Chapter 256 – Meeting (5)
The meeting ended there. There were those of us who thought it was good that our father got drunk and went overboard, and there were mothers who beat the drunken father with a puzzled expression. Ichie’s mother gave a nice smile, and Noboru smiled happily, proud that he had shown his skills.
The driver gave me the belt without any hesitation even after seeing my father smelling like alcohol, and we went back to the hotel. On the way back to the hotel, my mother looked slightly worried.
“Oops, it’s only because of the meeting…”
“The atmosphere was nice. Ichigo seemed to be okay. If it was bad, the story would have just come out of there.”
“No. It is said that Japanese people say that what they say on the outside and on the inside is different, right? Outwardly, it’s fine now. And later on, isn’t it just a bad view of our Suhyeon family as a bad family? What if I get hated by my father-in-law?”
“Ah, it’s okay. I’ve met you once before. He is sincere and tough.”
After I kept saying I was okay, my mother agreed with her reassuring face.
“You look tough.”
So we went back to the hotel. Mother said after seeing her drunken father lifted up like cotton and carried away.
“Aigoo, the strength is good too.”
“You’re a Hunter.”
Do you always feel good when you show off your strength to your mother? I immediately took my father and walked to the hotel room. I put my father, who was drunk and asleep, on the bed and changed into comfortable clothes.
When we changed our clothes and lay down on the bed, the poison that had piled up involuntarily pulled down our eyelids. My mother was going out to the veranda with a radiant face. I stopped trying to cover myself with the blanket and stood next to her mother.
“Are you not sleeping?”
“Look at the night view over there. Isn’t it pretty?”
“Ah, I see. The night view is beautiful.”
I followed my mother’s fingers and looked at the night view. It seemed that the brightly colored entertainment district had come to another world altogether. After observing the sparkling signboards as if we were observing the stars, we went back trembling, unable to overcome the cold wind that suddenly pierced the veranda.
“Ooh, it’s cold. Cold.”
“Come in quickly. Catch a cold.”
“Yes, yes.”
Pushing her mother’s back, she closed the veranda door tightly and threw herself on the bed. The father, who stinks of alcohol, stretched out in the middle of the bed. Mother pointed her finger at her father, saying, “Look at her father.” He pursed her lips, licked his lips, then turned back.
We stopped laughing and got into bed. There were enough pillows, but both my mother and I used our father’s open arms as pillows to lie down. My father, who always boasted about his hardships during his military days, used to praise me by showing off his arm muscles from a young age.
The mother clung to her father’s arm and touched her face, and she said:
“Oh, what kind of alcohol do you drink like that?”
“Looks like you enjoyed it. Because it’s a trip.”
“So that’s what I mean.”
“Should we go on a trip tomorrow?”
“Oh, did you call me?”
“Ah, I’ll call Ichie.”
I remembered the contact I had forgotten about my mother’s words and called Ichie. According to Ichie, she sighs in relief that Noboru and Ichie and her mother were able to somehow pass the meeting ceremony, she said.
“Oh, it’s a water phenomenon. Shall we go sightseeing tomorrow?”
And while chatting, Ichie said to me:
“Yes. Perhaps, my father will ask me to look around the neighborhood, but the plan is still vague.”
“Then, I have a place I recommend. I’ll text you.”
“Recommended place?”
“Yes. A big customer comes to my uncle’s bar tomorrow, and my uncle has to go out. So, I would like to recommend a sightseeing spot to the other side.”
“Yes. All right. Please text me.”
The day after the meeting with the father-in-law, it was clear that her father and mother would not be able to accept the shock if the father-in-law dressed as a woman and became a bar madam. I made up my mind and put my phone in. When I turned around and entered the room, my mother was fast asleep.
*****
“Oh, my lord, what time is it now?”
A brittle head, frizzy hair, a rustling blanket and a large pillow that clearly reveals the closeness between the couple. And the bedroom facing the turned off lights again. We were sitting at the table fiddling with our phones, and my father had just woken up from a hangover to find her mother. He asked, rubbing his hair.
“Oh my… Owner. Give me some water water.”
“It’s next to it.”
My father waved his hands, frowning like a sloth. He lifted the water bottle from the bedside table, gave it a shake, then put the bottle in his mouth and gulped.
“Pooh… !”
He took a deep breath and shook his head once. Still, the hangover that haunted my head didn’t seem to leave. Dad got up staggering, rubbing his hair hard. I got up and helped his father, and he caught his breath in a daze.
“Soohyun. Yesterday…”
And my father was about to ask how much you drank yesterday and suddenly opened his eyes and asked me.
“Meetings! Suhyeon! How did the meeting go? Uh? Did I make any mistakes?”
My father, who usually likes to hold weights in a dignified manner, seemed ashamed of the fact that the film was cut due to drunkenness at the meeting. He shook his eyes anxiously, showing his embarrassed and embarrassed feelings as they were on his face.
I said with a smile to reassure him.
“Are you okay. You made no mistakes.”
“How nice was the atmosphere. How much did you drink before the film cut?”
Mother agreed with me. When the father emphasized that the film was cut, he pressed his lips together and rolled his eyes away from him, scratching the back of his head and entering the bathroom without a word. As soon as the bathroom door closed, my mother said.
“By the way, that Yamataro-san? He’s glad he has such a nice personality. What is it? Huh? He seems to be good at drinking, and he seems to like his father very much. Thank god. Thank god.”
I was also glad that somehow it seemed to have passed safely. Seeing her relieved, I nodded her head in agreement.
“Iknow, right. I’m so glad You seem to have a good conversation with your father.”
“What are you going to do now? The return flight was cut off after three days. Are you going to hang out with Ichie?”
“Ah, Ichie decided to go back on the same plane, so we’ll meet and prepare together only the day before we go back. We have to spend today and tomorrow together.”
My mother grinned and poked her on my side and said:
“Ah, so you’re trying to rejoin us at the airport?”
“Yes.”
“Can’t I play with Ichie until too late at night?”
“It’s okay because I’m a Hunter.”
“Oh my gosh, there is nothing he can’t do.”
As my mother said that, she playfully tapped me on the back. I smiled and held my phone in front of her mother. I had a tourist map Ichie sent me on my phone. It was a street where there were not many yakuza, the scenery was good, and there were famous restaurants.
“This is what Ichie and my father-in-law sent me. If you turn this way, there are many delicious restaurants and many places to see.”
My mother looked at the tourist attractions on my phone and shook her head to see if she was interested.
“Oh my, I like this.”
“I heard I need to take the subway for a bit, so a ticket? They said I had to stop doing that. Because I told you how to hang up here via text message. I guess I can just ride it.”
“It will be fine. I rode a tram in a foreign country, and thanks to my son, my mother is doing well.”
Haha.”
My mother kept cheering me up, so I couldn’t help but feel good too.
“What? Where are you going?”
Then, in the middle of our conversation, my father’s voice interrupted. His father was brushing his hair with a frown on his face, and steam was rising in the shower. He had a toothbrush stuck in his mouth, and his red face regained its own color. I showed my cell phone again as my father walked away wearing a bathrobe.
“Yes. Ichie and my father-in-law recommended tourist spots. It would be nice to go this way. How are you here?”
My father looked at the photo of the tourist destination with his eyes narrowed, then shook his head and said,
“There is no sake-don. Sake-don.”
“It’s sake don, you can go to a nearby restaurant and eat it. I want there to be no place in town that sells salmon rice bowls.”
“No. No. Today, ahead of me, I’m also going to the sake-don shop that my father was looking for, that Kabukicho? Let’s go back there. He said it was a popular street in Japan, and there were a lot of things to kill.”
I couldn’t help but shrug my shoulders. In Kabukicho, Noboru was running the Okama Bar as Madame Karen. I had to convince my father.
“Father. This is a real sightseeing course recommended by the locals, isn’t it? I’ve been looking for Kabukicho, but it’s just full of yakuza, gangsters, gangsters, and it’s a very dangerous place.”
“Oh, this guy…”
The father frowned and shook his head. My mother held my hand tightly and spoke softly.
“Soohyun. Because today is my father’s first overseas trip. For now, let’s go wherever our father tells us to go. Huh?”
I saw my father’s excited face. Besides, when my mother said this, I didn’t have the ability to persuade her further. She has no choice but to text Ichie and pray.
