My Game Friends Were Foreigners in Mythology

23 – Responsibility Without Pleasure

“Daddy!”

A little girl with a fox tail hugging me with a bright smile.

Her child’s attire was a strange look, wearing her hanbok.

Not a nine-tailed fox, but an Ilmiho.

“What, what?!”

“This is a variable.”

“Now, wait a minute.”

After putting aside the bewildered Iris and the curious Nyarlathotep stroking her chin, I quickly went into my room.

And I started looking for the tail of the ‘old fox of the back mountain’ that I had left on the desk.

“One, two, three, four…Eight?”

The fox definitely has nine tails. There were 9 that were removed.

But one disappeared, and now there is only one child with the same tail.

Even calls me daddy.

“Somehow, it seems that part of it went back to its place in the process of absorbing the fox’s divine power.”

“Kyaaa!!”

Nyarlathotep, carrying a child, came to me counting her tails in a cold sweat and said:

“If a child with divine powers is sent to an orphanage, it could turn into a disaster when he grows up.”

She said right through my thoughts and narrowed her eyes.

“The only way to get rid of this child is to kill it right now. What are you going to do?”

“…You don’t have a choice.”

I sighed heavily and picked up the child.

“Dad! Dad!”

The child instinctively recognized her biological father and buried her face in my chest.

“Yes, yes. I am your father.”

I patted him on the back and said.

It can’t be helped. I can’t kill you, this.

“Then who will be the mother?”

“…!!”

Nyarlathotep looked surprised at my words and widened his eyes.

“Of course it wasn’t me! You guys are worrying about the obvious!”

“No, me! I was the first to propose…”

“Shut up!!”

While Nyala Totep was speaking, she slapped Ktuga who interrupted her.

Two-dak, two-dak.

A dog fight broke out out of nowhere on a dark night.

I didn’t use any strange abilities because Iris and I were human, but it looked like a scene from a well-organized action movie.

“Mom!”

Todo Dodog!

In the meantime, the child ran by the side of the two fighting.

Wow!

“To…?”

The one who arrived was Iris, who was watching the situation without knowing what to do.

He hugged Iris’ legs and called out that he was her mother.

‘Aha.’

Although she said she withdrew her blessings, she still had the power of the sorcerer that she received from the old fox in the back mountain.

In a way, that child can be said to be a child born between an old fox from the back mountain and me.

If it’s natural, then of course he has the strength of an old fox to some extent.

Do you feel your strength in a strange woman other than me?

‘Of course I’m mistaken for my mother.’

So what happens when you meet another shaman?

I suddenly had that thought, but immediately shook my head.

That must have been at the time. If you build affection well, you will have no problem meeting other shamans.

“Ah, a child. Me, I am not your mother. Me, I couldn’t even marry Hyeonseong, so how…”

“Mommy!”

“Ugh!”

Iris picked up the child she was snuggling up to and began to explain herself, but that’s when she saw the f*cking guy grinning and stomped her feet.

“Oh, what should I do?! It’s too cute for me to say…!”

“…Just be a mother.”

Having designated Iris as my mother by force, I wiped her face.

“You don’t know what’s up and down even though you’re human!”

Nyala Thorep, who had crushed Ktuga, pointed at Iris with her annoyed face.

“I heard that she is a mother. What should I do? We are not dating anyway, so we only need to be parents to the child.”

“I still feel bad!”

Degur.

Nyarlathotep rolled on the floor like a fussy child and came towards me.

Thinking that this might be the real ‘creeping chaos’, I set Nyarlathotep to his feet.

“But she can’t raise her child in her single-parent family. Whatever she does, she’s the kind of person she likes, and it’s right to make her a mother.”

“Zenzaaang!”

Nyarlathotep pounded on the floor, realizing that he was right, and that further anger would be forced upon him.

“…f*ck, I don’t care about anyone.”

And Ctuga, who was lying on the floor, muttered in a broken voice.

‘It’s been a mess inside the house.’

The house was in chaos because of only one child.

* * *

“From now on, your name is Arida, Ari.”

“That’s the name of a game character. Be sincere.”

After barely clearing up the chaos, I picked up the baby and started naming it.

Isn’t Ari really okay? It’s a name that comes to mind when you think of a gumiho.

“Then let’s just go to Miho.”

“Don’t you have any intention of building it properly?”

Ctuga clicked her tongue.

“Mr. Ai, then you guys should give your opinion too.”

They didn’t comment and only complained, so I got a little annoyed and told them to name them.

“The great race of Ys.”

“Shantak.”

“Goog.”

“Flying polyps.”

“Beat it. You’re trying to raise a kid as a murder weapon.”

Unusual names like one.

Seeing that the naming sense is similar to the names of ‘Avatar of Chaos’, the guys mentioned there must be unusual ones.

“…An example?”

Then, after thinking carefully, Iris spat out the name.

Yehwara…

‘Are you okay?’

It’s just a nine-tailed fox name, but it’s not a strange name either.

If I add my last name, it will become Kim Ye-hwa.

‘Let’s just call it an example.’

If you add a surname, the tone becomes strange, so let’s call it Yehwa normally, and call it Kim Yehwa only when we receive certification somewhere.

“Okay, your name is Yehwa from now on.”

“Yehwa!”

Grrr.

Yehwa struggled on my lap, smiling brightly as if she was excited about having her name.

“…”

Tickling tickling.

“Kiyaaang!!”

For some reason, I feel like playing a prank, so I tickle her belly with my hand, and she turns over with a complete laugh.

This is more fun than I thought.

“Does this tail grow the same when you grow up later?”

Sure, sniff.

I muttered as I stroked the soft-touch tail.

It feels like touching a cat because it is full of fur.

“But what does he eat to grow up?”

I suddenly became curious.

He’s not even human, so what does he eat?

“How do I know? This is the first time in the entire universe that this has happened.”

I asked the all-knowing Nyala Thotep, but she shrugged her shoulders and replied.

There are things he doesn’t know.

“…And it’s the first time like you.”

“What?”

“It’s nothing. Let’s bring some human food first.”

I asked because she was muttering something of her own, but Nyarlathotep ignored it and walked towards the kitchen.

“Let’s eat Mamma. Mamma.”

“Clean up your breasts.”

In the meantime, I pushed away Ktuga who was thrusting his chest into Yehwa.

Crazy b*tch. What are you trying to teach your child?

Does milk come out in the first place?

“Try this.”

“What is this?”

As Nyarlathotep gave him the apple, Yehwa asked with an expression like a caveman seeing fire for the first time.

“It’s called an apple. The flesh is yellow to light green in color, and if left for too long, moisture and actic compounds decrease, reducing the hardness of the fruit…”

“That’s it.”

I’m feeding an apple to a certain kid, but he’s explaining that.

If you want to teach 1 + 1 later, I will explain how to prove it all the way.

“Are you eating?”

Yehwa, who was sitting on her lap, lifted her head and tilted her head.

Her figure was like a round steamed bun.

“Yeah, I’m eating it. Try it.”

“Ugh…”

Yehwa wiggled as if she was afraid of something.

Does he feel forced to feed vegetables?

“Ahhh~.”

She then opened her mouth and took a big bite of her apple.

Wasak, wasak.

First of all, the masticatory movement was no different from that of a normal human, and I heard the sound of the pulp being crushed.

“…!”

Puck, puck, puck, puck.

Yehwa, who was chewing her apple, she suddenly ate her shocked face, and then she slapped me on the leg.

“Drink…!!”

“That’s good.”

Fortunately, Yehwa said with tears in her eyes that the apology was to her liking.

Is it that tasty? Well, it’s the first time I’ve ever eaten food, so it can be.

“Hmm… Apparently, human food doesn’t have enough nutrients.”

Then Nyala Thorep stroked her chin and said.

“Why? They eat so well.”

From my point of view, it was natural to say that she was eating well, but what nonsense she was talking about, but from her point of view, it was different.

“Now, after a normal human consumes food, it goes through the digestive process and is excreted through the anus.”

Surely.

“Kyaaang!”

She struggled as it tickled her as Nyala Thotep ran her fingers from her neck to her belly.

“However, its structure is different from that of humans.”

Tup.

“There is no digestive system. Food is broken down to the point where you can’t see it at the same time you eat it, and it goes out through the skin. In other words, it means that you don’t take in any nutrients.”

“Then what should I do?”

“Bite your finger.”

My finger?

I looked at my fingers.

He has calluses in places as a sign of training.

“It must be hard…”

“Take it for now.”

Tup.

As I hesitated, Niala Thotep seemed frustrated, and she took my hand and put it in Yehwa’s mouth.

“On the other side.”

Then, as if possessed, Yehwa sucked on my finger.

Looks like he’s doing drugs.

“He grows by consuming the ‘divine power’ of the four constellations. Feeding him once a day should be no problem.”

“Ooh.”

I stroked Yehwa’s head as she was sucking my finger with a happy expression.

“Umm…”

After sucking her finger for a while, Yehwa took her finger out of her mouth as if she was full. She blinked her eyes and then started dozing on my leg.

I thought as I stroked Yehwa, who finally started sleeping comfortably on my leg.

‘Parenting is so damn hard.’

How did this happen?