{What is this terrible customer service?}

{I guess it’s going to be hard for us to stay here.}

{What should we do? Leave?}

{I don’t know. I think that flight of stairs leads to the second floor. Shall we go up?} It looked like a two-story cafe from the outside. There weren’t any available tables on the first floor, so Hugh thought they should go up to the second floor before figuring out their next move. Hugh beckoned to Rayford, and as he was about to take the next step, someone who appeared to be the owner of the cafe approached them.

“Hello! Nice meet you…?[1] Is that how you say it? In any case, welcome![2]” Just like his employee, the owner did not have a good command of English. He smiled awkwardly and led them straight to the second floor. Even though they couldn’t communicate with each other, he could tell they were customers. Kim Tae-Hwa didn’t have any trouble serving foreigners back when she was working part-time at the cafe. At times like these, the cafe owner missed her a lot.

The second floor was packed with customers. Fortunately, there was an empty table. The boss led the foreigners there and spoke to a customer who was sitting by the window beside the empty table.

“Um, Woo-Jin! I’m sorry to bother you, but are you good at English?”

“What. Ah…” Woo-Jin saw a foreigner standing behind...