Chapter 546 – Eat Slowly. No One Steals It

To be honest, I wouldn’t have eaten On Soba if Mina hadn’t recommended it. Even if it’s a cool air-conditioned store, I came in after basking in the midsummer heat. Of course, cold was better than warm.

It wasn’t just the temperature that I didn’t like. Herring in warm soup, it was obvious that it would be fishy. When I heard that there was a herring in there, it reminded me of a unique British food I had seen on the Internet.

However, the appearance of the herring soba when I came to the store was more ordinary than I thought. The only thing in the hot soy sauce soup was buckwheat noodles and simmered herring. There was nothing I had imagined in the bowl without even a digging name.

Yes, it could have been like this. Kyoto is a famous tourist destination that many students from Japan come for school trips. There was no way they could sell noodles with a whole herring in such a place.

Thinking this far, I added pagomyeong and grated radish, which were served separately, as Mina told me. Then, mixing the noodles roughly with chopsticks and putting them in your mouth, a strong fishy scent came up.

“Hmm!”

This wasn’t my moan because of the stench. It was an exclamation felt at the pleasantly dripping noodles, the sweet and salty taste and rich savory taste of the broth, and the fishy scent rising just right.

“Huruk! Slurp! Slurp! Hmm!”

With my mouth full of noodles, I was greedy to feel this scent more intensely. Instead of a spoon, he lifted it with a bowl and added warm soup to the buckwheat noodles.

“Oops, um!”

I was distracted by chewing noodles for a while. Made with buckwheat, the noodles broke as soon as they were chewed, and I drank the broken strands along with the sweet and salty soup.

“Whoa… !”

After eating a piece of herring soba with chopsticks, I lowered the bowl. At the same time, he conveyed his feelings to Minah, who was sitting across from him.

“Hey, this is delicious. You deserve a recommendation.”

“Didn’t I say it was delicious?”

“Therefore. So delicious, this. But, no, this is so delicious?”

I murmured and took another spoonful of soba. Minah looked at me with a soft gaze like a child, and next to her, the demon king noisily ate soba, no, she drank it.

“Hururururururuk! Hurulurururuk! Slurp! Hurulururururuk!”

As I was eating, Se-hee, who was sitting next to me, said a word.

“Sister, eat slowly. No one will steal it.”

“Then, Huruk! Who can take it away, so big!”

The demon king, who had been eating even while talking, frowned. Judging from the fact that the noodles were dipped in soy sauce earlier, it seemed that the wasabi flavor was strong.

“Really…”

Se-hee, who had been looking at me like that was cute, looked at me. She said to me with an expression not very different from when she looked at her own sister.

“Brother. What did you put in your mouth?”

“Uh? Where? Here?”

Right away, he raised her hand and gently brushed the corner of her mouth that Sehee pointed out. However, only a little bit of the soup spilled while eating noodles came out on my fingertips.

“Brother. Not there Here you go.”

“Hey, here?”

Se-hee pointed her hand at the corners of her mouth and let her know, but nothing came out this time, either.

“No, brother. What kind of baby are you?”

Sehee, who said as if she couldn’t help it, told me to stay still. Then, before I had time to react, he kissed me.

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“What?!”

He hurriedly leaned back at the soft touch of his lips.

“What is it, brother?”

Seeing my bewildered response, Sehee raised an eyebrow. She licked her lips at the same time she ate the piece of green onion that was attached to me with her tongue.

“If anyone sees it, they’ll think they’re having a fling.”

“Uh, no.”

“Let’s go eat. People see it.”

“No…”

Sae-hee smiled and took out her chopsticks, and with them, she scooped up the red salmon pieces of rice and ate it. Dumbfounded by what had just happened to her, I stared blankly at her unconcerned face as I corrected her posture.

“Big, sweet?”

“Yes that’s right. It’s like Jiheon and Sohee as usual.”

“Haha! Thank you for the compliment!”

“It’s not a compliment.”

And Mawang and Minah were looking at me and Saehee with happy eyes. I blushed at their sweet gaze and ate the soba from the bowl.

“Hey, um!”

I felt the intense sweetness of the herring meat in my mouth. It didn’t taste like sugar was thrown in, but it was a natural sweetness that came out as the umami was condensed.

“You.”

The demon king who took his gaze called me. After taking a bite of the fried shrimp that came with the soba, she asked about the taste.

“Is it delicious?”

“Yes, the herring is very sweet.”

“As much as Se-hee’s lips?”

“Ouch! Poop!”

I heard Sarae at the sudden question. It’s good that he chewed and swallowed the entire bite of the herring, but if he had been eating noodles, strands of noodles would have come out of his nose.

“Hey!”

“Ahahahaha!”

Even when I blushed and protested, the demon king only laughed shamelessly. She laughed as she weakly hit her table and looked at me without erasing the smile on her lips.

“I’m sorry for talking to you. Come on, eat.”

“Oh little.”

“You said you were sorry.”

I turned my gaze away from the Demon King, who was not sorry at all. The person looking at me this time was Se-hee, who had just kissed me.

“Why?”

I was so shy when we went to a motel together, but Se-hee, who made eye contact with me, didn’t mind. Rather, he picked up pickled vegetables from his side dish with chopsticks and held them out.

“Brother. Would you like some of this?”

“Uh? Town!”

“Now, since I ate this, it’s you who took away my brother’s green onion, right?”

Taking advantage of the gap when I opened my mouth to ask back, Se-hee quickly added pickled vegetables. Because of Se-hee’s boldness, I silently chewed on pickled vegetables like a mute who had eaten honey.

“Um…”

Mawang and Minah, who saw this from the front, shared their evaluations of this appearance.

“As expected, isn’t Jiheon making fun of this taste?”

“Yes that’s right.”

“So what! Eat quickly!”

Whatever I said, they were still brazen.

“This isn’t rice, just soba noodles?”

“The rice is being eaten by Sehee, who is sitting next to Jiheon.”

How can you not say a word! How!

Of course, I didn’t say this. I thought I would get caught if I said it, so instead of talking, I held up a spoonful of soba to fill my mouth.

“Um, but there it is.”

After purifying my mouth and mind with delicious hot soba, I hurriedly changed the subject.

“Then what are you going to do now?”

“I will answer.”

It was Mina who was sitting in front of her who opened her mouth. Having finished planning our trip, she told us what to do again.

“After lunch, we will go to the hotel to rest. If you would like to visit another place, please let me know right away.”

“Um, no.”

“Neither do I.”

“Me too. How do you get around when it’s this hot in the first place?”

What Sehee said at the end was right. Like I said just now, it was so hot that it was difficult to walk around outside. Had she been forced to wander in this heat, she might have collapsed without us knowing.

“Yes that’s right.”

Mina nodded her head and agreed, and said the next schedule.

“We plan to start sightseeing after 3:00 PM when the heat subsides. At that time, the planned destination was Fushimi Inari Taisha, which is as representative a tourist destination as Kiyomizu-dera Temple and Silver Pavilion, which we visited the other day and today.”

“Hmm, a thousand words are worth a thousand words. It would be better to show it in person.”

The demon king who was listening to today’s schedule next to him picked up his smartphone. After manipulating the screen for a while, she showed her phone to me.

“I bet you’ve seen this before.”

As she said that, the screen she showed was full of red, what is this, oh, torii gates. The torii gates I saw at the shrine entrance were somehow familiar.

“Oh, I think I saw this somewhere.”

“Oh! I guess you saw that too!”

“What is that?”

“You know that, that one!”

As if the demon king was pleased with my words, she opened her eyes wide and shouted.

“Here, the main character and the heroine enjoy public play!”

“What the hell did you see!”

“Hey, didn’t you do that cartoon?”

“What cartoon?”

“Hmm. That is a masterpiece.”

After muttering that, the demon king apologized to Mina.

“I’m sorry, honey. Keep explaining.”

“Yes, I understand.”

Even though she must have just heard the words right next to her, Mina said nothing.

“Fushimi Inari Taisha is a bit far from the accommodation, so it will take a while to get there. So, after having a simple meal nearby, we plan to eat again when we return to the accommodation.”

“Would you like to have two dinners?”

“No. She’s going to the bar Today is the last night in Japan, so I’m going to finish it off with a drink.”

“Uh, wait.”

Min-ah’s face frowned at what she had just heard. The reason for this expression was none other than the word.

“Today is your last night in Japan?”

“Yes that’s right.”

“Then, shall we go to Korea tomorrow?”

“Yes that’s right. Did you not hear when the return date is, Jiheon?”

“Of course I did this because I didn’t hear it.”

“Hmm? Didn’t you hear?”

“Brother? Really?”

When I said that they did not hear me, the demon king and Sehee also looked at me with puzzled expressions. Then, among them, her older sister brought up what had happened on the plane.

“You. Didn’t you write down the date of return when you filled out the immigration report? Don’t you remember?”

“You jokingly asked me to write “SEX” For the purpose of entering the country, so I wrote it again. Minah wrote it again.”

“Yes, I wrote it.”

As Minah nodded her head, she confirmed my words. The Demon King looked at me again and asked.

“Still, the examiner must have asked when entering the country.”

“You didn’t ask?”

“Oh, was it him?”

Se-hee told me the impression of the immigration officer she met at that time.

“A man with glasses and a little shaved head.”

“Do you look a little fat?”

“Yes, that person. Did he do it too?”

“Ah, yes. It did?”

“Isn’t he a bit rough? Even when I was doing it, I didn’t ask about that and passed it.”

“Okay?”

She nodded her head at that, but that wasn’t the point now.

“So, are you going to Korea tomorrow?”

“Yes that’s right.”

“Yes.”

“That’s it.”

Honestly, it was a bit disappointing. It was the first overseas trip in my life, and the last overseas trip before enlisting in the military. However, after hearing the end of such a trip the day before, there was no lack of regret.

“Yes, I see.”

Still, it wasn’t too bad. Just because the trip was over, it wasn’t like we broke up with Mawang, Se-hee, and Min-ah. I was able to see them in Korea, and it wasn’t a bad thing to be able to meet Taeyeon.

“Jiheon. Would you like to have more?”

“Oh, can you?”

“Yes that’s right. Instead, I have to go to work, so I am not there.”

“All right then. Let’s go to Korea together. Together.”

“I knew you would say that.”