Returner's Magic Laundry

Chapter 148

As Aides drew out a sword and swung it, the two fell from the building.

“Amiya, get away!”

The voice of a middle-aged woman speaking while holding a child.

It was obviously Korean.

“Aides, stop it. I don’t think it’s dangerous.”

At first, she was surprised by her dark look, as if she had been covered in ashes, but soon felt welcomed.

The two didn’t look threatening at all.

I approached them slowly so as not to startle them.

“Good morning. My name is Ahn Nam.”

The two hesitated to talk.

Seeing that he was still wearing a gas mask, it seemed that he did not know that the fungal forest had receded.

She pretended to take off the gas mask with her hand and spoke again.

“Mask… … You can take it off.”

As I said, the two looked at each other.

“I didn’t write it either, but it’s okay. There is no mold now.”

The two slowly take off their masks.

Then raise your head and breathe in slowly and deeply.

When nothing happens even when they breathe in the air, smiles begin to spread across their faces.

“What happened? Because of mold spores for a long time, we couldn’t get out without gas masks.”

The woman asked if she was a little relieved, approaching slowly.

However, she didn’t push her boundaries.

Because Aides and Ariel’s appearance wasn’t normal.

“Oh, it’s hard to explain, but these guys are my friends. fufu. nice Would you like to come inside?”

The woman contemplates and comes inside with her child.

“Are you Ami? I thought I was called ARMY earlier.”

“… … Yeah.”

She is a young girl who looks about 8 years old.

Her clothes were covered with mold spores, losing her original color and appearing dark gray.

In addition, the skin under her clothes had a significant, reddish rash, probably caused by a fungus.

“this… … Her skin disease is severe. Why don’t you wash up and change into new clothes?”

I took out the clean clothes I had hung on her hanger and showed them to me.

“When did the world become like this? We didn’t even know this, and we continued to live deep underground. There is not enough oxygen, there is not enough water, and there is no place for people to live… … .”

“Oh, are there any others? Do you know why the earth was covered with mold?”

“No, I don’t know. Because when I was born, the earth was already covered with mold. I was born underground and lived underground.”

“Then how are we going today? … .”

“Neither do I. Our ARMY was following a butterfly that flew into the basement… … I knew ‘butterfly’ after seeing it in a book. She came out of the basement to find the ex. But I was very surprised that the world had changed so much.”

She is surprised once more when the woman takes her clothes and holds them.

“Hey, this is the first time I’ve seen such clean clothes. It’s such a white dress.”

“I’ll put some water inside, so would you like to wash up? Then I think we can talk. I will clean the clothes you are wearing.”

“Oh, I’m sorry. Are we too dirty?”

She smells her clothes and writes her impressions.

“no. It’s not like that.”

Finally she is the first guest in this world.

She nods her head as she looks at Ariel and Aideth.

Ariel was talking, but he seemed to keep his mouth shut, lest people be surprised.

The explanation becomes more complicated when he knows that animals speak.

She said that she had not yet fully relaxed her vigilance, so she looked like she was holding her arm and pondering again.

“It’s okay. Rest assured. I just want to wash those clothes. As you can see from the sign outside, this is a laundromat.”

She relaxes at my words and smiles slightly.

“Wait a minute.”

After entering a separate space from the laundry, I quickly created a bathroom by magic.

The bathtub was made of bamboo, and rain clouds filled with the streams of the magical forest filled the bathtub.

Next to the bathtub, the plants grew and flowered.

It was carefully decorated for two mothers and daughters who came to a clean area, not a mold forest for the first time in their lives.

Then he went out and led the two of them into the bathtub.

“It’s amazing. This is my first bathroom. There is no water in the basement, and there is no space to wash yourself in peace.”

“From now on, you will always be able to bathe like this. Please take off your clothes and put them outside. Then I will do the laundry.”

“Yes, thank you. I’ll wash up quickly. I have too many questions to ask.”

“Yeah.”

After waiting outside for a while, the two men’s clothes are thrown out.

The two of them jumped into the bathtub and shouted with joy.

It makes me feel good to imagine decades old and wounds being washed away in the healing waters.

I go outside and put my dirty clothes in the washing machine, when Ariel approaches.

[Good luck. There are survivors.]

“Because humans have great vitality. Humans will somehow survive in the worst environment that humans cannot live in.”

[By the way, it’s okay now that we’re two girls, but things might get worse if other people come.]

Ariel’s words were also true.

It was impossible to know how people would have changed in the worst environment.

I would have done anything to survive.

“Anyway, we won’t be here for long. Just wash these clothes and we have to leave.”

[Did you see it too?]

“Yeah, when the two of us came in earlier, I saw mold spreading on the plants next to the laundry. I think the counterattack of the fungus started sooner than expected.”

[Then we should go back and finish it quickly.]

“… … Why is Ariel so fussy today? You would know what that means.”

[But it cannot be delayed.]

Ariel’s words were right, but disappointment flooded in.

While the two of them were bathing in the bathtub, their clothes were all washed.

The gray stains disappeared, and it turned into a pure white cloth that had no stain on it.

A line was temporarily installed outside the laundry, and the laundry was washed and hung under the sun.

Laundry fluttering in the light and the wind blowing.

It seems to be slowly drying out.

“Ah, so good. Wouldn’t it be nice to have clean laundry blown in the wind as it dries in the sun?”

[Yeah, okay.]

I stared at it for a moment and then stood up.

“Now let’s go.”

[Huh?]

“Let’s leave before the two of us leave. I have to finish my work.”

[You don’t say anything?]

“Yeah, now these people will take care of this place. Once the mold is completely gone, there will be no problems here in the future.”

[Laundry?]

“These two will figure it out. I think the laundromat will be booming for the time being. How dirty are people’s clothes? Everyone will flock to wash clothes.”

[I guess. But are you okay?]

“yes I’m fine. And I like them both. It would be better if those two people run the laundry. If not, it doesn’t matter.”

The sound of the two bathing in the laundromat subsided.

– Oh my, your skin is clear. What happened?

-Mom’s skin has really improved too. she is a pretty mom

– I didn’t know that our ARMYs could be so pretty.

The sound of conversation between the two of them was heard as if they were changing clothes.

Ariel comes to me and puts her back.

I got on without hesitation any longer, and Aides also got on the ghost horse.

“Go.”

At my words, Aides started running again towards the magic forest.

As he ran, he turned his head to look at the laundromat.

White laundry fluttering in the wind in front of it.

Sooner or later, this place will be crowded with survivors of the ruined world.

[Look at that.]

“Yes why?”

Looking ahead at Ariel’s words, there were one or two people walking out into the street wearing the same appearance as the two mothers and daughters earlier.

Some people took off their gas masks, and some had not yet taken off their gas masks.

[People are coming out.]

“Awesome. So many people were alive.”

[Are you looking at us?]

“Isn’t it better not to see it?”

He ran fast and shouted a summoning spell.

“Dreamer Sunflower!”

Then sunflowers grew and bloomed on both sides of the road we were going, and then we disappeared from their gaze.

They no longer looked at us and were busy taking off their masks and inhaling the pure air deep into their lungs.

We passed the eye of the boundary again and returned to the magical forest.

But aren’t cosmos, cami, and whirlwinds trembling on the floor?

“Why are you guys like this?”

[Cosmos! Cosmos!]

When I looked where the cosmos was pointing, the mold had already spread a lot.

“this… … There seems to be no time.”

[Start quickly.]

I came with an iron box that had been placed on the bench.

The children gather next to me.

“If we open this box, we may never see it again.”

Children who look puzzled at my words.

“The cosmos returns to ordinary flowers, the whirlwind returns to its original free wind, Aides back to death, Ariel… … I will return to the Dandelion Scepter.”

Aides shakes her head.

“It’s sad, but I can’t help it. This forest was born that way. It disappears when the earth returns to its original state.”

Ariel nodded her head.

[We do not disappear from each other, but in each other’s hearts… … .]

“Oh, stop it! You’re too old-fashioned!”

[No, can’t you speak?]

“Ugh!”

[It’s good to say that. Do you know what’s good for me?]

Ariel turns her head and goes to another place.

I ran and grabbed Ariel’s neck.

“Sorry. I didn’t mean to offend you. I keep getting mad at the thought that I can’t see you anymore.”(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

Ariel rubbed her face against mine.

[Cosmos! Cosmos!]

Cosmos screams again.

I turned around and saw a black silhouette walking slowly into the forest.

“What else is that?”

Although the silhouette was in the form of a human, a black string stretched out and wobbled around like Medusa’s snake head.

A familiar face appears and disappears in the middle of the place that you can see with your head.

His left hand was cut off, and the black string grew and decreased in various ways.

“I am the owner of a flower shop. Her adversity has swallowed her up.”

[How did you get here?]

“I think I came through the door of the washing machine.”

She reached out and sprayed her viscous liquid here and there, and each time the plants rot black.

“this… … She has no time to be sad.”

[Quickly!]

“Okay.”

I picked up the iron box with the item and threw it into the air, kicking it hard as it fell.

Chunkyung!

As the lid of the box opens, the 8 items in it fall to the floor.

The florist sees this and reaches out to the floor.

“A whirlwind!”

Then the whirlwind quickly rotated and grew in size, and the powerful wind blows the soil, covering the items in an instant.

『Out of ten items needed for the forest, eight items have been satisfied.』

『With this, all the necessary items for the forest have been satisfied.』

In an instant, a huge light is emitted from the ground where the item is buried.

Our bodies are pushed back by the explosive energy and light, but the florist jumps into the light to catch it.

And the scream that followed.

“Come here!”

I shouted, but the florist, who had already been occupied by Black Seed, couldn’t hear me.

The body of the florist’s boss that becomes fragments in the light and disappears.

Then it disappears without a trace.

『The legendary epilogue begins.』

『Promotion from friend to ‘me’』

『‘I’ and ‘Forest’ become one.』

What does it mean to become one?

Without question, the light grew bigger and bigger and came over us.

I hugged Aiel and the children tightly, and the light filled my vision.