It’s only the second time we’ve met, and I’m getting a cosplay offer from my friend’s mother.
At that moment, Rika, who was next to him, interrupted in surprise.
“Mama! What are you talking about all of a sudden! You didn’t say that to me!”
“Oh, maybe I should listen to you now?”
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Maria said so with a calm face and looked at me.
“So, what do you think, Yoosung-kun?”
Suddenly the arrowhead was turned at me, but unfortunately my answer was fixed.
“I’m sorry, but I think it’s going to be a little difficult. I’m definitely interested in Comiket, but I think cosplay is too difficult.”
When I expressed my displeasure by saying that, Maria let out a deep sigh as if it were a pity.
“Yeah? Then there’s nothing I can do. If you can help, I was going to ask my husband to give me a treasury gift.”
“…can I hear a little more detail about that part?”
“Didn’t I just say it was hard?”
“Coming to think of it, I don’t think it’s bad to try cosplaying at least once in your life.”
“Ryu-chan! Ryu-chan is being deceived by Mama right now! Calm down!”
“hot!”
Thanks to Rika, I was able to regain my blurred reason in an instant.
What am I supposed to do now?
Even now, in the midst of suffering from too many promises, I couldn’t add more here.
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Maria clicked her tongue in disappointment, but I headed towards the counter as if to run away.
***
After a while, my mother came out with her own food.
“Oh my, who is this!”
And when the mother found Rika sitting at the table, she gave a happy expression.
“Hello! Auntie!”
Rika waving her hand with a lively smile.
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Mother smiled broadly as if to repay it, and placed a pot with cheonggukjang in the center of the table.
“Are you here to eat with your sister?”
“No! This is our mama!”
“hello.”
As Ms. Maria said that, she bowed her head slightly, and Ms. Lee Mi-ja greeted her, saying, “Oh my God.”
“Your mother is very beautiful. What country are you from?”
Then Maria replied with a pleasant smile.
“I’m from England.”
“England! You come from a good place!”
Although the two met for the first time today, they talked comfortably as if they had known each other for a long time.
Is this the unique affinity of ajummas?
It seemed that the story was going to be long, so I even carried the food my mother had made while carrying it from the kitchen.
A table filled with Korean food such as kimbap, cheonggukjang, yukgaejang and assorted jeon.
Rika sniffed, sniffed, and swallowed, saying it was delicious.
Seeing that, my mother said with a happy smile.
“I eat a lot. Rika-san. If it’s not enough, I’ll bring you another.”
“thank you!”
“Then eat comfortably.”
After hearing Rika’s thanks, Mother went back to the kitchen.
Only then did the two of them start eating in earnest.
Whether it was true that eating Korean food was accustomed to, Maria made cheonggukjang on the front plate with a familiar hand gesture.
Then he takes a bite and opens his eyes wide.
“Oh my, it’s delicious.”
“Is not it?”
When Rika poked her chest out with a proud expression, Maria looked at her cutely and scooped out a few more spoons.
After that, you can taste kimbap and assorted jeon, and finally eat yukgaejang.
Despite the seemingly inconsistent combination, the two inhaled the food laid out on the table very intently.
“Fuha! Well done!”
In the end, Rika, who ate yukgaejang and even rice, leaned back on the back of the chair and said so.
As it turns out, Maria was also quite satisfied.
As I sat at the counter and watched it, I took out the crystal fruit from the refrigerator and brought it to me.
“This?”
“It’s a service. It’s called Sujeonggwa, and it’s a traditional Korean drink usually eaten after a meal.”
As I said that, I poured the crystal fruit directly into the glass, and Ms. Maria shook the glass with interest and carefully tasted it.
“Oh, it’s delicious.”
Seeing this, Rika followed and drank the crystal fruit.
“tasty!”
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Mother and daughter are said to be alike, and they seem to have similar tastes.
It was time to put the crystal and the bottle down on the table.
“Eat some fruit~”
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My mother, who had entered the kitchen, came out with a plate full of fruits.
***
“My child is not cute, so it’s a mask~”
“Ah~ Still, it’s reliable and nice~”
It started with a fruit plate and the number of children of two.
I thought it was all over, but it turned out that it was only the beginning.
It was like a cushion of thorns for me, but Rika was also sitting between the two ladies and chatting.
Is this the loneliness in the crowd?
“As he entered high school, he suddenly became mature, or he started to work hard and study hard, which he didn’t do. To be honest, I know it sounds like he’s full, but I think the cute old days are better.”
“Ah! I’ve seen it in pictures before! It sure was cute!”
At Rika’s response, her mother nodded and took out her smartphone.
“There’s a picture here, too. It was taken during a middle school reunion.”
“Oh, my, my.”
“Wow! Cute!”
These are the reactions of the two people who saw the photo their mother showed them.
To be honest, I don’t know how to take it from a man’s point of view.
Personally, I think it’s much better now than it was before.
Then, Maria said to her mother as if she had just remembered it.
“By the way, I heard that Yoosung taught my daughter to study this time. Thanks to her, my grades improved a lot, so I want to say thank you.”
Then, Mrs. Lee Mi-ja laughed and said it like a joke.
“My son said that? I thought he was just exercising, but surprisingly, he seems to be doing everything he needs to do.”
It’s a woman’s characteristic drive.
However, what was surprising was that Maria accepted this joke.
“If it’s Yoosung-kun, he’s the first son-in-law. He studies well, he sports well, and he’s sincere, doesn’t it seem that our Rika is lacking?”
Then Rika, who was quietly listening to the story next to her, blushed and shrugged! shouted
“mama!”
“I’m deaf, boy.”
Saying that, Ms. Maria beat Rika, then immediately proposed to Ms. Mija.
“If you think about it later, please tell me. I’ll make sure I have a bridal class.”
“Oh ho ho, should I call you in-law from now on?”
“It’s nice to hear that you’re an in-law.”
I was quietly listening to the jokes of the two people, who were becoming more and more intriguing, I said.
“You two, you need to get up soon.”
Then, Ms. Mija stood up with a stern expression on her face.
“Oh, look at my mind. There was a lot of washing up, but I was just chattering.”
It was the same with Maria.
“Rika, let’s go home now.”
In such an instant, the discussion between the two aunts was over, and Rika and I, who had become wrecked, looked into each other’s eyes and exchanged words of hardship.
“All you need is 3,000 yen.”
“I ate well. Yooseong-kun.”
“I’m glad you enjoyed it.”
When I received the cash that Maria gave me, I bowed my head, thanking you.
“Are you sure you don’t want to cosplay? Actually, I knew Yooseong-kun would be OK, so I even made all the costumes.”
I couldn’t bear to say no to Maria’s sparkling eyes.
“…Give me some more time to think.”
Then, Maria said goodbye! ‘ he said, clenching his fists.
“Are you going to reconsider?”
“Unless you have a special schedule.”
Without knowing anything else, as a fan, I honestly coveted Musashi-sensei’s cherished possessions.
Because it is a precious thing that money cannot buy.
“Fufu, then I will happily wait for Yoosung-kun’s call.”
After saying that, Maria winked and left the store first, saying she was going to get a car.
“Rika, aren’t you going?”
“Oh, wait a minute.”
When I asked Rika, who was hesitating, if she had something to say, Rika pulled something out of her handbag.
It was a promotional flyer.
“Ryu-chan, you heard that there’s a festival at a nearby shrine this weekend, wouldn’t you like to go there?”
“This weekend?”
“Yeah…can’t it?”
Rika looked up at me with a puzzled expression.
To be honest, these eyes are foul.
This is because it has a magical power that makes it impossible for people to refuse.
So I hesitated and answered honestly.
“Hey, I think it’s going to be difficult because I have a reservation on Saturday.”
Then Rika shrugged and said, perhaps thinking it was an euphemistic refusal.
“Yeah? Then there’s nothing I can do…”
But you have to listen to what people have to say.
“Instead, I have an empty schedule on Sunday, so I’ll hang out with you if you don’t mind.”
Then Rika’s face brightened noticeably.
“really?!”
If Rika had a tail, it would have been swaying with tremendous force.
“Yeah. It’s true.”
“Then at 7pm on Sunday evening! I’ll text you the place to meet!”
Rika smiled as she said that, then glanced back before leaving the store.
“You must come out!”
I smiled bitterly and nodded my head.