episode_0209

“What’s your name?”

I looked at the menu and asked furtively.

“Me, me? Seolgi, Park Seolgi.”

Seolgi, me and the woman were in a restaurant.

Seol-gi was looking around nervously, and I was looking at the pictures of the food on the menu, thinking about what to eat.

It was a restaurant that served ribs and Pyongyang cold noodles.

That was pretty expensive too.

It was three times the price of a regular rib restaurant.

Is that because it’s inside a department store?

Or maybe it’s because of the large text that says “origin: Hanwoo.”

I don’t really like the Australian one though.

By the way, I brought Seolgi next to me in because I was hungry.

Seol-gi also glanced at the menu and her expression hardened.

“The price is…”

“I’ll buy it, so just do whatever you want.”

“No, that can’t be…”

“It’s okay.”

I told Seol-gi not to worry when she saw the menu, but at the same time I felt a little suspicious.

“…But if you’re going to enter a department store…”

I clearly remember a department store employee wearing a security uniform asking me to give him my card or name and checking my level.

If that’s the case, then Seol-gi must have gone through that process to get in, so she must have a pretty high rank in the department store.

And that camera hanging around his neck.

Even just that one thing is priceㅡ.

But do you think it’s expensive after seeing this menu?

“Ah… I came in without telling anyone.”

“…Ah.”

“Just then, the security guard went to the bathroom…”

All my questions were answered with those words.

I called the waiter over and ordered a bunch of food.

There really are a lot.

It seemed like we ordered almost five servings.

After being in the martial arts world, I came to a proper restaurant in the modern era and my appetite exploded.

After all, Koreans love Korean food.

Seol-gi looked at me like that and smiled awkwardly. She said that she ordered too much and that she didn’t need to order anything, so she closed the menu.

Well, I did order a lot.

Seol-gi looked around and asked me as she watched the employee walk away.

“…So what did you just say?”

“Huh?”

“That… I’ll break up with you…”

“Ah.”

I am a woman.

Especially when I look at women in couples, I often use my emotions without thinking.

What to hide.

Because I had a wall against stealing other people’s women.

At that time, he used the wall emotion on the woman after seeing the couple photo taken on the camera, and ended up appearing with the wall.

The quest.

[Wall: Money, Big Muscle, Sadist]

[Train the girl and save the idol.]

[Reward: Quest Board Skill]

I really didn’t feel like saving the man.

However, it was an interesting quest to have the sadistic woman train you in reverse.

Even the reward was a level-up of the main skill.

Besides, it seemed like the two of them weren’t in a normal relationship.

As I was feeling for the woman, I couldn’t help but come into her sight and read the man’s walls.

On the wall were written the words Master and Masochist.

“That’s literally it.”

“Literally… How are you trying to break up with me? Are you trying to blackmail me with this picture?”

I chuckled.

Are these two going to break up because of just this photo?

I don’t think so.

They say love blinds people, but the wall is even more so.

I felt that way when I was dating several women.

He’s been able to rehabilitate villains and even end years of unrequited love in one night.

The photo was simply a request to read the woman’s wall and get a closer look at her features.

It didn’t take much for me to break up a couple.

Once we met, I was able to work this out.

But I can’t say it exactly as it is, so I’ll just give a rough idea.

“I’m not threatening you. I just think I know who that woman is.”

“Oh, really?”

“She’s a really bad woman.”

There is a high probability that the woman is having an inappropriate relationship with Jinwoo, an idol.

I thought it was more of a master and slave relationship rather than a romantic one.

Is there a reason why the man’s side of the wall is called ‘master’?

“Right?! Our kid got fooled?!”

Suddenly, Seolgi nodded vigorously and leaned in.

The way we call Jinwoo has also changed to “our baby.”

He was almost half-sobbing as he said, “I knew it, I believed it.”

Seeing people being saved by vague words made me feel a little guilty.

‘…No, maybe that’s right.’

Maybe the truth is similar.

The woman may have seduced and roasted Jinwoo for money.

“Please, save my child.”

“Yes, I will help you. Insteadㅡ”

“Instead?”

“Please tell me the schedule of that idol named Jinwoo.”

At my words, Seol-gi hesitated for a moment with her eyes wavering, then nodded.

“Yes…! I will! For Jinwoo.”

This is how our partnership began.

***

“You’re so busy.”

I got home and was lying on the sofa looking at my boyfriend Jinwoo’s schedule.

It was a schedule that Seolgi sent me.

I only had about three days off in a month.

You only get three days off a month.

I felt like I was being worked to death almost like a machine.

“Three broadcasts a day?”

It was a schedule worthy of a popular member of an idol group whose stock is at its peak.

Even in the midst of all this, he met the master and enjoyed playing like that.

What should I say?

In many ways, he was a very faithful slave.

Maybe that’s how he relieves the stress of working too hard.

“This schedule is very helpful.”

It was a good thing we cooperated.

I didn’t expect you to give me such detailed information.

I never thought you’d send me a month’s worth of schedules.

I looked at the table and tried to reason quietly.

When will Jinwoo meet that woman?

“First, remove these days.”

I excluded days when I had no work and days when I had too much work, more than 3 things scheduled.

I excluded days when I had a lot of work to do because I was short on time and exhausted from the over-scheduled schedule, and I excluded days when I had no work because they were not tracked in the first place.

Yeah, there was a reason I asked you to send me this schedule.

Stalking, tailing.

It doesn’t matter what you call me, but I planned to follow Jinwoo that day.

To know where the woman in the photo is.

So, even though I was more likely to go to that girl on days when I didn’t have any plans, it didn’t mean anything to me.

Because it’s difficult to follow.

And local performances were also excluded.

It was difficult to follow them, and the local schedule required a long travel time, so even if there was only one schedule, it was no different from doing two or three schedules including the travel time.

“Then this is it.”

Four days from now.

Fan signing event.

It’s done in Seoul, and the schedule is finished relatively quickly.

After roughly deciding, I picked up my phone and called Seolgi.

“Hello?”

The trembling voice could be heard even over the phone.

“Yes, do you remember that we agreed to cooperate?”

“…Yes, okay! I sent you the schedule… right? ”

I was grateful for the schedule, but I still had more requests to make.

“Are you driving?”

“Huh? Yes… I’m doing it.”

“Please help me on the day of the fan signing event.”

“Yes? …I’m going anyway…”

I heard you’re attending this fan signing event too.

I guess I’m still a fan.

It just so happened that it worked out well.

“Bring sunglasses, a mask, and a hat that day.”

“…Do we hide our faces more than idols?”

Seol-gi, who hadn’t heard yet that we would be tailing her, said okay, though she was puzzled.

After handing over the supplies, I hung up the phone.

All that was left was to relieve my body’s fatigue until the fan signing event date.

“Oh my…”

I was lying in the car, yawning.

Of course, it wasn’t my car. I’ve been studying for my driver’s license using an app, but I haven’t even taken the written test yet.

This was inside Seolgi’s car.

I was alone in this car.

I glanced outside and saw a fairly large building.

It was a terrestrial broadcasting station building.

“They’re having a fan signing event at the broadcasting station…”

Since they are a famous group, I wonder if the broadcasting station is also helping them.

For someone who doesn’t know much about idols, it was a place that didn’t seem like a good match.

As time passed, fans began to walk out of the broadcasting station one by one with gentle expressions on their faces, as if they had been purified.

It seemed like the fan signing event was finally over after a long time.

Still, Seolgi didn’t come out easily.

I guess I’ll just finish my role as a host.

After about 20 minutes, Seolgi was seen coming out surrounded by several women.

“…Almost half a celebrity.”

Because of her photography skills and Jinwoo’s popularity, Seulgi herself seemed to be well-known to many fans.

Seolgi awkwardly chatted with female fans, then got into the car late.

“Hoo…”

“…You’re popular.”

“Popularity… Everyone is just trying to get a picture…”

“Aren’t you going to post it on SNS anyway?”

“Um… I want pictures that don’t come out well or pictures of other members.”

“Is that so?”

I didn’t quite understand.

I understand wanting pictures of other members.

But why didn’t the photos come out well?

“I think my child’s picture is cute even if it’s just a scrapbook.”

“…Really?”

I tried to understand and move on.

We turned the car around and parked it near the parking lot.

Near the parking lot, there were already many fans waiting like us, as if to see us off.

And then the car started moving and we slowly drove behind it.

“Is this okay?”

“You even filmed illegally.”

“No, that’s just my hand…”

Seol-gi’s legs were shaking slightly with a worried expression.

It was a trembling that made the passengers uneasy.

“I can’t believe I’m following Jinwoo…”

“Be careful not to get caught.”

“Yes, yes…”

We followed him, keeping a little distance so as not to arouse suspicion.

The car headed deeper and deeper into Seoul.

There were also instances of people deliberately circling around in circles far away.

Somehow I had a good feeling.