“Hyungnim.”
The door opened with a knock and a familiar face lingered in. His na was Dong-ju (동주), who looked in the eye not that didn’t match his na. (큰 덩치와맞지 않게 내 눈치를 살피는 그의 이름은 동주였다)
“Say it.”
“I think you should co down and see.”
As soon as I heard it, I got a feeling of what was going on.
It had just been a week since the man introduced a newcor and put in new people. Right. It was ti for an accident.
As soon as I got up from my seat without saying a word, Dong-ju took the lead with a relieved expression. Although he had a rough appearance and a bumpy body, he didn’t like quarrels and was a healthy guy who got along well with his pregnant wife.
“Fuck you bastard, damn it! Aren’t you coming here?”
Chaeeng!
As soon as I went downstairs, I heard a man’s shout and a sharp bursting sound of the bottle breaking through the hallway. I guessed they were already having a fight.
I increased my leisurely pace and headed to the room where the problem occurred. In the anti, the sound of sothing breaking and shattering was constantly resounding.
“Do you know who I am!?”
Oh. It seed I had arrived at an important ti, seeing that even the lines I heard about once a month. I quickly opened the door to the half-closed room and imdiately stretched out my arm.
Smack!
I grabbed the wrist that was swinging towards the cheek of the new employee. The new employee, who had been standing still with his back, widened his eyes at the sudden appearance of . He didn’t seem too scared, but he must have been trying to pay him back with 10 if he was hit by one.
Then yes. Anyway, the guys he sent…
“Wh, what? What are you doing, you bastard?”
The custor who grabbed by the wrist made a red face and yelled at . Either way, I calmly looked at the situation inside the room first.
Expensive Western liquors were scattered on the floor and several won who seed to be in the party were curled up and turned white. Slowly raising my gaze from the floor to the inside of the room, I finally found the person sitting at the far end.
No matter how many tis he bleached his hair, the brittle blonde hair and piercings in his ears caught my eye. While looking at this place with a cigarette in his mouth with interest, he slowly blinked his eyelids and exhaled cigarette smoke when our eyes t.
“Aren’t you going to let this go? What are you doing, you bastard!”
Ah. I forgot. I turned my attention back to the rude man, who was struggling to get the wrist that was caught by .
“Calm down, Sir.”
I grabbed the wrist I was holding strongly on purpose once and then released it, the opponent contorted his face and let out a moan of pain.
“If you have any problems, please tell .”
“You, you, damn it, are you the owner of this place?”
“Yes.”
After giving a brief answer, I beckoned to the kids standing behind , so I quickly took the newcor out of the room. At the sa ti, the custor began to pour out all kinds of complaints.
How are you going to take care of the little ones, what kind of business are you going to do while providing services on a regular basis, don’t you know who I am, how to compensate for this, etc.
I listened intently to the rude man gibberish, reeking of the sll of alcohol. I didn’t know how these guys always had the sa repertoire.
“Custor.”
When I smiled brightly while listening without saying anything, the rude man made a bewildered face.
“I apologize, but we won’t give you any compensation. The service is also… If you had been patient like this, I think you did pretty well.”
“What?”
“It will damage business, so please leave now.”
After saying those words, silence fell in the room. The rude man, who stared at with his eyes wide open for a mont, trembled in anger as his fists had gained strength.
“Damn, what are you talking about!? Look at now…!”
I was thinking about whether I should forcefully kick him out because he was about to make a fuss again, but a bright voice that didn’t fit the mood suddenly broke in.
“Yeah, you better go out.”
It was the blonde man I had t earlier. With a cigarette between his long fingers, he raised the tip of his lips slightly.
“As the owner said, it’s kind of a nuisance. It was noisy and all the delicious alcohol was broken.”
“Oh, oh? What…”
“What if I report you for business obstruction? I don’t want to go to the police station. You don’t like it, do you?”
“Uh, ung.”
“That’s right…”
Shrugging their shoulders, the won who had been watching at his witty words were startled and awkwardly sympathized. The rude man, who was suddenly cornered, broke out in a cold sweat and forced a smile.
“Hey, hey… what’s the matter? Fuck you, Yeon Seon-woo. You…”
“Um? What?”
“How could you…”
The confident attitude he showed when he cursed at a new employee or was nowhere to be found. To the rude man who hesitated and stepped backwards, a blond man called Yeon Seon-woo answered with a slightly squashed voice with a cigarette his mouth bitting.
“So, what did I do? You were the one who set the good mood, Min-geon-ah (민건).”
“……”
“Aren’t you going?”
There was a tone that was really curious as to why he didn’t go out, but no one was able to hear it straight away.
“…fuck!”
The rude man, who had been biting his lips for a long ti with redness up to his neck, pushed harshly and left the room. I heard the sound of thumping footsteps and rubbed the nape of my neck.
‘I didn’t expect this to happen.’
Swallowing a sigh, I slowly turned my head to see the won looking up at and a blonde man smoking a leisurely cigarette.
“Hm…”
I smiled awkwardly and looked down at the floor. It was a ss with broken alcohol, so it seed like I had to move them to another room.
“Thank you. I’ll prepare a new room for you. Would you like to move? I’ll bring you back the broken alcohol.”
As I spoke politely, the blonde rubbed the cigarette into the ashtray and opened his mouth lightly.
“I’d appreciate it if you do that.”
“Yes. I will send the staff right away.”
I thought it ended well sohow. It was then that I turned my back to just leave the room in relief.
“By the way.”
“……?”
“Are you really the owner of this place? You look very young.”
I quietly clicked my tongue so as not to hear the questions filled with curiosity. I was bored to death.
“I’m the manager.”
The opponent was a custor, a custor. As I chanted like a Buddhist prayer and answered with kindness, I clenched my chin and his eyes twinkled.
“You don’t need to bring alcohol again but can you do a favour?”
“…what is it?”
“Smile one more ti. As wide as before.”
At the request that exceeded my imagination, my forehead was twisted. Even the won who sat quietly and watched the man and were astonished as they covered their mouths with their hands.
“Can’t you?”
“……”
The innocent voice gave a headache.
An ominous feeling that I must have been caught wrong ca creeping in.
* * *
It was around the ti that I had gotten used to Yeon Seon-woo’s act of going in and out of the bar. The buying coffee errand, which initially started with the intention of getting rid of him, gradually lost its aning.
He was so persistent and stubborn that even I was surprised. Just looking at him, it seems that he ca from a great family, but he didn’t feel bad no matter what I said.
It was very strange and I also wondered why he was so interested in .
“Here you go.”
Even in the middle of the day on a hot sumr day, Yeon Seon-woo bought coffee without any complaints. He tilted his head slightly as I took the coffee he offered.
“Why?”
“No. Nothing.”
But the last thing I didn’t ask was… whatever the reason, it was clear that he was like a bright coloured paper that flew out of my bleak and achromatic day.
“You can go now.”
“Ah, why again?”
So I was even more sorry. I didn’t want to see a young guy in his pri walking in and out of a bar. I was hoping Yeon Seon-woo to et more good people who would suit him, not a guy like .
“Aren’t you studying?”
“Ohyu, that sound again.”
“Then you beco a person like .”
“What’s wrong with Hyungnim?”
Yeon Seon-woo sighed as if tired of the nagging that had been repeated over and over again, then recalled sothing and laughed playfully.
“It’s great if I beco a sexy guy like Hyungnim who does a good job.”
“Oh, my.”
I put down my coffee and shook my head at the sound that wasn’t even funny.
“If you participate in a nonsense contest, you will win.”
“There’s nothing I can’t do.”
“Okay, get out.”
When I picked up and forcibly threw a small doll on the desk, Yeon Seon-woo bowed his back and quickly avoided it.
“That’s too much!”
“What do you an too much when you didn’t even get hit?”
“You just threw my present.”
“I said I hate it.”
Yeon Seon-woo, who picked up the doll that had fallen on the floor, grumbled and put it back on the desk. It was a black fox doll about the size of the palm of my hand and he used to tell where he had bought it and said it looked like .
“He looks exactly like Hyungnim, but it would be sad if you treat him so harshly.”
Yeah. This kind of bullshit. I was exhausted and drank coffee. The sweet scent and taste spread throughout the mouth.
“Is it the sa as the one you bought last ti? What is the na of this?”
“Vanilla latte. I bought it again because it was delicious. Do you like it?”
“Ho.”
What other kids bought was different, bitter and astringent, but this was delicious.
“The next ti you co, buy yours too.”
“Is that okay?”
“What can’t be done?”
“Then let’s go have a drink here.”
“Do you think I’m having fun?”
“No?”
“…do whatever you want.”
The office was cold. It was an errand in midsumr, but that was all I could do.
Yeon Seon-woo slightly closed his eyes and smiled happily at my permission. He looked so bright and warm, like the sun shining through the window.
* * *
A white ceiling ca into view. I covered my eyes with my hands and forced my body to stand up.
As my hazy mind gradually cleared, a sense of reality ca to . The hand on the white blanket trembled.
As I bowed my head, the things hanging around my eyes fell as if they had waited. Drop by drop of tears wet the blanket covering my legs.
“…uh, ugh…”
I bit my lips hard and forcibly swallowed the cry. As ti went by, my eyes grew hotter.
Piii.
The fox’s cry was faintly heard, but I couldn’t raise my face. Holding back the sobbing, I grabbed the blanket that reached my hand and gripped it tightly.
Yeon Seon-woo. Seon-woo-ya.
I kept repeating his na in mind, which I couldn’t spit out, and recalled my dream over and over again.
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