Chapter 54 – Chapter 54

Sometimes children are also called “Miracles.”
I thought I knew why.

Miracle, Miracle…
When something completely unexpected and inexplicable happens, we often use the word miracle.
For me, Miho and Noah, every moment was close to a miracle.

“I made another mistake… I’m really sorry.”
“No, it wasn’t on purpose. It’s okay.”

In fact, it might not have been okay.
Just like the proverbial saying that a stone thrown inadvertently throws a frog to death, me, Miho, and Noah were all at the words that the staff threw without thinking.
It was a situation that could lead to a development where everyone was greatly hurt and took out their anger on the staff.

“Noah, these Drets… What do you think?”
“Joe, I think it’s good. Uh, sister.”

That was how it changed.
A young elf.
In a way, it might have been the best outcome that could come out of the situation.
If you can’t call this a miracle, what can you call it?

“I’ll reduce the number of tutors from four to three.”
“Ugh! What did you say?!”
“There is such a thing, fool.”
“Miho, don’t be stupid!”
“…”

「Fishik!」

I smiled and stroked Miho’s head.

“Yes, you are not an idiot.”
“Then?”
“She is the trustworthy eldest daughter in our family.”
“Oooooh! Hurray! I did it!”

If you look at what you do, you’re an idiot.
There were obviously many times when I wondered where the monkey or pig was brought. Nevertheless, there were moments where Miho definitely shined.
A light so bright that it makes me smile.

“Kyaaaaang! Then, can I buy everything from here to the last one?”
“If you don’t want to eat only pickled radish without chicken and snacks from tomorrow, just buy a few pairs. The house is ruined.”
“Ugh! No, Noah… Ha, should I just buy one?”

They say he’s like this kind of weakling kid.

“It’s okay in moderation, in moderation.”
“Really?”
“Okay.”

Even if I have to do two jobs, I will try to buy the things you guys want to do and buy.
After a while, Noah tried on the clothes that the three of them put their heads together and chose, one by one.

“Five…”

Me, Miho, and the staff who saw it couldn’t help but burst into admiration.

“Like a princess…”
“I know.”
“The word ‘lady’ comes out of nowhere. It is very pretty.”

Miho has pretty blonde hair and blue eyes, so she’s pretty enough, but since she’s acting like a wild animal herself, I’ve never really felt that way.
Noah had a strong feeling of wanting to protect him, and in a way, he had silver hair and silver eyes, which are much rarer than blonde hair, giving off a sense of mystery.

“No, Noah… I-I don’t deserve a bar like this.”

It was more like the fact that he felt burdened and scared when he put on new clothes.

“Noah would wear the clothes her sister wore or just rags…”

Sometimes when I see Noah talk, it breaks my heart to know how much she has been abused and how unfairly treated and forced to work.

“Noah.”
“Hey! Yes, yes, Dad…”
“Now that I have a father, I can wear that much.”
“… !”
“If you want to do something, do it, if you want to eat something, eat it, because Miho and you are my daughters. You can both be equally greedy.”

That’s what I was there for.
It was that I gathered my strength and returned to the host bar and kept trying to do well somehow. Without these children, I would not have come this far anyway.
It wasn’t worth it at all.

“Can you pay for all the clothes I picked out?”
“Kyaaaaang! It’s Flexz!”

The clerk took the card from Miho’s hand more politely than ever and helped her with the calculation.
Well, who wouldn’t be impressed by this look?

「Beep beep!」

[Web transmission]
Strawberry Bank Kim*woo
KRW 2,570,900 approved lump sum payment
06/08 14:33
Dotde Department Store Co., Ltd.

… Damn, that’s an impressive amount.

[Still, it’s not a waste, is it?]

“…”

[Excuse me?]

A little bit, maybe a waste?

[Really! What are you doing at the height of coolness!]

“It’s a joke, a joke.”

I smiled and said as I lifted up the shopping bags from the department store with both hands full.

“Let’s go to the car, boys.”
“Hem!”
“Yes, Dad.”

At my words, Miho and Noah clung to me with happy smiles. Miho on top of my head, Noah on my legs as if he wouldn’t let go when my hands were full.

[Underground parking lot]

“Whoa, how long has it been since this happened…”

I’m already tired.
Wash the kids, feed them, and buy them clothes.

Looking back, I didn’t do anything.
I feel like I just want to go home and have a beer with the kids while watching cartoons without doing anything.
But it couldn’t end here.

“Good! Noah must have bought pretty clothes like Miho. Shall we go to the place Noah wants to go to today? It’s not too late, even from now on.”
“Yes Yes? No, Noah…That, just anywhere…”
“Really?”

In response to my question, Noah mustered up the courage and said,

“… I want to go somewhere cool.”

It’s a cool place…
It’s an ambiguous choice, but our passive second said where he wanted to go at best, and we have to go.

“Shall we go to the sea?”
“Ocean!”

It’s the summer season soon, and it seemed like it wouldn’t be a bad idea to take a snow stamp in advance. If you have a chance, you can make a schedule and go to the beach with the kids for 2 days and 1 night. Oh, then you should buy a kid’s swimsuit and a tube too, right?

‘It takes a lot of money to raise children.’

Maybe that’s why the aunties are saving money by spending energy so tenaciously?

“Noah, Noah.”
“Yes, yes, sister…”
“Noah, you’re wearing 100 pizzas right now.”
“Ugh! Ha ha, ha ha, ji, even now, No, Noah wishes to bring it back…”

I stepped on the accelerator and gently turned the steering wheel while watching Miho teasing my good brother.

“Miho should not be able to see the ground for a while.”
“Ugh! Ta, as much as a ground ball…!”
“Then you shouldn’t play pranks on your brother like that.”
“Mi-Miho was wrong…”

Anyone can see it as an apology from a crocodile to avoid a crisis, but Noah accepts it as he is kind again.

“It’s okay, sister.”

Seeing him like that, he was definitely more worried about Noah than Miho.
The kid is so nice
Even if it wasn’t me and Miho’s request, there was a high probability that Noah would do everything even if a strange request was made by someone he didn’t know.
However, it was absolutely not that I wanted to become a bully and become crooked all of a sudden.

‘Oh, nothing is easy.’

I will work hard to change that attitude in the future.
It’s not like I can stick by Noah’s side all day.

“I believe in you, Miho Kim. You are protecting Noah. Because you are my sister.”
“Ohhh, okay!”

Miho, who was banging on her chest, tilted her head right away, then asked me back in a questioning manner.

“By the way, the tongue.”
“Yes?”
“Is it right for the elves to protect the dragons, or for the dragons to protect the elves?”

I almost reflexively replied that it was the latter, but I bit my lip and said.

“A sister protects her brother her.”
“Oh oh…! Alright!”

Whoa, I almost got fucked.

[Even if it’s different every time, you’re doing so well.]

「Kikiik, boooooung!」

That’s it.
I’m very curious about that too. It’s amazing that a bully like me is taking care of the kids somehow, just like you said.
Maybe I had a talent for parenting?

[Love Beach]

Anyway, I could see why you need a car to raise kids. This is because children can freely go where they want to go only if they have a car.
Perhaps other than that, if the children enter elementary school or go to private academies, they will often have to take or pick them up, so a car was essential.

‘Really, I’m glad I didn’t sell the car until the end.’

「Kirururuk, Kirururuk!」

When I got out of the car near the beach where I could hear the cries of seagulls, the smell that caught my nose was different.

‘Shall we eat here for dinner tonight?’

I don’t know if the kids will like sashimi, so it’s like Odentang. I think you can find a store that serves food that kids like.
I already remembered from the evening and sent a text message to Ahn Ki-pyo.

[Kim Hyun-woo: I’m off today.]

Then a reply came back immediately.
Because this gentleman is really sincere.

[Ahn Ki-pyo: Yes, yesterday was hard.]

Really, I would make a big mistake.
I mean I’m doing well.

“Oh, the sea!”
“…”

Miho and Noah were still walking on the sandy beach with me while still not falling apart.

“Shoot ah, shoot ah!”

The cool sea breeze tickles our hair with the cool sound of the waves.

“So what?”
“Yes?”
“Okay, now what?”
“…”

At Miho’s unexpected question, I blankly wiped my lips with my tongue and shut my mouth.
That’s right.
What are you really doing?

There are quite a few people who come to see the sea because it is June, but it is not open yet, perhaps because it is colder than expected.
Even if we could enter the sea, we couldn’t go in because we just came without swimsuits.

‘Something, isn’t it a bit different from the romance I was thinking of?’

I thought I could do anything when it came.
Come to think of it, even in high school, when I came to the sea with a few friends, all I did was go to coin karaoke rooms or internet cafes.
After that, when I came by myself once in a while after I became an adult, all I did was drink and play with the girls I happened to meet here, drink soju at a party, and take a taxi back home.

“Shall we make a sand castle?”
“Oh oh! I think it will be fun!”
“No, I think even Noah can do that well…”

Our family’s sand castle making, which started like that, ended in exactly 5 minutes.

“Is this the castle?”

All three felt the same way.
I was at a loss for words when I saw three toad houses that looked more like graves than castles. I’m not the type of person who doesn’t have dexterity, but this wasn’t as easy as I thought.
In movies and dramas, it is said that kings in the Middle Ages created saints who could kill.
It wasn’t just a movie or a drama.

It was then.

“Ahhhhh, go to the aquarium! I want to go to the aquarium! Aquarium, aquarium!”

I thought I heard a boy crying somewhere, just like I had seen at the mart before.
This time, I saw a boy lying down in the middle of the sandy beach, swarming while doing a break dance that made his parents cry.

‘Wow, look at the sand on his clothes.’

I can’t even put it in the washing machine right away, and I’m dizzy thinking that I have to remove the sand first and then wash it.

[You are all parents.]

Shut up.

“If you want to go to the aquarium like that, go alone! Mom will go home just like this!”
“Aaaaa!”

Wow, the mother who responded to that was also amazing.
Even though the child cries for a hoarse voice, he doesn’t blink an eye and remains calm, so he turns around and goes away.

‘I’m really going to go.’

I watched it thinking, but it was really going away in an instant.

“OMG…”

It was then.
The boy who had been watching the same as me jumped up and ran after her mother her in a hurry. It was a process and ending that I dare not imagine.

“Auntie, you are amazing.”

Are kids supposed to be raised like that?
Was my mom like that when I was little too? I don’t remember her very well, but judging by the tingling in her ears, she probably tugged at her ears her.

“…”

By the way, I thought the kids were too quiet, so I looked next to her, and Miho and Noah were all staring blankly at the spot where the lady had left earlier.
Even an idiot knew what he was thinking.
And that was a part that I couldn’t fill even if I flew to Thailand right away and removed the pepper.

“Let’s see. Miho, Noah.”
“Kyaaaaang!”
“Kyaa…”

I hugged them both at once and lifted them up.

“Let’s go to the aquarium.”