Stranger Who Found Spring

g up on his current life just because he was worried, but Ha-hyun suddenly had a thought.

It was just, it was such a day.

* * *

Crazy.

Cho-seung, who rolled the sour lemon-flavoured candy that occupied his mouth, couldn’t hide his excitement.

This is a revolution.

In a nutshell, this candy was more than just candy.
He wanted to see how much more candies, which weren’t medicines, were effective for soothing the stomach, but Cho-seung, who felt the effect directly, criticized the paranoid thoughts of the past.

If only medicines were effective, why was there such a thing as a placebo effect? He apologized to the person who made the candy inside.

As he regretted the days he had stubbornly thrown it into the corner of the room, he put another melted candy in his mouth and tapped the keyboard with a comfortable face.

One week.

After suffering for a full week from the day he vomited at the tonkatsu store, he was happy with the peace he had felt after a long time.

Now, even if a team member made a mistake, he could accept it with the same heart as a Bodhisattva.
The past week had been hard enough to bring that kind of tolerance.

“Assistant Manager Kang, are you not going to have lunch today?”

Cho-seung, who showed a benevolent smile to the teammate who asked with a worried face, shook his head.

“I want to eat today, where are we going?”

“Really? That’s a relief.
We’re going to eat kimchi stew today, are you okay with that?”

“Good.
It’s been a while since I will eat well.”

After carefully saving the work he was working on and checking it, Cho-seung organized his seat and got up.
He approached those who had already gathered.

When Cho-seung arrived, they then rushed outside and walked to the restaurant they often went, telling him that they were worried and that they were happy because he was in good condition today.

After accepting them appropriately, Cho-seung naturally headed to the back of the group.
It was because he knew very well that no matter how easy he was to tell them to treat him comfortably, his position was still high.

“By the way, Assistant Manager Kang, do you have a lover?”

“Me? Um, I don’t?”

Cho-seung, who whispered back to the member whispering to him as he approached closer, tilted his head.
Why do you ask that?

“Ah, it wouldn’t be without them.
I must be worried about you.” (노파심, meant excessive solicitude or I told it to you because I deeply worried about you, here)

As he scratched his head and smiled, his doubts deepened.
Worried? Worried about what?

“What is it? Just say it.”

The employee, who waved his hand, saying it was really nothing to the urging Cho-seung, then took one more step closer to him after confirming that the other team members were taking the lead.

Cho-seung, who followed with the gesture as if he was trying to tell a secret, hardened his expression slightly.
He was serious about what he was trying to say.

“One of my acquaintances has a trait.
Of course, that friend is also an alpha.
There was a day when my acquaintance felt sick and couldn’t even get any food just like you, but then he found out that his partner was pregnant and he himself had morning sickness.”

The employee, who took a beat off by swallowing saliva, quickly recited the rest of the story.

“That’s why I asked if it was possible that Assistant Manager might be in a similar situation.
But you said you don’t have a partner.”

Was he really worried?

Haha, unlike the appearance of the employee, who smiled awkwardly and swept  the back of his back awkwardly, Cho-seung was stiff and hardened.
This raised another suspicion that the omega, who had a wonderful night with him, might be pregnant.

“Assistant Manager, Assistant Manager?”

“Ah, yeah.
I think you’re mistaken.
As Employee Yoo said, I don’t have a lover, so I don’t think it’s morning sickness.
It’s just that I wasn’t feeling well.”

Cho-seung, who tried hard to smile and gently tapped the employee’s shoulder, sweated inside.
He was still having a strange dream and was hard to digest, but he even heard of a morning sickness case as a probability.

Of course, it was just a story he had heard, so it shouldn’t be generalized, but it was crazy to know the importance of similar precedents.

Rather, if the morning sickness candy didn’t work, he would take it as a joke.
Why did he even hear about morning sickness as a probability today?

Cho-seung forcefully swallowed a sigh that was about to come out reflexively in frustration.

* * *

The morning sickness that had visited Cho-seung returned to Ha-hyun as he ate the candy and the situation gradually improved.

Ha-hyun, who had been happy for a while, started crying while cutting strawberries again as his morning sickness-like symptoms continued, and Cho-seung, who couldn’t hide his anxiety, swept his chest with relief.

‘I still don’t know!’

‘It’s okay, we have a lot of time left.’

‘What is that lemon again?’

‘Um… anyway, let’s see next time.’

The one returned while stomping his feet to comfort the other who was in as he circled the side of Cho-seung and left.
(발을 구르며 심통을 내는 이를 달래며 돌아가자 말한 이는 초승의 곁을 한 바퀴 맴돌다 곁을 떠났다, forgive me, this one doesn’t make sense)

It seemed that there was still a long way to go for Cho-seung to notice.
It was a day when small mischief swept the two of them and spring was still in full swing.