"Ouch! Hey, wait, wait, wait...!"
"Geez, you make people so tired, what happened to your leg?"
As much as I hated the nervous little guy, I had to be satisfied with that. I had to be satisfied with that. He pulled me close to him. and popped a cigarette into his mouth.
We passed the time in silence. The smoldering cigarette in his mouth and the photographs in my hand were the only things that relieved the boredom.
"I tried to intervene in the world."
I said, holding out the photos to him. Seung-hwan took a drag from his cigarette and wordlessly took the photos from me. the photos I held out to him.
"You look a lot like your brother, thank goodness you don't look like him."
He puts the cigarette in his mouth, unable to tear his gaze away from his daughter's smiling face. Jin, whose daughter is giggling. With an even heavier heart, I turned to the man who was looking at the photo with an even heavier heart.
"After Mua suddenly disappeared without leaving a single word, I spent the next five years I wandered around for five years, waiting to die, and then one day I got a job as a temp for a big company."
"And that's where you met your brother-in-law."
"That's right."
Before I knew it, I was soaking in the memories I couldn't get back.
"I guess you could say it was love at first sight, or should I say, 'This is the one.' You know, like, a feeling."
He tilts his head, looking like he knows but doesn't know.
"Feel?"
"That with this woman, I could live the rest of my life as a normal human being. with her, I could live the rest of my life as a normal human being."
He smirks at me.
"And that's why your brother-in-law put up with it and took it out of pity?"
I nodded and resumed my story.
"At the time, I was in the midst of a life of being a burden bearer. I was in the middle of a life of being a burden bearer, and I was pretty worn out, physically and mentally, and I didn't know how to settle down and rely on myself. I just needed a place to settle down mentally and have something to lean on."
He didn't say anything, just smoked his cigarette, and I didn't stop telling the story.