#006

 

“…Gasp!”

 

Eventually, for a moment, Yoo-ah put his hands on his cheek as a special measure.

 

Chap Chap!

 

The small, soft palms touched the cheeks and made a clicking noise. Yoo-ah’s eyes habitually crinkled at the tingling cheeks.

 

While Yoo-ah was dozing off for a while, they seemed to have read all the fairy tales. Following the moving children to eat lunch, Yoo-ah also stood up.

 

“……?”

 

Let me correct it for a moment. He tried to get up but failed.

 

It would have happened if he hadn’t lowered his head to touch the floor. This short body doesn’t help.

 

“…….”

 

Yoo-ah looked still at the thick, fluffy thing that touched his hand. The tawny striped tail was swaying around Yoo-ah’s knee.

 

“Are you still awake?”

 

Yoo-ah grabbed the tail that touched his hand reflexively.

 

“……!”

 

“Huh,”

 

“Ah, I got it!”

 

“…….”

 

“No, I… I Yoo-ah, I’m sleeping….”

 

“…….”

 

“The blanket is on my back, so I can give you a duffer….”

 

It’s like that… His voice got smaller as he went on. At the end, the pronunciation was almost crushed, so I barely understood him.

 

Yoo-ah rolled his head.

 

I see. The main shou was saying that during the fairy tale reading time, Yoo-ah was trying to find something to cover even when he was taking a nap, not to read a fairy tale, let alone play around in a corner.

 

There was nothing to cover, so he eventually covered Yoo-ah with his tail, and even though Yoo-ah, who woke up from scurrying, grabbed the tail of the main shou, he explained it patiently rather than getting angry….

 

“……?”

 

Yoo-ah was in the middle of making trouble. It reminded him of a time when most escape attempts failed.

 

“Teacher-! Yoo-ah ran away without taking a nap again!”

 

“Oh! Yoo-ah yah, where are you going? What? Are you going to play?”

 

“Yoo-ah doesn’t eat before going to bed.”

 

When everyone became a public target when they heard that they would give a sticker of compliment if they did something good, Yoo-ah had never felt a sense of betrayal in her seven years of life.

 

Yoo-ah collapsed to the ground as he witnessed the kids receiving a box of chocolates that was no bigger than two fingers. He couldn’t believe they were selling their friends for a snack. When he thinks about it now, he can’t help but feel embarrassed.

 

I’m just saying. The kids were like that’s what they were it was. He was a person who was willing to throw away loyalty for immediate gain.

 

Even if it’s not a compliment sticker, Yoo-ah, who has been sold out to “a good and wonderful child who leads a friend to the right path,” crumpled his face.

 

“What’s this guy? Is he a tiger?”

 

Regardless of everything else, the main shou should have been angry that Yoo-ah grabbed his tail.

 

Even though it was a mistake, it was rude for families to touch their ears or tails recklessly among people. Furthermore, if a stranger did it, it would be a very, very disrespectful act.

 

Apart from the fact that the child in front of you is the main character in the novel… Yoo-ah, who first encountered this type of human throughout their previous and present lives, was uncomfortable with this situation. He didn’t understand.

 

“…that, tail. Sorry to touch you.”

 

“……! “It is fine,” 

 

Then it was clear that the opposite would be ‘avoid it if you can’t enjoy it’. It didn’t matter if it wasn’t. After all, Yoo-ah had no intention of staying here and leading this uncomfortable situation.

 

So Yoo-ah decided to leave his seat. In the meantime, he apologized steadily and ran away, so it will be possible to take it into consideration.

 

‘If you say no, well. I can’t help it.’

 

He wasn’t particularly disappointed. No matter what anyone says, the original goal was not to step on the shadows of the main gong and the main shou. Of course, it already seems off-track, but it was one thing he didn’t want to get close to.

 

Because Yoo-ah didn’t want to get caught up in the middle of the couple and take all the twisted aggro of the main gong and the main shou instead.

 

Yoo-ah thought that even if there was no one in the book who was close to the main shou besides the gong, no one knew what would happen if Yoo-ah was included in it. At that moment, he might have taken a hellish Russian Roulette.

 

‘When he heard that the shou was kidnapped, one would think the gong will be running around till the sole of his feet caught fire, but he was just at home rubbing his eyes. One would also think that the gong would rush to find him when he heard people insulting him at the party he took him to but turns out he was eating finger food peacefully.’

 

In that case, nine out of ten friends would be replaced. Yoo-ah imagined that he would be taken by the kidnappers instead of the main shou.

 

“Huh? Hyung-nim. He is not the one.”

 

“Hey, you should’ve taken care of him”

 

“It can’t be helped. Should we kill him?”

 

“Take care of him in a way that doesn’t show. If you can’t do it, put cement in a drum, soak him in it, and throw him into the sea.”

 

A stream of cold sweat flowed behind Yoo-ah’s back. No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t imagine anything other than the picture of the gong, who was too lazy to handle the work, missing the golden time while pretending to find it properly. Main shou, who belatedly heard the obituary in Yoo-ah’s imagination, waved a white handkerchief with tears in his eyes.

 

“…never.”

 

Yoo-ah jumped among the children going to lunch before the main shou finished talking.

 

Although it was strictly a line-up, there were no children who cared about it because they had often done this kind of behavior. They were busy babbling about the fairy tale they had just heard.

 

“…….”

 

A hot gaze was felt in the back of his head, but YooA pretended not to know. It was also wrong to make it ambiguous after vowing not to get involved in the first place.

 

I really need to keep my distance from now on. Yoo-ah murmured as if determined.

 

Yoo-ah tried to empty his head by listening to the conversations of the children in line right in front of him.

 

“What are we eating today?”

 

“Wait! Uh… Squid radish soup, brown rice, cabbage kimchi, egg roll, japchae, yogurt!”

 

“I don’t like squid radish soup….”

 

“Then I’ll eat it for you. Give me your yogurt and japchae instead. What do you think?”

 

“Sure!”

 

Yoo-ah looked at the back of the child’s head, who suddenly had to eat only rice, kimchi, and egg rolls.

 

He wondered if he’ll get scammed later because he’s so bad at calculating. 

Somehow he’s a little worried.

 

“But what’s left is carbohydrates and protein, so it doesn’t matter…?”

 

“Huh? What?”

 

“Nothing. Uh, I’m going in front of that line!”

 

Yoo-ah, who quickly turned the child’s attention, picked up the tray. It was impossible for Koreans to dare to think about something else in front of rice anyway.

 

Yoo-ah sat down after receiving a meal from the teachers on the tray. He has no intention of continuing, but as a former activity leader, children were crowded around him. At the scene reminiscent of the market, Yoo-ah desperately held up a spoon. It’s bad that he can’t think about anything because he’s so distracted….

 

Clatters.

 

“…….”

 

Clatters.

 

“…….”

 

Clack-clack-clack-clack!

 

What’s the point of not being able to think about things. When the main culprit was showing off his presence.

 

Yoo-ah put the spoon down on the table, which had been scooping soup.

 

The main shou, who was sitting alone over there, was crying after rattling the spoon. Judging from the fact that the chopsticks were on the floor, they seemed to have fallen while trying to use them. The main shou, who was rubbing his eyes for a while and was embarrassed, suddenly raised his head.

 

“…….”

 

“…hiccups.”

 

‘Why are you looking at me? What do you want me to do?’

 

Yoo-ah looked serious at the gaze he met as if he had been waiting. Yoo-ah, who had an unseemly atmosphere, and the unseemly main shou, in a different sense, faced each other.

 

Yoo-ah really, really didn’t want to get involved with main shou any more. Just because a crow gets its crotch torn while chasing a stork, you shouldn’t pay attention to things that are beyond your ability.

 

A safe and peaceful solid road. A highly educated building owner. These were the wishes of Yoo-ah in this life.

 

Maybe if I get close to the main shou, the acquisition difficulty will increase rapidly with a high probability.

 

“Huh….”

 

The main shou lowered his head as if he had judged that there was no one to help him. There was a splash in the soup on the main plate. He seemed to be crying.

 

“…….”

 

“What? Yoo-ah, what are you watching? If you’re not going to eat japchae then….?”

 

“He, no. Ha….”

 

‘I’d rather die than be sick. Die before you get sick. If this isn’t parenting, what the hell is it?’

 

Yoo-ah touched his forehead. Isn’t there a difference between not being close and leaving a crying child alone? A tiny conscience that he didn’t even know was left poked at Yoo-ah’s nerves.

 

‘…Hold on. Isn’t it too late to not get involved at all anyway?’

 

If so,

 

Then, why don’t I help them adjust to kindergarten and find a place to be friendly other than Yoo-ah?

 

Then, he will live as if he’s naturally opening up the street and then graduate. At best, it would have been enough to hold out until the first snow of the year.

 

Then the main shou will do a happy show with the main gong. Yoo-ah will just watch from afar and pick up and eat soybean that falls. ^[1] 콩고물 떨어진다 means a small profit obtained by chance through the work of others

 

‘It’s not a bad idea?’

 

I guess I am a genius.

 

If you look at it rationally, you can see that the series of processes is just self-justifying nonsense. Unfortunately, Yoo-ah was not in the right mind to notice this.

 

Yoo-ah, who thought he would help, but did not want to go and help him, quickly rolled her eyes. His goal is to move away, but what’s the point of going there and helping out? He had to find a solution to overcome this situation. 

 

Otherwise, it was clear that the nose would get stuck this time. He got an estimate just by looking at him chasing me like a goldfish poop just after saying a few words.

 

“I found it!”

 

Yoo-ah found a fork-integrated spoon used by five-and-a-half-year-old children in the corner and shouted Eureka. Yoo-ah, who quietly got up from his seat and pocketed a spoon without being noticed, sneaked up on the teacher.

 

“Sir, this… he, ah.…Can you give it to him instead? I think he’s crying because he can’t use chopsticks….”

 

“Oh my God… Did Yoo-ah come to me because he was worried about Su-yeok? Teacher couldn’t take care of him because I was busy. I’m sorry.”

 

At the request of Yoo-ah, the teacher squatted down to meet Yoo-ah’s eye level. Patting Yoo-ah’s head as if she were truly sorry was not an irresponsible teacher.

 

The teacher picked up the spoon given by Yoo-ah and said.

 

“Yoo-ah yah. I’m sorry to ask you this… If Su-yeok is playing alone, can you play with him? If it’s uncomfortable, you don’t have to force it, and it’s not forced at all. Or you can just come to the teacher and let me know when other friends are trying to fight Su-yeok like before.”

 

Well, it’s an uncomfortable request. But isn’t he giving me what I have to do? Yoo-ah twitched his nose.

 

But he understood how he felt, so Yoo-ah nodded coolly.

 

Anyway, observation had to be made secretly to help. While doing it, if there is any friction, he can go and say, “You’re a spy who’s twisting.”

 

In addition, even if it was nothing more than a trick to help Yoo-ah in moderation and lead a safe life, the situation would have been a little different for the teacher. 

 

He can’t just stick to the main shou’s side, and if he keeps taking care of him when he can’t get along with other children, he’ll only increase his dependence. If this situation continues for several months as originally planned, we won’t know what will happen in the future.

 

For now, it was best for both Yoo-ah and the teacher to be careful not to get into fights.

 

In spite of one’s knowledge of it.

 

Clatters.

 

He felt sorry for the salty face of picking up the fallen chopsticks and practicing to eat them. Maybe it was force majeure.

• 1. 콩고물 떨어진다 means a small profit obtained by chance through the work of others