According to Seoho, even if someone is diagnosed as dead, there is a chance that they will come back to life before crossing the river.
People who have died and come back to life, even though there is no medical explanation for it, are the people who have barely managed to hold on to a slim chance.
What I am saying is that the stories of people who died and came back to life that I saw on overseas topics are not just made up stories.
Everyone has a chance to survive.
Seoho asked him to sell that possibility to him.

“Anyway, the probability of coming back to life is as small as invisible dust.
Instead of hanging on to it, you'd be much more profitable if you sold me the odds.
I guarantee you a time of forty-nine days.
You can stay in this world for that long.
The price is only a sip of hot blood.
You make your own judgments and the decisions are entirely yours.
Are you heartbroken by an unexpected breakup? Is there someone you'd like to see? Buying forty-nine days isn't easy.
“Meeting me was the luckiest of lucks.” (Page 9)


“A person’s life is not something that can be taken lightly.
You all have the same age, gender, and personality, but your faces will be different.
Please don't throw a tantrum and ask to stay with your original face.
I say it again, it's impossible for me.
It's not something that can be solved by forcing it.
It's just energy consumption.
Where else would you like to stay besides home? I'll listen to that.
“You can say goodbye to the people you want without necessarily having to take their faces home.”
At Seoho's words, the old man jumped up.
He said that he had to return to his own face.
Only after the weary and exhausted Seoho told him to quickly cross the river of oblivion and pretend it never happened did the old man give up.

“I want to open a restaurant where I can see the bus stop and subway station.
When I can't go home, a restaurant is the most comfortable place for me.
I'm a chef.
“Can you do that?”
Seoho nodded at the old man's words.

"you?"
Seoho looked at me.

"well."
There was no place to go.
“If you have nowhere to go, stay with me.
It's better to have two.
Even if this is the wrong choice, it is better to have two than one.” (Main text, pages 16-17)


“Let’s start a food business.”
"yes?"
“Let’s start a food business.
There are so many cooking ingredients that you can make any dish.
So, what I'm saying is, let's do business.
“I’ll make the food, so you clean the restaurant and serve.”
“Why do you have to work so hard? What are you going to do with the money you earn?”
“I’m not doing this to make money.”
"sure?"
“I thought about it carefully, and it seems like that’s the only way.
What other way to draw people into a restaurant without going outside is to make and sell food? I mean, I'm a pretty good chef, after all.
People who have tasted the food I make almost always become addicted.
It will soon become a popular restaurant and people will be waiting in line.
If I do that, the person I need to meet will come.
That guy is a gourmet.
Especially since I'm used to the taste of my food.
I'm a person who isn't satisfied with just any food.
I will definitely come find you.
“Yeah, that’s the best way.”
The man got up from his seat and went to the kitchen.
The man's hands became busy opening the refrigerator and checking inside.
I was curious about who the man wanted to meet, who he absolutely had to meet.
But the old man who always says that we have 49 days to talk slowly will not tell me that.
(Pages 34-35)


“Parents, there’s no such thing.”
"okay?"
The old man stopped cutting the green onions.
“My mother ran away from home when I was four because my father beat her so much.
Since there has been no contact since then, I don't know if he is alive or dead.
Even if he's alive, I don't really want to see him.
I don't remember it because it happened when I was four, but my dad told me about it.
Isn't that funny? It's not like I'm bragging about beating someone up and kicking them out.
My father drank too much and became sick, and he passed away when I was in the fourth grade.
So, you might be wondering, who did I live with? I lived with my grandmother.
My dad was married once before he married my mom, and he had a son from that marriage.
He's five years older than me, but he's a total punk.
He is a person who only thinks about spending money and not about making money.
Hitting and swearing at every opportunity is the norm.
Grandma is no different.
He gets angry easily and always says things like "I'd rather disappear from your sight".
I was my grandmother and my brother's drummer.
“A drum that you beat to vent your anger.”
A relationship based on love? We don't have that in our house.
“I don’t want to see my grandmother or my brother again.
If I meet my grandmother, it will be a big problem.
If he stole Suchan's scooter and got into an accident, the scooter would have been destroyed and his grandmother would have had to pay all the money.
“Oh my, the day I meet my grandmother is the day I’ll be destroyed.”
I shook my head.
I'm still going crazy over my grandmother's temper.
The old man looked at me blankly and listened to the story.
Oops, I just said I stole the scooter.

(Pages 37-38)

--- From the text