Have a Meal Before You Go

Early morning.

Cheolho received the newspaper first again today. In fact, there's not really a great story in the paper. But somehow it's become a ritual to start the day.

Echo rises around the time he slowly passes the newspaper, sitting in his chair.

Bloop-!

Echo opens the door to the room and appears. Echo walks volatily in front of Iron Hoe, and settles down.

“Did you see all that? ”

“Almost."

Cheolho looks at the newspaper to the end and hands it over to Echo. As soon as Echo received the newspaper, he turned his gaze to the last chapter.

Nowadays, Echo is obsessed with second-hand trading.

In the old days, second-hand trading through the Internet was booming, but in the same time, there can be no Internet.

Therefore, the main trading takes place in the newspaper's "flea market" field.

Echo looks at the newspaper closely and checks a list with a pen.

“What are you doing? ”

“Yes, second-hand. ”

Echo replied dry.

“Used?”

“Huh."

“What's the use of buying second-hand stuff? Used is usually used by someone. ”

Echo raises his head.

“That's the beauty of second-hand trading. Who used to wear it? It's cheap. And surprisingly, there's a lot of supplies. It's fun to buy those things. ”

“...... ”

Somehow, I felt like there was a lot of junk in Echo's room these days.

Chulho shrugged his shoulders and entered the kitchen. Echo looks back at the marked second-hand items.

[I only sell sneakers twice! Size 265, white! Attach photos! Just give them to me for $10!]

[Phone: xxx? xxx- xxxx]

These sneakers are only worn twice. Echo thought of the bear. For only 30 dollars, it's like that. Looking at the picture, it doesn't look bad.

I called right away.

-Hello?

“I buy shoes on the flea market. ”

- Oh, yeah. Where are you?

“Seodaemun.”

The deal went through fast.

Echo's breasts start to beat. Somehow, this is the most exciting time. I was excited when I just pulled the hand out of a card game.

* * *

Echo left the house early in the evening. I whispered to the meeting place. The opponent asked me to meet him at the corner of the Seodaemun Market, so I was waiting for him there first.

A man in a black t-shirt approaches from over there.

“You're Echo, right? ”

“Yes.”

Echo nods. The man reaches out for the box. When I opened it, there was a white sneaker. Suddenly, it was definitely clean and faulty.

Echo gave me 30 dollars.

“Well done, then. ”

The man left in a hurry. I don't know why I'm so busy.

Echo walks into the park, sits on a bench, and pulls out his shoes.

Obviously, it doesn't look bad. I tried it on myself with a satisfactory face.

“Hmm."

Wear is not so bad. Echo was going to put his original pair of slippers in a box and walk home.

That's five minutes.

10 min.

About the 15th minute of walking.

Bummer!

I felt a strange feeling in my feet. It felt like the wind was coming in. I feel like there's nothing left to be had.

“Huh?"

Echo looks down urgently. The sole of your shoe was worn out.

“Huh?"

Echo urgently takes off his shoes and looks over the sole. Beneath the insoles was a layer of styrofoam. Somehow I felt very fluffy. Durability, manufacturing and dreadful imitations.

“...... ”

Echo trembles.

I was beaten.

Echo immediately picked up the phone.

“Hello."

- Yes, sir.

“What if I sell this for 30 dollars? I want a refund."

- You already have, but we don't give refunds for damage caused by shopper negligence. I wore it well. I'm hanging up.

W-W-Wait!

The phone is disconnected.

Echo stands still and gazes. Then I walked back to the bench, and I sat down and the bear thought,

Somehow, he's right. If he really wore it well, it was inevitable. Echo narrows his eyes.

Now, to Echo, $30 was a small sum. No matter how much money it didn't really matter, I was heartbroken.

* * *

The next day.

Echo finds the newspaper dead for some reason.

[Sell the coffee hand drip set.]

[Sell the Hand Drip Set. I've only used it five times in a new car accident, and it's only 50 dollars.]

[Phone: xxx? xxx- xxxx]

Echo picks up the phone. As the current cafe owner, this product was expensive. I know it costs 100 bucks to buy a new one, so I'm just in a hurry.

“Hello?"

- Yes, sir.

“That's a hand-dried set. ”

Promises were made quickly. Echo thought he should take a closer look and live this time, and went to the place.

“Hello."

“Oh, yes. ”

The opponent is a man I've never seen before. I'm relieved I didn't see him before.

Echo examines his handset. It was not worse than I thought. I checked the surface thoroughly and looked inside. It was definitely a good thing.

Echo nods and gives out the money.

“Good work.”

By the time the opponent disappears, Echo returns to his home.

“What else did you buy? ”

Chulho asked with a cup of coffee. Echo grinned and snatched Chulho's coffee cup.

“I'll make you drink better coffee than this. Hehe.”

“...... ”

Chulho sighed and picked up a comic book with his chin clenched. It was the new Godfather Comics.

“Hehe.”

Echo entered the kitchen, murmuring as if he were in a good mood.

First, wipe the newly obtained drip and hand mill thoroughly.

Handmills are goods that finely grind coffee beans. There is a cylindrical lid, and a handle is attached to the lid, with a blade hanging inside it like a fan.

If you put the beans in a cylindrical bowl, close the lid, and turn the handle, the beans will be ground.

I put coffee beans in the cleaned hand mill and began to grind carefully.

Bloop-bloop-bloop-

I love the sound of bean grinding whenever I hear it. Echo continues to turn the handle on the hand mill lid.

Drum-

Fall back!

“......? ”

Oh, yeah?

Echo stares at the edge of the blade, sharpening the beans in a hurry. I heard something breaking. Continuously turning the lever, you hear a sleigh, not a grunt.

The blade could not grind a coffee bean and was crushed.

“...... ”

Echo shivers. Then I picked up the phone again.

Tu-Tu-

“...... ”

I don't answer the phone.

A faint walk from behind sees Echo's handset.

“Did I get you?”

“...... ”

Echo nods quietly.

“There have been a lot of second-hand fraudsters lately. Back in the day, we used to deal in couriers. Back then, there were bricks instead of stuff. ”

Echo turns without a word and enters his room. After a short while, Echo was wearing a black mask. Then I walked out of the restaurant.

Chulho only sighs again, looking at the back of that echo.

.

Echo is now standing on top of the building of the Awakening Society.

At the top of the tall building, Echo, standing straight at the end of the small lightning rod, spread his arms wide and spread his senses to all sides.

I didn't want it to come to this. But they insulted Echo twice. This was unimaginable in the magic world.

Echo was forced to change it.

On all winds and smells come in.

Echo had smelled him on a set of hand clips.

Among the myriad of smells, I found a unique scent. Echo opens his closed eyes.

What's your location?

Near Hongdae.

This is the back alley. Along with the smell of Kumkum Sewers, there is also the smell of a fraud.

Echo lights both eyes. They've touched a demon they shouldn't have touched.

Pot!

Echo disappears.

Pot!

The place that resurfaced was a quiet back alley. Hongdae alley. I've been here a few times. Damn fraudsters and criminals love backstreets, and now I'm learning geography with my eyes closed.

Echo smells a sniff of sniff. Following the scent, I walked down a crooked path in the back alley.

Boom!

I walked through a wooden door, and there were three men in a shabby house who were answering the phone frantically.

“Oh, yeah. What's your location? ”

“I can't refund you. Who doesn't want to check it out? ”

“Huh?"

Echo looks at his face one by one. They look familiar. One of them is a scammer for a handset, and the other is who?

Echo frowns for a moment, then opens his eyes.

You're a sneaker, aren't you?

I've never seen the other one, but he was a con man after all.

Bubbling

I'm boiling. Echo, boom! We're closed.

“Well, what are you! ”

The sneaker says so, and Echo punches him in the face instead of answering.

“Unh!”

“What the fuck! ”

He cursed and beat up the coffee swindler. Two fainted, and one crawled on his own.

“Tue, I'll refund you! ”

“I don't need it! ”

Quack, quack, quack! I flew to the other side with a sound. Echo was chattering and suddenly came up with a good idea. He disappeared and reappeared.

Echo reappeared holding a set of deceived sneakers and handrips.

* * *

“Ugh…"

By the time the sneaker got up, he was wearing sneakers with his soles out.

“Huh?"

In front of him, a man in a mask sits with his legs twisted. Ghost said.

“Stand up.”

I have a history of exploding, so I get up early. He said again.

“Now, start jumping into position. ”

“Yes? ”

“Jump in place, man. Don't you know?”

“I know!”

He's starting to jump. Every time I ran, my sole started to sag, and I quickly slipped away. He's barefoot. I kept running in that state.

He put the beans in his set and began to grind the beans.

Duck! Duck!

There's no way I'm going anywhere.

The agony of pouring 10,000 beans into the cup, filled it with water.

And I gave it to the coffee conman.

“Drink.”

The trickster drank it cold.

“Tsk!”

Half of us hated coffee alone. He whispered in the ear of such a fraud.

“Chew it all. Otherwise, this body will eat you up. ”

Hiccup!

Coffee swindler hiccups, worrying about coffee beans, started chewing right away.

The villain has now turned his gaze to the last of the fraudsters.

“What kind of scam did you play? ”

“I'm not a fraud! ”

“Then?”

“We're supplying you with goods! ”

“You're the worst. ”

The beast struck the head of the supplier.

“Unh!”

“Where's the warehouse? ”

“Yes?”

“There's got to be a storage place with the scum maker. Come on, this body's running out of time. ”

.

[second-hand fraud, vandalism!]

[The Man in the Black Mask…… What is the Man in the Black Mask?]

Cheolho looked at the newspaper, and Echo. Echo was experimenting like this with a sour face, pulling out all sorts of things.

“What's all that? ”

No, Echo's room was a complete mess.

Not long ago, Echo went out in a mask and really came back with a bunch of junk.

“Yes, second-hand items. ”

Echo answers with a pen. I wrote a few letters on the paper, and there was no ink. Echo compressed the object into Express, the master class, and then destroyed it.

I'm wearing shoes this time. I also ran a few times, and my sole fell off.

“Hmm……"

After that, Echo, who had been experimenting for a while, suddenly flashed his eyes.

“Oh.”

“...... Huh? ”

“Look, Cheolho. This cup!"

The cup was at least the most likely object. It looks like it was baked and didn't break.

Echo shakes his cup and smiles.

“This is normal, though. ”

“...... ”

Then Lulu Lalla snorted and followed the water to the cup. Slowly raising the cup.

Woojik -!

The cup slowly collapsed.

“......? ”

Looking closely, it's not ceramics. The cup was a cleverly painted replica after drying the paper.

Echo quickly got a lot of water on top of his t-shirt.

“Oh, my God, is that one too? Is there anything that's working? ”

Cheolho stared at Echo's T-shirt. The picture on the t-shirt made me think that the color was changing when I touched the water.

“But this body, with the last burlap, found a T-shirt. Hehe.”

“...... ”

The picture of the T-shirt quickly spread everywhere. That, too, was a thin forgery.

Cheolho turned his attention to the newspaper. There was no need to tell me.