Have a Meal Before You Go

Steel, which pierced the white space, looked up at the sky.

The white space, it's a kind of cloud. The white space pierced under your feet. At a glance, I saw a long way down.

A cloud that looks as small as an ant.

Cheolho is standing on top of it.

A place everyone calls heaven. Above it, there is another heaven.

The heavens of the world are divided into seven layers.

Cheolho reaches out.

I saw a huge star pouring out, and five huge moons. If I decided to, I could go to the seven stories of the sky.

-.......

But I didn't. Cheolho stopped there and just looked up for a long time. I thought if I headed that way, I wouldn't be able to come back soon.

* * *

As it was, Cheolho opened his eyes.

It was morning.

The cold sweat rises all over my body, shaking my head to the left and to the right. Sweat?

This was very heterogeneous. Cheolho lays down a towel that rests on his forehead.

Sweating was a long time ago. Suddenly, I burst out of laughter, and the room came in to sharpen the towel opened its eyes wide.

“Are you up?”

“Yes."

“Are you sick, too? ”

“The bottle?”

“Yes. You've been lying there for two days. ”

“...... ”

Chulho stares up at the boat, not standing still. Tangerines were tightly attached to my dad's stomach, and I was sleeping coolly.

“He's definitely my brother. ”

As if I didn't like the columns, I poked Tangerine's cheek.

“Why do I like you more? ”

Cheolho smiled.

Then I got up with a tangerine in my arms. Nothing wrong with my body. Slightly open the door and look at the table.

The guests were quite crowded, and the cooks were Lise and Elise. I was relieved that my cooking skills were reliable.

Money was not the problem. It's just, I like having guests over at the diner. So, as long as it wasn't a really big problem, it was Cheolho's idea to manage the restaurant somehow.

“Papa?”

About that time, Tangerine woke up. Tangerine blinked her sleepy eyes and looked up at her father, sighing and smiling.

“Yes."

Chulho glanced down at the baby and smiled.

“Oh Di Apha? ”

“No? He's not sick at all. ”

“Are you snoring? ”

“Yes, I slept very well. ”

“Ugh.”

Tangerine sighed as if she was relieved. I was sorry to see the adult like that. Chulho put down the tangerine. Tangerine opened the door as she patted her ass.

“What happened? ”

The compartment carefully asked.

Cheolho folds his arms and thinks for a moment, scratching his glabella.

“It was nothing. ”

.

“Well done. Thank you."

“How are you feeling? ”

Lise and Elise look at the helm and ask. Choi Hyuk nodded in a worried manner.

“It's okay. I don't sleep much sometimes. ”

They turn around, and Cheolho steps back into the kitchen. At the end of hospitality, when the breakfast restaurant is returning to quiet.

A clean tangerine bruised me in the bathroom and sat at the table. Chulho stared at the tangerine. I don't know what the baby looks like. What's going on?

“Papa.”

“Yes.”

“Gyuri Ma Ni Jo. ”

“A lot?”

“Yes. Ahju-man! ”

“Yes, just wait a little longer. ”

Today's breakfast is rice ribs. Grilled with a mixture of starch powder and sauce, using only flesh from the ribs. In fact, it wouldn't matter if you bought rib flesh trimmed at a butcher's shop instead of putting it on the rib.

Grill the meat like a hamburger patty on a greased pan and you're done.

I made it a little bigger than what I used to eat in tangerine share, and I also gave him rice and kimchi.

Tangerine rushed into battle with her fork. I ate all my food quickly and ate all my ribs.

“More. ”

Tangerine said with a splendid face.

“Hmm? Aren't you full? ”

“We have to stay! Marnie, Marnie, you have to stay! ”

Chulho tilted his head and gave me another plate. After eating it all, Tangerine tapped the poop belly.

“Ha ha, in return. ”

Then I left the restaurant. Chulho called for a bracket to follow behind such tangerines.

[Yes.]

“What's going on? ”

[Ah.......]

My armpit smiled and replied.

[The Summoner wants to be taller.]

“Key?”

[Yeah, I guess kids grow up fast.]

“Ah.”

Cheolho finally understood. Friends the age of Tangerine are children between the ages of four and five. Friends of that age will probably grow up soon. The height of a tangerine is less than approximately one meter now. Approximately 90 centimeters.

They're bigger at first, but they'll catch up with them and they'll be the smallest of their age.

Dragons grow every time they peel, because tangerines haven't peeled yet.

[So I think if you eat a lot, you'll be taller.]

“Hmm.”

Well, that's true to a degree. Perhaps the time has come to flee.

Dragons have a similar growth process to humans until some point. I'd say he's about a teenager. After that, the appearance of teenagers lasts a long time, and the next twenty lasts the longest.

Maybe one day he'll grow up too.

Chulho hoped that day would not come, but he was surprised at himself with the expectation that he would come.

Suddenly.

Tangerine came back and yelled at his father.

“Papa!”

“Huh?"

“Do Si Rock! ”

“Lunchbox?”

* * *

Tangerine climbed onto her beloved bike and started pedaling. If you pedal vigorously, the bicycle's left and right auxiliary wheels make a sound in the attic.

Tangerines were always on track. The sun is hot and all around it slowly warms up. Tangerine doesn't like this day very much, but her friends like it.

Fuck you!

Press the bicycle bell and people will wave their hands looking at the tangerine. Tangerine also waved her hands.

When I walked through the marketplace, through the plaza, through the alleyway.

Woof! Woof!

I heard a dog bark, and Tangerine stopped her bike. That dog barks all the time in this way. Tangerine got off her bike and approached a dog tied to a dog in front of a shabby house.

“Dog, please don't touch me. ”

Hiccup! Hiccup!

- Master!

You hear the dog's voice. Tangerine sighed as if disappointed. When the dog saw the tangerine, he barked again.

Woof!

- There's the master!

“Huh?”

Tangerine glanced at him with a crooked head.

“Oh di? ”

In the dog's direction, Tangerine saw nothing. Tangerine looked at the dog. Seen it yesterday, seen it yesterday, but it seemed like I was starving for days. Tangerine knocked on the door of a shabby house.

“Hey! ”

No one in the house, no popularity. Tangerine sighed deeply and pulled out her father's lunchbox from her bag. My dad used to make me fist food as a lunch box, but I also like tangerines because they have a lot of meat in them.

“Do you want to have a row with Gu-ri Lee? ”

Tangerine placed one of the two pieces of rice in the dog's bowl.

“Hmm?"

Somehow there was a man standing in front of me.

Tangerine blinked and bowed her head.

“Oh, Josie, aren't you going to eat? ”

“Ah, yes. Hello?"

The man was a hustler. The great lord of the doppelgangers, he held in one hand a whole lot of food.

“Oh, Josie, this is my master's car. ”

“I guess so.”

Moussavi stroked the tangerine's head with a bitter smile. And I put food in front of the dog. Dogs don't even look at what they eat, they just howl at the other side.

Musabi squats beside the dog.

I took the handkerchief out of Tangerine's bag, put it on the floor, and sat still.

The dog and Moussavi stare at the same place, and they stare at it breathlessly.

Moussavi felt the look of tangerines and stroked the baby's head again.

“Oh, Josie? ”

“Sir, he's working. ”

“Oh, Josie, what do you do? ”

“You do the work of letting the invisible go. ”

Blasabee raises his right hand in the air that the dog is looking at, lightly turning half a turn.

Xiaoak-!

Suddenly, a middle-aged man appeared before him. His outfit was shabby, and somehow his beard grew hot. The man stands there staring down at the dog.

Voilà!

- Master!

The dog barks.

Blasabee looks at it for a long time, then opens his mouth quietly. It was like a song. It was like a poem.

I've been looking all day for spring.

I couldn't find it.

in the clouds of agriculture

I walked all over the place.

When I came back and saw the end of the fig tree branch, spring is already at the end of the branch.

After saying that, Moussavi smiles bitterly and reaches out to the man.

“Spring is gone. It's summer, and it's time for you to go. ”

The man looked at him. He blinks and nods slowly.

“Go where you're going. ”

According to Moussavi, he disappears after Shararak.

Tangerine was surprised.

“My mother? ”

“Hmm…… a spirit. ”

“Marriage? ”

“Ghosts.”

“Hiya!”

Tangerine stood up in surprise.

“But they are not scary creatures. It's not harmful, it's just lingering in the ground for a while. ”

Moussavi spoke with a soft smile.

“So, we do what we do when we let them go. ”

Most ghosts just stay in one place.

It is invisible to most, but only to those who live to communicate. Of course, the doppelganger can see ghosts without having to share a connection. It was a peculiar characteristic of the doppelgangers.

“Is he going to Odi? ”

The question of tangerines made the bear think and replied.

“Maybe, to heaven? ”

Woof! Woof!

The dog howls for a long time and collapses exhausted. Moussavi stood up and held his dog in his arms.

“I'll take this one with me. I'm starving, so I'm going to need some rest. ”

“...... me. ”

Tangerine suddenly stood up and asked.

“Will the bird-boy be a freak? ”

Moussavi strokes the dog's head and replies.

“Yes. There used to be a lot. ”

.

Somehow Tangerine was thinking of something. Cheolho placed rice and soup in front of such tangerines.

“Papa.”

“Huh?"

Tangerine asked, taking a large chunk of Velto Al Fry that had come up to dinner, placing it in my bowl.

“Where will you go from there? ”

Suddenly, it was a philosophical question.

In fact, it was a problem I didn't even know about. The dead are always silent.

“I don't know. I don't know about that. ”

“Kyung-na. ”

Tangerine drank while tilting her head. And he added.

“Today, I lose. ”

“...... ”

“Don't forget, Josh. ”

Chulho nodded as if he understood. When you are with the doppelganger, you will often see strange things. On the eastern continent, where the doppelgangers are, there are also rumors of ghosts.

Maybe it's because they're sending the dead to the afterlife. People live in villages for the same reason they're there all the time.

“Ah, Josie said to me, Ann Gisin said 20,000. ”

“Did you?”

“Ugh.”

I think so. Lots of dead people. Chulho stroked the mandarin cheek with a soft smile.

“Weren't you scared? ”

“Woof! Not a single miracle is done. ”

Tangerine replied vigorously, then gave out an empty bowl of rice. It's time to clean my teeth, so I walk into the bathroom.

[The dead go to the Seven Thousand Realms.]

Suddenly.

Kal Rampage, who was in Cheolho's pocket, said.

“The Seventh Heaven?”

[Yes.]

A moment later, Kalampage mutters.

[The sixth heaven is the world of the dead.]

As I listened to him, I stopped thinking. Soon, you nod.

“....... I see. ”

Back then.

- Papa!

I heard Tangerine's desperate voice in the bathroom.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Re-foot!

Chulho stopped laughing and headed to the bathroom.

The End

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