Chapter 23 – [What Is Life, Just Live as You Live]

After the drinking party in broad daylight, it was already past three o’clock. It’s been a long time since we had lunch, but it was understandable if we had a drink.

After eating, the seats were arranged, and Choi Chee and Shion sat side by side in front of the TV.

“You look like you’re going to get Monday sickness from going to work tomorrow.”

“I have enough money, so I can play all the time, right? You were the one who said I wanted to work.

“I know. I just did it. When I go out tomorrow, I’ll have to see if Baek-ri and Seo-ae did a good job.”

Running a chicken house is a hobby. The worst thing is to say that I am unemployed somewhere, so I started because I had to have at least one business card.

Later, when a little more time passes, I plan to give the store to the two of them. Two people should be treated with kindness as much as they have been received with kindness.

“Ah, that’s right. And……I restored the photo.”

“Huh? Really?”

“It was my first time recovering circuits and data burned by EMP, and it was difficult because it was difficult, but I managed to recover it anyway.”

In the first place, the basis of the incident is because of the photos that the two flew during their honeymoon. The photos stored in the digital camera were blown away by electromagnetic waves from a large hostile species that appeared in Japan.

However, Shion, who handles the laws of physics, somehow recovered the data with her own power. Thanks to that, yesterday I couldn’t sleep and stayed up all night with my eyes open.

“It’s good… Let’s take a picture later and hang it in a frame.”

“There must be tens of thousands of pictures already taken like this.”

“But if you go and see it 20 or 30 years later, there’s nothing better than that. All that remains are memories and photos.”

This time when we sit and feel each other’s body temperature is the happiest.

The worst thing I want is this one thing without needing anything else. If I had to choose between all the ties I had built in this world and only one Shion, I would choose Shion, even if it was cruel.

For the sake of this warmth, you can wet your hands with any amount of blood.

What he wanted was never a big deal, but there were so many people who couldn’t tolerate it.

*        *    *

One of the biggest enemies of office workers is Monday. I know this well because I have lived a normal office life.

What does it feel like to rest on the weekend and go to work the next day… What’s more, you can’t rest on the weekend and go to work on Monday. Shiva, can’t you guarantee a day off?

At least these days, they work 52 hours, so they say they go home on the outside, but, well? I don’t know how many places actually work like that.

“Brother is here”

“……Welcome, Mr. Tuna Warrior.”

“No, there is a name called Raccoon Man, but why are you calling it by that name?”

“What kind of madman fights wielding a whole tuna?”

“I’m that crazy bastard”

When I entered the store after a few days, Baek-ri, who had been looking at the store for a while, reluctantly welcomed me with cold eyes.

To be honest, what I did as Raccoon Man was a bit big. If it had been known what had happened in Japan, they might have looked at it with more contempt.

“Did you take a good look at the store while I was gone?”

“There were fewer customers than when I was there, but it went well.

“For things like tempura batter and ingredients, if you get the proportions right, you’ll eat more than half of them before going in. I’ve taught you how to fry well and how to stir-fry well, so if you can’t do it well, I’ll cook it that way.”

“I’ve been a caterer for two years, but can’t I just do something like this?”

“Yes, you are great”

It wasn’t time to open the door yet, so Seo-ae didn’t go to work, and the store was preparing ingredients and cleaning.

If there is one thing that surprises me while I’m not there, it’s Baekri’s force control skills.

“Oh, I guess I’ve improved my skills?”

“It’s a bit difficult to do several things at once, but if you focus, you can do about two.”

Two mops were moving of their own accord, wiping the store floor.

I have excellent control skills, being able to wash dishes, clean, and even handle ingredients at the same time, but Baekri is a Force user who has just awakened. Even if I taught him a little trick, being able to do this on his own meant that he had a good sense of his own.

“At that point, I think the characteristics have been established.”

“Yes, it seems that the interference characteristics are similar to what my brother uses.

“Because a characteristic is like a mathematical formula. Whether it’s the body or the mind, if it’s ripe, it’ll break open at once.”

It’s like a child learning numbers and learning math formulas. You can’t make 3 with 1, but you can make 3 with 1+1+1. The role of a characteristic is not special in how much it can control and process Gaia Force.

“When you get used to it, try making one of your own characteristics later. It will be easy to make because it depends on your talent.”

“It was difficult to know what traits you want to create, but can you create something like a unique trait?”

“Ignore everything and use the force as you please. In the end, a unique characteristic is what suits you best. If you use it as you like, you can use it in the end.”

“If that’s the case, there won’t be anyone who doesn’t have a unique characteristic, right?”

“It’s a matter of how to approach it. What kind of madman will use his abilities without thinking and develop his unique characteristics? Usually it’s self-reflection, and most of them find it by accident after thinking hard.”

“After all, it’s a matter of accessibility, right?”

“If you use the force, there will be a direction you can use most comfortably. That’s your unique characteristic.”

“Hmm”

Baek-ri thought about my words for a bit, then clenched his fist and let out force. The force, shimmering like a haze, moved freely and then faded again.

“I don’t think this is…”

“It doesn’t sound like an attack system, right?”

“Huh? Can you even know that?”

“If you’re at my level, you can roughly figure it out.”

The ability I use is the power that comes from will. Therefore, it is possible to distinguish between the will and the degree of thought emitted by others.

The basis of Baekri’s will is not to fight. I don’t know what direction it will be expressed, but it is more likely to be expressed in the direction of protecting it rather than in the direction of harming others.

“But how is your brother so strong? He’s only a few years older than me, but he beats even large enemy species with tuna.”

“If you don’t count after the 30th life cycle, it’s roughly like that.”

“……What kind of Mabinogi is this? Reincarnation?”

“It’s true”

If it was about 100 li, I could tell you that I was a reincarnated person. My friends can tell me too, but they won’t ask.

“Brother, don’t be rude.”

“It’s true. If you assume 1 level per year, hyung’s cumulative level is now over 5000”

“Really?”

“Strong and deep power. It’s a law that can’t be obtained without time. Even if you’re a munchkin and get a great power in your hands at once, what’s the point if it’s gained in an instant?”

I used my powers to put the whole store inside my sensing field.

And sterilization. It eradicates every corner of the store so that not a single germ remains. Molecular-level interference is possible, but I wonder if cell-level interference can’t be done?

Even if it’s not like this, you have to be clean to be qualified to sell food. Honestly, where is the store that can take care of this level of cleanliness? No one but me

“I knew that my brother had an odd personality, but it’s a little strange to see him as a reincarnated person…”

“It doesn’t make much of a difference, dude. Just think of it as someone who’s lived a little longer.”

“Old man, are you standing?”

“Can’t you see that my wife and I have been newlyweds for thousands of years?”

“Ah, then your sister-in-law…?”

“My wife isn’t reincarnated, she’s just living a fucking long life.”

My wife, the one who has lived the longest among her own people, has been around since time immemorial, and even the youngest person after her wife can easily live hundreds of millions of years. To be honest, my wife is the youngest.

“Then brother…How strong is your brother?”

“Strength is relative. If you ask me that, it’s hard for me to answer.”

“How far can you smash if you hit it with all your power?”

“I can blow up the earth once”

No joke

To be honest, my main focus is on something other than direct destructive power, but if I concentrate, I can harpoon a single star.

“The scale is too big, so there is no sense of reality.”

“Well, I’m just going to do that. What’s the point of destroying this earth that I haven’t even developed space for? In the first place, I’d rather kill than destroy the earth.”

“I beg your pardon?”

“Hey, I think I’m running out of beer, put in an order.”

“Stop talking, what did I just say?!”

“I think the seasoned chicken sauce isn’t enough, let’s make it after business today”

“No, what did you just say?!”

“Yeah dude, I said that what I’m good at is killing. Well, isn’t it strange to say that I haven’t killed a single person in my 5000 years of life?”

“It’s not usually like that.”

“That’s because you’re a normal person who can’t live to be 100 years old. There’s also a world where security is in the gutter while reincarnating Joe Byeong, so why don’t you kill and cut? And you didn’t just kill humans, you also killed monsters?”

“……Have you ever killed anyone in this life?”

“Okay, once”

“When?”

“You know it too well”

At my words, Baek-ri suddenly thought of something, so he put on an expression of understanding.

At the time of the Yeongdeungpo department store fire incident. The man who was the cause and the main culprit. The deceased husband of Jin Seo-ae, who works at our store.

“Even though it looked like a monster at the end. It was a human. It was a human.

“…..Yes”

The criterion that separates people is not their appearance. A monster in the form of a human, a human in the form of a monster. What divides the difference between the two is, after all, the content.

Although the appearance was a monster, the contents were human. The man who missed his family, wanted to meet him, and hated dying was human everywhere.

Come to think of it, this also happened. I don’t know what kind of bastards they are, but I’m not playing with people.

There are three bastards I hate in this world. Bastards who play with people’s lives, bastards who play with food, and bastards who mess with my people.

It was obvious then. At least, while doing things like conquering the world, they are conducting an experiment to endow humans with the ability of the enemy species along with the research on the enemy species.

Just because there is a cause, the wrong process cannot be rationalized. The biggest bad thing about humans is that they rationalize their mistakes because they are in large numbers or because there is some rational reason.

An example is the witch hunt in the Middle Ages. How many people died in the name of correcting the confused public sentiment.

“I’m here. Oh, student Baek-ri and the boss came first. Did you have a good honeymoon?”

“Ah, well, it went well. It got a little twisted at the end, but I still had fun.”

Jin Seo-ae also went to work and it was time to open the store.

Let’s do business, let’s eat and live. The bright sky of Korea today.

It’s a law that people have to work.

*        *    *

It’s been a few months since our store started business, but business was still going well.

First of all, the seats are good, and since the building is my wife’s, all I need is the cost of materials and labor. There could be no business.

But what I have to think about is that our menu is empty right now. Once fried and seasoned. These two are the main ones, but this is like any chicken restaurant.

I want to expand the menu a bit more. There are many recipes, but it takes a little thought to figure out what to sell in the store.

The day’s business is over. Seo-ae sent me to go in first.

“Is it okay if I go in first? I need to tidy up…”

“You have kids at home. Don’t worry, it’s not too late to go back anyway, so don’t worry.”

“Yes, ma’am. If I stay and help, it will be over soon, so go in first.”

“…….Thank you”

Even though you have a family, it is difficult to be a housewife taking care of a child alone. Besides, the child will be waiting at home alone, so I should go in as soon as possible.

If only Mr. Seo-ae goes anyway, she organizes with her ability. Telekinesis using her interference ability can finish cleaning the store in one fell swoop.

“Then, shall we develop a menu? Would you like a tasting table?”

“If that’s the case, can I call another person with that word?”

“Who? Is there someone I can call?”

“My little brother.”

“Oh, I said I had a sister.”

What was her name……Ruri? She remembered hearing it when she went to their house the other day. Like my name, it was an unusual name, so I remembered it.

Her last name would be Ha, so she would be Haruri.

Rurira… It’s a pretty friendly name. I’ve been reincarnated many times, but among them, if I were to name a name I could remember, there would be a name called Ruri.

“It’s about time to come back after school by now. Would you like it if I stopped by and asked you to eat fried chicken?”

“Then call me. I’m a high school girl in her prime, so I need to feed her a lot. Taking care of your health while studying is also important.”

With my permission, Baek Li called her sister.

“Uh, Ruri. Uh, it’s me. Can you come to the restaurant where I work for a second? The boss asked me to sample a new menu. You like chicken. Yes, yes, okay. Come quickly.”

It’s not that easy to find a brother and sister who are as close as they are, but since ancient times, siblings have been so close that it wouldn’t be strange to say that they were born to kill each other from the inside out.

There may be a family who is everyday to do this for her brother and her brother.

“Do you think you’re on good terms with your brother?”

“I’m the kind of person who accepts everything when I’m in trouble, so I’m on the good side… Although we fight”

“No, but if you’re an older brother who deliberately prepares chicken, you’re in the 1 percent of siblings who get along well. I guarantee it.”

“Really?”

“In the past, in a certain world, the crown prince and the princess who had the right to inherit the throne directly fought bloody battles. As a person reincarnated as the youngest member of the emperor’s family caught in the middle, can you tell me what the tragedy was like?”

“What kind of Game of Thrones are you filming?!”

“By the way, that country is ruined”

“I’ve lost my country in a family fight!”

In fact, I destroyed it.

I was going to poison myself because these bastards gave up all of my right to the throne and lived on farming. As it turned out, the prince’s side grabbed him by the collar and ran away, and the princess sister, who was afraid to see it, came in to assassinate him, and just wiped it all out in anger. After the death of Alexander the Great, the country split into pieces and ate everything.

It’s been a while since I was born with a golden spoon, but I remembered it because it was a case I ate. Chew.

“Brother, I’m out! Door!”

“Oh, looks like you’re here.”

While talking for a while, Baek-ri’s sister arrived. When she opened the door of her shop, which had been locked, a cute high school girl entered.

She is quite pretty with short hair that has grown to the top of her shoulders. To put it a little more, it’s a cute style.

I went to the academy after school, and I was wearing a school uniform. Oh, that’s the school uniform near the high school I went to before.

“Ah, it’s Ruri. This is my older brother, the president of our store.”

“Hello, the chicken waterer…… No, oppa. I’m Ruri!”

“Didn’t you just tell your brother to water it?!”

“I was going to call you Mister, but I called you Oppa because you looked young. What if I tackled you there?”

Baek-ri smiled awkwardly and apologized to me.

“……I’m sorry. This is my personality.”

“It’s nice that he has a bright personality.”

I watched her soul carefully. She wanted to just in case from the name and reminded her once again from her personality, but it was for confirmation until the end.

And she laughed a little. Because her soul resembles the person she once remembered.

Just because she looked alike didn’t mean she was a different person. Just as a child grew up and became an adult doesn’t mean she became a different person, it was only a difference of that extent.

Ruri looked at my face and asked while tilting her head.

“…Hmm? Hey, the president’s brother. Have you seen me somewhere?”

“Well, maybe we met in a previous life?”

“Oh, isn’t that a work comment? I’m a high school ginseng that is better than wild ginseng, which is protected by the state, so if I take a job, the president’s brother will be handcuffed?”

“…….Brother?”

“No you bastard. Who do you see as a pedophile?”

“Brother-in-law…”

“No, that’s it. It’s not that I don’t like young girls, it’s just that the person I fell in love with was a little girl… Ah, Shiba, this is even weirder.”

“Sister-in-law? Oppa, what’s wrong with the owner of the president’s oppa?”

“I look like an elementary school student about my waist”

“Pedo is dead!!”

Ruri looked at her with contempt. A high school girl’s contemptuous eyes… Some industries say it’s a reward, but I’m not. If it were my wife, I’d think about it.

“Anyway, go eat some chicken while you’re still there. We’ve made some new ones. There are a few leftover ingredients from the shop, so you can use that.”

“Is the stored chicken enough!”

“Wait for a moment!”

I said after rummaging through the refrigerator for a while.

“Keuk-kuk, you’re begging me a lot”

“……Brother, I suddenly want to like the president’s brother.”

“No adultery before dirt gets in my eyes!”

“Don’t worry.

I have a few menu items in mind. First and foremost is soy sauce chicken.

It’s the same as the soy sauce chicken from other chicken chains, but the soy sauce mixture was slightly different to add a little more spice. The savory taste of soy sauce adds a little bit of spicy taste, so it is a menu that makes you look for chicken when you drink and drink.

“Oh, this is beer, right?”

“Me too!”

“You’re underage!”

“Well, how about it? It’s not for sale anyway, it’s just for a quick bite. Anyway, it’s okay to have a drink as long as you’re high school students.”

“……Are you okay? Underage drinking?”

“It’s not that there are kids who can’t control it. I’m drinking with an adult, but what about a drink? If someone says something, I’ll go to the police station and get investigated.”

“The boss oppa’s flexibility knocked my knees! I’m going to hit it!”

“Are you going?”

“No!”

“Why are you two so close together?!”

Because your brother is saying the same thing as me. It’s a natural dog dripper.

It was not a chore for three people to eat one chicken even if it was two pieces each. In particular, if there is a high school girl who is going to explode with an appetite for two healthy adult men, they will not even send a message.

The next menu item was soybean paste chicken. This one is baked, not fried. There was an oven in the store just in case, so I coated the raw chicken without frying with my miso sauce and baked it in the oven.

It’s similar to soy sauce chicken, but it’s not fried, so it’s lighter and has a savory taste thanks to the soybean paste sauce.

“Hmm…This one is fine too. Soy sauce chicken is sold at chain stores, so it’s not that rare, but I think this one will sell.”

“Chicken Mashjeng”

“I think he’ll like everything as long as it’s chicken.”

“Do you like all meat?”

Meat is always right. So, let’s be carnivores, folks!

I also thought the miso chicken was okay. It’s not fried, it’s baked, and it’s simple to prepare because you only need to apply sauce. There was no need to fry them in separate batter.

“Lastly, this. Cocovin style chicken”

“Coco Vin?”

“Coco Farm?”

“Not that drink with coconut kernels in it. The wine-based chicken stew is called coco vin… This one is similar to that.”

If it’s authentic, you have to put various things with vegetables, but I filled it with the vegetable broth I made. It’s like adding wine, but I think I did a few things differently. It is not grilled or fried, but rather simmered in a pot.

The coq au vin-style chicken served in a bowl with a bit of broth took on a slight purple color from being braised in wine. It’s not that the purple color is unpleasant, but the greasy feeling on the surface of the chicken combined with it, whetted the appetite.

Compared to the original, there are many improvements, so it can be called Coco Vin’s chicken, not Coco Vin’s.

“Wow, this is delicious. I made it with wine, but it doesn’t taste like alcohol at all?”

“It’s natural that alcohol evaporates when you boil it. Originally, there was soju added to cooking to get rid of the nasty smell, right? It’s similar to that.”

“I like that the taste comes out of the meat. The soup is also delicious.

“Compared to the broth, the amount of wine is not large.”

“It’s perfect for a hangover to go lightly… To be honest, our store is a place to drink, not to hangover.”

“Wouldn’t it be okay if I drank it all and had a hangover?”

“Um…That’s pretty good too.”

Or you can drink somewhere else and have a hangover here. Whatever it is, this is Myeongdong Street. In the evening, people who want to drink and people who have become drunk after drinking go around.

Once made, it is a dish that only needs to be boiled and served. Boil it in the evening and sell it the next day.

“I’m having a choice disorder… Hmm, there’s the best way to do this.”

“What is it?”

“Just put it on the menu”

“……I’m going to have a hard time for a while.”

When the menu increases, it is the person who makes it who suffers. I make it when I go to work, but Baekri also has to play as a pinch hitter when I’m not there, so you have to know how to make it yourself.

However, since you only need to make the sauce, it will be easy to learn.

“Ah, I ate well. My brother sometimes brings chicken to me, but this is the first time I’ve eaten three kinds of chicken at once.”

“Then you become a pig”

“Don’t you know that the trend these days is voluptuousness? Moderately fat women are more popular than thin ones.”

“You’re not a meat virtue, but a meat quality. Isn’t that an A+ grade?”

Without saying anything, Ruri grabbed Baekri’s head and tightened it with her arms, putting her headlock on. She became a Force user and her physical abilities improved to a post-human level, but Ruri was the first to awaken as a Force user.

“Oh, wait! It hurts! It hurts! Hey! Hey!”

“Wow, you don’t know how difficult it is for Luli, a high school student with military service.”

“Army Service Creed!”

“Our resolution!”

“Our resolution!”

Both Baekri and Ruri spoke at the same time. Even if it’s like Baekri, seeing that Ruri is like that, it seems that she has the skills to call herself a military high school girl.

“They say that one high school girl’s combat power is equal to that of two members of the special forces. Ruri isn’t even close to that level, so she seems to be able to fight a tank alone.”

“Ottoke know!”

“Really?!”

“It’s been longer since he was a Force user than you.

Besides, if I knew Ruri, he would have talent, and even if he didn’t fight, his method of using the force would be superior to Baekri’s.

“Doesn’t he have his own characteristics? Doesn’t he practice force at home? Looking at what his brother doesn’t know”

“…..Really?”

Baekri looked at Ruri with eyes wondering if it was real.

“I have one, but I don’t know if it’s a unique trait. I didn’t have anyone to compare it to.”

“Why didn’t you tell me?”

“You didn’t ask”

“I’ve awakened as a Force user too, so I want you to say something!”

“I’m hoping for something big from Go-sam, who is busy with studies! Who is the person who nags me to go to college because I study hard!”

“Because I’m the one earning my little brother’s tuition?!”

Do you want to go home and fight brother and sister?

Once the menu is devised, you can finely match the sauce mix and write down the recipe later. You can teach Baekri how to make it in detail later.

“Come and eat sometimes, Ruri.

“Is it free?!”

“I’ll pay for it from your brother’s salary.”

“Brother?!”

“Okay, oppa, I have to pay my salary!”

No matter how much it is, I’m not giving a little salary of 100 li, and I won’t be able to pay it all.

I don’t know if it’s about half.

“From today, I will go for 10 chicken a day”

“You’re a fat pig!”

“I can forgive you for calling me a pig, but I cannot forgive you for calling me a pig!”

“What an asshole!”

Hee hee, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen a gag release, so I’m laughing out loud. These days, it’s just me and Xion, so it’s quiet because only the two of us can’t create a crowded atmosphere, but I really like this feeling.

The kids are good brother and sister.

“Pig! Pig! A high school girl pig weighing 60 kilos!”

“Do you want to be beaten with that pig’s feet?”

“Ah! Ah! Ah! Wait, why does it hurt so much when I blocked it with the force?!”

“I don’t know the defense damage? Defense ignoring damage!”

The kids are really good.

Anyway, siblings should be like this!