episode_0014

After the series of commotions were resolved, I began to clean up the spilled items one by one, feeling the fishy taste of blood in my mouth.

After getting into a fist fight with the gangsters, I immediately started working as if nothing had happened without stopping, and Suyeon Choi was startled and came out of the counter to stop me.

“Senior! I’ll sort it out, so you can take a break.”

“No, just get some rest. You must have been surprised because those bastards came in droves and threatened you.”

“No… Actually, I was more surprised to see my senior punching than them…”

“Keuhm, sorry about that. But if we don’t do this, those guys will come back with their gang…”

I cleared my throat and continued to clean the floor of the convenience store.

There were some that were in good condition, but the bags of some of the snacks had burst and the contents had spilled out. I picked them up with a dustpan and handed the empty snack bag to Suyeon Choi.

“I’m sorry, but please take a picture of this on your poser. Because I have to calculate it.”

“You want me to calculate it myself?”

“Then I knocked it over, so I have to pay, who is going to pay?”

“… I will calculate this. It was a good idea to suppress those guys from making a fuss earlier, so it would be unfair to turn this on.”

“No, but I-”

“No. Now, please hand me all the snack bags first. And here it goes like this. And my card. Now, the calculation is over. I calculated it, so it’s over now.”

Choi Su-yeon took a picture of the barcode and swiped the card.

Then he came out with a broom and dustpan and swept up the snacks next to me.

“I said I would do it.”

“While you were suppressing those guys, I couldn’t do anything and just scream. I also have a part-time job. So I will do it too.”

After that, we cleaned the floor in silence for a while.

After putting away all the spilled snacks and finishing mopping, we both returned to the counter and sat side by side.

There was a slightly awkward silence, and I was the one who broke it.

“Now those kids won’t come to smoke.”

“You’re not coming?”

“To be precise, it ‘can’t’ come. Because I was afraid that anyone who came here to smoke would die. As long as I work, I won’t have to suffer from people trying to smoke cigarettes.”

“What were you going to do if those guys actually reported it?”

Suyeon Choi asked with a worried expression.

I guess my suppression was quite extreme.

“It’s okay. They have proof that they are ahead of me, and I bluffed appropriately in self-defense, so I can’t act carelessly even if I’m scared of going to juvenile detention center. Let me put it this way, he is a 3rd year student at Centipede Academy, but he is no good for me.”

Kang Baek-san, the guy those first-year bullies mentioned.

Eunbong Industrial Higher Education Academy, or Eunbong Academy for short, is the king of the Iljin group and is called Eunbong Tong, and is a famous gangster in the nearby area, but the fact that even that guy lost a fight with me, Han Seong-jin, remained in my memory.

This is where you can see how infamous Han Seong-jin is.

It may be a pathetic achievement in the world, but to the idiots like before who treat adult words like shit, a brother who is 2 years older than an adult who is 20 years older is more scary.

If they find out that Eunbongtong, whom they worship like a god, has already been taken care of by me, they will be too scared to even come near here.

“Sir, you were a scarier person than I thought.”

Suyeon Choi’s eyes look wary.

I clicked my tongue and sat back against the cigarette stand.

“Tsk, I didn’t want to do this anymore, so I worked part-time and tried to live a healthy life, but as soon as I started working, these guys started to get into trouble. I feel sorry for you. Because it looks like I can’t see it. Still, if possible, something like this will not happen in the future.”

“…… Thank you, though.”

“Thank you?”

“There have been many times like this before. When I had a part-time job before, when kids like that came, we both trembled and rang the wireless emergency bell, but the police were late, and kids like that swore and screamed and threw things over before the police arrived… You don’t know how scared we really were back then.

Even when the manager was there, it wasn’t much of a difference because the manager couldn’t touch me… But when I saw him do that earlier, I was scared, but I felt a little relieved inside.”

“What is that? Is this what you wanted to beat up if you could?”

“Well?”

Suyeon Choi stretched upward and to both sides, perhaps to relieve tension.

“Anyway, thank you for your help even though the means were a bit difficult. Plus, you said you wouldn’t let those kids come in the future, so I owe you a debt to my senior… Huh?!”

Choi Su-yeon suddenly stopped speaking and started to panic in shock.

“Why are you so surprised all of a sudden… huh?”

As I spoke, I realized the reason at the same time.

Something in my mouth was out of my control and was dripping down the corner of my mouth and down my chin.

I felt the fishy taste remaining in my mouth getting stronger, so I wiped the liquid running down my chin with my hand.

Choi Su-yeon, who saw the red liquid on her hand, was startled and started to panic.

“Aaaah! Senior, I’m bleeding, I’m bleeding! Toilet paper, tissue… what is it, lady?! Why not?! Okay, let’s at least wipe it with this!”

Choi Su-yeon, who saw that the toilet paper that was always in stock had run out, took out a handkerchief from her bag and put it to my mouth.

In a hurry, I took Choi Su-yeon’s handkerchief and wiped the blood flowing from the corner of my mouth.

Seeing me wiping away the blood, Suyeon Choi looked at me with a mixture of worry and anxiety.

When the blood stopped flowing, I took the handkerchief off my mouth and waved my hand as if it was no big deal.

“It’s just that I bit my cheek and it bled because I got hit earlier. It’s not a big deal, so don’t look at it like that.”

“No, but…”

“Why, why can’t I do anything while I’m in such a mess?”

Nod.

Instead of answering, Sooyeon Choi nodded eagerly.

“Then, please escort me to the date course rehearsal on Friday.”

“Ah… Are you really going to take me with you?”

“Instead of pretending to be my girlfriend at a meeting next week, you said you would plan a date for me?”

“Yes, that’s right. It was like that, but… haha… okay.”

“Why do you say you don’t want to do this? Then just feel free to pretend to be my girlfriend-”

“It was a sigh of worry about how to plan a course!”

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After the uproar, fortunately, my part-time job passed without much fuss.

All the while Choi Soo-yeon was working, the sight of Han Seong-jin overpowering the gangly male students could not leave her mind.

A violent, barbaric and extremely primitive method.

I didn’t like that typical single action, and I never had any illusions about it.

But why did he think Han Seong-jin was cool while watching it, even if only slightly?

Is it because it is a prescription for extreme medication to save yourself from trouble? Or is it because he hangs out with students who seem to be good on the outside, and he gets into that situation without even realizing it?

When I was confused as to why I thought the sight of Han Seong-jin fighting earlier was a bit cool, Han Seong-jin spoke up.

“Oh, Sooyeon Choi. That handkerchief I gave you earlier.”

“Yes?”

“I’ll take it home, wash it, and return it to you.”

“Ah… You don’t have to give it back.”

“Is it because I put it in my mouth that I don’t want it back? It’s too much.”

“No, that’s not what I meant…! Oh, okay, then wash it and return it! They’re turning a real person into some kind of strange person.”

Choi Soo-yeon, who had accepted Han Seong-jin’s joke, was sticking out her lips and suddenly her thoughts wandered somewhere else.

‘… But did this senior always have this playful personality?’

I had never met Han Seong-jin in person and only knew his face through photos.

The only thing I heard about him was rumors from his friends.

And the content of the rumor was truly absurd.

He said he took three girls and formed a foursome, that he got into a gang fight with other academy members and won and then took the girls from that academy as trophies, that he got into a fight with a college student, and that he used the money he stole from his subordinates to run the club. I went to…

According to the rumors, he was a type of horse that was not worthy of being treated as a human being, and I thought that such a person could not have even the slightest humanity, let alone courtesy.

However, Han Seong-jin, who I started working with yesterday, was very different from what I expected.

As you can see in the picture, his impression was extremely harsh, but his attitude towards the convenience store manager was quite polite.

He was quite conscientious in learning how to work at a convenience store, and surprisingly, he adapted to the job very quickly, so the day he started working, there was already nothing more to teach him.

However, just because he was strong, he did not limit the work to just himself, and he did his job faithfully.

When he knocked down the gangsters one by one with one punch, I thought he was just as human as I first thought, but he never used more violence than was necessary.

Perhaps out of consideration for him, he took steps to prevent future customers from coming to the convenience store to smoke, and even apologized, saying he was sorry for surprising them.

If you think about it, Han Seong-jin didn’t do anything wrong in the first place.

‘I really don’t know. ‘He’s a strange person.’

It was still difficult to know what he was thinking, but Choi Su-yeon thought that Han Seong-jin was not as depraved as she thought.

‘But since he’s not the type I want to be involved with for a long time… I’ll just introduce him to a course on Friday and take care of what he needs to take care of.’