1.
Seeing Siwoo still didn’t understand the situation, Takasho grabbed his wrist and dragged him to the President’s Office on the second floor.
“Oh, my soul friend, Shin Siwoo! Looking good, aren’t you?”
As soon as the door was closed, Takasho opened his arms and embraced Siwoo tightly.
The scent of strong perfu wafting from him made Siwoo feel embarrassed sohow.
He had been looking forward to eting him, but when he actually did, instead of feeling sothing like ‘Glad to see him again after a long ti’, he was all flustered, asking ‘What the fuck is going on?’ in his head.
“Dude, why do you look so different? What the fuck? You aren’t using a filter, right?”
Takasho took out a bottle of alcohol and a pair of glasses, pouring both glasses to the fullest.
His luxurious watch flashed in the middle of the gesture as a bonus for the show he put on.
“Oh, c’mon, who do you think I am? Hokkaido's legend! The man with a six-story pagoda of flesh! The number one ace of Kabuki-cho! Mimaya Takasho!”
Seeing the way he laughed frivolously as she flopped down the sofa reassured Siwoo that this guy was indeed the Takasho that he knew.
He was just wearing a different set of clothes than he used to—his loosely fit work clothes with patches here and there.
Now, he looked like a young and rich businessman. Well, at least that was how Siwoo would introduce him to soone if they were to see his current appearance.
“Man, I haven’t been drinking these days since I need to take care of myself and stuff, but there’s no way I wouldn’t drink now that my dear friend is here! C’mon, drink them up!”
Damn, he seems to live quite the life now, huh?
Seeing that his friend whom he was worried about was doing so well, Siwoo let out a sigh of relief inwardly.
Since the cheerful atmosphere fit perfectly with his plan, Siwoo took out his ‘secret weapon’ from his luggage.
“Nice, just add this and it will be perfect.”
“T-This…?!”
Takasho, who was sitting on the sofa, spreading his arms wide, relaxing, jumped up the mont he saw what Siwoo had brought out.
It was one of the secret weapons that he brought for the occasion.
Instant ran.
Of course, it wasn’t a normal instant ran.
It was a 6,000 won ran that used liquid soup as its broth, allowing one to taste the authentic taste of a genuine tonkotsu ran.
“I rember you bitching about wanting to eat ran, so I bought so for you. Fifty packages of these things.”
“F-Fifty…? T-This is… Ichiran Ran! My favorite…!”
Takasho hugged the ran that fell into his embrace, almost rolling on the floor.
He looked exactly like a drug addict who found a secret crack stash sowhere.
“S-Siwoo-sama… T-This Takasho is glad to be your friend… P-Please know that back then, when I used to call you josenjin...1 I-It was all a joke…!”
Tears welled up in his eyes.
This was when Siwoo found out that a Japan Mainlander’s dogeza was on a completely different level than the one he was familiar with.
“Oi, Takasho, do it over. Stand up and give another dogeza.”
“Yes, my lord—! No, my king!”
After that, Siwoo emptied his two bags in front of Takasho.
The content of his bags included potato chips, Japanese cigarettes that Takasho said he missed, so comfortable underwear, razors along with the replacent blades and so on.
There were also various Japanese snacks, instant film caras and their films, even pictures of his favorite actresses.
Since Siwoo lived in Gehenna once, just like him, he knew how precious those things to him were.
That was why he made a whole list of things to buy this good friend of his and bought everything in that list for him before coming back to Gehenna.
“Ahhh…! Aaaahhhh!! I love this so much…! I think I can fly…!”
Now that he saw his friend rolling around the ground happily, he let out a smile in satisfaction over a job well done.
2.
The two n proceeded to chat over a bag of potato chips and ran.
Takasho gave Siwoo the answer he had been so curious about.
“After you left, I did a lot of thinking. Like, a loooot of thinking. You were once a slave, just like , yet you succeeded in studying magic and got your freedom back. It made think that I’ve been spending my life in vain, wasting my life away…”
There was an ecstatic expression on his face when he boiled the water for his ran. The face he made when he took a good slurp of the ran made it seem like he was going to cum or sothing.
As soone who gave him this gift, there was nothing more joyful for Siwoo than seeing this expression of his.
“That’s why I decided to chase after my dream.”
“Your dream?”
“To beco an owner of a host club. To beco the true Lord of the Night.Like they said, a man should dream big. I don’t want to waste my life satisfying those witches while I don’t gain anything tangible for it.”
Takasho gulped down his drink, then patted his chest.
“So, I went to see Countess Adonai. As you know, her company takes a big hold on Gehenna’s logistics. I told her to lend so money so I could start a business.”
“She just lent it to you?”
While it was true that Takasho was adored by quite a few witches, he was still a slave.
No matter how remote this building was, it still required quite the sum to open up a shop in THE biggest marketplace in Lenomond Town…
“You gotta owe it to my explanation. I told her that there just isn’t enough entertainnt in Gehenna, particularly in regards to where the witches could satiate their lust.
“Like, there were only two places that they could go and do that; the Velvet Brothel in Tarot Town and Levana Grand Bath in Ars Magna Town.
“There’s a gap between those two places and this place could enter that gap perfectly.
“This is a place for the witches who aren’t wealthy enough to sign up for a mbership at the Grand Bath. It’s also the perfect place for the witches who just want to feel the sensation of falling in love, not a physical relationship, but a gentle push and pull between a man and a woman…”
“And she accepted just like that?”
“Well, I had to put my life in line first, of course. If my business didn’t profit within a year or it didn’t break even in three years, I’d beco her test subject.”
Siwoo let out a chuckle.
Because he thought this was just his usual morbid joke.
But, Takasho’s eyes were serious.
They were, undoubtedly, the eyes of a man who was ready to risk his all.
“Dude, are you crazy?”
“It’s still better than wasting fifty years of my life for nothing. Like they said, you only live once.”
“...”
“Shin Siwoo, just in case you’re thinking that I’m joking around… I’m dead serious.”
His words made Siwoo feel nauseous.
He genuinely thought that it was good that his friend could finally spread his wings to fulfill his grand ambition, but he still thought that risking his life for it was too much.
If sothing goes terribly wrong, I should ask Master for her help…
There’s no way I’d just let him beco a guinea pig for so random magic experint.
Of course, he didn’t say that thought out loud, so their conversation continued without a hitch.
“So, how is it going for you?”
“Well, we’re still in the preliminary opening stage. I can see that the business has a lot of potential, though.”
“How do things work here exactly?”
“Well, we take the good-looking slaves among the City Hall’s slaves and educate them, while the alcohol and such were supplied by Countess Adonai herself. You see, the reason why I went up to see the Countess is because she is the only one who has a deep influence in both the City Hall and the Chamber of Comrce.”
Even after Takasho continued his explanation, the whole thing still sounded incredibly reckless and clumsy.
But still…
“Dude, I don’t know what to say. That’s cool…”
“I know, I think so too whenever I see my face in the mirror.”
Siwoo genuinely thought that he was cool.
Not because of his new appearance, but because of the fact that he was determined enough to risk his life to achieve his dream.
“Anyway enough about , it’s been a while since we t, how have you been? Got any girlfriend yet?”
Girlfriend, huh…?
Well, she’s not really a girlfriend, but quite close to that, I guess…?
I should introduce her to him later.
“Oho, look at your face, so you do have one. Is she a witch?”
“Damn right she is.”
“Oh, damn, show her pic! What’s her na?”
“Sharon Evergreen.”
“Woah, even her na is pretty! C’mon, let see her pic~”
Siwoo then opened his phone and showed him a few pictures of Sharon.
Takasho flicked through the phone to take a better look at the pics.
None of them looked amazing or anything.
After all, Siwoo and Sharon spent most of their ti watching movies or eating out sowhere and both weren’t exactly the perfect occasion for selfies.
Siwoo also wasn’t a professional photographer.
However, Sharon’s good look and amazing bust turned even the clumsily taken pictures into works of art.
“You fucking josenjin.”
As Takasho looked through the pictures, his eyebrows raised up in fury.
“Are you telling that you went on dates with this girl, going all lovey-dovey, asking each other ‘What do you want to eat today?’, then you two went on and fuck a ton? Then in the morning, you woke up, rubbed your sleepy eyes, shared a morning kiss and a hearty cup of coffee with her, and while she was making you the coffee, you’d grab her butt as your eyes t?”
“What the fuck? How did you get all that right?”
Fucking hell, this guy.
I’m scared now.
“You traitor!”
“Shut up, you are the one who played around with a bunch of witches at once!”
“Haah… Siwoo, I told you many tis, those witches just aren’t in the equation at all. Fuck, I’m so envious of you now… Fuck it, I’m gonna study magic.”
As Takasho kept on scrolling Siwoo’s gallery, another thing made him almost burst into tears again.
He found another witch’s picture.
Eloa’s.
This particular picture was taken fairly recently. What happened here was, Siwoo was randomly taking a picture of the sunset when Eloa suddenly photobombed him.
Of course, Takasho didn’t know any of this. His body shook even more than before.
“Oi, josenjin. Who is this?”
“Ah… Just a witch that I know. She’s teaching this and that.”
“This and that? This and that you said!? Dude, are you fucking with right now? Is this why you ca to see ? So that you could show off your won to ?!”
“Shut it, why do you care so much?! Hey, stop scrolling! Give my phone back!”
Takasho was losing it at this point, the speed at which he scrolled through Siwoo’s gallery beca faster and faster.
After Eloa’s pictures—well, there weren’t many of them—ca the twins’ pictures, which were taken back when they visited him in the Modern World.
When he saw them, Takasho’s hand suddenly stopped.
Reflected on the picture was Siwoo’s face being crushed by the twins’ faces from both sides.
After they took the picture, the twins were arguing with each other because one of them occupied more space in the picture or whatnot.
In any case, anyone who looked at this picture could tell how close they were to each other.
“The Gemini twins… Oi, Shin Siwoo! Didn’t you tell that you are just looking after those two?!”
“Just give my phone back quickly!”
“A thief who learns late doesn’t know when dawn cos…”
Siwoo freaked out and took his phone back.
He completely forgot about this particular picture.
anwhile Takasho, who was wearing an exasperated expression earlier, suddenly smiled in satisfaction.
“Right, co to think of it, I’m the one who taught you all those things. A student’s success is the teacher’s success as well.”
“Well, I can’t refute that.”
If anything, Siwo knew more than anyone that Takasho’s advice worked wonders.
“Anyway, what are you gonna do now? Wanna work in our place for a bit?”
“Nah, I’m gonna head back to the Modern World later. Don’t worry, I’ll visit your place often before going back.”
“That so?”
Just a while ago, he was raging, perhaps from jealousy, but now there was a soft smile on his face, as if his behavior just now was just a joke.
In fact, it really was a joke.
After all, he was the kind of person who’d give a bigger push to his friends when things were going well for them.
“Bring your girlfriend over next ti, okay? Don’t worry, I’ll praise you to high heavens in front of her.”
“Sure. Actually, when I told her stories about you, she did say that she wanted to et you at least once.”
When they were about to continue their small talk…
-Knock, knock!
After the knocking sound, the door was opened and the blonde man that escorted Siwoo in ca into the room.
“I’m sorry to bother you while you two are having such a great ti, but, Hyung, soone from the Chamber of Comrce is here. They want to have a word with you.”
“What does he want?”
“He is the one in charge of the alcohol supplies, I think. There’s a problem about tariff or sothing like that.”
“Huh, really?”
Takasho imdiately rose up to his feet, tidying his disheveled suit.
He tapped Siwoo on the shoulder as he stood up.
The mont he straightened his body, the usual Takasho was gone, replaced by the full-fledged businessman Takasho.
“Sorry to cut our ti together short, Siwoo. I need to take care of this thing now.”
“Oh, c’mon, don’t be sorry. I’m going to visit often anyway.”
“Alright. Anyway, it’s nice to see you doing so well. Next ti, let’s have a real talk over so good booze, okay?”
After saying that, Takasho walked away.
Siwoo was about to follow and leave the room, but the blonde man stopped him, though there was a hesitant expression on his face.
“Um, excuse …”
“Yes? Is sothing the matter?”
“Are you…um…close to the witches?”
“Yes. For now, at least.”
“I don’t know if I can say this but… Can I ask you sothing? The thing is, Hyung…”
When he was about to say sothing, Takasho’s loud voice echoed from behind the door.
“What are you doing, Paul? Co with !”
“Yes, Hyung! …Sorry about that, please don’t mind . I have to leave now, excuse .”
But, in the end, the blonde man had to leave without the chance to say what it was that he had in /genesisforsaken
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