1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

1st place in the ranking is the villager

- Volume 3 Episode 11

11. South Island (2)

"Hey, you're the only mother."

Seon Hoyoung At the age of five, a child approached him, who had just entered kindergarten, and said it to him for the first time.

Ho-young was deeply hurt by the child's words, but she did not show it outwardly.

Her mother would be sad if she cried because of such a child.

Ho-young did not respond to her child's words, not wanting to make her mother sad.

Still, she was offended a lot, so she tried to walk away from the kid to play.

That was then.

"It's just like me. I'm the only mother."

The child's smile was really clean without a single speck.

“My name is Ji-han Moon. You?”

"Seon Hoyoung......."

Hearing Hoyoung's answer, the child reached out to him.

"You're called Hoyoung. Why don't we be friends?"

"Uh, huh."

Holding Hoyoung's hand, the child waved his hand up and down widely, then wrapped his arm around Hoyoung's shoulder.

"We're not just friends anymore, we're becoming friends like family! Best friends!"

* * *

"Son?"

"Huh? Uh huh."

When I opened my eyes, I was in an airplane.

It must have been that I fell asleep during the short flight from Seoul to Jeju Island.

I think I had a dream, but I can't remember the details.

Still, the impression that it was a pleasant dream remained.

When Hoyoung woke up, the plane had already landed and people were getting off.

Ho Young-do followed Jae-geun and Lee Ye-sook to get off the plane, break through the crowd, find a suitcase, and immediately exit the airport.

As soon as they leave the airport, large palm trees greet them.

Ho-young, Lee Ye-sook, and Jae-geon flew to Jeju Island on a short trip of 3 days and 2 nights to commemorate that Ho-young's condition improved and they were able to meet again.

For this day, Jaejoong and Yesuk Lee used up to the annual leave.

"Five......."

It was the first time for Ho-young to actually see a palm tree.

Everything you see and experience in Jeju Island will be your first time.

When he was in school, Hoyoung-eun had never seen Jeju Island, which he said he would visit at least once on a school trip.

That was one of the reasons why they chose Jeju Island as their travel destination.

I wanted to let Hoyoung see and experience the things that everyone else sees and experiences.

"Son, are you only looking at palm trees?"

"uh?"

Hoyoung, who had been looking up at the palm trees for a long time as if the first person who came to the city from the countryside was looking up at the building, lowered her head at Lee Ye-sook’s words.

After Lee Ye-sook said that she had to go get a rental car, Ho-young turned the wheel of her suitcase and followed her.

Jaegun, who had been there in advance, was filming the state of the oil in the car with his smartphone camera and spinning around the exterior of the car body.

When I asked why, he said that there was no noise afterwards.

After taking over the rental car, they opened the trunk and loaded their suitcases.

Jaegeon, who was the last to carry the suitcase, opened his suitcase and took out three hats from it.

It was a snapback of the same design with black cheeks and yellow brim.

Jaegeon gave them one by one to Hoyoung and Lee Yesuk.

“Jaegun, what kind of hat is it all of a sudden?”

"Hahaha, it's a gift. Actually... it was a wish."

It is said that he wished to travel as a group wearing the same hat.

Actually, I wanted to wear a matching outfit, not a hat.

However, it seemed that it was too much to fit the clothes, so rebuilding himself tried to compromise with a hat.

Since they were made to order, the cheeks of each snapback had their initials engraved with white thread.

Hoyoung's hat was SHY, Lee Ye-sook's hat was LYS, and Jaejoong's hat was BJG.

"Maybe... you don't like it? Did I just do it for nothing..."

"No, I'm fine."

As Hoyoung stared at the hat without saying anything, Jaegeon cautiously asked.

He was slightly moved and staring at him, but Jaegeon seemed to have interpreted it differently.

At his careful question, Ho-young quickly put his hat on his head.

It was a very nice gift.

However, there was one disappointment.

It was his initials written on the hat.

He thought slightly, wishing it was something other than these initials.

Something like 'SON'.

It was unfamiliar to get it out of my mouth, so I thought to myself.

"suited?"

Ho-young asked Lee Ye-sook as she put on a hat and organized her hair.

"Yeah, yeah. Oh my! They look good together. How's your mom?"

"My mom gets along really well, too. She looks like five years younger."

“What is 5 years vaguely not 10 years?”

"Hey, I'm not really that old at my mother's age."

squash!

At Ho-young's words, Lee Ye-sook slapped him on the back.

Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho

Jaegun smiled broadly as he saw the two of them liking each other.

It was the school trip season, so it was very difficult to get a plane ticket.

Luckily, it was already midday when I arrived at Jeju Island on the plane ticket I had barely obtained.

We didn't have a tight itinerary, so today's itinerary was only Durim Park.

It took an hour and a half to get from the airport to Durim Park because the road was blocked, but Hoyoung did not get tired of seeing all the scenery out the car window halfway through the road because it was new.

In the parking lot of Durim Park, which I arrived at after running for a long time, large tour buses of students who had come on a school trip were parked.

When I got out of the car, I couldn't even enter the Doolim Park, but I could see the palm trees that were already towering high.

The first thing that caught my eye when I bought my ticket and entered Durim Park was the long line of palm trees.

Palm trees over there, palm trees here.

Hoyoung realized that she had definitely come to Jeju Island.

"Son, let's take a picture! All that's left is a picture! Jaegun-san too!"

For this day, Ye Sook Lee brought a Johnny brand mirrorless camera she had kept at her house.

It was a model that had been released for quite some time since Hoyoung bought it when he was still young, but it was still usable.

Ye-sook Lee hung her camera around her neck as if trying to solve something she had never used before, and she dragged Ho-young and Jae-geun with both hands and walked around.

Now, Ye-Sook Lee was more happy than Ho-Young.

One at the palm-tree path, one with a bird in hand at the safari aviary right next to it, one at the front of a wild boar-shaped stone, and one at the folk village after leaving Ssangyong Cave.

Sometimes we took pictures of each other, and sometimes we asked students who came on a school trip to make the background look bigger.

There were far more photos of the three of us than those of individuals.

After spending about two hours looking around Durim Park, which is decorated with nine different themes, they headed to the hotel they had reserved in advance after having a meal at a nearby restaurant famous for having frequented by celebrities.

When we started heading to the hotel, the sun was already setting little by little, so when we arrived at the hotel, the stars were showing their existence little by little in the sky.

here as well.

The parking lot of the hotel was full of students on school excursions and large tour buses dropping them off.

Hundreds of students lined up, controlled by teachers holding flags with the school's name on them.

"You guys need to move quickly and pack up your luggage. Let's go eat! Do you want to starve?!"

"no!"

At the sound of rice, the children's movements accelerated.

Nevertheless, the voices of the children chatting with the friends standing next to them remained the same.

"......"

Hoyoung couldn't take his eyes off of them.

And she carefully put the figure of herself and Ruby Han into the children's figure.

It was fun to picture them laughing and talking to each other in my head, but at the same time, my heart was touched.

Now, it was an imagination that the probability of it happening was completely zero, not close to zero.

"Son? Are you not going in?"

"Huh? Uh huh, I have to go in."

Ho-young, who came to his senses at Lee Ye-suk's words, followed Jae-geon and Lee Ye-sook into the hotel and finished her check-in.

After checking in, Hoyoung unpacked his luggage separately from the two of them.

Jaegeun and Lee Ye-sook took a one-shot, and Ho-Young had a one-shot.

She said that the three of Lee Ye-sook would share her room together at first.

However, Ho-young refused and chose to share a room alone.cared for for both.

As she hadn't seen each other for a long time because of herself, Hoyoung wanted to have more time to be together.

It's enough for the three of us to go out together for sightseeing.

Hoyoung wanted to make time for her to be together if there was still time.

Today, Lee Ye-sook's acting power did not have time to create a situation like that, but tomorrow, I want to create a situation where the two of us will be together.

If she knew Ye-sook Lee, she would say that she did something stupid, but Ho-young wanted to do that.

After taking a quick shower, Hoyoung took out the laptop she had brought from her home and entered the community bulletin board on the Initium website.

There was something she wanted to know now.

It was about the stat 'affinity' caused by the elixir found in the underground warehouse that was entered as a reward for bringing Adora's sword to Jeffrino yesterday.

Hoyoung typed 'stat affinity' into the search bar.

[No results found for 'stat affinity']

After seeing the phrase on the homepage, Hoyoung sighed a little.

I don't think there are any related posts....

Still, Hoyoung erased the stats in front of him just in case, and searched only for affinity.

However, the only thing that came out was just the words that had nothing to do with the stats with the word affinity.

no information at all

"I can't help it..."

It was you who made the choice, so nothing will change even if you just wrap your head around saying that there is no information now.

She wasn't expecting too much information from the community either.

And even without information, the effect can be roughly imagined from the name of the stat.

Affinity is the 'ability to get along well with other people'.

Hoyoung thought it would have a similar effect.

One day, it will come naturally.

After organizing the laptop, Hoyoung opened the window in the room and leaned his arm against the window frame.

The cold night wind wrapped Hoyoung coolly.

"Kyahahaha! What are you doing~!"

"What's wrong with this!"

When I opened the window, the sound of children chatting and laughing from the lower room came up to Hoyoung's room with the night breeze.

He was happy to hear the happy voices of the students, but he was also a little sad.

He seems to have become too emotional because he has been on a trip for a long time.

smart-.

At that moment, a knock was heard from Ho-young's door.

“Hoyoung-ah, we want to go for a walk nearby. Would you like to go together?”

Hoyoung wanted to make a lot of time for the two of them.

So I tried to refuse, but I was a little hesitant.

......Yeah, let's play a little silly between the two of us until today.

"Yes!"

Hoyoung quickly opened the door.

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