Chapter 69 – 69. Interview

The accommodation and practice room of the Battle Angels were built on the land of gold dust and boasted great majesty.

Kim Ki-tae, a man in charge of menial tasks as an entourage of the game team, was satisfied with his company life in his own way.

He was paid a hefty salary even though he actually did very little, which is more than he deserves.
The daily life of waiting in the reception room all day to kill time.

Although there were occasional jobs that the coach or manager asked me to do, it wasn’t too difficult compared to the war-like life before entering the workplace.

But even that wasn’t without worries.

‘I want to settle down now… ‘

Maybe it’s because I’ve been putting some oil on my stomach lately? Gradually, he wanted to live a stable life.

He is already in his mid 30’s.
The daily life of killing and saving with blood splashing has become a burden.

The timing was just right.

I ended up working for a large company with a stable and high salary that others could look up to.
At this point, he wanted to clear up his past and start a family with a wife like a fox and a child like a rabbit.

‘If it’s possible.’

The problem was that there were no people around her whom she could marry.

Kim Ki-tae let out a deep sigh.

Just yesterday, a younger brother I knew sent out a wedding invitation with Mr. Jesu.
When working with him, he was called an idiot, so seeing him smiling shyly next to the pretty Jesu was unfamiliar.

‘Hey, is it good to be married?’
‘Don’t say anything, brother. After all, people need to have a family.’
‘Under… ‘

“Ha…”

A sigh came out every now and then.

‘Where do I get a woman like that?’

It’s not easy to meet a woman naturally at this age.
In the end, it means that you have to be introduced, go out to clubs or gatherings, and actively court…

‘No matter what, there is Gao…’ A man, Ki-tae Kim, is out looking for women?’

It is completely unacceptable to his ego.

Anyway, for that reason, these days, only the time to smoke has increased.

Kim Ki-tae smartly took out a cigarette, put it in his mouth, and tried to light it.

But then I saw a woman approaching from afar.

‘My body is tired.’

It was only a casual suit, but the body exposed over it was art.
Moreover, stylish sunglasses that cover half of the face and large earrings that swing under both ears.

Kim Ki-tae (nickname: Reincarnation of an orangutan), who was looking at 700kg for the three major weight exercises, seemed to be able to hit 800 degrees the moment she was next to her.

But isn’t she walking straight toward him, too burdensome?

‘Why, why are you like that?’

Kim Gi-tae, frozen in the shape of his cigarette, looked down at the woman standing in front of him.

“What, what?”
“Hmm… I want to ask you something?”

Then it is.
Kim Ki-tae, who had been expecting it, lit a cigarette again.

Tobacco felt bitter today.

“Are you working for the Battle Angels team?”
“… What are you going to do?”

Kim Gi-tae, who answered in a cold manner, glanced over at her woman.
He didn’t know it when he was far away, but when he saw it up close he seemed to know what it was for.

He asked.

“Are you a reporter?”
“Yes. Right.”
“Huh. Giraffe chicks. Wandering around wondering if there is anything to eat…”

Kim Ki-tae openly ignored the woman, but the woman didn’t seem to care.
It is difficult to make a living as a journalist unless you are stern.
She is even more so if she is a journalist who, like her, goes out of her way to find out about her issues with her.

He said in a still high pitched voice.

“Thing. You should contact the company directly and have a formal interview. Why are you covering me? I don’t even know what I’m doing.”
“Sometimes there are netizens who want to hear the lively voice of the person concerned.”

Kim Ki-tae frowned and lowered his head.
A face that most people can’t help but roll their eyes at.
But she didn’t even raise an eyebrow.

“The kind I hate the most is people like you. Parasites that live off of others. I have nothing to say, so get out of here right now.”
“…Umm…”

Kim Ki-tae, who wears right away. It was normal for a normal person to roll up his tail and run away.

But she took off her sunglasses, which she was wearing calmly, and tucked them into the bosom of her suit jacket her.
Kim Ki-tae, who instinctively turned his eyes toward her, came to his senses and lifted her bowed face.

I saw her jewel-like eyes hidden under her sunglasses on her.
Kim Ki-tae was somehow embarrassed.

“Excuse me. I haven’t introduced myself yet.”

Even though she had already told her to go away, she said so right away.
It was the first woman since her mother to hold her head high and meet her eyes with such a confident attitude.

The pseudonym in front of the subway began to feel more and more embarrassed by the appearance of the owner who did not talk to him.

“I am this kind of person.”

She holds out one of her business cards.
Ki-tae Kim scratched the back of her head and accepted her business card.

He was unfamiliar with the culture of office workers.
Thanks to her, she had business cards, but she had never carried them.

‘If I had known it would be like this, I would have put a few in my wallet.’

The business card she gave her read ‘Arena Insight Reporter Han Ah-reum’.

He was Kim Ki-tae, who worked under the gaming team, but he didn’t really know what Arena Insight was doing.
When he looked at him with a slightly fierce expression, reporter Han Ah-reum smiled and said.

“I think you are misunderstanding. You know the Academy League, where the Battle Angels participated a while ago, right?”

Kim Ki-tae nodded her head and she continued her story.

“At that time, Conqueror, a game club at Korea University, was the opposing team of the Battle Angels. As he manipulated four weeks, Young-young was kicked out of the sports world. Thanks to an article written by a brave and pretty woman at the request of a Battle Angels coach.”
“……”
“Who is that reporter?”

Kim Ki-tae finally laughed at her brazen and bold attitude.

She said that if what she said was true, she would rather be disrespectful.
Because she was prejudiced without hearing an accurate explanation.

However, doubts still persisted.

“Excuse me for this. But if she had a close relationship with the coach, shouldn’t she contact her directly and conduct an interview? I don’t know anything about games.”
“I didn’t mean to ask about the game. As I said earlier, I just want to include the vivid voice of the person concerned.”
“Hmm… “

Ki-tae Kim shook her head.

“I’m sorry, but I don’t think that will work. Her mouth isn’t light enough to talk about it without permission.”
“…Don’t you know what I might ask?”
“I have no intention of talking about anything.”
“It’s like a villain asking for the location of the hideout. It’s really not as big as you think… We can have a little coffee and talk comfortably.”
“Don’t hurt your mouth.”

Kim Ki-tae exhaled smoke and turned his head.

He knew himself well.
He was confident about using his strength, but he was not good at using his brain.
He thought it was better to keep his mouth shut than to distinguish between what he should and what he should not do.

“Yes, I understand.”

Reporter Han Ah-reum resigned more easily than expected.
Instead, he started targeting Kim Ki-tae in a different direction.

“But maybe… Don’t you have a girlfriend?”
“Hey, girlfriend?”

Kim Ki-tae could not hide his embarrassed voice his and just spit it out.
What is the purpose of asking this question?

‘Perhaps… ‘

It turns out that you might prefer a man with arms thicker than your waist… ?

However, Han Ah-reum’s words shattered his hopes.

“You seem to be missing something.”
“…What?”

Kim Gi-tae’s distorted expression was like a yakcha.

He had never beaten a woman, even though his life his was a mess.
He wasn’t trying to be good with a girl because he appealed to his sweet personality of her, but he felt like he could really kill him if he hit her wrong.
But today it seemed like he might hit a woman for the first time.

If it hadn’t been for what she added, it might have been.

“To me, he has quite a manly charm, so I think women will like it, but isn’t it natural that he doesn’t get a girl like this?”
“……”

The anger that had been rising up disappeared like a lie.
It was because her pitying words seemed to somehow caress her own wounds.

‘Okay. There’s no way women wouldn’t like a man like me. The reason I haven’t had a girlfriend until now is because of my personality that freezes in front of a woman!’

“……Therefore?”
“Not because of that! Fortunately, among the people I know, I have a friend who likes macho guys just like you… Would you like to take a look?”
“……”

Kim Ki-tae swallowed his saliva.
In fact, it wasn’t the first time he had been introduced to a woman.
However, every time he asked what kind of woman she was, the person who said he would introduce her was extremely rejected to the point of embarrassing.

But now come and get an introduction?

“Hey, it’s that friend’s SNS. Take a look.”

Slightly, Kim Ki-tae’s eyes returned to the cell phone Han Ah-reum held out.
She was there, a woman in pink leggings, in a difficult-looking pose.

“He’s a Pilates instructor… He’s a friend who only looks for muscular guys like you. You know, these days TV and various media only promote thin styles, right?”
“… Not really.”
“Perhaps if I show you a picture… “

As Han Ah-reum licked her lips with her tongue, she whispered to him.

“Are you going to go crazy?”
“……”

Is spring finally coming to you too?

I could n’t help but fall for the sweet trick that she showed me the picture of her introductory girl her and the fact that her introductory girl’s ideal type her was completely her her own her.
No, she just wanted to be tricked, even if it was tricked.

Like an animal that eats bait even though it knows it will be caught by a hunter, Kim Ki-tae could not bring himself to say no.

“Why? Aren’t you going to introduce yourself?”
“That, that… “
“…If only I kept quiet, no one would know that I was introduced.”
“……”

A conversation with Han Ah-reum, as if scratching an itch.
In the end, Kim Ki-tae nodded her head.

Then Han Ah-reum skillfully followed her words her.

“Like. Shall we talk over some coffee then?”
“…As I said earlier, I can’t tell you anything.”
“Why would you do this? Wouldn’t I need to hear what you are doing in order to introduce myself?”

That was right.
How can you introduce someone who doesn’t even know what he’s doing?

Kim Ki-tae could not help but nod his head.
Han Ah-reum’s death continued.

“Besides, the friend I want to introduce has been my best friend since high school. I could be her boyfriend or husband her… Can I really not ask such a thing?”

Boyfriend or Husband!
Ki-tae Kim, who closed her eyes tightly, replied in a suppressed voice.

“…Really, I will only tell you as much as I can. No more.”
“A. I don’t even need more than that. Shall we go then?”

Ki-tae Kim, who rubbed a cigarette and put it off, followed Ah-reum Han.
That’s why he couldn’t see it. A deep smile floated on Han Ah-reum’s lips.

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Slurp…

A star cafe in the city.
Han Ah-reum, who was sitting on the window seat on the second floor, spread out a piece of paper on which she had written something on her and was drinking her coffee.

‘This is interesting… ‘

In front of her, Ki-tae Kim was sitting with a bewildered expression.

It was worth it.

It was because she heard a way of speaking that took away her soul, which is difficult for ordinary people to handle.

‘Thanks to that, I got a lot of information.’

Her man her, Ki-tae Kim, was an attendant at Battle Angels doing chores.
I wondered what kind of gaming team had an entourage, but since the parent company was a phone company, I could understand this eccentricity.

‘And what’s even more shocking… ‘

According to Kim Ki-tae, he had four other attendants besides himself.
There are as many as five gorilla-like rice cakes.
It’s award winning no matter who sees it.

Since it is a female game team, they say that they need a man who works hard, but their intuition as a woman and as a reporter told them that it was not just because of that reason.

As a matter of course, as a result of further inquiry, I was able to hear unbelievable answers.

‘Kim Jeong-soo is the son of the phone company president…’

I remembered a man with a sharp impression.
He’s five years younger than him, and he’s not easily swayed by her way of speaking her.

He was the man she was looking for.

‘With this, the puzzle has been put together. Including Kim Ki-tae here, the five rice cakes who were said to be attached as attendants. They are all attached to protect or monitor Kim Jeong-soo, the son of the chairman.’

When I realized that, goose bumps ran down my spine.

Scoop! Scoop!

Of course, she had no intention of publishing this as an article.

‘Because I’m a game magazine reporter.’

The fact that the son of the president of the phone company was the coach of the gaming team was far from being considered news in the gaming world.

However, it could be used as a card to shake Kim Jeong-soo, who secretly avoids him!

‘And one more thing.’

Ah-reum Han recalled a phone call she received a few days ago.

A phone call from Han Tae-seop, who was the captain of Conqueror, a game club at Korea University.

‘When he broke up with me, he proudly massaged Jihye’s breasts!’
‘Hmm… Aren’t they just dating?’
‘Oh no! I’m sure Lee Ji-hye was in a bad mood!’

The words the guy shouted out like an outburst.

There was a suspicion that coach Kim Jeong-soo had sexually harassed the players even though the players did not like it.

‘I really didn’t know there was a possibility.’

According to Kim Ki-tae, an attendant, coach Kim Jeong-soo seems to be teaching the players in a pretty Spartan way.
He seems to have been seen a few times saying insulting things as well as shouting.

‘Nevertheless, he seems to have said that the relationship isn’t bad… That’s why he doesn’t know unless it’s him.’

No, there is no smoke blowing from the chimney.

Two people had already made similar claims, so I couldn’t just let them go.

Ah-reum Han folded the paper on the table as if it were precious and put it in her bag.

“Whoa… Forget everything I said…”

Kim Ki-tae must have been worried about what he had just said, but he said it, but it was too late.
Ah-reum Han said, patting her lips lightly covered with rouge.

“Don’t worry. You didn’t say anything great. It’s just like a household survey right before a blind date, isn’t it?”
“…Is it?”
“Sure. More than that…”

Han Ah-reum took out a piece of paper post-it from her bag her.
She wrote down something of hers while Ki-tae Kim looked at her curiously.

“Here you go.”
“What’s this?”
“It’s a friend’s phone number to introduce you to. I will contact you in advance, so please approach me gently so as not to be surprised.”

He is Kim Ki-tae, who unknowingly raises the corners of his mouth and smiles.
Seeing that, Han Ah-reum also smiled.

“Then I’ll be on my way.”
“Okay.”

Han Ah-reum got up from her seat and left the cafe with her pleasant steps.