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“What the hell is going on?”
The man standing at the counter of the chicken restaurant stuck out his tongue at the gruesome sight outside the glass door.
Wheeeeeeeeing!
Drones flying through the sky and muscular men searching the streets.
The men were holding missing person posters in their hands, and they were stopping passersby and showing them the leaflets.
It wasn’t just people passing by who were being grabbed.
Today, one person came to the Happy Chicken he runs and handed out a flyer.
“Boss, have you ever seen a kid like this?”
Inside the wanted poster was a picture of a young girl. She had red hair and red eyes. She was so cute that I thought she was a child model.
“I haven’t seen it.”
“No, look carefully. Has he ever come here to eat chicken?”
“As expected. If I saw such a unique person, how could I not remember him?”
“but···.”
The man, scratching his neck, handed him a leaflet and spoke in a slightly lower voice.
“If you find anything, please contact me. I’ll give you a generous reward.”
“How much is the compensation?”
“You must not tell this to anyone.”
The compensation the man mentioned was a jaw-dropping amount, but the chicken restaurant owner wasn’t particularly surprised.
There were already dozens of flyers piled up in the store with only slightly different pictures. Everyone who gave them to me talked about compensation.
There were more than one or two people looking for the child. Famous superhuman guilds, companies, gangsters, and starting yesterday, even the police began searching.
“Then please take good care of me. Please be sure to contact me.”
After the man left, the chicken restaurant owner stared blankly at the flyer he had left behind.
“Who the hell is this kid that’s causing such a fuss?”
I heard from the local merchants that the men hand out flyers mainly to restaurants, and they don’t miss out on any chicken restaurants.
This kid is said to be a superhuman, but he wasn’t really interested in celebrities or superhumans. He was busy just making a living, so what.
“Superhumans and even the police… Did they commit some kind of crime and run away?”
Less noise.
The chicken restaurant owner turned his head at the sudden noise.
“huh?”
This was a table that customers had left a little while ago. I was going to clear it right away, but I had to leave it alone for a moment because of a man who came with a flyer.
“······.”
The clanking sound just now, as well as the appearance of the table, were quite different from what he remembered.
‘There were definitely two female customers. They were fiddling with their forks and left half behind···.’
Why is there not a single chicken left in the chicken basket!
It sent shivers down my spine.
In his 16 years of experience in running a chicken restaurant, this was the first time something like this had happened. But, like a veteran in the chicken industry who has been through all sorts of hardships, the owner tried to remain calm.
‘You might have eaten more while I wasn’t looking. Oh, yeah. That’s true.’
The chicken restaurant owner hypnotized himself and turned away from the table. He was afraid to keep looking.
“······.”
But eventually his head slowly turned back to the table.
And then I saw it.
The sight of the French fries that came with the chicken flying into the air and suddenly disappearing.
“Eww! It’s a ghost-!!!”
At the same time as the chicken restaurant owner’s scream, a new scream also erupted.
“I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”
It was a young voice. It was the kind of voice that would sound raw if someone stuffed something into their mouth. The chicken restaurant owner screamed again.
“Ewwhhhhhhhhhh-!! Ghost, ghost! Hey! Hey! Come out here!”
“I’m sorry! I didn’t do it right!”
At that moment, something pushed the chicken restaurant owner with a whoosh, and after a while, the door to the restaurant opened by itself.
Wheezing. A cold wind blew through the open door.
dump.
The owner of the chicken restaurant, sitting on the floor, stared blankly out the door.
It was a terrible thing. He ran out of the kitchen and told his wife, who asked what was going on, a stammering account of what had just happened.
I was so surprised that I didn’t even realize that I was holding the flyer so tightly that my hands were turning white.
“···no way?”
After a while, he muttered as he unfolded the leaflet in his hand.
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‘I should have saved the allowance Asu gave me…’
Lily pulled the
Without the Guardian’s Bracelet, she could not fly. So, the girl had no choice but to walk down the street.
Lily held the Serpent’s egg tightly in her arms. The egg was shaking slightly from side to side.
‘Shh. Don’t let me get caught.’
There were a ton of adults looking for him. And there were flyers on every wall. There were a ton of different kinds of flyers.
-Finding the missing child-
Name: Lily
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The men, smoking cigarettes and looking at the flyers, started talking.
“If this shit doesn’t work out after a week, isn’t that the end of the story?”
“Honestly, I think it was a failure.”
‘No, you idiots!’
Lily held back her screams and passed by the crowd. After a while, behind her, “Eww!” “What the heck!” Suddenly, men with their shoes on fire screamed and started tap dancing.
Knock, knock knock-.
Rain began to fall drop by drop. Lily hurried to find a place to avoid the rain.
‘Malang-ah. Are you cold?’
After a while, they found themselves under the eaves of a small supermarket.
Hurrruk!
Lily warmed the egg by creating a thin flame on the inside of her palm. The warmth warmed the egg, and that warmth in turn warmed Lily’s body.
‘The two of us can live well together, right?’
Instead of answering, the egg vibrated. Lily hugged Malrang tightly.
“It’s a pain to raise them.”
The old man said so. He said it was annoying.
There was no “you too” in those words, but that’s what Lily heard.
Moreover, he said, “It’s not my house, it’s my house.” He said he wouldn’t give me a room, he said he was busy and didn’t play with me much, and he thought I would eat everything if I got angry.
Idiot, idiot!
‘Ugh. I’m never going back.’
I crouched down and looked up at the sky. I could hear the sound of raindrops hitting the eaves. Beneath the eaves, yellow light bulbs hung like moons.
Below, a few flies were writhing around.
Lily stared blankly at the sight and muttered.
“···I want to go home.”
– He said that and quickly covered his mouth. Fortunately, no one heard.
Phew. Lily let out a sigh and spoke to Malrang. These days, the girl only had Malrang to talk to.
‘I wonder if the old man is really angry?’
Actually, I wanted to go home.
I was so angry that I just left the house, but now I really, really wanted to go home.
I didn’t want to sleep anywhere anymore, and I didn’t want to secretly eat what other people left behind.
But when I was about to go back, I suddenly got scared.
I didn’t know what to say when I went back, and I was scared that so many people would be looking for me.
The scariest thing of all was the worry that the old man would really start to hate her.
In the end, the girl who couldn’t do anything had been running away from home for a week already.
“What should I do···.”
The eyes that had been staring at the yellow moon-like light bulb slowly closed. Lily hugged Malrang tightly and curled up even more.
The girl must have been tired because she quickly fell into a deep sleep.
“······.”
Raindrops were pitter-pattering against the eaves.
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The next day.
Lily entered the food court of a shopping mall.
It was lunchtime, so the food court was crowded with people.
‘Be careful.’
Lily walked carefully so as not to bump into people, looking around. The girl’s eyes sparkled like a hawk hunting its prey.
At the food court, you have to return your plate after you finish eating, but there were often people who just left.
Lily was aiming for it. Just then, she saw a mother and child leaving the jajangmyeon behind.
Swish.
Lily approached quietly, sat Malrang down next to her, and looked around to make sure no one was watching.
After making sure no one was watching, I picked up my chopsticks.
The ensuing storm of inhalation.
Slurp!
Lily quickly got up from her seat after finishing off the Jajangmyeon in one bite. The girl had Jajangmyeon on her nose, but no one could see it. Not even herself.
‘delicious!’
Lily realized that larger, more crowded restaurants were actually safer.
No one paid any attention to anyone else’s dishes until the staff came to clear them away.
It was all Lily’s fault.
‘I’m full···.’
Lily patted her plump belly with a satisfied expression. Feeling good, she hugged Malrang and rubbed her cheeks.
Sizzle.
The surface of the egg was torn. Lily screamed in surprise.
“···Sorry!”
People turned around at the scream of a girl who suddenly appeared.
Lily covered her mouth and looked at Malang.
Sizzle.
It wasn’t that the ball was torn by rubbing it. A baby serpent was hatching from the egg.
Lily was confused. She had expected that she would be born soon, but she had not expected it to happen under these circumstances.
‘Not here!’
Lily hugged the egg and got up from her seat. She intuitively knew that crowded places were not good places for eggs to hatch.
At that moment, there was only one face that came to mind.
‘Sir! I have to take you to the doctor!’
However, Lily was so flustered that she couldn’t look around properly, and people who couldn’t see the invisible man also didn’t pay attention to the running girl and the snake that was just starting to emerge from the egg.
-Pfft!
The unexpected collision sent the plate flying through the air.
There was curry on the plate, and the spilled curry flowed down onto the invisibility cloak.
The woman who had been kicking her butt screamed when she saw the curry monster appearing before her eyes.
“Gyaaaah!”
Just then, a baby serpent burst through the egg and popped its head out, shouting back at the human who was screaming at it.
Kyaaaaah!
Even though it was a newborn baby, Serpent was a monster from birth.
The roar was enough to terrify humans.
It didn’t even take 10 seconds for the food court to descend into chaos.
“Eww!”
“It’s a monster-!!”
Dishes flew everywhere, and citizens began to scream and run away.
“I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”
Lily hugged Malang and started running.
The curry flowing over the transparent cloak made it look like a half-revealed, grotesque ghost.
People who saw that sight were terrified.
“A monster is chasing!”
“Run away-!”
The serpent, with only its face sticking out of its shell, roared threateningly.
Kyaaaaak! Kyaaaaak!
“You little brat! Be quiet!”
The chaos soon spread throughout the mall. Loud alarms rang throughout the building, and citizens were evacuated.
Inside the shopping mall, there was a superhuman who was on vacation.
“A monster?”
Slurp.
Hwang Tae-san took out the sword he had on his waist and walked in the opposite direction of the people running towards him.
Hwang Tae-san was a superhuman who was confident in his abilities.
Although his characteristics were nothing special, he was proud of his swordsmanship, which was second to none.
“It looks like one of the guys who escaped from the gate is hiding.”
After a while, a ghostly monster wearing curry appeared.
In front of the ghost, a ferocious snake with only its face sticking out from its egg appeared.
Kyaaaaah!
“Sorry! Please get out of the way!”
Hwang Tae-san frowned at the sight of a ghost speaking human language. However, he did not move.
“···Is this a monster that speaks human language?”
Although extremely rare, there were also monsters that imitated humans. Things like doppelgangers, human parrots, and three-horned chameleons.
Hwang Tae-san took a stance, thinking that the ghost might be of that type.
“I’ll cut it down in one breath!”
“Get out of my way! Please get out of my way!”
“Huh. No way!”
Hwang Tae-san laughed and rushed at the curry ghost. His sword swung like a ray of light.
And after a while,
-Pfft!
dump.
Hwang Tae-san, who had his head burned, fell to the ground. Fortunately, he was not dead, as a groan escaped from his charred face, “Euuuuuuu.”
Kyaaaaah!
Malang raised his head and roared as if he had won.
But Lily was crying.
“We’re in big trouble···.”
The invisibility cloak was torn.
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