Have a Meal Before You Go

New Year's morning has dawned.

Tangerine woke up early in the morning, feeling a different day than yesterday. Tangerine, I felt much better.

Tangerine crawled down the bed, writhing beside him. Tangerine's cheeks were filled with more confidence than ever. I walked straight to the side of my dad's room.

And I called my dad.

“Papa!”

“Yes."

Cheolho leaned to his bed and replied. I laughed at Tangerine because I knew what she was asking me to do.

“Suck it! ”

“Got it.”

Chulho grabbed a pen and approached Tangerine. Then, leaning against the wall, I touched the head of a tangerine with gleaming eyes.

“Let's see, how tall is my baby? ”

Tangerine grabbed both hands with the face described above.

“Shouldn't you heel it? ”

Soon, the heel comes down, frowning. Chulho measured the height of the tangerine.

He was a little tall.

It was the last time I measured it about a month ago, but now I'm about half a finger tall.

Dragons grow every time they flee, perhaps of course.

Cheolho intentionally checked the height a little.

“Oh, my tangerines are a little taller. ”

“Jing Ja? ”

Tangerine quickly smiled brightly and turned around. Then he measured the height, then nodded with a satisfactory face.

“Woof! Cut! ”

Tangerine said as if she was happy.

“All these adults are going to be successors. ”

Chulho smiled bitterly.

Growing up may not be as good a thing as you think. If it grows up already, it will probably get ugly.

Tangerine stepped out of the room, panting.

The New Year meant eating one more year. Tangerine is now four years old after eating another year.

Four!

What an amazing number. By the time I was four, a lot could have changed.

First things first.

When you turn four, your allowance will go up 1 dollar per week. The original allowance of five dollars a week becomes six dollars. By the time the tangerines are about 100 years old, the allowance will be really, really high.

And when you're four years old, you're an adult. Adults also have to eat well by themselves, eat well with vegetables, write well in the diary, sit quietly and play well, and sleep alone.

Tangerine wrote them down as a New Year's goal.

Above all.

Tangerine knew how to age at once.

That was, cake soup.

* * *

Dad's cake soup is really tasty. The soup flavors are unique and thick, and the bread is chewy and very tasty.

Tangerine quickly emptied out a bowl of bread soup.

“Lose more! ”

“Come.”

Chulho put bread soup in a small bowl dedicated to tangerines.

Tangerine ate a fierce cake soup and got rid of three bowls. A tangerine tangerine blossom stood up.

“Honey, you've had a lot of pastry soup today. ”

Kan lifted a tangerine like that and gave me an elongated kiss on the cheek. Tangerine firmly said.

“Aren't you going to Kyuria? ”

“You're the baby, so what? ”

“He's an adult. We're getting close. ”

Tangerine's resolute face.

“What the heck.”

Khan giggles. Then I tapped the butt of a tangerine.

Tangerine left the restaurant carrying her bag.

Today, Tangerine was trying to figure out what it took to become an adult.

* * *

“You want to be an adult? ”

The children at the playground replied:

“Then you should drink coffee! ”

“You have to watch the newspaper. ”

“You have to be good with hard words. My dad told me. ”

The children quarrelled and expressed their opinions. Tangerine carefully opened her little notebook and wrote it down.

It's not that hard yet.

Tangerine watches the paper with her father every morning. And sometimes I would drink coffee, and I thought I could try, but I don't know the hard words.

Meanwhile, a little boy shouts.

“You have to eat the lampshade well! ”

* * *

“Adults?”

Mahchang said, yawning with a straight face.

“As an adult, you should be able to drink -”

“There's nothing I can't say to her! ”

While listening to Magchang's words, Yeon slapped her back. When she tried to write "Tangerine needs to drink well", Chae Yeon urgently stroked her head.

“To become a tangerine adult. ”

“Ugh.”

“Y-you have to sleep early, get up early, eat well, and do that. This guy's full of crap, so we can't do anything about it? ”

Tangerine nodded with her eyes wide open.

“Me.”

“How old is Tangerine now? ”

“My flesh. ”

“She's pretty. ”

Chae Yeon smiled and touched Tangerine's cheeks.

* * *

Tangerine, who used to roam appropriately, entered Echo's cafe.

Tangerine asked Echo for coffee. Then Echo asked if he should not eat coffee yet and eat hot chocolate.

Tangerine was in serious trouble.

However, when I ate hot chocolate, I was forced to give him chocolate cake.

Suddenly, on the other side, I can see the gearwalk.

“Being an adult means getting used to getting hurt......”

Today's gearwalk looked very grim.

Getaway has been bragging about sadness and loneliness since midday.

Tangerine tilted her head with her eyes wide open.

Sometimes he was good at talking nonsense. Echo once disparaged that half of what Gearwalk said was nonsense and it was not worth listening to.

“Also, adults should be able to cope without being afraid - do you understand……? And sometimes, you have to be able to enjoy the bitterness of life and drink an Americano……"

“If you're gonna bullshit my kid, get out of here! ”

A much worse echo screams. Echo has been very nervous lately.

Actually, Gearwalk broke up with the Blade Queen today.

Not only because the gearwalk was wearing a blue pair of jeans and a blue pair of shoes. Perhaps the bigger problem is because she laughed at the knife queen's inner robe and said, "He looks like an old man," but she doesn't know it.

Tangerines were bruised and sat on benches in the park to consolidate their opinions.

Bird Prize Kid! ’

Growing up was harder than I thought.

Tangerine sighed deeply.

What are we gonna do?

Back then.

“Ha……”

On that bench, Shadow Cat sits. Tangerine jumped up and ran away.

“Never mind! ”

“Tangerine.”

Shadow Cat looks very distraught. Tangerine reached out to her. She grabbed a tangerine, sat on her knee, and stroked her head.

“Never mind. Moon Jae Lost? ”

“Huh?"

She blinks and shakes her head.

“No, there's no problem, right? ”

“Don't be silly. ”

“I……"

Shadow Cat scratches her head and replies.

“Over fifty? ”

“Is that the dog? ”

Tangerine doesn't know what shrubs are.

“You mean fifty years old? ”

“Get in! Grown-ups! ”

Tangerine suddenly remembered her older sister who had just been to dinner. Well, compared to her, everyone was younger.

“My last sister said she was a thousand years old! ”

Tangerine opened her hands wide with her eyes wide open.

“Wife, 1,000 years old? ”

“Woof! He's a thousand years old! Even the dragon's money can only be carried by the Lord! I'm an adult! ”

She intuitively recalled the woman who was most likely Chulho's ‘ex-girlfriend’ not long ago. From what Echo has heard, she is the Elder Dragon.

“Then two golden cuffs and two golden birds and two golden cuddles and you lose. Two bread noodles and a bowl of bread! ”

Tangerine proudly stretched out three fingers. She grinned and hugged the tangerine in her arms.

Tangerine, Shadow Cat was good.

She always smelled pleasant grass and fragrant shampoo. And I felt something warm.

He said, "Daddy's gonna cry, he's gonna die! The sister. I love you two papas. I love my brother and his kid. ”

Kugu...!

Shadow Cat's pupils shake wildly. Was Echo's information wrong? She quickly took out her cell phone and checked Echo's text.

[It's not a discount]

A powerful text sent urgently. Are you sure you weren't married, but you were dating?

“I don't think it's modern! Qingdae! Don't worry, Ching Goo can love you? ”

I said as soon as Tangerine came to mind.

Hwa-oh!

Relief in her eyes was young. Tangerine's questions were really philosophical and complex, so they were kind of hard to answer.

“Modern day, come back soon again! ”

“Hic!”

She chewed her lips again. Tangerine was excited and said what she heard today.

“If an adult wants to hurt you, he needs to get used to it. ”

“...... ”

She seems to burst into tears. I asked with a face as big as a tangerine.

“You're an adult, right? ”

“...... ”

Shadow Cat sighs, shaking her head.

“No...... I guess I'm not an adult yet......”

“Kyung-na. ”

.

The dinner menu was a meeting.

After a while, Chulho built a prize, including Tunatos.

Taste the white fish, German Fish, and then the fatty tuna of Tunatos.

I also prepared enough seafood such as open fires or bruises.

The rounds are good, so I can't miss a drink.

Tangerine snuck soju into my mouth with her Cook fingers.

Soon.

“Quack!”

I started to get nauseous.

Chulho was surprised and looked at the tangerine. Tangerine sounded elongated and tried to remove the soju flavor from her mouth.

Wrong!

Drinking to become an adult is not the right choice. It was a poison.

I hate coffee!

What about the dog lamp?

Tangerine looked at the finely chopped firecrackers and felt a chill.

“Do you want a tangerine crab? ”

Tangerine yelled at Khan's words.

“Don't do it! Don't go! Give me that! When did you do that? ”

Tangerine resisted violently. Dogfish were food that could never be eaten.

“Ha, I never told you not to..."

Khan frowns.

Tangerine didn't want to get hurt. If I ate that, I would definitely get hurt deep in my heart, and I would almost die of dizziness, never eating again.

That night.

Tangerine decided to challenge sleeping alone.

The Darkness of Zachary!

A silent silence with nothing left in the room. Tangerine folds the duvet over her head, shivering.

It's so hard to grow up!

After a long time of turning around, Tangerine finally decided.

It's not too late to grow up next year.

* * *

Queek -

Chulho, who pretended to be asleep, sensed the tangerines walking quietly while holding his pillow open.

Phew.

I had a smile on my mouth.

Tangerine comes up, squirming on the bed, and lays down next to the pillow on Cheolho.

I soon fell asleep in a frenzy.

.

Meanwhile.

An ambitious time when everyone was asleep.

Echo enters a dark alleyway in the street. There was a woman who arrived early.

It was Shadow Cat.

The two men and women look at each other and nod.

They are in the right place.

New Year's Day, they enter the place for a joint venture.

There were executives from a group of idiots.

Echo sighs a long time.

I can't believe the day is coming when I want to rely on this stupid group.

Anyway, I can see the fortune this year is going to be tough.

The End

high Headache Fever

Author's Words

Have you eaten?

It's so hot today. I heard it was hotter than yesterday, but I guess summer really is summer.

See you tomorrow!