episode_0081

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A silence flows that is incomparable to before.

Everyone was still as if time had stopped in this dead-eyed atmosphere.

“… Ha, hahaha… .”

And that was the beginning of my father’s feeble laughter, which seemed to have gone mad.

Knock knock—

He got up, dragged his chair, and then left the place.

While I was wondering whether I should follow her, my mother also jumped up from her seat and Sarang walked forward.

“… What does that mean?”

“Just like that. I like you too… I want to marry you too… .”

“Ah, no… So, you mean, you tried everything except that… Is that true?”

“… Yes.”

My mother turned around with a jerk and turned her head towards me.

I clench my fists against the cold sweat running down my back.

I was speechless… I really had nothing to say even if I had ten mouths.

I had no resentment or blame towards Sarang for saying such things in such a place, because it was all my fault.

I was just a little scared of the situation right now, but then my heart started pounding like a thump- thump- thump sound that started echoing through the house.

“Shindawoowoon—!!!”

I couldn’t help but be startled by my father’s subsequent loud voice.

Before I knew it, I was holding a long golf club in my hand.

“You, you little shit aaa—!!!”

This time, everyone was surprised by the father’s double swearing.

I froze where I was sitting.

Mom and Sarang also look at Dad with surprised eyes.

“Hey, hey!!”

“Mistereee!!”

My father was walking towards me with brisk steps, and two people were hurriedly going to stop him.

And as I watched the golf club being swung around so recklessly, I thought to myself that it would hurt like hell if I got hit.

” Don’t get out of it!?

“Hey! Hey, let’s put that aside for now, okay? Are you crazy!?”

“Ah, mister…!”

Mom and Sarang are on both sides, teasing Dad.

“Hey! Shin Dawooun—!! You, you little shit!”

My father screams loudly.

“Oh, mister! Why are you doing that to me!? Huh?”

Although he tried to stop her from being a lover, his father, whose feelings were already twisted, could not hide his excitement.

*

Phew-!

“Ah, aah… .”

“Are you sick?”

“… Oh, no.”

Phew-!!

“Ahhh… !”

“You should stop hitting the kid! You just squeezed him so hard, why are you hitting his head again?”

“Haaah… This kind of kid deserves to be beaten to death.”

When people around me tried to dissuade me from playing golf, my father beat me up with his bare hands.

My face and every nook and cranny of my body were hit, but just now I got hit on the back of the head, the tissue that had been stuck in my nose flew away, and blood started flowing down my nose again.

“Heh… Heh heh… .”

“Is this kid still laughing?”

Phew-!

“Ah, ahhak… I’m sorry.”

I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve been beaten like this.

Even when I was causing trouble like that, I don’t think I’ve ever been beaten up like this.

Still, thanks to that, my head became a little clearer.

My first thought was that it was fortunate that he didn’t die.

“Sigh… What should I do with this kid… .”

Me, kneeling on the floor, and my father looking troubled in front of me.

“Ah, mister… Stop it now… .”

“… Sigh, what are you guys really trying to do… .”

He sighs again as he watches Sarang continue to talk to him from the side.

“Honey, I told you to bring Sarang in.”

“What can I do if he keeps going out? So, let’s hear his story first, why are you hitting him like that!”

“Story? What the hell do I have to hear? It’s all true, this kid said to Sarang… Haaah… .”

“Father, so—”

Phew-!

“Oh my… .”

“Didn’t I tell you not to open your mouth again?”

I had no choice but to keep my mouth shut at my father’s cold words, but soon after, the order to evacuate was given.

“Go out.”

“… … Yes?”

“Get the hell out of my house.”

“Right, right now?”

“Don’t make me say it twice, now!!”

“… That, that story is over—”

“I have nothing to say to a brat like you, so get out—!!”

My father grabbed my clothes and pulled them.

I couldn’t just get kicked out like this, so I held on, but when I didn’t move, this time he grabbed my hair and pulled it.

“Ah, aah… .”

“This kid! Can’t you hear me? Huh?!”

“Ah, father… I can’t go out like this… .”

“You, you little punk! You haven’t been hit yet!”

I covered my face with my hands as the punches started again.

However, I couldn’t fully come to my senses because of the fists flying into every nook and cranny of my body.

“Hey! I told you not to hit me anymore!”

“Mister!”

The words of Mom and Sarang, who tried to dissuade such a father, were of no use.

I just kept getting hit.

Smack- smack-! Smack—!!

My father’s extremely spicy fists showed no signs of ending.

Since I also had a limit to how much I could endure, my body was gradually collapsing to the floor.

And then, as my mind drifts further and further away, I soon give up and my body falls forward.

dump-

My chin hit the floor and the chills grew stronger.

My body naturally tensed up in fear of the fists and feet flying at me again.

“Stop it now!”

At that moment, Arami’s moist voice, which had been quiet until now, resonated.

“Whew, beautiful.”

“It’s enough now… Stop it… .”

“Are you saying that now? … You knew that too? Huh?”

The father was needlessly nagging the strict Arami.

I couldn’t just stand by and watch, so I moved my throbbing body.

“Hey… You stay still too!”

“Ugh… .”

My vision is blurry, perhaps because my eye socket has swelled up from being hit.

And then I caught a glimpse of the back of Arum, who was blocking my way.

“Park Areum, I’m asking you. You knew they were going to do that, and you still said that today?”

“… Yes.”

“Haaah… I don’t know what you lack, and why you’re protecting that kid like this, I don’t know.”

“That’s enough… You should stop now, sir. We’ll solve our own problems.”

“Ha, haha… Are you three going to have a love fight with that kid right now?”

“… Where is that kid? He’s going to be an adult soon.”

“Stop nitpicking. So what are you three going to do? Huh?”

I thought it would just end with me getting beaten up, but the mood turned tense again.

“He just followed her around because he liked her.”

“Ha, haaaa… .”

My father laughs in vain as if he is amazed.

“What kind of guy is that, sex… huh… How can he say that he’s done everything except sex? And that’s with love?”

“… … I’m the most annoyed… It’s ridiculous for you guys to hear that, right? But, what do you think of me living with you? So, just leave us alone for a little while and let us figure it out… .”

Arami said that in a voice that sounded like she was about to cry.

“No matter what, that won’t do. I didn’t put you three together like this…? It’s not like I don’t know your fathers, and how can I know about my beastly son and leave him alone?”

“Haaah… That’s what I mean… I just want a little more time until it’s resolved… .”

In front of A-reum who was saying such things, the father had no more words to say.

And then he immediately turns around and leaves, and his mother follows him.

“Ugh… .”

I lay my half-raised body back down on the floor.

My whole body was aching and I couldn’t do anything.

“Hey, gentleman.”

“… Why.”

“Do you feel better now? Seeing Shindaun get beaten like that, does that make you feel better?”

“… I didn’t know that the old man would get that angry.”

“Hey, hey… What are you guys doing? Don’t fight… .”

After Father, the story of Arami and Sarang was about to continue.

“… And I felt so wronged that the two of you got married and got married while I was the only one left out. I could have married my brother too, right? My sister was just a little bit earlier than me, so why do you want to monopolize it all by yourself?”

“So this is it? You keep talking nonsense to the uncle and aunt?”

“I didn’t lie, did I? I didn’t make things up, I just said the truth. Why is that?”

I really missed my father who left a little while ago.

It seemed like I was suited to getting hit and hitting with my body.

I felt like all my energy was being sucked out of me as I was caught between the two of them fighting again.

“I, Arami… I, right now… I’m in a lot of pain… .”

I gathered all the energy I had and crawled on the floor.

And I tapped the beauty in front of me, but she didn’t even look at me.

“Hey, love… stop it, okay? Please… .”

Love doesn’t even give me a glance.

“We got permission today. There’s no room for you in the meantime.”

“I don’t like it. I promised to have sex with you.”

“… Shit, seriously… Even if I try not to swear… .”

And only then did I tremble at the sight of Arami’s piercing gaze looking down.