Chapter 39 – A Sweet Night
“Whoa… I’m done too.”
Noah, who stretches out, takes off his glasses and rubs his forehead, lets out a big sigh.
Isabelle, who checked the report written by Noah beside her, looked back at me and nodded her head.
“Okay, so what are you guys going to do now?”
“Usually, after writing a report, the next order comes within three hours.
She secured the mask, which couldn’t find a contractor, and made sure there were no abnormalities in the area.
An order will be issued to recheck the nearby area for about three days and return if there are no problems.”
“And this mask… I’ll put it in a special storage case.”
He picks up another mask and puts it into a white case that has many devices he has never seen before.
As soon as Noah closed the case, the locks began to seal the mask with a clicking sound.
I handed Isabelle a case that was locked tightly enough to withstand any kind of shock.
When we were bickering with each other, we seemed like women of the right age,
When he was entrusted with his main job, he showed a quick and neat work process befitting his identity as a special agent.
“From now on, we plan to wait until an order comes down from headquarters, but what will the master do?”
“…I have to go back to the funeral home. I said I went to buy cigarettes at dawn and stayed until noon.
Mom and Dad will be worried again, so she goes back to the funeral home, and then she goes home.”
Wash your sweaty hair, look in the mirror and tidy it up to look tidy.
I put on the jacket and shirt that I had hung on her hanger in turn and put her black tie around my neck.
Although everything is not completely over yet, the preparations for comforting Jaehyuk on his way have been completed.
I finished her preparations by tightening her tie and brushing the dust off her black clothes.
“Then I’ll go, so call me if anything happens.”
“…Master.”
“It’s okay, don’t tell me. That’s what ended with me making you a saint.
You were the woman who said you’d rather die than become a saint. How do you feel now?”
“…What do you mean, I’m truly happy to be the saintess of my master now…!
To the point where I, who was human, thought that I, who hated my master, was stupid…”
“Yeah, that’s it.”
He made the life of the woman who killed Jaehyeok into ‘the best universe’.
She reversed her values and turned her into something she hated so much that she considered it happiness.
Isabelle is happy, not knowing that she has fallen into abyss, and she blames herself.
Unbeknownst to the dead Jaehyeok, the rest of her, and even Isabelle herself, her revenge had already ended.
She greets Noah and Isabelle, who stand at a distance slightly raising the corner of her mouth at the truth that only I know.
“Goes.”
Leaving the two behind, I closed the heavy door and walked down the dark hallway.
* *
“…Ah, brother.”
“Yun-sol, what are you doing here? Did you know Jae-hyuk well?”
At the funeral home, which is still crowded with Jae-hyeok’s relatives, I ran into Sol-yi Yun, who was coming out of her condolences.
Neat black clothes, just like the quiet Go Yoon-sol. She was the one who shyly greeted her with her hair neatly braided up, not her usual long hair.
Obviously, Yun-sol doesn’t have a close relationship with Jae-hyeok, but she doesn’t seem to have seen the two of them hanging out or getting along.
“Ah, that’s… I came after hearing about Hyemi unnie.
While her brother was away for a while, Hyemi unnie also came here.”
“…Really? That noona was also close to Jaehyuk. Thank you for coming.”
“No. To be honest, I’m not close with Jaehyuk oppa, and I thought about whether or not to come.
But even so, he is also a friend of my brother… More than anything, I have been confessed to by Jaehyuk oppa.”
“…What? He…?”
She sat down with Sol-yi Yun and opened a can of beer on the table when she heard an unexpected story.
“Yes, it was during the freshman MT… Jaehyuk oppa was drunk and confessed to me.
He said ‘I like nice and pretty girls like you, would you like to go out with me?’… I was a bit taken aback.
To be honest, the situation at that time was scary, but I politely refused, but Jaehyuk oppa coolly let go.
The next day he woke up and even apologized to me. I know he’s a good person, even if he’s a bit upset.”
“…That bastard looks a bit scary, but he was a bully in high school.
Even though he didn’t do things like stealing kids’ money and making them shuttle, he always fought with other bullies.
Did I give you tutoring for the idiot who was about to drop out because he couldn’t study so badly?”
“Really?”
While drinking a sip of beer, I think back to what happened when I was in middle school or high school.
“Jaehyuk’s family is pretty strict, but he doesn’t study and fights all the time.
But I just couldn’t watch it. So, on the condition that they let me in, I always stayed after school to study.
Still, he was basically a guy with good brains, so his grades went up quickly. To the point where I got the same college waiting number as me and got accepted.”
“…You’re amazing, oppa as well as Jaehyeok oppa.”
“He’s a good guy. Except for being a gold digger. I must have confessed to you because I was drunk.
Because Jaehyuk’s ideal type is gentle, small, and innocent like you. Haha…”
“Ah, do you know that too? The fact that Jaehyuk oppa confessed to Goeun unnie a while ago…
Unni Ko, are you cousins with her brother? I heard that you and Jaehyuk oppa have been close since childhood.”
“What? To Choi Choi? …You bastard Jaehyuk Park must have been in a hurry… Confessed to that old farmhand…”
The guy who always said he wanted to date a girlfriend,
Even so, the guy who never brought up his love story,
The guy who gave me advice because I liked Hye-mi noona, even though I was a mother-in-law.
In the end, I didn’t even know if Jaehyuk had a girlfriend or not.
Bastard, did you go out with the girlfriend you wanted so much? Drink beer.
“…So? Choi Go-eun accepted that confession?”
“He said it was black. Hearing curses as they are.”
“I knew it.”
To be mad at Choi Go-eun, who is the exact opposite of his taste. His ego must have been hurt…
I couldn’t laugh out loud because the place was the place, but at least a silly laugh leaked out.
Because there’s nothing more fun than the story of a friend you didn’t know. Yoon Sol, who was smiling lightly next to me, also added a small story.
“…Still, there were quite a few of our classmates who liked Jaehyuk oppa. Even though he had a scary impression, he was kind…
My juniors take good care of me, and if something bad happens, they come to me first, buy me a drink and a meal, and give me advice on my worries.
분명 재혁 오빠에게도 좋은 사람이 생겼을 거예요. Maybe not? “
“…그렇겠지. 뭐가 급하다고 이렇게 빠르게 가냐. 하여튼 성격 급한 새끼…”
윤솔이와 대화를 나누고 있던 중, 식장에 들어오는 한 여자가 눈에 밟혔다.
다른 조문객들과 크게 다를 바가 없는 복장과 크게 신경 쓰이는 외모도 아니지만.
조심히 신발을 벗고 들어오면서 이미 눈물로 젖은 뺨을 닦으며 장례식장의 깊은 곳으로 들어가는 젊은 여자.
“…어, 쟤는…”
마찬가지로 나와 같은 곳으로 시선을 돌리던 윤솔이는 저 여자와 일면식이 있던 모양이다.
그런 윤솔이에게 누구냐는 질문을 하기도 전에, 방금 들어간 여자의 구슬픈 울음소리가 작게 울려퍼졌다.
“…저희 과 과대예요. 남자친구 생겼다고 하던데 설마…”
“…”
나쁜 새끼, 그렇게 바라던 여자친구를 사귀었으면 말이라도 해주던가. Really…
“, I’m going to go now, what are you going?”
“저도 이제 들어가봐야죠. 내일부턴 또 학교 가야하니까.”
재혁이네 어머니와 아버지, 어릴 때부터 둘도 없던 친구의 부모님껜 아들의 이야기를 나눌 수 있는 사람이 필요하다.
고은이나 나는 할 일을 마쳤으니 이젠 우리가 모르던 재혁이를 알고 있는, 그 연인의 차례였다.
멀찍이서 절을 주고 받는 두 어른과 젊은 여자.
재혁이가 남겨둔 소중한 사람을 두고 윤솔이와 장례식장을 빠져나온다.
Yes, I have to go to school tomorrow.
* *
‘아, 주인… 본부로부터 새로운 지령을 받았지만, 혹시나 방해가 될까 늦게 전화했다.’
“…괜찮아, 집에 들어가기 싫어서 안 들어가고 있었는데.”
윤솔이와 헤어지고 난 후, 하늘을 바라보면 해가 지평선의 끝에 겨우 매달려있고 새롭게 달이 떠오르고 있었다.
딱히 갈 곳도 없이 길거리를 걷다가보면 어느샌가 어스름했던 달빛이 완전히 검게 변했음에도 피곤하지 않았다.
Even though so much happened today.
결국 혼자 편의점 앞에 앉아서 맥주나 좀 더 마시고 있는 와중에 걸려온 이자벨의 전화를 받았다.
‘…그래, 우선 내가 말했던 대로 한국에선 사흘 정도 대기하라는 명령이 내려왔다.
아마 내일이나 이틀 뒤 쯤, 복귀가 결정되면 사흘 뒤 난 영국으로 돌아가겠지.
그전에 나에게 하고 싶은 말이나, 원하는 것이 있다면 말해줬으면 한다. I’ll do anything. ‘
“됐거든, 어차피 내가 원할 때마다 널 불러낼 수 있으니까.
그리고 지금 딱히 너한테 원하는 것도 없고, 그냥 기분이 꿀꿀한 것 뿐이라서…”
뭔가 어지럽다. The horse does not come out properly.
이마를 쓸어올리면서 내 눈앞에 놓인 빈 깡통들을 바라본다.
맥주를 마신 것도 벌써 5캔 째, 어느새에 이렇게까지 마셔버린 걸까.
‘알겠다, 원하는 게 생긴다면 언제든지 날 불러주길 바란다. Then…’
뚝 하고 끊어지는 이자벨의 목소리를 뒤로하고 핸드폰을 집어넣는다.
“…”
추웠다. 이미 봄은 거의 지나가고 이제 곧 여름의 무더위가 찾아올 시기지만, 추웠다.
취했으면 오히려 더워야 하는 거 아닌가? 지금 두꺼운 정장도 입고 있는데 왜 추운 걸까.
I wanted to be warmed whatever. 이불이나, 더운 물, 매운 음식이라던지 뭐든 상관없으니까.
“…후우…”
오늘 새벽에 산 담배갑 안에는 마지막 한 대만 남아있었다.
I haven’t done it except when I was in the army.
I took out the last remaining dod and bite it in my mouth and tried to take out the lighter from my arms …
Sweet
“Ah.”
The lighter bounced out of the strength of the power and fell over the floor.
I tried to pick up the lighter by staggering legs, but the legs do not listen.
Did you drink too urgently, or have you drank too much? Too sleepy
It’s so comfortable that I feel like I’m asleep like this.
“…”
The popularity of the people walking on the road, the horn of the car.
Sleep came even in a noisy noise. I was so tired today.
The rituals that were moving away little by little and I felt just before I fell asleep were the smell of fragrant shampoo.
The soft chest that touched her head, and from her back, she pushed her face and looked down at me and smiled.
“… Space, I found it ~”
The smiley sister plays out of my lips and pulls out the cigarettes that were handed down on my lips,
“…”
She carefully grabbed my cheeks and overlapped her lips.
Too soft and warm, I fell asleep.
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