## Chapter 237 – Side Story 6 – A Date to Remember With Lumi (1)
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Siyoon successfully completed his dates with the three females and even managed to get them pregnant.
He finished his two sweet days at the Ryokan with Chaeryeong and felt refreshed after enjoying proper healing at the hot springs.
Plus, today was a day he didn’t have to wake up early.
“It feels like it’s been a while since I woke up at this hour.”
Today was the day for his date with Lumi, his fourth female, but Lumi had told him the day before not to wake up early and to sleep in.
“If I wake up late, our date time will be shorter…
Does she have something else in mind?”
With ten females in the hideout right now, they don’t get to have solo dates often, so this opportunity is more important than ever for them.
But Lumi simply asked him to come to a certain place by 11 a.m.
“It’s a little past 10 now… If I wash up and leave right away, I shouldn’t be late.”
Siyoon, who had slept in for the first time in a while, scratched his messy hair, wondering what kind of outfit he should wear to meet her today.
“Fashion… It’s so difficult.”
Inside the hideout, he usually wears just a hoodie or even just his underwear, and when he goes out, he tends to wear casual and light clothing.
He hadn’t been very interested in fashion or clothing even before his life as a combatant, so the most difficult thing for him while preparing for a date is choosing what to wear.
Sometimes, like when he went on a PC cafe date with Jiwoo, everyday clothes might be better, but otherwise, he has to put in a lot more effort than usual.
He had asked the females for advice to some extent, but he still finds it difficult to know what looks better or worse.
Fortunately, he has a great physique as a clothes hanger.
Thanks to his relatively tall height of 184cm and his muscular build, Siyoon has the advantage of looking pretty good in most clothes.
“Something not too flashy and clean would be good, right…?”
Siyoon puts on a light gray sweater that goes up to his neck over black slacks, and a black duffel coat that goes down to his waist.
After putting on all his clothes and putting the necessary items for going out in his pockets, he stops in front of the mirror for a moment and slickly sweeps back his hair that looks crooked.
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A few minutes before 11 a.m., the time for his date with Lumi, Siyoon arrived at the bubble tea shop in front of the downtown area of S City.
“It’s been a while since I’ve been in this neighborhood. My old hideout was close to here.”
This street is near the Hero Alliance headquarters, so the commercial district is very active, and it’s also very close to the building where he first set up the organization’s hideout.
And it’s also a meaningful place where he first met Lumi and enjoyed a date.
“Master…!”
As he was immersed in the memories of his first date and the hideout, Lumi waved her hand cheerfully from the crosswalk across the street and quickly walked towards him.
“Have you been waiting long…?”
Lumi came out wearing black pants that accentuated her leg line, a white sweater that looked very cozy and warm, and a thick padded coat of the same color as the sweater.
“Huh? I just got here and was looking around.
It’s been a while since I’ve been to this street… It feels a bit different.”
Siyoon stared at Lumi for a moment, then blinked and replied that he hadn’t been there long either.
“By the way… Is it okay to meet separately like this without coming together in the morning?
Everyone said they didn’t want to waste time… and wanted to be together from the morning.”
Lumi smiled kindly at Siyoon’s question and explained why she had asked to meet separately.
“I wanted to have a date like we used to.
I wanted to feel the excitement of meeting by setting a time and place.”
When Siyoon rescued Lumi, who was struggling against the Executioner at the highway rest stop, and the two of them met several times and went on dates.
Lumi wanted to feel that feeling of spending precious time outside like lovers, in her date with him now.
“Then… shall we go eat now?”
“Shall we? I was getting hungry.
I slept in late today and didn’t eat breakfast.”
Lumi took Siyoon’s hand tightly and slowly walked down the street, heading to the place she had thought of in advance.
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“Here it is. The place where Master and I first met and ate.”
The place where Lumi led Siyoon was none other than a Japanese restaurant near the headquarters.
It was the place where Siyoon and Lumi first met and ate at the headquarters, and it was a place that the two of them could never forget, even if it was just an ordinary restaurant.
“I remember. Lumi was very shy back then… and couldn’t look at me.”
“Th-that’s…! Th-that’s right…”
At the time, Lumi hadn’t fully admitted that she had fallen for Siyoon, but her heart fluttered whenever she saw his face, and she couldn’t even speak properly.
Lumi’s tone, which was always businesslike and cold to everyone, also changed to be soft and kind like a girl in love in front of him.
Of course, even now, Lumi’s face turns red when she looks at Siyoon’s face properly, and she always makes Siyoon feel good with her kind and affectionate words.
“The first thing we ate together was a pork cutlet cold udon set…
But I guess cold udon is a bit much in winter, right?”
Usually, cold udon is a seasonal menu sold under hot weather. It’s hard to eat in mid-February when it’s still cold enough for snow to fall occasionally.
“I looked it up… and they said the nabe dishes are delicious here.
They said it’s a new menu that came out a few months ago.”
As if she had researched something on the internet, Lumi manipulated the kiosk screen on the table and showed him a soup dish that looked like it would warm him up just by looking at it.
“A nabe dish with chicken… Sounds good because it’ll be warm.”
When Siyoon nodded, saying that he liked the nabe dish with chicken, Lumi smiled and added it to the order list and pressed the payment button.
“Ah! I was going to buy it for you…?”
Then, she took out her card from her wallet and inserted it into the card reader on the side of the kiosk, paying for what Siyoon would eat as well.
“You bought me food last time we came…
So I really wanted to buy you food this time.”
Lumi remembered exactly that Siyoon had bought her food when they first met, and it seemed that she wanted to buy him food this time.
“Then instead… I’ll definitely buy you coffee or dessert.”
Siyoon was disappointed, but he understood Lumi’s heart, so he insisted that he would buy coffee or cake instead of buying food.
Perhaps because Siyoon’s appearance felt a bit cute for some reason, Lumi gazed at him with affectionate eyes as he handed her a cup of water.
“Ah! That’s right. How is Luna doing these days?”
Luna, Lumi’s sister, who had been discharged from the hospital before the Lunar New Year and came to Siyoon’s hideout.
Luna, like her younger sister, had mixed her body with him and wished to become his female along with her sister.
Since then, she occasionally comes to the hideout to have meals with the other slaves, and she often spends time with Siyoon, maintaining a good relationship.
However, she hadn’t come to the hideout for a week since the Lunar New Year, so Siyoon had been wondering if something had happened to Luna.
“My sister is in Japan for a while, living with our parents.
My father retired a few years ago… and went to my mother’s hometown.”
The father who gave birth to and raised the two sisters, Lumi and Luna, is Korean, but her mother is Japanese with Russian blood.
After her father retired when Lumi was actively working as a hero, the two of them moved to Japan together and lived there.
Luna heard the news from Lumi and devoted herself to recovery until her body got better, and after the Lunar New Year, she took a plane to Japan to see her parents for a while.
“They must have been very happy. Was it okay for you not to go with them, Lumi?”
Since their daughter, who they thought was dead, had returned, her parents would be overjoyed.
“My parents had to stay in Korea for about a month a few months ago,
So I visited them several times then.”
“I see. You usually contact them often anyway.”
“The food is here!”
While the two were talking about Luna and her parents who had gone to Japan, an employee appeared with a large hot pot full of broth and chicken.
“It’s freshly boiled, so you can eat it right away.
Dip it in the raw egg yolk here and eat it.”
The employee placed two small bowls with raw yolks on the table and returned to the kitchen with a kind greeting to enjoy the meal.
“Then… I’ll enjoy the meal.”
“Yes!”
Siyoon and Lumi slurped the steaming broth and began to eat in earnest, eating the softly cooked chicken and vegetables.
