City of Backstreet Nymphs

38 – 038 – Oinoi and the Little Stationery # 2

038 – Oinoi and the Little Stationery # 2

“How are you doing?”

Morning.

Lee Jin-ah asked her sister Lee Seon-ah.

Her older sister Seonah Lee acted exaggeratedly, such as putting her hand on her chest or exhaling her breath.

She immediately opened her mouth wide, her face brightening.

“Oh-, it doesn’t hurt at all. Her chest pain is gone! Can this be It really doesn’t hurt at all! And I don’t know if it’s because of her mood, but doesn’t she seem to have improved her skin too?”

It really had the effect of golden apples.

The 「Magic disease」 That made Seonah Lee sick was completely cured.

Of course, according to doctor Yua-ri, she said she should watch her progress a little longer, but at least for now, her sister Seon-ah Lee’s condition has improved greatly.

“Oh my God, I don’t feel sick!”

Her party, Seonah Lee, was overjoyed.

About 10 years ago.

A disease developed after that terrible experience.

When it disappeared as if it had been washed off, it felt like her really old jams were disappearing.

“It was terribly tasteless, but the effect is good! Lee Jin-ah, did you get that from her crack? Uh? You’re still running around cracks without her dad’s knowledge.”

“No.”

“Everyone knows that he is going through cracks without his father’s knowledge.

“It’s not from a crack, it’s from a country tree. And if I tell my dad that I’m going through cracks, will you really die?”

“He asked unnie what ‘you’ was, ‘you’. And am I crazy? Make me tell my dad you’re cracking? If me or my father are cracks, they are people with trembling teeth. You’re the only one out there!”

A strange species.

Lee Jin-ah frowned at the story.

Yes, Jina Lee might have been an outlier.

While she was thinking about that, Lee Seon-ah added her words as she took a deep breath.

“I still feel terrible when I think about what happened back then. You really almost died Suddenly, I was sucked in, so I wondered if the sewer cover was missing.”

That suuk-the feeling of being sucked in.

Even though 10 years have passed, the feeling was still vivid to Lee Jin-ah.

That chilly cold.

It was the first crack Lee Jin-ah entered after she was born.

And there Jinah Lee lost her mother.

‘Her mother couldn’t even find her body.’

It was a disaster that struck suddenly.

‘It’s actually a miracle that my sister and I saved our lives.’

Lee Jin-ah looked at her cell phone while thinking that way.

Today is the day I have an appointment with Haildo for dinner.

And it was the day I promised to tell the truth about many things.

Telling the truth meant that we had to remember the past.

# # #

“At that time, a crack opened in front of the stationery store. People got caught up in it and all disappeared, and it wasn’t even a fuss. Also, do you remember? You were there too.”

The stationery store owner’s words reminded me of a long time ago.

It was when I first learned about the existence of a crack.

It was a catastrophe like a sinkhole suddenly sinking into the ground.

People disappeared towards the cracks in the air as if they were sucked into a black hole, and I was also taken aback as the situation unfolded in various ways.

I reached out to save the man from being sucked into the rift.

However, the force of the rift that absorbed the surroundings was so strong that even I, who held the person’s hand, was pulled in.

What happened after that—.

“It was terrible in many ways.”

It was an unfamiliar environment that I was suddenly drawn into.

A forest in the winter that is extremely cold.

People were embarrassed and in pain.

Because the environment of the rift filled with magic was poisonous to ordinary people.

Fortunately, I had the qualities of an Awakener.

I was able to roam relatively freely within the frigid rift, finding people, rallying them, and leading them to the exit.

At that time, I really saved a lot of people.

If you think about it now, that might have been the starting point for me to become a hero who saves people.

“The moving center’s wife was also there. Have you really not seen your wife? Also, you brought people out at that time. Didn’t you see your wife then?”

I couldn’t remember.

It’s too old, and after that, I was invited by a government agency and pushed me into various rifts.

It was the 1st generation students who gathered like that.

I was so busy day after day that I didn’t even have a moment to think about the first crack.

When I was thinking about that, the owner of the stationery store added something.

“Anyway, if you meet the president, you should comfort him well. That man, if he still drinks, he says his wife is alive in the rift.”

That’s right.

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I decided to go back to my hometown for now.

When I entered the house, my father and mother greeted me.

“Haildo, are you here again? Oinoi is here too!”

“The parents of the owner of the house… ! It’s nice… ! There are a few leftover snacks called Oinoi and Apollo, so everyone should try them once… !”

A tumultuous reunion in many ways.

I asked her dad as I watched her mom carve her fruit for cucumber noi.

“I heard the moving center owner’s wife went missing in that crack?”

“What, didn’t you know? Of course I thought you knew At that time, the wife and daughters were watching the market together and got caught up in it. Don’t you remember how you saved the daughters of that family?”

I don’t remember.

That’s right, even the people I saved from that rift were twenty.

I couldn’t remember all of them.

“I see. Jinah Lee was there.”

It must have been around that time that her older sister, Seonah Lee, suffered from 「Magical disease」.

Now I see that the puzzle fits perfectly.

Indeed, I had a good brain.

In the evening, time passed with such a feeling.

I was invited to Jinah Lee’s house.

If there was one thing that bothered me a little, it was that I was taking Oinoi.

“I really want to see where the house of this oi-noi, the preliminary Korejina is… ! And they want to see the second person who ate the golden apple… !”

Oinoi wasn’t invited as a guest.

But, what can I do?

He’s the one who raised apples.

I’ll treat you well.

With that feeling, I entered Lee Jin-ah’s house. It was a family house with a yard and had to climb stairs to open the door.

Ding-dong-.

When I rang the bell, Jinah Lee with yellow hair opened the front door.

“Come in.”

She was always a TMI-free woman.

Well, I guess I didn’t bring up stories like the first rift or the missing mother.

She was looking around the living room for a while.

Knock-.

Soon the door opened and someone came out.

“Are you Jinah’s boyfriend?”

“…… !”

She was the woman who stole my cultural gift certificate!

Of course I knew we would meet, but when we actually met, in many ways I became stiff like a hamster in front of a snake.

“My name is Seonah Lee! He’s younger than me, so it’s okay to talk comfortably, right? It’s not the first time we’ve met. Yes?”

“That’s right. You took my cultural gift certificate.”

“Wen Culture Gift Certificate. I’m talking about cracks. But it’s a cultural gift certificate…. Cultural vouchers…. Ah, come to think of it, that was him! Wow! My God, the neighborhood is narrow!”

Lee Seon-ah burst out laughing.

She said it as if she was going to die of laughter.

Immediately, Lee Seon-ah spoke to her, Lee Jin-ah.

“I told you a long time ago that it was the first time I ever bought a cultural gift certificate. Lee Jin-ah, do you remember when you bought the Autumn Story ‘transparent hat’ with that cultural gift certificate? Uh? At that time, that cultural gift certificate… !”

Jinah Lee bought a ‘transparent hat’, a cash item for the game ‘Autumn Story’, with my cultural gift certificate? It was the first time she had heard of it.

How could this be?

Jinah Lee and Seonah Lee were in a team!

While I was shaking with a sense of betrayal and loss, Lee Seon-ah said.

“At that time, instead of giving me a cultural gift certificate worth 10,000 won, I said I would kiss you on the cheek for 10,000 won. But why did you run away then? He was smaller than me then, but now he’s grown so much.”

It was.

In the first year of middle school.

Back when I was small enough to always sit in the first row in class.

My older sisters who stole my cultural gift certificate in an alley surrounded me and made fun of me. I said I’ll give you as many kisses as I got for ten thousand won.

I knew that this was teabagging, of course, to make fun of me, and I was just embarrassed and scared.

So, when the adults shouted “You guys, what are you doing there!” To create a gap, I ran away.

After that, I didn’t even go down that alley.

“Sister, I didn’t call you to talk about that.”

“He always has a temper with his sister. Anyway, I guess I’ll have to call him Mr. I really enjoyed the apple you sent me. The taste wasn’t really bad, but the effect was so good… !”

I’m glad it worked.

Soon, Oi Noi crossed her arms and smiled.

“These are the apples grown by Oinoi… ! This cucumber noi learned a lot about growing apples from her master…. Growing golden apples is what she is confident about… !”

It seemed so.

However, Seonah Lee frowned at Cucumber Noi.

“Who are you?”

“Oinoi is an oinoi… !”

“Did you hear? My name is Ohinoi! Oh oh oh! Oh no! Kyahahahaha!”

It’s really very noisy.

It was then.

The front door opened and a fairly old man entered the house. The older sister, who had been talking, shut her mouth, and Jinah Lee also stopped her hand as she set the table.

“You are Professor Ha’s son. He is tall. 180?”

He was a strong man despite his age.

But his face was quite wrinkled and his hair was almost gray.

It must have been because of the stress.

We soon sat down and started eating and chatting.

I was mainly the one who listened to the questions.

“You are working on entering the crack?”

“Yes, it is.”

“Are you thinking of quitting and working for me? The salary may be a bit small at first, but I can raise it more as I watch. It must be a lot of money to give birth and raise a child.”

It was a story I was expecting.

I humbly decided to decline the offer.

“Thank you for your kind words, but there is something I want to do.”

“Yes.”

The conversation ended with that for a moment.

There was a part where the conversation in this house was cut off like this, and whenever there was this silence, I felt very awkward and it was painful.

Shut-.

Then Jinah Lee, who finished her meal, put her spoon on the table and talked.

“Haildo, there is something I want to tell you.”

“What is it?”

“We’ve already met before.”

That’s right.

This is the story you wanted to tell today.

If I hadn’t recalled my memories at the stationery store, I would have been surprised in many ways.

“I know. Did you see it in the frozen rift then? You were in it.”

“What, did you know?”

“I remembered today too.”

“At that time, thank you for saving my sister and me. I was going to talk about it. Because I haven’t heard of it until now.”

Lee Jin-ah’s expression was quite serious when she said that.

However, Cucumber Noi’s older sister Seonah Lee, who was playing with cucumbers on top of her rice, was very surprised and was busy watching her.

“Hey, what should I do if I talk about cracks at the dinner table!”

Tak-.

The owner of the moving center put down his spoon at that time.

That wrinkled face was full of subtle emotions in many ways, and after sighing, he said to me.

“Ildo-kun, thank you for saving my daughters. At that time, if Ildogun had not existed, I would have had to live without my daughters. Just thinking about that time still breaks my heart.”

“I just did what I had to do. And thinking about things that haven’t happened is unhealthy.”

“Yeah, you know. But I still feel like I’m in the past. My wife calls me every night. I mean in a dream Good job, have you ever seen my wife in the rift? It looks like this.”

Shut-.

She was the boss who showed me a picture of a woman who looked like Lee Jin-ah.

Unfortunately, I had never seen her wife in the cracks.

I have nothing to say about this either.

However, it seemed like something might come to mind.

“You said you keep seeing it in your dreams, right?”

“Yes. She shows up every night and calls me. I couldn’t see the details, but the voice was definitely my wife’s. I hear a strange singing sound….”

Dream the same dream every day─.

Looking at the man shaking her hands, Jinah Lee said.

“Dad, did you take your medicine?”

“I am not crazy. Your mother is alive… !”

Smooth-.

It was Lee Jin-ah, who opened her slender eyes.

A person who disappeared in a crack 10 years ago.

He must have thought that there was no way he could have been alive until now.

However, my thoughts were different.

“There is a chance that your wife is really alive. You said you kept appearing in your dreams? I am well aware of similar situations.”

Well house.

The people staying at the well house said that they had dreams in many ways.

It was a dream about the cracks in the well and the beings dwelling in them.

The boss’s dream looked very similar to that of the well house.

I’ll have to listen to more details, but I’ll know.

“Hey, don’t be mean to me! Don’t you know that sometimes hope makes people suffer more?”

Lee Jin-ah jumps up from her seat.

Soon, he became angry as if he would grab me by the collar.

“Don’t talk nonsense!”

“It’s not bullsh*t. Boss, you said you have the same dream every day, right? Do you remember anything about the content of the dream? If so, please let me know.”

“Well, it’s not the same dream every day, but it’s mostly similar. What song do you hear? Those lyrics…. Let’s see, I wrote something down the moment I woke up….”

The boss rummaging through his arms.

He took out an old notebook and showed me a page.

It was written there.

“Ditch ditch water, small ditch water. Was it a song like this?”

Isn’t this a song you’ve heard somewhere-.

As he thought about that, Oinoi raised his hand.

“Ah… ! It must be the “Song of the gutter”… ! A song that all nymphs learn from when they can speak… ! There must be another nymph sister somewhere… !”