Lee Jun-seo (Son) – The Kind Hell

* Lee Jun-seo (Son) – The Kind Hell (3)

I received a handjob from a hostess whose name I didn’t even know, along with a light meal and a drink. It was done outdoors, under the gaze of others, but surprisingly, it was a pleasant meal. It wasn’t her first time handling a man’s thing, as even a scratch of my glans with her index finger sent shivers of pleasure through me. I even thought about going back to such a place again.

It was a heavy amount to eat from lunchtime, but maybe because of the alcohol, I cleared the table surprisingly easily. My head was a little dizzy, but with a pleasantly tipsy feeling and still time until dinner, I was wondering how to spend the time when I spotted another tavern in the distance that looked fun.

For some reason, this place feels familiar to me.

Even the building is somehow nostalgic.

Perhaps that trash father of mine brought me to this village when I was too young to remember, I thought.

‘It feels like a young man returning to his hometown after a long time away.’

The reason I naturally flirted with the hostess was because I surrendered myself to that feeling. You could say I rode the wave, but even though it’s my body, my emotions and actions are strangely out of control. Is it because of the alcohol? No, it can’t be. I can’t remember at all, so he must have brought me here when I was really young. I never heard any stories about the village from my dead father, but I can be sure of that much.

“Excuse me, do you have any seats, ajusshi?”

“Oh, we happen to have one seat open.”

Not only did I head there as if surrendering to the flow, but I immediately struck up a conversation with an ajusshi I’d never met before. Since it’s this kind of village, and a resident suddenly barging in to play together isn’t strange, he’s smiling broadly.

“One person dropped out in the middle of Oras. It was at the height of the excitement, but it ended, so everyone folded their hands and relaxed. They’ll all be happy if you join.”

A tavern, scholars dressed in traditional clothes, but what surrounds them is completely out of place with the building and attire. They’re chewing on light snacks at a mechanical table, looking relaxed as the ajusshi said, but their faces changed as soon as they saw me.

“Gonna play a round and go?”

“Yes.”

“Oh~!”

“Young man, you have good taste~!”

“A young friend, huh~! Euhahaha~!”

It’s a difficult game to learn and not popular in this country, so they must be happy to see a challenger like me. I know that feeling well. Everyone gestured for me to sit at the table, so I surrendered myself to the flow. It was a slightly bizarre sight, being the only one in a suit among scholars, but I soon became so excited that I didn’t care. It’s been a long time since I’ve held real tiles.

And me and the scholar ajusshis…

Just like that…

Sureongsureong.

Sureongsureong.

Sureongsureong.

Ttak, ttak, ttak, someone places a tile.

The flow continues.

The little bit of alcohol I drank earlier has finally hit me, but my mind is clear.

Because it was a pleasant atmosphere, with my body surrendering to memories.

Sureongsureong.

Sureongsureong.

Sureongsureong.

Again, someone places a tile with a ttak sound.

What a pleasant timbre.

The person who placed the tile looks nervous, wondering if it will work, but I feel completely different. I watched it leisurely, feeling like it was painting a new color on my recently erotic everyday life.

Well, I’m having sex every day, so I can enjoy my hobbies sometimes, right?

And with this, I became even more certain.

I definitely have memories of coming here when I was young.

Sureongsureong.

Sureongsureong.

Sureongsureong.

Ttak, ttak, ttak, another tile is placed.

While I was wondering when I had ever been to this village, my hand stopped.

In the first place, the reason I came to like board games wasn’t because of Seo-woo noona, but…

Wasn’t it because of this?

Sureongsureong.

Sureongsureong.

Sureongsureong.

As soon as that thought occurred to me, sweat dripped from my forehead.

Since when has my life been manipulated?

Who told me about this?

It’s not my father.

It can’t be.

I’ve never seen that human enjoy entertainment in my life.

Then is it my grandmother?

Sureongsureong.

Sureongsureong.

Sureongsureong.

I suddenly realized that my sunglasses were askew, so I fixed them and looked down at my hands.

Maybe even my personality, which likes these kinds of games, was intentionally created.

Thinking that way gave me goosebumps and made me feel bad, but…

Sureongsureong.

Sureongsureong.

Sureongsureong.

No, I’m thinking too deeply.

What’s fun is fun.

What’s unpleasant is unpleasant.

Who would dare to manipulate such simple emotions?

Besides, this is in the realm of hobbies.

Whoever taught me this, I decided and I felt it, so there’s no need to blame myself that much.

As if I’d be suited to be the protagonist of a tragic love story.

Sureongsureong.

Sureongsureong.

Sureongsureong.

In the midst of such worries, someone tapped me on the shoulder.

“Young man?”

“Ah.”

As my mind returned to reality, I realized that I had raised my arm high and stopped there. It seems I hadn’t moved while holding the tsumo tile in my hand.

“Is it a dangerous tile?”

“No.”

“I smell a bit of alcohol.”

“Did you have a drink before coming?”

“Haha, the hostess at the tavern where I had lunch kept coaxing me to drink with her…”

“You’re good at that, you seem drunk, so take a rest after this.”

“Yes. I should.”

Thanks to the ajusshis, the sureongsureong stopped. I was so engrossed in my worries that I was spacing out while holding the tsumo tile, what an embarrassing thing to do. I have some alcohol in me, but to be so deeply lost in thought because of the nostalgia that’s washing over me, that’s not like me. Even if I worry like this, I’m just a bastard who will be swept away by lust and only have sex with women, so screw the worries.

I mixed the tsumo tile into my hand and threw out a new tile. I take a breath while watching everyone throw out safe tiles one by one. The reason I came here today is to protect my family. At the same time, it was also to learn about this village and myself. I happened to meet some scholars who seem to have loose lips, so how could I not ask them?

“Speaking of which, have you heard the rumors?”

“About doryeon-nim?”

I only said one thing, “Have you heard the rumors?” but the story of doryeon-nim came out, and I flinched for a moment. I touched the bridge of my nose, wondering if my sunglasses had come off, but they were properly attached.

“Why are you so surprised? The whole village is buzzing with stories about doryeon-nim, so what other rumors could there be?”

“I only heard about it relatively recently.”

“Weren’t you Bokryong’s subordinate? I thought so because you’re wearing a suit.”

“As you can see, I’m young, right? I was only recently recognized by hyung-nim…”

“Then the village?”

“I was only recently allowed to enter this village… About doryeon-nim too… I’m ashamed to say… ahem…”

“Then it’s understandable that you haven’t heard the rumors until recently. I don’t know what you think about our doryeon-nim, but he’s like a treasure to us. Thanks to him, the village is buzzing like this.”

I couldn’t bear the embarrassment at those words, so I put my hand under the electric table and scratched my thigh. The scholar who was talking about me had a faraway look in his eyes, which made me even more embarrassed. It’s a strange feeling to hear about myself from the mouth of someone I’ve never met before.

“Well, he’s a good person. Isn’t he really a good person? The guy who was supposed to be the next village chief was a complete scoundrel, so everyone thought this village was doomed, but one day that guy brought a child. So, I wondered if that kid was also a mess, but what do you know? He was very kind.”

“You sound like you’ve seen him before.”

“This is the only mahjong parlor (jakso) in this village.”

At those words, I thought, “I knew it.”

“Back then, the old men who served doryeon-nim in the village brought him here. The villagers mainly enjoy Hwatu, but this was more to our taste.”

“It’s also a necessary skill to become close with high-ranking Chinese people.”

“Especially the guys who crawled their way up from the bottom in China, they can’t live without this. They really love mahjong, so if you learn this, it’s perfect for making friends. Since it turned out this way, we thought we should have doryeon-nim learn it too, so a bunch of us ajusshis gathered and taught him. It’s a good memory when I think about it now.”

“Back then, doryeon-nim was really pure and innocent. If we told him the yaku, he would remember them all, and he quickly learned the cheating techniques, so it was fun to teach him.”

“That’s right, we taught him the caterpillar and he immediately applied it and surprised us, didn’t he?”

“So we’re worried. The villagers know doryeon-nim from when he was young. We’re still anxious that he’ll learn bad things while spending time with the lower people. We can’t let him pick up strange habits and get tainted…”

They’re speaking in a friendly tone, but they’re still residents of another world. They naturally treat people outside the village as lower people, and…

“If you thought that way, it would have been better to just bring him here by force.”

“That rotten guy, who was supposed to be the next village chief, had bad feelings towards us. The villagers gathered together and interfered with that guy’s marriage. He said it was a love marriage, but it was obvious that it was going to collapse, so we had no choice but to interfere. As a result, an angel like doryeon-nim was born, so we’re grateful for that part, but as a result, he didn’t entrust doryeon-nim to us.”

“As you said, young man, we wanted to bring doryeon-nim here and raise him, but still, the other party was the son of the village chief’s family. If we pushed it too hard, the existing order would obviously collapse due to a revolt, so we couldn’t help it.”

“If they had at least raised doryeon-nim properly, we wouldn’t be so frustrated. That rotten bastard, to leave doryeon-nim in such a family, he’s a rotten bastard who deserves to be cursed even in death.”

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen someone get so angry at that rotten human on my behalf. For some reason, my heart is touched. I was too young to remember these people’s faces, which makes me a little sad.

“Ahem, to get back to the story, isn’t the rumor you’re talking about that doryeon-nim is coming back to the village soon?”

“It’s a happy occasion! Of course!”

“It’s a festival, a festival. That’s why the women are busy too.”

“Each family is said to be negotiating here and there to choose doryeon-nim’s bride, so it’s going to be really noisy.”

“Oh, a bride?”

“Of course? Isn’t doryeon-nim a man in his prime?”

“We can’t let him have a product or a prostitute~!”

My head cools down amidst the excited scholar ajusshis. The thought that I was happy to meet these people was only for a moment. That one word has completely ruined my good mood.

“How long are we going to leave doryeon-nim’s lower body in the care of women whose bloodline we don’t even know?”

“The answer is to replace all the bitches around doryeon-nim and reorganize them.”

“Of course, we can’t let doryeon-nim be taken away by a bitch from the secular world again~!”

“””Hahahahahahat!!!!”””

The three people’s gazes were fixed on me.

They’re forcibly seeking my agreement, as if asking, “You think so too, right?”

“I haven’t adapted to the village atmosphere yet, so… um, that… I’m a little curious about what will happen to the sisters who have been serving doryeon-nim until now…”

“Hmm, usually it’s disposal, isn’t it?”

“Hey, that’s too much.”

“Is it?”

“Still, they’ve done well until now, so we could at least allow them to live in the village…”

“Uh-uh, they can’t be with doryeon-nim! I heard that there was even a bitch who was not only in love with doryeon-nim but also tried to kill him when she was upset? They forgot their place and got caught up in playing family, they’re disqualified, disqualified!”

“Um, that’s right. They’ve lived a long time, so they might be able to use doryeon-nim as a puppet. Too dangerous.”

“Then the conclusion is one, isn’t it?”

“It’s normal to get rid of dangerous sprouts in advance.”

After that, the three people closed their mouths.

The conclusion is one.

To them, my beloved family was nothing more than a target for elimination.

‘I knew it…’

These people, I don’t know about before.

Right now, they are my enemies.