185 – Past (1)
Bang bang!
The road is divided into left and right sides with the road in the middle, and people offer goods at stalls.
From wholesalers to retailers, factory employees to restaurant employees.
The scenery I saw before is reproduced exactly as it is.
The tall buildings starting from the intersection had signs stuck up like straw.
Although it was a scenery I missed, it was something I tried hard to forget.
What power does this Fate of Despair have that can recreate my past like this?
“Why did you suddenly run out when I told you to get up?”
“Huh? Oh, um, I just wanted to get some air?”
“So, you said that the store has to be on the first floor? If it’s in the basement, it can’t do business.”
“How can we not do business? We already have the highest sales online.”
I am Lee Seok-hyun, the legend of Dongdaemun, have you forgotten?
The answer to my partner’s words comes out naturally like a line from a play.
The smoothness of reciting a script that seems to have been planned.
The same lines I had spoken in the past flowed from my mouth.
“Yes, yes, you’re great, you bastard, you should definitely write an autobiography or something.”
“Orphan, become rich, like this?”
“That’s the title of the novel.”
This guy is crazy.
My partner said he would go in first and went down to the basement with his hand again.
“This is truly absurd.”
Since I didn’t know the exact time zone, I couldn’t clearly guess when it was.
Open your 2G phone, not your smartphone, and check the calendar.
“Oh sh*t, I went online by mistake.”
I didn’t swear a lot in the game, but because the environment changed, swearing came out naturally.
When I worked in Dongdaemun, I used to curse because I thought I had to look strong.
He intentionally behaved roughly and actively studied martial arts, so that he was armed with enough strength to defend himself.
“…We haven’t met yet.”
Looking at her time zone, it was before I met her yet.
It was a better situation than what the top level mine Racetember had done in the past.
That bastard only gave us nightmares, but Fate of Despair was relatively considerate.
‘How can I break the barrier created by the nightmare of despair?’
Should I break the core of the dream in a similar way to Racetember?
The quickest way was suicide, but my senses, developed through playing games, told me that was not the case.
There was no way that the extraordinary power used by Fate of Despair could be easily destroyed by death.
First of all, it was more efficient to match the rhythm and look for oddities.
‘Okay, let’s just start a business.’
It’s been a while since I sold clothes.
It felt really strange.
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Tsk tsk tsk.
“Hey Seokhyun, do you think something has changed?”
Tsk tsk tsk tsk.
“What can I say, should I say that I have become more mature… I thought I was a bit more active before…”
Tsk tsk tsk tsk.
“I think I’ve become a little more docile…”
“Oh f*ck, Donghoon! Just shut up and eat. Why are you making such a fuss, even though you’re drinking?”
“Bonbong bastard, Bongbong, grapes are chewy, don’t you know that?”
I didn’t become docile, take back what I just said.
As soon as I heard Donghoon hyung’s words, I smiled blandly.
Donghoon was that kind of person.
He was the one who suggested to me, who had no clue, that we should do business together.
A person who opened a business on the first basement floor with a deposit, saying that people should work to see the light.
He was truly a person who mixed ideals and reality well.
If he wasn’t only 190cm tall and 120kg in weight, he would have worked hard selling clothes on his own.
The problem was that he was big, and the fact that his skin was dark and his lips were thick also made him look bad.
If you don’t know it, he looks like a foreigner who specializes in NTR, like something out of a doujinshi.
‘Maybe that’s why he’s so popular with married women.’
It was especially popular among married women in their 20s because it had a very fantasy-like setting.
Anyway, Donghoon was my first and last business partner.
‘The Search Claw’ on the first basement floor.
We have been doing business here for several years.
“Hey, let’s go to Hongdae or Itaewon today.”
“Today? Suddenly? Why?”
“Club bastard, club. Why would a lively young man in his twenties go to Hongdae or Itaewon? Don’t you know?”
Dong-Hoon Lee Hyung appeared to be quiet and had the characteristic of pooping with his snout.
If you just keep your mouth shut, your eyebrows will be dark, making you look like someone drawn in some kind of dramatized style.
If you just use your tongue, low-level things will pour out.
“Your face, your speaking skills, and my teeth, your drinking capacity, and your wallet that opens easily… Lastly, the black dragon that reaches mid-thigh.”
These two are the strongest combination, so it was successful last time too.
One night huh? Bu-bi-bu-bi, just massage your ass hard and make it hard, man, huh? Yoo Nam Saeng?
He suddenly got up and shook his waist, wondering if he was really planning to go today.
It was really burdensome because there was something thick on my left thigh that was showing its presence outside my jeans.
It looks suspicious enough to make you wonder if one of its ancestors was a gorilla rather than a human.
‘Nice to meet you, really.’
A time when I didn’t know anything.
On days when we had no choice but to rely on each other, we talked like this and relaxed the tension.
It is a time to remember and feel affection for working alone in a foreign country.
At this time, my personality really became a lot more docile.
And it was all thanks to Donghoon hyung.
A person is always so positive and cheerful, but when I was around him, his thorns naturally became blunt.
“Let’s go, go, but if I get drunk, I’ll leave you behind, you know? I can’t move you.”
“Hey, when I was wrestling for a while, I drank out of a box.”
“I’m really proud.”
It’s a club.
What is the good of a place that is noisy, has toilet paper thrown around, and leaves your clothes with a strange smell?
If I had to go, something like a hunting carriage would have been much better, but at that time there was no such thing yet.
Even if there is something similar, let’s just do something like that! Should I say that I don’t have this feeling?
My daily routine was to just go to a downtown bar and get a number.
I remember having quite a bit of fun back then, but now I don’t know.
“No, wait a minute. Didn’t you say something happened last time?”
Why are you suddenly asking me to go to a club when you say you’re going to make a girlfriend?
At my sudden words, Dong-hoon’s face turned into one full of despair.
“A Big Mac came out, there was so much fat in it that I couldn’t even eat it.”
I met him because I liked his voice, and he had a sour face.
When I asked to send a photo of my face, I heard there was a reason for me to meet and talk.
My brother said that a girl similar to that drum had appeared and he promised himself that he would definitely go to the club today.
I also said I understand because it was better for me to wander around and find clues rather than just doing business.
‘It’s a club.’
If she does well, I might be able to meet her.
I hope we don’t encounter each other as much as possible.
If it’s a recreated world anyway, there’s no need to see the same results again.
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In front of the club at 1 am.
Donghoon and I arrived in Hongdae during the hottest time.
People were bustling from the exit, and some were already making pancakes on the floor.
Now that there are no more people, pigeons will eat it or sanitation workers will clean it up.
It was a difficult neighborhood even after a long time.
“Let’s get a room, not a table.”
“Are you crazy? Do you have a lot of money?”
“Hey, I don’t know where you spend your money, but my brother spends it here and doesn’t save anything.”
“Flexne.”
“Flex? What is that?”
“There is such a thing.”
When I’m talking to someone who lives in the past, I don’t know which era to focus on.
Donghoon really wanted to sleep with a woman today, so he acted like a horny animal.
I was so active that I wondered if it was necessary to do something like this, but meeting Big Mac must have been a shock.
“Should I really just do it? I thought about this for a moment, and then what? Am I really hungry? I also had this feeling.”
I wasn’t that horny or hungry, but something shocked me about it.
Donghoon also seemed to have felt that his appearance was a bit too much, so he quickly added a comment.
“But today, instead of just going to the club, let’s have a drink nearby and get the previous number.”
“Oh… I like it, it feels like Taegong Kang fishing, it’s very good.”
This is the world of males surviving in the real Sabada.
As we walked toward the club in Hongdae, the women’s clothes gradually became thinner and shorter.
There were some kids who were openly wearing only jackets over their underwear. Is this already the case? It was so bold that it made me think.
“So where are you going to drink?”
In fact, everything from talking to a girl and getting her to play with me was all my job.
So, Dong-hoon naturally spoke highly to me and treated me like a master.
“It’s not what you drink that’s important, it’s who you drink with. Who do you want to drink with?”
“I’m definitely a person with big breasts and big pelvis. A bit of a western style, you know what that feels like, right? Baekma noona.”
“It really was the same as before.”
“Huh? Before?”
“No.”
I’ll just talk to a girl who looks reasonably nice, get rejected, and then go home right away.
With that in mind, I looked around the alley where people were passing by.
There are usually a lot of people smoking in places like this, so it’s easy to approach if you just talk to them and ask for a fire.
‘It’s definitely around here…’
Some familiar streets and scenery.
Steps toward a specific alley, as if we had made a promise.
When I realized this, there was a woman in front of her looking at me.
“…? What, is this your first time seeing a woman smoking?”
Slightly stinging tone.
Slight dark circles and a body that looks weak.
Yet strangely well balanced.
‘Yes, how could I forget you?’
I missed you so much and thought I would never see you again.
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