Chapter 509 – I Will Punish Jiheon

After touring Osaka Castle, we headed to the Osaka Museum of Housing and Living. After walking for a bit, I got on the subway and walked a little bit to reach the place where I arrived in front of a certain gray building.

“Uh? Is this right?”

Seeing me hesitate, Mina nodded her head.

“Yes that’s right. Aren’t you out there?”

“Where?”

“It is written on a pillar over there.”

As she turned her head to where Mina pointed, her Korean words caught her eye. As I heard, it said Osaka Museum of Housing and Living.

“The museum is located on the 8th floor of the building. Please follow me.”

Follow her instructions and enter the building. After passing through the entrance with automatic doors, take the elevator on the right and go up.

When I reached the 8th floor, a museum-like entrance appeared. After passing through the entrance painted green, the staff at the information desk greeted us.

“Sumimasen.”

Responding in awkward Japanese to the kindly smiling staff, I held out my card with both hands. It wasn’t like a debit card, but an Osaka Pass that allowed you to enter these tourist spots for free along with a transportation card.

“Yes, sorewo…”

The employee who saw the pass in my hand pointed to the barcode machine installed on the desk while he was speechless. It seemed to me to put a card into the machine.

Beep!

“Yes, I am sorry. I am sorry.”

Following the machine sound, the staff gave us the ticket and spoke in Japanese. It seemed like it was okay.

Now that my turn was over, it was Mina’s turn. I moved to the side and Mina made a pass to the machine like I did earlier.

“… Hey, I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.”

But this answer came a little later than before. I noticed that and tried to look at the staff, but Minah, who received the ticket, moved first.

“Jiheon. We will depart now.”

“Okay. Wait for a sec.”

I picked up a pamphlet at the information desk. As a tourist destination, it wasn’t only in Japanese, but I picked up the one in Korean among many languages. Then he held out his hand to join hands.

“Now, let’s go.”

“… Yes, I understand.”

Mina was also a little strange. She raised her hand to catch it right away, but it took a second or two to catch it.

I left the desk with Mina, thinking that I would ask why later. Mina followed and asked.

“Jiheon. Why did you bring that?”

“Uh? What?”

“The pamphlet.”

“This? To see while watching.”

“I can explain it to you.”

“Uh, so…”

I couldn’t tell you honestly. ●I want to know the information certified by the museum rather than the information from Muwiki, ah!

She gave the pamphlet in her hand to Mina and said.

“I thought it would be nice if you read this. So I brought it.”

“Is that so.”

“Of course. Your voice is as good as your pretty face.”

“Yes, I understand.”

Minah, who nodded her head, continued her words while accepting her pamphlet.

“I will pass.”

“What, what?”

“It’s nothing.”

Mina, who left a meaningful remark, opened her pamphlet. But she didn’t explain, she just watched.

“What’s the matter?”

“No.”

When I asked, he shook his head lightly and read the explanation aloud. I stepped on the stairs while listening to the explanation.

The explanation ended when I went up to the ninth floor. I thought it was over faster than I thought, but Mina brought out her unexpected words.

“Above, this is the information obtained from ●Muwiki.”

“What?!”

“It’s a joke. This is information from a pamphlet.”

“Oh yeah?”

“Yes. The information here was not on the wiki.”

I walked along the hallway on the ninth floor thinking that I was lucky. As I continued walking, I came to a fork in the road, and if I went straight ahead, I thought I would see the inside of the museum.

“Jiheon. Please come this way.”

But Minah led me to the right instead of the front.

“Uh, why?”

“If you go there, they say you can rent a kimono.”

“Kimono?”

“Japanese traditional clothing is called a kimono.”

“Okay? Do you want to wear it?”

“Jiheon, don’t you want to see me in a kimono?”

“Let’s go.”

I moved right away without thinking. Rather than Mina wearing a kimono, I was excited at the thought of seeing a different Mina.

… But I wasn’t the only one who was excited.

“Why am I wearing it?”

After a while, I rented a navy blue kimono and went outside to wait. I checked the navy blue kimono I was wearing while waiting for Mina.

Maybe because it was for rental, the kimono I rented here was a way to put it on top of my clothes like a coat. It was thin and the air conditioner was weak inside, so it wasn’t hot, but it didn’t feel uncomfortable.

“It suits you well, Jiheon.”

At this time, Mina’s voice was heard. When she raised her head, she caught her eye, wearing a dark red kimono.

“Oh, it’s Mina.”

Seeing Mina approaching, she was momentarily stunned. Her chocolate-dark skin matched well with the wine-colored kimono, and the gorgeous purple floral patterns on the fabric made my heart race.

“Yes, are you pretty?”

Nothing came to mind except the word pretty. But Mina saw me and said something else of her own.

“Thank you. Jiheon like that looks appetizing.”

“Hey?!”

“Be quiet, Jiheon. It is a public facility.”

“Is it okay to say that in public facilities?”

“I will. However, Jiheon is not.”

“What is he saying now.”

She held out her hand as she flinched. Minah held her hand right away, unlike the way she did in front of the desk earlier.

“Let’s go now.”

“Yes, I understand.”

Together, she walked down the hallway and entered the entrance she had just entered. As I continued walking, a long window came out, through which I could look down at tile-roofed houses of a different style from Korean ones.

I stood for a moment looking down at the tile-roofed houses with Mina, then secretly glanced to the side. In fact, there was one thing I had been deliberately ignoring. It was her breasts that stood out more than usual because of the belt she wore around her abdomen.

I knew very well that Minah was big. She looked that way too, and I saw her wearing nothing. But since she was wearing a kimono, I felt a strange charm.

“I understand, Jiheon.”

At this time, Mina called me. She raised her gaze hurriedly and she met her eyes looking down at me.

“I will buy it later as a souvenir.”

“What, what?”

“I will not forget Jiheon and buy it. Be at ease.”

“So what?”

“I mean. I wonder what it is too. Please come this way.”

Mina, who didn’t look curious at all, took me and moved on. She passed through a long window overlooking tile-roofed houses, and a staircase came out. She went down there and walked down the street she looked down.

The first place that greeted us was a street that looked like a shopping district. Various Japanese products were displayed in the open wooden building, and tourists like us went to look at them.

“Oh, Minah. Look over there If you go over there, I saw it in the anime.”

“What are you talking about?”

“There’s a fox mask over there.”

“Yes, I understand. I will buy it.”

“I didn’t ask you to buy it! I just wanted to see you out of curiosity!”

“I know. I just did it because it seemed like a good fit for me.”

“Uh, yes? Sorry.”

“Isn’t it a good mask when eating Jiheon?”

“I am not sorry at all! At all!”

“It’s okay. Then I will buy it.”

“It’s okay. Uh, is this just a decoration? I can’t live.”

“Sorry.”

“It must be very unfortunate.”

I passed the shopping street while talking so loudly. Then, all of a sudden, everything turned red.

“Uh, what is it?”

I was startled and hurriedly looked around. I was the only one who was embarrassed by the reddened surroundings.

“Didn’t you know, Jiheon?”

Seeing me like this, Mina explained.

“Here, night and day are created artificially.”

“Is that so?”

“It was also in my explanation. Didn’t you hear?”

“Oh, no, I did. But, that, that…”

“…”

“Your voice is so good, I couldn’t hear it because I was enjoying it.”

“Is that so.”

The moment Mina nodded her head, saying okay, the surroundings, which were as red as the sunset, became dark. As the light from her eaves shined on her face, a rather creepy remark was heard.

“Once at the desk, once here. Now there is only one left.”

“Uh?”

“It’s a strikeout system, Jiheon.”

“No, what is that?”

“Now I will look around. I will move.”

Her slightly pouty Mina tugged at her hand, revealing her own feelings. But she looked at the surrounding buildings and stopped her steps as if she had pouted.

“Jiheon. Look at that Isn’t it pretty?”

Minah turned her head to follow her hand as she pointed. I saw small dolls lined up side by side in a cabinet that was stacked step by step like a staircase. As she said, the dolls the size of her palm looked pretty one by one.

“Oh, so. Pretty.”

“Yes that’s right.”

Seeing Mina sympathize with her, she suddenly felt a sense of playfulness.

“It’s Mina. Would you like to buy one?”

“Isn’t that a non-matching dance?”

“Still, if I look around, I wonder if there are places that sell them besides here?”

“No, Jiheon. It’s okay.”

“Why not. Because I buy it Oh, did I buy it with your money?”

“That’s not what I meant, Jiheon.”

Mina shook her head and looked at me. Then she stroked my hair with her hand, which had pointed to her doll.

“I have Jiheon, who is cuter than a doll, right?”

“!”

Along with the stroking hand, those words came to my heart intensely. At this point, she had no choice but to blush and bow her face like a teenage girl.

At my reaction, Mina lowered her hand and said,

“Look. Aren’t you cute?”

“No, what…”

“Don’t be shy. It’s cuter.”

It was after sunrise that I came back to my senses. I shook my face, which was still hot, as it became brighter everywhere, just like when I first entered this place.

“Oh, okay. Let’s go!”

“Yes, I understand. I will do as cute Jiheon tells me to.”

“Noisy, a little.”

I moved quickly to get away from the place where the embarrassing memory occurred. After quickly passing through the shopping district, this time I came to a residential area.

Unlike the shopping district, the residential area was somewhat hidden. In the visible building, various daily necessities were placed so that people could understand the way of life at the time, and people could enter and exit where they could not be seen.

Recognizing that, Mina said she looked at the people who came and went.

“Jiheon. It looks like we can get into the building.”

“Oh, so. Shall we go together?”

“Yes, I understand. Take the lead.”

“Okay.”

As Minah told me, I took the lead and entered the building. I was a bit excited because I was able to enter directly unlike what I had only seen in the shopping district.

When I went inside, I was able to observe household items closer than I had seen from the outside. In addition, there was even a place where you could go up if you took off your shoes, so it was more fun.

“It’s Mina. Let’s go up here.”

“Yes, I understand.”

When she heard that she knew, she took off her shoes and stood on the Japanese mat called tatami mat. As she turned her head to wait for Mina holding her hand,

Right!

“Ah.”

I found Mina hitting her head on a ceiling beam. For her taller side, this seemed too small for her.

But that’s it, and since Mina bumped her head against her, she was so compared to the previous one that made my heart flutter. I asked with a smile at the seemingly reversed position.

“It’s Mina. Are you okay?”

“Yes, it’s fine. But Jiheon.”

“Huh?”

“Did you laugh when you saw me sick?”

What is it, are you angry?

At first, I tried to explain that I wasn’t laughing because it was funny.

“No, not that, because you’re cute.”

“No, Jiheon. It is already too late.”

“Sorry”

“All right. It’s already too late. Once at the desk. Once in a shopping mall. And here it is once. Now that we have passed the final point, we will punish Jiheon.”

“No, I’m sorry…”

No matter how much I apologized, Mina was adamant.

“Jiheon crossed the line three times, so you must buy at least three at the souvenir shop here.”

“… Is that a punishment?”

“If it’s not enough, go with 5,”

“No! It’s okay! Three is enough!”