MDITS Chapter 2

A sullen atmosphere…

He took a sip of tea and put down the cup.

Do-jun gazed at the girl sitting opposite to him, and when their eyes met, Seol Yoon-hee immediately bowed her head and averted her eyes away from him.

“So, you’re saying that you’re the daughter… of my brother and his girlfriend?”

“Yes, yes.”

“And you're saying that because they died in an accident, you now had nowhere to go so I said I’d take you in. After which, I gave you the password to this house, and now you came here today.”

Seol Yoon-hee nodded vigorously.

Do-jun took out his smartphone and searched on his Contacts.

The two people on the <Others> tab in his contact list were actually referring to his brother’s girlfriend and his daughter, respectively.

“Have we ever met before?”

“N-no. It's my first time meeting you…”

He was in deep thought while having a splitting headache from the unbelievable situation he has found himself right now.

Frankly speaking, he can't afford to take someone in right now.

Leaving simply the question of money, it has only been a day since he technically returned to Earth, and everything was still confusing for him as of the moment.

“Don’t you have any other family or relatives?”

“…My mother was an orphan. So, I don't have any other place to go to…”

Seol Yoon-hee looked up at Do-jun anxiously while fidgeting with her fingers.

At that time, Do-jun's eyes were directed to a plate wrapped in plastic wrap on the table.

Fried rice wrapped with egg. It was an omurice.

“What’s this?”

“It's omurice. I just thought… I’d make something for you to eat when you come back from work…”

“First off, I can't take you in.”

“……B-but you clearly said.”

She took out her smartphone and showed it to Do-jun.

On the screen were the text messages they exchanged with each other.

To summarize those text messages, it was okay for her to live in Do-jun's house until she graduated from school.

The date was three days ago - which was two days before the accident.

Do-jun could see that Seol Yoon-hee was unaware that he had been hospitalized yesterday.

“……I'm sure I sent it.”

Seol Yoon-hee could not understand why Do-jun was reacting like this.

‘I can understand if I came here carelessly, but I'm sure he reached out to help me first.’

“I was hospitalized until yesterday. I was in an accident, and I just got out of the hospital today. Worst of all is…… I have amnesia.”

“A-an accident? Are you alright?!”

Do-jun nodded.

“I'm fully recovered now.”

Seol Yoon-hee breathed a sigh of relief.

“The problem is I have amnesia. It's likely to cause a lot of disruption to our daily lives. So, I don't think I can take care of anyone right now because it's going to take me some time to adjust to life right now.”

That remark came to Seol Yoon-hee like a thief in the night. She had no time to react to the possibility of being denied help by Do-jun.

3 months from now, she will soon enter the <National Hunter Academy>. However, she still couldn’t go to the academy’s dormitory and right now she doesn’t have any other options left for her.

“…a contract. Let’s sign a contract!”

“A contract?”

“Please become my father! Just until I graduate.”

“What?”

“You said you had amnesia. Then it will be hard for you to live alone. Cleaning, laundry, preparing meals, I'll do everything for you. Please let me live here instead. Until graduation… No, half a year is fine! Until I can enter the dormitory.”

Do-jun looked at the omelet rice wrapped in plastic wrap on the table, and then looked at Seol Yoon-hee who was biting her lips and looking up with anxious eyes.

It was not a bad condition.

No, it's actually rather favorable considering his circumstances.

Having been in the other world for so long, he forgot how life in the modern world works.

If he were to wield his current power to display over to everyone on Earth, everyone would surely be wary of him. Right now, he just wanted to put everything down and live a normal life.

Besides, if he doesn't know something, he could ask her about it.

“Okay, that would really help me. Well, let's draw up a contract.”

“What? A c-contract?”

Do-jun nodded and took out a paper and a pen from his briefcase.

He slowly began to write down the details of the contract.

After using Chinese for a long time, he became accustomed to writing Chinese characters. He was worried that he might have forgotten to write in Korean, but fortunately, he was able to do it naturally as if he had not forgotten it.

Click.

He put the pen down on the table and presented the draft of the contract to Seol Yoon-hee.

She did not expect Do-jun to seriously consider writing a contract, but right now desperate times call for desperate measures, so she didn't say anything.

1. Lee Do-jun will be called Person A (갑) and Seol Yoon-hee will be called Person B (을).

2. A shall provide a residence for B up until December 31, 2020.

3. B shall take note and inform A about all of the expenses incurred including utility bills, allowances, and etc. in which A would pay for. Any other expenses not stated or proven will not be provided by A.

4. During the contract period, B will take care of household chores and… 

………………

[T/N: In contractual situations, 갑 or A is someone who is dominant while 을 or B is the subordinate.]

“Please read it. Tell me if you don't understand something, or if there's anything that needs to be revised.”

“Yes, yes!”

Seol Yoon-hee calmly and meticulously read the contract, though she felt terribly sad reading it.

After a while, she peeked out her head and looked at Do-jun's face over the paper. 

He tilted his head and said,

“Is there anything you want to modify?”

“There’s none!”

“Then let's sign it.”

‘Do I really have to sign such a contract? I am still the daughter of his older brother. To lose a family member we both cared for, why does he act so cold and apathetic about me and his late brother?

An extreme sense of sadness and despair came into Seol Yoon-hee because of the kind of attitude her only existing relative was showing to her. 

However, nowadays, she heard that there are many cases in real life where someone still lives under their parents’ roof after the age of maturity.

When she thought about it, she felt sad that it was somehow prevalent at this time, but there’s nothing she could do about it.

Swoosh.

Do-jun signed the document and then followed by Seol Yoon-hee.

Seol Yoon-hee was a little distraught about the contract, particularly on the first item.

Of course, everything will work out once she transfers to the dormitory - she just has to endure a bit for now, but the idea of living together might now be too bad after all.

Mhmmm...

Seol Yoon-hee made up her mind as she clenched her fist.

‘Let's do our best.’

“Then I’ll be in your care for a year.”

“Yes, yes! I will work hard. Oh, then can I call you father from now on?”

“If you wish.”

“Then you can just call me Yoon-hee. And you could also drop the honorifics.”

“Okay. I understand, Yoon-hee.”

“…Eh? Well, you're getting used to it very quickly.”

Do-jun stood up and walked towards the laundry basket then he began to take off his clothes.

Since he just came back home, he changed into comfortable clothes.

Rustle.

Without realizing it, Seol Yoon-hee looked at Do-jun's body.

She has been thinking about it ever since their first meeting, that Do-jun had specs of that of a model.

An overall well-chiseled and balanced body.

He wasn't that big, but he was taller than 180cm and had distinct features.

She couldn't believe that he is related in any way to her father, Lee Kang-jun.

'By the way, he didn't say anything about me cleaning the house.'

When she first came to his residence, it resembled a pig farm with all of her basic senses overwhelmed by the horrible sight and putrid smell. 

There were food scraps and disposable containers scattered around, and the clothes were thrown roughly.

Moreover, the house smelled so bad, so she ventilated, vacuumed, and mopped again and again.

The leftover chicken and pigs' feet in the refrigerator were rotting, so she also had a hard time throwing them away.

'There's nothing in the fridge, so I’ll need to buy some groceries..'

Naturally, the current Do-jun was unaware of this fact.

The fact that he rarely cleaned his house in the past.

“Father.”

“Hmm?”

“There's nothing in the fridge, so I think I'll have to go grocery shopping…”

Do-jun took out a card from his wallet and handed it over to Seol Yoon-hee.

As she received the card, he looked at Do-jun with a blank look.

“What's wrong?”

“U-uh… you said you have amnesia, right? Then what do you think about going to the store together and see if you would be able to recall something along the way?”

“…That’s a good idea. Then let's go together.”

Technically speaking, Do-jun was not really suffering from amnesia.  He was only extremely unfamiliar with modern life because he had been in the other world for so long, but he went with the amnesia narrative and did not bother to attempt explaining himself any further.

＊ ＊ ＊

“It seems that you don't usually eat vegetables, so I'm going to cook a lot of it for the time being. Would that be alright?”

Seol Yoon-hee said as she picked up a bunch of celery and placed it in the cart.

Do-jun smiled and stroked her head.

At that moment, Seol Yoon-hee's face turned red.

“Thanks.”

It wasn't that he didn't eat vegetables that much.

Anyways, he felt happy that there is now someone taking care of the menial tasks which would lay off some of the burdens from his shoulders.

At that moment… 

“AHHHHHH!”

“R-run!”

Rumble! Rumble!

Crackle!

A static current occurred in the air 10 meters away.

After a while, the space seemed to rip apart, and its length was a little over a meter.

The people nearby who were shopping shouted and rushed away.

“What is it?”

“It's a rift. Fortunately, it's not an <Entrance>. It's about a meter long… so it’s probably goblin. Father, it's dangerous. Stay away from it.”

Then, Seol Yoon-hee pulled a revolver-shaped gun from her bag.

It was not simply an ordinary gun but a <Mana Gun> which is one of the basic weapons of a Hunter.

If one loads Mana into a Mana gun, it would then condense into a bullet.

Seol Yoon-hee was confident in using the Mana Gun.

Although her Mana itself wasn’t that much, she has absolute confidence that she is second to none in controlling it.

“Kerreuk!”

As Seol Yoon-hee said, a goblin popped out of the rift.

An employee was beckoning the people, and another was rushing to the police.

“……”

Do-jun did not bother to step forward.

He was trying to keep his life unnoticed in the first place.

‘Is she a hunter?’

Do-jun could feel the ‘qi’ from the gun that Seol Yoon-hee was holding.

To Do-jun it was rare for him to see one, still, he thought it was enough to catch the goblin over there.

Bang!

The bullet condensed, went through the nozzle, and passed through goblin's head.

The goblin died instantly, in a split-second, without pain and screaming.

“I-It’s dead!”

“There was a Hunter!”

Seol Yoon-hee put the gun back in her bag.

She looked at Do-jun standing next to her and frowned.

“I told you to stay away from the danger. What if you were hurt, father!”

“I'm sorry. I'll be careful from now on.”

“Really?”

Seol Yoon-hee grumbled, puffing up her cheeks.

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