46 – Set a Trap
In this neighborhood, there is a flower shop called ‘Flower Garden’.
Kim Dae-hyun, a 28-year-old man working there as a part-timer, is a person who came out into society through a screening for unfitness for active duty after a series of incidents in the military for discharge three years ago.
He didn’t even go to college and stayed away from job hunting, so he started a part-time job at a flower shop run by his mother’s acquaintance. It is a place where his customers do not come very often, so it can be said that it is a perfect workplace for him who is not good at treating people.
It was last year that an oasis-like being came down to such a place.
She revealed that she was an idol trainee at a nearby agency, and to Kim Dae-hyun, she was the first woman in her life to treat him brightly. Considering that even her mother treated him as a burden, her oasis was no shortage of words.
“Oh, hello. You came today.”
And since last year, not every day, but the occasional presence of her, Kim Dae-hyun guessed that the other person would have a crush on him from one day.
“Ah, yes. Because the flowers here are pretty.”
“That, right? hahahaha….”
That’s also true, the way she smiles and mentions the flowers she sees every day like today was the look of a woman dealing with a man she has a crush on. Having never held hands with a woman in his life, he was sure this was the green light.
However, even with this conviction, a shadow came over one day.
Kim Dae-hyun, whose interest in her turned into an obsession, stalked the girl in front of her at every opportunity for the past few months. However, quite often, there was a man who seemed to be the same age as her when she left the company after practice.
‘I need to ask who it is.’
A few days ago, he came to the store with me on the weekend.
Kim Dae-hyun decided to hear a definite answer about the relationship between the two without fail today, thinking that it was a close relationship. I don’t even think that idol trainees have boyfriends or anything like that.
“Ah…. Well, but the person who came with me a while ago must be a friend.”
As if revealing his timid personality, he had to struggle quite a bit to get his words out. It was ironic that at least he was at a much advanced level.
“Friends… ? Oh, the tall one?”
“Yes, yes. That’s right.”
At the female student’s question, Kim Dae-hyun nodded and gnashed his teeth inside.
Compared to him, who is short and his face is not so smooth, the man who was with the girl in front of him a while ago was tall and handsome enough to match an actor. I remembered that image again, and my teeth were grinding with a sense of defeat.
However, since she believed that she was the one who revealed her crush, she thought that the person in front of her would be different from other selfish women who judge people based on their faces.
“Why do you think we are friends?”
“Yes, yes?”
At this, the other person tilted his head as if pinching his words. At this, his expression changed to a bewildered face.
“Actually, he is my boyfriend. Are you handsome?”
“Me, a boyfriend…. Didn’t you say you were an idol trainee?”
Doesn’t the company stop dating? Kim Dae-hyeon asked the question as if grabbing the last straw at the shocking reality, but the answer he got back was devastating.
“Actually, we are dating while keeping it a secret from the company. Oh, is this a secret?”
“Ah…. Rain, secret. Yes. If the company finds out, it will be a big deal….”
“That’s right, the company is very sensitive to things like this. If I do something wrong, I might get fired as a trainee.”
She was the one who grumbled about the tyranny of the company and the strict rules, but she had already stopped listening to him. ‘Boy friend’. Because only that word was strangling the man named Kim Dae-hyeon, eating into his head and making all sorts of negative emotions spring up.
It was jealousy, envy, defeat, loss, and betrayal.
“Oh, wait a minute. Call me….”
“Bar, take it.”
She suddenly took the phone out of her pocket and asked for her understanding. Then, as if it were just a moment ago, someone started talking to someone in a different, friendly voice.
I don’t know who the other person is, but Kim Dae-hyun had already guessed in his head that it would be that boyfriend a while ago. Maybe that’s why I felt even more miserable.
“Yes, yes. I think I’ll be done around 9:30 today. You don’t have to come to pick me up, so get a good night’s sleep and see you tomorrow.”
“… ….”
After her honey dripping phone call, she smiled at him with an unapologetic expression.
“I’m sorry, I’m worried about my boyfriend. They say they’ll pick you up every day, but I didn’t want to bother you, so I was going home alone today.”
“Well, it would be dangerous to walk alone late at night….”
Kim Dae-hyeon, on the outside, said something mixed with concern, but he did not retract his eyes as if he had seized an opportunity.
My boyfriend doesn’t come to pick me up today. Because that felt like a genius opportunity to him. I wondered if this might be the last favor of the god who abandoned him.
On the one hand, I really felt like the author of that boyfriend was an idiot. If I have a pretty girlfriend like this, I should go pick her up even if she tells me not to come pick her up. If she were herself, she would have done it. If she were herself, she would have cared for her even more.
Such a twisted desire gradually welled up, and it was only after it colored her eyes that it was cloudy, and the female student waved her hand as she greeted her.
“It’s okay, I’m not afraid to walk alone on the street at night. Thank you for your concern.”
“Ah, thank you. Anyway, keep practicing. Go for it.”
“Yes, fighting!”
He cutely clenched his hands into fists, shouted “Going” And looked at the girl’s back until it disappeared until he finally withdrew his gaze. At that moment, I saw a pair of flower scissors lying there to arrange a flower pot.
Not the flower scissors commonly used at home, but thick flower scissors that seem to cut off a fairly thick branch at once.
Swoop.
Holding it in his hand, he entered the store without saying a word, took the bag he had brought home from the counter, and put the flower scissors in it.
I couldn’t even see a ray of light in my eyes that were consumed by twisted desire.
***
As soon as she arrived at work, Yuna headed to her break room. It’s called a break room, but it’s an empty place that only trainees visit from time to time, so there was no better place to avoid people’s eyes.
Looking around, she immediately pulled out her phone and dialed her name, which appeared in her contacts list. It was a name that would cause a tantrum if someone saw it, ‘Ice Cream Supply Station Park Si-yoon’.
– How is it? Do you think it worked?
“I don’t know. First of all, there was nothing awkward about my acting, right?”
As soon as the phone was connected, Yuna’s face was quite flushed as she asked back to her counterpart who was asking questions.
That’s also true, her opponent, who is presumed to be a stalker’s suspect who was chasing her, and her eyes were meeting her just a moment ago, so I couldn’t help but be nervous. I even broke out in a cold sweat.
– Oh, did you like acting? Did your company also take acting classes?
“I don’t take it. Even if you don’t have any intention of acting, it’s a required training subject.”
– It must have been for this day.
She burst into laughter at Siyoon’s joke to relieve her tension, and she was able to engage in the conversation with a more stable mindset than before.
“Where are you now?”
– I’m on my way out now. I’m going to go to the cafe behind the flower shop and wait.
Yes.
Not too long ago, as soon as Siyoon heard that a part-timer at a flower shop was the prime suspect, she came up with a plan like this.
First of all, in order to induce the other person to stalk as soon as possible, she visits the flower shop and falsely informs her of her relationship with Si-yoon, and returns home alone at night to make them aware of the simple fact.
Afterwards, the main content of her story was that Siyoon, who was waiting around in advance, tracked the man in reverse, obtained evidence that she was stalking Yuna, and handed it over to the police.
In other words, she used herself as a bait.
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It may be a rather risky plan, but it was a kind of guilt that made her take this risk. She heard about Min-seong’s experience a while ago, and she thought that maybe Si-yoon, not her, was caught up in her dangerous work, so she wanted to somehow solve her problem on her own.
Siyoon was a bit skeptical about this, and she hinted that it would be better to spend more time, but Yuna wanted to solve this matter as quickly as possible.
Of course, since today’s date also matches the date I saw on my phone in my dream, I was certain that I would be able to put an end to it. Being able to see the future is such an advantage.
“I’m sorry, but I’ll ask you. Let me know if you feel anything strange.”
– Yes, don’t do anything dangerous.
“What’s the risk, you’ll be fine.”
Responding to Siyoon’s request with a brave smile, she shuddered as she recalled the man’s sticky gaze she had seen earlier.
It’s offensive that she even dared to think so of herself, even to extend that malevolent hand to her dearest childhood friend. She made up her mind, promising never to be lenient.
Losers should rot quietly in prison. Such insults rose to her throat, but when she realized that she was on the phone with Siyoon, she hurriedly put them back.