Chapter 1137 – [Pretty Flowers Attract Bugs]

Shion and I felt that this year was passing by. In a little while, Eden will be on winter break after her 5th grade school life, and she will be moving up to 6th grade.

Time flies by so fast……. It seems like yesterday that Eden entered elementary school.

“I’m going to do some dimensional travel during winter break this year. Oh, I’ll take this opportunity to introduce you to other people.”

“I’ll be pretty busy”

“What do you want to do? Will you follow me?”

“I’m thinking”

“When you said that, he tried to stay home.”

“Actually, I have a lot of work to do after the collapse of China, so I can’t go. No matter how much I tried, a great power called China collapsed, but seeing no country or company go bankrupt, you can see how hard I’m working.”

“That’s right… In fact, it hasn’t even been months since China collapsed, let alone half a year.”

They say they prepared it in advance, but apart from the preparation, there will be things that need to be done in the present progress. I don’t know the economic part that well, so I can’t predict how much Zion’s suffering will be, but I know it’s difficult.

My wife needs to take care of herself. Shall we catch chickens in the Garden of Eden?

“By the way, how many of those chickens are there? I’m sure they’re in full swing by now.”

“Right now, it’s not even tens, it’s hundreds… I’ve never counted it, so I’m not sure, but at least it’s over three hundred.”

“The day Eden decides, there will be a massacre.”

The chickens that started with 20 in the Garden of Eden grew to hundreds. That’s how it happened when I opened the eggs.

I’m sure I ate a few in between, but when did it increase that much… I don’t intend to do a poultry business, but it’s a lot to raise as a pet.

But Eden manages to distinguish all of them. It seems to give it a name.

“If you have that many, can’t you use them at your store?”

“Eden grows it, but it’s a bit like selling it at my store. Even so, you have to ask Eden for permission.”

You shouldn’t think that it’s a child’s thing, it’s a parent’s thing. That kind of mindset is one of the ways to ruin a child.

If you have such thoughts even when your child grows up, you become an ignorant and conscienceless parent who thinks that the money your child earns is also yours. If that happens, the children will think of isolation.

Still, as Shion said, it wasn’t a bad idea, so I asked Eden.

“Eden, I want to sell some chickens at Dad’s store. Can I catch the kids?”

“What are you trying to make?”

“Hmm… I’m thinking of selling it on Friday when we open for dinner. I’m thinking of making it something like chicken skewers or chicken ribs.”

“Wow!!!! It looks delicious!!!!!”

Since the chickens are poor, even if you don’t catch that many, you’ll have to catch dozens. Of course, there are still more than 300 of them, but it is only slowing down for a while, and it will increase as time goes on.

The fertility of real chickens is frightening. In modern society, it is not a race that prospered by humans for nothing.

“Then, while we’re catching chickens, shall we clean them and eat together as a family in the Garden of Eden?”

“Is Jihee unnie coming too?”

“Do you want to eat with Jihee unnie?”

“It’s good to eat together. There was a time when her older sister lived in our house before.”

It was a short time Ji-hee stayed at our house, but it seems to have remained in Eden’s memory. She usually follows Ji-hee well.

Come to think of it, the officetel rented to Ji-hee in name only is an absurdly nice and spacious place compared to the money, but to Ji-hee, who has cut ties with her parents, it is a more lonely space than a trace. I didn’t interfere because I didn’t interfere with the child who didn’t have a lot of freedom, but I think I have to do something.

“Then let’s invite Jihee to our dinner party in the Garden of Eden this time. Let’s sell it at the store next week.”

“I’ll choose the strong guys!!!!”

“Yes”

When I went out to the store the next day, I invited Ji-hee to this dinner. I would like to have a schedule, but fortunately there seems to be no schedule.

………No, isn’t it a little strange that a girl in her prime doesn’t have a schedule on the weekend? At least, why not meet up with friends and have a drink?

“Is it a party?”

“I was thinking of having a meal with my family this time, but I thought it would be nice to invite you too. Do you have time this weekend?”

“Yes, I don’t have any specific appointments. Can I go to the uncle’s house?”

“No, the Garden of Eden”

“Uh…… There?! Really there?!”

“Why? Is it because you don’t like it?”

“No!!! It’s the other way around!!!!”

Unlike the usual Ji-hee, she is quite excited. Rather, I think it is one of Ji-hee’s true appearance. Because on the one hand, it fits.

“The Garden of Eden is the subject that comes to mind the most these days, along with Mr. Keter. Mr. Keter appears occasionally, but there are no pictures of the inside of the Garden of Eden or anything like that.”

“Of course. Because that’s where security is tight.”

Kether is his problem, but the Garden of Eden also has Eden’s share. But I don’t want to open that place to others.

The current situation is such that guests are allowed to enter, but at least it is at the entrance to the Garden of Eden. In fact, the number of people who have entered the Garden of Eden, other than the staff, can be counted on one hand.

Those employees also made a pledge of confidentiality, so it couldn’t be leaked… Reporters were fucking curious about it, but they couldn’t come in after all, so it must have been a secret.

A Garden of Eden where Kether ostensibly resides, growing crops that can defeat the Changzhou Virus. It is a place where the interest of the public as well as the media has been focused, but not much has been revealed.

To be honest, that only made me wonder. No one dares to cross the wall of the Garden of Eden.

“Do you really eat there?”

“Okay, we’ll eat there. I’ll formally invite you.”

“Then it’s better to buy new clothes to wear…”

“You can just come comfortably, why?”

“But I was invited to go, so if it’s casual clothes, it’s a bit like that. Besides, Mr. Keter is a celebrity these days, and if we go this time, we’ll have a picture together, so I think it’s better to wear nice clothes.”

“Well, if you are, then it must be so. Do whatever you want.”

At that time, Ji-hee thought for a bit, as if thinking about something, and then spoke to me cautiously.

“So, by the way…Would you like to go shopping together this Friday?”

“On Friday?”

“Yes, on that day, the store is open in the evening, so you have time until the afternoon.”

Our store is open once a week, on Friday evening. Normally, the store is open at closing time.

At that time, it’s Friday, so the menu focuses on snacks rather than restaurant menus. Well, it’s not that part that’s important now.

It’s not that I don’t know what kind of heart Ji-hee is asking for a date like that, but……. But it’s hard to just ignore it. You can’t be too hard on a child who’s now free.

Besides, as long as I cut ties with my family, I’m the guardian and father, so I have to do that level of work.

If you go and confess later, it’s okay to reject it then. It may be cruel, but let me dream for now.

“Well, that’s good. I don’t have a specific schedule at that time anyway.”

“Really?! Then see you before lunch!!!!”

“That day, the store opens late in the afternoon. How much are you going to shop?”

Come to think of it, Jihee was also a girl.

You can spend half a day shopping!!!!!!

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When I went home and talked about it, Shion looked at me with cold eyes.

“I already knew the story, but I’m a bit disturbed because it happened twice this year.”

“I will reject you if you confess.”

“I don’t know if you can do that even then, given your personality.”

“No, because I do”

“You have a lot of affection.”

Honestly, I’m aware of that too. But there are times when you can’t do that, so what do you do?

Of course, my heart is only Zion. There is Eden, but Zion is the best when it comes to love as a child and love as a lover.

“Dad, are you dating Jihee unnie~?”

“I’ll go with you as a guardian. Even if you’re an adult, if you’re new to society, you’re still a child.”

“Isn’t she supposed to be a mother to her sister?”

“You can’t do that to Daddy!!! Tteok!!!!”

“She knows everything about children. More so because Eden is smart.”

“Write”

In the end, because I’m bad, I get scolded and hear that. It can’t be helped.

Still, I don’t want Eden to learn from seeing strange things. Since I am also a father, I want to set a good example in front of my children…….. I have a lot of worries.

“Dad, Dad.

“No, Eden. Why are you picking out Daddy’s outing clothes?”

“It’s obvious that if you leave it alone, Dad will wear casual clothes and go out.

“The woman you meet is not even your mother!!!!”

“Know!!!!!”

“You know what?!?!?!”

These days, Eden’s rebellion comes in quite often.

No, this is puberty!!!!! I’ve been through it, but it’s a new feeling because the opponent is Eden!!!!

Anyway, I prepared to go shopping with Jihee that Friday. Of course, wearing the clothes Eden chose for her to go out was the standard. Eden even touched my hair style.

“I think this should be enough. My dad says it’s okay if you decorate it subtly.”

“Wasn’t it like this when you were at Jongseong?”

“Jongseong is Jongseong, and Jihee unnie is Jihee unnie.”

“No discrimination”

“It’s different from a classmate and a close neighbor’s sister”

“That’s right. Anyway, I’ll be back with my dad.”

“Bye!!!!!”

After finishing my preparations, I headed to the place I had promised with Jihee. Even if it’s a date, there’s nothing special, just shopping at a department store. There are no other schedules. If there is, it is spontaneous.

I drove leisurely, parked in a suitable place, and arrived at the meeting place, and Ji-hee was waiting for me first.

I thought I came 20 minutes early, but it seems that the other side came earlier. Plus, she wears the best of her everyday clothes and wears pretty thick makeup, so she looks prettier than usual.

For Jihee, the original version was not bad. Rather, it was good. However, since the place where I work is a place that sells food, I didn’t wear stimulating perfume or thick makeup, but today I dressed up well regardless of that, so I looked like a model.

………. But maybe that’s why it was inevitable that the bugs would get caught.

“Because I’m with you?”

“No, you’ve been standing there since before. But if no one is coming, aren’t you here alone?”

“It’s just that I came early!!!”

Jihee, how early did you come?

Still, when I heard the chatter, I thought I could guess what was going on. Ji-hee, who came early, had a good disc and even makeup, so it was rather strange that a man would not be entangled in a situation where she would look like a model, and the other person was clinging to Ji-hee like that.

No, shit. Even if it’s not your real daughter, are you mad at me for doing that to a child who is like a daughter right in front of your nose?

Shall I choke? No, bear with me, the great demon king in me.

“Let’s go there. Doesn’t the kid hate it?”

“Ah!!!!”

When I intervened in a difficult situation, Ji-hee’s complexion brightened.

But on the contrary, the impression of the man who was flirting is frowned upon. Then he suddenly glared at me and spoke to me in a voice full of enemies.

“Leave people who are not related”

“I’m the person he’s been waiting for. But what are you like to my kid who hates you?”

“What, did you have a boyfriend?”

The man clicked his tongue but didn’t back down. Ji-hee in front of his eyes seemed to be a coveted prey from his point of view.

There was no justification and there was a party, so the only option left to him was to use force. The man threatened me by saying something quite unexpected.

“Hey, am I a person with special abilities?”

“Yes?”

“If you don’t want to get hurt, you can go, right?”

After hearing that, I checked and found that the opponent was definitely a person with special abilities, a warrior. I feel a hollow inside my body.

However, that strength is only at the level of one or two months of practice. With that amount, you can pack your inner energy in one punch, and even if you strengthen your physical ability, you won’t be able to use it for even a minute.

Somewhere in Moorim, if you call yourself a third-class soldier to that extent, you’ll get scolded. Third-class uninhabited island Depends on the third-class, but that level is not even in the third-class axis.

It makes me laugh when I see an idiot, even in the middle of having to create an image of a person with special abilities, who pretends to have learned some martial arts, and then cries out in front of me.

Seeing that I was smiling, he must have misunderstood something and said the same thing while laughing.

“Let’s do it well. Honestly, aren’t you too much of a girlfriend for you?”

“You’re behind, bitch”

“……..What?”

Before I start dating Ji-hee, I’m going to make a fool of myself.