Have a Meal Before You Go

When I woke up in the morning, Tangerine was sitting on a chair, holding something in both hands and chewing on it.

What are you talking about? Some kind of plant.

When I saw Tangerine's face, I was eating a metallurgical plant with a very happy face.

Echo stared at the face of such a tangerine.

“What are you eating? ”

“This high? ”

Tangerine proudly showed the plants.

“Sugar cane. ”

“Give me this body, too. ”

“Want a muzzle? ”

For some reason, Tangerine gave me a Cane. Tangerine had a lot of sugar cane.

Cheolho asked from the kitchen.

Breakfast is a sandwich. How much meat do you want?

Echo shakes his head.

“This body doesn't eat breakfast. ”

Cheolho comes out of the kitchen crouching his head.

“Aren't you eating? What brings you here?”

“Ha....... This body is in great distress right now. ”

“....... ”

Chulho glanced at Echo quietly. My face was really filled with anxiety. The feeling of being young with him, it's annoying.

“What?”

I shook my head, closing Echo Ziggy's eyes.

“No, it's a secret. ”

“I see.”

Chulho shrugged his shoulders and stepped back into the kitchen. Echo took a bite of a piece of sugar cane from Tangerine and went out to eat while chewing the barn.

Off the alley, on the left is a flower shop. And on the right is Pata's hardware store.

Next to the hardware store was Echo's book cafe. 7: 00 a.m.

This would be the time when Echo's crowded bookcafe would also be free.

Echo opens the locked door and steps inside.

Inside the cafe, a girl falls asleep. At about the age of mid-teens, it was obvious that a student at the Cipher School was wearing a uniform.

Awakening grades are roughly four. I mean, latent abilities are pretty decent. But she was an ordinary Awakened Girl.

Echo clears his throat as he enters the cafe, and the girl stands up, Booth.

“Hello?”

“Uh, go today. ”

“...... ”

This girl ran away.

I don't know why, but I found it in a car that was closing the cafe a few days ago and going home. I was just passing by, but I heard it coming from the girl's belly. Glug! I couldn't just hand it over.

That was a mistake.

Echo scratches his glabella and sits at his table.

I have never heard of why I ran away. I didn't ask. I tried to put him to sleep one day and send him back, but the next day he was sitting in front of the cafe at dawn.

Echo has realized that his mind has definitely become weak lately. I never would have realized that there was a girl like that before.

The girl's probably been starving since last night. Echo tries to pretend he didn't hear it, but he hears it whenever it's time.

Glug-ug-

Oh, shit.

Echo's face was filled with complaints, and he stood up and started making drinks. Perhaps a hot beverage is better than coffee in the morning and for a young boy.

Take out the Yuzu commission that Lise gave me and ride the Yuzu car. By the time the hot water is poured and the taste starts to show up at the Yuzhou office, the morning delivery arrives.

Gurgle!

“I'm home! ”

Elise. She used to deliver dessert every morning.

“Huh."

“Oh? There's another one today? ”

According to Elise, Echo nods.

“Suddenly, ”

“In between? ”

“You're going to die if you say something crazy. ”

“Come on, just kidding! ”

Elise is furious. I know Echo was just saying that, but the former Demon King was too strong to threaten.

Echo picks up a box of dessert from Ellis, putting one on the shelf. Then, I took out a piece of a voluminous chocolate cake and presented it to the girl along with the oil car.

“Eat.”

“....... It's okay. ”

“Shut up.”

Echo slaps the girl's head slightly. And he had a solemn look on his face.

“Eat and go quickly. House Garden. School Garden. ”

“....... ”

The girl lowers her head.

The girl hesitates for a moment, raising her head.

“I'm not going. ”

“Why aren't you going? ”

“I don't want to go to school or home. ”

“Then where should I live? ”

I can see the girl writhing. Anyway, kids.

“Not here. Go somewhere else. ”

“Yes......”

The girl bows her head, feeling discouraged. Going back to the table, I peeked and saw a girl eating a cake. After eating all the cake like a crab to make sure you were hungry, the girl holding the teapot slowly opens her mouth.

“Why did you run away? ”

“I didn't ask. ”

“…… Okay. ”

The girl frowns.

Echo looks back at the comic book. It was a scene where the protagonist fought the last enemy, the chicken chefs of the dark house.

Dark Chicken Cooks were idiots who dreamed of conquering Earth with chicken. I have this crazy dream of addicting people to the taste of chicken and putting them in control. What the hell is that?

Echo, who no longer wanted to see the protagonist who risked his life to cook chicken, covered the comic book.

And he grabbed his coffee and asked.

“Why did you run away? ”

The girl replied, "Well, well."

“I failed the test. ”

“...... ”

It was dumber than the Dark Chicken Cooks' ideals. Echo's eyes narrow.

“Pack up and go home now. ”

“I'm going to get mad at you when I get home. ”

“What do you mean?”

“I've lost a lot of grades..... and I haven't improved my Awakening skills..... and I'm sure I'll get beaten up. ”

It was pretty much impossible to understand.

Are you afraid of getting mad?

As long as he was scolded, he could be scolded by Echo.

Echo's father was a family tyrant.

Echo was sent to the battlefield less than a decade after he was born. The day I came back without taking my life after being covered in the blood of the Horsemen, I literally burst to death about three times.

Of course, Echo was immortal because of the first class, but it was even more painful.

“Sa, Sa, didn't you ever do that? ”

“There is.”

“Do you?"

“Yes. This body almost died every time. It's nothing to get in trouble for. ”

Does that mean Echo hates his father? That's not it either.

In retrospect, it was the ways of the devil. Perhaps, it was the way my father loved me.

Echo had to grow strong.

Horses with families die all the time and are betrayed all the time. Even the family put a knife in the back of their family, and all that remained was their strength. I think my father knew that.

Around the age of 20, my father was ambushed by an enemy family. Echo had two brothers, two brothers who betrayed their father and helped the enemy family.

When Echo returned from the two factions in the north, he saw his father's neck hanging on the wall.

Echo thought he was sad at the time.

He was the only one who didn't betray Echo. His brothers betrayed him, and even when his men betrayed him, he was always on Echo's side.

Echo sits dazed, sipping coffee. It tastes bitter.

“The father of this body is dead. This body was often scolded by my father. ”

“....... ”

“I was afraid of being scolded while you were alive. I wish I didn't have to, I used to think. ”

There was, of course.

“But sometimes I think it was good to have a scolding father after he died. ”

The girl stares at Echo.

Echo was kicked in the balls.

“To scold is to be interested. After my father died, there was no one left to scold this body. Oh, I have one nowadays. ”

Nowadays, echo feels a strange feeling every time Cheolho or Lise is scolded.

As the great Demon King, when he conquered the North, Echo had countless men around him. Everyone was trying to be nice to Echo, and they were always saying nice things to him.

At that time, Liseman was the only one who would advise Echo.

“...... ”

“Let's hope it works out so we can teach them a lesson. If there's someone around here who's always nice to hear, it's like a snake, so you shouldn't get along. ”

Somehow Echo's voice is calm, but I can feel the feeling inside. Somehow, Echo seemed about the same age as himself, but he felt like he had experienced a lot.

The girl blinks quietly.

“If we go back now, we're going to be in a lot of trouble. Twice as much. ”

“I'll triple it tomorrow. ”

He was right.

The girl listens to Echo, thinks a little and nods.

“The boss is right. ”

“Go quickly, thinking you're lucky to have such a father. ”

The girl jumped up and down as if she were determined to.

“I want to go home. ”

Echo claws his hands as if annoying. Then I heard the comic book again.

The dark chicken cooks compete with the chicken, and the chicken menu was the ultimate ordinary fried chicken.

People who were tamed by stimulating dark chickens ate a mouthful of pure fried chicken, and the process of regaining their minds was absurd, but it was fun.

The protagonist who defeated the world of the dark chicken, finally heads to the heavenly world.

Across the clouds to the place where the Chicken Gods live, the protagonist meets the first chicken god sealed there.

It was the god of fried chicken --

“Wow, what's going on? ”

At this point, I thought I'd never see it.

.

In a few days.

Echo was the prize for dying every morning. Cheolho asked, placing the morning coffee next to such an echo.

“What's wrong with you lately? ”

“What.”

“I'm going to die every morning. ”

“Well……"

Echo looked down at Cheolho's breakfast. Echo's favorite steak was prepared. After slicing the ripe meat, dipping a little salt and putting it in your mouth, Echo chews the amulet and swallows.

“These days, this body has become a therapist. ”

“......? ”

“I can't, I can't tell. ”

Echo sighs, eats up all the meat, then takes Chulho to his café.

Just as she was preparing to open, she was pouring her morning coffee. When Echo sat down, his first guest came in.

It was a girl. She looked like she was a student at the Cipher School, looking like she was in her early teens.

“Hey......”

“Why.”

Echo asked bluntly.

“I hear you do a lot of worrying. ”

“Ha......”

Echo raises his hand to the front of his head. As the girl walked and sat down, Echo asked.

“What is it?”

“Hey, I had a boyfriend, and I think he's having an affair. Last time I saw him, he was walking with another woman. Then -”

“Farewell.”

“Go. Suddenly? ”

“Yes. Meet him, beat him up, break him up. ”

With Echo's resolute tone, the girl seems to have gained courage. The girl jumps up and nods.

“I'm breaking up with you now! ”

“....... ”

“Thank you! The rumors were true! ”

The young owner of the book cafe seemed to be rumored to be good at counseling. A girl steps out with a bright face, and another guest arrives.

“Hey, I'm going to do the wagon. ”

“Do you cook? ”

“A little.”

“Are you crazy? Don't. ”

It was like this.

Cheolho took a sip of coffee and saw such an echo. It is curious to give an annoying yet discreet answer.

The End