Chapter 166 – 166. Family (3)

I looked at Huffy D standing in front of me with calm eyes.

When the daughter who came to see him offered to give him money in an inconsiderate way, she told him to get off of it immediately.
However, now that all the facts have been revealed, he was looking at me with an awkward expression.

Would you like to do that to your own daughter?
It’s pitiful to see myself, who has lived independently since childhood.

“Hello. I am Kim Jung-soo, the coach of the Battle Angels.”

I reached out to him first and said hello.
Huffy D hesitated for a moment, then took my hand.

“That… I am directing…”
“He introduced himself. I am not interested in that.”

Hur Pydy made a poop-chewed face for a moment, but he corrected his expression right away.

I got to the point.

“I heard that our players owe a lot.”
“…Yeah, that’s right! Since I am the father of that child, I put a lot of thought into this and that.”

He was the one who told lies so blatantly that he wouldn’t last long, but he wasn’t new either.
I nodded.

“Heo Sook-hee is definitely a talented pro gamer. Perhaps in the next few years, I will go to world competitions and lift trophies.”
“Ah… It’s a world competition.”

Huffy didn’t seem to understand what I was saying.
To that I added

“Since the prize money alone is a tournament worth tens of billions of won, we are also looking forward to it.”

Huffy D calmly nodded when he called it a world championship.
However, after attaching the prize money, he finally exclaims.

“Also… I always thought my daughter was going to grow up.”

I never thought of you as a family.
However, the only loss is this side of the mouth.

How can you defeat a human without logic?

I continued to talk about the treatment Heo Sook-hee was receiving one by one.

“As you know, our company is a company where the only thing left is money.”
“I know that too! Isn’t that the same phone company?”
“Thanks to that, we are always trying to match the highest standards in the industry for player treatment.”

From the salary story, the story of the new building to be built in the future, how popular the Battle Angels are, how well they are a team, etc.

However, Huffy and other people around him were shaking their heads with faces that seemed like a phone company.
You wouldn’t believe it if the local grumpy man said that he was making soybean fermented soybeans, but the words of the man in a helicopter and the rice cake sticks in black suits were different.

You would believe me if I said that fermented soybeans were turned back into soybeans.

I said with a sudden serious expression to Huffy, who was nodding his head.

“So let’s do it here.”
“…Yes?”

He raises a colder voice toward Huffy, who is questioning him.

“I’m just a kid who’s just getting out of you and starting to be happy. How long are you going to stick around?”
“……”

Huffy D keeps his mouth shut at my short talk.
I moved closer to him and whispered in his ear.

“Since I’m close with director Jeong Pal-soo, he would know without me having to tell him. This is a warning and a favor. When we talk, let’s go over well.”
“Ah… Yes.”

He answers with a servile smile.
However, the corners of his mouth continued to tremble as if something was unclear.

Was something wrong then?
Suddenly, he started talking with a hot expression on his face.

“However… That child is my daughter! Is it okay to separate the father-daughter relationship by force like this?!”

No one would think of a father who thought of his daughter as much as he did.
When he looked at him with a deep sigh, he, too, averted his gaze of her, perhaps realizing that what he had said did not match his actions of her.

Instead of answering, I called coach Jung Pal-soo.

“Director, let’s have a chat since we haven’t seen each other in a while.”
“Maybe?”
“Hey, wait!”

Huffydy called out urgently, but I didn’t even look back.
As in the past, the clean-up was left to coach Jeong Pal-soo and his attendants his, and he went back to take care of the players mentally.

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Upon returning to the dorm, there was an awkward air flow between Heo Sook-hee and me.

It will be difficult for her to treat me like she used to, since she, who had been avoiding me until now, has been greatly helped.

“What… It is quite refreshing.”

Of course, maybe not.
Heo Sook-hee twisted the corner of her mouth and said.

“I never had a family from the beginning. You’re living alone, aren’t you?”

Heo Sook-hee’s eyes Her looked sad for some reason.

I got a little bit of that feeling.

I also had to grow up without a family’s touch since I was a child.
Unlike other children, I felt like I was thrown into the wild without any hills.
It felt like I was the only one living life in hard mode, so it was quite unfair.

‘I would have been much happier if there was only one person on my side.’

Because of this, he seemed to feel sorry for Heo Sook-hee, who had no cooperative spirit and was always tickling.

I spoke in a calm voice.

“You don’t have to live alone in life.”
“……”
“Even if the world collapses, having someone on my side that I can lean on will be more reassuring than I thought.”
“…But where do you find someone like that?”

I stared at her instead of her answer her.
Then she looked at me with her eyes wide open and she let out a smirk.

“A… Are you kidding?”
“Isn’t that a joke? Didn’t you see that I just scolded your dad?”
“……”
“I have no intention of forcing you. As a coach, I will only be your last support.”

After that, the awkward air flow came again.
Heo Sook-hee was scratching her cheek as if my words were a bit strange.

After a while she spoke in a low voice.

“Then…Will you be by my side no matter what I do?”

… No matter what
I don’t know what the heck I’m trying to do, but now I can’t get out of my way.

I said it without the slightest hesitation.

“How can I abandon a boy as stupid as you?”
“Wow… Really worst comment…”

However, Heo Sook-hee still raises the corners of her eyes and looks up at me.

It was at that moment that some unexpected words came out of her mouth.

“… So, you’re being nerdy, right?”
“Yes?”
“You always told me that you weren’t interested in anything like you… But really, did you lose your temper?”

Was it
I correct with a grave tone.

“No, I don’t like it very much.”
“…Don’t lie! You said earlier that you must be hot!”

It must have been quite painful to have left it unattended, saying that it was not good enough.

Heo Sook-hee pushed her body toward me, pushing her closer and closer.

A pleasant smell rushed in.

“Don’t ever say you won’t be good at it. You know?”
“…Not really? If you go around like this, you won’t look good after all?”
“Today, the coach told me to make it as scruffy as possible, so I did it! I won’t go around like this from now on!”

After arguing over a non-spicy subject, the subtle atmosphere disappeared before I knew it.

Then I bring up a serious story again.

“Ever since I was little, I had no family, so I grew up alone. That’s why we treat our players as if they were family. You too think of our team as family.”
“Coach, do you fuck with the kids you consider family?”
“Isn’t sex originally supposed to be with family?”
“Wow…Could this be controversial?”
“Neither do you.”

After that, I grabbed her hand her.
Startled, she tried to remove her hand for a moment, but she could n’t overcome my grip.

“Ah…”

She sighs low.
She didn’t know what to do and just avoided my eyes.

But I had no intention of hugging her gently this time either.

“Do you know why I helped you?”
“… To eat?”
“Nope.”

Since a while ago, I just kept talking about being ugly, so I think my head was full of bugs.

I looked at her with her pathetic expression.

“I helped him with the intention of practicing hard like a slave in the future.”
“……”
“There should be things that come and go between family members as well. The first day you will play as a top player is before the shooting star in round 2.”

When Heo Sook-hee was on the Neo-Trance team, the team that caused her to slip in the second division promotion match.
It was a team that thought it would win because it was the 8th place team in the 2nd division league.

Because of this, he would be a suitable opponent for Heo Sook-hee’s top debut match.

“Like.”

Heo Sook-hee also shook her head to see if her first opponent her was not bad.

But I said her coldly to her showing off her confidence in her.

“I will never be comfortable teaching until then. I’ll roll it to the point of pitifulness, so I’m prepared.”
“Okay. Rather, it is what I hoped for!”