Leveling Up By Surviving Alone - L.U.B.S.A Chapter 46

Ji Yeonwoo looked at Kim Kkokko.

After making eye contact with Ji Yeonwoo, Kim Kkokko blushed and sharply turned her head to the side.

If she were human, it would’ve been like saying, “What! What do you want me to do?”

“No, it’s not about what you should do……”

Peep. Peep. Peep!

Peep!!

Meanwhile, the chicks were struggling to climb onto Ji Yeonwoo’s lap.

Their wriggling was unbearably cute.

Small, fluffy, sky-blue creatures the size of two fists.

Wings, beaks, feet… they were tiny but complete chicks.

On their foreheads, small conical horns protruded, and beneath those horns, their black pearl-like eyes reflected Ji Yeonwoo’s blank face.

“Ah……!”

Ji Yeonwoo’s eyes reddened.

He couldn’t pinpoint the exact reason. He only knew that the direction of his emotions pointed to his past, to the time when his father had brought home five chicks.

Back then, the chicks hadn’t followed him.

Instead, they trailed after his father, making young Ji Yeonwoo sad.

But after repeatedly feeding and watering them, one by one, they began to follow Ji Yeonwoo around, making him happy.

These chicks were different.

From the start, they ran to Ji Yeonwoo, climbed onto his lap, and rubbed against him as if entrusting themselves to him. They clung to his lap, barely keeping their balance, leaning on each other.

Ji Yeonwoo reached out and gently picked them up.

More carefully than when they were eggs, as if holding a fragile willow branch, he cradled them as though even the slightest force might break them.

Their soft feathers tickled his cheeks.

The five chicks chirped and nuzzled into Ji Yeonwoo’s chin, burrowing into his long beard.

A tear finally fell from Ji Yeonwoo’s moist eyes.

That was the beginning.

“Uhhuhuhuhu. I’ll, I’ll raise you well. I’ll really do my best! Uhhuhuhuhu!”

Peep! Peep!

Peep!

Peep, peep, peep!

Regardless of Ji Yeonwoo’s emotional outburst, the five chicks rubbed against him, as if trying to soak up his scent.

The faucet in Ji Yeonwoo’s eyes turned to “open.”

There was no limit. The strange emotion welling up from his chest continued to overwhelm him.

“Uhhuhuhu. I’ll protect you. I’ll protect you, little chicks! Kuhuhuhu.”

– The Watcher says they’re so moved that their eyes are red.

– They say they’re excited for the future and are happy.

Kkokko…?

On the other hand, Kim Kkokko was extremely confused.

It was good that she had passed the thieves on.

She thought she could gradually detach herself.

Ji Yeonwoo wasn’t their parent, and she was sure he wouldn’t be happy about having to constantly provide energy for these creatures.

This world is about survival of the fittest.

Naturally, weak creatures are weeded out, and only parents can afford to raise creatures that offer no help.

She thought Ji Yeonwoo wouldn’t raise the creatures she had abandoned.

She thought he would resent her and, annoyed by the burden, would eventually discard them.

Though the distance between her and Ji Yeonwoo would temporarily increase as he dealt with the annoying burden, she thought it was better than trying to raise all of them.

But,

Snap!

Instead, wasn’t Ji Yeonwoo tightly embracing her?

“Kkokko. I’ll raise them well. I’ll really do my best. Thank you. I’ll raise them to be splendid and fluffy! I promise I won’t turn them into samgyetang. I promise!” (chicken soup)

The emotion radiating from his words was immense gratitude.

Right now, Ji Yeonwoo was grateful to her for passing on the annoying burden.

Kim Kkokko was flustered, but for Ji Yeonwoo, it was a natural outcome.

It was an opportunity to resolve his not-quite-trauma.

Even if the result at the end of this was, “Now I can’t bring myself to eat chicken…,” Ji Yeonwoo was determined to raise these creatures splendidly.

The five chicks, rejected by their parent Kim Kkokko, would receive love from Ji Yeonwoo.

But Kim Kkokko still didn’t feel good.

She thought Ji Yeonwoo wouldn’t pay attention to her because of those chicks.

Unless Ji Yeonwoo multiplied into five, the attention he could give her would inevitably be divided.

Moreover, she was in a weakened state after a long period of brooding.

Kkokko…!

The weak are weeded out.

The thought that she might meet the same fate made Kim Kkokko feel like something was going wrong.

But that anxiety was resolved faster than it had appeared.

All the impurities that had accumulated in Kim Kkokko’s body from eating Ji Yeonwoo’s food, except for the mana bamboo shoots, began to gather in one place.

The place where the energy gathered was none other than Kim Kkokko’s horn.

Sssssss.

The impurities began to gather in the small horn, smaller than her claws, and soon exceeded its capacity. Then,

Whoooosh—!

Kim Kkokko’s horn grew to twice its size…!

Kkokko…?

Soon, the impurities began to flow out of the tip of the horn and scatter into the air. The black energy rose into the sky and disappeared into the clouds.

What remained was an empty, hollow horn.

It was empty,

but now it could hold anything.

After a month of brooding, Kim Kkokko had gained the potential for a remarkable evolution.

It was by no means a loss.

Kkokko…!

Kim Kkokko’s face, which had been about to darken, softened a little.

Looking at Ji Yeonwoo, she couldn’t help but smile.

This time, she saw the five competitors.

Kim Kkokko’s eyes softened.

But,

Snap!

Kkokko!

But Kim Kkokko didn’t continue that feeling.

As if she had no intention of losing to maternal instincts.

And so,

Five more members joined the beach where Ji Yeonwoo, Kim Kkokko, and the Watcher lived.

The newly hatched chicks.

Feeling the chicks’ body temperature, Ji Yeonwoo, overwhelmed with emotion, declared:

“I’ll feed you only the best, show you only beautiful things, and raise you splendidly!”

But Ji Yeonwoo’s face stiffened immediately after he finished speaking.

‘But… what should I feed them?’

Raising children is,

is reality.

In the past, young Ji Yeonwoo had taken charge of raising the chicks his father brought home.

Of course, it wasn’t smooth from the start.

That was because he had tried to feed the newly arrived chicks egg yolks.

Of course, egg yolk—a pure form of nutrition—wasn’t necessarily wrong.

The mistake was the act of trying to feed them at all.

– “Yeonwoo, newly hatched chicks don’t need to eat for the first few days. They can survive on the nutrients they have for about two days!”

– “Huh? But wouldn’t it be better if they ate, Dad?”

– “Their digestive systems aren’t fully developed yet. After two days, their digestive systems will mature, and then you can start feeding them.”

– “I have to wait two days…? Can’t I just feed them now?”

– “They could die. Would that be okay?”

– “……I’ll wait!”

And so, Ji Yeonwoo held back.

His desire not to kill the chicks was stronger than his desire to feed them.

Looking back now, that was the first memory of his father teaching him the value of life.

“Of course, after that, he taught me the opposite through his actions…”

In any case, it’s better not to feed them for a while after they’re born. Of course, since they’re not chickens, it might be a little different, but the small, round, fluffy bellies of the chicks with their protruding bumps supported Ji Yeonwoo’s assumption.

The protruding bump, smaller than it was last night.

If that’s a nutrient sac, they’ll probably start demanding food by tomorrow.

He had to prepare something before then.

So he was worried.

‘What on earth should I feed them?’

Ji Yeonwoo wandered the beach, lost in thought.

Actually, chicks can grow well even without being fed. They find seeds in the sand, eat crawling ants and other insects… they peck at wriggling earthworms and somehow grow. That’s the advantage of chicks.

But there’s nothing on this beach.

No crawling ants or earthworms, and not even the small crabs that usually crawl on beaches.

‘Of course, there are seeds…’

Right, he had his plant army.

The ones just about to bloom into flowers. When the flowers mature, they’ll produce seeds, and the thought of planting them makes him smile.

Ji Yeonwoo’s face stiffened.

If he doesn’t provide proper food, the chicks will…?

“They’ll attack the plants like mischievous four-year-olds…!”

It was a more dangerous situation than he thought.

At the same time, another question arose.

“Why doesn’t anything live on this beach?”

No other living creatures lived here except Ji Yeonwoo.

Before, that had been such a relief.

If other creatures had been living here when he was summoned, he would’ve had to fight over territory with them.

Of course, there had been a small conflict (?) with Kim Kkokko, but Kim Kkokko was clearly a case of something falling from the sky like a meteor, not a native of this place.

So then,

why didn’t anything live here?

He was curious, but…

‘This isn’t the time for such thoughts.’

Suppressing the sudden curiosity, Ji Yeonwoo began to worry again.

What should he feed the chicks?

If he’s going to feed them, he wants to give them something delicious and nutritious…!

But he couldn’t continue his thoughts properly.

Because of the sound from behind.

Peep, peep, peep, peep!

“Uh, ugh……!”

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Ji Yeonwoo couldn’t continue his thoughts and had to turn around.

Behind him were the five chicks.

The five chicks, following him wherever he went!

Looking into their deep, black pearl-like eyes, all his worries and anxieties disappeared in an instant, leaving him disarmed.

Ji Yeonwoo couldn’t resist and pounced on them.

Snap!

“Kuuu… you little rascals! You guys. You guys!”

Peep, peep, peep~

The chicks loved the gentle pressure, finding it comforting.

To them, Ji Yeonwoo, who had imprinted on them first, was their mother.

There’s no chick in this world that dislikes a mother’s love.

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