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Apparently Sarah’s parents said they would return home tomorrow afternoon.

The people in this house came back sooner than expected.

“Ugh, ugh. okay. There’s nothing going on at home. I’ll hang up.”

After ending the call, Sarah suddenly turned her head and looked at me.

“Hey! My parents are coming now!”

“Really? Where are you now?”

“I think we’re all the way to the house!”

As expected, just as Sarah said, the sound of the yard gate opening rang outside the house. People who I thought were Sarah’s parents were approaching the house. Suddenly, I get to meet Sarah’s parents here? It was completely unexpected.

Sarah didn’t seem to want to show me to her parents.

He spoke urgently to me in a tone as if something big would happen if he got caught.

“Well, what are you doing! Quickly hide out of sight!”

“Hide? Why?”

“It would be embarrassing if I was caught staying at home with a boy! Besides, it’s night now! What do your parents think of you?”

That’s why I think you’re a friend. They are only 10 year old kids.

I didn’t think much of it, but Sarah seemed to have a lot on her mind.

What a precocious kid.

“Come this way!”

Sarah looked around and quickly grabbed my wrist and took me to her room. It was my first time entering a girl’s room my age, but I didn’t have time to leisurely admire it. Sarah laid me down on the bed and covered my head with the blanket.

You could barely ask if it was hidden, but there were a lot of dolls on the bed.

There were many large dolls, so if they were cleverly covered with blankets, it would be hard to tell whether they were people or dolls lying down.

“Okay, that’s it! Stay quiet! I’ll secretly send you out when your parents aren’t looking.”

“Eup-eup.”

After all, the place to hide people is not in the closet, but on the bed. Isn’t this the bed where Sarah usually lies down when she sleeps? As I was lying down with the blanket completely covered, I smelled a girl’s unique sweet smell, which made me feel really dizzy.

━━Click

Soon the sound of the front door lock opening rang out.

It seemed like Sarah’s parents had come into the house. Actually, even if I came in, I was hiding on the bed so I couldn’t see anything. I could only feel Sarah’s parents approaching us by hearing footsteps.

Soon Sarah’s parents came into the room and called Sarah.

“Hey, my daughter. Were you bored alone while mom and dad were away?”

My heart started pounding as I heard their voices nearby. It would have been better if I had just stayed in the living room and been caught. I felt like something very wrong would go wrong if I was caught hiding on the bed. The hiding location was wrong from the beginning.

A boy hiding in his daughter’s bed?

Even if you were an elementary school student, if you were caught doing this, you were out.

I was even careful to breathe with the blanket over me.

I could hear Sarah having a casual conversation with her parents right next to me.

“Welcome back, Mom and Dad.”

“Nothing happened at home, right?”

“Of course nothing much happened.”

When Sarah asked her mother if everything was okay, she answered casually. He is hiding me right next to me and acting as if nothing is happening. She really wasn’t an ordinary girl.

“Really? But why are there so many snacks in the living room? Didn’t you invite a friend to your house?”

“… … Friends? You know. If possible, I don’t invite other kids to my house.”

“Are you saying you ate that much by yourself? Looking at the sheep, it looks like they had a snack party or something?”

“I’m craving snacks so much.”

However, Sarah’s mother, whom she was talking to, was not a gentle woman.

Sarah’s mother suddenly caught Sarah in her weak spot.

“My daughter, why don’t you take the shoes out of the closet and lie?”

“Ah… !”

Sarah was speechless. It reminded me of the black sneakers I left in the shoe closet. Sarah’s mother seemed to have already noticed that there was an unfamiliar pair of shoes. Sarah, who spoke naturally, could no longer continue acting.

“Is there anyone at home?”

“E… .”

“Who on earth is this? The person who stayed with my daughter until late at night.”

It’s all wrong. Now that things were like this, I had no choice but to attack head-on.

Hiding in bed, I pulled back the blanket and proudly revealed myself.

“That girl is me.”

He spoke confidently and looked around the room. Only then did Sarah’s parents, who had been hidden behind the blanket, come into clear view.

A woman with hair as fine as ebony and a white man with silver hair entered Sarah’s room. They were Sarah’s parents.

My mother is a shaman who practices shamanism, and my father is Swedish.

Sarah’s parents were surprised to see me suddenly appear.

“Were you hiding under the blanket? For some reason, it seemed like there was someone else inside.”

They both looked wary of me. In particular, my father’s side shouted and became more wary of me.

“What are you?”

A tall, white man with stubble around his mouth was glaring at me.

Although I was scared for a moment, I quickly got off the bed and explained the situation to them.

“Calm down. My name is Jinwoo Kim. We are friends from the same school.”

“Friends from the same school or whatever. Why do you jump out of my bed at night?”

“Sera tried to hide me because she was embarrassed.”

I told the story of what happened today on the spot. He stayed home late at night after playing with Sarah. Then my parents came back early and Sarah was so embarrassed that she tried to hide me.

“… That’s why I was hiding in bed.”

The explanation is over.

Sarah’s father, who was about to make a fuss, calmed down after hearing what I said.

“Sera hid you?”

“Yes.”

“I also wondered if the kid had a perverted hobby.”

“I’m not a pervert.”

Although he was a white man, Sarah’s father was fluent in Korean. I was glad we could talk.

When the misunderstanding was resolved, Sarah added her condolences to her parents.

“Did you hear what he said? Don’t worry, nothing bad happened. I just hid it because I was embarrassed to have brought a boy home.”

“What were you embarrassed about?”

“Dad… ! Do I really have to explain that with my own words?”

The tension eased a little. Now that the misunderstanding has been resolved. I thought I should go back home. Originally, I had planned to sleep at Sarah’s house, but now my parents have come. No parent would like a boy sleeping over at their daughter’s house.

Because I was a boy.

I have no choice but to go home.

“I’m going home.”

“Jinwoo, are you going now?”

“Yes, go back. Watching a movie today was fun.”

“… … I had fun too.”

It was a little sad to part ways like this.

“Wait.”

Sarah’s mother, who had been quiet all this while, blocked my path.

Sarah’s mother had been just staring at me from the moment I appeared. But as I was about to leave the house, he suddenly stopped me.

“Yes?”

“You said your name was Jinwoo Kim, right?”

“Yes… .”

It was Sarah’s mother, who was reputed to be a spiritual shaman in the neighborhood. Sarah’s mother, called Hwayeon Bodhisattva, was quite beautiful, but there was something scary about her. The clothes I usually wore were black, my eye makeup was dark, and my skin was pale.

“Jinwoo Kim.”

“Well, don’t you like something?”

“Wait a moment.”

Sarah’s mother grabbed my shoulder and prevented me from leaving the room.

The moment my shoulder was suddenly grabbed, I was startled.

“Mom? What do you have with Jinwoo?”

“Please be quiet.”

Sarah’s mother quieted the family and asked me a question.

“Jinwoo, what is your name? I’m asking about Chinese characters.”

“Kim Jin-woo (金進祐). We use the characters iron, gold, jin to move, and u to help.”

“Is it first? And what is your birth time and date?”

“I am the eldest son and have no younger siblings. I was born at 3:10 am on August 27, 2006.”

Why are you asking so much? While answering in a daze, I became nervous as I thought about what might happen. I thought he might curse me by asking for personal information. Are you putting a curse on the boy who dared to touch your daughter?

‘Are you sure you’re trying to curse me?’

It was right then.

“My name is Jinwoo Kim… ? Compared to when Sarah was born… .”

Sarah’s mother, who was muttering something, looked at me a moment later and opened her eyes wide.

An exclamatory voice flowed from her mouth.

“Noble… !”

Nobleman?

“The owner of the fortune is a nobleman.”

Doesn’t nobleman mean a valuable person? Sarah’s mother let go of her hand holding my shoulder and smiled brightly. Everyone except her was embarrassed by the incomprehensible behavior.

“Honey? What does that mean? Are you a noble person?”

“Mom?”

Sarah’s mother explained to everyone what she had seen.

“This child will become a noble person to our daughter. I felt good energy as soon as I saw it, but it became clear when I read the spell. It’s my fortune that will make you a noble person.”

“What is Cheon-eul noble, honey?”

“He is a noble person whom the god of heaven helps.”

A noble person meant a person who helped others and made their lives easier. Actually, I didn’t know any more details than that. No matter how much I was interested in mysteries, I couldn’t even study the fortune telling.

Sarah’s mother looked at me with a smile.

“It’s late, so let’s sleep at my house.”

“Yes? Can I sleep in?”

“Because you are our daughter, a noblewoman.”

I’m not sure what’s going on.

But the good news was that thanks to Saju, I was able to sleep at Sarah’s house.