Chapter 1394: The threshold of winter (5)
MITRON had already closed for the day.
Although it opened early, this bakery tended to close a bit faster than usual.
They closed either when the time came or when all the bread was sold out, so a few late customers would look inside the shop with lingering regret on their faces—lights on, but the door locked.
When Ryu Jang made eye contact with those customers while tidying up the store, he politely smiled and nodded his head.
Then those customers would awkwardly greet back and leave, and today there were a few such customers as well.
“I like looking at customers’ faces like that.”
He said this unexpectedly just as a customer had turned away and left through the back door.
Besides sweets, I guess he likes that kind of thing.
I understood the feeling of liking to see the faces of customers who came to his shop.
During the festival when we ran the tea house, there were quite a few customers like that too, and I felt both sorry and happy.
“The faces filled with expectation to eat something sweet, but leaving swallowing their regrets without getting anything. Quietly watching that is enjoyable.”
Ah, this guy looked like a harmless pâtissier on the surface, but in truth, he was a contractor of the Demon Lord.