Chapter 49 – Chapter 49
The conversation with Jang Yong continued afterwards.
But after the story of his sister was over, my mind was all over the place.
With thoughts about the person we were going to have dinner with after a while.
Actually, I made an appointment for tonight before Isol Kim came to my room last night.
Ahn So-ra senior.
I wonder if I shouldn’t call him senior now, but it’s already a habit and it’s not easy to fix.
It is a situation that seniors are also tolerating.
I decided to have dinner with such a senior today.
It’s already been 10 days since my senior said he would buy me a drink.
My senior was busy last weekend, and I was on a business trip to Busan on weekdays this week.
So I thought I wouldn’t be able to see it this week, but luckily I got two days to spare while subjugating the Lycans.
I haven’t told my seniors about this yet, so I thought I should brag about it when we meet.
And I also wanted to ask other questions.
What happened inside the gate that day.
As I kept blankly checking the time, Zhang Yong brushed me off.
Do yourself a little bit, you son of a bitch.
“Hyung-nim. What the hell did you do? Baek Hwa-yeon is suddenly overflowing with magic, and doesn’t she use the heal more than 10 times, which she was only able to use twice. Please let me know too. I’m prepared.”
I regret that I tried to speak comfortably to ask questions.
Moderate whining!
But I can’t tee off.
Above all, I want to maintain a good relationship until I meet his older sister.
“Hmm… There’s a dragon.”
“Yes bro.”
“You have the most magical energy on our team.”
“What do you mean? I’m probably the weakest on the team.”
That’s it, your guy isn’t a tank, but he feels that way because he plays a tank role…
I couldn’t say
This is because our team will still need a tanker, and if it is for Jang Yong, even if he is not a professional tanker, he will fulfill that role to some extent.
Even if I don’t strengthen it separately, it’s in a state of magic similar to the current Kim Isol.
It’s embarrassing to say that you’re leaving our team for no reason.
At least for now, we need him on our team.
“I have an appointment in a minute.”
“Why are you suddenly saying respectful things, brother. Please make it easy for me.”
“Ah, yes. Your brother is busy. Let’s talk about this later. Bring your sister too if you can.”
“Your sister?”
“Yes. Consultation with the family is also necessary.”
“But with Baek Hwa-yeon…”
“Everyone’s circumstances are different. You don’t know about trauma? That’s how each person is different.”
“Is that so? I’m not very traumatized…”
“You know it’s useless if you don’t follow my brother’s words, right?”
“Ah, your brother.”
“Okay, go home today and tell my sister well. I said I’ll see you. I don’t mind any time.”
“Yes.”
I gave Zhang Yong a good look and sent him home.
Tenacious guy.
There’s nothing I can do for him at this point.
I’m going to stick around like that in the future, so what should I do with this…
The other Awoken were growing well on their own.
The state of mind that only rushes at me because I can see an easier way…
Well, thanks to that, I’m having fun and I’m in a good situation
But still, he can’t because he’s a man.
Now that this has happened, shall we roll it hard?
I know again.
If you go near the threshold of death, you might grow dazzlingly.
Anyway, who the hell did this guy get hated on, so even though he had decent skills, he was always in the F group.
There’s no way the academy did it intentionally to the Awoken…
But it’s not that I’m not great enough to be jealous of anyone.
Well, the potential is excellent, but it is a situation that is no different from women including Kim I-sol.
Oh, I really don’t know.
I don’t want to spend my brain thinking about the guy with the pepper.
Be what he is
I thought about this and that and headed for the meeting place.
And I was able to meet senior Ahn there.
Senior Ahn, who was waiting for me before me, hasn’t changed at all, just the way she looked at her company.
I was very relieved of that.
Nothing has changed, sir.
.
Her face was not overly decorated, as usual, and she wore almost no makeup.
Her distinctive spectacles were still worn today, making her feel as intelligent as she always has been.
A senior who had already ordered a beer and was drinking alone just found me.
“Is Team Leader Kang here?”
My senior called me as team leader Kang.
Team Leader Less than a month has passed, but my senior called me that faster than anyone else, and he still calls me that after I quit the company.
A woman who knows something is different?
Now I realize that the position of team leader is nothing but an awakened errand boy, but I am always impressed by the care of the senior.
But now I think it might be better to call it a little different.
Well, it’s still a relationship where I can only call a senior a senior.
“Senior.”
“Yes. Sit down.”
“Were you eating alone? It’s only 7 o’clock yet.”
“What’s new? It’s not the first time I’ve seen it.”
“But… Oh, here’s a beer, too.”
I have a lot of things I want to ask my seniors, and I have a lot of questions.
However, I am struggling with what to ask and how to ask.
“Chief Kang.”
“Yes.”
“How’s the company? Is it worth going to?”
“Yeah, well. It’s just that it’s a bit lonely because I don’t have a senior.”
“Puff… Now you talk quite well. It seems like yesterday that you were a father.”
“Ah, you haven’t been watching me for years. If anyone sees it, they’ll misunderstand.”
“But I’ve heard all about your love story, so it seems like we’ve known each other for years?”
Ah, senior doesn’t know I broke up, right?
Would it be strange if she suddenly broke up?
It’s complicated inside her head.
I wonder if I’m doing this because I want to look good to my seniors.
“Are you not dating?”
“Keuuuuuo that? It’s very boring. I’m tired of it. How long will you ask me that? Every time I drink… You’re teasing me because I have a boyfriend right now, right?”
“No. I broke up with you too.”
“What? No, why? We even lived together.”
Senior didn’t ask if I was okay even though I said we broke up.
You already know that I’m fine.
Our job… Especially senior Ahn is very quick-witted.
Well, it’s a job to notice the Awoken every day, so it’s natural if it’s natural, but the senior is a person several times superior in that way.
I confided in my seniors what I had been through.
Of course, it was a story mixed with lies, but it was not very different from the real story.
It’s because I only left out the story of my ability.
“Kuh… So you should have done better! Isn’t that about 10 million won for the magic test fee?”
“Yes. I guess that’s about it. If it’s cheap, you and I both asked for it, so we couldn’t…”
“By the way, on the day of your examination, did your girlfriend go straight to catch the fish in the fishery?”
“I don’t know. Probably so.”
“What is it… You’re not funny. You’re so calm. When did you break up?”
“Has it been a couple of weeks? But hearing someone else’s breakup story, it’s not fun. I suffered a lot in my own way, but the seniors are too much.”
“Chief Kang is a bad asshole.”
“Yes? All of a sudden?”
“Yeah, you bastard.”
“Are you saying I did more wrong?”
“No, it’s not like that. I just thought it would be cute to see you flustered.”
“What is that? Senpai is really…”
“There was a time like that too. I threw away a man who brought a bouquet of flowers to marry me and called another man that day and drank it all night.”
“Are you a senior?”
“Yes. Who am I going to talk to then?”
“Did you give me advice on my relationship? Now that I think about it, it seems like it was because of my senior. I became like this.”
“Pup… Yes. It’s because of me. I wanted to break everything because I was in a relationship without me. Kick, kick…”
The senior laughed as if he was really happy.
I wasn’t hungry, and I wanted to drink as it is, so I ordered more alcohol and a fruit snack.
Perhaps it was thanks to my long-term relationship counseling with my senior, the story of my breakup created an atmosphere that was no different from usual.
I know roughly how much alcohol my seniors drink.
Maybe halfway through now?
Only then did I bring out the question I really wanted to ask.
“Why did you leave the company?”
“Are you asking that question now?”
“Because I don’t know if it’s an acceptable question or not. It could be rude.”
“Then you shouldn’t have done it.”
“Is it a secret from me too?”
“Hmm? Why can’t I have a secret from you? What are you?”
“Don’t you think it’s mean? Don’t you know all the secrets like my dating history, but don’t you tell me anything?”
“Jung Hyuk.”
A senior who suddenly calls my name.
I was surprised.
In the early days of joining the company, I was often called by my first name, but hearing it after a long time felt strange.
“It’s Sora.”
When I answered the same, the senior showed the same reaction as me this time.
Then he puts on a soft smile.
“Poop… You’ve grown a lot. Our team leader Kang.”
Ah…
I now interpreted her senior’s words like this.
Don’t cross the line!
Probably not.
Of course, the senior probably wouldn’t have calculated and said that, but I thought that he didn’t think of me as a man at all.
Well, he’s a senior I liked, but I didn’t come here to do something for him.
What I’m really curious about is another part.
I met a senior today because I wanted to know that.
“So why did you quit? Won’t you tell me?”
The senior, who had been looking at me and her drinking glass with blurry eyes as if she was a little drunk, suddenly changed to a cold expression.
I felt like I had made a mistake, but I still wanted to hear it.
I couldn’t stand the question.
“A little bit, the mood will be broken.”
“It doesn’t matter. I like serious stories too.”
The atmosphere of exchanging jokes subsided in an instant.
And I could hear her talking about her seniors.
That, of course, is a story similar to mine.
“Remember what happened a while ago? The Mars Gate Incident.”
“Ah yes.”
The senior brought up the story I was most curious about.
I thought that if the senior asked why he quit, the story flowed naturally and he could ask what happened inside the gate.
But I thought this story would come out from the beginning.
I held her breath and focused on the senior’s story.
“You will think I have a lot of experience. Of course, compared to you, who is now 6 months old, it might seem like I am more than 2 years old. But as you know, I was in charge of Team F, right? All year round.”
“Still, you raised the awakened ones well and sent them up. Why didn’t the seniors go up to D-class together? Did the company stop them? So why did she quit?”
“No. I’m leaking a little bit, but I mean I haven’t actually seen anyone die in two years because I’ve only been in the E and F ranks. Of course, not being able to get to the D rank is annoying to the company. That’s why drinking I also ate a lot. Still, some of the incentives from Team D and Team C, where the Awoken from my team went up, came to me as well. Of course, it was much less than the team leaders who stole the Awoken I raised, but it was still salty enough to endure without giving up. But this time… I couldn’t stand it any longer. Seeing people die right in front of my eyes…”
“I see. Then I can’t help it. I thought the company didn’t treat the seniors properly…”
“That’s not wrong either. One of the reasons I didn’t go up to D-class is because the company didn’t promote me. But that’s because the awakened people are the reason.”
“Awakener?”
“Yes. I was a bit picky. Those horny bastards asked me to touch their butt, but I refused to die. I objected to taking a business girl into the dungeon. Then, they yelled at me to change my supporter…”
“Aha…”
“It’s okay. Anyway… I thought I had a sense of mission in this job. I’ve actually lived that way. But when I saw corpses wrapped in front of my eyes, I couldn’t enter the dungeon anymore. That’s all. Are you done now?”
The senior, perhaps a little drunk, hurriedly brought up the story of his past.
He explains why he wanted to become an Awoken.
Even though I was not an Awakener, and my body was weak, why did I apply for a mortal Awakener support company and go to the dungeon?
The story continued.
However, the senior brought out a memory that I wanted to forget.
“My parents passed away during the previous Cheonji Department Store Gate Backflow incident. You know? It was the first gate backflow incident in Korea. It was at a time when there were only a few gates that appeared in Korea, so even the Awakened could afford it…”
Blurred eyes.
Suddenly my heart tightens
It’s hard to breathe.
Ah…
Why do senior parents there…
All of my family was there at the time.
Even my grandparents, dad, mom, and younger siblings.
And that day was, of course, my birthday.
Whoa… Whoa… I can’t breathe.
Eyes close
Why do I still think of that day…
“Junghyuk? Hey! Kang Jeonghyuk? Why are you suddenly like this? You’re drunk? Hey!! Team leader Kang!”
Beep-
I hear that name again.
The tremendous pain that seemed to break my head came over me, and I collapsed on the spot with my eyes closed.
However, in the darkness, a strange selection window blocked my eyes again.
[Emergencies!!]
[The system is unstable. Start stabilization.]
[In order to keep the system stable, we recommend that you erase the currently active information.]
[Do you want to expunge related information?]
〈 YES NO 〉
Erase my memory?
Do not be ridiculous.
“NO…”
It’s painful, and sometimes I want to forget it, but I have no intention of erasing the memory.
My choice was, of course, NO.
And it will be NO in the future.
“Chief Kang? Are you okay? Are you coming to your senses now?”
“Senior…”
“What, you’re not so weak with alcohol? Aren’t you supposed to go to the hospital?”
“Where are you? How long has it been?”
“It’s been 10 minutes since you collapsed. I’m in a taxi here and I’m on my way to the hospital.”
I was lying in the back seat of the taxi, cutting my senior’s knee.
I felt like my back was going to go out because of my legs, which were crumpled at the door.
I moved my legs and lay down on the knees of my senior in a comfortable position.
Then he looked up at her chin under the senior’s cute face and said.
“Senior. The hospital is over… Would you like to have sex with me?”
“What?”
The bewildered senior’s glasses shifted sideways.
