< Ending Maker SS #16 To Earth (9) >
Ending Maker SS #16 To Earth (9)
Alexey.
Nickname: Major.
A man of little known origin other than that he was from the Soviet Union and had served in the military for many years.
He was a chess master of some caliber, a travel writer, the head of a private PMC, and an arms dealer.
The relationship between Kang Jin-ho and him was truly complex and mysterious, but if we were to define it objectively, it could be called a ‘teacher and student’ relationship.
Master.
The man who taught Kang Jin-ho many things – no, in fact, everything he needed to know to survive.
Kang Jin-ho was always grateful for his teachings and always sought a way forward from his teachings.
And that was still the case six years after his death.
‘Alexey! Alexey!’
What should I do?
yes?
how!
how!
Alexei taught me everything I needed to know to live.
He taught me how to shoot a gun, how to assemble a gun, how to service a gun, how to use a knife, how to service a knife, hand-to-hand combat, survival skills, and so much more.
Among them, there was even a method of dancing with women.
Even though I only danced with Natasha a few times.
Anyway, he taught him many things, and up until this day, Kang Jin-ho had never felt that Alexei’s teachings were lacking.
But right now, at this moment.
Kang Jin-ho was relieved.
None of Alexei’s teachings were of any use in the present situation.
‘Alexey!’
About the afternoon after spending the night under the same roof with the girl next door, I ran into her parents while seeing her off outside the house.
If it had been Kowabunga, I would have liked it as a proper light novel title, but to Kang Jin-ho, it was reality.
‘Cheer up, Kang Jin-ho.’
First of all, I needed to correct the vocabulary that I had misunderstood.
We did spend one night under the same roof.
But that sentence had to be interpreted literally.
It wasn’t some kind of metaphorical expression.
Because we really just slept under the same roof!
I won’t do anything embarrassing that would be discovered by others – I won’t do anything –
‘No way!’
I don’t know what happened, but I was holding Hong Yu-hee in my arms.
Besides, even after I woke up, I kept hugging her because I felt embarrassed.
Because I enjoyed the scent and the body temperature!
Kang Jin-ho’s agony deepened, and so did the Kang Jin-hos in his head.
“Captain! Captain! The situation is not good! The defense line is being breached in an instant!”
“Enemies are coming from all sides! They are too strong!”
At the report of the Gang Jin-hos, Captain Gang Jin-ho groaned and clenched his fists.
No matter how much I looked at the battlefield map, I couldn’t think of a suitable solution.
“Captain! I have a great idea!”
It was just then.
Kang Jin-ho, who was a boy soldier, raised his hand and spoke, and Captain Kang Jin-ho and the other Kang Jin-hos looked back at him with hope.
“What method?!”
“I’m afraid it’ll all explode-”
“Pull him out!”
“Huh?! Huh?!”
On the orders of Captain Kang Jin-ho, the Kang Jin-ho soldiers expelled the boy soldier Kang Jin-ho out of the barracks.
Kill me.
This is crazy.
What on earth do you want me to explode?
As expected, Kang Jin-ho of those days had too many problems.
“Be calm! Be calm! The other party is a civilian! They are not the enemy! We can solve this through dialogue!”
“But, Captain! Look at those eyes! Those are the eyes of a beast!”
That’s right.
No matter how you interpret it positively, the look in Hong Yu-won’s eyes as he glared at Kang Jin-ho was extremely fierce.
It was truly a gaze that could be said to be looking at the enemy.
But Captain Kang Jin-ho took a deep breath and tried to speak calmly.
“Oh, it’s okay! It’s okay! Didn’t you already check it out when you moved in? I’m just an ordinary guy! He has nothing to do with blood, guns, or war!”
But as I was saying that, I had a thought.
Could it be that there was a lack of research?
In fact, isn’t he something like a professional assassin disguised as a civilian?
Otherwise, that murderous look in his eyes would be inexplicable.
“Captain! There’s no time! Do something first!”
Private Kang Jin-ho’s words were right.
Even at this very moment, time was passing.
It would have been stranger if I had just stayed still and said nothing.
Any excuse- no, an explanation-
“Oh, I was at my brother’s house. Oh, yeah. I couldn’t go home, so yeah. My brother next door saw that and said, oh, yeah, okay. He told me to rest for a bit······.”
Hong Yu-hee spoke with an awkward smile, and Kang Jin-ho swallowed dry saliva without realizing it. It was because of the last sentence.
“I rested… and you want me to go?”
Hong Yu-hee’s mother, Kim Eun-jung, looked back at Kang Jin-ho with her eyebrows furrowed, and Kang Jin-ho gasped and opened his mouth with difficulty.
“That, that’s it. That’s why.”
I stuttered without realizing it.
On top of that, he was drenched in cold sweat, so if you looked at him from the side, he would look like a really strange person.
“That… the door is locked. It’s difficult, huh… Uh, yes. I think so.”
Kang Jin-ho acted well.
This is because he also received training as a spy from Rachel, who is believed to be Alexei’s lover.
But at this moment, his acting skills were not being displayed at all.
If Rachel had seen it, she would have sighed, but there was nothing she could do.
Reading a hard, truly Korean textbook.
Kim Eun-jung’s eyes narrowed, and Hong Yu-won’s gaze became even more fierce.
And Hong Yu-hee spoke again in a loud voice.
“P, I like my brother’s house next door better than going to a PC room or a sauna! Yeah, yeah! I ate well too!”
I’d rather stay at my brother’s house next door than spend the night at a PC room or a sauna.
Immediately after saying this, Hong Yu-hee’s mind was thrown into chaos.
“Get that bitch out! Get her out!”
“Ahhhh! I was wrong! I was wrong!”
Although middle school girl Hong Yu-hee pleaded, the school principal Hong Yu-hee was firm.
After kicking out the middle school girl Hong Yu-hee, I looked back at the remaining Hong Yu-hees and asked them.
“No matter how I look at it, it’s still a strange thing to say.”
My brother’s house next door is better than a PC room or a sauna!
Hong Yu-hee, the commander of the company who had just recited the lines once again, writhed in shame, and the Hong Yu-hees in their heads felt the same.
But one of them, Hong Yu-hee, who was wearing glasses, raised her hand and said.
“But Captain! Objectively speaking, it’s really better! It doesn’t cost any money! And it’s not dangerous!”
“It’s not dangerous?!”
“That’s right! PC rooms and jjimjilbangs are places where unspecified numbers of people come and go! Rather, they are more likely to be targets of crime. But my next-door neighbor is okay! He’s not an unspecified number of people, and he’s not a complete stranger… Ah! That’s it! That’s the point that needs to be emphasized!”
Hong Yu-hee, wearing glasses, clapped her hands loudly for a moment, then looked around at everyone and gave a passionate speech.
“I’m not a stranger! I’m not a dangerous person! I’m not some beast that was glaring at the girl next door with sinister eyes!”
“Huh, how?!”
The captain of the engineering department, Hong Yu-hee, asked, and Hong Yu-hee, wearing glasses, answered with a grin.
A solution was proposed.
“Oh, we played a game together. Oh, Hero Chronicles 2. You’re not a stranger. I’ve been watching you for almost 6 years now. Oh. Yeah. We’re in the same guild.”
As Hong Yu-hee stuttered through the words, Hong Yu-won frowned as if wondering what she was talking about, but Kim Eun-jung was different.
She knew very well what game her only daughter was playing in her life.
“Hero Chronicles 2? You did that together? With the bachelor next door? And for how many years?”
“Yeah. We’re close. Right, oppa?”
When Hong Yu-hee desperately looked back, Kang Jin-ho nodded reflexively.
“Uh, uh, yes. We’re close… Yes, we’re very close.”
So it’s not someone else.
No, he’s still the same guy, but he’s not a complete stranger.
We know each other well.
“Hehehe.”
Hong Yu-hee smiled awkwardly, and Kang Jin-ho smiled awkwardly.
But despite his desperate excuses, Hong Yu-won’s expression did not soften.
In the first place, sexual crimes were more likely to occur between acquaintances rather than strangers!
‘but······.’
It was a situation that seemed somewhat distant from a sexual crime.
It would be more correct to say that the two just met eyes.
But either way, from the perspective of a father with a daughter-
‘Euuum.’
Hong Yu-won frowned and thought.
If it was the former, then of course I should have beaten the guy in front of me to death, but if it was the latter, that is, if my now adult daughter was dating the older guy next door – then it was a difficult situation to say anything about.
‘Is there a bit of an age difference?’
The boy next door.
I don’t know the age.
Judging from his appearance, he looks like he’s in his mid-twenties. So there’s probably a 4-5 year age difference?
‘It’s a bit bothersome that I don’t know what kind of guy he is.’
Anyway, it was difficult to say anything right now.
In any case, it is true that Hong Yu-hee was in a rather awkward situation last night.
‘That’s why I skipped my trip.’
Although he was an adult, he was a child who had just become an adult.
My wife said nonchalantly that we could just go to a PC room or a sauna, but how could that work?
Moreover, isn’t Yuhee pretty, cute, and lovable!
It was too dangerous to go outside.
“Ugh.”
In the end, Hong Yu-won decided to take a step back, and Kim Eun-jung looked back at Hong Yu-won and then looked straight ahead – that is, at Kang Jin-ho and Hong Yu-hee – and spoke.
“My daughter is in trouble. I need to fix the door first, and then we can talk again after the situation is resolved.”
Kang Jin-ho nodded immediately, and Hong Yu-hee breathed a sigh of relief.
“Then, oppa, I’ll go.”
“Oh, okay. Oh, be careful on your way.”
“yes.”
After finishing the ambiguous conversation, Kang Jin-ho bowed to Hong Yu-won and Kim Eun-jung and went inside the house.
And a few seconds.
Kang Jin-ho, who took a deep breath once more, put his ear to the front door and instead of spying on the conversation outside, hurriedly went back to his room and watched the situation outside the door through the CCTV that was always running.
The locksmith was opening the front door, and Kim Eun-jung was roughly pulling Hong Yu-hee’s cheek.
“Ugh.”
I want to try pulling it too.
Oh, no. That’s not it.
Kang Jin-ho, who had gathered his wits by taking a nap, tried to focus on the conversation going on, but fortunately, there didn’t seem to be any more problematic stories.
“ha.”
About twenty minutes later.
After sending the locksmith away and the Hong Yu-hee family entering the house, Kang Jin-ho sighed deeply and sat down in his seat.
It’s a similar feeling to being isolated in enemy territory and barely managing to escape.
I feel so relaxed that I feel like I can’t do anything.
“Sigh, shit.”
Kang Jin-ho, who let out the exclamation that Hong Yu-hee always had on his lips, closed his eyes. And then he found himself laughing without realizing it.
I couldn’t stop laughing, whether it was because I had overcome an awkward, difficult, or just plain hard situation, or for some other reason.
Laughter.
&
Time passed.
It’s already evening again.
Unlike yesterday, I had dinner alone as usual.
I haven’t accessed Hero Chronicles 2.
Even though the group chat and even the individual chats were full of messages from chat room members, I didn’t read them at all because it seemed like I was ignoring them.
And the same would probably be true for Hong Yu-hee.
“Haa… Really, really.”
What on earth is all this noise?
The identity of the yellow storm.
The girl next door.
It turns out that Yellow Storm was actually a cute, pretty, and lovely girl.
“Oh, really.”
I felt strange.
It was strange and strange again.
And the scent.
When I close my eyes, the scent of Hong Yu-hee’s body and warm warmth come to mind.
Come to think of it, it’s been years since I last hugged someone.
Wasn’t this the first time since he retired that he hugged his colleagues?
‘What should I do from now on?’
When you encounter a yellow storm in the game.
No, if you meet Hong Yu-hee on the street.
Actually, I was somewhat prepared for it.
I am determined that after going to the meeting and seeing the real Yellow Storm, things will change.
But this was beyond imagination.
I had never even considered this situation.
“Ah… Should I just quit the game?”
When you continue to think about this and that.
The phone vibrated, and Kang Jin-ho glanced at it.
Most group chats and private chats had notifications turned off, so if I was getting a notification now, it was either from a new person who had been added, or from one person who had intentionally not turned notifications off.
[Honey, are you sleeping?]
Hong Yu-hee’s talk.
It was a private message, not a group chat, and Kang Jin-ho swallowed dry saliva without realizing it. He grabbed his phone and gave a reflexive response.
[Not yet. You?]
[ㅋㅋㅋ How do you use KakaoTalk when you sleep?]
That was a valid point.
I never thought Nobok would say something so rational.
But what do you say now?
[That’s right.]
The answer to ‘How do I do it?’ is ‘Yes, that’s right.’
Even if Kang Jin-ho himself thought about it, it was an incredibly pathetic answer, but he couldn’t help it.
‘Ugh, what is it? Why is my heart beating like this?’
Not heart-pounding, but thumping.
The heartbeat is so loud.
[Oppa.]
[uh.]
[Oppa.]
[uh.]
[Oppa.]
[uh.]
[ㅋㅋㅋ That’s all I can do.]
You’re only doing that to your brother!
– The cry rose to the tip of my tongue, but I didn’t actually let it out. I was more concerned about how to overcome this situation.
‘What, what should I say?’
And why is he doing this to me now?
If it were normal.
So, if you think you received a KakaoTalk message from Nobok-
[Is it time to take your medicine?]
– I would have answered like that, but it was impossible now.
How could you send such a text to Hong Yu-hee, the girl next door?
[Oppa.]
[huh.]
[ㅋㅋㅋ It did change. Yeah.]
Are you kidding me now?
Kang Jin-ho was furious, but strangely enough, he kept laughing.
I wonder if Hong Yu-hee is smiling like me on the other side?
[Oppa. It was fun yesterday. Let’s play together again next time.]
[okay.]
Actually, we were playing Hero Chronicles 2 together every day anyway.
[And··· what are you going to tell the chatroom members that we met?]
It was an important issue.
A really, really important question.
[Well… If you don’t mind, how about keeping it a secret for now?]
[Right? I think you’d like that too, oppa?]
AAA and Kowabunga will be busy making fun of each other if they know the truth(?).
[I told you, it’s obvious that they’ll spread the rumor even to the heroic biographies, right?]
As Hong Yu-hee began to send messages quickly, Kang Jin-ho got up from his seat and turned on his computer.
It was to chat with Hong Yu-hee through KakaoTalk for PC.
[I told you that my dad kept nagging me so much that I had a really hard time. I just played games, lol]
Hong Yu-hee continued to send text messages quickly.
That’s a lot of chatter.
But strangely enough, even though it was just text, I felt like I could hear a voice. A vivid expression appeared in my head.
[I’m glad you didn’t get in trouble.]
[Huh, what did you do to deserve this? Well, I guess I did a little bit, but?]
Why do I feel embarrassed in this sentence?
Kang Jin-ho, who remembered what happened in the morning, blushed slightly, coughed, and then continued his conversation with Hong Yu-hee.
10 minutes, 20 minutes, an hour.
The two of them couldn’t sleep until late at night.
&
The next morning.
When Hong Yu-hee, who had been absorbed in KakaoTalk until dawn, was sleeping late, believing that Gonggang was there.
When Kang Jin-ho woke up habitually and started his morning exercise.
A huge crisis has arrived in Korea.
This is someone who could be a huge threat not only to Kang Jin-ho and Hong Yu-hee, but even to Yuder and Cordelia.
“Is this… Gino’s country?”
A beauty so striking that everyone passing by cannot help but stop and turn around.
A blue-eyed woman with long, platinum-blond hair took off her sunglasses and looked out the airport window.
Gino.
Kang Jin-ho.
The name of Alexei’s disciple and the man who inherited everything.
“Gino.”
The woman smiled brightly as she recited the name again.
Natasha Molotov.
She, the owner of a fatal beauty, took a step forward while thinking of Kang Jin-ho’s face.
to be continued
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