Chapter 24 – Chapter 24

A person in the sky with a phone… Is it possible to talk to the dead?

‘Of course…’

Of course not…
‘Natural…

“Tonnu, huh? Can I talk to Jjaram in the sky?”
“…”

What is normal

It was absolutely not natural for this child who ran out of the front door barefoot and desperately asked, pulling at the hem of my clothes, with a more earnest expression than ever before, with an earnest expression as if this was my real face.

[What is natural for some may not be natural for others.]

It’s ironic that at a moment like this, the words that I laughed at as if they were passing by come to mind.

“Yet.”

Crazy bastard.
What am I trying to say? Knowing you’ll regret it later, and knowing how hurtful it is to lie to others.
I don’t even know if a guy like me is really worthless garbage.

“Yes?!”
“Oh, not yet. Uh, yes But what will happen later?”
“Later?! When? When is that?!”
“If you grow up much more dignified than you are now, get older, and grow up nice and well… At that time, maybe it will be possible then.”
“Really?! Really?!”
“…”

As if a fist had been stuck in his throat, he couldn’t say anything, so he just nodded.

[How are you going to handle the aftermath?]

I do not know.
But right here, if I reveal the truth… I kind of felt like it wouldn’t work.

[Is that so?]

Yes.

[If you judged like that, I have no intention of interfering with anything. Actually, I think you are doing well.]

It sucks.
How long have you been with this kid?

[No, it is not.]
[Actually, out of all the times I’ve seen, Miho smiles the most and brightly when he’s with you.]

Shut up.
My head was still complicated, and I felt dizzy because I was unfamiliar with it.

“Tonnu, one more time! Once more! Miho, it’s for later, so practice a lot now!”
“Five… K! OK! Let’s go!”
“Gatsua~!”

As soon as I saw Miho rushing into the studio, I quietly sighed and called.

– Honey! First baby!
“Oh, can you hear me?”
-Hem! I can hear you! Miho is Miho! Miho here! Can you hear your tongue?
“I can hear it so fucking well, it makes my ears bleed.”
-Ugh!

I heard Miho’s tongue-in-cheek sound in between, so I clench my fist with the hand that wasn’t holding the phone for no reason, and I opened and closed it dozens of times.
Even if I hadn’t quit smoking, I felt like I wanted to smoke like crazy now.

「Kook!」

In the past, before I even felt this way, I would have already run to the convenience store, bought two packs of cigarettes, and returned home, chain-smoking.
But, not now.

– Honey! My dear!
“I can hear you.”

‘Cause I’m not alone
At least for me, let’s not do anything we’ll regret. Even if you regret it, let’s do something for that damn kid.

“It’s fucking funny.”
-Donna?
“No, nothing. Rather, let’s stop here for today. I will go home now.”
-Okay!

I thought as I watched the phone call that hung up.
At first, to be honest, if the blessing continued, I thought I would just take Miho with me. All I needed was a blessing anyway, not Miho.
However, my thoughts have changed.
In just one day.

“… How can I be a good parent?”

I wondered if I, who was a piece of trash that I couldn’t even treat my parents properly, had the qualifications to be a good parent.

“Zone… No, it’s really difficult. It’s so hard to raise just one, even a guy with a somewhat big head.”

I can’t even imagine how parents in the old days lived with four or five babies who cried so hard every time they took their eyes off them.
Did everyone get some kind of blessing like me?

“Hey, Hyunwoo Kim. As a homeroom teacher, just say one word. I know better than anyone else that you’re a bastard who won’t listen anyway.”

Was it our homeroom English teacher in the first year of high school?
Even in the era when corporal punishment was banned, there was something said by a crazy bastard who carried a long stick that could be used as a cane.

“Parents, don’t be upset. You will regret it later.”

“What the… Fuck.”

If I couldn’t smoke, I felt like I wanted to suck on candy.
I just sighed and went home.

“Tongue!”
“Now it’s time for June to start getting hotter, so why is the weather so cool? They say that summer is getting longer because of global warming, and that’s pretty self-indulgent.”
“Are you on Earth?”
“There is such a thing. Won’t you sleep more? Let’s watch a movie or a few movies together before bed. Animation and stuff like that.”
“What is that?”
“I have. That’s fun When I’m not around, it’s perfect for you to kill time by yourself. Come on.”
“Yes!”

Seeing Miho, who was like a puppy, rushing into my arms faster than anyone else and with a happy expression when I was told to come here, I had no choice but to relax again.
Isn’t this cuteness itself a cheat key for real children?

“Let’s see if the ground ball won’t stop?”
“Tent Goo!Hehe!”

Seeing Miho smiling like an idiot in my arms and quickly concentrating on the screen of her phone, I was already worried about tomorrow.
I was worried that I would be able to go to work properly with such an anxious guy.

I still have to go… It was a huge deal to skip a day from the first day of work already.

[An Gi-pyo bastard: You, you bastard, will fall behind if you don’t come tomorrow.]

Seeing that the store manager even said this, it seems that there was a woman who tried to nominate me today.
The popularity of this guy…
As soon as I came back, it was like a miracle that I was nominated like this.

[Kim Hyun-woo: Tomorrow, two sides of the sky, I will also go to work.]

First of all, let’s see
It was like a promise to myself.

Should I say that if I tell the other person that I am so firm, then I will go somehow without much choice?

‘I’ll go like this.’

As I muttered to myself, I held Miho in my arms and gently stroked Miho’s hair on her, who was engrossed in anime.

“Uh?”

[Why is that?]

“No, nothing.”

I looked at my palm her with a puzzled expression.
I think something just got really hot…

Must be an illusion

* * *

The next morning, after lying down with Miho and watching almost 5 hours of animation, I woke up to a sound next to me.

“Turn it off, ugh… Turn off, turn off, uh…”
“… !”

What, what, what’s going on

“Hey hey hey!”

Jumping up and looking to her side of her, she saw Miho clutching her chest tightly, sweat pouring down her reddened face of her.
Seeing him frowning and moaning continuously, it seemed like he was in considerable pain.

“Now, wait a minute, 119, 119… So, no, it’s faster to just take a taxi to the nearby hospital…”

[Calm down! It’s okay!]

“Does this look good to you? Can’t you see he’s trying to rummage?!”

[A child from another world is suffering from fever for a while to adapt to this world. This world is a unique environment among many dimensions. That’s why beings in another world have no choice but to adapt to their bodies by going through this process once or sometimes.]

“Then… You want me to just watch it like this?”

[I’m just saying that going to the hospital won’t change anything.]

I was about to stand up in tears at those words, but before that, Miho struggled to hold onto one of my fingers her.
And what you say

“Tongue… Miho, die… Are you?”
“What did you say! People don’t die from things like this. Got it? It just hurts for a while.”

Originally, the disease you have is the most painful law in the world.
When I was young, I used to worry to myself that even if I caught the flu, I would get a fatal disease.
Thinking of that time, I couldn’t possibly leave Miho alone.

“Shoot!”

First, I washed a towel in cold water, wring it out, and placed it on Miho’s face her.

“Cool…”

Then, just in case, I went through the same process with the other one and carefully put it in the freezer. I was going to use it then, if the heat rose any further, or if the towel I was using now cooled off.

Even after that, I listened to everything I could do by my side.
They would read fairy tales to them, or make porridge and force-feed them when they regained enough strength to stand up in the middle.

“Eating is good, though.”
“Taste… There is…”

These were children.
Realized again
Because young children can change drastically overnight, they were children who could be seriously injured at the same time.

[Current time]
[PM 7:00]

It’s already 7 o’clock in the evening…

[Kim Hyun-woo: Tomorrow, two sides of the sky, I will also go to work.]

I can’t help but laugh at sending messages like that.

[Kim Hyun-woo: Sorry, I don’t think I can go today.]

It was bigger than flying in two parts of the sky.

“What is this like because of you?”
“I’m sorry…”
“If you’re sorry, get well soon.”
“Yes…”

I just stared blankly at Miho, who had fallen asleep as if he had died from exhaustion at the end of the evening.
When you have a child, the standard of life revolves around the child.
It was exactly as it was said.

“Rather.”

[… ] …]

“… Rather, is it strange to think that I wish I was sick?”

The answer was concise.

[No.]

* * *

For three days and three nights, Miho’s body ached like boiling.
I couldn’t open my eyes properly, and I feared that I might die right away because my heart was tingling.
My whole body was weak, and even if I tried to move my body even a little, I was overcome with tremendous pain.

‘I think I’m going to die. It must be a fatal disease.’

Miho thought so.
Because I thought there was no such thing as dying. Furthermore, whenever I felt this pain, I remembered the tongue I had bitten countless times.
So…

‘… It might not be bad to die.’

Then Miho will be able to meet her heavenly parents of her.
However…

“Hey, I’ll change the towel.”
“…”
“Are you okay? Talk to me if it’s okay If you don’t have the energy to speak, why don’t you wiggle your fingers a little!”

… He was a strange human being.

Everything was different from the people I had seen so far.
Why is she being so kind to herself?

Buy me a lot of food, buy me clothes.
Furthermore, I went to a place called an arcade and even played with it, and even though it was the first time I saw an animation I watched a few days ago, it was so amazing and fun that I watched it without hesitation.

‘It was fun…’

It was amazing.
The time with Kim Hyun-woo was so fun, happy, and, and, and… It was warm.

Like, like…

“Uuuuu!”
“What can I do? Why are you crying. Where are you sick? Can you pat me on the back?”

For some reason, a name he had heard a while ago popped into Miho’s mind her.

“Miho Kim.”

At that moment, Miho involuntarily shouted.

“Dad, hehe! Dad, Miho is sick. Aaaaang, Miho, it hurts so much. I don’t want to die! Aaaaa… !”

At the same time, Hyunwoo Kim, who was watching from the side, hugged Miho tightly.
No matter how much I cried and shouted in that cold iron cage, I couldn’t feel even the slightest warmth, but I could feel it right here.
It was so warm that Miho was able to relax and get a good night’s sleep.

And the next day.
Miho regained her health.