The Jelly Alien Will Save You! Chapter 68

Wooooooo—

 

The whale let out a long cry as if calling to Haeeon, but Haeeon didn’t look back.

 

His arm, starting from the fingertips, began to be shrouded in black smoke.

 

At the same time, the city moved as well. 

 

Buildings tilted, and roads moved like conveyor belts.

 

The streets surged upward as if a volcano were erupting.

 

The Scavengers faltered before being swept downward like an ebbing tide.

 

“A—Aaaaagh!”

 

“Aaaaagh!”

 

“Help me! Catch me!”

 

“Dammit!”

 

Screams erupted endlessly.

 

By the time Haeeon reached the edge of a building, his entire body was already enveloped in black smoke.

 

He looked down from atop the surging building at those who had been swept away.

 

“What is going on!”

 

“There are people down there!”

 

“Move! I said move!”

 

Amidst the people scrambling in confusion, the man in the loudly patterned suit looked up at the blackened Haeeon.

 

“…!”

 

The god of the contaminated zone was looking down upon him.

 

Jino clasped his hands together, and the yellow protective suit glared at him with terrifying eyes.

 

Haeeon coldly turned his back.

 

* * *

 

I put down the walkie-talkie and moved to the yard.

 

This was as far as our plan went.

 

If Jaehee Oppa failed to recognize Cha Haeeon, the best we could think of was to bring the hypnotized Jaehee Oppa here and knock him unconscious.

 

However, I had made one more plan of my own.

 

That was to purify Jaehee Oppa.

 

I clenched my fists tight.

 

Could I do well when I had only failed until now?

 

I set up an extremely thin film in the air above the yard.

 

And another thin membrane below it.

 

And yet another thin membrane below that.

 

With my current purification level, I could only maintain three layers.

 

“……It’s far too little.” 

 

I worried whether I could truly purify Jaehee Oppa with such a measly amount of purification power.

 

“….”

 

I spent a moment staring blankly at the thinly spread purification power, sometimes shaping it into a sphere or trying to draw a star with it.

 

‘What if my thinking was wrong from the very beginning?’

 

* * *

 

Meanwhile, the tightly bound Jaehee flew to the cozy house in the forest in an instant.

 

Below, a pink jelly was waving its hands with both arms raised as if welcoming him. 

 

As he descended, Jaehee’s eyes were fixed on the jelly.

 

The weakest individual.

 

The thought that he had to kill that thing first brought about a thick surge of murderous intent.

 

Crack, crack. His bones protruded and his muscles tensed.

 

It was the moment his body prepared to lunge at any second.

 

“Hello, Jaehee Oppa.”

 

A familiar voice struck his mind.

 

At the same time, clear air enveloped him. It felt as if the thick layer of tar covering him was being peeled away by a single, very thin layer.

 

One layer.

 

“I missed you.”

 

Two layers.

 

“It’s me, Damie.”

 

Three layers.

 

‘Damie.’

 

In an instant, the something that had been stickily tangled in his head slowly unraveled.

 

A refreshing and cool sensation.

 

In that interval, the squishy jelly threw its arms around his body.

 

The moment it did, it felt as though the tar-like energy was being washed away.

 

Noticing that his strength had left him, the jelly snatched the umbrella away from him.

 

He saw the jelly clutching the umbrella with a determined expression.

 

His nerves were more focused on the squishiness of the jelly that had briefly touched him than the stolen umbrella. Because the moment it touched him, his mind had become clear and quiet.

 

‘I want to touch it one more time….’

 

Jaehee instinctively reached out his hand.

 

The jelly, eyes wide as if startled, tried to grab his hand in return.

 

But just before their hands touched, Jaehee withdrew his hand and took a step back.

 

It was because of a shred of repulsion stuck in his mind like a thorn.

 

‘Where is the inheritance?’

 

He looked around.

 

Before he knew it, a woman with a whale’s tail approached and began to speak.

 

“—.”

 

However, her voice did not reach him, sounding as if it had been blurred by water.

 

‘I have to take the inheritance….’

 

But why? Why did he have to do that?

 

Drip.

 

Drip.

 

Right on cue, red rain began to fall. It was the rain of corrosion caused by Jaehee’s clouded consciousness.

 

Where the rain hit, smoke rose from various parts of the house.

 

The space spirits screamed and ran into the ranch, trembling, and the woman with the whale’s tail picked up the umbrella and held it over the jelly.

 

In the meantime, the Dumbo octopus that had come crawling over was held in the jelly’s arms.

 

“Jaehee Oppa…. Please stop the rain. The house is going to break.”

 

Why was it that only your voice could be heard clearly?

 

Jaehee slowly shook his head as if in answer.

 

I cannot listen to you right now.

 

Because….

 

As he thought of this, it felt like the yellow protective suit’s voice was piling up blackly in his head.

 

‘Follow my commands.’

 

‘Make it rain.’

 

‘Kill them all.’

 

‘Find the inheritance.’

 

‘Find it.’

 

‘Find it.’

 

‘Find it!’

 

“Find it.”

 

Jaehee twisted his body in accordance with those words.

 

His body, having slipped out of the tentacles, headed straight for the jelly.

 

But—

 

Clang!

 

Just before Jaehee’s hand could reach the jelly, Kwon Bora blocked the attack with her sword.

 

“Damie! Stay back with the Guild Master!”

 

Bora, who had reflexively tried to summon electricity, steadied her power.

 

Jaehee, who used water, had an attribute that was the polar opposite of Bora’s. He could be seriously injured if she weren’t careful.

 

Must I fight with pure physical force? I should have knocked him out earlier…. Bora bit her lower lip and lunged at Jaehee.

 

* * *

 

Oppa led me toward the house.

 

I watched the two of them exchange blows at a speed completely invisible to the eye. They clashed and separated several times.

 

Bora Unnie’s tail swung toward Jaehee Oppa’s flank, and Jaehee Oppa’s blood acted as a shield to block it.

 

It would have been good if Oppa could catch him with tentacles again, but his strength seemed to have been exhausted.

 

Even so, I couldn’t just let the two keep fighting until Cha Haeeon returned.

 

Biting my lip, I fired purification power haphazardly at Jaehee Oppa.

 

But the purification power only repeatedly scattered, pushed back by the contamination.

 

‘…Is it impossible after all?’

 

No. I shook my head and took a deep breath.

 

I can do it.

 

Let’s test what I thought of earlier.

 

If simply piling up purification power wasn’t everything… then perhaps the blue jelly was merely showing me that purification power could be applied in different ways.

 

“Oppa, can you stop Jaehee Oppa for just one second?”

 

Oppa looked at me as if wondering what I was thinking.

 

“Just one second.”

 

At my serious request, the Dumbo octopus nodded.

 

He meant he would stop him when the timing was right.

 

During that time, I refined my purification power.

 

Thinly, very thinly. So that it could be sustained for a long time.

 

Clang! Clang! Clang!

 

As the battle continued, cold sweat dripped from my forehead as I maintained the purification power.

 

The Dumbo octopus kept watching the situation with its eyes wide open.

 

Bora Unnie leaped back a couple of times to avoid Jaehee Oppa’s attack.

 

Then, for a very brief instant.

 

A washing machine blocked Jaehee Oppa’s path.

 

In that moment when Jaehee Oppa faltered briefly.

 

“Oppa! Now!”