Chapter 48 – [What Is Life, Just Live as You Live]

If there’s one person who suffers on the way to travel, it’s the driver.

I turned on the air conditioner, but the sunlight comes directly in front of me and I have to concentrate all the time, so it’s hard.

“Keugh, I’m the only driver out of all these people!”

“Most of them are children or full-time housewives.

“Hey! You’re a perfectly fine adult man!”

“I’m without a license? Since I’m protected by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, have you tried driving?”

“Dirty bastard… Somehow, despite paying a lot, he didn’t buy a car and used public transportation.”

Among these members, I am the only driver. In the first place, I, Shion, Baekri, and Seo-ae were the only adults among them, but Seo-ae was a full-time housewife, so I was excluded. Baekri did not have a driver’s license, and Shion had no intention of obtaining one in the first place. Even if I got it, I won’t let you drive.

I have no choice but to drive without stopping. Of course, it’s not hard, but it’s a matter of mood.

“Everything elementary school students know these days. The generation gap has come.”

“Elementary schooling?

“Oh?! I’m still underage, am I already falling behind in buzzwords!”

To be honest, I am more familiar with the word elementary school than the word school lunch. It is natural that the language used changes as the times change, but that’s why there is a generation gap.

Even if we exclude elementary school students, even the youngest Ruri is our generation, who is only a few years older than Baekri. It’s natural that you’re not used to it.

“Anyone on Facebook or Instagram? Do you want to be friends?”

“Oh, I’m on Facebook”

“I only use KakaoTalk, so please give me your sister’s number”

“Keueueu, you’re an innocent child. You shouldn’t do Facebook because it’s a waste of life.”

“Wait a minute, sister. She says Facebook is a waste of life, but she says her sister does it.”

“Since I’m faithfully spending my life studying, I can waste it like this. Posting on Facebook is related to my daily life in the first place.”

“There is something persuasive…”

Ruri played well with Seonghye, Sujeongi, and Aram, as if her mental age matched those of the kids. High school students are like elementary school students. To be honest, I thought it was long, but it was a little funny because it was like that.

Even in the summer, it was a weekday, not a weekend, so there were not many people on the highway. Usually, when I go on vacation, I include a weekend, but it’s rare to leave on a weekday.

“Somebody to eat a boxed lunch? Oh, most of you probably didn’t eat breakfast? Would you like some egg sushi and tofu sushi?”

“It’s a traditional menu at my house. It’s a repertoire that my mom always packs for me when I go on a picnic. But it’s delicious.”

“Oh, I want to eat”

“Give me too!”

Baekri took out the lunch box her mother had packed for her. The menu is egg sushi and tofu sushi. Well, tofu sushi is ordinary using commercial tofu, but egg sushi is not like Japanese style, with egg rolls on top, but sushi with egg rolls.

Sushi + Egg + Oil = Taste. It’s the first time I’ve ever made egg sushi like that, and honestly it looks delicious.

Shion received it, put one in my mouth, and shared it with each other. It’s not a small amount, but it seems like there are so many people.

After driving for about two hours, I passed a sign that said there was a rest area in the right distance. I’ll be there in about an hour’s drive. After playing there, thinking about the time for dinner, I thought it would be nice to have lunch soon.

“Let’s stop by the next rest stop and have a meal. It’s a waste to wait in one place, so divide the team and each buy something they want to eat. Who needs a card?”

“Me! Me!”

“I’ll give you a card, so go with Baekri, Ruri.”

“Oh yea!”

There were more people at the rest stop than expected. Maybe it’s because the car moves on the highway and stops at the rest area, but I don’t think it’s just my feeling when I see a line in front of a walnut snack store over there.

“I’ll go to the convenience store and buy something to drink.”

“Convenience stores on the highway are not as expensive as they are expensive”

“Even if the local convenience store couldn’t do it, it seemed like they did 1.2 times as much. Still, a thirsty guy should dig a well.”

“Walnut Cookies!”

“Oh, I’m Americano”

“If a child already eats coffee, caffeine is bad for the body. Drink coffee or milk”

“Ah, man, I told you to buy something you want to eat, but now you’re saying something else?”

“Please buy me deli manju!”

“Ah, then you should go with me, eat a lot of deli manju! Oppa, I’ll go separately with Seong-hye!”

“Come to think of it, does anyone have to go to the bathroom?”

“Ah, come to think of it, the bathroom…”

“Then shall I go with you?”

4 of them are children. Ruri is at least a senior in high school who will become an adult next year, but the other three are elementary school students. Although Su-jeong is a grown-up, she is just a kid pretending to be an adult after all. No wonder she needs a protector.

Those who go to the bathroom follow Seo-ae and go to the bathroom together, while those who want to buy food split up according to the type of food they want to eat and each buys snacks.

“Ah, come to think of it, udon noodles are a rest stop.”

“It’s summer, so hot soup is special.”

“Really? Hmm…Then do you want to eat buckwheat? How about Sujeong?”

“I just want a cool drink. There’s a cafe over there.”

“If you already drink coffee, it’s bad for you.”

“Does anyone else know that you are a raccoon man?”

“……No, are you threatening me with that?”

The kids already know enough about the last kidnapping case. Even Aram knows that I am a raccoon man, is there anything different about Sujeong?

Of the people in the group, only Seo-ae and Seong-hye don’t know, but everyone knows. However, I don’t want to tell you as much as possible. It’s better than making things for nothing.

“I can’t drink at home, but I have to drink here.”

“Instead, you can’t have Americano. You’re probably at an age when you’re in the middle of your life and like something sweet, but I don’t know if you’re trying to drink something bitter.”

“You know what kids these days know?”

“You should at least go to high school before you come.”

Even if you learn how to live in the world, you are still a child until middle school. At least, I think it was a bit big when I was a high school student. The worlds I reincarnated had different standards for adults, but on average they were about 16 years old. One or two younger than that? If there was a lot, there was a lot, and if there was a little, there was almost nothing.

No matter how undeveloped the world was, it was rare to see an adult’s standard as low as a middle school student. If you’re going to pretend to be an adult in front of me, at least become a high school student.

“Even if you pretend to be a good person, you’re a pervert.”

“Poop!!!”

I spit it out while drinking a drink I bought at a convenience store. No, there’s a fatal blow!?

“…He’s saying something he can’t do.”

“Looking at Shion unni, she seems like a pervert. People who get excited at the sight of children are said to be pedophilia or pedophiles, isn’t that you?”

“I like her because she’s my wife, not children. In the first place, my ideal type is definitely an adult woman, even though she has small breasts.”

“Are you talking about leaving me next to you!”

“It’s a fact you know.”

I also have an ideal type. Of course, this is a preference that you stick to when you are born as a man, but there are three conditions I ask for from my ideal type. Blonde, blindfold, small breasts.

It’s a dropout at the point where you think what’s the difference between small breasts and a child. Little kids just don’t have a heart. Small breasts are all grown up, but her breasts are small. It is said that the pelvis of small judo is developed, so the difference is big.

I’m just sexually aroused because I love Zion, not a pervert who gets excited at the sight of a child.

“I don’t think the rest will think that way even if I make excuses like that.”

“Gagging!!!”

“Sudden Death!!!”

Sujeong-i is a style that is good at venomous words before being mature. When she grows up, she’s going to be a queen controlling a faction, so her future looks promising.

Anyway, Sujeongi said she wanted to drink coffee, so she just bought me a caramel macchiato. She’d rather have something sweet. A lot of caffeine is bad for the body.

“Do you think the house is very strict?”

“I can feel that you both love them, but they love you so much that it’s a problem to make them do a lot of things. There are only a few academies that they attend right now… To be honest, if I hadn’t skipped some of the classes, I would have run away long ago.”

“It’s a bit like going to an academy at the age of playing around”

“By the way, because of that kidnapping last time, I adjusted my academy schedule, so I’m a bit better these days. Rather, I think being kidnapped was good.”

It is not impossible to understand the heart of parents who send their children to the academy hoping for the best, but it is impossible to understand the heart of a child. The opposite is also true, no child can understand the heart of their parents. If you don’t tell me, you won’t know

I had few parents. Like this reincarnation, there are quite a lot of cases where parents died at a young age and grow up as orphans, or parents are negligent in their duties. That’s why it’s rare to receive love like the love of parents.

“You’re still young, so when you grow up, you’ll understand your parents’ feelings. In the end, it’s just a matter of time, so you just have to live hard.”

“You smell like an old man”

“It’s like that sometimes”

“Did you both turn around and sit down? Oh, I sell buttered potatoes. Do you want to eat them?”

I was thinking about eating something at the rest area restaurant, but decided to just fill my stomach with snacks. Originally, rest area udon is a rest area, but the weather is hot, so it is not good to eat hot soup. I was going to eat buckwheat noodles, but I didn’t want it more than I thought. So I gave up.

Instead, I bought a lot of snacks one by one as I saw them. Starting with buttered potato, squid butter grilled, hot bar, dumplings, sausage tteok skewers, and whirlwind potatoes.

“It’s all fat or carbohydrates. That’s why it’s delicious.”

“Her eyes would have gone out of her eyes if she had known she ate like this.”

“But if you think about the academy, it would be hard to play, but did you manage to send it to me?”

“Dad told me to send it… It’s thanks to Shion-nee.”

Shion, who munched two kimchi dumplings in one bite, made a V with her hand next to her. He chewed it a few times, swallowed it right away, and started talking in detail.

“Didn’t Sujeong’s father say that he works for a company I know?

“Ah, that’s right. Wasn’t it?”

“Thanks to you, it seems like you’re on the line for your dad’s company and are on a winning streak?

“Oi, you’ve succeeded”

I’ve also been an ordinary office worker, so I’ve experienced company politics. He said it was important to ride well. Or it’s an instant to leave and become a pair of worn-out shoes that even new recruits don’t care about.

I bought and ate this and that, and after about 30 minutes, I went back to the car, and the rest of the party who had returned earlier were talking and eating snacks.

“Guys, everything is fine, but don’t spill it on the seats. This is a borrowed car.”

“It doesn’t matter”

“……Wait, did you buy this?”

“You can buy it”

“Oh, is it?”

Materialism! In modern society, there is nothing that cannot be done with money. If you believe that money can’t do anything, think about not having enough money.

I’m not saying that I enjoy the advantages of such a society, but I don’t like this kind of society very much. If you ask me which world I like the most…Post-apocalypse.

No kidding, I like the post-apocalyptic world. The end of a self-destructive civilization has its own fun.

It’s quite fun to travel around the destroyed world with Zion from time to time. Imagine the development of civilization before it perishes, and meet good people and bad people while traveling. I kind of like that.

“The person who bought the deli manju? Shouldn’t you give one to the person sitting next to you if you conscientiously brought the deli manju with you?”

“Hey, someone put some in your mouth.”

“Mister! Eat this!”

“Oh, you’re kind. Seonghye is much cuter than Baekri!”

A girl who still has her innocence is cuter than a dull boy who went to the military.

“Even if I get cute from you, it’s useless.”

“Don’t you want to get paid?”

“Wow! I didn’t say anything.”

“A boy using the word hawawa! I will kill any man who uses hawawa as the name of a real high school girl!”

“If you’re going to die from the drip, don’t attack!”

“Aaaaa! The car shakes! It’s no joke because these force users are fucking shit! Stay still!”

“The root of all evil shouldn’t say such things!”

While driving loudly and eating the snacks I bought at the rest stop, I slowly got off the highway and entered the national road. I turned off the air conditioner and opened the window as I slowly ran down the mountain road.

“Pleasant mountain air… The smell of fertilizer?!”

“Ah, it does smell a bit gritty. It won’t go away after a while anyway, so bear with it.”

It smells like fertilizer from a nearby rice field. Horses are manure, so it is natural that they smell bad.

But after driving a little further through the area, the smell of manure went away. And I could feel the heavy, humid air of the mountains.

“Ah, the air is good. Mountain air should taste like this. Living in a city, it’s not once or twice that you choke on bad air.”

“Then why didn’t you go back to farming?”

“I can do that, but my wife hates it”

I affirm human development, but I do not like it. However, Shion inexhaustibly loves human technology and development, and cannot live without it.

I can farm and live on my own, but with Zion, at least I can’t survive without enjoying the civilization created by humans.

Anyway, we finally reached our destination. As I climbed the mountain, I saw a valley, and as I went up along the road next to it, I saw that the road was cut off.

It’s not completely absent, it’s a mountain road without asphalt.

“I’ll just have to go up a little bit from here.”

“It doesn’t even appear on the navigation, so how do you know? You say look at it through satellites?”

…..Actually, that would be correct.

Just as Zion said, I went up a little on a mountain path. Then a fairly wide open space appeared. It’s right next to the water’s edge, and the zone is high, so you can see the kids playing at a glance.

“Oh, nice seat. Was it originally a campsite?”

“I bought something for a campsite.”

“Somehow the ground was compacted.”

In the mountains, there are many stones on the ground and many rocks. However, there was only sand and dirt in the clearing around here, and there were no large rocks. It’s a good spot to pitch a tent.

“Come to think of it, did you bring any mosquito repellent? It’s no joke these days because mosquitoes are overpowering.”

“It’s okay if you don’t have that”

As mountains are mountains, there are many bugs. Among them, the worst mosquitoes are more frightening during childbirth.

But in front of me, it’s nothing. There are no worms that can penetrate my senses. It’s enough to kill all bugs that come within a certain radius around me.

This is more certain than mosquito repellent, which may or may not work. Since we kill even the smallest mosquito chicks without missing a single one, no one will be bitten by an insect while on vacation today.

“Let the kids play first. Oh, Ruri. You warm up the kids and then let them go into the water. We’ll set up a tent.”

“Men gathered in a tent… Huh?! Get out of my head, lecherous fiend!”

“Ruri Jean is a virgin, but strangely, she talks about erotic things well.”

“Leave it alone. It’s unavoidable nature.”

“……? How can you talk like you know Ruri better than me? Have you ever met Ruri before I met you?”

“Okay”

After an ambiguous break, we got together and started pitching a tent. I bought the tent with one touch, but it took 3 seconds to set up the tent because I had to put a pick in the ground and fix it in case I didn’t know, but it took a little while to put the pick.

“Haven’t you got a hammer?”

“Anyone with good strength becomes a good stone. If you go over there in the empty lot, pick up a suitable stone and use it.”

“Ah, that’s all right”

Baek-ri imbued his hand with the force and even wrote the attribute ‘reinforcement’, then struck him down with his fist. He hit the pick a couple of times and it went deep into the ground.

“Can I do this?”

“Well done. I just need to tie the string well.”

“How many tents have you brought?”

“Three”

“Three? Considering the number of people, two is enough, right?”

“It’s good to sleep comfortably even in a four-person tent. So I brought three.”

I think, first of all, the three kids can sleep in one tent, with Seo-ae as a guardian, Baekri and Ruri in the other tent, and me and Shion in the other tent. Well, it’s the layout I thought of, so you can change it as you like.

Suddenly, Baek-ri put a pick and said.

“Hyung… The room is not available, you know?”

“This bastard sees me as a guy with a lower body in heat. I have kids and you guys, but I don’t.”

“You’re doing it without it?!”

“Of course!”

It’s good to do it at home, but it’s also good to do it outside. Of course, not in terms of exposure or anything like that, but in the sense of changing the place.

All three tents were set up and grills, folding tables and chairs were spread out. The kids are still playing, so I shouldn’t be grilling meat right now, but…

Around the time I was making the schedule, I heard the sound of a vehicle’s engine on the way up.

“Huh? What car? Wasn’t this a private property?”

“It’s private property. Who is it? Is there anyone coming up?”

With a little doubt, we watched the people coming up.