# 85
Chapter.20 A Week in Korea
“Oh, I wish I could give you two! “Eldo!”
“You an two or two.”
The clerk was at a loss as to what to do with the money Rulin gave him. There will never be a need to charge this much. I didn’t know what to do, so I decided to recharge it in incrents of 50,000 won.
Because it was the custor who gave the money.
“Here it is. And since it’s 106,000 won, the rest is… .”
Looking at the amount, which seed to be well over a million won, the clerk tried to return the money to Rurin, but no one was there.
“SONNIEEIM!”
The clerk was embarrassed and tried to take the money out, but his foot got twisted and he fell down. At that ti, when people’s eyes were focused everywhere, Lurin didn’t even care and grabbed El’s hand, who just happened to co out of the bathroom.
“you! I show you what fun I have! “Follow !”
“huh? “What is it?”
Rurin held Elle’s hand and ran. Rurin handed a transportation card to L and looked at her transportation card with curious eyes.
As I was about to pass through the turnstile, the partition closed and a beep beep sound sounded.
Lurin then held up the card.
Beep.
Then the turnstile becos quiet.
“How are you? If I just go, they dare to block , but if I put this on them, they will open. Hehe, there are many amazing things about where you live.”
Rurin is obsessed with transportation cards and uses the card several tis. Naturally, El began to panic.
A station employee approaches from a distance.
“It’s amazing, take a nap and let’s go first.”
El imdiately dragged Lurin down to the basent. Then, the door of the subway that had just arrived opened.
“Oh oh! It is also open here. “What is this huge thing again?”
El sighed and boarded the subway with an excited Rurin. And after that, the screams of a part-ti worker singing “Sonyiiiiim!” co out.
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The destination is the house where I used to live. I vaguely rember the faces of my parents, whom I had forgotten. Because I was suddenly thrown into the other world, not even a single photo was allowed.
As the subway started to run across the Han River, Rurin put her face against the window and let out exclamations.
“I see the river. Oh, running over the river. This subway is amazing. “Yes, you are slower than .”
okay. If you beco a dragon and fly, you can easily beat the subway. This is our Rurin, who makes you shake your head while you are in a state of confusion.
The subway soon reached its destination. Arrive at OO station and get off. It’s been 15 years, but this neighborhood hasn’t changed that much. The apartnt complex that was built during the apartnt boom was still there.
There is no redevelopnt as feared. The apartnt where I lived. And the elentary school I went to is the sa.
When I see familiar buildings, I start to feel longing. There were a lot of new buildings on the street, so there wasn’t much change, but because it was a quiet apartnt complex, there wasn’t much change overall.
The problem is whether my parents still live here. I heard that usually families of missing people do not move. This is because missing family mbers may co to your ho.
It is the last ray of hope.
My situation is exactly the sa. No, we should hope so. I hope you’re waiting for at ho.
“Where are we going?”
“Actually, this is where I lived before moving to your world.”
“Oh really? “You lived in a place that seed stuffy.”
It’s true that the apartnt looks a bit like that. It is not for nothing that I compare it to a matchbox. Compared to restaurants and ranches located on vast grasslands.
Anyway, I took the elevator and went upstairs. In the anti, I felt intense gaze and turned my head.
The main character of that gaze is a woman I don’t know at all. She is looking at with intense eyes. Thanks to you, our eyes t. At that mont, the lady quickly takes her eyes off .
“Why are you doing that?”
“It’s no big deal.”
The lady waved her hand and started looking sowhere else. Soon the elevator stops at the 6th floor.
I got out of the elevator right away. And it stopped in front of room 604. I hesitated for a mont, took a deep breath, and rang the doorbell.
How long has it been since I was this nervous? Co to think of it, after gaining the power of the Dragon Lord, there was almost nothing to be nervous about.
But it’s different now. I’m nervous. I was thirsty. So much so that the less than a minute it took for an answer to co back from the intercom felt like an eternity.
“who are you?”
However, despite all the tension and anticipation, the woman’s voice that ca over the intercom was the first ti I had heard it.
No matter how much ti has passed, there is no way you can’t recognize your mother’s voice. A huge disappointnt cos.
“Oh, that’s… sorry. “You ca to the wrong place.”
“Ah yes.”
The lady answered with a bit of annoyance, as if it was absurd. It seed like the intercom would be cut off soon, but at that mont, I urgently spoke again. Because I felt like all clues would disappear after this mont.
“Oh, wait a minute, I’m sorry, but do you know soone who used to live here? The na is Jeonghwa Lee… .”
“yes? well.”
“okay.”
The lady hung up the intercom without giving any clues. You really don’t know. With that in mind, I took a step back from room 604.
At that ti, soone grabbed my arm from behind. Not Lurin. I was surprised and looked back to see the sa woman who had taken the elevator with earlier standing there.
“if… .”
“yes?”
“Why are you looking for Jeonghwa?”
“Ooh, do you know my mother?”
My mother’s na ca out of my grandmother’s mouth. When I asked again in surprise, the woman tilted her head as if trying to think of sothing.
“wait a minute!”
After a while, he shouted loudly, suddenly clapped his hands, and ran sowhere. Toward room 605 on the sa floor.
After a while, the lady brought out a photo from ho. He compared the picture with and started shouting with a shocked face.
“also! also! He’s Jeonghwa’s son, right? He’s gone missing! “Oh my!”
Sister Jeonghwa.
At the familiar na, I looked at the woman’s face again. Maybe it was so long ago that I couldn’t rember much. However, when I looked at the photo I handed over, so mories from the past ca to mind. It was clearly a lady who lived on the sa floor. He was a person who was very close to my mother.
“ah!”
When I let out an exclamation without realizing it, the woman suddenly let out a long sigh and her expression began to harden.
He looked very tearful and hugged and patted my back.
“okay… ! This guy, where did you go and are you here now? “My sister has been looking for you for so long!”
After saying that, he suddenly sat down in tears. Anyone can tell that the tears are not from joy at my appearance.
Suddenly my heart started pounding. Those tears must have sothing to do with my mother. With my mother.
As a result, I didn’t have the confidence to ask anything. Not knowing what to do, I stood still and looked at the woman in confusion.
Rurin grabs the hem of my clothes. She wasn’t saying anything.
Ti passes quietly like that.
But I couldn’t stay like this forever. It is a difficult truth to face, but it cannot be buried. In order to know the truth, I took another deep breath and opened my mouth to the woman who was sitting down and crying.
“Perhaps your mother…” .”
I can’t speak well. My heart felt like it was going to explode. Either Dragon Heart or my heart. Heart and intestines. And I feel like everything in is about to explode.
When she saw my face, she grabbed the wall of the hallway and stood up.
“Seeing as you ca this way, it looks like you didn’t know the news at all… . If so, I should tell you or you’ll keep looking… .”
The lady walked, making a sign to follow her. So I followed. Lurin quietly follows .
So I went into the lady’s house. She quietly sat Lulin and I down at the table. Rurin looks at quietly. I don’t know if he knew that my condition was strange or not, but I just stared at him quietly.
The lady silently got into the car and sat down in the chair. There is silence for a mont. The silence lasted for several minutes.
I couldn’t break the silence first. In the end, it was the lady who changed the situation first.
“I heard your uncle was in a car accident. He passed away while fighting illness. That was already 10 years ago. My older sister was left alone and suffering, which made her body weak. Still, he wandered around looking for you and eventually followed you. That was already 5 years ago. 5 years ago! Hey! “Where on earth did you co from?”
“… … .”
I hear the sky falling. Where is this clear blue sky? I can’t believe they both passed away.
From that mont on, I don’t even rember what I heard or how I moved. Everything is hazy.
Are you saying your parents are not from this world? You said you beca weak while looking for ?
It was fucking fate.
I don’t know how much hardship I went through being alone in an unfamiliar world. The reason I persevered as I passed the risk of death was because I dread of the day when I would et my parents again.
Especially since I didn’t know Lulin at that ti.
But in the end, what ends up happening is this tragedy.
It couldn’t be like this.
Tears naturally flowed as I felt like everything had collapsed.
.
.
.
My mother was a kind person. You always supported and pushed to do what I wanted to do. Even if my father was against it, my mother always supported . And I convinced my father.
Going to culinary school was a difficult decision, but he followed my advice. and… and… .
I can’t think of anything to say.
I didn’t leave because I wanted to leave. Sothing that couldn’t have happened happened and I was forgotten from this world.
What a fate.
Thinking about my parents who had closed their eyes in a situation where I didn’t know if my son was dead or alive, my already dark eyes felt even more painful.
“Whoa… . Damn it.”
After a while, I could barely see my surroundings. I was sitting on the fire escape of my apartnt.
What’s surprising is that Rurin is standing quietly next to . He is just looking down at crying quietly. Then I make eye contact with her. It was not until the mont their eyes t that Lurin quietly opened her mouth.
“Is your mother dead too?”
“huh. maybe… .”
When I barely answered, Rurin ca and sat next to . He suddenly hugged and started patting my back.
I’ve patted her on the back many tis, but this is the first ti since we t that Rurin has patted on the back.
“Okay. I am by your side! And I will always be by your side. “If you’re that sad, I’m sad too.”
“okay?”
Lurin’s warmth seeps into my empty heart. I’ve hugged her many tis, but this was definitely the first ti I’ve felt warmth to my heart.
Rurin comforts . It’s kind of funny, but the peace that ca to my mind was entirely thanks to her.
A sense of security surrounds , as if I was being held in my mother’s arms.
“I was sad too when my mom died. I cried a lot. I couldn’t stop crying because I didn’t know you back then. But now I am by your side. “Don’t cry because you have this body.”
“okay… .”
Lurin spoke to with an expressionless expression, but her appearance seed so dazzling.
Like a goddess.
At this mont, I gave up everything and just fell into Lulin’s arms.
It’s completely the opposite of usual.
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