Returner's Magic Laundry

Chapter 147

Seeds of adversity chose the florist.

What are you going to do?

Her face looked calm, but the veins under her skin were wriggling as she was constantly moving something of her.

‘It’s spreading all over the body. Over time, adversity will take control of this woman’s body.’

Perhaps the seed of adversity had found a suitable host.

Like a parasitic plant called ‘Saesam’, it was taking root in the host.

Her severed left hand fluttered with leaves of plants.

I found one of her cotton gloves in the drawer and put it in her hand, which the plant took over.

‘You have to close her car door before this woman comes to her senses. How much time do we have left?’

I went down to the first floor again and took out an iron box.

I couldn’t afford to hesitate any longer.

Passing by the florist who was lying in the living room, I memorized a spell towards the door of the bedroom.

“Infinite space-time!”

A small Mugunghwa symbol appeared at the door, and the door opened to reveal a magical forest emitting a brilliant light.

Holding the iron box, he hesitated for a while before entering the forest.

Ariel curls her body in a circle and gets up when she sees me.

Aides and the children are also approaching.

[Why do you look like that?]

“Huh? why me?”

I pretended nothing was wrong.

How can I say that today might be my last?

[Is it strange since last time? Look, you didn’t bring any laundry today. Can’t you see the tree fairies are blind to work?]

I looked at where Ariel was pointing, and the fairies of the trees emitting golden light were sitting in a row on the branches and following my gaze whenever I moved.

“Why are you so embarrassed?”

I sat down on a wisteria bench where the sunlight was streaming in through the shade.

Putting the iron box aside, Ariel’s eyes stared at it without losing sight of it.

[What is that?]

“Huh? this? Nothing.”

Ariel approached with a suspicious look and smelled the iron box.

“Because it’s nothing.”

When he tries to clear the box, he puts up Ariel’s thick front legs and blocks it.

[Your expression is nothing. Can’t you open it?]

“Because it’s nothing!”

Without realizing it, I screamed.

Ariel flinched and took a step back.

“Oh sorry. Nothing. Do not worry about it.”

[okay. If you’re nothing, you’re nothing.]

Somehow, Ariel quietly retreats and sits crouching down a little farther away.

Aides and the children just look at us for nothing.

As if to calm down, Kami comes to my feet and sweeps her body as if groaning.

She looked at Ariel, who looked a little sulky, and she felt a bit sorry for her.

Looking at her, she approached Ariel’s side.

“Ariel, would you like to visit our city? There may have been customers at the laundry.”

[What kind of guests are guests in a city where there is no one?

Ariel turned her head away, but seeing her talk back didn’t make her very angry.

I sat down on his knees and wrapped my arms around Ariel’s neck.

Ariel, who was startled by my sudden action, turned his head and started licking my face.

[Why is it so sad that Annam-kun is angry?]

“… … .”

[…] … .]

“I guess we shouldn’t have met in the first place.”

[Why are you saying that?]

To Ariel’s unanswerable question, instead of answering, I buried my face in my hair and rubbed it.

[Cosmos! Cosmos!]

Koso Moss ran up and raised his head as he wandered.

Pointing somewhere, his face is terrified.

“Why Cosmos?”

[I think I found something in the forest?]

When I went to the place the cosmos was pointing, I saw something black spreading on the leaves of the plants.

When I swept my hand and smelled it, it smelled familiar.

“what? Isn’t this mold?”

[mold? Why is the fungus in the magic forest?]

“I don’t know.”

Ariel looked around with worried eyes.

[I think the counterattack of the fungus has begun again. Somewhere on Earth we can’t see, the fungal forest is growing again.]

“Then what?”

[We must quickly make the forest cover the entire planet. Otherwise, the mold spores will fly in again and turn into a mold forest in an instant.]

“We’ve been working hard all this time.”

Ariel stopped his gaze at the iron box placed on the bench.

[That box… … .]

“Hey, that’s nothing!”

[The remaining 8 items that the forest wants… … .]

Ariel narrows his eyes and looks at me.

A cold gaze.

“It’s not like that. there’s nothing there Useless rubbish!”

[Why? Are you worried that we will disappear when the forest is complete?]

Ariel knew everything.

I may have known before I crossed the portal.

His eyes trembled and he felt the heat around his eyes turn around.

There, Aides and Cosmos, a whirlwind, and Cami are looking at me.

When the forest is complete, you may have to part with them.

“Yeah, I guess so.”

[We are always in your heart… … .]

“Fuck it if you want to talk like that forever in each other’s hearts!”

[…] … lets think. If you summon us, we can meet you anytime, anywhere.]

“Even if the forest disappears?”

[Even if the forest disappears, in my heart… … .]

“Ugh, stop it! If you’re going to talk like that… … !”

[Okay. I don’t know how else to say it.]

“Do you have time to go to the city?”

[T.]

Ariel gives her back as if to get on.

“Prepare Aides too.”

Fast-paced.

I get on Ariel’s back, and Aides also calls out the ghost horse with a whistle.

We headed back to the city.

The road to the city was the same as before, but other floats were seen floating in the air.

“It’s a fungal spore. It spreads faster than you think. All your efforts will be in vain.”

[I think it was like this once before. In the end, if you don’t completely conquer the mold, it’s just a matter of time before it goes back to normal.]

“I never thought the moment of parting would come so soon.”

[…] … .]

“Did Ariel know?”

Ariel doesn’t answer.

[Look at that.]

Ariel pointing somewhere instead of answering.

Upon seeing it, he was at a loss for words at the unfamiliar sight he had seen for the first time.

There were small squirrels, birds, and numerous animals in the forest.

“Yeah, they’re animals. Is this your first time seeing animals here?”

[As forests are created, animals are also emerging. So I have to make sure that mold doesn’t cover this place again.]

Bison, horses and giraffes graze in the meadow.

“Awesome. It’s like coming to Serengeti.”

[be careful. If there are herbivores, there will also be wild beasts.]

“beast of prey? A tiger or a lion?”

[Huh.]

Did the horse become a seed?

The bison, which was leisurely grazing, is excited and begins to run wild.

A herd of lions attacked the young of the bison.

It was far from the way we were going, so it was not likely to be a threat to us.

“I’m looking for a baby. Shouldn’t I help you?”

[Leave it. It is the providence of nature.]

“That, though… … .”

[Our job is to make sure the fungus doesn’t take over again. Even if we never see each other.]

I had nothing to object to.

“If the Earth is resilient like this, I think humans will appear soon.”

[Perhaps… … .]

We ran faster and headed to the city’s laundromat.

The city still seemed empty, but the only difference was that from time to time we could hear the animals chirping and running away.

“There are animals here too.”

[Of course.]

The laundromat was the same as it was made the last time I came.

I got off Ariel’s back and was about to go inside, but I felt a presence.

[It’s a pack of wolves.]

I turned around and looked at the building on the other side, and on the second floor of the ruined building, several packs of wolves were watching us.

Showing teeth, growling low.

The wolf pack was bigger and more threatening than expected.

As Aideth drew his sword and slept, the wolves lowered themselves even more and growled.

[stop. Aides. I’ll tell you.]

“Ariel, it’s dangerous! Leave it to Aides.”

[Then when the wolves get hurt… … How did the animals return?]

“That, though.”

[Annam-kun, stay still here.]

Even if Ariel resembled a wolf, it was not known whether they would recognize Ariel’s intentions.

‘When humans return, will all those animals be expelled?’

As Ariel slowly approaches the building in front, the wolves on the second floor come down.

The wolves are wary of Ariel’s approach by exposing their sharp teeth.

The growling sounded threatening, but Ariel didn’t mind and moved closer to them.

After sniffing each other, the wolves’ growl faded away.

‘Are we talking to each other?’

At that time, when I was not slowing down, a wolf suddenly lay flat on its back and opened its stomach.

‘what? Aegyo all of a sudden?’

Ariel looked at me and winked.

It seemed to mean that it worked out well.

After a while, the wolves returned, and Ariel returned to us in a stately figure without any problems.

“Wow, how did you do it?”

[Just what, we have something in common.]

“What did you say are you going back?”(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

[I told you to go away. Go back to the forest.]

“Why? This is a city, but there are no people.”

[When I come back someday, all the wild animals will either be driven out or die. Better go to the depths of the forest before that time comes.]

She paused her speech for a moment and looked into Ariel’s eyes.

“You think humans will come.”

[…] … Because the animals are back. Humans must be alive somewhere. If they think it is safe, of course they will return to their city.]

“… … .”

Instead of answering, she turned her head and looked at the ruined city.

Animals large and small were seen busily passing among the plants growing in the city, picking and eating berries.

We looked at it for a while and then went inside the laundromat.

I sat at the counter and looked out.

The thought that it might be the last made me impatient.

“You don’t think today will come, do you?”

[Well… … .]

“The laundromat opened not long ago, but I left without a single customer.”

[Someday someone will come and use it.]

She pulled out the ledger that was on the table.

A blank note with no name written on it yet.

As he hesitated with a thick pen and started writing something, Ariel and Aides approached them as if they were curious.

[What are you writing?]

“How to use the washing machine. I don’t know what kind of washing machine I use now, but the washing machine I have must have been outdated. 100 years after the end of the earth is a long way in the future.”

[You worry about everything.]

“It’s done!”

A detailed instruction on how to use the washing machine is attached to the washing machine.

“I wrote it really easily so that even an idiot could use it. Aides!”

Aideth, who was watching her outside, turned around and pointed to herself with her finger, as if calling her.

“Yeah, come quickly and try this. If you can do it, even a fool can do it. Come quickly.”

Quick wiggle wiggle.

Anides moving his chin hard as if he was complaining.

[I’m not an idiot.]

“Ugh, it’s a joke, so come and try it.”

Aides, who was unable to come and press the button according to the manual.

Then the washing machine tub rotates and water pours out.