City of Backstreet Nymphs

13 – 013 – Nymph Oinoi # 13

013 – Nymph Oinoi # 13

“No, I have to calculate after all. Wasn’t Yuari buying food?”

As I left the restaurant, I couldn’t help but feel that I had been cheated in many ways. My dinner was ruined by Lee Jung-hoon who suddenly came in.

If I say to Yuari later, “Give me the money since you decided to buy it,” Can I get the money?

I’m afraid my form won’t be great, though. I’m in need of a penny!

Rather than that, after answering the phone, he went out of the store with a rather serious expression on his face. Seeing as he left without paying, it seemed like a very urgent matter.

Are you okay?

ㅁ Kungkong!

Pass-.

Just then, the squirrel, the squirrel, reappeared in my pocket. Why did the dog squirrel Kyeongkongi, who should be with Oinoi, come all the way to this distant meat restaurant?

ㅁ Kungkong!

He kept barking as if he wanted to tell me something.

The cry was that of a squirrel like a dog.

ㅁ Kungkong!

“It keeps barking.”

It seemed that he had something to say to me. If you see him barking like this, maybe something is urgent?

Did Oinoi get caught up in something bad? It felt like setting a house on fire while handling a gas fire.

“As expected, I didn’t leave it alone.”

I didn’t leave it there on purpose, Oinoi volunteered to look at the house.

It wasn’t because I liked looking at the house, but I wondered if it was because I was afraid of meeting Yuari and wanted to stay at home.

What is oi noi——because he evaluated Yuari as a person who hated nymphs. But after all, isn’t Seo Ye-rim more nymph-hating?

Are the values of nymphs and human values different?

With that thought in mind, I hurriedly returned home.

The one-room building was more peaceful than I thought.

Hurry up – When I ran up the stairs and opened the door lock, the house was a complete mess!

“What is this… ? Oh noi! Where is Oinoi?”

It looked like the house had been robbed.

The robber said there was something to steal from this insignificant studio? Then, suddenly, he remembered a story about hunters for nymphs.

Are you aiming for Oinoi!?

Entering the room while I was in shock in many ways, I was able to get a rough idea of what was going on.

Ugh-.

A mysterious sounding wonder was open in the middle of my room.

“Write, what is it? Crack… !?”

It was a phenomenon of a kind called a crack.

Although I was a Class D Awakener, it was a phenomenon I got used to because I had a lot of bones in the field. It was very strange that this was open in my house.

“There was no forecast that the crack would open?”

Cracks were mysterious, but they were a phenomenon that had been studied to some extent. When the space of the world is torn, the distortion of mana shows signs.

There is a device that detects the occurrence of cracks, just as a seismograph detects an earthquake, so the day before, the residents of the area were warned of danger and evacuated.

“Is it an [Abnormal rift] After all?”

「Anomalous fissures」 Meant cracks that suddenly opened without being detected or detected. Such was the case with the D-class rift that opened downtown before Christmas earlier.

I think this crack is probably the same.

The entrance was small, the size of a person.

Is this enough for an F-class crack?

For reference, the F grade was the lowest and the T grade was the highest. When it’s about T (Tyrant) level, you have to tactically dispatch troops and S-level Awakeners to close it.

“Anomalous fissures have been appearing frequently lately.”

Originally, an irregular rift that came without notice was only seen once a year.

But like last Christmas, and this time it came into my room, I wondered if something had become more frequent.

“Is it better to report first?”

Originally, when cracks occur, the first thing to do is to report them to the authorities in charge. However, when the discoverer was an active Awakener, there were times when it would be good to arbitrarily close the rift and report as a candidate.

It was a time when I was contemplating whether it would be good for me.

ㅁ Kungkong!

The kongkong, which was crouched in my coat pocket, seemed to stretch its body long, and then it leaped. As if he wasn’t afraid, he jumped toward the crack that shimmered like a blue haze.

I couldn’t do anything anymore.

F-class cracks are somewhat safe, but you can’t be sure of anything.

I also squeezed myself into the crack where Oinoi might have entered.

# # #

Ugh-.

My world changed as soon as I felt the guts in my stomach swell like when a roller coaster falls vertically.

The studio room, which was a mess in many ways, disappeared without a trace, and I was in a field.

It was.

It was a field.

It was a field that did not know whether it was barley or wheat, swaying majestically in the wind.

“Is it a grassy field?”

I remembered what monsters appeared in the grassland-shaped cracks. Didn’t Gareum, a monster who resembles a wild dog and has 6 eyes, mainly appear?

There was also a place where Kill Mantis, a giant praying mantis like a large dog, appeared in swarms.

I looked around, wondering where this place belonged, but I didn’t see anything that could be called a ‘monster’.

Instead, a brown-haired squirrel appeared from among the bushes.

ㅁ Kungkong!

It was a big deal.

Kyeongkong jumped and headed somewhere.

Are you guiding me?

“Hey, go with me!”

I ran hard with Kyeongkyeongi.

Did you run for about 5 minutes like that?

In front of me, I saw what looked like a strange structure buried among the reeds. It looked like a building carved out of white marble, but it seemed to have been neglected for quite a long time, judging from the luxuriant growth of the bush.

When I thought it was a strange structure, I saw something wriggling.

It was a red sweatshirt.

“Oinoi!”

I called.

Soon, Oinoi, who had been hiding among the collapsed marble pillars, raised his head abruptly.

“The owner of the house… ! It’s nice… !”

“Oinoi, what are you doing here?”

“I came in because I felt a nostalgic smell… ! This is probably the site of an abandoned temple…. I don’t know which god’s temple it is, but…. It’s a nymph-friendly place… !”

Whoo oh oh-.

The wind blew.

It was very beautiful to see the field swaying beautifully under the warm sunlight. Indeed, it seems that such a scene is a nymph-friendly place.

Unfortunately, the rift had to be closed.

Otherwise, things could get sucked into this open hole.

“Oinoi, let’s go. Will close the rift Before that, I want to find something that becomes the core of the rift. Do you have anything on your mind?”

The crack was a space created around something with a certain ‘cohesion’. Something with that cohesion could be a powerful monster or a treasure with special powers.

We called that kind of material ‘crack core’.

What kind of rift cores are there?

Soon, Kyeongkong jumped from side to side.

ㅁ Kungkong!

I watched what he was doing and saw something black, the size of a thumb nail, wriggling and crawling on the floor.

The identity of that strange creature is….

“Ant?”

Have ants ever been found in Class F cracks?

In the Class D Rift, ‘Genocide Ents’, ants as big as puppies, used to threaten the Awoken. However, it was smaller than Genocide Ent.

Because of its small size, it seemed harmless.

Soon, Oinoi shouted.

“Ah… ! This means that the procession of honey ants is clear… ! Honey ants are the only ants that are so black and shiny… !”

What else are honey ants?

As I was wondering, Oinoi shouted.

“Honey ants are literally honey ants… ! An amazing worker blessed by the goddess of good harvest… ! A bar that likes to collect honey like a bee… They are wonderful, nymph-friendly ants that tend to flowers and plants… ! Let’s hurry up and find the leader, the king ant… !”

Ants?

Isn’t the queen ant the head of an ordinary ant?

Soon, Oinoi looked around the procession of ants.

Kungkongi also jumped here and there and watched the procession of ants.

I had no choice but to help find the ‘king ant’ of this honey ant train. But how are you going to find an ant in this vast field?

After thinking for a while, Ohinoi said.

“The king ant is a very nice-looking ant…. It makes a crackling sound with sharp jaws… ! If you can hear that sound, you must be able to find it… !”

Sound?

It was a better hint than nothing.

As I calmly breathed in the air, I focused my five senses on my hearing.

Various sounds began to come through my ears, probably because my physical abilities were amplified more than usual through the rather abundant magic power.

Basrak-.

Basrak-.

“I wonder if I can hear something… !”

ㅁ Kungkong!

“Shhh, be quiet.”

After paying attention to everyone, I used my five senses again.

Then the wind blew, and in the midst of the grass in the fields brushing each other eagerly, something strange began to be heard.

Just-. Just-.

It was the sound of hard things hitting each other.

It’s not too far from where I am.

I took about five steps and rummaged through the bushes.

Then I saw something large, the size of my palm.

It was an ant with three high horns, like a foreign rhinoceros beetle.

It looked big and solid, and the color was golden, very nice.

“Is this a king ant?”

When I grabbed the big ant back, the golden ant struggled.

I was surprised that it was stronger than I thought.

“Ah! It’s the first time I’ve ever seen a honey ant this big… ! Seeing that the horns are nice and the color is golden, it is clear that this is not just a king ant, but an emperor ant… ! That’s really awesome… !”

Emperor Ant.

Is Kaiser Ent?

It was a fitting name indeed.

I felt strong power and subtle magic from this guy.

As I thought, this guy was the ‘cracks core’ of this strange field and abandoned temple.

Killing this guy will close the rift.

Or take them out.

I thought it would be a waste to kill him, so I decided to just take him out.

Shut-.

After bringing the emperor ant out, the crack closed after about 10 seconds.

It seems that this guy was really a rift nucleus.

“That’s really amazing.”

“hehehe… ! The house is a mess… !”

Oinoi was shocked to see the messy studio. Apparently, the room was fine until Oinoi entered the rift.

It was a time when I was worried in many ways about when to clean this up.

-Zuzu-.

The emperor ant, which had been held in my hand, climbed down my lap towards the floor and began to tidy up the disheveled blankets and scattered clothes.

As I was surprised by the very strange sight, Oinoi said.

“There was a time when honey ants helped Princess Psyche by arranging grain in the temple of the Goddess… ! In other words, honey ants are masters of tidying up… !”

“Really?”

Certainly, I could see it when I saw it.

Anyway.

I reported the occurrence of an anomalous crack and its handling to the agency through the app.

After about 20 minutes, an investigator came out, and it was a familiar face.

“Seo Ye-rim, did you come and check the F-class crack?”

“Don’t you know that it’s a rule that the highest officer responds to an anomaly rift? How can I be on duty today? Rather, is this the house you live in? There are also squirrels, and this is another ant… ? Are you an ant?”

“Emperor Ant. This guy was the nucleus of the anomalous rift.”

I showed the emperor ant to Seo Ye-rim.

Seo Ye-rim was busy looking around my house while watching ants. The look on his face was like that of a golden spoon who had just entered the gosiwon for the first time.

I said to Seo Yerim.

“I have to report what happened, so come inside. Although it was a bit unorganized. You’re a busy person, so it’s better to finish quickly and leave, right?”

At my words, Seo Ye-rim looked at the dust-covered floor in the aftermath of the crack. I was upset because she was about to put on her shoes and come indoors.

“No, you have to take off her shoes anyway.”

“My stockings. It’s made of Foxford company insulation material and costs about $5,500. Can you wash it if it gets dirty?”

“Then… just put on your shoes It’s a room that needs to be cleaned anyway.”

Even if I put all of the flooring in my room together, they seem to be cheaper than the stockings worn by Seo Ye-rim.

Shut-.

She said it was okay to wear shoes, but Seo Ye-rim took off her shoes and entered the dusty room in black stockings.

He asked.

“So what happened?”

Explaining what happened was easy.

Like a veteran who has been on active duty for a long time, I explained everything in detail.

“I couldn’t capture the cracks. I was out there then. You know Yuari? Your motivation. I was having a meal with him when suddenly a bump came. For reference, this is a dog squirrel. Anyway, when I followed Kyeongkyeong to the house, there was a crack—”

“Yuari? Did you eat with that Yuari?”

Seo Ye-rim’s eyebrows crumpled.