Chapter 218 – Promotion Match (2)
When he was little, he went to the playground with his parents. There was a swing hanging in a position with a clear view of the river, and when his father pushed it hard, the apartments across the river collapsed at once, and the sky was filled in front of my eyes.
How much did you scream as you watched the clouds grow? How exciting was the feeling of flying in the sky? At that time, I suddenly looked back and saw my father pushing the swing with a smile. I felt sorry for my father because he couldn’t have this kind of fun.
And now.
“And! And! And! And!”
I was thinking differently.
“Supreme phenomenon!”
My father, who pushed me on the swing at that time, was having the greatest fun I could ever feel.
“It’s okay for a reason. You’re a Hunter, so hold on!”
I pushed the swing once again. Ichie held onto the swing line with both hands and spun around like a waterwheel. Ichie had his eyes wide open and his legs folded. In the old days, swings were often connected with chains, and people often got their hands caught or climbed iron dogs, but these days, all the swings in the park are made of unique materials that I don’t know if they are rubber or not.
In addition, the line was installed so that it could spin round and round so that it would not get tangled, so Ichie could literally spin infinitely.
“Wow! Ah! Ah!”
Ichie, who had been screaming a few times, and I, who were excitedly spinning. Feeling like a father when I was young, I pushed Ichie’s back once more. After becoming a hunter, swinging couldn’t be this much fun. My father must have pushed me with the mindset of blowing me over the river, right?
How many times did you push Ichie, who had finally reached his limit, stepped on the floor and barely stopped his frantic acceleration. Footprints scrawled across the floor, thin heat rising, and a pale face breathing out. I looked at the floor for a moment and heard a gasp.
Then he raised his head again. Ichie looked at me breathing heavily and gave him a thumbs up. I also gave a thumbs up and then moved my gaze to find the next ride. Ichie pointed to the revolving stage and said.
“Supremacy. Take that one.”
“That was a master. In a sense. Will only your arm hurt?”
Revolving stage. That ride, commonly called a spin-and-run or a centrifuge, was a killing machine that smashed children’s front teeth and bones along with the jungle gym. With the jungle gym disappearing, I didn’t know why there was such a dangerous equipment in the newly renovated playground, but I grabbed the handle with a confident face.
“Supremacy. Even if you cry, they won’t care.”
Ichie grinned, gritted his teeth, and began to pull the handle. My vision started to move round and round. As if trapped inside a circular lens, everything passed by in a circle. The apartment came in front of my eyes and moved away, and the slide became an orange trajectory and scattered.
Matching the speed that gradually accelerated, I applied strength to the handle. It was the latest ride equipment, so the movements were smooth, even if they were smooth. Here, as Ichie, who exerts more power than ordinary people, decided to turn the rides, the calm earth wind unique to the city became a fierce blizzard and began to hit me in the face.
“Oooh!”
“Supreme? Shall we stop?”
When I gave a short shout, Ichie smiled and asked a question. Her Ichie’s face looked cut off as her knuckles moved. She got a chill when she saw her smiling lips. I shook my head vigorously and said. Every time I shook my head, the air resistance was so strong that I strained my neck. I said raising the corner of her mouth.
“It makes sense. Aren’t you too weak?”
Ichie frowned at those words, and she said:
“I haven’t even given half of my strength yet.”
And she began to spin her spinning stage more strongly once again. Even in my strained vision, I could clearly see Ichie’s expression, the orange slide, and the apartments in the distance. We could even see people smiling at us across the street from the playground and cars waiting at traffic lights.
“Eight!”
As Ichie let out her spirits, she turned once more. It sounded like the revolving stage was slightly twisting. I looked at Ichie again. Ichie gasped for breath and was slightly crying. I started screaming as if I couldn’t stand it.
“Aww… ! Ahhh… ! Ahhh!!”
Ichie smiled again when I started shouting and turned the revolving stage once more. Even as she lifted her head up and looked up at the sky, she could feel the world spinning. I fixed my dizzy vision and shouted at Ichie.
“Hey, Ichi! Sorry! Sorry!”
Ichie laughed briskly and grabbed her revolving stage with her hand. She turned so fast that even though her d-rank hunter caught her with her hand, she was slightly dragged away. Ichie took a few steps forward, killed her recoil, and looked at me with her clear face.
Sweat was beading on his forehead, and steam rose from the floor. When I got up and leaned on her pretending to stumble, her Ichie hugged me tight with a more proud expression. Glancing at her floor, Kim was rising from under the revolving stage. Did it really run until just before it caught fire? I said as I buried my face in her chest.
“Oh, I’m so dizzy.”
“Are you okay. Water phenomenon. It’s because I turned it so well.”
She said and stroked my hair. I was there for a while, and I saw people taking their dogs for a walk and new parents out with their children. I thought I shouldn’t be here any longer, so I told Ichie.
“It makes sense. Then shall we go somewhere else?”
“Great.”
Ichie nodded her head, then she took my hand and walked out of her playground. She said as she walked out of the playground.
“Supremacy. I won, so I eat what I like.”
“What do you want to eat?”
“Tteokbokki.”
Ichie showed the trending tteokbokki through her cell phone screen. Tteokbokki was made with gopchang, pork sausage, etc. To make you full. Plus, there was plenty of cheese on the side. I nodded my head involuntarily at the visual that made me feel full just by looking at it.
“It must be delicious.”
“Yes? My uncle asked me to go out to eat, but he said he would not eat it with Suhyeon-sang.”
“Where do you sell these?”
“I looked for it on the app at home earlier, and it is delivered. Let’s play some more, then have it delivered and eat it.”
“That is good too.”
We held hands again and started walking down the street. How long has it been since I’ve been walking around peacefully like this with Ichie? Come to think of it, it seems like I’ve rarely dated peacefully lately. Because of work, I was busy meeting and dating or having delayed sex.
As if Ichie liked the atmosphere, he was intent on looking around while humming a song despite the empty scenery.
“It makes sense. Are you having fun?”
“Because I walk with Soo Hyun-sang, of course it’s fun.”
“Me too.”
I said that and gently changed my hand into a pod. Ichie took one look at my hand, then raised an eyebrow and smiled. I pinched her cheek with her empty hand and she shook her head as I moved her cheek.
“Why?”
He raised his eyes slightly and asked a question like that. Then I laughed and said:
“Because it’s cute. Because Ichie is cute.”
“Please tell me you are the cutest in the world.”
“You are the cutest in the world. Ichie is the cutest.”
Ichie nodded and held me tightly in my arms. I felt like a bear cub I saw in a documentary yesterday. The black overcoat that was loosely draped over it made me think that way even more. Ichie said.
“Supreme phenomenon.”
At that time we were downtown. People were dimly dimmed, and the cozy light of the cafe dripped like lights reflected on frosted glass. The car’s headlights and the shining sun were all achromatic at this moment. A bit lighter gray. And a bit more dull gray.
Among them, only Ichie’s black hair shone more than anything else, and her red eyes sparkled like rubies. Looking at her white skin and red cheeks, I asked again.
“What’s wrong?”
“I like you.”
Ichie said that like someone confessing for the first time in his life. A voice small enough not to be buried in the horn. Ichie swept her face once, surprised that she had said that herself, then looked back at me.
“Soo Hyun-sang. Yoojung’s older sister He said he was promoted to C rank this time.”
“Is it so?”
It was the first time I heard about it today. When I made a surprised expression, Ichie smiled and said,
“Yoo-jeong unnie asked Su-hyeon-sang to keep it a secret, but I’m a mean person, so tell me now in advance.”
If it made sense, it made sense. I said.
“Hey, should we have a celebration party for senior Yoojung?”
Ichie nodded her head and said to me.
“So I felt a little bit behind. Soo-hyun, Yoo-jung, and Ha-yeon are all C-levels, but only I am D-level.”
Ichie and smiled. Her smiling face was filled with the vagueness she had seen for the first time. Ichie’s face was so unfamiliar to me that I noticed sadness lingering on her expression belatedly.
“So I just wanted to walk.”
Ichie said that and leaned his head on my shoulder again. I stopped walking and saw a bus stop on the street. There was no one at the bus stop on a weekday afternoon. I grabbed her arm and sat down on the chair at the bus stop.
Ichie looked at the passing cars and spoke again.
“I like you.”
“I like it too. Reason.”
A bus passed in front of us. The bus driver kept an eye on us holding hands since broad daylight and then disappeared.
“I must have been anxious. I’m afraid I’ll be pushed out if I’m alone in D-class. So I wanted to walk.”
Ichie’s tone was powerless. But that was just a misunderstanding because I didn’t feel the slight heat in the words. Seeing her face again, enthusiasm was burning in her eyes.
“Soo Hyun-sang. I will be in C grade soon. So wait.”
I responded to her words like this.
“All right. I’ll wait.”
Then she pressed her head into my arms as if she were being hugged into a cozy teddy bear and looked at the city again. In front of my eyes was a city as pale as a lightly veiled cloud.
And
Just as sunlight turns a snowfield into a meadow, a ray of love warmly illuminated the city.
