Chapter 189

I returned home with Do Mi-so.

As soon as I finished parking and stepped into the yard, the yokai inside the house, Guburi, and Balloon Gum came out to greet us.

【Qkrnfl892】─Why is Balloon Gum there again? LOL

【Meng Yao】─What’s the big deal? She’s always at Se-hoon’s house anyway.

【Jujijoa】─Well, now it’s the neighbor’s house, so whatever.

【Min Ji】─Huh? What neighbor’s house?

【Jujijoa】─Nah, not really.

【Se-hoon Defense Team】─Hmm. That sounded kinda意味深长.

Among them, Reubangyi was the first to come out to greet us.

［Mania, welcome! Reubang!］

“Reubang, long time no see!”

Reubangyi and Do Mi-so exchanged warm greetings.

It seemed they had grown close after their last meeting.

Next came Kyu Mi-ho and the Maid.

Guburi and Balloon Gum also greeted them warmly.

Min Neong was also at home.

【Maehwa Tree】─When did Min Neong get home?

【Yoho】─Yeah, wasn’t she with Do Mi-rae?

“I told her to go home first. Mi-rae is coming with the loan sharks by car.”

I answered while looking at the augmented reality chat window.

Then, I wondered if Do Mi-rae was watching the broadcast and called out.

“Mania.”

“Yeah?”

“Not you, Miso.”

“Oh, our mom? Is she watching the broadcast now?”

After calling Do Mi-rae, a chat from Mania floated up in the chat window.

She must’ve been watching the broadcast all along.

【Reverse Rape Mania】─Yes! (〃ω〃)

【Se-hoon Defense Team】─Big Mania, hi.

【Qkrnfl892】─She’s been watching the broadcast. LOL

【BigGirl】─She’s been in the viewer list the whole time.

【Meng Yao】─Yeah, just not chatting.

“Where are you now?”

【Reverse Rape Mania】─Almost there! The GPS says 15 minutes left! (｡◕‿◕｡)

【Semen Thief】─Your emoticons are so boomer.

【Cheerful Hyeon Ji】─You talk like a kid.

“15 minutes? That’s not long. I’ll show Miso around the rooms on the 2nd floor first. When you arrive, we’ll decide the room together with Miso.”

【Reverse Rape Mania】─Got it! ◕`ᴗᴗ´◕!

【Se-hoon Defense Team】─“Got it.” LOL

【Min Ji】─Huh? Didn’t you already see the rooms enough at Christmas? Just decide already.

【Se-hoon Defense Team】─This kid’s like, “Huh?” LOL Not even a mosquito.

【Qkrnfl892】─LOL Stop picking fights. Are you Guburi or something?

The Manias have bad memories and don’t remember the rooms they saw before.

I swallowed those words.

Anyway.

Until Do Mi-rae arrived, I decided to show Miso around the rooms again.

***

Time passed, and Do Mi-rae arrived with the loan sharks, carrying the moving boxes.

After moving all the boxes to the 1st-floor living room,

we decided to fulfill the promise with the loan sharks first.

Yoon Seong-ah, who had promised to take a belly hit,

received five light taps on her stomach.

I made sure to go easy.

“Keh, huff…! Thank you…!”

【Min Ji】─Ew. Gross.

【Maehwa Tree】─Crazy bitch.

【Qkrnfl892】─Why does she like being hit? WTF

【Jujijoa】─She’s like Min Neong, a masochist.

Yoon Seong-ah looked very satisfied.

Next was Manager Ra Yu-hee and the other loan sharks.

We had a meal appointment with them,

and we fulfilled that promise right away.

We sat around the kitchen table and ate the food Guburi had prepared.

After finishing the meal,

I told the loan sharks to rest for a bit and guided them to the 1st-floor living room.

［Wakya-pya…］

［Reubang-bang…］

“Kyu. They’re the people from the broadcast.”

The Maid, Reubangyi, and Kyu Mi-ho.

The three yokai were peeking out from behind the wall, observing the loan sharks.

［Wang-kwak-pwak? Why are you all hiding here? Don’t you have stealth abilities?］

Min Neong approached the yokai and asked.

The Maid ignored the question,

stepped out, and confidently approached the loan sharks.

The loan sharks saw the Maid but didn’t seem particularly surprised.

“What’s that? A pet bear?”

“Brother, do you keep a pet bear?”

“Haha. What a cute little bear! It’s like a doll!”

【Se-hoon Defense Team】─It is a doll. LOL

【Jujijoa】─How can they mistake that for a bear?

【Maehwa Tree】─They’re not normal either.

［Wakya-pya.］

“Huh? Do bears usually go ‘wakya-pya’?”

“It’s a unique bear, I guess.”

“Why are you fussing over its sound? It’s a bear that walks on two legs.”

While the loan sharks were mistaking the Maid for a unique bear,

Kyu Mi-ho also cautiously walked over, hid behind the Maid, and peeked out at the loan sharks.

“Kyu-uu.”

The loan sharks had the same reaction to Kyu Mi-ho.

“What’s that? There’s a fox too?”

“Brother, do you keep a baby fox too?”

“You must really like animals.”

【Cheerful Hyeon Ji】─Kyu Mi-ho does look like a normal fox.

【Meng Yao】─Yeah, she doesn’t look like a yokai. Easy to mistake.

“This fox is really cute… Honestly, the baby bear looks a bit creepy.”

［Wak-pakya-pak-pya!!!］

As one of the loan sharks got hit by the Maid,

Min Neong crawled over and stopped next to the other yokai.

【Qkrnfl892】─Stop coming one by one. It’s like a sausage line.

【Meng Yao】─Why is Min Neong crawling all of a sudden?

【BigGirl】─She’s a yokai.

The recognition-reducing spell seemed to be off.

And once again, the loan sharks’ reactions weren’t much different.

“Is this a snake?”

“Looks like a lizard. Kinda like a dragon.”

“It’s trendy these days for men to groom their pets like this.”

“They really made it look like a dragon.”

［Wang-kwak-pwak.］

“Now it’s ‘wang-kwak-pwak’? The pets in this house have such unique sounds.”

“Maybe they’re trained.”

【Maehwa Tree】─They don’t even think Min Neong is a yokai? I wanna take their brains out and check.

【Meng Yao】─LOL Are they in denial or something?

【Cheerful Hyeon Ji】─If they don’t know yokai exist, they might react like that. LOL

Finally, Reubangyi revealed herself.

“…”

“…”

“……”

The loan sharks’ reactions were completely different this time.

They were speechless, staring at Reubangyi.

Their pupils were shaking.

［Nice to meet you, Reubang.］

“What the f***!? The stone talked!!!”

“Is this special makeup?”

“It doesn’t look like special makeup…”

The loan sharks finally realized these weren’t ordinary animals.

***

After explaining yokai to the loan sharks and convincing them,

“So yokai really exist…”

“I thought they were just fictional beings from manga or movies…”

“So this fox is a yokai too?”

“What are you asking? It just spoke human. Of course, it’s a yokai. Do animals talk?”

The loan sharks accepted it surprisingly quickly.

Well, when you see yokai with your own eyes, you have no choice but to believe.

Anyway, the minor incident was resolved, so we decided to head up to the 2nd floor where the Mania mother and daughter were.

“You guys play with them. I’ll go up to the 2nd floor for a bit.”

I spoke casually.

During the meal,

the loan sharks had told me they didn’t need to use honorifics with them.

“Huh? You want us to play with yokai?”

“What if they try to hurt us?”

“It’s kinda scary…”

“Don’t worry, these yokai are nice. Anyway, I’ll be back.”

Leaving the loan sharks and yokai in the living room, I went up the stairs to the 2nd floor.

In the 2nd-floor hallway,

Do Mi-rae and Do Mi-so were discussing which room they would live in.

“Mom, how about living in Guburi’s room?”

“That’s fine, but… Guburi might feel burdened.”

They still hadn’t decided.

Seems like they have decision paralysis.

“Then let’s just take the room next to Se-hoon.”

“Hmm… Isn’t the room right next door a bit too much? The viewers might protest.”

【Se-hoon Defense Team】─Big Mania is more thoughtful than Little Mania.

【Meng Yao】─Reverse Rape Junior has no thoughts.

【Qkrnfl892】─The room next to Se-hoon? Miso, do you wanna die?

【Min Ji】─Hey! How dare you!

The room next to mine was vetoed.

Next, Do Mi-so suggested the room where Balloon Gum stores her condoms.

“Then how about the room next to Guburi? The one with the condoms.”

“That’s my room, so no!”

Balloon Gum shouted in surprise.

Hearing that her room might be taken, she fiercely guarded the door, glaring at the Mania mother and daughter.

【Semen Thief】─LOL Balloon Gum is so cute.

【Se-hoon Defense Team】─Look at her running to the door in a panic. LOL

Guburi, who had been watching this scene with his door slightly open, closed it and posted a chat.

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─Just give it up, idiot. You’re not even a resident here.

【Balloon Gum Collector】─Wak-pakya-pak-pya! Shut up!

Balloon Gum, seeing the chat, angrily tapped her phone.

Turning my attention away from Balloon Gum, I approached the Mania mother and daughter.

“What are you still thinking about? Just pick any room. They’re all the same anyway.”

“Can’t we think a little more? We’re choosing a room to live in for the rest of our lives…”

“Exactly! It’s a room we’ll live in forever, so we can’t decide easily!”

【Min Ji】─?? What do you mean “forever”? You wanna get hit?

【Se-hoon Defense Team】─These shameless kids. ㄷㄷ

【Qkrnfl892】─Crazy bitches. LOL

In the end, the Mania mother and daughter’s deliberation continued for another hour.

***

After a long deliberation, the Mania mother and daughter chose the room next to Balloon Gum’s condom storage.

With the help of the loan sharks, they moved all their belongings into that room.

By the way, they didn’t bring much.

Except for a statue modeled after me and some sentimental items, they boldly threw everything else away.

I had told them I’d buy them new furniture.

Old items might bring bugs or something.

【Maehwa Tree】─I thought they’d bring everything because they’d feel bad throwing it away.

【Jujijoa】─If Se-hoon hadn’t told them in advance, they would’ve.

【Cheerful Hyeon Ji】─They’d rather not get scolded by Se-hoon. LOL

【Se-hoon Defense Team】─Se-hoon, buy the Manias some clothes now.

【Qkrnfl892】─For real, last time at the party, they kept muttering about how they’d wear the expensive clothes they got from the donation box. It was so sad.

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─I’ll buy them clothes.

【Min Ji】─Huh? Guburi, where do you get money to buy clothes?

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─Stop with the “Huh? Huh?” crap, you damn idiot. And I do have money. ㅡㅡ

【Qkrnfl892】─Guburi has money? Did you steal it from Se-hoon’s safe?

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─What stealing? You wanna die? I got paid by Gyesekkihoon. WTF

【Meng Yao】─ㄷㄷ You get paid?

【Cat-eared Woman】─Of course, Guburi should get paid. LOL

【BigGirl】─Didn’t you say you’d pay him when you brought him here?

【Se-hoon Defense Team】─After bringing him here, you kept acting like you wouldn’t pay him. LOL

【Semen Thief】─You were just saying that, right?

【Yoho】─Yeah, isn’t the Room Master a gangster?

【Cheerful Hyeon Ji】─He is a gangster, right? Guburi, how much do you get paid?

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─Secret.

I never actually paid Guburi a salary.

I just gave him some cash a few days ago so he could use his card without worrying.

In other words, it was an allowance, not a salary.

‘How could he mistake that for a salary?’

The allowance was 1 million won.

Not a small amount.

But it’s far too little to be called a salary.

‘…Come to think of it, I forgot to pay him a salary. I’ll take care of that later.’

Thinking that, I took out some spare broadcasting equipment from my desk drawer and placed it neatly on the table.

【Qkrnfl892】─What’s that? More broadcasting equipment?

【Maehwa Tree】─Where did that come from? You only got one last time.

“Pyo-ryu gave me a few more during Christmas. He said it’s in case of unexpected accidents damaging the equipment, so I should keep extras.”

After packing the broadcasting equipment,

I headed straight to the Mania mother and daughter’s room.

They were busy organizing their belongings.

I called Do Mi-so aside and handed her the broadcasting equipment.

“Miso.”

“Yeah?”

“Wear this when you go to school tomorrow.”

It was her first day transferring schools.

I wanted to observe her school life and give feedback.