Returner's Magic Laundry

Chapter 49

After crossing the portal, Ariel and the tornado are somehow standing in front of the door.

[Find. Camus, I’m looking for you!]

Ariel sees the cami in front of the portal and shouts, and the whirlwind seems to be rejoicing, creating a whirlpool and bouncing around.

It seemed that he was angry because Kami ran away through the portal while playing hide and seek.

“Have you been looking for a cami all this time?”

[Camus is cowardly.]

“So she ran away to the main gate of the car.”

“Nyayong~”

As if nothing had happened, Cami was only waving her tail softly.

“Let’s stop playing and go to the creek. I’m going to do a little work today and rest I brought ramen too!”

[Wow, Ariel is excited!]

“Now call Camus Camus. Easy to pronounce.”

[Cami? Cammy, it’s easy.]

As she dragged her car to the creek, she was shocked at the sight unfolding before her eyes.

“Wow, what is this? The cosmos is in full bloom.”

The cosmos seeds I had sown on my way home were in full bloom.

Besides, isn’t it that black eyes and mouths are cutely attached to each flower stamen?

‘I think it has been given the characteristics of the Magic Forest… … .’

Each of them opened and closed their small mouths, and listening closely to what they were saying, only the word ‘cosmos’ was repeated.

Still, each of you can chatter with each other.

Thanks to you, I didn’t feel bored while passing this road.

As I was passing my way, one of the cosmos pulled out its roots and started walking together using the roots as a bridge.

“I can’t even walk.”

[Cosmos, Cosmos.]

Cosmos was beckoning and gesturing and speaking as if in a play, but I couldn’t understand any of them.

“Ariel, what do you mean?”

[I do not know. Cosmos is order. Chaos, the opposite of chaos.]

“Oh, Ariel, you know that?”

[Everything comes out in advance. Stupid, ignorant.]

ok~

Anyway, Cosmos joined us and caught up.

At first, I was alone in this forest, but it seemed to have become a large family.

The forest, where only the sound of the wind could be heard, was now even more noisy with the sounds of Ariel babbling, the laughter of corn from afar, the mysterious murmuring of Cosmos, the meowing of Cammy, and the sound of the wind in a tornado.

Arriving at the creek and putting down the laundry, the tree fairies approached in an orderly fashion and started working.

The cosmos took a proper place near us, took root again, and let the wind sway.

Cammy went to the apple orchard, picked apples, ate them, spit out the seeds, and started working.

To play the music, I open the book I brought and take out the CD, and Ariel is curious.

[What kind of music is today?]

“Today is the 4th movement of Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 16 in F major, op.135.”

[long. It is difficult.]

“I can’t memorize what I’ve written unless I read it. It is the last work of a man named Beethoven. I found out while reading this book.”

Once I put the CD into the player and hit play, the music blew out.

As a result, the forest also wriggled and prepared for expansion.

The score for this 4th movement has the title [A Hard Decision].

The score is said to contain Beethoven’s allusions: ‘Should it be so?’ and ‘It must be so.’

What’s more interesting is that the beginning of this quartet is played as if spitting out these lines.

In [The Unbearable Lightness of Being], the main character, Tomashi, often says that too.

‘Should I have to?’

‘It must be so.’

Thanks to that, I have been repeating those two sentences frequently at important decision moments in my 52 years of life.

‘Should I have to?’

‘It must be so.’

The forest begins to expand again to the music, and we rest for a while by the stream until the expansion stops.

The moment of expansion became much more dynamic than at the beginning.

When walking around at this time, it was better to stay still in one place, as you could get hurt by the plants sprouting out of the ground.

In addition, the shaking of the ground was getting worse and the stream was widening and the water was shaking violently at times, so it was not good to be too close.

When the expansion stopped, stillness and peace came again, as if it had always been the case.

Then he went to the coffee grove, stroked the green berries with a sun glove, and dropped the berries with the hoe of thunder, then a tornado took care of the rest.

It was also a major task to look out for the Arabidopsis forest growing in the fungal forest.

When I checked today, the baby forest had grown quite a bit, and the corn and beans planted last time had also grown well, forming a small field already.

Large and small plants were already sprouting around the big tree.

The wind was good and there was enough water in the creek.

‘I think I can grow up well on my own now.’

After examining the baby forest a little more, I also looked towards the other forest that I had planted for the second time.

Seeing a thin ray of light over the horizon, it seemed that he was still alive.

‘May you grow well.’

After praying one more time, we returned to our forest.

“Ariel, let’s take a break today. I have a lot of work and I am a little tired.”

[Take a break. rest.]

When I spread the washed and dried beach towel in a place suitable for shade and sunlight, Ariel, Cammy, and a whirlwind gathered next to me.

Even the cosmos, who saw this, uprooted the roots and approached.

“Hey, the beach towels are small, but what if they all flock here? You can sleep on the floor.”

Perhaps my words were not heard even with the back of my ears, and they kept pushing me toward my body.

The whirlwind kept blowing it up close, fluttering his hair and tickling his face.

“Hey, whirlwind! Please be quiet while sleeping.”

To no avail.

When Cami fell asleep, it turned into a limp liquid and wrapped around my legs.

‘Oh, it’s uncomfortable. I’ll have to bring a bigger mat or something.’

I had no choice but to give up and just lay down.

The discomfort was brief, and we immediately fell into a deep sleep.

how long have you slept

I woke up to the sound of someone screaming.

I tried to get up, but I couldn’t get up right away because of the heavy feeling on my stomach.

“Oh, what?”

My ship has become a bed of Ariel and Cammy and the whirlwind.

The cosmos, which was accidentally caught in a tornado, was screaming and spinning dizzyingly.

“Ugh, there is no mess. I can’t live.”

He shoved his hand into the whirlwind’s stomach, grabbed Cosmos, and barely pulled it out.

Cosmos, whose eyes were spinning as if dizzy, fell to the side.

“Hey, wake up. Why are you sleeping on my boat? The forest is so wide!”

Shake his body and shake it off.

Then the children who woke up came down from my body and stretched out as if they slept well.

[Ariel, sleep well.]

“I couldn’t sleep!”

[Stupid body, warm. I sleep well.]

“Ugh, yes I got it.”

‘I was pressed by these guys, and my body was chubby, so I guess I’ll have to swim.’

He took off his clothes and threw himself into the creek.

Cosmos came to the creek, immersed only the root part in water, and looked tired as if he had entered a hot spring.

[Ko~ Sumo~ Su~]

It seemed like a good word.

At that moment, a tornado flew into the air, and then threw himself into the water!

The water that had been rolled up by the tornado spouted out again, turning the entire area into a sea of water.

“Ugh, what is this? Whirlwind! Get out of the water quickly!”

‘Ugh, I can’t even swim quietly anymore.’

Still, there were good things about it.

The whirlwind was like watering the forest, and the plants were filled with the stream water and became more abundant.

[Spraying water. good.]

“Yes.”

After swimming for a bit, I went out of the creek to dry myself and lay down again in the sun.

The whirlwind was still blowing in the stream and spraying the forest with water.

Cosmos was soaking in the creek, then was hit by a thunderstorm and hurriedly fled to my side.

Ariel and Kami also cheered for the whirlwind for a while, then came back and lay down next to me.

When he stroked the soft fur of Ariel and Kami with his hand, he made a groaning sound.

‘Oh, that’s good. It puts my mind at ease.’

He opened the book next to him and began to read.

The beginning of the book begins with Nietzsche’s theory of eternal regression.

The end and beginning of everything in the world are connected, so we humans repeat the same actions forever.

In the past, I would have agreed to this statement many times over, but not now.

When I decided to live a different life from my previous life, everything was changing.

The book even said, “To live only once is to not live at all.”

right.

When I looked up at the sky, the events up until now passed by like a lantern.

Go Gun-soo, Kim Jin-ah, Shin Se-yeon, and Park Jin-ju.

I felt that my life, my life was being modified.

There was no doubt about it.

I folded the book I was reading and got up from my seat.

Suddenly, an unknown desire surged.

“Now that they have rest, let’s get to work! Today, I will plant pines and acacia trees to widen the forest.”

[Pine tree? acacia?]

“Huh! Whirlwind harvests coffee as usual, and Cammy eats whatever she wants and sows seeds. Ariel and I are going to plant trees.”

[Plant a tree. Goes!]

The forest expanded and the fungus receded and headed for the land that became the realm of the forest.

I summoned a hoe of thunder to level the ground, and first planted a pine sapling that was as tall as a calf.

After stroking it with a sun glove and watering it, it quickly grew to my height, started to bloom, and had a few pine cones.

And we waited.

May the magic forest give the pines a trait.

However, no matter how long I waited, the letters did not appear in front of me.

“Huh? what? Come on?”

[What?]

“No, as usual, magic should be done with forests, or something like that.”(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

[right. strange.]

I rubbed my eyes, but the text still didn’t open.

“Don’t you like pine trees? But what about planting it? Let’s go over there and plant a locust tree.”

[Huh!]

I planted a locust tree a little further away, but the magic forest still didn’t say anything.

“It’s strange. You don’t even like acacia trees?”

[I do not like it?]

Ariel tilted her head as if not knowing what was going on.

She waited a little longer, just in case, but it was nonetheless.

“Let’s plant it like this and leave it alone. You can’t keep waiting here.”

We turned to return to the creek.

Then a letter appeared in front of her.

『Out of ten items required for the forest, two items have been satisfied.』

“The forest helps the pines and locusts grow.”

“Two items? What does this mean?”

Before I could even recognize what the letters in front of me meant, the ground began to shake.

“Ugh… … What is this? Why is the land like this?”

[Ariel is scary.]

The shaking ground stopped for a moment, and the fairies of the trees flew in and began to fly frantically over the place where the pines and acacia trees were planted.

From a distance, it was engulfed in light as if fireworks had exploded, forming a large dome.

“Aww, dazzling!”

When the light disappeared, the place where the seedlings were planted became a thick forest like a lie.

It looked like it was surrounded by a large tree in the middle of the forest.

The scent of pine needles and sweet acacia filled the forest.

“Ah, sweet scent.”

[Sweet~]

We all sniffed and smelled the incense.

As if they had finished their work, the tree fairies formed a group and disappeared into the original big tree.

“There must be something about pine and acacia. I said earlier that two out of ten items were satisfied.”

[right.]

“What do you know, Ariel?”