12. The Unbridgeable Gap.

“….”

 

 

Yuna couldn’t come up with a suitable answer.

 

First of all, she didn’t know herself very well, and if she started talking about herself here, she felt like she would be losing.

 

 

In other words, it was a matter of pride.

 

 

“Just tell me. This unni will give you advice.”

“I-I don’t need it…”

“Don’t need it, my ass. Are you going to keep floating around like this? Adrift?”

“….”

“Be careful. You can roughly tell what kind of person he is, right? If he thinks our value as women is dropping, he might treat us like other slaves or maids right away.”

“That’s…”

“You know he’s not treating us like wives because he particularly loves us or anything. It just happened this way because he met us by chance.”

 

Sora opened another bottle.

 

 

“It’s the same for us. Honestly, isn’t it funny for a woman like me or you to fall in love with him, especially when we haven’t even known him for long? It’s probably because of his skills. He has a bunch of weird skills, right?”

“That’s right.”

 

 

Yuna answered immediately for the first time.

 

“It’s definitely the skills.”

“Heh… so you’re admitting that you like him?”

“….”

“Ahaha! You’d never get caught like this normally, but you’re strangely clumsy.”

“Ugh… N-No, I don’t.”

“Don’t give me that shit. Just admit what you need to admit.”

 

Ttorreu reu.

 

 

As she tilted the bottle, a transparent, water-like liquid filled the glass.

 

 

“If you keep hiding behind your pride, you won’t be able to do anything, okay? You have to talk.”

“….”

“Maegal, why did you join? Let’s start there.”

 

 

Yuna, who had been silently drinking the alcohol that Sora poured, finally opened her mouth after a long silence.

 

 

“Hoo… It’s because of my mom.”

“Huh?”

 

Sora’s eyes widened as if she hadn’t expected that answer.

 

 

“Sonya-ssi? Why?”

“…She’s too good.”

“Ah.”

“So… when I do something wrong, she doesn’t understand. It’s not that she’s stubborn, but… she literally doesn’t understand.”

“Does she think it’s natural to be good at everything?”

 

 

“That too… I never meet her standards in everything. My mom thinks I should be able to do this much and makes me do all sorts of things… but from my perspective, it’s impossible.”

 

 

“Hmm… but from what I’ve seen, you’re not incompetent either.”

 

 

“That woman is just too capable. Look. Even now, if you mention the best lawyers in Korea, she’s always mentioned once or twice. At least among ‘female lawyers,’ she’s always mentioned. And she’s not even part of a big law firm. She just does everything herself. With a person like that… someone ordinary like me can’t shine… Dad too… even though he committed the worst act of cheating… I can honestly understand why.”

 

“I-Is she that much?”

 

 

For Yuna, who was a member of Maegal, a radical feminist group, to say that. Sora was quite surprised.

 

 

“I don’t know how unni has lived… but if the light is too strong, you can’t open your eyes. You won’t know unless you experience it. Dad was also very intimidated. Outside, he always called her ‘Lawyer-nim,’ and even at home, he had to call her by her title when talking about work… Because she’s so capable and keeps things so separate, it’s hard to breathe. I think that’s probably why he cheated.”

 

“I see…”

“Did you know? My last name is my mother’s. She’s the head of our household too.”

“Ah! Now that you mention it, it’s true.”

“Capable, rich, keeps things separate, pretty, cool… Honestly, I’m wary of her, but I don’t dislike her. Aside from our mother-daughter relationship, she’s a really cool person as a woman.”

“You admired her too?”

 

 

“Yes. And then I discovered feminism. The first person I thought of was her. She became one of the best lawyers while suppressing countless competitors as a woman, not a man, and she showed what a woman can do with her abilities… So I thought I should become a feminist.”

 

 

Sora nodded.

She roughly understood.

 

When people are overwhelmed by inferiority, their vision narrows. And their judgment becomes clouded.

Yuna encountered feminism in that situation, and she connected it with her mother, thinking that if she became a feminist, she could be like her mom.

 

 

The result was joining Maegal, a radical feminist group.

 

 

She probably wanted to become a feminist as soon as possible.

 

 

“I thought I could find a woman as myself, not a woman by a man, and I thought that was really cool. But…”

 

 

Yuna sighed.

 

 

“Honestly, it was only tempting at first, but as time went on, I became more and more skeptical. I wondered if this was right…”

“I see. But Sonya-ssi hates feminism, doesn’t she?”

“To be exact, she hates Maegal. She probably doesn’t even know what feminism is. And she doesn’t need to know.”

“True. She feels like a walking girl crush.”

 

Yuna chuckled.

 

 

“Maybe her disapproval of me joining Maegal comes from that.”

“?”

“In her eyes, she probably thinks that those kinds of movements are completely unnecessary, and that those weak and incompetent people aren’t thinking about improving their own abilities and are just doing useless things… So she probably hates it?”

“Yeah… I kinda think that too… Hehe.”

“Anyway… I joined Maegal, but I didn’t achieve much. There are people like that even within the group. They can’t show it outwardly, but you can tell when you talk to them. ‘Ah. This person is having a moment of clarity right now.'”

 

She said that and gulped down her drink.

Maybe it’s because she’s being honest, but for some reason, the alcohol seems to be going down well today.

 

“So, are you cutting ties with Maegal now?”

“Before I can even cut ties… it’s already ruined. It’s going to be ruined…”

 

Maegal was dismantled due to Eun’s machinations.

 

 

First of all, in the case of Spicy Rib House, the Maegal guild, everyone was either killed or transferred to a military prison, and the members of the Spicy Rib Soup website were terrified by the guild’s and the military’s unreserved massacre and went into hiding.

 

 

Of course, there were some who were angry and said they should fight, but they only said it, and few people took action.

 

“Then decide on your path clearly. Eun has a lot of women. If you want to stay by his side, you need to develop your own weapon.”

“Ugh… But isn’t it strange???”

“What?”

“Why did we fall for someone like that???”

“I told you before. It’s probably because of his skills.”

“Kuek….”

 

Sora shrugged her shoulders and said it nonchalantly.

 

 

“If it was something mediocre, I’d be like, ‘This motherfucker!’ and run away, but it’s not that level. My gut is telling me. This is for life. You too, right?”

“….”

 

 

She only bit her lip silently, but conversely, that was a tacit agreement.

 

“What can we do? We just have to live like this. He tells a woman who broke up with her boyfriend a day ago to become his woman, and then he says he’s going to create a harem… He has absolutely no manners and his personality is terrible… But what can we do? We’re already hooked.”

“Ugh… At times like this, I really empathize with the word ‘Han-nam.’ No, Han-nam-choong!!”

“Ehehe. That’s right.”

 

Sora chuckled and grabbed Yuna’s hand.

 

 

“Anyway, since it’s an unavoidable situation, we have to take the next best option here. Whether it’s skills or whatever… We can’t just watch the guy we like playing around with other women, right?”

“H-How are we going to do that?”

“We’re going to form a united front. You, me, and Sonya-ssi.”

“Eueh?”

“Let’s talk just the two of us first, and then talk to Sonya-ssi later. She’s probably working right now, right?”

“Well….”

 

 

 

 

 

 

+++

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Do you know why you guys are trash?”

“T-Trash…?!”

 

Verbal abuse.

While Sora and Yuna were talking, Sonya faced the hulking figures without batting an eye.

 

 

 

The ‘Hannam-dong Massacre,’ in which a whopping 141 people died.

As a result, the Maegal guild was dismantled, and even the website scattered in all directions.

 

 

“Who’s trash!! Because of you… because of you, so many people died!!”

 

So they came to find her like this.

 

 

The three women who led the demonstration called the ‘Maegal War’ at Lee Sonya’s instigation (written as instigation, read as threat) were trembling in fear at this very moment.

 

 

In the early stages of the incident, they had to take refuge under the corpses to avoid the guild members who were randomly swinging their swords, and they had to endure the piercing stench of blood and the ear-splitting screams.

 

And when the military came, they even had to lie flat on the ground to avoid the hail of bullets that were accompanied by chilling sounds of tearing through the air.

 

 

 

What they experienced was literally hell. They felt like they understood a little bit why people were against war.

 

 

They had experienced those things and came in a rage, but the words they heard were that they were trash???

 

 

“So? You guys deserved to die anyway. Is that such a big problem? Rather, I’m so happy that over 140 pieces of trash died.”

“Wh-What did you say?!”

 

Sonya tilted her head to the other side and crossed her legs to the other side as well.

 

 

“Our pigs seem to be mistaken about something. The more you die, the more your contribution to society increases. Do you know what I mean? Your existence isn’t helpful.”

“Eek…!!”

“The ideology you have is the same. Girls can do anything? Pfft!”

 

She laughed in their faces at the phrase that could be said to be the core of Maegal.

The three pigs’ expressions soured even more.

 

 

“Who are you to say that? You’re not competing with your own abilities and will, but you’re attacking men to change society and lower the values you want, and you’re saying girls can do anything?”

“W-What’s wrong with that!!”

“What’s wrong with it?”

 

Sonya stood up from her seat.

Even though she had returned to the physical age of 17, she was originally a tall and slender woman, so she was taller than the three pigs.

 

 

That was intimidation.

 

 

“You’re not saying you’re going to change the world with your abilities and will, but you’re saying that if men change society, you’re going to take the crumbs? You shouldn’t say those kinds of words while taking such a dependent wording and method.”

 

 

She approached them slightly.

For some reason, the three pigs couldn’t even get up from their chairs.

 

 

Sonya leaned her face closer to the person who seemed to be the leader among them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Girls can do anything is a phrase that only someone like me can say. Not a social misfit like you. Do you understand?”