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“It’s here.”
I was in front of the beauty salon run by Jang Young-shin’s mother with the little one.
Before entering the beauty salon, I checked my outfit one last time.
White t-shirt, ripped jeans, and Converse sneakers.
Hair that is neither long nor short, but somewhere in between.
If you make a slightly bewildered expression here…
“Kid. How do I look?”
“That’s stupid.”
You’re saying he looks like an ordinary 20-year-old guy?
And next to me, a little boy was looking at the beauty salon with a solemn expression.
The little girl came wearing a yellow one-piece dress, looking like a chick aiming for a feeder.
Then the little boy turned his head and looked at me.
Those eyes were quite sharp.
“You promised? A set of four kinds of fresh meat and a large order of French fries!”
I nodded heavily and held out my fist to the kid.
“I keep my promises.”
Bam.
The little boy’s fist lightly bumped into mine and then fell away.
And we went into the beauty salon.
Daughter.
As the bell on the door rang, a woman reading a magazine stood up and turned to us.
“Welcome~.”
She was Jang Yeong-shin’s mother, a graceful beauty in her mid-30s.
It was also our first target.
I said, hesitantly, pretending to be a normal, innocent 20-year-old.
“I… came to get my hair cut.”
She smiled faintly and pointed to the chair.
“Please sit here. Who will cut it?”
“Me.”
I continued talking as I sat down in the beauty salon chair.
“I’m going to get a perm. I’ll put in some light waves…”
Perm was an inevitable choice.
What we’re going to do from now on is a plan that will take quite some time.
I said as I looked around the salon.
“There are so many toys.”
The beauty salon was filled with items made by Jang Young-shin.
From dolls made of cloth, to leather crafts, to weapons, armor, cars and robots made of paper and plastic.
I would have believed it if you said it was a figure store and not a beauty salon.
The old woman said with an awkward smile.
“My son has been enjoying making things since he was little. Can I trim his hair a bit before getting a perm?”
Somehow that smile seemed a little sad.
“Oh, yes.”
As I answered, I winked at Lily, who was looking in the mirror.
It’s your turn, little one.
The little boy who was sitting on the sofa kicking his feet in the air said the exact same Korean sentence I had taught him before he came.
“Oppa. I’m going to sleep~.”
“······.”
For a moment, goosebumps almost appeared all over my body, but I managed to calm my skin and said.
“Be quiet for a bit.”
The little boy ignored me, got up from his seat, and started fiddling with the dolls in the store.
I pretended to be embarrassed.
“Can’t you just stay still? What if something breaks…?”
When I looked embarrassed, the lady smiled and said it was okay.
“It’s okay. There are a lot of those. You can take a few later.”
“I’m sorry. My younger brother is such a tomboy···.”
“It’s really okay. But are you my real brother?”
“He’s not my biological brother. I have some circumstances…”
Like most hairdressers, the lady tried to engage in conversation with her customers.
I continued the conversation naturally, responding appropriately.
“Still a student?”
“No. I have work to do.”
“Wow. At such a young age, already…”
Then Lily came running towards us.
The little boy was holding a stuffed chicken doll in his arms.
···You bring something like that.
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“Ah, ma’am! What is this?”
The old woman smiled bashfully and answered, perhaps because she thought the little boy’s actions were cute.
“My son made that. Do you want it?”
The little boy nodded his head excitedly.
I guarantee you that it’s not acting, it’s real.
“Yeah! Chicken, I saw it when I was a muggle!”
It seems like he’s talking about something like the picture drawn on a chicken bag.
The mother said, patting the little boy’s head.
“Take it with you when you go home later.”
“Thank you!”
As I glanced over, the little boy added:
“···yo. this!”
The mother had an expression on her face like she couldn’t stand the cute little brat.
“How can she be so pretty? I wish I had a daughter like that.”
At those words, I let out a small sigh.
This was not an act, it was sincere.
“She may have a cute face, but she’s a disaster. And she eats so much…”
“It’s so good to eat well. My son doesn’t eat at all, so I can’t tell you how worried I am.”
I asked the question as if I knew nothing about it.
“How old is your son?”
“I’m thirteen now. I’m about an inch taller than my little brother here.”
A moment later, a perm machine was spinning above my head, and we were chatting about the hardships of parenting.
I spoke passionately.
“Well, I said I only want to eat chicken. I make nutritious food with all kinds of healthy ingredients, but I always say it tastes bad and I don’t want to eat it… Honestly, I can eat that, right?”
The woman sighed in agreement.
“I know that feeling all too well. My child doesn’t eat rice well either, but he loves pizza so much···.”
“And then one time I swore without thinking, and the kid took it to mean something else···.”
“Oh my! You really have to be careful what you say in front of the kids!”
As we talked about common topics, our intimacy quickly grew.
Now the lady began to speak to me naturally.
···But what is all this doing?
It was all preliminary work to meet Jang Young-shin.
-Servant Syndrome-
A phenomenon in which a very small number of people with autism demonstrate genius-level talent in a specific field.
Jang Young-shin suffered from savant syndrome.
Because of this, I had extremely poor social skills and had a very hard time talking to others.
Even in the future I knew, Jang Young-shin was famous for not talking to anyone except her mother and a very small number of acquaintances.
Since the opponent was this kind of guy, I needed to approach him differently.
I suddenly showed up dressed in a suit,
“Are you Jang Young-shin? I’m from the Superhuman Guild. Would you like to develop your talents with us?”
He’s not the kind of guy who’ll just say that and get over it.
So, I naturally made plans to become friends with Jang Young-shin.
Coming as a customer to the beauty salon run by his mother.
It was a well-known story that the person who actually discovered and discovered Jang Young-shin’s talent was also a regular at this beauty salon.
I said.
“My little brother really likes it because there are a lot of toys here. I’ll come here next time to get my little brother’s hair cut.”
“I’m always welcome. Or should I just trim your bangs now? I won’t take your money.”
“No, I’ll cut it next time I come.”
Even though I said it was okay, the lady said she would cut it for me as a service.
“Honey, do you want to come here?”
After a while, the little boy started to cry, playing with his straight bangs.
“This is weird···.”
“Oh my! It’s so cute!”
The lady took a bunch of pictures, saying that I absolutely had to save them.
Even though our chatter must have been quite loud, there was no response from inside the store.
This isn’t a big beauty salon, so you could probably hear all the way to the rooms inside the store.
I tried to raise my mana as a test.
Ss …
So small that the average person wouldn’t even notice.
However, if you are an awakened superhuman, you can spread a level of mana that is easily noticeable inside the beauty salon.
I said, looking at the door inside the store.
“But aren’t we being too loud? I think it might be bothering my son…”
“It’s okay. I’ll be busy making something else.”
If Jang Young-shin hadn’t yet awakened as a superhuman, there was no need to meet her today.
I’m satisfied with becoming friends with the lady today, and I’ll visit her from time to time to become closer to her.
···But there was a reaction.
Ding ding.
The door inside the beauty salon opened slightly, revealing half of its face as a pale-faced boy.
“···Mom. Are you okay?”
The mother looked back at her son with a surprised face.
“Oh my. What brings you here?”
At that moment, I signaled to the little boy with my eyes.
Go away, kid!
Lily ran towards Dudadada, holding the stuffed chicken.
“···omg!”
Before the surprised Jang Young-shin could close the door, the little boy managed to put the chicken doll through the crack in the door.
Cock-a-!
The chicken stuck in the gap screamed.
···Did that make a sound?
Jang Young-shin looked down at Lily with a puzzled expression.
“···What are you?”
The boy twisted the chicken doll wildly to widen the gap in the door, then finally swung it open.
And he handed the battered chicken to Jang Yeong-sin and said.
“This! Did you make this, oppa?”
“···Uh. But?”
Well done my little one!
The little boy was now using all the Korean words he knew, including the few I had taught him as a beginner.
“How did you make it? It’s so weird!”
At that moment, Jang Young-shin’s eyes began to sparkle.
Servant syndrome.
Although he usually shows autistic tendencies, he shows amazing concentration and passion in his favorite fields.
“How did you make it···”
– The little boy would not have understood more than 90% of what Jang Young-shin said.
Because even if I heard it, I wouldn’t understand half of it.
Still, the little boy nodded diligently and played the jangguk as I told him to.
“Wow! Oppa, what’s your favorite!”
It was all a passion for the 4-piece set of Sunsal.
Without even knowing it, the innocent boy muttered while avoiding the little girl’s bright gaze.
“No, it’s nothing···.”
“It’s delicious! It’s delicious! It tastes like chicken! Do you like chicken?”
“No, that’s not it… Chicken? I like pizza better….”
“What the heck! What the heck!”
···If you have nothing to say, stop now.
However, Jang Yeong-shin blushed helplessly at Lily’s endless praise.
“···There are some cooler things inside. Should I show you?”
what?
The kid nodded before I could intervene.
“huh!”
The little kid probably answered without even knowing what he was saying.
“···Then follow me.”
Jang Young-shin held the little boy’s hand and went into the room.
My mother and I looked at that sight with equally blank expressions.
“It’s the first time I’ve seen my child talk like that to someone···.”
“······.”
I too was speechless and looked in the direction where the kids had disappeared.
Suddenly, I realized something surprising.
That kid?
The mother simply found her son’s behavior strange,
I could instinctively tell what Jang Young-shin’s actions just now meant.
Suddenly.
I got up from my seat and walked briskly to where the two little ones had disappeared.
“Huh? The perm isn’t finished yet?”
My mother called me from behind, but my head wasn’t important right now.
Ding ding.
As soon as I opened the door, I was in the living room of my house.
There were two little children playing with toys.
“···Take this and this, you take it.”
Jang Yeong-shin gave the little boy the toy that looked the best at first glance.
“Thank you!”
“···I can make it again.”
And Jang Young-shin blushes.
When I saw that, I was sure.
That guy.
I fell head over heels in love with the kid.
I expected that since we were of similar age, we would become friends easily.
So I gave the kid a mission to become friends in exchange for chicken.
It was so absurd that I couldn’t help but chuckle.
“I didn’t want this, but···.”
Thanks to that, things seemed to be going smoothly.
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And two days later.
I led the team into the ‘Labyrinth of Fallen Souls’.
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