“…….”
For a moment, Veilrack kept his mouth shut, threaded his legs through the swimsuit, and pulled it all the way up to his chest.
The swimsuit was a cute one-piece style with frills spreading out around the waist.
If he had been another robust male hamster, he might have objected to the unmanly swimsuit, but—
He had little interest in the style of the swimsuit, so he began putting it on without a word of complaint.
While Veilrack hung the straps attached to the swimsuit top around his neck and tied them tightly so they wouldn't come loose, Mephisto and Wooju waited anxiously for an answer.
After finishing putting on the cute swimsuit, Veilrack squirmed and put a tiny tube around his waist. His chubby belly filled the tube to capacity.
“Mu.” (To be honest…)
He stared at the two of them.
One is a bird, and one is a child…
Veilrack swallowed the sigh that threatened to burst out on its own.
Weren't these guys far too lacking in every way to be regarded as husband material for the master?
“Mu mu.” (Neither of you is good. Come back when you're much bigger, brats.)
Veilrack shook his head at the two with a rotten expression.
Padadadadada!
Then, to avoid the ones who would clearly make a fuss, he dashed out of the changing room in a flash.
“Wait! What did you say!”
“Peep!” (Don't be ridiculous!)
“Kyu!” (L-let's go together!)
*
“Sooo cute~”
Click! Click! Click!
Nayeon, who had changed clothes and entered the pool area, held up her phone and began taking pictures of Gru diligently.
Gru, who had her hair twisted up into two dumpling-like buns, struck a pose with practiced ease.
Beside her, a Maltese wearing a one-piece swimsuit lay on a sunbed, resting her chin on her front paws.
Just then, Mephisto, who had belatedly followed Veilrack and Wooju out, flew up with a flutter and sat on Gru's head.
“Peep peep.”
Mephisto, who had pulled his triangle swimsuit up tightly to just below his chest, had been trying to show off his swimsuit to Gru.
“……?”
He realized something was strange.
He looked around at Gru's subordinates once.
“……!”
Yurian, Veilrack, and Lukespher. All of them were wearing cute one-piece swimsuits.
He had thought something was different, and sure enough. He alone was wearing a panty-style swimsuit.
“Peep……!”
Mephisto blushed and covered his chest with both wings.
At this, Yurian and Veilrack scrunched up their faces as if disgusted.
“Ang.” (You were naked from the start.)
“Mu.” (Why cover up all of a sudden.)
After speaking simultaneously, the two met eyes for a moment before turning their heads away with a huff.
Meanwhile, without even knowing that Mephisto was burning with shame on top of her head, Gru waddled step by step toward the children's pool wearing a chick tube.
Between the children's pool and the adult pool, the space was divided by thick glass, and in the adult pool, Capture Team 1 and the filming crew were shooting video.
While Nayeon lifted Gru carefully and placed her inside the pool, Gru gazed at the other side of the glass with a sharp gaze.
As it happened, Gang Jei and Gu Huiyeon had given her a categorized list of items to check to determine the number one candidate.
The first thing to look at was the Physical category.
Gidan and Serhi, who wore uniform tops over their swimsuits, had trained repeatedly and were splendidly muscled.
‘As expected of candidates for the top seat in strings.’
Gru checked the Physical section on her tablet while spinning round and round on her tube in the children's pool.
[Physical: Gidan S / Serhi S]
Then she secretly took a picture of Serhi and sent it to Gang Jei.
Gang Jei
OK
5 Yoplaits
Strawberry flavor
Gang Jei
OKOK Strawberyy
The sinister deal of five Yoplaits was thus concluded.
Hee hee hee. It was the moment Gru laughed like a villain.
Wooju also observed the two for a while before completing her check on her own tablet.
At this, Gru pitter-pattered closer and asked.
“What score did you give, Wooju?”
“Huh? That's…… I can't tell you for a fair evaluation.”
“Tch.”
Gru pouted sullenly.
At this, Wooju hesitated before sneakily tilting her tablet to show Gru.
“I can't tell you. Shh.”
“Mm, got it.”
As the two giggled and shared the contents of the tablet, Mephisto glared with wide eyes and puffed his cheeks out roundly.
He couldn't lose to Seo Wooju like this.
Meanwhile, while Gru floated leisurely on the pool, Veilrack, Lukespher, and Yurian also roamed on the water.
While Nayeon was busily taking photos of their cute forms.
“Peeeep!”
Mephisto spread his wings wide and cried from atop the children's diving board.
“Hm? Mephi?”
Padadadada!!
Thud!!!
Confirming that attention was focused on him, Mephisto ran down the diving board with both wings stretched above his head, and when he reached the end, he jumped up with wings spread.
Mephisto, having leaped into the air, curled his body into a ball and spun, trying to fly like an Angry Birds bird and make a cool entry into the water, but—
Just then, Veilrack, who had been playing nearby, shot up from the water and collided with the diving Mephisto.
Puff!
Mephisto's beak stabbed into the tube wrapped around Veilrack's waist, and a deflating sound was heard.
Psssshhhh!
As the tube deflated, Veilrack and Mephisto began sinking into the water.
“Mu, muut!”
“Peeeep!”
As the ugly hamster and fat bird fell into the water, Wooju rushed over, frantically parting the water.
Soon, a small hand pulled the two animals out of the water.
Gru, who had followed in surprise, sighed in relief as she looked at Veilrack and Mephisto held in Wooju's hand.
“Mephi, you have to play quietly!! It's dangerous!”
Peep! Mephisto, scolded by Gru, trembled his beak.
Regardless, Gru placed the tearful Mephisto and the dazed Veilrack in a towel and rubbed them every which way to dry off.
Their fur stood up spikily.
Dizzy, Veilrack sat on the towel with eyes spinning round and round, and Mephisto, who had plopped down, drooped his shoulders with a gloomy expression.
He had only wanted to show Gru a cool side of himself.
‘I got scolded…….’
Tears rolled down from Mephisto's eyes along his cheeks and plopped onto the pool surface.
Lukespher looked at such Mephisto pitifully before hopping off somewhere.
Veilrack clicked his tongue at the sight, thinking he was doing something useless again.
In the meantime, Gru suddenly turned her head sharply toward the adult pool.
If left alone, they kept causing accidents, so she had to quickly finish checking and get out of the pool.
‘The next section to check is Conduct!’
I need to see how diligently and well they work.
As Gru peeked into the adult pool through the glass door, exclamations burst out from here and there.
“Isn't that Gru?”
“How cute!”
“What's going on?”
Capture Team 1 and the filming crew welcomed Gru, and Gidan and Serhi, who had been splashing around, approached.
“Gruru!”
“Did you come to play? The children's pool is over there, though.”
“Gru can play here with us.”
When Gidan asked the filming crew, “Is it okay?” the cameraman sent an okay sign.
While a filming crew staff member said they'd have to film Gru too and attached a sponsor logo to her, Wooju also poked her head in.
“Oh!”
“Seo Wooju?”
“They said Wooju was Gru's friend, so you came too!”
“Wooju, I'm your fan!”
“Hello.”
As Wooju bowed in greeting and stood beside Gru, hearts shot out from the filming crew's eyes.
“We can have our babies play with Team 1 while we film.”
The filming crew leader smiled broadly and pulled Wooju over.
“Yes, that's fine.”
Wooju nodded and followed behind Gru.
Soon, as the filming crew began getting busy, Wooju glanced around for a moment before secretly modifying something on her tablet.
“……?”
It was a movement that seemed to harbor some scheme.
Mephisto keenly caught on and narrowed his eyes.