Stranger Who Found Spring

king care of the appearance, but it was meaningless when he saw the finished product.

“As long as it tastes good…”

Ha-hyun, who was trying to spit out the excuses often made by people who couldn’t cook, shook his head.
Don’t be pathetic when you’re alone.

He held the sandwich cut into bite-sized pieces in his hand and exhaled tensely.
He hoped he wasn’t going to throw up again.
Anyway, this time he didn’t get nauseated by the smell.
He looked down at the innocent sandwich with his worries on his face, then closed his eyes and took a bite.

Ha-hyun, who had chewed it a few times, opened his eyes wide when he realized that it wasn’t disgusting.

The combination of moist and soft bread, sweet whipped cream, and sour strawberries were always good.
It felt more delicious because it was a strawberry he ate after a long time, so he wrapped his cheeks and smiled happily.

“As expected, strawberry and whipped cream are a good combination.”

He was happy to eat strawberries without morning sickness like this.

So, could he eat injeolmi (인절미, a variety of tteok or Korean rice cake, here), which he couldn’t eat because of morning sickness while trying to eat it last time?

Ha-hyun, who put the rest of his pieces in one bite, took out injeolmi from the freezer with a round ball.
He ate the sandwich he had made while defrosting it in the microwave.

“Yummy, yummy.”

Ha-hyun, who drank water so as not to dry his throat, took a step and took out the hot injeolmi when the defrosting injeolmi was finished with a cheerful sound.
He picked up the edge of the plate and quickly moved it to the table, waving his hand which the heat still remaining.

“Um…”

As he rolled his eyes while eating chewy injeolmi, he smiled broadly.

Today seemed like a happy day to be free from morning sickness.

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* * *

“Haa…”

Today was a rough day.

Otherwise, there was no way he could miss the alarm he normally heard.
Cho-seung, who got up later than usual and forgot to wear a tie because he was in a hurry, touched the empty nape of his neck.

In addition, the pheromone control, which was close to nothing, became more difficult as if a dam had been opened.
If he looked away even for a moment, the pheromone that he had pressed down would flow and go somewhere.
It even spread more widely than usual and Cho-seung had been through some troubles lately.

“Assistant Manager Kang, we are going to lunch, would you like to go together?”

“Ah, that’s good.
What’s on the menu today?”

Staring at the monitor with blurred vision and touching his forehead, he habitually smiled as he pulled back his body at the sound of a voice over the partition.

“How about tonkatsu (돈가스)? We’re going to the newly opened store.”

“It would be delicious.
Are you going now?”

“Yes.”

Cho-seung forcefully swallowed the sigh that came from inside.
He didn’t even know it was lunchtime.
It was frustrating that he had been sitting fruitlessly through the morning.

What he couldn’t handle now was something he had to deal with at any time soon, so it wouldn’t be good to postpone it.
It was just the future itself was difficult.

Anyway, Cho-seung decided to eat first, joined the crowd and headed to the tonkatsu store.

“Oh my God, there are too many people.”

“What should we do? Shall we go to another store?”

“Isn’t it better to wait since we’ve come all the way here?”

Whatever it was, Cho-seung waited for people to decide.
Scratching his cheek as he looked at the people in line in front of the store, he opened his mouth to the team members who still had different opinions.

“The rotation seems to be fast, and I think we only need to wait 10 minutes, shall we wait?”

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“It’s okay to wait ten minutes.”

“Then let’s wait.
I heard from a teammate next to me that it was pretty tasty.”

While waiting to enter, a light topic came up.
Variety shows they watched over the weekend, dramas that were trending these days, and talking about the weather.

Rather than talking about something that made headaches, they deliberately brought out light stories to refresh their heads after work and when the waiting was over, they laughed.

Among them, there was the only person who couldn’t laugh and that was Cho-seung.
Ever since he stood in front of the store, he had been feeling sick.
He didn’t know why, so he stayed still, but it seemed like it would be difficult to eat lunch at this rate.

He hurriedly blocked his mouth when he saw tonkatsu in front of his eyes, rubbing his stomach and taking a deep breath.

“Assistant Manager Kang? What’s wrong?”

“That, up—”

Cho-seung, who was about to answer, turned his head and drank water because he thought he felt nauseous.

“That… I don’t think I can’t eat because I feel sick all of a sudden.”

“Pardon? Where are you sick?”

“No, I don’t know.”

First of all, it was certain that the smell of tonkatsu was driving him crazy.
Cho-seung, who was trying to answer as much as possible, frowned and covered his mouth again.
Ah, it’s harder.

“Sorry.
I’ll go first.
I’ll pay for it, so take your time.”

Cho-seung, who took his wallet and headed to the cashier, finished paying for the team members and quickly left the store.
One of the team members, who was watching the disappeared Cho-seung, muttered involuntarily.

“Is he pregnant…”

“What? Isn’t Assistant Manager Kang alpha?”

“No, of course, Assistant Manager Kang is an alpha, it’s just similar to when a pregnant friend has morning sickness.”

The team member raised his hand in embarrassment, felt similar to that time and tilted his head.

‘It really feels like morning sickness…’

As the team members guessed, it was the day that Ha-hyun’s morning sickness transferred to Cho-seung.