He felt completely deceived, but he didn’t regret it. To empty his mind, he needed something else rather than spacing out alone all day. For example? Alcohol.
And so, three hours after Euishin left the house,
[Kwon Yunsu, do you have some cash? Want to go ocean fishing? They’ll give you alcohol too.]
It was natural that his ears perked up at Song Taesu’s contact that seemed like recruiting a slave for a deep-sea fishing vessel.
At the MT he followed out to like fate, Kwon Yunsu could observe various people’s various jokes, curses, and drinking and entertainment. He was a bit intimidated by the unfamiliar faces rushing in, but fortunately Song Taesu was over there fiercely downing alcohol and Shin Jaewoo was right next to him.
‘Are you also a member of this club?’
‘No, Song Taesu seduced me saying he was short on people to pay for drinks.’
‘And you fell for that?’
This bastard’s dumber than me. Just as he was about to confidently sneer, Shin Jaewoo smiled sweetly and clinked paper cups.
‘No, I came because you were coming.’
…He was incredibly good at throwing out social comments.
The atmosphere was appropriately good, the hyungs were fun, the beer went down well—it was fine. Everything was fine… but sashimi. The sashimi that came out as the second round snack was the problem. Since childhood, he’d been somewhat averse to fish. As he got older he improved a lot and ate cooked fish well, but raw fish still didn’t work. When he ate food that didn’t suit him as it was offered along with soju, his stomach churned, he got indigestion, and his stomach hurt. In the end, Jaewoo patted his back and he vomited everything and lay down alone in the next room. It’s not gastroenteritis, right? Since I threw up everything, it won’t be. If I get gastroenteritis I can’t eat, that won’t do…….
That’s when the call came from Euishin.
[Where are you?]
Kwon Yunsu’s sleepiness vanished in an instant.
“…Incheon. Near the coastal wharf, they said.”
[This dog bastard… why do you keep leaving the house?!]
“I left a note.”
Hearing it from far away, Euishin’s voice yelling in anger was quite welcome.
[Where exactly?]
“What are you going to do knowing that?”
[Hurry up and tell me.]
“Euishin-ah, are you mad again?”
If you keep yelling like that all the time, which young lady will live with you, calm your temper. Just as he was about to add that,
[…What? Are you sick?]
Euishin said something curious.
“Wow, you really are a ghost.”
[…Fuck, where does it hurt?!]
How does he know? Living together for a long time paid off. Kwon Yunsu smiled silently.
“I’m not sick anymore. My stomach felt bad after eating sashimi and soju so I threw up everything and I’m lying down. The next room is still drinking. They’re going to do that all night.”
[You know you become an idiot when you eat raw food, so why did you follow them there?! After I fed you plenty of grilled meat…!]
“I was bored.”
[…Are you resenting me right now?]
Oops. Kwon Yunsu quickly came to his senses.
“No, it’s not like that.”
[…….]
Euishin’s breathing became rough on the other end of the phone.
[Don’t dodge and answer. Where are you? Pin the address and send it.]
“How would I know that?”
[Turn on the map app and GPS and pin the location.]
“Hey, I wasn’t kidnapped.”
[Hold your phone and get some sleep.]
“Hey….”
[Just listen.]
I can’t beat this temper. After doing as told and closing his eyes again, he chuckled but was secretly curious. What are you going to do knowing the address? Send medicine by quick service? I don’t want to take medicine—I stuffed the one Jaewoo bought in my bag. Aren’t you doing something pointless…. With a drowsy sigh, sleep gradually came. His stomach hurt less and felt less queasy than before. Every time he closed and opened his eyes, he saw the phone he was tightly holding in his hand. Chuckling, he closed his eyes again. Euishin-ah, don’t do strange things. Just guard the house well……. It felt good to get along well with the landlord.
“……, ……hoo…, ….”
“Ah, who is it…. The vibration….”
At the grumbling heard from his bedside, Kwon Yunsu suddenly woke up. Ah, the phone. When he quickly checked his hand, it was vibrating with bright light. The name on the screen was Lee Euishin. Just as he was about to answer the call, seeing several guys sprawled out like corpses everywhere, he fumbled his way to the next room. Though the scale had decreased, the next room was still a drinking session. He’s still doing that. Waving at Song Taesu who waved saying ‘Yunsu-ya, soccer fanboy!’ and at Shin Jaewoo next to him whose face said ‘Why did you wake up?’, he went outside. Right beyond the shabby guesthouse yard was the ocean… as if, it was a narrow alley. Kwon Yunsu, who was just about to answer the call, saw something strange there.
“Huh…?”
A grim reaper standing under the streetlight… no, a tall figure with a pale and handsome face, wearing sleek black clothes, …also a grim reaper…? No, it was Euishin.
“Wow!”
Kwon Yunsu put on any slippers lying in the yard and crossed the yard.
“Euishin-ah!”
“Hey, a sick kid…!”
Euishin clicked his tongue. Kwon Yunsu, who had run over clumsily, quickly grabbed his hand. Grabbing both hands and shaking them up and down wildly, expressing his delight—Kwon Yunsu really was exactly like a second grader in elementary school. Annoyingly cute. Thinking about this bastard wandering around here and there alone, he regretted coming to university. What was the point of making him study so hard? I should have just stuck him in some cram school in the mountains.
“How did you get all the way here? What did you take? Subway, taxi?”
“Aren’t you sick?”
“After I threw up everything and slept lying down, I’m fine. I told you I’m not sick anymore, earlier. What do you take my stamina for?”
What do I take it for? I take it for shit.
Though he flutters around well, he always gets bruised getting stuck somewhere, and catches a cold well every time the season changes. Even when eating well, if one thing that doesn’t suit him goes in, he always gets indigestion and suffers all night, and if he eats cold things his stomach hurts and his appetite cuts off completely. And his white face with no flesh becomes haggard and his eyes become dim, so even if he’s slightly sick it shows immediately. Why did Song Taesu call a kid who was fine and make him into this state?
“I told you or didn’t I that you get uglier when you’re sick so you need to be especially careful?”
Euishin pulled Kwon Yunsu’s hand with a displeased face.
“What is it?”
Leaving the narrow alley and coming out to an open lot, he could see the parked car. When he pressed the key toward the black body emitting precise luster, Yunsu’s eyes widened.
“Wow!”
How tacky.
“What, what is this? Did you rent it? Something like this?”
Kwon Yunsu couldn’t take his eyes off the logo with white and blue alternately arranged in a black circle. Euishin snorted and replied.
“Have you ever seen me borrow someone else’s stuff?”
Kwon Yunsu’s face crumpled.
“Whoa… Hey, you knew I had this model as a miniature, right?”
Right. Lee Euishin didn’t respond.
After looking around the car for a while, Kwon Yunsu scurried over and changed his approach.
“Friend, can I call you hyung from now on? I’ve wanted to call you that for a long time.”
Does even groveling become charming? Lee Euishin sighed and opened the passenger door.
“Stop talking nonsense and get in.”
“Get in? This?”
This thing? I’ve never ridden in something like this before? When he tried to forcibly push in Kwon Yunsu, who was showing off all kinds of country bumpkin vibes, Kwon Yunsu said something realistic.
“Look at my shoes. My bag’s inside too.”
“Go get it quickly.”
“Uh, okay….”
Kwon Yunsu went back up the alley in an awkward posture. When he glanced back, he could see Lee Euishin standing next to the picture-perfect car body in a black suit. Unfamiliar. He became self-conscious about his own outfit of faded jeans with just a sweatshirt thrown on. Lee Euishin really is rich…. I swear I’ll get along well with him.
When he hesitantly went inside and came out with his bag, Shin Jaewoo was standing in the yard. He was holding a cigarette. So he smokes. I never knew.
“Yunsu-ya.”
He was someone who always called people warmly and affectionately.
“Shin Jaewoo, I’m going to head out first.”
“…Why are you leaving already?”
