Chapter 229 – Starting Over (4)
The kid next door who concentrates as if he’s going to be completely sucked into the TV when Magical Girl comes on.
Kim Jin-soo looked closely as if he were a fan of the magical girl Letia.
“Are you a Letia fan?”
“Yes!”
“Okay?”
Again, in this episode, magical girls who are like idols.
So, there was nothing strange about a child liking it.
How popular is Magical Girls while the merchandise and toy market is active.
Everyone liked magical girls, regardless of age or gender.
Seeing Kim Jin-soo concentrating with her eyes sparkling, I thought that she was definitely a child.
I laughed and brought up what happened today.
“I met Letia today.”
“Really?”
A child looking at me in surprise.
When the innocent expression of that age came out, I thought that it was cute without knowing it.
“Huh. A monster appeared on the way home today.”
“Ah… “
“But then Letia suddenly appeared and saved me.”
“Amazing. Where did you appear?”
Little weird kid’s question.
Of course, since I am a child, it could be because my vocabulary is low, so I asked the question again.
“What do you mean it appeared from where?”
Only then did the child realize his mistake.
The child explained the intent of her question by unpacking it.
“They said that Letia suddenly appeared, so I wondered if she came from the sky or from the ground.”
“Oh, I see.”
Definitely a story that would make you wonder if you were a child.
However, since the place where Letia appeared was inside the building, I didn’t know what to say.
-Idiot. Can’t you explain that either? She just said she came on foot.
The sarcastic Lee Ji-eun.
I put her behind her and continued her explanation to Jinsu with a smile.
“I didn’t know because it was inside the building, but I think I just walked in.”
“I see.”
A child with a slightly sullen expression.
I looked at Jinsu with a puzzled expression.
“Why? Are you disappointed?”
“Yes, I made a bet with my friends about where the magical girl appears.”
A bet that kids of that age would be willing to make.
I smiled and nodded.
Time passes like that, and it’s time for the essence to return.
When the time came, the house bell rang.
Ding dong.
“Yes, let’s go.”
When I went out like that, the lady next door smiled.
Like my mother, the young lady next door put on an apologetic expression.
“Ah, that’s the author.”
“Hello?”
“Thank you so much for taking care of Jinsu.”
“No. It’s next door, so I have to help and live.”
“Maybe because she resembles Eun-ae, her daughter is also kind.”
-I have eyes for that lady.
Lee Ji-eun, who is proud instead of me.
Again, since the original owner of this body was Lee Ji-eun, it was not unusual for her to be proud.
“I didn’t bring much, but please accept this.”
The lady handing me a black bag.
I waved her hand like it was okay.
“No, it’s fine.”
“It’s because we have a lot of apples in our house. Accept it.”
An apology handed to me like that.
I bowed my head and expressed my gratitude.
“Please tell Eun-ae thank you too.”
“Okay.”
Kim Jin-soo leaves the house holding hands with the lady next door.
The little boy next door gave me one last look, waved her hand, and followed his mother outside.
* * *
“How did it go?”
A little boy’s question.
To that question, the woman replied apologetically.
“Sorry. Demon King. I failed to capture Letia.”
“Sorry.”
The boy nodded as if it was no big deal.
It was Kim Jin-soo, who had been at Lee Ji-eun’s house a while ago.
A woman who honors him.
For Lee Ji-eun, the woman called her next-door aunt had just disappeared, and with an apologetic expression, she was reporting to her owner.
“I’m pretty sure Letia is around here… “
Kim Jin-soo talking to himself like that, no, the devil.
He looks like an ordinary boy on the outside, but in reality he is the root of all the evil happening in the world.
A demon lord who was sealed thousands of years ago by magical girls.
However, after being resurrected with the help of his followers, he wanted to take revenge thousands of years ago by eliminating the magical girls who sealed him and regaining his sealed power to rule the world.
In other words, the demon lord who has not fully regained his power yet.
That’s why he was hiding in the form of a child so that he wouldn’t be attacked by magical girls.
The Demon King who hides like that and tries to take care of the magical girls one by one.
It was because of this background that one of the original five magical girls disappeared.
“Let’s head home first.”
“All right. Master.”
Kim Jin-soo and his men head home like that.
The two were making plans to capture Letia.
* * *
Today was an eventful day.
I was lying in bed and thinking about many things.
The first thing I thought about was Letia, the magical girl.
It was because he was grateful for saving us right away, but the thought that he was familiar with something was not erased.
“Especially the wound on her arm… “
The wound is exactly in the same location as the wound that Eun-young got from being scratched by a cat.
I couldn’t guess that Eunyoung was the magical girl Letia, but I couldn’t help but be suspicious.
There… Even if she is called Magical Girl Letia, she doesn’t change much.
It was because what I had to focus on right now was my relationship with Shi-woo, and my goal was to keep that relationship moderate and get out of this world.
-Are you still unable to let go of your lingering feelings about going out?
“Can you let go of your lingering feelings?”
-Why do you want to go back because you miss such an ugly face? Tsk.
“It’s none of your business.”
Honestly, this idea started to shake since Kim Sang-soo.
There was a time when I was shaken from the fundamentals as to why I had to go back.
Even so, the reason why I can’t give up.
The reason was that, very simply, that was the only thing left for me now.
If you give up even this, there is really nothing left.
In addition to this, I felt like everything I had done so far was denied.
– From your point of view, that’s probably the case.
“What’s the matter? Agree with my thoughts.”
-What… Because I know a little bit what a pitiful human being you are.
Lee Ji-eun speaks as if she is patronizing.
At her words, I sighed and nodded.
“Still, I’m glad the words came through.”
– Did you communicate from the beginning?
“I’m sure you will.”
Between Ji-eun Lee and arguing like that.
I felt that something suddenly flashed past, so I looked toward the window involuntarily.
“What?”
– Didn’t you see something in vain?
“For something like that… “
The light passed by again while I was talking.
I couldn’t help but sympathize with Lee Ji-eun’s words soon after seeing the light.
“I’ll just pretend I’ve seen it and go to sleep.”
-No, the cat that emits light is moving, but you’re just going to sleep?
“No, it’s strange no matter who sees it. It’s okay to just ignore it.”
All I saw was a cat that glowed.
To be precise, it looked like a new, white-furred cat darting across the roof.
Because of that, it is a state of misunderstanding that something sparkling has passed.
I struggled enough with the monster I saw today, so I ignored the cat and immediately lay down on the bed.
Then a cat knocking on the window openly.
I plugged my ears with a pillow and pretended not to know as much as I could.
-A cat staring at you openly?
“If I wait a little bit, I’ll get tired of my grass and go on its own.”
When I passed the time with my ears closed, it became quiet.
I lifted my head slightly and checked the window to see if the cat was gone.
Outside the window where nothing can be seen.
I breathe a sigh of relief and now I’m at ease…
“It’s a surprise!”
A cat appeared right in front of the window.
The cat was looking right at me and waving.
-Do cats usually wave?
“I’ll do it anyway.”
As I ignored it again and tried to head for the bed, the cat showed sharp claws.
I thought it was outside the window anyway so he couldn’t scratch me, so I just ignored it and went… Suddenly a terrible sound was heard.
The sound of scratching windows.
The first time I didn’t know that the sound of a cat scratching the window was so terrible, I immediately opened the window and glared at the cat.
“Why the hell are you doing this?”
“Are you ready to talk at last?”
“… A talking cat?”
“It’s not exactly a cat, but it’s a cat right now.”
A cat that naturally climbs through the window.
I received the cat in my hand and threw it back out the window.
“What are you doing?!”
“No, why does it come naturally?”
“Of course I came to sign a contract with a magical girl.”
“It’s crazy?”
“No, isn’t it natural to sign a contract after finding the right person to be a Magical Girl?”
“Isn’t that at all obvious?”
When I tried to close the window again, the cat burst into the room.
I tried to send it out after receiving the cat again like before, but the cat was faster.
“This?”
“Hey, you won’t get hit twice.”
In this way, I was playing hide and seek with the cat.
As I ran to catch the cat, it naturally made a sound, and the mother who heard this sound knocked on the door.
“Ji-eun, what’s going on?”
“Ah… It’s nothing.”
“Doesn’t it seem like nothing? Is it okay if I come in?”
“Ah… That… Therefore.”
As soon as I hesitated, my mother opened the door and came in.
When her mother came in, the cat, hiding under her bed, rushed at her mother as if she had been waiting for it.
“How is it?”
A cat that jumps at her mother and rubs herself against her mother’s leg.
The mother looked at her cat as if it were cute with a smile while being surprised.
“Cat?”
“Ah… That is… “
“Meow.”
Meowing cat.
The way she had just talked to me disappeared and she just started acting cute to her mother in the form of a cute cat.
“Oh my goodness. Look at him He’s a cute kid.”
A cat openly showing her belly to her mother.
Seeing that, I tried to lift the cat and drive it out.
Then, a cat with sad eyes as if it would not fall for its mother.
Seeing that, my mother looked at me and said her words.
“Is that a cat that came in from outside?”
“Yes that’s right. When you come in suddenly… “
“I’m sorry… “
“… Yes?”
“I feel like a child, so maybe I lost my parents?”
“… “
“You must have had a lot of trouble outside… Are you hungry?”
The mother who held the cat like that.
Looking at her mother like that, I wanted to tell her mother that she should tell her, but I felt it was already too late.
A cat that instantly captured her mother’s heart.
The cat that glows and even talks stays in our house.
