The Fantasy World Fanatic Wants To Leave Work

29 – 29. I Won’t Eat You if You Give Me Cheese (1)

[Title: No One Comes to the Convenience Store lol]

[Author: ㅇㅇ(221.180)]

[(GIF of a tiger entering a convenience store)]

[Seriously, no one is coming lol]

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[Total of 13 comments]

[ConvenienceStoreGuyJ: Give me a rice cake and let’s see if I eat it or not]

[ConvenienceStoreGuyA: Did you have cornflakes for breakfast, ConvenienceStoreGuy? You seem full of tiger energy]

[ㅇㅇ(118.235): They said the customer is king, but there’s really a king coming there…]

-Kim Hyunwoo-

[Why doesn’t this convenience store have a single normal person coming here even for a day?!]

-Store manager-

[Do you think I’m the one? It’s up to the customers to come or not.]

*Roar.*

Honestly, if you just look at the words, the roar of a tiger doesn’t seem like much.

But listening to it in real life is different.

The zoo at least provides psychological stability with strong bars, but I don’t have that right now.

They say that the roar of a tiger, mixed with infrasound, freezes the body, but that’s just because I’m scared when the tiger roars in front of me.

Will my body not freeze while a beast with sharp fangs roars right in front of me?

-Kim Hyunwoo-

[So what do I do about that? I just finished work at the warehouse and I’m on my way back, so I can’t even press the red button on the counter.]

-Store manager-

[You’re not scared of space debris, but you’re scared of a tiger? Mr. Kim Hyunwoo has already met the two transcenders in this Space-1221. Just think of it as dealing with a slightly bigger cat.]

The problem is that the slightly bigger cat can tear me apart gently, that’s why.

The reason why cats are not scary in the first place is because they are small, and if the size of a cat is equal to that of a tiger, it’s already another beast.

-Store manager-

[I hope you finish your shift safely today. I’m leaving now.]

-Kim Hyunwoo-

[No, I just opened the convenience store. Can’t you help me with this?] 1

And the store owner’s son continues to ignore the message as usual.

-Kim Hyun-woo-

[Wait, there’s a tiger in front of me???] 1

He casually dismisses the desperate message.

“That damn store owner’s son…!”

Let’s stay calm for now. There were a few things I should never do when encountering such a dangerous creature.

Turning around and running away, suddenly yelling to provoke the tiger, or pretending to be dead.

If I turn around and run away, I might run all the way to the underworld. If I suddenly yell, that might be the end of it. Pretending to be dead is like preparing for death in advance.

So, how should I deal with such a tiger?

For example, if you encounter a shark in the sea, you stab it with a harpoon and cut it into pieces, or if you encounter an elephant, you tie its trunk and suffocate it… Pull yourself together.

They say that even if you get attacked by a tiger, if you can pull yourself together, you can survive.

“Roar!”

Then, the tiger roared and rushed towards me.

It was only then that I realized why the people who used to say those things are no longer in this world.

It turns out that they ended up becoming a meal themselves from all the nonsense they spouted.

If you happen to come across a dangerous animal on the road, it would be better to carry a large and beautiful .44 Magnum pistol instead of such nonsense.

Thud!

The tiger knocked me to the ground and opened its mouth wide.

So, this is how I die in the end.

It’s strange to think that after living this long, I’m going to die after meeting a tiger at a convenience store. It’s even more surreal compared to all the things I’ve encountered before.

So, will it hurt if I get eaten by the tiger? I don’t know because there has never been anyone who was eaten by a tiger and came back alive.

“…?”

But strangely, the tiger didn’t instantly chew my head off.

Lick, lick.

Instead, it kept licking my head with its tongue.

What’s going on? Is it trying to lick and melt me like candy or ice cream instead of eating me in one bite?

I know it’s not trying to bite and eat me right away, but it still hurts unbearably from just the licking.

It feels like it’s trying to rub my face off with sandpaper.

“Hey, move your tongue because it hurts.”

I pushed the tiger’s head away with my hand and barely managed to stand up.

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Surprisingly, the tiger just quietly moved aside without swiping at me with its front paws or biting me with its jaws.

“…A leash?”

Then I noticed a leather strap around the tiger’s neck.

Could it be that this tiger was tamed by a human?

No wonder it seemed so well-behaved.

Even though this universe-1221 is a total mess, there wouldn’t be tigers roaming around in a human village.

Either someone raised this tiger and it escaped, or humans in this universe are so strong that they treat tigers like long-haired cats.

Besides, even with just the demi-humans, there are various kinds of animals like wolves, pigs, goats, dogs, and cows.

“Hey, do you happen to know where your owner is?”

The tiger just tilted its head in response to my question.

I guess it won’t understand what I’m saying after all.

Well, it’s not like it’s a demi-human that’s a terrible mix of humans and animals, it’s just an ordinary tiger.

At the same time, it’s the most familiar animal I’ve seen in this universe, where elves, dwarves, angels with guns, and strange beings are walking around.

Since I can see that it has a leash, it’s certain that there is an owner somewhere…

For now, I’ll leave it here in front of the counter. If a customer comes and gets startled, it might unnecessarily provoke the tiger.

Even if I’m unlucky and I get hit by the tiger’s paw once, my spine will break and my neck will snap.

I should put it in the corner of the convenience store as much as possible… Oh, I wonder if this will work?

“Do you want to come with me?”

Luckily, there was an empty box in the convenience store that seemed big enough for the tiger to enter.

I unfolded it and placed it in the corner of the convenience store, and the tiger, as if waiting, threw itself into the box.

Fortunately, the tiger in front of me was small compared to a full-grown tiger, and it seems to just obediently stay there as if it were a domesticated cat or some other animal.

“At this moment…!”

I rushed to the counter and pressed the red button.

Although it’s not an urgent situation, it should be okay to report that a pet tiger that lost its owner is in the convenience store.

-U.C Convenience Store Emergency Reporting System-

[This is the U.C Convenience Store Emergency Reporting System. As the system did not detect an emergency situation, please manually explain the situation, and we will proceed accordingly.]

Unlike yesterday when the knight arrived, this time a message like this arrived.

Is U.C. Convenience Store really not going to treat it as an emergency if a tiger walks in?

Well, I guess this one is relatively well-behaved, having been tamed by humans. But if it were a wild tiger, I can only imagine it would have pounced without hesitation, leaving me in two separate halves.

-Kim Hyun-woo-

[“A tiger without an owner has entered the convenience store.”]

-U.C. Convenience Store Emergency Alert System-

[Confirmed. Location: Space-1221. We’ll send a team to handle the situation shortly.]

In any case, all I have to do now is wait.

The tiger was still sitting quietly in its box, twitching its ears as if waiting for its owner to return, just like the time a large retriever suddenly strolled into the store.

I had briefly left the empty box outside, and although it wasn’t as big as the tiger, a sufficiently large retriever was sitting calmly inside, wagging its tail.

The next customer who walked in found the dog cute and asked for its name.

“…Amanda?”

So, the tag on this one’s collar read ‘Amanda.’

It didn’t sound like an English name originally, but to me, it looked English.

Could it be that the U.C. Convenience Store has a function to display Space-1221’s characters in a way I can understand?

“Hey, do you eat this too?”

Still amazed by the tiger right before my eyes, I decided to test by offering it a can of cat food.

Lick, lick.

It eats much better than I expected, like a real cat, lapping up the cat food with its tongue.

However, due to its large size, a fifth of it vanishes with each lick.

Quietly sitting there, the tiger is somewhat cute…

“Amanda! Are you here?!”

A few moments later, someone entered the convenience store in a hurry.

When the voice reached Amanda’s ears, she reacted, leaping out of the box.

From what I heard, it was likely Amanda’s owner.

I have no idea who would raise a tiger as a pet, but I was about to say something when…

“Yeah, Unni, she’s here. It’s a different world here, so don’t wander around like it’s your hometown.”

It seems I need to get used to this slowly as well.

The one who came to pick up the tiger was yet another tiger.

The Tiger with Golden Fur.

However, it wasn’t a real tiger like that, but a Tiger Human that closely resembles a human.

Apart from the fact that it is tall and has tiger ears and a tail, there was nothing beast-like about it.

“Ah, you were taking care of my sister? Thanks, she said she didn’t like the side dishes and broke the door and ran away…”

“Sister? Isn’t she a pet?”

But she wasn’t a pet, she was a family member?

“Well, who would raise a fierce beast like a tiger as a pet? If you forget to feed it, it’ll swallow you whole.”

“That’s true. hahahaha.”

Is it okay to have a family member like that tiger?

I don’t understand more than that.

Compared to my sibling, who is just a pure 100% tiger, my side is just an ordinary human with tiger ears and a tail attached.

What kind of parents would allow such breeding to be possible?

“But what are you holding in your hand? It smells delicious…”

While saying that, not the owner of the tiger, but a woman who was actually my sister, looked at the jerky I was holding and seemed to have a taste for it.

Now that I think about it, this side is also ultimately part of the feline family.

What on earth is Universe 1221…?