Chapter 203 – Chapter 203
Eun-chae has left and now it is the point of Lee Joo-il.
Do-gyun was finally starting to get used to a life without Eunchae.
The emptiness remained. The sadness that came from time to time was still there.
It was because sending Eunchae was more difficult than sending other personalities away. It was because Eunchae’s meaning to Dokyun was so special. She was really a child she took care of like her own, so how could it not be difficult?
However, the reason why he was able to endure this much was because the time was only relieving the pain enough to prevent Do-gyun from collapsing.
It was because the anesthetic called this time was blunting my heart just that much, so that the sadness would not consume the whole body.
It was not only Do-gyun who had a hard time after Eun-chae left.
Aren’t Eun-ah and Eun-seol clearly realizing that Eun-chae has left?
Eun-ah cried a lot in the process of collecting the memories of Eun-chae and the other four memories that Eun-chae swallowed.
Dare to say, she would be right in saying that it was guilt that stood in those tears.
Eun-a was made of her own greed and shed tears because of her guilt over her Eun-chae, who had endured her long suffering.
She couldn’t get over it Eun-ah was still sad about Eun-chae’s passing.
However, because they did not endure the sadness alone, they did not fall apart because they had each other.
And when she goes to Eunseol…
In fact, Do-gyun did not know as well as Eun-seol’s heart.
On the weekend that came, Do-gyun sat at the kitchen table, blankly fiddling with his smartphone, then looked up at Eun-seol.
Eun-seol had a storybook with a thick cover on his lap, and he was reading it blankly.
It was a gift from Eun-chae.
Eun-seol took out a fairy tale once in a while and looked at it silently for hours, immersed in thoughts alone.
Once he started doing that, he had to call it several times to become so dazed that he would turn his head. Do-gyun looked at Eun-seol’s face without breaking his concentration.
I thought about it while doing so.
‘Next…’
Silver Seol will go.
It must be because Eun-seol doesn’t feel a reason to remain at this point where all of his personality is gone.
Do-gyun felt sadness welling up inside him again.
The last parting, this parting, I wanted to do it with a smile, but I couldn’t be confident.
A long breath escaped Dokyun’s mouth.
About Eun-seol, he breathed as he recalled what he had learned.
The personality of Eun-seol, whom I had come to know little by little while going through so many things, made my heart ache so much that my heart was burning up and it was the breath that dispersed it.
Do-gyun knew.
Eun-seol said that he would leave no matter what he said.
That he would never want to stay long.
In addition, Eun-seol is a person who can be saved by disappearing.
Do-gyun felt his heart getting complicated, and he lowered his head with such a cloudy complexion.
*
Eun-seol blankly read the fairy tale.
A fairy tale named [The Greedy Witch] That Eunchae gave me as a gift.
It was a fairy tale about a witch who had been greedy all along and eventually had to pay for her sins.
It was a typical story of good luck and punishment, but Eun-seol laughed while reading the fairy tale.
‘A foolish bastard.’
Give me something like this
No, did you do it on purpose?
After thinking for a while, Eun-seol quickly covered the cover of the fairy tale and put it beside herself before standing up.
“Hey.”
“Ah yes.”
The answer to the call quickly.
Seeing Do-gyun raise his head, Eun-seol felt a feeling of guilt rising again.
“Rice.”
Eun-seol was a person whose annoyance was greater than his sorry feelings.
Do-gyun made a ‘drrrr’ sound at Eun-seol’s words and got up from his seat and asked.
“What’s on the menu?”
“By-self. By being a snack.”
Eun-seol said that and went into the shower. It was a move I made because I felt like I had to take a shower for some reason.
Eun-seol closed the shower room door with a thud and began to take off his clothes one by one.
Black neck pole and long slacks. Then he untied his underwear and hair, took off his glasses for a moment, and paused.
Then he moved again, put his glasses on top of his clothes, and went into the shower.
His gaze turned to the mirror attached to the side of the shower head.
What I see in the mirror is my white naked body.
… No, it was Eun-ah.
Eun-seol’s complexion darkened.
When he was thus stripped of everything that defined him, he could not be a hermit unless he tried to embellish it.
Eun-seol felt a shiver at that fact.
*
As dinner continued, Eun-seol said.
“I will go out tomorrow.”
Words you say while poking salad with a fork. Do-gyun raised his head.
“Suddenly?”
“Yes.”
Eun-seol shoved the salad she picked out into a bite, chewed it down, and took a sip of alcohol before continuing.
“I need to sort it out.”
Organize.
There was no mention of ‘what’, but Do-gyun could know. The theorem that Eunseol said is about oneself.
“… Where are you going?”
“I’ll stop by the company first. Say hello to Harim and do some work.”
Squeeze-.
Eun-seol’s glass filled with alcohol.
For some reason, it was wine, not liquor.
“… Well, then I go to the bar in the evening.”
Clack clack. The purple wine swayed as Eun-seol shook the wine glass.
Eun-seol, who had been talking blankly while looking at the glass, looked at Do-gyun’s sunken expression and continued.
“I am not going right now. I just want to sort things out in advance. I want to spend the rest of my time leisurely.”
“… All right.”
After Do-gyun answered, he made an effort to look calm and continued eating.
It would be correct to say that it was trying to avoid it.
If I don’t do that, I’ll put on a gloomy expression until tomorrow.
We hadn’t parted yet. Farewell never came.
Not for the sake of Eun-seol, but also for himself. It would be right to regard tomorrow’s outing as no different than usual.
*
“Five.”
“Five?”
“Long time no see. Boss.”
The office on the top floor of the department store, now owned by Eun-ah.
Eun-seol sat on the seat of honor there and glared at Harim. Those words were coming out of his mouth.
“Why are your eyes so dark?”
It wasn’t just words. Harim’s expression that Eunseol is facing now doesn’t show any signs of cringing like before, so…
“You’re not the boss anymore.”
It was an expression without a frown.
Eun-seol’s eyes furrowed. A smile crept across Harry’s lips.
“The boss who gives money has changed, so now I buy… No, did our Miss Eunseol just become a younger sister?”
I don’t like smirking. I was annoyed because I felt like I was looking down on something.
Eun-seol was about to shoot at him.
“Now, aren’t we in a hierarchical relationship? Shall I call you sister?”
Harim started giggling.
Eun-seol let out a deep sigh and stood up.
“Now, let’s say you are my sister… , Eh?”
Belatedly noticing the abnormality, Harim’s body trembled, and what followed was a scream.
“Quaaaaa!!!”
A bit of a corner spot.
Dokyun looked at it and thought.
‘Oh.’
He thought that he should never fall for Eun-seol.
*
The thrashing that had been going on for a long time was over.
Do-gyun is away saying he will buy coffee for a while.
Eun-seol looked at Harim rubbing her eyes with an ice pack, and immediately turned away from her.
“… Why do you care about that?”
It was more like a mumble.
Harim recalled that the words were absurd.
‘Normally I don’t punch because I’m black,’ the words rose to the top of her throat, but the throbbing pain in the corner of her eye prevented it from coming out.
What followed was a very small sigh.
Harim buried her back in the sofa, steamed her eyes, and opened her mouth.
“Are you leaving now?”
Harim knew Eunseol very well. No, she couldn’t know. Isn’t it Harim who has spent the most time with Eun-seol over the past few years?
After Eun-ah started working, she knew that Eun-seol hadn’t been here because she wanted her to focus on her, and that Eun-seol would come to this office, so her last greeting would be over.
“… Yes.”
Harim still doesn’t give her eyes to herself, and she smiles as she looks at Eun-seol, who has an embarrassed face on her face.
“Your wish has finally come true. Congratulations.”
Congratulations handed over.
Eun-seol moved her lips to him for a moment, and soon after she said that.
“Thank you so far.”
“Oops, why would the boss say such a thing?”
Still disrespectful attitude.
Eun-seol, who was laughing weakly at him, stood up from the sofa and said.
“I’ll go.”
Saying good-bye was an expression of the thought that this was enough.
Harim understood the secret.
“Go ahead.”
Eunseol moved on. She headed towards the door of the office.
Rattle. Eun-seol, who turned the knob, paused her body for a moment and turned her head to look at Harim.
For a long time, she raised her hand with a smile on the face of the subordinate who helped her become Eun-seol.
Eun-seol recalled the thought that since it was the last time, it would be okay at least once, and she spat out those words.
“… Sister.”
Harim’s eyes widened. Her mouth fell open.
Eun-seol turned her head away and quickly left the office and closed the door with a ‘thud’.
The tips of her ears were red.
