Have a Meal Before You Go

Winter is winter.

A cold breeze was brewing in the outside world.

Every time the wind blows, the window frames snap.

On a day like this, it was best to watch TV with blankets on in a warm room.

Echo and Khan, and Chulho and Tangerine were laying blankets in their room and watching TV.

- It's only ramen today. It's been a week. What do you think?

- Ha...... I miss Bob so much.

On TV it's all about ‘Challenges! A program called' Single Menu! ’was being broadcast. This program lasts a week with just one menu! I was pushing the concept, but it was quite fun, so I tend to take care of it at the restaurant.

Echo looked at the TV and asked.

“But is it hard to live with ramen alone? ”

“Don't you know?”

The Khan tilted his head and ate a tangerine. Orange citrus is crisp and juicy, so it was best to eat it under a winter blanket.

I gave the real tangerines next to the cans to the cans to see if they didn't work well while peeling the citrus.

“Gyu Ri is Joe Ah Sea. ”

“Is that so?"

Khan fed the citrus to the tangerines. Tangerine was wearing an internal robe, lying on the floor of her house and rolling around in her gravel. Tangerine is still surprised when she sees citrus, but she once asked if she was sure that she wasn't born in a tangerine tree.

Khan asked Chulho.

“Cheolho. Can't a human live for a week after eating only ramen? ”

“Huh?"

Chulho shrugs his shoulders while shearing fruit.

“I don't think so. I've lived a month since I was a kid. ”

When Chulho lived in Noryangjin, he had spent a month with only ramen and cigarettes. In fact, it was more of a lifebook than a human life.

“I see.”

Khan nods.

It was the same night as usual.

Challenge! After the single menu, when the ad started, Echo started circling the channel.

- This place is full of bargains! Where is it? RiverNorth's bargaining distance.

It was like a documentary program about a marketplace for exchanging goods.

Echo blinks, staring at it.

“An exchange of goods. ”

.

The next day.

Echo picks up the most useless item from his room and leaves. It was, really, a comic book with no funny head.

Nowadays, there are more boring cartoons in Cyberspace than funny ones. I entered the water exchange street of the North River, thinking it was a total disaster.

Echo has never bartered.

As a Demon King, I made hostage exchange or prisoner exchange. Could it be the same kind? I looked around, thinking.

There are a lot of people here and there. People who have arranged mattresses and display items, bargainers, and merchants.

Echo starts looking at one or two things. Then, a man asked Echo for an exchange.

“Oh, so... we're going to trade this for that? ”

“Yes, would you trade with me? ”

Echo sees what the man is holding. It was a fairly large, stone-dried sheet.

“What's that for? ”

“I don't know about that. It's the biggest one I've ever seen at home. ”

The color was blue, and there was no way of knowing what it was for. But Echo liked what the man said.

“That's right. Life doesn't know anything. ”

Echo makes a bargain with the man, making an unspoken sound.

I walk the street again, holding the sheet in one hand.

Watching Humans live was quite interesting. After walking all the way to the end of the street, Echo pauses and sits in a corner of the street.

“Ah.”

Suddenly, Echo got a big realization, jumped up, opened his mouth, and sat on it.

This is surprisingly useful, "he muttered.

He's been sitting there for a long time.

You hear a short scream from the other side. I glanced at her, and she was restless. Looking closely, the skirt's side is torn apart. Is this some kind of cheapskate? I did, but then I shook my head.

She falls slightly, but there is a wooden ledge lying around the spot where she fell and appears to have been torn at an edge.

Echo stares at her. Then I was amazed, and I got up and took my babysitter.

“Here.”

“Yes, yes? ”

“Stay still. ”

She looks at Echo with a slightly puzzled face. Echo picks her up, folds the sheet in half and ties it around her waist. The tear was perfectly concealed and not as bad as I thought.

“Oh! Thank you so much! ”

She seemed impressed. Echo grins and extends his hand.

“Item exchange. ”

“Yes?”

For a moment, she doesn't understand what you're saying, but nods as if she did.

She picks up a large cup of tea from her bag.

“Here, this is something I brought for the exchange......”

“Really? How much does this cost? ”

“Uh…… the price was probably…… 10 dollars? ”

“I see. Anything else? ”

“Something else? ”

She searches the bag again. Soon, I pulled out a pair of fur gloves. Echo received that, too.

“Let's trade two. Is that okay?"

“Yes? Oh, yes. It's okay.”

Echo nods, returning to the corner and squats. She stares at Echo for a long time, an amusing person- mutters to herself and leaves in a hurry.

Echo mutters, looking behind her.

“Hoppy patterns...... What a peculiar taste. ”

* * *

After a while.

Echo met a man who looked like a cartoonist and exchanged tea cups for fountain pen. And in exchange for some pretty high-end ink, they fit a fountain pen and a set of inks.

The fountain pen set met a rather old grandfather and was exchanged for a shabby bicycle.

Echo looks at his bike.

It was a fairly old but sturdy bike. I dragged it into a corner, hoping it wouldn't be too bad, except for the rust. I put my magic in my hands and peeled off all the rust marks.

I took it off, wiped it, and it was cleaner and cleaner than I thought, and then I saw it once or twice and dragged it out to the street again.

“Ah! Excuse me! ”

The bike is quite popular, and we soon received three barter requests.

Three!

Echo brings three competitors to a place where there are no people.

“Start auction. ”

Echo says briefly, three competitors open their mouths one after the other.

“I have two kids' bikes! My kids used to ride it, but it's still strong. ”

Competitor A's product was two bicycles for children.

“My stuff is long pants. There, you see that? ”

Judging by Competitor B's goods, it was quite a big pair of boots. It looked old-fashioned, large and useful.

“I want this. ”

Competitor C's product was a camcorder. A camcorder is an instrument that can record footage, which seemed quite useful.

Echo thought of the bear.

He nods, as if to decide.

“Three people, start scissors. ”

Three competitors face each other, hahaha! I smiled.

“Rock, paper, scissors! ”

The winner was Competitor C.

Echo exchanged bikes for camcorders. Echo, who had been filming the video quite curiously, met a middle-aged man who was interested in it.

Echo liked the ‘stallion washing machine’ proposed by men.

After making a cold deal, I examined the washing machine's nanny, and another deal was offered.

This was a shabby old motorcycle.

It was a gasoline engine that sounded like it was old.

Echo exchanged his old motorcycle for a pallet washer. The bike was really old design, so it was pretty cool. There was rust everywhere, and the engine sounded great as if it was about to explode, but I liked the design.

“...... ”

Echo, who was on his motorcycle, suddenly looked at the exchange distance. I just brought a comic book...... How did this happen? I shrugged, thinking.

* * *

Gentlemen...

Echo entered the Seodaemun Gate on an old motorcycle.

It was a moment when I was going to go through the market, go around the main road, and then go back to the restaurant.

“Huh?"

There was a man who was interested in the motorcycle.

Yellow hair was impressive, leucine.

“Echo! Did you buy a motorcycle? ”

Echo stared at Leucine. And I tilted my head.

“Who were you? ”

“What, what? ”

Leucine grumbles, pouting.

Leucine was a member of the Temple Mercenaries, a mercenary squad at the Seodaemun Gate, and his brother was an active Yeger at the Association.

Echo shrugs. Leucine approaches and looks at the motorcycle here and there.

“Fantastic. How much? ”

“I don't even know this body. It was a bargain. ”

“Huh?"

Leucine opened her eyes wide.

“You traded this for it? ”

“Yes.”

Leucine shrugs.

“Let me see this VF. It's an old-fashioned model. No one's looking for it nowadays, and the parts are out of stock, so it's hard to see. But we mercenaries are still old-fashioned. It's our tradition. ”

Temple mercenaries have long been known to insist on old bikes.

“I see.”

Echo doesn't know anything about motorcycles.

Leucine's eyes sparkled.

“Will you sell this to me? I was just trying to save the bogeyman. ”

“Sell it? This is making a lot of moonlight. It's a pile of scrap metal. ”

“Let's see……”

Leucine examined the motorcycle's nanny. Then I nodded.

“It's because it's not serviced. We need to change the engines and wheels. Can you wait a minute? ”

Leucine hurriedly returned to the Temple Mercenaries and brought a new motorcycle.

“Let's trade for this. ”

“...... ”

Echo looks at Leucine and nods.

“Sure."

.

Cheolho looked over at the sliding cafe.

Echo's cafe was a pretty self-centered space. It was a mystery in Cheolho's mind that a lot of guests came to the cafe that had been dumped for their convenience.

By the way.

I remember there used to be five entertainers in the cafe......

Cheolho asked Echo.

“Looks like something's been stretched. ”

“Yes, I saw it well, Chulho. You recognize me. ”

Echo runs wild and stands in front of the arcade.

“If you want to talk about it, it's called a rhythm game. Look, there's like five piano keys in here, right? And there's a plate next to it and a pedal down there. This is a game that is played like a musical keyboard. The name of the game is Easy to Music! Well, isn't that great? ”

Echo's face was full of satisfaction.

“How much did you give him? ”

“Yes, I switched bikes. ”

“...... ”

Chulho thought about it and asked.

“Was there a motorcycle? ”

“I got it in exchange. ”

Echo explained the barter to Chulho. He explained that he still had a lot of comics in his room, but it was really great to be able to buy one comic book per book.

Humans are also really unknown beings, and when I think about it, he told me that I could buy a house for a few days.

End

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