Park Yu-Min stared weirdly at Kang Jin-Ho. From the latter's perspective, what happened to him should have been the same as a lightning bolt out of the blue. If the same thing happened to Park Yu-Min, he probably would have wanted to strangle himself. Well, he did betray someone trying to help him, so that was understandable.

You could try to understand why anyone would repay a favor with betrayal up to a certain degree. However... Kang Jin-Ho simply shrugged it off as a 'minor inconvenience.’ Maybe he was an unfathomably gracious person or a brainless idiot. His declaration made it rather difficult to figure out where he belonged.

Park Yu-Min muttered, “E-even so...”

Kang Jin-Ho groaned and replied, “I already accepted your apology.”

"Yeah."

"I'm not a fan of bringing up the bygones over and over again. What's done is done. If an apology can deal with it, then it's nothing to lose sleep over. If a simple apology wasn't enough, then you and I would've never spoken again."

"Y-yeah..." Park Yu-Min scratched the back of his head, feeling like he was getting smaller with every passing second.

Before they could continue, though, they heard an inarticulate voice coming from behind them. "Uhm, hi...?"

Kang Jin-Ho slowly looked behind and spotted a little kid making a sheepish face waddling awkwardly toward him.

"So-Yeon, it's cold outside, you know. You should go back inside," said Park Yu-Min worriedly as he walked up to the kid.

The little...