Rust - Chapter 36



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RUST-36

Director Kim was looking around the Yeongdeungpo women-only gositel site.

The management office was completely blown up, and there were clear signs of someone using a grenade to open the locked door. The team was immediately repairing the damaged area.

“Hah- This bitch just went all out with this. Bitch. She was so excited, so excited.”

At this point, it was like, “Eat some shit. I have to clean up the place so the company is going to be shit-spilling. If you guys keep chasing me, we’ll both get screwed.” Was this the message?

The fact that this was a bitch who knew the company wouldn’t give up on pursuing her just meant that she was going to get screwed.

As we walked along the hallway, there were still red traces that had not been cleaned up. There was a lot of bloodstains in front of the room where Ms. Kim was. Director Kim entered the room and looked around.

In front of the mattress that had been turned over on its side, there were pieces of plywood and plaster embedded in it. There was a large hole in the right wall, and bloodstains in the hallway. Director Kim nodded as if he had roughly interpreted the situation.

Director Kim felt bitter. He thought that he should have stopped the people who wanted to check if it was Ms. Kim, but since they went up to check, it was not without results since they were able to prove for sure that the woman who was here was Ms. Kim.

However, while I was at it, I wish I had taken these guys with me too…

“Huh- This Lee Gi-young has grown a lot too, he’s grown a lot. I thought he’d run to you and make a big fuss with you b*tch if you threw Miss Kim at him.”

After all the kids died, he came here and there, got teased by Executive Director Choi, and went to clean up the shit. He must have been determined to catch Miss Kim, but what should I do?

Huh-

I felt a little better when I imagined Lee Ki-young’s shit-eating face. Anyway, since these people under his direct control died like this, the justification for the Kim Yang operation was definitely secured. No matter how much this director threw a tantrum, Kim Yang’s case was now his business.

I think they want to kill her instead of capture her, but the higher-ups are putting emphasis on capturing Ms. Kim. If they capture Ms. Kim and secure solid testimony and evidence, it seems like they want to negotiate something with that…

“So if you installed a wiretap or location tracker or something like that, you should have cleaned it up neatly and in a quiet place. What if you found out about someone else’s backstory? You’re going to collect evidence and try to figure out who’s right and who’s wrong? Is the company a court or the police? Those who pretend to be smart when they’re going to end up fighting each other out of their mouths…”

Charlotte is a Japanese company, and Crystal is a Chinese company. If it is confirmed that these two are colluding, it is obvious that the mess of 2011 will happen again.

Director Kim saw a guy sitting in the corner with a few girls and saying something.

“Hey- You over there.- Yes, you. You. Is this your first time seeing me? Where are you?”

“Yes? I am Do Min-wook from Team 4 under Director Lee Ki-young.”

“Ah- This is Lee Ki-young’s company. Come here. I told the girls to stay right there, and you come here for a moment.”

A young man who looked like he had just taken off his freshman badge or just graduated from high school walked stiffly toward Director Kim. Director Kim put his arm around the young man’s shoulder with a very happy expression. Director Kim chuckled, perhaps because he found the young man’s stiffness cute.

“Hey, it’s really nice to see Director Lee Ki-young’s staff, who are rarely seen like this. Youngest?”

The youngest turned pale at Director Kim’s low, grotesque smile. I had heard rumors that Director Kim and Director Lee Ki-young were not on good terms, but this was more than just bad terms; they seemed to be enemies.

“Yes? Yep.”

“So where did this manager go, leaving you, the fluffy one? It’s been a while since I’ve seen your face, and we’re in the same company, so I don’t think we’d fight to the death? If there’s something wrong, it’s a manly thing to do to resolve it one-on-one. Isn’t that how people live? But this manager has no affection. No affection. Isn’t that right?”

“······,”

Director Kim said, gently massaging the youngest’s trapezius muscle with the arm that was on his shoulder.

“Hey, look at our youngest’s stiff shoulders. It must be hard for him to be the youngest and do all the dirty work. Does he have to clean up after himself?”

“No, yes. I’ll hand over the work and go…”

“Aftercare? The handover is fine since I’m here now. What’s the aftercare? I’ll take care of everything that’s hard for our youngest.”

When Director Kim called him older brother and treated him in a friendly manner, the youngest son fidgeted, not knowing what to do.

“It’s okay. Why is that guy so unruly? If you were the one who reached out first, you should have said, ‘Hyung.’ Are we strangers? We’re in the same company. Isn’t Hyung such a twisted person? Hyung is a person who lives and breathes affection. Team Kim, who is united by affection. Haven’t you heard of it?”

Kim’s team was full of rumors that his arms and legs had been broken, let alone Jeong-eun. When the youngest gulped and rolled his eyes, Kim laughed heartily and hit the youngest’s shoulder.

“Hey- this is really too stiff. Yeah, this is how hyung feels. I should help the youngest with his work.”

“Hey ladies, come here. Come here.”

Director Kim smiled slyly at the girls. He had short hair and a scar on his eyebrow, but he still had a clean mask. Five women approached him, timidly.

“So, youngest. How does this manager want you to organize it?”

The youngest swallowed hard and spoke as he looked at the approaching women.

“The girls who work at the establishments should move to our establishment, and among the girls who aren’t, the girls who seem loose-lipped should be sent to the provinces, and the girls who aren’t good enough should be sent overseas.”

Director Kim nodded.

“This manager’s handling of affairs is not bad, but if he were to do it like that, how miserable would those girls’ lives be? There’s no affection. No affection. It would be great if he could take the girls’ circumstances into consideration and resolve things more gently. This hyung will show you an example, so watch carefully and learn.”

Director Kim patted the youngest’s shoulder and headed towards the girls.

“Those of you who are in the business, come this way. You’ll get a feel for the atmosphere here. That’s it. If you lie and talk the wrong way, you’ll get caught, right?”

“······.”

“So, when we can resolve the issue through conversation, wouldn’t it be better to do it through conversation? Those of you who work in the business, come here. I’ll send it to you right after we finish talking, so be honest.”

“······.”

The three women stood in the direction that Director Kim gestured to, keeping an eye on him. The women turned their heads away after seeing Director Kim’s warm smile and could not make eye contact.

“Um- First of all, are you all done with Talk Bank? Send it to this account number.”

Director Kim took out a cell phone. When the women sent text messages, Director Kim immediately sent them 10 million won each.

“What did you see today? You know?”

The three women nodded as I pretended to zip up my mouth.

“With that, you can take care of the places you want to take care of, rest for a few days, and if the workplace says anything, contact us and we’ll take care of it cleanly. That’s all you need to know. If you ask on TV or SNS, you’ll know, right? Gas explosion. Did you see anything else? No?”

Director Kim smiled with satisfaction after hearing the women quietly answer, “None.”

“Let’s laugh and part ways like this. Let’s make sure we don’t meet again.”

The three women nodded furiously and hurriedly returned to their rooms, rubbing the goosebumps on their arms.

“So, what do you two do?”

One woman was preparing for the civil service exam in Noryangjin, and the other was a woman who came up from the countryside to work at the center and now works from home.

Director Kim clapped his hands when he heard that story.

“Hey. It’s really rare to meet someone who’s trying to pioneer their life like FM these days, but I see you like this. It’s a good feeling. Hey- There’s a contract in the car over there. Bring it over. It’s for two people.”

The two women crouched, not knowing what to do. After a while, an employee came with a contract. Director Kim looked over the contract, made a few corrections with a ballpoint pen, and handed it to the women.

“You saw it before? We are not such hopeless people. In a sense, we are also people who work hard in the shadows.”

“······.”

“Think about it. It wasn’t a gas explosion, it was some other explosion. What would happen if I said that? Was it a terrorist attack? What went off? Did the explosives get lost? The guys in the military have a hard time investigating everything, the police have a hard time doing random checks, and so public safety becomes unstable, stock prices fall, and everything just gets harder. Since you’ve learned so much, don’t you know?”

“······.”

“First, I sent 20 million won to Talk Bank. Don’t think of this as bad money, it’s just someone’s donation for the peace of society. Ah, it’s sponsorship. Think of it that way. I hope it helps those who are studying. I hope those who work at call centers can live a little more comfortably with this money.”

“······.”

The women nodded, looking at each other.

“Okay. Then, please sign this back here and go to your room.”

“······.”

“There’s nothing else. If the business owners are talking badly, we will take immediate action, but wouldn’t it be a bit much to do that to those of you who are working hard? That’s why we sent you money as a deposit.”

“······.”

“If you guys just do as I said, quietly, there won’t be any problems, but if you say something like you want to be a guest while drinking, sleeping, or whatever, you’ll just have to pay a penalty and pay it back with your body at the workplace the company operates for a few years. How about signing it and parting ways on good terms?”

Director Kim lightly sprinkled the life into the document. The two women signed the document in a flash.

“Hahaha. That’s good. Now that we’ve laughed and parted ways like this, I hope we don’t see each other again and just live our lives diligently in our respective places.”

At the gesture to go, the women disappeared into their rooms.

“Hey, youngest? How do you feel?”

“······.”

“This is 3,000 for 3 people, 2,000 for 2 people – 4,000, a total of 7,000. If it’s a lot, it’s a lot of money, and if it’s a little, it’s not a lot of money, so aren’t you curious why they gave it to them?”

“······.”

“We can’t completely erase all traces of ourselves forever. So when traces remain, the women who received the money now will think like this. They weren’t that hard to communicate with, but if they kept their promises, there would be no problem, but this is what they say.”

“······.”

“They come together and make it easier for the company to operate. How long are you going to continue to do this style of selling off kids like this CEO, which was popular back in the 80s? So you should learn well and think about what you’ll do when you get to my level.”

“······.”

Director Kim took out a business card and put it in the youngest’s pocket.

“Really, when you feel like you can’t do anything on your own, when you feel like no one is going to help you, when you feel like this is the last time, call this number. I’ll help you just this once. Don’t let it slip away, don’t save it on your phone, memorize it and keep it in your head. Didn’t this director leave behind any data on tracking down Ms. Kim or anything like that?”

The youngest’s face turned red.

“The lines are all different, that’s why. Since we’ve taken over and inherited everything, the youngest one should hurry up and go. This manager will catch him again.”

The youngest, whose ears were red all the way to his ears, bowed at a 90-degree angle and went down.

Director Kim’s face, which had been blank, distorted. His suppressed temper seemed to be about to burst out.

“Hey, shit-. That guy is really amazing. Did he put a metal plate on his face? How did he walk around like that? I thought he was going crazy.”

Director Kim was so annoyed that he felt like his head was going to burst because he was imitating Manager Hong.

Director Kim was halfway to exploding, trying to hold back the urge to slap those bitches and tell them to shut up if they want to live. Donerani···. This is fucking frustrating······.

“Fuck- youngest. Please grow up quickly. Yeah-”

after-

phut-

Director Kim took a deep breath and low-kicked the mattress again and again.

A staff member came into the room and said, “The mattress was pounded and dust was rising up.”

“Sir, I think I found traces of Ms. Kim.”

bang!

The mattress hit by the low kick bounced against the wall.

A strange smile appeared on Director Kim’s face.

“Where are you? That girl.”

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Miss Kim was heavy. Not just heavy, but dog heavy.

If you take a taxi, you don’t have to ride.

I had a strong desire to just sneak a taxi, but instead of throwing it away, I took the tracker off his arm and gave him an envelope full of cash every now and then, so I did as he told me to do… but there was nothing I could do about the heavy weight.

If I took a taxi, it would have taken 10 minutes, but if I took the bus, I had to go around in circles. I escaped using the escape route I had planned in advance, but I felt very uneasy and uncomfortable.

Knock knock knock

Knock knock knock

Ah. I got a text from that Baekjeong guy.

[Hey, what’s that? Is that you?]

It was a sudden, out-of-the-blue text message. What is this?

Kim Yang tilted his head and sent a question mark.

[?]

After a while, as if he was thinking about something, he texted me again.

[Yeongdeungpo Gositel Gas Explosion Is That You?]

What are you talking about? A gas explosion?

[No.]

What do you think of people? Gas explosions are so annoying. Why don’t you just blow them up with C4 or just throw a grenade? Why are you just sitting there making gas explosions annoying? You have to open the gas valve and fill it with gas, and seal the gap in the door. If people smell gas and notice, that’s annoying too.

Gas was smellier than I thought. If you were unlucky, there were many cases where it would explode outside the estimated range or not even within the estimated range, leaving you with a lot of confusion. If you were going to do a gas explosion, there were a lot of things to think about, including the planning. A gas explosion wasn’t easy.

But a gas explosion at a motel in Yeongdeungpo? Did the company blow up a random motel while trying to find me? Ms. Kim thought she had to be more careful.

Wheeing!

Wheeing!

[What time is the train?]

You told me to take the bus to the station, doesn’t this kid have any sense?

[I’m taking the bus to Yeongdeungpo Station. It’s so heavy.]

It was really, really heavy. It was so heavy that my back and waist were bent and my arms were about to fall off, but I kept texting in an annoying way.

[Upon arrival to Royal Marina]

No? What? Look at this brat without a conscience, it’s so heavy I could die. Where do you want me to carry this? I told you it’s heavy.

[It’s so heavy.]

Baekjeong bastard, this bastard has no empathy, brain, or frontal lobe? Does he have none of that? Judging from the way he thinks about his parents, siblings, and friends, it doesn’t seem like that. Are you trying to feed me water? Kim Yang was starting to get a little pissed.

[I took a bus from Busan Station and went for a while···]

Even though I said it was heavy, you want me to take the bus again? With this? Even though I took off the location tracker? Another bus instead of a taxi?

[It’s so heavy!]

Ms. Kim is upset. But there is still no answer.

Really? Really? You want me to carry this heavy thing and ride the bus again? No, it was too much. The right arm that you had torn off was still crippled. And you made a hole in the shoulder blade area on your left side and told me to carry this heavy thing and run around?

The fever is up and you are a fuck?

If I get angry and take it out on him, the Baekjeong guy will ride the boat with his friend and leave first, leaving me like a duck egg on the Nakdong River. Kim Yang took a deep breath and sent a text message after much thought.

[It’s so heavy. It’s real.]

Nervous. What will that Baekjeong say? Won’t he just say he’ll go first?

[Train departure time and arrival time]

uh···?

hmm?

Huh? Huh···??

What is this?

Kim Yang’s pupils shook as he read the text. What is this, Baekjeong bastard, all of a sudden?

What if I send you the departure time and arrival time?

What should I say? I need to answer quickly.

[yep]

Ms. Kim quickly sent a text. As expected, it was dog heavy.

It’s a matter of the account.