Chapter 1280 – You Don’t Eat Together, You Don’t Eat Together, You Eat Together.
“Mister. Mister. Let’s take a picture of this.”
I was slowly digesting my stomach full of Chinese food while sitting on the sofa. It wasn’t enough for Yena to come next to me, so I pressed my body against her and leaned on her shoulder. At the same time, she held up the phone that was playing the short video.
“This is called the levitation dance. This is very popular at school.”
On the screen, a boy appeared in an alley at night with streetlights on. The boy, who must have been in middle school, flailed around her legs and made a motion that made him feel like he was floating in the air.
“What is this? “Isn’t it interesting?”
“It’s a levitation dance. Mister. Let’s try this.”
“Uh, here?”
She took one look around the house before suddenly realizing. To put it a bit exaggerated, it was a palace-like living room, but beyond the white marble floor was not solid ground, but a lower house where people lived.
“If you do it here, I don’t think it will work. “It’s Yena.”
“Then we can go out and do it!”
“It’s going to be cold again when I go out.”
“Huh? Uncle. Let’s go out. Go out and do the levitation dance~”
“What should I do with this? “I don’t want to go out.”
In fact, we had already decided to go out and dance together. I just pretended to be worried because I thought Yena was shaking and shaking her by the shoulders.
Jump, jump, jump!
“Hey.”
At this time, Taeyeon came into the living room with powerful steps. She came with Minah behind her, and when she saw me being held by Yena, she gestured towards her entrance.
“Let’s go out. “Get dressed.”
“Huh?”
I looked at Taeyeon, taken aback by her confident appearance and the somewhat unexpected suggestion. But Yena looked back and shouted with a bright smile on her face.
“Can mom do the levitation dance too?”
“Uh, huh? Daughter? “What?”
This time it was Taeyeon’s turn to be embarrassed. She stopped so suddenly that it was surprising that Minah, who was following her, didn’t bump into her. Yena saw her mother like that and got down from her sofa and approached her.
“Mommy, can you do the levitation dance too? Something like this.”
“This? Oh, something like this?”
“Huh! Hehe. Are you going to do it too, Mom? The uncle said, “
For a moment, I wondered if I had nodded to Yena about doing that. While she was recalling the fact that she had only pretended to worry, Taeyeon gave Yena a soft smile, and she shook her head.
“Sorry. Daughter. Let’s do it later. “Later.”
“Later? Later, when?”
“I went and came back. Of course. “Hmph.”
Swoosh
Hehe.”
Even though I could only see the back of her head, I could tell Jena was smiling as her mother stroked her head. Taeyeon, who was looking at her daughter so lovingly, raised her gaze and spoke bluntly to me.
“Hey. “When did you last tell me to get dressed, and you’re still doing that?”
“Oh, kinda. Can’t I do the same thing you did to Yena? Gently? Nicely?”
“Is it okay? Hurry up and get dressed. “Before I get hit.”
“Okay…”
I had no choice but to get up from the sofa when I saw my empty hand clenched into a fist. I was trying to think about whether I should wear long padding or something simple like Taeyeon, but a natural question came to mind.
“But where should I go?”
“Uh. “Go get my phone.”
“But why am I going too? “Is it your phone?”
“Because I told you to go.”
“Ah, yes. Okay.”
It was an explanation that seemed to make no sense, but made sense. I nodded and walked to my room, and I could hear the sound of a mother and daughter talking behind me.
“Mom. Where are you going with your uncle? With Mina unnie too?”
“Huh. “Mom, I’ll leave for a moment.”
“Can’t I go with you?”
“I’m sorry, daughter. Mom wants to go with her daughter, but for now, I’ll just go with Minah and you. “I’m sorry.”
“Ugh, no. Are you okay? Instead, when I come back, Mom does the levitation dance too.”
“Uh, uh. Okay. Okay.”
Taeyeon, embarrassed but promising, entered the room last with her voice heard. After putting on just the long padding in my room, I came back out into the hallway and was greeted by Mina, who was wearing long padding just like Taeyeon and me.
“Are you here?”
“Oh, yes. What are you doing here?”
“I was waiting for Jiheon.”
“Really?”
He said he was waiting for me, and I couldn’t help but be amazed. Just like the Demon King and Sehee, I stood up and kissed Minah.
Side
“… But what about Taeyeon?”
Even if it wasn’t intense, I smiled softly at the subtle sweetness and changed the subject. Minah hid her happy gaze behind a blunt expression and then turned her gaze towards the entrance.
“It’s at the entrance.”
“Hey. What are you doing. “Why don’t you come quickly?”
“I’ll go right away. Sorry. “Let’s go, Min-ya.”
“Yes, I understand.”
Just like Mina said, Taeyeon was standing at the entrance waiting for us. She apologized to her and went to her front door with Minah and put on her shoes.
Beep! Rattly
“Oh, hey.”
As Taeyeon opened the front door first and was about to leave, she looked back at us. She couldn’t make eye contact with us easily and spoke with her mouth shut as if she didn’t like it.
“Hey. Before going to get my phone, let’s stop by a convenience store. Are you okay?”
I promised earlier that I would go with Minah, but it wasn’t me. In addition to this, when we heard the suggestion to stop by a convenience store, we realized that we had something to say.
“Uh. Are you okay? Are you okay too?”
“Yes, I’m fine too.”
“Okay. Well, that’s it. Let’s go. Whoa… !”
It seemed like a difficult thing to say. After sighing deeply, Taeyeon opened the front door and took the lead. Minah and I left the house, following Taeyeon.
“…”
“…”
“…”
As expected, my prediction was correct. Taeyeon just walked in silence as we left our house, got into the elevator, and left the building to walk outside in the cold wind and sunlight.
“… Hey.”
Taeyeon, who had been leading the way and only showing her back, finally stopped. She finally turned to look at us and asked, pointing to the convenience store she had just arrived at.
“Hey. Is there anything you want to buy and eat here?”
“There is nothing in particular.”
“Me too.”
“Ha, yes. Just wait a moment. “I’ll be out soon”
Without waiting for Taeyeon to reply that she understood, she entered the convenience store. She, seen through the transparent glass window, went straight to the checkout counter without looking at her display stand.
“…”
“…”
The convenience store employee who exchanged a few words with Taeyeon turned around without hesitation. She’s at the cigarette counter right behind her, huh? Wait a minute.
“Uh, hey. “It didn’t take long, right?”
Taeyeon came out after paying her bill, holding a cigarette pack and a disposable lighter in her hands. She was startled by the sight of her tearing open the plastic packaging on the outside of the cigarette pack and grabbed her wrist.
“Taeyeon. What are you doing?”
“Put it away, asshole. Let’s just smoke one.”
“Taeyeon. “No.”
Mina also stopped Taeyeon by holding her wrist on the other side.
“Let go of this. You bastards. “I only smoke one.”
But Taeyeon shook off our hands and even took off her plastic. She was not joking and was worried that she was really trying to smoke, so she kept stopping her.
“Taeyeon. “You got hurt too.”
“Usually, you heal bruises with cigarettes. “This disappears faster.”
“Taeyeon. “Smoking causes poor lung health and muscle loss.”
“They won’t search just because you smoke one. It’s okay, dude.”
Even though we tried to stop Taeyeon, she took out one of her cigarettes and put it in her mouth. Eventually, she lit the fire and let out her white sigh, hotter than her breath.
“Uuuuu… !”
A deep breath and a cigarette held between the index and middle fingers. Even the arms folded alone. As you can see just by looking at these pictures, it wasn’t Taeyeon’s first time smoking. It wasn’t my first time seeing her like that either.
“Seup, huuuuu…” … !”
The first time Taeyeon smoked in front of me was when she decided to date me. It seemed like something was just as disturbing as that time, and I knew what it was without even having to ask. I already knew that.
“Tsk, hey.”
Taeyeon let out a few more smoky sighs and looked at us with a frown. Then, she confessed her questions about the problems that had been bothering her until now.
“What do you think? When you kill someone.”
“Taeyeon.”
“Just answer me. Sorry. I’m really sorry.”
Even though Taeyeon had acted like usual until now, it seemed like yesterday’s events were vivid to her. Yesterday was her first experience, so she once again asked us, who have many of her experiences.
“I know I’m really clueless, but please look at it just this once. “How does it feel when you kill someone?”
“…”
“The first time was the easiest.”
Minah answered before me, who couldn’t open her mouth easily. In her previous life, she grew up as an emotionless killing machine, she confessed with an expressionless face.
She said, “I stabbed, cut and shot the enemy’s vital points as I was trained. However, she came under Jiheon’s wing and as time went by, she developed feelings of rejection. “I believe my last murder was more difficult than someone else’s first murder.”
Taeyeon’s last murder was me. In a world without the Demon King, heroes are useless, so the kingdom bastards ordered Mina to kill me. To her, I am like her family.
“… It’s annoying. “A lot.”
Thanks to Minah’s courage first, I was able to tell it to her too. I told them how I felt when I remembered the time when I cut off my head and held out my hand, asking for my life.
“I don’t want to do it. It’s disgusting. Sometimes I wonder why I have to do this. But when I changed my mind, it got a little better.”
“How did you do it?”
“It was a battle at that time, it was a battlefield. Even the people I killed wouldn’t have come out to play on the battlefield. So, thinking of it as a form of self-defense, I felt a little more at ease.”
“Ha, I see.”
Cracking
Taeyeon heard my thoughts and laughed, shaking off the cigarette ash. She seemed to be trying to understand and gave me a warning.
“Taeyeon. You can’t do that.”
“Uh? What? “Seueueup”
“This is my idea. This is the answer I came up with after thinking about it. This is an answer that only I can understand. “You have to find the answer that only you can understand.”
You should never listen to other people’s thoughts and decide arbitrarily that they are the right answer. No matter how much I sympathized with it, in the end it was someone else’s idea. It was obvious that if she tried to force her thoughts to fit, she would end up in trouble.
“Whoa… ! It’s so fucking difficult. Fuck.”
“Taeyeon. “I don’t regret any of the killings, including the last one.”
Minah shared her thoughts in detail with Taeyeon, who was exhaling the smoke she had inhaled.
“Deaths in the past made me who I am today. All my actions led me to reunite with Jiheon and start a family. “I have no regrets whatsoever about my actions.”
“Taeyeon. That goes for me too.”
I listened quietly and joined Minah’s thoughts.
“If I hadn’t gone to the military and killed those bastards, I wouldn’t be here. Hyeon-soo was beheaded and died, and I would have suffered the same thing. I also have absolutely no regrets. “It’s a little difficult, though.”
Just because I was a person, it didn’t mean that murder wasn’t difficult. I just endured it, and at the time, there was a point where I leaned on Minah.
“Oh, and Taeyeon.”
A thought occurred to me thanks to what I just said. I shared this thought with Taeyeon, who was smoking a cigarette in silence.
“No matter what answer you come up with, we will always be there for you.”
“… “It’s a little creepy when you say that.”
“Oh, kinda. People speak seriously at best.”
“It’s just a joke, dude.”
Tuk
Taeyeon, laughing, squatted down and extinguished her cigarette by rubbing it on the ground. Then she stood up again, looked at us with slightly relaxed eyes, and said.
“Hey. Thank you for your serious consideration. Let’s go.”
Taeyeon, who was saying that she felt refreshed, turned towards the entrance to the underground parking lot. But she stood still without moving. Until we talk.
“Taeyeon. “Aren’t you going?”
“Taeyeon.”
“Ugh, wait a minute…” … !”
When I saw Taeyeon moaning and bowing, a thought suddenly occurred to me. There was a time when she was suffering because the cigarette she hadn’t smoked in a long time didn’t suit her body.
