Chapter 141 – Senior (Yoo Dong) – Foxes Are A Bit Much
* Senior (Yoo Dong) – Foxes Are a Bit Much (6)
Kim Yoo-dong recalled the memories of that day.
He couldn’t remember what the women were babbling about, but he knew one thing. If someone had an ideology that others couldn’t understand, even with numbers to back it up, and if there were enemies in a space untouched by human hands that opposed their ideology, he learned from that day’s experience just how low humans could fall.
*‘A woman hitting me? It can’t be that bad.’*
Was it wrong to have dismissed it like that?
That day’s memory remained as a bad experience.
“Even in my dreams, bugs are crawling out, what the hell…”
He scratched his body vigorously, lying on the hospital bed, lifting only his upper body. It was a private room with no one else, but since that day, many visitors had come. Mostly people related to the prosecution, but all of them seemed to be Jang Moon-sang’s lackeys, listening to the story, agreeing, and then disappearing.
Sometimes women came too, but…
Of course, it wasn’t a happy meeting, so they just ended up feeling gloomy.
“Yeah, I knew it would end up like this. I knew Jun-seo was weird, but I was just trying to get a piece of the action, and I ended up crossing the red line. And getting messed up by those bitches, my body is itching. Ha, shit. If I can meet them again, I’ll kill them first, no matter the circumstances. Those damn bitches. Not only did they make a sex offender out of a random person, but they did that kind of shit. Did they think people were dogs?”
However, this man was not ordinary either.
He was still cheerful.
“If you can talk that much, you could be discharged soon.”
“Oh, you’re here, old man?”
“I always think, but neither you nor the young master have any manners towards your elders. Calling someone bald, and now old man.”
Hearing him ranting alone, a bald head peeked out from the hospital room entrance. Today, he wasn’t wearing sunglasses, and his sharp eyes were clearly visible as he wiped sweat with his subordinates.
“Well, you guys made such a fuss as if I was dead, but I could be discharged right away, yet you’re keeping me in the hospital. Who was it that said to just throw the person in the tank into the sea and pretend it never happened? I never imagined I’d be killed by you old men, not those bitches, so I got up without realizing it, you know?”
“You’re alive, so that’s enough. Why are you being so petty?”
“Shit…”
There were so many burly men that he couldn’t even think of attacking them, and his teeth were grinding. It was true that they had saved him, so he was grateful for that, but there were still things that bothered him.
“When can I get out? Or is it because of those paparazzi bastards wandering outside that I can’t leave?”
“Of course, it’s because of them that you can’t leave. They can’t come in here, so rest assured. If you wait a little longer… it’ll work out somehow… maybe…”
“I mean, what am I supposed to be reassured about? You brought those prosecutors or whatever to make them agree on a story, and what’s going on outside?”
“Things haven’t been good these past few days. It’s a story that deeply involves you and the young master, so just stay put for now.”
“Same old story. You and those bitches are pros at glossing over things, aren’t you? So, what about Jun-seo? What’s he doing now?”
“Haven’t seen him for a few days. He went ballistic because we did something stupid. He shoved a plunger into my head and yelled at me to get lost.”
“Huh? A plunger?”
Hehehehe…
Hehe…
“Ahem…”
His subordinates chuckled, remembering what happened, but they shut their mouths when he turned and glared at them. A plunger on top of that sharp, bald head, it was definitely something only Jun-seo could do.
“So, you’re saying Jun-seo is pissed?”
“Yeah. Another one of the young master’s family members was kidnapped. And it was on the same day you were captured and escaped, at the same time. Maybe we were lured, and they were targeting the young master or his family from the start. And I put a subordinate to watch, but he was stupidly revealing things and just watched the kidnapping happen in front of him, so I have no excuse.”
“And they were hiding the fact that you were kidnapped.”
“It’s no wonder the young master’s eyes went crazy.”
“He already has bad feelings towards me because of Ha-eun, so he must be very heartbroken about this.”
He flinched at those words.
“Ha-eun? The tattooed woman who dumped me?”
“You had a connection with her too. Were you still after her?”
“No, not at all. But we went on a date once, and we know each other, so I can’t say I’m not surprised… When she was almost naked, she was a crazy whore, but when she was dressed, she was normal… I’ve been texting her lately…”
“It’s her.”
“Why Ha-eun?”
“Haa…”
That sigh held a lot of meaning.
“If they were lucky, they would have gotten both the young master and Ha-eun, but at worst, one of them. That’s what they were aiming for from the start. While we were loitering around the docks, they were preparing to go directly into the apartment. It was lucky for them. Ha-eun, that idiot, came out of the apartment, so they easily caught her.”
“We already checked the CCTV nearby. They were loitering around all day, ready to run. If no one had come out of the apartment that day, they would have done something inside, but that’s how it turned out.”
“But the moment she came out, she was kidnapped in front of people. In a place with a lot of people. I wondered why they were making such a big deal out of it, but it was all intentional.”
He tilted his head again at the explanation.
“What are you talking about…”
“You’re the bait.”
“Me?”
“Yeah.”
He understood that things had escalated this far. He was confused by the vague explanation of his kidnapping, but he understood that he was dragged away in a crowded place. However, he didn’t understand that he was the bait, and the bald man seemed to drive that point home by grabbing the remote.
“What was intentional? Did they use me as bait to call you and the others?”
“Yeah, that’s it. And you’ll understand the rest if you watch TV.”
“TV?”
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
The channel changed to a news channel that was buzzing loudly.
Then, the face that appeared on the screen.
“Huh?!”
“Surprised?”
“That bitch?!”
He recognized her immediately. The fox-like woman who had helped kidnap him was under the spotlight in front of reporters, making a speech with a sad face. She was shouting her story like the leader of a cult, and it seemed to be the highlight of her speech.
「──That’s not the problem! Look at this! This is the true face of modern society and the evidence of sexism! How terrible is this?! There are people who do these things and still live shamelessly among you! What we did was not a crime or a kidnapping, but a rescue that should have been done! But what did someone here write about us?! They called it a feminist rampage and posted a picture of this girl being kidnapped, criticizing us! Look again! Is this a kidnapping?! How can this look like a kidnapping?! Look at this girl’s body! Can’t you see how badly she was treated?! What we did was a rescue! Did we look like such crazy bitches?!」
Watching that highlight, Yoo-dong’s face turned blue.
No, it turned white, not just blue.
“Wait… wait… those crazy bitches…?!”
It wasn’t her speech that was the problem. The problem was the picture that appeared behind the fox-like woman, who had lost her composure and was shouting with a red face. As soon as they saw it, all the men in the hospital room, including Kim Yoo-dong, gasped.
“That’s… Ha-eun’s back picture…”
As soon as the picture was revealed, the atmosphere in the TV studio became turbulent. The sound of reporters’ shutters exploded. And the fox, as if she thought this was her chance, began her final act.
「You there!」
「Y, yes?」
「Didn’t you criticize my picture and our actions on the 2nd! You wrote it! That we were running wild! That all people with our ideology are like this! Can you still say that after seeing this? Did I commit a crime? We rescued a girl from someone who did such terrible things! Did we look like such crazy bitches?!」
「…………」
「Look! This is the true face of society! We are justice! These days, our ideology is being treated as something strange, but it’s not! These people are the ones who are instigating it! These people are shamelessly raising their chins! Poor girls like the one in the picture are suffering! And the guy who did this isn’t even being prosecuted! He must have a powerful backer! If you think I’m joking, watch! He will never be prosecuted!」
The fox changed her red face back to normal and shouted her last words.
「If the guys who did this aren’t punished, we have to punish them! Unite! Let’s unite! Women must unite! ──Women’s solidarity unite!」
「「「「Unite!」」」」
Click!
With the shouts and applause of the planted supporters, the video ended.
““““……………””””
However, even after the video ended, the men’s silence lasted for a long time, and soon Yoo-dong was the first to speak.
“They sold Ha-eun out, didn’t they? To the whole country, for their own greed.”
“They did. Like they said, the young master has connections in politics and the prosecution, so he won’t get any punishment. In the first place, there’s no crime before the connections. I’m the one who got the tattoo, so the young master is innocent. But if they spread such propaganda and fake news, the citizens won’t know what’s real and what’s fake. They won’t believe that a perverted couple liked to get tattoos like that. And Ha-eun, who could explain it, is in their hands.”
“But it’s something that will be revealed soon, so why bother…? Now that things have come this far, they can’t keep her forever…”
“This is just the beginning. They said it themselves, didn’t they? They’ll use this as a stepping stone to unite a civil solidarity related to women’s rights. Including online women’s communities. They’ll use this as a stepping stone to enter politics, reveal the true faces of the people behind the young master, and incite gender conflict.”
“Crazy… If that’s spread nationwide, what will happen to her…”
“What do you mean, what will happen? Ha-eun is the only one who’s become pitiful. Even if she was revealing her tattoos these days, it’s a different level from being spread nationwide. Even for her, this will be a traumatic experience. Hahaha…”
His last laugh was as if he was mocking himself, saying it wasn’t his place to say that. Considering who was the one who left Ha-eun to be tortured with bugs in her mouth and filmed it, it was embarrassing for him to even worry about her.
“I understand why his eyes went crazy…”
“Considering what happened, getting hit with a plunger is cheap.”
Yoo-dong, belatedly realizing the meaning of the earlier sigh, lay back down on the hospital bed.
The situation was changing rapidly every moment.
