The internal facilities of Japtopia were much wider and denser than expected.
While looking around, admiring the delicately designed scenery reminiscent of a village, Yu Ga-ryun tapped my shoulder and said.
“I guess I’ll start now.”
As I turned my head to those words, I caught a glimpse of midsummer walking through the window toward the kitchen table. It’s clumsy to see him walking around in a cook’s uniform.
“Oh, why does it keep doing this… … .”
Midsummer, who was carefully touching the bread dough, soon pouted his lips and began to rub the bread dough nervously.
Judging by the sideways glances at the students standing next to him, something was wrong.
I laughed out loud at that stupid look, but at the same time, I swallowed my nose as I felt the tip of my nose getting wrinkled.
Can not help it. It’s the first time I’ve seen him do something so hard.
“brother.”
When I looked behind me following the fingers stabbing my back, I saw Yu Ga-ryun holding out a tissue the size of her palm.
“Then it will flow.”
“Uh, I guess you have a cold.”
Ga-ryun Yu, who watched me blow my nose, opened her mouth with a faint smile on her lips.
“How come you think you’re more excited than you are?”
Jeonggok was stabbed at those words, and I kept my eyes down on my feet and shut my mouth.
Yu Ga-ryun, who covered her mouth for a moment and smiled softly, reached out and grabbed both of my cheeks.
“Why, show me. I’m curious about what you look like.”
“Look, little.”
“I don’t like it, you have to suffer too, you know. How I felt this morning.”
After that, Yu Ga-ryun raised my face and smiled as if she was satisfied and took a picture with her cell phone.
“It was like this.”
Yu Ga-ryun muttered as she moved my face in the phone to and fro.
“Photography is a foul.”
“Doesn’t it feel like I have to work while receiving an hourly wage?”
“… … do whatever you want.”
Can not be done. No matter how hard I try, I can’t beat that smile. I shook my head again, scratching my slightly tickled cheek.
Midsummer, looking through the window, looked at me and shook the shards of flour he had kneaded with an eerie smile like a cockroach.
I looked at it for a while and then spoke to Yu Ga-ryun.
“Anyway, he’s a guy I can’t find even a cute corner.”
“Iknow, right.”
“I hope it goes well though.”
“It will be.”
Ga-ryun Yu continued to speak while looking at the midsummer.
“It could be.”
It sounded like a flowing voice, but there was a subtle echo mixed in it.
* * *
“Whew.”
At noon, Yu Yu-jin, who was sitting in the corner of the restaurant and looking at the menu, pounded a sigh in her ears.
He swiped away the menu board in his hand and looked away.
“Why are you tired already?”
At Yu-Jin’s words, Han Yeo-Reum shook her head. However, his gaze was fixed on the paper he was holding and did not intend to move.
Then, what is it, Yudo-jin opened her mouth again, and Midsummer raised her head.
“… … As you said, I knew there was something I could do.”
The wind from the air conditioner from the ceiling gently shook the paper that Midsummer was holding. Reflecting through the fluttering paper were several graphs drawn with the word ‘talent spectrum’.
I wonder why the guy who was flirting a little while ago became depressed again. Yu Yu-jin put aside her worries for a moment and opened her mouth with a calm expression.
“therefore?”
“Look at this.”
Where Han Yeoreum pointed with her finger, the phrase ‘Future Tasks’ was written.
“Talent is only a seed, and infinite effort is required to make it bloom. Set clear goals and keep moving forward… … . Why is this?”
“Do I have time for that?”
Midsummer, with her back tilted back, said as she looked up at the ceiling.
“Everyone worked hard. There was a girl who looked younger than me, but asked the teacher about things and consulted about her career path. In contrast, I… … .”
Yu Yu-jin glanced at Yu Ga-ryun, who was sitting next to her, and opened her mouth.
“what do you think about it?”
Yu Ga-ryun looked at midsummer with her chin clenched as if she was choosing a word for a moment, and then opened her lips.
“I’m hungry.”
“Is not it? It’s ridiculous to talk as if the world has already passed away.”
Yoo Ji-jin replied with a smirk. At this, Ga-ryun Yu nodded and slapped Midsummer’s leg, who was shaking under the desk.
“Drop a little bit, because it shakes.”
Yu Yu-jin blinked her eyes and spoke to Midsummer, who was fiddling with the thighs that had been beaten.
“Actually, it’s not entirely wrong. Because there are many people who set their dreams since they were young and run away. But there must be a lot of people who aren’t like that?”
He continued, pointing his finger at himself.
“On my own, I happened to go to art school and somehow became a designer, and somehow I’m doing my best now.”
“Me too. I just lounging around every day and went to art school, but somehow I am now working on development.”
“How did that happen?”
“Well, is it fun doing it?”
Yu Ga-ryun shrugged her shoulders and answered. Yu Yu-jin turned her head again and looked at the midsummer and continued talking.
“Did you see it? If you do what you can do now one by one, it’s bound to work out somehow. That doesn’t mean we can’t just put our hands on it and wait.”
Yu Ga-ryun opened her mouth with a big smile as if Yu Yu-jin, who fluttered with her right hand like a fan, was cute.
“Isn’t that the part you could have said a little more nicely?”
“I did that last time, but I heard you say you’re catching shit.”
Yu Yu-jin, who had been blaming the humiliation of Midsummer for a while, suddenly grabbed her stomach.
A roaring and disturbing sound erupted over his trembling stomach.
“… … Wait a minute, go to the bathroom.”
“I poop and go to the bathroom. Either way, it’s dirty.”
Midsummer said with a fishy smile. Then Yu-Jin looked at her with resentful eyes and stretched out her finger.
“It happened because of you… … ?”
“It’s absurd, why is it my fault that you feel like shit?”
“You made this, you made that one, and you shoved stinky things in my mouth while making a fuss.”
Yu Yu-jin thought about the things that went into her stomach in the morning. Bread, sweets, cola, hamburger, ramen, sausage… … .
Why do you only choose food-related things out of so many jobs? The moment he was about to say that, his stomach rumbled once more with a loud noise.
“Ugh… … .”
Now is not the time to worry about that. Yu Yu-jin hurriedly left the restaurant, leaving behind the midsummer scruffy.
A commotion passed, and there was only an awkward silence between the two remaining women.
Yu Ga-ryun stared at the midsummer while sipping water without saying a word, and midsummer took out her phone and started fiddling with her phone as if her gaze was burdensome.
Ga-ryun Yu put down the cup she was holding and watched her own face linger in it for a while, then slowly opened her lips.
“thanks.”
Midsummer’s finger that had been tapping the phone’s screen stopped. Midsummer blinked, wondering if he had heard bullshit, but then turned his gaze to the direction of the sound.
Yu Ga-ryun, who was sitting across from her, opened her mouth again, looking straight into Midsummer’s eyes.
“I’m sorry, did you not hear me? I said thank you.”
Embarrassed by the sudden situation, Han Yeo-reum opened her eyes and pointed to her face with her fingers outstretched. Ga-ryun Yu, who looked at him, nodded and continued speaking.
“Without Mr. Summer, it would have been all over. He would have disappeared as it was, and the day when we could talk like this with a smile like this now would never come again.”
Ga-ryun Yu ruffled her hair and looked at where Yu-jin had been sitting before.
“I would probably regret it over and over again. Why couldn’t I be a little more honest then? Why didn’t I notice… … do.”
“No, I am not-”
“So, I’m going to make it clear here.”
Ga-ryeon Yu bowed her head toward midsummer, who licked her lips as she panicked.
“Thank you for supporting me all this time.”
Yu Ga-ryun, who raised her head with a determined expression, opened her mouth again.
“And I’m sorry. Let me carry it alone.”
Midsummer was chaotic. No, I only vaguely knew that I wasn’t a bad person.
But I didn’t know you would think so. Thanks to me, the only thing I did was cling to the guy and flirt with him.
Moreover, the image of admitting his mistake and giving an honest apology seemed more mature to midsummer.
A sense of accomplishment that you have accomplished something, and a sense of pride that your achievement has been recognized by others.
Midsummer could not return a proper answer to the strange embarrassment that rose from there, but had no choice but to turn a reddish face.
Ga-ryun Yu, who was looking at him, smiled a little as if embarrassed, and continued the conversation.
“You may have heard it already, but my brother… … You said you wished Mr. Summer to do well.”
Midsummer, who heard Yu Ga-ryun’s words, shook his head in shame.
“And it’s the same with me. I really hope it goes well. So… … .”
Ga-ryeon Yu took out a business card from the inside of the jacket she was wearing and shoved it in.
“I want you to depend on me if anything happens.”
Midsummer, who carefully grabbed the business card in front of her, looked at Yu Ga-ryun with trembling eyes.
“I’m sorry, I’ve been wanting to say this since the first time we met, but I think talking next to you doesn’t seem sincere. Well, you might think that you are putting on a show to look good. You know?”
Yu Ga-ryun said with a shy smile.
Midsummer let out a hot snort as if he had just woken up, and quickly nodded his head. Midsummer calmed down her trembling lips and was cautiously opening her mouth.
“What, you didn’t order?”
It was Yoo-jin. He said, “I’ll float you on the go.” He said, picking up the glass of water Yu Ga-ryun was sipping from, and tilted his head as he saw Midsummer licking his lips from the other side.
“Where are you sick? Your face is so red.”
“Oh, no, not really… … .”
Yu-Jin Yu saw the midsummer shaking her head busily and exclaimed, “Ah,” and then added a word.
“Don’t hold back and go. After the food comes out, everything cools down. From the entrance, go all the way to the right.”
Yu-Jin soon grabbed her shin and started groaning.
