It was late at night when I got home. I stopped by my parents' house.
'I can't live like this every day. I'll find out what time the local daycare is up.'
I calculated that I would leave my child at my parents' house every day, so the time to get home increased my physical burden and the burden of transportation expenses was too much.
It was almost 1 a.m. when she washed herself and washed herself. I don't have to explain the situation tomorrow, so I can come out a little early, but I have to stop by my parents' house anyway.
"Charin, are you sleeping?"
She was asleep without saying a word. I've been riding the bus and train for over 1 hour, so I can't help but feel tired.
It was a bit unfortunate that I couldn't talk to Charin, but I can't help it. Jihun also closed his eyes as Chae-lin lay beside him.
Jihoon was tired and fell asleep as if he was about to pass out. As he fell into a deep sleep, taking an even breath, Chae-lin opened her eyes.
Chae Lin-yi reached for Jihoon, who was asleep. Then, something like yellow powder erupted and wrapped around Jihun's head.
"My dad, let me sleep soundly."
At Chae-lin's words, the yellow powder began to hover over Jihun's head as if in response.
Chae-lin sat on Jihun again and began to kneading his shoulders, and soon the blue and green energy of Ye came out of his hands and seeped into Jihun.
As the energy of the two colors permeated his whole body, a smile appeared on Jihun's face even though he fell asleep.
Seeing that, Charin grinned.
Yesterday I would have fallen asleep like this, but not today. There was someone to scold me a bit.
'I said Jang Dong-ho, that human.'
Chae-lin once again remembered the personal details she had read in Jihun's memory.
He was middle-aged, pretending to be good on the outside, but sinister on the inside and looking down on others. Moreover, he was a typical hypocrite, weak to the strong and strong to the weak.
Mom said she could scold such humans. However, he said that when they are confused, they should be swallowed up by their own sins so as not to harm cause and effect.
"Let me know where the person is."
A dragon word rang out from Chae-lin's mouth and responded to the atmosphere. He recognized the master of the dragon and worshipped with trepidation, and soon obeyed her will.
"There you go."
The moment she figured out where Jang Dongho was, Chae-lin jumped out of bed.
But there was no sound. Her body was floating in the air.
"Dad, I'll scold the bad guy."
After saying that, Charin turned around and took a step. At that moment, the surroundings changed all at once.
The place where she stood was the bedroom. The bedroom where Mr. and Mrs. Jang Dong-ho live.
Jang Dong-ho and his wife were writing about whether their relationship was not so good. Looking at the photo, it seemed that they had no children.
Chae Linyi stood beside Zhang Dongho, who was asleep with a cold expression, and stretched out her hand. At her beckoning, a hazy, murky smoke rose from Jiang Dongho's head.
It was Jang Dong-ho's sin. Sins that are ripening little by little. What Charin has to do is pick one of these and make sure it bears fruit.
Chae Lin-yi looked at the sins of Jang Dong-ho, large and small, and chose one. There was little to hand and the greatest effect. Instead, he had to use his hand on one more person besides Jang Dong-ho for it.
That was a little troublesome, but for Jihun's sake, Chae-lin was willing to move.
Pink energy flowed from Chae-lin's hands and seeped into the target.
Now it will become a little more emotional than rational, and it will reach its limit and burst at some point in the near future.
Of course, it will hurt then, but it will be better. It removes the tumor before it becomes cancerous.
'I'll have to come see you one more time later. My mom told me to check it out after I wrote it.'
If it hurts a lot, you can help at that time.
Charin decided to do so, and finished everything. Back at Jihoon's side, Chae-rin burrowed into his arms.
Maybe if you knew everything later, your dad would be surprised, right? I don't know for a while, or even for a while, that I did it, but one day I'll find out. If so, I would say it's a surprise gift.
Charin fell asleep thinking so.
* * *
"Daddy, goodbye, be careful not to fall."
"I'll be careful. Listen to Grandma and Grandpa, and play for a long time tomorrow. Okay?"
"Yes, listen to her. Right?"
"Hey, how pretty and audible is our girl. Don't worry, dear."
Jihoon's shoulders shrugged at his parents' praise. They said that complimenting your child is better than praising me, but it was real.
"I'll be there then."
"Winter mountains are really dangerous, so you have to be really careful. Okay?"
Ji Hoon received a kiss from Chae Lin-yi and then headed to the mountain. Several had already arrived at the mountain.
Since they came out almost on time, they arrived one by one, led by Jihoon, and everyone arrived at the end of Goyerim.
"Now, thank you for coming out on weekend morning. Let's feel the boom of the mountain and promote the unity of our lab. So, let's go!"
Zhang Dongho said so and took the lead.
Wu Changshu grunted and followed.
"If it's that good, you can come alone. Why did you drag them all along?"
"Be quiet. Then I hear it."
"There are so many people, no way."
As Wu Changshu said, there were so many people. I realized that there was no recession in the Korean outdoor market. There are so many people and the hiking trail is narrow, so when I climbed, I naturally stuck with the person next to me.
"Hak, Hak...! High school was also high, and this place is also formidable..."
Wu Changshu complained that he was going to die of difficulty, but he was chattering incessantly.
Jihun didn't even bother to respond, so he closed his mouth and climbed the mountain.
'I've been feeling really refreshed lately. No muscle pain.'
Before, my whole body hurt when I woke up. But lately, it's been really refreshing to wake up.
"Ugh... Huck... Isn't it hard for my brother?"
"Me? It's okay."
"Bro, East Sea luck lately?"
"My schedule and yours are no different, do you have time to exercise?"
"Huh, gasp... That's right. If my brother doesn't sleep at all, I don't know..."
Instead of blaming his poor physical strength, Wu Changshu inquired about the aphrodisiac food.
"Good one? Where's that? I don't have anything to eat and die."
If there's something good to eat, not something to eat, is Charin?
Chae Lin-yi was Jihun's lifeblood these days. Even when he was having a hard time being hit by Professor Zhang, thinking of Chae Lin-yi made me feel cheerful.
"Why am I the only one who looks like this...."
Wu Changshu muttered to himself.
Jihun said with a kick of his tongue.
"Aren't you, really too weak? It wasn't like this last year, was it?"
"Whoops, whoops! For one year... Huck! I've always been... Only belly fat..."
Gasping for breath, Wu Changshu finally slumped down on the bench.
Ji Hun was going to go first, but he stayed by his side for fear that Changshu would sprain.
"Get some exercise, Inma. It's mid-twenties, and it's already like that."
"He's weird. Rap Juk-dol is foul on that kind of stamina. Besides, your body shape isn't much different from mine."
"What if you have good natural stamina?"
While the two had been talking for a while, Professor Zhang Dong-ho and Ko Ye-rim passed by.
"It's very hard, isn't it? Come up slowly."
Professor Zhang Dongho said so and went up. Seeing the two of them pass by, Wu Changshu opened his mouth just before he could see the two of them.
"By the way, isn't Ye Lim's expression so dark these days?"
"Huh? It looks like yes. For what? Do you know anything?"
"I don't know, but it looks a little dark since last year's year-end party, doesn't it?"
"Is that so? After listening to you, I think so..."
From what I heard, it wasn't long before Goyerim became hysterical.
"Maybe there was something wrong with the professor then?"
"With the professor? Why is that again?"
"Bro, think about it. The day after the year-end party, Ye Lim missed work without permission. Don't you remember that all of a sudden, your sister didn't come out, and the process stopped all?"
"Oh, right. It happened."
Come to think of it, after the truancy situation, Goyerim began to be cranky like a hedgehog with a needle. His expression was also dark, so I wondered if there was Wu Huan in the house.
"I was absent from work without permission, but the professor didn't say anything. Where is the professor? If my brother and I had done that, it would have been nano-scale."
"Definitely... That's right."
"There was something going on with the professor, so the professor just skipped it. So when we asked her why she was absent from work, she told us not to worry about useless things."
Do you remember all that? Jihun looked at Wu Changshu with new eyes.
Wu Changshu also shrugged his shoulders to see if he had read those eyes.
"That's what I like. I like to hear rumors like this."
"Watch your mouth. Then, when it gets into the professor's ears that you said that, there will only be a shit road in front of you."
"A. Then I have to say that my brother said it first."
"What, you crazy bastard? I dare you have a few mouths on me now!"
"Oh, just kidding! Just kidding!"
* * *
"The endless best of our rap...."
"For the sake of it!"
Following Professor Zhang's toast, everyone raised their glasses high. Goyerim put down his glass while drinking from it.
I was in the mood to drink. I hated being here, I was disgusted. Nevertheless, he remained here because he had something to share with Professor Jang Dong-ho.
"Why are you doing that? Drink some. Drink, drink."
Professor Jang Dong-ho recommends stretching alcohol. Goyerim only moistened his lips and then pulled out the point.
"Professor, you promised me then, haven't you forgotten?"
"Huh? Which one?"
At Jiang Dongho's smirk, Goyerim's expression hardened coldly. Zhang Dongho scrubbed her forearm furiously.
"Alas, of course I remember. I'll look for a place to study abroad, and I'll even plug you in a professor when I come back. I don't know? I'm Zhang Dongho!"
As he did so, Zhang Dongho's hand gradually began to approach the secret place. Feeling the bug crawling, Goyerim almost threw his hand away, but he could barely hold back.
"Not necessarily... You have to keep it. Otherwise, I don't know what I'm going to do."
"What?"
Jiang Dongho's expression turned cold.
"Are you blackmailing me now?"
"It's not that...."
"Hey, honestly, you liked it too, didn't you? That's why I agreed. What I suggested was incidental. But you can't step like this."
As Jiang Dongho's words continued, Goyerim's expression gradually changed. However, because of the drunkenness, anger, and unknown emotions simmering inside, Zhang Dongho's remarks gradually crossed the line.
Zhang Dongho didn't notice such a change in Goyerim. Instead, what he noticed was her figure, drenched in sweat from hiking.
"So let's be honest. You and I were good."
Zhang Dongho gently caressed her thigh. The other students were busy talking to each other. Seeing this, Zhang Dongho's hand gradually became bolder.
"Huh? Let's be honest. I'll keep my promises, so..."
When Jiang Dongho whispered privately, Goyerim said with a wide smile.
"All right, Professor."
Let's be honest.
Only that story remained in Goyerim's heart.
* * *
The following Monday, Jihoon went to work searching for a nearby daycare center on his smartphone. The reason was to find out which daycare center Chae-rin would attend.
'I'm sorry I left it to my parents for a day or two.'
But there was no right place. Due to the nature of my work, it was common for me to leave work at night when others were working overtime, so I couldn't keep up. When I arrived at the institute with a sigh, the atmosphere was not usually bloody.
"What's wrong?"
"Professor Zhang has been summoned by the prosecutor's office."
"What? Why?"
Wu Changshu said in a small voice, wondering who could hear.
"Yerim reported it to my sister."
"Ye Lim? Uh, why? What happened?"
"After I went to the mountains last weekend, Zhang Dongho, that bastard touched Ye Lim's sister."
"What?"
Wu Changshu clenched his fist in the palm of his hand and twisted it with his bristle and tapped it. It was a carnal expression for sex.
"I did this, well, I heard it, I think it's forced."