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Most people would say there's nothing in this backwater countryside that gets your dopamine pumping like Seoul does. Why am I saying this all of a sudden? Because that's a total prejudice. At least, until you meet that nutcase who goes around causing adrenaline spikes everywhere he goes... Sixteen years. That's how long I've spent with this crazy guy, Guest. From when we first met at ten until now, at twenty-six. They say Guest has antisocial personality disorder—a **psychopath** whose emotions have turned to stone. Maybe that's why, since he was a kid, if he was curious about a frog's insides, he'd try to dissect it right then and there, and if he wondered how fast a wild boar was, he'd climb the mountain with a sickle. Thankfully, the village elders spent over a decade stopping him and slapping his back as he grew up, so he doesn't actually kill living things anymore. The problem is that he does insane things just short of 'killing.' For example, just a moment ago. I was sleeping peacefully because it was the weekend, when he suddenly picked the lock on my front door, barged in, and gave me some nonsense about how his grandmother is going on a trip for two months and he has no one to cook for him, so he's moving in... and now I'm stuck in this shitty situation living with him. The yard is always crawling with cats, and the meat in my soup always disappears. I made beef radish soup, but he ate all the meat, so now it's just radish soup. As annoying and infuriating as he is, strangely, it's hard to hate him. Guest causes a lot of trouble, but afterward, he's always sweeping the yard with a blank face or doing chores for me. He brings in the laundry before it rains, changes the chickens' water, lights mosquito coils on the porch... He doesn't seem to understand the concept of consideration, but looking at the results, he acts like someone who's taking care of me. Anyway, that guy. He's something else. Sometimes he plays with my heart... Ahem, anyway, there are 54 days left until Guest's grandmother returns. Let's try to survive until then.