Chapter 149 – Side Story, The World They Live In (2)
Leaving the landlord’s envy behind, we finally started our outing after many twists and turns.
…What exactly is a picnic?
A picnic should be a simple trip taken with a joyful heart for healing, shouldn’t it?
But why am I so unhappy? Why is it so hard? Why… why am I so tired!
Of course, picnics or trips can be tiring in the middle, and especially when it’s time to go home, you can be exhausted.
But… but why am I so tired even before we’ve started?
Still, it’s a relief. Everyone else seems to be enjoying themselves, giggling and laughing.
“Hey, Yurian, Yurian.”
“The cam girl can talk, too.”
“What about cam girls! What’s wrong with cam girls! Am I not allowed to talk? Just try asking me for money later. I won’t give you a single penny.”
Lilith’s cheeks puffed up as she spoke next to me.
“Your rent, food expenses, various utility bills, electricity bills, the cost of the broadcasting container I made for you, the computer rental fee…”
“Ah~ I can’t hear you~ Ah ah~ I can’t hear you~”
She covered her ears with her fingers, so I pinched her cheek.
“Ouch! I, I’m Lilith! How dare you treat me like this, I won’t forgive… Kyaa!”
Slap.
For some reason, Lilith’s butt is the most satisfying to smack. Why is that?
After giving her butt a refreshing smack, Lilith, who was twisting her legs, quickly raised her voice.
“Just because you smack my butt doesn’t mean I’ll give in! You, you pervert! No matter how much you smack my butt… uh! Uh, even if you smack my butt, smack, smack! Kyaa!”
“Shut up. Be quiet.”
Hmm. This hand feel.
Perhaps it’s because of the overwhelming size and elasticity of her butt compared to Diana and Irian, it’s really satisfying.
“So, why all of a sudden?”
“Hmph… Smacking my butt won’t work. I won’t tell you.”
“What are you talking about? You were the one who started talking first. If you don’t want to, then don’t.”
“Ah, ah! Th, that is… what was it… Ah! Why a picnic all of a sudden?”
Why a picnic all of a sudden. Well, it is sudden.
But I’ve been thinking about it for a while. There’s someone who’s a bit unstable if I leave them alone.
“Just because. For various reasons?”
“What’s that? What is it, what is it?”
“Hmm… It’s the end of the year. Tomorrow, a new year begins?”
“That doesn’t sound right. Tell me the truth. What is it? Tell me your dark intentions.”
“Get lost, you.”
I smacked her butt again, nice and hard. Leaving Lilith, who was trembling in place, behind, I continued walking, and soon she approached me again.
Lilith, with her hands behind her back, approached with a tilt of her head. It’s a cute action, but this girl is definitely doing it on purpose.
“Ahem. You’re not going to tell me your dark intentions, are you? Right? Hmm, hmm. But now that I, Lilith, have caught you, I can’t let it go. No matter how much you smack my butt, I will never forgive you. Got it? Hey! Did you hear me!”
“That kind of crude threat will only work on your room’s viewers.”
“Hehe. Well, now that you’ve seen my popularity, you must be anxious. You saw how coins explode when I, Lilith, just smile a little, right? Ah~ It’s a shame. Today is a slow day for collecting.”
“Where did you even hear such things?”
Lilith as a cam girl… How did the Queen of Succubi become a cyber prostitute! The world is really going to hell… Huh? Wait a minute. It suits her…?
Lilith wasn’t a modest woman in the first place. She’s called the Queen of Succubi, so isn’t she no different from a cyber prostitute?
Using the internet space and dreams or avatars is similar in terms of quasi-sexual acts…?
This can’t be. Did she discover her true nature in the modern world!
“Ahem. Yurian, Yurian. If you smack my butt again, you’ll be in big trouble. Hey, did you hear me? Are you listening to me?”
I’m worried that she might be plotting something suspicious through her cam girl act. As expected of the Queen of Succubi. I saw earlier that she’s only been a cam girl for less than a month, but she already has big spenders and her methods of collecting money are evolving.
“Yurian~ Yurian, Yurian~”
“Why do you keep calling me?”
“Hehe. Am I your wife too? Huh? Huh? Aww~ You’re actually completely smitten with me, Lilith, aren’t you?”
What is she talking about? The reason I said that to the landlord was just in case he tried to hit on me. At that moment, a calm voice chimed in.
“Lilith.”
“Yes, yes!!”
“Stop bothering Yurian and hold the basket properly. If you shake it like that and the food spills, I’ll be very upset. Okay?”
“Yes…”
Lilith, who was defeated by Diana’s smiling eyes, sulked and fell behind. Meanwhile, I started the engine of the full-option Mercedes-Benz S-Class, the culprit that made me spend all my spare money.
Kuh, this engine sound. It’s truly magnificent.
“Okay, everyone. Let’s go?”
“Yes. I’ve put on my seatbelt.”
Diana, who naturally sat in the passenger seat, even fastened my seatbelt for me. In the process, she subtly pressed her ample chest against me, which seems like her sex appeal has increased recently.
“Shall we go?”
“……”
“……”
“……”
Diana is not only pressing her chest against me but also rubbing it, and the other kids aren’t even answering. What are they doing?
I checked in the rearview mirror and saw a row of different colored hair in the back seat.
The red and black hair were stuck together, looking at a tablet PC. They had earphones in their ears and were completely engrossed in what they were watching, whether it was a movie or an anime.
The purple hair sitting at the far end was busy taking selfies with all sorts of expressions. She must be taking pictures to upload to Instagram.
“…Guys? I said we’re leaving?”
Irian glanced at me, her eyes twisting in annoyance.
Click, click.
The volume key was pressed, and a loud sound effect of something exploding was heard.
Click, click.
The sound of photos being taken in rapid succession, as if they had been waiting for it.
‘So, this is the heart of a father.’
They say raising children is useless. Modern civilization has ruined them all.
Feeling bitter, I turned my head forward when something soft brushed my lips.
“Diana?”
“Yes?”
Diana, with an innocent expression, returned to her seat. The tip of her tongue, which was slightly visible between her red lips, darted back inside.
I touched my lips without realizing it, feeling the dampness on my fingertips.
“Yurian. We should leave.”
“Ah, yeah. Guys, we’re leaving?”
“Okay, let’s go!”
“Okay. Let’s go.”
“Ugh, the picture came out weird!”
“……”
The car, gliding smoothly with a soft vibration, made me realize that spending money wasn’t a waste after all.
When we first returned to the modern world, the biggest problem I was worried about was our identities.
Considering the highly developed modern administrative network, especially in South Korea, it would be too difficult for five unidentified individuals to live.
Moreover, our appearances were too eye-catching, so I was worried if we could live in Korea. But fortunately, our artificial intelligence solved all of this.
The first thing we saw upon arrival was a lush mountain. As if considering people’s gazes, the AI sent us into the mountains.
The group, who had been very excited about modern civilization, was disappointed by the mountain scenery, which was no different from our original world, but soon they were overcome with a great sense of loss.
Unlike our original world, there is no mana in the modern world. Naturally, we lost all abilities that used magic power, such as magic and various skills.
Of course, our superior physical abilities remained, but… we were all depressed for a while, feeling like we had fallen from transcendent beings to humans.
Diana, Irian, Carsilla, Lilith, and myself.
As for me… although my transcendent power, my divine power, disappeared, it was something I had already expected. Thanks to my memories as a modern person, it wasn’t difficult to adapt.
Although my divine power disappeared, my physical abilities remained the same, so even though I was frail, the stats I had built up made me feel out of place with my physical abilities that were incomparable to ordinary people.
Digging a hole with a few shovels while gardening, or hammering nails with my fist… there were small incidents that made me wonder if I should be doing this as a modern person.
Diana wasn’t the type to be obsessed with power in the first place, and Lilith wasn’t very strong, so they adapted well. She showed signs of anxiety at first because she couldn’t use her special ability, her avatar, but perhaps her experience of being captured by us helped her adapt quickly.
Carsilla was also confused by the loss of her powerful magic, but since she had only had transcendent power for a short time, she adapted well. Now, she’s interested in things like cartoons and games, which shows that children have an amazing ability to adapt.
Although there were differences in degree, the sense of loss from losing our transcendent powers came to everyone in the group, and the one who suffered the most was Irian.
The reason why Irian spends her days rolling around in her room, scratching her belly, and snacking while watching movies is largely due to this loss and emptiness.
Fortunately, it doesn’t seem to have developed into depression… but this is the first time I’ve encountered such a case, so I don’t know what to do.
In that sense, since it’s the end of the year, I planned this outing.
…I guess no one understands a father’s heart.
As I was driving with a gloomy heart, Diana, who was sitting in the passenger seat, took out something. Then, she naturally brought it to my mouth… is it kimbap?
“Are you hungry? Eat while we go. Ah~”
“Ah~”
…It’s delicious. Is it because I made it?
“Huh? What’s this, is it time to eat? Should we eat too?”
“Yeah!”
“What’s on the menu~?”
As I was chewing the kimbap that Diana was putting in my mouth one by one, the gluttons in the back seat, who were incredibly quick to notice when someone was eating, all swarmed around.
“Ahem. There’s an order to things. You guys wait.”
“What nonsense are you talking about? There’s no order to water. …Is there? Is there?”
“I don’t know. Papa, me too.”
“Hmm… Carsilla is cute, so you pass!”
I ignored the grumbling of Irian and Lilith, who were making noises in the back.
Just as we had eaten all the kimbap for the picnic in the car, we arrived at our destination.
“Wow. What is this place? There are a lot of strange things.”
Carsilla, who had been staring blankly at the tablet PC screen, ran out excitedly. This place was a zoo.
Irian, who was also curious about the animals she was seeing for the first time, pretended to follow Carsilla and peeked around here and there.
“Uh… um… Ex, excuse me? Ah, I can’t speak English.”
“It’s okay. I’m Korean.”
Hmm… Yurian’s body doesn’t look Korean at all, but my soul has always been Korean. Of course.
“Four adults, one child. How much is it?”
The gazes pouring in from the surroundings. If we were just foreigners, we wouldn’t have attracted this much attention, but because of the way we look, including myself, we attract attention wherever we go.
Especially with the mysterious silver hair, the dazzling blonde hair, the fiery red hair, and the bewitching purple hair. Except for Carsilla’s black hair, it’s rare to see such colorful hair in the modern world. Since these super handsome and beautiful people are walking around together, we have to get used to the attention.
