I Was Kidnapped By The Strongest Guild
Chapter 308: Injection?

My hand got stuck to the spider web.

I'd been in similar situations before, stuck to the children.

Maybe because of that experience, I didn't panic much this time.

'Kkamang's web will come off eventually anyway.'

I looked away from my hand and up at Gaeul.

Even in this unsettling situation with our hands stuck, Gaeul was smiling brightly at me.

Was she just happy to be able to see my face?

I understood how Gaeul felt, but I decided to give her a little warning anyway.

"Gaeul, if this keeps up, we might have to live stuck together forever."

Gaeul's tail wagged furiously.

She seemed delighted at the idea of living together forever.

I figured I needed to give her an example.

"We'd have to take turns washing our faces like this - your face once, then my face once."

I reached out and rubbed Gaeul's face.

Then I used Gaeul's hand to rub my face.

I was trying to show her how inconvenient it would be, but Gaeul just looked happy.

"We'd have to feed each other like this too..."

"Yummy...!"

"Um, yeah..."

She was surprised when she got tangled in the web alone.

But now that we're stuck together, she's just enjoying it.

Does Gaeul like me that much?

My desire to warn Gaeul faded away.

"Well... we should be able to get this undone, so don't worry too much."

"No."

"No? You don't want it undone?"

"Huh...!"

Lick lick.

Gaeul licked my cheek.

She seemed to be showing me how much she liked being stuck together.

"Gaeul, even if we get unstuck, we can still hold hands and walk together, you know."

"Like."

"You'd like that?"

"Yeah."

Gasp.

Did Gaeul just answer "yeah"?

She usually just wagged her tail to answer.

I was happy to see Gaeul's growth.

I chuckled and looked around.

"Yaaah!"

Levinas was still running, with Leo chasing after her.

Saebyeok was lying down sleeping on Leo's back.

It would be hard to ask the children for help.

I took Gaeul with me and approached Yeoreum, who was sitting on a bench.

Yeoreum, who had been looking at her smartphone, widened her eyes as soon as she saw us.

"Oh my, why are the little ones' hands stuck together?"

"We got stuck in Kkamang's spider web."

"Oh dear, should I help?"

"Yes, please."

As soon as I answered, Yeoreum drew her sword.

Swish swish-

She carefully cut the spider web around our arms, which was a bit scary.

Of course, Yeoreum didn't cut our arms.

"Hehe, you two must really like each other to stick your hands together like this."

"Yummy!"

"Yes, it's the best, isn't it?"

Yeoreum patted both mine and Gaeul's heads.

Just then, Levinas came running towards us with a shout.

"Yaaaah!"

She'd been running and shouting for a while now.

I wondered what kind of game she was playing.

It was starting to make me curious.

"Levinas, why are you suddenly running?"

"Levinas is going to run on water!"

"On water?"

Did she mean she was going to use magic to run on water?

With Levinas's magic, it might be possible.

"Look at this!"

Levinas showed us her smartphone.

On the screen, we could see a bird running quickly across water.

'Ah.'

So she was planning to run so fast that she could dash across the water.

I thought only small, fast animals could do that.

But well.

Levinas had magic, after all.

It didn't seem impossible.

"Levinas has finished practicing! Want to watch Levinas run now?!"

"Hmm... sure, why not?"

We had just finished untangling from the spider web and had nothing else to do.

I held Gaeul's hand, and we all moved to the pool playground.

It was a deep pool that came up to our chests.

"Watch!"

Levinas stood on the opposite side from us.

She intended to run quickly across the pool and come to our side.

"Levinas, are you sure you can do it?"

"Yep!"

Levinas's eyebrows rose fiercely.

She looked like she was about to dash off at any moment.

Unlike us who were tense, Levinas seemed full of confidence.

"Yaaaah!"

Levinas shouted and ran towards the pool.

She was quite fast, but...

Splash-!

Levinas didn't even make it one step forward before sinking into the pool.

As Levinas sank underwater, which seemed dangerous, the world started to move in slow motion.

In this slow-moving world, I could see:

Even as she was sinking, Levinas was moving her arms and legs quickly.

She maintained a fierce expression, struggling until her body was fully submerged in the pool.

She failed to run on water, but I had to admire her determination.

"How was that?!"

Levinas, who had fallen into the pool, walked towards us.

Her pace was slow due to the water's buoyancy.

Despite failing to run on water, she still looked confident.

I liked that it was so typical of Levinas.

I clapped my hands to welcome her.

"That was amazing."

"Right?! Didn't Levinas walk like two steps?!"

"Um... yeah. It looked like about that much."

"Hehe. Now it's King's turn to try!"

Levinas, who had come up from the water, pushed my shoulder.

She wanted me to try running on water.

I didn't think I could do it, but it was a harmless game that wouldn't hurt to try.

I nodded and moved to the opposite side of the pool.

"Ready?"

"Go for it!"

"Good luck."

Encouraged by everyone, I took my stance.

I put strength into my legs and exploded forward.

Pat-!

'Huh?'

I managed to take one step on the water's surface.

Then I succeeded in taking two or three more steps.

A person running on water.

How was this even possible?

Surprised by this, I failed on the fourth step.

Splash-!

I ended up falling into the pool, but I felt an inexplicable thrill.

It was because I had managed to run three steps on water.

"Master...!"

Gaeul jumped into the pool after me.

Not knowing how to dive properly, her stomach and face hit the water first.

Splat-!

"Ow."

That must have hurt a lot.

Yeoreum seemed to think the same, as she flinched.

However, Gaeul acted as if nothing had happened and approached me, panting.

"Gaeul, are you okay?"

"Yeah."

"I see."

As I stroked Gaeul's cheek, I looked up at the edge of the pool.

Leo, who had been wagging his tail watching us, suddenly jumped towards the pool like Gaeul had.

The problem was that Saebyeok was still sleeping on Leo's back.

Splash-!

"...!"

Startled by the sudden shower of water, Saebyeok jumped up from Leo's back.

Where Saebyeok landed was the empty pool.

Splash-!

Saebyeok, who had fallen into the water, looked around with wide eyes.

Then, spotting us, she swam over with a cat-like paddle.

"Why am I in the pool?"

"Leo suddenly jumped in."

"I see."

Saebyeok pulled Leo's cheek hard.

It seemed to be her way of expressing displeasure.

"Bad! Bad!"

Gaeul scolded Leo, waving her hands.

Leo's ears drooped.

"Leo, you shouldn't do that again, okay?"

"Woof."

"Yeah. I'm sorry for scolding you too."

Pat pat.

After patting Leo's head, I played with the children in the pool.

We had so much fun until snack time.

**

After returning home, we ate snacks while filling out the forms Yeoreum had given us.

Although she called it paperwork, it wasn't anything too complicated.

Just information about me that Yeoreum didn't know accurately.

All we had to do was measure my height, weight, and blood type.

'Blood type?'

I didn't even know my own blood type.

What was my blood type anyway?

I scratched my cheek and decided to start with height and weight first.

'My height is definitely...'

When my ears perked up, I easily exceeded 130cm.

I guess it's right to include the ears here?

I was about to write the number 13 on the form when Yeoreum questioned Levinas's form.

"Levinas, your height is over 150?"

"Yep! Levinas has long ears, that's why!"

"Hmm... Isn't it cheating to include the ears...?"

"Oh, is that so...?"

Levinas rubbed her form with an eraser.

I see, so including the ears is cheating.

I rubbed my form with an eraser too.

"Let's see... Gaeul wrote her height as 4 centimeters?"

"Meow."

"And your weight is 4 kilos?"

"Yeah."

Gaeul's tail wagged quickly.

Four was Gaeul's favorite number.

"Hmm, I'll help you with this, Gaeul."

Yeoreum brought a measuring tape and a scale.

When she put Gaeul on the scale, Gaeul's weight went up and down as her tail wagged.

I wondered if my weight would do the same when my tail wagged.

Thinking about this, I tugged on Yeoreum's clothes.

"Um, hey."

"Yes, Gyeoul."

"I don't know my blood type. What should I do?"

I didn't know my blood type even when I was human.

Now that I had become a beast-kin, I knew even less.

I didn't know if this world's people had the same blood types as the original Earth, or if beast-kin used the same blood type concepts as humans.

As I was now, I couldn't know any of that.

"Well... then we'll need to draw blood..."

"B-blood...? Draw blood...?"

"Um... yeah..."

Yeoreum nodded cautiously.

At her response, my ears and tail shot straight up.

An injection.

I wasn't like this before, but since becoming this body, I was terrified of injections.

Last time, I was startled just by seeing the needle for a blood donation.

It was clearly related to beast-kin instincts.

"I-injection..."

My ears trembled.

I tried to think of ways to avoid getting an injection, but there weren't any.

Thud-!

I flopped down spread-eagle on the floor.

I felt pathetic for trembling so much over a simple injection.

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