Chapter 73 – The Sinful Man (2)
One day in July, at 10:30 am.
In front of a VGC building in Gangdong-gu, Seoul.
“…….”
Kang Hye-eun, the company’s A-rank hunter, was waiting for someone at her meeting place, with her finely dressed attire.
A jumpsuit and one-piece outfit in appropriate combination of white and sky blue.
The clothes themselves were quite sophisticated, but what really caught my eye was the model wearing them.
She inherited her mother’s genes and has a beautiful appearance that can be felt even at a glance.
Her height of 175 cm, which is quite high among women, and her large breasts stand out.
Even the stylish body created thanks to the large and small muscles that are properly attached here and there.
In many ways, the sight of such a beauty standing alone and waiting for someone was bound to attract the attention of quite a few people.
‘Did you come out a little early….’
It seemed that he was waiting for someone else without even paying attention to the eyes of others.
I came out an hour earlier than the scheduled appointment time and quietly waited for the appointment.
It was only natural that such a thought popped into her head after about half an hour had passed.
In fact, it was a date promise to meet with a childhood friend who lives right next door, so meeting him near the house and leaving would have been one of the options.
Even though such an idea came to mind, Kang Hye-eun decided to meet her at the appointed place.
Because, she thought, that side was a little closer to dating.
As much as she has been a childhood friend since she was very young.
Although there was a time when she only had feelings for her best friend.
As she went through immature middle school days, she gradually became more honest.
Her affections become fully self-aware, angered by what her own childhood friend Seong Tae-kyung went through in her high school.
And recently, she even deepened her love by sharing with him what only lovers would do.
Kang Hye-eun was already fully aware of her own feelings for Seong Tae-kyung.
It’s just that her feelings didn’t develop between her lover as she was for various reasons.
She said Kang Hye-eun did not properly express her true feelings to Seong Tae-gyeong, and she delayed confessing.
And because of her secret awakening ability, which Seong Tae-kyung didn’t tell her about.
The relationship between the two, who once had good feelings for each other, was already too late to develop into a lover.
Of course, Kang Hye-eun, who did not even know that Seong Tae-kyung had awakened, let alone his awakening ability, was still full of things that he could not understand.
It was a close childhood friend relationship that I had maintained since I was young, but for some reason, I distanced myself from myself for an instant, and at one time it seemed like I was treating them normally again, and there was a time when I closed the door of emotions.
She even drew the line that until recently, she mixed her bodies like a long-time lover, and it wasn’t her actual relationship.
Due to Seong Tae-gyeong’s pushing and pulling for decades, Kang Hye-eun was burning with her child’s belt.
That’s why today’s date was also to face the face of a loved one I haven’t seen in a while.
Other than that, there was a bigger mindset to clearly define this strange relationship at the moment.
Does he really have a heart to be with him and his lover?
Or was it really that all the feelings she had for him until now were just a simple illusion.
Making sure that was the biggest goal Kang Hye-eun set for today’s date.
Actually, the other person still didn’t show up and made me wait alone at the meeting place.
“Taekyung, you’re a little late….”
Unlike his personality, who basically arrives 20 minutes before the scheduled time.
Even though it was less than 5 minutes left, he still didn’t show up.
Her emotions became a little nervous at the strange feeling that was a little different from usual.
“Because there is still a little time left….”
Just in case, I thought I would send a text message asking where I had come.
She hesitated, fearing that she would look like a woman who bothered to ask for being late for an appointment.
While Kang Hye-eun hesitated, the time on her smartphone pointed to 11:00 AM.
“Um….”
Even though the time had passed, he didn’t even show up, let alone show her, so her emotions became nervous once more.
It was the first time.
What he didn’t even reveal until the promised time passed.
“Are you waiting somewhere else… ?”
He said to meet in front of the VGC building, the meeting place, so I was waiting in front of the front door where I always met him during my school days.
Perhaps the possibility of mistaking the location and waiting in front of the back door was not 0%.
Kang Hye-eun walked to the back door of the building with a low hope.
Even at that place, she still didn’t see the childhood friend she was waiting for.
“… Are you already in the cinema?”
If she was the Seong Tae-kyung he knew, she was never the type to be late for an appointment, or toss it without a word.
She thought of one last possibility and took her steps into the building.
It wasn’t until soon that he couldn’t be found even in the box office, and she reached a cold conclusion.
For the first time in his life, Seong Tae-gyeong was late for his promise.
“Ah, there are still about 20 minutes until the movie starts.”
Even though it was about 10 minutes past her original appointment time, she struggled to judge as coolly as possible.
It was a slightly ample appointment time from the beginning, so the date didn’t go badly if you were late for about 1 to 20 minutes.
Considering the advertising time before the full-fledged movie starts, it was like there was still about 30 minutes to spare.
She opened her smartphone and sent a CocoaTalk message to her own childhood friend.
“Where are you from?”
It was a short message that was restrained and moderated as much as possible so that it didn’t sound like he was angry or hurried for being late without contacting him.
“…….”
I started to get more and more impatient with Seong Tae-gyeong, who didn’t even read, let alone reply, for five minutes.
“The movie will start soon….”
If it was too late, it would reach a level that could not be dealt with, so Kang Hye-eun called him as a last resort.
“The other person didn’t answer the phone, so after the beep, I went to voicemail….」
It was only a shameless autoresponder message as if it was natural to return.
“Why are you so late, Tae Kyung? .”
The movie we were originally going to watch together had already started, and the appointment time had already passed a long time ago.
She didn’t give up and continued to send him calls, texts, and KakaoTalk messages.
In fact, the movie wasn’t even that important.
The only thing that mattered was the act of dating itself, sharing the same time as him.
When she was in school, whenever she met him, she deliberately chose horror movies because she expected something like a situation where he ran into her in fear.
In reality, there was only Seong Tae-gyeong, who was appreciating it casually, and himself, who could not be embraced because of a woman’s pride even though he was terrified.
In the midst of confused emotions, the movie started before I knew it, and more than 30 minutes passed again.
An hour had passed since the appointment, and more than two hours had passed since Kang Hye-eun first started waiting for Seong Tae-kyung.
“Taekyung-ah…. Pick up the phone….”
Calls still unanswered, texts unanswered.
Even the KakaoTalk message where the number 1 does not disappear.
In the end, it wasn’t until two hours after the appointment time that she came up with a possibility.
“No way, I was cheated on… ?”
When the possibility that I tried to avoid came to mind.
Kang Hye-eun’s eyes were already moist.
“If something happens and you feel like you can’t come…. Could you please tell me in advance….”
In the corner of the garden in front of the building, the place where she first waited for him, she quietly wiped away her tears from the public eye.
More than the fact that the long-awaited date had ended in vain, or the fact that she had waited for him for over three hours.
It was because Seong Tae-kyung, who didn’t send her a single message until this happened, was desperate.
I could have made at least one phone call.
I could have sent at least one text.
Why have you not called or sent texts until now and just kept waiting for yourself?
Why doesn’t the KakaoTalk message even show that it has been read?
The moment Kang Hye-eun’s idea reached that point.
“…… No way?”
Another possibility began to emerge in her mind that he did not appear.
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Sometimes, isn’t everyone like that?
The moment I wake up, the feeling of ‘I’m fucked up’ passes through my head.
In particular, the more natural waking up is achieved by the body’s vision, rather than waking up according to a set alarm or timer.
That uneasy feeling had a knack for making people’s hearts beat even more.
The moment I woke up, of course, I felt the same way.
“… It was a big deal.”
Even if I didn’t bother to check my watch, I could figure out that I was late for the appointment time. The scenery outside the window was already midday, far from morning.
The first thing I started was grabbing the smartphone that was placed by my bedside.
As soon as I opened the screen, one word of exclamation came out of my mouth.
“…… Crazy.”
11:00 a.M., The appointed time, had already passed by a long time ago, and the time of 3:00 p.M. Was blinking on my smartphone.
For a moment, I had a feeling in my head that I’d rather be at 3:00 in the morning.
The piled up list of missed calls and text messages made it impossible for me to escape reality.
「9 missed calls」
「22 Unread Characters」
A list of calls and texts that must all be from the same person, except for one or two.
Concerns about Kang Hye-eun, who would have waited for me at the appointed place for hours without any notice, came to my mind first.
“Ha…. I mean, on a day like this….”
Still, on her date today, she had the goal of improving her relationship with the girl she had been estranged from for a while.
In this way, far from improving the relationship, it would only aggravate the deepening emotional goal.
The moment she tries to get out of bed, blaming herself for doing something stupid.
“… Uh?”
My body collapsed on the side of the bed with a feeling of extreme fatigue that made my body lose all strength.
‘Kwadangtang!’
It was only after I fell once with a loud noise that I realized that my body was strangely tired unlike usual.
I was also able to figure out the reason why I didn’t hear all three alarms I had set just in case.
Due to the tiredness that the recovery magic forcibly removed, my body couldn’t feel the precursor symptoms of the cold virus.
When the effect of the spell ended, the cold body aches had already progressed considerably.
This is why I had to be a little more careful when using recovery magic.
My heart, which became desperate to become a B-class hunter as soon as possible, was not able to grasp the symptoms of abnormalities in my body in time.
“… This is not the time to be like this.”
If only, really if only.
Perhaps even in the situation where I am doing this, Kang Hye-eun might still be waiting for me like an idiot.
As soon as I came to my senses, I got up to pick up my smartphone that I had missed.
‘Quadang Tang Tang Tang!!!’
The moment I put my hands on the desk and tried to stand up, I fell down again due to the feeling of powerlessness in my body.
‘Ahh!!’
As a bonus, the water in the washbasin that was placed on the desk was completely covered.
“Why is the washbasin here… ?”
The moment I muttered inadvertently while thinking the same thing, something fell from my forehead to the floor.
Now I can figure out that the wet towel has been cooling my forehead all this time.
“What is this again….”
While I was asleep, I was still unable to organize my thoughts as to what the hell had happened.
‘Kung-kung-kung-kung!’
The sound of someone running up the stairs hurriedly hit my ears from beyond the door.
The sound that got closer immediately opened the door to my room.
“Taekyung-ah, are you okay?!”
“River… Hyeeun… ?”
Why are you out there… ?