I Was Kidnapped By The Strongest Guild
Chapter 311: Survey

Empty pots, cups, and even boxes.

Gaeul had taken out every container that could hold water and placed them outside the tent.

The sudden downpour was heavy and fierce, quickly filling the containers with rainwater.

Gaeul's gaze was fixed on the pot with a hole in it.

It was the only container that wasn't filling with rainwater.

"Master...!"

Gaeul pointed at the pot with the hole.

It seemed she was asking for my help.

"Um..."

Could we plug the hole with duct tape or something similar?

As I was measuring the size of the hole with my finger, Levinas approached me.

"Levinas knows this one!"

"You do?"

"Yeah! We can plug it with a toad!"

Levinas scanned the nearby ground.

Was she looking for a toad?

Levinas must have read some fairy tales.

"But I don't think there are any toads in our park."

"No toads?! Then something similar to a toad?!"

"Something similar to a toad..."

Levinas and I looked towards the inside of the tent.

Kkamang was sitting on the dry ground inside the tent, avoiding the rain.

"Eek...?"

Was there something strange about our eyes?

Kkamang backed away using its eight legs.

Just as Levinas was approaching Kkamang with a mischievous giggle,

"Block."

Gaeul sat down, her back against the pot with the hole.

She was trying to block the hole with her bottom, but unfortunately, it didn't stop the rainwater.

"Gaeul, are you trying to block the rainwater?"

"Yeah."

"Why are you trying to block it?"

"Rain water precious."

"Hmm..."

I wonder if water was scarce where she lived in the other world.

I understood why Gaeul was acting this way.

"Gaeul, water isn't scarce here."

"Not scarce?!"

"Yeah. See all that water in the pond and the pool over there? It's so clean you could even drink it."

"...!"

Gaeul's surprised gaze turned towards the pond.

Her ears perked up, seeming to realize there was indeed a lot of water.

"Now that we have plenty of water, we don't need to collect it like this."

"Washing?"

Gaeul stood up and rubbed her body as if taking a shower.

She seemed to be asking if she no longer needed to shower with rainwater.

"Yeah. We don't need to wash with rainwater either. We take showers without rainwater, remember?"

"Huh..."

Gaeul stuck out her tongue slightly and looked down at a nearby pot filled with rainwater.

After staring at the pot for a while, she ran into my arms.

"Master best!"

"...Why am I the best?"

"Rain water not precious."

"O-okay..."

Why am I the best because rainwater isn't precious?

I didn't quite understand, but I didn't mind as long as Gaeul was happy.

"Um... it'd be a shame to waste the water we've collected, so let's keep it and use it later."

"Yeah."

Since Gaeul had worked hard to collect the water,

I felt bad and wasteful about throwing it away.

We decided to keep it as is and use it whenever we needed water.

After that, we went into the tent and waited for the rain to stop.

Fortunately, it seemed to be just a passing shower, as the rain started to weaken.

Around that time, Yeoreum appeared with an umbrella.

"Kids."

"Yeoreum's here?!"

Levinas ran out of the tent.

We naturally followed behind Levinas.

Since it was still raining, we got wet again.

"Oh my, why did you come out when it's raining? You should have stayed in the tent."

"Levinas isn't scared of rain at all!"

We went into the tent with Yeoreum.

Our bodies, which had been drying, were damp again.

Shake shake shake-

Gaeul shook her body like a dog, spraying water around inside the tent.

Levinas and Saebyeok, hit by the water, also shook their bodies to get rid of the water.

This way of shaking off water was a hard-to-resist beast-kin instinct.

I also shook my body to get rid of the water.

"Oh dear..."

Yeoreum got wet from the water we shook off.

It was a shame, considering she had come with an umbrella.

"S-sorry. This is something our bodies do on their own..."

"It's okay. More importantly, why are all those things outside?"

"We're collecting rainwater."

"Rainwater? Why are you collecting rainwater?"

Yeoreum looked outside the tent.

Various containers were overflowing with rainwater.

Although collecting rainwater was unnecessary, Gaeul had put a lot of effort into it.

I decided to say something nice so that Gaeul's efforts wouldn't be in vain.

"Rainwater is precious, right? That's why we were collecting it."

"O-oh, is that so...?"

"Yes."

"Um... but isn't it not precious anymore? We have plenty of water."

That was true.

Still, I decided to take Gaeul's side a little more.

"Yes. But you never know what might happen with water."

"R-right... You never know..."

Yeoreum somehow managed to agree.

Gaeul seemed happy about this too, wagging her tail.

"We'll use the collected water little by little."

"Okay. I'm glad Gyeoul is being so thrifty. It puts your sister at ease."

Yeoreum patted my wet head.

My tail wagged at her gentle touch.

And so, we waited in the tent until the rain stopped.

Thanks to our constant chatter, it wasn't boring.

**

The sudden shower ended after about two more hours.

This unexpected rain was a big headache for someone.

'This is bad.'

Lee Jia, a college student.

She sighed deeply as she looked at the wet ground.

She had to conduct a survey for her assignment, but on rainy days, people rarely walked around and were less likely to respond to surveys.

'Maybe I should have done it online.'

Sigh.

Jia looked down at the panel she had made herself.

-Do you have a pet?

With the recent increase in single-person households, the number of people living with pets was also on the rise.

She had planned to survey the types of animals people kept based on gender and age group, but the situation was quite disappointing.

Still, she had to give it her best shot.

Standing in the middle of the square, Jia called out to passersby in a loud voice.

"Could you please take a quick survey? It'll only take a minute. There's a small gift for participants."

"Um... okay."

There weren't many people passing through the square, but thanks to Jia's friendly personality, many agreed to take the survey.

"Excuse me. Could you please take a quick survey?"

"Sure, why not."

Do they have a pet, if not do they plan to get one, what kind of animal would they like to have.

After asking a few questions, Jia pointed to the panel she had made.

"If you have an animal you plan to keep in the future or are currently keeping, could you put a sticker here?"

The stickers weren't really necessary, but performance was important for street surveys.

Knowing this, Jia had deliberately prepared a huge panel.

"Hmm... I..."

Just as the man taking the survey was about to place his sticker in the 'cat' section,

A famous child from the neighborhood approached the two.

"Huh."

It was Gaeul.

Gaeul stared blankly at the man who was about to put a sticker in the cat section.

"Oh... but maybe a dog is better than a cat after all..."

Ahem, the man cleared his throat and moved the sticker towards the dog section.

As he glanced at Gaeul, her ears and tail were standing straight up for some reason.

'What's going on?'

Does she want him to choose the dog?

Just as the man's hand stopped in mid-air,

Gaeul smiled brightly and pointed at the cat picture.

"Kitty best."

"A-ahem. I guess I'll go with a cat after all."

The man stuck the sticker in the cat section, where he had originally intended to put it.

Gaeul's tail started wagging rapidly.

So the cat was the right answer after all.

It was common knowledge among those who frequented the Yeomyeong neighborhood that Gyeoul was loved by other beast-kin children.

Phew, the man sighed and stepped back without even taking the gift.

Jia, who had been watching this, smiled awkwardly and received the next survey participant.

Thanks to Gaeul attracting attention, the next participant came quickly.

Just as the participant was about to put a sticker, Yeomyeong's top influencer appeared.

"Gaeul, what are you doing here?"

"Kitty."

"Kitty?"

Gyeoul's gaze turned to the huge panel.

[Which animal do you like?]

Below the colorful letters were animals that people might actually keep as pets.

The most popular among them were dogs and cats.

The female participant who was about to put a sticker in the cat section stopped her hand when she saw Gyeoul's trembling pupils.

It was because of what Gyeoul said after seeing more stickers on the cat side.

"I-I think I like dogs more. They're both noble and cute, right?"

Is she being considerate of her dog friend because there are more stickers on her side?

It feels awkward to put a sticker on the cat side in this situation.

The female participant's hand moved towards the dog section.

This time, Gaeul flinched and trembled.

She pointed at the cat picture with her finger.

"Kitty."

"U-um... This is the hardest survey I've ever taken in my life."

"Y-yeah..."

Jia and the female participant looked at the children nervously.

In the end, they decided to put the sticker on the border between the cat and dog sections.

"W-well, I like both cats and dogs..."

"Ah... I see."

When the sticker was placed on the border between cats and dogs, both children looked relieved.

They were truly a close-knit pair of sisters.

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