episode_0061

A morning where I woke up with my eyes open.

It’s a shame it’s still Tuesday.

After a short meditation, I folded up the tent that had been spread out without me realizing it and got out of bed.

The door opened and Mom suddenly came in.

“Son. Did you sleep well?”

“Yeah, why?”

“I have something to say. Would you like to sit down?”

As I sat on the bed, my mom sat next to me and spoke to me.

“Son. There are a lot of dangerous people in the world, right?”

“Huh? Suddenly?”

“I don’t say this to my daughter, but I say it to my son. Are you listening?”

“Yeah.”

I heard this noise from the morning.

“If there’s a lot of money at home, some people kidnap children and ask for money?”

“I guess so?”

“Because your mom is checking to make sure you guys can get to school safely. Be careful when you go out for a few days. Okay?”

“Okay, I got it.”

My mother seemed worried, perhaps because I told her yesterday that there was a rumor that I was a tycoon.

“Then what will Ye-eun do when she comes home after school?”

“Mom will pick you up today.”

“Okay.”

After finishing my conversation with my mom, I started getting ready for school.

Today, after saying goodbye to my mom and leaving the house with Ye-eun, I looked around nervously as I went to school, perhaps because of what my mom said in the morning.

But there was a man who seemed to be following me from behind.

We stopped Ye-eun for a moment to see if she was following us.

“Yeeun-ah. Wait a minute.”

“Huh? Why?”

“Hey, can you tie my shoelaces for me?”

“Yeah.”

I untied my perfectly good shoelaces and slowly tried to tie them again, but the man following behind me didn’t move forward and started doing something else behind me.

No matter what, this happened right after my mom said that.

I went to school with Ye-eun, thinking that my mother’s intuition was scary.

This situation would have been a disaster if it weren’t for my mom.

I couldn’t make my already worried mother worry any more, so I thought about what I could do.

It’s times like these that I really need to use my limited network of connections.

I went to a kid in my class who had a cell phone and asked him for it.

“Excuse me. Can I borrow your cell phone?”

“Why?”

“I’ll just make one call.”

“There isn’t much of a fee.”

I should buy a cell phone or something. He took out two thousand won bills from his bag and handed them over.

“I’ll make a quick phone call.”

“Okay, I got it.”

Only then was I able to borrow a cell phone and head to the corner to call my teacher.

-hello?

-Sister. It’s Jaehoon.

I heard my sister’s weak, affirmative voice, as if she had just woken up from sleep.

-Oh, kid, what are you doing up this morning? Did you buy a cell phone?

-No, but can’t you gather some guys who are good at fighting?

-suddenly?

-I think someone is trying to kidnap me or my brother. I’m trying to catch them.

-Heh heh. Why did you kidnap me? You’ve been talking nonsense since morning.

-Sister. I never said any nonsense.

-What is it? Tell me more.

I told my positive older sister that I was a conglomerate and that a person believed to be a kidnapper had been following me since morning.

Positive older sister, who realized the danger of the situation, got ready right away and decided to come to school and hung up the phone.

I returned my phone and sat down to think, when the teacher came in, the morning assembly was over, and class began.

Before the first period ended, there was a knock on the classroom door and Sister Geumjeong came in.

“Hello, I’m Jaehoon’s cousin. I have something to do at home. I came to pick you up.”

It was going to be over soon, but my sister couldn’t wait and even knocked.

“Oh really? Should I go home?”

“Yes.”

“Jaehoon’s parents know, right?”

“Yes. I came instead.”

“Jaehoon, are you my cousin?”

“Yes.”

“Then take care and see you tomorrow?”

“Yes. Bye. See you tomorrow.”

I somehow ended up leaving work early without telling my mom.

I said hello to the teacher, picked up my bag, and left the classroom.

“You were a little tycoon? You were unusual from the start.”

“But, Sister. Wasn’t it planned to leave work early?”

“Huh? Is that so? If you want to catch a kidnapper, you have to come up with a plan.”

After hearing my older sister’s reasonable words, I headed towards the direction where there was no classroom with my older sister.

“Sister, if my brother or I go out, you’ll definitely follow us, right?”

“Right?”

“But if I miss it this time, I’ll have a headache. I have to catch it at once.”

“So what are you going to do?”

“How many people can we gather? If we’re going to do it, there must be some people who exercise”

“Aram will come if I call, and I’m planning to take a day off in the afternoon, so I’ll have to call to find out, right?”

“First of all, only men. I don’t want to ask for help for free. As a token of my sincerity, please give me 200,000 won each.”

“Why are you giving us money?”

“I don’t know about you, but other people don’t. It could be dangerous.”

“So what time should we meet and where?”

“Mom is coming to pick up my little brother today, right? I have to catch him before then. I’ll go out around 11: 30 and we’ll surround him and catch him?”

“Then we should surround the school until 11 o’clock?”

“That’s right.”

After finishing the conversation with my older sister, she started making phone calls here and there.

“Kid. But how many people are you calling?”

“Why?”

“I know a college student who said he would give me 200,000 won, so how many people can I give him?”

“10 people?”

“Then it’s 200?”

“It’s okay. Instead, just not a physical education student, but a black belt.”

“Oki”

Let’s calm ourselves down by thinking that it’s a small amount of money compared to our little brother’s safety. The image of our positive older sister closing her phone after ending the call.

“If there are 10 sisters, how about 2 across the street and 4 on the left and right?”

“Then you send a text like that?”

“Please tell them to pretend to be friends in pairs so that they don’t get caught and run away.”

“Okay. Just wait.”

I waited for the time to come while making detailed plans with my positive older sister.

I communicated with the people who had arrived and told them about my plan.

“But what if I go out and it’s not there?”

“No. I checked several times on my way to school this morning. My brother and I followed him.”

“But it might not be there when you go?”

“Then there’s nothing I can do. At least it’s better than my little brother being in danger.”

“Oh. The little one has grown a lot?”

“It was like this originally, sis.”

As I spent time joking with my older sister, the planned time arrived and I headed to the school gate.

Five meters behind, the positive older sister followed behind, pretending not to notice, and people who were obviously supposed to be physical education students began to appear from afar.

I wonder where the person I saw this morning is. I looked around trying my best not to show off, and saw a figure getting out of a car parked in front of the school and following me again.

I sent a signal to my positive older sister who was watching me from behind.

The physical education students nearby came closer with quick steps.

Then, they all took out sticks from the shopping bags they were holding and started to run at the man who was following them.

He started beating my whole body except my head.

“Ahhh wait wait”

Suddenly, two more people got out of the car the man got out of and rushed at the college students, and a fight broke out.

After two people fell and were subdued, I began to realize something was strange, as I heard that there was no merchant in Dagurien, even with a weapon.

Something is wrong with the kidnappers being a trio.

Besides, even the style of clothing is very neat.

While the physical education students were subduing each other one by one, I approached them and spoke to them.

“Why did you follow me?”

“My lord. That was sent by the chairman.”

Ah… chew… my money…..

“What is the chairman’s name?”

“Chairman Seo Tae-cheol.”

Even the physical education students who had been subduing the three men seemed to have sensed something strange, as everyone there looked flustered.

But just in case, I should check the facts.

“Sister. Excuse me, I need to borrow your phone.”

“Ah! Here!”

My older sister also seemed quite embarrassed, as if she had realized the truth.

I couldn’t remember my grandfather’s number, so I called my father.

The beeping started.

-hello.

-Dad, I’m your son.

-Huh? Isn’t that your son’s school?

-No. That’s not the problem. Did Grandpa put someone on me?

-Really? You attached someone?

Even my dad asked me back as if he didn’t know, and I was dumbfounded.

-Dad, just send Grandpa’s number to this number.

-why?

-I have something to check. Don’t ask questions and send it to me quickly.

-Okay, son. Just wait.

Less than a minute after I hung up the phone, a text message arrived on my phone.

I called the number that came in the text and it started to ring.

-hello.

-Hello. Grandpa, this is Jaehoon.

-Hey, my eldest grandson. What’s going on? What’s this number?

-Oh, Grandpa. Did you send someone to me?

-How does Jangson know that?

ah…..

-They caught me because they thought I was a kidnapper, Grandpa.

-What? You caught it? How did you catch it?

-I asked people I know to help me and I ended up getting hit a lot.

-Hahahaha really? Who did you ask to catch them?

-The older sister who taught me kickboxing and the older brothers who are students at the physical education department.

-That’s amazing? How many people?

-Ten people.

-Hahaha, who would be the eldest grandson? That’s amazing. Since it was sent by my grandfather, let him go and call the person who got it.

-Yes, just a moment, Grandpa.

“I think you guys can let these guys go. That old man, please answer the phone.”

The brothers released the subdued people and the subdued person answered the phone.

Even though he was already in pain, he held the phone with both hands, talked on the phone, and then handed it back to me.

“The chairman told me to receive it.”

-Yes, grandfather.

-Jaehoon. They’ll give you a card. Use it to buy meat with that older sister and brother. Tell them that Jaehoon is thankful for protecting them, okay?

-Yes, Grandpa. See you next time.

-Haha, okay, see you next time.

I hung up the phone and immediately handed the card to the person in front of me.

“I’m sorry. I misunderstood.”

“No. You could have easily misunderstood.”

“Still, I’m sorry.”

After apologizing several times, the subdued people got back into their cars and disappeared.

After thanking my brothers, I said I would buy them some meat and headed to the meat restaurant.

“Son?”

I ran into my mom.