Return of the 10th Circle Archmage

Chapter 6 3. Someone dear to me (3)

Wii yi ing.

A blue-patterned parking enforcement vehicle swept the surroundings quickly. Her mother tried to get her car out of there quickly, but her car was already signed.

“Ehhh…”

I walked over to my mom who sighed.

“How much is all this?”

There were leftover tteokbokki sticking to the stand, and there were piles of oden and sundae.

“Yes?”

My mother raised her head in bewilderment at my question. Because the parking ticket had been broken, his expression was speechless.

After paying a fine of 80,000 won, it was a business with nothing left. Even if I had to sell tteokbokki and various snacks, my daily sales could not exceed 200,000 won.

After deducting the cost of materials, oil, and gas, it was difficult to obtain labor costs.

“bachelor. What will you give me?”

Mom loosened her frown, and she vigorously stirred her spatula on her iron plate. The tteokbokki that had been hardened gradually loosened.

“With tteokbokki… no, just how much is it for all the menu items here?”

I took the money out of my pocket as soon as I could.

However.

‘I don’t have cash…’

All they brought were gold coins.

It was a currency I had been accustomed to using for a hundred years in another world, and without realizing it, it became a habit. On the contrary, it was more awkward with the one thousand won or ten thousand won bill.

My mother looked at me slumped.

“Are you not Junhyeok?”

My mother, who had enlarged pupils, looked at me blankly.

“·················ogue.”

I shut my mouth in embarrassment.

Countless words were exchanged in silence for a moment as she made eye contact with her mother.

slurp.

Only tears flowed, but one thing was known.

The heart that my mother thought of me for 15 years, and the look in her eyes that she never forgot me for a moment, conveyed a louder echo than any other words.

“Junhyuk-ah!”

“mom!”

Mom jumped over her fire and brought it to me. I cast countless spells on her mom, including her Haste, in an instant.

‘Phew······.’

A mother who came in a flash without regard for the hot fire. I lifted it up safely for such a mother and lowered it to her ground.

“Junhyuk-ah!”

Mom hugged me and burst into tears. I also had tears in my eyes again.

under······.

In the meantime, I’ve only made you suffer, and I haven’t done anything.

You are so happy to see me.

I realized once again that the only people I can really trust in this world are ‘family’.

My mom will love me even if I’m incapacitated and she doesn’t have a penny. Just because he doesn’t care about his appearance, just because he’s a ‘son’.

“Mom, I won’t make you suffer anymore. I promise.”

“Where have you been? How many times did your mother find you?”

As if her sorrows were blessed, her mother’s crying did not stop.

“I will explain later. Let’s go eat some rice first. I am hungry.”

I was foolish enough to break the awkward atmosphere. It was very awkward because it was such a foolish thing to try for the first time in 100 years.

“Yeah, my kid. How much trouble must you have been through… Mom will go shopping soon, so I’ll make you a delicious dinner.”

“Thank you, Mom.”

The business was hastily closed because of me, but her mother’s expression looked very excited.

I also worked hard to help her clean up with her bright face. Just the two of us together made me smile.

I missed you so much.

If my mother died before I returned to Earth.

I couldn’t contain my anger, and I didn’t know what I had done.

Blame the world, and curse those who made her mother this way. would have been severely punished.

But now, I was very satisfied with this innocent and simple daily life.

Although the street vendors seem insignificant to others, it is thanks to the street vendors that they have supported our four families and made them alive today.

“son. Mom will make you something really tasty.”

My mother was afraid that I would disappear somewhere else, so she walked around with her arms crossed. As if she would never miss it again.

Our hats went straight to Hanaro Mart.

It was Wednesday, so the EN Mart was closed, and my mother was sad.

When she stopped by the Dunaro Mart, her delicious smell stung her nose.

Dumplings, chicken, sushi, gimbap, rice balls, various side dishes, etc…

It’s been a really long time since I’ve tasted Korean food.

‘I want to eat it all…’

In my mind, I want to sweep the entire mart in my pocket. Right now, I craved it more than money.

“Junhyuk. Pick what you want to eat. Mom will buy you everything.”

“I am this.”

Knowing my mother’s pocket situation, I chose a 2,000 won cup of chicken gangjeong. small size.

“Choose something bigger than that.”

Mom herself put the pack of soy sauce and seasoned chicken into her shopping cart. My mom said it was fine, but for nothing, I was frustrated.

A person who was panicking because of a fine of 80,000 won right now, like a person whose control device has now been released, packed things up like a person.

“Mom, you can stop buying it now.”

“Is this enough?”

The shopping cart was full and overflowed.

I secretly tried my best not to pour out my magical energy, but my mother didn’t know.

“Yes. This is enough.”

I dragged her mom, who was looking for more, to her counter.

Beep, beep, beep.

After waiting for a long time, the clerk started barcoding. Why am I sweating every time I take a picture?

Five thousand won, ten thousand won, twenty thousand won, thirty thousand won, fifty thousand won… nine hundred thousand won!!!

Every time the price tag on the checkout went up, it felt like my blood pressure was going up.

Even when I beat the demon, I was calm…

My hands trembled spontaneously at the shards of fibers made by humans (even though I am a human too).

I didn’t have a single penny in my pocket right now.

All they have are gold coins, gold, jewels, and so on.

I thought it would be money, so I brought some things, but if I had known it would be like this, I would have stopped by the gold and silver room and exchanged money…!

Unlike me, my mother handed me the card with a smile on her face.

“Yes, I have a card.”

beep.

beep.

“I, guest. It says insufficient balance?”

“Yes!??”

The mother took her card with a bewildered look on her face. I thought she had a credit card, but I think she was a cash card.

“mom. You can take this and this one off. I don’t really want to eat it.”

“…is that so?”

I picked up some expensive looking food and put it on the return table. Looking at the price tag, it was 10,000 won and 20,000 won for each chunk of meat.

‘The price has gone up a lot…’

I saw earlier that the price of tteokbokki and snack food went up by several thousand won, but what about the others?

The income of the common people seems to be similar, but strangely, it feels like prices are skyrocketing.

It is difficult for the common people, who make up most of the population, to live like this, but how the hell can prices continue to skyrocket?

Who the hell is holding all the money?

Unanswered questions were floating around in my mind.

“I’m sorry, son…”

Mom mumbled so with her grassy face.

She wanted to buy her son a lot of delicious things, but she looked sad because she couldn’t.

“Don’t worry, Mom. In the future, I will make a lot of money so that I don’t have to suffer.”

I didn’t mean it empty-handed, but I said it with sincerity. The mother believed her son’s blank check, and she nodded her head vigorously.

“son. Don’t push yourself too hard. A mother is just happy to have her son by her side.”

She’s a little squeamish, but she still felt her mother’s sincerity. But every time I hear those words, I want to turn around.

“But what is Hye-eun doing these days? Do you go to school?”

*

After the two of us went shopping, we arrived home.

Mom diligently prepared dinner, and I lay down and watched TV.

I had a brief conversation with my mother when I came, but the focus was mostly on me.

-Where the hell did you go and only now come?

-Are you hurt anywhere?

-what? deep-sea fishing boat? Have you been on a ship for 15 years?

– Oh, my son. The mother didn’t even know that her son was suffering so much . . .

As she said, she was worried about what she would do if her mother didn’t believe her.

She’s a mom and she doesn’t doubt what I say and she just believes everything. It was absolute trust.

She said that she had never given her trust in all that time….

I will do well in the future.

That’s how I make a decision…

bang!

“Mom, I’m here!”

The front door swung open and someone came in.

“Are you Hye-eun?”

Without looking back, she asked.

“Oh, Mom. But whose shoes are these in the shoe closet?”

His voice was familiar, but a bit awkward.

‘Has Hye-eun already grown like that…’

I knew she was 20, but in my memory she was forever 5.

“uh???”

Her sister entered the living room and her eyes met.

He is about 165 cm tall and has a round face. Small, bright eyes were looking at me.

“who are you?”

Hye-eun’s question.

“Junhyuk is back. your brother.”

Mom answered.

Hye-eun looked a little perplexed.

“brother?”

She did and she asked.

“…Uh, yes. Hye Eun-ah. Do you remember me?”

I asked that in a slightly awkward tone. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen you, but I’m still the same and Hye-eun has changed so much.

“Brother-!”

Hye-eun broke her awkward silence and she hugged me right away.