Chapter 320 – You Said You Wanted to Come to Our Company

“Uh, you, you… !”

“Father, Father?”

“Self!”

Recognizing that it was her father, her mother immediately hugged him. He hugged his wife with her sturdy build, but her father still looked at me in amazement.

“You, you, why are you here?”

“No, my father, why are you here…”

“I came to see my wife.”

Father, who still said with a surprised face, hugged mother, who was the purpose of coming here. Even so, he did not erase his doubts toward me.

“Honey.”

He asked her mother, who hugged him happily.

“Why was Honey with Jiheon?”

“Uh? I came to go shopping with Mr. Jiheon?”

Her mother pointed at me at the remarks made by her happy husband.

“Mr. Jiheon decided to make rice cake soup at my house. But there was no rice cake, so I came to shop for a while. I didn’t know how to meet my husband like this! Oh, I love it, really!”

Mother hugged her father with an expression I had never seen before. She didn’t stop there, jumped up and down in her place, and put her face on her chest in a suit.

“No, can’t we just buy rice cakes at the mart?”

My father’s questioning mouth rose little by little. Then, when her mother hugged her tight enough to make her tremble, she was wearing a perfect smile.

The couple hugged each other for a while, then the woman in the food tasting section separated them.

“Hey, customer?”

“Oh, sorry.”

“Sorry. Because I am so happy.”

“Excuse me.”

The three of us politely apologized and exchanged seats for a while. Even if it did change, it was only a few steps away from the tasting corner.

When the three of us came to a place where we could talk, my father asked a question first.

“Honey, why are you shopping with Jiheon?”

“Oh, that’s it.”

My mother, who had only smiled since my father came, explained.

“You said it earlier. He said he came to buy rice cakes because he didn’t have them. But there was no olive oil, so I came to buy it. My baby loves the salad I made!”

Her mother, who had been talking with a really happy face, told me in a shrill voice how happy she was. Seeing such a face, my father laughed for a moment and then turned his head to me.

“Jiheon. Really?”

“Yes yes. It’s real.”

“…”

Even after hearing my words that it was real, my father stared blankly at me. Then he looked at the items in the cart he had been dragging around and asked curiously.

“You don’t have rice cakes?”

“Oh, it just came here. But why is your father here? Wasn’t it a plane yet?”

“It’s not? I arrived a long time ago, and I heard from So-hee that Honey was here.”

“Is it so.”

“Yes.”

“…”

“…”

After the story was over, I had nothing to say. My mother laughed with tears in her mouth as she was only looking at my father whom she hadn’t seen in a long time, and my father and I looked into each other’s eyes.

“But there you are!”

Then my father laughed awkwardly and brought up a story.

“You’re not perfect, right? You haven’t been to the army yet, have you?”

It was a sensitive subject for me, who has to go to the army this year, but I thought it would be better than leaving this situation unattended.

“Ah yes! I haven’t gone yet. I’m only going to do one semester this year.”

“Really? Our team leader is from a Navy SEAL, and he was more afraid of you than he was.”

“Ah, ah, can it be? How scared I was earlier.”

“Am I more scared? Oh, really Just thinking about it gives me goosebumps.”

Father ran his palms on both forearms as if cold. Seeing that, her mother smiled and said,

“Now I just buy rice cakes and olive oil and go back. I will wait for you guys.”

“Is that so?”

“Oh, I will push the cart.”

Reluctantly, I grabbed the handle of the cart and pulled it. Seeing me like that, my mother and father dissuaded me.

“Oh, no, Jiheon. We will.”

“It’s okay, Jiheon. We’ll do it.”

“That’s Okay.”

Of course, they couldn’t give it up easily just because they did it.

“I’ll just do it. No, I’ll take care of the market, so you two just go in.”

“You can’t do that, with someone else’s precious son.”

“It’s okay, Jiheon. Just go together You don’t have to worry about us.”

“Still,”

“Jiheon. Are you okay?”

“We can’t make Jiheon suffer. Come on, let’s go.”

My mother went ahead with her father as if not to listen to me. The way he was considerate and acted recklessly was very similar to the Demon King.

No, does the demon king resemble his mother?

I smiled and walked through the grocery store with my father and mother.

“Oh my goodness. Wouldn’t they like this, honey?”

“Kids these days don’t really like car. Jiheon, what do you think?”

“Yes? Te ● is doing better these days. Sohee buys only that.”

“Kids don’t know the taste of maturity.”

“Therefore. This one tastes better. Let’s put it in this.”

I don’t know why you asked if you’re going to make up your own mind.

Still, he didn’t complain, he put the bundle of cans in his shopping cart and didn’t stop.

“Ah, honey! Let’s go buy some sweets over there!”

“Didn’t you come just to buy rice cakes and olive oil?”

“How can a sparrow just pass by the mill? Go quickly.”

“Alas.”

Mother caught the eye of the display stand of sweets and headed there. Father, seeing her like that, smiled as if he couldn’t help it and followed. Of course, I followed suit.

“Jiheon.”

While her mother was choosing which one to buy, her father asked in a low voice.

“But where are you going?”

“Yes? What?”

“No, it’s time for you to go to the army.”

Oh that was it

I had heard the word military before, but the more I heard it, the more I could only sigh. Being in front of my father, I answered the question while barely holding back my sigh.

“I just want to go to the army where everyone else goes.”

“Army? You want to go to the Special Forces?”

“No. I’m just going to be a soldier.”

“It’s difficult if you’re not a noncommissioned officer…”

When I said that I was going to be a soldier, my father frowned. He tilted his head and looked at me again.

“If you go as a soldier rather than a noncommissioned officer, it will be difficult to recognize your career. Are you okay?”

“A career? What career do you have?”

“No, you said you wanted to come to our company. That’s what I said.”

“… Yes?”

For a moment, I couldn’t understand what he was saying. It was natural for him to be embarrassed when he asked if he was going to come to the mercenary company out of the blue.

“I heard you right,”

My father was also embarrassed and revealed the source of this story.

“Sohee said. You want to do this That’s what I heard, isn’t it?”

“No.”

“No, I really heard that.”

“You didn’t hear me wrong? I never said anything like that.”

“Okay?”

When I said no, my father continued to put on an expression that he didn’t know why. Then he nodded and continued.

“Okay. Then I must have heard wrong.”

“Yes. It seems like that. But did Sohee say that?”

“Huh. I said that on the last video call. You say you’re interested in this.”

I never said anything like that…

While I was wondering this, my mother brought an armful of cookies.

“Babe. This one.”

“Uh, yes.”

When her mother called, her father immediately reached out and held out the snack bags for him. Then he dropped them into the shopping cart and told me.

“Then are you going to enlist as a soldier?”

“Yes. I think so.”

“Where. Army? Air Force? Navy? Where are you going?”

“That hasn’t been decided yet.”

“Wait for a sec.”

After my mother joined us, we moved from place to place little by little. I moved to get olive oil, one of the original purposes.

“Babe.”

My mother, who had completely forgotten I was there, put her arm around her father’s arm. She crossed her arms like that and leaned her beautiful silver hair on her thick shoulder, she said.

“It’s so nice to be shopping with you like this.”

“Yeah, me too. But honey.”

“Huh?”

“There is Jiheon next to me.”

“… Ah”

Finally, my mother noticed my presence. I thought she was dying of awkwardness watching the chickens grow from the side, but she was fortunate.

“I’m sorry, Mr. Jiheon!”

Recognizing my gaze, my mother hurried away from her father. She then apologized to me with her face flushed red as if she was ashamed.

“It’s been a while since I’ve seen him, so I’m so happy to stop,”

“Are you okay. It was nice to see.”

“Yes. We look so good.”

“Ah yes.”

It meant that it was nice to see the two of them chatting, but it seemed to mean something different to my mother.

While talking about other things besides this, I put olive oil in the cart. Now, the only thing left is to go get the rice cake for the rice cake soup.

“Jiheon.”

My father, still clinging to my mother, continued the story he was talking about earlier.

“You haven’t decided where you’re going yet?”

“Yes. I want to go to the army just like everyone else.”

“If that’s the case, just go to the Air Force, Air Force. They say it’s good there.”

“Is it so?”

“Uh. The period is the longest, but they take a lot of vacations and don’t work. You have a night shift. Did you see it in a movie or something?”

“Are you guarding your surroundings with a gun at night? Yes, I know.”

“If you go to the Air Force, you don’t stand like that, no, it’s not like you don’t stand at all. If it’s a military police, it’s Seoji. And if you’re in the Air Force, you might have a good experience because you have connections. Do you want to?”

What would be a good experience to go to the military?

“Ugh, honey!”

At this time, her mother lashed out at her father like her child.

“Don’t just talk to Jiheon, look at me too.”

Seeing that, my father awkwardly nodded while looking at me.

“Uh, yes. But Jiheon.”

“Yes?”

“There was something I wanted to ask you.”

“Yes, please.”

“No, it seems like Se-hee has a boyfriend? Do you know who he is?”

“… Yes?”

“Last time I-“

“Self! Do you want to see me?”

My mother wasn’t just playing around. It was just helping me. With this, the immediate crisis was over, but the real crisis remained.