Chapter 319 – How Much Will Mr. Jiheon Break Up With You?

Perhaps because it was New Year’s Day, the roads seemed quieter than usual. I thought blankly as I watched the passage through the passenger side window into a deserted street.

“Jiheon.”

At this time, my mother, sitting in the driver’s seat, called me. Although she has mysterious silver hair like the demon king, she looked sideways at me with her face full of neat atmosphere.

“Jiheon, how much will you give me to break up with you two?”

“Yes yes?!”

The question was so out of the blue that she hurriedly turned her head to her mother.

“What, what do you mean by that?”

“Oh my, I’m sorry.”

Seeing me embarrassed, my mother was also embarrassed.

“I just asked without thinking, I didn’t expect to be so surprised. Sorry.”

“Then, you didn’t mean to break up with them, did you?”

“Of course not. I’ve been with my daughters for 20 years, but I’ve never seen her smile so happily. I’m the kind of person who thinks it would be nice if So-hee and Se-hee met Ji-heon for a long time.”

“Dig? What faction do you have?”

“It’s not like that. I’m just thinking to myself.”

That’s right, she thought to herself and nodded her head. Then she asked the question she had asked earlier.

“By the way, why did you ask the question you just asked?”

“No, there is such a thing, in a drama. That’s what her mother-in-law did while giving the heroine money. How soon are you going to break up?”

“Yes, there is such a thing.”

“I have been thinking about it from time to time. How long does it take to break up with the lover you love? So when does Jiheon think about breaking up? For reference, I am 10 billion.”

Mother spoke first, and I had to answer too. After thinking deeply, I came up with an answer.

“I am a billion.”

“Oh my goodness. Is it 1 billion per person?”

“Yes? No, one billion for both.”

“Isn’t 10 too few?”

“What is less, 1 billion.”

“Still, wouldn’t it be enough for three people to live like that? A house accident, a car accident, if you think about it, even 1 billion is just an instant.”

“Are you okay. Mina has a lot of money too.”

“Chairman Chae Min-ah?”

When the story of Minah came up, Mother seemed to think of something.

“By the way, Minah, what did you do on New Year’s Day? Is she busy even on a day like this?”

“I’m going to daycare.”

“A daycare? Could it be that Mina left her baby there? Was she Minah’s single mother? Or dolsing?”

“Oh, no. That’s not it.”

Her mother was a little reluctant to correct her misconceptions. She thought it was a bit dangerous to say that she came from a nursery school without the person’s permission.

“I know, Mr. Jiheon.”

But my mother knew about my troubles. She said, looking sideways at me with her all-seeing blue eyes, like her own daughter.

“You’re from Minah’s orphanage.”

“Uh? Did you know?”

“Of course. From now on, you will become a family. So I did some research on the internet.”

“… Is that on the internet?”

“When I searched, everything came up? And it’s listed on the company’s site. He said he came from an orphanage after high school.”

Why does he put it on the company site?

So while talking to her mother, I headed to the department store. Cars that were barely visible on the street began to be seen little by little as they got closer to their destination, and when entering the parking lot, even if they went up to the 5th floor, they could not see an empty seat.

“Mother, there you are.”

“Thank you, Mr. Jiheon.”

My mother moved her car to the empty seat I pointed to. She parked nicely and turned off the engine, she said.

“Jiheon, then what should we buy?”

“Tteok for rice cake soup and olive oil.”

“Yes, extra virgin olive oil.”

“X, yes?”

“Extra virgin. Shall we get off now?”

“Ah yes.”

I unfastened my seat belt and got out of the car. The peculiar smell of the parking lot entered my nose and I heard the sound of tires dragging. In the midst of that, I found a shopping cart.

“Mom, there is a shopping cart over there. Shall I bring you?”

“Yes, please, Mr. Jiheon.”

“Yes, hold on.”

Hearing the request, I smiled and headed to the place I had my eye on. When I pulled a shopping cart out of there, my mother greeted me.

“You came earlier than expected.”

“How long will this take?”

“Wait. Can I put this down?”

The mother put her handbag from her house into her shopping cart. She then suggested, standing next to me, releasing the scent of sweet condensed milk.

“Let’s go now. He will come in a little while.”

“Ah, yes, yes.”

“It’s good that the answer is energetic. Hohod”

It was a completely different reaction than my girlfriends. He was born as a demon king, but the atmosphere was like a goddess. Maybe I didn’t know what I wanted to look like.

“Ah, Mr. Jiheon. Beer is on sale here. I buy it when I buy rice cakes and olive oil.”

… She’s not even a real goddess. I’m a human, but I might like to drink.

With that rationalization, I passed through the automatic door and walked into the department store. It was crowded with people who considered it different from the quiet road earlier. Families or couples gathered together and pulled a cart like us.

I passed the checkout counter and walked towards the row of shelves, my mother suggested.

“Mr. Jiheon. Food is on the first basement floor, so let’s go there.”

“Yes. But does your mother come here often?”

“She’s not that often. About two or three times a month? Oh, when he comes, he will definitely come here. She only sells what he likes here, and then there’s that too.”

As the mother said, she pointed somewhere. As she turned her head to her delicate fingertips, she saw a park sign posted on the wall.

“There is a park over there. If the writing doesn’t work out, I’ll come for a walk.”

Come to think of it, she said she was a writer.

As we talked, she arrived in front of the escalator. She pushed the cart in and rode on it as she climbed the escalator. As she went down, she looked at the scenery going up and asked her mother.

“Mother.”

“Yes, Mr. Jiheon.”

“You said your mother was a writer.”

“Yes, it was. Why? Will Jiheon be a writer too?”

“Am I? No, how am I?”

“Why can’t you? Jiheon can also be a writer. Look.”

Mother pointed at herself as if she were telling her to look.

“I also make money as a writer. Give it a try.”

“I think it will be difficult.”

“It’s easier than you think, writing. Just think of it as writing down what comes to mind.”

“That’s easy to say.”

“Hoho, that’s right.”

“Mom, wait a minute.”

After chatting with each other, we arrived at the second floor in no time. I got off the escalator and got on the escalator going down to the first floor. And as we went down, we talked again.

“No, I was just curious what you were writing about.”

“What kind of writing are you asking about? Fantasy or daily life, something like that?”

“Yes.”

“If you ask me that, I have no choice but to say that I write everything. I’m the type to spend everything that makes money.”

“You write anything?”

“Yes. I don’t have enough money to write only the ones I like. There are cases like that. Even Conan Doyle originally wanted to write a historical novel, not a mystery novel, but since it was money, he continued to write Sherlock Holmes even after it was finished.”

“I didn’t know that.”

“Is that the case with Dragon? I was going to finish it, but since it became popular, I was forced to write it halfway. I didn’t even draw the background because it was annoying to draw the background. I liked that too, people.”

“You didn’t draw the background?”

“There you are. The Room of Time and Justice.”

“Ah, are you there? Oh, wait.”

We finally reached the first floor. Before going down to my destination, the grocery store, I reached for the snack stand near the escalator. There, he picked up a snack Se-hee would like and put it in the shopping cart.

“Oh my goodness.”

Seeing that, her mother was delighted and raised the corner of her mouth.

“Do you like this too, Jiheon? Sehee likes this too.”

“Yes, that’s why I bought it.”

“Oh my god. Are you thinking of another woman when you are with me?”

“… You are your mother’s daughter.”

“Oh my, it was! Oh ho ho!”

This face was not very different from that of the Demon King. Her stern expression on her will, and her funny smile when she pointed it out reminded me of her.

“It’s like that again, again.”

Took

“Huh?”

Suddenly, my mother touched my nose with her index finger like pushing a button. She was even surprised by the sudden action, and her heart skipped a beat.

But she, who doesn’t know me like this, asked with a mischievous smile.

“Did you think of another woman? Who is this time? Sohee? Sehee? Or is it Minah?”

“Oh, mother.”

“Yes yes? Me?”

The moment I saw the smile disappear, I realized I had made a mistake. After hearing what she said, she quickly turned her head away from me and apologized to her in a hurry.

“Sorry, Mother! I don’t mean that.”

“That’s Okay.”

“Really just, yes?”

“It’s okay. I want to go down quickly.”

He seemed very upset. He turned his head to me and didn’t show his face until he got on the escalator.

While going downstairs, I thought I was suffocating and dying. I couldn’t talk to my mother because of the awkward atmosphere, and I was so anxious that I didn’t even think to look at my smartphone.

Fortunately, the first basement floor was filled with lively air. Employees shouting at the top of their heads and touting customers, smiling happily as they pass by. And the sound of department store singing from the ceiling.

In such an atmosphere, even my mother, who was angry enough to turn her ears red, seemed to be relieved in no time. She hoped so, and they strolled down the first basement floor.

“Oh, there mother.”

I forcefully pointed to the tasting corner pretending to be bright.

“There are dumplings over there, would you like to try them?”

“Great.”

My mother still didn’t look back at me. Thinking she was lucky that she replied that she was fine though, she approached the tasting corner.

“Hello.”

“Yes! Hello!”

The lady who was cooking the dumplings brightly accepted my greeting. Then she glanced at me and her mother, and it looked good, she said.

“Oh my, it seems her couple came out together. Are you newlyweds? It looks great!”

“!”

“Yes yes? No, it’s not like that.”

I came with my mother-in-law, but seeing that she said that, it seemed like she wanted to sell dumplings. Of course, my mother looked out of place for her age of thirty-eight. Compared to the demon king, she looks like her older sister.

“!”

But at this time, I felt an indescribable sensation. The chill down my spine and the feeling of my hair standing on end, it was a murder that I thought I would never feel after coming to this world.

I looked around with a sidelong glance, wondering who was sending me this kind of life. However, I was so used to living a peaceful life that I couldn’t react even when someone grabbed me by the back.

Chin!

“Hey.”

It was like a rough saw blade. Even the hands holding my nape gave the impression that I couldn’t get out of it one by one.

Still, the name was a warrior. As long as he had crossed countless lines of fire, he couldn’t do anything even if he was scared.

“Who are you?”

He turned his head while asking lowly as if growling. At the same time, I heard the voice of the man holding me.

“What are you doing clinging to someone else’s girl, nya?”

“Uh?”

“Uh, you, you… !”

“Father, Father?”

“Self!”

Sehee: older brother

Sehee: older brother

Sehee: older brother

Se-hee: Dad says he’s going to the department store to meet mom.

Sehee: Brother?

Me: Can you tell me about that over the phone?

Sehee: I’m in the middle of a game.

Sehee: Please buy me some snacks when you come.

Se-hee: Unni wants to buy me a beer

Me: ㅗ

Sehee: concave

Sehee: I’ll keep this warm