Park Yu-Min sobered up quickly and gestured at Kang Jin-Ho. “For now, come inside.”

“I'd like to do that, but...” Kang Jin-Ho looked down at all the kids clinging to his legs.

Park Yu-Min burst into raucous laughter while walking up to his friend. “There, there! Guys, please let Jin-Ho in, okay?”

“Okay~!”

A vein ever-so-slightly bulged on Kang Jin-Ho's forehead.

'Looks like the effect of my education has been forgotten already.'

Before his enlistment, Kang Jin-Ho possessed enough clout to scare the kids into getting in line with just one word. However, it took only three months for the once-loyal soldiers to forget all about his clout and busy themselves with clinging to him.

Kang Jin-Ho finally breathed a sigh of relief when the kids released his legs, then followed Park Yu-Min into the building. He asked his friend while glancing at the ladle, “Were you in the middle of cooking?”

“Yeah. I gotta feed the kids, you know.”

“That's your job? Since when?”

“It turned out that way somehow.”

Kang Jin-Ho furrowed his brow. Park Yu-Min should be knee-deep in practice at this time of the day, yet why was he at 'home' cooking food to feed the rest of the orphans? “What's going on, Yu-Min?”

“Let's talk about it later. I guess you haven't had anything to eat yet, right?”

“...Yeah.”

“Wait for a bit. I'll get the food ready in no time.”

“Hmm...” Kang Jin-Ho had lots of things to say, but... It was a little past the usual lunch hour. After thinking about how the kids outside must be starving, Kang Jin-Ho couldn't delay Park Yu-Min any longer.

Park...