Chapter 78: Only in novels does everything work out smoothly after one comfort (6)

“Boss, so what are we doing today?”

“Huh… um, Yeon?”

“Yeah?”

A myriad of thoughts flashed through my head.

Did she not leave yet?

Since the accumulated grudges had been resolved anyway, there was no need to force her to leave.

So I thought that she decided to take her time and leave with plenty of time.

I also told her to contact me once before I left, so I wondered if she came to see my face one last time since she was contacting me anyway.

But Yeon’s clothes were too comfortable to see it that way.

It wasn’t just at the level of coming to play, but if it was at that level, I would have to say that she just settled down.

A thought, “Maybe?” flashed through my head, but

“….”

I decided not to have too high expectations.

If I expected too much, I thought I wouldn’t be able to handle it when “maybe” became “as expected”.

“Yeon.”

“Yeah, Boss.”

“…Weren’t you going to France?”

Hearing my words, Yeon looked at me with a blank expression, or rather, with a very subtle expression.

I wasn’t sure because I hadn’t been with Yeon for a long time, but it seemed like she was saying, “Ah, that?”

“Ah, that?”

I guess I was right.

But the next words were completely unexpected.

“I just decided not to go.”

“Huh?”

Yeon said a very important thing casually as if it was nothing, and then started to slurp the ramen I had cooked for her.

The sound “Huh?” reflexively came out of my mouth, but Yeon didn’t seem to care.

In fact, it’s best to just say, “Okay~” and move on in this situation.

You might change your mind if you ask too much, and you might think that I wanted you to leave.

“Why…?”

But I couldn’t help it.

“Ummmㅡ”

Yeon’s eyebrows raised slightly when she heard my question.

“Do you want me to go, Boss?”

And the expected answer came back.

No, but

I thought that the accumulated grudges with her family had been resolved, and in the flow, the general ending was that she would be embraced by her family and leave for France to challenge her childhood dream, right?

“No, of course, that’s not it, it’s definitely not it… really, absolutely not.”

In case Yeon’s mind changed, I nailed it down that it wasn’t, but I still didn’t understand it in my head.

“But, um… didn’t you want to learn properly?”

Because I didn’t do anything in this situation.

No, to be precise

I didn’t solve anything.

I did a lot of things.

I rolled my head alone, fell into a trap alone, and clung to her alone

It was just that all of that was a meaningless struggle.

Therefore

“I used to be like thatㅡ but not really now?”

For some reason, I was just embarrassed by this situation that had been resolved in the form I wanted.

“You seemed to be fighting quite fiercely for someone who wasn’t like that.”

“That’s because my sister said it like a bi*ch.”

While Yeon is staying by my side

“You’re calling her your sister?”

“No, Boss, that’s… yeah, sister.”

The conflict with her family is also resolved

Such an ideal situation.

With unsolved questions, I sat down next to Yeon, who was diligently eating.

“Situation”

“Eat first and talk.”

“Yeahㅡ so why didn’t you go?”

“No, rather than that, I just wanted to know what happened.”

“It’s a joke, so you don’t have to turn around.”

As if she knows the meaning of the words, but doesn’t care, Yeon wiped the ramen she had eaten to the side and opened her mouth.

“First of all, I have to go to France.”

“Right?”

“It’s annoying.”

“…?”

It was a story that sounded like an answer, but I couldn’t turn it back to its original state even knowing that my expression was becoming subtle.

It was a bit, very absurd.

“And if I go to France, I have to learn French.”

“That’s right?”

“It’s annoying.”

“….”

“If it were Japanese, I might be motivated, but not really French….”

Looking at Yeon saying that, I thought that she was quite an otaku too.

“In the first place, my sister said with her own mouth that racism is subtly severe.”

Well, that’s true.

It’s not just a problem with France, but it’s closer to the problem of local people’s territoriality for foreigners.

Just Koreans alone discriminate against Chinese people and Southeast Asians, so what’s different about Europeans and Americans? It’s the same place where people live.

In the end, having to endure such humiliation is living in a foreign land.

If there’s no need to do that, there’s no need to live in a foreign land.

Just as I was about to understand after hearing Yeon’s explanation

“And….”

“Yeah?”

“It’s quite fun streaming with Boss.”

An unexpected answer came back.

“Yeah? Really??”

“People like my paintings and laugh at me playing around next to Boss.”

Hearing those words

“…Tsk.”

I narrowed my eyes that had widened greatly and laughed.

“Yeon, you’re quite an attention seeker too, aren’t you?”

“There’s no one who draws

pictures and isn’t an attention seeker.”

Even though it was quite a rude word, Yeon took it as if it was natural and

“So what are we doing today?”

She offered me the words that she would be with me today too.

So I also, without hiding my happy heart, returned the answer.

“Ah sh*t… I was so distracted that I didn’t think about it.”

“Oooo, dereliction of duty, Boss oooo.”

“Hey!! Who was it that made me distracted!!”

“I don’t think it’s my fault.”

“No, I thought you were taciturn, but now you’re saying everything you want to say, really, clean up what you ate!”

As I said while slightly pinching her annoying cheek, Yeon silently took the bowl of ramen she had eaten and headed to the kitchen.

“Ah right, Yeon.”

“Yeah?”

“Still, don’t stream, really… it’s really not easy….”

“I don’t think there’s anyone crazy enough to start streaming after seeing Bossㅡ I’ll just suck honey next to Boss.”

“What, you little?”

Reality is always like this.

In novels, if you think it will flow like this, it will almost flow like that, and even if it doesn’t flow like that, most of the variations occur within the expected range.

Even if conflicts arise, they are resolved with a single word, with a single comfort, and move forward again.

Even a big conflict, by building a narrative, comes to a sudden realization at some point and forgives the other person and repents himself.

Flowing according to the flow.

That’s the story in the novel.

But in reality, even if you predict it, it never flows as it is.

Conflicts arise from trivial matters

No matter how hard you try, nothing is resolved

That’s what we live in

Just ordinary reality.

Complete reformation.

The reason why the saying “correcting the past and practicing goodness” exists as a four-character idiom is because it is a testament to how difficult it is.

But

Even so

I sometimes feel that reality doesn’t always flow worse than novels.

Long conflicts are resolved by trivial matters

Even though I didn’t do anything, even though I couldn’t do anything, problems are somehow resolved

Because there are occasional moments of luck in a reality full of unpredictability

Even while living this desolate and frustrating life, there are moments when I laugh from time to time.

Yeah

Comforting someone once and having everything resolved is only in novels

There are countless cases where even if you do everything you can, it becomes meaningless, but there are also frequent cases where problems are resolved

That’s reality.

I live reality today too.

“Grandpa.”

“What is it, Yeon?”

“Still, I think the things that Grandpa has built up with all his strength are cool.”

“…Thank you.”

“And Grandpa spends all his spare time helping the people around him.”

“Hehe, I can do that because I have spare time.”

“That’s what I’m saying, Grandpa.”

“I’ll fix it so that Grandpa likes it.”

“You said that all the strength makes you tired, so I’ll put the people that Grandpa takes care of next to it.”

“Strengthn that is.”

“Strength that is passed on to people.”

“Grandpa gives strength to people with comics, and also gives strength to the people around him.”

“Does that please you a little, Grandpa?”

“….”

“…Puhuh.”

“What, why are you laughing, Grandpa?”

“Our Yeon, it seems that puberty hasn’t ended yet.”

“No! It’s not that, it’s me telling Grandpa to cheer up!”

“Hehehe… Our granddaughter is the cutest after all. Good job.”

“Ah really!!!”

“But.”

“Yeon is better than this Grandpa.”

“This is what this Grandpa should treasure. I should order a nice frame.”

“Ah really!!! Grandpa!!!!!”

“Ahem, even if you say so, Yeon, this is this Grandpa’s now. I’ll take it to the grave, so give up.”

“Aww, this Grandpa only grew tall!!”

“Hehehe! It seems that puberty hasn’t ended, so you should drink more milk diligently, then you might grow as tall as Grandpa… Aack!!! Even so, why are you biting this Grandpa’s leg!!!”