I Became the Companion of the Gods

77 – EP.19 Spider’s House -7

To put it in conclusion, I failed to persuade Miho.

I couldn’t be more assertive in front of Miho, who firmly said that he would allow the employment relationship, but no further relationship.

It’s not that I don’t understand.

Miho has been a very jealous fox since she was little.

As I, who experienced Miho’s emotions firsthand, it was rather thanks to him that he had seen Miho up until now.

I can’t even imagine mixing with them, let alone making other pets in front of a jealous fox.

Even so, the only reason Miho allowed it was because of one sin of not being by my side for 20 years.

The atonement of the fox who erased my memory and lived by just watching.

Otherwise, no one would have recognized the fox as my pet.

Even Miho’s often attempted s*x acts and threats like now, if you look at their intentions openly, they didn’t mean much.

I am always worried that I will be taken away by other attractive divine beings.

In other words, it’s good to see it as a fox’s foolishness.

I can’t help it.

It must mean that it is premature to attract a rabbit as a pet right now.

“Okay. I will give up on making a contract with Alice.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes. You’re so against it, can’t you force it?”

“I’m so sorry. But…… !”

“It’s okay if you don’t talk. Because I know how you are against it. Instead, I’ll do my best to wipe out the spiders. Is this arrangement okay?”

“Yes! I will do my best!!”

The fox’s tail, which was trembling with anxiety, stood tall, and Miho’s cold expression brightened.

The reaction that parents show when they raise the white flag to a child who is acting like a child.

Did you hate the increase in number of pets?

“Are you really okay with giving up? Nanggun?”

“Yes. I can’t always think of my feelings, and besides, I can’t delay any more time here.”

I already spent about 5 minutes persuading Miho.

A precious hour earned by Kor. I can no longer write pointlessly.

So, it’s right for me to fold in here.

“Yes. If Nang-kun thinks so, then he must be right. So I won’t say anything about the choice.”

“Yes.”

“Instead, you might as well leave a word for the disappointed rabbit over there.”

“Ah… I guess.”

In contrast to Miho, who was shouting happy joy, Alice had a sullen expression on her face.

It seems that I was expecting to be a companion in my heart, I did something sorry.

As he approached Alice, who was a little downcast, the rabbit touched his face in amazement, then returned to his usual insensitive expression.

I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw the rabbit desperately trying to act.

“I’m sorry, Alice. I don’t think we can make a contract with you because our foxes are against it so much.”

“It’s okay, boss. I am satisfied with my current relationship….”

An obvious lie.

I could clearly hear the minute trembling in my voice, even to my ears, but it couldn’t be okay……

But I have no intention of hurting Alice’s pride by pointing this out.

“Really? I think I’m sorry. Alice doesn’t look like that.”

“Ah… !! Me too, a little… I think it’s a pity.”

“I’m glad we got along. But, after all, I already promised Miho. I cannot accept you as a pet.”

“Yeah, that’s right….”

Alice puts on a downcast expression again.

I felt guilty because it seemed like I was going to open and close people’s hearts.

She wants to shake off all her regrets by giving her her last hope.

“Yes. Arachne hasn’t collapsed yet.”

“I heard about that a while ago.”

“Then do you know that the confrontation we wagered earlier isn’t over yet?”

“Ah… !”

At first, the confrontation was about who caught the most spiders, but the confrontation changed to who caught Arachne first.

The reward for that confrontation is honor and the right to wish. Aside from honor, the right to wish was an unconventional reward for the two divine beasts.

And I wonder if Miho got the reward, but Arachne is still alive and well using her hidden ability.

In other words, the whereabouts of the Sowonwon have not yet been decided.

And that meant there was hope left for the rabbit……

“Shouldn’t I try to obtain any wish, even the right to a wish that I must grant unconditionally?”

“Yes, there was still hope…” !”

“You have to work hard to get a new game, right?”

“Yes… ! This time, I’ll try to catch it before that incompetent fox can find it!”

Alice was burning up her will to the point where she doubted whether the rabbit that had just died down was the right one.

It must mean that you properly understood the intention behind my words.

She cheered her on to win for the new game, but it was clear that Alice would ask for a wish other than the game.

I, the rabbit, and the crow laughing behind me must all know what it is.

If things go smoothly, there will be a satisfying ending that everyone can understand.

‘I hope so… ….’

Maybe Miho realized why I was encouraging Alice.

The happy laughter faded slightly, and he started glaring at the rabbit fiercely.

In opposition to this, Alice was also glaring at Miho fiercely…….

It seems that the fox, who blocked the natural companionship contract, is quite resentful.

The relationship between the two divine beasts, which hadn’t been good before, got even worse because of this incident.

Fortunately, the two didn’t fight directly, but only fought their nerves.

“Nanggun. It’s good to have those two compete, but when time passes and Arachne runs away, it’s over?”

“Ah, that’s what I heard.”

“Let’s get started. Both of them must be itching to catch Arachne.”

“Okay! Then, this time everyone, Arachne… !!”

A fox and a rabbit disappeared before they even finished talking.

Well then….

***

“Let’s go slowly to find the spider.”

“Huh? Slowly? Are you still okay?”

“There is a saying that the sooner you hurry, go back.” !”

“Even if we just run around like Cor said, we can’t search faster than those two. So we’d better take a closer look at places the two of us haven’t seen before.”

“Hmm, maybe that’s for sure…” .”

A rabbit that is rapidly searching through time leaps, and a fox that should be running around at a speed comparable to that.

Unfortunately, me, Yata, and Kor didn’t have the same mobility as the two of us.

I wonder if I made a contract with Alice and got some of her abilities.

Unlike now, I had no choice but to go to the rooms on each floor and check inside.

“Come to think of it, how did the hostage rescue go?”

“Don’t worry about that, we rescued everyone without announcing our existence.”

“I see, then where are the director and the others now?”

“By now you should be safely outside the building, just as Yata-sama told you to do…… !”

“Huh? Did Yata do it? How?”

“Oh no! I borrowed it for a while!”

Yata flinched and threw something at me.

I wanted something, so I grabbed it with both hands, and on the palm of my hand was my mobile phone, which I didn’t even know was gone.

“In what gap did you get it?!”

“I sneaked it before they scattered. I needed my cell phone to give orders to the director without getting caught!”

“You have bad hand habits. If you had told me to borrow it normally, I would have borrowed it right away, but why did you have to….”

When I unlocked my phone and looked at the messages so far, I realized why the crow stole it without saying anything.

[I rescued the hostages I encountered so far in the meeting room on the 8th floor. If you don’t want to turn the hostages into food for passing spiders, take them right away.]

[If you don’t want to get lost, don’t even go near the multipurpose hall on the 4th floor.]

[If you have rescued all the hostages, escape quickly. Honestly, it’s so f*cking annoying that the director is inside the building.]

“hahahaha! If I spoke politely, he would definitely come up with a different opinion, so even if it bothered me, I had to force myself to leave.”

“This is not coercive… ….”

Isn’t that already a blackmail?

I gave an order to the director of the institution, and to the person who was my superior, with a message that I couldn’t find any manners like this…….

In addition, he sold the director’s name before entering the institution.

I’m afraid that when this is all over, I’ll be taken to the extreme.

“Anyway, it means that we are the only ones inside the building right now. We can search comfortably!”

“…… Okay.”

My heart has become quite uncomfortable.

Still, there is no other thing that is easier to be active than when there are no people around, so it was vague to even say anything.

I can’t. I should just go to the director later and apologize and make excuses.

Chief, this letter was written by our baby dragon.

“Come to think of it, who do you predict will capture Arachne?”

“Why are you asking such a thing all of a sudden?”

“That’s because I’m curious. Who is Nanggun rooting for?”

“Isn’t there another ulterior motive?”

“No, I’m just asking out of curiosity.”

“…… I think Alice will win.”

“Why?”

“Well, the ability is a time leap. Time passes slowly in the present, but only you have the ability to reach the future?”

A rabbit can do a task that takes 10 minutes for other people to do in just tens of seconds.

In other words, it takes less than a minute to search an entire floor.

No matter how motivated Miho is, she has to give in to the rabbit when it comes to searching.

“As long as she has that ability, I don’t think Alice will lose.”

“You seem to have a lot of trust in that rabbit… ?”

“That’s because I personally experienced the true value of that ability. Once with my body, once against Arachne.”

“Don’t you have a selfish desire for the rabbit to win?”

“I would be lying if I said no. Seeing Alice’s sullen expression makes me sad, so I support her, but to be honest, I’m scared to deal with Miho who has won the right to wish.”

“The latter is more sincere.”

“I have to live and see.”

Yata and Kor laughing at my sincere feelings.

By now, the other two divine beasts should be diligently searching, but I don’t know if it’s okay if we’re the only ones having such a friendly conversation.

“Nanggun, shall we have a quiz time after a long time?”

“Today’s Yata only asks or proposes really out of the blue things.”

“That makes it more exciting and fun.”

“Yes, yes. So? What kind of quiz is this time?”

“What kind of baby spider did Arachne enter?”

“If she had known that, wouldn’t she have suffered like this?”

“Don’t be so mean~! Guess what! The answer is a whopping 1 in 3 chance? Small, medium and large. Because there are only three of them!”

“That would be a miniature size.”

“Why? If Arachne wants to restore her fertility, shouldn’t she be a large spider?”

Arachne must return to her original size, but she can activate her fertility abilities.

In that sense, choosing a large size is a shortcut that can quickly shorten the time to restore fertility…….

“Still, in the current situation, a small spider is right. I realized that even with the body of a giant spider, you can’t beat us, but change to a large one? Is there anything more than asking me to kill me?”

“hahahaha! It’s safe~”

“People who are deceived are strange. How can I get into the body of a giant spider when I have to take care of my life right now? It will stay as a small, inconspicuous spider and later escape or wage guerrilla warfare.”

Yata nodded, saying it was fair.

She came up with a second problem soon after, but the text of the problem was rather out of the blue.

“A spider’s natural enemy?”

“Yes, what is the natural enemy of spiders?”

A problem I’ve never really thought about.

Since there were no options presented separately, unlike the last time, it was difficult to guess right away.

“I don’t know.”

“Then the next problem!”

“What?”

“Who will finally catch Arachne? The answer to this quiz is the same as the one that Nanggun couldn’t solve.”

A spider’s natural enemy and the one who catches Arachne are the same?

Slight confusion came into my head.

Aside from the correct answer to the question, what is Yata’s intention in coming up with such a question?

I don’t know.

“Alice by any chance?”

“Ding, rabbits can’t be spiders’ enemies.”

“Then Miho?”

“Ding. Is it the first time that a spider’s natural enemy is a fox?”

“Then what is the correct answer?”

“You really don’t know?”

“I really don’t know!”

“hahahaha!! The answer is…… !”

Slightly Yata approached the multifunction device in the corner of the office.

Suddenly, he put his hand inside the multifunction machine and took out a small black object.

The identity of the object is Arachne’s microscopic baby spider, which is boring to look at.

However, unlike other small spiders, the spider Yata saw had a red hourglass pattern engraved on its belly…… It was Arachne.

“The correct answer is me! A spider nemesis, a crow, a bird!”

“Wait a minute!! Didn’t you say you couldn’t help me earlier?!”

“Yes. Did you say?”

“But this…… “

“Aha! You seem to be misunderstanding something.”

Yata threw the struggling Arachne high into the air.

Jaak in time for falling! He clapped and crushed Arachne with both palms.

“Since I was also a participant in the confrontation, I said that I could not help my husband unilaterally.”

-Kwajik!

Yata dropped the broken spider to the ground and stepped on it with his foot again.

The body fluids and intestines of a spider seeping through her shoes.

Even when her feet were removed, the red markings remained on the spider’s body.

True, Arachne is dead. Very vain…….

“You wanted a rabbit as a pet, right?”

“Huh? Yes….”

“I’m sorry, but life is real life?”

“Hey, bullsh*t… !!”

There was a running fox, a rabbit jumping over the future, and a crow flying above it.