Have a Meal Before You Go

The puppeteering machine was amazing at any moment.

Echo stands still and stares at the puppet pulling machine for a long time.

It was a kind of game where a three-legged grappling hook was cooked and dropped to the next exit, picking up a doll.

If there's one problem.

This grappling hook seems to be a little off.

The hook is not hard enough, so if the doll gets caught or shaken just a little, it just slips away. It was definitely broken, like a tumbleweed bridge.

“Oh, shit! ”

Echo slams the ground! I stepped on it and got angry.

- Too bad! Hahaha!

The most pissed off was this voice that I heard when I lost the doll.

Echo shudders, putting his hand in his pocket.

Nothing.

I think I brought about $100, but I didn't pull any. Oh my god! Does this make sense? For $100, I just bought a few dolls!

Echo clenches his lips and goes into the arcade.

Then I shouted to the entertainment room owner.

“Mister! Take out that doll, sell it to this body! ”

The host was furious.

“Oh, no. You want to buy another toy? You can stop buying them! I've already sold six amusements to you...... We have to do business too. ”

“Shut up! Sell it! Sell it! Fallan! ”

Echo is swarming. The entertainment room host shrugged.

In fact, Echo was quite grateful. I always buy toys for a long time, so I waited for Echo when it was time to change the machine.

“Well, I can't help it. I'll sell it to you.”

.

“...... Therefore, this body must buy a puppet pulling machine. ”

“I see.”

Cheolho replied as if he didn't care much.

“Yes, Cheolho! Tell this body to pull out the doll! ”

“Pick a puppet.”

Cheolho folded the newspaper and thought for a moment.

At the end of 2016, Chulho was studying hard.

There is a so-called draw room with puppet-picking machines in the old gang. Lottery rooms were so prolific, they used to show up with lots of picking machines.

Unfortunately, Chulho was not interested in pulling. It was useless to pull out dolls, and the price of the doll pulling machine was unnecessarily expensive and very inefficient.

With that money, I could hit him for 30 minutes with a 200-won King of Opa, or I could hit him with an iron fist for speed.

Things would have been similar for everyone, not just Chulho. In fact, it was only a few bourgeois boys who came to the drawing room even in the old age group.

“I don't know. I don't really know how to draw. ”

“Ha. Then it's no big deal. ”

Echo shakes his head and heads back into the room to find a compartment.

Idiot Khan was a master of all games because he was very good at his hands. But there are no cars.

Echo glances down into the room, looking at the tangerine sucking on his phone.

Tangerine put down her phone to make sure it didn't taste good, and turned it upside down.

Echo lifted the tangerine. Then I left the restaurant with my mouth to my cheeks.

“Cough! ”

Tangerine knew that if she went with Echo, good things would happen. It's because Echo always gives cakes or ice cream secretly from his father.

Echo returned to the cafe with a tangerine in his arms. At the cafe, Jinwoo Jae was working hard as always.

Rrrrgh - Kwawang!

The sky is sad, and it looks like it's going to rain soon. Echo glances at the outside world. Then I told Jin Woo Jae.

“Hey."

“Yes, boss! ”

Echo points to the door.

“Let's close early today. It only bothers me when it rains. ”

“Yes?”

“Look. When it rains, people come with umbrellas, right? ”

“Yes, it is. ”

“When you come home with an umbrella, you get a lot of water on the floor, right? Then it's slippery and very annoying. ”

“...... ”

“And a lot of people came. The lines are getting longer. Humans are always looking for cafes because it rains. ”

Jin Woo Jae frowned.

“Well, I can clean it anyway! ”

“Shut up! Don't try to make things happen! ”

Echo shouts.

* * *

[Closes early today.]

There was a note in front of the cafe.

Echo stands in front of the puppet-picking machine set up inside the café. And carefully, I put in a $10 bill.

You can do 20 with $10.

Please pull out all the dolls inside. Echo moves the lever slowly, with a highly concentrated face.

Jiaying

The hook moves with the movement of the lever. Echo paused his hook on top of the chick doll he was looking at, and looked at it in the hairy maternal polygons.

No matter how I went down, I felt like the beak of the chick had a hook on it and it was successful.

Jiaying!

Press the button and the grappling hook will drop! I wanted to get caught by the beak of a chick, but I lost it without a jar.

“Hey!”

Echo clenches his fist.

“...... ”

Jin Woo Jae gazed back at that echo.

Sometimes, the boss seems crazy.

“Shit!"

“Wow! What the hell! ”

“No, no, no! No!”

“Oops!”

Various screams came and went. Echo just spent 10 bucks.

The echo on your face asks if you want to win or if I want to win, pushes nine ten-dollar copies in a row.

* * *

“...... ”

There were 180 attempts in total, but not a single echo was recovered.

Echo stands in front of the machine and bows his head. I didn't feel this helplessness even when I was fighting the old helmet. This one, clearly stronger than Chulho.

Echo clenches his fist.

This machine can't.

I have to throw it away. It was definitely broken.

Boom!

Echo slams the lever! I hit him.

- I'm sorry to hear that.

The machine cries out at the terminals. Echo flinches back, startled.

“Yi, what is this body doing......”

Echo was so frustrated, he went to the side of the tangerine that ate the chocolate cake excitedly. And I hugged the tangerines. Tangerines have become so chubby that I like the feeling of an overwhelming grip.

Echo held his cheek to the mandarin's cheek for a while and held it tightly.

“Child. ”

Tangerine was bitten with chocolate cake all over her mouth.

“Do you want me to do it for you? ”

“...... ”

Echo wiped the mouth of the tangerine with a handkerchief, thinking about it quietly and shaking his head. No, I thought, I have to do this on my own.

By the way.

Looks like the machine broke down.

‘I need to buy another one. ’

When Echo thinks like that.

Jin Woo Jae showed up with a toolbox.

“I'll fix it. ”

“Really? You can't even fix this? ”

Echo was pale.

“Yes. Well, sort of. ”

“That's amazing. Hurry up and fix it. ”

Jin Woo Jae skillfully loosened the screws on the machine. Opening the lever section reveals the inside of the lever and the area of the recorded voice.

“The lever is fine. ”

Jin Woo Jae looked at the recorder and simply pressed a few buttons.

“You can record a new one. It's not a big deal. ”

Echo blinks.

“You're amazing. ”

“Yes? Oh… I know this because I'm just trying to do something. The entertainment vending machines are actually all from pre-war civilizations. So the structure is simpler than I thought. It doesn't break down. ”

“I see.”

Echo nods.

By the way.

It was quite a pleasure to have to record again. What a pity! Hahaha! The voice is really annoying and disgusting.

Who should Echo ask to record? I thought about it.

First of all, I was reminded of a faint "can" I hear on TV.

The can was a storm with an unknown face. Echo thinks we should just kidnap the can for a moment and send it on tape.

About that time.

Tangerine fell down and walked to Jinwoo Jae.

“Let's do it. ”

“Oh, would you? ”

Jin Woo Jae smiled and pressed the record button. Tangerine opened her mouth with a smile.

“Ding! No pay! I can't pull it out. The wolf can only cry once! Hiya! Hiya! ”

Tangerine laughed as she jumped from her seat like it was fun.

Jin Woo Jae finished recording while holding back the bursting smile. Echo shrugged his shoulders as he looked at the tangerine like that.

Jinwoo Jae reassembles the machine, and now the puppet is back intact.

Tangerine pointed to the puppet pulling machine. When Jin Woo Jae put in one dollar bill, there was a number for two uses.

Tangerine stood on a chair, moved the lever roughly, and pressed the button.

Jiaying-!

The hook quickly picks up the doll and drops it at the exit. Tangerine once more pulled out the Chick and Frog puppets.

Then he rushes to Fuddak Echo and brings out the frog.

“Cough! This fucking rope! ”

“...... ”

Echo tastes it again.

Since then, I started playing with tangerines to see if my interest in plucking out puppets had disappeared.

The way to play with tangerines was really simple. Sit on your knees and watch a comic book together.

“...... ”

Jin Woo Jae sat on his chair, looking at that echo with a soft smile.

- Here's a kiss.

Echo looks at the comic book and sometimes taps his cheek. Then Tangerine kissed me, and I felt like I was enjoying it.

- Good boy.

.

“Huh?"

The columns were a furrowed face after finishing the finish. I thought I'd try and pick a fight with Echo, but he was standing in front of the puppeteering machine.

“Echo. What are you doing? ”

“I'll do this. ”

Echo was working on pulling out the puppets.

But they all fail in a row. Khan mutters, "You must be the one."

“Move aside. I'll get it for you. ”

Echo turns his head, pointing to the other side.

Over there is a pile of dolls pulled out by a puppet puller.

“This body is now a doll puller. I fixed the grappling hook. Now I can hold the doll very firmly, without letting loose. It's like this body is beating you up on a regular basis. ”

“Come on, why are you picking on me? ”

Khan pounces. Echo failed to hold the doll until the last time, with his index finger on his lips.

The puppeteering machine flashes slightly.

Soon.

- Ding!

A voice came out.

- I'm not paying you! I can't pull it out. The wolf can only cry once!

Echo laughs as he hears the voice.

-Huh-huh-huh!

The Khan looks at the sliding echo and smiles unconsciously.

“How's that? Isn't that great? ”

You nod at Echo's words.

“Yes, do it again. ”

“Wait. ”

Echo put the $1 bill back in. Kan and Echo deliberately failed to pull out their puppets, then laughed again as Tangerine's voice flowed out again.

< Sorry! I didn't get it! > End

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