“Ah, yes. Director. But right now that’s not what’s important, I…”
“I’m busy, so just hurry up and go.”
…Looking at him cutting off my words, I guess I need to crash into something once so he won’t make me drive in the future.
Hae-il, who took a deep breath, fastened his seatbelt firmly. Once he actually started, even though his head was hazy, his body seemed to remember as the car began moving smoothly. It seemed surprisingly doable.
After leaving the garage, Hae-il successfully made a left turn and entered the road in front of the empty residential area. Seeing that he’d made it this far without crashing once, it wasn’t at the level of crashing. Isn’t this doing well considering it’s been several years? He felt proud.
While he was looking only ahead with full concentration, a sigh was heard from the back.
“Hae-il. Is crawling a hobby? Trying to arrive tomorrow?”
“What? Don’t talk to me.”
As soon as he urgently shouted because his concentration was disrupted, a cold voice returned.
“Stop the car.”
At the tone where a sense of crisis was naturally felt, he stepped on the brake first. The car, whose speed was sharply caught, stopped with a jolt. It was fortunate there was nothing around, whether cars or people.
“If you can’t drive, say so. Ah, is this perhaps that threat tactic? You should have just boldly stepped on the accelerator pretending it’s sudden acceleration. Then at least we would’ve left in front of the house long ago.”
…You’re the one who told me to shut up and start.
Though wronged, Moon Woo-shin, who didn’t give him a chance to retort, got out of the car. Swinging his long legs, he circled around the car, flung open the driver’s seat door, and jerked his head crookedly.
“Get out.”
“Yeeees.”
Hae-il, who got out obediently, moved to the passenger seat without complaint.
As soon as he closed the car door and fastened his seatbelt, Moon Woo-shin stepped on the accelerator as if to realize what he’d said himself.
The car, whose speed shot up in an instant, burst forward. Startled, Hae-il urgently grabbed the handle attached to the top of the car door.
To Hae-il’s eyes, it looked precariously like they’d crash into the wall ahead, but the car miraculously didn’t even graze it and turned direction in time, exiting the alley without hesitation. Each time the car swiftly changed direction and burst forward, Hae-il’s heart also shook together.
“Sen—, no, Director. Why are you driving like this!”
“Like what?”
Unlike Hae-il who clutched the seatbelt and handle like a lifeline, Moon Woo-shin looked very peaceful.
The car that quickly left the residential road where no one was only slowed down a bit after entering an ordinary main street. Even so, repeatedly doing sudden acceleration and sudden braking wasn’t much different.
Following the car that stopped abruptly at a red light, his body was thrown forward. If it weren’t for the seatbelt, he would’ve almost smashed his head against the windshield.
Hae-il, clutching his heart, glared to the side.
“I’ll just do it.”
“We’re late. Just sit still.”
“If we get in an accident going like this, we’ll be even more late— Ack!”
As soon as the signal turned green, the car burst forward again.
Only after passing through several more signals did they arrive in front of that building he saw yesterday. JBH Research Foundation. Before he could even read all seven characters, Moon Woo-shin drove the car into the underground parking lot without hesitation and turned into a wide empty spot as if familiar. Only after parking the car forward in one go did he turn to look at Hae-il.
“From now on, driving…”
“I’ll, I’ll do it. I’ll practice. Starting today right away.”
“Do as you please.”
Moon Woo-shin, who indifferently swept over Hae-il, got out of the car first. While he went to the back seat to gather the scattered items, Hae-il, who quickly escaped the car, glared at him.
No matter how much of a beginner, if calculating the probability of dying tragically in a traffic accident, it would clearly be significantly lower than a car Moon Woo-shin was driving.
Hae-il, who preciously kept the car keys Moon Woo-shin threw again, followed behind him and entered the building.
As soon as they arrived at that office from yesterday, Moon Woo-shin approached the desk and put down the documents he’d brought. And he sat in the chair and immediately started working.
‘What’s he so busy with?’
What work Ban’s Director was doing these days was naturally good information to grasp too.
Hae-il stealthily moved to the side. It was a natural appearance as if thoughtlessly following Moon Woo-shin like he’d followed him up here.
But before even getting close, his body suddenly whipped around. His feet, which moved on their own, walked soundlessly to arrive in front of the sofa, and following that, his body sat down on it.
Only after feeling the plush sofa’s texture on his buttocks and back did the invisible force that had controlled his body move away.
“Just say it with words, being controlled feels dirty.”
“Don’t do pointless things and sit still.”
What’s the use of saying it after already controlling me? It did have the effect of making him feel a bit dirtier though.
Hae-il, who hid his displeased expression, straightened his body that had been buried in the sofa backrest.
“What do I do?”
“You only have one thing to do.”
“What is it?”
“Don’t leave my sight.”
Moon Woo-shin’s eyes remained fixed on the monitor on the desk. In short, don’t go outside the room and just sit still on this sofa.
Instead of installing CCTV to observe, it seemed his goal was to become the CCTV himself and monitor 24 hours.
‘If it’s like this, I can’t do anything, right?’
Wouldn’t it be better to just run away and dig around outside the organization?
He briefly had that thought, but stopped after recalling how much time and effort it took to first make contact with a Ban organization member a year ago.
If luck hadn’t followed, he might still be wandering around Icheop City’s back alleys even now.
‘He’ll loosen up after a few days of this.’
Hae-il, who changed his thinking, decided to endure for now until Moon Woo-shin’s surveillance became lax. Even a person like that was still a person, and if human, it was bound to become lax someday.
While comfortably leaning against the sofa looking around every corner of the office, carefully observing the table in front of the sofa with nothing on it, and reading the book titles in the bookshelf placed in front one by one, the sun rose completely.
Just as boredom was about to grow a bit more in the sunlight starting to stream in long. Moon Woo-shin opened his mouth for the first time.
“Seo Hae-il.”
“Yes!”
“Lower the blinds a bit.”
“Yes…”
Finally he calls my name, thinking he’d give me something to do, but I was just a remote control.
Walking very slowly to slowly grab and lower the blind cord, then walking back to the sofa one step at a time, he kept glancing at Moon Woo-shin, but far from making eye contact, there was no sign he’d even open his mouth again.
‘At least give me errands to run.’
How many years has it been since I sat still without doing anything? I can’t adapt at all. My body was about to twist on its own from boredom.
After reaching the level where he could draw the room’s structure and the positions of objects placed inside with his eyes closed, Moon Woo-shin’s appearance, which he’d tried to ignore, naturally entered his eyes.
While Hae-il was withering from boredom, he had been fixing his eyes only on the monitor and documents without moving for several hours.
Thanks to the monitor being placed slightly to the side rather than directly in front of the desk, when sitting on the sofa and looking, the person sitting in front of the desk could be seen well. At about a 45-degree angle.
Hair neatly swept back to show his forehead, a neatly tied tie, a white shirt ironed to sharp angles without a single wrinkle, and eyes wearing vision protection glasses. Just looking at his appearance, he was no different from a typical office worker.
It was the first time seeing such an appearance. When he was a college student, training by running around with his body was far more common than sitting still and studying. So it should feel unfamiliar and strange, but.
‘…Why does it suit him so well?’
Wasn’t wearing glasses supposed to make your eyes look smaller and uglier? Whether they were glasses with no prescription at all, they went well as if drawn with his elegant eye shape and long eyelashes.
Moon Woo-shin, who’d been looking at the monitor, shifted his gaze to the desk and picked up a document.
His eyes naturally followed the movement and stopped near his arm. The sleeve rolled up to his elbow and the arm revealed beneath were all pure white. However, they didn’t look frail because of the firm muscles and bulging tendons.
