Chapter 58: 58

“Why? Can’t I be here?” Su-hyeun asked .

“No, that is not what I mean… Wait, can you?”

Hak-joon was embarrassed and talked gibberish . Su-hyeun chuckled, looking at Hak-joon . He could be confused since Su-hyeun was not an awakener of Ares Guild .

“Well . I did just come in…” Su-hyeun blurred the end .

“Just?” Hak-joon asked .

“The door was open . It was not under heavy surveillance . There was a man who asked me to show my ID, so I showed him my awakener registration card . Then, he just let me in . ”

It looked like the manager of the guild house thought Su-hyeun was a guest of Ares Guild . It was a common thing that an awakener got an invitation and visited to awakeners’ guilds .

“But why are you here…? Hak-joon asked .

The Ares Guild, Hak-joon thought, was like a tiger’s den . He was glad to see Su-hyeun but that was another story . Jung Dong-yeong had been paying attention to Su-hyeun for a long time .

“Why? You don’t glad to see me?” Su-hyeun grinned .

“Of course, I am glad . But that is that . Why did you come here? Wait . How did you know I am here?”

“Ms . Yun-seon told me that you will be here . Why did you not answer my phone?”

At Su-hyeun’s answer, Hak-joon’s face became stiff . Su-hyeun had never seen this cold expression of Hak-joon before .

Hak-joon asked in a very low voice, “…How did you meet her?”

“Well . I had been investigating,” Su-hyeun answered .

“How? No . Why?

“You asked why I came here?”

Su-hyeun changed the subject and answered the previous question .

“Where is the bastard, Jung Dong-yeong?”

“…Yes?”

It was an unexpected answer . But that was also not something to pass on . At the obvious hostility in Su-hyeun’s voice, Hak-joon was lost for words . His brane froze and could not find a word to say .

“I said, where is Jung Dong-yeong? I have a business for him,” Su-hyeun pressed for an answer .

Hak-joon collected his mind and answered, “…He probably in the room at the end of the hallway . ”

“Over there?”

After hearing the answer, Su-hyeun immediately turned his body and started walking . Hak-joon urgently grabbed his arm and asked .

“Su-hyeun, how did you know about Jung Dong-yeong? And what are you going to do with him?”

“A conversation,” Su-hyeun answered .

“What conversation?”

“A body conversation?”

“…What?”

“Why are you so surprised? Don’t worry too much . Depending on the situation, I may not fight . ”

Su-hyeun shrugged his shoulder and asked, “So, what are you going to do?”

“…Whose information is this?”

The director, who was grunting, clenched his teeth at the sudden news .

Kim Do-ui replied to the director who was reading the report, “This is Kim Su-hyeun’s report . What would you do?”

At Kim Do-ui’s question, the director glanced over the report once again . In the short paper, there was a report from Su-hyeun and the opinion of Kim do-ui about it .

“What does he want?” the director asked .

“I think he is asking your favor to investigate . ”

“Favor? Favor my ass,” the director grumbled .

Su-hyeun was not asking a favor . He pretended to be polite, but the report was nothing but an order . He was the guy who had been making a fuss about the director’s weaknesses .

“What will you do?”

At Kim Do-ui’s question, the director lit a cigarette . He took a puff on his cigarette . It made him clear his brain . He was lost in thought, blowing cigarette smoke . His head was emptied, but soon, thoughts were filled again . When he reorganized things again, there was only one answer .

“Well . Do some research . Take Seung-cheol with you,” the director ordered .

“You mean the department head, Kang Seung-cheol?”

“Yes . They should start to move soon, too . They can’t be in training forever . ”

“Ok, sir . ”

“Good . Now leave . ”

At the director’s gesture, Kim Do-ui left the director’s office . The director looked down the report again .

He mumbled, “It looks like the Awakeners Accreditation Authority came up to that dude’s expectation . ”

At that moment, a thought crossed his mind . Might be, all this was what Su-hyeun aimed for .

It was a small room full of cigarette smoke . In the room, Jung Dong-yeong was talking on the phone, puffing up his cigarette .

“Yes, yes . Negotiation was over… Of course . People these days are quite dirty . It makes money and easy to do . This is a pretty good thing…”

Knock, knock—

Jung Dong-young hardened his expression at knocking sound .

“I will call you back . Yes,”

He finished the phone call and shouted at the door, “Who are you?”

“I am Hak-joon . ”

“Hak-joon? Come in . ”

When the person he had waited came, Jung Dong-young lit a cigarette again . The door jarred open . Hak-joon who entered the room saw the cigarette smoke and frowned his face .

“Don’t frown . It doesn’t harm your body since you are an awakener as well . Besides, you have plenty of money to buy those . ”

Jung Dong-young was a heavy smoker . He thought one of the greatest privileges being awakener was he could smoke as much as he wanted . The harm to the body of cigarettes was not much harm to the awakeners .

“Are you ready? Our guild was on the charge to guard in this party . You take care of directing young guild members this time . ”

“I will be ready when I get dressed . By the way, there is a guest to want to see you . ”

“Want to see me? Who is that?”

“Kim Su-hyeun . He is the one you were looking for . ”

“…Kim Su-hyeun?”

Jung Dong-young’s eyes were crumpled . Kim Su-hyeun, who Hak-jun had known before, was a new S-Rank awakener candidate . He, who had been prominent for two years, was evaluated as having the best talent among the existing awakeners .

“Yes . He said he came here to talk with you . ”

“That man needed to talk with me?”

“Well . More exactly, he came for guild master of Ares Guild that I belong . ”

“Hmm…,” Jung Dong-young thought for a moment and opened his mouth . “Hey, Hak-joon . ”

It was a low, benevolent voice . Hak-joon had rather hated Jung Dong-yeong’s this kind of voice . He could not read what he was thinking .

“…Yes,” Hak-joon answered .

“You are not planning some silly things, aren’t you?

“Yes?”

Hak-joon was embarrassed and Jung Dong-young grinned . At that grin, Hak-joon shivered his body and lowered his head . Jung Dong-young smiled as if he was satisfied at Hak-joon’s reaction . Then, he shook his hand and said .

“Never mind . Just go and get him . ”

“Yes, sir . And…”

“And what?”

“You didn’t give me the medicine of this month . ”

“Ah, you mean this?”

Jung Dong-young took out a small bottle from his pocket and shook it .

“When things go well, I will think about it . ”

“What do you mean ‘think’?”

“Kim Su-hyeun . You did hide him, didn’t you?”

“That is…!”

“Shut up, you punk . Anyway, if I talk well with Kim Su-hyeun, I will think about it . That time, there is your contribution, too . ”

Hak-joon gritted his teeth . He had told him many times that he had never known it before, but Jung Dong-yeong did not believe it . He even beat Hak-joon up, blaming that, but he still was not over .

“But, sir . If you don’t give that to me…”

“I know . Your girlfriend will suffer for a while . But what can I do, can’t I?”

Jung Dong-yeong answered as if he was truly sorry and as if he was soothing his younger brother . Jung Dong-yeong’s words burned deep inside of Hak-joon . He remembered the person who would suffer soon because of that medicine, he rather felt angry .

“You brat . What is that face? Huh? Hey, Hak-joon . ”

On the face of Hak-joon, Jung Dong-young likewise hardened his face and rose from his seat .

“Huh? What is that face? You f*cking…”

Knock, knock—

That time, somebody knocked on the door and entered the room .

“Sorry for interrupting . ”

Hak-joon and Jung Dong-yeong turned their heads .

Su-hyeun strode in the room and looked at Hak-joon and Jung Dong-yeong .

“As I am listening, I keep hearing a lot of annoying words . ”

“Su-hyeun?” Hak-joon said in surprise .

“Su-hyeun… Mr . Su-hyeun?”

Jung Dong-yeong frowned first as he saw Su-hyeun who had entered without permission . But that didn’t go long . Soon, he made an amiable smile and welcomed him .

“Well . Sorry for showing you a bad situation . Don’t stand like that . Please come in and take a sit . ”

Jung Dong-yeong did not think Su-hyeun had heard the conversation from the room . If he thought Su-hyeun had heard everything, he would not talk and make a smile like that to him . If that was not true, it would mean that Jung Dong-yeong was the same type of person with the director . Su-hyeun sat in a chair as Jung Dong-yeong had asked . It was the time when Hak-joon tried to stand up from the chair and stand back of Jung Dong-yeong .

Su-hyeun opened his mouth, “What are you doing? You sit down, too . ”

“Yes?”

“Sit down . why are you standing like that?”

Su-hyeun pointed next to him . Hak-joon saw Jung Dong-yeong’s face . At that moment, Jung Dong-yeong’s eyes frowned insignificantly . It was only a few moments, but it was rare for Jung Dong-young to show this change in front of an important guest .

“Sit down, Hak-joon . Yes . Don’t just stand like that . He is my guest but also your bro . ”

His eyes and speech were not saying the same thing . Su-hyeun recognized those differences . He felt like he knew what kind of person Jung Dong-yeong was .

“He is the type of person who extremely sensitive when somebody challenges his authority . He is weak to the power but doesn’t hesitate to press down weaker people than him,” Su-hyeun thought .

It was not hard to figure out what kind of person he was . He had experienced this type of person so many times . It was just the difference between who was worse and iller . He had had to go through more details, but as he looked simple, the way to treat him would not be difficult . Hak-joon finally sat next to Su-hyeun . He wanted to rather stand . He felt like the seat made from the needle .

“Well . It sounded like you had a trouble with Hak-joon…”

As Su-hyeun began to talk, Jung Dong-yeong quickly cut his words .

“Oh . That was not a big deal . There was something I gave to Hak-joon every month, but he made a mistake, so I delayed a payday . I am not saying I won’t give it to him…”

“But isn’t that medicine?”

As Su-hyeun’s question continued, Jung Dong-young’s gaze turned to Hak-joon . When sharp gaze flew to him, Hak-joon turned his face . It was obvious what Jung Dong-young’s eyes meant . He was interrogating him about how much he had told . Soon after, Chung changed his expression and replied . Soon after, Jung Dong-young changed his expression and answered .

“Ah, yes . That is right . But it is not like medicine for a fatal disease . It also has a side effect if someone takes too much,” Jung Dong-young calmly continued to say, “My ability as an awakener is about poison and medicine . Hak-joon’s girlfriend has an unusual illness . So, I made medicine for her . As his boss and bro, it is natural thing that I helped . ”

Hak-joon clenched his teeth while he was listening to what Jung Dong-yeong said . It was a lie .

“An unusual illness?” he thought .

It was true that Jung Dong-young made medicine for the disease that Yun-seon had . But in the first place, the disease was caused by Jung Dong-young’s poison . It was more like an addiction than a disease . That poison ate away at Yun-seon’s body and made it weak . It soon became fine with the medication, but the poison never disappeared .

“Hey, Hak-joon . You are a member of our family from today . ”

In a friendly voice, Jung Dong-young had welcomed Hak-joon . He didn’t like it, but there was no choice . Hak-joon could not turn Yun-seon away . Hak-joon was not a fool to not know that Yun-seon started to suffer in pain because of him .

“Do you want to see your girlfriend die? Huh?”

When Hak-joon was tired a little or showed signs of rebellion, Jung Dong-young threatened her life . When he gave her a medicine a little late, she suffered in pain like a hell every day . And eventually, it would make her die .

“If you don’t pass the 20th floor in three months, there will be no medicine . No, no . I’ll give you ten days later than payday . Tut . I hope she doesn’t bite her tongue to die because of the pain . ”

Clench—

It was a strange thing . The things that he had tried to not think, all the sudden, popped up his brain . He tried to stop thinking, but he could not help himself . He clenched his teeth . He clenched his fists . His fingers nails started to make the blood from the palms . He was frustrated, resentful, and angry . He bit his lips tightly .

“Tut…”

Su-hyeun looked at Hak-joon who was trying to hold his tears . Soon, he looked at Jung Dong-yeong’s eyes .

“Hey, you . ”

“…Hey, you?”

“Yes . You . ”

Jung Dong-yeong was embarrassed by Su-hyeun’s sudden attitude change . Su-hyeun who lost his temper got up from his seat and looked down at Jung Dong-yeong .

“Stop doing your bullshit and get up . ”