[No Horned Wabbits!]

The picture depicted a horned rabbit tying up other animals with a rope.

I had asked Levinas to draw it.

Of course, I hadn’t told her why it needed to be drawn.

I wanted to surprise Levinas.

“Wow! If Levinas finds a cat restaurant later, I’ll change it to this!”

“Okay. Thanks.”

“Hehe, Levinas is grateful too!”

Levinas gripped the ladder I had climbed firmly.

She held it tightly, determined not to let me fall.

“Levinas, give me the carrot drawing too.”

“Okay!”

As Levinas and I were putting up the rest of the pictures, the store owner approached us.

He seemed oddly downcast.

“Um, kids.”

“Yes?”

“This is probably…”

Just as he was about to say something, a woman I’d seen before approached from afar.

‘Definitely…’

The Korean Beast-kin Union.

It was the woman the government had sent to check on the beast-kin children.

Her name was Min something.

I mumbled the name that was on the tip of my tongue.

“Min… Min-so…”

“Min So-yoon. You remembered.”

“Y-yes… What brings you here?”

“Nothing in particular. I just happened to be passing by and dropped in.”

Min So-yoon looked up at the sign Levinas had made.

Then she turned to the store owner beside her and asked,

“Are you open for business now, sir?”

“Yes, we are, but…”

“Then excuse me.”

Min So-yoon entered the store.

As she went in, she kept glancing at Levinas and me.

As I stared back at Min So-yoon, her colleague arrived a few minutes later.

It was the man who had come with her during the previous inspection.

His name was Kwon Yul, which I learned from their conversation.

“Looks like we’re the first customers.”

“Yes, it seems so.”

The two seemed to be in a good mood.

I was glad too that the transformed store had its first customers.

“Sir, do you have a menu here?”

“Ah, the menu is…”

The owner went to serve the two from the association.

I couldn’t pay any more attention as I was busy putting up the sign.

Carrots, stars, and hearts.

I put up all the papers Levinas had given me.

This should be enough.

Kwon Arin caught me as I was about to climb down the ladder.

“I think I know who those people are.”

“You do?”

“Yeah. They sometimes come on my stream, and Yeoreum told me to be careful of them. Their ID was BeastkinLover or something?”

“BeastkinLover?”

Maybe that’s the ID they used because of the Beast-kin Association?

I was just grateful they liked us.

“They’re really scary people, she said. You be careful too, Gyeoul.”

“I-I see…”

They’d be scary in many ways, being government people.

Better not make eye contact unnecessarily.

I turned my gaze to look at the back of the store.

That’s when I spotted several people approaching the store.

“Is this the place?”

“Yeah, look, there are the kids.”

The people glanced at Levinas and me before entering the store.

Even though we had just changed the sign, customers were already pouring in.

“The store sign is so pretty.”

“It’s a sign you just can’t pass by.”

Everyone passing by the store praised the sign.

I’d felt it during the festival too, but Levinas’s drawings seemed to have a charm that drew people in.

Thanks to that, the store owner became busy.

He ran around the store, yelling with joy.

The store was spacious enough to play ball in, but there were only two staff members.

Assuming the store would be full, even ten employees wouldn’t be enough.

It seemed there were no regular staff due to poor business.

“Ju-seong, can you check if anyone’s available to come in? I need to call Mr. Jang and ask for more supplies.”

Even though customers were pouring in enough to form a queue outside, the owner gradually began to stabilize the situation.

His years of experience in running the store were evident.

‘Looks like they don’t need my help.’

The contacted employees started arriving one by one.

Despite being called in on their day off, they all had smiles on their faces.

Most of those coming in were in their forties or fifties.

They were people responsible for supporting their families.

They must have been worried as the store was failing, but now that it was reviving, they couldn’t help but be happy.

“Han, what’s going on here?”

“Don’t ask, just get to work! You know how to grill meat, right?!”

“Of course I do!”

The store regained its vitality.

I hadn’t expected it to do this well, but I was glad.

“Levinas, did you finish putting up the menu?”

“Yep!”

“Then let’s go.”

“Okay!”

There was nothing more for us to do here.

I tugged on the busy owner’s clothes.

“Sir, we’re leaving now.”

“W-wait, I should at least…”

He kept glancing at me while serving customers.

I understood how he felt, but I didn’t want to interfere with the most important time of the store’s first day after its transformation.

“It’s okay. You’re busy.”

“No, no, this doesn’t sit right with me. Kid, you live in Yeomyeong Park, right?”

“Yes.”

“Alright. I’ll make it up to you later. Sorry to send you off like this.”

The owner ran towards the kitchen.

I watched his retreating figure before leaving the store with everyone.

Now that the work was done, it was time to play with Levinas.

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We returned to the park.

Kwon Arin went back to her guild, while Levinas and I wandered around looking for Saebyeok.

“King! Dark King!”

Saebyeok was sitting on a bench.

Her tail wagged when she spotted us.

“Saebyeok, did you wait long?”

“No.”

“That’s good.”

I sat down next to Saebyeok, who shook her head.

There was a pair of glasses on Saebyeok’s lap.

“What’s with the glasses?”

“I found them over there, but I can’t find the owner.”

So she was trying to find the owner of the glasses.

Just as I was about to examine the glasses out of curiosity…

“Glasses! Levinas’s dream was to wear glasses!”

Levinas picked up the glasses with sparkling eyes.

She looked at them as if they were a special treasure.

“Wearing glasses was your dream?”

“Yes! Beast-kin usually don’t wear glasses!”

“Ah…”

Beast-kin generally have good eyesight.

Unless it’s a special case, there’s no reason for them to wear glasses.

“Levinas is the first horned rabbit to wear glasses!”

Levinas brought the glasses close to her eyes and carefully let go.

However, the glasses didn’t stay in place and fell to the ground.

It was because she had no ears to hook the arms on.

With my quick reflexes, I managed to catch the glasses before they hit the ground.

“…?”

Levinas blinked, looking at the glasses in my hand.

She tried to wear them again, but once more, the glasses just fell to the ground.

“King! The glasses won’t stay on! Isn’t this how you wear them?!”

“You need to hook the arms over your ears. But our ears are on top of our heads.”

“…! Does that mean Levinas can’t wear glasses?!”

“Probably…?”

Thud-

Despair settled behind Levinas.

I patted Levinas’s back as she collapsed lifelessly onto the bench.

“Is Levinas destined never to wear glasses…?”

“No, there must be another way.”

“Really? Can Levinas have human ears too?”

“Hmm… Ears might be difficult, but there might be another way to keep them in place…”

Just as I was about to explain other methods to Levinas, Saebyeok tapped my shoulder.

Her other hand was pointing to the side of Levinas’s head.

Human ears that shouldn’t exist were sitting there.

“L-Levinas?”

“Hmm…?”

“You’ve got ears…”

“Huh?”

Levinas felt the sides of her head.

She seemed startled by the suddenly appeared human ears, but then picked up the glasses again.

‘Is this Levinas’s magic?’

Creating a body part that wasn’t there before.

It was magic of an astounding level.

I got a similar feeling to when she used to make her small horns bigger.

“W-wow!”

Levinas, now wearing the glasses, staggered around like a drunk person.

The prescription of the glasses seemed quite strong.

“Levinas, are you very dizzy?”

“Yes! King should try them too!”

Levinas handed me the glasses.

As I was about to just lightly place them in front of my eyes, the arms of the glasses kept catching on something at the sides of my head.

“Huh?”

A body part that should have disappeared.

Human ears had grown on me too.

“Levinas, did you make these?”

“I don’t know!”

“I-I see.”

It felt strange to suddenly have human ears now.

I could hear with these too.

I was curious about how the structure of my head had changed, but I decided not to think about it out of some fear.

“King! Dark King! Let’s play a game!”

“A game?”

“Yes! A game of walking straight while wearing glasses!”

“Hmm… Okay.”

I wondered how dizzy the glasses made her to suggest such a game.

I immediately put on the glasses.

“Wh-whoa…?”

As soon as I put them on, my eyes started spinning.

Heat haze shimmered in every space, making the world writhe.

How could glasses be this dizzying?

Were these really made for humans to wear?

Even standing up from the bench with the glasses on was a struggle.

“King! Come over here!”

Levinas, who had run far away, clapped her hands, telling me to come over.

I staggered towards Levinas.

“I-is it this way?”

“Yes!”

“H-here?”

“Yes!”

There was a wavering form right in front of me.

Realizing it was Levinas, I immediately hugged it.

“Got you.”

She giggled, nestled in my arms.

But for some reason, the Levinas I was hugging seemed much taller than usual.

“…?”

I took off the glasses and looked up.

An unfamiliar woman with a face flushed bright red was there.

Huh? Who is this?

Shocked, I froze on the spot.

I had ended up embracing a woman I’d never seen before.

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