Returner’s Magic Laundry

The road to the back garden was roundly covered with rose bushes.

It was a path my grandfather made with great care, and in spring and summer, I could pass through a beautiful path full of roses.

Now the roses were almost cut and there were only a few sparsely blooming red buds.

'rose!'

When the summoning spell was cast, roses bloomed, and a rose path was created as before.

‘Now I feel like I used to.’

This road was about 100 meters long, and passing through it led directly to the back garden with a pine tree.

Before long, a floor covered with warm light brown pine needles appeared.

Dr. Sabak.

Feeling good at familiar sounds.

In the past, dried pine needles were swept up with a rake and used to ignite a fire.

Because there is no such thing now, the pine needles are softly spread.

dump.

I lay down on the soft pine needles.

A few sharp-pointed pine needles pierce the face.

When I was young, I thought this place was a pretty big garden, but now it feels very small.

Suddenly, she remembered what her aunt had said earlier.

[Since the earth has been destroyed, we have to protect Dongsan Bay until the end... … . Whoops. If you go to pick it up for food, don't you scream at me that a mold monster has invaded?]

Whoops, I was playing like that back then.

At that moment, a shiver spreads throughout my body.

I got up from my seat and looked around.

Memories of childhood begin to come to mind more and more clearly.

Besides, this forest had a feeling similar to the magical forest I had seen somewhere for the first time.

Is it just a feeling of dizziness?

As a child, I was often left with my mother-in-law thanks to my busy parents, and since I had no friends to make in this neighborhood, this was my playground and study room.

In the middle of the garden lay a large, flat rock perfect for a desk.

And a small tree growing next to it.

‘Is this the tree I planted back then?’

When my grandfather brought a seedling to plant in the garden, I stole a seedling and planted it here.

It was set to be a tree of protection to protect the forest.

What protects the forest from?

It was from the extinction of mankind.

The basic setting of my game was that humanity would perish, the earth fell into ruins, and I would protect this garden, the only remaining forest on earth.

'what? surely… … It must be a coincidence.’

There was laughter.

Linking the magical forest with this garden is nonsense.

But as the forgotten memories were pulled out like a tail, my smile hardened in an instant.

‘Is there too many similarities for that?’

I picked up a small pebble that was trodden under my feet.

‘The sowing of the end… … .'

It was not the same name, but in the setting of the seed to save mankind, the pebble was soaked in soil and water, and the stone was thrown with a slingshot.

One time, he was scolded for hitting the thigh of an old man who was passing by.

The setting is that if the seed grows on the ruined earth and forms a forest, the earth will return to its former state.

‘And adversity… … .'

At the time, I didn't know what the word adversity meant, so maybe I used a different word.

Anyway, there was something that stood in the way to get rid of the garden, and it was the ten stones painted with black pencil and scattered.

If you find the stone and remove it, the forest will grow bigger.

Coincidence or not, this forest is similar to the magical forest I found inside the washing machine.

'item!'

At that time, I think it was just called 'things'.

Because I didn't even know English.

Anyway, there were things needed to protect the forest.

With those things, this forest was reassuring.

Two of them are pine and acacia.

He said that he needed 10 items in the magic forest.

'How about that... … .'

I looked around and found something.

‘Are you still there?’

My maternal grandfather and grandmother passed away one after another, and I knew that I could no longer come here, so I put the things in an iron box and buried them somewhere in this forest.

you never knew

Will the items from that time be applied to the current magical forest?

I thought it was absurd myself, but I thought it might be even stronger.

I searched all over the forest to find it, but in the end I couldn't find it.

'I think it's buried somewhere... … .'

Then my aunt called me.

-Annam-ah, did you go to the back mountain again? Come and eat!

When it was time to eat, her maternal grandmother used to call her like that.

"Okay. I'll be there soon!”

I couldn't find the items in the end, and I left my heart behind and went home.

The smell of rice tickles my nose.

“Did you eat?”

“Yeah, I wanted to do it in the furnace like the old days, but I need to be able to wash that heavy thing. I just borrowed a portable gas stove and did it.”

“What are you going to do? You can just go out and buy it.”

“What do I want to do? It might be the last time, but I wanted to eat here.”

“Last time?”

“Yeah, this house needs to be cleaned up now. I wouldn't be able to come now."

Warm soup and rice were placed in front of me.

And vegetables from the garden and ssamjang.

“I got the soup. He was also preparing a meal.”

“Yes, it is delicious.”

I swallowed a sip of seaweed soup boiled in soybean paste.

It was a soup that her maternal grandmother often made.

She was also hungry, but the rice she ate was so delicious that she ate it like she was blindfolded.

“Hey, you must be hungry. Would you like more rice?”

"Yeah."

As she hands her bowl of rice to her aunt, she smiles and scoops out her rice bowl.

“It’s good to eat well.”

“It’s really delicious. Aunt, do you remember that? A sense of drowsiness or a sense of drowsiness? What did you call it?”

“A feeling of drowsiness? Your maternal grandmother called it a sense of humor.”

"Yes, that is correct. drowsiness. It's really delicious if you eat it in the winter with astringent persimmons in salt water.”

“It was a delicacy back then.”

"When I think of my grandmother, she thinks of that. She wants to try it again."

She drank up to the seaweed soup, and put down the bowl.

“Oh, I ate too much. I'll do the dishes. Auntie, get some rest.”

“Yes, yes.”

"And… … I will buy this house.”

"Huh? what?"

“I am buying this house. Had I known they weren't selling it, I would have bought it. Later, when I was older, I wanted to come down and live here.”

“Are you serious?”

"Yeah."

My aunt smiled slightly at my words.

“This is nobody's house. This is my mom and dad's house. If you have it, I'll just give it to you. Anyway, I was going to ask you a favor, but I thought it would be a burden. Having a country house you don't even live in is a pain in the ass. You can't even sell it for money."

“I will take good care of it.”

“If you do, I will be grateful. It hurts my heart to think that this house is going to disappear.”

“Me too. I have so many memories... … .”

Then she slapped her on the knee as if her aunt remembered something.

“The old man who cares here said he had found something here,” she said. … I was thinking of throwing it away, but just in case I left it.”

“What?”

"do not know. They said they put it in the bedroom drawer.”

“I’ll go and get it out.”

I went into the master bedroom and opened one of the old chests of drawers.

An iron box that appears with a rustling sound.

'This!'

It was the box where I put the ‘things’ I was looking for in the garden.

The small flower pattern on the outside had rusted and fell off a lot, but the iron box that her grandmother used was correct.

- Did you find it?

"Yeah!"

I carefully opened the lid of the iron box.

The lid opens as rust powder falls off.

There were eight 'things' in it.

* * *

Back in Seoul that night, I had a phone call with my aunt's son, Andrew.

According to Andrew, his aunt has few days left to live.

He was diagnosed with an expiration date at the hospital and hurriedly chose to go to Korea before it was too late.

In my previous life, I was walking around to shoot a movie, so when my aunt came, I had a meal and parted ways.

Leaving her alone at her mother-in-law's house.

I never dreamed that that would be the last time.

Tomorrow, my aunt goes back to America.

I went up to her second floor and looked at her sleeping soundly.

I couldn't prevent my parents' death, but I wanted to prevent my aunt's death.

The power of her magical forest that filled her bedroom was healing her, but it only slowed her down for a while.

I quietly stretched out my hand and shouted a summoning spell.

“God drink nectar!”

Then, a drop of water smaller than a fingernail appeared on the palm of the hand.

A drink of the immortal god obtained from the sad anemone.

『I use the divine drink nectar.』

『Drink nectar to keep youth immortal.』

That wouldn't make aunt live forever, so she took a drop the size of her mote from it.

As you drop it into her aunt's mouth, you can see the aura spreading to every corner of her body.

Her complexion returned, and she could see her wrinkles disappear a little.

The forehead, which had been frowned in pain, loosened, and the cold sweat dries up and he slowly returned to a calm expression.

‘It seems to work.’

* * *

the next morning.

“Don’t go! I think I'm late! How can I do this!”

My aunt came down from the second floor, pounding.

Still in a flashy outfit.

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“Hey, let’s go quickly. passport! Did I bring my passport?”

It's nice to see that she's healthy, but she's back to her old busty aunt.

“I saw you put it in a bag earlier.”

Aunt finds passport in small handbag.

“Aww, here you are. I used to leave my passport at home and go to the airport. So she got back in a taxi and hurriedly went. The plane was just about to leave. But do you know what happened?”

“How is it?”

“There were no seats in economy class, so I went in business class. ho ho ho.”

“Aren’t you paying more?”

“Then, sometimes good things happen even if you’re not in a hurry and slow.”

I loaded my aunt's luggage and departed for the airport.

“Still, I feel like I’m going to live here because I come home like this. I feel so good today.”

It will probably continue to be good.

fufu.

So my aunt got on the plane to America again.

I paid more for the seat and upgraded it to business class.

Then I told them to come with Andrew and Jane.

My aunt said that she probably won't be able to come, but I'll probably see her again in a few years in good health.

After watching the plane take off, I went back to the laundry again.

“You're more energetic than when your aunt arrived here. You seem to be in good health in a few days.”

Gangnam-young said as she finished ironing her white shirt.

“Is hometown something like that? You have the power to heal. Perfume sickness is not something that happens for nothing.”

“When I see things like this, I think there is something called a mental illness. I don't know because Seoul is my hometown and I've never left, but I think I can vaguely know it from my aunt."

“Fufu. When you leave, you realize how precious it is. It’s ironic.”

“I know it’s precious even if I don’t leave.”

“Namyoung is lucky.”

“Is that so? haha. uh? Who has come?”

Looking back at Namyoung’s words, I saw that Kim’s son, Jang Seok-go, was hesitant to enter the laundry.

Jang Seok-go winced when our eyes met.

"Come in. Mr. Gypsum.”

"Ah yes. I came here because I was asked to come once. I wonder what's going on. I didn't come too soon, did I?"

Mr. Jang Seok-go is making a gesture as if he is receding inward.

It was mixed with fear that it might harm others or that it would come back as another harm to himself.

Perhaps the trauma he had suffered from wandering around on a construction site for a long time seemed to dominate him.

His face, his hands, and many wounds.

His heart hurts more than that.

Leaving behind Kangnam-young's curious eyes, I took Jang Seok-go to the garden.

“Is it because of the house? Are you in a situation where you need to raise your deposit? Anyway, these days, house prices in this neighborhood have risen a lot, so I was a little worried.”

Jang Seok-go speaks with a troubled and apologetic face.

“Oh, no. Not like that.”

“Well then… … ?”

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