Episode 612
: A trip that was decided a bit forcefully.
‘But there was definitely a need to lighten the mood.’
This amount of rest time was actually necessary for Lee Jae-heon’s plan.
The distance he created was for the survivors, but it was also for himself. The chicken from his previous life became his companion, not just anyone else. He wanted to have as little interference as possible during his future strategy.
In any case, that is the most superficial reason…
“….”
Lee Jae-heon, who glanced at Park Min-jun looking around the villa through the window, soon turned his gaze and saw Park Da-young strangely sinking next to Park Min-jun.
Then I thought.
‘In any case, putting too much pressure on people is a bad choice in any plan.’
Jeong In-ho’s intention in advocating for an amusement park may have been similar.
‘I know what you’re thinking and I have no intention of interfering with it, but other survivors are having a hard time, so try your hand at it…’
The protagonist seemed to have decided that way.
“…Be patient.”
Jaeheon Lee smiled and started packing up his luggage.
‘Gross bastard.’
Although he was making a gesture of ‘I won’t interfere’, somewhere in his thoughts, he was ready to bite as soon as an opportunity arose. Park Min-joon, who has been confirmed as ‘Lee Jae-heon’s former colleague,’ will be very unhappy, so he will want to interfere even more.
‘That’s the right opinion.’
In the first place, I thought I should release it once before proceeding with the work in earnest.
‘The timing would be appropriate. I would listen to the main character’s opinion and proceed with my own tasks as well… It would look good both externally and internally.’
Isn’t the atmosphere within the survivors a chaotic situation because various things have happened in succession?
At this point, it would have been a good idea to clear the air and provide emotional consideration to prevent some survivors from leaving the team or committing unexpected acts.
“….”
Lee Jae-heon looked at the cell phone that was not ringing on the bed.
Seo In-young, who did not attend this trip, was probably busy playing with her feet.
“…It’s comfortable.”
Life becomes so comfortable when you have one crazy informant.
“….”
“What is more comfortable?”
Lee Jae-heon said to Seong Ji-ho, who intervened during the visit.
“Hey, I’m surprised.”
“Mister, that doesn’t seem like a surprise at all.”
Because I could see it all.
‘Did you think you wouldn’t be seen if you were hiding between the cracks in the door while openly pretending to be popular?’
It may have been a half-hearted joke, but it was a bit funny. Even if it was just a joke, if they had been chicks in their previous life, they would have completely hidden their identity, even if it was just a joke.
Jaeheon Lee asked as he continued to pack up his luggage.
“Why is student Seong Ji-ho here?”
“I’m bored.”
“Hey, let’s pack up.”
“I’m done.”
Sigh.
Seong Ji-ho openly opened the door and came in.
“Mister, when are we having barbecue?”
“Shouldn’t it get dark at the earliest? I think that way, the fun of starting a fire will increase.”
“I’m hungry.”
“You didn’t come empty-handed. “Unpack and eat whatever you want.”
Lee Jae-heon, who naturally accepted Seong Ji-ho’s jokes, roughly finished packing his luggage.
“How did it go?”
“So are you going to eat now?”
“Is it a ghost that starved to death because I couldn’t eat? “Everyone must be tired after a long distance, so can we get some food right now?”
“Eh, we’re all hungry.”
“You must have very young blood, you bastards. Anyway, I can’t sleep.”
They say that, as if they were high school students, their metabolism is active and they get hungry quickly.
“Where did everything I ate before coming go? “Did you spit it out?”
“I ate it a few hours ago, but I’ve already digested it all.”
“…That may be roughly correct, but…”
It took quite a while to get to Gangwon-do and the remote mountainous area. Although we ate early in the morning before leaving and then moved on, it seemed like there were a few people other than high school students who were hungry.
“Then…”
The current time is 9 am.
“….”
“What are we eating?”
“Let’s have breakfast.”
It was an appropriate time to have a meal to make the early morning start worthwhile.
Jaeheon Lee went down to the kitchen on the first floor. High school students were gathering in the kitchen and having a serious discussion, as if saying they were hungry wasn’t a lie. Park Da-young, who had been wandering around the outside of the villa, was suddenly among them.
“All the high school students are gathered here.”
“mister!”
“Hey, look at the mood.”
I was strangely shocked.
“You said you were hungry.”
“Seong Ji-ho suggested that.”
“I thought you sent me there on purpose, but I guess that’s not true?”
“My uncle and all the other adults said they were taking a break… so we were thinking about it among ourselves. There are a lot of ingredients here and it’s not like we can’t cook. “I asked, and Seo-ah and Min-hong said they would just sleep.”
“Traveling to Gangwon-do must have been tiring for young children.”
Lee Jae-heon nodded and stroked his hair.
“I’ll do something simple for you, so just sit down.”
“omg…? “Are you uncle?”
“What was that reaction?”
“Do you cook too?”
“What is everyone looking at me for?… I keep getting asked that question these days…”
Even though he looked like this, he was someone who lived alone at home. Since he didn’t even hire a housekeeper, common sense tells him that there’s no way Lee Jae-heon couldn’t even cook basic dishes.
“What on earth is my image like?”
“I only drink Evian…”
“What is that?”
“There is such a thing. “It’s a bit harsh.”
“Kids these days talk really strangely.”
“It’s because I don’t need to know you.”
“I hear all sorts of things from my 16-year-old children.”
“It’s not our baby.”
“Yes, Seong Ji-ho baby. “I want to eat something.”
“Oh, it’s not a baby…”
Seong Ji-ho, who was grumbling, answered.
“I want to eat chicken.”
“Is this crazy? “What kind of chicken is there in this mountainous area?”
“You can’t cook chicken?”
“….”
“uh?”
Seong Ji-ho was surprised because Lee Jae-heon made a subtle expression in response to the question that was meant to be a mocking question. That was clearly a reaction of ‘I know how to do it, but I don’t want to say I’m going to do it.’
“Huh? “Are you really doing it?”
“…roughly….”
“Wow, that’s crazy. Amazing, Great. “What a wonderful family man.”
“Don’t do it, stop it. “Because it’s embarrassing.”
As Lee Jae-heon sighed, Park Da-young, who had noticed, intervened.
“Oh man… I know how to make chicken too! Let’s do it together!”
“Yeah, I guess so.”
“…! yes!”
As Park Da-young stood next to Lee Jae-heon with a slightly flushed face, Park Da-hoon, who had also been glancing at the atmosphere, also slipped in.
“Then I’ll try it too…”
“You don’t know how to make chicken.”
“You can do it.”
“What a waste of chicken.”
“Why is ruining something a basic premise?”
As the Park siblings started bickering, other high school students also snooped around.
“Can’t I try it too? “I’ve never made chicken before, but I still cook quite a bit.”
“Student Maeng Na-eun passed.”
“Huh, me too then. Please put me in the middle of the stomach. Confident.”
“Student Seong Ji-ho passed.”
“…I don’t want to be left out, so I would appreciate it if you could join me too.”
“Student Kim Hee-chan passed.”
That’s how the chicken making competition began.
“No, don’t compete. it’s not that.”
“no?”
“Let’s have some kind of competition with high school students who are full of energy like you. Since they won’t accept it, put it in. And make chicken carefully.”
“Hmph.”
“What kind of hing is this?”
Jaeheon Lee took out the chicken he had put in the refrigerator.
“But there’s something I’ve wanted to ask you for a while.”
“I allow you to speak.”
“Why is there chicken in the refrigerator?”
“Because I brought it.”
“Why did you bring chicken?”
“I thought it was a good meat to use lightly here and there…”
“You’re really surprisingly homely.”
“Seong Ji-ho is out. “Go out and get ready.”
“Yes, leader.”
“You sound like a cult leader.”
The chicken Jaeheon Lee brought had various types of chicken parts. Not only the basic chicken breast and drumstick, but also well-seasoned shoulder meat, wing meat, skin, gizzard, and bone marrow liver, and…
“…what is this?”
“You wouldn’t know it if you saw it? “It’s the heart.”
“Do you eat chicken hearts too…?”
“Surprisingly soft and delicious.”
Student Kim Hee-chan intervened in Lee Jae-heon’s words.
“In fact, I am much better than the liver. “The scent isn’t that strong and it’s not too tough.”
“Have you ever eaten a chicken heart?”
Kim Hee-chan nodded to Park Da-hoon’s question.
“uh? “Oh, they sell it together at a yakitori restaurant.”
“Yakitori?”
“Chicken skewers.”
“Why do you eat the heart on a skewer?”
“Because it’s delicious…?”
Kim Hee-chan asked Lee Jae-heon.
“I think this was prepared for yakitori, don’t you think?”
“Yes, I know a chef, so I asked him for some meat, and he gave me this. “I wondered why they gave it away like this… and when I thought about it, I realized he was Japanese.”
“Wow, that’s amazing. “Do you know many chefs?”
“Roughly?”
Jaeheon Lee tilted his head in response to a rather passionate question.
“Does Kim Hee-chan want to go into cooking in the future?”
“yes?”
“No, because you look good.”
“Oh, I just… like to eat.”
Kim Hee-chan smiled shyly.
“I haven’t decided what I want to do yet. “I feel sorry for the man who takes care of us for this and that, but…”
“There’s nothing to be sorry about, so think about it slowly.”
Lee Jae-heon took out a nicely packaged chicken and continued.
“I will take responsibility until I am in my 30s.”
“This is really tickling.”
“I love you, uncle.”
“thank you.”
In the midst of exclamations popping up here and there.
“….”
“…what.”
“You know.”
Dayoung Park asked hesitantly.
“Will we still be together when we turn 30?”
“Then where should I go?”
“Really?”
“I have no intention of immigrating. This country is an easy place to live if you have a lot of money. “I don’t know what country wouldn’t do that, but I feel like it does.”
“It’s not like that…”
Park Da-young, who was moving her lips to say something, soon lowered her head.
“….”
Lee Jae-heon took one look at the head and immediately spoke to Park Da-hoon.
“Among the things I brought, there must be some frying powder somewhere. From what I remember, you probably put it away in a cupboard? “Look around. I don’t know exactly which side it is on.”
“Ah yes.”
“Where is the frying powder….”
“Isn’t it over there?”
Kim Hee-chan, who was the most perceptive of the three high school students, glanced at Park Da-young, but soon moved along with Park Da-hoon, probably because he understood Lee Jae-heon’s meaning of ‘please leave the seat.’
“….”
“….”
Lee Jae-heon looked at Park Da-young, who still had her head down.
‘You seem quite anxious.’
I understand.
All the peace that Park Da-young, her younger brother, and her friends enjoy now came from Lee Jae-heon.
‘Whether it is a material element or an emotional element.’
The happiness that could only be enjoyed because one person allowed it would feel as precarious as a glass floor.
Until now, she thought the glass floor was pretty strong, so she was able to withstand it, but with this aquarium, Dayoung Park saw the bottom of Jaeheon Lee.
‘Besides, I kept my distance.’
There were times when I was completely out of my mind with sadness, sadness, and nervousness.
“….”
But….
“It’s here.”
“….”
“I came to play with you.”
“…yes.”
“Isn’t that okay?”
“can.”
Park Da-young was clever.
“yes?”
There’s no way a guy like that wouldn’t know the purpose of Lee Jae-heon calling them to his villa.
‘You probably already know everything.’
Lee Jae-heon, who had been implicitly keeping his distance, dragged all the survivors into a trip that required them to stick together all day. Park Da-young seemed to have noticed that he was saying that he had no intention of ruining the relationship even if he couldn’t handle the immediate distance.
Lee Jae-heon patted Park Da-young on the shoulder a couple of times.
“It’s because I’m out of my mind.”
“Even if you say that…”
“I’m the one, Dayoung.”
“yes.”
“I have never abandoned my people. Whether you believe it or not, it’s just the truth. Because I’m a
person who can’t afford to abandon anyone…”
Soggy meat hit the cutting board.
“But in the end, I was left alone.”
“…we’re not like that.”
“I hope so.”
I meant it.
‘I hope you last until the end.’
Jaeheon Lee never abandoned anyone.
It was always the people on the other side who abandoned him.
“…Can I trust you?”
I had no choice but to ask.
The people who remained until the end were bastards who resembled Lee Jae-heon and were trembling as if they were breathing.
Because you are not.
“I think I’m going to run away.”
“Mister, don’t jump out anywhere.”
“When do you say I jumped out?”
“These days…”
“I just took a break.”
Lee Jae-heon knew quite a lot, but he was curious about this.
When everything is over, how many people will be left by my side?
“It wasn’t a big deal.”
So at the end.
What form will I remain in?
“So you don’t have to worry too much.”
“…yes.”
“Are you very hungry?”
“I’m still okay, but I’m a little hungry. The other kids have been saying they’ve been hungry for a while…”
“Everyone is crazy because they want to eat chicken for breakfast.”
“It’s delicious and good.”
Park Da-young and Lee Jae-heon had a normal conversation while listening to the sound of footsteps returning triumphantly after finding the frying powder.
It felt very natural.
(Continued in the next part)
