Chapter 40 – 8. Secretly From My Sister (2)
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Ice.
Milk.
Coffee.
Cold prepared milk foam.
Cinnamon powder topping.
Lee Ji-yoon fell into trouble while making the iced cappuccino ordered by Seo Woo-jin.
Why is that man here?
Of course, I know the reason.
During dinner, the person who hinted at her older sister was Lee Ji-yoon herself.
Of course, she didn’t say it directly like, ‘She wants to be treated by her boyfriend again,’ but she did say it a little bit, like, ‘I guess chronic headaches can’t be helped,’ but.. …
Anyway.
Putting all the complexities aside, the bottom line is, it’s good that she can be treated.
After the pain that had been weighing on her head like an orphan for a long time disappeared, it seems like her handling of customers has become softer. For some reason, the game seemed to be getting better.
Moreover, it goes without saying that she felt refreshed when she woke up after a good night’s sleep.
If I were to exaggerate a bit, it felt like the disability on one side of my body was temporarily corrected and then returned to its original state.
“…”
Yes.
It’s all good.
Let’s talk about the ‘complicated stuff’ we just left aside for a moment.
“Uhm…”
My sister’s younger sister,
With my sister’s boyfriend,
Being alone.
… Isn’t that a bit… ?
40
The cappuccino you drink at a cafe has more milk foam than you think.
The mixed coffee I drank recently had cappuccino written on it, so I just ordered that…
If I had known it would be like this, I would have just ordered something like Americano or mocha.
A corner of the cafe.
I was fiddling with the neatly emptied plastic cup and looked at the counter.
Then, the profile of Lee Ji-yoon, who was chatting with an unknown woman – perhaps she was working part-time – came into view.
White hair, quite different from her older sister Lee Ha-yoon.
Her hair, which was long enough to calmly reach her shoulders, was now lightly tied back, unlike last time.
I think it’s probably because I’m working part-time and want to give a clean impression. I don’t know the truth.
I’m not sure what they were talking about, but there was some distance between them and Hwagiae.
Lee Ji-yoon, expressionless without even a faint smile, says something to the other person,
If the other person nodded her head she says something again,
I just returned the conversation with a blank expression.
The last time I stopped by Lee Ha-yoon’s house for a while, she seemed more expressive than I expected. It’s a little disappointing.
The dumbfounded expression he showed when he just ran into me was cuter than I thought.
But I guess I don’t like that.
It’s amazing to see how hard he maintains his poker face.
… What… ,
Personally, I think it would be worse to maintain that attitude.
She was fiddling with her cell phone, thinking it would be over if she waited just a little longer, and soon Jiyoon Lee, with her hair down, came towards us wearing a loose khaki jumper.
Maybe it’s because her head is small,
Or maybe it’s just because it looks pretty,
The black ball cap that is pressed down also goes very well.
“Big, big. Seo Woo-jin.”
“Yes.”
Since they are the same age, it shouldn’t matter if they talk comfortably, but Lee Ji-yoon always uses polite words.
As she smiles softly at her, her expression her her her darkens slightly beneath her ball cap.
… Shouldn’t I have smiled? Let’s just remember it for now.
“Did you come here after hearing my story from your sister?”
“That’s right. You said you were sick again.”
“Ugh… As expected…”
Lee Ji-yoon scratched the back of her neck as if in trouble, looked around her, and then flopped down on the chair across from the table.
At the same time, the gaze of the female part-time worker who was secretly looking towards us, Jiyoon Lee, became a little more explicit.
It seems that there is quite an interest in Lee Ji-yoon’s private life.
Especially in private life involving men.
“…I’m not questioning the treatment you gave me, but I’m truly grateful.”
“Yes. Yes.”
Lee Ji-yoon slightly lifted her ball cap and lowered her voice as if she was telling a secret.
It’s quite nice to hear her calm tone of voice, which is different from her older sister.
“It suddenly started bothering me again since yesterday. … It’s not as bad as before, but it’s enough to be a bit of a concern…?”
“Ah… I’m sorry. I’m not a doctor.”
“Oh, no… You don’t need to apologize to me at all… “
Unlike a doctor who finds the cause and goes through a process to come up with a result, he is a transcendent healer who can fix things on his own with just a simple touch, so he must have made a mistake.
It was said with the meaning of.
Anyway, ordinary people, including Lee Ji-yoon, will have no idea how the treatment progresses.
“I think the treatment was not done properly because it is difficult to find a clear cause for headaches.”
“Cause… ?”
“For example, it may not be because of a disease, but it may be due to lifestyle habits or the environment.”
“Habits… Environment…”
When she said something vaguely plausible, Jiyoon Lee, who was fiddling with the end of her hair, nodded as if she could barely see.
“… Honestly, my sister is a bit noisy. Rather than just being a nuisance, she feels like a bit of a nuisance.”
“Ha-yoon has a bit of that side to her. Like… “A dog that follows people well?”
“I really hate that.”
“Because of the headache?”
“Rather than that, uh… What should I say, she’s doing it with a good heart, but I don’t really need it. It’s annoying, and I just wish she would stop worrying about me…”
“Aha.”
“To be honest, I feel like I’m the only bad person… “
“I kind of know what it is.”
“It’s less so these days, but it was especially bad in high school?”
When we slightly twisted the topic towards Lee Ji-yoon, a story about her her her her old days her came straight out of Lee Ji-yoon’s her mouth her her her, which hit her her her her her her her her her her her her her her her her her her her.
Since her older sister had so many friends and was famous at school, interest naturally poured into Ji-yoon Lee, a high school senior who wanted to stay quiet,
The story is that she was too lazy to accept it, so she ignored it all, and naturally she ended up being ignored by girls.
It was good because it was comfortable, but one day, her older sister noticed that her younger brother was being bullied, and she said it was a special lecture on making friends, and she bothered Lee Ji-yoon for a few days.
… In the midst of Lee Ji-yoon’s complaints,
Information worth taking note of to remember.
“At that time, she was struggling with studying for exams and headaches, and her older sister kept coming into her room and… Ugh… “
One.
Lee Ji-yoon is secretly annoyed by her older sister’s unnecessarily affectionate nature.
In other words, contrary to expectations, their relationship is not that close.
If I don’t have you, I’ll die. This roughly means that this is not the kind of relationship.
Two.
Lee Ji-yoon finds complicated human relationships annoying.
Regardless of gender, whether female or male.
The very fact that she has to worry about others is just annoying.
Three.
“What good is it to have many friends?”
“…”
“It’s especially obvious that men’s purpose is to treat women kindly.”
Maybe.
Lee Ji-yoon suffered something from a man.
If she had been treated badly, she would have had a hard time even talking to me, so it wouldn’t be that bad.
If I were to guess, I think it would be an incident so annoying that I don’t want to mention it.
Maybe the male customers bothered me while I was working part-time.
Or, since she said she likes games, it could be that she is obsessed with women in games.
Umm. Maybe I should be thankful to those guys.
Thanks to this, Lee Ji-yoon remains clean and untainted.
“Maybe he’s just a person steeped in kindness, right?”
“I believe in the theory of evil. There is no kindness without a price.”
“The last time I treated you, I don’t remember receiving anything in particular.”
“…Yeah, that’s true, but…”
A brief complaint containing an old story,
When she returned to talking about her treatment, Lee Ji-yoon, who had been grumbling while resting her chin, cleared her throat loudly.
Still, I think I felt a little more comfortable thanks to talking about it all together.
“…Anyway. Speaking of which, if you want anything from me, please tell me. I’m comfortable with that too.”
“What do you want?”
“Except for the weird stuff. As far as I can listen.”
“… Hmm.”
Sister rice bowl.
I couldn’t say the same thing, so I took a pause.
When I started ‘working’ for a while to get out of my original place and find a place to live alone, I remember that on average, about 200 million won was spent per treatment.
The money left in my bank account now is also the money I saved back then.
I spent a lot of money because I was young, but compared to the cost of the medicine I actually need to use, that amount of money is nothing?
Of course, there are some incurable diseases that cannot be solved with money…
Well, I didn’t really know my worth back then.
Anyway, even if you ask for that amount of compensation, Lee Ji-yoon won’t be willing to give it up…
…
… Ah.
“So, shall we do this?”
“What is it?”
“I think a complete cure will be difficult, and we will probably have to meet like this often.”
“… So?”
“Be my practice partner every time.”
“… ?”
The moment Lee Ji-yoon’s words end, his dark green eyes his turn to me.
With the question of what does it mean to be a practicing partner.
“Practice partner… ?”
“Since you are the younger sister, wouldn’t you know best what Hayun likes?”
“… Ah, yes. Roughly…”
“So, I was wondering if you could come with me and tell me some things that Hayoon would like. Things like her, her favorite food, places she would like, actions she would like, etc.”
“… Uhm… So, do you want me to act as her older sister?”
“It’s similar.”
“… How long does it take?”
“Hmm. 30 minutes? I don’t know if my sister will like it or not, but you can just look at it roughly.”
“If that’s the case, well… Yes, I’ll help you. It’s not a particularly difficult request compared to treating you.”
Did they think this was a cheap price to pay for treatment?
Fortunately, Lee Ji-yoon nods her head without much opposition.
I smiled softly and stood up holding the empty cup.
“Should we just go out and continue talking? It’s probably a bit long for me to treat you here.”
“Then… Ah, there aren’t many people in the alley in front of me, so I stopped by there for a moment… “
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… How about stopping by?
Even though I said that,
I didn’t want it to look like this.
“Are you okay?”
“… It’s okay, so please finish it as quickly as possible…”
As Lee Ji-yoon remembered, there were not many people in the alley.
At most, a few people dragged their slippers out to smoke cigarettes,
And there are only one or two floating people just walking around.
The problem is that there were no people at all.
“…”
“…”
Step by step, the sound of a man’s footsteps can be heard beyond Seo Woo Jin’s body.
Kyaak, kyaak, the sound of people spitting phlegm nervously could be heard nearby, as if they had just seen a shocking scene.
Because of that, I clenched my fists and started shaking…
I soon gave up and lost my strength.
To be honest, there were few options.
1. Go to a place where there is really no one with Seo Woo Jin.
2. Go to a place with few people with Seo Woo Jin.
3. Going to a crowded place with Seo Woo Jin… Excluded from the selection from the beginning.
In other words, what remains are numbers 1 and 2.
In the case of the former, the advantage was that it was okay not to worry about what others thought… ,
… Think about it.
Doesn’t that mean that she and her older sister’s boyfriend should go to such an obscure place?
To put it in an extreme way, home… , Or something like that.
Anyway.
Maybe I was drunk and a fool, but I had no intention of going to that place alone with my sister’s boyfriend.
So the next choice is number 2.
Go to a place where there aren’t enough people.
Fortunately, I wasn’t alone with Seo Woo Jin…
Because it wasn’t just the two of us.
I had some eyes to see.
“I think it will be over in about 10 seconds.”
“…”
Lee Ji-yoon nodded, hugging Seo Woo-jin in his arms.
Of course, I wasn’t pulled and hugged tightly.
Imitate everything.
So, instead of being stroked like a lover in an alley,
She just chose to hide in Seo Woo Jin’s arms so that her face she wouldn’t be seen.
Anyway, both of them look strange, but there is a difference in whether the face is visible or not.
As evidence, the distance between Seo Woo Jin and herself had widened to nearly a span.
In the eyes of others, it looks like a couple’s joke.
The parties…
Not really.
Nothing.
“How are you feeling? Is your head okay now?”
“Yes, yes… Wait a minute, the hat…”
Seo Woo-jin speaks softly after treatment.
Jiyoon Lee quickly walked away from his arms and put on her hat.
If you count all the people nearby, there are only 3 people,
It feels like everyone is watching us.
“Well, it’s over, let’s go. Big, big. You asked me to tell you what you like, right?”
“Yes.”
“What my sister likes… What my sister likes…”
As I quickly made my way out of the alley, I thought about things about my sister.
… By the way.
What did your sister like?
Maybe it’s because I just got embarrassed, but…
Ah.
Yes.
“She liked her sister her her her’s coin karaoke…”
Yes.
If we go there, it will be just the two of us.
“… Sister, I like tteokbokki.”
“It’s tteokbokki…”
“I haven’t eaten it recently, so I think they’ll like it if I take it with me… Ah, the taste is always spicy. And I like oden more than rice cake. Since I can get there in 5 minutes from here, I’ll take the lead and start with the location…”
Jiyoon Lee cried out as if covering up the words she had just muttered and walked out of the alley.
Let’s calm down. There’s nothing to be nervous about. Why on earth are you nervous?
In return for the treatment, all you have to do is imitate your older sister and give advice, then say goodbye and break up.
It’s weirder to be conscious of it for no reason.
Business relationship… Business relationship…
After taking a deep breath, Lee Ji-yoon turns around and makes eye contact.
“… Let’s go, Woojin.”
“Yes?”
“Woman, it’s an act. My sister’s act. First of all, I have to pay for the treatment I received from you.”
“Ah…”
“Then… Let’s go again, Woojin.”
“… Keuhum, yes, older sister.”
“Don’t laugh!!”
She put on her hat and started walking ahead of her, fluttering her pure white hair.
