304 – EP.11 The Troubles of Buying-2
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“After listening to what the man said, it wasn’t even a relationship.”
Every time he talked about the details of their relationship, Kim Seong-ah asserted.
“It wasn’t a romance?”
Kang In-ho, whose eyes widened in shock, saw his housemate with a triumphant face.
“Of course. It’s not a relationship or anything.”
A face that is clearly steamed. Kang In-ho tilted his head.
“Why isn’t it some?”
“What, are you disappointed?”
Kim Seong-ah narrowed her eyes at the sight of him picking up the pieces.
“No, it was a disappointment, but I thought it was a good relationship.”
“Okay. Then, I’ll explain it to you one by one.”
She raised her head, crossing her arms. It also feels somewhat solemn.
It looks like a noble fighter resisting foreign forces.
“My boss at work. We watched movies together and held hands.”
Kang In-ho mentions his first case.
“Well, if you’re a close male friend, you can have something like that?! If more time had passed, we could have called it a romance… But at that stage….”
“What is that level?”
I receive strangely blurred comments from her.
“Slowly getting to know each other?”
“Isn’t that some?”
“No, it’s clearly different. It’s like the difference between an ant and an anteater.”
“I see… Then next. Fitness trainer.”
“It’s just an employment relationship. When I heard about it, I heard that the health trainer was persistent in contacting me. Aren’t you mistaken?”
‘It’s persistent contact, but….’
Kang In-ho stroked her chin with her hand. The feel of her scraggly beard spread across her palm.
“I see…”
“That’s it.”
Seongah Kim shrugged her shoulders. And she sang her second joy inwardly.
Every time she denied his touch one by one, vitality seemed to return to her body.
“Hmm… What else was there? A housekeeper?”
“It’s similar to a health trainer. It’s an employment relationship. Of course, you’ll be nice to him. There are a lot of men who confuse business kindness with goodwill. Be careful, too.”
“I’ve heard that before.”
He recalled the real guest list he had heard somewhere.
“Tutor teacher….”
“Yes~ employment relationship.”
She waved her hand as if there was nothing more to hear.
“…Same class in high school.”
“What, did you go to coeducational school?”
“You can say so.”
Originally, it was a boys’ school in the world. He swallowed his sorrow.
“How far did it go?”
Gulp, she swallowed her saliva.
“I didn’t do anything special. I went to a cafe. I also went to a karaoke bar.”
She seemed to feel dispirited by his subsequent answer and leaned back against the backrest as hard as she could.
“What… That’s just being friends. Uncle, didn’t you confess? If you did, you would have been embarrassed.”
Kim Seong-ah wrinkled her face as much as possible, cutting off her potential.
“There’s nothing more, right?”
She looked at him with a look of longing, as if she wanted it to be the end.
“No, there’s still more.”
He didn’t pay any attention to those signals.
“There are more? How many people are left?”
Seongah Kim raised her voice.
“Two people first?”
“There should be a lot.”
Kim Seong-ah muttered as if she were dissatisfied.
He slowly traced his memories and brought out memories of the two people.
Kim Seong-ah, who listened to him for a long time, slowly opened her mouth with a stern expression on her face.
“Neither of you are dating.”
“It’s not like that.”
“Yes, I give in 100 times. A person called a teacher is considered a seom. But a nun is not.”
“Why?”
“You’re a nun!”
Kim Seong-ah got up and started fuming. She then turned around and headed to the second floor.
Her footsteps pounded loudly as she climbed the stairs.
“Hey, where are you going?”
At his call, grabbing her back, Kim Seong-ah turned her head.
Her eyes turned venomous and glared at him.
“Let’s go study!”
A sharp voice hit his face.
It was only after hearing the sound of footsteps getting farther away and the door opening and closing violently that he realized his mistake.
“Ah… He said he was interested in me.”
I got so fired up for no reason that I said all this and that. He stood up, scratching his head with his hand.
He puts his apron back on and heads to the sink.
Strangely enough, he even hums when doing household chores that he has become accustomed to.
“What, why do I feel bad?”
Even while he was wiping the dishwashing detergent, he couldn’t find the reason.
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I don’t know if she really studied, but Kim Seong-ah was quiet as if she had gone back to her room.
He stood still in front of the room and listened, wondering if he was lying down and watching YouTube again, but he couldn’t hear anything else going on.
“Now that I think about it, you look strangely in bad condition. Should I make you some health food?”
He recalled her hesitant gait.
“Let’s see the ingredients….”
He went back to the refrigerator, measured the remaining ingredients, and prepared to go out, thinking it wouldn’t be a problem.
Kang In-ho took the card and cell phone he received from Kim Seong-ah and headed to the mart.
On his way back from the supermarket, he looked around.
I felt a strange gaze.
“What is it?”
He took out his cell phone and looked at the news.
It seemed like there was nothing special about it. He confirmed that both yesterday’s commotion and his own identity had been erased by magic.
Nevertheless, he had an eerie feeling that he was being watched from somewhere.
“There will be no eyewitnesses.”
He was the one who confirmed the disappearance of both the Four Heavenly Kings.
He closed his eyes and expanded his senses. I tried to find out where this unpleasant gaze started.
“…!!”
Perhaps he noticed that his senses were broadening, and the watching gaze disappeared in an instant.
“I’m reluctant.”
It was a look too obvious to be dismissed as an illusion.
He deliberately walked around the street, disrupting his movements, and then returned home.
After passing through several alleys and secretly climbing over several walls, he wiped away the sweat that had formed and placed the books on the table.
‘I’ll have to catch me and search around.’
Ever since he announced that he would take over the magical girl’s job, he had no intention of doing it in vain.
I was planning to see it through to the end.
“By the way, is he still studying?”
I felt strangely proud because I felt like I was studying with my own mind.
“I’ll just have snacks for lunch and chicken stew for dinner.”
He headed to the second floor with snacks he bought at the supermarket.
– Knock knock
“Eat a snack and do it.”
I knocked lightly on the door, but there was no answer from inside.
“Seong-ya.”
When he opened the door, he saw the workbook spread out chaotically on the desk.
It was clearly a sign of studying.
But Seongah Kim was not in front of the desk.
“You must be sleepy.”
I saw her sleeping in her bed instead of at her desk.
Then she was startled and looked around.
‘I’ve changed a bit too.’
He thought of the things he usually did at work and smiled self-deprecatingly.
He walked to the side of the bed, gently placed his hand on her body and shook it.
“Eat a snack. Are you hungry?”
“Uhm….”
Perhaps she was in deep sleep, Kim Seong-ah reacted immediately.
Kim Seong-ah stood up with her messy hair and half-open eyes, staring intently at the face of Kang In-ho, who was in front of her before she knew it.
“What did you say…?”
Her voice was hazy, as if she was half asleep.
“Have a snack. I guess you were tired from studying.”
“…I’m a little sleepy.”
“When I get angry, I fall asleep quickly.”
When she screamed and reminded her that she had gone up to the second floor, Kim Seong-ah conveyed her feelings by writing her impressions even while fighting her drowsiness.
“Let’s have a snack. Come to the kitchen.”
She said that and was about to leave her room.
“Mister.”
She catches him.
“Huh?”
Seongah Kim slowly opened her arms.
“Please wake me up.”