Chapter 68 – Aftermath (2)
“What happened?”
I could hear two people arguing in the room.
“What do you mean?”
“Didn’t you say you would be moving soon? Just as the expiration date just arrived, so I just moved it.”
He was talking like it was nothing really.
“Of course, I’m sorry for proceeding without a word.”
Is he still being polite?
However, the apology was only seen as a pretense.
“There are people who just want to see you.”
I really hated to hear him say that he couldn’t help it.
It’s just like an excuse.
Who wants to see?
Is it really something based on both sides?
I would have thought so in the past, but not now.
I think it’s just a one-sided feeling.
“Let’s think about the future again.”
He raised one of his eyes slightly and made a serious expression.
“Are you serious?”
“Yes.”
“Don’t try to solve everything emotionally.”
“There is no problem in the world that can be solved only by emotions.”
“Seria cheated on me.”
“Can you see that I cheated?”
If not telling the truth is called deception, then what the hell is deception?
Is it because I’m not an aristocrat that I don’t understand this?
“It seems that the meaning of deception I know has changed a lot.”
He had a really sad look on his face.
“She’s sincere.”
“She must be her own sincerity.”
“What’s the problem?”
“Everything.”
Now, from the first meeting, I doubted whether everything was a coincidence.
“So what do you want to do?”
At least there seemed to be room for dialogue.
“It takes time.”
“For what?”
“About all this.”
I was grateful for the favor he did me, but…
The favor seemed to have to be returned.
“We will return the hospital bills you paid in the past.”
I was able to make up for it because I had the prize money I received after winning the award.
However, the cost was a little high, so I felt like I had to go look for a job right away.
I was thinking of giving it back anyway.
If not, I would feel very uncomfortable.
“Then let’s go.”
“Where are you going?”
“Is there any reason why I would tell you that?”
I turned and walked towards the door.
He grabbed the handle and opened the door.
“You’ll regret it.”
I couldn’t hear his last words.
Maybe he didn’t want to hear it.
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Surprisingly, no one stopped me.
Do you think you will come back anyway?
There was a crackling sound from upstairs, but it didn’t stop.
Where should I go
When I came out, I unexpectedly realized that I had nowhere to go.
Lack of connections.
Even at the time when I lived fiercely, I thought it would be okay to live without it.
Now that I’ve come, I know that my thoughts were wrong.
Could this be karma for action?
The streets were crowded because it was the end of the year, but in the middle of it, a traveler with nowhere to go was just standing there blankly.
People pass by looking at the obstacle standing there doing nothing.
Those who knew the obstacle exchanged words with the person next to them, and those who didn’t know just looked at it and then took it away.
Alcohol.
I needed a drink.
The only solution to forget this stuffy reality for a while.
I wanted to go where I used to go, but I decided not to go any more.
I wanted to leave only happy memories.
We decided to find another bar.
The problem was that I wasn’t familiar with the geography around here.
But the head made no effort to solve the problem.
With the thought that if it catches your eye, you can go there.
Before I knew it, there were fewer people around and I was in an alley.
There was a shop with a small signboard just a few steps away.
I couldn’t see any evidence that it was a bar, but somehow I was already stepping towards it.
Two people were guarding the door.
It’s obvious, but those people stopped me from entering without thinking.
“Do you have a pass?”
What pass to the bar?
It sounded like a dog, so I ignored it and tried to go back in.
They seemed to have put in the mechanical courtesy of a while ago.
Perhaps the reason they exist is for people like me.
“I don’t know what you believe in.”
The atmosphere was about to get nasty.
When the suffocating confrontation was about to continue,
The door I was originally meant to enter opened and someone came out.
“What’s the matter.”
Seeing that he was speaking in an informal language, it seemed that he was more advanced than the people in front of me.
“I didn’t have a pass, but I said I’d go in…”
“Who.”
And he started watching my face.
“Is this a face you know?”
Those were the words of the one on the left of the two.
“You’re not one to care.”
Do you know who I am?
“Excuse me. Please go in.”
It was an unintended position.
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The two of them, still in the alley after Edward Weiss entered, were uneasy.
It means that if their superior treats them like that, they are quite high.
They didn’t recognize that and treated it harshly, so they thought it wouldn’t be a good ending.
“What’s up?”
The person who first asked for the pass said so.
“I don’t know.”
Even though that happened, they still had to work anyway, so they were having such a conversation with the door behind them.
The door opened and someone came towards them from behind.
Thinking that something has come, they decided to apologize first.
Because I wanted to be at least extenuating.
“Sorry.”
“What.”
The grave voice didn’t question them, but I really didn’t know why they apologized.
It wasn’t a situation where they could tell them apart.
“I mean, I didn’t recognize the guest.”
“Why is that?”
The two of them were puzzled by his unusual words.
It is the entrance that is evaluated as the most important position among working employees, but does not say much even after making this mistake?
It was so foreign to what they knew that they couldn’t help but be more embarrassed.
“You guys don’t know.”
“Who is he?”
“I heard that he is the winner of this year and the son-in-law of the Peroz family.”
The ones in front were unknown, but the families in the back were known.
“How did you know such a person was in a place like this?”
“I don’t know, but I know someone who works for the Fellowes family.”
“Go to work. Don’t mind this.”
They still had unanswered questions in their heads, but they decided to forget them soon.
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The ambiance of the bar, if I had to describe it in one word, was decadent.
It was a bar where people with a lot of money could enjoy themselves while avoiding the eyes of others.
Dancers, dressed or not, were dancing,
There were also women who directly participated in the drinking party to liven up the atmosphere.
Laughter mingled with coquetry was heard, and feeble groans were heard.
But now those things didn’t matter to me.
I was desperate for a drink because anywhere was good here.
Perhaps the fragrance flowing throughout the space accelerated those thoughts.
There seemed to be a space for people who came alone.
A stately man in an apron was sorting out bottles and glasses of alcohol.
She sat down on the chair in front of him.
He turned around as if he noticed me coming.
“Which one would you like?”
“It’s the most poisonous.”
He seemed to have noticed that I had never been to a place like this.
But what he didn’t say seemed to indicate that he was an expert at what he was doing.
“Would you like a bottle or a glass?”
Is there a big difference?
I didn’t know what it was, but I didn’t think it would end with a glass, so I ordered a bottle.
He seemed to be a bit troubled, but he soon brought a bottle and a glass each.
“It’s 18 years old.”
I didn’t tell you the name, but it was a drink that looked poisonous to anyone.
He poured me a drink, and soon he headed to the place he had been before as if he was about to finish what he was doing.
I drank a glass.
Is this what it feels like to swallow a hot fire?
With a burning sensation in his throat, he sent the liquid from his mouth down his throat and into his intestines.
I will correct it.
It felt like my intestines were burning.
He drank only one cup of Guess the effect was certain, but already the brain had made a declaration that it would no longer work.
But maybe what happened to me was more intense than that, so I still couldn’t drink without thinking.
He took another drink.
Why is that?
From the moment I drank one cup, my head, which had not been working properly, did not give me the answer.
A self-deprecating laugh came out.
What do you mean when you receive an award?
I lost my relationship because I didn’t know what was going on around me right now, and I was just fooling around.
I drank my third glass.
Well I don’t know anymore
I will do it to apologize
But what if
I’ve already been hurt again
I experienced another loss.
I didn’t know that, and I was giggling, so I can’t say I didn’t do anything wrong either.
I was the bad guy
I was the one to kill
Hey I want to see you
Increasingly, the thinking became jumbled and chaotic.
Then someone sat down next to me and started talking to me.
“What are you doing?”
