124 – Second Invitation (2)
‘…… Has it already been like this?’
Sunday evening.
The promised time has arrived.
The ticking sound of the second hand of the clock is loud.
In just a little while, Isol will come to you.
‘I feel a bit strange.’
I have already prepared my mind.
We also prepared countermeasures.
But being nervous is inevitable.
‘It feels like going to school without doing summer vacation homework.’
It is worrisome in many ways to visit the most closed place in Korea.
No matter what happens there, it will not leak out.
As a joke, it was an extraterritorial place.
‘I hope it turns out well.’
Because the image of Kang Chul-hwan and Ganghwa-ryeon questioning each other was clear in my head, my mind was already complicated and my heart was warm.
– Ding-dong.
As I was thinking complicated thoughts, a bell rang slowly from the front door.
I turned my head toward the front door ringtone gently caressing my ear.
I could feel someone’s presence beyond the front door.
I thought that Lee Sol had come to visit.
Are you finally here?
“Do you have a young boy?”
“Yes. Get out now.”
I made up my mind and moved slowly to open the front door. The front door began to open slowly with the sound of old, rusty hinges, and several figures came in through the front door.
“Hello, young master? How you doing?”
“Yes. Hello.”
As ever, Isol with bobbed hair, smiling as much as ever, welcomed me to the fullest.
‘By the way, who are these people?’
I shifted my gaze slightly and glanced sideways at the people behind the esol.
All of them were tough-looking muscular macho guys, all dressed in black suits.
The bumpy biceps and triceps stood out through the suit. Burn marks, knife marks, and tattoos were clearly visible on his face.
As a joke, the 3 vs 600 looks like it could be done easily.
It may be a bit prejudiced, but he was really gangster.
“Why are you doing that, Bocchan?”
“No. Nothing.”
“Aha. Is it because of them?”
Lee Sol nodded her head to herself as if she understood everything, and then patted the sides of the rice cakes! Shouted while beating.
“Hey, kids. The young master is uncomfortable.”
Frightened to finish a word, the rice cakes raised their grim faces, looked at Lee Sol for a moment, and then bowed their heads and began to apologize. I was dumbfounded by the orderly appearance.
“Sorry! Sister!”
From all angles, the uncles seemed older than Lee Sol, but the uncles shouted “Sister!” Was just shouting.
“Hey.”
“Yes!”
“Please apologize to the boy, not me.”
“Yes!”
Lee Sol shook her head, looking at me as if she had no idea what the uncles were doing, and urged me to apologize.
Then the men’s eyes are on me! I could see that it was plugged in.
With their intense gaze, I unknowingly swallowed my dry saliva.
No, I don’t have anything to apologize for.
So can you stop looking at me like that?
“Sorry! Young master!”
“Hey.”
Lee Sol, who struck a bald man’s forehead with a clap, suddenly blurted out his expression with a confused look on his face.
“Why do you guys call me Master?”
“Sorry!”
“Anyway. Whew.”
Soon after, Lee Sol cast her gaze at me and slowly opened her mouth with a look of unstoppable expression.
“I’m sorry, youngster. I waited for the children below, but I dared to follow you all the way here.”
“Oh, yes.”
“They are my direct subordinates. I got it because they weren’t there when they came and went. He’s from the street like me.
“I see.”
Isol’s direct subordinate?
Are you saying you collected it yourself?
Contrary to the usual way of saying honorifics to other people and acting happily, he was quite open-minded to those people.
‘Come to think of it, I think I’ve seen those people somewhere…….’
Ah, that’s right.
I remembered.
I saw it a few times in my dreams of the future.
“It’s a little out of the ordinary, but when you get to know them, they’re all good kids, so there’s nothing like that.”
“They are good people…… Anyway what You seem to have suffered a lot in many ways.”
As I looked at their faces and rhymed awkwardly, Isol shook her head as if it was nothing.
“A. There’s nothing like suffering. Just when I was young, I experienced some domestic violence, some bullying, some parents divorced, some abandoned on the street…… It’s pretty normal. A lot of our kids are like this.”
“Is that so?”
Hey.
That’s normal no matter where you look at it.
I wonder if those things belong to the commonplace by the standards of Lee Sol.
In many ways, Lee Sol wondered what kind of life she had lived when she was young.
“Anyway, today will be a monumental day.”
“Yes?” What do you mean?”
Lee Sol smiled happily.
What does a monumental day mean?
Since she was very curious about her, she immediately asked a question. Isol lifted the corners of her mouth, confidently placed her hand on her waist, stretched out her chest, and murmured.
“Wouldn’t your relationship with Hwaryeon definitely be knotted this time?”
“Maybe?”
I nodded her head obediently.
Since Kang Cheol-hwan held the hearing like this, it will be finished in some form.
“Then, in the true sense of the word, this is the day when you become a member of our Heuksanhoe family.”
“Congratulations! Young master!”
“No, you bastards. Why do you guys call me Bocchan?”
I stared blankly at the older men who bent their waists at 90 degrees like a folder phone to convey their congratulations, and Lee Sol, who was pecking at him dissatisfiedly.
It even looks like a comedy.
It was a bit funny.
“That’s right. Shouldn’t we go soon?”
“Yes? Ah. It’s already time like this. I just want to go downstairs.”
When I urged her by mentioning the time, Lee Sol licked her lips and nodded her head in disbelief.
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It was then.
– Ding-dong.
An electronic beep sounded indicating that the elevator had arrived.
– The door opens.
Then the elevator’s metal door slowly starts to open……
“Yes. Okay. You have arrived home now. Hang up…… Hick?”
The woman next door, who was on the phone in her elevator, glanced out of her door and saw her grim-looking ponytails staring at her. Wouldn’t that sound like squealing?
“…… hehehe.”
– Why, why? What’s going on? Sister!
The girl next door sat down in surprise.
And the voice over the phone.
…… The whole scene came in clearly at a glance.
I let out a deep sigh.
What kind of happening is this?
But I was able to understand the woman’s heart.
Because the muscular macho men in black suits were staring at the woman with grim faces.
I think even I would have been surprised.
“Hey! Cubs! What are you staring at so blankly? Can’t you see I’m surprised because of you guys?”
“Yes! Sorry!”
When Lee Sol shouted, all the thugs lowered their heads, but perhaps she was more frightened by their actions, so her shoulders trembled and she just cried.
Lee Sol approached the woman who was trying to stand up with trembling legs and reached out her hand to support them.
“I’m sorry, ma’am. Were you surprised?”
“Yes? Ah yes… ….”
“There have been many people who have been surprised since long ago that the kids have a bit of a grim face. When I see them at night, sometimes I am surprised, right?”
“Ah… ….”
As Sol, a handsome young man with scars on her face, helped her, she nodded her head slightly relieved and began to stand up awkwardly.
With a true smile on her face, Lee Sol recited her words as if to reassure her, and the woman next door put on an embarrassed expression as if she had relaxed a bit.
“Mi, I’m sorry. I was a little surprised the other day when her brother got into some trouble with some weird people over loans… ….”
“A loan? Ah.”
Lee Sol blinks her eyes, then puts on a vague expression.
“Is your younger brother in his early twenties by any chance?”
“Yes, but…… Why is that…… ?”
“Young people these days often make strange mistakes because they cannot distinguish between loan finance and illegal bonds. I think her younger brother did too.”
“Yes, yes?”
He flicks her hand and gives advice, not advice.
“Even if you need money and try to get it, you will be rejected by the 1st and 2nd financial sectors due to insufficient credit transactions. If you make a mistake and borrow money by looking at the number of days or moonshine leaflets that have fallen on the street, it will be quite a headache.”
“Mr. Lee Sol.”
“This is also not illegal for monthly loans or monthly payments, so the demand is constant. Illegal debt is not eradicated because it lends without asking or questioning… ….”
“Lee Sol, please stop.”
I hurriedly tapped her on the shoulder to dissuade her from suddenly starting TMI, and Lee Sol scratched her cheek with an apologetic face.
“Ah…… Sorry. Young master. Stop because it reminds me of the old days.”
“Once upon a time?”
“I also worked in the collection team at one time. A bit of illegal collection…… No, nothing.”
“… ….”
Lee Sol’s attitude of trying to get over it with a smile was absurd. Illegal collection? Do you draw many pictures in your head?
– Sister! Say something! What’s really going on?
“Oh, no, it’s okay. Nothing happened. I was just a little surprised.”
– What surprised you?
“My sister will call you later. Sorry.”
– Sister? Sister!
The phone suddenly hung up.
The sound of the phone drew attention to me, Lee Sol, and the rice cakes.
The woman next door gave an awkward smile as if that gaze was a bit burdensome.
“I…… I’ll just go in.”
“Looks like we were blocking the road. Kids, clear the way.”
“Yes! Sister!”
“Hey kids. People call it that outside, so people misunderstand it.”
“Sorry, sister!”
The woman next door, who was watching me in a cold sweat, came out of her elevator and moved her steps.
Anyway, the word ‘sister’ and the black suit seemed to bother him.
What can I do?
As you can tell from just one glance, he’s a jerk.
As I passed by them, I cautiously hurried my steps.
My feet got faster as if I wanted to get out of here quickly.
But then.
“Oh?”
She made the mistake of tripping her feet without being able to straighten her trembling legs.
The moment her body lost balance and was about to fall forward, Sol Lee quickly reached out to her.
The girl next door held me tight so that I wouldn’t fall.
“Are you okay?”
“Yes… ….”
“You have to be careful.”
“Thank you.”
The woman next door bowed her head and thanked her.
And the moment she raises her head, she flinches! She did and her body started to tremble.
The hardened expression and the two eyes that started shaking anxiously were clear.
I wanted to know why that woman had suddenly acted like that, but I couldn’t hide my doubt as I stared at the woman next door and realized what frightened her.
‘Is it because of that badge?’
The place where her gaze lands is the badge of ESOL.
It was a badge symbolizing Heuksanhoe.
“…… Hey, sanhoe?”
When the woman next door inadvertently asked with her frightened face, Isol couldn’t help but smile bitterly at her embarrassed face.
“Uh, uh…… ?”
I thought it was a puppy and I stretched out my hand, but should I say this when I realized it was a tiger?
The woman next door hiccuped repeatedly and her body trembled.
I could have thought it was a bit of an overreaction, but considering the notoriety of Heuksanhoe, there was nothing I couldn’t understand.
The news related to Heuksanhoe, which spread through the Internet, was even worse because it inflated its body like a balloon.
…… Maybe it feels like the triads in China or the drug cartels in Mexico?
It’s a nationwide gangster organization that even the government can’t touch.
In fact, there was a streamer who filmed and uploaded a video mocking the chairman of Heuksanhoe in the past, but it disappeared after a few days.
You might think it’s just an urban myth, but everyone in the know knows it.
The fact that it was the Heuksanhoe.
“It’s okay, so go in quickly.”
“Seo, Seo Jun… ….”
I gave the woman next door a slight push.
Because we were neighbors and cousins, we only exchanged greetings from time to time.
Ever since I was unknown, there were times when I was cheered on and told to cheer up.
Of course, I didn’t even know that woman’s name, but looking at her face, I could say hello to her.
“Oh, excuse me first, thank you.”
The woman next door secretly noticed Lee Sol and the rice cake stands, then quietly opened the front door and went inside.
When I thought about it, I thought it was a bit of a misunderstanding.
Well, no, it’s not an illusion.
Actually, half of them are being dragged by force.
“It breaks my heart whenever people react like that.”
Suddenly, Lee Sol pretended to cry.
When I thought about it, it seemed like it was a joke.
I watched him and quietly opened my mouth.
“I can feel it all over again.”
“Yes? What?”
“What do people think of Heuksanhoe?”
It is an open secret that Heuksanhoe is a gangster organization.
It is true that he cleared up his dark past by moving from the dark to the sunny, but everyone in the know knows about it.
“It’s too much~ Are you saying it’s a gangster organization?”
“No. Not like that. You have a public image.”
I thought I was a bit familiar with Heuksanhoe, perhaps because I had a relationship with Ganghwaryeon since my school days, but seeing other people’s reactions like this with my own two eyes, it touches my skin.
‘Heuksanhoe, Heuksanhoe…… Okay. It must be frightening.’
People keep quiet, but in the end, the essence of Heuksanhoe is a force group established by uniting illegal power users who ran amok with Jung-gu Heating during the chaos of the past.
I engrave the essence in my heart.
“Let’s go to sleep. Then shall we go alone? Young master?”
“Yes.”
I nodded quietly.
Shall we go soon?
The home of Heuksanhoe.
As I said earlier, all mental preparations have been completed.
The only thing left now is to put it into practice.