chapter 24
debt
“Hoo-wook… Whoop… .”
Early in the morning, the sound of breathing filled the yard of the Samcheong-dong mansion.
“Are you okay?”
“Hoo-wook… . that, then… Don’t be okay.”
Even though the hot days had already passed, the father was so drenched in sweat that his gray training clothes were stained black.
It was clear that he was having an incredibly difficult time.
On the other hand, Ha Yeon-woo is not sweaty, not even a speck of dust.
“Shall we end here today?”
“damn… . A father who gets beat up by his son.”
After moving in, Ha Yeon-woo’s life schedule was repeated almost every day.
He didn’t need the act of sleeping, so he only slept for about two hours a day.
After my father wakes up and practices together, we have breakfast.
My father, who had regained almost complete stability both physically and psychologically, was recovering one by one the human relationships that had been cut off due to frequent outings.
After coming home, washing briefly, and seeing off such a father, I indulged in the past 10 years that I had lost.
It’s boring for some people, but that’s why it’s rather nice.
“Sooner or later, I’ll blow a chestnut on the back of your head.”
“If possible.”
He smiled face to face with his father, who laughed humorously and joked around, grabbed his hand and stood him up.
Humans are animals of adaptation. The human heart was so deceitful.
How to go beyond self-objectification and do all the thoughts you can when you live in seclusion for hundreds of years. He was well aware of himself.
The cause of the mental problems that have been going on all the way, is not because of the sadness of losing someone, but because of guilt.
If the way to say goodbye to the family members of the Pan continent, who were ordinary people, had been ordinary. My mind and way of thinking couldn’t have been so twisted.
And that guilt, I guess, seemed to have subsided quite a bit as he returned and rescued his father.
Maybe it was because he had no hallucinations and felt psychological relief that his father was alive. Additional symptoms, such as obsessive-compulsive and anxiety disorders, also felt like they were slowly fading.
Even if that was the case, it was impossible to selfishly restrain his father.
Every time I went out, the cougar’s subordinates, who followed me and provided indirect security, took care of me.
The monotonous pattern he had spent indulging in information and helping his father train was repeating itself for nearly three weeks.
“Are you going to eat?”
“So be it. It’s a hospital, so it’s a nuisance to eat out and leave smelly on the way.”
Today was the day the rich went out together for the first time in a while.
* * *
After preparing, the father and son headed to the hospice ward in Nowon-gu, their home.
Beep- beep- beep-
The consistent beeps from the ECG machine filled the room.
4 person room. As the name suggests, there were four beds, but only two were completely filled.
Seeing that one of the two empty beds was messed up, it seemed that someone had passed away today.
This is because the hospice ward was hospitalized for severe cancer patients who could not even move.
“Geuhup… .”
After entering the hospital room and checking on someone, the sound of struggling to hold back the tears escaped from the father’s mouth.
A shivering shoulder.
The name of the middle-aged man lying on the bed is Jang Baek-gi. He was a person who was also in Ha Yeon-woo’s hazy memories.
And now he was an adult who had to repay the favor. That is why we are here together.
My father, who had approached his friend who was motionless as if he were dead, sat down on the floor, not even thinking of sitting in a chair.
All Ha Yeon-woo could do was to keep his eyes on the sad encounter.
How much more time had passed like that.
My father struggled to stand up, holding his dry hand on the edge of the bed and opening his mouth.
“This white flag man… . why… Why are you going in such a hurry… . How to repay the favor… .”
distant past. So, even after Ha Yeon-woo spent time on the Pan continent, it was a relationship that had been going on for decades.
A hardware store that my father used to run in Nowon, my hometown. The small convenience store right next to it was the shop of Mr. Baekgi, who was lying right there.
Is it because they both lost their wives due to chronic diseases and have one child together?
After going up to middle school, they would have started to live like close friends.
And when it went over to the pan continent.
I heard that it was Mr. Baekgi who helped his father, who was struggling to find his son, more than anyone else.
Put up flyers together, look after stores, accompany you to the police station… .
If there is something I am grateful for that I cannot replace with anything else, it is the fact that I held my father by my side when I was mentally exhausted and exhausted.
I was afraid that I would think of nonsense when I was drunk, so on days when I drank, I always took my father to his house to sleep.
Ha Yeon-woo’s eyes looking at the two also deepened.
The father barely stopped crying and took a seat next to Mr. Baekgi and started talking for a while.
“Our Yeonwoo is well… .”
As if it’s okay not to listen. As if it was his duty to deliver the news of the past.
Even my father knows. The fact that there won’t be many opportunities if I don’t say one more word now.
Ha Yeon-woo’s choice was to be considerate of the two friends’ time.
I put my hand lightly on my father’s shoulder, and after a short conversation with my eyes, I quietly left the hospital room alone.
* * *
Right after his father went to the nursing hospital, Mr. Baekgi said that he went around all over the place to find out what had happened in his own way.
In the end, they decided that there was a problem and went to the police.
All of these were stories my father heard from acquaintances while restoring human relationships.
A close friend and the head of a missing family who had a drinking party until a few days ago.
Such a person suddenly loses contact, then remarries, and is admitted to a nursing hospital at about the same time?
I would have thought it was nonsense.
Of course, there was no problem in the legal boundary, so I couldn’t use any special measures.
After that, you would have been diagnosed with cancer before you did anything right.
It was obvious that he was hospitalized for more than a year in a hospice ward for life-sustaining treatment.
According to the doctor, the lungs were already useless, and the respirator and the inserted tube were taking their place, and the cancerous mass had spread to the vertebrae and surrounding organs.
No, there are only a few things left that can already play a full role beyond simply spreading.
It was the last stage of life, and it was impossible to survive for more than a month conservatively.
Even if Ha Yeon-woo pioneered unknown territory and reached a level beyond a simple soldier, it was not possible.
His condition had no room for resuscitation unless most of his organs and bones were replaced.
Ha Yeon-woo was able to reach unknown territory with the realization he gained when he let go of his mind and body in the past.
The power of marriage that was obtained at that time could certainly do things like regeneration, the power to twist some of the providence.
Is it God’s arrangement, is it a joke, or is a human being a being with the possibility of becoming a god? what is the next level It didn’t matter that much. Because it’s something you’ll have to experience yourself in the future.
One thing is certain, however, that the realm of regeneration extends only to Ha Yeon-woo, the owner of the marriage period.
It was different from the process of healing my father. At that time, it was a situation that was far from regeneration. It was a different matter from simply mixing mana and soul energy properly to drive out the wastes in the body.
Unfortunately, there was no suitable way.
Most of the time Ha Yeon-woo spent on the Pan continent was like a war, but the people left here were also fighting their own war.
“This is the information you said.”
Corporate presidents sat behind a Rolls-Royce, which was likely to be used for business purposes, and read the materials handed to them.
The several documents handed over by the cougar’s gang members were filled with things about Jang Bora, the daughter of Mr. Baekgi.
Sarak- Sarak-
Even if you hire a local private detective, it is a world where you can find out quite a few things about ordinary people in a week.
If the cougar was moving, it was impossible to conceal itself, at least not to the extent of state agencies.
Well, there was no reason for her to hide in the first place, and she never did.
Sarak-
To sum up the contents of the data and express it in one word, ‘disadvantage.’ That was just about right.
Similar to Ha Yeon-woo, he lost his mother when he was young and was bullied in school when he was in middle school. After entering high school, a gate incident broke out.
“A pretty face and a good personality. Were you jealous of good friendships? Can you even know this?”
“We investigated everyone, even former classmates.”
It is said that the whole history of one person was dug up in just two days. It also went through cross-validation in its own way.
It was said that the cougar’s intelligence surpassed the national level, at least to some extent, but it didn’t seem wrong.
As Ha Yeon-woo knows, fortunately both father and daughter survived the incident 10 years ago.
The missing person, his father who finds it, and Mr. Baekgi who helps him.
Jang Bora also naturally started working at a convenience store from the young age of a high school student, instead of looking for a dream such as a relationship with a friend or a job.
A few more years passed and she was twenty-two.
The monotonous life continued, in which all rest was to come home and eat delicious food.
I wondered why that was because there was almost nothing written on the documents, but in fact, I hadn’t traveled once except for a convenience store and a house.
Then, during a free examination through health insurance, his father was accidentally diagnosed with cancer.
It was because less than a year had passed since my father was caught in the clutches of the Korean-Japanese group.
5 years like that. Like other cancer patient families, it was a time when they poured money for treatment like pouring water into a bottomless pot.
It was not a situation where I would starve to death right away or sit down on the street.
“Limits.”
“Yes, it would not be strange to go through bankruptcy proceedings anytime. It seems that he is holding out because of his father… .”
Because of the medical expenses, he went back and forth between the first and second finances, and even took a private loan. 3 billion in total debt.
In the end, the treatment failed, and from a year ago, he was in a hospice ward.
It is a place where insurance for terminal cancer patients is applied, so the hospitalization fee is about 20,000 won a day, but all the medical services performed there were also money.
In the end, now that she has come, all she has left is a debt of 300 million, a father who doesn’t know when he will die, and hospital bills that are billed every month. As a bonus, it’s just an old convenience store and an apartment building that haven’t been able to pay the rent on time since three months ago.
He opened his mouth as he tossed the document he had read quickly into the seat next to him.
“let’s go.”
“Yes, I will depart.”
* * *
“under… . Here again.”
As soon as she saw the Benz stopped in front of the building, it was the sound that flowed from Jang Bo-ra’s mouth.
Soon after seeing the man getting out of the car, even his expression twisted.
It seems that even getting out of the car is difficult, a thick gold bracelet in the hand holding the window, and a tattoo on the arm protruding from the cheap-looking short sleeve. He was such a man.
Height over 190. A man covered in tattoos approached the convenience store, his fat body writhing to the point that he wondered if it was similar to that.
with my daughter-
“Look, what are we doing?”
I felt like my stomach was twisted by the greasy line, but I couldn’t lose my smile with superhuman patience.
That piglet is the son of the owner of this convenience store. No, it was because he had been the owner of a building in his name from half a year ago.
“I was working.”
As if the cold reaction was good, the man’s neck and chin tingled as he smiled. and trembled
A man who opens his mouth subtly, touching various places in the convenience store.
“Have you thought about it?”
“The overdue rent will be paid within this month, the other day… .”
He was the one I didn’t like since I was the son of the building owner.
Maybe the sky was indifferent, because it had a natural awakening at the time of the gate outbreak.
Thanks to having a father who was a local leader, after entering a guild that was quite famous in Nowon-gu, his outspoken behavior got worse.
I could understand being ignored or belittled. because I’m used to it
The problem is that after his father was hospitalized with cancer and took over the job at a convenience store, he continues to reveal his infatuation.
It had been going on for almost three years already.
“Hey, not that. There’s something I suggested. Haven’t you thought about that?”
Dirty bastard.
At least when I was in high school, all I could do was send a sticky look from time to time.
After becoming an adult, she openly flirted with her, but when her father was around, she still kept the line that she had to keep as a human being.
I was completely unemployed now.
“I would have said that before. I am not interested.”
“Why aren’t you interested? Who can give such a good suggestion?”
Even in death, Jang Bo-ra could not accept the proposal that the pig, who knew the general circumstances of the family, had given her three months ago.
‘Every time you sleep, you get 50 monthly rent? You better kill me, you bastard pig.’
Jang Bo-ra answered firmly with a firm expression, while trying to hide her inner feelings of profanity.
“I’m really sorry about the late rent. Now that the house has been put up for sale, the deposit is due as soon as it is sold… .”
bang-
“That’s damn expensive.”