Chapter 45 – Peace (4)

There was nothing I could do in this situation, so in the end, I had no choice but to watch Hyeon Ha-yeon’s recording.

“Well, didn’t you at least give me a kiss?”

I wanted to punch the person in charge who was teasing me and laughing mischievously, but I just glared at him and looked back at the booth.

Hyeon Hayeon is singing her song with her eyes tightly closed.

[♬~♫~♬]

There was definitely emotion in the song, and the results started to come out good.

Thanks to this, the recording of the second half, which had been a problem for the past few days, was proceeding smoothly.

Contrary to the friendly atmosphere in the recording studio, I am feeling sick inside.

What does Hyeon Hayeon want from me?

Her behavior towards me went well beyond that of her older brother or younger brother.
That doesn’t mean she wants any kind of relationship, she’s just asking for her honesty.

If he really regained the hero’s memories, he might jump out of the booth right now, drag me away, and lock me up somewhere.

However, there were words left by the goddess, and Hyeon Hayeon’s actions were far from those of her hero.
It is clear that Hyeon Hayeon has not regained her memories yet.

I don’t know exactly when she finds her memories.
It is best to accommodate Hyeon Ha-yeon as much as possible.

If I don’t lie, there is no reason for Hyeon Ha-yeon to explode.

Fortunately, it doesn’t seem like Hyeon Hayeon is demanding her love from me.

Lee Ji-yeon is holding on, but if she goes to Hyeon Ha-yeon, I may lose my sanity.

···I’m really glad that Baek Ga-eun is quiet.

*

Every time I talked to Hyeon Ha-yeon, I flinched for no reason, but little by little, I started to get used to it.

The next day, Hyeon Ha-yeon showed her bright appearance as usual.

Since the final recording was going smoothly, we decided to follow the recording team’s recommendation to finish quickly and move on to the next schedule.

I skipped dinner and continued recording, and eventually finished recording.

Because it was a released song, additional correction work was needed, but the work that needed to be done was done.

“Thank you for your hard work!”

Although she had suffered the most, she felt strange when she saw Hyeon Hayeon greeting her team members without showing any signs of hardship.

Anyway, Hyeon Ha-yeon is the first rookie I discovered.

Now that her recording is over, the only thing left to do is finish the remaining schedule and make her debut.

The result was so satisfying that everyone thought, ‘Hyeon Ha-yeon’s pure love will definitely succeed.’

CEO Choi, who had as high expectations as I did, couldn’t participate due to work, but he left after handing me a card and asking for a get-together for the first time in a while.

It is no secret that all of her team members were happy to hear that CEO Choi only gave her a card and left.

He said he knew a good restaurant and was following along with Hyeon Ha-yeon a little behind the team members who were ahead.

It was difficult for a while and I couldn’t talk to her, but I felt a little more comfortable after confirming that it was safe as long as I didn’t provoke Hyeon Ha-yeon.

It feels like I learned how to deal with Hyeon Ha-yeon.

I glanced at the team members who were busy talking to each other and spoke to Hyeon Ha-yeon.

“···Hayeon, you worked hard”

Hyeon Ha-yeon looked at me and said with a smile.

“···My brother had a hard time too.”

She clenched her fists and continued her words.

“There really isn’t much left! Once I finish the pictorial and music video…”

Seeing her talking about her future with excitement made me feel relieved.

How great it would be if it always showed itself like this…

As she walked and talked about this and that, she arrived at a restaurant.

She sat down in the spacious room and looked comfortable eating.

She took a seat in a corner, and Hyeon Hayeon naturally sat down next to me.

Remembering that she couldn’t drink well, she didn’t say anything.

The team members skillfully decided on the menu and ordered.

As we laughed and chatted, food and drinks were served, and the team members who had almost finished their work began to run wild.

A very drunk person in charge approached me and thrust a soju bottle at me. I have work to do tomorrow too.

I put the glass away with a slight smile and the person in charge started shouting loudly.

“Ah! Kim Choin! What? Are you taking it out?”

He said, pushing the person in charge who was being friendly.

“I am a patient.”

He glanced at my hand, clicked his tongue, and turned to another team member.

When she turned her head at the sound of muffled laughter, Hyeon Hayeon was covering her mouth and laughing.

“···What’s so funny?”

Hyeon Hayeon said it was nothing and took a sip of her drink in an awkward manner.

“Ta-da!”

I clinked my glasses together without saying a word and took it in one gulp.

“Ugh… Oppa, here.”

Hyeon Hayeon picked up one of her snacks and shoved it to her mouth.
I found it admirable that he looked after me even though he was furrowing his brow as if he had been drinking soju.

Normally, I would have taken it and ate it myself, but it was uncomfortable to take it because I was holding a glass.

After thinking for a moment, he took it in one gulp and said.

“···Thank you”

She looked happily at him chewing and filled her glass again.

She clinked her glasses arbitrarily and urged her to drink.

“Okay, ta-da! Hurry up and drink it.”

“Uh, yes…”

Even though my mouth felt dull, perhaps because I was a little drunk, I could vividly feel the bitter taste of soju that followed.

“Oppa, I eat this because I use it.”

“Huh? No, you eat it…”

Despite my words, he pushed the food to his lips and eventually took it and ate it.

I quickly emptied the glass and took the snack repeatedly.

After repeating it a few times, I quickly got drunk.

“Hayeon, what kind of dog are you raising?”

When I looked across with relaxed eyes, I saw a team member talking to Hyeon Ha-yeon.

Hyeon Hayeon looked at me blankly, and she started poking my cheek.

“Ah… Isn’t it cute?”

The drunkenness prevented the accident, so I left Hyeon Ha-yeon alone and made eye contact with my teammate.

When her eyes met, she was startled and said, avoiding her gaze.

“···It’s cute”

The team member lowered his head and began to eat the snacks.

Hyeon Hayeon stopped poking her cheek and came closer to whisper in her ear.

“···Oppa, let’s go home and do the second round.”

Hyeon Hayeon seemed to be drunk, so I thought I should take her home.

She took a deep breath and answered.

“···You’re drunk”

She smiled and answered.

“Yes, I’m drunk. Let’s go quickly.”

When Hyeon Hayeon, and she got up from their seats, people’s attention was focused.
The person in charge said with a surprised expression.

“Uh? “Go already?”

I glanced at the person in charge and said.

“I think Hayeon is very drunk…”

He laughed and said, as if he was dumbfounded by what I said.

“You be careful, Hayeon is fine… Go in carefully.”

She left her place, waving her hand and saying hello.

As I walked out of the restaurant, my gait was a little unsteady.

I felt like I got drunk quickly, perhaps because I was tired recently.

No matter how drunk she was, she had to take Hyeon Hayeon away and go home.

I feel like I’ve sobered up a bit after getting some air.

I tapped her face to wake her up and stood near the road to catch her taxi.

Today, I couldn’t see a taxi, so I was looking beyond and Hyeon Hayeon, who was next to me, asked.

“···Oppa, don’t you have a taxi?”

“… It will come soon, just cheer up”

“Then, brother…”

The moment Hyeon Ha-yeon was about to say something, she saw an empty taxi and started muttering to herself.

“A taxi is coming.”

It seemed like Hyeon Hayeon was about to say something, so she waved her hand and spoke.

“Huh? “What?”

“···No, let’s get on.”

I didn’t think anything of it and got into the car.

I opened my mouth with the intention of stopping by Hyeon Ha-yeon’s house first.

“Driver, we…”

However, Hyeon Ha-yeon hit the player.

“Please go to Building D!”

“···Huh?”

It was the neighborhood where our house was located.

Before I could say anything, the driver took off.

“No, driver, to Building C…”

Hyeon Ha-yeon, who was sitting inside, grabbed my arm and stopped me.

“···Oppa, just one drink… Okay?”

She put her index finger to her face and purred, begging for just one more drink.

It seems that Hyeon Ha-yeon is very drunk.

Since I had already seen blood once before, I couldn’t take Hyeon Ha-yeon home.

“Huh? Huh? Oppa…”

When the sharp-looking girl fawned over me, I inadvertently became excited.

At that moment, her injured hand throbbed, waking her from her drunken daze once again.

Hyeon Hayeon’s eerie expression appeared on her cute face.

It is dangerous to be alone with Hyeon Ha-yeon.

“···No, you’re drunk.”

After arguing with Hyeon Ha-yeon, Seung-gang was already on his way to Building D.

I tried to turn the car, but due to Hyeon Hayeon’s strong restraint, I ended up getting off near her living room.

He spoke hurriedly as he barely caught her as she tried to stop by her convenience store.

“Joe, shall we take a short walk?”

Hyeon Hayeon thought for a moment, then said she understood and moved on.

I naturally chose the path furthest from home.

It would be perfect to send Hyeon Ha-yeon home like this.

“Oppa, what are you doing? “Aren’t you coming in?”

“···Go in”

In the end, it was a futile action.

I could no longer stop Hyeon Hayeon from entering the alley where the convenience store was located like a ghost, and in the end, she returned to her room with her hands full of alcohol.

When I saw Hyeon Hayeon standing inside her house, her injured hand throbbed again.

On her stormy day, it felt so strange to see her scolding me with her cold face, then smiling brightly and setting the table for drinks.

Hyeon Hayeon urged me as she prepared her drinks and snacks.

“Oppa, welcome!”

··· I thought it would be good for her mental health to somehow send Hyeon Hayeon home quickly.

“···I’ll take some glasses”

She moved her head slowly and deliberately.

The moment I opened the cupboard and took out a glass, an idea flashed.

I quickly prepared a glass and placed it on the table.

“···Oppa, what is this?”

Hyeon Hayeon asked, pointing to a large glass.

“Drinking glass”

She doesn’t drink well, so you just have to give her a lot of alcohol.

The easiest way to give people a lot of alcohol is…

“Let’s play a game.”

It was a drinking game.

*

I think it was a good attempt.

The winner chooses a game and drinks alcohol in lieu of punishment.

At first I won.

It wasn’t easy for Hyeon Ha-yeon, now 20 years old, to beat me after going through countless drinking games.

I planned to easily defeat Hyeon Ha-yeon in the first game and gradually increase the amount of alcohol to control my pace.

However, they lost in the second game.

It was even a game I decided on.

Hyeon Ha-yeon smiled brightly and poured herself a drink.

“Oppa, it’s too much to follow half of it from the beginning.”

She poured out the rest of the bottle and handed it to me.

I quietly accepted the glass.

Even though I lost the second game due to my carelessness, I will send Hyeon Ha-yeon away from the third.

I closed my eyes and took a gulp of soju in the glass.

It was very disgusting, but it reminded her of the throbbing pain in her injured hand, and she poured it down her throat.

“Puha…”

Hyeon Hayeon said she did well and picked up her snacks and put a lot of them in her mouth.

I drank too much alcohol at once and started to get drunk quickly.

“Whoa… What game are you going to play?”

With a bright smile, she thrust the cap of the soju bottle towards me.

“I wanted to try this. If you swing your tail, you win, right?”

Soju bottle cap tail fling, it was a classic game.

“Okay, let me go first?”

She frowned and snapped her fingers in concentration.

‘Tick-‘

She must have been a little drunk, so her hands shook, and she made a mistake.

“Ah… I made a mistake.”

She smiled and handed me the bottle cap.

I feel sorry for Hyeon Hayeon, but if she drinks more at this rate, her film may be cut off.

Hyun Ha-yeon snapped her fingers with all her might on the bottle cap in her hand.

‘Tap!’

I believed that she would have been blown away by the cheerful sound, but I felt disappointed when I saw Hyeon Hayeon’s smile deepen.

The moment when she was concentrating on the bottle cap in her hand and thinking about what angle to hit it from.

‘Tap!’

Her tail disappeared.

“···Huh?”

What happened so quickly made me say something stupid without realizing it.

“Now, shall I put down the next bottle?”

When she saw Hyeon Hayeon opening the second bottle with a bright smile, she felt helpless.

Maybe she was drunk, and her judgment was clouded, but she forgot.

How strong is Hyeon Hayeon?

“Well… I feel bad for trying to get you to drink…”

She tipped the bottle over on the glass.

‘Giggles…’

Cold drinks began to fill the glass.

Before she knew it, the glass was full and no more alcohol came out.

She swallowed her saliva and took the glass.

Hyeon Hayeon rested her chin and spoke clearly.

“Oppa, break it and drink it.”

Thanks to her consideration, she was able to empty the glass in several installments.

Mixed with the alcohol she drank earlier, she began to feel dizzy.

“I, I… I’ll take some medicine and come back”

She stood up from her seat, barely able to roll her drunken tongue.

Seeing Hyeon Hayeon leisurely preparing for her next bottle, she started to get impatient.

···You can really die.

She went into the main room and searched through her medicine bag.

“I found the car…”

The medicines given by Baek Ga-eun were gathered together.

Among the famous sobering drugs, there is one whose ingredients are mostly vitamins.

Vitamins from Baekil Pharmaceutical, which are effective, may be effective.

There were many different types of medicine given by Baek Ga-eun, but I couldn’t tell which was the red capsule and the blue capsule.

After thinking about it for a while, she realized that she was becoming more and more dazed, so she put both types in her mouth.

After that, I lost one game after another and lost my mind.