Have a Meal Before You Go

One o'clock in the morning.

Tangerines lie on the boat of Chul-ho, Cole asleep. Tangerine was the most comfortable in the world on Dad's boat, so it was a problem that I couldn't sleep at night like this.

Chulho gently touched the chubby Tangerine's cheek. Tangerine flinched.

“Cough, cough......”

Tangerine squealed. That looks funny, I touched his cheek again.

“Cough, ow, ow......”

Tangerine made a train noise. When you smile.

Drum-

The door to the room is open.

What appeared in it was an echo. Echo halves his eyes, and halves his head.

Walking was so ugly and stupid. It was a mess, whether or not he had built a house in his head.

“Aren't you sleeping? ”

When Cheolho asked, Echo glanced at Cheolho with a shy face.

“...... ”

Echo stands still for a long time, then slowly opens his mouth.

“This body, it's hungry. ”

“......? ”

“I'm hungry. ”

Echo strokes his belly and gives a thin voice.

“...... ”

Cheolho was surprised. Honestly, a few stalks of cold sweat flowed down my back.

“Come on, come on. ”

“Chef, don't you have anything to eat? ”

Echo walks slowly and asks Chulho, smiling in Bangkok. I've seen smiling faces a lot, but I've never seen smiling like this before.

Chulho instinctively realized that Echo was sleeping.

In fact, Echo had been sleepwalking for some time. I've seen her wake up and walk the hallway sometimes, but it was a little deeper.

Chulho glances at Echo, pointing to the table for some reason.

There were some cucumbers left over after having a drink in the evening.

Echo sits quietly at the table, pulling out a handkerchief from his pocket and wrapping it around his neck.

“This body loves cucumbers. ”

Then I picked up the cucumber and began to eat it very gracefully.

Chulho stared at it as it looked puffy.

Echo, who had eaten the cucumber, stood up again and approached Chulho.

“So you're the savior of this body? Then I must return the favor. ”

“...... Well, what the hell. ”

Echo hugs the helmet, cheeks side, and kisses.

Puck!

Cheolho slaps Echo on the back of the head. Echo falls flat on the floor.

“Ugh… what? ”

Echo opens his eyes again, returning to the top. He stood up, scratching his back head, not knowing why he was lying in the diner.

“Cheolho? Why is this body sleeping here? ”

“I don't know. He walked out of there and he slept here. ”

Cheolho pretended not to know.

“Hey mister...... why does my back ache? Who hit you? ”

“I don't know…"

Echo mutters, "What the hell is going on?" and goes back into the room.

After a while.

Two in the morning.

Echo opens the door again and goes out to the diner. Seeing his eyes open again, he's sleeping.

However, he looks in a hurry, hurriedly approaching and hiding behind Cheolho.

“...... What are you doing? ”

“This body is being hunted by aliens. ”

Echo shakes his head slightly over Iron Tiger's shoulder.

Hic! Help me! Aliens! ”

2: 30 in the morning.

“This body is on stakeout. ”

The echo appears to be on ambush.

Echo! I looked swiftly left and right and asked Chulho.

“I heard there's a monster eating fries downtown. Have you seen it? ”

I don't know any monsters who eat fried food, but I know dragons who like fried food. This is the car that's sleeping in that room.

Chulho pointed to the door of the rice restaurant because he was tired of sending him back.

“Go away, disappear somewhere. ”

“There he goes! ”

Echo leaps in, opens the door to the diner, and disappears.

.

“Hnng……”

Echo stands up with his base extended. I can't feel the warmth of the familiar bed, so I tilt my head for a moment.

“Huh?"

Where the hell am I?

I went around and around.

It was the top of a 15-story building at the northern end of the Seodaemun Gate.

“Huh?"

I have no idea what's going on. Why did it happen here? Why was he sleeping like a monkey with one hand on the top of his lightning rod?

“Mmmm…"

Echo narrows his eyes and thinks.

Yesterday.

What the hell happened?

With the lightning rod down, Echo stands on the ground slowly walking down the street, thinking.

I slept. I remember that.

“Huh?"

A passerby waves his hand as he looks at Echo.

“Hey, Brother! ”

“…… hmm? ”

Echo looks at the passerby.

You don't look like a normal person wearing sunglasses in a fancy outfit. Echo gives you a high five, and you don't even know it.

Ta-da!

-yo yo!

At that moment.

“Phew!”

Echo's mind flashes past his memories. A passerby, like a hip-hop singer, used his fingers to point at echo.

“Yo Brother, that was a great performance yesterday! ”

“Uh, uh-uh…"

“See you next time! ”

By the time the passerby walked away, Echo was able to insert the first button of his memory that disappeared last night.

Even if you don't move, the girls will come. Phone calls all day long......

“Hooray, hooray......”

Last night, I went to the club. And Echo poured out his rap in his sleep and got cheered up. My whole body is crawling with goosebumps. It's strange how good the reaction was to rapping with the reverse lyrics.

Suddenly, on the other side, you see the entrance to the club that closes in the morning.

The people coming out of the club look at Echo and see their thumbs up. Echo runs blindfolded. I was about to want to move my space through a rat hole.

* * *

I ran like that and met Gearwalk.

Gearwalk walks in his pocket, looks at Echo, then flicks his back and talks to him intimately.

“Oh, Echo! ”

“......? ”

At that moment.

- Love...

Like the radio, Jiji had another memory seeping into Echo's head.

“Unh!”

Echo retreats nervously.

“What's the matter? Oh, I thought a lot about Echo's love lecture yesterday. ”

Gearwalk accompanies Echo.

“I didn't know Echo knew so much about love. Especially that part, the last part was really impressive. ”

Echo slams his teeth together.

- I think of love as perceiving the color of the world. The world without recesses will be colorless, not colorful......

That really didn't work out. What kind of mind would ask such a thing? Why the hell not?

“Oh...... Oh......”

Echo staggers back, crouching, wrapping his head around it.

“Haha! Echo! I'm impressed! See you later! ”

Gearwalk leaves, and Echo barely gets up after a short while.

Brace yourself.

What time is it?

7: 30 a.m.

Echo chews his lips tight, then runs to Gearwalk.

“Hey!"

“Huh?"

“Uh, uh, yesterday-- what time was it? ”

“What do you mean? ”

“Yesterday's love...... damn it! When it comes to love. What time was it?”

“Let's see…… about 3 in the morning? ”

“Three in the morning......”

Echo's face became a reflection. Three in the morning. Well, we have four and a half hours until 7: 30 a.m.

I had a strong feeling that this was not the end of what I had done in my sleep.

Echo runs, leaning forward in haste.

Echo runs to the rice house and picks his breath.

“Cough! ”

Tangerine walked to Ajahn Echo. Echo hugged the tangerine and kissed both cheeks. I kissed her on the other side, and met her eyes.

- Thank you. Boom!

“Huff!”

Echo remembers last night kissing Iron Tiger's cheek. Echo shakes his head as he looks into Cheolho's eyes.

“Oh, no...... This body didn't do it......”

Then I left the tangerine and walked out of the restaurant.

This is the end, right?

Echo comes to the cafe, sits at his table.

“Ah, Echo! ”

“Lise!”

There's Rise, holding Lise's hand tightly and sniffing.

Lise always smelled good, and it was a relief to smell it.

Lise stares at Echo with strange eyes.

“Echo.”

Suddenly, Rise turns his head, smiling as she screams.

“Why.”

“Echo, don't you remember? ”

“Huh?"

Echo stares at Lise, his eyes narrowed. My heart thumped and fluttered.

I didn't remember. It really doesn't.

“Stop, stop, what did this body do again yesterday? ”

Lise glances at Echo and smiles.

“No?”

“Right? That's good. ”

Echo buries his head in Lise's lap as if it were a relief.

Lise holds back her smile and recalls Echo's voice yesterday.

- Patrasse!

Last night, Echo came to see Lise around 5: 00 a.m. And she called him Patrash.

Patrasch was an astrally long dog named Patrasche de Proretans Kilomed Rosita Rohanis.

Patrasse for short.

A hunting dog that Echo grew up with when he was a kid.

When Echo was about 30 years old, Patrash died at the end of his life, and Echo cried out and mourned for his death.

Anyway.

Lise felt like she was smiling for the rest of her life yesterday. It's because Echo did something very funny.

.

“Bite it, Patrash! ”

Echo shouts, throwing one of his bones into the air, where he got it.

“Woof! ”

And Echo, wow! Make a sound and run for it! Biting.

“Zahua Hahahas! (Good job, Patrass!) ”

After biting the bone in his mouth, he shouted like that, he suddenly came to the ground and dug the bone with his two hands.

Most unfortunately, it was a time when I was reluctant to cry thinking about my first love in the past.

“Ugh! Las Lavera Cipherot Vibenzel! ”

After continuing to chant long names unique to the Horseman, he became ‘sophie’ or ‘saponin’ instead of ‘cipherot’ while he slept.

Then all of a sudden, this is what happens.

“You said you like heights.....! ”

He ran away.

Las Lavera Cipherot Vivenzel was a girl from a neighboring family that Echo loved when she was 10 years old. Echo confessed to the girl at the time, but it was a car.

Lise later found out that Las Lavera Cipherot Vibenzel was actually a man. I was mistaken because I look like a woman, but I am a man.

He grew up and became a member of Echo's army, changed his name and then went on to become a member. He was unable to see any variations in his growth.

Lise was actually not going to tell me until the end that Las Lavera was a man and a muscular, down-to-earth man.

.

“Nothing happened. ”

Lise said that while holding back her smile.