I Quit My Job and Run a Café - Chapter 296



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Quitting the company and opening a cafe Episode 296

While the morning ritual was being performed, everyone in the cafe woke up to a cry that the child had disappeared.

The reaction was even more dramatic because most of the people who came here came as families.

“Can you tell me the child’s impression?”

“Where do you live? I don’t think you’ll go far.”

People asked the man all sorts of questions as he was very excited.

But there’s no way he’ll be able to speak properly. The man just keeps repeating, “Haven’t you seen the child?”

“Here, drink this and talk slowly.”

I walked into the crowd and offered the man some cool green tea.

At first I refused and said it was okay, but soon.

Boom! Boom!

I emptied it quickly. It seemed to calm down a bit, perhaps because it was cold or because of the effects of the green tea.

“So, at this height, he’s wearing a yellow top… … .”

I calmly took in the impressions the man gave me and wrote them down.

It seemed like they had already contacted the police, who soon came to the cafe and told us the description they had just heard.

“Come on! Now that we’ve all heard the impressions, let’s start by looking around the village!”

“Yes? Okay, thank you. Thank you!”

And then the guests rushed out, accompanied by the police.

Among them were Su-ah, Choi Hyun-wook, Baek-gu, Gamja, etc.

“What is this happening so early in the morning?”

“Let’s go out and see.”

“… … I guess so.”

The cafe was closed for a while so I decided to go out and have a look.

Oh, Soo-Jung and Mi-Ho decided to go too.

‘Brownie, take good care of the cafe.’

Kuru~

Brownie decided to guard the cafe and hurried down the path.

“If you see the child, please contact me.”

“The child shouldn’t have gone far away.”

“You didn’t go towards the mountains, did you?”

I could hear people talking in different directions.

And among them were Su-ah and Choi Hyun-wook.

“Sir! Over here!”

Suah called out to me as I had just come down.

“For now, we decided to look back like this.”

“Then I will go with you.”

Join this group.

I entered the village to find the child. Of course, I also used my target detection and analysis talents along the way.

But as before, target detection had its limitations.

And this time Miho wasn’t much help either, back then she was looking for a conman with a gloomy snake aura, now she was just a kid.

For now, you have no choice but to go around and look for it yourself.

“Potato! Swans! Let’s find them by smell!”

Su-ah seemed to be trying to trust her two senses of smell.

But since neither Gamja nor Baekgu had received any special training, it was hard to expect much.

Because not just any dog ​​can be tracked by scent.

“Seungwon! Seungwon!”

At that moment, a woman wearing an apron appeared from the alley, calling out to a child.

Anyone who saw it could easily guess who it was because the look of confusion was obvious.

“Hey, hey. Have you ever seen a guy like this?”

“We came out to look for them anyway. People will be looking for them everywhere right now.”

“Thank you! Thank you so much!”

“If you don’t mind, can I see some of the things your child used?”

“Huh? Ah! Yes!”

The child’s mother ran off somewhere again in a hurry.

We saw potatoes and swans together.

Of course, it wasn’t because of them that I asked for it, but maybe it’s better to just misunderstand it that way.

After a while, he asked the child’s mother to wait a moment, who brought what appeared to be the child’s clothes.

“Potatoes, swans. Smell them.”

I used analysis to sneakily ask Potato and Swan to smell my clothes, and at the same time used target detection.

It definitely felt a bit clearer than just having an impression and using it.

I don’t know exactly where it is, but I have a feeling I can tell the vicinity.

‘Potato, swan. Let’s go over there.’

I used communication to convey my thoughts in a way that the bewildered guys could naturally follow.

Then the two guys started going to where I told them to go.

‘Miho, go over there first and tell me when you find a kid like this. If the kid moves, follow him.’

Kiyung!

And I sent Miho first.

At this rate, Miho will be able to find her child too.

The child followed quickly and moved with his mother.

I went into the alley and wandered around. I was not going out of the village, but rather going deeper into it.

‘This is right. What is it?’

I felt a little uneasy.

Of course, if I were a child, I would have just looked straight ahead, so I thought it would be on the outskirts of town. So I thought I had to find it before I went any further.

It was the same for the other people in the cafe, so I started looking from the outskirts of town… … .

Rather, inside.

‘There’s no problem, right?’

Suddenly, bad news came to mind.

They were all serious situations.

The worst of all was when something happened to a child, and it was done by a human.

I quickened my pace.

I also told Potato and Swan to go a little faster.

“I think the swan and the potato found it!”

When the group saw that, they thought the two dogs had found the child and started to walk faster.

And the place we arrived at was… … .

“This is my in-laws’ house.”

“Your in-laws?”

“yes.”

The mother of the child who had been following along with hope made a disappointed expression.

Her lips were tightly shut, and it seemed as if she was trying hard to hold back tears.

I think it’s because of the frustration of not being able to find what I was looking forward to.

But it was still too early to do that.

‘Miho!’

Kiyung!

Because Miho was staying at the place you said was your in-laws’ house.

And when I looked into the eyes, I saw that there was a small aura inside.

It’s a child’s aura.

“It seems to be inside.”

“Yes? We searched everywhere. The adults and I… … .”

“well.”

But when I used analytics, it became clear: it was there.

“Can I come in?”

“yes yes.”

I asked permission to go inside.

It was true that they noticed the child missing during the ancestral rite, as the ancestral rite table was still there.

Since the door is usually left open during a ritual, it seems natural that people assumed the child had gone out there when he disappeared.

“I think it’s over here.”

He gently pushed the swan with his foot to indicate the direction.

Although he was a swan with a bewildered expression, he had a rather manly and trustworthy appearance to those who did not know him.

“Seungwon! Seungwon, are you there!?”

The child’s mother went inside and screamed.

We just watched the scene unfold.

If the child is inside, we’ll find them right away.

As expected.

“Seungwon-ah!!”

The screams of the child’s mother were heard, as if she had found her child.

And soon the child’s voice was heard.

Fortunately, it seems like nothing dangerous happened as I had imagined on the way here.

It just seemed to be hiding in the closet.

“Oh my, Seungwon! Where have you been, you punk!”

Soon after, the family members who came to find the child after hearing the mother’s voice also found the child and sighed in relief, each saying a few words.

What the heck is going on this holiday morning?

“Big. That’s fortunate.”

The people who had been searching for the child together also felt relieved after understanding the situation.

And the man who first visited the cafe, who appeared to be the child’s father, expressed his gratitude to those people.

“Thank you. Thank you.”

“Oh, it’s okay. It’s something that can happen to anyone when raising a child, so don’t say anything.”

“Yes, yes. It’s our fault. How could the child have done anything wrong?”

“Mom and Dad, you don’t need to blame yourself like that.”

I couldn’t help but wipe my nose at the sight of them understanding and appreciating each other.

It seemed like Seungwon’s search for something warm was coming to an end.

“If you take care of the dead, you’ll lose the living! I can’t do it anymore! I won’t do it!”

“No, this guy. What does that matter now? In the first place, shouldn’t you and Seungwon’s mom have been taking good care of the child?”

“What were we playing? The people playing in the living room should have taken care of it!”

“So we played? We prepared the table too!”

“Oh my! You’re just putting all that on the table, how can you be so fancy! And you saw the kid go out? Why is the kid in the house? Huh?”

There was a lot of yelling in the house.

It seemed to be a dispute over responsibility for the child’s disappearance.

‘Mother-in-law and father-in-law.’

Judging by the age group, it seems like that might be the case.

It seems that the beginning was caused by a strike by the mother-in-law of the child’s mother at the ancestral rites table, and the father-in-law refuted it. It was a very personal dispute, so there was no room for me to intervene.

“Okay. Okay. Let’s go.”

At that sight, the police and the gathered people began to disperse on their own.

We also went outside for now.

While I was doing that, it was like that inside.

“Would you like to come with us, you and your child? I think it would be better to take a break at the cafe before and then come back.”

“Oh, yes.”

The child and his parents decided to go together. They couldn’t get involved in the conflict anyway.

If there is one, it would be the child’s father… … I think it would be better not to get involved.

Right now, it seems like taking care of the surprised mother and child is the priority.

I listened to the sounds inside the house and realized that it was no longer a person-to-person battle, but rather a conflict between powers.

In a fight between whales, the shrimp’s back will be broken.

I headed to a cafe before I got further involved in the already resolved situation.

‘But… … I found the child, but why is the aura still the same?’

I wasn’t talking about the child.

It was talking about the aura that the child’s parents see.

I saw it as I headed to the cafe.

When I first met her after she lost her child, I thought she was just in a bad state because she had lost her child… … .

The situation was still the same.

Is it because things haven’t stabilized yet?

‘It’s still ambiguous for something like that.’

I guess I’ll have to go to a cafe and take a closer look at this.

The child’s aura was also a little strange, so I decided to take a look.

* * *

The once full cafe became deserted.

It was because many people returned home due to the chaos earlier.

Still, everyone was grateful for the help, and the child’s mother and father paid for each of the people’s drinks so they could all take out one drink each, and we went back feeling warm…

‘It seems like the child’s mother and father were considerate enough to get some rest.’

Now that I look at it, it seems like that’s what it was like.

They are really nice people.

It was good that you gave me the cookies you had made as a service.

Anyway, thanks to that, the child’s parents were able to sit down and rest a little more comfortably.

I’m glad I brought him with me, considering I wouldn’t have been like that if I had stayed at home.

And the child… …was playing between the potatoes and the swan as if he knew nothing.

Well, it was almost a one-sided thing for the child to follow around. At first, the child’s parents tried to stop it, but Choi Hyun-wook and Lee Sun-ah said it was okay, so now they just watch.

Fortunately, the child did not make any mistakes like other children his age, such as grabbing the puppy’s fur or not being able to control his strength.

He was quite delicate for a child.

He seems to be around the same age as Ha-jun, the son of Song Jun-hyeok, a doctor at the town’s public health center…

That’s why Choi Hyun-wook and Lee Sun-ah also said it was okay.

Just in case, they both held onto the leashes.

“Two matcha lattes, please.”

They even gave us drinks to help us relax more comfortably.

Of course I ordered it.

“thank you.”

I checked the condition of the two people who received the matcha latte.

Your complexion has improved.

However, the aura was the same as what I had seen earlier.

[Gu Jun-hyeok]

*situation

─Mild surprise

─Mild depression

─Excessive burden due to responsibility

─Worry

This is the husband’s side.

My wife’s side wasn’t much different.

I don’t know exactly yet, but…

‘I think it has something to do with the child’s condition.’

After handing over the drinks, I turned my attention to the child playing with the potato and the swan.

Oddly enough, the child was acting as if he couldn’t see anything else.

And there was another strange thing about that sight.

‘You’re speechless?’

Not only were there no words, but no sound came out of his mouth.

Even exclamations.

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