Entomologist in Sichuan Tang Clan Chapter 267

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I felt sorry for the guy who ran away, but I had that thought as I watched what the kids were doing.

The demons were running wild and organizing search parties, but how could they catch the escaped guy so easily?

Unless you’re an idiot, you probably would’ve run far away, and if you hid, it wouldn’t be easy to find you.

Honestly, I had no intention of holding it back.

That would be the case, because even if he were to catch it again, it seemed impossible to tame it.

They are spirits who can speak like humans and are very intelligent. But if they pretend to be tame in front of others while dreaming of being wild, would it be easy to tame them?

Even in my previous life, wild animals were not always successful in captivity, so I emptied my mind.

Just as people have different personalities, so do poisons. Sometimes, there are those kinds of guys among them.

For example, there are some cats that never eat food, or some that you adopt and then stop eating or drinking because they miss the wild.

The only one who never ate feed was a nobleman.

You can feed them live prey like pinkies, mealworms, or crickets.

Since there are some that only eat raw food anyway, it wasn’t a big problem.

But there are some scholar-like guys who say, ‘I won’t cooperate with you because I caught you in the wild’, ‘I’ll starve to death like this’ and just wait to die without eating anything.

There were also cases where they tried to force-feed the animals, or took them to the hospital and tried to save them, but they ended up dying.

Their habitat is Africa, South America, and other places, and since we cannot bring them back home, we can only watch them with sadness.

So, if you run away, you might be taken away and killed for no reason, so empty your mind.

But when the kids dispersed to go search, it must have been around lunchtime?

A sudden cry from the sky comes into my mind.

‘-Tsuru! ‘Dad! I got you!’

I was startled by the shout of “caught” and asked back.

Since beetles live in humid places, they are hard to find if they hide underground, and they don’t look that stupid to be easily found, but I caught them.

‘You caught it?’

-Tsuru! “Oh, we caught this. We didn’t catch it. What should I call this… Anyway, just wait a minute.”

I was so overwhelmed with thoughts of something I didn’t understand that I was lost in thought wondering what it meant.

The dandelions and irises flying across the sky from far away.

-Tsrrrr.

-Shaaaa.

The two of them were leading the other children to the thick bushes in front of the swamp, spinning around in the air and coming towards me and then back towards the swamp again, and then Bin-i, Hyang-i, and Hong-dan-i jumped out from the thick grass one after another.

And the snakes that took part in the pouring search.

It seemed like everyone was returning, but since everyone came out and the guy they said they caught wasn’t there, I thought the remaining demons were brought.

I thought that since it was the most angry demon, it would be caught, tied to a spider web, and brought back while spinning around.

‘I bet Yeolbi is having a hard time. What should I do with her anyway?’

When Yeolbi was caught, I worried in my mind about what to do with her.

I was wondering if I should just let it go since it didn’t seem like it would take that long.

‘I think it would be better to recommend it one last time and if it doesn’t work out, just let it go?’

In the end, it was at that moment that I made up my mind to just send her away after recommending her one last time.

-Rust. Rustle.

Finally, the grass rustled and a demon burst out from within and crawled towards me.

But even though the demon came out, the heat wave was not in the demon’s hand.

I wondered if they were going to pull him by tying him to a rope and then pulling him with a string like American Indians, but when I looked behind them, it didn’t seem like they were pulling anything.

The thread that connected them was not visible.

“You’ve worked hard, Yohwa. Oh, and what about Yeolbi?”

-Kissit.

When asked about Yeolbi’s whereabouts, Yohwa pointed to the grassland he had passed through.

But when you tilt your head because the guys who were supposed to come back have all come back and the guys who ran away won’t come back on their own feet.

-Rust. Rustle.

The grass rustled again, and a strange creature I had never seen before suddenly jumped out from the grass.

And the moment I saw the guy, I just blurted out why my brother was there in his past life.

‘Hyung, why are you there?’

Red scales and orange mane, different from the green one.

And orange horns.

It was slightly smaller than Yeondu, but its appearance was exactly like Yeondu.

That’s probably the guy I’m looking for.

It was clear that it was the Earth Swimming God Snake.

Hwa-eun, who was watching the children return from the side, also cried out in surprise.

“Ji, Jiyoung? Ma, right? Soryong?”

“Is that Gentleman Jiyoung!?”

“I, I think so?”

Mr. Jiyoung jumped out from the grass and looked at me, then flinched.

The boy, who was momentarily taken aback by Seol Nui and Hwa Eun’s surprised cries, let out a cry as if asking something to the other children.

-Scar?

-Tsrrrr.

-Kissit.

-Char.

As Cho, Yo-hwa, and Yeon-du simultaneously nodded to answer the guy’s question, the guy suddenly turned his head.

The guy flicked his tongue and wiped his face, then looked around his body and slowly came towards me.

A body movement that seems to adjust one’s clothes to look good when meeting someone for the first time.

Then he came up to me and lifted his head up sharply. When I looked up at him, he quickly lowered his body to meet my eye level and bowed his head slightly.

-Scar.

I thought he was probably greeting me, so I greeted him in surprise.

I was a bit taken aback by his sudden appearance, but he seemed quite friendly and I felt like he was trying to impress me.

“Oh, yeah. Nice to meet you. My name is Soryong.”

-Skaa.

A guy who bows his head repeatedly when I introduce him.

Then the guy made a slightly embarrassed expression and stuck his tail out towards me.

-S, Scar.

I was so flustered that I didn’t notice it, but it was only then that I noticed the heat wave.

Yeolbi was wrapped around Jiyoung Shinsa with a slightly bewildered expression.

It was only then that the words that Choga had said earlier came to mind.

He said that someone else had caught him instead.

‘Oh, so you’re saying that this guy was the one who caught her? But how did he know that Yeolbi had run away and caught her?’

It seemed like Shinsa Jiyoung had caught Yeolbi, but I didn’t quite understand it.

How did you know we were looking for this guy and how did you catch him?

That was when.

Even as he handed me the money, I kept seeing his gaze turn elsewhere.

‘Huh? Where are you looking? Huh?’

In the guy’s wide-open eyes, the vertical eyes of a snake, there was a reflection of Yeondoo looking in this direction from where the children were gathered.

I had a feeling something was going on so I asked Cho right away.

‘Hey, how did you meet this snake and Yeolbi?’

‘-Tsuru. 『It wasn’t me, but Yeondu was the one who met her first. I heard that Yeolbi appeared with a proud look on her face and said that her brother was doing this and that, but the snake next to her said that it wasn’t like that and wrapped around Yeolbi, saying that it had caught Yeolbi.』’

‘aha!’

At the end of the invitation, I felt like I finally understood what was going on.

It seemed like Yeolbi treated this guy like an older brother.

I don’t know about females, but males have something like that.

I’m talking about the sequence.

This is a phenomenon that occurs in groups of males regardless of age, time, and place. It seems that he asked his older brother to take revenge on him for being treated unfairly by children.

But the moment he saw Yeondoo, it was clear that he had fallen in love with her and was selling her out for money.

Because the guy’s pupil was filled with only lime green.

You might ask if he has a personality problem, but he didn’t sell out his country or his parents. He just sold out his younger brother for a woman.

And if the person selling it was a runaway, then it was acceptable.

‘Of course. It’s possible for a male to do that when he sees a pretty woman.’

-Bam.

While I was assessing the situation, a guy put down a bucket next to me and patted my head with his tail.

Yeolbi came to her senses at the guy’s actions and bowed her head in front of me as if she was sorry.

-Ts, Tsuki.

It seemed like he was apologizing for running away, but the situation was so funny that I couldn’t help but laugh.

Because the one who ran away was caught by the one who was looking for him, it became 1+1.

“Oh, that, that’s right, Yeolbi. What on earth is going on… Ahaha. This situation is kind of funny….”

Yeolbi, who is deeply moved by my words.

Then, the gentleman Jiyeong tapped Yeolbi’s head with his tail.

-Scar!

Say hello more politely. Something like that?

The sight of these guys made me think that this would be a very easy task.

Because in prison, if you control the tallest guy in the room, isn’t it easier to manage the others? And in elementary school, if you control the strongest guy in a group of boys, isn’t it easier to manage the others?

I worried about Yeolbi’s whereabouts, but it was a useless worry.

Now, the story is that if you just control that guy, Jiyoung Shinsa, Yeolbi will follow.

I approached Mr. Jiyoung and put my arm around his shoulder.

-S, Scar?

A guy who gets a little flustered when a human puts his arm around his shoulder.

But maybe because of the green color, he was flustered but stayed still for a while, then turned the guy’s head to the other side and asked quietly.

[Have you heard the name?]

[-ska?]

I smiled at the guy who tilted his head at the sudden question of whether he knew my name and asked him again.

[I mean the lime green snake you’re looking at.]

[-s, ska···.]

[I asked because I thought you liked it. That kid’s name is Yeondu.]

Then the guy shook his head fiercely.

When the guy glanced at Yeondoo in surprise at the question of whether he liked it, he patted the area below the neck that would be considered the shoulder if it were a human.

[Surprise. No, I’m human, but Yeondoo is like a younger sister to me. You know, a younger sister? It’s like a family born from the same womb.]

[-Scott?]

[No, we weren’t born from the same ship, but that means we’re close. Well, that’s not important. Our Yeondoo is an adult now, so I was trying to find a mate for him, right?

But when I see you, I get that thought. I think it would be nice if we could be a couple.]

[-Skaat!?]

A guy who looks at me in surprise at my words.

The guy’s eyes were wide open as if in disbelief.

‘No, it tastes this good?’

Anyway, this is the only pair I have with Yeondu, and it doesn’t feel like even a spirit is decided to be my soulmate or anything.

He continued with a smile.

[I feel like I should push hard if it’s good for you… What do you think?]

[-s, Scott?]

[Then, I like you because you’re handsome and have a cheerful personality. If it’s okay with you, I’d like to compliment you on Yeondoo and make a place for us to be alone together…

There’s no other intention. My brother just likes you when he sees you. I think you’ll get along well with my younger brother.]

At my words, Mr. Jiyoung looked back and forth between Yeondu and me.

If I had fingers, I would probably chew my nails constantly.

After a while, the guy nodded his head as if embarrassed.

[-ska···.]

‘The story is over?’

If that’s the case, then it’s already over.

He said to the guy with a sinister smile.

[Yeah, I thought about it well. You should have a name too. Since your color is just like orange, let’s call you Orange (朱黃). What do you think? It’s a name that goes well with lime.]

[Scarat!]

A guy who is touched because his name suits him so well.

Now that everything has come to an end, I spoke in a slightly arrogant tone.

[Okay, from now on I’ll call you big brother and take good care of the kids under you?]

[Scar?]

[I’m talking about the heat wave you brought.]

He tilted his head when I told him to take good care of the children below, but when I pointed to Yeolbi and told him to trust me, he patted his chest with his tail as if to tell me to trust him.

-Scar!

And then he approached Yeolbi and started to yell at her for no reason.

-Skaaaat.

-Ts, Tsuki···.

Now that the story is over, I thought I should take the Golden Crown King, Cheongyu, who was resting on the boat, and make him into a saint.

‘It just keeps going smoothly.’