74 EP. 17: To Korea.. (2)

“Oh, she's so cute!”

After walking up the stairs, behind the laughter of the stewardesses, you see Yuki burying his head in a chair in the corner.

“Yuki..."

“Don't say anything. I'm so embarrassed right now! ”

“No, it's not...”

“Well, don't talk to me now.”

“No, it's not your seat there. You can't just sit anywhere. ”

“Oh...”

Eventually, she pushes her head out and shifts to where I'm pointing, and buries her head again.

“Are you angry?”

“No, I'm just so embarrassed. ”

“I'm sorry. I was joking when I asked you so seriously in Kyoto, but I didn't think you'd actually believe me. ”

“I can't look the stewardesses in the face.”

“Don't worry. Only one or two people on a plane these days. It's no big deal. ”

“Really?"

Yuki nodded, looking at me carefully, and then Yuki started looking at the plane.

“Wow, but airplanes don't fly as many people as I thought they would. I'm gonna need about 12 people to ride here. ”

“Well, if you're curious, why don't you go downstairs and have a look? ”

“Downstairs?”

Yuki tilted his head toward the bottom of the stairs and rushed to me in surprise after a moment.

“There's a lot of people downstairs. The chairs are crowded, so why are there so many here? ”

“Have you ever been on an outbound bus? ”

“Yes.”

“Think of it as the right seat when you hit it with the bus. It's a bit expensive, but...”

“How much? ”

“Compared to the seats downstairs, 1.5 to 2 times? ”

“Yes!? You said you'd be there in an hour. ”

“Well, you just have to make yourself comfortable. Economy is a tight seat. ”

“I've never lost my seat on a bus before.”

“I'll take care of the round-trip ticket, so don't worry, sit back. We're about to take off.”

Then you hear a voice prompting you, fearful of falling.

- Attention, passengers. This plane leaves shortly for its destination, Kim Po International Airport in Seoul. Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats and fasten your seatbelts. -

Yuki, who was sitting next to him with a nervous expression, wore a seat belt, moved the plane toward the runway. He swallowed the drought and asked me.

“How does it feel to fly into the sky? ”

“Well, it's like riding a ride-along. It's kind of fun.”

“Those rides are very weak.”

Soon after arriving at the runway for takeoff, Yuki reached out his hand to me and said.

“Hey, hold my hand. ”

I held her hand tightly, smiling slightly at her cute actions.

And at the same time, when the plane came round, I felt a lot of strength in her hands, holding me.

“It's up. What should I do?”

When our plane flew overhead in an instant, the Japanese archipelago was visible through a small window.

“Wow."

Yuki glanced out the window at the breathtaking scene only for those who had never been on the plane before. And after a while. As the plane flew over the clouds, the white sea of clouds spread.

“I saw it in a picture when my colleagues traveled abroad, but it actually looks much prettier. ”

Yuki smiled and couldn't take her eyes off the window.

Well, I had a similar reaction to her when I first boarded the plane.

When I was in the middle school while traveling to Jeju Island on a mathematical trip, I remembered the first time I was on a plane, and I secretly smiled in my old memories.

Yuki looked out the elongated window for an hour and sometimes picked up the camera and pressed the shutter to heat it up.

I had felt it before, but Yuki was very good at manipulating film cameras.

Even though she couldn't check the photos directly like a digital camera, she was soon able to change the aperture value of the film camera and captured the photos one by one.

Immediately, a voice prompted me to land the plane.

&

Yuki's first conviction on a plane that landed safely at Gimpo International Airport...

“Oh, it's freezing. Is it always this cold in Korea? ”

Kim Po Airport was not a mobile route that connects airplanes like Narita Airport, but a system where stepped cars came and dropped passengers on runways.

At the end of February, the spring cold leading up to March. Yuki was trembling, clutching at the edge of his thin coat.

Korea's a little colder than Japan, though. I snatched the end of my nose and took the scarf out of my bag and gave it to her.

“I forgot to tell you that Korea is going to be a little cold. Put this on and you'll feel better. A terminal bus will be arriving to take you to the airport any minute, so be patient.”

“Thank you.”

After a long, boring immigration, let's get out of the country. Kim Po Airport was teeming with foreigners.

Seoul is the world! -

Seeing the familiar propaganda phrases of the 88 Olympics adhered to each other, it was starting to come to Korea.

“Wow! Hodory. Cute!! ”

Yuki, who was touring the airport, pressed the shutter towards Hodol, an 88 Olympic mascot.

Ah... I remember. That guy...

When I was a kid, I sold Hodol-shaped ice cream at a local supermarket and ate it several times, but I remember it was a rather psychopathic design that required Hodol-shaped heads to be separated and spoon-fed.

When I finished, I could use it as a safe deposit, but I'm uncomfortable eating it, too, carrying one of the neighborhood's children around, and you, too, picked Hojo's head first.

Now that I think about it, who came up with that design? I want to see your face.

“Let's go to the hotel and leave the luggage first. ”

“Yes ~”

Yuki hurriedly chased me because she had never been abroad before.

After getting into a taxi waiting for the airport and asking Myeong-dong, the middle-aged knight kindly carried Yuki's luggage into the trunk.

“I like buses, but aren't taxis expensive? ”

“It's okay. Unlike Japan, Korea is cheap because taxi fare is 600 won. ”

“600 won, not yen? ”

The conclusion is that even if you go to Myeong-dong, you won't get 5,000 won. It's been a long time, by the way. It's been almost five years since time slips, and I can't believe I'm here...

In fact, I wanted to come a little earlier, but even though I could remember the place around the house and the alleyway when I was too young, I couldn't think of a position.

At the very least, the neighborhood I was going to now was able to remember the exact location in my old memory.

If you go there, who will live there? I was a little confused about what to say if my parents were there when I was younger.

“You don't look so good. Are you sick?”

“No. I'm just a little concerned...”

“Is it because of me? Maybe I shouldn't have followed you.”

“I'm not doing this for you. Rather, I feel better coming with you. ”

That was real.

It's comforting for me to be here with Yuki instead of here alone.

Yuki was smiling at me with half a face of fear in a strange Seoul flowing out the window.

&

It didn't take us very long to get from Gimpo to Myeong-dong, so we were able to unpack at the hotel that we had booked soon.

The view of the Namsan Tower from the front of the terrace was great. Even here, Yuki holds the camera in both little hands and presses the shutter.

“I'm sorry, but I have somewhere I need to be right away, so if you're tired, why don't you take a break at the hotel? ”

“No, I'm coming with you. ”

Yuki left the hotel wearing a thick grey coat in cold Seoul weather, surrounded by a camera on one shoulder.

I wanted to give you a tour of Seoul at least once, but the first place I lived was in the neighborhood.

“Sorry, I'll finish early and show you Seoul in the evening. ”

Yuki shakes her head, smiling.

“Mmm-hmm. I'm fine. Don't worry about it. I'm more curious about Joon-Hyuk's neighborhood. ”

“Thank you for saying that.”

After one stroke of Yuki's head, I got into a taxi waiting in front of the hotel.

“I need you to go to Southwestern Myeongdae. ”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes, why? ”

“No, I... I don't think I can make it to the front of the school because it's Friday, but I'll try to get around. ”

What does Friday have to do with college?

Soon after that, the taxi left Myeong-dong and began to go through the new village to the Sanctuary.

As a child, the taxi began to go down to the south-southeast, through the large hills of the north-southeast, past the sand market, which had often visited the market with Mother.

“Sir, you can go left from a distance at the end of the ramp. I don't think it's going to fit anymore, so I'll drop you off here. ”

“Oh, thank you. ”

After paying the fare and getting out of the cab with Yuki, I understood why the taxi driver said it was too much for him to go to school. Oh, boy, it's Friday night for college students.

“Joon-Hyuk, why are there so many cops here? ”

Even in the harsh winds

Even under the harsh oppression that comes with it.

We must have gathered.

I looked at him...

The night to lose weight. A night of pain.

We faced the frost of dawn.

Love, eternal love, neverchanging companion.

You're my comrade

Even while living in the world,

Even if we die first,

The will must be fulfilled.

Victory will be ours.

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