episode_0039
by admin#39
The next morning.
Could it be because I slept all day yesterday? Or was it thanks to Ji-ah and Min-ah’s nursing?
I wasn’t sure, but my condition had almost returned to normal, so I slowly got up from the bed.
‘I feel like I can finally live.’
I was enjoying a refreshing morning, with the morning sunlight streaming in through the window…
“Why is this guy here again?”
… I looked at Jia sleeping in the corner of the room and sighed quietly.
“Kuu… .”
It seems like it’s been happening more frequently lately… It looks like he’s running away to Mina again.
Step step step
I covered Gia with a blanket while she was breathing quietly, and then went out of the room.
.
Finally we arrived at the kitchen.
On the table is the vitamin drink that Yunseol brought yesterday.
“… Please give me your phone number.”
… I was about to burst out laughing as I suddenly remembered what happened last night.
“Haam. Oppa. Good morning.”
Mina, who came to the kitchen after me, greeted me with a slightly sleepy voice.
“Good morning.”
“Huh. I guess you’re feeling better now. That’s good. By the way, is there anything good that’s happened this morning?”
I guess he saw me giggling.
Instead of answering Min-ah, I poured the vitamin drink on the table into my mouth.
‘…It’s delicious.’
“Oh, give me some too. Wow. Is this the drink that hero Yunseol brought? Oppa, you’ve made it big.”
Mina walks towards me and takes a vitamin drink.
‘…what.’
Only then did I notice Minah’s clothes, so I turned my gaze away from her and said.
“Hey, put on some clothes properly.”
“Huh?”
After hearing what I said, Mina looked at her own clothes.
After a while, Min-ah,
“Hmm. Why~?”
Heheheehe. He answered me in a voice that seemed somehow annoyed, and he teased me.
‘…Why?’
Black dolphin pants that reveal the thigh line.
Even the white T-shirt was a bit short, revealing her pure white skin and belly button.
Mina usually dresses comfortably at home, but today was a bit too much.
“Is this your type of thing, oppa?”
Mina, who finds my reaction of avoiding eye contact amusing, leans her body towards me again.
‘Ah. I can’t stand it.’
I eventually reached the limit of my patience with Min-ah’s behavior…
“Huh, Huh? Oppa? Wait a minute…!”
I reached out to Minah, who seemed bewildered by my suddenly changed expression and slowly backed away.
and…
“Ahhh!! Oh my god!!”
… I pinched Minah’s pure white cheeks randomly. Where.
“Fragrance jewel! Fragrance jewel!”
So the punishment for my anger towards Mina was,
“… What are you two doing?”
The curtain came down with Jia looking at me and Minah with cold eyes.
*
There was a bit of a commotion, but eventually we all gathered around the table.
“I’ll eat well!” “I’ll eat well.”
Leftover spam, fried eggs, and beef and seaweed soup from last night.
“… .”
We began our meal in silence in front of a rather luxurious table.
‘…hmm?’
Then, by chance, I came across a calendar.
Looking at the date that it was already mid-August, I had a question and asked Zia.
“Jiaya.”
“Yes?”
“And by the way, when does school start for you?”
Thud. The chopsticks that Jia was holding fell limply.
‘The vacation during the third year of high school is short.’
I know that summer vacation is especially short because of exams and such. But winter vacation is incredibly long.
“That… ”
Zia hesitates slightly and avoids my eyes.
After a while, Jia slowly opened her closed mouth.
“… Last major.”
Bam. This time, Mina’s and my chopsticks fell limply to the table.
Seeing our reaction, Jia seemed flustered and hurriedly added.
“Well, last week, there was a holiday and a school anniversary during the opening ceremony, so I can’t miss many days…! Plus, my uncle was sick, and I have to work part-time too… ”
I can’t say anything when I see Jia avoiding my gaze and Mina’s as she speaks hesitantly.
‘I never thought there’d be a delinquent in my house.’
At that moment, when I was unable to raise my head due to my complicated feelings, Mina opened her mouth.
“Jia. Then, let’s skip school for today.”
“Yes?”
“It’s late today anyway. But I don’t want to go to school at all, so let’s start going tomorrow. What do you think?”
“… .”
After that, Jia nods her head subtly to Minah’s words.
‘… I can’t help it.’
Actually, if I think about it, I often skipped school since high school to prepare for the police officer exam.
I’m not in a position to say anything bad about Gia.
Mina continues speaking, taking advantage of the momentum.
“Then shall we go out with my sister today? Do you want to go with me, oppa?”
“Oh, if you let me in… .”
“Over there.”
In the meantime, Jia opened her mouth, hesitating slightly.
“… I have a place I want to go. Will you go with me?”
***
The place that Jia said she wanted to go was…
“… Sticker photo?”
“Ugh. Sticker photos are from the past. These days, they say life is a four-cut… Don’t you know that? You’re all grown up.”
For some reason, the sight of Mina explaining things with a smug look on her face makes me a little annoyed.
“Profit… Myanmar… .”
He just pinched the ball.
“What if I pinch a girl’s cheek as I please? Ugh… .”
“Noisy.”
I looked around the photo booth, leaving Minah behind, who was glaring at me while pretending to cry.
‘In my time, it was a sticker photo… .’
The place that Jia said she wanted to go to was an instant photo studio called Life Four Cuts.
“I lost the photo… ”
I heard that she had already been here once with Min-ah, but it seems like she lost it after what happened last time.
“… Then. Should I press it?”
“Yeah.”
As soon as Gia presses the start button floating on the screen in front of her, the countdown starts suddenly.
10, 9, 8 …
“Come on, brother!”
“Huh? Huh? ”
… click.
“Brother. You have to stand in the middle!”
“Narrow… .”
Click.
‘How many times do you have to take it?’
… When I thought that, the filming was finally over.
“Oh. This came out well. Look at your face, oppa.”
“… That’s funny. Huh.”
I felt a little annoyed when I saw two people giggling at my strangely taken photo…
‘Not bad.’
When I saw the photo of the three of us huddled together, I felt something indescribable.
What should I say? It really feels like family.
“Brother. What are you doing blankly there? Come out. Let’s go eat.”
“… Ah. Uh.”
While I was looking at the photo and feeling a strange emotion,
“… .”
Mina and Jia came out of the small photo booth and waved to me.
At their call, I carefully put the photo in my pocket.
.
After that, we went outside the instant photo studio.
It was almost lunch time. We went into a suitable restaurant and sat down.
“Brother. What’s wrong? You look so tired.”
“… That’s right. Sir. Are you still feeling better from your cold?”
Two people looking at me with worried eyes.
“That’s not it. I guess it’s just because I haven’t been out in the sun for a long time.”
“Umm… If you’re not feeling well, tell me?”
“Okay.”
Actually, what is sunlight?
It’s because people keep staring at me on my way here.
Roughly… What is that guy doing, walking around with two women? Those were the looks on his face.
Both Minah and Jia have the looks to attract attention even when they walk down the street alone… so it’s only natural that everyone’s attention would be focused on me, stuck between those two.
“Let me help you with your order.”
“Ah. Yes.”
It’s the same now. The male employee who came to take that order.
The gazes directed at Jia and Mina and the gazes directed at me contain a temperature difference as great as that of the North Pole and the desert.
It’s a little unfair, but… well, what can I do?
“… And, please make me some rose pasta. Is there anything you want to eat, Jia? Just tell me. I’ll buy it for you. ”
“Okay, it’s okay… . And this time, I really… .”
“Sup.”
Min-ah cuts off Jia’s words as if she is somehow familiar with them, and Jia doesn’t know what to do.
‘… We’re almost sisters now.’
I drank the water placed in front of me and observed the two talking after the employee left.
“How is our Jia’s skin so clear? Is this youth?”
“That, I like that too, sister.”
“… Ugh. How does our Jia speak so beautifully? Come to think of it, what kind of foundation and powder does Jia use?”
“I don’t use it… .”
“… What?”
Min-ah’s eyes widen at Jia’s words.
“… .”
Well, when Jia first came to our house, she only came with her body, so I didn’t have time to bring things like that.
Well, I don’t really know much about that… I guess that’s what I was thinking.
It seemed like it was quite a shock for Minah to hear that.
After that, Min-ah said while caressing Ji-ah’s cheek.
“Wow… somehow. I guess that’s why I haven’t seen you with makeup on for so long… This is your bare skin.”
Creation.
“Ugh. It hurts… .”
“Let’s go to Olive Young after eating with my sister. We need to take the initiative on our way to school.”
“Okay, it’s okay. I’m not really interested in that kind of thing… .”
Jia waves her hand at Minah’s words.
“Hmm. Wait a minute. Can I listen to you?”
“Yes?”
Min-ah approached Ji-ah and started whispering something.
After a while.
“… I’ll go.”
Jia looks at me for some reason and nods with a determined expression.
‘What were you talking about?’
At Jia’s sudden change in attitude, I asked Minah in a subtle way what she had said…
“You don’t have to know, oppa.”
… was the only reply I got.
‘what.’
Is this the sadness of a neglected parent? I feel a little sad.
***
Same time.
A penthouse located on the rooftop of a building in Seoul.
“… .”
A man wearing a stylish suit came to a residential space where the monthly rent was more than half of the annual salary of an average high-income earner.
Knock, knock.
The sound of a man’s shoes hitting the marble floor.
The one who greeted him as he arrived at the terrace was Baek A-rin, a girl with snow-white hair.
“Hello, Secretary. What’s going on today?”
A man takes something out of the briefcase he was holding in one hand as he listens to her words.
“… Here is the personal information of Kim Do-han, a person involved in the incident involving the Land Spider faction you mentioned.”
“Ah.”
A girl accepting a piece of paper handed to her by a man with an innocent smile.
After a while, the girl’s mouth slowly opened as she scanned the paper.
“Hmm. It doesn’t seem like anything special… but it’s strange.”
“What do you mean?”
“… Haha. There is something like that.”
Is it the young lady’s bad taste again? A man who felt pity for a man named Kim Do-han.
But that was only for a moment.
The man hesitated for a moment, then spoke softly to the girl.
“Lady. The police and heroes are slowly catching up. It would be better to refrain from cleaning up the trash… .”
“Hmm. Secretary.”
Soon, the girl’s gaze moved from the paper in her hand to the man.
“… Thank you for worrying about me?”
The man, seeing her well-decorated smile, lowered his head.
.
Squeak
After that, the girl was left alone after the man left.
She glanced again at the paper the man had handed her, muttering to herself.
“… Shall we go and visit?”
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