Chapter 63 – #4-1. Aris, Han Aris (25)
“Huh!”
After everything was over, Seongmin came to his senses, and at the same time, he let out a moan from the headache. I remembered until I passed out because my nose and mouth were blocked by something. And, the voice I heard while I was losing consciousness also came to mind.
‘Minseong?’
Why is he
It was so out of the blue that I wondered if I had heard it wrong. There is no reason for your most trusted friend to attack you. Seongmin decided it was an illusion and moved his upper body to raise himself.
Clap.
“Uh?”
But the action was stopped with a cold metal sound. Seongmin lifted his head and looked over his head to see the silver handcuffs on one of his wrists connected to the bed posts.
“What the fuck.”
Clap clap clap clap clap.
Seongmin somehow got up and shook his handcuffs, but only his wrists hurt. It was only then that Seongmin realized that he had been kidnapped by someone.
“What, what. What kind of bastard…”
Seongmin, whose vision was narrowed in embarrassment at the situation he was experiencing for the first time in his life, raised his head and looked around him. What caught his eye was a familiar landscape. Until a few hours ago, he was in his room where he and Ari had sex.
“This is my house… What is it, what is it?”
Confused, Sungmin looked around, but his movements were limited because of his handcuffs. After a while, the door opened and someone came in.
Sigh.
“Oh, are you awake?”
“Han Min-seong? You…”
The person who opened the door was Seong-min’s best friend Min-seong. The boy seemed to have a dark complexion. Even though there was quite a distance between the two, the smell of cigarettes from Minsung reached Seongmin. It had been more than a year since I had quit smoking, but somehow I was a chain smoker.
Minseong sat down next to Seongmin, who was tied up and unable to get out of bed. Seongmin frowned at the strong smell of cigarettes, but since he wasn’t in a situation to talk about cigarettes right now, he started with the most urgent question.
“Hey. What is this situation. Why am I tied up? Huh?”
“…Ha ha, Seongmin.”
“Why are you so still, bastard? Say something cool. Huh?”
“I’m sorry. Okay, I’ll tell you everything.”
Minsung confessed the entire incident with a haggard face overnight.
The whole gang was taken away by Park Min-woo because of Jun-shik’s incident, the fact that the existence of Ari living with Seong-min was discovered in the process, and the complete neglect of Ari’s sacrifice to protect even Seong-min. In addition to that, I confessed without lies that I was the one who knocked you out, and the reason was to make sure you didn’t get hurt in the process of taking Ari.
“…”
“This is the end. I don’t know what happened to her.”
“…Minseong-ah.”
Min-seong, who confessed everything with his head down because of guilt, raised his head at Sung-min’s deeply immersed voice. Only then did Seongmin come into his eyes and deny the reality with a tearful voice.
“Gura? Is it a gourmet? Don’t be boring. You’re a joke.
“Sorry…”
“Shit baal! Fuck… Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.”
Seongmin lowered his head and did not deny the reality any longer, but just spat out swear words over and over again.
“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry…”
Fuck!
“You fucking bastard!”
Seongmin’s kick flew into Minseong’s face as he was apologizing. As if he was really going to kill him, Minseong collapsed to the side as he kicked with all his might. His handcuffs restricted his movement, so he couldn’t kick as much as he wanted, but Seong-min punched and kicked Min-seong with all the postures and movements he could.
Puck! Fuck! Puck! Puck! Puck! Fuck!
The fallen Minseong did not run away and endured Seongmin’s anger. Because I clenched my teeth, there was no loud scream, and all I could hear was a muffled moan.
…
“Hee-eok, hee-eok, hee-uh…
Seongmin, who was breathing heavily, let out a spirit filled with all sorts of emotions and threw himself on the bed. It was clear that he was tired of hitting and getting angry. After a while, Seongmin asked in a weak, weak voice.
“Really…”
“…Okay.”
“Have you checked? Is there anything in your room?”
“Uh. It’s empty.”
“…”
Minseong’s whole body ached with pain, but he stood up to comfort him. However, Seongmin pushed Minseong away.
“Fuck you, leave me alone. Please turn off for a moment. I beg you, please…”
“…I get it.”
Still, Min-seong, who thought it was fortunate that Seong-min was no longer mad, went out the door to give him time to accept the reality. As soon as the door was closed, Minseong sighed in agony as he heard his best friend’s sad cry.
…
Time passed, and although the atmosphere was depressed, Seongmin’s condition also calmed down to some extent.
“Minseong-ah.”
“Uh.”
“Can’t you let me go?”
“Whoa, I told you. He took on the role of surveillance to protect you. Besides, there’s someone over there watching over me, so how can I free you?
“Fuck you,” Seongmin let out a deep sigh. Minsung added the most important fact.
“And I don’t have a key anyway.”
“Yeah, you’re good. Betrayer baby.”
“Bae… No, sorry.”
It’s not a betrayal. I’m doing it all for you I’m too damn hard. Can’t you let me know?
Min-seong’s impulsive words reached his throat, but he endured it hard because even saying those words would only put Seong-min’s mood on the floor.
The atmosphere between the two was strange. Seongmin used harsh language and violence as if he was trying to kill Minseong, but when he calmed down to a certain extent, he understood that they were in similar situations and started talking in a weak voice. The fortunate thing was that Seong-min was gradually treating Min-seong gently. Her bickering hasn’t changed, but at least she hasn’t used violence.
“Can I use my phone? I’m so fucking bored.”
“Uh, okay. That didn’t stop me.”
Thinking that it would never work, Seong-min asked as a joke and received his cell phone from Min-seong with a dumbfounded expression. Seongmin, who had been absent-minded, let out a stupid laugh.
“What are these bastards thinking. Isn’t it over when I call the police now?”
“Oh, wait. You’d better not.”
“What?”
“Park Min-woo told me to tell you. ‘If you report it, you will feel comfortable, but what will happen to Han-ari, who doesn’t even know where she is? Called…”
Seong-min, who was ready to report it to the police at any moment, heard the words and threw his cell phone aside and could only curse.
“Fuck, then how do I report it…”
“Are they really going to give us freedom? And you’ve been talking like I’m the jailer, but I’m being watched by a real jailer. There’s a bloody guy in the living room. To be honest, I’m scared every time I go out.”
“I see…Then just stay here.”
Sungmin said as he lay sprawled on the bed. The atmosphere became lulled, and the relationship between the two seemed to have recovered to some extent. Seong-min, who had regained his reason to some extent, thought about Min-seong’s position as much as possible, and although it was clear that she considered Ari noona as a scapegoat, it was a death sentence, but she took into account the fact that she had no choice. I haven’t completely forgiven him yet, but at least I didn’t think of Minseong as a dog-like traitor anymore.
The biggest reason Sungmin gave such a big forgiveness was because he needed someone to be by his side. In a situation where Ari was lost, no one would be by his side if he kicked out his best friend Min-seong, but if that happened, he felt lonely and could not bear it. The thought of being alone in this silence was terrifying. Even though Minseong is outraged, at least she’s the one who won’t betray him anymore…
‘Fuck, I’ll look after you.’
That’s how Minseong was forgiven.
…
Seongmin asked a question that suddenly popped up after thinking about many things in the silence.
“But what about the other kids?”
“Oh right. Well, the situation is kind of funny.”
“What.”
Min-seong conveyed the absurd information she had heard to her Sung-min.
Minwoo Park. He was a great guy in many ways. He kept his promise that he would destroy only Jun-shik, the culprit of the incident, and Seong-min, the leader, and forgave all the children who stepped on him along with Jun-shik. Then he rather entertained Seongmin’s gang. He invited them to their ‘villa’ as if he was really from a wealthy or powerful family, and he is hanging out with all the terrifying Tteokdae hyungs. Of course, there was no mercy for Jun-shik, but the rest of the kids were enjoying all kinds of pleasures with all kinds of expensive alcohol and high-end cigarettes that they didn’t even know the name of, and even women.
“What are you, crazy bastard?”
“No. He’s a very detailed and scary bastard. Isn’t it creepy?”
“What?”
Minseong kindly explained to Seongmin, who did not understand.
This was Park Min-woo’s ‘post-processing’ method. The guy who decides to kill him thoroughly, but all the rest are pacified. He makes use of the first pleasure he has ever enjoyed in his life like now, and feeds money, making it his side regardless of means and methods. As a result, Sung-min’s friends all turned to Park Min-woo’s side.
“They? They’re not so loyal…”
“A guy of that level wouldn’t find it difficult to change people’s minds.”
The famous Carrot and Stick.
Park Min-woo made good use of those two. If he doesn’t move as he wants, he will brutally treat Jun-shik with a whip as if he were Jo-jin. Instead, if you listen carefully, you will definitely be given a carrot. A rare carrot that I have never heard of in my life.
Evidence is also meticulously left behind. Currently, all of Seong-min’s friends enjoying themselves at Min-woo’s villa were being recorded in pictures and videos. The image of the goppiri, who had not even dried their hair, playing promiscuously with all kinds of alcohol, cigarettes, and women, remains as physical evidence. If they betray Park Min-woo, those records will become their weakness, defending Park Min-woo and attacking the traitor at the same time. And Min-wu, who successfully defended himself, will relentlessly retaliate against the betrayal with a face as cold as that of a snake.
That was all Minsung knew.
“Fuck…”
Realizing the difference in strength, Seongmin was at a loss for words.
Like a wild food chain, there was an innate difference between Park Min-woo and Seong-min’s gang that could never be overcome.
Park Min-woo was a spider that moved freely in the dense web, and Sung-min and his friends were just small, powerless prey tied to the web. The prey had no choice. Either he was quietly tied to the spider’s web and ate the rice cake, or he struggled to break the spider’s web and was brutally eaten by the enraged spider with no results. Not a single one chose the latter.
Minsung also smiled dejectedly.
“Let’s just hope this fucking time passes.”
Fortunately, this long period of endurance came to an end. School. There was about a week left until the school closure was over. That meant, at least before that, everyone had to be freed.
“Doing this for a week? Crazy…”
“I’m also fucking stupid.”
“Park Min-woo, doesn’t that bastard go to school? Is their school also closed?”
“No. But would that bastard pay attention to such a thing? He must have cheated on school to make sure no one gets hurt. Why, we already have a lot of kids who drop out of school. They say special students or some kind of training camp or contest.”
Sungmin shook his head. Even though he was the same age, he matured on a different level in a bad way. His head was already filled with all kinds of filthy water from the world instead of brain water. Seong-min, who had already thought of a great evil that was sprouting, only felt worse the more he thought about it, so he brought up another topic.
“Hey. But how do I go to the bathroom?”
“If there’s a rice cake stand outside, tell me. I’ll let you go for a while.”
“It’s kind of scary because they allow it so easily.”
“I mean, don’t even dream about nonsense.”
The two sighed at the same time as if they had promised.
