“Where’s Maru?” Sungjae asked as he looked back.

Geunsoo, who said he’d bring Maru, came back holding Bitna’s hand. Maru couldn’t be seen with him.

“He says he’ll be eating over there.”

‘There’ - Sungjae looked at the lunchbox vehicle. People were taking lunchboxes from the lunchbox vehicle that had a large logo plastered on the side. Maru could be seen in the middle of that line. He was talking to the people standing in front and behind him. He shouldn’t have had that much time to get along with them, so his ability to get close to strangers was kinda incredible.

“It kinda suits him.”

Maru looked so happy that Sungjae would feel sorry if he called him here. He met eyes with Maru from afar, and Maru just took a bow. He seemed to be apologizing for not being able to take him up on the invitation.

“Looks like we’ll have to eat together next time.”

As unfortunate as that was, he couldn’t force Maru to come. Sungjae grabbed Bitna’s hand and put some strength into his arm. Bitna, who was standing between the two men, jumped high into the air and laughed. That was the only activity she liked. She was kinda hard to approach at the beginning because she was so polite, but playing ‘aeroplane’ and lifting her like that would make her chuckle, so he was at ease with her after...