Episode 42. loss
While Kang-soo was trying various things to open the wooden box.
At the World Cup PC room near Yongsan Station, Gong Chi-young was in the middle of a ritual (?) while organizing her collection to soothe the feeling of embarrassment.
“Yoohoo~ today, clean and clear, confidently~!”
With an ostrich hair duster, I carefully dusted and cleaned each collection, including various albums, movie and drama DVDs, and ballpoint pens.
It was a quiet day when regular customers, who for some reason always played games in the corner, did not come. Originally, it was a PC room located in a corner even near Yongsan, so there were not many customers.
Then there was the sound of the shop door opening.
with my daughter-
Gong Chi-young hurriedly closed the door to the collection room and went out to the checkout counter with a bright smile.
“Come on-”
But the greeting came and went.
The customer (?) was a foreigner, about 170 cm tall, with dark natural brown hair that came down to his waist, fair skin, and a solid-looking body. And wearing tight-fitting jeans and a black hoodie, I could see mystical green eyes above the slightly lowered sunglasses.
Gong Chi-young, who scanned the customer from the bottom up, tried to run straight to the back door opposite the entrance to the internet cafe without any hesitation.
At the same time, Italian words jumped out of the female foreign customer’s mouth.
“Can I destroy everything?”
Gong Chi-young had no choice but to stop running.
This is because the identity of the female foreign customer was Teresa Lily, whom Gong Chi-young hates.
“Well, just do that.”
At that question, Theresa smiled as she took off her sunglasses and put them in her pocket.
“Now we can have a conversation.”
“How did you find me?”
At Ejisto, Gong Chi-yeong retired in disgrace. So, only a few members of the team, such as Kang Soo-jung, whom I had a really close relationship with, knew that Gong Chi-young had returned to Korea.
In particular, PC bangs were very few among them.
“hmm···. Thanks to the fact that you are ‘Scarecrow’, a mysterious programmer and hacker who has been scouting among famous IT companies for three years. Or was Leo Walker, who was best friends with you… misinformed just a little bit?”
Was it really a mistake…
Gong Chi-yeong listened and prayed that Leo’s bones would be safe. At the same time, he realized the seriousness of his internet name ‘Scarecrow’ coming out of Teresa’s mouth.
“How did you know that?”
“Scarecrow? You mean the name Scarecrow? I saw it by chance before. What singer… was it the day you split and threw a CD? Probably.”
It was a day that even now sometimes gives Gong Chi-young nightmares.
Come to think of it, I ran out to stop Teresa while selling program information with my ‘Scarecrow’ account that day. And in the end, I ran out of the office screaming.
Gong Chi-young glared at Teresa with a very angry face.
Theresa, of course, didn’t budge, only wiggling her ears with her thin little finger.
“…”
“After- why? It’s your fault for leaving the screen on.”
“Still, why do you look at other people’s computers as you please!”
“and···. Even though I knew that the company I worked for was looking for ‘Scarecrow’, I kept my mouth shut, isn’t it too obvious? Or is it blowing right now?”
“company? Am I the enemy?”
When the four-character idiom came out of Teresa, a foreigner, Gong Chi-yeong was dumbfounded.
At the same time, the word ‘company’ was caught.
“I worked as a security team leader at a place called Chronos Tech. It seemed like they were looking for you there too. no?”
“That, that’s…”
Cronos Tech is a leading American IT company located in Silicon Valley. Even there, he regularly sent e-mails to Gong Chi-young.
The weight of the nickname ‘Scarecrow’ on the web was so unique.
However, Gong Chi-young did not want to belong to anything after Ejisto. So, I only made money by selling information and occasionally creating programs in the form of anonymous transactions.
However, among IT companies, it has become to the extent that the person with such a ‘scarecrow’ is considered the winner. That’s why Gong Chi-young also hid his true identity.
In response, Teresa herself (?) was of great help.
“What? Shall we solve it with the American media even now?”
“Oh, no!”
Meanwhile, Gong Chi-young looked around.
It wasn’t even that there were no guests at all.
About 3 people? They were playing a game and suddenly stared at the two people fighting in Italian with mesmerized eyes.
Of course I didn’t understand.
“Come over here.”
Gong Chi-yeong led Teresa to the kitchen behind the checkout counter.
“huh? Isn’t this where you play games? Was it a restaurant?”
It was because the kitchen was not as good as a home, and it was full of equipment that a professional cook could use.
“What are you noisy and wanting?”
“Ohhh… With this kind of reaction, it would be a bit of a deal, right? Soo. Where are you?”
“···I don’t know.”
“Soo is in Korea, but you don’t know?”
“I really don’t know! I came out of Ejisto before him and I didn’t even call him once!”
At that moment, Teresa’s eyes lit up.
“I didn’t say that Soo quit Ejisto, but you know that Soo quit?”
“ah? that······.’
I was trying to catch it, but a mistake came out from the beginning.
Theresa glanced around the kitchen, smiling.
“Well, if you don’t want to talk, you don’t have to. that’s your heart Of course, I have my heart too.”
After wandering around the kitchen, I reached under the shelf of a bookshelf in the corner of the wall.
click-
Inside, a button was pressed and a wall was pushed aside, revealing a secret space.
“Teresa!”
“I cut it off at Ejisto for this, so I did it here too.”
“That’s my heart! This time, I did it with the landlord’s permission!”
“Even then, get permission from the representative. Well, I don’t think you would have allowed it.”
Teresa entered the secret room and walked past the computer seat to an altar(?) or something.
At the same time, Gong Chi-young moved his large body quickly to block Theresa’s way.
“Hey, this doesn’t work! Just touch it!”
“Can’t I just watch it?”
“You just won’t even look!”
“Can you stop me?”
On the outside, Gong Chi-young was three to four times thicker than Teresa.
If someone unfamiliar saw it, the result would have been obvious.
However, Gong Chi-yeong’s face first turned into contemplation.
“Ha, don’t!”
“What are you doing?”
“Do nothing!”
“Nope?”
Teresa quickly turned around and picked up ‘Yoo So-hyun’s 1st album’.
“That’s not allowed!”
“Uhm—is this the celebrity you’re into these days?”
“I went to 115 record stores and finally found and bought it!”
“Huh, 115 places? are you a pervert But this will stick well to the wall.”
Those words made Gong Chi-young hold on tight with extreme patience and cut off reason.
“Woo?! do you want to die!”
At the same time as Gong Chi-yeong rushed in, Teresa grabbed his arm and tied it to his shoulder, back, and waist and pinned him to the floor.
thud!
There was a tremendous sound as the massive body hit the floor.
“Ouch?!”
“So blow. Soo. Where are you? If you tell me your number, address, and where you work, I don’t think you’ll be curious about whether or not this will stick well to the wall.”
“Mo, I don’t know!”
Was loyalty more important? Or was Kang-soo, who works as Yoo So-hyun’s manager, important?
Only Gong Chi-young knew that.
At Gong Chi-young’s refusal, Teresa became interested and knocked down the collections that were standing there.
“Stop! It scratches!”
“I don’t like it~”
Teresa didn’t stop there and quickly grabbed the tablecloth covering the bottom of the altar(?).
hook-
As if performing a trick, only the tablecloth fell off. The collections above it swayed dangerously before stopping.
For a moment, Gong Chi-yeong’s soul seemed to escape.
But that was just the beginning.
“What kind of ballpoint pen do you keep like a museum?”
hook-
“Is this an album? DVD yes. I’ll throw this well too. Oh, if you want to say something, sing it out loud! It’s too loud, so I can’t hear you well.”
Ppogak. Hook- Pak!
The DVD was split into thirds, and the Pote-Pote three-color ballpoint pen was precisely cut in half and nailed to the wall.
Kwachang- Perseok!
It wasn’t a threat. Started breaking and throwing for real.
Where does such strength come from thin limbs. The secret space quickly became a mess.
With tears welling up in Gong Chi-yeong’s pocket, she dialed the phone number and shouted.
“Go, Kangsu! Buy, save me!”
[Hey, what’s going on? hey! Gong Chi-young!]
Gong Chi-young screamed at Kang-soo’s startled question.
“You crazy b*tch! find! evil?! Don’t throw that!”
“Soo! Blow fast wherever you are! Is that talking to Soo?”
The call did not last long and was disconnected.
It was because Teresa tried to use the ‘2kg dumbbell she used to prepare for her debut’ as a weapon, a collection she received from winning the fan meeting for Yoo So-hyun.
The secret space inside the PC room became a mess like that.
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Kang-soo sighed at Gong Chi-young’s broken voice and arrived at the internet cafe.
I went straight through the checkout counter and entered the secret space inside the kitchen, but there was no such fuss.
“…”
Teresa was struggling (?) to steal Gong Chi-young’s cell phone.
It was because I saw that he called Kang-soo earlier.
Seeing such a scene, Kang-soo was dumbfounded.
“Soo!”
Teresa, who belatedly discovered Kang-soo, fell on Gong Chi-yeong and immediately ran to her and embraced her with open arms.
“Big?! Theresa! You almost fell.”
“Sorry sorry.”
“But what happened? Are you like that?”
“I don’t know~”
It’s obvious to anyone, but he took off his absurd pretense.
“Keugh… big.”
In the meantime, the tears she had been holding back flowed as Gong Chi-young pathetically picked up the pieces of the smashed CD.
“why···. no. It must be because of me.”
Teresa’s purpose was obvious. That’s why he didn’t want to come to Korea, but he tried to find out what and how he did it by threatening Gong Chi-young.
“how have you been doing? It’s only been two years, right?”
“yes. wait for a moment Chiyoung helps me.”
Kang-soo let go of Theresa, who was wrapping around his neck, and approached Gong Chi-young.
“…Are you okay?”
“Black? Black-”
It was all his fault.
I didn’t know what to say to comfort her.
“Crying because something was broken…”
“Write-”
At Teresa’s muttering, Kang-soo frowned and glared at him.
To be honest, at first, Kang-soo was worried that Gong Chi-young might be too attached to celebrities’ things.
However, when I saw Gong Chi-young and other people at the fan meeting, I thought it was not something to think about, so I gave up on that idea.
“What did I do…”
“Be quiet. And Chiyoung-ah… It won’t be the same thing, but I’ll try to find one that’s as similar as possible.”
“$%$%&$%&.”
Gong Chi-young, who continued to sob, muttered something in a small voice.
“what?”
Gong Chi-yeong spoke clearly while wiping away tears with his thick hands.
“Then… I also have a little Yoo So-hyun’s notebook, which was limited to on-site sales of ＜She Was Beautiful＞.”
At Gong Chi-young’s answer, Kang-soo sighed and started cleaning the secret room. Meanwhile, Gong Chi-young was sitting on the sofa holding back tears.
An awkward air lingers.
In the meantime, Kang-su noticed something strange while picking up CD pieces that had fallen on the floor.
Returning life of a retired S-class mercenary