“Help me out at the petrol station, will you?”

“Is it that bad?”

“The guy that said he was going to work ran again. We pay more than everyone else around, but we still can’t get anyone.”

“You must be having a hard time, but what can you do about it? You’re going to succeed the business, so you have no choice but to do it.”

Dowook climbed down the stairs after complaining.

“I’m leaving as well. See you around, you two.”

“Have fun making gukbap.”

“Why don’t you visit and eat some? Missus hasn't been looking good recently since sales are dropping.”

“You’ve totally married into their family now, huh. You just have to deal with it. Have fun too, Iseul.”

Maru waved his hand at the two people that left.

“They’re like workers,” Daemyung said, standing next to him.

“They are workers, and also students. Both Dojin and Dowook that is.”

“Sometimes, I envy them. I feel like they’ve grown up already.”

“That’s nothing to be envious about. It’s best to delay jumping into the working force as long as possible. The best scenario is to not have a job forever and just live off rent if you’ve inherited a building from your family or something. We have sad lives because we can’t do that.”

“Did you have to make it that depressing?”

Maru shrugged before looking at the staircase to the 3rd floor.

“You’re going up, right?”

“Yeah, what about you?”

“I can’t do today.”

“Do you have a shoot for the film?”

“No, that’s on Wednesdays....