Have a Meal Before You Go

Shoot me! Aah!

Echo was in the middle of the dishes. Echo had been sentenced to 15 days of dishwashing at the Judgment Hall of Angry Steel.

A dishwasher is a surprising thing to do.

Echo was more of a dishwasher person than I expected. Other things like cleaning and laundry were surprising. After finishing the dishes with a snort, Echo wipes the kitchen water clean.

Let me see.

What's for a snack today?

When I opened the refrigerator, I found a sandwich and a plate of sweets made by Steel Tiger.

Echo picks it up and heads out to the table.

“Ugh.”

With negligence, a sandwich fell to the floor. As Cheolho always sat, there was a large wooden desk.

Echo picks up a sandwich that falls under it. I know it from somewhere, but if I pick it up three seconds ago, I can eat it.

Echo crouches, admiring his rapid motor vision, and eats the metallurgical sandwich he dropped.

Back then.

Bloop-!

The door to the dining room opens, and the can flutters in. The car comes in, circling back and forth, and opens its mouth to make sure no one was there.

“Stay away from me! ”

“......? ”

Behind the desk, Echo tilts his head, inadvertently hiding.

Khan chants in the voice of the smoke tone.

“I, I have the Devil in me. They'll eat me up one day......! ”

The ambassador was truly pathetic, but the Khan was seriously acting.

“One day, it's going to contaminate you. I'm not sure how to look at it......! ”

Khan clears his throat and opens his mouth in a different tone.

“I'm the one who makes you cry, and I'm the one who makes you laugh......”

It was an unknown message. Echo thought he heard Khan's voice somewhere. Where was it?

When Echo thought of that, Khan's dialogue settled. Khan was acting, reciting the world's small-scale dialogue.

At last, if someone dies, you can't get on the floor! At the time of chanting.

Echo shows himself insufferable.

“...... ”

Khan stares at Echo with his eyes wide open. Stay on the ground.

Within a few moments, he lies barefoot and bounces back up like a spring.

“Uh, uh, how long have you been there? ”

“Stay away from me! from."

“Oh......”

I thought about the face of the Khan. Khan rolls his eyes from side to side.

“Oh....... Oh......”

Echo has an interesting face and chews up a plate of chips.

“Try some more. That was fun.”

“Oh……"

The Khan rushes into his room, tearing his head off to see if he can't take it anymore.

The next day.

Echo goes into the room to wake up the compartment, and sees a letter on the desk.

Khan was nowhere to be found.

“What, where did it go? ”

Echo grumbled and saw the contents of the letter.

[Leave.]

[Don't look for me.]

“...... ”

* * *

“So you ran away? ”

“Huh."

Echo speaks, Chulho steals his nose.

“Why?”

“My body saw his teeth. ”

“What kind of teeth? ”

Echo thought, and replied.

“There is such a thing. ”

“I see.”

Tangerine had no idea what her father and Echo were talking about, so she blinked her eyes and asked.

“Why are you here? ”

“Yes, tell me about getting out of the house. ”

“Kyung-na. ”

Tangerine blinked. Tangerine quickly cleaned up the morning, brushed her teeth, and then chipped her shoes.

“Kyung-ri is the dog to be released! ”

“Huh?"

“The dog's coming out! ”

Tangerine clearly didn't know what running away meant. He sighed as he watched the tangerines going out to Beep-Beep's Dinner.

“Go and find him. ”

.

Echo was wearing a trench coat. I even used one of the deficiencies that I received in exchange for goods the other time. Echo thought, this was detective's outfit.

Here you go.

Let's think about it.

Khan was dumber than I thought, so he had no tricks. The most likely was also to go to the continent of Espan. If you go there, there's a good chance it's Dragon Mountain.

First things first.

Knng, knng -

Smell it.

The compartment doesn't smell, if it's far away. At least the extent of the city is in the distance beyond.

Knng, knng, knng -

Echo sniffs and enters the spirit system.

“There.”

“Yes!”

The passing Fire Supreme Spirit rushes towards you with a bright light.

“Echo! You summoned me!”

“Oh, you. Is this the one with the stupid red-headed lizard? ”

“Mr. Khan? ”

The Supreme Spirit of Fire tilts his head.

“Khan hasn't been around for days. ”

“What about last night? ”

“I was around here all night last night, and I didn't see it. ”

“I see.”

Echo gazes at the clearest, finest spirit of fire. Somehow, he was looking at himself with an anticipated face.

Why is that?

Echo thought about it, but he couldn't help but pull out a chocolate from his pocket.

“...... Have you forgotten my name? ”

“...... ”

I forget. Echo's eyes tremble slightly. The Supreme Spirit of Fire is a-ah-ah. I knew it! Something's wrong with my name! I ran to the other side, muttering.

“...... Was his name Al? ”

No, Egg is the name of the market chef……… and echo turns away.

If it didn't go through here, it means it's on Earth.

Echo turns to his lonely face. At the same time, the wind spirits on the other side whistle and blow.

The tip of Echo's coat flutters in the wind like a scene from a detective cartoon. Echo leaves the Spirit System with a satisfactory face.

* * *

Let's go to the diner.

Opening the refrigerator, it was a different landscape from yesterday. The sandwiches I had left in yesterday disappeared, and there were traces of mouth-to-mouth drinking in the water.

From the looks of things, the time of departure is this morning.

Hmm......

Echo folds his arms and thinks.

Oh, dear.

Isn't today Monday?

Thinking about it, Monday was the deadline for the car. Maybe he didn't want to close and ran.

Echo closes his eyes for a moment and trembles.

Damn lizards!

If the columns don't close, you won't be able to see Father Comics this week. That was really unfortunate, and Echo decided to bring him in on behalf of countless Manias.

Time is 11: 30 a.m.

Given that the usual deadline for the columns is between 2: 00 and 3: 00 p.m., it was time for the editors to arrive. Echo decides to sit at the dinner table and wait for the editor first.

* * *

1: 00 p.m.

The editor didn't come.

Can we wait a little longer?

1: 30 p.m.

“...... ”

Echo's sharp senses indicate something's wrong. Editors have always arrived at this time. She was a skillful person to take the manuscript because she was small but bold.

But this?

Echo rises to his feet.

* * *

Wh-

The shadow moves.

The office of the weekly Cyphers editorial team was literally a battlefield. Every Monday was the plaintiff's deadline, so editors were literally cutting the bones and trying to get the manuscript.

“Yes Writer, yes, yes. No! Absolutely not! Then we're screwed! That's where Godfather Comix is most popular. ”

The protagonist of the ambitious voice was the editor of Khan. A shadow seeps into her.

“Yes, yes. Ye......?”

The editor's voice decreases sharply. And I went around and around.

“Oh, my God. Runaways? Oh, did the purple haired man come by? ”

The editor looked back and forth.

“He's not here. Oh, not even the pretty brunette. ”

And I replied with difficulty.

“Yes. Why are you disappointed? Um... uh, could you write down the address, please? ”

She hurriedly pulls out the paper and starts the note. Then, as if he was playing hide-and-seek, he sneaked out of the office with a briefcase.

* * *

She often walks out of the building. The shadow chases after her.

Escaped the building, headed for the parking lot, she boards a stable motorcycle.

“Oh my, how did you get there? ”

Booaaaaah!

The editor started riding his motorcycle. The motorcycle was really fast, but she seemed to be in that much of a hurry.

- Hey, Echo. We're going into an unmanned area.

Are you crazy, her?

- Exactly!

In the shadows, Vodka and Echo grunt and move at their pace.

Unmanned territory.

The Northern Unmanned Zone has not yet undergone urban pacification, and monsters remain at risk.

Beauuh-!

But the editor is tough.

Grrrrr!

Suddenly, three Veltos stand in the way.

- Shit, it's dangerous.

The moment Echo was about to reveal himself.

Kuaa-!

The editor opens his mouth and gives out a burst of Bress.

-......?

The color of the brass is silver. A ray of terrifying light bursts out and smashes the heads of the Beltos.

- What is it, a dragon?

The editor gave up his motorcycle and ran. That gesture seemed to be enough for two class masters.

When she was running through the unmanned terrain, she stopped in front of a shabby wooden plank house.

“Writer…… what the……”

“I'm sorry. ”

There's a compartment inside. She stoops to her seat.

“Ah, it's over. You haven't started the manuscript yet, have you? ”

“You're almost there. ”

“The godfather's comics are a hit. It's all over. If I have a recession, the sales will fall, and I'll be fired. Maybe we should go back to the Silver Mountains……"

Khan has started finishing the manuscript at light speed. Meanwhile, the editor was busy looking at the Elongation Clock.

Echo looked at the clock in the shadows.

- 3: 25.

“The deadline for printing is 4: 00, if we don't get it to the printers by 4: 00, we're all doomed! Oh, you'll be fine! Not me, please! ”

Square! Square!

The pen in the compartment literally moves like a light.

3: 40, 3: 50.

When the editor was desperate.

3: 55, 55!

“The end!”

Khan urgently handed over the manuscript. The editor nods and as soon as he gets the manuscript, he kicks the ground and flies over to the other side.

Kuaaaa!

She sprints to the other side like a crossbow, disappearing to a point. I thought, "The power of a cartoon editor is amazing."

Khan lies flat on the floor, exhausted.

Echo and Boyca only appear in the shadows.

“...... ”

Echo glances back at the compartment, and opens his mouth.

“Let's go home. ”

“Poetry, poetry, no. ”

“I didn't tell anyone I saw it. ”

“…… really? ”

The compartment seemed to be tempting.

Echo nods.

“Yes, really. ”

The Khan just stood up, moaning.

“You have to keep it a secret until you die. ”

“This body doesn't die. ”

“Then it's a secret for life. ”

Echo shrugs.

“Well, sure. Come on, let's go eat. ”

.

I went back to my normal life.

Echo liked to listen to the radio while doing his breakfast dishes, but today was the day of the new radio drama.

The drama was about the love between a man living with a demon and a woman suffering from incurability. His incurable illness decided not to think deeply, though I have no idea why only women get it.

Fortunately, the contents were interesting, so Echo continued to listen while doing the dishes.

Then.

- I've got the Devil in me. They'll eat me up one day......!

I heard a familiar dialogue somewhere. Echo tilts his head.

- I'm the one who makes you cry, and I'm the one who makes you laugh...

I've heard a lot of voices somewhere.

“......! ”

Echo opens his eyes.