Chapter 185

Magical Girl Sun, who suddenly returned safely after giving high blood pressure to many monsters.

She was worried that she might not come back, but she loaded her body onto the transmission device in the transmission room and was able to descend to the familiar rooftop.

Twice for monster extermination and now once again.

This rooftop, which now became the third time she set foot on.

“Yikes! That startled me!”

On a cold winter day, the repair staff who were doing cement work on the rooftop suddenly looked over and jumped in surprise.

Unlike the appearance of monsters, this was a situation where she appeared abruptly in the midst of their work.

Looking at the surprised “Uncle” workers with wide eyes, she sheepishly scratched the back of her head and prepared to leave.

“Um, sorry. Please continue your work….”

Just as she was about to bend her knees and leave.

Three staff members made up of two uncles in their 40s and 50s and a young man in his 20s.

“Oh dear, what’s with that getup on such a cold day?”

One of them looked at her with a disgusted expression, as if to say it was pitiful.

Flinching, she felt a little hesitant to jump and leave while the adults were talking, so her departure was delayed.

Then, a younger-looking uncle, after smacking his chest with his palm, admonished the one who spoke first.

“Come on, hyung… how can you not know that? Isn’t that the Magical Girl thing that has been on the news?”

“Magical Girl? Oh, that cartoon for kids? That’s on the news as well?”

This uncle, referred to as “hyung,” appeared to be oblivious to the situation.

The other uncle who scolded him looked bewildered, as if questioning how he could not know that, and pressed him further with a bewildered expression.

If he had a daughter, it would be impossible not to have a basic conversation or at least to play with her about it…

“Is this hyung really living in the same world as me?”

“Hey, why do you speak like that?”

“Ah, has it only been a couple of times like this, hyung? Last time too…”

A trivial argument began to ignite over nothing.

While the two men were busy arguing, the young man came closer, squinting his eyes and waving his hands as if to hurry them up.

“Just go, hurry up.”

“Ah, yes….”

It seemed that they were used to such fights between the two uncles.

The saying that “when whales fight, it’s the shrimp’s back that breaks” likely came from situations like this.

Anyway, she managed to escape from that scene, but a problem remained.

Her appearance after canceling the transformation was not suitable for walking around outside.

“Ugh… what is this look?”

Dressed only in a thick indoor outfit without a coat, it was not suitable at all.

She couldn’t go home transformed, and letting herself revert to a state where she was only wearing indoor clothes and socks just looked ridiculous.

With an atmosphere reminiscent of a runaway girl who had been kicked out of the house after arguing with her mom, she started walking home in that state, thinking it might be better to just convince herself of that.

Please, let me not run into anyone I know….

“Ha… it’s freezing.”

The cold winter street was so chilly that she unconsciously muttered this.

Eyes around her seemed to be asking, “What’s her situation that she ended up looking like that?”

Ignoring those looks as best as she could, she rubbed her palms against her shoulders and arms to forget the cold a little and managed to step into the shared entrance.

In fact, while rubbing her palms, her upper body felt somewhat okay, but the soles of her feet, buried in snow, were another story.

Soaked and already damp from being buried in the snow, her feet were starting to freeze in the cold weather.

She had forgotten about the sensation of frostbite since the extreme cold, and she never expected to face it again like this.

With an empty bag in hand, she stood shivering at the front door.

Beep beep beep, entering the door lock password that sounded no different from any other day compared to the experiences she just had and flung the door open.

As soon as she opened the door, there it was, a Gomtaengi with wide-open eyes that was sticking itself to the inside of the door.

It suddenly let out a loud shout.

“Are, are you okay?!”

“Ah!”

Without a moment to stop, a fist flew towards her with a scream.

The Gomtaengi bounced off the floor with a “bang!”

It scared her before falling down.

However, without showing any signs of deflation after bouncing on the floor, the Gomtaengi came closer.

“Are, are you okay?! W-what happened?! You just suddenly appeared…”

As if her body was of no importance, it started inspecting various parts of her body with its fluffy hands while panicking and asking her questions.

That look, genuinely worried, made her think that it was showing genuine concern, despite its usual behavior.

Maybe because it usually behaved poorly, but it seemed more commendable than she expected.

“I just came from your spaceship; the facilities seemed nice.”

In response to its attitude, she calmly recounted her impressions of the inside of the spaceship as if to tell it not to worry.

Honestly, she was quite anxious about what she would do if she couldn’t return.

“Uh… how did you come back?”

“There was a place called the transmission room; I just used some weird device there to get here.”

Casually providing answers to its questions while entering the house.

Upon hearing the term “transmission room,” it exclaimed “Ah” in realization, almost like a relieved sigh.

With one hand holding an empty bag and her hair damp from the cold, her appearance reflected in the mirror was absurd.

Having entered the house, her toes felt numb, and her body was shaking uncontrollably.

“Enough, hurry up and get out… I’m freezing to death.”

“Oh wow, in this weather, looking like that….”

As she waved her hand as if to say, “get out of my way,” the Gomtaengi slipped to the side, mentioning the cold weather.

Standing there in her completely soaked socks, she bent down with one hand to take them off, throwing the other pair into the laundry basket.

She wanted to warm her frozen body up quickly with hot water.

Entering the bathroom, she turned the faucet slightly to the left in the center and adjusted the water temperature with her fingertips.

That perfect temperature felt like it was reddening her skin.

As the hot water poured over her trembling body, she first thought it was hot, but as her body adjusted, she began to loosen up.

“Ahhh….”

With her tension released, a refreshing sigh flowed from her throat.

As she calmed down, she suddenly found the question from the Gomtaengi about how she returned from the spaceship somewhat strange.

Thinking about it again, wasn’t it a monster?

She flung open the bathroom door and loudly asked the Gomtaengi, who had already gone into the room.

“Hey, but why don’t you know about the transmission room??”

“Hey! How can I remember something from years ago?!”

The loud response of the Gomtaengi echoed in her room, matching the volume of her question.

It was a reason typical of that creature.

‘…good-for-nothing.’

After cursing inwardly, she surrendered her body to the warm water.

The warm water flowing down her head made her thoughts come to a stop.

Thus, she spent three minutes without moving.

Finally, she removed the showerhead that had been clinging to her head and washed her hair and body in order.

Her body, which had felt like it might get frostbite, was now soft and dry.

Perhaps due to the hot water, a thin layer of steam was rising from her body.

Contrary to that refreshing feeling, however, her nose was itching.

“Ah, ah… ah-choo!”

After a few breaths that almost didn’t lead to anything, a sneeze burst out.

It seemed that her weak middle school girl’s body had found it tough even to endure a few minutes in the winter street.

With the Seol holiday approaching soon, she was left worrying about whether she would be bedridden…

“Ugh….”

And then, her body proved the saying that a bad premonition is never wrong once again.

With a headache that felt like it might break upon the start of the Seol holiday, she woke up.

She woke up early at dawn, not even having set her alarm, only to be greeted with dizzying pain that made it hard to even move.

How could it be on the day the holiday begins…?

In agony, she thought only of surviving for the time being, blindly muttering the transformation chant.

“Sun.”

As her body shrank, the headache that had been bothering her disappeared.

Digging through the drawer in the living room, she took a pack of medicine and moved it to her room.

Continuously sneezing up until bedtime was not a good feeling.

No matter how unavoidable it was…

‘At this rate, I won’t even be able to go down together.’

Whether she felt sick or not, resolving the headache was the priority, so she stood in front of the water dispenser, canceled her transformation, and popped a pill into her mouth.

Of course, taking just one pill didn’t visibly alleviate her symptoms, and morning brightened up.

Bearing all the worry from Shiyeon, who got up with the alarm.

“Are you okay?”

In a situation where she couldn’t even deny the question with empty words.

Though she felt a little better, she was not in a condition to go out and walk around.

Her voice came out hoarse due to the swollen throat from consecutive sneezes.

“No… just don’t come into my room for now, and get ready to go out.”

“Okay….”

In a situation where they weren’t even sick together.

She was likely to have the trouble of making Shiyeon suffer too, so she had her wear that suffocating mask even indoors and let her go out.

The only one who could stay with her without the worry of spreading the sickness was her mascot.

“Should I bring a gel pack from the freezer?”

“Um… and a towel from the bathroom.”

“Okay.”

The Gomtaengi skillfully turned the doorknob with its whole body, creating a small gap to go back and forth between the room.

She wished it was that easy every time and swallowed that regret while lying on her bed.

“Yes, Mary is currently sick… yes, yes….”

Creaking, the door open and the short sound of Shiyeon talking could be heard.

With the sound of the door closing shortly after, the house fell silent without any presence.

It seemed that the uncles had left to meet up somewhere.

Staying together would only risk spreading the illness, so it was better to be a bit harsh and stay away from home for a day or two.

Sleeping and taking medicine was the best when feeling sick.

While chewing on her loneliness and continuing to close her eyes, it had been about ten minutes, right?

Once again, she heard the sound of the front door opening.