NOVEL NEXT chapter 34
34 – EP.10.5 Later story -2
I always think about it, but I wake up looking at the same ceiling every time.
And again, I woke up looking at the ceiling of my room.
Although my forehead is a little sore, I realized my survival in that I woke up safely like this.
Perhaps it was Miho who healed her when she passed out after being hit by a snowball with stones.
Otherwise, Tia threw a snowball and I would have died.
And the fact that I’m on my bed must have been brought here by Yata.
The fragrant smell of Yata faintly wafting from my body was proof of that.
With this, I now realize the whole story of how I woke up from the bed unharmed……
There was still one unanswered question.
“Who, who… ?”
A mysterious girl in my field of vision who should only be able to see the ceiling and lights.
The girl, who was blinking in amazement, started laughing brightly when I asked a question.
“Get up!!”
A girl who energetically tells me about my condition instead of answering questions.
They jump right at me and hug me tightly.
“Ehehehe!!”
The behavior of a girl who is in a great mood and doesn’t know what to do. For some reason, I had a strange feeling of deja vu.
I feel like I know a lot about this girl, even though I’m sure I’ve never met her.
“Pause me! Write! Damn!”
“Hey, it’s difficult to do this all of a sudden… ….”
A girl who suddenly thrusts her head into my face asking to be stroked.
I’m sorry for the girl, but as I grabbed the girl’s head to completely separate it from my body, I felt something strange at the tip of her hand.
“Oh… ? This?”
Something sharp felt in the soft hair.
To call it scalp, the texture was smooth and hard, so it was unreasonable.
“Head not horn! Stroke my hair!!”
“Huh? Oh yeah.”
A girl who gets angry while puffing out her cheeks because she touched the wrong place.
If you pet it again, avoiding only the sharp parts, he will growl and like it.
A sense of déjà vu arises from such an innocent girl, and the presence or absence of horns that humans do not have.
At this point, I thought I knew what the girl really was.
“Could it be Tia… hey?”
“Yes!!”
“Oh, ow…….”
To be honest, I couldn’t believe it because I was so surprised, but when I saw the girl’s cute behavior and pure reaction, I had no choice but to believe it even if I didn’t want to believe it.
Previously, through Miho, I learned that divine beasts can change into whatever they want, but when a dragon that normally looked like a lizard suddenly appeared in the form of a girl, I felt dazed.
“Stop your hands! Stroke it again!!”
“Oh, sorry!”
Tia expresses her dissatisfaction again as she pauses her hand for a moment in a daze.
I only saw it now, but the dragon’s tail protruding from under the dress the girl was wearing was tapping the bed sheet as if representing her heart.
Then, when I started stroking his hair again, he would wag his tail and say he was happy.
Tia is still Tia even if she turns into a human.
“I’m sorry! Stroke me!!”
“Yes, yes, I will stroke you a lot.”
“hehehe!!”
“Do you feel that good?”
“Joa!!”
Anyway, Tia’s human form…….
Long, light green hair, the same color as Tia’s before, and yellow horns protruding from it.
The sharp vertical pupils of the dragon should have provided fear, but the cuteness of the round face easily exceeded the fear.
There are many other attractive features, such as a wagging tail or wings hidden under clothes, but to put it simply……
It’s cute.
The dragon figure was cute enough, but Tia’s cuteness still didn’t disappear even after she turned into a human girl.
“Heh heh… ….”
That cuteness automatically makes her dad smile.
Because of this cuteness, my hands do not stop stroking Tia’s hair, but all sorts of questions linger in my head.
How is it that Tia suddenly took on human form?
Did it happen that the head was damaged by the snowball and saw the baby dragon like a human?
If that’s the case, it’s a serious problem…….
“Did you just wake up, Mr. Seo?”
“Oh, Miho.”
“How is your body?”
“It’s okay. It’s perfectly healthy, maybe…….”
There may be something wrong with the head.
“Is that so, then that’s a relief! Right Tia?”
“Yes!!”
“Did you worry that much?”
“Of course! Especially Tia, after she passed out, after she realized she was wrong, she stayed by her side the whole time and she was worried?”
“Is that so?”
“Worry so much!!”
“I see… ….”
Even though it wasn’t my fault, she said she was worried about it, so I feel sorry for nothing.
Originally, I should have scolded Tia saying that I shouldn’t do such a thing again, but when I look at myself for not being able to do that, I think I’m an idiot.
No, maybe I gave up the option of scolding myself in my heart…….
Because there were two pets near me who wouldn’t listen to me no matter how much I scolded them.
“Seo, Mr. Seo? It’s embarrassing if you stare at me like that… !”
Is Miho aware of the mistakes she has committed?
In fact, apart from her faults, when she thinks of the countless battles she has committed from her past to the present, she doubts whether or not she has her conscience.
But since it was all done for me, it’s hard for me to say anything…….
It is very difficult, difficult.
I don’t know how to treat pets or how to teach them, as it’s been a long time since I didn’t have a companion animal.
“You know, Miho. If my eyes aren’t wrong, then Tia’s appearance is a human now, right?”
“Yes, I couldn’t hide the horns, wings, and tail, but the overall appearance is human.”
“Fortunately, there is nothing wrong with my head… !”
“Come to think of it, it was the first time Seo Bang saw Tia in her human form after waking up.”
“How come you sound like you’ve seen a lot?”
“That’s right, I’ve been teaching from time to time since the previous stadium commotion. How to change into human form.”
“It started quite a while ago… ? But why did you teach that?”
“Isn’t it easier to understand human culture in human form than in dragon form? Only when we properly learn human culture will we not be a nuisance to the West.”
A fact I didn’t know at all.
Anyway, it seems that my companion animals were thinking of each other and taking care of each other without me knowing.
Originally, what I had to do, they shared little by little.
This made me feel a bit more at ease as it meant I didn’t have to take responsibility for everything by myself.
“Anyway, since I have been teaching Tia consistently in place of Seo-Bang-sama, I think you can rest assured about Tia’s education!”
“Thank you…… But just in case, what have you been teaching me so far?”
A bad memory from the past suddenly comes to mind.
Before I collapsed, I suddenly remembered the image of Miho teaching Tia the wrong snowball fight, and I was a little nervous.
“That’s right, I taught you things like behaviors and attitudes that make you happy, and ways to help you live a happier life!”
“Ummm… ….”
If you ask Miho, it seems that only an abstract answer will come back.
In this case, it would be much quicker and more accurate to listen to the learner’s point of view.
“Tia.”
“Huh?”
“What should I do if I pass by someone who seems to be in trouble?”
“Umm…… By not knowing!”
Tia smiles brightly, saying she doesn’t understand even though it’s basic common sense.
It’s cute, but the insecurity in my heart started to grow.
“Then, what should I do if someone is bullying me?”
“Ah! How did you learn this from your sister!! Break the limbs first! Then…… !!”
The words that flowed from Tia’s mouth after that were cruel and violent enough to be treated as beeps on air.
It was only today that I realized how shocking it is to see a cute girl spit out violent words casually.
“Am I good at learning? Praise me!! Write! Write!!”
“How are you? Didn’t you learn really well?”
“Huh… hahahaha…… !”
Tia, who has come to learn wrong knowledge without knowing basic common sense, and Miho, who smiles with satisfaction at seeing this and saying that she taught her well.
Ah, these are pets that make my mind go crazy today.
“Next time, shall we learn how to efficiently deal with the enemies of the West?”
“Yes! Joa!!”
I would rather have them say that something is wrong with my brain…….
***
“Tia, no matter what happens, you shouldn’t harm people recklessly.”
“Are there people who hurt Yu?”
“Yeah, it’s okay to scold me, but you must never try to kill me! Understand?”
“Take care!!”
“That’s right, our Tia is nice.”
“Ehehehe!!”
Wrong knowledge learned from Miho.
I had a lot of trouble figuring out where to start and how to fix it, but as a result of retraining after spending a long time, I think it was roughly corrected.
All that’s left is common sense that Miho didn’t teach you.
This is absolutely no matter what happens! I will teach, and I plan to be in charge of Tia’s education from now on.
Miho’s teachings…….
It’s a whole bunch of problems beyond faults.
“Just this much for today, let’s learn the rest later. Wouldn’t Tia want to play soon too?”
“Yes!! Now play Sipper!!”
“What do you want to play with?”
“Playing tag with Yuu!!”
It wasn’t long before she started humanizing properly, so Tia didn’t have the correct pronunciation yet.
Tia, who couldn’t even call me by my name properly, decided to call me ‘Yuu’.
I call my adult Mr. Yu for a long time, Yuu.
It’s the first time I’ve been called by my last name, so it’s a bit awkward, but when Tia calls me like this, she feels something and thinks it’s rather good.
“So Yuu is the tag!!”
“Okay, then I’ll go catch you after counting to 10 seconds, so try your best to run away, Tia.”
“Yes!!”
She must have been so happy playing with me. Even while running away, Tia was laughing happily.
If you really like it that much, you’ll want to keep playing…….
I think I will know the feelings of fathers with cute daughters.
“10…9…8…7…6…”
Anyway, from now on, let’s throw away our thoughts and focus on playing with Tia.
“5…4…3…2…1…Ding!”
A game of tag that starts after the count is finished.
Of course, Tia had already disappeared from my sight.
Then they said that it would be enough to quickly wander around the mansion to find and catch Tia, but it would be boring if caught too soon, so I decided to take my time looking for her.
Starting with Tia’s room, I opened the door of each room and looked inside to find Tia’s existence, but unexpectedly, it was not easily found.
I looked around the facilities in the mansion besides the room, but I didn’t see any trace of Tia, so I guess I was lightly playing tag.
I thought I would find and catch it right away, but considering the current situation where I can’t even find it, let alone catch it, it seems that I need to be sincere.
“As expected, a Shinsoo is a Shinsoo even though he is young… ….”
She begins to run her legs in earnest, which she had been walking slowly, and begins to search the inside of her mansion, but Tia is not found.
I tried to get a little help from the other pets in the mansion, wondering if they had gone out at all, but unfortunately, no one was in the mansion, as if everyone had gone out somewhere.
“Tia? Where are you? I can’t find it anymore, so come out!”
If Tia really went outside, it would be a big deal.
I couldn’t help but admit defeat and called out to Tia.
In case you couldn’t hear me, I wandered around the mansion and called Tia’s name, but there was no answer.
“What… ? Did you really go outside?!”
As my doubt gradually turned to certainty, my anxiety also began to rise.
As a divine beast, I don’t think there would be any major problems, but if someone was tricked and followed by a bad person outside, that would be a serious problem.
“Tia… !!”
It’s not a confirmed fact, but it’s a situation where you can’t stay still.
I decided that I had to go find Tia, so I quickly kicked out the front door, and an unexpected person was waiting in front of the door.
“Uh… ?”
“We are reunited again, human…… No, it’s the first time I’ve seen my real self, so it might not be a reunion.”
Standing in front of the door was a wolf I had never seen before.
However, unlike before, the current size has become considerably smaller, and the moon pattern, which was not there originally, is engraved on the back…….
“Tongue, hyung, why are you here… ?”
He was the main body of Hati, an ice wolf that fought in the North.