Chapter 48 – Chapter 48
After driving for about 40 minutes, we arrived at our destination.
I don’t even know how it got there.
I was just nervous and driving, so I arrived before I knew it.
If you get scratched, you get fucked.
Driving with that thought alone, I couldn’t pay the slightest attention to things like the feeling of speed or the sound of the exhaust.
No matter how much his heart was beating, Do-gyun, who had soared anxiety despite driving so carefully, checked the condition of the car as soon as he got out of the car.
‘The wheels are fine, the bumpers are okay…’
The result of a careful inspection of every nook and cranny. After confirming that there was not the slightest scratch on the car, Do-gyun finally calmed down and let out a deep breath.
“Huh…”
I thought you were falling behind
It’s a car I can’t buy even if I sell all my organs.
I had insurance, but when the owner of this car asked me for repairs, I wasn’t confident to pay it back.
Perhaps, it might have been that he had to sell all his organs or borrow money.
Again, a deep breath came out and relief came out.
While Do-kyun exhaled a sigh of relief, Eun-seol’s voice came from in front of him.
“Stop trembling and come.”
Do-gyun looked at her with a sullen face at the voice he heard.
My stomach was boiling when I saw her showing that it was not her job and that she was not even interested in the condition of the car.
There.
‘Sleep. Sleep?’
Before arriving here, when I glanced around to check on her, I was sure she was sleeping with her eyes closed.
When I thought of sleeping with a comfortable face in the world, it was really nasty.
“Come.”
One more call is heard.
His fists were clenched, but Do-gyun, who struggled to put a smile on his face, answered it with the most lively tone possible.
“Going…!”
Oh my teeth are grinding
Right after that, as I walked forward and stood next to her, I felt something different from usual.
It was not a big deal, but it felt strangely scratching my nerves, so when I searched for the reason, the answer came right away.
‘Tall…’
It seemed larger than usual.
His height, which had not reached my shoulders, was now so large that it hung over my chin.
When Do-gyun looked at her with a confused feeling, it was only then that he understood the reason.
‘What kind of heels are that high?’
The heels of the shoes she was wearing were quite high.
Will my feet not hurt?
As Do-gyun was looking at him with a sad feeling, he heard a curse from her right after.
“What the fuck are you looking at?”
Quite harsh language.
When I looked up, I saw a face glaring at me with a frown.
Do-gyun calmed his fluttering heart at that expression, drew a smile on his face, and spat out the words.
“Oh, no. I think the heels are really high.”
Stop.
In an instant, her body trembled at Do-gyun’s words.
When Do-gyun made a puzzled expression at him, she once again crumpled her expression fiercely and spat out curse words.
“Don’t be shy and follow me. Because there is a lot to do.”
Watching the back of her as she said that and walked away, Do-gyun finally realized why she was acting out like that.
‘I had a complex about being short.’
We found a weakness.
At that thought, the corners of his mouth twitched, but thinking that he would be beaten up if he argued again with this, he straightened the corners of his mouth that were rising up and followed her.
“Let’s go together!”
To be honest, those eyes were a little scary.
*
When he got out of the parking lot in the basement, a panoramic view of the city spread out in front of Do-gyun’s eyes.
It was already mid-December, and the chilly air began to seep into the tip of the nose and fill the lungs. It would not be an illusion to feel the soot that has always mixed with the air and stung the inside.
Loud music piercing your ears makes your heart beat faster. The noise created by the music playing in each store felt somehow awkward, so I twisted my body and finally moved my gaze to look at the city.
A forest of gray-white tall buildings, cars and people passing through them.
Everyone passing by was wrapped in a thick coat, and cold frost was on the bumpers of passing cars.
The street, which had not yet shed its traces of autumn before he was kidnapped, now took on a clear winter glow, showing that this much time had passed while he was gone.
He didn’t have a skeptical impression, such as the fact that the world was going well without him.
It was only when I saw the society moving busily along the road that I realized that I had really come out, and I felt happy.
It was a very pleasant and welcoming landscape.
For a long time, for a long time like that, I stayed there blankly, losing my gaze, when I heard a voice calling me in my ear.
“Hey.”
When I turned her head, I saw her wincing and frowning.
“Ah yes.”
When Do-gyun answered, she moved her steps and came in front of him, rummaging through her coat pocket and taking out something of her own.
“Take it.”
I lowered her head and saw her stick out.
It was her own wallet and smartphone.
“Ah.”
You’ve got it Then these came to mind.
Even though they were things I had worn all my life, I completely forgot about them because the circumstances were so sudden.
Do-gyun, who was handed her wallet and smartphone, felt that awkward, and heard her words again.
“Go to the cafe over there.”
When she looked up and looked in the direction her finger was pointing, she saw a franchise cafe across the street.
Do-gyun, who read her intention to act independently of herself in her words, looked at her and asked her a question.
“Isn’t Eun-seol going with you?”
“I have something to take care of.”
“Ah.”
Of course, I thought we would move together, but the answer I heard was different from what I thought.
“You should also take care of your business in the meantime. I took care of the company, so that part is excluded.”
“Yeah?”
When Do-gyun, who was puzzled by the continued explanation, made a blank sound, she added an additional explanation.
“I just called it an illness. Aren’t you going to have to go back to work later?”
It was a very unexpected statement.
‘Afterwards…’
She was talking after everything was over.
There was something strange about the words that seemed natural, but there was a question that came to mind before that.
“How did you do it?”
That wouldn’t be as easy as it sounds, but his job was not a local hole-in-the-wall shop, but a mid-sized company with a name.
If it was that easy to cover up, I wouldn’t have worried so much.
Looking at her with a question-filled expression at her thoughts, she answered him in a nonchalant tone.
“Money.”
“…Yeah?”
“What can’t you do with money?”
Do-gyun’s mouth dropped open at the answer he heard.
“I made a rough diagnosis and pretended that it was difficult to contact. There is someone who knows that way.”
As her bewildered face became and looked at her, her bored eyes were reflected behind her glasses facing her. It was a nonchalant expression, as if this was not a big deal.
“So knowing that, contact only personal acquaintances, and I go first.”
Is it an illusion that he looks tall when he says that and turns around?
Even though she had only uttered a few words, it was clear that she was from another world.
‘Oh my gosh…’
Indeed, as Eun-ah said, her older sister was amazing.
*
How blankly he must have been standing there, Do-gyun felt the cold creeping through his body, and finally came to his senses and walked into the cafe.
As I opened the door, I heard the jingling of a bell and the friendly greeting of the waitress.
“Welcome~.”
I bowed my head roughly to the greeting I heard and looked around, and I saw that there were quite a few people sitting down, even though it was a weekday during the daytime.
Feeling a little excited about the smell of a person he hadn’t felt in a long time, Do-kyun walked over to the counter, ordered a cup of coffee, and sat by the window thinking about what he had to do.
First of all, as she said, I had to contact people around me and organize my surroundings.
After thinking about it, Do-gyun took out his smartphone and turned it on, and a familiar background screen appeared, followed by the home screen.
The gray background or the icons placed on top of it give me a feeling of nostalgia, and my stomach churns.
I was soaked in emotion and looked at my smartphone.
‘This is not the time.’
He suppressed his sentiments a little. He had to work slowly.
Thinking so, he operated the device for a while, and suddenly a sound of pain came out of Do-gyun’s mouth.
“Okay…”
Maybe it’s because I’ve been touching it for the first time in two weeks, but the feeling of pressing the screen was very awkward.
Feeling out of control. Even though it seems to be pressing lightly, it was awkward for my fingers to land on the screen.
‘Driving me crazy.’
Feeling like a caveman, new to civilization.
For a while, I felt slightly depressed, wondering if something I always handled would become so awkward just because I hadn’t used it for a few weeks, but my body while operating the device seemed to recall a familiar sensation, quickly adapting to it, clearing the awkwardness and opening my contacts.
Right after that, Do-gyun, who had opened the screen and looked at the messages he had received from me, suddenly felt an empty laugh burst out.
‘They contacted me…’
Parents, assistant shooter Myeongdae, general manager, and three friends.
Although I had been diving for two weeks, I felt depressed because I wondered if no one had contacted me.
‘…I’m not the type to contact you first either.’
Do-gyun, who recalled his usual behavior and immediately erased those feelings, started calling the contact numbers one by one.
It was a long two weeks for him, but it was not a long time in society, and the voices over the phone were full of welcome rather than worry.
My parents were in good health and it seemed that Porong had just been neutered.
Myungdae always wanted to frown at the first word on the phone, and the manager somehow got me a drink appointment, as if he had been thinking about drinking.
Facing the times and people that I thought I would never get back again, I was glad that I was laughing while raising my head with a sense of dejection for some reason.
After a while, Do-gyun, who finally caught his breath, looked out the window blankly, moving his gaze.
‘What should I do now?’
Contact is also over. There probably won’t be any problems with this for a while now.
There was nothing more to deal with.
Literally, the cleanup of the people around me was over.
Do-gyun’s eyes widened as he remembered how he had spent his spare time.
‘…For a moment.’
Now he is alone He had a smart phone in his hand. Probably, she has quite a bit of time left before she comes.
His gaze, which had been looking out the window, moved over his hand with a creaking movement.
‘This…’
Isn’t it time to read the novel?
A thought came to my mind, and my body, which understood the situation before my head, started responding.
Thud. Thud. Thud.
My heart was beating violently. The corners of her mouth twitched and her eyebrows quivered.
‘Come to think of it…’
He, who hadn’t missed a novel for about two weeks, didn’t read a web novel once for nearly two weeks.
That means that.
‘A story that has been left behind…’
Were piled up
“Sigh…!”
A moan that comes out of me without knowing. Pleasure that pierces the spine.
‘Ah…’
The trembling doesn’t stop.
Now is the ruinous Yasu, in cafes, outdoors, in public.
‘Can you do it…?’
Goosebumps pierce the whole body. A pleasant echo that comes from joy, not fear.
The sentimental echo of the previous moment disappeared without a trace, and a peripheral pleasure began to cover it thickly.
The finger, which moved involuntarily, impatiently pressed the golden wing-shaped icon floating on the screen.
A screen that immediately pops up.
‘Let’s go, let’s go…!’
Do-gyun, who could no longer control the corner of his mouth and stared at the main banner floating on the screen, felt that the root of himself that had been sealed so far was being awakened.
Now was the time to go back to being a ‘deep sea bee’ after enduring a long period of humiliation and suffering.
