episode_0051

Time passed and it was time to check out from the hotel.

After leaving the hotel, Natalia got into her car that her secretary had parked at the hotel in advance and drove me to my house.

Natilia asks me vaguely as I get off at the apartment entrance.

“Are you going to keep living here? Why don’t you just live with me?”

Live together.

That’s not bad either.

What if I were the only one living in this house?

“I’ll think about it.”

“Okay. Think about it, and go in well.”

“That too.”

I ignored Natalia’s offer to live together and entered the apartment.

“Hmm?”

As I climbed the stairs to the apartment and entered the hallway, I saw something. There was something lying in front of the door of our house.

‘Looking at the size, who filled the volume-based garbage bag and threw it away?’

Some bastard did something like that in front of someone’s house.

When I thought that someone had left trash in front of my house, a little anger began to boil over.

However, as I got closer and closer to the door and could clearly see what it was, my anger cooled down in an instant.

‘What is it, man?’

I thought it was a garbage bag filled to the limit, but there was a woman crouching in front of the door.

I couldn’t see his face as he was crouching down, but I could guess who it was based on his hairstyle and clothes.

“Seoyoon’s older sister?”

“Ah….”

When I spoke, Seoyoon raised her head. Their gazes crossed.

“What’s going on here? Without any contact.”

“Just… I suddenly wanted to see your face. And I contacted you…”

“Oh, really?”

I quickly took my phone out of my pocket and checked it. There was actually one missed call.

It seems that the vibration sound I heard at that time was not an auditory hallucination.

“Ah, I’m sorry. I didn’t receive it.”

“No, it’s okay.”

“Then I should have gone in. If I had called my sister, she would have opened it.”

“….”

At my words, Seoyoon did not say anything for a moment and looked up at me blankly. And then I laughed bitterly.

“Yeah…, I should have done that…”

A smile that is somehow different from usual and looks a bit dangerous.

“Uh… Then, would you like to come in first?”

My sister shook her head at my suggestion.

“No, it’s okay. Because I came to see you.”

“Then….”

“Instead…, that….”

Seoyoon, who is oddly hesitant to speak.

“…Would you like to have a drink?”

At Seoyoon’s suggestion, I told a joke to lighten the now heavy atmosphere.

“Oh, I thought you could drink too?”

“Because I’m an adult too.”

“My sister doesn’t even think about drinking or smoking.”

“So? Are you disappointed?”

“Specifically? It’s strange that people are disappointed when adults drink and smoke.”

“Then let’s go.”

Sister Seoyoon said that and got up from her crouching position.

“Ugh….”

I must have been crouching for quite some time, so I had to relieve my sore joints for a while.

The place we went to after that was the most expensive bar around here.

Seoyoon and I both had decent incomes, so it wasn’t that burdensome.

Seoyoon, who entered the bar, ordered a series of sweet but strong cocktails from the bartender and drank them down.

I sipped my drink in moderation and ate some of the dry snacks provided at the bar.

‘How much alcohol do you have to drink like that? Aren’t you going to be hooked like that? Should I stop him?’

While I was worrying about that, Seoyoon’s hand, which had been drinking alcohol on its own without me stopping her, became slower.

At the same time, I, who was eating dry snacks and sipping alcohol, felt a signal from my bladder.

“…I need to go to the bathroom for a moment.”

“Okay….”

Although I was a little anxious, I headed to the bathroom.

***

While Han Soo-hyun left for the bathroom, Jin Seo-yoon stopped drinking for a moment.

“Umm….”

When I came to my senses, I suddenly felt intoxicated. Her cheeks were red and her pupils were slightly dilated. She blankly watched the ice in the cup melting with dilated pupils.

“Huh? Who is this?”

At that time, the unpleasant voice that I had barely forgotten through alcohol and time was heard again.

I reflexively looked up and, as expected, there was the baseball team manager.

He was with a woman wearing heavy makeup and revealing clothing who did not look like his wife at all.

‘Did they call a host somewhere…, it’s okay if the teacher sells it…’

He glanced at Jin Seo-yoon’s table and smiled.

“Hunter definitely makes good money? They come to places like this.”

“….”

“I became a hunter thanks to you, so maybe I should be grateful instead.”

“….”

The baseball team coach grins and tries to scratch Jin Seo-yoon again. However, when there was no reaction, he quickly looked bored.

“Then drink alcohol in moderation.”

After admonishing Jin Seo-yoon as if he were still her teacher, he left with the woman to find an empty table.

***

“Oh, it’s cool.”

Why do I feel like I need to urinate more often when I drink alcohol than when I drink other drinks?

With that in mind, I roughly washed my hands and wiped the remaining water on my clothes.

“…Oh, then that student’s name is Jin Seo-yoon?”

“Well, that’s right.”

Then, when I heard a familiar name in an unfamiliar voice, I reflexively stopped walking.

“It was really fucking funny when that bitch retired. No matter who sees it, you say you’re going to pretend to be cool even though you’re in trouble…, everyone worked hard…, next…, next is you…, I’ll leave it to you…, because you’re doing this shit.◦# ◦

The man, presumed to be the baseball team manager, comically imitates Jin Seo-yoon’s crying tone of voice.

‘Hmm.’

I silently listened to him talking behind his back as if it were some kind of sagas from a little distance away.

‘That’s right.’

I didn’t know what happened during my time on the baseball team.

When my curiosity was unexpectedly satisfied, I felt like I wanted to return the favor.

In this situation, I can’t believe I’m thinking about repaying the favor first. I guess I come from a country that has no choice but to be polite in the East.

Anyway, I went back into the bathroom to return the favor. And then I entered the small partition.

While hiding, I was checking for people entering the men’s bathroom through the cracks in the partition.

“Oh my, it looks like it’s going to be cheap.”

Finally, the object of my gratitude entered the bathroom.

While the man was standing in front of the urinal, I opened the cubicle door and came out.

After coming out, I approached him as he was unbuckling his belt to express my gratitude, and grabbed him by the back of his head.

“What?”

And before I could react, I suddenly stuck my head on the urinal button.

When the button is pressed on the forehead, water flows down with a popping sound.

I didn’t think this alone would convey my gratitude, so I kept taking pictures without taking my hands off my head.

“The teacher’s grace is like heaven.”

The blood flowing down the buttons and valves had a strange charm. So I started humming the song without realizing it.

“The more you look up to him, the higher he gets.”

The sound of the crash, the sound of water flowing, and my singing voice are all intertwined to form a harmony.

“Ah, thank you. Teacher’s grace.”

“Uh…, Ah…”

The man also joins in in a shy voice, probably because he’s itchy with excitement.

“Ah, I will repay you. Teacher’s grace.”

Was he so moved by my surprise event that he got tired of it?

By the time the song was over, the man was peeing his pants.

Finally, I broke the shoulder of the man who had already lost consciousness.

***

As expected, the man’s identity was the manager of Seo-yoon’s older sister’s baseball team.

He had four teeth broken and one eye was crushed and he was blind.

My brain was so traumatized that my speech became slurred, and they said I would no longer be able to use the shoulder I broke properly for the rest of my life.

Even if everything else was the same, his slurred speech was fatal to the coach who had to control the baseball team, so the school even recommended that he retire.

I was able to hear the whole thing in the police station detention room.

“So…, what was the motive for the assault?”

I was now sitting in an interrogation room at the police station.

“That bastard hit first. Because it’s unlucky, really.”

Since it was an incident with no CCTV and no witnesses anyway, they made as much noise as they could.

The police officer who was interrogating my answer sighed.

“I don’t think you understand the importance of the current situation, but even if it is true that the victim attacked first, self-defense is not recognized if the assault was to that extent.”

“That’s none of my business. Because I was told to tell the truth, I just told the truth.”

“Ha.., I got it.”

As I kept repeating the same words like a parrot, the police finally gave up and finished the interrogation.

Not long after returning to the detention center after the interrogation, I was summoned once again.

“Visiting.”

There are even people who come to visit as if they were just locked up in a detention center.

It’s too much of a fuss.

While thinking about that, I raised my head.

The visitor seen between the bars was Seo-yoon’s older sister, who had a serious expression.

Sister Seoyoon barely opened her mouth with a face that looked like she was about to cry.

“Why…, why did you do that…?”

“They start the fight first.”

It wasn’t wrong.

“…Did I even ask you for a favor?”

“No?”

Seoyoon’s voice trembles even more.

“Do you think I’ll be happy about ruining your life like this…?”

Feelings of sadness, regret, confusion, and anxiety come to me.

Anyway, if something goes wrong, you’ll end up in a punishment unit. It’s too overloaded.

So I lightly shrugged my shoulders.

“Still, you felt cool inside, right?”

We have already confirmed that the CCTV in the detention center does not even record audio.

“Ha….”

Sister Seoyoon let out a laugh as if she was taken aback by my words.

At the same time, my sister’s arm reached through the bars and pulled me.

With the iron bars between us, Seoyun hugged me tightly and whispered.

“It’s a really selfish thing to say, but…, thank you. For being angry for me.”

“That’s right. I just happened to get into a fight.”