Chapter 60 – Episode 60 – My Girlfriend Is Sujeong?! (5)
The meal continued in a warm atmosphere.
Delicious dishes came out one after another, and Sujeong’s father and mother asked us various questions.
Of course, they weren’t stiff questions.
Sujeong’s mother, with a face that looked like she was dying of curiosity, bombarded us with questions like who confessed first and how far we had progressed.
Her father quietly ate his meal, but when the question about how far we had progressed came up, he perked up his ears.
But before Sujeong could answer, she looked at me and her face turned bright red, so her mother hurriedly canceled the question.
“It was really delicious.”
“Thank you for the meal~.”
“Okay. It’s good to see you eating well. Sujeong ate a lot this time too, didn’t she?”
“Yeah. This course is good.”
Sujeong and her mother left some food, but her father and I finished everything without leaving much behind.
It wasn’t as much as Delia, but after learning magic and increasing my physical stats, it seemed like I could eat quite a lot more.
Her father seemed to eat well, as expected of his physique.
Hmm. If we get close, he seems like the type who would ask me to go to the gym together.
“Then let’s get up.”
We went out to the lobby, and her father took out his wallet.
A total of 685,000 won.
It was a price that was hard to imagine for a meal for four people, but her father paid without batting an eye.
We went to the bathroom before getting in the car.
‘I should register them now.’
I thought it was a good opportunity, so I ran the Heroine app on my phone.
Sujeong’s father and mother both seemed like good people.
In her father’s case, he exuded a feeling of being rich from his actions.
In the first place, their house was good and they had many cars. In the future, when I do something, if I get close to her father, I might be able to get help or advice.
‘Maybe even get support.’
Right now, I’m only seen as Sujeong’s boyfriend, but if I raise my favorability and he sees me as a reliable son-in-law, he might help me a lot.
‘I wonder what his job is.’
I went to the character registration menu.
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[ Heroine App – Registration – Character Registration ]
◆ Registered Characters: 0
◆ Would you like to register a character?
( Yes / No )
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I pressed the ‘Yes’ button and searched for her father’s name. There were quite a few people with the same name, but I was able to confirm the character through my ‘affinity’ with him.
[ Would you like to register the character, ‘Kang Jeong-hun’, in the ‘Character Registration’ submenu? ]
[ ( Yes / No ) ]
Of course, yes.
[ The character, ‘Kang Jeong-hun’, has been registered in the ‘Character Registration’ submenu. ]
[ 1000 coins will be deducted as a consumption value. (Remaining coins: 3914) ]
[ From now on, you can view and modify the information of the character, ‘Kang Jeong-hun’. ]
I then registered Sujeong’s mother in the character registration submenu.
I was able to find out her mother’s name by asking Sujeong.
I opened her father’s character information.
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＊ Character Information, ‘Kang Jeong-hun’ ＊
◆ Basic Information
– [ Name: Kang Jeong-hun ]
– [ Age, Gender: 51, Male ]
– [ Disposition: Neutral, Strong, Responsible, Hardworking, Opportunist ]
– [ Occupation: Landlord, CEO of Brunn, CEO of Roen PC ]
◆ Special Information
– [ Overall Rating: Grade 7 ]
◆ Basic Stats Information
– [ Basic Physical Ability Rating: 46.5 ] [+]
– [ Basic Mental Ability Rating: 58.875 ] [+]
◆ Specialized Stats Information: No unlocked specialized stats
◆ Current Status
– [ Favorability: 34 ]
– [ Trust: 32 ]
– [ Affinity: 31 ]
– [ Lust: 21 ] [ Appetite: 16 ] [ Fatigue: 35 ]
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‘Wow.’
He has three jobs. In addition to the rental business, her father seemed to be doing two more things.
‘So that’s why he’s rich?’
I didn’t know exactly what he did, but I thought I could find out by asking Sujeong or searching online.
His grade was 7.
Seeing that I could register him even though he had a higher grade than me, it seemed that character registration was possible regardless of grade, unlike the Heroine settings.
‘His stats are high too.’
Her father’s physical stats were also quite high, as expected of his physique. In particular, his mental stats immediately caught my eye.
It would be reassuring to have him as an ally.
Just the fact that he was Sujeong’s father was enough to raise his favorability and trust, but he also seemed to have a lot of connections in addition to his business, so it would definitely be beneficial to get close to him.
‘By the way, his favorability is quite high at 34 from the start.’
I didn’t think I had done anything special, so it was strange.
Maybe it’s because my charm and charisma stats are high?
Maybe my declaration of loving Sujeong worked well.
[ Would you like to sponsor coins to the character, ‘Kang Jeong-hun’, to increase his current status, ‘Favorability’? ]
[ Favorability stat change: 34 -〉 35 ]
[ Coin change: 2914 -〉 2874 ]
[ ( Yes / No ) ]
Yes.
[ Congratulations! The favorability of the character, ‘Kang Jeong-hun’, has increased to ’50’. ]
[ Congratulations! The trust of the character, ‘Kang Jeong-hun’, has increased to ’40’. ]
I set her father’s favorability and trust to 50 and 40, respectively.
I wanted to raise them higher if I could, but honestly, I didn’t have that many coins to spare.
[ Congratulations! The favorability of the character, ‘Min Seong-ah’, has increased to ’50’. ]
[ Congratulations! The trust of the character, ‘Min Seong-ah’, has increased to ’40’. ]
I matched her mother’s favorability and trust to be the same as her father’s.
Her mother also had favorability and trust in the 30s from the beginning, so fortunately, I didn’t run out of coins.
After finishing the favorability work with the Heroine app, I got into Sujeong’s car.
Her father asked before starting the car.
“Come to think of it, what are you planning to do today?”
Perhaps it was the effect of the increased favorability, but her father’s voice sounded quite comfortable when he spoke to me.
“Sujeong is staying at home tonight, but if there’s anywhere you need to go, I’ll take you.”
“Jinhyun should stay at our house too, of course!”
“Still, you might have plans… Ah, did you talk to Sujeong beforehand about sleeping over?”
I nodded.
“Yes, I did, but if my presence is a hindrance since you have family time, I’ll leave.”
“Haha. What’s the hindrance? Sujeong brought you here after a long time, so you should stay over too.”
I smiled at his willing permission.
“Thank you.”
We didn’t go straight home.
It seemed that the family’s rule was to take a walk after a meal and then have dessert at a cafe. We took a walk in a nearby park with a lake and then ordered expensive desserts at a cafe.
While walking around the lake, Sujeong held my arm the whole time. Her father and mother looked at us with a pleased expression.
I could feel the increased favorability from their eyes.
‘As expected, it’s quite high even at 50.’
I don’t know the exact scale of favorability, but roughly, single digits are for assholes, people you hate.
The early teens are for people you don’t really think about.
From the late teens, it starts with being an acquaintance, and by the late 20s, they seem to have a pretty good feeling about you.
When I first suggested going grocery shopping together to Sujeong, her favorability was 30, so there was some basis for it.
“So Jinhyun…”
Chatter chatter.
While eating dessert at the cafe, Sujeong seemed to enjoy talking about me.
We haven’t actually spent much time together, but she seemed to have a lot to say about me, as if she was unpacking a bundle.
Her mother chuckled as she listened to the story.
“How did you hold back from talking about Jinhyun on KakaoTalk all this time?”
“I know, right? I held back to surprise you, but it’s been itching me to death.”
After finishing our conversation at the cafe overlooking the lake, we got back in the car and entered Sujeong’s house.
As soon as Sujeong entered the house, she lay down on the sofa.
“Haaah.”
“Why do you lie down on the sofa as soon as you get home?”
“I’m full…”
“Oh my. I knew it when you ate two pieces of cake by yourself. Rest. Jinhyun, make yourself comfortable too.”
Her mother smiled and went into the room with her father.
Only the two of us were left in the living room. I touched Sujeong’s belly and played with it.
“Ugh. Jinhyun…”
It was a little plump and felt good to the touch.
“Why? Do you not like it?”
Sujeong smiled bashfully.
“No, I like it.”
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“Do you drink, by any chance?”
After dinner, her father asked me. It was true that Sujeong had learned to cook from her mother, as the home-cooked meal was also very delicious.
Alcohol.
I didn’t have any friends, so I didn’t have any reason to go out drinking, but I had been dragged to drink often by an older guy I knew while working at the gas station.
Still, I could drink up to two bottles of soju, so I wasn’t weak.
‘In martial arts novels, they can expel the alcohol with their inner energy.’
Can’t I do that with the Thousand Mile Flame Qi Technique?
I answered for now.
“Yes, I’m not too bad.”
“Then let’s have a drink. I have a lot of good liquor.”
Her father grinned.
