Chapter 2 (ILMRM)

“Let’s find her right now! If the boss knows about this, we are dead! Do you want to go to the torture room?”

The two men hurriedly walked into the iron bars and looked around.

A fist-sized hamster with amber fur quickly climbed the stairs.

“Ack! It’s a mouse!”

“Oh my, what kind of rat doesn’t have a tail?”

Soi ran quickly between the feet of the screaming people.

Meow!

In the meantime, the stingy cats chased Soi, but she never stopped her four feet.

[A safe place. I need to go somewhere safe!]

How much did I run?

My feet began to feel stiff and I was out of breath.

A huge wall came into Soi’s sight after running for a long time.

Over there!

Soi, who found a safe place, instinctively turned to it.

It was a hard wall like a fort, but there was a hole hidden in the bushes for Soi.

Pushing her body into a mouse hole, she entered into it safely.

Huh, huh. Oh my.

A huge forest unfolded in front of Soi’s eyes who held up with her four trembling feet.

The sunlight was coming from afar.

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After returning to reality, Soi looked at her face again in a pool of water.

Somewhere a dreamy-looking hamster was looking at herself.

[That’s strange… I think the hair color before I became a hamster was also this color…]

The image of herself reflected in the prison’s water puddle was not that of Lee So-Yi’s from the past.

With neatly placed transparent pink eyes, white and fine skin, and shiny beige hair…

[It wasn’t human beauty.]

Soi shook her head.

However, unlike in the prison, the only thing reflected in the forest puddle was a hamster with a pink nose.

The only thing like that was the beige fur.

Soi, who has been looking at her expressionless face for a long time, began to press her cheek with jelly.

The little hamster’s face became soft and stretched according to her paws.

I can’t believe that I suddenly fell into a strange world and became a golden hamster.

She wasn’t well adapted to the body of a hamster in the first place.

At first, she struggled to wake up from this vivid nightmare.

She tried to shake her front feet and turn her body around to see if she could transform into a human being again, but…

No matter how hard I tried, this is not a dream, and, I am just a hamster.

Soi, who stopped harassing her puffy cheeks, sighed.

Even after accepting that I was a hamster, my life was not smooth.

There were days when she got hit by a squirrel who stole her acorn, and she got scared by the baby rabbit’s hind paws

During those three months, Soi became strong.

That means I’ve become a tough hamster who can do anything for comfortable survival!

Soi, who got up on her feet, started washing her face full of determination.

[Let’s try to find out later how I turned into a hamster, where I am, and what I possessed. Survival comes first!]

The fur on her forehead was rather protruding from her grooming too hard, but Soi diligently teased her feet toward her destination without noticing it.

Only one destination.

It’s the only human hut living in this forest.

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The Holy Vatican is lined with columns inscribed with the image of the goddess.

The innermost of which is the master’s room.

The chief priest, sitting next to the huge pure white bed, confessed his mistake with a frightened expression.

“Sorry, I’m sorry. Your Grace, due to my low abilities…”

“So, you finally missed her?”

Constantine, the chief priest, trembled as he heard his voice coming from the bed.

“Sorry, I’m sorry. We’re still tracking her now…”

“I don’t know where she went, but I’ll go and chase her. Cough, cough!”

Constantine hastily shouted outward at the appearance of the high priest coughing and vomiting blood.

“You’re the only one out there! Your Grace is in critical condition!”

The healing priests come running and began to infuse him.

Constantine, the chief priest looked anxiously at the scene.

The body of the High Priest was weak to use it to live.

It was understandable.

He has succeeded in a tremendous summoning skill that no one has ever done.

[I really didn’t expect you to summon the living of another world.]

Constantine, who was sticking his tongue out, lowered his eyes when he met the eyes of the High Priest.

Although he was much younger than himself, his blood-red eyes always evoked fear.

Instead, the High Priest twisted the bloody mouth.

At the end of the low voice, there was a sound that seemed to be grinding teeth.

“Use the knights. By all means, find her.”

The eyes of Raniero Arpard, the only priest appointed as the next pope, shone like a well-forged sword.

A woman who dared to despise and insult me. Find her somehow…

“Yeah, calm down!”

As if responding to his anger, divine power gathered, the healing priests panicked and stopped him.

Cough!

He threw out red blood and lost consciousness again.

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The furry little creature, with its ears raised like horns, hid behind a tree with a tense face.

In two sesame-like eyes, a shabby hut was reflected.

The only house in the forest was a small one-room hut.

However, in Soi’s eyes, it could not seem more wonderful.

[I want to live there…]

Soi, who blinked, recalled her first meeting with the man who lived there.

For Soi, who just became a hamster and came to the forest, the whole world was scary.

She was scared not only by the hawk that was after her but also by the gentle duck and baby deer.

It was natural that she was surprised to see a human being.

It was an even more expected result for a black-haired man who cut down a huge tree with a rusty ax.

On that day, Soi, who had starved for two days, was cramming the walnut she had barely found.

It was just when she reached for the third walnut.

A big foot fell in front of Soi with a big thump.

Gosh!

Soi screamed.

Soi’s white belly, lying on her back in a surrender position, trembled and rattled.

A huge black-haired man was looking at her.

I could see blue eyes through the thick black hair that grew randomly.

It was a beautiful color like sunlight passing through sapphire, but Soi wasn’t in the spirit to care about it.

In her eyes, the man looked scarier than a badger or a hawk.

How can I avoid being caught?

How to look like a rotten prey? (?)

Soi, who was rolling her head as big as a walnut, soon shook her four feet and stretched her body out.

Pretending to be dead.

“…..”

The man who had been looking down at Soi for a long time, soon slowly turned around and left.

As soon as he pulled one foot away, Soi ran quickly.

[Now that I think about it, I was never meant to be eaten.]

Hiding behind a tree, Soi looked at the hut.

The man would sometimes come to the forest and hunt.

It was large beasts such as wild boars and stags that he caught with sloppy weapons.

So, he wasn’t trying to eat a hamster that doesn’t have much fat to peel off.

[Then, as expected…]

Soi’s pink nose was poking with excitement.

Then, as expected, there is only one reason why he stared at me!

[Because I’m cute!]

Soi’s chubby butt shook with joy.

That blunt-looking man must have stared at me because I was cute.

After observing him for a month, he looked quite lonely.

A man wearing a large rusted chain around his neck always woke up at the same time, washed, and then cut firewoods.

Then he sat on a wooden chair outside the hut and looked at the forest.

His eyes, staring at the forest with an empty gaze all day long, were very calm.

[When you are lonely, you definitely should get a furry animal.]

A pet is perfect for a lonely person. His hut was small but large enough to set up a small hamster’s house.

I was a little worried about the huge chain on his neck, but now is the situation to cover cold or hot rice? (she means that it isn’t the time to look at the pros and cons of the situation, she has to act immediately)

[Whatever it is, I have to live first.]

Raise me, man. Take care of me, man!

After making a decision, Soi, looked at the sky with earnest eyes.

The sun was just rising.

When the sun gets caught on the lowest branch of a large pine tree.

That was when the man came out to wash.

Soi grabbed the bark with a nervous face.

Sometime later, the man appeared out of the door.

The naked man was holding a white cloth.

A skinny but well-build body like marble was full of big and small wounds.

He limped his right foot to the stream in a stoop position as usual.

Now!

With timing, Soi rushed in front of him.

The man who found the hamster fiercely approaching stopped his sloppy pace.

Soi stopped right in front of his feet.

Finally!

Standing on both feet, Soi looked up at the man with sparkling eyes and began to stir her front feet up and down. The hamster’s short arms, the size of a fist, cracked the air three times.

Soi looked at the man triumphantly, waving her front ‘feet’, which she wanted to call her ‘hands’.

[How about you get a taste of my aegyo/cuteness learned from Samsik?]

Soi’s behavior now was the aegyo she learned from her hamster, Samsik.

Samsik, a gray-golden hamster, used to jump out of his sleep and wave his paws like this whenever Soi called his name.

Then she couldn’t endure his cuteness and had no choice but to repay with the sunflower seeds.

Soi stretched her body with a confident face.

[Look, man! This is the hamster’s cuteness!]

Certainly, he is looking at me with an expression of dying because of my cuteness, as I was in the past.

Then he will take me home with his fist in his mouth. (unable to keep his mouth shut)

Soi looked up at the man with a look of anticipation.

However, there was no blush on the man’s face.

Far from being red, he was just looking at Soi with a face that still looked serious.