Chapter 89 – I Can’t, I Can’t
After the event, while the kids were removing their makeup and changing their clothes, I checked people’s reactions on my cell phone.
“Oh, there are some reactions in Korea as well.”
I announced that I was participating in this game show, but I can’t believe there are fans who follow me and take pictures of my kids…
In addition, I saw a twitter that a Korean living in Japan purposely came to see the kids and posted.
Just the fact that there are such passionate fans makes me feel quite rewarding.
‘Soye will like it.’
You have to tell the kids right away.
Especially, Soye likes it anew every time I see something like this, so there is a taste that tells me.
“Umm, I don’t know the Japanese keyboard.”
While searching, I also tried to look at the reaction of GPiF (Game Party in Forest) in Japan, but I gave up because I couldn’t type in Japanese.
There was a tag called ‘#GPiF_7th’, so I searched based on that, but it was too hard to find anything because there were too many data.
Because people didn’t know the names of the kids and only referred to them by the names of the characters they cosplayed, the information pollution was too bad.
‘I’d better go back and see if the in-house public relations team checked.’
Or have Yu Ga-hye eat it.
You said that you are good at Japanese and that you came to help me, so it might be okay if I ask you a favor.
“Here you are.”
She said that the tiger would come when I thought of her, and she appeared the moment I turned off her phone screen.
“Thank you for your hard work, Chief Secretary.”
“Good job, Manager Lee. By the way, about tomorrow’s schedule…”
“Chief Secretary, are you good at searching in Japanese?”
“Uh, yes… I do the basic stuff.”
“It’s great. The reaction from the kids today was really good, right? So, I want to check the reaction on the internet right away, but I don’t know how to type in Japanese. Could you search Japanese kids’ reactions on social media or the Internet? Where did you react… This and that.”
“You mean everything?”
“Yes, everything.”
We quietly exchange glances for a moment.
I put the iron plate on my face and continued talking.
“Ah, Japanese kids use Twitter well, so I think you should look at the reaction of Twitter first.”
“Okay, but…”
“Let’s see the reaction before tomorrow’s event, and then check in the morning to see if there’s anything we need to pay attention to or change.”
I have to go play with the kids tonight, I don’t have time to work with them.
When I’m with you, I can’t even hit myself in hypnosis mode, I don’t, I can’t.
“Ah, I’m out. Then I’ll take the kids, so let’s go to the car first. Search the reaction on your phone.”
I left those words and quickly ran to the kids.
It seemed that Yu Ga-hye was staring at her from behind, but she never looked back.
“Everyone did a great job.”
As I said hello to the kids, Minji immediately clung to me with twinkling eyes.
“Brother, are you going right away?”
Unlike usual, Minji asks in a quick tone.
“Yeah, I promised.”
“Ehehehe… !”
With a happy expression on her face, Minji took out her cell phone and started checking what she had written on her notepad.
Minji, you already had plans.
“That older sister… Would you like to go too?”
“Am I a bonus?”
“Sorry, that’s not it either. My older sister is different tomorrow evening…”
“Whoops, it’s okay. I was kidding. Come with me. I wonder what kind of place Minji is so interested in.”
Soye who smiles refreshingly.
Thank god.
I’m worried that I won’t like the tourist spots, but…
‘It’ll be fine… It’ll be fun to see things you’ve never seen before, and if you have to, you can take them to some decent places.’
“Hey, me?”
Ha-eun, who hadn’t even thought of her, called me.
“Yes? You?”
“Yes. Are you bullying me?”
“That’s not it…”
Ha-eun didn’t promise to take her, so she didn’t really care.
But when she goes to sleep, her appearance becomes strange again.
“Are you okay?”
“What?”
“No um… It’s a place you really don’t like.”
Soye has a wide range of acceptance, so I have a gut feeling that a place like Akihabara would be fine.
But to Ha-eun, it seems like a completely out-of-the-way place.
“Where is that? What’s famous there? I should take a look too.”
“Yeah what… It will be fine. Let’s all go together.”
Well, I’m not going anywhere.
If it’s not good, Soye and Haeun should go to a decent place nearby, and Minji should do some shopping.
“Chief Secretary, I’m taking those kids… No, um, ok, I’ll do some local research and go to the hotel. We’ll take a taxi, so get in the car and go home.”
She ran to her car alone and spoke to Yu Ga-hye, who was already waiting, and she slowly tilted her head.
“Field investigation… Yo?”
These are the eyes that don’t believe me at all.
But I remember what she said to me.
On this business trip, he said he was my assistant manager.
So it’s okay, there’s no need to be stabbed by your conscience Lee Se-jin… !
“Then let’s go!”
I quickly greeted them and quickly ran towards the children.
***
“Wow, there are so many people.”
When I got out of the taxi and went to the main road, I immediately saw a huge crowd.
It was a hectic neighborhood in various ways, from people commuting to work, people shopping, and all kinds of foreigners.
I checked once more to see if the kids were wearing masks well.
“Everyone wears good disguises, don’t wear them off. Now that you’re getting famous, you have to be careful.”
“Really…?”
“Would that happen in two days? I guess that’s just what I’m saying.”
“No, it’s real. At least it’s real here. We’re at a gaming event, and this is a neighborhood that’s sensitive to that.”
“Oh, that’s right. This is an otaku neighborhood, right?”
Ha-eun looked at her surroundings while giving a sullen answer.
“What looks interesting…”
“Many…!”
Next to him, Minji was excited with her eyes sparkling.
“… Minji, don’t get too far from me. If there’s something she wants to see, she’ll tell me unconditionally and go see it. You’ll get lost.”
“What kind of kid is he?”
“Daddy.”
“You’re right.”
“Yes…Yes?”
Saying that, the three of us look at Minji.
She couldn’t hear the three of us and was busy looking around.
“Looking at Minji, Sejin didn’t seem to hear you.”
“Ehh… I’d like to hold your hand at least.”
I can’t do that, so it’s a problem.
“Ha-eun hold Minji and carry her around.”
“Huh? Me? You?”
“I’ll be by your side too. But just in case you don’t know.”
“Well, it’s not like I’ve been following you as a porter…”
“Tomorrow I’ll go where you want to go.”
“No thanks.”
Ha-eun answered curtly and turned her gaze to Min-ji.
“Anyway, don’t you eat? Minji, isn’t there a restaurant here?”
“I have it… ! What would you like to eat, sister?”
“Me? Uh… What do you have?”
“Oden, steak, and curry…”
“I don’t crave steak because I feel sick to my stomach. We ate oden yesterday, so let’s eat curry.”
“Yeah! Then the map…”
Minji quickly checks the map and walks in the lead.
As she followed, a gorilla suddenly came out of a curry shop with a signboard on it.
“Here!”
“…Really?”
Ha-eun looks at the curry house as if she can’t believe it.
She was small and cramped, which I didn’t like.
“It’s very famous… In the Grand Ragnarok Return to Reality event, the player brought the kids… It’s also the place where we ate in the first episode of Gamer’s Gate…”
“…It’s a restaurant, right?”
“Come on, let’s go in. Eating at a place like this is one of the joys of traveling.”
Ha-eun stopped grumbling at So-ye’s words.
“Narrow…”
“Are you ordering with this?”
“Minji, you just take care of it and order it for 4 people.”
“Yeah!”
She placed her order at the oddly outdated kiosk, went inside, and took a seat at one of the available four-person seats.
“I think everyone is watching here. Are we really selling our faces?”
“Rather than… I think it’s because this is a restaurant where only men come in and eat.”
Besides, all three of you are ridiculously beautiful.
“(Japanese) Yes, gorilla curry mixed katsu is here!”
Shortly after we sat down, the curry was placed in front of us almost immediately.
A large silver bowl, heaps of rice and large tempura piled on top of it, and a steaming black-brown curry covering it…
“Uh… This is a real restaurant, right? Are you Minji?”
“Yes!”
Minji laughed and ate it right away.
I also ate a bite with him.
Mmm, delicious.
It’s delicious, but…
“The curry is very steamy.”
“Is this Japanese curry? Mmm, the taste is fine…”
“It’s not my taste.”
Ha-eun reacted as if she didn’t like it.
It seemed so.
It was so steamy and plentiful, it was like a male high school student would be crazy about it.
Even if it’s not for Haeun, it’s definitely not a restaurant for women.
“There he… It’s Minji. What kind of restaurant was oden and steak?”
“Oden… It was can oden…”
“…Can oden? What is the name of the store?”
“No, it’s from a vending machine… Canned oden.”
Ha-eun looked at Min-ji in a daze at those words.
Did you say it was a restaurant?
He said that with only his expression, without words.
“…As for the steak?”
“It’s called Super Steak, and the 1-pound steak is famous… There, the main character of ‘Selective Strike’… I like it and…”
“No that… What you’re talking about is not a restaurant, what should I say…”
Eventually, Ha-eun put her hand on her forehead.
“I am that… I asked where people eat deliciously…”
“Because people are delicious… Appearing in games or anime… Maybe? It’s so delicious here…”
“…How is your sister?”
“Yes. It’s delicious~”
“What am I asking of someone who accepts anything Minji does?”
Helping herself, Haeun took another bite of curry.
“Yes, it is delicious…”
But she doesn’t like it that much.
She thought as she looked at Ha-eun who shouted that with her eyes.
‘Is it okay?’
Of all the places to go tonight, this place is probably the least normal, but that kind of reaction already.
‘…This must be fun, right?’
I think it will be a pleasant evening.
Except for Haeun.
