Chapter 55 – Chapter 55

Even if she didn’t have a mother, even if she only had a father, she could definitely raise her child well. She was also capable of raising well.
I don’t know if I’m actually raising it great, but I was doing it now.

Furthermore, when the child grows up and approaches the age of adulthood, there will come a moment when the father is no longer needed.
Miho and Noah…

“Aquarium!”
Hehe…”

Instead of relying on me and clinging to me like I do now, my friends are more precious, or the time I spend with the ties I meet in society is getting longer.
It was clear that there would come a moment when I would become an annoyance.

You might think that’s pretty disappointing, but it seemed like it would be better to see the children’s sad and envious expressions, as if they were starving somewhere because of their mother’s absence.

“Do you wish you both had a mother?”

「Flicker!」

At my question, the children who were rubbing their heads in their arms shook their bodies at the same time as if they were squeezing them.
Miho was the first to speak.

“Miho, I don’t know!”
“…”
“Miho… I don’t know… When you’re a little older, call Dad and Mom, ask them, and tell them.”

I also shivered once.
I quietly stroked her hair.

“Okay…”

Because Miho has a lot of memories of her former parents.
In fact, just calling me ‘dad’ often and accepting me as such is already a great improvement in itself.
Noah was the opposite of Miho.

“No, Noah… Uh, I wish my mom was there too.”
“…”

I think I ended up revealing a bit of sadness at that moment without even realizing it. As an adult, you should know how to hide your emotions.
I think it was a little bit because the child who had never asked for anything on his own appealed so strongly that he wished he had a mother.
Noah is a keen kid, so she noticed that again.

“Oh no! No, Noah… Actually, uh, I don’t need a mother. Ah, Dad is enough.”

I wondered if I was asking something uncomfortable, but I wasn’t the type to keep something in my heart.
If he was going to get hit, he would get hit quickly, and he was the type to break through head-on if he could.
So…

“I.”

I said as I walked towards the entrance of the aquarium with my two children in my arms.

“I will try harder. For now.”
“Yes…”
“Yes, Dad…”

It might be the best if I can play the role of a father and even a mother by myself.
It’s because they accepted a strange mother for no reason, and the children could suffer more than now.
There is no guarantee that it will only lead to a happy development.

But if you think so negatively, what can you do in this world… One thing is for sure, as much as there is an area that fathers can fill in for their children.
It was clear that there was an area that only mothers could fill for their children.

As I said before, that wasn’t an area that I could fill in just by flying to Thailand and removing the pepper. I was a ‘dad’, and the only thing I could do for them was to take them to the aquarium.

“Son, do you want to come in? Oh, looking forward to it Is not it?”
“Yes! Penguins, I want to see penguins!”
“Wait a minute, we’re counting here. Ah, if you come to a place like this, you will definitely become a child. It’s like raising two sons.”

More than 70 percent of the families who arrived before us had both fathers and mothers coming together to hold their children’s hands.
A father who is scolded by his mother for playing with his son, and a son who shakes his head while watching it.
It was truly a picturesque sight.
Normally, I don’t see anything like that, and at most I only see couples or couples fighting over here.

「Kook!」

Power entered the hands of both children at the same time.

“It’s okay, my dad is here. I’m okay with my dad…”
“…”

I stood in front of the ticket counter stroking Noah’s head who didn’t say anything.

[☆Ticket price☆]
[Aquarium/adults and youth 33,000 won/children and seniors 29,000 won]
[When participating in a paid program, you must pay separately from the admission ticket fee. Please refer to the detailed information for each program.]

In addition to this, I was able to pay for a free pass ticket that allows free entry for one year, but if the kids really like the aquarium, it wouldn’t be bad to cut it off.
The price of a one-time admission is 33,000 won, but the price of a one-year pass is around 100,000 won.

‘That’s probably why everyone comes once and doesn’t come often.’

I checked the children’s standards.

[Children are 36 months or older to 12 years old, seniors are 65 years old or older, adults and youth are 13 years old or older.]

Until the age of 12, in the end, even in Korea, it was seen as a child.
And Miho and Noah, regardless of their actual age, were just weak children if you looked at their mental age.

“Two children and one adult, please.”
“If you sign up on the website and make a reservation, you can get a discount of 6,000 won per ticket. Shall we help you sign up now?”
“No, thanks. Just count.”
“All right. It will be 91,000 won in total. Have a good time.”
“Yes.”

She seemed to know why she just left.

‘It’s a lot more expensive than I thought.’

Of course, if you consider that I received 30 million won from Seonwoo Yerang, this amount of money could have seemed insignificant.
However, considering the average Korean’s salary, the burden of money spent here could not be ignored.
Even what I just calculated was simply the entrance fee.

Starting from the souvenir store right in front of us, we had to pay an average of 7,000 won per person to enjoy the various experience courses.
In addition, the variety of foods that drew Miho’s attention could not be ignored.

“Tongue, tongue, tongue! What is churetz?”

I haven’t even seen the tail of the fish yet, but watching Miho rave about the churros, I bought two churros and gave them to each child.

“Hey, start with Dad, take a bite… ” …”
“I’ll eat it thanks.”

Still, seeing Noah scooping it up for me right away made it worth every penny. I wondered if Miho would give me a bite too.

“It’s strange, tongue-nu…”

Miho said with a serious expression.

“… The churrotsu in Miho’s hand has disappeared.”

Wipe the sugar off your mouth and say it, you pig.

“I’ll buy you another one when you leave, so let’s move inside. At this rate, I won’t see a single fish until closing time.”
“Kyaaaaang!”

I wondered if there were only a few fish, just like they say there are few things that are not worth the money in this day and age.
As much as the expensive entrance fee, the aquarium is very large, and numerous types of fish were waiting for us.

“Pogur, Pogur!”

Indeed, colorful fish were swimming enthusiastically throughout the large aquarium, each showing a different characteristic.

‘Honestly, I’m not very impressed.’

It’s not that you don’t like fish, it’s just a dry feeling that it’s a fish?
But children were different.

[Piranha]
[It is a carnivorous fish, meaning “Fish with teeth” In the native language.]

“Wowaaaaa!”
“Wow, wow…”

At first, I didn’t even know what I was doing here, but there were piranhas, electric eels, Leopoldi rays, triangle cichlids, and so on.
Whenever they encountered strange fish that they could not imagine, the children burst out in admiration without fail, and their round eyes opened wide and shone brightly.

「Kkoung, Kkoung!」

It wasn’t even just fish, and he thought the temperature would cool down if he climbed the stairs a bit.
Belugas, penguins, seals, and sea lions also showed cute eyes and showed off tricks like slapping their stomachs.

“In 10 minutes, applications for fish feeding experience close. Parents who want to create one-of-a-kind memories for their children, please apply now.”

It is an experience that will end in 15 minutes of explanation and 5 minutes of feeding, but for children, those 5 minutes can remain as memories for a lifetime.
I generously opened my wallet and showed a good payment attitude.

“You can feed them from now on.”
“Five…!”

Miho, who had been feeding so hard, murmured softly.

“Will they eat too?”

Then, like a lie, the fish that were only in front of Miho ran away in front of her after running away at a tremendous speed in an instant.

‘Aren’t there any mental problems at this point?’

For example, there is a memory of starving to death in a previous life.

[… ] …]

What is that point?
Anyone who sees it will know that my predictions were correct.

[I do not know.]

After feeding like that, I took Miho, who said she was hungry, and bought a hamburger set to eat.
Noah feared that she might get lost here, so she was held by my chest all day from beginning to end, and even my collar her was crumpled, so I held on tight.

‘Honestly, in terms of strength, Noah is overwhelming.’

Could this be the dragon’s power?
It was not a strength that a young girl could show. However, the problem was that he did not know that he had such power, and even if he did know, he did not have the courage to use it.

“Have you eaten?”
“Ok.”

Looking at Miho, who eats hamburgers faster than they serve, I thought about leaving the aquarium and looking for a good raw fish restaurant. I saw Noah staring somewhere.

“Before you leave, take a look around the store before you go.”

[Souvenir STORE]

At the entrance of the store, there were a lot of cute dolls and mini aquariums that children can’t help but love.

“Would you like to buy one?”

At my question, Miho shook her head.

“I don’t need anything I can’t eat.”
“…”

What about Noah?

“…”

I stood up and walked to the souvenir shop while watching Noah, who couldn’t answer me and looked at me with sad eyes.
And in the midst of looking around, I was finally able to find the object that Noah’s eyes kept going.
It was a translucent case with a pretty penguin phone ring attached to it.

‘Ah, I see…’

Unexpectedly, when he came to the aquarium, he wanted to stop taking pictures of her, but Noah always held his cell phone with one hand.
Although I do worry about serious cell phone addiction in the future.

“Hey, he won’t tell you if you forget that he decided to buy you churrozi on the way out. Miho, you remember that well.”

… Whatever you do, it will be better than that year.

“Please count this.”
“Yes, hold on.”

At the moment when Noah was about to go out after purchasing the phone case he had been looking at all along, a broadcast was heard saying that the last dolphin show of the day, which is said to happen once every three hours, is about to begin.

‘Let’s go see that.’

How much money did you spend coming here, I’ll have to see that.

「Hungry buzzing!」

And when I arrived at the place where the show was held, I regretted it in 3 seconds. I’ve never felt that there were so many people when I was walking around the aquarium as a whole.
It is because when we arrived at the space where the dolphin show was held, a huge number of children appeared that seemed to have been hiding in a hole somewhere.

“Mi, Miho… Go, I’m suddenly hungry…”

「Suddenly squirmy!」

I knew it…
As expected, I quietly said while watching the children whose complexions turned dark due to human phobia.

“Let’s just go back.”

The moment I turned my back like that, an unbelievable sound came to my ears.

“Mom and dad. What are those people They look completely different from each other. I guess they are not family.”

It was a question of a pure child without any malice, but from the perspective of my children who heard it, it was more shocking verbal violence than ever.

“Ah…”

At that moment, Noah’s hand his, which had been trembling, felt all the strength go away.
I watched in slow motion as she fell to the floor, her phone her clutching her tightly.

‘Oh, shit… !’

Belatedly, I tried to stretch out my remaining hands and feet in a hurry.
Because Noah was held in her arms.

“Terrible, jerk.”

Couldn’t stop