episode_0028

After a while.

An old man came into the room.

Hmm… I see he’s wearing his restaurant ID in his front pocket, so he must be one of the staff here.

But… there’s something wrong with this old man.

The old man, with his face pale and dripping with cold sweat, opened his mouth with difficulty, even his lips trembling.

“Sorry to interrupt your meal, but…there’s an urgent air conditioner maintenance in this room…”

Checking the air conditioner? Guests are eating? What is it?

Then Yeonlim, who was sitting across from me, suddenly stood up.

“Ah, Dad!”

dad?

So, is this guy in a bad mood who just came into this room Yeonlim’s father?

What happened?

I looked at Hye-yoon, not knowing English.

Hyeyoon answered with a very relaxed smile.

“Yeonrim’s father? Haven’t you eaten? Why are you here all of a sudden? Shall we have a meal together?”

“That, that. That’s not it…… I…… I need to do an urgent inspection right now…….”

This man’s condition is very bad.

If you just push me, I feel like I’ll faint.

Then, as if she couldn’t bear it any longer, Yeonlim suddenly stood up and approached her father.

“Dad. What are you doing here? I’m having a meal with someone important! Why are you loitering around here?”

Yeonlim tried to criticize her father in a small voice, but her voice got louder and everyone could hear it.

Then Yeonrim’s father muttered as if he had lost his soul.

“Hey, Yeonlim. You shouldn’t be here… Let’s go. Okay?”

“What did you say?”

Then the restaurant servers came in quietly and placed a plate of steak on the table.

It was a beef steak that was oozing with oil and smelled delicious.

I didn’t know what was going on, so I just looked back and forth between Yeonlim and Hyeyoon.

What is this strange situation?

Then, Hye-yoon opened her mouth in an elegant voice while cutting the steak with a knife.

“I guess your father left something behind. Isn’t that right?”

When Yeonrim’s father heard those words, he collapsed as if his legs had lost their strength.

I was so surprised that I jumped up from my chair, and Yeonlim grabbed my father’s shoulder and shouted.

“Oh, Dad! Why are you like this? What’s wrong? Huh?”

As soon as Hye-yoon pressed the button on the table twice, the door opened wide and someone entered the room.

An object that looks like a bomb at first glance. A dangerous object with cylindrical gunpowder like dynamite and colorful wires tangled together.

The mafia members carefully put the bomb down, bowed their heads, and left the room again.

Hyeyoon looked at me, smiled, and said.

“This restaurant seems to offer these kinds of things as a service.”

“This, this….. isn’t it a bomb?”

“Yeah. That’s right. A bomb. If this thing explodes, everyone in this room will die. It’s something that even a neighborhood elementary school kid can easily touch, but can easily kill dozens of people. Isn’t it amazing?”

What, what is it?

I sat up without realizing it and stepped back.

So, then this is… an assassination attempt on Hye-yoon?

As I gulped and looked nervous, Hye-yoon continued talking while chewing on the chewy steak.

“It’s okay. I cut the power cord so it doesn’t explode.”

ah.

I think I know the whole situation now.

Yeonlim’s father was trying to kill Hyeyoon here himself. Hyeyoon knew about it in advance.

No matter what, they put on a show like this.

Hyeyoon is really big on liver. What should I call it? Showmanship?

This is the level of guts you need to have to be a mafia boss. What would have happened if this had blown up a little sooner?

Yeonlim’s face turned pale as if she had belatedly realized the whole situation.

I’ve never seen a person’s face so pale. It looked like no blood was flowing to the face.

Yeonlim swallowed hard and barely opened her mouth in a dry voice.

“Hye, Hyeyoon……. Ah, please save my father……. Yes?”

***

That moment.

Parking lot attached to Distinguished Restaurant.

Red Cross members sitting in pitch-black cars were shaking their legs nervously.

“That’s strange. Why doesn’t it explode? Did it pass the time it should have exploded?”

“Things are messed up….. You call Shin Man-sik right now.”

Then the Red Cross thug sitting in the backseat took out his phone and made a call.

-Turrr. Turrr.

The signal went out, but the call wasn’t answered.

“Why aren’t you answering the phone?”

The fool answered like this.

Then the Red Cross member sitting in the driver’s seat broke the silence.

“Things are messed up. Let’s back off for today.”

“What about Shin Man-sik?”

“I’ll figure it out. If Black Emily caught Shin Man-sik, he’s going to the other world today. If not, you can just order it again next time. Bin Hye-yoon comes to this restaurant often anyway.”

Just then, a young woman wearing a restaurant serving uniform came rushing over from over there.

She is a small, cute-looking female employee.

“Hey, kid. You can’t park here! Move your car out! Quickly!”

Then, the Red Cross member who had been glaring at the female employee with a fierce expression, coughed in vain and started the car.

It was at that moment that the smiling female employee took a gun out of her back pocket.

-Bang! Bang! Ta-bang!

The bullet fired from the pistol went straight through the car window and hit the mafia sitting inside.

Her expression changed completely, she took off the uniform she was wearing and took out the walkie-talkie. She muttered into the walkie-talkie.

“Targets captured. Report to the boss.”

***

What the fuck……

This is no joke.

I couldn’t even take a sip of water after seeing the mafiosi being brought in one after another, shot in the shoulder, arm, and leg.

Yeah, this is the real mafia.

This is Hye-yoon’s real appearance.

Perhaps the Red Cross members were scattered around the restaurant, watching the situation. Those who had been shot but did not die were all sitting down in front of us with their hands tied tightly.

Hyeyoon put down her knife and fork and stared at the people who had been arrested.

Then the man who appeared to be a member of the Red Cross opened his mouth with a self-deprecating laugh.

“Fuck……. I should have killed that bitch.”

Then Hye-yoon smiled and answered.

“If you’re going to do something, you should do it properly. What if you do it so sloppily? That’s why you get caught like this.”

Hyeyoon turned her gaze to me and asked.

“Right?”

“Huh? Uh…….That, that’s right. Hyeyoon. But you know. I don’t think this is the place for me. I’m going home now.”

“No. You have to see it too.”

“What, what?”

“How precarious my life is. How should I deal with the enemies who want to kill me.”

Hyeyoon continued speaking while holding my hand.

“I wish you could be a little stronger. That’s all I wish for now.”

I turned my gaze to Yeonlim, who was standing over there.

Yeonlim stood there frozen, holding her father’s hand.

Alex, dressed in a pitch-black suit, asked.

“Boss. How do we deal with these guys?”

“What can I do if I kill them? Oh right…… Torture them a little and find out the locations of the remaining Red Cross members. If I torture one or two of them, I’ll find out right away. Send the rest to the other world now.”

“Yes. Let’s do that. What about disposing of the body…?”

“Cut off the limbs and dissolve them in hydrochloric acid. If you leave them for about a month, they will all dissolve and disappear.”

“Okay, boss. I will do that.”

I became ice.

I can’t even open my mouth.

okay.

Bin Hye-yoon was this kind of person.

All this time, I didn’t know anything and treated you too comfortably.

This could be a warning to me.

Hye-yoon’s warning not to betray herself… not to abandon herself.

That’s why Hye-yoon made me join in this horrible scene.

At that moment, Yeonlim, who was standing over there, suddenly fell to her knees and cried out.

“Ms. Hye-yoon. No, Ms. Hye-yoon. Please save my father! Yes? Please save him. Please save him.”

Yeonlim rubbed her hands together and prayed desperately.

Ugh… It’s a sad and pitiful sight.

I turned my head away and tried to avoid the sight.

Then Hyeyoon, who was holding a knife, cutting a piece of steak and putting it in her mouth, asked me.

“Seongwon-ah. What do you think about that girl’s father? ”

Hyeyoon asked somewhat innocently, chewing on the chewy beef steak.

Ugh….. why are you asking me this?

What do you want me to do?

I was annoyed, but I held it in.

Instead, he tried to answer in a polite voice.

“Since Yeonlim was the first to give me the information…. Wouldn’t it be better to be lenient? Last time, I told Yeonlim that Yeonlim could save her father. Right?”

Yeonlim’s expression brightened when she heard what I said.

However, Hyeyoon, who was chewing the steak while moving her small lower jaw here and there, did not seem to like those words very much.

“Tolerance? Tolerance… Tolerance… It’s a word that doesn’t really mean anything in this industry. Hmm.”

Hyeyoon wiped her mouth with a napkin, put down the knife, and added.

“Yes. It’s true that Shin Yeon-rim gave us crucial information, as you said. Mr. Shin Man-sik? You didn’t know that your phone was being tapped, right?”

In response to Hye-yoon’s question, Yeon-rim’s father’s face turned pale and he couldn’t answer.

One of the Red Cross members, who was sitting with both hands tied, bit his lip and shouted at Yeon-rim’s father.

“ The baby is also blewing …… This dog -like baby ……. ”

Then Alex took out the gun he had on his waist, put it to the back of his head, and pulled the trigger.

-bang!

The Red Cross member who was shot in the back of the head fell forward on the spot.

Fuck… A person died. Right in front of my eyes…

Hye-yoon stretched as if nothing had happened and looked around at her subordinates.

“Who has a coin?”

coin?

What is Bin Hye-yoon trying to do again?

Then, one of the tall subordinates on the other side quickly answered while holding out a five hundred won coin with both hands.

“I have it, boss.”

“Okay. Okay.”

Hyeyoon, who received the coin, handed it to me as is.

“Flip a coin.”

“Huh? What, what did you say?”

“If the front side comes up, Shin Man-sik lives. If the back side comes up, he dies. This is my way of thinking. What do you think?”

What, what?

As I was trembling with the hand holding the coin, Hye-yoon held my hand tightly and continued speaking.

“Don’t you want to flip a coin? Then should I just kill you?”

I quickly turned my gaze and looked at Yeonlim.

Yeonlim, covered in cold sweat and tears, swallowed hard and nodded faintly. Yeonlim’s father, seemingly transcending all emotions, closed his eyes and kept his mouth shut.

Okay, wait a minute. But why are you asking me to flip a coin?

I suddenly got up from my chair.

“Fuck. Stop this fucking shit.”

I’m angry.

I couldn’t stand it any longer. I thought I was going crazy.

“Are you angry?”

Hyeyoon looked up at me with pure eyes, like a girl’s, and asked.

“Do whatever you want, whether you flip a coin or do something else. I’m not a mafia. Why do you keep tripping me up? Is it because I’m easy? Do I look like a pushover? Huh?”

Then Alex, who was standing over there holding a pistol, raised his glasses and shouted.

“Mr. Woo Sung-won! Please be careful with your words. There is a limit to how much I can tolerate your arrogant attitude.”

“Alex.”

Hyeyoon bit her lip slightly as if she was angry and called Alex without turning her head.

“Yes, boss.”

“Shut your mouth and stay still. If you don’t want to die by my hand.”

Hyeyoon’s grim warning. Her voice sounded like it would crack the cup in front of her.

Alex swallowed hard and stepped back.

Hyeyoon’s expression relaxed again, she smiled faintly, and spoke to me.

“Then what should I do? This is my innate personality… You know better than anyone else.”

Hyeyoon held the hand that was holding the coin tightly and whispered in my ear.

“Okay. Then let’s throw it together. We’ve always been together, right?”

What, what did you say?

Hyeyoon took the coin out of my hand. Then she gently flicked the coin upward with her fingers.

“Okay. The coin has been tossed.”

Damn. I don’t know.

I reached out and quickly caught the coin that Hye-yoon had thrown.

He held the coin tightly.

I clenched my fist so hard that the blood stopped flowing to it.

I don’t know if the front or the back came out.

I glanced around and examined Yeonlim’s expression.

Yeonlim, whose dress was already soaked with sweat, was glaring at my hand holding the coin.

Hyeyoon whispered in my ear.

“Good job. Then spread your hands.”

Ugh… please.

I slowly opened my hand holding the coin.