EP.39 Cleanliness is
the abyss of life If there is anything better than the ground, it is probably the quality of the air.
It’s hard to understand. It is a well-known fact that the wind comes from the sky and that the air on the ground is dirtier. But why is the air in the abyss furthest from the sky clear?
That is due to the characteristics of the bottomless pit.
Since this place is cursed by the Earth Mother, her fabric, soil and dust, avoid this place like nature’s providence. It is because of this that the wilderness has not been eroded even though such an abyss is located. This place is surprisingly not dirty because the dust does not fall.
In addition, there is no bottom in the abyss. To borrow an expression that mathematicians like, it means that no matter how low I am, there is still more down there. Thus, heavier-than-air objects sink further.
All the air that should have accumulated in the first place escapes from the bottom. Sometimes, if you feel the rare wind in Tantalus, it is a piece of wind that has lost its way and falls down the abyss. The wind in distress carries in its arms what is melted by the wind like dust or smell, and flows downward along the holes in the bottomless pit. As a result, the air inside the abyss is pure and clean.
When evaluating the quality of life, whether or not you are below me is a much more important indicator than where you are. Because all kinds of filthy things fall further down and pool.
From this we can indirectly know that happiness is a relative value.
Still, the fact that the wind is rare and the air is heavy doesn’t change, but at least it guarantees healthy breathing, so how can we not be thankful.
…Maybe it’s a pretty pleasant space, except for the fact that there’s no light in the abyss, where the curse of the Earth Mother is overshadowed.
“bruise! Woof woof!”
A refreshing morning with a dog alarm today. I stretched out my hands and inhaled the fresh air through my nose.
“Ehh!”
“Mumong!”
A sneeze exploded like a bomb. An unexpected guest from the morning squeezed my lungs. Aji looks surprised and puts his arms around his chest and stares at me.
If you sneeze violently in the morning, your physical condition will deteriorate that day. I mean, the muscles are amazing.
Why do you sneeze all of a sudden?
“Did you get a lot of life dust just because you’ve been there for a few days…?”
As I wiped my nose, I vaguely saw something flying through the air. I frowned and glared at the thing flying around the room. I couldn’t see it well because of the lack of light. That golden, long, curving, slender thing…
“Hair?”
“bruise!”
Aji looks at me and barks. Just then, the hair on Aji’s head and limbs caught my eye. A mix of brown and golden, no, it’s originally golden, but it looks messy with dirt.
The fur was the same color as the one floating in the air now. Dirty and full of dust.
hmm.
“Ah.”
“bruise?”
“Do you want to go eat pork cutlet?”
“bruise! I want to go!”
He doesn’t even know what tonkatsu is, but he knows he’s going to eat it. I smiled softly at such a child.
water flows down It goes back and forth between heaven and earth and serves as a messenger to deliver a love letter between the heavenly god and the earth mother. Therefore, the liquid, which does not belong entirely to the Earth Mother, burrows into a low place according to its instinct. I don’t care if it’s in the abyss.
But the abyss is an infinite abyss. Even the dainty paratroopers who leap from the clouds to the ground with a parachute that convex downwards will perish while moving towards the land that can never be reached in the abyss. The water dissolved in the air now floats as another air.
The military special water tank collects the gaseous water in this way. When water forms on a huge collector enchanted with arcus magic, it flows into a water tank through a pipe with a filter. There, he waits in silence for someone below to open the faucet.
The water tank, which had been greatly reduced due to the prison break, was full of water. When humans disappeared, abundance arrived.
After checking the amount of water, I nodded my head in satisfaction.
“good. This should be enough to wash that mutt.”
I closed the water tank for a while and connected a hose to the pipe instead. When I opened the hose as a test, water flowed out like it was blocked. The water pressure is not cool because there is not much difference in height. It would be better to take it before washing.
I grabbed the hose and bathtub, sat down near the drain, and called Aji.
“ruler. Aji-ya…”
But when I turned my head, Aji had already run far away. Aji barked, hiding behind a square box, as if the hose I was holding was a gun.
“bruise.”
“Ah. Come on. I have to wash.”
“bruise.”
“What do you hate? Look at your limbs.”
As I said, Aji raised his limbs and looked at them. All sorts of dust and grime were hidden between the plentiful hair bundles, as if wearing soft fur gloves.
It looks dirty, but that’s good enough. If it had been on the ground instead of the abyss, that self-driving four-legged duster would have swept all the dust and walked over Tantalus.
“Have you seen it? Is it dirty?”
“No, clean!”
“What are you talking about? Is it clean?”
“bruise! I lick my fur sometimes! clean!”
Then, Aji puts his tongue in his hand. It’s like putting your tongue on the hotbed of that disease.
haha. am i crazy
“stop!”
“bruise!”
Aji stopped just as he was about to touch his tongue and rolled his eyes. I sighed and let go of the hose and went towards Aji.
“Are you a cat? You don’t usually lick it, but now you want to lick it because it bothers you? Arthur. dirty.”
“bruise! I’m not dirty!”
“dirty. There is a lot of dust. It smells bad and she loses a lot of hair.”
“bruise! You lose a lot of hair too!”
“Don’t compare your hair to mine! Even if you wear the same mask, the genre is different!”
He hurriedly approached Aji and put his hand behind his armpit and dragged him along. Aji twisted his body reluctantly, but he didn’t shake it off and ran.
Then, as he got closer and closer to the hose, Aji’s feet stood firm and their toenails dug into the ground. Aji’s body was nailed to the concrete, as if nailed to it, and did not move.
“Hey, this is true. I can’t just drag this along…”
The opponent is the king of beasts. I can’t do anything with my own strength.
In this case, what is needed is the North Wind and the Sun. If you can’t help your body, you have no choice but to turn your mind. I put my face on Aji’s head and said.
“Ah. Come on. Let’s wash up first.”
“bruise.”
“I’ll make you something delicious when you wash everything.”
“Weng…”
Hearing that it was delicious, Aji seemed to think for a moment. Why does he want to move only when he is entertained? Even when I roasted and boiled military officials, I didn’t do this. Is a dog more than a jeongseung?
What can I do though? The weak must endure. This dog is stronger than most jeongseung.
I whispered sweet words into Aji’s ear.
“Do you remember the hamburger from last time? The food that grills meat, heats up a pan with that oil, and when the temperature of the lard rises enough, it cooks ground patties with beans.”
“Muhh…”
“But actually, that hamburger is incomplete. Because of the lack of stickiness, the tissue was all broken. It was nothing more than meat paste cooked in a pan. But this time it’s different. There were eggs and butter in the supplies. I didn’t even give it to the whole game, but… anyway. This time it sticks together like a perfect one and makes a hamburger that cooks in enough oil.”
“Bung…”
Stimulates the opponent’s synesthesia. Aji’s whole body loses strength. When I pulled it again, the toenail came out. I smiled and dragged Aji near the drain.
“okay. Not nice, not nice…”
Now. once undressed. Then throw it in the bathtub and pour water on it. After wiping the whole body thoroughly, I wash the clothes I took off while Aji was drying her body. It would be nice to have a change of clothes, but the rest of the clothes here are all clothing packets. Aji’s body doesn’t have a biological terminal, so he can’t wear it. hmm. All I have to do is wait while it dries.
All plans were made. I left Aji for a while and opened the hose to get some water. The rippling water fell into a small box that had been prepared as a bathtub. The sound of water droplets hitting the box echoes.
“bruise.”
Whirik.
And this mongrel ran away, disregarding the fact that I had brought it. Barking briefly as if he was stabbed too.
“bruise.”
I put my face down and sighed deeply. he’s not even a king They ask you to take care of you and wash you, but you refuse to even do that?
no the king is right You’re not my king though. At best, the king of dogs.
Angry. Until now, I’ve been playing with the mood of raising a cute dog, but if it’s this level of selfishness, there’s no reason to handle it any more.
“bruise…?”
Aji saw me and barked cautiously. He glanced at me as if he noticed my angry expression.
It didn’t make me feel any better either. On the contrary, I regret not coming here right away, even though you know how I feel.
Exasperated, I immediately sat down.
“hey. puppy.”
Aji flinched when his name was called. I sat cross-legged, closed my body, and spoke with emotion.
“Are you really going to do this? Did you see me sneezing earlier?”
Bang. He pounded the floor hard with the gourd he had prepared. Then Aji was startled and made a guilty expression.
A trembling voice, a distorted expression, a rough breath.
A clear sign of anger.
Dogs are man’s old friends and can read human emotions to some extent. No, maybe even better than humans. Humans learn to hide their feelings from others in the name of ‘polite’, but they are not polite to dogs. That’s why I love dogs.
Anyway. I am angry and I have no intention of hiding it. As I intended, Aji clearly sensed my feelings.
“I cook for you, play ball, and go for walks together! Every time I eat, I call you and stroke that dirty hair every day! I do so much for you! Why don’t you even wash your hands!”
“Beep…”
Aji, terrified, twists his tail. But that’s not enough. He intended to ease the scolding atmosphere only when he approached me on his own.
if you don’t come?
That’s it. The tough relationship with that mutt ends with this. I intend to abandon it in my heart.
“It doesn’t matter if you only live in the yard. But they come into the building! Sometimes he climbs into my bed! Then my nest will be all dirty! Do you think I wash every day for no reason? Unlike you, I need cleanliness!”
“Kik-ing, beng-beep.”
“If you can’t stand this much, you are not the puppy I know. If I see you in the future, I will start kicking. okay?”
“Ki-ing…”
It seems that the relationship built up so far is not in vain. Honestly, if I had gone on like this, I would have been deeply disillusioned with the beast. Aji still came closer to me, noticing that he didn’t want to cut ties with me.
after yes Where are you from? I sat him on my lap and wrapped my arms around him. Then, with his right hand, he turned on a hose and ran water into the box.
Falling water droplets and the tanju they create as they collide with each other on the surface of the water. It was a cool sound of sweeping away dirt, but to Aji, it sounded like an evil spirit’s requiem. Aji turned his head to the other side of the sound, closing his eyes and mouth tight as if he was getting goosebumps.
In the meantime, I didn’t loosen my arm and run away. Surprisingly, it endured.
That’s a good attitude. He turned off the hose and stroked Aji’s hair.
“Good job.”
“Wooong…”
A weak cry. I don’t like it either, but I can’t help it. I will spend a few more months with Aji, but every time we come into contact, we can exchange each other’s dust and germs and develop diseases.
If this place hadn’t been for the abyss, I would have already been sick.
“ruler. Then let’s take off our clothes. Raise your hand.”
Aji still had his arms half raised with his eyes tightly closed. I tried to take off Aji’s clothes, but I felt something catch me, so I looked at Aji’s clothes again.
I don’t know who did it, but the shirt was tied tightly under the chest. It was so tight that it was not easily untied. It seemed like he was trying to prevent the clothes from coming off or someone trying to take them off.
“what the. I do everything.”
Clothing jackets provide clothes that fit the body size of the wearer. The same goes for the innermost entry-level shirt. The sleeves and neckline are tight, so you can’t put it on or take it off the way you would when you weren’t wearing a packet. There is nothing left like this.
However, Aji without a biological terminal cannot use the clothing packet. So, you must have worn a shirt that was a few sizes larger. So, the clothes must have flowed down or come off easily, and it would have been necessary to tie the part that was flowing down to prevent it…. ”
Someone is trying to take off a dog’s clothes…”
yes It’s the essence of Aji. Anyway, no matter what is reflected in my eyes, it’s a female body, so I’m curious about it. Are human beings, after all, creatures that are obsessed with their shells?
What are you doing? It’s a useless idea. I am a normal human Let’s take off our clothes.
The tightly bound hem hindered my work. but i am someone I am a back alley magician. He is a master of manual dexterity, capable of tying and untying both hands on his own and tying knots with just one finger. It’s something like this.
If you insert your finger into the gap and turn it gently, it should come loose. good. Let’s unpack it quickly and throw it in the bathtub….
That was then. A regressor appeared from the roof door. Some of her hair and clothes were wet with sweat, as if she had practiced a while ago.
“Did you lock the water tank when there is no water here? Without a word…”
The regressor who was removing the hair from his forehead stopped when he saw me. In an instant, the eyes of the regressor settled down, and a sharp gaze came out and scanned Aji.
‘I’m trying to take off my clothes with Aji sitting on my lap and restrained from behind. Aji is trembling with his eyes closed tightly.’
The regressor’s thoughts were short-lived. Just in a pure sense. The regressor thought only that far and pulled out the cherry blossoms.
‘good. Let’s kill.’
for a moment. Isn’t there some kind of leap in logic? Rather than that, how do ‘okay’ and ‘let’s kill’ come together? Killing isn’t good at all, is it?
Hostility swells. I hurriedly hid behind Aji and shouted.
“Wait a minute! This is not what trainees think!”
“Thunder Sword. Thunder Bird…”
“Stop it!”
