14. You didn’t say that
Time passes, mother’s house…
No, it’s me and my mother’s house now, so it’s right to call it our house, right?
After spending the night at my house, it was time the next morning.
After a simple breakfast,
I was in the living room with my mother.
To be exact, I was standing in front of the security main system device installed on the wall on the aisle side of the living room.
“Now, just stretch out your hand here and hold it still.”
“So… like this?”
“That’s right~ Stay still for about 10 seconds.”
Following my mother’s explanation, I placed my hand on the touchscreen of the security main system.
As time passed, a machine voice came along with a beeping alarm.
「Resident fingerprint registration has been completed. After a while, voice registration starts. After the alarm sound, please record the name of the registrant by voice.”
“After a while, when you hear the beep, just say my son’s name.”
Listening to my mother’s explanation, I nodded and waited for the electronic sound to sound.
「Beep.」
“Choi. Jin. Filial duty.”
「Resident, Choi. Jin. Filial duty. If yes, click OK. If you want to re-record, click Cancel.”
Beep.
After confirming that the recording was done properly, the mother pressed the confirmation button as per the system notification.
She then double-checked that she was properly registered.
“…… Huh! It seems to be well registered. Would you like to put your finger here?”
“Yes.”
I placed my finger on the fingerprint scanner my mother pointed to.
When I put my finger on it, the screen changed along with my name on the screen with an electronic sound.
“It’s done. Don’t touch anything else just in case, just remember the emergency call button here. Got it?”
“Yes, I understand.”
“The kitchen is absolutely dangerous, so don’t touch it, and if you’re hungry, take out the refrigerator and snacks on the lower shelf, so take them out and eat them.”
“Yes.”
“And you know how to use a phone, right? I wrote down my mom’s number here, so if anything happens, call me. No, I can call you at any time, so please call me.”
“Yes.”
“And don’t touch the window, it’s dangerous. Also–.”
Worried cautions from mothers who do not know how many times already.
The reason my mother is explaining this is none other than… ….
“… There, sister. I really have to go now.”
“Wait, really, just a minute. Finally, I will give my son one more warning.”
Because I came to a situation where I had to look at the house by myself.
Her mother, who announced a sudden break from her activities, had to go to her company to get this job done.
She seems to have decided that it would be a little too much for her to accompany me to a meeting with a high-ranking person.
I decided to stay at home and go to the company with only my manager and my mother.
My mother’s workplace, I wanted to see how she was… Unfortunately, she had to commit to the next one.
“Haa, sister.”
The manager who bought the chicken yesterday put his hand on his forehead and sighed.
As if it couldn’t be helped, the manager came up to us and said holding onto my mother’s shoulders.
“Your son must have understood it well enough, so let’s stop and go.”
“Oh, okay! Wait a minute before we go!”
“If you keep doing this, it will overlap with the rush hour and you will be really late.”
“Even if I knew it! I’ll just say hello!”
After shaking off her manager’s hand, my mother hugged me tightly.
“Son, will mom come back soon? So, can you wait a little longer?”
“Yes, don’t worry.”
“Yes, my son. Are you taking good care of the house then?”
“Yes, I will protect you.”
Is it because of my lively answer?
Only then did my mother take me away from her arms with a relieved look on her face.
“I’ll be back. Son, kiss~”
There… Mother?
Anyway, the manager is watching, so it’s a little embarrassing.
On the contrary, my mother looked at me with her expectant eyes, waiting for my next move.
Umm…. Ugh.
Ugh, I can’t help it.
I have to do it in the sense of saying don’t worry and have a good trip.
I put my lips to my mother’s left cheek and deliberately made a side kiss.
As if she liked my kiss, she said, sticking out the other cheek with her very happy face.
“On the other side too~”
At my mother’s request, I dared to be ashamed again and kissed her right cheek as well.
My mother looked even more satisfied and this time she said, pointing her index finger to her lips.
“And Yogi~”
… ….
Ah, I really don’t know anymore.
I was very embarrassed because the manager was watching, but what about skinship between family members?
I brought my mother’s lips lightly to hers and gave her the so-called bird kiss.
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“Yeah, good! Do you really want to go now?”
“… ….”
“? What are you looking at?”
“… No, no. Ha ha, let’s go quickly anyway.”
The manager pointed his head once as if he had a headache.
The manager is also having a lot of trouble.
After I smiled bitterly, I greeted the manager with a wide smile.
“Have a nice day, manager.”
“… Yes? Ah yes. That… I’ll have a good trip.”
“… Hmmm.”
When her manager greeted me with blushing cheeks, her mother looked at her with a strange look on her face.
Noticing her mother’s stinging gaze, she cleared her throat once, opened her front door, and stepped out first.
“Then I’ll be back~”
“Yes, have a good trip.”
Click.
After seeing off my mother, I ran to the living room and dived on the sofa.
Full seats.
“Turn it off. What do you do now?”
I stared blankly at the ceiling.
But what do you really do?
Think back to when you were living in a shelter.
What did you usually do during this time?
As I thought about life at the shelter like that, I turned his head slightly, and there was an object that caught my eye.
It is the TV hanging on the living room wall.
Yes, there was a TV!
I looked at the TV and shouted into the air.
“Pixie! Turn on the TV.”
「Turn on the TV.」
Great, after all luxury apartments are different.
Shall we take a look at life outside?
“Pixie! Change it to the news channel.”
「Control the channel with recommended news channels.」
I like that,
I laid down on the sofa very carefree and started watching TV.
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Inside the elevator.
Tak- Tak- Tak-.
The sound of shoes hitting the floor was regularly heard.
The protagonist of that sound is none other than Choi Yoon-hee.
The mother of Choi Jin-hyo, the first person to voluntarily leave the prison, and an actress belonging to YR Entertainment, that was Choi Yoon-hee.
And the woman standing next to her.
She is a manager who has worked with Choi Yoon-hee for a long time, and she was close to Choi Yoon-hee to the point of being her older sister in private.
She is like that,
“Whoa.”
I have been sighing for an unknown number of times today.
“Hey, sister.”
“… Huh? Why?”
“If you’re that anxious, let’s just take your son with you.”
“Ha, I want to do that too.”
At the manager’s words, Yoon-hee sighed and scratched her head as if embarrassed.
“Right now there are reporters and paparazzi everywhere in Seoul.”
“… Everywhere in Seoul?”
“Oh, all over Seoul.
When I got out of the shelter yesterday, did I explain how we got out?”
“Yes. They mobilized several fake vehicles to confuse movement information….”
“Right. However, it seems that the news of our son’s voluntary discharge was not a big deal than I thought.”
Ding.
Before I knew it, the elevator arrived at the underground parking lot and the door was opening.
Yoonhee continued her explanation as she moved out of the elevator and moved her steps.
“As soon as there was a report that people were leaving the facility voluntarily, reporters started tracking all the vehicles that had left the welfare center.”
“Yes? Really?”
“Yes. Right now, reporters and paparazzi all over downtown Seoul….”
Yoon-hee’s mouth suddenly stopped after continuing her explanation for a while.
The manager, who was walking beside her, looked at Yoon-hee, who suddenly stopped talking, with her eyes wondering.
She then, feeling that something was wrong with her, kept her silence as well.
Until they got to the parked car, they didn’t even open their mouths.
After getting into the car and closing the car door, the manager looked at Yoon-hee and opened her mouth.
“… Was there?”
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“Oh. One in the corner, two in the car.”
“Whoa. Are there three?”
The manager looked outside the car with an expression of disgust.
It was possible because the inside of the car was not visible from the outside because it was tinted.
After looking around for a while, she opened her mouth with an absurd expression.
“I only see one person in the car over there. How the hell did you notice?”
“It’s an actor’s sense. I am sensitive to the gaze of the camera.”
“… Even if I die and wake up, it’s a realm where I don’t know.”
“Whatever… Do you now understand why I did not bring my son?”
“Yes. When I see them, I understand them at once.”
The manager continued her talking while starting the car.
“Is that why you couldn’t call emergency personnel?”
“Oh, that’s right. And if it’s normal, it’s correct to attach it from the day a man comes out into society.”
Yunhee frowned as if she didn’t like her and continued her words.
“There are so many applicants, they say it takes some time to select an agent.”
“… Are there many applicants? A male bodyguard who is famous for being the worst job?”
“Oh. I’m not sure how many to choose… I guess the competition is huge. Is it 80:1?”
“… I remember that the previous competition rate for level 9 civil servants was 39:1, but it is 80:1, which is twice that?”
“That also happened yesterday, and after reports of people voluntarily leaving the prison, there have been more. Most of the male-related civil servants across the country applied or something.”
“… Whoa, whoa.”
At Yoon-hee’s explanation, the manager let out a collapsed exclamation and stuck out his tongue.
The manager, who was driving out of the parking lot like that, asked Yoon-hee with her puzzled lower face.
“By the way, I have a question.”
“Which one?”
“How did you even find out about that?”
“Because I have an assistant.”
“A helper?”
At Yoon-hee’s unexpected answer, her manager glanced at her.
“How great a person is that you know all that information?”
“Hmm, I’ll tell you about that part later when the time comes.”
At Yoon-hee’s words, the manager just said with a bitter smile.
“Comparing the world I live in and the world my sister lives in, it seems that the dimension itself has changed.”
“I agree with that statement.”
Yoonhee muttered as she looked out the window.
“I just want to live happily with my child… The world we live in has changed so much.”
The manager was speechless at Yoon-hee’s mournful words.
She couldn’t comfort or cheer her up.
She was just concentrating on driving.
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“…… Not funny.”
I put down the remote control that was flipping through the channels and looked at the ceiling again.
Is it because it’s morning time?
There is no channel to watch.
Haa, that’s boring.
I wish I had a computer soon.
… Shall we just watch the movie channel we were watching before?
I didn’t understand what the story was about after watching it from the middle.
Picking up the remote control again, I found a unique button on the remote control.
[External CCTV]
External CCTV? What is this?
Curious about what it was, I pressed the remote control button toward the TV.
When I pressed the
Button, the TV went dark once and then I began to see the scenery outside.
“Wow. What’s this?”
What was shown on the TV was none other than a children’s playground.
Ah, could this be it?
I heard that in a high-end apartment, you can watch the playground in real time through the TV to make it easier to check if the child is doing well.
I guess this is the function.
I pressed the cross direction keys on the remote control while looking curiously at the playground being broadcast in real time.
Every time you press the direction keys, the playground scene on the TV changes.
“Oh, oh oh. Are there many playgrounds? Whoa, is this an indoor playground?
The promenade here is also good.”
Hey, after all, luxury apartments are different, right?
Even the playground is very luxurious.
As I was looking at the playground like that, moths suddenly started to sting.
Come to think of it, I always take a walk outside around this time of year at the shelter.
Ugh. What to do
“I don’t think there are many people, so shall we just take a short walk?”
Since I registered for security in the morning, I think there will be no problem with opening and closing the door.
Ugh. mmm.
Right, thinking about it…
You didn’t say not to go outside, so wouldn’t it be okay?
“Yes. Let’s just get some fresh air.”
It’s about a walk, it’s okay~
What’s the big deal?
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“By the way, sister.”
“Huh?”
“Now that I think about it… Son, are you all right?”
“My son? Why?”
“After thinking about it… I think she didn’t tell you not to go outside among her warnings.”
“… ….”
“… ….”
“… Ahahahaha.”
“… Ha ha ha.”
“Ahahahahaha!”
“hahahahaha!”
Like that, the two started laughing for a while.
Yoon-hee, who barely stopped laughing, spoke first.
“Ahahahahaha~ Yaa~ Even my son would go out alone?”
“Isn’t it? I guess so? Ha ha ha ha ha.”
“Ah~ I really laughed for a long time.
A man going out alone? Whoops.”
“Keuhehehe, right?”
“Yes~ I’m going out alone~ Ha ha.
That will never happen.”
…
……
………
“Then, I’ll be back!~”
Despite no one listening, I greeted the house and closed the front door.
Confirming that the door was locked with a beep sound, I turned around and headed for the elevator.
Um, can we go to the first floor?
In a way, this is my first outing!
My heart is pounding!
「Ding~」
As the elevator arrived and the doors opened, I felt my heart race even more.
Calming my excitement, I got into the elevator and pressed the button to go to the first floor.
Hee hee, I’m really looking forward to it!
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