What is an adult? When Eun-ha was very young, the definition of an adult was clear. Parents, Friend’s parents, School teacher, the Doctor and Nurse at the hospital. Looking at people who functioned as members of society, they all seemed vaguely cool, very fancy and great, and as if they had mastered the whole world.
Looking at them, who seemed like complete people without shortcomings, Eun-ha used to think and inflate his dreams. What kind of adult will I become? By the time I’m twenty-five, I’ll have achieved this and that great thing. By the time I’m thirty, I’ll be a wonderful adult that someone looks up to, just like them, and by the time I’m forty… like that.
But now that Eun-ha is flowing somewhere in that age range, he had no idea what an adult was. If I get a few more years older, can I become an adult? Will it be a little different when I’m thirty?
Now Eun-ha knows the answer. No. He still won’t know anything. Maybe he’ll never know. In Eun-ha’s opinion, there was no such thing as a perfect adult in the world. There were only people who pretended to be adults in a plausible way.
People who make mature choices and take responsibility, even if they don’t want to, in order to avoid looking unsightly in the eyes of some young and small someone who contemplates what an adult is and cultivates dreams, and to fulfill the minimum duty as an elder.
A member of society. Mature choice. Responsibility… Eun-ha, who had completely deviated from such things at some point and was in charge of ‘that kind of person’ in ‘I shouldn’t become that kind of person,’ but even though he was living a life that could not give anyone dreams or hopes, he still had a conscience. No matter how lavishly he lives, he hasn’t forgotten the minimum duty as an elder.

