Chapter 58 – [What Is Life, Just Live as You Live]

Ye-jin was at a motel a little far from the downtown area. First I called her and brought her down.

“Did you sleep well all night?”

“Uh… Huh? Mr. Raccoon Man?”

“Okay”

Seeing my bare face, I was a little surprised and my eyes widened. It’s not like I’m Iron Man, and I’m not going to take a look at his face.

How many heroes are there who openly reveal their identities? What are you going to do if you do that in the first place?

“Get on. Let’s go to my house. I’ll stay there for a while…I want to hear your opinion on the big one.”

“Ah yes”

It’s easy to believe that I’m a raccoon man. In fact, it was enough.

Once you meet them, they behave similarly enough to think that they are the same person. The reason why Superman and Clark Kent have different impressions and Bruce Wayne and Batman have different impressions is a way to hide their identities that make them judged as separate people.

Who thinks a newspaper reporter with glasses is Superman and a rich, rich playboy with a lot of money is Batman?

Compared to him, it is highly likely that anyone who meets me, the raccoon man, will think that I am the same person when they see me in person. And vice versa.

“I was curious because I couldn’t see his face, but more than I thought, how to say…”

“Doesn’t it look dirty?”

“Ah, that’s not it. You look unique!”

“I know best what I came up with, so what are you doing?”

I took Yejin out of the motel. Stepping into the car parked in front of her, she froze at the sight of Shion in her car.

“Hello?”

“…….? Huh? Who are you?”

“He’s not a man”

“He?”

I am the only man here. So, I am the only one who can be called him here.

Ye-jin didn’t understand for a while whether her head was buffering, and it wasn’t until she got into the car and started off that she screamed.

“Mister, are you married?!”

“Then, did you think he was a bachelor?”

“I thought he was still married because he looked young! Aren’t you in your 20s?”

“I’m in my early twenties”

“Uh…Then what about this person?

“My wife is two years older than me”

“Huh? Huh?”

To be honest, it’s a difficult situation for someone seeing it for the first time to understand.

I don’t have a good impression, and I look tough, but my wife is a pretty silver-haired girl (legitimate) like a doll, and she’s actually older than me.

Beauty and the Beast wouldn’t be so awkward.

“…Uncle, do you have any preferences?”

“I wondered why that word didn’t come out. Most people who saw my wife said that.”

Most people think that way because they are not pure in the world. I wonder if my tastes are peculiar.

I am not a pervert who lusts after children who are attracted to normal adult women. I do it because I love my wife.

Even if I brought a girl of the same age as Shion in front of me, I wouldn’t react.

“First, let’s talk on the way to my house. It’s about your treatment.”

For now, it is certain that we will be your guardians. But there is something that Yejin has to choose for herself.

Live together in my house Or will you live separately in the house we saved?

“What do you want to do? We’ll respect your choice. It’s our house anyway. We have spare rooms, and if you want to live on your own, we’ll give you a decent room and enough subsidy.”

“Well……”

Either way we are welcome. If you’re not a child and you’re a high school girl, you probably have your own privacy, so living with strangers can be uncomfortable.

Moreover, with an adult man who is only a few years older… Even if I don’t have the heart to do that, I don’t know how the other person will feel.

“Then I want to live with you.”

“Really? I’m not forcing you, so you can do as you please. Aren’t you afraid to live with a man like me?”

“Even if you have a house and money, it’s useless if you’re not safe. If you’re a man, at least I’ll keep you safe, so I think that’s better.”

Certainly, in terms of safety, it is better to live in our house.

It’s because I’m in it and it’s a house that Shion built himself, so I can prepare for emergencies thanks to various protective equipment.

But then I don’t know if it’s more dangerous to be next to me.

“Then let’s go to my house. I’ll go and tidy up my room and then I’ll be busy.”

A high school girl who lives with someone she met for the first time yesterday, or a guy who has to live with a high school girl she first met yesterday… Hmm, I think I’ve seen this kind of repertoire somewhere.

Turn on Hitomi…Kuh! Head!

Ye-jin felt awkward, but her eyes lit up when she found the fox cub that Shion was holding. Traditionally, pretty and sexy have different tastes, but cute doesn’t discriminate between men and women of all ages.

“Wow! Is it a puppy? It looks cute! Are you raising it?”

“It’s actually a little fox. Isn’t it cute?”

“It’s so cute and so cute. Woojjujju, do you want to play with your sister?”

The little fox whimpered and made cute noises as Yejin and Shion played with her, probably when her curiosity was in full swing.

Come to think of it, I have to buy food for this kid or something like that. First of all, since it’s a canine, even if you basically eat dog food, you have to think about things like meat.

And the most important thing is to name it.

When I got home, I parked the car in front of the house. Luggage was roughly moved and left in the living room to organize, and Ye-jin took out the items inside to give a room on the first floor as a storage room.

“The house is spacious. Do you two live together?”

“My family is only me and Zion”

“The house is so large? Didn’t it even have a second floor?”

“The second floor is almost like an exhibition hall.”

There are also a couple of rooms on the second floor, but most of them are exhibits of sculptures such as Shion, figures I bought, and Nendoroids.

“It’s called Raccoon Man, but isn’t it very rich? Just like Iron Man or Batman!”

“I’m not that rich”

To be honest, I don’t know how much money Zion made, but I’m dubious about it. There are several buildings, I bought mountains and islands, and I bought all the stocks of famous conglomerates, but it is difficult to estimate.

“Couldn’t you be richer than that?”

“No matter how hard it is, fiction can’t win. How can you set up the world’s best company from the beginning and become richer than the company you entered in two years?”

“It sounds like you can do it if you have time.”

To be honest, among the technologies that Shion knows, even if they are downgraded, there are quite a few technologies that will bring confusion to society beyond development. It will be a big deal if you go into a monopoly on making things that perform at the same level as a general computer for a subject that is the size of the palm of your hand.

“There are many things to take care of. First of all, Yejin needs a bed to fit into your room, and procedures to go to school… Come to think of it, what year are you in high school?”

“Sophomore year.”

“He’s a year younger than Ruri. I’m glad he didn’t take the CSAT.”

If you are in such a situation and want to take the CSAT this year, it will be difficult with moderate effort.

Well, since I’m a Force user, I’ll be able to stay up all night easily.

“Ahhhhh!”

“Okay, I’ll buy you some rice too. Do you like meat for snacks?”

Foxes are omnivores. You shouldn’t give people food with a lot of liver, but meat or something like that is okay. Since you came to my house, I’ll feed you expensive beef, too.

“Come to think of it, this is my first time raising a fox. Is it different from a dog?”

“There are a lot of species like desert foxes and arctic foxes, but there are not as many red foxes as expected.”

“But weren’t foxes extinct in our country?”

“It’s being restored, but it’s not extinct. And this kid doesn’t look like our country’s fox.”

Just as Baekri shouted to me when I first met her mother Wonjong, a fox that had escaped somewhere might have grown up on its own. Why isn’t fox fur expensive? There must have been a fox farm that was raised to get fur, so it’s no wonder that the guys who escaped from there reproduced.

Hardware is a dog, but software is a cat. It is the best pet for those of us who have been thinking whether to raise a dog or a cat.

“I wonder if they can raise them well… It’s fortunate that they’re not arctic foxes or desert foxes. They say they need to create an environment in which they live.”

“At times like this, it’s better to ask someone who knows better than to search for information.”

“Huh? Did any of my acquaintances raise foxes?”

“Isn’t there Mr. Jesu?”

“No, Jesu doesn’t raise foxes, he’s a fox.”

“……?”

Only Yejin, who was listening from the side, patted the little fox’s head and expressed her doubts.

No, it’s nothing special, because the woman my cousin married is a gumiho. But if you ask a gumiho how to raise a fox, isn’t it a bit like that?

“What should I name him?”

“That’s something I’ve decided.”

Shion confidently looked at the little fox and said.

“From now on, this child’s name is Dangdangi.”

“It’s just a dog!”

It was a name that was half sincere.

*        *    *

Ye-jin decided to go through transfer procedures from our house to a nearby high school. She and she bought various necessities and stuffed them into her room.

“Ikea’s furniture is good, but we don’t get cancer, so we should buy good furniture.”

“Unexpectedly, assembling furniture is fun because it feels like making Legos.”

After buying and assembling basic furniture such as desks, bookshelves, beds, and chairs, a decent high school girl’s room was completed in no time.

Ye-jin went around her house to see her house. She seems to be trying to get a rough idea of ​​the room location or something, but she’s also got a hint that she’s looking for something.

“Uh, if you’re a raccoon man, isn’t there a passage that leads to a secret basement in your house? If you go down the passage, a secret hideout will appear in the cave!”

“That’s Batman. We don’t have anything like that in our house.”

“Are you a superhero?”

“Batman is a hero, not a superhero, right? Go get some popcorn, Yejin.”

Traditionally, super hot kids like Superman don’t need a secret lab or hideout. Are you in the North Pole? That’s Superman’s house.

“There is”

“…….”

“There is a secret laboratory”

“…….”

No, something I didn’t know was in my house?!

No matter how much I go around at home, it’s like that. Have you ever put everything in this house in the kigam and searched for it? I’ve never seen such a hideout, except for the occasional intruder repelling or strange equipment.

Shion laughed lightly as I made a bewildered expression at the shocking confession.

“I did it on purpose to see that expression. Do you know that I don’t know you? I’m sure even if I put it in the kigam, it would have detected this house and not the yard.”

“…..Aha”

At Shion’s words, I expanded my search to include the yard, not the house. Then, in a corner of the yard, I found a passage leading to the basement from a small storage shed used for stuffing clutter.

“Wow, it really exists. I thought it was cool when I watched superhero movies from long ago.”

“I’ll show you later”

I haven’t even seen it there yet!

As much as Shion has a history, I am very curious about what he has made. You can open your eyes and look for it, but… It wouldn’t be fun if you knew in advance. Let’s save it for later.

“First of all, the computer processing has been completed. Since you are still a minor, your resident registration card will not come out, but it would be better to remember your name and resident registration number.”

“Huh? Already?”

“The computational process is easy”

The biggest problem for Zion is analog. When it comes to things she has to manually record and correct, she is no different than a normal girl.

However, just as jobs that do not use computers are more rare in today’s society, it is not a task to create a person’s status in one day when it comes to administrative work.

“Her last name was changed to his last name and changed to Choi Ye-jin. Is that okay?”

“Ah, anyway, Cheon Ye-jin and Choi Ye-jin have two vowels, but what is it?

Anyway, after about 10 years, my husband and I would have adopted and raised a child because it would be a bit lonely living together. Because it was often like that in the past.

Now, I think it was a bit early.

“Kang!”

“Oh gu oh gu, is our dog hungry? Would you like a snack? Since he’s still young, would you rather eat dog chewing gum than gain weight?”

“First of all, foxes are canines, so it’s comfortable to eat dog food.”

“It’s cute there, isn’t it?”

The dog whimpered, showing its belly and wagging its tail. Even though she’s still young, she has all the features of a fox, and her fluffy-looking tail sways left and right… To be honest, she’s cuter than a cat.

The tidying up is over. In the evening, she held a small party that served as Yejin’s housewarming. Auspicious days are beef.

“I’ve been through a lot of bad things, but I’ll pray that only good things will happen in the future. Oh, even though I’m not religious.”

“Then who do you pray to?”

“I don’t know, someone will figure it out.”

There are not just one or two gods I know, and if you pray in moderation, anyone will listen and do well for you. Just accept my faith and run away.

We talked about various things while grilling and eating meat. It was mainly about individuals, such as what they like and when they awakened as Force users.

Since we have to get to know each other in the future, it is natural that we should know the basics.

“I like to read books. I don’t care about the genre. Until I was kidnapped, I mainly read pure literature.”

“No, it was liberal arts?!”

“Then there are only two liberal arts students in our house. But there is only one science department!”

“Ah, is Aunt Shion a science major? That’s surprising. I thought the old man was a science major and the aunt was a liberal arts major.”

“I’m a science no matter where I look. I’m a yally yalli yalashung when I look at math formulas. I’m not a total jerk, but I’m a nerd for deepening.”

“It is said that I look like a literary girl.”

“Puck”

Literature is correct, but it must be literature (La Novel).

What is the book I usually read… Anyway, it must be something from another world. These days, no matter how tough the world is to live in, there are a lot of novels out there to go and live in a different world that seems easy to live in. But isn’t that it? Reincarnation or going to another world and dying because of a water change?

I saw a few people saying that I liked my previous life in another world, but half of them died because of changing water, and half of them died from cheating with cheats.

You should know that there are reincarnated above the reincarnated in another world. Suckers.

“Is there anything you want to do later?”

“Hmm…I haven’t thought about that yet.”

“Well, if you’re still in high school, that’s okay. Think slowly and decide what you want to do. It’s best for people to live their lives doing what they like.”

“People I know say that living on what they like is torture.”

“Working is equally tortured anyway. Then wouldn’t it be better to be tortured the way you like?”

Not really.

There are punishments that God gave to Adam and Eve when they were expelled from paradise, and one of them is to work. Originally, in Paradise, people could live without working, but since they were kicked out, they have to work to make a living.

No, I don’t know if it’s true because I heard it in passing. In the first place, all I know in the Bible is ‘let there be light’.

“It’s someone else’s house and it’s a stranger, but I think it’s a boarding house and feel comfortable. To be honest, I was a little worried because Shion was alone at home when I wasn’t there, but it’ll be a little better.”

“Ah, if you go to school, you’ll come back a little late, right?”

“What time does school end these days? Doesn’t it end around 4 or 5?”

“Each school is different, but that’s probably about it. But when you think of the palm…”

“Even if I fight with the school, I’ll take out the coconut. Studying is voluntary, not forced.”

It’s not like you’re forced to do what you’re told, and if you’re forced to study, it won’t come into your head any more.

“I have a question for you.”

“What?”

“Why are you so nice to me? To be honest, I think I’ve done my responsibility because you saved me even if I left it that day, but why are you helping me like this?”

If you think deeply, even if Super Hero saves a person, he doesn’t think about it until after that. Which hero even cares about welfare? It’s not like there’s any money left.

I rescued Yejin from that facility. To be honest, it was enough to finish there and go back, so I purposely made a family register and took care of myself as a guardian.

“I saved you, but knowing you’re going to die is embarrassing. That’s why I helped you.”

“For just that reason?”

“Then is there anything else?”

Of course, if I were an adult, I would have taken care of it and threw it somewhere. But you’re underage At least, I plan to take care of him until he can judge and take responsibility for himself.

If I left it there, I would be dragged back to the ‘Atlas’ or something, and it would be a test subject. Will die in the end

If you die like that, there’s no reason for me to save you. I picked up a kitten on the street, but it feels like I’m raising it because I didn’t like it.

“I don’t know if he’s good or bad.”

“Think what you’re comfortable with”

After all, I don’t care about other people’s opinions.