Chapter 20 – Hi, How Are You?

It was around the time I was brushing my teeth that Yuri decided to go. After eating strawberries, the three of us talked. It was mostly like the devil talking nonsense and I told him not to talk nonsense.

Waking up and remembering not washing, I was brushing my teeth in the bathroom. Just then, a voice was heard from beyond the door.

“Jiheon, can I go now?”

I spit out the gargle and immediately opened the door. I saw her standing there with the beige bag I had bought her, visibly tucked in her eyes.

“Store?”

I thought that Yuri and the Demon King fought. The demon king was her notice that looked at her badly, and her glass was the same. But the demon king fiddled with her phone with a carefree expression, and Yuri didn’t look bad as if he had fought.

Yuri said to me as I looked at the two of them.

“I want to stay a little longer.”

She glanced sideways at the demon king who was touching her phone.

“I decided to have lunch with my mom and dad. Sorry.”

“No, no. Are you okay.”

“But there you are, Jiheon.”

The moment I was about to ask why?, Yuri tried to say something by moving only her mouth.

See you later in the hallway?

It was the demon king who noticed even this level of conversation in his room. She looked that way, but she was still focused on her phone.

I nodded her head and said to Yuri.

“Okay, see you again.”

“Okay. Senior! I’ll go.”

“Come~.”

The demon king was only focused on her phone, so the answer was rough. Seeing her like that, Yuri said “I’ll go” And left her room. I went back into the bathroom, rinsed her mouth, and followed the glass down the hallway.

“Here, here!”

Yuri gestured at me from the corner of the hallway. As I went there, she looked at me with worried eyes and asked.

“Have you been imprisoned by your senpai?”

“What?”

I didn’t understand what you were talking about.

“Your phone is off, and you suddenly went out on a group chat yesterday, did your senior order it?”

“Oh that.”

Turning off the power or leaving the group chat was because of hype. Especially in the case of the phone, I received several calls from a number I did not know if he had borrowed from someone else. At first, I just hit the reject button, but now it’s annoying, so I turned it off altogether.

Of course, I couldn’t say that, so I covered it up with lies.

“That’s nothing. When we bumped into each other yesterday, the taste went away. It was fine at first, but then turned off altogether.”

“What was the reason you left the group chat?”

“That… “

In the case of Dantok, there was not much to lie about. So, I decided to turn the topic around.

“But you know, have you contacted the department?”

When the exaggeration came out, Yuri’s pupils began to shake.

“Uh, why?”

“You heard the news yesterday. I saw that and called me, but I wondered if it hadn’t come to you.”

“Okay?”

A small smile bloomed on her lips as she answered my question.

“There was no call from Ha Jun, and even when I called, he didn’t answer.”

Seemed to tell the truth. Otherwise, there was no way I could be so relieved. Perhaps the mention of exaggeration itself seemed to be a cause for anxiety.

“Okay?”

“Huh! Really!”

Saying that, Yuri took out her phone from her bag.

“Look at this.”

It showed the call logs on the phone. There was a record of calling this morning and yesterday evening, and contacting my parents around lunchtime. However, she found that she had been contacted dozens of times from an unsaved number before that.

“!”

When I saw that, Yuri hurriedly turned off the screen and put it in her bag.

“Yeah, but you know, Jiheon-ah.”

Seeing her flustered appearance, it was probably an exaggerated phone number. It’s not like she didn’t know she was dating him, but I don’t know why.

At first, he pretended nothing was wrong.

“Why?”

“Yeah, so… “

She called me first and looked for something to say. Then she opened her eyes wide and asked if she had remembered anything.

“When will you be discharged?”

“Monday. They said they couldn’t leave the hospital on the weekend.”

“Okay? Can you come when I leave the hospital on Monday?”

At this time, Yuri looked at me with only her eyes raised like a puppy that had committed her wrongdoing. Thus her restlessness was strangely familiar. It’s the first time I’ve seen something like this, and I don’t know why it’s familiar.

“Oh, it doesn’t matter. But don’t you have to go now? He said he was having lunch with his parents.”

At my words, Yuri took out her phone and checked her time.

“Oh yes! I’m really going now!”

“Okay, see you on Monday.”

“Monday, no, tomorrow too! See you tomorrow!”

Saying that, Yuri walked down her hallway. I now turn around to go to the hospital room. Within a few steps, I reached the door to my hospital room and tried to open it. But suddenly, I felt her gaze in the direction where Yuri had disappeared.

“… !”

Turning her head, she saw something moving in the corner where they had just been talking. As I looked towards it, something round like hiding disappeared.

Could it be glass? Why are you watching me go in when you’re supposed to go?

I had such a question, but I went into the hospital room. The Demon King, who had been looking at his phone until he left, was now watching a movie on TV.

She asked if she sensed my presence, without even looking at me.

“Did the conversation with Yuri go well?”

“How did you know?”

“I followed him as soon as he left, so of course he went to talk. So what did you talk about?”

As I was looking at my phone, it seemed like I was noticing everything. First of all, I didn’t hide it very much, so I told you what I had talked about with Yuri.

“It’s nothing. Why is my phone off, why did I go out to chat, did I get kidnapped by you?”

While talking, I walked over to the patient’s bed. At the end, she was sitting on the bed. Anyway, after hearing that, the demon king turned to me and asked.

“Why does Jim have to kidnap you!”

“Yuri must have looked like that in her eyes. But it seemed like he couldn’t get in touch with Gwadae either.”

“Hmm, didn’t it sound like a lie?”

“No. That’s for sure.”

After that, we focused on the movie for a while. Then, shortly after the advertisement started, the demon king opened his mouth first.

“Your ‘plan’. Are you going to include glass as well?”

The question reminded me of my plan. After considering the variables and calculating, the result came out.

“Glass is necessary, but not essential. I don’t want to get involved in the plan.”

“Is it. Well, it’s your choice, so I won’t interfere. Oh yes, and.”

As if he remembered something, the demon king looked back at me.

“There will be no lunch today. So you know.”

“What?”

“Jim said earlier that you don’t have to give me lunch.”

“No, why are you starving for breakfast and trying to starve until lunch!”

“I’m starving, don’t say that. Isn’t Jim hurt?”

“I’m already hurt! On the arm too!”

“Don’t be so angry, just listen. Do you know what the three major nutrients are?”

The Demon King raised his hand to me. Her hand had her thumb, index and middle fingers extended.

“Carbs first. Didn’t you just eat a sandwich with bread in it?”

Made a stop

“Now it’s vitamins. I ate the strawberries Yuri bought.”

Lowered the index finger

“All that remains is protein.”

She gave me her thumb. And she said:

“Jim ordered chicken with that protein.”

“Demon King!”

It wasn’t like that for the three major nutrients, but I admired it while calling the demon king. After all, chicken contains a lot of fat.

On the other hand, when I called the Demon King out of respect, he laughed out loud.

“Uh haha! How is it! This is the majesty of the Demon King!”

“As expected, you are the Demon King!”

As a former warrior, it didn’t make sense to praise the demon king, but chicken was the food that made it possible. No one could dispute this truth.

“Praise Jim even more! More!”

“Demon King is more dazzling than the moon hanging in the sky, and brighter than obsidian embedded in the ground!”

“Uhaha, what is it?”

Smart

Right after the demon king stopped laughing, a knock was heard. Then, the door to the hospital room opened, and the person who had come in the morning and another nurse noona poked their heads through the door and said.

“Please be quiet for a little while.”

She said that and closed the door. I said to the closed door.

“Yes, sorry!”

While I apologized, the demon king looked at me with absurd eyes.

“How do you know that?”

“What.”

“The moon or obsidian?”

“I heard it when I was infiltrating.”

When he was a hero, he once hid into the capital of the demons. At that time, an event was being held, so I found a parade in progress. At that time, he saw the demon king for the first time, but he did not know that the bald head wearing armor was a woman.

She told the demon king that she remembered what the demons were shouting during the parade.

“Is that so? I never expected to hear something like that in this world.”

“Did you ever make me think of the old days? Sorry.”

“It’s okay. It’s just a little embarrassing. And let me tell you.”

Saying that, he suddenly smiled at me.

“It seems to be better than the Homunculus, which is known to be a hybrid of angels and royalty.”

“You do that!”

What she said was the setting for the hero’s birth. In fact, his body as a hero was a homunculus born in a secretly organized facility. It can’t be said that an existence to fight against the demon king was artificially created, so it was set up as a mixed blood between an angel and a royal family.

When I looked at it with a shocked look, the demon king smiled confidently and said.

“There is a saying, if you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you. Well, something like that.”

“Wow, demon dogs are scary.”

“Isn’t it the same with humans? It seems that demons are better in the first place.”

“But.”

Because it was human to cut the Hero’s throat as soon as he killed the Demon King.

However, the past is the past, and this was the modern age where the former demon king and the former hero could talk while laughing. This story was just a gossip.

Thinking so, she asked about the chicken.

“When is the chicken coming?”

“He will come in a little while. I ordered it before you went to brush your teeth.”

“Wasn’t that what Yu and I were talking about?”

“I was playing a game then.”

That’s why you were so focused.

At this time, the movie started again, and we focused on the movie. After about 10 minutes, the chicken arrived.

Smart

“Delivery has arrived.”

Before he had time to knock and answer, the door to the hospital room opened. A delivery man wearing a motorcycle helmet came in with an envelope full of chicken and found the beautiful demon king. Seeing a silver-haired Caucasian beauty, which is hard to see in Korea, this time she looked at me.

“… “

Staring at us, he laid down the chicken in front of us and left the room with his shoulders drooping.

I think I was mistaken for being the demon king’s boyfriend, but it wasn’t such a bad feeling.

When the chicken arrived, the demon king opened the package with a smile.

“Whoops! We have fuel to burn tonight!”

Can’t he just say something different? I can hear everything outside.

He finished preparing to eat chicken while making remarks that could be misunderstood. With the devil drinking chicken radish soup, I prepared to pick up a chicken leg. Then, somewhere, I heard the sound of an anime song.

He stopped his hand at the sudden sound and looked around him. The sound came from inside the devil’s pocket. She put down the chicken radish and pulled her phone out of the pocket of her sweatpants. She looked at the screen and opened her eyes wide in surprise, she said.

“Ji, Jim will be on the phone for a while. Stop eating and wait.”

As she said that, she left the room and looked back at me.

“You can’t eat first!”

“Okay, don’t eat.”

Perhaps relieved now, she opened the door to the hospital room and went out into the hallway, then spoke again.

“Never eat more than Jim!”

“I’m not eating!”

Only then did I leave the room and close the door.

I waited for the demon king to come while watching the movie. But she didn’t come, so I picked up my phone and turned it on. It was a calculation that since some time had passed since yesterday, the hype would have given up on calling me. However, even while turning on the phone, the demon king did not come in. I was bored and I was reading a webtoon I hadn’t seen yesterday, when I suddenly got a phone call.

“Ah.”

I stopped reflexively and couldn’t see who it was. Although this may be exaggerated. There was a possibility that it might be someone else, so I picked up the phone.

“Hello?”

-Hello?

What I heard was the familiar demon king’s voice. I thought she called and asked when she was coming.

“Why aren’t you coming? Come quickly before the chicken is left feeling of use.”

However, I had to know that the Demon King was not the one to call like this.

-I’m Sohee’s mother.

If so, you would have noticed that the demon lord’s mother called.