Chapter 70 – Meal Meeting?

Friday evening. Mawang went home because his father said he would return from a business trip, and I lay on the bed in my own room and fidgeted with my cell phone.

In the middle of that, the phone suddenly rang. The caller was none other than my mother.

I pressed the call button without thinking, wondering what was going on.

“Yes, hello.”

-Jiheon! Are you full of glass?! You?

As soon as I called, I heard my mother’s voice in surprise.

– No, you liked Yuri that much! You said you were going to marry Yuri later!

“It was,”

– Besides, I heard that Yuri confessed first! But why tea ?!

Ah, that’s why I didn’t want to tell you…

Even my parents knew that I liked Yuri. I liked her since elementary school and became friends, so my parents and her parents knew each other.

It wasn’t that there wasn’t a part that bothered me, but I knew that the question would be long, so I quickly admitted it.

“Oh, it’s full.”

-It’s full, but it’s not going!

“No, you say it’s cold. It’s not full, but you can’t say it’s full.”

-That’s still it! Well, anyway.

A long sigh was heard over the phone.

-Anyway, it’s time for you from tomorrow.

Before I could even think, the answer came out immediately.

“No, I can’t.”

-Oh yeah? That’s right, you are busy!

“Am I busy?”

– You’re busy! I have to help at the restaurant tomorrow!

“Uh?”

-The part-time job suddenly took a break, so you only need to help me until this weekend. Understand?

“Uh? No, Mom!”

– Then see you tomorrow, my son! Love you! Pop

For that reason, I had to serve pork soup at the restaurant today.

“Here is your order!”

“Yes, I am going! Wait a minute!”

“When do you do the calculations!”

“Go now!”

On weekend evenings, the soup restaurant was extremely busy. When I tried to take an order, they told me to pay at another table, when I finished paying and tried to clear the empty table, a customer came in, and when I tried to serve a basic side dish, my mother told me to serve rice soup.

“Jiheon! Soup at number 6!”

“All right! Song!”

I hurriedly loaded the basic side dishes onto the cart and dragged them to the soup bowl. The soup overflowed a little from carrying it so quickly that it touched my hand, but there was no room for pain.

I was working hard ignoring the pain, but my mother started talking to me.

“I’ll give you a part-time job later, so let’s work hard?”

My mother, a merchant who has gained moderate weight and smiles like an ordinary lady. With her brown-dyed hair cut below her ears, and her short stature, she could easily be seen as a chubby boy.

I grumbled at my mother, who was smiling naturally.

“You’re not going to give it much.”

“You pay the minimum hourly wage! Stop talking and go now!”

“Your mother talked to you first!”

While asking, he pulled the cart and served. Her body wasn’t very hard, perhaps because her stamina had increased. However, her mental strength was gradually being shattered by the incessant spells.

It was fortunate though. If I hadn’t done this, I would have met the demon lord’s father.

Immediately after the part-time job was suddenly decided, I immediately contacted the Demon King. Then she said that her father wanted to see me, and I used this as an excuse to get out of the awkward position.

It’s okay because I see my mother often, but the last time I talked to my father was over a video call. If you don’t know if it’s your mother, it’s a bit awkward to meet your father.

“Here’s the calculation!”

“Yes! Song!”

I thought about it later, and for now, work came first. I cleared my head and focused on the restaurant work.

I thought of myself as a machine and handled it mechanically whenever a restaurant job came in. As a result, time passed in an instant, and people also left in an instant.

“Goodbye!”

The party of customers has left, and now there are only three teams left in the restaurant. Now that this is enough, it seemed that the restaurant could be finished as long as the three of them left.

I headed to the kitchen to catch my breath. There were mom and dad washing the dishes. Since we ate that much, there were quite a lot of lies for New Year’s Eve, but Mom didn’t get tired and opened her mouth.

“Jiheon. Can I catch my breath now?”

“Yes I’m fine? Shall I do the rest?”

“It’s okay. Take away the statue.”

“Okay.”

I can barely rest now, but I didn’t want to work right away. I approached my dad to pass the time.

“Dad, can I help you with anything?”

“…”

“Dad?”

“…”

No matter how many times I called him, Dad diligently only sharpened his knife. Unlike the mother who gave a warm impression, the father had a ferocious impression that would kill anyone. Besides, she was skinny, so she was compared to her fat mother, and she got some bad looks. But I liked him because I knew he was a quiet and good man.

But is it that he doesn’t want to talk to me right now, or is he just telling me to go out and work? He didn’t answer and only sharpened his knife.

Eventually, I left the kitchen and moved alone. So I saw the inside of a soup restaurant I had grown up watching.

This is my parents’ workplace, a pork soup restaurant. The two people who ran the restaurant even before I was born always smelled like pork. I was ashamed of myself when I was in elementary school, but it was also proof that I was working hard to raise myself.

I took a deep breath in the smell of pork in the restaurant and picked up a dishcloth. Now I go to the table to clean,

With my daughter!

A guest came in.

When the sweet bell rang over the door, I involuntarily shouted like Pavlov’s dog.

“Welcome!”

Then I heard a voice I hadn’t expected at all.

“Okay! Come on!”

I wondered what the bullshit was, so I raised my head and looked towards the door. There was a demon king.

“No, you… !”

For some reason, she was wearing something other than sweatpants. The demon king, dressed neatly in jeans and a blazer, said with a bright smile.

“Could you give me a seat?”

Besides, the way he spoke was different from usual. He spoke like a normal person, like when he was with his mother. The door opened behind her.

Jingle

“Is this where your brother works?”

Se-hee, who looked mature in black slacks and a white shirt, entered.

When she came in, I put her dishcloth down on her table and went over to them.

“You guys, why are you here?”

The demon lord whispered to me that I could hear him around here while his eyes twinkled.

“Why did you come? I came to see you. What,”

“I’ve come to see other people too.”

Se-hee, who completed her sister’s words, glanced over my shoulder toward the kitchen. I asked, still unconscious.

“No, how?”

Until now, I had only informed them that my parents were at a restaurant, but I hadn’t told them where.

To my question, the Demon King answered as if he had prepared it.

“You tend to underestimate Jim’s intelligence.”

“How do you know? Sehee, did you find out?”

It was Sehee who even installed a hacking app on my cell phone. I changed my phone now, but I could have figured it out before I did.

However, Sehee shook her head and denied it.

“No. My sister found out.”

As if to prove that, the demon king argued with me in an unfair voice.

“Didn’t you just say you found out with Jim’s intelligence!”

“No, how?”

“Now, Genga believes what Jim said.”

“Whoops,” She replied with a laugh.

“I asked Yuri.”

“What? Do you know Yuri?”

“That’s not it. She was just contacting Seon-ah, who knows Yuri.”

“Ah, was it like that?”

When I went to MT, I once asked Suna for Yuri. Since then, I’ve seen the two of them hanging out together often, and it seems like they’ve gotten quite close. It was only natural that Yuri knew about this store because she was my childhood friend.

The question was solved simpler than I thought, so I asked another question.

“Why are you here?”

The demon king glanced at me with a happy face and answered.

“You said it earlier. I came to see you at work.”

“Me too, brother.”

These brazen things. It must be because they want to see me struggling while working.

“Jiheon!”

My mother in the kitchen called my name as if we had talked too long.

“What are you doing there! Guide the guest quickly!”

I turned to face the kitchen and tried to shout that I knew. However, the demon king put a hand on my shoulder to block that movement.

“Why?”

“For a moment.”

She passed me, and she bowed her head to her mother, who was still watching.

“Hello, Jiheon is her girlfriend Baek Sohee.”

At that moment, all sounds in the restaurant stopped.

The men who had a quick drink with colleagues, the family who came out to eat together, and the man who ate alone while looking at his smartphone. Everyone stopped and looked at her. The problem was that she looked at me, whom I introduced as her boyfriend.

I could see what was going through their heads without mind reading. All they thought was one letter.

Why?

It wasn’t that I didn’t understand what they were thinking. Mysterious silver hair, a doll-like appearance, and a Nordic beauty-like woman dating an ordinary me, I thought I was excessive. Of course I think so too.

In any case, in that gaze, not only the customer but also the mother were mixed.

“Hello.”

The silence was broken by Sehee’s greeting.

“Oh my goodness!”

Mom hurriedly came to her kitchen and took off her red rubber gloves. With her naked hands, she approached the Demon King and asked for a handshake.

“Nice to meet you, this guy’s mother.”

“Ah yes. Hello. Jiheon is my girlfriend.”

The demon king smiled politely and shook hands with his mother. Shaking her hand, Mom shouted toward her kitchen.

“Honey! Come out! Jiheon’s girlfriend is here!”

At that, Dad poked his head out the kitchen door. When his sharp eyes spotted the demon king, they widened in surprise.

“… !”

And went back into the kitchen.

Seeing that together, the mother made excuses for what her father had done and led her to her seat.

“I’m sorry, my boyfriend is very shy. Please sit down.”

“Yes, Thank you.”

“Thank you! But who is this… ?”

When the mother looked at Sehee, the demon king introduced her.

“This is my sister.”

“Ah! Is it so! Somehow, it was so pretty! Hello!”

“Hello. My name is Baek Se-hee.”

Sehee greeted her mother with a haughty expression on her face. Mom looked at her with satisfaction, and she asked the demon king.

“But what are you doing here? Did Jiheon come to see you?”

“No. She’s here to eat.”

“A meal?! Oh, what to do Since this is a soup restaurant, there is only soup.”

“Are you okay. I like that soup.”

“All right! I’ll roll it up for you right away!”

Mom said with a big smile, then she turned to me and she argued.

“What are you doing! You’re eating soup! Hurry up and bring me the side dishes!”

“Uh?”

“Jiheon-ah, can you please?”

The demon king looked at me with a smile. Even though there was a polite smile on his lips, the blue eyes that could be seen between his eyelids were full of mischief.

“Jiheon!”

When I didn’t go, my mother urged me once more. First of all, I headed to the kitchen to get a basic side dish, though my heart was steaming.

While preparing the side dishes in the kitchen, I secretly looked at my father. Dad didn’t even get an order, but he was preparing the meat.

Apparently, it seemed that the mother was not the only one happy that the demon king came.

While watching her father’s back, she put the side dishes on a tray and took them away. So, after talking, I ran into my mother.

As soon as I found out that the demon king was my girlfriend, the smile that caught me still didn’t go away. Mom looked at me and said with a smile.

“You deserved a glass, kid!”

Then he went into the kitchen. When her mother saw her smile, she walked to the demon king with a mixed heart, both happy and worried.

When I went to the table where the demon king and Se-hee were sitting, Se-hee was setting a spoon. I put her side dish down, avoiding her hand. The Demon King looked up at me playfully.

“The customer service is not good?”

“Noisy. If so, get out.”

“Ah, isn’t that a joke? But is there any taste here?”

“If it doesn’t taste good, it’s ruined a long time ago. Eat quickly and leave uh?”

As I was about to put down all the side dishes and go, I found something that caught my eye.

Mawang and Sehee sat face to face at a table for four. Se-hee, her youngest child, placed her spoons in her cutlery box in front of her older sister and herself, as well as each one of them next to her.

Feeling anxious for some reason, I asked the demon king.

“Again, who are you?”

“Is that so?”

“Who, who?”

“My mother and father. You said your father wanted to see you.”

With my daughter!

As soon as she finished her words, the bell in her doorway rang. Standing there was her mother, who always showed off her goddess-like figure, and the father of the demon king, whom she had only seen through video calls.