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I'm not trying to butter you up, Choi. This is my heartfelt desire. That fate... will bring us together again in the future.

...May fate bring us together again.

Winter's almost here! That's right, winter's almost here! That means we're offering great deals here at the supermarket–buy one get one free on certain selections of fresh meat! Winter's almost here! That's right, winter's almost here! That means we're offering great deals here at the supermarket–buy one get one free on...

How long have we been standing in line, Hung? Is this ever going to end?

Just a bit longer. There's a big sale at the supermarket today, so a lot more people showed up than usual.

All over a piece of meat? My legs are gonna fall off from all this standing. I don't even get this tired from holding my martial arts poses.

A few days ago, Mr. Lee went out of his way to order braised leg meat in scallion oil, saying he wanted to eat it over his birthday. Luckily, they're selling that meat fresh at the supermarket today. Wait a few days longer and we'd only be able to get our hands on the frozen stuff.

I swear, the older he gets, the more childish he becomes. Whenever he wants to eat something, he has to have it then and there.

Well, birthdays are when your dreams are supposed to come true.

You say all that, but weren't you the one who picked out a present well in advance and hid it in your room?

H-How'd you find out? Didn't I say I can clean my room just fine by myself?!

I didn't go into your room... I just happened to see a bin filled with wrapping paper when I went to take out the trash.

Argh, I didn't think it'd be so hard to wrap up a present either! Had to wrap it and unwrap it so many times before I finally managed to fold it flat.

What would you like to get, Sir?

A cut of leg meat, please.

Front or rear?

Rear.

Waai Fu, have you seen Aak? Why isn't he here yet? We need to head back after picking up the meat.

No clue. He disappeared as soon as we went inside.

(Looks all around) Ugh...

Oh, isn't that him right there? He's walking toward us.

Where've you been all this time? And what did you buy?

Nothing. Just window shopping for something I could pick up for Old Lee.

Didn't see anything you liked?

Hehe, nope.

That'll be a total of 471 LMD. Will you be paying cash or card?

Excuse me, Miss... I think you did the math wrong.

Huh? We calculate everything by machine. There's no way it would be wrong.

(Strange, how is more expensive than what I calculated?)

Waai Fu, mind opening the bag up for me? Let me add things up again.

Don't worry about it, Hung. You might've made a little slip-up. Let's hurry up and head home with our stuff first.

Yeah, that's right. We've been out all day, and I'm sure Waai Fu here is tired. Let's go home and get some rest.

Waai Fu, open the bag.

Here you go, Hung. Comb through everything carefully.

(Oops, should've kept my mouth shut...)

Leg meat, white radishes, pumpkin, lotus root...

Umm, Hung, there seems to be a pouch of herbs at the bottom of the bag.

Aah... Achoo! *cough* *cough*... What the heck is this stuff? It stings!

*cough* *cough* *wheeze*... What is <i>this?!</i>

Huh? What are you two lookin' at me for? Nobody ever said you had to open it up.

If anything, the stuff the two of you are gettin' for Lee is way too boring.

Anyway, I'll head back first. The two of you can catch up later.

*cough* *cough* *cough*... Why you little...

Get back here, you little!