I Was Kidnapped By The Strongest Guild
Chapter 374: Essential for Survival

Bottle and furniture collecting.

Jung Yu-na hoped the children would eventually stop these habits from their previous lives.

Of course, she wouldn't ask them to stop right away. These habits were still part of who they were. She'd planned to help them gradually reduce these behaviors, but then...

'They want to make it into a game.'

Jung Yu-na turned to look at Han Yeoreum sitting by the campfire. She'd hoped for help, but when their eyes met, Han Yeoreum flinched and quickly looked away.

'Really now.'

Pretending not to notice, was she?

She'd have to teach her a magical lesson later.

Glaring at Han Yeoreum, Jung Yu-na forced herself to soften her expression before turning back to the children. She put on an awkward smile, struggling to lift the corners of her mouth.

"Well, making a game takes quite a while... what should we do?"

"What?! So we can't play today?!"

"N-no..."

Jung Yu-na's first strategy was to stall until they forgot about it. Unfortunately, that plan failed.

"Then can Levinas try?!"

"Levinas...?"

"Yeah! Levinas knows magic too!"

Levinas pulled out her wand from her bag - a promotional item from a fighting game.

Swoosh swoosh!

She waved the wand around wildly.

Jung Yu-na knew no magic would happen. Levinas didn't understand enough about illusion magic games yet.

Creating an illusion magic game required weaving together at least dozens of complex and precise magical formulas. It had to fool the keen senses - touch, hearing, and sight - of skilled individuals while minimizing any pain from the game. Rules for winning and losing needed to be established, and items had to be integrated for game interaction.

Imagining all this would still be too difficult for her. Though given how talented Levinas was, perhaps she'd master even this someday.

"...Did the magic work?"

"Um..."

What should she do? Tell the truth that it failed? What if Levinas and the children were disappointed?

As Jung Yu-na hesitated, Gyeoul spoke up.

"Levinas is talented, so it must have worked."

"Really?!"

"Yeah. Should we try playing Levinas's game?"

"Yeah!"

Woah!

The children ran toward the far side of the park with their signature happy squeals.

Jung Yu-na watched them go, then followed behind at a walking pace.

**

I ran through the park with the children, searching for objects created by illusion magic.

'Over there...'

While running around looking for bottles and furniture, I spotted Kwon Arin leaving the park and changed direction toward her.

Pitter-patter-

The sound of children's footsteps mixed together.

We ran quickly but stopped abruptly right in front of Kwon Arin.

"Where are you going?"

"PC bang."

"To play games?"

"Yeah. Today's the last day for the login event - I might just barely make it for the reward."

Login rewards - bonuses given for spending certain amounts of time at PC bangs.

"Arin, are you going to play games?! Levinas is playing games too!"

"Games? What kind?"

"A bottle collecting game! Levinas collects lots of bottles, so Levinas will become a bottle collecting genius!"

Ahem.

Levinas puffed out her chest while Kwon Arin's eyebrow twitched.

"A bottle collecting game...?"

"Yeah! And King is playing a furniture collecting game!"

"Why furniture...?"

Kwon Arin looked at me as she asked.

I scratched my cheek and replied, "Finding useful furniture makes me happy."

"That... um... making that into a game..."

Kwon Arin started to say something but shifted her gaze behind us.

When we turned around, Jung Yu-na was walking toward us from a distance.

'Huh?'

Jung Yu-na nodded at Kwon Arin.

The two seemed to be having a silent conversation with their eyes.

Looking back at Kwon Arin, I saw her nodding too.

"What are you doing?"

"Oh, uh, would you like to come play games in my room? I have some really fun ones."

"Huh? Weren't you going to the PC bang?"

"Well, I just realized I probably already met the time requirement for the reward."

"Ah... then want to play bottle and furniture collecting games with us?"

It would be more fun together.

I looked up at Kwon Arin with expectant eyes.

But she just waved her hands.

"I have better games in my room. Like, um, one where a horned rabbit fights dragons."

"Horned rabbit?!"

Levinas's eyes went wide as she turned to look at me.

She seemed more interested in this than bottle collecting.

"Hmm... should we play the horned rabbit game today then?"

"Yeah!"

We followed Kwon Arin to her room.

As we walked, I noticed her glancing back at Jung Yu-na, so I waved to her too.

"Come play the horned rabbit game with us."

"Sure, why not?"

We all arrived at Kwon Arin's room.

She turned on the computer, and we gathered around the large monitor.

"There are so many games! Which one's the horned rabbit game?!"

"Uh, well, the horned rabbit game... horned rabbit... horned rabbit... Ah!"

Browsing through her game library, Kwon Arin started up a game called "Monster World."

She also downloaded an interesting "Horned Rabbit Mode."

When we saw the "horned rabbit" character, our jaws dropped.

The horned rabbit looked far too aggressive.

It was a muscular male character about Choi Jin-hyuk's size wearing a horned rabbit mask.

His skin was covered in white paint.

"...?"

Levinas's horned rabbit eyes went wide, and Gaeul's eyes bulged too.

Even Saebyeok's swaying tail stopped moving.

"...Arin, what is this?"

"Well, I quickly tried to make a horned rabbit..."

"Arin, in your eyes this is..."

Just as Jung Yu-na started to say something to Kwon Arin, quiet Levinas suddenly threw her hands up.

"Wooooow! It's a muscle horned rabbit! This is the world's strongest horned rabbit!"

Oh.

So Levinas still considered this a horned rabbit.

If Levinas, an actual horned rabbit, accepted it, we had no choice but to accept it too.

"Yeah. It looks like a really strong horned rabbit."

"Honned wabbit!"

We all clapped together, with Jung Yu-na joining in belatedly.

"Ahem. In my life, this is the most impressive horned rabbit I've seen after Levinas."

"Um?"

"That's our Arin for you."

"Sister...?"

Jung Yu-na and Kwon Arin.

We played the game while listening to their playful bickering.

The horned rabbit fighting dragons was really cool.

**

"King! Did you see?! Levinas fought the dragon with this huge sword!"

"Yeah. Levinas was amazing."

"Yeah! Even though the dragon was scary, Levinas stayed strong and fought!"

We chatted excitedly about the fun game on our way home.

Han Yeoreum was sitting in the living room with an unusually serious expression.

"What are you doing?"

"Ah... just checking some supplies."

"Supplies?"

"Yeah. There's a shelter under the guild, you know? There's quite a lot we need to stock it with. I thought we just needed emergency food and a few supplies, but..."

Hmm.

Just as Han Yeoreum crossed her arms, Gaeul pulled out a white bone from her bag.

It was a fish bone, cleaned perfectly of meat.

"Emergency food."

"Oh my, you want this for emergency supplies?"

"Yeah. More?"

Gaeul rummaged through her bag.

She seemed to have more fish bones.

"No, keep one as your personal emergency food."

"Kay."

As Gaeul smiled brightly, Levinas and Saebyeok each took out their own food to give Han Yeoreum.

A carrot and dried anchovies.

The atmosphere suggested I should give something too.

After thinking, I handed over a honey cube I carried for dandelion honey tea.

"Hehe, thank you. I'll make sure to add these to the emergency supplies."

"Okay."

Honey never expires.

Nothing better for long-term storage.

Then there's pasta, canned goods...

As I was thinking about foods good for long-term storage, Han Yeoreum came back from the living room carrying four bags.

"Should we make emergency bags for the little ones too, just in case?"

"Emergency bags! What are emergency bags?!"

"I guess you could call them bags with things you need in emergencies? Just the essentials for survival."

"Then, then what should we put in?"

"Hmm... want to try packing one first, Levinas? After you're done, I'll tell you what should go in it."

She wanted us to think about it ourselves.

Just giving all the answers wouldn't be very educational.

"Yeah! Levinas will try first!"

"Hehe, shall we all do it together?"

Essential items for survival.

What would we need?

Medicine was essential, and something for temperature regulation too.

Most important would be something to get clean water...

As I was lost in thought, Gaeul approached me.

She looked like she'd made some kind of decision.

"Master."

"Yes?"

"Master!"

Gaeul suddenly picked me up from where I was sitting.

Though she wobbled from my weight, she managed to lift me somehow.

"Gaeul?"

Stumbling around, she tried to put me in the bag.

Well, just my feet actually.

Ahem.

After putting me in the bag, Gaeul puffed out her chest.

She ran to Han Yeoreum and tapped her shoulder.

Pointing at me in the bag, she wore a proud expression.