Rust - Chapter 193



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RUST -193

Maru quietly saved the cafe CCTV footage.

‘This is definitely a permanent stuffed animal.’

It was right to keep my friend’s dark history. If he talks nonsense, I’ll show him the video evidence. Surely… no, right? If he just disappeared because he was a car, I really won’t let him go. That bastard Ki-soon.

?

I waited quietly, but there were no additional texts or further activity from Hood.

[What happened after we broke up at the cafe?]

[Since there are many places where CCTV records have been deleted, it will take time to track them down. We will contact you as soon as we confirm.]

If that’s the case, then yes.

[thanks for your effort.]

[yes.]

Kim Yang, who had her eyes closed, opened them slightly, perhaps out of curiosity at Maru’s monologue of ‘permanent stuffed animal.’ This kind of video is more fun to watch if you watch it over and over. Maru gently pushed the phone in front of Kim Yang.

“Are you kidding me?”

“Look.”

What would Kim Yang say after watching the video to the end? It felt uncomfortable. It was strange to call it a confession and a rejection. The man confesses. But to call it a scene where the woman says, ‘I don’t like it.’ It was a bit too much in many ways…

‘That’s strange.’

Kim Yang’s brow furrowed slightly. Maru asked her slyly, wondering if she was interested in Gi-sun after what happened on the yacht.

“Why is your expression like that?”

“No. It’s a little weird.”

“what?”

“It’s not like a normal confession or chime.”

Is the perspective of women different? When Maru sent her a look telling her to continue, Kim Yang seemed to hesitate for a moment about whether she should say this, and then started talking.

“What should I do before confessing?”

“Will it set the mood?”

“Then, before confessing, why don’t you create a good atmosphere and then confess when you feel like it’s going to work out?”

“however?”

Ms. Kim turned back the CCTV screen. It returned to the scene where two people were talking to each other after entering the cafe. Ms. Kim pointed at the faces of the two people with her finger.

“Isn’t it strange from the start?”

Listening to what Ms. Kim said, that’s what happened. Didn’t you go there to confess?

“then?”

“I don’t think it’s a confession. Your little sister is pretty.”

I should have known when Manager Hong was talking about ginseng like that. Yeah. Ki-soon was so enamored with him. I thought he was a butcher with long hair because he was the younger brother of a butcher, but he looked completely different.

Kim Yang looked at Naru in the video with tired eyes.

‘You look like you like liver.’

It was Miss Kim who added the deduction. Miss Kim added more deductions after seeing Maru looking somewhat disappointed at her words that it didn’t seem like a confession.

From the beginning, I didn’t like the younger sister. Kim Yang, who saved her as a girl who would eat her brother’s spine, comforted Maru.

“Gisun is smart and surprisingly stubborn, so she’ll do well.”

So, hand over your younger sibling to Ki-soon and find peace of mind. Maru nodded in surprise at the sad look in Kim Yang’s eyes.

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Ki-soon’s mind was complicated. Still, he wanted to help Maru and Naru reconcile. They were close friends, and he had been in love with Naru for over ten years.

It was hard when the woman I loved and her older brother lived like enemies.

‘Where should I start?’

I heard from Maru that Oh Jin Group’s Na Ju-hyun was going to live together in the same house, but I didn’t know that they would be together forever.

Isn’t that usually the case? Even if you say something like, ‘Let’s live together in my house,’ it’s not easy for that to actually happen.

If you are from a wealthy family, it is even worse. If you live off of a wealthy relative, isn’t it obvious to others? Even if your economic power is similar, wouldn’t it be even worse if it is not?

But, it’s not common these days for them to drive each other to concerts and live together, even if they’re real sisters.

‘Ojin Group.’

It was a subsidiary of the World Group and then became independent. It quickly expanded its scope to include pharmaceuticals, bio, food, chemicals, and chemical engineering, and grew into a group.

Suddenly, I remembered what I had seen on Manager Hong’s USB.

The contents of the file that I could open among many files. At first, I wondered what it meant. The abbreviation HMR. And the units of mg. When I thought about the stories of Maru’s obsession with him and the restrictions, my suspicion was the same.

‘I did something to Maru.’

At first, I thought it was over. But when I think about what I experienced in Japan, it wasn’t over. Yamazuki Pharmaceutical, Takaichi Shinyaku. Japanese pharmaceutical companies were making strange drugs.

Medicines like Berserker Fall, rapid cures. So were they just imported into Korea? What about the medicines Maru mentioned? Where were the medicines in World Livestock made?

My friend worked at World Livestock for almost two years. For two years, he put something in the company lunch and fed it to the animals and observed them. This was the result that Ki-sun had thought of.

In that sense, the story Maru told when he entered World Livestock was also meaningful. He said that there were many cases of people who were doing well suddenly quitting the company. He said that it was strange that they were giving a lot of money.

Maru, who had no knowledge of that kind of work to begin with, suddenly found himself going into the livestock industry, and as he went along, there were many strange things that caught his eye.

After taking a break from school and being discharged from the military, you suddenly go into the livestock industry, and even to a slaughterhouse? Don’t you usually go into other fields? If you go into the field with higher hourly wages, there are many other jobs. Even if you do delivery work, you can earn more.

But is it your first time going there? And what are the chances that the company is a World Group money laundering company? And what are the chances that it has a relationship with Ojin Pharmaceutical? And what are the chances that it even takes care of its younger sibling? What are the chances that it was between the houses in front and behind?

When coincidences overlap like this, it must be seen as fate. And if it is fate, there must have been someone’s intention involved.

‘Chairman Naojin.’

The person who lived in the house behind Marune’s house before it was destroyed.

‘Na Ju-hyeon.’

The only daughter of Chairman Naojin. She was a famous child in many ways. Some said she was a genius, and others said she had a mental disorder. She was obsessed with Maru during her elementary and middle school years.

‘Fuck.’

Ki-sun gave up on her thoughts, which were becoming more and more complicated the more she thought about them, and looked at Naru, who was sitting next to her with a bouquet of flowers.

“Brother Ki-sun.”

“uh-”

The Naru I saw after a long time was beautiful. So much so that I lost my words. I couldn’t think of anything.

“It’s been a while. What’s going on? How did you find out about the concert? I didn’t know you were coming. I’m really surprised.”

“Oh, yeah. You play well.”

Ki-sun’s hair turned white. Naru smiled faintly as she looked at Ki-sun who was saying, “Oh my.”

“thank you.”

“Ah- hahaha- what. I was the one who listened to the performance carefully. You were really good.”

“Thanks to unnie Joohyun.”

“That… is that so? If it’s Joo-hyun, is it the Joo-hyun who used to live in the house behind you?”

Naru answered as if she was bragging about her older sister.

“Oh. That’s Na Ju-hyun from the Ohjin Group.”

“What a grateful person.”

“Thank you. Thanks to that older sister, I was able to do well in this concert.”

The conversation stopped and there was a brief silence. Ki-sun’s mouth was parched. He wanted to talk about Maru, clear up the misunderstanding, and ask her to go to America together, but he felt that it was not the right time to talk about it in this atmosphere.

The silence was stifling. I had to start talking, but my mind went blank, not knowing what to say.

Joohyun? Yeah, Joohyun really liked Maru. It seems like Naru follows Joohyun. Kisoon blurted out before he could organize his thoughts.

“Joohyun really liked Maru.”

“···What are you trying to say?”

The atmosphere suddenly became cold. Naru’s eyes became cold. Isn’t this it?

“No, it’s just that. I remember Maru being popular back in the day.”

“Why are you bringing up that human story?”

Shit. Ki-soon cursed at herself inwardly.

I should have been more careful.

Naru burst into anger, thinking that Ki-soon’s panic was silence.

“No way. You don’t know? Didn’t you ask your brother to go abroad with you?”

“······.”

“Oh? You don’t know, oppa. That guy caused a big accident and left for Korea. Haven’t you heard the news?”

“······.”

“Well, you contacted me by email, but it’s been over three months since you contacted me.”

“······.”

Ki-sun felt frustrated and didn’t know what to say.

“It must have been because of something.”

“What’s going on? How important is it that you don’t even call your hospitalized dad, and you don’t even bother to pay attention to your mom who’s been in a facility. You said you wanted to cut ties with your younger sister and live together, but you haven’t sent her a single text in over three months?”

“Could it be that there were unavoidable circumstances?”

“What, oppa? You were in contact with that person? Is that why you’re taking his side?”

“No. That’s not it.”

“Then? Then what? If you abandon your family and don’t even call them once, what are the unavoidable circumstances?”

“This isn’t it.” Ki-sun said.

“I wonder if he did that because he was worried that contacting them might harm his family?”

“The sun is going down? Tell your family that I called? Who said it was wiretapping?”

“I guess they did it because they thought the World Group people would be after them.”

“···You knew? You knew what that person did and pretended not to know?”

“I was wondering why you suddenly came to the concert after not contacting me, and it turns out that person told me to go?”

“That sounds a bit harsh. What kind of person is that person? That person… No matter how much we fought, that’s not right.”

“···Are you teaching me what to do when you meet after a long time? Do this and that? This is right. That is right. You are wrong?”

“That’s not what I meant.”

“The old saying is really true. They say that like-minded people gather together. That’s enough. From now on, let’s not pretend to know each other and just get along. Mr. Kim Ki-soon.”

“···You’ve really changed a lot, haven’t you?”

Naru got up from her seat without answering Gisun’s words.

It was boring.

Changed? Then it must have changed. Isn’t it normal for one’s personality to remain the same even though one’s family is ruined?

“Hanaru. Sit down. Na Ju-hyeon, who you follow as your older sister. That person might not be the person you think she is.”

Naru ignored him as if he had no sense of humor and went outside.

Couldn’t he be that kind of person? Isn’t that how it is? The world has always been like that. It’s a different place than what you thought. That’s the world. Do you think that the people living in that world are just like you think?

What matters is now. It was the present.

And now. Na Ju-hyeon was an important person and someone to be thankful for. That was it.

As Naru approached the parked Rolls-Royce, the man sitting in the passenger seat got out and politely opened the door. Inside the car, Na Ju-hyeon was sitting with her legs crossed.

“It’s been a long time since we last met, so why are you out so early?”

“It wasn’t a very nutritious story.”

“Nutritional? What did you say that made our Naru feel good?”

“It wasn’t anything special. Just an annoying story?”

Did you do that? Na Ju-hyeon asked with a look on her face.

“So, that guy is in contact with your brother?”

“At first, he pretended it wasn’t true.”

Joo-hyun, who had been occasionally chiming in with Na-ru’s story, nodded and looked ahead. The man who had been looking behind him in the rearview mirror picked up the phone after receiving Na-ju-hyun’s signal.

“Bring that man here respectfully.”

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Around the time I arrived in Seoul, I got a call from Hood.

[My friend said this. I think he was taken from the Ojin Group secretary’s office.]

[The strange thing is that there is footage of going into the Ojin Group headquarters, but no footage of coming out.]

[First, let’s look at the Ojin group.]

Hmm- Maru stretched his neck.

Ohjin Group. Could it be that the reason why Kisoon lost contact is because of Ohjin Pharmaceuticals?

why?

I remembered the fight I had with my mother because of the president who came out. I also remembered that daughter. They were people I didn’t want to get involved with in many ways. My mother and younger sibling really liked that family.

When I thought of my mother and younger sibling, the medicine came to mind. The medicine that Manager World Hong had made. Whoosh-, my blood pressure rose. Maru held the knife still. The rising murderous intent gradually calmed down.

Kim Yang, startled by Maru’s life, opened her rabbit eyes.

“No, it’s nothing.”

“?”

‘You’re spewing murderous intent over nothing? Are you really a butcher?’

‘I said no.’

The bus arrived at the terminal before I could continue with my deep gaze.

Yeah- Yeah-

As if by some strange coincidence, Charlotte called to let them know that they had arrived at the express bus terminal. Maru and Ms. Kim got into the car Charlotte had prepared and headed to the Charlotte Group headquarters.

“Thank you for your hard work getting up here.”

“I came by car. What?”

Maru handed the travel carrier to Chairman Shim. Shim Eun-young, who had a look of distress on her face, seemed to feel relieved when she received the carrier.

“I received it. I- I said I would look into it for my friend.”

“yes.”

Sim Eun-young hesitated for a moment and then opened her mouth.

“I checked and found out that my resident registration was canceled three days ago.”