‘Huk!’
Gu Sinhu sucked in a breath.
Seeing his nervous expression, Jurim twisted his lips in a smirk.
*Don’t tell me, that rude bastard again?*
Gu Sinhu quickly rolled his eyes, checking his surroundings.
They were in front of countless reporters. He couldn’t let Jurim call out, “Sinhu-ya,” like he had at the auction house.
*How big is the age gap between him and me, that dog of a bastard!*
Gu Sinhu quickly dashed to On Jurim’s side.
“Guild Leader On Jurim! What perfect timing. There was something I needed to tell you.”
Gu Sinhu grabbed On Jurim’s arm, pulled him in front of a nearby barracks, and whispered quietly so no one else could hear.
“I heard an interesting story regarding Brom’s deployment to the RP dungeon this time. Do you happen to know about it?”
“I doubt it would be interesting even if I heard it.”
This bastard, look at that attitude.
But Gu Sinhu was certain that to On Jurim, this was a truly interesting story.
Smiling, Gu Sinhu leaned to his ear and whispered, selling Cheon Gyuri out.
He said that because On Jurim’s daughter had refused to reach a settlement over the fraud committed by the Association President’s son, the Association President had thrown Cheon Gyuri and his own son into the RP dungeon together.
“The President must really love his son, don’t you think?”
As he listened to Gu Sinhu’s whisper, Jurim turned to look at the RP dungeon gate that had opened right in the middle of the road.
Gu Sinhu had spoken under the premise that Jurim already knew the general circumstances of the fraud incident, so although Jurim couldn’t know every exact detail, he could at least grasp that Gru had been the victim of fraud and that the Association President had stepped in to hush it up.
*So that’s what happened while I wasn’t looking.*
Anyway, that tiny thing sure went around causing every kind of accident.
Reading from Jurim’s reaction that it had been a decent deal, Gu Sinhu smiled and pulled away.
“Guild Leader On, I’ll apologize for last time. Let’s call it even now, shall we? There’s no bad blood between us anymore, right?”
“There was never anything between us from the start, though?”
“So, I was just saying this level is perfect for us.”
Leaving the satisfied Gu Sinhu behind, Jurim strode toward the RP dungeon.
It seemed like just the right time to send a text saying he probably wouldn’t be coming home today.
“……?”
For some reason, his left hand throbbed. It was a strange sensation, like a pull.
*
Geuru furrowed her brows at a hand shaking her body this way and that.
She tried to get up, but her head was heavy and her body was limp, making it difficult.
Even though Geuru couldn’t get up easily, the other party grabbed and shook her several times, urging her on.
*Eung, I’m sleepy….* Geuru barely opened her eyes to a thin slit and said softly.
“Lemme sleep a little more…….”
“Chwit! Chwi-it!”
A mouse? Was that a mouse squeaking?
She remembered that when a mouse had appeared at the orphanage, it had made exactly that sound.
The strange thing was…….
“Chwit!” *(Wake up!)*
It meant she could understand the language of mice.
*What? Why did Geuru get such an amazing ability?*
A second Awakening? She thought so half-asleep as she raised herself up.
The place where her tail was felt stiff; it seemed to be because the lying position was uncomfortable.
“Haaaahm—”
Having yawned widely as if her mouth would tear, Geuru looked at the one who had woken her.
Even the caretaker aunties didn’t shake her like that. Who was it, and for what reason were they waking Geuru so desperately……?
*A squirrel?!*
Having confirmed the other party, Geuru perked up her ears. She truly felt her ears physically stand upright.
The one sitting next to her was a huge squirrel about Geuru’s size.
Very, very cute, but—
*Big!*
No matter how ignorant of the world Geuru was, she knew there were no squirrels this big.
Then, a monster? Geuru warily flicked her ears while keeping her guard up.
‘……?’
Narrowing her eyes, Geuru flicked her ears once more. Her ears flicked above her head.
*Why is this working?*
It shouldn’t work. At the very unfamiliar sensation, she fumbled above her head with both hands.
Then she felt ears wrapped in soft fur.
“……!”
Fumble, fumble. No matter how many times she touched and pinched them, they were round ears that she could feel for real.
“Geuru has ears growing on her head!”
As she shouted in surprise, the cute squirrel sharply raised its tail.
With shaking vision, Geuru observed the squirrel up and down.
The squirrel was wearing a white apron over a yellow one-piece dress, and on its head were round, fluffy-looking ears that twitched and perked up.
Those ears! Those were attached to Geuru too?!
“Did Geuru become a squirrel too?”
Geuru asked with a panicked face.
Seeing that her hands and legs were still in human form, she thought she might be slowly changing like that squirrel.
She had seen an animation where someone transformed into a beast like that.
*No! At this rate I’ll become a pig!*
Remembering how horrified the protagonist had been, Geuru’s heart pounded just thinking about that scream the voice actor had poured his soul into performing.
With the memory revived, Geuru kicked off the blanket and crouched on the bed.
Then, a squirrel’s tail covered in thick fur swayed. When she moved this way and that, it followed back and forth.
That tail was clearly Geuru’s too.
*Even a tail!*
Thump!
*No. I’ll become a pig!*
The protagonist’s voice echoed in her ears.
If it wasn’t a pig but a squirrel, was the situation a little better? Was it the same thing? She didn’t know!
It was the moment when tears welled up in Geuru’s large eyes.
“Chwijjujuji!” *(Please don’t be surprised!)*
Was there any way to *not* be surprised here?
“Chwit!” *(I greet you!)*
The squirrels’ language was a very cost-effective language that could express the meaning of “I greet you” in a single syllable.
“Chwi! Chwijujijijik!” *(You are the king of squirrels, the Flying Squirrel beastman!)*
“……?”
Countless question marks floated above Geuru’s head.
“A, a flying squirrel?”
If it was a flying squirrel, was it that? The one that, even though it was a squirrel, could glide when it spread both arms wide?
“Jjak! Chwijijijik jjijjakjjak!” *(Yes! You are a flying squirrel! The king of squirrels!)*
When the squirrel spoke again, finally sentences other than “Flying Squirrel beastman” were input into her head.
*The king of squirrels?*
Geuru covered her naturally gaping mouth with both hands.
*King? KING?!*
Geuru’s eyes rolled to the side.
*Geuru has become amazing!*
It was an unintentional rise in status.
*
Geuru’s mood improved a little.
For a kindergartener immersed in playing princess with her friends, a royal flying squirrel was better than a commoner pig.
*That’s that.*
Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Geuru tilted her head, recalling past events.
The last memory before becoming a flying squirrel was…….
*I opened the door and came in.*
She had packed all the items she had made so far, ridden her tricycle, and used her skill.
Normally, when opening a dungeon with “The Dungeon Is an Open Door,” the dungeon interior was visible, but the RP dungeon was different.
Unlike other dungeons, the inside of the entrance was pitch-black.
*Dark!*
The dark interior was a little scary. As Geuru hesitated to step inside, something hopped above her head, as if urging her to hurry in.
*Mepi!*
Come to think of it, where did Mepi go?
They had definitely come in together.
As Geuru looked around for Mepi, the large squirrel asked.
“Chwijjak?” *(Are you perhaps looking for your belongings?)*
“Uh-huh. Where ish it all?”
“Jijijichwing.” *(They are here, Your Majesty.)*
The large squirrel guided Geuru to the table in the small room.
Next to the table, a tricycle was parked, a bag was on top of it, and on top of the bag, a white baby bird was sleeping soundly.
Every time it snored, inhaling and exhaling, its round body bobbed up and down.
Just as Geuru was about to poke its fluffy feathers to wake it up.
*……?*
An information window she had never seen before appeared in front of her eyes.
On Mepisto’s information window, the words “Updating…….” had appeared.
*Update?*
What was it updating?
It was then.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Together with loud notification sounds, all sorts of windows began popping up before her eyes.
*Eh!*
Geuru’s ears perked up repeatedly, and her tail moved back and forth.
All of these were RP dungeon scenario quest windows!