Chapter 127 – Generation Gap

After a turbulent Sunday, the Monday and Tuesday of the week that started again passed without incident.
When I open my eyes in the morning, I just openly miss the university, go to the human resources office, get a job, get paid about 100,000 won per day, and go to a strawberry cafe in the afternoon to work.

‘The money I have now is 2.55 million won.’

In addition, if the prize money for the cosplay and fighting competition is 8 million won, the money needed to match the full equipment is about 1.5 million won in the future.
I go out to work every day like now, and the sales of the Strawberry Café are going up smoothly thanks to Han Yu-mi’s efforts of his.
If you include a little bonus, you could have achieved 12 million won.
But.

‘I don’t want to work that far.’

Something is wrong.
Even if it was to live, despite the fact that having the dungeon app in my hand made my life much better than before.
Why do I have to work more like a dog?

It wasn’t this.
I wasn’t born to live like this.

“It’s okay even if it’s difficult and dirty, so please introduce me to a much more expensive labor!”
“Eh?”

When I visited from 4:00 am on Wednesday and said this, the manpower director, half asleep with a cigarette in his mouth, opened his eyes wide.

Monday Tuesday.
It wasn’t that I ran for two days without thinking.

For example, I heard from the uncles I work with that there is a job where you can get extra pay if you do dangerous work, such as cleaning up dirt or life pay.

‘It’s not just that I have a good face or something like that.’

From the beginning, I had a feeling that I was a little friendly with those guys.
He may be a bit of a jerk among people of the same age, but should I say that he is accustomed to treating men like that with courtesy?
It’s like a part of home education.
Because my family is a little too conservative.

“No, there is something. Young kids don’t want to do that…….”
“Chief! Do I look like young people these days?”

When I asked, the manpower chief shook his head.
Right.
I’m the same age as the kids these days, but in the first place, I was a guy who was different from the kids these days. In the first place, if I were like a kid these days, at the age of 20, would I go to work diligently like this every day at dawn?

“Then let’s see. I’ll put the contact here today, so you can go this way.”
“Here you go?”

Now that I am a little unkind to the manpower manager, I am used to receiving the address straight away.
The people who work at Nogada are definitely a bit unfriendly, or should I say blunt. There is no such thing, but in reality, they were human too.

Oh, of course, although the frequency of scum who spread the truth based on their ignorance or made a joke was quite high.

‘Just taking out my anger on the weak.’

Rant about the world.
Furthermore, it was all just an argument related to ‘money’.

‘Is money really that good?’

I was fed up, and laughter came out on its own.
Money shouldn’t be that good.
In the first place, whether it’s risky or hard to make money…… Regardless, aren’t you looking for more paid jobs?

In a capitalist society, ‘money’ had no choice but to be absolute.
Nonetheless.

‘I have to pay at least 250,000 won for this!’
‘Do you not know that you guys always end up skipping work, extending your work, and taking more money? How many times have you closed your eyes, do we look ridiculous?!’
‘Then you can sign a contract with the others! Ask the others! Can you make it cheaper there?’

Because of money.
I didn’t want to see the people who were swayed by money and laughing hahahoho over coffee just a few hours ago, building a bond and shouting like that.

“…… When you become an adult, no, you are still an adult.”

I muttered a little while waiting for the subway time alone in a cold subway station with no one around.

“If I get older than now, will I change like that?”

20 years old…….
Even when I graduate from high school, and even when I leave my parents’ side and live on my own.
Now I can drink alcohol, and I can stay up all night at PC cafes.
Even when I was able to decide something with my own responsibility and opinion, I thought I was now a complete adult.

“I don’t know.”

On the third day, I realized this while going to the manual labor board.
It was hard to see the age of people my age.

Even young, in their 30s.
It’s not really a lie at all, I’ve seen it even in my 70s. Of course, grandpas in their 70s don’t just carry cement or bricks or clean up like me.

What did they say, patting the floor?
Or make a skeleton.

It seemed to be called some kind of technical job.

“Huh, I don’t know.”

In the eyes of those people, I’m only 20 years old, so I still look like a baby.
To be honest, I couldn’t even imagine myself being 30 years old.

‘Does turning 30 really come?’

There are still 10 years left.
Too far.

I can’t imagine that I will become more like those guys because I only think of it as a vague future.
I felt like I was going to age with this face and this personality.

[Everyone did.]

…… Right?

It’s not just me.
I wonder if everyone grew older while thinking the same thing as me, and found myself changed before I knew it.

[The subway is coming soon.]

Suddenly, while thinking about this and that, I realized.
I thought it wouldn’t be bad to read a book to solve these questions.

“…….”

These days, as I get busy with various things in real life, I feel that the time I spend in front of the computer is significantly reduced.
Games do not feel any of the pain of reality, they are only stimulating and enjoyable.
I realize that there is not much left for me unless I am a pro gamer.
Rather than that, I often wondered if there would be anything left to do at that time reading a book.

‘In the old days, I would go crazy if I didn’t play a game for one day.’

I thought I would never let go of games for the rest of my life even when I became an adult.

“…….”

Just a few days
For that amount of time, I was busy and only kept away from the game, but I thought I could get away with it this easily.
I don’t even want to play games like that these days.
Just good enough to pass the time.

It was the same with Yadong.

‘I thought my cock’s lifelong friend would be my right hand.’

The old me had no friends, no women I knew.
In the first place, I thought that I would never be able to meet a woman, so I was the king of porn that worried about what kind of porn I would watch every day for 1 or 2 hours.
Since getting the dungeon app, graduating from Ada in an instant isn’t enough, how many people have I already eaten?
As a result, the frequency of watching pornography has decreased drastically.

‘I…… I thought that having a relationship with a woman was just a story from a distant country.’

Even if it wasn’t necessarily the ability of the dungeon app.
If only I had really, sincerely tried…… I was able to be sure that I would have been able to date a woman even if I was the ugly me in the past.

“Under…”

But it’s kind of funny when you think about it like this.

“Really……There was no way I knew that at the time.”

I can see that fact because I came out of the well through the dungeon app.
However, at that time, I was the frog in the well.
It was also a passive frog full of poison of distrust and fear of people. There’s no way a guy like that could know that.

Isn’t it ironic
It was like a Columbus egg.

It’s easy when you know
However, if you don’t know, it’s more difficult than any other problem in this world.
Because I know that little difference.
I feel a little more confident than before.

[The door to get off is on the right, on the right.]

“Benefit!”

I am still afraid and embarrassed to face strangers, and scared to face unfamiliar things that I do not know how to do.
Nonetheless, it was somewhat acceptable.

‘It’s only natural that I can’t do it if I don’t know.’

Put an iron on your face
Instead, I don’t consider it a right to not know. Because I don’t know, I work even harder so that I can do my part as quickly as possible.

[Dongwon Apartment]

“Hello! My name is Kim Dong-hyun, who was introduced to me by the manpower manager this time!”
“Uh, is that Donghyun Kim who was supposed to come today? How old are you?”
“I’m 20 years old!”
“Heh heh, this is a very young person again.”

When I came to the place the manpower manager told me about, my grandfather was waiting in front of the already built apartment, preparing for work.
As I said before, these are things that people in their 70s can see at most. The grandfather in front of me is estimated to be in his 60s.

“I wish you well today!”
“Okay, the job itself isn’t that difficult, so don’t be too nervous. Instead, it could be dangerous, so let’s just pay attention to safety.”
“Yep!”

Maybe it’s because her grandfather her is more than 40 years different from me.
Rather, I thought I was much more comfortable than people with vague differences.
On the one hand, it was a little pity that I was doing this kind of work at my age.

「Flicker!」

‘Is it okay to feel sorry for you….’

I also heard a little bit of caution, thinking that thinking that I feel sorry for working at an old age is itself deception.
However, I think it would be right for me to take a break while receiving pocket money from my children when I get to that age.

“Hehe, then let’s get ready soon. You have to hang the rope well, the rope.”

However, the expression of the grandfather who is working again is so bright, it seems that my thoughts are wrong.

‘If I had been a smart person who had read a lot of books, I would have known the correct answer, right?’

Since I am a no-nonsense person who watches anime and plays games every day, I must be unable to properly judge things like this.
As I thought about this and that, things began to happen before I knew it.

The job itself wasn’t that difficult.
Just cleaning
The problem is the place.

「Kikii profit!」

“Oops, the wind is blowing a little hard today.”
“Hee!”

It is cleaning on the unstable support of the 30th floor high outer wall. The support is so crude that it feels as if the floor will collapse if I step on it with great force.
Besides, it’s still around the middle or end of March, so the spring breeze is still a bit strong. Whenever the wind blows hard, the support pole shakes with a squeaking sound.
Well, in preparation for the primary safety and secondary safety, the rope was firmly tied.

‘I can understand why they pay 250,000 won per day.’

If I look down or to the side while cleaning, I feel like I’m about to fall over because my legs are so weak.
I feel like I’m going to faint from dizziness if I don’t hold the rope with one hand because I’m scared.

“Eww…”

Unlike me, who cleans while shivering, my grandfather is cleaning the outer wall leisurely with a calm expression, as if there is nothing scary about it.
Instead, since I’m older, I tend to rest quite often, probably because my back hurts.
Every time that happened, he strongly encouraged me to take a break, so I had no choice but to take a break. Of course, there was nothing to do during the break, so we had no choice but to talk about this and that.

It was mainly what I was asking for.
In a way, one of the biggest concerns of today’s generation…….

“Grandfather.”
“Yes?”
“You are so old, don’t you get tired from working like this all the time? If I hadn’t married, I might have lived happily alone.”

We know it when we look at Korea’s smashed birth rate.
Everyone is afraid of getting married.

And it was the same for me.
Well, it’s true that I’ve gotten a bit more comfortable with the dungeon app, but I’m sure everyone will think about it.
If you get married, you won’t be able to live as comfortably as you do now.
If I live alone, I can live doing everything I want to do even if I earn moderately, but when I get married and have children, in the end we have to live by sacrificing ourselves.

“Haha…… Uhm, don’t get married.”

At my question, Grandpa burst into a small laugh with an expression that he really didn’t know.

“That is an unimaginable question. Marriage is a must.”
“…….”

It is clear that the generations are different.
Fundamentally, the mindset itself is different.
I still wanted to hear it.

“Why?”

I wondered what kind of mindset my parents’ generation lived with.