As he passed over twenty-two years of age, his contact with women was solely with his little sister.
The life that had come in contact with women only in the faint age when he’d carried her around on his back when she was a baby, changed her diapers, and given her baths!
“Shall we play human whack-a-mole?”
“I don’t want to…”
“It’s 2000 won (~$2).”
“…”
Two crumpled sheets of bills emerged from Lee Hyun’s pocket.
‘So a date with a woman costs money after all.’
For him to use 2,000 won, it seemed like this would be a day he wouldn’t be able to forget for the rest of his life.
It might even be something that could resurface in his moments of death in old age.
Jung Hyo Rin raised the plastic mallet without releasing his arm.
“Ya! ya!”
Lee Hyun tried to stand by and watch, but as he kept seeing her plastic mallet only missing, he couldn’t help himself from focusing on it.
“A little more to the left.”
“Alright.”
“Now they’re about to come from the right!”
“I saw!”
“The second from the left! It’s not going in right now. Catch it quickly!”
“I said I’m going to do it on my own!”
The competitive spirit of the two was raging up.
“Dang, I missed 12 of them.”
“You should have moved quicker.”
“I’m saying it was like that cause you kept making me talk on the side. If you just hadn’t made me talk, I wouldn’t have missed.”
“Try it again.”
“I’m really going to catch them all.”
Even though Jung Hyo Rin was swinging the plastic mallet even more fiercely than before, she didn’t release his arm.
As he was trying to remove his arm because he thought it might be uncomfortable, Lee Hyun’s hand grazed her hand slightly. Then, Jung Hyo Rin grabbed Lee Hyun’s hand tightly.
It was something that happened so naturally and intimately.
“Che! I missed three of them.”
“You did well though.”
“What do you want to play next?”
The couple that had grown friendly while catching moles!
Perhaps because Lee Hyun also felt comfortable, he suggested, “Wanna get some plushies by shooting BB-pistols?”
“Sounds good.”
300 won (~30 cents) per shot!
Lee Hyun checked the prices and chose the cheapest game.
“Mister, please load ten bullets for each of us.”
This time, Jung Hyo Rin took out her own wallet and paid. It was an action that struck Lee Hyun deeply.
‘So she’s a nice girl…’
Jung Hyo Rin raised her pistol with one hand.
“I will shoot first.”
“Okay.”
The bullets Jung Hyo Rin shot missed the plushies exquisitely. Even when they hit a plushie by some chance, it didn’t fall over.
This game was originally like this.
It was a war between the owner and the customers who were recklessly coveting the plushies!
After Jung Hyo Rin’s failure, Lee Hyun didn’t aim for the big plushies.
‘A medium-sized plushie was roughly 780 grams (~1.72 lbs). It’s a weight I’ve felt countless times whenever I sewed eyes onto plushies. It won’t be easy to take it down precisely with a BB-pellet.’
Even if it hit the center of the plushie, the force was not enough.
It was only possible by shooting a barrage.
Since he was throwing away 300 won per shot, Lee Hyun aimed carefully at a small sparrow plushie and knocked it down.
‘Success.’
Lee Hyun planned to give the sparrow plushie to his little sister.
‘Looks like I can brush off this year’s birthday present with this.’
But Jung Hyo Rin snatched the plushie.
“Are you giving this to me?”
“…”
He couldn’t bear to refuse the sparkling eyes and beautiful expression that was asking him to give it to her.
“Y-you can have it.”
“Thank you.”
Jung Hyo Rin embraced the plushie preciously.