EP.22
What is good dog sleep? Why on earth does life need time to sink toward itself in a state where external stimuli are blocked so defenselessly?
I don’t know the exact reason. However, how sleep affects humans can be roughly inferred by groping for the absence of sleep, just as one can guess a shape by looking at a shadow. If you don’t sleep, your mind gets twisted, you become as sensitive as a sharp needle, you get tired easily, and your consciousness flickers dangerously. Even a person called a saint frowns when he just wakes up, so surely sleep is an act of filling something spiritual.
Just because we can’t fully know the mind. The role of sleep is also incomprehensible.
I was just swimming in my unconscious, waiting for something to wake me up…
Then something grabbed my leg. I woke up in an instant.
It doesn’t matter how deep you sleep. The dizzying sensation of my body falling off the ground deprives me of all sorts of coziness, let alone sleep. A terrible feeling that the Earthmother has abandoned me drives my soul.
The Curse of the Earthmother is nothing special. Just by refusing to be supported by Mother Earth, humans fall into the abyss.
“I’m sorry, help me, I was wrong!”
I prayed desperately as I fell. and.
Quadang!
moment. Not even half a second passed, and I fell to the floor. I couldn’t even control the shock and got up in a hurry.
“Huh. Huh Eok. Huh.”
I took a guarded posture and quickly looked around.
The place I fell was 50cm below the low military bed. In my sleep, something tugged at my foot and I fell out of bed and woke up.
It didn’t take long to figure out what was pulling me.
“bruise.”
Aji gave a short bark at me with a cold expression on his face, then opened the door and left. It is clear that he is still dissatisfied with me after a fight over the last time I stole food.
However, seeing that he woke me up during that time, it seems that he didn’t hate me very much.
nope said something strange
Dogs don’t hate people from birth.
“Ah.”
“bruise.”
Aji just turned his head and looked at me. Unlike before, when my whole body opened this way when I called, now I only look at it.
But a dog is a dog no matter what.
“Come to the dining room.”
tail moves ears perk up You can’t read thoughts, but you don’t have to. There won’t be another existence that can make non-verbal expressions so clearly.
“bruise? rice?”
“okay. I have a very important dish today.”
“bruise! rice!”
Hearing the word “Bob” immediately makes him feel better and jumps up and down in place. haha. You don’t have to like it that much.
Because today is the day to cook for you.
“I’m going to wash up, so go first and wait.”
“You wash too often! bruise! Get all your hair out!”
“I’m not bald yet?! You must be not washing too much! All right, hurry up and get him downstairs too! Not you and me, but him!”
“under? bruise! okay!”
Aji broke a nearby window and jumped down. No, you don’t have to choose the shortest route to go downstairs.
Anyway, Aji understood what I was saying and went to call the regressor. How did you know without calling my name? For Aji, there are only three titles to call people: me, you, him. For reference, you cannot put more than one person in a slot called ‘him’. This is the true meaning of the third person.
It is fortunate that there are two living humans in this Tantalus. Look, there’s only one more. I must have been very confused.
“ruler. where. Shall we prepare?”
I whistled and simply washed with the rationed water. I’m going to have to put an end to the tantalus stew thief dog that has been harassing me today.
When I put on the clothing packet and headed to the restaurant, Aji had already brought the regressor. The two were completely opposite. Unlike Aji, who was excited about eating, the regressor looked at me with a blank expression, and then timidly turned his head away in tears.
‘Why did I call…’
The regressor recalled the disgrace of last night. I tried to eavesdrop, but was completely caught, and half lost in shame, I locked myself in my room. And even though it’s a little, it seems like luck.
It’s not that I cried profusely while shedding tears, but I think I cried in my heart, covered with sadness and self-loathing. It must have been such a shock to me to have been caught hiding.
I thought I was living a little rough because I would return even if I died, but it seemed that I was much more sensitive and perfectionist than I expected.
‘Damn it. damn! The first attempt was so breaking! If you get caught there, the opponent will be wary! Shay, when are you going to give up the idea of profiting like that? I mean, do your best every once in a while!’
no stop blaming yourself Did you think about that all night? Aren’t you sleeping?
‘It’s also a problem that I ignored the opponent too much. Just because he couldn’t figure out my stealth skills the other day, I judged that man’s abilities to that extent. There’s no guarantee that you won’t be caught again if you didn’t get caught once when you were careless…!’
driving me crazy. It was difficult when he tried to kill me, but it was even more difficult when he tried to kill himself. Besides, he didn’t even try to make eye contact with me, perhaps because of his shyness.
Oops. doing all sorts of nonsense. Would you like to lighten the mood?
“Trainee Shay, didn’t you sleep well last night? My eyes are puffy.”
The regressor mumbled something, but did not answer clearly. It seemed like an expression of his intention not to talk to him, but it was nothing.
mind reading.
‘Chi it. He didn’t let him sleep, and he was sly…’
A sound that would be misunderstood if anyone heard it. It’s fortunate that there’s no misunderstanding since only I can hear it anyway.
You must have been quite angry, regressor.
“How far have you heard?”
“…what what.”
“Even though I threw it out yesterday, it came back again and again, so you thought I was throwing a boomerang. Please stop doing that next time.”
“Keuk…!”
The regressor, who would normally get angry or raise his sword, was in a state where his defense mechanism was not working due to his low self-esteem. And there is a strange conservation law in the world, so I felt that the value of my existence increased as much as the self-esteem of the regressor decreased.
Oh, it shouldn’t be like this. It’s so much fun.
“bruise! rice!”
I thought I’d tease you a little more, but let’s stop here for today. Because Aji is watching me.
“Come on, Aji. Wait a minute, I have something to tell you.”
“no! bruise! Do it while eating!”
“This is real.”
Where do you get low self-esteem? Dogs never die?
“Hope. anyway. The reason I called you today is to find a clue about the food thief who has been wreaking havoc on Tantalus for years.”
“bruise!”
Aji grabbed the rice as if he wasn’t interested. this nasty bastard. Let’s see if it’s the same even if you put the evidence in front of your eyes.
I walked to a corner of the restaurant and took out a doll-sized golem that I had placed there. I was fiddling here and there to see if it was working, but the golem’s head jerked in response.
you are connected I picked up the golem and set it down on the table.
“Today, as a witness, we brought Captain Abbey, a military communications officer and a golem who was sitting in a restaurant. hello! Captain Abbey! Say hello!”
『…』
“Nice to meet you!”
Even after seeing the golem, the attitudes of the regressor and Aji did not change much. Regressor, I’ve been ignoring it ever since I decided to leave it alone yesterday, and Aji didn’t pay much attention to things that weren’t human.
I can’t introduce myself until now. Shall we show off our skills as a puppet show for small children when we were young?
I grabbed the golem’s armpit and waddled around like a puppeteer. While Aji showed interest in the movement, he pressed his lips together and spoke with ventriloquism.
“Hello, how are you?”
“bruise?”
Aji tilted his head and looked back and forth between the golem and me. The voice comes from this side, but since the golem is waving, it must be something. I let go of my pretense and shook the golem’s limbs back and forth while speaking in ventriloquism.
“Nice to meet you! My name is Abby!”
“Woof woof? human?”
“okay! i am human I’m stuck in this now! Are you a puppy?”
“bruise! that’s right! I am a puppy!”
“You look so nice!”
“thank you! You look so stiff!”
“Let’s be friends! Will you lick me once?”
“okay!”
[…Stop it.]
As Aji snorted, the golem moved at a speed that had never been shown before. The golem knocked off my hand and stood on its own two feet to avoid Aji’s face.
A dry voice came from the Golem’s speaker.
“In the military, we try to refrain from direct encounters with trainees as much as possible. However, according to the special provision clause 2, the current situation will disregard the regulations below security level 2.]
After declaring that, the golem stood upright on both legs. Did you make it better than you thought, or are you familiar with golems? Even though it is a small model that is different from human size, it continues to synchronize.
『I am Captain Abbey, a military signalman. The main building is in charge of communication between Tantalus and the military authorities, and we warn you in advance that destroying this object may result in disadvantages to communication and to your trainee’s evaluation.”
. There was only one person here who would be malicious and destroy the golem.
The regressor looked at the golem standing on the table with an expression.
“I don’t care about the disadvantages. I have something to say with that man, so unless you crawl out of the restaurant and start poking around, I won’t bother you.”
『Surveillance and supervision of Tantalus is the duty of the principal.』
“Really? I can’t stand it without destroying the devices that monitor and eavesdrop.”
“Sometimes there are people with that kind of disease. The type of person who is extremely sensitive to the gaze directed at them. Military hospitals treat those with such diseases free of charge, so we recommend that you visit and receive treatment.
”
『However, in the current situation, your trainee cannot visit the military hospital. Your trainee’s doctor has confirmed. Ignoring the regulations below security level 2 , I will suspend the
observation mission for the sake of the safety of this object.”
“Once I have finished my business, I will go.”
uh? as soon as? I caught the departing regressor.
“Oh wait! You have to be an observer of this event!”
“take no interest. Take good care of you and that golem. If that golem came out of the restaurant alone, I could destroy it without even knowing.”
The regressor left the restaurant without looking back. Even in a state of low energy, hatred towards the military seemed to be still the same.
Aji, who had not understood the meaning of the words, asked me with clear eyes.
“bruise. What does he say?”
He must be talking about a golem. Aji couldn’t understand the golem’s hard words at all. I replied languidly.
“Don’t hit yourself. don’t bite It hurts.”
“bruise! don’t ask me! I am a good puppy!”
“Yes, yes. i know you are good.”
“Aww! I’m good! Be nice!”
While stroking Aji’s hair, I held it tight and muttered a gloomy voice.
“But what kind of puppy is that bad dog that ate all the meat stew in the pot last night?”
“Meong?”
