A huge dog emerged, pushing through the bushes.

Its size was so overwhelming that I froze for a moment.

What kind of dog is that big?

The laser is on the dog’s forehead.

Too scared to approach the dog, I turned to look at the girl holding the laser.

“Oh… sorry, the dog suddenly appeared…”

The girl moved the laser to a different spot.

It was far from the dog now.

It seemed she hadn’t intentionally aimed the laser at the dog’s forehead.

“Kids, that dog’s too big and dangerous. Let’s go over there.”

Tap tap, I patted each child’s shoulder twice.

But for some reason, the children didn’t move.

Saebyeok, Levinas, and even Gaeul were staring intently at the ball by the dog’s feet.

It was the ball we’d been playing with just moments ago.

“Levinas’s ball…!”

“Ball…!”

They wanted to get the ball back, but were they too scared of the dog?

Levinas and Gaeul stomped their feet on the ground.

I thought Gaeul could communicate with dogs.

I started to wonder.

“Gaeul, can’t you just ask the doggy to give us the ball?”

“Doggy scary…!”

Gaeul’s ears trembled.

She shook her head rapidly.

I thought she could handle all dogs, but that didn’t seem to be the case.

I was terrified when I first met a snow leopard too.

‘What should we do?’

It’s a ball the children really love.

Should I quickly run and grab just the ball?

The dog’s wearing a muzzle.

It probably won’t bite.

Just as I was preparing to run, tensing my legs,

Levinas rushed towards the dog first.

“Yaaah!”

Levinas, who had run energetically, tapped the ball a couple of times.

She didn’t kick hard, just gently nudged it.

Though she’d been brave, unfortunately the ball got caught on the dog’s paw, so she couldn’t take it.

“…!”

Realizing she’d failed, Levinas came back to us.

It was a hurried, scurrying kind of run.

“Levinas failed…!”

“Yeah. You were really brave. I’ll try this time.”

“What! King’s not scared of the doggy?!”

“Well… I am scared, but it seems like a nice doggy.”

When Levinas was kicking the ball, I could see.

Its tail was wagging gently.

Despite its size, it was a good-natured creature that wanted to play together.

I approached the dog slowly, trying not to appear threatening.

Then I picked up the ball on the ground.

“This is our ball, do you want to play together?”

“King!”

“Then let’s play together.”

I should throw the ball for it.

As I was thinking this,

I noticed an insect sitting on the dog’s back.

“A grasshopper?”

This one’s carrying an insect on its back.

The old me would have immediately eaten it, but I’m different now.

I should just remove it from the body.

There’s no benefit to carrying an insect around.

I immediately reached out towards the grasshopper.

Pop-!

The grasshopper avoided my hand and scurried down the dog’s body.

It reached the area near the dog’s front legs.

I was standing by the dog’s waist.

The grasshopper went down towards the opposite front leg.

To catch it, I’d have to lie down on the dog’s back and stretch out my arm.

“Hnng…!”

I’ll have to reach out far to catch it.

Would it be quicker to go around to the other side and remove it?

Just as I was thinking this and reaching out my hand,

The dog suddenly started running forward.

“King!”

“Ah…!”

Since I was on the dog’s back, inertia pushed my body backwards.

I had to grab onto the dog tightly to avoid falling off, but it was difficult since I wasn’t in a proper riding position.

“King’s riding the doggy!”

“Master!”

The children followed, shouting loudly.

The dog headed towards where the girl was shining the laser.

The girl, thinking we’d lost interest, was playing with her cat using the laser.

“Meow!”

The speed wasn’t too fast, but the driving force was incredibly strong.

If I wasn’t careful, I might fly off and roll on the ground.

I had to hang on somehow.

I clung tightly to the dog’s back.

The girl, belatedly noticing my situation, turned off the laser.

“King?”

The dog slammed on the brakes when the laser suddenly disappeared.

Screech-

It seemed like it would slide for a while, but then it started spinning in place.

With no laser to chase, it began chasing its own tail.

“Whoa.”

The spinning force is too strong.

The centrifugal force created by this large dog was more than I could handle.

My grip started to loosen.

“Oh no.”

My body was flung off by the strong force.

This is going to make me roll several times.

I closed my eyes tightly, bracing for impact, but the pain didn’t come.

Something soft had caught my body.

“Gyeoul, are you okay?”

“…!”

Yeoreum had caught me.

My tail started wagging gently.

“Even if it looks fun, you shouldn’t ride dogs. You could fly off like just now.”

“I-I wasn’t riding… There was a grasshopper on the other leg, so I was lying down on its back to remove it when the dog started running…”

“Huh? Really?”

Yeoreum’s gaze shifted towards the dog’s legs.

The grasshopper was still clinging to the leg of the spinning dog.

To endure that force.

It’s more amazing than me.

Along with admiration, I felt a bit of resentment.

“Next time I see you, I’m eating you.”

I shook my fist in the air, expressing my discontent at the grasshopper that caused this situation.

Yeoreum pinched my cheek in response.

“Gyeoul, I’ve told you many times, we don’t eat grasshoppers, okay?”

“Y-yes…”

“Instead, I’ll make you something more delicious when we get home.”

“Okay. I like fish.”

“Alright! Got it! Let’s go home now.”

Yeoreum bowed slightly to the girl with the laser.

I followed Yeoreum’s lead and bowed too.

The girl smiled at us in return.

Now it’s time to go home and rest.

I let myself relax in Yeoreum’s arms.

——

The next morning.

Gyeoul left for the Academy, and Levinas went out to collect empty bottles.

Gaeul was her assistant in bottle collecting.

“Bunny.”

“It’s not bunny, it’s horned rabbit!”

“Horned bunny.”

“Yeah! Why are you calling me?”

“Black master gone.”

Black master.

It was a term referring to Saebyeok.

“The Dark King likes to sleep in!”

“Oh. We play?”

“No! We’ll play later! We have work to do today!”

“Work…!”

Gaeul’s expression became a bit more serious at the mention of work.

People in the park watching the children smiled warmly.

“Today we need to collect empty bottles!”

“Empty bottles?”

“Yeah! The bigger the empty bottle, the more money we get for it!”

Green bottles are worth 100 won.

Brown bottles are worth 130 won.

Levinas diligently shared all the information she knew about bottles.

“Bottles good!”

“That’s right! Bottles are the best!”

“Bottles god!”

Gaeul said, wagging her tail gently.

The park-goers watching the children suddenly froze.

‘Bottle… what?’

‘Did I hear that wrong?’

A shocking word had come out of Gaeul’s mouth.

The people in the park were shaken.

It was none other than Levinas who reassured these people.

“Bottles are great, but they’re not quite gods!”

“Bottles not god?”

“Yeah! They’re not gods!”

Ah, she meant the god of bottles.

The park-goers sighed in relief at the children’s conversation.

I was assuming the worst[1].

That’s better.

Phew, sighs of relief could be heard from somewhere.

“Let’s go!”

“Heh!”

Unaware of the park-goers’ inner thoughts, Levinas and Gaeul went around the neighborhood looking for empty bottles.

They rummaged through trash cans and explored various alleyways.

“It’s the carp people!”

“Oh, hello. It’s been a while.”

They greeted some men with carp tattoos they’d seen before, and even took a look at a police car at the station.

Combining bottle collecting with adventure made it more fun.

“Bottle!”

Gaeul, now excited about bottle collecting, ran quickly around the neighborhood.

Levinas followed slowly behind, weighed down by the bag full of bottles.

“Gaeul puppy! Now we need to sell the bottles!”

“Heh!”

They said bottle selling was done at the convenience store.

Gaeul, who had come out to the main street, looked around for a convenience store.

As Gaeul was looking around, something shocking caught her eye.

A massive bottle placed in the middle of the square.

One bottle was bigger than a truck.

Gaeul’s eyes widened at the sight of the bottle.

She remembered Levinas saying that bigger bottles were worth more money.

“…!”

Empty bottles with no owner belong to whoever collects and sells them, right?

But it looks too big for me to carry alone.

Anxiously stomping her feet, Gaeul ran towards Levinas.

“Horned bunny! Bottle! Bottle!”

“More bottles?! Levinas can’t carry any more, it’s too heavy!”

“Bottle! King bottle!”

“King bottle?”

Gaeul’s actions were urgent.

Sensing something was off, Levinas ran as fast as she could towards where Gaeul was pointing.

“Bottle! Bottle!”

Gaeul pointed somewhere and hopped up and down.

There was a bottle of a size they’d never seen before.

“Whoa!”

Levinas’s mouth fell open.

Bigger and heavier bottles are worth more money, but how much would a bottle taller than a tree be worth?

Levinas started calculating, counting on her fingers.

“A bottle as big as Levinas’s forearm is 130 won…”

A forearm-sized bottle is 130 won.

But this bottle wasn’t just forearm-sized, it was big enough to fit their whole bodies inside with room to spare.

This bottle could fit a horned rabbit, King, Dark King, and Gaeul puppy all at once.

A bottle that could fit all of them must be incredibly expensive, right?

Levinas estimated the price in her own way.

She said the largest amount she knew.

“That’s probably worth a hundred million billion!”

“Hundred million billion!”

Wha!

Gaeul put her hands on her cheeks.

She looked surprised, but in truth, she didn’t know how big an amount a hundred million billion was.

She just thought it must be amazing because Levinas said it so impressively.

“Gaeul puppy! Let’s take that!”

“Heh!”

Gaeul wagged her tail.

It meant yes.

King would be happy if we brought the bottle, right?

Levinas covered her mouth and giggled.

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[1. raei: 뵹 신(byong shin) is very similar to 병신 (byung-shin) one is a harsh korean swear word similar in meaning to retard or idiot. The other means Bottles God.]

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