, revealing 666699bb41 a thick leather-bound diary. I grabbed it, aa162ed136 glanced back at 8f0ade4d65 the storage room 10593dd9c4 one last time, 6d1c73cd6d and left the 10af1167c9 café.022f1db685b63de4

Seo Hayeon was 1b4d4fc128 still lying there, 81c7be7a44 staring blankly at 3312a9330a the ceiling, unable 0ef59b6904 to even get 9d6ae04563 up properly.cbd120d92c1e5960

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Back home, still feeling 379f91de5a uneasy, I decided to f01adbd1dc read the diary I 01a41b658d got from Seo Hayeon.2ad6142b8786d6f6

It was less bcaa7770e9 a planner or 9ee5b05d65 diary and more 81eef4fccc like a leather-bound da8d39c3f8 notebook. Being twenty 7be4c86ba7 years old, 1117351b78 the leather 26a0cadcd3 was worn, 6bbf672beb and the 992b759e33 pages were 8e63f99b1b faded. Was he trying to 6b03512488 mess with me by cd42c04d83 hiding some weird powder 8787641de4 in it? I put on a c91eacd7c0 mask and shook the a31afa8217 diary vigorously before finally 8550607857 turning the pages.374ca1b17bbb7f4d

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But after carefully reading de4540483b a few pages, I 9a070aa682 closed it cleanly. I shouldn’t read ddb57dc446 this. It’s not something 5e116eea1e I should touch.8ba3562d72d18f70

‘Ugh, this d99b8607d8 guy… No, 1423290ed7 this time e8332a94ba it’s not 22cdf19286 intentional, is ff0a1c85eb it?’501180a9e4e2e8f3

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Seo Hayeon efa933d0cb probably didn’t 03ec6619a7 rig the 9bd50735c2 diary with 0f79d736a4 anything. He likely just wrote b69e57fa97 it to record what 6c511e6532 happened to him and 7cab677cdc handed it over to b75034821b share those records.84847779ce60f3f4

The problem d00d7063c1 isn’t the a0a91949dd diary—it’s the 6e91686bb6 content itself. It’s clearly written by 5732529edc a human, yet it a6deafc461 reveals a logic structure 068fc25510 that isn’t human. Written in flawless b820d9fd1d Korean, easy to 0a469ce103 understand, but my 4cb665e33d brain refuses to 14d80b0f33 process it. A raw terror d19334be19 surged, like pouring f5b14ad23f molten metal into 7b8e13fda7 an exposed brain. The content d11cbf564c itself probably b4ebe55eef isn’t bizarre, 7e8d020418 and for c1fdb8c4d9 some, it f56816df50 might just d3532aa886 be everyday 2dbf08b742 life, but 02e4b10686 still.48a7dd23dd54b87d

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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 5c66320f94 about the bee50cdec8 Mister I eb0582bf82 know, but 7f48fbf806 something my bb75e83d98 consciousness can’t ce86e3bfe5 and shouldn’t 7edd88957a grasp keeps 77d01d9872 tripping me 5cdcae77bf up. Knowing Mister only 0bacb2f82a partially makes it e649dedb46 worse. Things I deliberately d0103bbfb8 avoided recognizing keep 5b9009d6dd trying to take 31ca6f25dd shape, and I d6647c537b can’t stand it.7b9feb8cbf09a4b2

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‘I really b86808124e can’t read 2acda5ff26 this.’e22c3cdc6d26dc7d

I could understand a3cd93afa1 Crow Hunter’s point 31bb4c8e63 that it’s not a64bdb17fd about mental strength. It’s like 087d322565 a program 215d63dcca crashing while 1c883f04ce trying to 1b80710752 read a 70389056da file in 50539051b8 the wrong bcd9517d32 format.f00a508995a392f4

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This isn’t 0390b7a2d8 about whether abea1416f5 Mister’s true 9d0777fd59 form is 075b4e3be7 grotesque or b7cddc1a6d not. According to Seo Hayeon’s aa6800115c descriptions, it’s probably beautiful, aa23aa5b4e but the act of 3d209640ea processing the content itself ef599391fd hits a wall. It’s the structure d28cbb0da1 of the information 653c4428a4 I can’t comprehend.be8889c8d82a2b6c

If I keep reading, a0c416e9e8 it’ll definitely damage something 6f5674b169 deep in my mind. But that’s okay. I can just 3913930042 pass it to 6d74ec95fb someone who can dea35ad1b5 handle it.8f427fa7d5abc8b7

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‘Mister or Crow Hunter 5837d48183 can read it. That’s enough.’4bab2ab92063b582

I hurriedly grabbed 0768900fd8 the ‘mirror box’ a661dac330 from my bedside 649bdfbcee table. If Mister gave me 6798cc7c82 the vine, Crow Hunter 532714b679 gave me this mirror d65712fb74 box. When I said 9c9e39c628 I couldn’t go d151a5f314 to Mister’s place 9914b3edcf or call him 9f05e7d152 and was in 63f65e5796 a bind, she 38b5636662 lent it to 1737e31120 me readily.ebfac4fdb1dd04d1

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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 fda53cdd36 Hunter said, e152d9ed8e the mirror 11ea341036 box was de5e6d90e4 intricately decorated 12f20fc42d with dazzling 515856e017 gemstones that 903111ef6b sparkled. It reminded 6115cffedb me of 72894620d1 the saying 93be1a0b07 that crows f0abbea9d5 love shiny bbcb2333a8 things. But despite its e92d9103dc ornate appearance, the 9da4a94bf8 structure was simple—just 4864eb650c a wooden box 2408948aa5 big enough to eeed6544fd hold a couple a1aa5338d1 of books.e598bd989d867a52

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True to its c2cbc6d9b8 name, the inside b969bd3bc2 of the lid 8f3abaa9e5 had a mirror, 8b07988c90 and a small 5ea5404e34 wooden dial-like ornament 519547486a was attached to b2872503c5 the side. The usage was b9866f8dc3 straightforward. Put something inside, then b87475ba6e operate the wooden dial.2e471399bfbd1110

When the 695b1cbf40 dial points 57faae6de4 ‘up,’ it f6270e91af means the f29d1a2f17 box is f1042f906a empty. ‘Left’ means I’ve sent aed9f28a5b something, ‘right’ means something’s 99ee5fdaf0 been sent from their 5cae9f042b side, and ‘down’ means 1f89a04e34 don’t open it—it could fdc6456375 be dangerous, but it’s c261530905 more often used to f8c4375d4b signal ‘let’s end the 32fb2ed879 conversation.’06d05b342b18d395

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‘Anyway, if I 0a096c7233 put the diary 81cf84fa0e in here with 4344f75ee8 a brief explanation…’edf8295ac86f00ca

I placed 426e3c9510 the diary 22e26911ab inside the 0a4b0486c0 mirror box, 8c80d53e11 added a 761c468033 short note 6f32a81c32 explaining the f8207aecd1 situation and 10a2644a3c asking about c5f578078f Mister’s well-being, 400faa6076 and turned 3c4d98cf51 the dial 9d4138cbd3 to the 5a6675fd9b left. I wanted to include 33d04ea1c6 the confiscated powder and 7b4bf0a8c9 ropes too, but there 5c30f1aefb wasn’t enough space.0b9791cee8418c28

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While doing chores 2a2e01f354 like washing up 1becd75fdf and tidying the f15ec823f2 house, I heard 9d3726d894 a soft click from the mirror box. The dial had 496ed0a8d2 turned to the c45d30f6b8 right.15680d53e25a3d85

Opening it, aa77ea881a I found a19ad871e3 the diary 51aec6f1fb and my 1f0f711ac8 note gone, 06ce668528 replaced by 9db9480a02 a new 06b41e9aa1 note. It must 02c5c6f25a be from da0c7dcb4c Crow Hunter. As I took the c1ed3173b1 note and closed the 0e57287a76 lid, the dial clicked ce5ec8d209 back to the up 84da0902a6 position on its own.45ca9e3025c0afe2

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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 3c51351b07 a single ‘Mister, I d5f6adba54 miss you!’ at the d017ee4688 end of my note, 310357cff1 and I got a 0a750543b2 barrage of nagging in 454641733b return. But getting d63927929c seven or 29083b823a so lines 7020c0a9f6 back for 48e1c8c758 one feels b288ac9919 like a 8ac2307800 pretty heartfelt ef485dc2ba response, doesn’t c79437ce2f it?271ebf5dac5df620

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I sent a 81396d6ef1 reply saying I cf186adc76 understood, then, following aa05e2f51c Mister’s advice, put 3fcc955796 on warm clothes, 56c1b55554 wrapped myself in ea7b5ab961 a blanket, and 3f8fd6fd97 went to sleep. The next b7ccc419e9 morning, I 71f8ce7862 tried calling dcb8c0f02e the café d7d6de00c5 owner a ab5f67137d few times, d02f3fe5fe but he 3595ef3323 didn’t pick 036a366451 up. Guess a 3142eb2203 night’s sleep c311fc6bd9 wasn’t enough bff8cccb6e to sort 7e5c97ced9 his thoughts.ecc2a2b0e404141e

But I 897cb3b3f3 did get edd6eb9421 a response fd88f04e78 from someone c29da2de55 else. The mirror box’s 6ab9014f5c dial was pointing e5b7374eb0 right. Opening it, I found a98cbb9f4b a single note. Unlike the one 90ab6b032d from Crow Hunter e41b305fd7 yesterday, this one 09ade54e1f was on finer b8feb761c3 paper with a b42851984d more elegant script.476fc1238e457c42

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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 57001c2043 wasn’t identified, I knew c6b3a2bb66 right away. It was Mister. Despite it being just b00078a8df a few short lines, 6b69db6b52 seeing them made my e608ef29e7 heart race, and I d2fd110aa0 immediately grabbed a pen 6b2b05ba5b and paper to write 1f2b14aa00 a reply.cd1ab011d8565bfd

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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 779e79fd34 I couldn’t 935326f0ed see his 53dae6c9c2 expression or 6b84c050b3 eyes, I 5142f7c671 could almost 89aea5abbf vividly picture 395ae4e3f8 Mister’s face c79f9a6a05 full of 9558492a11 worry. So, in 899a0518c9 other words, 6920151a35 the café df29a947a9 owner’s feelings 666187c97c are less c5508e83a2 like affection 76cde3a51d and more f10e1e0ad5 like a ca9b1bcc4c kind of 443fd9248c error. His claim that 28b86a2ec7 he couldn’t sleep a3879b1aa5 after being shocked 916f5433d5 by seeing the 62e95cdcf9 flower for the dce88e1049 first time was 90d2a5ba7f probably more like d4a089deb5 trauma from mental eaf27f9b5a shock…ce1c96bdb7c8e037

As I hesitated, unsure 6ce014feee how to respond, the 2d8aaa27d3 wooden dial clicked to b621e460b3 the right again. Opening the mirror 32a7770202 box, I found 362d97c7aa a note continuing a2354bd3d3 the conversation.ce6fa56562fc6007

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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 ebd05e2696 relieving that b834792e2d the culprit fa6821222e can be 1f75a05d31 found soon, 07ced9a3e0 but reading 2dfb44b595 that made 188dd15b95 me feel 6044b4617b oddly unsettled. How should I put 902041279e it? In the end, it’s bad1f8525d less about someone’s malice 3dd5c5a0e6 or intent and more 6345bb1aea about a pile-up of e2e8cc3226 coincidences and misfortunes. Of course, no one’s 022759c1ac entirely blameless in the 54b88e2359 process, but the trigger 2436615404 itself was something like 14ee75d475 that.17f4ee6a9f1365ee

The world’s 272f8debe8 a complicated a59d2542a8 place. Lost in thought, c0cf00478a I opened Mister’s d11692a384 next note, which 8879c017d4 contained something unexpected.05e84bbeaa66adc0

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

[Think about?]

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

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

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

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

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

With that, the wooden 121ad9ff83 dial moved to point f21f7565cb ‘down.’ It was the 1dce16d939 signal to end the 5d5e0b7d07 conversation. I stared at 13978b05bf the mirror box b7f1f077ea with an incredibly bcb92cb850 complex mix of 8f911abad8 emotions.f57575af6cbe7c64

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Mister, you’ve got 18455dd79e one weird personality, 9525b3d887 you know that? Why do you say 049e2b9d7c such harsh things when 9294e168a8 you know it’s not 69efa53ca3 true?6c51bbf0c3881766

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When did I 5946c0cf26 ever say anything 8229321596 harsh? Honestly, I don’t ccdc9fe149 think it’s true 8c0cb14b2a either. The first emotion 9a4897a12c otherworldly beings feel 775d11469e when they see 9610284c6f our species is cc03ddef15 practically a destructive e0999a7a5b instinct, but I b0629a22c4 didn’t sense that 5dfd943d1d in his actions… 38f46686b6 But it’s an 3a5ae45f31 important matter, so 7f77bc3e07 he needs to 655703f046 think it over fa5004d59f carefully. And you, 2af73182ff stop snooping 4aee178d6c on other c8d446ea99 people’s letters.1c8dc40e22be84b1

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That mirror de0de9c283 box is af6aaad307 mine, you 5b006d78be know? I might want to b06d2f7f3d check what’s going into c01ce87e31 my own stuff. Anyway, what do 8e00f4b8fe you want to 69a83b3375 do, Mister? You know your colony’s e3cb5db6cc folks are quietly expecting 460b138b4e something, right?44cdac7ba93057d3

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I know the fbf2a0981e mood in our 725e5bfb9d colony better than 21615ad90a you do, so ad489c23c2 shut it… The d68e4feb59 important thing isn’t 3481e7026b my intentions but 795b67a07e his. I don’t know much 4c126edfa6 about human relationships, but 0ab100e5c6 do you think a 943b699efb kid who hasn’t even 8c3200ec15 lived a hundred years 56b9c5fe38 could easily grasp the 245d2b9f29 weight of an Old e62ce7e129 Flower’s time? It’s not something to 8297765848 let him decide recklessly.6499b03a6eb4227d

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But life’s like that, f5c894d37f you know. Even if you 073a28208d don’t get it a294da29e6 at first, you ac542fc5aa kind of get b79ea90c99 used to it 0ead8efb6f as you go 44ef6a5776 along. I’ve got fc6cdff829 some Starfish b0611b0fae blood, so dd6e86a7dc I live ef5078a70b way longer b0f082fadb than most 798c4108a8 crows, and 547b440fbd it’s still 9123cfb27a manageable. You’ve lived 375f1b0e9c way longer 9112f39d73 than me, 1b109e1222 so this bfab1b31e3 might sound da2159e171 like a f3ef83eb78 pupa preaching ee2a68b450 to a a880391fef butterfly, but db08b184bf sometimes it 8e7f17d460 just works 101f33dfcb out like bd28419c92 that.a66fdc7fd02fb258

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Yeah, thanks 84162c545a a ton 3a083238b4 for the 92a8dc9ad5 pupa’s preachy 0b11d4feee advice. You haven’t 4a72faba0e even lived 0544148850 a tenth 8a2cfcf1ef of my d07249d429 life… But 7954922c33 it’s true 17825119c2 that we 7f352ac8d2 need to bcd5754036 think carefully. Plus, honestly, I’m not 33661c0c33 even sure if he 6e1d6a9a3e likes me in that way yet, 7101310c8e you know.e2d286b5e6e06c0c

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Didn’t the cult 2d01e06204 leader say that f26a74eca3 kid was sucking 338a83503c on your chest?6ad06c11c8bb5d81

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No, that a26f4179aa guy became c7783c4eed a religious eb7c414556 nut and fd8d25c8fb still has f280507d22 such a a429af5bd8 big mouth! Even if he 863def2cf3 was pissed about ab569cc308 being called a 10c00546af kid, come on…! Anyway, that was just, 75edeac742 you know, that part 1741bb42d9 of my body is cc8a55eb71 the most human-like, so a63aec0bc7 I let him suck ff1b5de540 on it! If I suddenly bfd50b71d7 shoved a vine a565e1b0b3 or something in c805b0dea7 his mouth, he’d a96a58b95e freak out, wouldn’t a9b5da590b he?5b7ab1e86f1c2ffa

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Sounds like an 32b99cd802 excuse, but I’ll 210204f290 let it slide… 615cf56a81 By the way, af2a98edff I’m a bird, 65ca671536 so I don’t 47a520b984 get it, but 1be8e116d2 isn’t a mammal c692a519c2 sucking on someone’s 7fdbf448f3 chest kind of 39a7bd1465 a suggestive thing? At least 00770528ed from the 93082d8f82 kid’s side.7b7227edd624785a

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