City of Backstreet Nymphs

5 – 005 – Nymph Oinoi # 5

005 – Nymph Oinoi # 5

I still remember the events of that day vividly.

Quite a bit of time has passed since I started to feel ‘mana’ and became a D-class.

At that time, it wasn’t D-Class, but it was called “Additional Awakener”.

Anyway.

About 10 Awakeners, including myself as an additional Awakener, were hired by the government to take part in the mission to deal with the newly appeared anomalous rift on the mountainside near Chungcheong Province.

The inside of the anomalous rift is a large and spacious ancient architectural style.

It was a situation where it was promised to enter after taking two days to scan the inside with a drone.

We set up a temporary tent at the entrance of the rift to make a headquarters and watched the situation. It was decided that women would be in charge of taking pictures of the interior with drones.

No, I don’t remember exactly why, but there were only four women in the tent.

I had to go inside the tent to pack my gear.

However, it was a time when I was a little embarrassed to suddenly enter a space where only women were present, and I was embarrassed by something, so I said hmmm in front of the entrance and cleared my voice.

“Isn’t Hyeonsu who participated this time so cool? He used to be a lawyer, but he changed his job to an Awoken?”

“What are you, Jihyun? Do you like Kim Hyun-soo?”

“What! It’s not that I don’t like it, it’s just that it’s cool!”

Kkyareuk, kyak kyak-.

… ….

Inside, the women were talking about something that bothered them. Awakeners are mostly young people in their late teens and early 20s,

Talking about dating was common among people my age.

‘The atmosphere has become even more ambiguous to enter.’

I felt like I was hearing a story I shouldn’t have heard, but at the same time I was a little curious. Now that I think about it, I shouldn’t have done that.

“You, Yerim? Is there anyone you like?”

Seo Yerim.

I was a bit surprised when the name came out.

I vividly remember holding my breath to make sure my heartbeat could be heard inside the tent.

At the time, Seo Ye-rim was a woman starting to become famous like a new celebrity. She

She had a pretty face and her skills were very good among promising youngsters.

I had participated in the same mission with Seo Ye-rim about three times at the time, and every time I saw her, I remember admiring that there is such a pretty person in the world—.

There were times when even men would talk about women when they were together during breaks, such as “Who isn’t pretty?” Or “Someone has a really nice personality.”

As men have different eyes and ideal types, it was natural for women to have different evaluations, but Seo Ye-rim was definitely a woman that everyone recognized.

“Yerim said that you, Lee Jung-hoon, confessed the other day? Isn’t Lee Jung-hoon a conglomerate? If you kick someone like that, then he’s dating someone or someone he likes, right?”

“What? Yerim kicked Lee Junghoon!? Oh my god! Why did I know now!?”

The atmosphere inside the tent is ripe.

It was when my conscience started to prick whether it was really okay for me to listen to this story, and I was about to turn my steps.

“There is no one I like. Instead, there are people who hate it. Hail too.”

“Why? Isn’t Haildo good enough? He has a good face and seems to have good skills. It seems that he has no personality.”

“You just pull it off without any effort. I hate that.”

“Aha, so the 3rd generation chaebol is also full? Yerim, if you look closely, you have a strict side. Yerim is very picky.”

… ….

How would I feel if someone grabbed my heart with cold hands?

My heart felt cold, but on the contrary, my head felt hot.

I learned a great lesson that day about not eavesdropping on other people’s stories. The problem was then.

“Ildo, what are you doing there? Aren’t you bringing your equipment? Soon we will have to enter directly!”

Someone shouted loudly.

Because of that, I heard a sound of startling sound from inside the tent, and I was so embarrassed that I couldn’t figure out what to do right.

In that situation, the choice I made was to go into the tent calmly, pretending not to know anything. I went inside the tent.

I packed my equipment.

The women cheered me on with very difficult and ambiguous expressions, but with expressions pretending to be calm, saying, “Work oppa, you’re going to fall into a crack soon, right?” Or “Take care of yourself!”

I lightly replied, “Okay,” To them and caught a glimpse of Seo Ye-rim’s expression. And I was even more surprised than when I was listening to the story in the tent earlier.

“…… !”

That’s why she was glaring at me with a terrifying expression that Seo Ye-rim had never seen before.

It looks like he’s going to get angry, or he’s going to burst into tears… Perhaps because of her small face, her expressions were very lively and colorful.

After that… We broke up after clearing the rift ‘among each other’.

And the next one is like a story that everyone knows.

After Seo Ye-rim worked hard, she became an S-class Awakener, with three of them in Korea.

I’m a 10,000-year-old D-class that doesn’t even come up in search results.

We will never see each other face to face.

If I were to see his face, I would just be looking at Seo Ye-rim’s face on the screen one-sidedly.

That’s what normal people and top celebrities are like.

It was when she even threw a self-deprecating joke, saying, “Shouldn’t she be proud of the fact that she was cursed at by Seo Ye-rim?”

“… That Seo Ye-rim cursed me?”

It was strange.

There were many unbelievable corners.

What else is a ‘curse’ in the first place?

Until now, the curse was just a superstition mentioned by shamans. It was a subject that appears only in horror movies.

However, in a world where unknown energy called ‘mana’ has come into existence, it is not strange that there is actually a ‘curse’ that was dismissed as imagination and fantasy.

I was curious in many ways, but Oi Noi was sleeping curled up in a warm blanket.

“Muhhh… It’s Menteno…. This oi-noi came to meet me….”

Drurreung-Drreureung-.

The snoring is incredibly loud.

# # #

Monday morning.

I took Oi Noi to her institution.

National Intelligence Service: NIS

When I became the first Mana Awakener, it was a building I had been to for quite some time, but now, several years later, this place was like a castle tower far away.

Even though she hadn’t committed any crimes, her heart would shrink for no reason.

Of course, what I came to was not the main building, but an institution that felt like an earth ramp built in each city with a population of 500,000.

After the rifts, the government set up institutions like this in each city or important area to respond quickly, and had the Awoken stand by.

I also dealt with the affairs of drifters and wanderers that occur every moment.

Ding dong-.

I took a waiting ticket and sat down with Oinoi.

Ohinoi looked around and looked at the clean marble floor, the tidy exterior of the building, and the faces of the working women, and smiled.

“The building is clean and the people who work there are pretty. ! I wonder what kind of god is the god enshrined here… !”

God.

Oinoi often talked about goddesses or gods. He was not a monotheistic absolute that modern people commonly think of, but a Greek and Roman mythical god.

According to Oinoi, it seems that there are real people called ‘gods’ somewhere in the world….

Well, it’s not something I should worry about as I’m only a D-class Awakener.

Ding dong-.

“Waiting for number 52.”

No. 52.

Is it my turn?

I took Oinoi and went to the window.

Then, he handed out the ‘Drift Reporter’ that he had prepared in advance.

The woman who had been looking through the documents with a tired expression since Monday morning frowned slightly behind her glasses and looked at me and Oinoi.

“So, nymphs?”

“That’s it… ! Oinoi is the nymph of the ditch… !”

The expression of the female employee who was ruthless in her work and life has changed quite a bit. “Ears… It’s cute,” She exclaimed softly.

Drip-.

A female employee pushes a chair and gets up.

“Please wait.”

Five minutes later.

People who appeared out of nowhere tried to take Oinoi.

Oinoi must have been scared of the people in black suits who suddenly appeared, “Heeek… !” She screamed strangely.

He looked very pitiful, looking like a puppy being dragged by a dog dealer.

“It is clear that this, this Oinoi is going to be hunted… ! House owner… ! I feel pity for this Oinoi and ask for help… ! hehehe… !”

Suits, who would be appropriate to be called ‘agents’, were taken aback. They made embarrassing faces on each other and looked at me as if asking me to do something.

Eventually, I followed Oinoi to the main building of NIS.

As far as I know, there is something like an unknown ‘disease’, blood is drawn and tested, and simple questions are asked… Would it take a few days?

The main building finally arrived.

I watched Oi Noi draw her blood in the facility’s medical facility.

Jwaaap-.

Wait for the red blood to flow through the syringe.

A medical worker with a white mask over her face told me.

“Now you can go home with Mr. Oinoi.”

“…… ?”

It’s over already?

What test takes less than an hour?

Can it end this soon?

I didn’t understand, so I hesitated a little, then the doctor took off the mask and said.

“Ah, if it is a support fund, it will be deposited into the account number you wrote in the report. Also, sooner or later, Immigration Officers in charge of immigration will come to my house and ask about this and that.”

“Is that so?”

“It is a violation of human rights to hold on for a long time in a fortress institution and ask questions about this and that. If you are uncomfortable with the guardianship duty, can we send a person in charge separately?”

So will you be separated from Oinoi? To be honest, I’m saying this because my head is starting to calm down now, but I found it difficult to live on my own.

Oinoi was a difficult existence like a lump that suddenly appeared.

“Ji, the owner of the house… !”

Ohinoi looks at me as if he is quite perplexed.

I shook my head.

“I’m in charge of something.”

There are many things I still want to ask Oinoi.

Soon, Oinoi also raised his hand.

“Fortunately… ! If this oinoi is abandoned by the owner of the house, you will have to go through what is called a ‘garbage bag’ while shivering in the cold… !”

Even if it was thrown away from me, I wouldn’t have to rummage through the garbage bag anymore.

Anyway.

With this feeling, the discovery report of Oinoi ended easily.

But today I felt that Oinoi might be with me forever. Maybe it will be taken over by a professional institution or something.

Then it would be better to quickly get rid of what can be done before then.

I was really scared and nervous, but I opened my phone and found a phone book with “Seo Ye-rim” Written on it and wrote a text message.

“There is something I want to tell you about shoes. I would like to meet and talk.”

Hair.

Get Seo Yerim’s hair as quickly as possible!