episode_0075

I visited a new city at the end of winter vacation and the last year of middle school.

I laid out the apartment floor plan on the living room table. This is a house where four people will live together for the next three years of high school. If one person dies in the middle, the number may change to three, but I am starting to suspect that Laplace’s condition is a faking illness.

“As you can see, there are four bedrooms, three bathrooms, two dressing rooms, a study, a utility room, a storage room, etc. The disadvantage is that the balcony is narrow, but this was the best for my pocketbook.”

Yumina muttered, looking blankly at the floor plan.

“How many pyeong is this….”

“It’s written up here. Is it difficult to calculate because it’s in the metric system?”

“I didn’t mean it that way.”

“I know.”

Yumina, who was wandering around the living room, felt displeased. I would understand if Do Yu-geon or Laplace, who aren’t here, were like that, but it’s a bit odd that Yumina is like that.

“Honestly, I admit that my family is doing well, but it’s a bit annoying when you react like this when you’re a money-scratcher too.”

Yumina glanced around. He observed this for a moment and then smiled.

“But there are many things we lack to be tied together with our lady. It’s not like running a business or anything like that.”

“According to research results, class is composed of a fractal structure, so even upper class people feel relative deprivation and mistake themselves for being middle class….”

Two fingers were put into my mouth.

“And I’m running away from home! Be careful, okay?”

It’s an irritated look. When I licked my fingers, it tasted salty. uh… … .

“But did you wash your hands?”

Yumina blinked and headed toward the kitchen.

“……I’ll take a shower and come back.”

I feel uncomfortable. When I came out of the bathroom and rinsed my mouth, I saw Yumina rummaging through the refrigerator.

“What are you doing?”

“Choose a dessert.”

“What dessert?”

When I looked from the side, there were indeed desserts.

“Why is this here?”

“…What if the landlord doesn’t know?”

“I just came here today to look around, so there’s no way I would have stocked the refrigerator. Besides, I couldn’t have foolishly filled the refrigerator with just desserts.”

When I opened the freezer, there was also ice cream. Is it ice cream in winter? Well, I do enjoy the ironic feeling of eating something cold on purpose in a warm house when it’s cold outside.

“Haagen-Dazs!”

Yumina pushed this aside and took out a container of ice cream. Why is the treatment worse than ice cream? Is this what life is like?

There is a reason why the refrigerator is full. I haven’t really bought anything for the downstairs room I used as a study, but since there was so much to eat, I think it was probably the same situation. Honestly, I don’t know who filled it, but it’s probably a bodyguard or something similar.

I was trying to decide what the rules would be for living together at a cafe, but if this were to happen, there would be no need to go to the cafe. After all, it is up to competent people to write and see.

“I’ll have cheesecake.”

“cheese?”

“Yes. Cheese.”

“There isn’t one, right?”

Yumina tilted her head, opened the refrigerator, and took a quick look.

“No cheesecake.”

Sounds like an incompetent bodyguard.

I rummaged through the refrigerator and found something edible. Green tea cake is okay. Next is drinks. There are drinks in the fridge, but in this case, it’s cappuccino.

I looked around the kitchen and saw something that looked like a coffee machine. But it’s not capsule coffee. Looking at its appearance, it probably looks like a coffee machine found in a cafe or convenience store.

I was a little embarrassed because it wasn’t the capsule coffee I was used to at home, but it was no big deal. After pressing the button a few times, a cappuccino item appeared. Wow, do coffee machines these days automatically brew cappuccino? This eliminates the need to extract coffee capsules and add milk foam. It’s awesome. After all, people have to accept newspapers.

When I chose cappuccino, I was asked to add coffee beans. Coffee beans. Wondura. When I selected cappuccino again, the message asking me to add coffee beans appeared again. What coffee beans.

ah.

If you think about it, since this is a coffee machine, it would be correct to use coffee beans. Since I only drink capsule coffee, I forgot the obvious. I was just a little embarrassed. Coffee is originally made from coffee beans. I rummaged through nearby drawers and cupboards and found a bag of coffee beans. There is too. Of course, you have to have coffee beans. I fully expected it.

Now I think I just need to put the coffee beans into the machine. There was a gap on the side of the front of the machine that looked like it had been made to be grabbed and pulled. Originally, in the industrial design of these machines, key elements were made to be easily visible to the user. Because the coffee beans are the core and the core, they must have been put in a place where they can be clearly seen.

When I pulled it, a transparent container came out with a clatter. It’s like that too. This is a holistic insight that goes beyond experience. When I opened the bag of coffee beans, the scent of coffee hit me. Wow, that’s good. I poured an entire bag of coffee beans. The container was less than half full. The container is a bit big. Is the coffee bean product itself a small bag? When I put the bean container back in, it went in easily.

I pressed the button again to make a cappuccino. The phrase asking to add coffee beans came to mind. hmm. There was no difference when I pressed it again. Yes… … . Is it a malfunction? Is there any bad contact? Following electronic engineering methodology, I pounded the side of the machine with my palm. There wasn’t much success. I didn’t even expect it.

In times like this, you need a manual. I looked around the coffee machine, but there was no manual. What kind of idiot brought in newspapers and threw away the instructions? Or is it not a newspaper article?

eww… … .

When I looked around the living room, I saw Yumina lazily scooping up ice cream. There was orange juice next to it. Should I have a drink for the first time in a while? Drinking too much coffee can be bad for your health. Well, that’s right. I think I’ve been drinking too much these days. In fact, I always drink too much, so I often need something else. Overdosing is not good.

Coffee is good for improving productivity, but it is not a very good drink because it has a lot of capitalist foam. A drink that disrupts biological rhythms and causes addiction can’t be good for your health. There are many research results showing that drinking one or two cups a day is actually good for your health, but these are simply unreliable research results due to excessive use of statistical techniques by coffee enthusiasts.

Orange juice is good. Modern people do not consume a lot of fruit, so supplementing with juice is a very good thing. Although nutritionally, the difference between fruit and fruit juice is large enough to be considered different foods, that is not the important issue right now.

I took the cup and went to the living room.

“What about coffee?”

“You need to skip those bad drinks sometimes.”

I drank a glass of orange juice. It felt sweet and subtly refreshing. This is the taste of nature. I feel like I am cleansing my soul that has been burdened by the city.

“Really? I just happened to be craving coffee.”

“Leave the juice alone?”

“Ice cream and juice don’t go well together. I need something bitter. Drink mine!”

Yumina handed over the juice glass and headed to the kitchen. I took a bite of the green tea cake while watching what was going on in the kitchen.

There was the sound of a button being pressed a few times.

“Huh? Do you have any coffee beans?”

“well…….”

“Does it smell like coffee beans?”

That’s in charge? Is that the sense of smell of a coffee enthusiast who tours cafes? A few rattling sounds were heard.

“Yes……?”

Yumina came out of the kitchen. Hold the container containing the coffee beans with both hands.

Yumina held up the can as if to emphasize it.

“My lady, this is called a water tank!”

“……what?”

“Water tank. You can hold water here.”

“……I know that.”

“Water, not coffee beans. Coffee needs water.”

“I know.”

“Hmm. Really?”

It’s a sinister look.

“of course.”

He glared at me.

“But your face is red.”

I slowly averted my gaze.

“…It seems like the heating is excessive.”

* * *

“But is it okay for you to move your residence to a new city?”

Since the area that Yumina is in charge of is part of Seoul, wouldn’t it be inconvenient in many ways to move to a new city?

“That? I don’t think there will be any major problems as the central government is currently promoting district consolidation. I made the decision after thinking everything through. Just because we live together doesn’t mean I accepted it without thinking.”

Yumina boasted. You accepted it without thinking, right? When I called, they accepted it right away. It must have been planned after the fact.

The center mentioned by Yumina refers to an organization that manages the magical girl group spread around the world. So, the top of the magical girl cartel. Responsible for the budget and macro planning of the magical girl group. Yumina said that the central government is in charge of the important work of satisfying Schrödinger’s mood and securing the budget. In other words, playing with an evil white cat is work. It’s pitiful.

“If you’re talking about district consolidation, do you mean combining various districts into one? Are you going to divide Seoul into Gangnam and Gangbuk?”

Yumina didn’t answer but just watched.

“No? Then, are you really thinking of merging Seoul into one district? If the central government had an idea, they wouldn’t do something like that.”

Gather the magical girls in the Seoul area into one command system. These days, when moving abroad is not easy, if you do something like that, isn’t it impossible to keep it in check in the territory of the Republic of Korea even if the person in power in the Seoul area ignores the central government and moves?

“In fact, Seoul is already like a district, so it is just recognized procedurally.”

“There are multiple districts, so how can it be reduced to one district….”

ah. i get it. Has one district gone wild and swallowed up the others? In many ways, whether through appeasement or the use of force. It could be that the central government failed to check the excesses of power, so they agreed to just do it in moderation because they will accept that it is eating Seoul. This is shit. Well, is there any way that running an organization on a global scale can work well?

Yumina hesitated.

“It couldn’t be helped….”

“It’s uncomfortable, but there’s no need for you to notice.”

It seems that Yumina was pushed out of the struggle for hegemony and moved her area of responsibility to the vicinity of the new city. Then there will be no problem if you move your residence.

“No, that’s….”

I thought maybe that was the case and tried to move on, but Yumina’s reaction was out of focus. Umm.

“Wait a minute. So who is the hegemon in Seoul now?”

Yumina laughed.

Do not laugh.

“That’s because I was under a lot of stress after a drug bust… No, it’s not like this, but since I’m working, I thought it would be easier if cooperation with the neighboring district goes well. So, after a few serious conversations, I realized that handling the work was very easy. .”

What is serious conversation?

“So, I asked other districts to have a serious conversation, and they cooperated so well… so this is what ended up happening!”

It seems like too many meanings and processes were omitted haphazardly. When Laplace gave the position of acting manager to Yumina and asked her why she didn’t continue working, the real power was taken away.

I knew my friend was capable, but I think he was also capable in a bad way.

Does it matter?

I drank Americano. Unfortunately, there was no milk in the refrigerator.

eww… … , write.