[Episode 20]
‘It’s cold…’
My mind was not clear.
Her body was cold, and at least she couldn’t feel her tail curling around her body.
‘Too cold.’
The moment I thought so again, something warm wrapped around my body as if I had waited.
Enveloped in the warmth as if I had entered a stove, I, who had been fooling around in its arms for a long time, realized that all these sensations were completely unfamiliar after a long time and opened my eyes very slowly.
Flash.
When I came to my senses, an amethyst shone in front of my eyes.
“Oh, you opened your eyes.”
“Kwu-wook-!”
They were human eyes, not amethyst.
I screamed in surprise, but a strange cry leaked out.
“Do lizards cry too?”
‘…lizard?’
Am I still a lizard?
I hurriedly turned my head, and there was a small mirror right next to me.
‘I’m really still a lizard…’
I was speechless at the moment.
A strange lizard with pinkish silver scales moved as I moved.
And it’s very small.
‘Nonsense…’
I didn’t know that I still couldn’t go back to being a human.
‘How can I become a human again?’
No matter how hard I closed my eyes and strained my body, there was no sign of going back.
‘I can’t believe I have to live like this for the rest of my life, right?’
I was terrified.
At that moment, the boy suddenly thrust his face right in front of me and gently stroked my hair with his index finger.
“I was going to use it as a test subject if I died, but I’m glad I’m alive.”
“…”
I was startled by the words that gave me goosebumps, so I took a step backwards.
“Where are you going?”
It was a boy who looked a couple of years older than me.
A boy with dark amethyst eyes and unique hair that becomes lighter in color as it goes down.
Long hair, which is not often seen, is like…
‘…reminds me of someone.’
For example, ‘Richard Colin’, one of the sub-male protagonists who will definitely be in the orphanage.
‘…isn’t that what Richard Colin is?!’
Uncommon long hair, uncommon hair color, and drop earrings with uncommon patterns!
Anyone can see that these are not settings that would be given to extras.
And besides the extras, there was only one person I knew who had this look.
Richard Collins.
If the Etam family has Erno Etam, the Mage Tower has Richard Collin.
This boy was the second idiot who was scheduled for an epic epic that would become the future owner of the mage tower.
Erno Etam was given a cute nickname, like ‘Sappe Etam’, a reference to his name, but Richard Colin, whom readers called, was just a ‘twit’.
Because…
[“Ahahaha! Go crazy and run amok! more! If the soles of your feet are hot, you don’t have to dance more!”
“what? want to save me? hahaha good! Because I’m a benevolent mage lord. If you touch that tree within 10 seconds, I’ll save you. Let’s start! 10 9 8 … 0! It failed.”
“Wrong numbers? It’s not? that’s right Why? Because I am right.”
“Hey, aren’t you curious? Do human beings say that they would rather die after going through several death hurdles? I’ve been wanting to experiment! how is it? Why don’t we try an experiment together? I’m a researcher, and you’re… Okay let’s do it as a lab rat! don’t worry. I won’t kill you!”]
Because he was just an idiot.
I hope you don’t forget. The fact that this original work was originally a 17-year-old child care product.
Of course, there was a reason for that asshole.
He was sold back and forth to slave traders as a child, and as an adult, he went to annihilate three generations of those involved in order to avenge it.
‘…Still, you seem to have been quite normal when you were younger?’
The impression was much milder than what I saw in the description.
In fact, when he appeared in the novel, it was almost past adolescence and just before reaching adulthood.
I remember that it was around that time that I learned that Richard was the youngest son lost in the Colin family.
Of course, many of the main characters, excluding the female lead, have a sad narrative, and the story unfolds in which the female lead embraces it.
Later, Richard Collin’s idiot-like personality changes a little.
[“Sharne, I will protect you. So stay by my side Understand? Because I’m going to piss off all of you bastards like dogs.”
“…Stop? Okay, if you kiss me, I will.”
“Because Sharnet told me not to do it… Why don’t we make something out of nothing? There’s nothing I shouldn’t do once it’s gone from the world.”]
So… from just a nerd to a nerd centered around the female lead.
“If it wasn’t for me, you would be dead.”
He smiled and reached out his hand to me.
The figure sitting in front of the desk and slightly resting his chin was really prettier than what I saw in the description.
I heard that there are many times when you get confused with a woman just by looking at her back, but her looks were enough.
“Because I saved you, you are mine. So stay by my side from now on.”
He holds out his palm to me a little more.
After thinking for a moment, I carefully moved my foot and climbed into his palm.
Richard Colin’s expression brightened as I climbed into his palm.
‘It’s a bit inconvenient because it doesn’t have a tail.’
The feeling of losing the body I had was subtle.
“Did you get bullied by other lizards because you didn’t have a tail? Rejecting others is the same as humans and reptiles.”
Hearing Richard Collin’s voice, I involuntarily opened my eyes wide and raised my head to look at him.
“I will make you strong. Get your revenge next time. It proves that even without a tail, you can be healthy and stronger than anyone else.”
Come to think of it, he must have lived with many prejudices.
She was more intelligent than others, more beautiful than others, more talented than others, and unlike others, she had no parents.
‘There’s nothing different about that. Whether in a novel… or in reality.’
Regardless of time and place, eventually, an ugly duckling is born somewhere.
I reached out my small hand and pressed the small, cold sole of my foot to Richard Colin’s cheek.
After a couple of pats, Richard Colin’s eyes widened.
“What are you so strange about? It’s like I’m listening Did the lack of a tail make the head better?”
Um, but it seems like he’s been misunderstanding since before.
“It will be inconvenient, but would you like to make a tail model?”
my tail will grow back
maybe.
‘Since it’s a lizard, will it grow?’
I rolled my eyes.
“Ah, before that, I should have decided on a name… what would be good?”
I have a name, but another name.
But now it was impossible to speak.
When I was still, Richard Colin seemed to be thinking for a long time, then his eyes twinkled.
“You are white because your skin is silver?”
I took a step back from Richard Colin’s palm with a shocked expression on my face.
“Oh hey. are you falling?”
I hurriedly shook my head.
“You don’t like it…? then um It’s silver, so silver…?”
“…”
Who would have known.
The fact that this idiot’s naming sense is hitting the floor.
When I didn’t move as if in shock, Richard Collin opened his mouth with a shy face, as if he thought it was a little off.
“Then BamBam…?”
“…”
I lowered my head at the strong uppercut.
“Oh, I like this. So let’s do this! Please take good care of me, BamBam.”
That’s how I became BamBam.
* * *
“Oh, it’s annoying. It’s training time again.”
‘Do you train almost every day?’
What the hell did I think of tilting my head… No, Richard Collin added.
“It is completely useless to me. Doesn’t BamBam look like that to you?”
Having said that, Richard looked very tired.
It has been three days since I came to this orphanage.
In the meantime, I failed to humanize and discovered an unexpected side to this orphanage and Richard Colin.
This orphanage was run by Albion, a war hero who had won a great victory in the Great War of the Holy Spirit and had gone missing.
Having lived as a commoner all his life, he became a hero after receiving a revelation from God during the Holy Demon War.
A person who had never killed anything before had to kill something on the front lines of the battlefield.
Still, he led the battlefield to victory as if to prove that he had received the stigma of a hero.
‘But I couldn’t stand the situation after the war.’
Disillusioned with being hailed as a hero amidst the disastrously stretched corpses and those mourning the loss of his family, he quietly disappeared.
Because he had to lose his wife and daughter because he became a hero.
So he started collecting war orphans and other orphans and taking care of them.
This was the ‘Sprout Time Orphanage’.
He strives to pass on all the knowledge he learned while rolling on the battlefield here.
Maybe that’s why a lot of famous people came out of this orphanage about ten years later.
“I hate taking classes with stupid people.”
“You still have to listen. Licht.”
Richard Collin’s shoulders trembled at the dry, emotionless voice that came from behind him.
My body, which was sitting on his shoulder, jumped and bounced back.
When I turned my head, I saw a tall, plain-looking man.
With light brown hair and green eyes like a dying field…
It was ‘Albion’, the director of this orphanage and the hero of the Great War.
