Chapter 599 – Part 2 13. Reunion (5)
Part 2 13. Reunion (5)
Chae-kyung, who was wiping down Ga-hye’s keyboard while waiting for her to visit, felt a little uneasy. It’s not that she ate anything wrong or anything, but that she was still reluctant to do her part-time job.
The dog I saw yesterday when we went to the park together wasn’t particularly hostile or anything. At first, Chae-kyung was just surprised because she seemed to understand Ga-hye’s words well. A wild dog can follow people and become friendly with them. Well, it may not be completely impossible, but it was surprising to see it in person.
But gradually, she felt strange. This wild dog seemed… Overly smart. It was amazing that she understood everything, but she also felt like she knew how to get into Chae-kyung’s house. They don’t stick out their tongues and pant, and they don’t hug people saying they’re happy to see them. He just stands still and proud and gets stroked when Ga-hye strokes him, and when her attention is turned away from him, he sits quietly on her path. Chae-kyung was a little concerned about that trivial action.
I know it’s strange to feel this way toward an animal, especially a dog, man’s best friend. But this dog evokes a primal sense of anxiety. What if this were as smart as humans? So what if they are disguising themselves to hide their true feelings and come into their daily lives? She knew she was imagining things too much, but that was how Chae-kyung felt. She felt uncomfortable just standing next to her.
Although they are non-verbal animals, you can still read their emotions by looking at their eyes or face. You can tell by their faces and eyes whether the puppies are happy, excited, or scared because they made a mistake. But this dog felt nothing. A feeling that there is something inside, but it is completely hidden and not revealed to humans. Even if I bring this into the house, I don’t think I will be recognized as its owner for the rest of my life. It is said that dogs are animals with a clear hierarchical relationship, but what would happen if your dog was treated below you?
“Isn’t it okay? Since we live together as women… I think it would be good to have a big dog like him protect us.”
Protect me? Ga-hye’s way of speaking is also a bit strange. Rather than saying that Ga-hye is cute to this dog, she treats it as if she were treating it as if she were treating it as if she were treating it as if she were treating it or as if she were treating her friend. It feels like they are trying to invite her into the house rather than taking her in and raising her out of pity. Again, dogs are animals that are sensitive to hierarchy. If the person who will become the owner already has this attitude, will he be able to control the dog?
“Now that he’s grown, he’ll eat some food. Anyway, we became so close to each other, but the thought of continuing to wander around outside made me feel a little bad.”
But Ga-hye seems to think the story is over at the point where she brought her here. She doesn’t say so outright, but she gets the feeling that having a wild dog inside her is non-negotiable.
Except for Chae-kyung’s inexplicable anxiety, there is no reason to grit her teeth and oppose it. It’s not that I’m worried about crime prevention, but there’s nothing wrong with having a trustworthy dog in the house, and since Gahye decided to take care of her care anyway, Chae-kyung doesn’t take on the obligation. You may be concerned about things like hair, smell, and noise, but you won’t be able to endure it.
Moreover, Chae-kyung was carrying the guilt that she had dragged her friend into a ‘dirty relationship’ with Lee Yul. She was in a situation where she couldn’t easily refuse if her friend, who was one of the victims, asked her out.
Fortunately, the dog was not brought into the house right away. Chae-kyung also said that she needed time to prepare, and Ga-hye also agreed to find a part-time job and make a definite decision when she can afford it financially. Perhaps even understanding their conversation, the wild dog quietly turned its back on the two and disappeared across the park. Chae-kyung was so horrified that she even wanted to openly oppose it.
Anyway, Ga-hye decided to come to Chae-kyung’s interview at her PC room where she works. When she told her story to her boss, he responded that, in fact, she was paying more for part-time work and that she couldn’t afford to hire two people. She said she just wanted to meet what kind of child she was, so Chae-kyung relayed what her boss said to Ga-hye. To put it bluntly, she is willing to work even if she is paid the minimum hourly wage.
“Welcome.”
“Ah! It’s here~”
Ga-hye smiles brightly and approaches Chae-kyung’s business-like greeting. I don’t know how things will turn out, but Ga-hye is thankful for her friend since she is introducing her to her place.
“The boss went to the convenience store for a moment. “He will come soon.”
“Yes, thank you.”
Since she is not a customer, she cannot sit in the seat, and since she is not an employee, she cannot enter the counter. She just stands there awkwardly in the aisle, then Gahye approaches her counter and speaks to her friend again.
“Do you always feel like this?”
“Huh. The work is not difficult. The owner is kind and the customers are all nice.”
“Good~”
As the pretty part-timer compliments them, the middle-aged customers sitting down shrug their shoulders for no reason. This will make them much more attentive to their behavior. Since I received that kind of evaluation, I guess I can’t break the beauty’s trust.
[Rattle]
“Welcome.”
“Oh, it’s raining. Chaekyung, do you have an umbrella?”
“Oh. I don’t have one…”
“There are a few insides, so I’ll use them later. Ah, is this your friend? Welcome…?”
“… Huh?”
No matter how few people there are in the countryside or how small the neighborhood is, this is not the case. This is not a coincidence, it is something that cannot be disguised with noble words such as force or fate.
The owner of the PC room and Ga-hye made eye contact with Chae-kyung next to them, wondering what was going on, and they froze. Neither he nor she ever dreamed that she would meet her partner here.
“…”
“…”
“…”
It was not an atmosphere where anyone could speak up first. After standing like that for a while, the three people came into the warehouse when they felt the eyes of the customers. However, no one opened their mouths and only the minute hand moved one degree in an awkward atmosphere.
“…”
Chae-kyung wanted to avoid the seat because it was so uncomfortable, but she couldn’t. She couldn’t leave her friend alone in a situation where she didn’t know anything about why these two ‘looked like they knew each other’ and why her friend’s face was so grim and the boss had an expression that was hard to describe.
This silence itself was like an unspoken signal that there was some kind of relationship between the two, and Ga-hye knew this very well, but she couldn’t think of anything to say. That’s because the man in front of her was the man who provided the clue to her fall and opened the way for her humiliation. A man with a stocky height, an ugly face, an overweight body, and a bad smell. I may have taken some care after the breakup, but I’ve lost some weight and the smell is less, but I still can’t erase the smell from his genitals and the foreign substances there from my mind. The owner of the PC room where Chae-kyung worked was none other than her criminal, Min Ki-young, who had drugged Ga-hye’s drink with sleeping pills and raped her in the swimming pool.
After completely breaking off relations with Ga-hye, he lost the joy of life. He didn’t have the guts to approach her again, so he locked himself in her house, masturbating with Ga-hye’s video, which she lied and hid, and after a reasonable amount of time, he was fired from her job.
With a small amount of money and a loan that was somewhat embarrassing to call wealth, he decided to settle down here in the country town that gave him a purpose to live. He didn’t know anything about the business, but he handled computers at an average level in Korea, so he might be able to do it well. Furthermore, he took over a PC room near the university.
Since it was a local area, the PC room was acquired at a fairly low price, but business could not have been easy. The cheaper the store, the lower the expected value of money you can make. In the university area, which was the expected source of income, there were already two houses that had clearly secured customers, so here, they could barely make enough to pay electricity bills from guys playing Go-Stop.
Moreover, he did not know that the real income of Internet cafés these days is the food business. He thought he would make money if he just brought his computer and waited, but had no idea that the trend had changed. At most, I knew how to cook a few bowls of ramen, so the number of customers did not increase, or my income did not increase, and my life was a failure, and I spent my days repeating self-deprecation.
Still, he wasn’t a complete idiot, and he knew that a pretty part-time job would have a big impact on sales, so he hired Chae-kyung. Her income rose slightly, and all of her uncles liked the ramen she cooked, so they came to her PC room to work, and some even ate five of her cup ramen each. Her part-time salary of 1 million won per month was quite a burden, but seeing the increase in sales on the days she went to work, it was a price worth paying.
She was a little hesitant when Chae-kyung said she had a friend who wanted to work. 2 million won per month? She says she doesn’t have to pay the same amount as Chae-kyung, but it’s not less money. However, if a beauty of similar level works on a day when Chae-kyung does not go to work, she is a double experience event all week long. She even thought that if she promoted it better, she could somehow make a living with the income from here.
But that ‘part-time job aspirant’ is Choi Ga-hye, her former sex slave? Is there such an unbelievable coincidence? However, they cannot just be happy because the two have sorted everything out and broken up. Now, Ki-young had no means left to threaten Ga-hye. She has videos left of him, but it’s obvious that she will report him if he tries to do her tricks even a little bit. The reason why the recorded threat worked was because that was the atmosphere at the time. If you think about it now with a cool head, this is something that can’t possibly work.
Ga-hye naturally hated this situation, and Ki-young was at a loss as to what to do. So, they could only stare at each other, unable to hide their discomfort. But everyone knew. In order to get her words out, she knew that Ki-young had to do it first. Everyone is just waiting.
