Chapter 147 – Homophobia (15)
Homophobia (15)
“What’s so urgent that you’re rushing?”
Yeon Si-woo looks at me as if he’s about to wake up at any moment.
“After listening to it, it doesn’t seem like something you can say ‘ok’ and ‘thank you’ all at once.”
On the contrary, I relaxed my muscles more loosely.
Sit.
“Seeing as you came here unexpectedly on such a sunny afternoon, I guess you don’t have anything to do, do you?”
Yeon Si-woo and I seem to have had their roles reversed.
Yeon Si-woo must have felt it too, as he slowly narrowed his eyes sharply.
I looked at Yeon Si-woo like that and joked even more, as if showing off.
“Would you like a cup of tea? Come to think of it, I was a guest, but I didn’t even serve him a cup of tea.”
“… Huh.”
With a short laugh, Yeon Si-woo’s posture collapsed.
The guy’s hand that was holding the handle of the chair loosened, and he sat down again.
Now, Yeon Si-woo has no intention of hiding that he is very embarrassed.
I smiled again, looking at the face filled with annoyance.
He is a person who is not used to hiding something.
No, to be precise, he is the type of person who doesn’t need to hide anything.
Of course, if you go deeper, there will be a lot of secrets that should not be revealed even to the conglomerate master—
That has nothing to do with me.
Because I wasn’t the kind of person who deserved that kind of devotion from Yeon Si-woo.
From the first meeting at the Lions Summit to now.
They only called each other derogatory terms and constantly bickered.
That was the relationship between me and Yeon Si-woo.
To put it more factually, it was a one-sided relationship in which Yeon Si-woo constantly argued.
That kind of Yeon Siwoo-
Are you suddenly suggesting that I hold his hand?
And with a much more constructive mindset than expected?
I can’t believe it.
No, of course you shouldn’t believe it.
There is a very slim chance that he was born to reform, but-
It was a more horrifying thought as it was.
A trend that can’t be wrong rather than a slim probability that I don’t even want to believe in-
If I think of the Yeon Si-woo I’ve seen so far, rather than today’s Yeon Si-woo who appears like a ghost out of nowhere-
It was clear that there was another reason why he came to see me.
There was a real hook hidden behind the plausible bait of a temporary ceasefire.
That was the problem.
The reason why Yeon Si-woo can’t be sent away like this.
I couldn’t be sure of anything at the moment.
There was insufficient information.
It wasn’t just that there wasn’t enough information, it was completely lacking.
Yeon Si-woo is just throwing a small pebble.
There would be tens or hundreds of ripples in the pond, and that wasn’t a good direction for me.
If possible, I had to specify the reason for throwing the stone into the pond right here and now.
Be sure to do so in order to reduce unnecessary waste of time and manpower.
“I think we need time to talk properly.”
“… Suddenly?”
Yeon Si-woo shrugs his shoulders and furrows his eyebrows exaggeratedly.
A familiar retort comes out of the guy’s mouth.
This time, Yeon Si-woo did not hide it.
Malbonsae clearly shows that I am returning exactly what I said.
“… Okay. As you listen, you’re starting to get interested too, right?”
I simply ignored the guy’s seemingly insignificant provocation and started spinning the story.
“It would be more accurate to say that I was surprised by the unexpected proposal.”
“…”
“No, isn’t it? What happened was that he thought he would do all the Gapjil things in the world and then make such a suggestion to me. Still, do you think you realize that you are the king?”
“The kid has seeds in his words.”
“There were no feet? “I sent you enough to understand.”
“… Huh.”
Yeon Si-woo twitched his eyebrows for a moment and then let out a faint laugh as if he understood.
“This is the type of pun I hate the most.”
It was a muttering that immediately made me think, ‘What should I do?’ As soon as I heard it, but I didn’t bother to question it.
I shrugged my shoulders with a faint smile, as if I was repaying him for what he had done.
Yeon Si-woo, facing me, opened his mouth again with a smile.
“Well, there is no grand or sacred meaning like noblesse oblige, but this is the fate of the owner family.”
Destiny.
Yeon Si-woo goes one step further to show me the end of narcissism.
Yeon Si-woo spoke again as he looked at me, my expression naturally rotting.
“If I think about it that way, I find you even more fascinating.”
Well, I heard something from my grandfather and father at the dinner table that made my ears prick up, so I’ll leave it out of the discussion-
You.
“Seeing how he works so hard and annoys me, it seems like he’s working hard to be king, but I don’t understand it at all.”
Tuk- Tuk- Tuk-
Once again, his fingers are in rhythm on the table.
“Once the tutorial is over, you will start to realize it.”
Wow-
Yeon Si-woo’s hands turn red with a strange moving sound.
You instinctively realize it just by looking at it.
The same power as the ‘royal authority’ I had was being expressed in Yeon Si-woo’s hands.
“This is the king. In fact, he is not a king.”
It’s something more than that.
“I’m sure he will reign as something greater than a king in his own country, but this isn’t all that sweet.”
Wow-
A low whisper flowing through the low moving sound.
“You can do anything now, right? People who do not have the same power as us have now been relegated to beings that are embarrassing to even call people.”
Ants.
“Now ordinary citizens are no different from ants. An ant that explodes when you press it, and whose legs fall apart when you remove them, so you can play with it however you want. It’s also an annoying ant that whines because it’s hungry, asking you to protect it all day.”
… By the way.
Yeon Si-woo, who was speaking slowly, makes eye contact with me.
“For a kid like me who hasn’t even been trained to cook at the table, to take the lead in doing something boring while he’s in the middle of playing…”
Measuring each other’s minds at the summit – maintaining a poker face –
You sit yourself in a boring poker game where you have to figure out the opponent’s true hand…
“No matter how much you think about it, this is not something that will end as something miraculous-“
He keeps talking to himself and looks at me.
“There is usually a reason for things like this, and that reason is usually beneficial. “What I have seen so far is that you are far from the noble superhero type who sings of dreams and hopes.”
“So?”
“So, there must be a reason for you to work hard to secure and protect ants like you do now. Because it will benefit you. I think I know roughly what that is.”
That’s what a king is, isn’t it?
It was a quiet question, but it wasn’t a question.
A joke from a guy who clearly already figured something out.
Tap- Tap- Tap-
Yeon Si-woo continues to bang on the table.
I laughed out loud as I faced my face with full pupils that didn’t waver at all.
Yes, he also had a reason for continuing this pun.
That was also a very simple principle.
The classic principle that when I look at the abyss, the abyss also sees me.
Just as I was observing him, he was also observing me.
That’s why I smiled even brighter.
“Isn’t that common?”
“…”
“That must be the driving force that maintains this wicked and lax system.”
Humans with power beyond humans.
Perhaps, the method of attracting those who were satisfied with being such to the competition called ‘scramble’ was very simple.
Having more is beneficial.
If you combine this with the theme of a ‘king’ who insists on killing the system…
“…”
Yeon Si-woo remained silent without any response to my question.
She only had a faint, Mona Lisa-like smile.
“And you’ve been killing ants since a while ago. You were talking to yourself. The thought of wanting to kill an ant as soon as you see it is something only you, a psychopath, would do. “I didn’t do that?”
It’s an old but clear memory.
It’s not because it’s so precious that it’s clear, but because there are so many, it’s clear memories.
A small playground attached to the nursery.
The noise of children overflowing there.
There were children chatting together in groups of twos and threes, and there were also children who were alone because they could not fit in.
And children who are alone are always looking for something to spend their time crouching in a corner.
Most people who look at the ground instead of the sky find insignificant insects like ants.
Unlike themselves, who just want a quiet evening, ants are busy going back and forth all day, no matter what.
The reactions of those who look at such ants are different.
Of course, what most children were passionate about was killing ants, as Yeon Si-woo said.
Acts filled with pure malice, such as pouring water from a plastic bottle onto an ant nest or picking up an ant and throwing it into a spider web.
However, it wasn’t me.
“I like collecting things more than killing them.”
I brought a small container and put the ants in one by one.
Continue as long as you don’t see a single ant jumping out of the anthill.
