The Jelly Alien Will Save You!
Chapter : 5
The boy with the pale face and delicate, well-proportioned features—it was definitely him.
He looked more grown than the last time I saw him, but no matter how I looked at it…
‘It’s Cha Hae-eon.’
The very person who once shook the entire world when an S-rank with dual attributes appeared.
After awakening, he had been deployed in numerous military operations, and at just 18 years old, he was commissioned as a captain, sparking controversy as the youngest officer ever.
And the vice leader of the Special Response Team (SRT) who entered the Yongsan dungeon together with Guild Quasar during a joint civilian-military operation.
‘…Quasar.’
I repeated the name I had long avoided.
Quasar was my brother’s guild.
My brother had gone missing during a dungeon raid in Yongsan with his guild members due to a dungeon break… and was soon declared dead, along with all the guild members.
At the time, some of the special forces team survived, but Cha Hae-eon had disappeared along with Quasar and was also declared dead.
But now… Cha Hae-eon is alive?
Then what about Quasar? What happened to my brother? Is Cha Hae-eon alone here?
I didn’t sense anyone else inside the house. Then…
I opened my mouth, wanting to ask what happened to my brother and whether the guild members were alive.
“Excuse me, Cha Hae—”
“….”
In that instant, Cha Hae-eon’s eyes narrowed, and a sharp gaze locked onto me.
As if asking how I knew his name, he looked wary.
Under the suffocating stare of an S-rank, I stammered.
“Ch-Cha… Cha ha… Cha-hagapda, don’t be so cold.”
Only then did the killing intent vanish instantly, and Cha Hae-eon let out a scoff.
I lowered my eyes quietly.
I saw my feet—without toes.
Right now, I was nothing more than a suspicious alien. Acting like I knew Cha Hae-eon would be strange.
Asking about Quasar would require countless explanations… and I couldn’t answer any of them.
What would I even say? That I was the younger sibling of Quasar’s guild leader? That I woke up and became an alien?
Even if I told the truth, I’d only be suspected more.
If I were in my original form, could I have asked what happened to my brother? At the very least, if I had the strength, I could have forced the answer…
“What are you staring at?”
“I-I wasn’t.”
I quickly bowed my head.
In the meantime, he set me down from the tree.
“Go. And don’t think about stealing food. Even carrots are hard to get here.”
A faint scoff lingered at the end of his sentence.
I stood there blankly, mouth slightly open.
Just… go? Like this?
Cha Hae-eon might be the only person who knows what happened to my brother.
All the words that rose to my throat clashed and sank back down.
There were countless reasons I couldn’t leave.
A place safe from monsters.
A place where someone who might know about my brother exists.
And most importantly—
This is my house! (Well… in the game setting.)
“What are you doing?”
“…I’m leaving, so don’t rush me.”
I waddled over to the front gate.
And the moment I stepped outside, I took out my spaceship.
Cha Hae-eon looked slightly surprised as the tiny piece of paper instantly grew to my size.
I smirked and set the box down in front of the gate.
Pyok, pyok.
Then I climbed inside the box and sat down.
“….”
“….”
A silent staring contest between Cha Hae-eon and me continued for a while.
“What are you doing?”
“You told me to go, so I came outside.”
“What’s that?”
“UFO.”
“….”
Seeing that he seemed speechless, I kindly added:
“It’s cozy.”
Cha Hae-eon rubbed his face in exasperation.
Peering through his fingers, he glared at me like, ‘I told you I’d let you go quietly—are you messing with me?’
I glared back just as stubbornly.
For a moment, he looked like he was considering throwing the thing away… but instead, he just turned and went back inside.
I stared blankly at his back, then pouted.
“Hmph.”
Foolish Cha Hae-eon.
Now I’ll show you just how useful I, this alien, really am.
Pyok pyok pyok.
I walked through the wide-open gate and stood in front of the field.
The small patch of land where a few carrots had been planted—now had nothing left.
Of course. I ate them all.
I wiped my mouth.
Still, I had obtained one seed from purifying a monster earlier.
I crouched down and planted the F-grade seed.
Normally, I’d have to water it and wait, but—
The farming in <Bbojjak Bbojjak! Planetmon!> is different from real-life farming.
“Hehehe.”
I rubbed my hands together with a sly grin.
After waiting a bit, a sprout shot up instantly.
A sprout emerged, and the stem grew thick and long.
Long… longer… even longer…?
The tall stem began to wobble.
‘I-it’s falling!’
I hurriedly opened the ability window from my <Survival Notebook>.
<Abilities>
- Purification (Lv.1)
- Decoration
‘It opened—Decoration!’
When I selected Decoration, several options for customizing cherry tomatoes appeared.
[Decoration]
- Basic Support (1cc)
- Steel Support (10cc)
- Royal Ribbon Support (20cc)
I immediately chose “Basic Support.” I only had 6 coins anyway.
Soon, tomatoes began ripening red on the supported vine.
I smiled in satisfaction.
Growing cherry tomatoes instantly in a place like this.
And they were much larger than normal ones.
Hehe… Cha Hae-eon will definitely be shocked by my amazing alien abilities.
Feeling proud, I returned to my spaceship.
Pyok pyok pyok.
I carried two cherry tomatoes in my hands.
Curling up inside the box, I lay down.
The sun was starting to set. As I chewed on one tomato, a chill crept over me, making my shoulders tremble.
‘It’s cold.’
It felt strange and almost funny that even a jelly-like being could feel cold.
What happened to my brother?
More than suddenly becoming an alien and falling into a contaminated zone, I was more curious about what happened to him.
Is he alive?
‘When will I be able to ask?’
I closed my eyes, imagining Cha Hae-eon warmly welcoming me.
“…Oppa…”
As I murmured softly, I thought I heard the sound of a door.
Clack! Clack!
Clack-clack-clack!
I rubbed my sleepy eyes at the noisy clacking sound.
For some reason, a warm blanket was covering me. Not knowing why, I snuggled deeper into it.
I tried to fall back asleep, but the unpleasant noise kept disturbing me.
Clack-clack-clack!
‘Why is there such a creepy sound?’
When I opened my hazy eyes, I saw a green stem.
Clack! Clack!
The delicious-looking cherry tomatoes hanging from it… had teeth, clacking together.
I rubbed my eyes.
“Whoa…”
Am I still dreaming?
But no matter how much I rubbed them, the teeth didn’t disappear.
Clack-clack-clack!
What is this? I definitely purified the tooth-mold monster. Did it get contaminated again because we’re in a contaminated zone?
Maybe accelerating the crop’s growth also increased contamination…
‘That actually makes sense…?’
Just as I was forming a plausible hypothesis—
Cha Hae-eon approached, resting an axe on his shoulder, looking at me sideways.
Cold as ever. I greeted him anyway.
“Hello, field owner.”
“Hey. Did you do this?”
“No?”
Without a word, Cha Hae-eon dragged the tomato vine in front of me.
Clack-clack-clack!
The tomatoes snapped their teeth at me.
“Stop that!”
“It was you, right?”
Clack-clack-clack!
“I said stop!”
“It’s you.”
Clack-clack-clack-clack!
“Uh… now that I think about it, it might be me!”
Only then did Cha Hae-eon pull the vine away from me.
Pouting, I stepped out of the spaceship.
Pyok pyok pyok.
Cha Hae-eon casually chopped off the toothy tomatoes with his axe.
Fortunately, not all of them had teeth.
‘Is that a good thing?’
As I folded the blanket, I tilted my head.
Wait… why is there a blanket?
I stared at it in surprise, then realized—
I wasn’t outside by the gate anymore, but inside the house, on the wooden floor.
There’s no way I flew in while sleeping.
Did Cha Hae-eon carry me inside along with the box? And even cover me with a blanket?
‘What the…’
I sniffed slightly while watching him swing the axe.
‘He’s not that bad after all.’
“Hey, get out.”
“….”
