He received a call to come. There was no explanation. It wasn’t that they made an appointment, nor was he told anything about this. If they were old friends, they might call each other all of a sudden like this, but considering the personality of the caller, that probably wasn’t what was happening. Of course, it didn’t mean that he wasn’t close with the caller.

The place he arrived at in his car was a chicken feet restaurant near Daehak-ro. Although the restaurant was located on a rather old street, it was full almost all the time. He greeted the lady as he went inside. He went past the noisy first floor and climbed up to the 2nd floor. People were roasting chicken feet on charcoal underneath the low ceiling. Among the people, Ganghwan managed to find the person that called him here.

“What led you to drink over some chicken feet? Didn’t you quit drinking because of your health?”

“It’s fine to drink once in a while.”

Ganghwan smiled and asked the waiter to bring them another soju glass and a bottle of soju.

“I thought something happened because you called me out all of a sudden.”

He picked up the tongs and took out some chicken feet marinated in spicy sauce and put them on the grill. Along with a sizzling sound, smoke started rising up. He put down the soju glass that the waiter brought and shook the bottle of soju.

“Please, receive one from me.”

Ganghwan poured soju into the other party’s glass. The owner of the glass, Junmin, just looked as the glass became filled.

“Did something happen?”

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