Fabre in Sacheondangga Episode 148
Fire Carp 3
‘What on earth are you?’
I wasn’t asking because I really didn’t know.
It’s just absurd.
No matter how different the sizes and colors are, how could this spicy Fabre not recognize its appearance?
But the reason I asked this question was because the color and size were both amazing and something I had never seen before.
So, while I was staring blankly at the thing that was introduced as Hwari at Botaam, I heard voices from Hwa-eun and Seol, who were equally flustered.
[Little Dragon, isn’t that a firefly? No matter how I look at it? It looks like···.]
[Little Dragon, that thing… I don’t understand the size, but it looks like a snail… isn’t it?]
It seems I’m not the only one who thinks that the creature introduced as a Hwari isn’t a Hwari.
Because Hwa-eun and Seol, who knew more about animals than most people, were asking with bewildered expressions.
As Hwa-eun said, that is the Chinese word for snail.
Because it was clear that it was not a goldfish, but a tadpole of some kind.
‘You’re saying that’s definitely a tadpole? It’s peach colored. It’s so big that if you look at it briefly, it might look like a fat carp, but it doesn’t have any pectoral or dorsal fins, and that cute snout. That’s 100% definitely a baby amphibian.’
Tadpole refers to the larva of an amphibian, that is, the young of an amphibian such as a toad, frog, or frog.
Fabre’s heart started pounding for the first time in a long while at the sight of the guy.
Pinkish peach color.
No matter how you looked at it, its appearance from the time it was a baby was so splendid that it looked like a promising baby toad or poisonous frog.
Snakes, martens, scorpions, moths, they are all very poisonous, but toads are extremely poisonous.
Not only is it cute, but its laid-back appearance has a charm that makes people who see it feel relaxed.
Is this turning a disaster into a blessing?
It might be a bit disappointing that Yeondoo is like that, but things like internal strife aren’t important anymore.
What a huge tadpole. It was so exciting to see what kind of frog or toad it would become when it fully grew up.
‘I almost felt bad for the princess when she said there was no inner court, but in this case, I should be grateful.’
I almost felt a little sorry for the princess, but this was more than enough of a gift for helping her.
Before answering their questions, I blankly watched and thought about the figure of a creature called Hwari(?) swimming around in a pond so transparent that the bottom was visible near the top of the mountain.
Then, some things that definitely seemed strange came to mind.
I was so absorbed in the thought of cross-dressing that I missed it, but when I thought about it carefully, there were more than a few things that seemed strange.
‘If I think about it, there were more than one or two strange things···.’
First of all, when talking about the size of a fish, we usually talk about the length from the palm to the forearm, but when talking about the fish on the peak of Botaam, the size of the head was mentioned.
Well I just thought the people here were a bit weird or different from what I thought they were, but it turns out this guy was really the size of my head.
Because it had a body as big as its head and a long tail.
Also, Botaam is an island.
Carp is a freshwater fish.
Even if it was a sacred place, the fact that there were freshwater fish and carp on the island was still strange, but I missed that point.
Is that all?
This pond, called Wolyeongyeon (月映淵), means a pond where the moon’s shadow is reflected. The pond usually refers to stagnant water, which means that unless carp fly in, they can never come and live there.
So, of course, it was absurd that there were koi fish living on an island in the middle of the ocean, and in a pond, but I was so caught up in other things that I never thought about it.
When I took my gaze away from the guy who was blankly staring at me, I thought that it was time to answer Hwa-eun and Seol-nu’s questions.
Suddenly, the surprised cries of Hwa-eun and Seol are heard.
“Monk Choa! What are you doing right now!?”
“Monk!”
Suddenly, I shouted in surprise at the monk who had guided us, and the two of them ran towards me and pressed my face against their chests.
I was so surprised that I tried to push them away, but when I looked up, I saw them quickly shaking their heads as their eyes met.
It was an expression that said there was something he could never show.
‘What, what is this all of a sudden?’
The moment of confusion caused by the two’s shouts and covered eyes, the monk’s answer is heard.
“Yes? Of course you want to take a bath. Please take off your clothes quickly. Judging from the fact that the inspector told you to bring the body here, it seems like he told you to clean yourself and come down.
“The reason why this place is a sacred place for both men and women is because it is a place to purify our bodies.”
I wondered why this place was the sacred peak of Botasan and why men were never allowed to climb there, but it seems to be a place where nuns wash their bodies.
It was obvious that men were absolutely not allowed to enter the public bathhouse of Botaam, which was comprised of only women, but Hwa-eun was flustered by her question and hurriedly explained.
“It seems like Your Majesty didn’t have time to say anything. We, we just came to see Hwa, Hwa-ri.”
“Oh, really? Of course I thought I was going to take a bath. But since I’m here, I’ll wash up.
“It’s not easy to come up here when it’s this bright, and if you wash your body in the water here, your skin will become very smooth. You probably didn’t wash well on your way here. Let’s go in together.”
“Oh, even if we are women, how can we wash together when we first meet?”
“Oh, that’s right!”
Perhaps it was because the monk didn’t stop them from taking off their clothes, but Seol Nui and Hwa Eun felt a warm sensation.
When Hwa-eun and Seol asked how he could take off his clothes and wash himself when he was just meeting her, a very calm and composed answer was heard.
“A body that will just rot away. Feelings of shame are just a matter of your mind. Don’t be like that and go in.”
‘No, what kind of monk would say something like Casanova…’
It doesn’t feel like a liberation, but more like something you’d say when trying to seduce a woman.
Hwa-eun and Seol answered with serious expressions.
“Oh, no. We just came to see the fireworks, so that can’t be done.”
“Oh, that’s right.”
“The water here is good···.”
When Hwa-eun and Seol-nu stubbornly refused, the monk finally gave up on bathing, and his two hands covered my eyes.
When the pond came into view again, the monk who had been gathering his clothes approached and said with a smile.
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“Isn’t it cute? It suddenly appeared in the pond after a typhoon passed by about ten years ago. We call it Yeongyeon after the name of the pond.”
It was fortunate that the topic changed from bathing to tadpoles again, but the three of us couldn’t help but be surprised by what Monk Choa said.
“Ten years?”
“Ten years?”
They were surprised to find out that the boy was a tadpole and not a frog, surprised that the monk suddenly took off his clothes, and now surprised that the boy was already ten years old.
‘Oh, you’ve been a tadpole for ten years?’
That would be the case, because no amphibian can remain a tadpole for ten years.
Of course, some toads breed in the desert during the rainy season for a few days, and after becoming adults, they sleep underground for a long time until the next rainy season, or some froglets hibernate as tadpoles.
However, it is limited to adults and winter.
As it was natural for tadpoles to become adults in the spring, I quickly went closer and touched the pond water with my hand.
It is possible that the creature was in a long hibernation because its environment was not suitable for it.
Tadpoles are not very active, but they sometimes swim around while hibernating, so the average person may not be able to tell whether they are hibernating or not.
‘It’s not that cold?’
But the water is not that cold.
The tadpoles are moving around so quickly that it doesn’t even look like they’re hibernating.
‘It’s definitely not hibernation.’
First, he grabbed Hwa-eun’s sleeve and told her to ask the monk various questions.
Now we had to get that guy back to his stables safely, so we had to gather as much information as we could about his environment, food, and so on.
And why is the guy still a tadpole?
[Hwaeun, please ask the monk in detail whether he ever fed the guy anything, and whether its size is the same now as it was ten years ago.
If you want to take the guy, you have to check what he eats.
In the meantime, I’ll walk around this pond and take a look around.]
[all right.]
“Venerable Choa, may I ask you a few questions?”
“Yes, of course. What are you curious about?”
“Oh, I have a question about that, no, Hwari. So······.”
Hwa-eun left the monk to talk and quickly moved around the pond.
‘Let’s take a look at what kind of ecological secrets it holds.’
***
A place where guests of Botaam stay.
Seol, Hwa-eun, and I were all gathered in one room eating dinner.
The reason we’re all crammed into one room is because we asked him to stay for a few days so we could observe his habits in detail.
The reason was that Botaam assigned the rooms to guests in the same way, saying that three or four people would share a room.
I was a little flustered, but thanks to my older sister Seol, I was already used to this kind of situation, so I sat down at the table and talked about what I had found out today.
“There was nothing special around the pond. The water wasn’t too hot or too cold… Most of the pond water was filled with rain, and a little water flowed out from between the rocks, but there was nothing special about it.
The water didn’t have a lot of lime in it, and it was really clean and clear.
There was nothing special about the surroundings, like grass or trees.”
When I finished talking about what I had confirmed and looked at Hwa-eun, she nodded.
Following me, Hwa-eun told me what she had discussed with the monk earlier.
“They say that when they first found the child, the monks left him some food and gave him some things like food, but he stopped eating it.
It seemed like they thought that since they were just spirits, they didn’t need to eat.
“It’s a little bigger than it was ten years ago, but not that much bigger.”
They say they don’t eat anything, but that’s because the monks don’t know.
As someone who has raised spirits, I would have guessed that they were probably eating something.
The fact that it was even a little bigger proves that.
‘I’m sure I’ll eat something…’
Just in case.
I wondered if the scent of the grass or the incense, like the bean, might absorb some kind of energy, so I asked my sister Seol to observe the flow of energy at the pond.
However, just like Geom-hu, Seol-nu only confirmed that the guy had no internal strife, so she urged Hwa-eun to continue speaking.
“And?”
“It seems that monks visit there at night with lanterns to wash their bodies, and the guy approaches them happily,” he said.
There was a story about how when people went down from bathing, they would run out of oil in their lamps and have a hard time, but I don’t think that’s very important.”
“I see. There’s nothing particularly important there.”
Neither Hwa-eun nor Nana have figured out anything particularly important.
The most important thing to take care of is the tadpole guy’s food. I couldn’t help but make a serious expression on my face as I was trying to figure out how to do it.
My sister, sitting next to me, said with a worried expression.
“But, So-ryong, I asked you while we were eating dinner. The monks here really like Hwari, or rather, Gwadoo. Is that okay?
Did everyone just talk about fruit while eating?
“Even if the inspector says he’ll give it to me, if I take it, it seems like there’ll be a lot of crying and chaos. Is that okay?”
As expected of a sister who is serious about her pets, she probably thought that the monks would make a fuss if she took the tadpoles away, but there was no need to worry about that.
Even if the inspector said he couldn’t give it to them, there were good ways to take it unconditionally, even if the nuns cried and complained.
“Don’t worry about that. I can take care of it.”
“you?”
“yes.”
“Hmm… I guess so.”
Seol’s sister nodded at her words, telling her not to worry.
My sister looked out the window at the setting sun and said to us.
“Well, I’ll leave that to Soryong. Then, I’ll tell Geom-hu and let’s go up the mountain at night after the sun sets.”
“At night?”
“Even if there’s nothing special during the day, it might be different at night. Since animals move around mostly at night, they might be able to see things we can’t see during the day.”
“Oh, that’s right!”
Since she was someone who dealt with wild animals, Seol’s sister suggested that we look into the habits of the night.
Certainly, most frogs and toads are nocturnal.
As expected, my sister.
Sister Seol was truly qualified to be the sister of this spicy Fabre.
“Okay. Okay!”
***
It was a dark dawn, after the sun had set and all the nuns had finished bathing.
The three of them searched their memories with lanterns and found Wolyeongyeon (月映淵).
The reason we were allowed to move around even though it was a private place was because it wasn’t a particularly special place, it was just a bathhouse.
The Wolyeongyeon we arrived at was, as its name suggests, a pond with moonlight reflecting on its surface.
As we approached with the lantern, the guy came swimming towards us, blushing, just as Hwa-eun had noticed.
“Honey, what do you eat?”
A guy who sits still while Hwa-eun squats down with a lantern in her hand before checking out his surroundings and reaches out to touch him.
At that moment, Yeondoo, who had jumped out of my arms, looked at the guy and licked his lips with regret.
-Char···.
It seemed that she had finally accepted the shocking fact that she was not Hwari, so I patted Yeondoo’s head with an apologetic expression.
“I’m sorry, Yeondoo. I’ll definitely find Hwari and feed her next time.”
-Shaa shaa.
Then, Yeondoo, like a good-natured guy, nodded with a slightly regretful expression.
That was when.
Yeondoo looked at Hwaeun with regret and then suddenly burst into tears of surprise.
-Shaaaaa!
Everyone looked at Yeondoo at the sharp sound heard in the middle of the night, and Yeondoo pointed his head towards Hwaeun and continued to say something.
“What? Why is there something in Yeondoo?”
Seol and Hwa-eun looked around, but there was nothing unusual.
Since there was nothing dangerous or unusual, both Hwa-eun and Seol-nu looked at each other as if they had no idea what was going on.
“What? What did Yeondoo see? There was nothing special.”
“Why is the child so surprised?”
‘You saw it? What on earth did Yeondoo see? On this night… Huh!?’
That was the moment.
One thing that suddenly came to mind.
It occurred to me that Yeondoo had infrared vision, which meant that what Yeondoo was seeing right now was something related to temperature.
He quickly ran and brought the lantern that Hwa-eun was holding closer to the surface of the water. The flames from the oil cup inside the lantern began to flow across the surface of the water like a long thread and be sucked into the tadpole’s mouth.
