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Episode 182. We don’t have many friends (4)
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After hearing that, I tried to figure out why the sale price was set at tens of millions of won. While I was doing that, the thought that occurred to me was that I didn’t really know the reason.
It was because I couldn’t feel its value. Not only can I not use it for ornamental purposes or to show off on SNS because it’s transparent and invisible, but I can’t even let this guy go for a walk because he’s scared. If he’s off the leash, won’t the sky look unusually yellow that day?
Of course, it would be impossible to gain hundreds of thousands of subscribers by filming a video. Even if I filmed that guy right now and posted a video called ‘The Amazing Daily Life of a Transparent Cat’, who would believe that?
Of course, if you take a day and film, you can capture things like cat litter moving around on its own or paper bags tearing in midair. But to prove that an invisible cat did it, you need more intermediate steps… .
Because of these questions, I was wondering if there was any merit to adopting this guy from a regular home, but the store manager, after listening to what I had to say, answered these questions in one word.
“You can’t get a house for sale in a regular home, unless it has a yard. Or it’s for research purposes.”
“I thought so, huh? What kind of dragon is it?”
“Chan-i, aside from spirits, have you ever wondered, ‘Can regular animals use magic if taught?’?”
No, I never thought about it at all. Of course it can’t be used, right? I guess it’s because the flying whale guy or the dog guy is a spirit.
“But, you said that all living things have magical powers in their bodies, Chan-ah.”
“Yes. I know that too… .”
“If you train animals well, they can press the voice button when they’re hungry. Right?”
I’ve seen this come up as a related video a few times. When a dog keeps pressing the ‘give food’ and ‘buck buck’ buttons, the owner who was observing it comes over with a food bowl and fills the food bowl for the dog, saying that it was hard to press the buttons.
But there is a limit to momentum, and it is hard to imagine a Welsh Corgi pressing the ‘levitation magic’ ‘Buck Buck’ button and doing air walking. You will also have to learn the calculation formulas, and there will be differences between animals…
“That’s why there’s a demand for them. Spirits that use magic that can be standardized.”
For example, in the case of non-standardized magic, there are cases where all kinds of animal languages can be spoken, but the actual method is unknown to the individual. For example, a whale that sucks pollen through its pores.
These are close to reader-specific magic, so it’s hard for wizards to analyze them. How can they teach animals how to do something they don’t know how to do because they can’t analyze it?
Instead, here are some of the telekinetic antics my cat has shown me. There are hundreds of papers written about telekinesis, and it is possible to analyze how they were written to some extent.
“Of course, it’s not easy. Since people and their body organs are different, we need to first understand how the magical power flows within the body.”
“It sounds like you’re saying that among the animals, the cat is the only one that has been analyzed, sir.”
“Right. That makes sense, cats are witches’ friends, right?”
This seemed like a joke, so I understood it. Cats are one of the most frequently seen animals on the street, so it must mean that they are easy to obtain for analysis.
There must have been a lot of research done. I was going to ask how active the research was, but I ended up just giving my impressions.
“He can’t go to the zoo.”
“That’s right. If it becomes known, I won’t be able to live comfortably.”
The store manager responded to my thoughts with the same thoughts. I now know three things about the lives of spirits with special talents.
The whale I saw before. That guy is locked in an aquarium (without water) and only comes out for a little while to work. Mong-Mong is scared of being locked up, so he lives hiding the fact that he is a spirit from most people.
They say that the phoenix that lives in the zoo is eating premature babies every day, but this must be a case of good luck and awareness. While thinking about it, something came to mind and I put it into my mouth.
“This guy must have had a mother cat, right? He wouldn’t have just fallen out of thin air.”
I still remember what the whale guy said. He said that in exchange for learning to fly, he couldn’t go into the water, and he had to be separated from his mother whale.
“I guess so. Why, do you care?”
“No. What….”
I briefly replayed the story of that guy in our house in my head. Let’s say he discovered his talent for becoming transparent around 1~2 months after birth. How would the mother cat have looked at her kitten who had become transparent?
You probably didn’t see it. Because you can’t see it.
Even if you could smell it, you wouldn’t have been able to see it, so naturally you would have paid less attention to it than to other pups. Then, when you moved the nest, you would have naturally abandoned it.
No one but him knows how the abandoned guy survived until now and how he ended up in our house, but it must not have been an easy process. Before I fed him, he smelled like a trash can all over his body… .
“… He said it was worth tens of millions of won.”
I asked to confirm, but the store manager didn’t answer and just poked my side with his finger. He looked up at me with a mischievous expression.
“I said, ‘Do you care?’”
“No, how can you not care when you hear that it costs tens of millions of won? Don’t you care, store manager?”
“Not really? Pets aren’t things you can put a price on. They’re just like friends.”
This is a point of view I have. If I were to starve to death right now because I had no work, I would definitely come across a situation where someone I was close to would look like a tens of millions of won worth of stolen goods.
In a world where money is the most important value, everyone can criticize but can’t criticize? Or is it because this is the first time I’ve brought a dog or cat into the house that I can say this so simply… .
… first time. It was the first time that he slept on my stomach today. It was also the first time I slept with someone else since I graduated from elementary school.
“What does Chan-i think?”
“… First, I’ll feed him all the food I have at home and then think about it. It’s a shame to throw it away.”
“Buy new food before it runs out. Don’t feed the same food every time. It gets boring easily. Got it?”
“A customer is coming now, sir.”
Two guests are approaching from afar at the same time. Thanks to that, our conversation naturally ended, and after I sent them off, it was three minutes before shift change. Now I’m going to get to work.
“Is there anything to hand over? Store manager?”
“There’s nothing special today, but the cat really likes being petted because the area under its chin is not groomed―”
“I’ll study when I get home, so you don’t have to tell me, store manager.”
“Yeah. I guess it’s because my friend loves cats so much, but I keep worrying about them too.”
The store manager’s tone seemed to be subtly revealing his opinion that he would rather not sell it. I, too, have no intention of selling it now, although I may be able to do so later.
When I answered back by saying that I would study, the store manager spoke in a brighter tone, as if his mood had improved by two levels. When I heard that, my mood had worsened by half a level.
“And, Yuri will be working starting tomorrow. I watched her after she greeted the guests during the day, and she did a good job.”
“yes….”
“Don’t worry too much. It looked pretty good to me.”
Even if working in the afternoon is okay, in the morning all the kids will come rushing in. Can he handle that? A guy who says he can’t talk to the kid and doesn’t say anything at all?
“I’ll come out and help you out for a bit tomorrow night around 11pm.”
“Is it because I’m helping you with your work, officer?”
“huh.”
I’m worried about the store, but if that guy doesn’t run for me, there’s no way I can go out with the store manager. I don’t want anything else, but I just hope the customers don’t wear revealing clothes…
The store manager, who had finished the handover, hung up his uniform and continued speaking with a bright face.
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“I think this is the first time I’ve gone out with Chan. Right?”
“… Well, I don’t think we can have a drink together though.”
“Well begun is half the work, Chan-ah. Thanks for your hard work.”
“Yes. Please be careful on your way in, sir.”
After the manager left work, I did my job. I paid for cigarettes and cash, and took in customers who came by and sent them out.
After all the tenses were set, I just quietly accepted the guests, but compared to the number of guests coming, the frequency of the truth-telling was noticeably lower than in the past few days. This was because the school district officials kept coming.
What I felt while receiving it was that even the cigarette-smoking idiots don’t have any thoughts at all. The faculty and staff are people too. Of course, they’d want to go out and play on a night before the weekend.
Among them, there must be teachers from the school they go to, so they seem to be avoiding each other in case they run into each other. Or maybe they are sharing things among themselves step by step…
When I think about it, I think the latter is more correct. If they had any sense, they wouldn’t smoke in the first place. Anyway, it was comfortable for me because I didn’t have to deal with those drunk, reckless fools.
That is, until the guest in front of me arrived.
“Honey, I worked overtime yesterday. Let’s just have a drink today—”
[ ~~~, ~~~~~ ]
“They’re not bad guys, they just wanted to have a drink and go home. You know school is hard, right?”
A young customer came in to buy cigarettes and kept talking on the phone.
He had an overall gentle impression and a disheveled head, giving him the impression of a large dog rather than a cobalt. I could tell he was young by listening to him speak in front of me.
“No, you already said you understood before. It must be hard to do student teaching, so if you have any difficulties, just tell me…”
Since you’re talking about student teaching, you must have just graduated from a teacher’s college. I’m not listening to this because I want to, but because you’re standing right in front of me talking, so I have no choice but to listen.
Still, there would be no customers, so I thought he would just give me his card, so I put down my cigarette and waited, but instead of ending the conversation, it got more and more serious.
[ ~~~ ~~ ~~~~! ]
“That’s different from this. Honey, you’ve met them before. They’re all good guys—”
[ ~~~ ~~~, … Nira!! ]
The voice on the other end of the phone was so loud that I could hear it, and it was extremely sharp, the exact opposite of the person in front of me. It reminded me of a fox, or something similar.
This teacher probably didn’t think his voice would get louder, because he glanced at me in the middle of the conversation. Are you finally looking this way?
“… I, I. Sorry. Just a moment.”
Not for a moment, I scanned the cigarette barcode, so I paid and went out to make a phone call… .
However, this student, who was not thinking straight at the moment, did not even think about calculating. Instead, he sat down at the table near the display window and straightened his posture.
“Listen, honey. I promised them back in May. We’ll meet up next month and have a drink together.”
[ … … . ]
“Of course you are much more important. But, even if you are not as important as them―”
From what I’ve heard, it looks like I’ll be staying up until 11 o’clock today listening to that teacher on the phone. After canceling the barcode scan, I sat down on my chair and took out my phone.
Because I wanted to hear more details about tomorrow’s schedule from the officer. I knew we were going to the park at midnight, but I needed to know when we were going to leave.
So I checked my messages, and there was a message at the top that wasn’t there before. It was from Elena.
[ Mr. Chani, how are you? ]
Not now. I was going to reply, but right after the read mark disappeared, a few more messages came flying in.
[ I, it’s because of work and things like that… ]
[ Can I come over and play? I want to see where you moved to ]