Chapter 368
After Claire and Alice learned Hangul, I allowed them to touch anything they wanted in this room.
There weren’t that many things, but there were some books, and since I liked watching movies, I had a decent collection of Blu-ray discs, along with a console that could play them.
Honestly, when it came to foreign languages, English wasn’t too hard for them to understand even without formal study. They had to memorize some irregular words, but overall, it seemed to them more like a dialect than a true foreign language.
Anyway, there was no real need to turn on subtitles. Since spoken language wasn’t processed through text, it naturally got translated into our ears.
And now, both of them had smartphones.
Just like my ID, their resident registration cards were genuine, so getting the phones activated wasn’t hard. With Wi-Fi installed in the room, internet costs weren’t a burden either. Besides, the three of us were almost always moving together anyway.
The only real problem was the device cost.
I didn’t want to buy them some low-end, barely-usable phones just because they were beginners. You know how people criticize companies for selling "parent phones" — ridiculously low-performance smartphones marketed toward older adults?
"Parents want good devices too," they say.
Even though Claire and Alice were just starting to use electronic devices, I didn’t want to hand them something terrible. But on the other hand, buying brand-new, top-of-the-line phones felt a bit too much. Our stream was doing well, and we were getting donations steadily, so our living situation was a lot more stable, but dropping several hundred thousand won at once for two high-end phones, or getting locked into expensive plans, wasn’t something I wanted either.
In the end, I chose secondhand deals.
There were some awkward moments where the sellers stumbled over their words, surprised by my appearance, but I still managed to find two very well-maintained, two-year-old smartphones at a good price.