Lee Junseo (Son) – Commotion Always Comes Suddenly

* Lee Junseo (Son) – Commotion Always Comes Suddenly (8)

It was awkward at first.

Me, laughing hahaha while having a drink from the afternoon.

And then my younger brother barges in with a kitchen knife.

「Give me Narin-nuna! Now!!! Before I kill you all!!!」

Those words were enough to make my face, which had been beaming with the thought of welcoming my brother, turn to stone. I don’t know why the hell he came with a kitchen knife, but my subordinates and I were so dumbfounded that we didn’t know how to react. But the heavy atmosphere was shattered the moment my brother’s gaze turned to Yuna-rin in front of me.

“N-nuh, what the hell is going on?! In front of Doryeon-nim… Are you c-c-crazy?!”

“Nuna! You’re okay! You weren’t hit?!”

“Hit? Uh, who? Me?”

“You were kidnapped!”

“Who said that?! You’re the kidnapper!”

“Huh?”

“Eh?”

“”Huh?””

Crossing gazes. The atmosphere sinking. I wondered if this was some kind of skit, but I didn’t want to break this atmosphere, so I quietly took a sip of my drink. The sound of the bald guy at the counter mindlessly scrubbing the dishes echoed throughout the coffee shop, as if expressing the awkwardness of the moment.

“Hyung?”

“Yeah, little brother.”

“……………”

Unlike me, who felt relaxed after a drink, my brother awkwardly averted his gaze. He had thrown the kitchen knife on the floor and awkwardly raised both hands in surrender. My subordinates and the bald guy blinked, as if wondering how to deal with this idiot.

Ah, this is a bit…

I realized why he did this from his previous line…

I guess I have to open my mouth to break this atmosphere.

“Junhyuk, was it? If you have nothing to say, let’s start with just one question.”

“W-what is it?”

“It’s nothing big.”

I gestured to Junhyuk with my chin after making eye contact with Mun-yeong. Then, she slowly grabbed my brother’s wrist and guided him to the seat in front of me. My brother didn’t seem to have any intention of resisting, and he obediently came in front of me and awkwardly looked at my face.

“Let’s just ask one thing. You don’t have to answer if you don’t want to. Whether you’re my brother or not depends on this answer, but I promise I won’t do anything bad to you.”

“What is it that makes you say that?”

“What do you think of that bastard named Lee Mun-san?”

“Ah…”

At my sudden question, the others also opened their mouths and echoed 「Ah」. In particular, the bald guy, who had been quiet until now, smashed the dish he was holding and looked this way. He was still wearing sunglasses, so I couldn’t tell what his eyes looked like, but he seemed embarrassed, as I could clearly see him furrowing his eyebrows.

“Can I just say it honestly?”

“Of course.”

“It might be unpleasant to hear, Hyung?”

“Tell me.”

“I think he’s a total son of a bitch.”

At those words, the atmosphere froze again. No one intervened except for the bald guy slapping his forehead. On the other hand, I couldn’t help but smile, forgetting my poker face.

“That guy, not only did he abandon our mother and always wander around, but he didn’t even give me any attention. On the day my mother died, I couldn’t even see his nose, so I felt like my eyes were going to roll out, but he was already dead? I really wondered how I felt at that time… Besides, when I heard that I had a Hyung I didn’t even know about, I wondered what was going on… I’m still dazed…?”

“You’re my brother from today.”

“Huh?”

I cut him off and declared it out of the blue. I didn’t care if the others felt awkward at my sudden words. I didn’t care if Yuna-rin was gaping next to me. A brother who can share this shittiness? The person in front of me is not a brother, but a one-of-a-kind jewel in the world.

“Wait, can you just decide that? Do you even know who I am?”

“I don’t know who you are, but you’re cursing the trash that our family produced, isn’t that enough?”

“What’s that supposed to mean.”

I haven’t done a test, but that alone is enough to prove that this guy is my brother. To think he planted seeds in another family and didn’t act like a father there either. At this rate, I might have more siblings I don’t know about, which makes my head spin.

“Hyung… I heard you were doing well with the other Nunas… with the woman Father saved…?”

“I’ll tell you what that crazy bastard did to our family, so follow me nicely! Hey hey hey hey hey, Mun-yeong! Did you hear?!”

“Yes!”

“Prepare the car, because I’m going to the place I went to with my brother last time!”

“Umm, Doryeon-nim!”

“What?”

“Is it okay to just decide like this? It’s not certain that he’s your brother yet… It’s better to take some more time to confirm it for sure…”

“We can finish the blood relationship later with a DNA test or something.”

“That’s true, but…”

I know better than anyone else that I’m acting recklessly. I’m also aware that someone might be trying to deceive me on purpose. But even considering that, I can’t hide my joy.

“That Nuna is right. What are you going to do if I’m not your brother? No, is my Hyung usually like this? Your impression is different from what I saw last time?”

“Bring the merchandise too! Isn’t today a happy day! Let’s play! Let’s play! Hahahahaha!”

“You made me drink for no reason…”

I jumped up from my seat and grabbed my younger brother Lee Junhyuk’s shoulders and pulled him up. Yuna-rin still didn’t understand the situation, but she got up from her seat anyway. I had alcohol in me and acted more energetically than usual, as if erasing my younger brother’s embarrassing past. I might be a little embarrassed later, but I don’t think it’ll be as bad as my brother barging in with a kitchen knife.

“Hyung?”

“What is it now? I’m your Hyung, you punk.”

“No, that’s not it. Is it really okay to just decide like this so suddenly?”

“If not, then not, what’s the big deal.”

The two of us stood side by side. I’m taller and older. Seeing that, Bokryong’s subordinates took pictures, saying that we really looked alike. The bald guy said it was rude and told them to stop, but I was okay with it, so I left it alone and sent the first picture I took with my brother to my phone and looked at it closely.

What should I say, uh, um.

It’s not a bad feeling.

I heard that brothers usually fight a lot, but are we a bit different?

My brother seems to feel the same way, as he’s smiling awkwardly.

After that, we moved to another place in the car prepared by Mun-yeong. Inside the car, I heard stories about my younger brother’s house location and what he had been eating and how he had been living. Unlike me, he seemed to have a lot of female friends, as he told me everything from how he had been playing with his friends until just now to the companies that had contacted him. I thought he would hide that part, but he told me everything I asked, which made me realize that this guy didn’t have any ill will towards me.

Usually, you know?

I lost my mother and lived without a family, but why is only Hyung doing well…

I thought it would be normal to receive such a dramatic resentment(?)…

“Even so, dramas are dramas. It’s not like I didn’t receive love from my mother while growing up.”

“That part is different from me.”

“Hyung didn’t have a good relationship with your mother?”

“I still don’t contact her. I used to sometimes, but now I doubt she’s even alive. Looking at her condition, it wouldn’t be strange if she was found dead somewhere.”

I’ve never cared about her in the first place, so I’ve been treating her like she doesn’t exist, but maybe that’s why he doesn’t seem twisted. However, he seems to have an affection deficiency like me, as he seems to be slightly obsessed with Yuna-rin. Even in the car, he’s subtly glancing at Yuna-rin, and since he just became a high school student, I guess it’s the age to be interested in the opposite sex.

‘He’s looking at Yuna-rin more than his Hyung he met for the first time…’

Heo Cho-yeon, who was riding with us, was frowning because his gaze was too blatant. I thought about setting them up, but I haven’t been in this life for long since I lost my virginity, and it’s just as awkward with my brother who I just met. I’m not in a position to show off or help someone, but the fact that I wanted to feel superior or help with something so trivial made my mouth itch.

“Doryeon-nim, I’ll say it again, don’t get ahead of yourself.”

“I know.”

“I’m telling you because you don’t know. It’s okay to go to the store and talk and have fun, but your brother can’t touch the merchandise. We’ll treat him like that from the moment the blood relationship is confirmed, so please be patient today. You too, understand?”

“I understand.”

“You’re so strict…”

Mun-yeong glared at me and my brother. Her reaction, which was rare for her, made my crotch tingle. She stepped on the brakes for me, implying 「I know you’re happy to have a brother, but you’ll get backstabbed」.

‘Ah, that’s that, and this is this.’

While Mun-yeong didn’t let go of her suspicion of Junhyuk, I sent the picture I had just taken to my Nunas, including Yeo-won’s mother. I didn’t give any explanation and just sent 「I think I’ll be late today for this reason」, and my phone started ringing loudly.

‘I’ll have a lot to talk about when I get back.’

The sudden appearance of my brother. I knew it was a sign that my life would become noisy again, but I tried to ignore it. I tried to pretend I didn’t know by chatting with my brother about everyday things in the car and being scolded by Mun-yeong repeatedly, but my sober mind whispered to me through the disappearing buzz.

‘But… why did a place famous for advocating women’s rights… have my younger brother…’

I didn’t care about the story of the large company that protected Junseo. I know that those people protected Junhyuk, told him about the village, and supported him. But then, one name suddenly popped up and bothered me.

A women’s rights center? That’s the last place that should be associated with our village.

Why is that suddenly popping up…

“Hey, you bald guy. What do you think of the story we just told?”

“Hmm, the place I mentioned earlier is closely related to our village, but I don’t know about the latter. At least as far as I know, that family has no reason to be at odds with Doryeon-nim. The old man who is in charge now has a gentle personality and thinks well of Doryeon-nim. At least until the last time I met him. The shipping business is deeply related to us, so I wouldn’t have misjudged him.”

“Junhyuk, what did those people say to you?”

“The president of that shipping company… well, Kim Yong-shin-harabeoji’s wife, she said…”

“How did you meet her?”

“When I went to the company last time… I was hanging out with Yong-shin-harabeoji eating sashimi, and by chance… he said he would introduce me to his wife, so I thought she was a grandmother, but she was a young woman…”

“That wife is from the women’s rights center?”

“She’s the director.”

“Come to think of it, I heard that he recently remarried a young woman. He’s not the kind of old man to do that, so something’s wrong. And a young director of a women’s rights center and our village is a very unpleasant combination, isn’t it?”

“It’s more than just an unpleasant combination, it’s like a lit bomb stuck to a powder magazine.”

“That’s right. These days, there’s a lot of talk about that area. I can’t shake the suspicion that it’s intentional.”

Something, that.

Isn’t that, like, super weird?

A dangerous combination no matter who looks at it…

It was too obvious that the story was going in a strange direction…