Chapter 2 – #01_The Beast’s Playground (2)
One.
Human beings can’t know each other’s real face.
No matter how much you love someone, no matter how savvy and quick-witted you are, it is very difficult to penetrate the mind that is located deep in the deep unconscious.
Even if it is one’s own, there is no exception.
Yu-chan was able to face these human attributes that deserved to be confined in the dark.
The innate temperament and nature are Sang (狀).
Emotions and psychology that change the world in color.
From the beginning, the black box of others was not seen in a certain form.
At first, it only seemed like an array of faint colors.
At the time, I didn’t know what that meant.
I just had the impression that it was beautiful in a group of lights flickering in different shapes and colors.
Gather them more and more,
For yourself only
To shine forever,
I want to keep it in a glass bottle
I thought only of that.
2.
Departure is until 10 am.
Unlike ordinary office workers, having free time in the morning was a great advantage.
Nevertheless, Yoo-chan got into the car with his son-in-law in the early morning, carrying a lunch box.
It is a domestic SUV with a used price of 30 million won.
It was the first purchase after inheriting an inheritance from my uncle, who could be called the only family.
It was a huge legacy that could buy a car more expensive than this, but I thought it was a luxury to buy a car at a price higher than this.
Warming the cold sheet with body temperature, I started the car after a while.
There is a place to stop before going to a workout.
If you need to throw away the leftover bones or rotten meat from boiling the bones at home, simply put them in the food waste bin.
However, if it is a human corpse, it may cause trouble if it is inadvertently discarded in the food waste bin in front of the house.
Disposing of dead bodies is tricky.
In order to dissolve it with acid, you have to endure a large amount of toxic gas and bad smell.
Does that mean it melts cleanly and liquefies?
Not even that.
Cremation.
Sizes range from 40 kg to over 100 kg, but regardless of weight, enough firepower and temperature are required to turn a human into ash.
Therefore withheld.
Tomb.
There are many mountains in Korea. As such, there are many good burial grounds that people do not reach.
However, it is a country with many floods.
Contrary to the image, there are many wild animals that try to dig up the meat buried in the ground.
In either case, a police pursuit follows if the body is dragged off the ground.
A store made of concrete.
After a certain period of time after death, the blood and protein of the corpse begin to decompose.
Sulfurous gases inflate corpses and shatter hardened concrete, rising and stinking everywhere.
It’s the worst choice.
Without proper equipment or special tricks, he had no choice but to be diligent in order to pass through gaps in strict security.
After getting out of Ilsan on Jayu-ro, the scenery of Paju full of rice fields comes into view.
There are many quiet roads here, and there are also many agricultural waterways that run along the roads.
A mere 800g of ground tomahawk steak is not even enough to feed a herd of minnows.
Yoo-chan stopped the car under a secluded street lamp and twisted the lunchbox to scrape off the well-minced meat like hamburger dough with a spoon.
I think I need to prepare another blender.
I think it would be interesting for single men to buy multiple blenders. I am using it after making and replacing the blade, but the motor burned out due to overload a while ago.
It is deplorable.
After watching the red and white flesh sink to the bottom of the purgatory-colored water, Yoo-chan turned his car around and headed to the gym near the academy.
Physical and mental training is always important.
He believed in the saying that a healthy mind resides in a healthy body.
“Brother, you are coming early today. Are you driving again?”
The trainer who was dozing off at the counter welcomed him.
I forgot his name, but after about two years of seeing each other recently, we became close enough to chat casually.
“Is the morning air good?”
“But it’s hard work being a gym keeper from dawn.”
After I changed my clothes and lay down on the bench, the trainer next to me flirted.
It must be that your mouth is itching to guard an empty gym from dawn.
“Brother, there is a bodybuilding competition at City Hall soon, so don’t you want to go out?”
“Take no interest. What are ordinary people like me doing?”
“No, then why are you working so hard? When I see you, I get a sense of crisis, right?”
Since it wasn’t an exercise to increase the size of his muscles, his clothes didn’t show much, but Yu-chan’s body wearing under armor was well-trained like a carnivore.
As if it was a pity for Yoo-chan, who silently exercised without saying anything, the trainer recommended that she participate in large and small competitions whenever she has a chance.
“A hobby hobby.”
“It’s because it hurts. Really, if I adjusted my diet for about a month, I would be able to aim for the championship.”
“Take no interest.”
After accepting the chatter from the side for a while, we went up to the roof together and smoked a cigarette before finishing the exercise.
3.
After the exercise was over, it was an ambiguous time to go somewhere to kill time, so I ended up going to work around 8:30.
“Good morning, Master Yoochan!”
“Weren’t the three of you late today?”
“Is it because I missed the shuttle last time?”
As I walked around the academy carrying a book to read during my free time, some students greeted me first.
He has a good-looking appearance and a sociable personality.
He was popular even within the academy because of his easy-going personality that went well with the atmosphere without any particular corners.
In addition, there were already many students who depended on him as much as he received his various counseling very well.
In fact, counselors must maintain intimacy with the client during counseling, but outside of counseling, it is necessary to adjust to draw a line.
He knows his job is, after all, listening to kids complain, so he never took it seriously.
They greet each other and pass through the hallway to open the door to the counseling room in the corner of the academy.
The door that opens smoothly is made of hardwood, perhaps for a luxurious image.
The small counseling room, about 5 pyeong, was decorated to suit his taste.
A window with blinds installed, an office table in front of it, and books filled with bookshelves close to the wall exude an intellectual atmosphere.
In the front, there is a sofa and a knee-high table where clients can face each other, and a folding bed is provided in one corner to enjoy a nap or sometimes to sleep at an academy.
“Hello.”
There was a passenger
My name is Naye Choi.
He is a quiet student with his hair in two ponytails hanging down toward his chest.
Even if she always wears round and round gold-rimmed glasses, she entered college and dressed up a little. Even the title of goddess of engineering is not a dream.
“She heard from the kids that the teacher was good at counseling. I have something I want to talk to you about, is that okay?”
“Would you like to sit a little longer? She should have turned on the heater. It’s cold.”
It was chilly in her counseling room, where the air had cooled down all night, so I handed her a lap blanket.
Naye gave a small thank you and wrapped her legs in a blanket.
She hands over the freshly brewed coffee and sits down in front of her sofa.
“What’s up?”
It was the first time she had come to her counseling office.
She has a good heart because she was one of the students who kept her eye on it.
She provides warm coffee and comfortable silence for clients who are hesitant and unable to speak easily.
Choi Na-ye, who glanced at her, cautiously opened her mouth.
“It’s not about studying… Can I tell you?”
“Then, how do students worry about studying? What I heard here is a secret that only I and the student know, so tell me what you want to say slowly.”
She pretends to wait for her and peers into her black box cautiously.
The prize is salmon.
The only thing Yu-chan can get a glimpse of is the shape and color.
What meaning he derives from it depends entirely on his powers of observation and interpretation of the symbol.
Salmon symbol.
First is vitality.
When applied to people, it also means a strong will that is seldom broken.
Contrary to his fragile impression, it can be seen that he has strong convictions.
Second is regression.
Salmon live in the sea and when it is time to spawn, they return to the river to lay eggs and die.
This meant that Choi Na-ye, an individual, valued the past in judging life.
No matter how happy she is, she will constantly regret and long for the past.
I thought I would do better then, I think I was happier then, and so on.
After you have finished grasping the rough nature, look at the color.
Turquoise or jade.
Turquoise is far from passion or warmth.
It symbolizes caution and calmness, solitude and distrust.
Now, while contemplating her own situation, she harbors a constant distrust of others.
The color is quite dull.
This means that it has maintained a constant color for a fairly long period of time.
In other words, it is a concern that has dragged on for almost several months.
“There is no need to rush. If you’re not ready yet, shall we start with a comfortable story?”
“Ah? Yes.”
In this case, it is more important to build intimacy with the client than to listen to their concerns right away.
It is counterproductive to force them to talk even if they came to visit me after thinking about it.
Trust first, and only then will you manage to open your mouth.
“What are my hobbies?”
“Yes? Weren’t you talking about studying?”
“It’s okay. Do you study on your own until after 10 o’clock every day these days? The academy comes out early.”
“How did you know?”
“Because I always keep an eye on the students. That’s my job Among them, I am a diligent student.”
“Thank you.”
As if embarrassed by a light compliment, he touches his mouth with a small gesture.
“If it’s a hobby… Swimming. I go to the indoor pool every weekend and do it for about two hours.”
“Swimming?”
“Yes, physical fitness is also important.”
You can see how diligent a model student she is in that even her hobbies are part of her preparation for the exam.
She boasted about how much her record had improved for a while, and then she gave her a proper acknowledgment.
Choi Na-ye rarely opens her mouth at the academy.
She always eats alone and has no friends, even two months after she starts school.
She said it was to focus on her studies, but she must have been quite lonely in the meantime.
Encouraged by Yu-chan’s conversational skills to make the speaker feel comfortable, Na-ye, with her excitement, told her about her recent events.
“…So I guess I have a good appetite these days.”
“You don’t mean to say that eating hard is also the duty of an examinee, right?”
“No way.”
Naye’s face stiffened as she smiled.
The bluish-green salmon, which had been calm, fluttered in small ripples.
After she chatted with her for about an hour, she was about to get down to business.
“I thought for a long time about whether I could really tell you.”
“Tell me anything. I don’t know how much I can do for you, but I’ll do my best to become a force within my reach.”
“You must keep the secret.”
Naye, who clenched her fist with her sorrowful eyes, opened her mouth after several hesitations.
Her story that started like that was her counseling about her boyfriend.
There was a guy she had been dating for about a year since high school.
It is said that she continued dating her from when she was in her third year of high school, and that the relationship developed to the point of mixing her bodies.
However, the boyfriend who I thought was a college student was a common high school dropout, and it seems that whenever we got close to each other, we pushed our true nature.
In the end, her fresh love was all gone, and she had to prepare for her college entrance exam again, so she said goodbye two months ago.
“By the way…”
Naye took off her glasses and wiped away her tears.
Perhaps because she is quite agitated, her words slowly begin to quiver.
“Sir… My boyfriend said he had a video of me having sex… Keep seeing him… Otherwise he’ll spread it all…”
“Calm down, calm down. I guess I could just say that.”
I gave her a pat on the back while Naye, who was sobbing and shaking her shoulders, calmed down.
When the story of my boyfriend came up, there was a corner where I was a bit lethargic.
It’s a more serious and annoying problem than you think.
“I didn’t know that… I didn’t think he would be that kind of person.”
The best solution is to report it to the police.
But the reason why I can’t do that is probably because I’m afraid of Yupo.
Even if the police act belatedly, if the perpetrator spreads the video on the Internet, there is no way to fix it.
How can you delete all the videos floating around on so many sites?
“It’s not your fault.”
“Teacher, what should I do? I don’t know anything. It’s so scary and hard…”
I checked to see if anyone was passing by in the hallway.
“I’ll fix it.”
Ordinarily, no matter what the incident was, it would have been roughly reported to the Tyler police.
However, Yu-chan knew how to solve this problem.
It’s somewhat illegal, and if you’re not careful, you might end up hurting yourself.
“Yes?”
“Can you tell me your contact number and name?”
“No, you don’t have to go that far.”
“I’m grown-up too, but I’m still a student. Leave this to the adults.”
It wasn’t like a petty sense of justice.
I’m not interested in that in the first place.
So, what rewards can you get?
Her deep relationship with her with her.
It is not a relationship that usually draws a line between a counselor and a client, but a secondary relationship (移差關係).
It is a good starting point for a more dense and sticky relationship.
Is Choi Na-ye worth taking this trouble and holding her hand her?
The answer is YES.
