I Quit My Job and Run a Café - Chapter 286



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Quitting the company and opening a cafe Episode 286

Something briefly appeared in the flames of the wood stove and then disappeared.

I kept looking inside to see what was going on, but I couldn’t see anything after that.

‘What was it? What happened?’

I don’t know the exact shape.

Maybe the aura came in and I saw it wrong… …but I had a feeling that wasn’t it.

This was purely a feeling, so I wasn’t sure.

‘Sujeong-ah. Is there something over there?’

─Huh? Fire? I don’t know. Soo-Jung can’t see into fire.

‘ah.’

I tried asking Soo-Jung if she could see it, but she said she couldn’t because it’s a water spirit. What about Miho?

What?

I just tilted my head, looking inside the wood-burning stove.

I meant I didn’t know.

“Did I really see it wrong?”

If the spirits couldn’t see it, then that possibility had a little more weight to it.

Even Rangi didn’t react at all.

The guy was busy toasting bread in front of the stove.

It rolls back and forth nicely.

“Do you like it warm? Aren’t you hot, Langa?”

Why?

What a cat you know but don’t know.

It was so hot in the summer that I only stayed in places with air conditioning.

Anyway, since Rangi didn’t feel anything strange and was acting like that, I decided to let it go for now.

“Sir! Aren’t you going to burn it?”

“I haven’t tried it yet. Originally, oven-baked pizza had a little bit of that part, which is why it’s so delicious.”

I focused on this for Soo-ah, who was looking intently into the wood-burning stove and worrying about the condition of the pizza.

Since I had the fire concentrated on one side, I opened the door and slightly rotated the pizza so that the other side was cooked similarly.

Unlike the oven, the pizza cooked quickly in the wood-burning stove.

Pizza doesn’t take long to prepare, but it bakes in an instant.

“It’s done.”

He took out a perfectly golden brown pizza and placed it in front of Su-ah, who was very excited.

The cheese was properly melted and the outside of the bread was crispy.

The slightly charred, yet not-so-charred part that is a characteristic of brick oven pizza was also perfect.

Just looking at it, I could feel the fire burning in the oven.

A visual that completely erases the illusion of having seen something strange in the wood-burning stove earlier.

Crispy!

Su-ah’s mouth watered at the sound of it being cut into pieces.

“Pepperoni can be a little spicy.”

“Hey, what do you think of me? I even eat tteokbokki.”

“I see.”

Well, I broke off a piece and gave it to Su-ah.

“No cola?”

“Are you looking for a cola at the cafe?”

“Hehehe! Then… … .”

“I’ll give you green tea lemonade instead of mint.”

“oh!”

Last time, it was the aid that received a good response from Han Song-i and Lee Seon-ah.

The refreshing and fragrant taste of green tea and lemon was able to completely remove the greasiness.

Of course, this time the baked pizza won’t be greasy, but it will still go well together.

I made two glasses and brought them over.

Meanwhile, Sua had already taken a bite of the pizza.

“Wow, wow! Awesome! This is really delicious!”

And it showed an unprecedented response.

He opened his eyes wide and kept exclaiming that it was delicious. Then he took another bite and his eyes grew even bigger.

If you keep doing that, your eyes will pop out.

“Eat slowly.”

“Mister, you should try it too! I told you it’s really delicious.”

“okay.”

The response was really good. Thanks to that, I also had a bite and felt good.

“hmm?”

The first thing that hits you is the rough surface of the bread, which is clearly different from something baked in an oven.

Because it was baked quickly at a high temperature, it could have easily become hard, but that wasn’t the case at all.

Crispy on the outside, chewy on the inside.

And the taste of the wood-burning stove enveloped the taste of that bread.

This was a completely different taste.

“This is why they call it a brazier.”

“Isn’t it really delicious?”

“That’s right.”

I also thought of something even more delicious.

If you make the tomato sauce a little lighter and top it with just basil and arugula and drizzle some olive oil, wouldn’t you be able to recreate the taste of a real Italian Margherita pizza?

Oh, of course I’ve never had authentic Italian pizza.

I’ve only heard of it.

Is it Bae Jun-seong? Is it Kim Jung-hyun?

I’m not sure exactly, but one of them told me.

I went on a trip to Europe and fell in love with it so much that I wasn’t even curious about it, but it even described the taste very well.

At that time, I wondered why they were talking so much about just one food.

But now I think I understand that expression.

If you make it like that, it looks really delicious.

“Should I try taking it like that when I take it to the baseball field?”

“Huh?”

“No, eat. Eat more. Now, take your time and drink your beverage.”

Su-ah tilted her head while mumbling to herself, her mouth full of pizza.

If someone saw me, they’d think I was stealing it.

He gave me green tea lemonade and an extra slice of pizza.

It was a regular size, so I thought it would be enough for two people to eat it all.

‘I’m glad you brought the wood stove.’

I never knew pizza could be this delicious.

I thought it would be okay, but it wasn’t that bad.

A completely different taste.

“Sir, can I roast chestnuts here later?”

“Chestnuts? That’s fine. You can roast sweet potatoes and rice cakes here.”

“Oh! And marshmallows!”

“That’s good too.”

Actually, it’s a little strange to like this kind of thing while living in a house.

In fact, these days, even rural homes all have gas boilers and do not light fires directly.

Especially in the case of Suah and Suho, they are too young to light a fire in the yard.

So this experience is bound to be fun. I guess I’ll have to set up a brazier in the vacant lot and start a bonfire again soon.

The marshmallow that Suah wants seems better than the wood stove.

“Would this be okay to wear when going to watch a baseball game?”

“Totally!”

Anyway, I decided on one snack to eat at the baseball stadium.

It’s satisfying to see Su-ah eat an entire pizza and express her satisfaction with her plump belly.

Shararang~

Suah’s aura must have flowed into the cafe because she was so satisfied.

It happened once before, but it rarely happens again… … .

Is this also because of the tiger shelter and me growing up?

Instead of talent absorption becoming difficult, it seems that the absorption of auras has increased in this way.

“huh?”

By the way, by the way.

What about some of Suah’s aura going into the wood stove?

This time I felt it for sure.

There is something in the wood burning stove that you can’t see with your eyes, but it just now received Su-ah’s aura as it seeped into it.

But now I don’t feel it anymore.

Judging from how it disappeared so quickly, it seems like it appeared briefly like this before and then disappeared.

It was not visible even when viewed through an eye or analyzed.

‘There is something, though.’

what?

Something that feeds on auras… … The only thing that comes to mind is a spirit, but I’m not sure.

“But where did this come from?”

“A stove? The village chief gave it to me.”

“aha!”

“Sua, have you ever seen this stove?”

“This? No? I don’t have any.”

Suah seemed to know nothing about wood stoves.

Umm… …Should I ask the village chief?

You might think that I’m giving you a good thing for nothing and saying bad things, so I had to think carefully.

‘I didn’t have a bad feeling about it, so I guess I’ll just take my time and find out for now.’

I decided to pay attention to that too, because I could reveal my presence again while absorbing aura like I am doing now.

Maybe it’s because I lack aura that I haven’t shown myself yet?

There are corrections right now, so it won’t be a problem.

“Oh, right! Then, sir, what should we ride?”

“Car? I need to borrow the village chief’s car.”

While responding to Su-ah’s words, an excuse to naturally talk to the village chief was created.

* * *

The next day.

I went to the village chief’s field again to ask him to borrow a car.

Fortunately, the village chief has just arrived at the field.

“I guess you don’t come out at dawn these days.”

“It’s not even midsummer, and the weather is nice during the day. But what brings you here? Oh, you want to borrow my car? Use it as you please.”

“Did you hear that from Suah?”

When I asked the village chief, who already knew, he nodded.

If it were Su-Ah, she would have already said something.

Still, coming this far wasn’t in vain.

“Oh, Chief. By the way, I mean the wood stove you gave me yesterday. It looks a bit old.”

“Wood stove? Why is it so old that it’s unusable?”

“No, that’s not it. I tried it yesterday and it was good. It didn’t smoke and burned well.”

“Heh heh. That’s good. But is there anything you’re curious about?”

“I was just curious. I received it yesterday because they said they would give it to me, but it looks quite old, so I’m curious as to how it ended up in storage.”

I tried to ask the question without making the village chief feel uncomfortable as much as possible.

Of course, the village chief didn’t seem to care about that at all.

“So when was that? I don’t remember exactly. But I know who the owner was.”

“Huh? There was a previous owner?”

“Yes, I did. I received it too.”

I learned something new.

I’ll have to look into it more to see if that fact has anything to do with what I felt.

“Is there a hardware store in town?”

“If it’s a hardware store in town… … Yes. I know.”

“It’s not the current boss, it was the previous boss who made it. It was originally used in a hardware store, but he said he was going to throw it away because he didn’t use it anymore, so I brought it to use in the field.”

“Huh? Really?”

What kind of fate is this?

I got it from a hardware store I know.

I don’t know exactly what his relationship with the current president is, but I heard before that he inherited a hardware store…

It was a bit strange.

“Are you worried that there might be something strange attached to the item?”

“No, that’s not it.”

“The owner of the hardware store there is a really nice person, but the previous owner was even nicer. If there was good energy, there was good energy, not bad energy.”

The village chief smiled as if he knew everything.

Of course, it seemed like he wasn’t saying anything knowing what I already knew.

It was an extension of what I said yesterday.

Whether it’s land, cars, or objects, if you roll them, they won’t break down or cause any problems.

“That’s all I know. If you have any more questions, go ask the hardware store owner. To be honest, I brought it with me and didn’t use it much. Hehe, I’m greedy for things, so I bring a lot of things here and there, but I don’t actually use them, so my warehouse is full.”

The village chief, who had an apologetic expression on his face as if he didn’t know anything, changed the subject.

I also felt it was rude to ask more about the wood stove, so I joined the conversation.

“Maybe we should go on a treasure hunt in the village chief’s warehouse later?”

“I’m not joking. You’ll definitely do that later. I don’t know what’s out there anymore.”

The size of the village chief’s warehouse in the field was unusual.

It’s a bit big to be called a personal warehouse.

But if it’s full of stuff, how much is there?

The wood stove was outside, so we took it out to prepare for winter, but the inside is full of things that we haven’t even touched yet.

“I will come with Su-ah before winter comes.”

“Yeah, yeah.”

So I came here to find out about the wood stove and ended up getting a treasure hunt ticket.

Oh, and I achieved my goal of renting a car.

‘Let’s go back for now.’

I headed straight to the cafe to go to work.

And to find out more about wood stoves, I had to wait for the hardware store owner to return from his trip, so I decided to put him off for a while.

I just happened to arrive at the cafe and not long after, a customer came.

It was my first early visit in a long time.

But that customer made a slightly strange order.

“Excuse me, can I get pizza here? No, I can’t. Sorry, I came to the cafe and it was weird.”

It seems like he feels sorry even after saying it.

I checked the condition of the guest who was talking nonsense.

A text window appeared with a dull aura surrounding it.

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