Chapter 103 – Episode 103

A now familiar and indispensable message appears before my eyes.

[The quest is completed by comforting Han Ae-bom and making her apology to Ohana first.]

[As compensation, 500,000 won will be deposited into your main account. Agility +1, minor lullaby skill acquired.]

[Let’s enjoy a pleasant date with Han Ae Bom today. The quest has been completed.]

[As compensation, 100,000 won will be deposited into your main account. You have obtained a challenge to increase your level of stamina +1 and low-grade semen estrus skill.]

Since I got it for free, I shouldn’t complain shamelessly, but the low-level lullaby skill is really… Where should I use it?

Rather, his stamina has now increased to +5.

I don’t think I felt much when it was +1, but now I feel like it has definitely gone up quite a bit.

[Would you like to use the level-up challenge for the low-grade semen estrus skill?]

[Probability of success: 50 percent]

[Probability of failure: 50 percent]

[If successful, the grade of the low-level semen estrus skill increases to intermediate level.]

I thought it wasn’t a friendly (odds) considering they always give me this or that, but since I didn’t have anything to lose, I agreed right away.

[Success!]

[The low-level semen estrus skill has been upgraded to an intermediate semen estrus skill.]

[Your semen makes the other person come into heat easily and quickly.]

At this point, I guess it’s just a weak point.

I thought that if there was a woman she wanted to fuck, she could do it just by mixing my semen in her coffee. It’s a really useful skill.

“So, did you enjoy your date?”

Ohana, who had already finished her tantrum, asked while making her own mixed coffee.

“Of course it was fun.”

“How did you send it?”

In some ways, it was the first formal date of my life, so I was excited and told him what had happened. I watched a movie, had a delicious lunch at a department store, went to a café and coincidentally met a friend… Ohana shrugged her shoulders when she boasted about the things she had experienced yesterday.

“Well, I enjoyed it quite well.”

Even looking back, I think it was a very good dating course. Because being mediocre isn’t a bad thing.

There was an unexpected incident in the middle, but it ended as just an incident… It’s my guess, but the reason my friend’s girlfriend, Lee Seon-hwa, was scratching me was probably because Han Ae-bom was next to me.

I guess I should say that this becomes more clear as time passes. Seonhwa Lee seems to have tried to somehow disparage us and find out what she was good at.

‘Why? ‘Why?’

… You might think so. Now, I can understand that feeling.

The human heart is so deceitful.

When I see someone doing well next to me and being happy, I want to be just as happy. When that didn’t work, uncomfortable feelings would arise from within.

Now that I say it, it’s just SNS. If I had to express it, should I call it snake-like?

I think life is about the difference between suppressing that evil spirit and living with it exposed.

And, every time I thought about this, there was one person I was most worried about.

“It must have been really fun. The sticker photos also came out gorgeous. “It’s fascinating.”

“Soo-ah! Next time, let’s go take pictures together! Five shots of life!”

“Huh. “I must do that.”

It was Yun Su-ah.

I know she’s a really nice and nice person, but is she really okay?
As I watched Yun Su-ah smiling slightly as she stroked and looked at the sticker photo of Han Ae-bom and me over and over again, I ate my appetite.

At this point, it was time for her and her related quests to come out…

I kept praying just in case, but unfortunately, no new message appeared before my eyes.

* * *

As news related to comprehensive income tax began to flow, May, the month of the family, was slowly approaching.

It’s time for Children’s Day and Parents’ Day products to arrive at convenience stores.

For Children’s Day, giant chocolates with toys inside are sold well, and for Parents’ Day, flower bouquets that are easy to put in pocket money or money-shaped cakes are popular products.

“I already placed an order. If you arrive early in the morning, display it well. Display it nicely! Pretty!”

“Yes. Just leave it to me.”

“Boy, your face is so lively these days. It’s overflowing.”

The store manager is glaring at me. Isn’t that really the snake spirit I was talking about a while ago?

“You bastard, you always eat such good food. Is your complexion this good? What kind of medicine is this? Speak quickly. I also asked her wife to switch to that.”

“What is a tonic? “I just exercise a bit and eat well three times a day.”

“That’s terrible. “You suck.”

A person who would normally make fun of me a few times and then leave work, today is staying at the counter fiddling with a plum drink.

“Do you have anything to say?”

“That’s it, Hyunwoo.”

“Even if you are there, why don’t you just go? “What are you going to do if guests come like this?”

“Shut up and listen.”

The manager sighs and hands me a plum drink with his hands all dirty. I guess they gave you this to eat? Or display it again?

As I was seriously considering my appetite, the manager said.

“I guess the economy is terrible these days. In fact, Korea’s economy has been steadily deteriorating for several decades. Also, the news says that the economy is at its worst every year, but how does everyone survive?”

“Well, that’s right.”

Some researchers said that. Korea’s heyday is now over, and there is little chance of growth, so the only thing left to do is fall.

Although many people in Korea denied it and threw double insults at it. If we look at reality, it is true that what was said is happening. At the same time, ironically, the gap between rich and poor became worse.

‘Just because I know that doesn’t mean I can change it. ‘I’m too busy making a living.’

Please. I just hope that the company I’m working for doesn’t go bankrupt.

“But it seems like it’s not easy to survive these days.”

What? I just prayed, but am I already ruined? My workplace.

“What’s happening all of a sudden? What if the deficit is so high that I can no longer pay the loan interest and I have to close the entire convenience store?”

“Hey. It’s not my story. I still live with something to eat. “They said they would send each of their daughters to an academy.”

That would be even more absurd. Are you talking about someone else with such a serious expression?

“Is this a family story?”

“No.”

Are you kidding me?

… As I looked at him with that expression on his face, the manager sighed again and said.

“It’s a story about a friend. A friend’s story. “It’s also a story about a friend whose relationship is hard to honestly say was good.”

“…”

“I also feel really strange, strange. Tsk.”

“How did that friend’s story come about?”

“Not long ago, this guy came to me asking to lend me 5 million won. Directly with your own feet.”

I’m sure you didn’t borrow it, right? I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone who borrows money like that and repays it.

That’s because I’ve seen my dad get stabbed several times in the past for lending a lot of money like that.

It’s not a lie, if it weren’t for the loaned money, there would have been two newly built apartments in Busan. Damn it.

“You didn’t lend it to me, right?”

I’m asking that because it reminds me of my dad.

“I lent it to you. 5 million won…”

“No!”

For a moment, I was about to say something bad, but I held it back.

Can you lend me that? Really?

“Hey, you don’t have to stare at me like that. “I’m also very disturbed right now.”

“What doesn’t your wife say?”

“I didn’t do it.”

That’s also surprising. Considering that the store manager was always getting ripped off, I thought it wouldn’t be strange if he got beaten up and kicked out.

“They said I did a good job. That’s why I’m even more sorry.”

“…”

“Tsk. Ha, that bastard. Originally, he was a kid who was doing well and running his own business. Damn, you look cool every time you go to that once-a-year gathering, huh? Bring a foreign car. As soon as he drinks a little, he brags about it all day long! I went abroad this time and met a great person. Who did you play golf with, etc? Do you know how disgusting it was to see it?”

I felt genuine anger.

To be honest, just listening to it from the side makes me picture an unlucky person. If it were me, I might not have been able to bear it and would have punched him in the back of the head.

“Can’t I just not go to the reunion?”

“That’s just like you MZs.”

“Oh! It’s not good to talk like that these days. Store manager. “I’m in big trouble.”

“Shut up. Hey! “Have a drink.”

It was meant to be eaten.

As I clicked and opened the can of plum drink, the store manager said with a sad look on his face.

“Well, even when you sleep, whenever that bastard’s face comes to mind, you get angry, right? To be honest. Even if that bastard hadn’t bragged, I wouldn’t have felt bad. Some people work around getting bad reviews at work, while others go on overseas trips.”

Ah. It’s the snake spirit I thought about a while ago.

“But how disgusting it must be to see people bragging about how good they are. “I’m sure many of my friends quit their jobs because of that unsightly appearance.”

I think the store manager is one of them.

“If you work as a salaried worker at a company your whole life, you won’t be able to live like that child. We quit the company, so we could live like that for once. But when I actually come out, I’m left with nothing but regrets.”

The store manager who was speaking suddenly tilts his head.

“No, how did the story end up here?”

“The store manager said it. “I just quietly listen.”

“Ugh! I guess I can’t speak properly because I’m old. Anyway, how many times have I thought to myself that I should tell that bastard that it would be a shame if he broke down?”

“So, did you do it?”

If it were me, wouldn’t I have done it? Is that to trash?

“I couldn’t do it. Hey. So, we are talking about this now.”

“…”

“It felt really, really strange. The child is truly ruined, clinging to him with a desperate look on his face as if he were a different person, and begging for a loan of just 5 million won… It felt really strange.”

It is a very difficult sight to see among young people these days. What the store manager is saying now.

This was something my dad experienced very often. I saw it a few times too.

“So, I drank alcohol and somehow took out cash and gave him money. I let him take a nap at home and let him go. That bastard is probably still wandering around visiting everyone he knows.”

I was dumbfounded and asked.

“Manager. Do you plan to take that money?”

“Okay then! You bastard, would you have lent it without any intention of receiving money? “If that bastard becomes successful enough to drive a foreign car again, he should be paid several times more!”

Although they say it like that. You probably have no intention of receiving it. Everyone said that.

“Sorry. Suddenly, I started repeating this story to the person who was supposed to be working from now on. “Well, take a carton of cigarettes with you.”

“Omg. Hanboru?”

When I widened my eyes in surprise, the manager chuckled and said as usual, putting four cans of beer in a bag.

“Yeah dude. I listened to some useless stories, but I have to give this much. “I feel relieved that you at least listened to me. I feel relieved.”

And then he said, tapping my head a few times.

“It’s good to work hard. Don’t push yourself too hard. “Happiness, there’s nothing special about it.”

When the store manager, who had been complaining and saying good things, got off work, I quietly fingered my half-empty plum drink. As I was thinking about the manager’s words, customers suddenly started flocking in.

However, the number of customers is a bit large.