Chapter 259 – Meeting (8)
[Reasonably, hurry up and come to the store. It’s getting better. Caught?]
After an urgent text message, Noboru and her father were looking at each other. Noboru also did not expect this situation. Unless it is
“No. I am not Yamataro.”
Because I couldn’t answer in Korean. When Noboru said that, his father got even more excited and shouted.
“No! In-law! You’re right! When did I say Mr. Yamataro? Yes?”
Realizing his mistake, Noboru covered his mouth and looked around. I could feel the broad-shouldered suits staring at me. Unknowingly, I rummaged through my side to find a weapon, and the atmosphere of the passers-by became strange. Noboru looked around and said as he grabbed his father by the shoulder.
“First, come in. Come in and talk.”
“No… !”
I said holding my father’s shoulder.
“Father. Go in at once It would be rude to people to talk about it here.”
My father listened to Noboru and I’s suggestion, and looked around. He nodded as he saw people giving off big eyes and quietly followed us into the bar.
“Uh…”
Men in heavy makeup were everywhere. The mother covered his mouth and cleared his throat, and the father wrinkled his face in disbelief and twisted his eyes. I blinked my eyes wide and took a deep breath.
“Here he comes.”
Noboru led us into a small room. Since the bar was still open, no one looked at us strangely. But I didn’t like the people who were exchanging drinks here.
“Oh, Mr. Suhyeon!”
When someone touched my back lightly, I turned around in surprise. Muscles tensed, teeth grinding.
“What the fuck. Who are you.”
“Oh, for me. Robin.”
“…Suhyeon-ah. Anyone know?”
My father pretended that the crossdresser knew me, and he looked at me in awe. I was dumbfounded and looked at my father and said,
“No, father. Anyhow, I am. Yes?”
“No, that… Do you know your name?”
Robin overhears my conversation with my father, and he laughs lightly as he sprints to the other side. I said while looking at the stern back.
“I said Seung-eon, not Su-hyeon. I guess I got confused with someone I know.”
“…Is it?”
Fortunately, my father, who was still drunk, had poor hearing, and there was soft music in the bar. It seems that the father decided to bet on the misunderstanding because the transvestite’s pronunciation was bad, rather than that his son had a relationship with the transvestite.
Noboru was sitting in one corner of the room where the awning was drawn. We sat cautiously, looking around like drug traffickers. The purple lighting made the seated employees look even more grotesque.
At that moment, I felt my phone vibrate.
[Soo phenomenon. I have plan B. When my father-in-law asks, he always says he doesn’t know. Soo Hyun Sang doesn’t know that Noboru is a transvestite.]
I checked the message, avoiding my father and mother’s eyes, then turned my head again. Noboru said as she propped her arm on her desk in the manner of a bar madam, placing her other hand over her mouth.
“Your face… There is none.”
“No, in-laws. How did this happen? I’m sure that… I heard she works in construction.”
My father had a really shocked expression on his face. Noboru lowered her head slightly, stroked the bridge of her nose for a moment, then pursed her lips, pretending to find something to say. To me, who can observe the whole process in detail, it was a process that made my expression and emotions run hot like starting a motorcycle, but to my father and mother, it would be seen as a way to control my emotions.
“That… Reason… Can’t blame… I-Ichie this… I don’t know.”
“No, did you deceive your daughter by saying that you are in the construction industry?”
“That… Actually, my brother does a construction job… So, from time to time, I called Ichi and showed him around, and my brother understood me and helped me in many ways.”
“In-law. Still, isn’t this I wish I could have told you openly from the beginning…”
“If you do, our reason will block the road to marriage.”
The father closed his mouth at that and rolled his eyes. Because my father didn’t have anything to say in return. Asking her to be honest as an in-law was only possible when they were close friends like now. Because if she had told her that her in-laws were running a transvestite bar, it was clear that her father would have opposed the marriage without even thinking about meeting her father-in-law.
However, it was a relationship where they warmly finished the meeting ceremony and even laughed at the mistake in the meeting ceremony. He was among those who served hotels and food in Japan. My father had a lot of tight spots, but he was not a man without loyalty. He wasn’t even harsh enough to say things like ‘You can’t get married’ to the person who gave him in the face.
“The people who work here, all the families do not understand. Child going to school. I saw him being bullied because of his dad’s job. To our point. I didn’t want to go through that. I’m sorry for deceiving you. However, he is a really nice kid and has nothing to do with our business.”
“In-law…”
My father looked at Noboru with a pitiful expression. It is said that drinking makes people a little emotional, so Noboru naturally sniffed her nose and dabbed her eyes with a tissue. Her black mascara smudged slightly. Noboru said as if she was really emotional.
“This is a business I started to make a living for… Reason, because I was a child who grew up in a really difficult situation… There were many things I wanted to do… I’m sorry I lied to you… It wasn’t a bad intention. Ichigo, he is such a nice and nice child… If the road to marriage gets blocked again because of me… I won’t be able to lift my face…”
Her mother had her head down and her shoulders trembling slightly. Her father’s eyes were moist, too. My father was an upright and picky character, but he was also weak to such touching stories.
“Yes… In-laws. I understand. Don’t understand I also worked so hard to raise our Suhyeon. That… I don’t know how that sounds, but I think you’ve raised your daughter very well. I’m sure you and Suhyeon will be a good match.”
“…Thank you.”
At the end of sobbing, father and mother went outside with slightly refreshed faces. My father patted me on the back and said.
“Be nice to Ichie.”
“…Yes.”
I turned my head towards Noboru, who seemed to be still crying. Noboru, who was putting on his mascara again, gave me a thumbs up. I gave him a thumbs up and texted Ichie again.
[That’s Okay.]
My father said as he climbed the stairs.
“By the way, did you know that Mr. Yamataro is like that?”
“No.”
I answered like that. My father patted me on the back and said,
“If your in-laws do things like that, shouldn’t you just be curious about things like that? Uh? The one who now has three wives. Uh?”
“All right.”
I smiled and nodded.
*****
The trip to Japan the next day was an authentic course designed by Ichie and Noboru. It seemed that the father and mother were very impressed with the historic sites a short distance by train and the set that reproduced the history of the time. My father, mother, and I enjoyed the excursion as if we had forgotten that it was a meeting and a trip.
We walked around busily all day and took pictures with cotton candy in our mouths one by one. They even posed next to a statue of a funny cartoon character drawing a V-ja. When we returned to the hotel, we were all dusty and sweaty, exhausted, but our eyes were alive.
My mother told me
“It was fun. Yes?”
Then I smiled and nodded.
My father said
“I really enjoyed it.”
I smiled at my father. There was a text from Ichie on the phone. It seemed that both she and Noboru were restless about what happened yesterday. So, the atmosphere right now is somehow worried that the whole family is hated. I answered her like this.
[The atmosphere is good. I think the meeting was a great success.]
Ichie texted me right away. She was just as quick to change her mood as she was to fret that we might conflict.
[Where do you want to see me tomorrow?]
Below that, she picked up some places in Japan that I might like and sent them to me.
Come to think of it, tomorrow was the day I was supposed to go on a date with Ichie.
