Chapter 9 – @2. The Arrogant Wife of the Neighbor Was Stealing From the Mart.
It must have looked like it wanted to close the elevator before I went in. But it was quicker for me to get on board before the door closed.
“Really…”
She grumbled.
I came first, and I got out of her way to ride first for her, but she rather looked at me with contempt for her.
“Let’s go up together. I’m busy today too.”
“I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, but think about how uncomfortable it will be for you if you and I are in the elevator.”
What did I do wrong?
What’s the matter? Who is this woman?
I wanted to try saying it once, but I didn’t even have to fight. Anyway, that arrogant expression ends with this.
The elevator started going up. I picked up my smartphone and started watching the video.
“Really noisy… What are you doing in the elevator? I don’t even know public morals…”
The arrogant wife looked at me and threw another word, but her eyes went to the smartphone screen.
“Ah!”
A startling sound.
“Hmm…”
I watched the video pretending not to know.
“Everything, you! Why?”
She doesn’t seem to know what to say now.
“That… It’s a voyeur!! Delete it right now!”
The neighbor’s wife demanded of me with a confident, shrill voice, just as she had done to the kindergarten teachers.
“Isn’t it? It’s a voyeur… It’s a crime… I guess I should report it, right?”
I gave her a grin at her.
Ding! The elevator stopped.
I passed by the trembling neighbor’s wife and got off first.
I put my smartphone in my pocket and put my thumb on the front door lock.
“Now. Wait a minute!”
When the woman hurriedly got off the elevator, I was already opening the front door.
“I’ll have to go in and report it soon.”
I didn’t forget the smirk in my voice that seemed like it would upset me too.
“Wait! Wait!”
I heard her voice and closed the front door.
Bang! Bang!
“Open the door! I can’t open the door!”
A woman’s urgent voice was heard.
“Why are you doing this? In someone else’s house. Noisily. Everyone upstairs will hear.”
“That… Door, open the door.”
She no longer knocked on the door and lowered her voice.
“Hey… Mister… Mister next door…”
It’s the first time I’ve seen her call me that.
After a moment, when she was about to burn her child out, she opened the door.
“What are you going to do now?”
The woman glared at me and said.
As expected, when the door is opened, he immediately changes his attitude.
“I beg your pardon?”
I asked with a grin.
“That video! Why the hell did you film that? What are you going to do? Do you think that’s acceptable?”
Others will see that I am wrong and she is right. It’s so bold.
“Can’t you erase it right now?”
She still doesn’t seem to have a good grasp of the situation she is in.
Sometimes there are people like that. People who make a mess of the situation by rushing to solve it right away rather than calmly seeking a way to respond even for a moment in an unexpected situation.
Maybe it’s because I’ve been to a woman’s company, so I often see women acting like that.
Just because you mentioned women doesn’t mean that women are superior to men.
As far as I know, it’s simply more of a matter of experience.
It is a case that occurs because you are not trained at all how to respond when an unexpected situation occurs.
So, in the case of many Korean men, they have been through some crazy situations in the military, so they are prepared to adapt to unexpected situations, and I think it is because women do not have easy access to such opportunities.
In the case of our company, people with accumulated experience do not respond that way. If you become a manager or team leader, try to understand the situation first rather than panic.
It is usually seen in social beginners or housewives who lack social experience.
Such was the attitude of this lofty woman now.
If it were me, I would first take a step back, think for a moment, and consider how to respond to her, but this woman is trying to solve the immediate crisis by shouting at her.
“Hey! Can’t you hear me? People are talking!”
At least, seeing that he changed from being half-speaking to half-respectful while he was talking, it seems that he is starting to understand a little bit.
“If you don’t delete it right away, I’ll sue you! Do you think I’ll let you go? If my husband finds out…”
And no matter how embarrassed you are, as time passes, you will gradually come to face the situation you are in.
The woman who brought her husband out seems to have finally understood her situation.
“Then I’ll discuss it with her husband.”
“Ah. No… That’s…”
Honestly, how many women in the world would want to tell their husbands that they were caught stealing from a grocery store?
Of course, there will be cases where couples are at the same level.
In fact, there are more cases like that.
If the wife is rude, the husband often goes beyond the level of rudeness to be ignorant, unruly, and even violent.
I heard from her colleague in the customer service team at her company that talking to a woman without common sense would make her blood run dry, and she said that if her phone returned to her husband, her life would be threatened. .
But it doesn’t seem so, at least in this woman’s case.
“That’s great. You said your husband works at City Hall, right?”
I know that her husband is a civil servant.
That’s quite an elite civil servant. For a person in such a position, even a minor mistake in the family can be a weakness.
I don’t know the atmosphere inside the civil servants well, but what will happen if rumors start to circulate about the mayor’s secretary, who was caught stealing from the market…?
Of course, the story is different if the person involved is the mayor.
However, being a secretary is a position that is easily cut off. Seen from the outside, they are elite, but from the inside, they are mere servants who can be replaced at will.
And this haughty wife is quite overbearing in front of others, but it doesn’t seem to be so between husband and wife.
Above all, her husband seemed to be quite older than her wife, and her authority in the house seemed superior to him.
“No!”
Said the wife urgently.
“… That…”
Her face was turning pale.
Is it because of love? Are you afraid? I don’t know yet.
Furthermore, if her husband, who is a civil servant, is involved, it seems that he can roughly predict how the situation will go.
“Please. That video… Please delete it.”
She said in a much softer voice than before.
“What kind of video are you talking about?”
I let go of my pretense and said.
“I took it at the mart earlier…”
She was visibly shaking now.
Anger? Or fear?
“So, what video are you talking about, please tell me exactly.”
I asked her once again as she looked at me with her venomous eyes even as she spoke pitifully.
She still hasn’t completely lost her temper.
Speak with your mouth what have you done
“That video of me… Stealing… From the mart.”
She bit her lip and struggled to say what she wanted.
“Huh? Stealing? Did you steal from the mart?”
I smirked and mocked her.
“Ah! That’s right. I think the kindergarten teachers came earlier.”
And he brought up another story that she might not like.
“Oh! No! Never!”
She was startled It was a bigger response than when she mentioned her husband.
“Please, please. Kindergarten… I’ll go and apologize to the kindergarten teacher.”
“Um… You’re misunderstanding something. I don’t know what happened between you and the kindergarten teachers, but it has nothing to do with me, right?”
“Ugh!”
The noble lady of the neighbor now knew for certain that what I wanted was not justice.
“I don’t know what to do, so please go back now.”
While saying that, I continued to grin and not erase my smile.
I mean, her expression on my face was threatening, intimidating, mocking her.
“I… I’ll do anything.
She sat down and grabbed the hem of my trousers.
It seems she has finally realized her place in this situation.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t want anything from you.”
“Please. That… If you report that, I’ll die.”
“No, who killed a person for stealing once?”
“My husband… My child… Can’t be known. Unless I really die…”
The woman’s eyes were red, as if tears would flow at any moment.
“Okay. Then I’ll delete it. Go back now.”
Even when I heard the answer she wanted, she stood still and looked at me.
“Why?”
“Help me.”
“So you said you would erase it.”
“I can’t believe it.”
Of course I can’t believe it.
Even as she told me to erase her, I did not erase her mocking expression.
“Ha. Then what shall we do?”
“I don’t know.”
The neighbor’s wife was looking at me with her tears streaming down her face.
“Okay. I’ll delete the video, so go back and calm down. What would you think if her husband saw it after you were making a lot of noise here?”
After thinking about my words for a while, she took a step inside the front door and closed the front door.
Then, without saying a word, he grabbed my wrist and led me inside and dragged me into the living room.
Of course, I couldn’t resist the strength of her woman’s grip, but I was drawn into her.
“The video… I’ll do anything if you delete it.”
She said, glaring at me.
“What? I don’t need anything.”
“Sleep… I’ll sleep with you. Then can you delete that video?”
The words I wanted finally came out. I at least waited for those words to come out of her mouth first.
“Yes?”
“I’ll sleep with you. Can I do that?”
Said the woman biting her lip.
“Hmm…”
I took out my smartphone that I had put in my shirt pocket.
On the screen that was turned on, there was a picture being taken with the camera.
Dump! The woman dropped the envelope containing the items she had bought at the mart that she was still holding. You look really surprised.
“So what?”
She still grunted and asked her.
“This is a big deal. Her husband will be very happy to see this.”
“You!”
The woman’s face was filled with a different despair than before.
To say that her wife has stolen and that she will offer her body in exchange for not revealing her theft.
Which of the two is more acceptable?
“You despicable bastard!”
She glared at me as if she was going to attack me at any moment.
“If you don’t watch your words, I won’t be patient with you any longer.”
I had no intention of giving her any more respect.
Of course, from the moment I got my hands on the video of her stealing, the balance had already tipped.
But with a little extra effort, I even got a video of her offering me her body in return.
The whole time she spoke her words, I was constantly sweeping up and down from her face, through her chest, and down her lower legs. It was clearly not stopping the teasing gaze. Sometimes he even ran his tongue over his lips.
She also had her own eyes, so she couldn’t tell what kind of eyes I was looking at her, and in the end, she guessed that she was going to bed.
“Ah…”
She seems to be realizing it now. What the hell is going on
“So. Shall we negotiate now?”
Blackmail and negotiation are only one syllable apart, and essentially there is no difference.
The one with a lot to lose is at a disadvantage.
Of course, legally, she may not necessarily be at a disadvantage.
No one knows what the outcome will be if they go to court.
But she’s now taking this video to court and taking it to court is risking her life.
How will her husband, an elite civil servant who draws a big picture, treat his wife, who was caught stealing from a mart and even threatened?
To be honest, I don’t know anything about the man, so I can’t predict. However, there is no doubt that a great crisis will come for the couple.
For a moment, the wife says nothing. She hates her more than anyone else in the world, just looking at me with her face.
“Okay. I’ll do as you say.”
It looks like he’s finally made up his mind. The woman bowed her head.
“Give me the phone first.”
The fact that she didn’t touch the phone before she came into this house is well known to her because she is watching over the intercom.
But even now, she might try to record or record secretly with her smartphone.
“Password? Pattern?”
I asked her with her sneering look on her face.
