City of Backstreet Nymphs - Chapter 33



33 – 033 – My Lime Golden Apple Tree # 4

033 – My Lime Golden Apple Tree # 4

Coexistence with monsters in the rift is impossible—.

This was the conclusion made by a crack scholar in the 5th industrial era.

In reality, the monster itself was a ferocious monster that could not be tamed.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that I, who had to break through a rift without any decent equipment, knew the horrors of monsters better than anyone else.

-Zuji.

-Zuji.

-Zuji.

Watching the monster 「Assassin Scorpion」 Talk to each other and go ahead, I felt like my values were completely changed and shaken.

What will Yuari, a doctor and former ace, judge of this scene?

“Ariya, what do you think they are talking about? What do you hear?”

“… Increase… Zuji… Yo. This?”

“What does Zuji mean?”

“… I really… At all… I don’t know.”

Saying that, Ari turned her face red.

Looks like he had something embarrassing.

Being scared when the monsters appeared earlier may have come to mind like a dark history.

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“Can I really trust you?”

Lee Jin-ah, who was following the scorpions, asked me.

Angangi and the scorpions must be suspicious.

But I trusted Angangi.

“Angangi can be trusted.”

Angangi is also learning how to run the washing machine these days.

If I can’t trust the guy who will wash my clothes, then who am I supposed to trust?

Shut-.

Finally, a dead end wall appeared.

The scorpions started clinging to the dead-end wall, and Yuari reacted when the sight was disgusting and at the same time felt grand.

“Look at that. Doesn’t that look like some pattern?”

Scorpions clinging to dead ends.

They were clinging to the wall in the form of strange patterns, just like Yuari said.

“… Rune?”

I hope something interesting comes out of Yuari’s mouth for a while-.

Flash -.

The bodies of the assassin scorpions emitted light.

Go oh oh oh-.

Finally, there is a door that has never been seen before in the dead end street where the scorpions were clinging. It happened very quickly, and it was surprising because it was a strange thing.

ZZZZZ-.

As I was entering the door where the scorpions appeared, I asked Lee Jin-ah, who was looking at her watch.

“How many minutes are left? In a fixed rift, if you don’t leave within 10 minutes, when the rift is initialized, your body will start rebounding too, right?”

Time Attack, which must be completed within 10 minutes.

If you don’t go out, your body has to go through the process of going back to 10 minutes ago, and it’s very painful, so everyone said that you have to be punctual.

“Seven minutes left.”

Lee Jin-ah announced the time.

Then she walked towards the door, Yua Lee.

“I thought it was a rift that had already been researched. I never thought that such a device could be hidden. It’s a rift that repairs every 10 minutes, so it’s not easy to research, or it’s hidden—”

“Let’s go.”

Exploring the unknown rift.

It was something I was used to and missed.

When I was a freshman, when I had to take the lead in entering the rift, there was a time when virtually all rifts were unknown and full of secrets.

Feel like adventuring a dungeon.

It felt like I was back in those days, so my blood boiled a little.

“I am going. Lee Jin-ah, check the time carefully. Because I always have about 3 minutes to go back to the entrance. Yuari, you take care of the rear.”

Fortunately or unfortunately, there was only one room beyond the newly opened door.

Inside the room, unlike a historic site, grass grew, and in the center of it, a fist-sized stone was shining brightly, and it looked like a wonderful, very warm stone.

“What is it, is this a luminous stone?”

I picked up a stone.

Then, the grass growing on the floor withered in an instant and turned into powder and scattered.

It was a very surprising phenomenon, Yuari said while surprised by the warmth of the stones.

“It seems that the stone has the effect of making plants grow! According to elven literature, Baldur is the god of light and grows crops with his wife, Nanna, the plant god.”

Shut-.

Yuari took a stone from me.

Because Yoo-Ri possesses ‘super senses’, he was great at recognizing the value of things more intuitively than others.

You could call it a human scout, so to speak.

Yuari, who had been watching Yomojomo for a while, said.

“It looks like an ordinary stone. On the one hand, it feels similar to an artifact that was discovered in the past. The items on display in the museum.”

Artifact.

I was dizzy at the name.

“If it’s a relic, something like Gungnir? Things that can only be used by S-class?”

Sometimes ‘extremely valuable items’ were found in the cracks.

In most countries, they were collected at a high price, displayed in museums, etc., Or used as a non-polluting power source in power plants.

These objects were generally referred to as ‘relics’ or ‘artifacts’.

And S-class Awakeners had the right to temporarily borrow such relics from the state.

Well, it’s an additional right given to the duty of closing the T-class rift.

“Hey, I don’t think it’s time for small talk, right? No time!”

We already have 3 minutes left.

It was a story that we had to go back outside.

“Sorry. I wanted to explore more. Could you come back if you wait your turn?”

I felt like a child getting off a fun ride and standing in line again.

Jina Lee frowned as she wondered if this rift could be re-entered that way too.

“Do you know what kind of amusement park this is? Fixed rifts can only be entered once a week.”

Re-entry reminds me of an amusement park.

Lee Jin-ah’s sensibility was more similar to mine than I thought. She

Maybe it’s because she’s from the same common people and grew up in the same neighborhood.

She said that if she grew up in a similar place, she would have similar thoughts. She

She said that after a week she could re-enter, but she said that she would have to hold out for a week with a heart swollen with adventure?

But she had no way.

I heard the law was set like that, but what should I do?

It was then.

Yuari pokes my side carefully.

“Even though I look like this, I am a civil servant. If I talk to the person in charge of the rift well, I think I might be able to take an additional position.”

“Oh, really?”

After all, civil servants are good!

Before the 5th industry, didn’t everyone study to become a civil servant?

# # #

We picked up a very warm relic stone and made our way out of the rift safely. I already enjoyed this process alone.

As for artifacts, the person who obtains them has the right to acquire them first.

“Warm stones. If you have this, your gas bill will be tight this winter.”

I was worried because gas prices had gone up a lot lately.

Oinoi is also a nymph that hibernates in the winter, so she hated the cold.

Kyeongkong also sleeps in the winter because of the cold, right?

Even Angang, an ant, said that he sleeps in the winter because his movements are dull!

“Looks at it now, my house is full of guys who sleep in the winter.”

But if you keep this at home, you don’t have to worry about that.

“Hee hee.”

Of course, there was still the process of dividing the stone into thirds.

We’re a party of three.

Fighting over distribution issues was common.

“Is there really going to be a re-entry? It wouldn’t be.”

Then, as Lee Jin-ah looked at Yoo-ri’s back as she was talking to her manager, she opened her slender eyes. She seemed to doubt the power of government officials.

Did you wait 30 minutes?

Yua Li waved her hand at me.

“Senior said you can enter!”

“Oh.”

I also liked the civil servants.

That’s how we entered the fixed rift once more.

But unlike before, this time the door wasn’t hidden, it was wide open. It was just an ordinary stone-walled room.

It must have been initialized after 10 minutes, but it seemed that this artifact stone was not included in the rule of ‘initialization’.

“Sorry. I thought it would be nice to put one in each room.”

It was time to leave the regrets behind.

Lee Jin-ah asked.

“So how are you going to distribute it? In the first place, yes that ang… It was something I couldn’t get without ants, so I’ll get rid of it. I am not very interested.”

You’re giving up on bidding for this artifact-grade stone?

Then, Yuari and I must have the rights to this item.

Soon Yuuri looked at me and said.

“Did you say Jin-ah? Jina is right. I think it would have been something we would never have gotten if we had come by ourselves anyway, so I’ll give it to you, too.”

I was very happy because everyone thought rationally.

Instead, Yua Li spread one of her fingers.

“Still, since it’s an interesting subject, can I go and see it or touch it from time to time? If any pebbles fall out, seal them up and send them to me.”

“As much as you like.”

I readily agreed.

Anyway.

Our exploration of fixed cracks ended like this.

After all, I didn’t have time to swing my beam saber—I’m sorry.

!

-Zuji… !

Well, since we finished the adventure without fighting because of these guys, should we say it’s rather good?

In particular, Kyeongkyeongi really liked it.

!

“Do you like this stone?”

!

I don’t know what to say.

No matter how much science advances and AI develops, it seems impossible to understand and translate the words of animals.

“Jin-ah, I thought you would give me a ride too. What about thanks?”

On the way back.

It was two when I came, but three because Yuari was there when I left.

Since there are three of us, somehow it felt like we were on our way back from a picnic, and we chatted amicably about the tags and stickers we bought at an old stationery store.

“Ah, did both work and seniors collect tickets? I also collected a lot of things made of that rubber! I saved the pocket money my mom gave me and bought it, but only the carp king came out and cried!”

“Really? I also liked the carp king. If you evolve, you become a Gardos.”

“Actually, I liked Leebuy the best. Just, as long as you have a stone, you can evolve in various ways as you want. It looks like a fox and is cute!”

After talking for a while, we arrived at the house before we knew it.

Lee Jin-ah dropped me off at the yard first, and she said through the half-open window.

“Then, I’ll take you to the stationery store next time, so tell me when it’s time.”

“So what?”

Bureung-.

A truck that starts making old noises.

Thanks to that, the dog squirrels all over the town started barking noisily.

!

!

“He should be making a lot of money while running two jobs, so why doesn’t he change his car? Anyway, oh noi! I’m here! How have you been?”

I went into the house.

Then, Oi Noi, who was working on the computer, got up from his seat and spread his arms wide.

“Ah, the owner of the house… ! It is to come… ! Rather, this oi-noi feels a mysterious aura from the owner of the house… ! That would be a great thing… !”

“Really? Could this be it?”

I showed the artifact grade stone to Oinoi.

Then, Oi Noi opened his round eyes even wider than usual, and pressed his cheeks with his palms, terribly surprised.

“Ah… ! Such a wonderful thing is that I have never seen this oi-noi… ! Although there is a lot of energy of light and sun… Perhaps it is clear that the long-eared fairies are gods… !”

If it’s a divine object, is it something related to God?

“I Oinoi, I don’t know much about the gods that the long-eared fairies believe in…. I have to admit that this stuff is pretty damn good… If you have this, you can grow a quince tree… !”

Do Do Do -.

Oi Noi grabbed a stone and ran, and he threw it in front of a tree sapling of golden apples.

Flood-.

What else would you throw at a precious object?

Gentlely-.

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Then, an amazing thing happened.

The stones were placed on the flower bed in the yard, and the grass began to grow more luxuriantly.

You can see it growing like a hasty bamboo.

“Oh.”

“As expected, it grows well… ! A very nymph-friendly stone…. And if this is the case, the evolution of the top dog squirrel, Kungkongi… It is clear that it can be done… !”

“No, Kkyongkyung also evolves?”

I was very surprised.

Evolution.

I thought it was only possible with the cartoon characters I had seen in my childhood.

Oinoi immediately spoke.

“Muhuh, as far as this Oinoi knows, the dog squirrels who have accumulated some experience…. It is said that they often evolve by eating mysterious stones… ! This oi noi, he said he had seen a lightning squirrel before… !”

What else is a lightning squirrel?

Is it like Squirrel Thunder?

Anyway, it was very surprising that Kyeongkongi could evolve.

“So, it seems that Kyeongkongi has liked this stone since before.”

An amazing story in many ways!

My fingers were already tickling at the thought of telling the story of “Dog squirrels actually evolve!” To several dog squirrel tamers in Korea!

I’m sure it will be on the list of best recommendations!?

“Ah, the fruit has already been borne… !”

It was then.

Oinoi pointed to the golden apple tree and hopped.

As the guy said, the apple tree that had grown to the height of Oinoi had already grown fruit, and there were two of them the size of my fist.

“Owner of the house, hurry up and eat… ! If the fruit of the golden apple is not eaten within three days after it blooms, it will rot and give off an extremely nymphophobic smell… !”

You want me to pick and eat right now?

I picked a fruit.

What really sparkled was the golden apple.

“Oinoi, don’t you eat?”

I asked.

It was Ohinoi and Angangi who took care of this tree, and Kyeongkong who chased the insects.

But can I eat it?

Oinoi immediately spoke.

“I’m only saying this now, but this oi-noi actually hates golden apples… ! Growing trees is good for both Angangi and Kyeongkyeongi, but they hate eating the fruit… !”

What a peculiar personality.

I bit into the golden apple with the feeling that I can’t do it then.

Asak-.

And the sour and astringent taste made the back of my head tingle, and I felt like my stomach was turning upside down, my head was pounding, and my butt was cold.

“Ugh, what the hell does this taste like… !”

“If you eat all the seeds, the effect is good… !”

It was Oinoi who laughed.

Seeing the sincerity of the guys who cared for the tree, I forced myself to eat one whole.

Then, I felt as if my physical strength was attached to my body and my magic power was also increased.

“The effect is good. But I really can’t eat two. It’s the first time in my life that I’ve had such a bad taste since the jjangdol freshwater fish stew I ate at Jirisan. Really. Wow, Mr. And-.”

“Anyway, the golden apple is effective only with the first dose, and the effect is not so great from the second dose… !”

That’s right.

Then what to do with the remaining fruit?