Rust - Chapter 40



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RUST -40

Ki-sun’s face turned red.

This is a hotel. It’s a famous hotel, to be sure. So, to some extent, it’s a space used by people with high social and economic status. It’s a place where people are a little sensitive to the gaze of others.

If you say buffet, it’s a general buffet, eat as much as you can, as much as you want – the concept, but a hotel buffet is closer to the concept of, “What do you want to eat today? Choose according to your taste. If it’s not enough, tell me at any time.” That was Ki-soon’s thought.

But what are these?

“Here, 10 ribs. Add more.”

“me too.”

Maru ordered the chef who was grilling ribs. Kim Yang, who was following behind, added.

“20 lobsters. Please cook them in advance.”

“Just ten.”

Likewise, Maru, who places orders to the chef who is grilling lobster, and Ms. Kim, who sticks to them like a magnet and places orders.

Yes, everything was good. Usually, people who eat a lot of ribs eat 2~3 pieces, and even people who eat a lot eat 4~5 pieces. The same goes for lobsters. At most, they eat 4~5 pieces. But what is that? Even other meat parts are served like that.

Are these human babies?

Just sitting in the same seat made my face turn red. It’s probably because there aren’t many people due to the coronavirus pandemic, but if it were me, I really couldn’t stand it.

Rattling-

The sound of Trey, who had finished his choreography, exiting the stage.

Rattling-

The sound of Tray dying after seeing the end of a woman named Kim Yang.

“Stop it, you crazy bastards! Did something burst inside your stomach?”

Ki-sun endured and endured again.

How much time had passed? At the end, Ki-sun had managed to avoid the two people who were destroying the bakery and dessert corners, and had managed to fill her stomach with a few pieces of pie, cake, and ham and cheese.

“Whew- It’s okay here.”

Maru gave a satisfactory review. Ms. Kim nodded in agreement, her face also slightly shiny.

Ki-soon, who couldn’t stand it any longer, opened his mouth.

“Hey- you’ve really changed a lot. When we were in middle school, we used to go to hotel buffets a lot. Do you remember how you used to hate the guy who filled your plate with food? If you think about how you’ve grown up and are now, you’ll know how I feel right now.”

“······.”

“Look around you. Please, eat carefully. No, either eat enough to leave some for others to eat, or wait until the new food comes out and take some from it. Or just sweep everything away like a locust. What are you going to do to others? Just suck on your spoon until the new food comes out?”

“······.”

I was so hungry. I was just focused on the fact that there was food, and when Kim Yang, who was next to me, started sprinting, I think my competitive spirit was triggered unconsciously.

“If you’re going to eat like that, don’t bother me and just go to a regular restaurant and order five or ten servings… No, shit. Why don’t you just order twenty servings and eat them? It looks to me like you’ve eaten almost twenty servings. Is that a lobster pupa? Slurp it down? And Miss Kim over there? What are you doing? Are you building the Tower of Hanoi with food? Playing Tetris? Didn’t you learn table manners in school?”

Before Gi-sun could finish speaking, Ms. Kim suddenly got up and went outside.

“Hey- who’s that woman? Judging by the cast on her right arm, is that the woman’s right front leg? Why did she go to the animal hospital instead of the hospital? What on earth does she do? She even serves food like an elementary school student. And she eats. She eats happily. That’s good. But she’s old. Age. If she were kids, she’d just eat deliciously. That’s okay. But when you’re in your 20s, you have to eat in moderation. Who would take food away from you? Who would beat you up so you couldn’t eat? She’s not like she has no back or anything···.”

Ki-sun’s words were not wrong. Maru opened his ears with a slightly reflective expression. Ki-sun’s words flew past his ear holes.

Now that I think about it, my eating volume has increased a lot. And it was sudden. I used to eat about 2~3 servings for adults. If it was chicken, I could easily eat one and a half to two chickens by myself. But at some point, my eating volume started to increase and recently it has skyrocketed.

“I’m not trying to criticize you for eating a lot. You can eat. Yeah, who can stop you when you’re hungry? Even the female Newtuber named Kkaeyang eats 10 servings in one meal. Yeah, you can do that. But you know you’re screwed if you eat like that in your current situation, right? It’s different when 3 people go to Japan and Canada. It’s different when 30 people go to Japan and Canada. The supplies are different. But you know what’s really scary? When I see you and that woman eating, I can’t even guess how many servings I should prepare. I guess.”

“······.”

“If the two of you keep eating like you just ate, we’ll have to vacate the bedroom on the yacht and pack some food. You’re not going to eat all three meals like this, are you? Right? You’re not going to, are you?”

Ki-soon’s long, drawn-out nagging began. Maru calmed his mind and opened his ears again. Ki-soon’s chattering came in through his left ear and then flew out through his right ear.

‘Kisun really nags a lot.’

If he wasn’t a friend, he would have wanted to hit Maru’s head with the palm of his hand, and in the same way, Ki-sun wouldn’t have said such things if Maru wasn’t a friend. Maru and Ki-sun were friends like this.

“···So, what I’m saying is, when going on a long-distance voyage, it’s a good idea to set off with at least 20% of your time to spare. Why?···”

Maru was a bit taken aback by the sudden rise of Ms. Kim. When Maru first joined World Livestock, Ms. Kim was there, and when he searched for World Livestock on the Internet, she was there in an article from a few years ago.

I don’t know about anything else, but if the article posted on the Internet in the past is true, it means that Ms. Kim has been working at World Livestock since before she graduated from high school. She didn’t graduate from high school. What about middle school? I remembered the news that North Korean defectors who get caught while trying to escape have a really hard life.

Tsk- what is this after eating well?

“···So when loading···you have to calculate all those things, but the latest ships···have some freedom in that area···.”

Ah- I’m sleepy. Maru enjoyed a deep sleep with his eyes wide open, listening to Gi-sun’s words as a lullaby.

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As soon as I put my card key in, the room brightened up. The view was spacious.

Kim Yang sat down at the table and pulled out his Walther P22.

After removing the magazine and the bullets in the chamber, Yang Kim began to disassemble the Walther. After a few clicks, the Walther, disassembled into the frame, slide, recoil spring, and barrel, was placed on the table. Yang Kim took out her disassembly tool and began poking at the barrel.

‘What do you know that makes you talk nonsense?’

‘You little bastard.’

‘In the school?

There is a saying that there is no business in hunger. Is there business in starvation? In a long, long hunger, family, and even Nabal were the end.

Old saying? Old story? Are you an ancient relic or something that experienced it? Those who have starved know. Those who have starved because they have no money or because they have no goods know how miserable it is.

What is even more miserable is that later on, you even forget that the reality you are experiencing is miserable. Just something to eat. That one thing becomes your truth and lifeline.

‘My stomach is full and I’m about to burst.’

I didn’t like it. I didn’t like it. I thought he was a weird guy because he was a friend of a Baekjeong. Was a Baekjeong normal? So I thought the guy next to him wouldn’t be normal either, and sure enough, he was a guy with a natural talent for getting on people’s nerves.

Before I knew it, the cleaning was done and the assembled Walther P22 was sitting on the table. After attaching the silencer that I had unscrewed, I felt like shooting it.

Tiring- tiring-

The intercom rang. Ms. Kim filled her magazine and answered the intercom.

“hello.”

[Are you Ms. Kim, room 2303, 23rd floor?]

“Yes. Is that right?”

[Our boss sent us an invitation to dinner tonight.]

Kim Yang’s eyes narrowed.

“Where is the boss?”

[Hotel Charlotte. This is CEO Sim Eun-young.]

A name I heard at work. Early 30s, female. She was an amazing woman who defeated the challenges of her real brothers and half-brothers and took over two fields in Charlotte Group, hotels and construction.

According to the company data, he was ranked 2nd on the list of those to be eliminated. They didn’t tell Ms. Kim why she was ranked so high, but just looking at the ranking alone, she was a big shot among big shots.

‘If I refuse, I’ll be in trouble?’

Since there was Baekjeong on this side, he was confident that if he and Baekjeong combined their strength, they would not be pushed back no matter what they did.

There was just one problem. If Baekjeong simply killed them all with a knife, that would be fine, but since it was a hotel, there were a lot of civilians. What if they noticed Baekjeong’s civilian father and took the civilians hostage or used them as a meat shield to shake Baekjeong?

Thinking about Maru, who was standing in front of the helpless employee, my blood pressure was racing. He couldn’t cut him down like that because he was a civilian, so he would probably die. And in the end, he also had a bang ending.

‘If you are a baekjung, you slice it.’

Could the three of them, including the ambiguous Baekjeong and the cub that was like a friend, escape? It was hard for Kim Yang to think about. First, she had to buy some time.

“What time is it?”

[It’s 7 o’clock in the evening.]

“Okay, you know, I don’t like people touching my body. If you’re going to search my body, tell them I decline the invitation.”

[I know. The boss also said that only two people should eat together.]

Kim Yang’s narrowed eyes frowned slightly.

What is this? Did she put a steel plate on her head? She obviously knows my information, so why are we eating alone? Even though I told her indirectly that I would go armed since she refused to be searched? She was a woman with a big stomach. Or…

Ah- I don’t know. This doesn’t suit my aptitude. Let’s just kill some time.

“all right.”

[I’ll put the invitation below. Sorry for the inconvenience. Rest comfortably.]

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Hotel lobby. Ki-soon tapped the empty floor.

“Hey. It’s time. Let’s go see the ship. Come on, come on. You ate so much, you’re feeling sleepy, aren’t you? Are you hungry?”

When did you fall asleep? Did you fall asleep while listening to Gi-sun’s story? Maru said, placing his hand on his forehead.

“I didn’t sleep.”

“Fuck. I’m not sleepy. Are you not sleeping if you keep your eyes open? Ah- A little. If you’re sleepy, close your eyes and sleep. Why are you wide-opening your eyes like that, seriously- Wow. I was so shocked I couldn’t even swear. At least open your eyes wide, or just sit there with your eyes rolled back and like, what the hell?”

“Okay, I got it.”

“I see. Buy some clothes on the way and pack your daily necessities in advance. Ah- That woman must have packed her daily necessities herself, right?”

Maru thought about Ms. Kim. She shot one gun cleanly, but the rest were useless.

“I don’t think so.”

“Ah- What? Then you tell me to take care of that myself.”

Yeah, well. The floor I was on felt a little uneasy. Should I just let it wander around?

“Let’s just buy something to make ends meet while we’re living here.”

“What do we know about buying her what she needs? Do you know her three sizes?”

At Ki-sun’s words, Maru made a face as if to say, “Are you crazy?”

Booooooooo!

Booooooo!

The cannon phone shook its body. It was Ms. Kim.

[I have dinner plans tonight. Starting at 7.]

Hmm. Dinner date? In Busan? Is this someone Kim Yang knew? We won’t be getting involved again, will we?

[Intertwining?]

[I don’t know yet]

I don’t know. You don’t know?

Maru let out a laugh.

What I’m saying is that if you don’t know, you might get involved.

What should I do with this year? What should I do?

We’re leaving tomorrow. Hehehe.

Don’t know if it’s connected or not?

Really? Then why don’t you come home late? You’ll have to bring some things anyway.

[On the way to the ship contract. Very late.]

[yep]

It’s a matter of the account.