Chapter 36 – [What Is Life, Just Live as You Live]

A week passed quickly. On Friday evening, we sat in front of the TV with Xion and some snacks and passed the time by watching commercials.

“I hope it turns out well, right?”

“It’ll turn out well”

“Why are you so confident?”

“Anyway, it’ll be fine.”

Shion seems to have touched something behind her. How the hell did I do during the 2 years I was in the military to have such a network in my hands?

“Human connections are entangled like a spider’s web. If you lift the upper spider’s web moderately, the lower one will be drawn in.”

“Me, I don’t care because there are more bad things than good things about human connections. It’s better not to have them.”

I have committed so many things that there are several people in my network who are gnashing at me. It’s just that I’m weak enough to ignore and I don’t care about it, and in the class of transcendentalists like me, there are only a handful of personal connections. There are things like co-workers, there are relatives, and so on.

Oh, the broadcast begins.

“Since it’s a restaurant broadcast, are you going to broadcast it on the second or third time?”

“Probably so.”

I see it often, so I know roughly everything in the repertoire. On the other hand, it is divided into four materials and broadcasts, and among them, a restaurant broadcast is included at least once. It’s rare to broadcast first and last, so if you broadcast in the middle, it’s the second, or the third.

Shion wiggled her feet while watching the broadcast. Oh, my wife’s feet are cute. Whatever it is, it looks cute because it’s small.

“Are you going to sleep after the broadcast is over? Tomorrow is the day off, so if you want to wake up early and play, I think you’d better go to bed early.”

“I want to eat an ice cream before going to bed. Potato chips make my mouth feel dry.”

“Fat”

“Don’t you prefer the fat side?”

“No, you have to gain weight to be plump, right?”

Shion is a bit skinny with a small body, so even if she gains weight, she feels plump rather than plump. If her child looks fat, it’s good to see it because he feels well-fed and grown up rather than ugly. Is it similar to how her grandmothers feed her grandchildren?

“I don’t have anything in the refrigerator… By the end of the broadcast, the only store open will be a convenience store. Well, I hope it’s okay, I’ll go out and buy it after the broadcast ends.”

“I’ll go too”

“Will you follow me?”

“Wouldn’t you buy red bean ice cream that can be used as a weapon if only you sent it?”

“You think I only buy BB. They say I buy other things too.”

“Babamba?”

“……..”

I’m really sorry for my bad taste!!!

I openly like chocolate ice cream or something like that, but I tend to prefer ice cream with a more modest taste.

My favorite is mostly fruit-based ice cream, or vanilla, but Shion’s favorite is ice cream with lots of chocolate. I like sweets too, but after two or three bites of ice cream that tastes like chocolate, I get sick of it.

“Okay, let’s go together later…… Ah, let’s start. It’s our store from the beginning, right?”

As we talked, the first corner went over and we went over to the second corner. From the beginning, our store came out and I was a little surprised.

[Is there a chicken that captivates not only Koreans, but also Japanese and Chinese tourists? I came to that chicken restaurant that some people have never been to, but no one has ever been to!]

With the voice of a familiar male narrator, the appearance of our store was sent out. It’s just that the store’s signboard is covered with a mosaic, but honestly, you can find it all with just a few searches in the world these days.

The repertoire was similar. It was just a broadcast that emphasized the restaurant part by emphasizing the customer’s reaction and price.

It didn’t come out very long. About 2 minutes? In the first place, several houses were filmed and sent out for one material, and each material was only broadcast for about 15 minutes, so it was not possible to broadcast only our house for a long time.

Even if it didn’t last long, it was enough because I was satisfied with the broadcast.

“I wanted to send it out as a special feature on another broadcasting program.”

“It’s okay, it’s going to be difficult if there are more customers than now.”

Even now, I’m thinking about adding one more part-time job, but when the number of customers increases, sincerity is lacking. Usually, the houses called restaurants fail to maintain the quality there.

Suddenly, I heard a story from Jin PD, so I tried to tell it.

“You know what? This show will end by next month at the latest.”

“Oh, is that so?”

“It’s a little disappointing. It’s a program I’ve been watching for a long time.”

Even insignificant things become attached after 10 years of use. I can feel the flow of time when a program I have been watching for over 10 years is now gone.

“……Don’t you want to end the show?”

Shion sneakily asked my intentions. If you have connections here and there, it would be possible to continue extending one broadcast program. But I don’t want to get caught up in it.

“It’s the rise and fall of the living and the mortal anyway. I have to leave when I clap my hands, it’s time to go, but I don’t want to hold on to it. Everything has an end, so it’s a good law.”

Happiness has an end, but on the contrary, despair also has an end. There is no absolute in the world, so there is no eternity, and everything has an end, so the world goes around.

When this program ends, another broadcast program will appear next. Wouldn’t that program be more interesting?

The end is for the next. So if it’s time to leave, it’s the duty and courtesy to let go.

“I don’t really care about getting old and time passing, but I think about it every time I do this.”

I am reincarnated. They came empty-handed when they were born and left empty-handed when they died. However, there is only one thing that can be seen in the next life as much as Zion. One is enough.

All I want is not a big one, just one little girl who can fit in my arms.

If Zion is placed on one side of the scale, it will not tilt an inch no matter what is placed on the other side. Even if it is the lives of hundreds of millions of people, it is no different.

I’m sorry, but it’s the same even if I put Baek-ri and my friends on it.

I watched TV while thinking about this and that, and the broadcast ended before I knew it. The time was a little past 11:00.

“Let’s go get some ice cream!”

I laughed and went out of the house with Zion.

*        *    *

The area around my house is a place where people with some money gather. Thanks to that, there was no sign of being noisy or uncomfortable.

Is it just that you have to walk a little to get to a place like a convenience store? Where would a mart open at 11:00 in the first place? Unless it’s a 24-hour convenience store.

“The night air isn’t bad”

“It’s a bit hot because it’s humid, but it’s okay because there’s no sun.”

“That’s true. I hope summer passes quickly and autumn comes. It will be cool if the humid weather goes away. Besides, there are many things to eat in autumn.”

There are many things to eat in the fall, such as seasonal fruits, fish, and special products. Like trout for example. There is even a saying that autumn gizzards are sesame seeds, and even daughters-in-law who leave home come back to the smell of grilled gizzards.

I like sashimi or seasoned fish, but the taste of eating it from the head after salting and grilling is excellent. Keew, with that savory yet salty taste and a cup of soju, there is no other heaven. I’ve never been to heaven

After walking for a while, there was a 24-hour convenience store right in front of me. Shion goes inside to buy the ice cream she wanted.

“Welcome”

A male part-timer with a somewhat languid impression, probably tired from the evening, greets them. He’s not welcoming, he’s just a salesperson.

Zion is dodo dodo! I ran and picked out the ice cream first. I was short and it seemed uncomfortable to choose, so I grabbed the armpits on both sides and lifted them up to make it easier to see.

“What are you going to buy?”

“Um… This, this, this, this.”

“It’s all chocolate flavor. Then I’ll go with this”

I chose the orange-flavored ice cream. Because chewing fruit-flavored ice cubes makes you feel cool. In addition, because it is a convenience store, there are fewer types of ice cream than a mart. Most of them are openly sweet, so there are some that don’t suit my taste.

I bought some snacks and went to the counter to pay. The price… Hmm, it’s a convenience store, so it’s expensive. I didn’t buy a few ice creams, but it’s over 10,000 won.

Is it expensive these days, is it more expensive because it’s a convenience store, or both?

When I came out of the convenience store, the humid air of summer hit me again. I don’t get hot, but I still have a feeling. Humid air alone increases stress.

“I’m thirsty. Shall we eat one over there?”

“I agree”

There is a small playground near the convenience store for children to play. Of course, a playground only has a few swings, a slide, and a couple of rides, but it was made so that they could rest, so it was enough for the two of them to sit and eat ice cream.

“Oh, come to think of it, you bought a few more. Wouldn’t it melt while eating?”

“No worries”

It took heat energy from the ice cream bag Shion was holding. I deal with the laws of physics freely, and there was no way I couldn’t do what I could. It probably won’t melt if left outside for 30 minutes.

Looking at the playground where children play, I feel cute. The colorful rides were revealed in the light of the dimly lit streetlights because it was night.

When I think about it, I think it was quite a long time ago that I rode a slide or a swing. At least not from my memory.

“Would you like to take a ride?”

“Hey, the swing is broken. No way.”

“How rough are the kids playing, but can it be ruined by a grown man riding on it? It’s okay if three of you ride on it, so you can ride on it.”

There are times in life when I want to go back to the days of my childhood innocence. Sometimes I wish I could live without thinking. It’s just that the road I’ve come so far has been too long and I can’t go back because I have too many things to do.

I sneaked up on the swing. It’s a little small for kids, but it didn’t seem like it would break or break.

Shion gently sat on my lap.

“Is that why you asked me to ride the swing?”

“No”

“No what”

She got on the swing and put Shion on her lap and moved it gently. Even though the night is deep and the stars are not visible, there is an atmosphere because there are only two people in a quiet place.

……. To be honest, it doesn’t look good to anyone who doesn’t know. It’s like an adult man with a dirty look hanging out with an elementary school girl.

If civilization had been a little less developed, it might not have been particularly strange because of early marriage, but in a society where security is stable, it is easy to be misunderstood.

So the last time I went on a trip to Japan, I was caught.

“It would be nice if I could transform into an adult form without any risk.”

“When are you going to do that? Utopia, the eldest of your kind, is now seemingly a middle school student. When are you going to grow up?”

“The day will come when I will become a full-fledged beauty.”

“I don’t know if I’ll be alive by then.”

Although I am a reincarnated person, I am not endless. Now, I can break the cycle of reincarnation with my own power, so I can rest anytime.

It’s just that Zion exists, and there are things to be done and decisions to be made, so I’m putting it off.

“I can’t live without you”

“I can’t live without you either. If you die, I kill the bastard I killed and I die too.”

“Didn’t you almost do that the other day?”

“When did it happen… It happened hundreds of years ago, so my memory is fuzzy.”

Zion is a race without life. That’s why there are guys who have been living since time immemorial, so the only way to die is to commit suicide or murder.

As long as I’m here, Shion can’t commit suicide, so what’s left as a result is murder. If Shion is killed by someone, I will kill and die no matter how strong he is.

“At that time, I really thought I was going to die.”

Oh, that’s the story.

Since I am a reincarnated person, I will not die unless I break the cycle of reincarnation myself. However, if you are a transcendent higher than me, you can kill the soul by directly extinguishing it.

At that time, we really fought back and forth. I won because I liked the match, but honestly, if I told him to fight someone of the same level as him, I would lose.

I wanted to avoid a fight if possible, but the bastard liked Zion and tried to take it away, so I fought to die.

From then on, he became the Great Demon King in earnest.

A blonde bully who wants to NTR from old age has to be beaten in the head. It is arrogance to think that transcendental beings can do everything they want.

“That’s why you don’t fight well these days.”

“What is raccoon man then?”

“It’s for kids to play with.”

If one person and one country fight, it is not called a war. If there is such a big difference, the calling should be treated differently.

Society has no meaning to me, and even master users are still newbies who have only taken a single step. If I fight with all my strength, I can win even with one finger. It’s just that people’s relationships come from respect, so it’s kind of polite.

“…………..”

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“It was the first time I knew you had any manners.”

“They said that manners make a person. Manners are the same as courtesy. That’s what it is.”

“I knew from the start that it wasn’t human.”

“No, you’re denying your existence out of nowhere! Eat this!”

I put my mouth on Zion’s crown and blew hot breath. It’s hot, but when a hot wind blows over the top of his head, Shion reacts violently and trembles.

“It’s so hot, but that’s lethal. Oops!”

“I can’t run away. How does it feel to rub against each other in sticky weather!”

Even if you don’t get hot, your body temperature is the same. Compared to him, Shion is weaker than me when it comes to his body, so he gets hot and cold. Still, we were sweating, so we hugged each other and rubbed each other so that we were covered in sweat.

However, Shion did not actively resist. Just as there are women who wear miniskirts even in the middle of winter, the humid and hot weather of summer is not an obstacle to refusing skinship for couples who are brimming with sesame seeds.

“……Are you going to play sticky with sweat tonight?”

“No?”

“I’m Joe”

“Suddenly Mood Shark”

Shion secretly has a smell fetish. Sometimes when I look at it, I’ve seen quite a few sniffing my underwear in front of the pile of laundry.

Around the time we were riding on a swing while talking about this and that. Someone entered my gut feeling.

If you want to, you can put a globe in the gigam, but I usually limit myself to a 3-meter radius because I’m really picky. It’s small, but inside it, unless you’re a higher transcendent than me, you can’t deceive or surprise my senses.

Place behind your back. Even if I don’t feel particularly depressed, I hear very small footsteps. Faint but heavy feeling… Ordinary people can’t walk like that. So, are you a Force user?

The moment I looked back, the opponent attacked me. I quickly pushed Shion aside and was rolled off the swing by the man charging at me.

“You bastard! Stay still!”

“No, what the fuck?”

The opponent is a force user. He grabbed my arm and tried to restrain me, but there was hostility but no killing intent. Even if you’re in a bad mood, if you don’t have the intent to kill, you’re willing to listen.

He grabs my arms and puts them behind my back, then he puts them in handcuffs that don’t feel as heavy as you see on TV. The thickness and strength are incomparable to ordinary handcuffs. It seems to be so strong that even an ape can’t solve it.

“Hey, mister. Let’s see why.”

“Shut up you bastard! You don’t even have the right to remain silent!”

“Are you a cop?”

The shape and material of the handcuffs are unusual, and the force user is a police officer. In the corner of my memory, I had heard that there was a separate task force to catch criminals of the same Force users among Force users. If it is correct, it is possible to check the identity of the opponent or the handcuffs that even the force user cannot easily escape.

“What are you doing to someone else’s husband?!”

“Husband? No, kid, because you’re a policeman? Didn’t you feel strange or uncomfortable with this person? There are some Force users who sometimes manipulate their minds in that way.”

“I’m not a kid! Even though I look like this, I’m two years older than that person!”

Shion asked the man in a higher-than-usual tone to see if he was angry at the sudden lightning strike.

Shion’s words gave the man the feeling that he misunderstood something, and the strength in my shoulders lost a bit.

“Mister. Let’s talk first. First of all, I have my ID card and cell phone in my pocket. Take them out and verify your identity. There is also a picture of the two of you on your cell phone, so take a look at that.”

If the opponent is a police officer, if you recklessly subdue them, things will escalate. And there was some minor misunderstanding, but the other party tried to be faithful to their main job. I don’t get angry just because I was handcuffed for something like that.

However, if he had aimed at Shion, his fist would have blown instead of his head.

The man took his wallet out of my pocket and checked his ID. Then he took out his cell phone and checked the picture of the two of them on the background screen.

“Are you done now?”

Shion glared at the man with cold eyes and said. The fact that Shion, who has little emotional change, reacts like that means that she is really angry.

To be honest, I am too. The atmosphere was good in the middle of the day, but I was treated like a criminal and caught.

“Keuheum, are you two really married?”

“My house is near here. I was misunderstood so often that I came out without even bringing my marriage certificate, which I usually carry.

Shion, staring at her with expressionless eyes, had a strange power. I’m scared too, but how terrible is that man?

The strength that had been pressing down on my shoulders was quite gone, and I was able to raise my body. I got up a little and sat down.

“Police man. Let’s start by introducing myself. I’m the worst person living near here. I’m running a small chicken restaurant in Myeong-dong. What about you?”

“……This is Lieutenant Lee Yoo-seong of the Seoul Central Police Station’s Special Robbery Team.”

“Special Power Team? That’s the Force User Criminal Team, right?”

“Yes, that’s right”

In general, a detective department that catches criminals has a support team, a detective team, and a riot team. However, if it was a special strong team, it would be a team that catches special criminals as well… In other words, it would be a team that catches force user criminals.

“There seems to be some misunderstanding. Even though we don’t look like each other, we are a married couple because we love each other, and we got married earlier this year. The insider looks like that because of an illness in the past, but he’s two years older than me. I was craving ice cream at night, so we came out together and bought it. It was the way in.”

It seems that the misunderstanding has been resolved to some extent because he explained clearly and brought in evidence of this and that. It’s a bad feeling, but it’s still tolerable.

“I usually get misunderstood like this a lot…But this is the first time I’ve been handcuffed? Can you give me an answer that will help me understand why you even arrested me?”

However, if I don’t understand, I get pissed off too. Without a good reason, I intend to bury this man here.

“I’m sorry. It’s a confidential investigation…”

“What? Right now, they treat people as criminals and put handcuffs on them and tell them why. They say they can’t do it because it’s a confidential investigation? Fuck, there’s a limit to what I can tolerate. Really…”

As I was about to get angry, Shion grabbed my hand and dragged me by the side. She hit me to death, then I went in front of her and buried her alive, trying to destroy her evidence, but she stopped me before I could clenched her fist.

“Did you say you belonged to the Central Police Department earlier?”

“Ah, yes. That’s right”

Shion took out her cell phone and made a call somewhere. The call rang a few times, then the other party answered.

“I’ll be in touch after a while, Chief. How are you? Sorry for calling late. Nothing else…”

I’m asking because I’m really curious, how far are your connections?

Shion asked how to say hello, but soon handed it over to Lieutenant Yu-seong Lee.

“Take it. It’s your chief.”

“Yes?”

“I told you to take it”

Shion handed over his phone without saying anything further.

“Yes, Inspector Lee Yu-seong”

[Hey you bastard! What the hell did you do in the middle of the night!!!]

“Stop, Chief!!!”

Even though it’s not on speakerphone, I can hear a loud voice all the way here.

[You, explain the situation to them and apologize even if you are on your knees. Oh, the back bone. With the fewest number of people, the most major accidents… You, let’s see tomorrow. Fuck the undercover investigation and come up to the chief’s office tomorrow morning!]

“Yes, I understand. Yes, chief… I’m sorry. Yes, yes”

Even though it was over the phone, Inspector Lee Yu-seong bowed his head and apologized.

It was like a typical office worker receiving a job, so I felt pitiful without knowing it.

As he handed over the dead phone again, his face looked 10 years old.

“It’s a lot of trouble”

“…….Yes”

Now it was my turn to listen.