279 – End of Year Party
Overtime overtime overtime.
The morning of Christmas day could be summarized like that.
As if it had been planned in advance, when one person finished, the next person seduced him, and after he went over to it and performed a bout of action, another person who saw it clung to him, asking him to do it too.
Thanks to that, it was around 3:00, well past lunch, when we checked out of the hotel.
“…My back hurts so much.”
“…I agree.”
Sasha and Karen, who had their first experience last night, complained of pain due to the reaction of excessive full-body exercise, and the chairman and Rika, who were experienced but lacking in stamina than the previous two, were knocked down and left the hotel lounge using my body as a support. .
Since I was the only one who was fine, I thought I could understand why everyone treated me badly like a boss raid.
Today is the first time I’ve been doing it for this long, but I think it’s because it was energy beyond common sense.
Wheein!
The automatic door opens, and when you step outside, a cold wind unique to winter hits your face.
The strong wind makes me frown without even realizing it.
Because of the heavy snow that fell last night, everything in the field of view was dyed white.
“Then what do you want to do now?”
As I said that, I looked back and the chairman answered first.
“I’ve already called for tea. I’m going to go home and get some rest today.”
Next is Sasha.
“Boris decided to pick me up too.”
Karen was next to him.
“I’m going to get this guy’s car for a ride.”
Finally, Rika rubbed her eyes with a sleepy expression and spoke.
“I’m going to go home today and get a good night’s sleep.”
With that being said, we waited in front of the hotel for a while before dispersing in the cars we each picked up.
“Then let’s go back now.”
“Yes. Good.”
Of the five people gathered at the hotel, Rika and I were the only ones taking the subway home, so we headed straight to the nearby subway station.
***
While waiting at the platform for the train to come, I asked Rika, who was sitting next to her.
“When did you start planning that?”
“Why is that all of a sudden?”
“Honestly, I’m curious.”
It was a harem plan without me, the person in charge.
If I had turned down this special relationship, everyone else involved in this plan except for the president would have been in a situation like a dog chasing a chicken.
And after hearing my answer, Rika smiled faintly.
“To put it bluntly, it didn’t really matter if this plan would succeed or fail. At first, I just participated with the feeling of trying to catch a straw.”
But it worked, and now I’m satisfied because I can be by your side.
Rika said that in her calm voice as she fidgeted with the bracelet I gave you yesterday.
Looking at Rika like that, I quietly grabbed the hand of the girl sitting next to her.
“?”
Then Rika looked at me with a surprised face.
I looked straight into Rika’s eyes and said.
“I’ll make sure you never regret that choice.”
I am a woman who chose the thorny path of harem to be with me, who is nothing short of proud.
Can a man not take responsibility for such a woman?
It is a special relationship in many ways, but I decided to love other lovers as much as the president.
Because that’s the best I can do.
And I don’t know if my sincerity was conveyed like this, but Rika looked down at the hand I was holding, and then said to me with her face that I couldn’t tell if she was laughing or crying.
“Thank you, Ryu-chan.”
I quietly held Rika in my arms without saying anything.
***
A memorable Christmas in many ways has passed, and there are only a few days left until the New Year.
“Yoo Seong-ah, can you clear the table for guests?”
“Yes.”
Instead of my mother, who was busy working in the kitchen, I cleaned the table where traces of customers were left, and watched the news that was in the middle of the broadcast.
“With the end of the year approaching, a new bill announced by the Liberal Democratic Party this morning is a hot topic. According to officials… 」
“Ah! It’s the end of the world. The end of the world. The bill to legalize bigamy all of a sudden just because the birth rate is getting lower and lower.”
“If you do something like that, wouldn’t it be good for those who have it anyway? Shouldn’t it be time to legalize bigamy, and at least add a policy to encourage childbirth?”
The shop regulars who watch the news and gossip about politicians.
However, I couldn’t help but laugh bitterly because I knew the reason and background of the bill being brought before the National Assembly.
‘I need to know the president’s driving force.’
Despite the fact that he must have spent a lot of money lobbying the political and business world, the chairman never once complained to me while handling all of the work.
Should we say that this is truly an example of a wise mother and wife?
“Yoo Seong-ah, would you like to put it down and go to the supermarket for a while? I just ran out of eggs.”
“Okay. Do you need anything else besides eggs?”
“Um, buy me a bunch of green onion and red pepper paste. The rest is my pocket money.”
“Yes.”
After receiving the 10,000-yen bill that Ms. Lee Mi-ja took out of her wallet, I came out of her store humming as she said it was unexpected pocket money.
The destination is a Korean mart in an arcade near the store.
Hanging the shopping cart on his favorite Ttareungyi, he started to pedal lightly.
“Ah! It’s Ryu! Hi!”
“Wow! Dita is the big brother!”
When the local kids playing at the nearby playground recognized me and waved at me, I reciprocated with a trick that shifted my center of gravity back and lifted the front wheel slightly, then started riding my bike normally again.
5 Minutes by bicycle like that.
Arriving at the arcade mall, I parked my bicycle in front of a Korean mart, then went inside with my shopping cart.
“Oh. Welcome back. Yooseong-ah.”
“Hello Mister.”
In Kim Yoo-seong’s old memories, he is a man who has been doing business in this place for over 10 years, and is no different from the old man of the arcade shopping district.
Maybe it’s because they know me when I was in middle school, and even now sometimes they say that I can’t adapt, but I’m grateful because I’m one of the few people who give me an unbiased look.
“What did you buy today?”
“They said the store ran out of eggs. They told me to buy a bunch of green onions and gochujang as well.”
Nowadays, it’s not difficult to find Korean products even if you go to a regular mart, but if you want to buy a large-capacity version of an authentic Korean product like gochujang, it’s faster to go to a Korean mart.
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Since we have come so many times, I looked around the mart, where I can now walk around with my eyes closed, and put the things my mother ordered into my shopping cart.
After shopping like that, when I went to the checkout counter to checkout, the boss who was taking a barcode on the POS machine said “Oops” And pulled out something from under the counter.
“What is this?”
“You don’t know when you look at it. It’s middle-of-the-road.”
“No, I don’t know why they gave it all of a sudden.”
“It’s New Years soon. Instead of toshikoshi soba, eat banquet noodles.”
“…Thank you.”
It’s free, so there’s no reason not to take it, so let’s give it to Ms. Lee Mi-ja.
After paying the bill, I was about to leave the store, but the owner asked me.
“Come to think of it, the lady who worked at the store the other day is doing well these days. I don’t think the two of you are in a normal relationship.”
“Are you Kumiko-senpai?”
“Oh, is that girl’s name Kumiko?”
“Yes. I use the same Chinese characters as my mother.”
“Her face is also pretty, but she’s good at it.”
A man with a smirk as he said that.
It was pointless, but I answered with a smile.
“Senior and I are already dating.”
“What?!”
“Then I’ll go.”
“Sleep! Yoosung! Let go of the rumors!”
The owner, his eyes wide open, hurriedly called my name, but I pretended not to hear and left the store.
***
I returned to the store after running errands, said that I would take a short break since peak hours had passed, and then went upstairs to the house.
And while I was doing dumbbell curls using my free time, a message came up in a group chat room with only close friends.
「How about we have a year-end party?」
It was Satoru’s proposal to spend Christmas with her family again this year.
「Suddenly? You didn’t make any store reservations or anything like that.”
There was no doubt that it would take a lot of effort to find a store to make a reservation with.
When I pointed this out, Satoru hesitated for a moment before coming up with another solution.
「Then how is your store? I’ll tell my mother well and I’m going to close the store for just one day.”
「Are you crazy? Even if you just increase the reservations you have already received, it will be full, right?”
I firmly refused the offer, but Satoru continued to make a fuss about the year-end party, as if he still couldn’t let go of his lingering feelings.
It was so ugly that just as I was about to say something, Karen suddenly interrupted the conversation.
「If that’s the case, what about our house?」
「What? Your house?」
「If I tell my mother, I think we can borrow at least one of the banquet halls at home.」
「Do you have a banquet hall at home? Karen, is your family really rich?”
「It’s just that the house is a bit bigger than the others.」
I don’t know if the old samurai mansion, which seemed to easily exceed thousands of pyeong, would end up with something a little bigger, but Satoru’s proposal itself wasn’t bad.
There is no doubt that it is more rewarding to have a year-end party with close friends than to spend the end of the year boringly at home.
The year-end schedule was decided on the spot.
We decided to have a year-end party at Karen’s house on December 30th.
Why the 30th, not the 31st?
But shouldn’t we spend the last day of the year with our family?