City of Backstreet Nymphs - Chapter 3



3 – 003 – Nymph Oinoi # 3

003 – Nymph Oinoi # 3

Once upon a time, before a rift was opened in the world.

Celebrities who say they are struggling with malicious comments have appeared on TV.

The counselor’s prescription for them was simple.

It was to stop reading malicious comments.

But that was the case with the human heart.

If someone is talking about me somewhere, I want to hear what they are talking about.

With that in mind, I clicked on the article 『I also saw Hail, a D-class hunter today hahahaha』.

Click-.

After a while of loading, a fairly short article appeared before my eyes.

『I also saw Hail, a D-class hunter today hahahaha(3)』

『It’s been 10 years, but I’m still D-class ㅋㅋ I’m cursed at because I can’t even collect cores. Don’t you think it’s time to retire?”

“… ….”

I didn’t expect a good story to be written.

But when I checked it myself, it seemed like my eyes were dizzy.

I thought I was getting used to it because I had seen these kinds of articles 5 years ago, but it seems I wasn’t. Seeing as I know that I made a mistake while collecting cores, it seems that it was written by someone who was present at the site today.

I calmly checked the comments as well.

Anonymous: Who is Haildo? Are you famous?”

└ Author: Don’t you know Hail? The first D-class hunter? He was the first person to become a D-class after awakening mana.

└ How do I know that?

“… ….”

Yeah, what.

Right now, I feel exactly like this.

About a person who was once famous.

Now, if someone mentions my name, it’s nothing but ridicule.

Still, strangely, I felt slightly better knowing that there was someone who hadn’t forgotten me yet. As I said now, I actually liked receiving attention.

Of course, receiving attention in a bad way was honestly sad.

Trash that is being forgotten by people as it is.

Do I have to accept that kind of life?

“Wait.”

At that time, I lay down on the bed and looked at the nymph Oinoi, who was soundly asleep.

Oinoi, probably the first nymph to come to this world.

When I hand this guy over to the agency, it’s only natural that I, the first discoverer, will get some attention for a while.

Thinking like that made me feel very complicated.

But I didn’t have many options either.

“By the way, where do I sleep?”

The night the boiler broke down.

I laid out an extra blanket on the floor and closed my eyes.

Then I woke up feeling thirsty, and it was morning.

“Why does time go so fast?”

“It is morning… !”

Shouted the nymph Oinoi cheerfully.

I felt better than yesterday, probably because I slept under a warm blanket. On the one hand, I thought that this might all be a dream—but it wasn’t.

It seems that this was an undeniable reality.

“Wait.”

It was time to head to the kitchen in front of the front door thinking that I should eat the cereal I had been saving for breakfast. Red shoes on the porch caught my eye.

The shoes cost over 10 million won.

“… Shh….”

My eyes raced as I thought I had to pay for this.

The boiler is broken right now, so I’m sleeping on the cold floor.

If I had a rope, it would be this nymph, Oinoi.

“But this… , I think it will be useful….”

Shut-.

I tilted my head as I looked at the shoes that were ruined by the sap of the Bashikir Queen Bee.

The ooze from 「Bashikir Queen Bee」 Was not particularly toxic or harmful to the human body, but it was rumored to be difficult to erase when buried.

Because of its nature, it was also said that it is used to mark something that should not be easily erased. Like paintball for self-defense.

“Even if I didn’t have this, I think I could sell it second-hand.”

Seo Ye-rim, an S-class Awakener.

Since it was worn by a beauty that even I, who is afraid of her, would admit that it was pretty, wouldn’t it be possible to resell it at her own high price?

You may be able to sell at a higher price than the original price due to the premium attached.

Charleureu-.

After pouring the cereal into the milk, I held out the bowl to the nymph Oinoi.

After sticking it out, ‘Can I eat it? There is even food to cover… I belatedly pondered, but Oinoi ate the cereal well.

“It is delicious… ! The taste of this grain… ! It means that you can feel the warmth of the goddess Demeter, the goddess of grain… ! The owner of the house had a good meal… !”

Oinoi was more polite than I thought.

After the guy said thank you several times, she yelled.

“Then Oinoi, since you got your food and ate it, you are helping the owner of the house… ! This Oinoi is a helper nymph who was also in charge of cleaning the temple… ! I want to clean the house… !”

Wababat-.

The nymph oinoi ran around my cramped house.

I said I was going to clean up, but I sprayed the water from the bowl with the shower all over the place. It was an amazing cleaning method.

Thanks to that, everything from my blanket to my bed and furniture got wet.

I was truly in a panic.

“Hey! What are you doing!”

When I shouted out loud, Oinoi stood still.

He looked at me and said, “It was cleaned… !” He said proudly. It was as if he didn’t even know what he was doing wrong.

It was common for drifters to adapt and live in this world.

When I saw the story of an elf shooting an arrow at a tiger on TV on the Internet, I thought it was stupid and laughed.

I couldn’t help but laugh because I became the person who went through it.

“From now on, ask me before doing anything.”

“I know….”

Choo-wook-.

Oinoi was clearly drooping.

Did you feel intimidated because you thought you were scolded by me?

No, looking closely, he seemed to be regretting that he couldn’t spray more water in all directions!

“This cucumber is good for cleaning with water… ! They wondered if it was okay to sprinkle water on the duvet and bed… !”

“… ….”

He was a very strange guy.

I naturally shook my head.

“No.”

“Then I wonder if it is okay to spray water on the shoe rack… !”

“No.”

“Then, I wonder if it is okay to wipe shoes stained with Bashkir queen bee sap… !”

“No… wipe? Can you wipe it?”

I asked.

Then Oi Noi proudly pushed her wide chest forward and said,

“This oinoi was also friends with Vitriol, the nymph of honey water… ! Nymphs of nectar are friends with Bashkir bees… ! He also knows how to wipe off the secretions of bees, so he taught Oinoi… !”

“Oh!?”

# # #

We first walked downtown.

I was looking for a big flower shop.

The reason for finding a flower shop was simple.

“In order to remove the sap of the Bashikir queen bee, it is necessary to wash it with the water that washed the hyacinth flowers… !”

According to Oi Noi, he had to get a flower called ‘Hyacinth’.

I don’t know if I can really shine my shoes… If done well, it can bring in more than 10 million won.

There was nothing I couldn’t invest in for a day or so.

With that feeling, I was searching the Internet and walking around looking for a big flower shop.

Ohinoi trembled while looking at the advertising photos of elf models hanging on the wall.

“There are a lot of naughty long-eared elves… !”

A naughty long-eared elf?

What is this again?

When I was wondering, the nymph Oinoi said.

“Nymphs were good… ! However, long-eared fairies appeared from distant lands to seduce people and bully nymphs… ! Originally, the ancient fairy was a nymph… !”

It was a strange story.

However, I could tell that Oinoi hated elves. As far as I know, drifter elves never talked about nymphs.

Anyway.

With that feeling, I was able to arrive at the flower shop.

It was like a flower shop specializing in bouquets and bouquets for lovers, but it was far from me.

This winter, the only place to sell hyacinths is here.

Oinoi came and shouted.

“It’s amazing that flowers are blooming in such a cold winter… !”

Ohinoi was wearing the padding I lent him like long padding and wearing a hood. Perhaps because she looked like an ordinary elementary school girl, the female owner of the flower shop, who must have been in her 30s, smiled.

“Are there any flowers you are looking for?”

“Uh… Do you have hyacinth?”

“Ah. Wait a minute.”

Shut-.

Soon the flower shop owner brought flowers planted in a pot the size of a palm.

Seeing that, the nymph Oinoi laughed.

“Hyacinth is the flower that Hyacinthos, a man who was Apollo’s lover, changed… ! In other words, it is a flower that blooms at the end of love between a man and a man… !”

“Write like this.”

It was knowledge I didn’t really want to know.

A flower that bloomed after men fell in love.

You hate receiving potted plants.

But I had to.

Can you tell me?

I might be able to wipe off the queen bee’s sap.

If you do well, you might be able to fix the boiler with the money you sold the shoes.

Also, they receive and wash hunters’ equipment that had to be thrown away because of the queen bee’s sap… Buying and reselling used items….

“hehehehe.”

I felt good about making money.

Shut-.

It was when Oinoi received the packaged flowers.

Oinoi sniff-sniffed the flower and said.

“This hyacinth is very fragrant… also… If there is oil from the flowers, as I said yesterday, it is possible to cure the curse that has settled in the body of the owner of the house… !”

“… Curse?”

Come to think of it, I remembered what Oinoi was trying to say before he went to sleep yesterday. It’s a curse that has settled in my body.

What the heck does that mean?

# # #

“A flower shop?”

Seo Ye-rim heard a report from her secretary and partner, Ahn Young-eun, a C-class hunter. She said that she met Haildo, a D-class hunter in town who made her throw away her shoes yesterday, and she stopped by a flower shop.

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“Some kind of flower shop doesn’t match.”

It was Seo Ye-rim who laughed and snorted at her.

As she was looking out the window of her office, her C-rank Hunter, Young-eun, ran her fingers through her short-cropped bobbed hair and asked subtly.

“Aren’t you trying to buy flowers for a girl? There is no reason why a man buys flowers other than to give them to a woman.”

“Haildo has a girl?”

“… Well? Yerim, you really like flowers. Aren’t you going to give it to me? Maybe he’s trying to apologize for ruining his shoes.”

You’re trying to make a $10,000 shoe with flowers?

Yerim accepted Yeongeun’s story that way.

It felt a little outrageous, but it seemed like it was quite pleasant to receive an apology.

So Yerim Seo waited for the man in her office.

However, even after lunch time passed and it was dinner time, the D-class Hunter did not come to Seo Ye-rim’s office.

In Yerim’s mind, the story Yeongeun said, “There’s no reason for a man to buy flowers other than to give them to a woman.”