Chapter 111 – #111. Exploration
[Hello readers! It is midwinter.]
[Finally, the long-awaited work by Cporia. Song Han-byul is complete!]
[I hope you will love her a lot from now on.]
[Thank you.]
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“Is this enough?”
I looked up and asked Naeun.
An unusually short announcement.
I always put a long rhetoric whenever Naeun’s new illustration came out.
I used to say that the picture is so pretty, which is my taste, and this point is like a dog, but this notice was very plain for what I wrote.
“Hmm~”
Naeun looks at the screen with her arms folded and her eyes wide open.
No. Hey. Humanly, this is fine.
“I don’t like the exclamation mark…”
I hit the backspace key once to erase the exclamation mark.
“…It’s okay?”
“Yes. I think that should be enough.”
Hey. If you reduce it further, doesn’t it just mean nothing?
“Brother. You know when my illustration is uploaded instead, right?”
My girlfriend putting pressure on me with her big eyes.
“Is it possible?”
Apparently, I had to write more than 1,000 words for Hannah Hannah’s elegy.
After Na-Eun returned to her home, she called her home every day.
Of course, it wasn’t just that we met and chatted and played together.
Naeun has been working like crazy for the past few days to see if she still harbors resentment for the fact that I commissioned another illustrator.
I had no choice but to stick out my tongue at the unprecedentedly rapid progress.
How sincere are you?
It was the first time that colored roughbones came out so quickly.
I’ll do it at this speed normally… The words almost came up to my throat, but I decided to quit because I had a hunch that something would hit me in the head.
On the other hand, while I was writing, I also started looking for a house to look for a new house to move to by accessing online real estate sites.
In fact, it was still very late.
The house contract is until the end of January, but now it is January 17th.
It was true that he had asked the landlord for his understanding, but he had to seek it quickly.
I wanted to live in a place with plenty of work space because it was okay not to be in Huin-dong, where I live now.
“Brother. What are you doing?”
She, who had been looking at her tablet as if her eyes would fall out just a moment ago, put her hand on my shoulder.
“Looking at the house.”
“Let’s do it where the light is good. We don’t even go outside often.”
“But Naeun-ah, it’s nice to find a house together, but do your parents know?”
Silence flows.
There was no answer, so I raised my head and looked up, and there was Eun-yi, who was sticking out her mouth.
“No. Why are you doing that?”
“Keep pushing me away.”
“When did I.”
Feeling like I was misunderstanding again, I set out to extinguish the fire in advance.
“Aren’t you trying to avoid living with me by making excuses for this?”
“Hey. For that kind of thing, I’m only searching for two rooms or more right now?”
It was the same in my birthday letters and when I heard them talking back and forth.
Of course, from my point of view, there was no reason to refuse.
Rent, of course, gets cheaper the more people there are, and if your roommate is a cute girlfriend, who wouldn’t like it?
“Is it so?”
Naeun puts her arms around my neck as if the misunderstanding has been cleared up a bit.
“But oppa, the traffic here is so bad. Have you seen any other houses?”
I showed Naeun a list of houses I had my eye on to see again.
“Hmm… This place is new and pretty, but too expensive.”
“There’s no elevator here, but it’s on the 5th floor. Wow… I can’t go. Oppa doesn’t like it either.”
“This is… Not bad. How is it here?”
What she showed me was a private house located in a neighborhood not too far from the school.
“I put them on the list because I think they’re basically not bad once I’ve picked them out.”
“How much? Can you afford it?”
One hundred and fifty million…
“How far can you go?”
In fact, it was not necessary to finance all the charter price with only pure cash.
“I… One… Four thousand…?”
She looks at me
Is this what I mean to carry?
Looking at me with slightly expectant eyes seemed to tell me to say yes quickly.
Cute.
It was said that a little more than 100 million won was needed, but honestly, that much was possible for me.
There was no need to take out a loan.
Her sales of [I Imprisoned Her] Brought me more than enough income.
“Now then, shall we go and see for ourselves?”
“Great!”
Naeun stopped working on the illustration and just brought a chair and sat next to me, as if she had fallen in love with looking at the house.
Naeun eagerly tells me which house she prefers.
For those who don’t major in architecture, the conversation between the two of us was more in-depth than that of non-major students.
“Ugh… The floor height here is too high…”
“Right. Don’t you think the cooperation isn’t very good?”
“Ah. I don’t think this will cost a lot of heating bills. Pass pass.”
Clap.
Naeun quickly moved on to the next one.
“Oh my gosh… This house couldn’t avoid the sunlight.”
One side of the building in the photo was cut straight, as if the Murim master had lowered his sword diagonally.
“Well. You know there are many buildings like that in Seoul.”
“Still, every time I see that, something is a little like that.”
The city of Seoul was more dynamic and attractive than I thought, but it was also a bizarre city.
After picking and choosing from three candidates, we called the real estate agent.
[Yes… Ah… I see… Yes yes. Then please contact me again.]
“What do you say?”
Naeun asked me while sitting on a chair and shaking her feet.
“I’ll contact the landlord and get back to you.”
“Then let’s go eat lunch.”
“So what?”
The two of us, dressed in our clothes, came out into the street holding hands.
Still, Naeun’s house was much closer to the main street than our neighborhood, so there was quite a lot of food.
Is it because the house I live in is a motel village?
It was specialized in delivery rather than a typical restaurant.
Since it was lunch, Naeun suggested that we go to a Korean restaurant.
I followed her instructions and opened the door.
“Welcome~”
A friendly voice greets us.
“My aunt! Two of our meals!”
“Yes~”
As if Naeun was a regular, she whipped it away without even looking at the menu.
“Do you come often?”
“Hmm… I think I usually come here on days when I’m too lazy to cook at home.”
Before long, colorful herbs began to occupy the table.
“Whoa… What is this all about?”
“There are so many side dishes, right? It doesn’t make sense to pay 5,000 won for all of this?”
After waiting a little longer, stir-fried squid appeared as the main dish of the day.
The steam rising from the bright red sauce was very mouth-watering.
“Eat. I live.”
“Yes. I’ll eat well.”
After that, we barely spoke, just doing spoon and chopstick exercises.
Ah. It’s fucking delicious.
Naeun seemed to know a lot about her restaurants, considering that she is good at cooking.
Weiying.
After finishing the meal to some extent, I got a call from the real estate agent I had been in contact with a while ago.
[Yes. Lee Min-ho Mr. I spoke with the landlord, could you come and see me today?]
[Ah. Today?]
I asked Naeun while putting my phone away for a while.
“Can I visit your house today?”
Naeun pursed her lips and nodded twice.
[Ah. Yes yes. What time can I go?]
[If you come to the office by 4:00, I will guide you right away.]
[Yes. All right. Thank you.]
“Do you think it will come today?”
“I guess so. It’s fast.”
“Ask if you can see it somewhere other than there. Text me now.”
“Is that so?”
“It’s a pity to come and see only one house.”
Once I sent a text message as Naeun said, I emptied the rice bowl.
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We got a call saying there was another good house available, so we arrived at the property at 3:00, an hour earlier than scheduled.
“Ah. Yes. Lee Min-ho. Nice to meet you.”
A warm-looking man shook my hand and explained the characteristics of each house.
First of all, the first house we saw was different from the one we looked at online, but after hearing the explanation, the price was good and the location wasn’t bad, so we decided to visit it together.
“Yes. Here.”
It wasn’t an officetel class, but it was a new villa, so the interior was quite clean.
“It was built not that long ago, so the basic options are okay, and the price is very good.”
“That’s right. It’s good… That’s right. Brother.”
Naeun, who poked her head toward the bathroom, asked for my consent.
“I see. First of all, I think it’s good because it’s wide.”
“But in the case of this house, the reason I haven’t left yet…”
A licensed real estate agent with a slight tongue twister.
Instinctively sensing that something was wrong, we pricked up our ears.
“Because one of the rooms has almost no windows.”
…No windows in the room? Can you?
Quite a few gosiwons have at least one small window, but I can’t believe that there isn’t one.
At the slightly absurd remark, I turned the doorknob in the rest of the rooms except for the one I had already looked at.
Omg.
Only one window the size of half of the real computer body was attached to the wall, and the rest was close to a perfect closed room.
It’s ridiculous.
Laughter came out.
Some bastard designed it.
“Ah… This… I heard that there was a little mistake during the construction at first.
When I made a ridiculous expression, the man gave an explanation with an embarrassed face.
“Still, it’s easy to store and has good soundproofing, so it seems like it’s up to you to use it, so consider it.”
Child… Get out.
There are two rooms, but one is a secret room.
I thought the house I knew would be better.
“…Brother.”
Naeun grabbed my wrist.
“Do you want to sign a contract here?”
…Why is your face red? Naeun.
