Chapter 303 – Film.K
It was the same drinking party as always, nothing special. They had been hanging out since they were young, and even after they each started working, when holidays overlapped, they ended up drinking together and ending the rest of the day. In the evening when the day was ripening, the white steam rising from the warm soup, the acrid smell of alcohol from tired adults, and the loud grumbling as they clinked glasses under a lantern resembling the sunset stayed by their side.
“Uhhh! Did I know it would turn out like this too!”
“It’s a start again.”
“Yeah, what do you mean by gaining weight? I tried to lose weight too!”
It is somehow familiar that Lucas is drunk and shouts at them. For those who know that he and Isuga have been dating for a long time, his drunkenness is annoying but they have no choice but to listen. Lucas wasn’t particularly weak in alcohol, but once he started drinking, he drank like water, so there was no way he wouldn’t get drunk.
“Hey, what about women?”
It was not unusual for him to fall asleep on his tavern table after he had exceeded his limit.
“Really. Drink slowly.”
“Leave it alone. It burns, so it pours like that.”
As Thaddeo sighed, Yakaf set down the dishes Lucas nearly knocked over. Thaddaeo then asked Yakaf.
“But why did the real Ysuga break up?”
“Why are you asking me?”
When he looked at Thaddaeo as if he was dumbfounded, he chuckled and stabbed Yakaf in the side.
“Well, among us, you’re the closest to Isgar, aren’t you?”
“Eolssi. What are you talking about?”
Actually, Yakaf didn’t make any sense of what he said.
“If you look at the number of times you meet, you are the most. What are you talking about?”
“Ugh, hey. It’s because of Deborah. Isgar treats me as an enemy.”
“That’s right. Who would like a thief who stole the heart of his cute late brother?”
“Ah, anyway, that’s not what’s important, is it?”
Yakaf looked at him as he hurriedly changed his words, but he let them go.
“So what are you curious about?”
“It’s not that I’m curious, but I wonder if something happened with Isgar.”
Seeing Tadao’s coy expression, Yakaf shook his head. It was obvious what that expression was expecting. However, the reality was ridiculously different.
“What’s the matter? To meet a girl on a fictitious day and get ripped off.”
“Ah, was it like that?”
Thaddaeo might have been expecting a story like Casanova of the rare era who even bewitched his friend’s girlfriend, but it was far from that kind of story.
“Anyway, Lucas doesn’t have to worry. He’s got things to get in his way, even if he’s a friend, and things he shouldn’t get into.”
Eventually he shut up. If you know each other well, it seems like you can tell everything, but on the contrary, there are things you can’t tell because of that.
“Wake up quickly, son of a bitch, are you planning to sleep here?”
Thaddeo shook the fallen Lucas as if he was embarrassed.
“Kuuuong, I’d rather die here.”
“If you die here with your size, it will be a nuisance, you bastard.”
In the end, Thaddaeo left him, who had collapsed first, and tipped his glass.
“Ha, really, what is this about two friends, one stretches out first and the other doesn’t even drink, and I’m alone?”
As he complained, Yakarp shrugged his shoulders and ate the remaining lizard skewer. The snoring of Lucas, who collapsed with silence, hovers over his drinking table. Seemingly displeased with the silence, Tha Daeo opened his mouth.
“…But do you really want to meet other girls?”
“Okay.”
In fact, Yakaf only answers as if he knew what Thaddaeo would ask. They knew this was a pretty old wall. The only stubbornness that cannot be broken no matter how hard you knock.
“It’s already been 4 years since she left! It’s easy to forget her at this point, right?”
“Four years.”
At Thaddaeo’s words, he vaguely wondered if four years had passed.
“Please Yakaf, there are women in the village! You can replace any number of women, right?”
It was around the time that Yakaf was quietly listening to his increasingly loud voice. Yakaf, who found the tavern’s door slowly opening, burst into laughter.
“Then if you break up with Deborah, can you break up?”
“Hey, why are you talking about Deborah here?”
“You said you could replace any number of women?”
“That’s what it says…!”
However, Thaddaeo could not continue.
“Really? That’s really good. Don’t look at our Deborah for nothing and look for another woman, right?”
“I-is-ga? How are you here?”
The one who opened the door was none other than Isuga.
“It’s where you guys drink, that’s where it is.”
She’s excited! While glaring at Thaddaeo, he noticed Lucas lying down next to him and sighed.
“Okay, if you’re done eating, quickly bring that piglet.”
“Huh? Uh, uh.”
Thaddeo couldn’t even say anything and had no choice but to support Lucas. His body, which had gained unnecessary weight, was in some way difficult, so Yakaf had to support him as well. When they left the bar, the sky, which had gone from orange to deep red, greeted them and the street lamps were lighting up one by one. With the cold wind blowing through them, they arrived at Isgar’s house.
“Isuga, why is your house…”
“Brother!”
Thaddaeo asked curiously, but he couldn’t continue. I must have been peering out through the dimly open sliding door, as the door suddenly opened and a girl jumped out.
“Ha, Deborah. Didn’t I tell you to go to bed first?”
“Ooh, but I can’t sleep.”
“It’s true. Let’s start with the eyes, it’s this support group.”
“Oh?!”
Deborah was surprised by Isgar’s words and rubbed her eyes. She couldn’t hide her cute gaze even though she watched it as if she didn’t like her. However, as much as she was, her gaze toward Ta Dae-oh was fierce.
“Let him in quickly.”
“But here it is.”
“When are you going back with that big guy?”
Certainly her house was the closest, so it was reasonable if reasonable. Thaddeo couldn’t hide his embarrassed expression, but he had no choice but to let Lucas into her house.
“Eheh, hello. Yakaf oppa.”
“Hey, how are you?”
“Yes!”
Then, as if she remembered Deborah, she belatedly greeted Yakaf. She could have been saddened by that appearance, but she was so open-minded that she was rather cute, so he smiled and whispered.
“Is Thaddaeo that good?”
“Oh! I told you it was a secret!”
“Is that so?”
I don’t know if a secret that everyone knows can be called a secret. Of course, Yakaf said only to himself. Eventually, they let Lucas into Isgar’s house and came out, but Deborah didn’t seem to want to let Thaddaeo go easily.
“Brother! Can’t you sleep over at my house too? I heard that tomorrow is the day off!”
“Ha, Deborah.”
Isgar looked at his little brother clinging to Tha Daeo and begging him, and touched her head. When she was drinking with Jakarp, she would complain about the fact that her lovable little brother had fallen for a friend of her own age, and she knew how indescribable her feelings were.
“Sister! Can I go out with my brother to have an affair?”
“Ha, really. Even if I stop you, don’t ask me if you don’t intend to listen.”
“Hee hee.”
As Deborah smiled awkwardly, Isgar’s gaze at Thaddaeo grew even sharper.
“Tsk, hurry up.”
“Huh!”
She had no choice but to let her beloved sister go, knowing that she would not keep her promise. She just turned around and sent her signal with her fist and thumb toward Ta Dae-oh.
‘If I don’t return Deborah quickly, she will die?’
Thaddeo smiled at Deborah, who took her hand, but she recognized Isgar’s signal and broke into a cold sweat.
“How could I get stuck with such a fool…”
Yakaf laughed as she muttered as she watched them move away.
“What do you like about Lucas?”
“Hey, it’s just because I’ve seen it since I was little.”
After all, dating is not something that someone should carelessly interfere with.
“Are we not comfortable?”
“Tsk, that’s okay. Who else will take care of that pig?”
“Alright. Take good care of me while I’m there.”
It was when he turned and tried to get his way.
“You, Leah, haven’t you forgotten yet?”
Hearing her words from behind, Yakaf stopped walking for a moment and looked up at the darkened sky.
“If I could have forgotten, I would have forgotten a long time ago.”
It was short, but it was so intense that I couldn’t forget that moment. Knowing that they had the same heart, the vacancy was so great. Also, I didn’t know that. Why did she leave him?
“But it’s been four years since he went up. Even if he’s already dead or alive, he’ll have forgotten you for a long time.”
Isgar had always advised him this way, saying that women are beings who can use men for what they need and use them as expendable items that can be replaced at will, and that if they become cruel, they can become more cruel than anyone else. A woman knows the same woman best.
“That’s got a scab on my ear, man.”
“So, you’re going to meet some other girls as well.”
Yakaf knew that Isgar’s words were valid.
“I know, I know.
“…A foolish fellow.”
Soon after, he could hear Ysuga’s worried murmur behind him, but he walked away in silence. Yes, it was a fact I knew all too well. As he walked through the remaining streets alone, crossing between streetlights that obscured the darkness, he was already walking further into the past. As always, the street dyed by the sunset, I return home listening to the noisy voices of children playing.
“I’m home.”
When he returns home and announces his arrival, he wanders around the house empty-handedly, but no one greets him. Only the quiet silence greets him. Knowing that his father would be busy directing the blacksmiths until late at night, he silently walked to the bathroom to wash himself dirty from playing with his friends. Then he walked into the kitchen and checked the side dishes to see if the las schief had grown and was properly cooked. And he picks one after another of his favorite side dishes and literally sticks them into a pile of la skiffa.
He was a bother to eat, but he needed to eat simple enough to show off because his father scolded him if he skipped a meal. If you put the side dishes and rasquipa mixed together in two bowls and shake it randomly, it becomes a rice ball that is good to eat in moderation. Take a bite like that. He said it was his own dish, but as expected, there was nothing like the taste. Even the side dishes that didn’t match in the first place were randomly mixed, so I thought it would be awkward, but it was a good thing. Because it wasn’t the food that mattered.
He ate the rice ball in two bites and headed to the small smithy attached to the house. Of course, it wasn’t his blacksmith’s shop, but it was a space he was used to because he had been taught by his father since he was a little younger. There, a brazier was waiting for him to cool off. He immediately extinguished the flames and selected suitable iron from this place and put it into the furnace.
-Kang! Kang!
I couldn’t even figure out why. Except when he was younger, his father didn’t use this place often, so he was hammering iron here by himself. He finds a familiar job and as if he should. I hit it with a hammer as if to break the distorted iron like that. It was around the time he forgot to think about it over and over again.
-Basrock
Suddenly, I felt someone else’s presence in the house. At first he wondered if his father had returned, but he couldn’t. It was my father who said he couldn’t come in because he was busy replacing a particularly important cog this week. He looked over the anvil for a moment. There were square iron ingots left there, so he pushed them into a pile full of the same things and quietly opened the door to the forge. A rustling, unidentifiable sound was coming from the kitchen, so he slowly approached and stopped there.
“Ah…!”
Then I met a certain girl. Pale pink hair, green eyes that flashed a blue light in the light of the street lamp. Even though she was dusty and shabby, she couldn’t hide her beauty. As if she was looking for something to eat, he checked the appearance of the side dish container in his hand, recalled what to do in such a situation, and saw the hammer in his hand.
“It’s a thief!!!”
“Kyaaaaa!!”
In the middle of the night, a girl’s scream rang out.
