Translator: Wan ED/PR: Personal Ghost
[1]
When I tried to closely examine the not so well visible Mountain Spirit.
“Jo Uisin, use Brilliant Gaze skill.”
The eyes of Baek Ho-gun, who said that, were filled with a superpower wave.
Do you have to use the Brilliant Gaze to see Mountain Spirit?
⟨Skill ‘Brilliant Gaze’ activated.⟩
Uung–.
My vision changed and my head and eyes started ringing.
‘They have the shape of a human.’
The Mountain Spirit, held by Baek Ho-gun by the back of their neck, was making all kinds of gestures towards me.
They seemed to be asking for mercy.
“Put them down. I didn’t collapse because of them.”
“…”
Baek Ho-gun narrowed his eyes as he made an expression without an ounce of warmth and then released his hand.
The Mountain Spirit hastily fled and hid behind my back.
I guess it wanted to avoid Baek Ho-gun and Hwang Jiho’s gazes.
“Say what happened. If I judge they’re a Mountain Spirit who hurts humans, I’ll immediately put them out of existence with my own hands.”
After Hwang Jiho spoke like this, I felt the scared to death Mountain Spirit tremble behind my back.
‘If there is a Mountain Spirit who lures students in the divine realm, he has every right to be angry, right?’
I shortly spoke about the events which happened in the middle of the night, before an innocent Mountain Spirit got put out of existence.
My summary was as follows.
I was hiking the Heavenly Wings Mountain at night.
I discovered the Heavenly Sacred Tree emitting light.
When I stretched out my hand, suddenly a superpower wave burst out from the Heavenly Sacred Tree and I fainted because of it.
Hwang Jiho, who was quietly listening, asked:
“From the Heavenly Sacred Tree?”
“Yeah.”
“That power flow which we felt at night, flowed from the Heavenly Sacred Tree?”
“In any case, it wasn’t because of the Mountain Spirit. When I touched the Heavenly Sacred Tree, the Mountain Spirit was far away.”
At my words, the Mountain Spirit suddenly jumped out from behind me as if expressing agreement.
Hwang Jiho spoke while looking at the Mountain Spirit and me with doubtful eyes.
“… A Mountain Spirit shouldn’t be able to display that degree of power, right? And I don’t know about Mountain Spirit, but there is no way that the Heavenly Sacred Tree’s power would harm a human.”
“Okay. Don’t harass them too much.”
I didn’t quite know the reason, but thanks to the help of Mountain Spirit in the vicinity of the Heavenly Sacred Tree yesterday, I captured a clue.
‘Is there some kind of relationship between the Transcendent Universe and Mountain Spirit?’
As if the Mountain Spirit regained their spirit because the Ho tribe member’s murderous intent disappeared, they raised in the air and started to slowly circle around me.
It seemed to be brimming with energy, perhaps because it was a Mountain Spirit of the Heavenly Wings Mountain, which was a mess in several different ways.
“Then why did you climb the Heavenly Wings Mountain at that time?”
It was difficult to answer that question.
I recalled Seong Gukeon’s words when he requested and entrusted me with investigating ghost stories.
— Using Jin people and descendants… No, there is no problem with borrowing their power, but don’t draw their attention to those ghost stories.
If I say anything about ghost stories, setting aside Baek Ho-gun, Hwang Jiho would start investigating, saying it’s nice.
It meant violating the condition Seong Gukeon talked about.
“Just because.”
Hwang Jiho made a very dissatisfied expression.
“… The Heavenly Sacred Tree is a divine tree passed down in our myth. I should investigate it thoroughly, right?”
It seemed he spoke, knowing that I won’t open my mouth.
“Not a long time after we discovered you collapsed in front of our Heavenly Sacred Tree, the 3rd year class 0 bastards flocked, you know? It seems they’re the bastards who installed these coarse traps around the Heavenly Sacred Tree… I should investigate those punks too.”
As I expected, I guess it didn’t take long for the 3rd year class 0 seniors to flock there.
But the instant the word ‘3rd year class 0’ came out, the Mountain Spirit flinched and then started to spin faster.
‘Perhaps, the Energy of Universe 3rd year class 0 was talking about…’
Didn’t this Mountain Spirit, who seemed to have a relationship with the Transcendent Universe, play a prank?
And therefore, the 3rd year class 0 installed all kinds of traps with the Heavenly Sacred Tree in the center, where the Mountain Spirit was.
When I stared at the Mountain Spirit, filled with reasonable doubts, the Mountain Spirit suddenly started staring outside of the window, while pretending to be innocent[2].
“In addition to investigating the Heavenly Sacred Tree and the 3rd year class 0, I’ll observe the Mountain Spirit for the time being.”
“Did you say ‘observe that Mountain Spirit’?”
It seemed that Hwang Jiho still couldn’t erase his doubts about the Mountain Spirit.
“As lay lines are recovering at fast speed, the Mountain Spirit will also completely materialize soon and will be able to communicate. Then I should hear their detailed story.”
The Mountain Spirit suddenly grabbed the hem of my clothes.
But as the swarm of light didn’t have a material form, they didn’t make physical contact.
‘It seems to be trying to express that I should ask him not to do that because they don’t like it, but…’
If I actively step out here more, they may think I was really possessed by the Mountain Spirit.
When I was worrying about what I should do.
Keung…
The angel, who was sleeping beside me, opened its eyes.
As expected, my thoughts weren’t wrong.
I had come to heaven.
Krrrrrr….!
Suddenly, I heard a roar a beast may make towards a prey.
The Mountain Spirit was startled, let go of the hem of my clothes and fled to the corner of the infirmary room.
‘What was that roar I heard just now?’
There is no way that our cute Snare would make a sound like that, so clearly the Mountain Spirit had to make that sound or what I heard was an auditory hallucination.
“Snare?”
Woof!
Snare jumped into my arms while barking cutely.
As expected, what I heard just now was an auditory hallucination.
“Jo Uisin… Do you know that the flow of your thoughts in your low intelligence stare was clearly visible right now?”
Hwang Jiho said something with a tired face, but after Snare leaned its head into my arms, everything turned good.
As if Snare worried a lot when I collapsed, it put its ears to my heart and then burrowed into my arms while showing off its charms.
Ding.
At that moment, I heard a device sound of receiving a message.
Because I skipped all the classes and club activities, the class children and people from the club sent messages.
The most recent message to arrive came from Kim Yuri.
[Kim Yuri] Uisin! What happened? You aren’t sick right?
[Kim Yuri] Today Jiho also didn’t come…
[Kim Yuri] … Will you continue to attend school? ㅠ▽ㅠ?
Naturally, if my Playable Character requested it, I had to continue to attend school, right?
Before I could answer, the messages continued coming.
[Kim Yuri] Will you come to the study meeting today? Because the weekend starts tomorrow, I prepared a lot of snacks, so we work hard… ⟩▽⟨;;
I guess she felt lonely because two of the class children suddenly skipped school.
[Me] I’ll bring Hwang Jiho.
[Kim Yuri] Got it! I will be waiting! ^▽^♡
Snare leaned into my hand I was typing a device message with.
It seemed to mean that I should stop staring at the hologram and stroke it more.
But before I interpreted Snare’s meaning, my hand was already stroking Snare’s head.
‘It’s a pity, but I have to go, right?’
I moved my half-raised body to get out of the bed.
“Where do you think you’re going?”
“Study meeting.”
“… With that body now?”
“The examination results were normal, weren’t they?”
If there was something wrong, they would have already used a recovery item or I would have got an IV.
As if my words were correct, Hwang Jiho shut his mouth.
“Let’s go. Our classmates said they’re waiting for you to come.”
But when I was about to part with Snare while saying that.
Woof woof!
“Snare, sorry. Let’s play more together next time.”
Before I could put down Snare on the infirmary bed, Snare clung to my arms.
Snare firmly hugged my arms and then looked up at me.
Keeung…
“Do you perhaps want to go together?”
Woof!
Can I show the divine beast like Snare to class children?
But, in any case, when it went for a walk with Baek Ho-gun, it strolled openly around, and even if someone saw them, all they would see would be the angel’s cuteness, so it didn’t matter.
As I asked Kim Yuri if I could bring Snare, the reply came back saying that she wants to see it by all means and to bring it.
“Okay! Let’s go! I’ll introduce you to our classmates!”
Woof woof!
Snare barked brightly, and then picked up the leash, which was in the corner of the bed, with its teeth and asked me to put it on.
Sure enough, Snare was a genius, and if someone did an academic research on it, it would be accepted as a standard theory.
***
After the Mountain Spirit was dragged away by the back of the neck by Baek Ho-gun, we: me, Snare and Hwang Jiho, headed to Kim Yuri’s house.
As if in anticipation of our class friends, Snare trimmed its fur and groomed itself with its front paws before entering Kim Yuri’s house.
Even if it didn’t prepare itself like this, Snare was always perfect.
“Cute!”
“Cute…! What’s its name?” [3]
“On the collar there’s written ‘Snare’.”
“Can I take a picture of Snare? I want to put it on SNS…!”
Snare looked up at the children while wagging its tail.
The reaction of the children, who looked at Snare, was all the same.
“I think I know why Uisin didn’t come to school.”
“Right! If I was captured by Snare, I would want to take one day of rest from school too.” [4]
Suddenly, they seemed to think that the reason why I skipped classes was because of Snare, probably because I brought it like this.
“Weren’t pets banned at the dormitory?”
“Right. Are you perhaps looking for a place to take care of it?”
“No. Snare lives at Hwang Jiho’s house.”
At those words, children made doubtful faces.
“Snare looks to be closer with Uisin.”
“Right. I naturally expected that it was Uisin who was raising it.”
“It doesn’t even come close to Hwang Jiho.”
At those words, Hwang Jiho made a subtle face, but it was a fact, so it couldn’t be helped.
As I received a review from class children that I look to be close with Snare, I became very happy.
“Today I made a mix of home-made salt-free cheese with paprika as a snack. It’s a bit bland, but I prepared a menu that is okay to eat by puppies… Ah, I’m currently making a chicken breast jerky in the fryer!”
It seemed that the talented Kim Yuri also prepared a snack portion for Snare in the meantime.
When I was helping Kim Yuri set the bowls and cups while the children were playing with Snare.
Kim Yuri checked the device and made a surprised face.
“Wow, Dain pressed ‘like’ extremely quickly.”
“On Snare picture?”
“Yeah! She left a comment. She asks to put a lot of pictures.”
It was an appearance worthy of An Dain who cherished Cotton Ball.
“Should I send pictures?”
“… Wow! There are so many pictures in pretty clothes!”
As I shared Snare fashion show pictures with Kim Yuri, she very happily published them on her SNS account.
Right now it was difficult to show off Snare’s cuteness to An Dain in person, but I hoped even with just pictures, it would warm her heart.
“Uisin’s face…”
“Vice president looks dogshit stupid.”
“Looks like an effect of animal therapy. Um, it seemed that he released a lot of tension!” [5]
“Hahaha! It’s just his lowered intelligence.”
I overheard the sounds of children’s whispers, who were playing with Snare, but I wasn’t bothered.
After filling an exam test and eating snacks on the side, we left Kim Yuri’s house.
As tomorrow was the weekend, Han Yi and Kwon Lena planned to stay for a sleepover.
‘I hope that the next time there is also Min Geurin there.’
When the time to eat dinner drew closer, Song Daeseok appeared to take Min Geurin and disappeared.
‘Today’s route is different from usual.’
Unlike usual, where Snare took a walk to send me off, it was a situation where I sent Snare off at the steps of Hwang Myeong-ho’s mansion.
Both Snare and Hwang Jiho looked like they wanted me to stay for a sleepover, but I pretended I didn’t know.
‘I want to organize my thoughts alone.’
Transcendent Universe, Mountain Spirit, Brilliant Gaze, Heavenly Wings Mountain, Ghost Stories.
There were many things I wanted to think about.
‘In addition, there is also a place I should go during the weekend.’
I looked at the message, which arrived while I was unconscious, while thinking.
[Min Geurin] Hey.
[Min Geurin] Are you busy this weekend?
The next message was sent after a bit of a long pause.
[Min Geurin] I want to go to see master-nim, can you help?
It seemed that Min Geurin made a resolve to go see painter Hong Gyeongbok.
‘It was said that Hong Gyeongbok is currently living in the remote area of Hongcheon, in seclusion.’
When I replied that I naturally can help.
One more message arrived.
[Seong Siwan] Uisin, do you remember me asking to investigate my grandfather’s study together on the weekend? Do you have time?
[Seong Siwan] Our home is far away, so it’s a bit difficult to get there if it’s not a weekend…
Are we talking about the investigation that Seong Siwan and Gye Idam said they’re going to do when going home on the weekend?
I was wondering why they didn’t investigate straight away, but I guess the house was far away, so it was like this.
[Me] Where is it?
[Seong Siwang] Gongwon Province Hongcheon! You can go there directly with an airbus, but the summer house where Grandfather’s study is, is in a bit of a remote area.
The previous Korean Branch’s head was also from Hongcheon, just like painter Hong Gyeongbok?
It seemed that there were many things to do in Hongcheon this weekend.
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[1] No title~~ – ‘Tiger and eyes (6)’ =-=
[2] pretending to be innocent – unrelated, irrelevant in raws.
[3] “Cute…! What’s its name?” – Sawol Seeum’s sentence.
[4] “Right! If I was captured by Snare, I would want to take one day of rest from school too.” – Sawol Seeum’s sentence.
[5] “Looks like an effect of animal therapy. Um, it seemed that he released a lot of tension!” – Sawol Seeum’s sentence.
Translator’s note: It’s really interesting how Snare clearly likes class children, but is at first rather indifferent to tigers, to whom it’s connected (supposedly)… But also, poor Mountain Spirit ㅠㅠ
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