Heo Gunpil Center - Chapter 128



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Episode 128. Summer: Friends (7)

Starting with the 98th graduating class of Yeonggwang First Middle School, there are three famous products that have been passed down to subsequent classes.

One of them is the ghost of the annex music room, two are Pi Ju-hee, and the last one is… … .

“No credit, no debt. No cash only.”

It’s Park Seung-ri.

He, who said that he had talked to only a handful of people, even more than Pi Joo-hee, was so firm that it made one doubt whether he had actually heard Park Han-byeol’s brief explanation of the story.

“… … .”

When Pi Ju-hee stares at him intently, he spits out words that are almost like excuses, as if his feet are trembling.

“What, what. What, why? You don’t have money, right? I could tell you didn’t have money even before I heard the story.”

“… … .”

“Junior! Junior, how much money do you have!”

At Park Seung-ri’s words, she searched her pockets. Her clothes, her shirt, her skirt. After searching through all her pockets, the only money she found were five crumpled thousand-won bills, one five-hundred-won coin, and three hundred-won coins.

“… … This is everything to me.”

Park Seung-ri, who was looking at the 5,800 won bill lying around on the desk, turned his eyes back to the monitor as if it wasn’t worth answering.

Ilsun Jangmi shouted, hitting the desk loudly.

“Me! I’ll pay for it!”

“Rose beauty.”

“Hey, Mimi…?”

Pi Joo-hee and Park Han-byeol grabbed her arms. Soon, Park Seung-ri sighed and ended the game. She leaned back against the chair and said.

“Junior, do you know what my price is? Do you know where the unit price starts?”

He unfurled one of his fingers, which had been typing dazzlingly on the keyboard.

“Five chapters. Let’s start with five small ones.”

Even if I don’t get the big ones, I get at least five small ones.

If it was indifferent, it was an indifferent attitude.

So, Jang Mi-mi remembered the envelope that Heo Geon-pil had handed her in the previous incident. It was an envelope with a thick, gold outline.

Well, if a white envelope is going to puff up that much… … .

“Five hundred thousand won. Is that right?!”

“… … Just go.”

Park Seung-ri didn’t have the confidence to speak coldly after seeing Jang Mi’s face. He waved his hand, his eyes fixed on the monitor screen that was now empty.

“Why are the two of us doing this without the boss? Bring the boss over—”

“It doesn’t matter! It doesn’t matter how much it is, it doesn’t matter how much it is!”

“Huh?” Jang Mi-mi said in front of him. Park Han-byeol tried to stop her again.

“Mi, Mi-mi, no. This is me…!”

“Tsk tsk. Junior, come here for a moment.”

Park Seung-ri, who had pulled out a chair, gestured to Jang Mi-mi. It was a corner of the office where abandoned monitors and consoles were piled up.

“you…….”

As soon as Pi Joo-hee, who was doubtful about what he was going to say, took a step forward, he started talking again.

“What am I doing? If I get hit with just one punch from a junior, I’ll go to the goal!”

It seemed as if he was avoiding Pi Ju-hee. Park Seung-ri noticed the situation and moved away from Pi Ju-hee in a corner before coughing once.

“So, junior, are you close with that guy?”

“……yes?”

“Did you even get a sister?”

“That, that’s not it… … .”

“What? Then why are you willing to help me by even paying for it? Are you Mother Teresa? Nightingale?”

“That’s not it… … .”

Park Seung-ri swept the back of his hair that was flying like dog hair.

“Junior, how many people do you think I’ve seen while doing this job?”

“… … .”

“There are countless people in situations as absurd and pitiful as that junior.”

Park Seung-ri, who is always light-hearted, at least now… was not like that when he said this.

The appearance sometimes resembled that of Heo Geon-pil and Kim Min-su.

“Helping someone means pouring in money, time, and effort. So you can’t help everyone.”

“… … .”

“Then who will you not help and who will you not save? Right now, there is only one junior, but someday there will be two, then three. When that happens, I will never be able to help you like I do now. Discontent will surely explode. Can the junior endure the resentment that arises solely from his own judgment?”

“… … Even the boss would have done that―”

“It’s against the rules to bring out the boss, junior. The boss is an exception.”

“… … .”

“The boss has that kind of power. He has the power to handle things and take responsibility for them. But what about you, my junior? Do you have that kind of power?”

I kept my mouth shut.

Heo Geon-pil always went in a ridiculous direction. Sometimes he went in a ridiculous way that shocked Jang Mi. However… there was always a way to solve the problem at the end. It was like magic. It was always like that.

What about Rosemi?

“no.”

I didn’t have the strength to do that.

Park Seung-ri nodded as if he was finally making sense.

“Okay. Then boss—”

“only.”

But Jang Mi did not finish speaking.

“I just help who I can now. Until someday, when I can become like you, sir.”

A look so clear and definite.

‘… … Would you like it if it was just as cute as your face?’

Unfortunately, Park Seung-ri was weak in this regard. In fact, it was not so much that he was weak as that he felt an instinctive aversion to it.

‘I thought we were complete opposites because you said we fought like rats. But we look so much alike.’

Park Seung-ri glanced at Pi Joo-hee, who was looking at him with her arms crossed, and eventually let out a huge sigh.

“Haaah. Junior!”

I don’t like it, though.

This really didn’t suit his aptitude. But his mouth was already asking Park Han-byeol.

“Where is your junior, Mr. Park?”

“yes yes?”

“Where is Mr. Park?”

“I… probably Miryang Park… … .”

When Park Han-byeol stuttered, flustered by the sudden question, he spoke resolutely.

“From today onwards, I’ll be Bannam Park.”

“yes?”

“Where is your junior, Mr. Park?”

“Yes, Mr. Park Ban-nam.”

Yeah, yeah.

He nodded and rolled over on the chair he was leaning on, almost lying down. He returned to his seat and cracked his knuckles in front of the monitor.

“Same-sex family, huh? We’re helping out at a discounted price as a way of showing our respect for each other as family.”

Five small ones.

He threw the small coins at Park Han-byeol and stuffed five thousand won bills into his hoodie. He turned on the main unit and repeatedly pressed the mouse and keyboard.

“Which hospital was it?”

“Shinseong University Hospital.”

“Oh, why the hell is it a sacred thing again?”

Park Seung-ri grumbles at Pi Joo-hee’s words.

“Boss, you have to be nice to me. How many times have I broken the unwritten rules of the industry to help you?”

“You shouldn’t be in a position to say something like that.”

“… … That’s what I’m saying. At this point, I’ll be scouted as an employee too—”

“no.”

“Yeah, Scout is a bit over the top… … .”

Breaking news. But he quickly backed down at Pi Joo-hee’s words, which seemed unpleasant.

“It’ll take quite some time to play it back in real time… Is the most recently saved record sufficient?”

“The records up until this morning are sufficient.”

“iced coffee.”

Bam! A blue screen with some unknown string of characters repeating for a long time.

Park Seung-ri pressed the Enter key as if to conclude his statement.

“Then look for it.”

Phew. Dozens of monitors that had been dark suddenly lit up at the same time.

“… … !”

Park Han-byeol covered her mouth with both hands. She remembered. The past principal’s lecture time, the video that Park Seung-ri played after hacking the school broadcast room. At that time, Park Han-byeol couldn’t stop staring at the fact that he hacked the school broadcast room.

But really… I really didn’t expect it to be this bad.

What was lighting up dozens of monitor screens at the moment was… … CCTV footage from Shinsung University Hospital!

“Over here. Play the CCTV footage from this ward to the outside.”

Although most of them looked similar, Pi Joo-hee, who never forgot the wards she had visited once, pointed to the CCTV footage and said.

‘No, you’re not surprised?’

Even Park Han-byeol, who was more impatient and anxious than anyone else, couldn’t calm down because she was so shocked. However, Pi Joo-hee and Jang Mi-mi watched the CCTV footage as if nothing had happened. They looked so familiar.

“There are CCTVs installed inside the hospital room as well.”

“The problem is that you can’t see it when the curtains are drawn.”

Pi Joo-hee and Jang Mi-mi said while looking at the CCTV inside the hospital room.

In the early morning hours, they could confirm his presence in the former summer’s seat, but the curtains were drawn, making it impossible to determine which ‘guardian’ was directed to which ‘patient’.

“There are quite a few caregivers and guardians coming and going. This is something that can only be confirmed at the ward desk―”

uh?

As soon as Jang Mi-mi, who had received the mouse, switched the CCTV screen to the ward desk, Pi Joo-hee and Park Han-byeol let out exclamations together.

“This man.”

“this person is,”

The two pointed to a single person on the monitor screen. He was standing in front of the desk, signing a piece of paper as instructed by the nurse. When he finished writing and showed his front view instead of his side view, Pi Joo-hee let out a confident voice.

“found.”

The CCTV footage wasn’t clear, but I had no trouble recognizing the faces I remembered.

“During the Ssangryongpa incident, the boss was the dealer who took the phone.”

“The one who supplied medicine to the store…!”

seller.

The two looked at each other. It was indeed fitting.

“Park Seung-ri. Are the records saved on this man’s phone still there?”

Although the person who met him face to face was Heo Geon-pil, when they connected this man’s phone to the computer, they checked not only the photo album but also the file box. There may be information that can be obtained, even if it is small.

Knock knock!

Park Seung-ri hurriedly opened the desk drawer. The drawer was filled with hundreds of USBs. Whether he could figure out this mess himself, he easily found a black USB and threw it in.

“Yeah, this picture.”

Pi Joo-hee found a photo in the USB. It was a selfie of a man who was trying to look cool and deadly. When compared to the CCTV footage, it matched perfectly.

Jeon Yeoreum muttered.

“The one delivering the items to the store was Summer Oppa… that is, the Oppas from the Runaway Family, and the one who came to collect the payment was this guy.”

“You came to receive the money in person? You checked the deposit and withdrawal history at that time. You could have received the deposit, but why did you take the risk and come to receive it in person?”

Pi Ju-hee, who sensed something suspicious, reacted quickly.

“Even if you look at it roughly, it was quite a large sum. They used to put the money in a bag instead of an envelope. The reason they came to collect the money in person is… probably because there are many people who disappear with the money. There are quite a few people who touch a large sum of money and disappear.”

Now that I think about it… … I wonder why I insisted on cash.

Park Han-byeol looks up at the man on the monitor screen with wide eyes.

“I think I know why.”

Park Seung-ri shrugged her shoulders between the three students who were lost in thought.

“You know?”

“Have you forgotten who will appear when you climb up this seller? You guys, have you forgotten why you came to me last time?”

The reason they looked for Park Seung-ri during the last incident with the Ssangryongpa.

Because the bag of laundered money and the bag containing the law were switched.

“This piece of trash, he barely managed to get caught! And yet…!”

“I haven’t come to my senses yet.”

Pi Ju-hee pushed up her glasses at the indignant Rose Mi.

“Now let’s see where this kid has been transported all summer. Park Seung-ri, can you see it?”

“It’s gum.”

Pi Ju-hee and Jang Mi-mi grabbed the magic weapon in one breath.

“I’ll go there the moment I find it.”

“huh.”

* * *

“… … ?!”

Suddenly, Geonpil, who had been lying down in front of the TV watching a drama, got up from his seat in a hurry.

“Boss, Shin Sophia is coming out now! Why are you doing that?”

Kim Min-soo, who was sitting next to him and mixing water in his glass, asked.

“The puppies I’m raising… are like someone spilling a bucket of rice… .”

“yes?”

The answer to the question only became more confusing.