episode_0088

When Hamshik said he would pay for the meal, it meant that the biggest burden, food expenses, had disappeared.

Hamshik’s portions have increased a bit, so I think I can eat more these days, but I still eat a single serving, so I can order about a double portion and share it with us.

For menus that don’t come in sizes like goppaegi, we order something like a side dish, and Jihyun, Saekmusae, and I just taste them, and Hamshik eats the rest.

In other words, now you can eat whatever you want without feeling burdened.

Now it’s okay to eat a hamburger for breakfast, pizza for lunch, and chicken for dinner every day.

Of course, I really didn’t intend to do that. If I were to indulge myself in such extravagance, no matter how suspiciously rich I might be, I might end up bankrupt!

And I still have a lot of cup rice left at home. If I open two cups every day for lunch, I can eat different menus for a month.

Plus, there are still some side dishes that moms made for me. I’m eating those for breakfast.

So even if I order delivery, I’ll only eat it for dinner. But since a promise is a promise, I’ll film myself eating lunch now.

As if he knew it was time to eat, Hamshik went towards the kitchen and started giving me hints.

Hurry up and bring me food. Didn’t I make you a miniature? With that kind of look in my eyes, I set up my camera with my phone and headed towards it.

“Are you hungry, Hamshik? Should I have lunch? How about chicken mayo rice and curry today?”

Hamshik would welcome anything as long as it wasn’t something like mint. Here again, Hamshik’s response is divided.

Waiting still, and urging them to hurry up. Of course, not by saying it out loud, but by staring at them or climbing up there first and waiting.

Perhaps he was proud of himself for finally earning enough to pay for a meal, and today Hamsik confidently asked for lunch. First, he started climbing up to the sink using a rope.

Hamshik deserves it. He got a lifetime meal ticket.

And as usual, the color changer was screaming.

“Chicken! Namin is trying to feed me chicken! Oh, there’s going to be a civil war ahead, I have a feeling my mouth is watering!”

“What are you saying, you’re a parrot. Chickens aren’t the same species. … … Are they the same species because they’re the same bird? Wait a minute, even if they’re the same species, they’re different species. Can chickens and parrots mate?”

“Are you calling me a chicken head right now? Jihyun, you’re bad!”

“No, that’s not what I meant… … . There are no cases of parrots and chickens mating. There are cases of them accepting each other as mates and staying together, but I don’t think there have been any cases of them laying fertilized eggs. Saekmu-sae, you can eat chicken.”

“Namina! Jihyun is saying something weird! My love is only Hamsik! That bad girl who took my first kiss!”

“… … That weird thing sounds even weirder to me. What’s wrong with Hamshik?”

No matter how much I look at it, it seems like Saekmusae was just joking, but sometimes I see Jihyun trying to base her story on facts.

It seems that he really wants to correct any scientifically problematic statements.

Oh, I guess that could be true since I worked as a researcher in biology.

Anyway, I left everyone to chatter like that. I asked Narin a question as well.

Maybe it was because of the reaction from getting up and answering the phone earlier, but Narin still couldn’t get out of bed.

“Narin, would you like to have lunch together? There are so many cup rice menus.”

“Really? Do you have fire chicken mayo? If not, kimchi fried rice.”

“I think there was some fire chicken mayo in the set? I’ll warm it up with that.”

Perhaps she had fallen asleep, Narin’s voice was sleepy. Office workers say that they have to recharge on the weekends since they work hard during the week, so I should be considerate at times like this.

For Narin, who worked hard every day, it wasn’t difficult to get a cup of rice from the cupboard under the sink.

Cup rice was displayed in a neat pile toward the front so that you could see what was on the menu at a glance. When I ordered the box, there was a wide variety of items on the menu.

The only thing I couldn’t touch was things with the name “Buldak” in them. In this country, most foods with the name “Buldak” in them are spicy.

Of course, bulgogi varies depending on its color. There is bulgogi that is not spicy and is seasoned with soy sauce, and there is bulgogi that is seasoned bright red.

I wish they had given it a more distinct name. I remember in my past life, when I looked at the menu at school or at the hospital, I was always confused.

If you expect it to be red, it’s brown, and if you expect it to be brown, it’s red. Of course, they’re both delicious.

Anyway, I’m glad that Narin will eat it. I won’t have to throw it away because I can’t eat it.

Holding onto the corner of a cup of rice with one hand, I rappelled up using only two legs and one hand.

Normally, Narin would put our food on the sink and go to work. But today, Narin is resting, so I’m the cook, so I have to do this much. It’s not that hard.

Stretch out your arms, grab the rope as high as you can, and pull yourself up. Then, crouch down and firmly hold the repel with both feet.

In that state, if I stretch my body while making a loop with my hands, the repel will shake due to the center of gravity. But even so, the rope is in my hands. There is no chance of it slipping and falling.

And then I grabbed the rope again with my outstretched hand. By repeating this, it was easy to climb up to the sink.

If it were me in my previous life, it would have been difficult to repel with my bare body, but now that my body is light, I can do this without much effort even while holding a cup of rice.

Unfortunately, Jihyun couldn’t follow what I was doing.

“No, Namin-ah. How did you do that one-handed rappelling? I keep slipping?”

“Hehehe. Jihyun is so cunning. I’ll move it. Go up and put the ones I put on first in the microwave.”

“Okay, I understand.”

So Jihyun was sent up, and I went back and forth with the cup of rice three times. In the meantime, Saekmusae went up to the sink and Hamshik sat down next to me.

Even though Ji-Hyeon couldn’t tightrope walk with one hand, she was a talented person who could at least make cup rice. Because the sound of cup rice being cooked could be heard from above.

Even without listening closely, I could tell that the plastic was ripped open and rice and other retort foods were poured into the cup rice container.

Then, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. I hear the sound of the microwave button being pressed several times, and I can smell the strong scent of curry. How can I not know?

Oh, since the instructions are written on the cupbap container, there’s no reason why it can’t be done, right?

If you are big, the letters will be too small to see, but if you look at them with your body, they will be clear like an advertisement written on a billboard.

I placed the remaining two cups of rice on the sink before the microwave finished cooking. Now all that’s left is to wait.

In the meantime, Narin, who had woken up, came into the kitchen.

“Hey, you guys all moved it among yourselves? Call your sister. Wasn’t it hard?”

“Narin, you’re tired, right? And you weren’t heavy at all. It’s okay.”

“Nam-in is amazing. Of course, it’s not heavy, but when I try to carry it and repel up, oh my… … .”

“Hmm. How can I make an elevator? I don’t think there’s a small elevator that can go up and down this height.”

“Ah, I’m in biology, not mechanical engineering… … . But the design itself isn’t difficult. The problem is the unit price. Well, if you make the outer shell out of a cardboard box and run it with a small motor, it seems like it could be done for under ten thousand won… … .”

Jihyun is talking nonsense again. It’s okay if we’re alone, but if you keep talking like that and the subscribers get confused, it’s bad. I intentionally took out a cup of rice to make a fuss.

“Okay, here comes the curry! Next is for Na-rin. Hey, Ham-shik. Wait a minute. Let’s eat together.”

The smell of warm curry is as strong as the smell of oily meat. Naturally, before I could even put down my cup of rice, Hamshik ran over and grabbed the cup of rice container.

At this rate, there’s no time to put it on a plate or something to make it easier to eat, and I’ll just dive into the container and lick it all up.

“It’s okay. You can eat the ham first. You must be hungry since it’s been more than three hours since you had breakfast.”

“Hey, but I ate a lot for breakfast.”

Of course, just like Hamshik was just now getting his appetite back, the smell of curry made my mouth water even though I wasn’t that hungry.

So I quickly poured the cup of rice onto a flat plate. It was a hassle to have to wash the dishes, but if I didn’t do this, Hamshik would get curry all over his body and it would be even more of a hassle.

… … A yellow hamburger instead of a white one. I guess that would be cute in its own right, but anyway.

You should just eat half a spoonful. Put curry on top of white rice, put a piece of meat on it, put it in your mouth, and chew it.

A piece of potato and a slice of carrot to start. Then wait a bit and have half a spoonful of chicken mayo rice. That’s it for lunch today.

I was already feeling good just thinking about how full my mouth would become. That was until I smelled the second cup of rice.

“Wow, wow! Na-rin’s sister’s stuff is out!”

The pungent smell that lingers from the moment you open the microwave. The mayonnaise smell neutralizes it, so it’s okay, but I can’t help but cough.

The spicy chicken mayo rice bowl that Narin wanted to eat. I don’t think any of us, except Narin, would be able to eat that.

“Wow, that looks really spicy. Can you eat that, Na-rin? Don’t push yourself too hard.”

Jihyun was worried, but Narin shrugged her shoulders and mixed it with a spoon.

“Hey, it’s okay. When mixed with mayonnaise, it’s just a little spicy. Oh, do you want to try ham too?”

Maybe it was because the smell there was as strong as the curry scent.

Hamshik, who was diligently gnawing on his share of the curry mountain and leveling it, approached Narin while chewing on it.

I could see Hamshik’s curiosity in the yellow curry on the corner of his mouth. If it were a normal day, I would have licked it off. Was the smell of the fire chicken mayo that appetizing?

“Just taste it first. Eat a little and if it tastes good, eat more.”

Narin kindly gave Hamshik some spicy chicken mayo. I thought it would be bright red because of its pungent smell, but surprisingly, the rice was yellow. Did it have eggs on it?

It was ominous to see a piece of meat that was bright red and had mayonnaise mixed in it, as if danger was hidden in color.

Hamshik-yi didn’t pay any attention to that and swallowed the meat pieces and rice sprinkled with seaweed powder in one mouthful. It was only a small amount, but it was enough to taste it.

Then Hamshik looked at Nalin with his eyes wide open. Judging from the way he was chewing it, it didn’t seem to be bad, but he seemed very surprised.

He chewed and swallowed everything in his mouth, then tried to scream vaguely.

“Meal?”

Is it spicy? I was nervous about Hamshik’s reaction, but then I saw him approaching Narin to get another bite, so I thought it was okay.

“in the… … ?”

Then, Hamshik tried to scream again but stopped. Jihyun, who saw that, poured the chicken mayo rice bowl next to the curry and said.

“Because it’s spicy, it’s painful. Maybe it’s tasty, but your mouth feels numb, so you’re wondering if it’s okay to eat more or not?”

“Aha, I see.”

“Ahaha, it seems less spicy than the vegetable tripe. Maybe it was okay because it was oily? But this one is also less spicy because of the mayonnaise.”

“Oh, is that less spicy? It smells spicier than gopchang!”

“That’s because I suddenly smelled it while it was being heated in the microwave. It just spurted out without giving me time to adjust.”

“Jihyun is really smart.”

It’s good that Jihyun keeps telling me things so my curiosity is immediately satisfied. I was just a little worried whether the subscribers would like this.

Oh, wait a minute. I was so absorbed in cooking that I forgot that my phone camera was so far away.

I was planning to go down and eat, but as I started eating, I ended up eating here all the time.

“Guys, hold on a sec. I’ll get my phone.”

So, as I was getting ready to jump off the sink, Narin tilted her head.

“Why is my phone suddenly on?”

“I decided to upload a picture of Hamshik’s meal instead of getting paid for it. I was taking the picture from over there, but it’s too far away, so you probably won’t be able to see it well.”

“Huh… …? Were you filming right now? Oh, I didn’t wash my face or hair!”

“Wuewuewuewue. Na-rin’s sister-in-law has already gotten married! Even if I don’t wash, Ham-shik will take responsibility! Ham-shik, go ahead. I’ll feed you!”

Narin suddenly covers her face, and Saekmusae teases her with a strange laugh.

There I felt sorry and asked Jihyun.

“Jihyun, can you mosaic only Na-rin’s face?”

“Yeah, that works. But wouldn’t that be weird? Just cut it off and take a new picture so that only the top of the sink is shown… … .”

“Shouldn’t I send the ones I took from the beginning?”

“Is that so?”

No matter how much I put my heads together with Jihyun, there was no answer. Fortunately, Na-rin washed her face with water in the sink and understood us.

“It’s okay as long as you don’t upload it to YouTube… … .”

“Hehehe, thank you. Here, hamster, wipe the water with your hair.”

“Huh? No, it’s okay. Just wipe it off with your clothes.”

How effective is the hamster fur towel? My older sister Narin refuses this.