Chapter 512 – Side Story) an Outing to the Zoo With the Whole Family (2)
Thanks to this, as time passed, my body began to be decorated with various souvenirs and headbands brought by my daughters, but my wife burst into laughter when she saw me with all kinds of animal ears, headbands, and shiny decorations hanging around.
It was so funny to me that I laughed.
Anyway, in the middle of the day, Hoaran, Karura, and Hongryeon worked together to eat the lunch box they packed, and with the children recharged, we walked around the zoo again.
It seems like there are new animals that weren’t there the last time I came, so it was quite fun to see Nana Hoaran and Lilith for the second time.
Well, I’d rather look at animals…
“Father, there’s a snake with a fat tail over there.”
“Papa, over there…”
“Dad! “Let’s touch that rabbit with long legs over there.”
Although it was more fun to run around excitedly and look at animals, or to watch the kids drag me around and beg me to touch them with them.
-Why only you.
-Give me back my children…!
-After killing us, why are you so…
The small noises I occasionally heard in my ears were drowned out by the children’s laughter.
Sometimes, the pain that throbbed under my skin was forgotten by the hand that held my hand tightly.
“Dad.”
“Let’s go there next time.”
After going around and around like that, I ended up coming there.
-For me, rather than being a particularly rare animal, the image of them as a harmful animal was more firmly ingrained in my mind.
At least in this world, in an area where there are precious creatures who are even registered as a protected species.
“…Hey, there are creatures like this too.”
“It’s fascinating… How can such a creature exist?”
“How on earth did we not become extinct?”
I could see children muttering such things as they looked at the green creatures that looked like something a six-year-old child had roughly drawn.
“I have a strong appetite, but if I eat too much, my stomach explodes and I die…”
“You can’t even digest most of the food…? “So that’s why you have such a strong appetite…?”
“But if you eat too much, your stomach will explode.”
“They say that more often than not, people die from damage to their swollen stomach called a bezoar, rather than from a ruptured stomach.”
As I watched the older children discussing how on earth such creatures exist, I also looked at them, whom I had not seen in a long time.
They’ve gained a lot of weight.
It was almost rolling.
Well, it might be much more comfortable for them to be in a zoo than to be chased around in the wild by cats, neighborhood kids, and abusers.
As the kids say, if you feed them properly, they will die from their stomachs exploding while eating, as the kids say, but they are also very fertile.
“…”
Anyway, when I saw him making a disgusted expression through the glass, I felt my fists shaking.
Those bastards are obviously talking nonsense that doesn’t make sense.
The reason they put up cages with glass windows that are well insulated from sound is probably to prevent people who come to the zoo from hearing the bullshit they talk about.
First of all, even if they look like that, they are a protected species that is in danger of extinction, but when you hear what they say, you will want to tear them all down and tear them all down because they are all protected species.
Anyway, on the outside… And if you can’t hear the nonsense they’re talking about, or if you can’t smell it, maybe it’s because they look like a little fat and ugly doll, Luca, who was touching my cheek, said with her eyes shining.
“Bappa, that, raise me and sipper.”
“No. “Jiji.”
Even if it was Luca, I had no intention of bringing that into my house.
When they see one, they seem to divide, and at some point the number increases rapidly, and they were very dirty to begin with.
Sometimes, people are born who take care of their own cleanliness and whose personalities are very different from other people.
That means he’s a mutant, because most people are like that.
“Eeeee…Grow and sipper!”
“No.”
Anyway.
Despite Luca’s whining, he firmly refused to bring the green wheel into the house as a pet… And before he could pester him any further, he walked over to look at the other animals.
Since the kids couldn’t even touch it, they must have gotten tired of it quickly and followed along obediently.
“Now, there isn’t much left.”
After walking around and looking at things for hours, there were only a few areas left with animals left.
For your information, unlike when I came before, I couldn’t see the doppelgängers anymore.
It seems that all doppelgängers have been confiscated by the world government as subjects of special research due to the homunculi he created.
The homunculus he created was an artificial life form that was modified to be able to ‘breed’ with all races.
This was due to the genes of the doppelgängers that ‘transformed’ on a gene-by-gene basis.
Currently, they are conducting research to create various artificial organs using doppelgängers.
Well, I couldn’t show my daughters the sight of doppelgängers all turning naked and sticking together, and it was a bit like that even for me, so it was a relief.
If I ever saw the doppelgängers in my image attacking the doppelgängers in my daughters’ appearance…
A catastrophe would have occurred.
Anyway.
“Next is… Where the unicorns we saw before are.”
Ho Aran, who came next to me and looked closely at the map, said that and nodded his head.
…I still remember it.
Those horned horses who treated Lilith and Hoaran kindly, but were only cruel to me.
The people who made faces at Lilith and Hoaran and tried to show cuteness to them but then ran away without coming towards me were in the next area where they lived.
Thanks to this, I remembered the bastard who not only ran away but also spit in my face.
…They were pups that I didn’t have any good memories of, but they were cool-looking horses and the kids would like them.
Of course.
“Hoa-ran’s mother, what kind of animal is a unicorn?”
“It is a horse, but unlike ordinary horses, it is a horse with a long horn on its forehead. And his skin is pure white.”
“Heh… A white horse with horns, that’s fascinating.”
“…Well, it was something to see. I followed it well. Oh, it looks like your dad didn’t like them very much. Actually…”
Well, I’m the only one who doesn’t have good memories, but Lilith and Hoaran were telling various stories to the kids because the unicorns they had seen earlier were following along.
As the two continue to talk, it seems like everyone’s expectations are rising.
“I’m looking forward to it! A horse with horns. “It is an animal that did not exist in your world.”
It wasn’t just the kids’ expectations that had risen, it seemed like Carmina was also looking forward to it.
In fact, among us, Carmina was the one who enjoyed the zoo next to the children… Or perhaps even more than the children.
That’s because most of the animals in Carmina’s world had already become extinct… It had been a while since I had seen a variety of animals.
While people were barely able to live together on the small amount of land that they managed to maintain thanks to Carmina’s sacrifice, they were unable to raise animals, so it would be natural.
“In the past, you said there were horses with flying… Wings, right?”
“Well, that’s right. Many died during the war… Also, the land was contaminated with a curse, so the children were unable to survive and soon became extinct. In the past, many warriors used to run through the battlefield with the help of their children. Of course, like your father and mother’s clan, there were many warriors who could fly without their help. “The majority couldn’t do that.”
Next, Karura was enjoying the zoo the most out of all of us.
Unlike Carmina, she didn’t know anything about monsters or even saw animals since she was an adult, so ordinary animals that didn’t attack people seemed quite surprising.
Anyway,
So, while everyone was chatting in anticipation, we arrived at the area where the unicorns live.
And…
“Fuhihihing!”
“Puh-he-e-ek!”
“Purrrr!”
We could see the unicorns seeing us coming, darting like crazy, and then running back.
“No.”
What.
I was shocked to see that the horse pups, who had clearly been grazing calmly when I saw them from far away, had turned into a group and were running wild.
…Of course, not everyone ran away.
Rather than saying I didn’t run away, it was closer to saying I couldn’t.
The unicorns that flopped down in place and looked at us with despair on their faces, and the unicorns that fainted with foam at the mouth, were the unicorns that could not escape.
Some even fell flat on their backs and convulsed.
“…Uh, um. “I’ve never done this before…”
“…Why is it like that?”
On the way there, it seemed as if only Hoaran and Lilith, who had been talking about unicorns, would suddenly turn out to be liars.
“Well, there are still some left, right?”
“Oh, that’s right. Mothers. “I think it’s because so many people came here.”
I saw the daughters trying to show their disappointment and comforting the two.
“Wow! A horse with horns!”
Well, the young children who had not yet developed that sense ran excitedly even after seeing the unicorns fainting or falling out.
“Now, wait a minute. Just wait and see. It might be dangerous…”
These are unicorns that suddenly go berserk and run away, foam at the mouth and faint, or sit down.
Even when I saw them before, their cage was very low.
It wasn’t like that for me, but it was because we were quiet kids, not ones who attacked people, so it was enough for us.
Hoa-ran tried to stop them, as they were worried that some kind of illness or seizure might have occurred, but… It was already too late.
The second children, who were still trembling with their small wings and literally jumping out, approached the unicorns.
