Chapter 149 – Chapter 149

Together with Noah, he made a lunch box with high protein tailored to Hwang Bona-young and foods that are said to help maintain and recover muscles.
When I made it like that, I made three boxes of lunches.

I wondered why there were three.
With her dainty hands, Noah peels and sticks post-it notes on top of the lunchbox one by one.

[Morning]
[Lunch]
[Dinner]

I didn’t expect it, but I didn’t know that Hwang Bona-young’s three meals a day would be served in our house.

“How about writing a short letter of support as well?”
“Ah! Yes, Dad!”

What do you think?
Let’s think that we made a lot while making it. More than anything, I made it because Noah liked it, and if Noah was this happy, I had no problem with it.
The only thing I’m worried about is that Hwang Bona-young will refuse Noah’s lunch box, saying it’s burdensome.

[Thank you, Mom. So cool, so pretty. Thank you for allowing Noah to call her mom.]

Ayu, why are letters so cute?

“Noah’s handwriting is also pretty.”
Hehe… W, here ah, I wrote one ha to my dad too.”
“… !”

At that moment, as I watched my heart thump and fall, I carefully took the small post-it that Noah handed to me with her trembling hand.

[To Dad.
I love you dad.
Thank you for always.
Noah becomes a happy dragon because he has a father.]

“Cheuk! Everyone, I have to go to the stationery store and buy a coating film and a file!”

However, I had to leave soon to meet Hwang Bona-young’s schedule, who entered the gym earlier than everyone else.
I cherished this post-it on the first page of my new notebook. Thinking that I should collect them all at once, really coat them, and keep them in a separate file.

“Ong, who pecked his tongue like that? I will also write one for Miho.”
“… !”

Really unexpected great service.
No one else, Miho wrote me a letter?

[To Hyeonu.
Thank you for always making Miho full.
Miho is happy.
It’s always fun to be with Hyunwoo.
Thank you.]

“…”

I was crying.
To be honest, I didn’t expect much when thinking of the usual Miho, even though the handwriting is a bit crooked.
It feels like Miho’s sincerity, which he usually doesn’t show, is contained in it, so I’m crying for no reason.

I’ve been thinking all my life about why I write letters, and seeing things like this made me think that letters are romantic and good.
If that’s the case, I can’t even reply.

[Dear Miho,
Because we have our first daughter who is always bright and strong
The atmosphere in the house is always bright.
Thank you so much, Dad will do better.
Love.]

[Dear Noah,
A father who lacks a lot has a daughter who is as dignified and smart as Noah.
I don’t know how willing you are.
Let’s live happily ever after.
Love.]

Hehe… Ah, Dad opens the letter… No, to Noah. This, I will keep it like a treasure.”
“Ong, per letter.”

I was embarrassed but happily scratched my cheeks, and the three of us enjoyed a brief moment of happiness.
And…

“Ah! We have to start now. Everyone put on your shoes.”
“Yes, Dad.”
“… Ugh, Miho’s knees suddenly…”
“Then I will carry it on my back and go.”
“I think everything is better.”

Your knee hurts, heals and so on, depending on where you need it?

“Huh, it’s really summer.”

If it wasn’t for summer, honestly, I would have been okay with waking up a little earlier and jogging lightly with the kids to the gym.

“Everybody get in the car.”

Because it’s summer.

[I can see it already. What to say in winter.]

“Yes? What.”

[Because it is winter.]

“Kuhm.”

I cleared my throat and drove quietly to ‘fly like a bee, sting like a butterfly’.
After leaving the car casually at the paid parking lot, which sucks money back again today, as soon as I enter the gym, I see Hwang Bo-na-yeong cleaning the gym as if it were terrifyingly obvious.

[Current time]
[AM 6:20]

We also got up early and rode to the car, but Hwangbo Nayoung was cleaning by herself faster than her director and her, Han Byeonggyu.
Alone…
It’s not like I’m doing it while listening to music, it’s like a person who has lost his soul his… I was just moving my body like a machine, like a habit.
As if it was natural to be alone, and in a familiar way.

‘Was it like this?’

[What?]

‘There’s manager Gi-pyo Ahn.’

[Ah yes.]

‘I wonder if that person felt this way when they saw me…’

Of course, the age difference between me and Ki-pyo Ahn.
And it’s hard to compare the age difference between me and Hwang Bona-young, but… Nevertheless, I was an adult who had experienced a lot of things, even a little bit, than Hwang Bona-yeong.
From the point of view of such a person, Hwang Bona-young is very sad.

Sympathy?
Yes, you can call me sympathy.

One thing’s for sure, no matter what the reason… It means that I am also losing her gaze and attention to Hwangbo and Nayoung.
Even if it’s sympathy…

What’s surprising is that Noah understands Hwang Bona-young to the point of vaguely similar to me, and at the same time, he notices her while feeling sad.
No, Noah must know Hwang Bona-yeong better than I do. Because she’s watching her harder than me.
And this is what adults think.

I sighed and pushed Noah on the back.

“The lunchbox I made at best, should I feed it when it’s even a little delicious?”
“Ha, but…”
“It’s okay, let’s go.”

Sometimes, what adults can’t do, children can do.
Such was the case now.

If I approached him with a packed lunch all of a sudden, he would have all the thoughts, doubts, and emotions of a real star.
The story is different if it is given by an innocent and kind child like Noah.

“Oh, Mom!”
“… Uh? Oh, is Noah here? It seems that I am your mother today. Hehe.”
“Uh, Mom… Ha, always Noah’s mother!”
“If you say that, I will be grateful to you too. So, what are those in your hand?”
“It’s a lunchbox made by me, my dad, and her older sister to give to my mom. Gwa, if it’s okay, go, let’s eat together…”

Miho and I tilted our heads at Noah’s words for a moment.

“What did you help me with?”
“Miho, you don’t know how to cook.”

[It’s because Noah is kind, because he’s kind.]

Isn’t that too nice though?
However, Hwang Bona-young’s wall was higher than we thought. Despite Noah’s request, Hwangbo Nayoung took two steps back and shook her hand.

“… Can I just accept it?”

I know what wall that is.
It is burdensome and scary to receive help and consideration from others… That is why she is the image of a child who is afraid that it will be harder than it is now.

‘I know, but I don’t know what to say.’

What should I do to be more considerate and take care of her as an adult than her Hwangbo Nayoung?
Like An Gi-pyo…

It was then that Noah showed her unexpected side of her.
When her hands her holding her lunchbox tightened, she cried out as she strained to close her eyes.

“I do not like it! If you accept your heart, the lunchbox we made together will be meaningless!”
“I am grateful, but to receive something like this…”
“Ho, alone! It’s hard alone! It’s painful to be alone, Noah… I know. How sad it is to be alone. … I know Mom, why do you keep… Oh, to be alone.”
“No, Noah? Why, why are you crying all of a sudden…”
“Mom, hehe, even though there are people who want to take care of it, why… Whoa, whoa, whoa…”

I quickly approached and picked Noah up and patted him.
Even in the middle of it, she is Noah who gave strength to her hand that she was holding her her, fearing that she might drop her lunch box.

‘It would be embarrassing if I didn’t know the circumstances.’

But as I know Noah’s circumstances, I knew what Noah was going to say.
In a cold and lonely stable, where there were only those who bullied her, let alone those who took care of her, Noah had always had hope.
However, in a way, Hwangbo Na-yeong refused even her consideration of her, which she rolled into her of her, so she might have been a little frustrated as Noah.

“Hey, Nayoung.”
“Yes…”
“I’m sorry, I understand your resentment… Are you sure you said that?”
“Yes?”
“You said that.”

I cautiously approached Hwang Bona-young and whispered in her ear.

“… If this child can be happy even here, I will cooperate too. Do you remember those words without making a mistake?”

[It’s trash.]

Does not matter.
It actually was.

Furthermore, it was okay to say that Hwang Bo-na-yeong, who should look good, was offended by my attitude to her.
I don’t know anything else, but the happiness of my children is the top priority for me now.

That’s why, I couldn’t let Miho and Noah cry like this.

“I-I said that, but no matter how… That, and this is nothing I did. I’m just suffering from that…”
“Hardship? No. Not at all? Do you know how many chef licenses I have?”

It’s one.

“I really like to cook. I really want to cook all day long.”

Even now, having lived with my children, I still feel that cooking is a nuisance.
That’s why I prefer delivery a little more.

“But how much will the kids eat?”

Kim Mi-ho alone can handle the sheep of 5 adults.
So everything I am saying now is a lie.

“I want to cook, but there is no one to eat for me… Furthermore, Noah also likes to cook, so while I was thinking about what to do, I met Nayoung just as I was about to practice high-protein salad dishes.”
“That’s not too far-fetched…”
“Nayoung-san, this is what is commonly referred to as coincidence or fate, not force.”

Then I said a little more seriously.

“Please accept this. This is a lunch prepared by this child even waking up at dawn by setting an alarm that he did not normally set.”
“…”
“If you refuse, you will cry, but if you accept… I will laugh.”

Probably not just Noah, but both, including Hwang Bona-young.
Did these efforts work?

I felt the height of the solid wall, which was supposed to never collapse, lowered a little.
More than anything…

“Really, I don’t think I have any shame, but… I don’t think it’s polite to refuse too much, so I’ll accept it gratefully. Noah, thank you so much.”

Bona-young Hwang accepted.
And, he smiles a little.

“… To be honest, I didn’t have an appetite, so I ate only milk for breakfast. It’s so good.”
“…”

The moment I see that smile, my heart, which had only sympathy, was stabbed with a slight throb.
Coincidence?
Maybe.

Under the sunlight of this run-down boxing gym, the gloomy national team member gently holding a rolling mop for cleaning smiles.
Because it was an incredibly beautiful picture.

[Did n’t she say that with her mouth her earlier, ‘destiny’?]

Shut up.

One thing’s for sure, though, everyone cries when you refuse.
Everyone smiles when you accept it.

“Hehe, Mom… Eat a lot. Ah, it was made with special care by Noah.”
“Thank you, this is so delicious. I want to learn something too.”
“Anyway! If Mommy and Noah live together every day now, I’ll be able to cook for her Dad her every day.”
“That may seem impossible, but it sounds like you’ll be really happy just listening to it.”

It seems that Noah is slightly out of control, but Hwangbo Nayoung does not take it seriously and passes it off with her laughter.

“It fits well…”
“… It’s one shot.”

In the meantime, Miho and I didn’t eat any vegetables like a lie, and we were only skipping the delicious chicken breast hidden inside.

“If you’re an elf, why don’t you eat some vegetables.”
“It’s about Tongue Nu. If an adult is comfortable, then you can’t gain weight.”
“Do you want scissors, rock, or paper?”
“Jjooang! Come on!”

Just having breakfast together like that made Hwang Bona-young look really happy. As if she had regained her warmth that she had long forgotten.

‘Is it now?’

I, who was looking at her Hwangbo Na-young, cautiously approached her.

“That, Nayoung-san.”
“Ah yes…”

Perhaps because of the memory of my insistence earlier, Hwang Bo-na-young looked at me with a slightly more cautious attitude.

‘Mistress, wasn’t it the timing?’

But it’s already too late.
Since I had committed it, I had to make sure.

“I know you are busy preparing for the Olympics, but sparring today! No, not just today, if you can afford it, could you do it often with me?”
“Yes? That, that…”

Gulp, he swallows her saliva and notices that the shape of Hwangbo Nayoung’s mouth is trying to express the meaning of ‘refusal’.

‘Oh, no…’ … !’

I was thinking of somehow increasing the time we spend together + the time our bodies touch each other.
If this fails, there was a limit to pushing forward with only lunch boxes.

It was then.

“Uh, Mom… De, I have something to tell you!”

Suddenly, Noah clung to Hwangbo Nayoung and, though not like Miho, he clung to her shoulder her and whispered in her ear her.
I whispered something.
Then, Hwangbo Na-yeong is surprised and her face and her blushes.

‘What were you talking about?’

While she was muttering inwardly, Hwangbo Na-yeong approached her and she cautiously nodded her head.

“I-I will ask you to take good care of me in the future.”
“Yes? You mean sparring, right? Ah! Thank you! Oh, thank you so much!”

Whatever it is, she says thank you for accepting sparring.
Hwang Bona-young whispered in my ear carefully.

“Oh, you say you like getting hit…”
“… Yes?”

She glanced back at Hwangbo and Nayoung, and her Noah lowered her head with an apologetic expression.
Seeing that, I nodded her head.

“Yes, that’s right…”

For a daughter, a father can be anything.