I Became the Companion of the Gods

16 – EP.5 Butterfly Dream -1

-Tiloling!! Ttirong! Tirolong!!

In the morning, a rough ringing sound.

“Ahhh…… !”

I was half-mummy with my remaining energy taken away by the fox, and I was barely able to hold onto my cell phone.

“Hello… ?”

[Ah, is the phone number of the student of the ship owner correct?]

I don’t know who it is, a voice I’ve never heard before.

“Yes. It’s me, but who are you?”

[Ah! I am the person in charge of teaching practice at Default School this time.]

Those damn teachers don’t even want to talk to me, so they pass the burden on to the teaching staff.

It meant that my position in society was hitting the bottom of the dog.

“Yes, so why did you call me?”

[It’s nothing else, but I’m worried that a student from the ship owner hasn’t been attending for a long time recently, so I’m contacting you.]

A lot happened. I can’t be honest, but…….

In the first place, even if divine beasts became my pets, they would be treated as crazy.

Who would believe this?

Those who talk are crazy, and those who believe are also crazy.

But the fact that all of these stories are true makes it even more crazy…….

“Nothing happened, please excuse me for being absent.”

The special thing about the school I attend is that you can be promoted without having to complete the number of days you attend.

It was put up in the name of being for the autonomous development of students, but if you look at it openly, the mindset is ‘I don’t care because I intend to extort tuition from students’.

I like it because it’s perfectly comfortable for me.

[Okay, then the ship owner student. Are you attending Motaras?]

Motaras… ?

Ah, is it that season already?

An annual competition between schools.

It is an event created by schools in each city to show off their students’ growth.

A fighting show in which students representing the school participate and fight together with their companion animals.

I think it’s worth seeing in its own way, but…….

“No, I am not going.”

I didn’t want to waste my time on such trivial things.

[The school asked the ship owner students to attend Motaras and cheer them on.]

What is cheering? Cheering to death.

Things you don’t usually find or call…….

[By the way, if you fall into this Motaras, the school side says that it will consider even the retention of students from the ship owner.]

Did I ever go to a school for terrorists?

I couldn’t have imagined that he would negotiate such a deal using his salary as a hostage…….

“Okay, can I think about it and get back to you?”

[Yes, yes!]

-Beep!

“Haa… ….”

When you throw your phone on the bed, you let out a big sigh.

I don’t want to do anything.

I’m not doing anything right now, but I want to do nothing more vigorously and more actively…….

In the yard where the body is exhausted from trying to soothe the horny Miho, the mind has to be exhausted as well.

Life…. It’s so f*cked up.

I thought about dropping the school right away, but I couldn’t.

Because of the promise I made with my mother when I entered school in the past.

[After graduating from high school, I won’t care what you do, so make sure to get your diploma.]

I still live freely because of that promise.

However, if you are expelled from school, it turns out that you have not kept this promise, and you will not be able to refuse anything from your mother.

Demand to become a female shopping mall model…….

When I was young, my mother, who worked in the clothing industry, seduced me by saying that she would buy me pork cutlets.

But the place I actually arrived was a filming location with only cameras, let alone pork cutlet, and I…….

[Oops! My son is pretty!]

She was forced to dress as a girl by her mother and was used as a girl clothing model.

That was my first tragic dark history, and it was a memory I wanted to get rid of to the point of wanting to tear the covers off.

So I had to graduate from school. Certainly.

As long as you tell your mother that you are actually an agent or whisper to the director to help you, the promise won’t matter.

How many parents would say no to their son becoming the best civil servant?

But I am an unofficial agent. It was a position where it was not known that he was an agent.

If you think about it again, it is a terribly unreasonable situation.

What can I do even if I know that life is originally trash.

Two more days until Motaras.

I didn’t want to go to death, but decided to go.

I try to fall asleep while hugging Miho’s tail again.

Because I’m still very tired…….

***

“Huh?”

Low vision?

When I opened my eyes again, strangely, the scenery I saw seemed high.

It’s as if I’ve become smaller…….

Where is this anyway? Hospital?

If it was a hospital, you would have been discharged just a day ago and returned home.

But it was clear that the place I was in was a fairly old hospital.

Why am I in a place like this…… ?

I tried to stand up to look around, but I couldn’t move.

I couldn’t even walk and it was naturally too uncomfortable to move.

I feel as if my body is not my own.

Surely, my body moved against my will and I started crawling with my hands and feet on the ground.

I just crawled endlessly toward somewhere that smelled fragrant.

What the hell happened…….

The place where my body arrived was a hospital room, where small beds were lined up.

The word “Newborn room” Was written in large letters on the hanging panel, so it was a place where babies who had just been born after childbirth were gathered.

A lot of babies. Among them, a sweet scent stimulated my nose.

Smells good…….

Like a person who is attracted by a smell and wants to take a bite, my body naturally headed to the place where the scent came from.

The source of the sweet scent is a newborn baby.

My body approached the bed where the baby was lying……

“No! For a moment?!”

He licked his cheek.

Still against my will.

“You lick a baby no matter how good it smells! …… What?”

One question comes to mind after seeing a name tag on the crib.

Who am I… ?

Who am I now?

Now I am not a landlord.

That’s right, this baby I’m licking…… Because it was ‘me’.

If ‘I’ is here, now I…… ?

At that time, the baby ‘me’ that was licking was waking up and looking at me.

“Ah… ?”

The ‘me’ of a baby who doesn’t know anything yet.

He was just staring at me as if he was curious.

Looking at such a cute baby, I gently waggled one of my tails in front of the baby.

Then, ‘I’ started laughing.

I was fascinated by the innocent smile of such a baby.

“Ah… ….”

I finally found out.

Who am I now? ….

I crawl on four legs, I have a tail that looks fluffy, I lick ‘me’ attracted by the fragrant smell.

Now I…… It was Miho in his childhood.

***

“Ugh… !”

As soon as I realized who I was, my vision shook and the background changed.

Everything in the world changes as if a scene changes in a movie.

“Haa… ! Ha… ! What is this?”

The perspective of seeing has changed.

But the original me still had the tail and fox ears that I shouldn’t have, so I could tell that I was Miho.

So this is Miho’s memory… ?

I think back to the memories I had with Miho in the past.

The Miho at that time was born on the same day and the same time as me, so I must have become Miho.

I don’t know why I suddenly became Miho and I’m looking at Miho’s past…….

“Did you already sign a contract with a human, little fox?”

“Huh?”

The newborn baby room was nowhere to be found, and a huge, unknown monster was standing in front of me.

It had the head of a dragon, the body of a deer, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a cow.

I couldn’t help but say it was bizarre, but I’ve read in books that there is definitely a Shinsoo with this form.

Maybe… Was it a divine giraffe?

“Why did you do that, fox?”

A giraffe who scolds me like a grandfather who raised me for a long time.

Since the situation suddenly became like this, I don’t know why I’m being scolded, but I’ll listen carefully anyway.

“A contract with a human is a violation of the rules of divine beasts, an inviolable realm that must never be violated… ….”

Anyway, the reason I get scolded seems to be because I signed a contract with ‘me’.

“It’s fortunate that I found out first. If you were tight-lipped bastards, he would have tried to kill you and the kid you love.”

“… ….”

“Whoa, yes. You were born without knowing anything, so you couldn’t help it. I was just fascinated by a human with the same fate.”

As I listened to the conversation with the giraffe, I realized how important it was to sign a contract with my partner in the Shinsoo world.

“It can’t be helped, fox. You have only two options left. One is to borrow the hands of other divine beasts and kill only the people who contracted with you to break the contract…….”

At that word, I was filled with extreme anger and my body began to tremble.

These weren’t my feelings, maybe these were the feelings of the owner of this body, Miho.

“Looks like you really liked that human child. Then there would be only one other way. Use your powers to erase all memories associated with you. And in the future, hide and hide this fact forever so that other divine beings will not know about it. There is no other answer I can give.”

The last remaining option, even this option, is reluctant.

But there were no numbers left.

If I don’t take this path, ‘I’ will be in danger…….

“Miho! Where have you been?”

I had no choice but to do it.

“Huh? What’s wrong, Miho?”

Even if you end up in tears……

“Miho? Huh…?”

I had to erase the memory of ‘me’.

***

From then on, the same life continued.

I, who did not know Miho, began to be discriminated against in my daily life and suffered all kinds of humiliation.

I am in pain, accepting all the pain of people’s contempt, persecution, and pain.

And I am in pain watching it from the sidelines.

I wanted to make you happy by saying that I am your pet right now, but I couldn’t.

“Huh… ! Whoa!!”

I remember hating the world as ‘I’ at the time, who spent every day in tears.

I often screamed, “Why am I the only one who doesn’t have a pet and have to go through these painful days?”

Without even knowing that their pet is by their side.

This kind of ‘me’ was painful for me too.

To be precise, Miho’s pain.

The miserable reality and sense of helplessness of not being able to do anything while being by the side of the person you like caused endless pain.

Even I, who was experiencing this indirectly, was dying, so I seemed to understand why Miho was so crazy.

I lived with this kind of pain every day, so I couldn’t help but crave for my love.

If “I” Is happy over trivial things, I am happy too.

If ‘I’ is sad, I’m sad too.

When ‘I’ get angry, I get angry too.

Miho was completely one heart and one body with me.

You managed to live through this……

I think I want to reveal my identity hundreds of times a day.

Thousands of times a day, I think I want to kill those who bully me

I think I want to be loved by “Me” Tens of thousands of times a day.

Really, it was a sight you couldn’t see without losing your mind.

20 Years.

To Shinsoo, who lives an infinite amount of time, this would be nothing, but to me, who has only been born for 20 years, ‘I’ was everything in life.

If we had lived together before, we could have depended on something else.

But from the first time I saw ‘me’, I felt destined and decided that this person was my everything.

I have lived my life looking only at ‘me’ without looking at anything else.

Now I know why she has been so obsessed with me.

However, it is not enough. Just one thing is missing.

I had to know that one thing to fully understand Miho.

Thought so, I shouted into the empty space where only a black screen remained.

“Are you going to show me all the way to the end?”

An area that I do not know and that only Miho knows about.

“Don’t be mean.”

I want the memories of me and Miho before I lose my memory.

Meeting her first isn’t enough, I have to find out a little more about why she likes me and how she fell for me.

Otherwise I will never be able to understand Miho…….

In this way, the scene changes again, and my field of view gradually lowers again.

A new background is added to the black screen, it becomes colorful, and my five senses come back to life again.

Soon, completely before my eyes……

“Miho! Let’s play!”

There was a ‘me’ at the age of 5 that I don’t remember.