Rust - Chapter 62



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RUST-62

Maru, who had been bickering with Gisun, looked around.

I went to the hotel, got treatment, and spent a few hours in the hospital room. Quite a bit of time had passed, but I couldn’t see anything I was supposed to see. Did you read it and ignore it?

“Hey. Where’s Ms. Kim?”

“Hey, c’mon. Stop spoiling the mood. What are you trying to say? I’m here. I told you I’m here. Earlier.”

No, this is not true? If Ki-soon told you to stay, you should have come out and stood guard. Maru lightly touched the handle of the bowie knife. Ki-soon slapped the back of his hand.

“What? What! What is it? Are you just going to pull out the knife? You fucking- Take that neutralizer again. You’re not eating it, you’re getting it like a shot? Then just stick it in again.”

At Ki-soon’s fuss, Maru took his hand off the knife with a “Oh, really.” He was relieved. It was a chance to get a grip, but when he lost his grip, he was reminded of the military. When the feeling came, he had to take control.

“Hey- so when did you come?”

“You’ll be arriving at the hotel soon.”

Still, it came quickly, Maru nodded.

“Nothing special?”

“Why wouldn’t there be anything? Did you and Ms. Kim really get involved in a fight to kill each other?”

“yes.”

“Wow- It’s not easy to match up like this, but do you have feelings for each other?”

Maru silently reached for the Bowie knife.

“No- Whenever you do something, it’s a knife. Whenever you do something, Ms. Kim, it’s a gun. What the hell are you two doing, you were sharpening a knife and being a jerk, and then Ms. Kim went into her room and played around with a gun. I’m fucking serious hahahaha! Crazy. Don’t give me a chance. A chance.”

Maru said, ‘Is that so?’ to Gi-sun’s mutterings.

“What’s the matter? What’s the matter? Let’s bring the amphibious Argo and the quad skis, and get together and talk before we leave. There’s really no conversation. No conversation.”

“What kind of conversation is this? Just come up first and talk about it later. What would you do at the beach? You have plenty of time.”

“No, we need to coordinate our opinions or something before we go out. What if we disagree at sea? What are we going to do?”

“What should I do?”

“It’s just going according to plan.”

Ki-sun felt like her throat was choked up by Maru’s calm answer.

‘You’re saying that you’re not going to do things the natural way?’

“Ah- Really- Ah- First, once the luggage arrives, I’ll ask Miss Kim to come up, so explain the current situation then, and decide what to do next. How far we’ll go together. Let’s make sure neither of us feels uncomfortable.”

“I said it’s not uncomfortable. What could be uncomfortable?”

“I’m uncomfortable. I. So, after you finish loading your luggage, I’ll call Miss Kim before we leave so we can talk a bit. Keep your eyes relaxed. Suck some more Chinese medicine or something.”

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It was a little noisy outside.

It was the sound of something being loaded, as if something had arrived. It was an amphibious machine, I heard for the first time.

Ms. Kim was super focused. It was a little noisy, but she couldn’t miss this shining energy.

A pyramid of gold bars, stacked 4, 3, 2, 1 from the bottom. Yes, this was the pyramid of gold bars.

Beneath the yellow-glowing pyramid, a tripod, scope, and silencer, 155cm long and 16.5kg in weight, a large and beautiful figure was holding a 12.7mm bullet. Large and beautiful. Powerful and sublime.

Since it was a custom model, it was longer, heavier, and perfect than the basic model I knew. So the original basic model was 144cm and 14kg? It’s bigger and heavier than that. I like it.

Haa- haa- haa-

Kim Yang felt a little overwhelmed. The cast on his right arm was painful and heartbreaking. He should have received the gold bars and the barrett with these two hands, but he was resentful of the floor.

ah-

In an instant, a shadow appeared, disappearing into the smoke and then spinning around.

The air was cold.

Suddenly.

Just suddenly.

Memories of death passing by came to mind.

My breathing became a little faster.

It’s cold. It’s chilly.

okay

There was such a cold and vain death.

There was a child who was trembling with fear, breathing in the cold air.

When I walk along the riverbank, which is as muddy as a swamp

When I hid in the cool fog

It was here.

A black shadow reached out through the thick fog. A bloody hand followed.

The child ran away. Whoosh- a shadow approached.

There was a time when death beckoned from beyond the fog.

It was here.

ha-

A thin, delicate gold ring worn around the neck.

There was a time when I wore a gold ring around my neck that was covered in dirt.

Kim Yang seemed to be holding something in her empty chest. It felt like her heart was being squeezed.

chuck-

Chugdeok

Okay-

The Walther P22 placed on the table was assembled in an instant.

Clink.

Kim Yang’s gun was pointed at the door.

“Ah! That’s a surprise. Huh? What is it now? Miss Kim? Miss Kim? Why are your pupils like that?”

Ki-sun was startled and raised both arms, then slowly lowered them.

Miss Kim didn’t say anything. It seemed like she smelled something thick and bloody.

What the heck? Are you crazy?

At that moment, what did Ki-sun feel behind his back? It was something. Something unknown.

Shiver shiver. Ki-sun’s legs trembled without her knowing it. Ki-sun glanced back and sighed deeply.

Maru was grinning. When he turned his head again, he saw Kim Yang, who was politely holding up both hands as if to ask when he had pointed the gun.

“Hey, Miss Kim? If you’re not busy right now, let’s talk.”

Miss Kim nodded slightly.

Ugh- Should I turn on the heater? Why are my legs shaking all of a sudden? Gishoon grumbled.

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The story ended simply. There was no atmosphere of bloodshed, and there were no differences of opinion. Ki-soon explained, and Maru and Kim simply nodded mechanically. Ki-soon asked, “What are you doing?” twice in a row, and then raised both hands to the sky.

So, Ms. Kim went into her room, and Maru and Gi-sun sat on the deck and looked at the stars.

“Hey- do you remember when I was half crazy?”

Maru nodded at Gi-sun’s words. It was something that happened in the second year of middle school. Gi-sun’s older half-brother pushed Gi-sun into a valley with strong currents.

At that time, Maru reflexively jumped towards Ki-sun who was being swept away by the current and pulled Ki-sun out with force. Fortunately, Ki-sun and Maru survived, but for several years after that, Ki-sun was not able to go near the water.

“What the hell are you kidding me? You kicked me for fun? Into a stream with strong currents? That kid was in his third year of high school, and he kicked a second-year middle school kid. He said it was a mistake? He said it was a mistake later on? Ah- I still get mad thinking about it.”

Maru listened to Gi-sun’s words quietly as before.

“No way. No way. After that incident, my father cut off the inheritance in my name, and made public his will stating that when I died, he would immediately take my brothers’ assets and combine them with my inheritance to create a public foundation, and then he disappeared.”

Maru nodded. From the time he was a child, especially when he was in elementary school to the second year of middle school, there were many incidents where Ki-sun almost died. Maru, who played with Ki-sun, also experienced it as an extra because they spent a long time together.

Come to think of it, both Ki-soon and I were on the verge of ending up with bad luck.

“Then my mother passed away.”

Ki-sun’s voice turned gloomy.

“I was crazy for a few years after that. I was just being crazy without any apparent reason. I ended up being taken to the hospital a few times, and it was a mess. Well, if you think about it, I graduated from middle school thanks to you.”

During the time when Ki-soon was running wild, Maru also ran wild right next to him. In fact, Ki-soon had a considerable amount of influence over the nickname that if you mess with the little hippopotamus in the magic circle, you’ll get screwed.

“Ha- That’s why I’m a magpie. A magpie. The ending is where your head breaks and you die. What good is repaying the favor? All your children will starve to death.”

That’s right. Didn’t Ki-soon’s mother end up becoming a concubine while trying to repay a favor? She died while trying to repay a favor, and her child almost died, and Ki-soon’s father said he would save that child and the woman he loved, and then he left. But if you look at his actions, he was also a magpie.

Maru remained silent at Ki-sun’s words, which suddenly drifted sharply. Maru simply stayed by her side until the deep sadness, regret, and anger had subsided and dispersed into the night sea.

How much time had passed? Ki-soon suddenly hit Maru’s back. Slap-

“Ouch! Why are you acting like this all of a sudden?”

Ki-soon responded to Maru’s response with a hahaha laugh.

“Yeah. This is fucking bullshit. What are you going to do? Open your eyes like that. Just now, you and Miss Kim, you had some kind of rotten fish eyes. I know because I’ve been to hospitals. Those eyes, the kind that cause accidents.”

Maru nodded too. His face was serious, agreeing with Kim Yang’s version of Dongtaenun.

“Hey, you must have had a hard day today. Both of you are too tired to just let it go. No matter how much I look at it, you two need psychiatric treatment… Looking at the estimate, you’re not the type of person to go, nor are you the type of person to go. And you’re not in a situation where you can go right away. Sigh- Okay. What can we do? This King Gi-soon has to do the surgery. Maru-shun, you start. After you drink enough water, let’s start the psychiatric education.”

No. Seriously, why again?

“Shut up. Have some cold water. I’ll go see Miss Kim.”

After telling her to drink some cold water and calm down, Ki-soon went to see Ms. Kim, but she was unable to overcome Ms. Kim’s iron wall and had to return.

It was Ms. Kim who blocked Ki-soon’s intervention by saying things like, “I’m sorry,” “It won’t happen again,” “I’m truly sorry,” and “I guess I got excited because I suddenly remembered something old.”

“Ah, seriously, they’re all just onions. No matter how much you peel them, they’re all just peels.”

“······.”

“······.”

“Well- It’s not my place to say that. But if we live together, we shouldn’t be pointing knives or shooting each other, right?”

“······.”

“······.”

In that way, I Am Ground’s Getting to Know Each Other ended with Ki-soon’s solo play. The three of them failed to open up and talk about each other as Ki-soon wanted, but at least it seemed like they succeeded in making Kim Yang realize that this brat named Kim Ki-soon would be a mental attack if he opened his mouth.

Maru was also uneasy about that. He knew from experience that a woman with a crazy eye would do anything without it being strange.

Ki-soon’s desperate ‘We are comrades’ ‘Everyone, put your knives away and put your guns down and smile’ campaign ended in defeat, but it was not without effect. Thanks to that, Maru looked at Ms. Kim like a chicken, and Ms. Kim, although she couldn’t figure out what was on her mind, looked at Maru like a cow.

So late at night.

A stand-in for the Charlotte Hotel manager who was leaving for Japan with us boarded the yacht.

Ki-soon said in a husky voice.

“You said it was one person, but is 1+1 the trend these days? Why is there one more person?”

Maru and Kim also nodded together.

Without saying a word, 1+1 is crossing the line. Yeah.

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A woman who looked like she had put the Hotel Charlotte manager through a copy machine greeted me with a smile.

“I’m Sim Eun-hwa, the alter ego of the president of Hotel Charlotte. From now on, please just call me President Sim or President. I don’t want to make a mistake in my title.”

It was a gentle yet somewhat subtle feeling. It felt like the hotel manager. Ki-soon, who had been on the phone for quite some time, was surprised and added exclamations and interjections such as, “Wow- Real- Is this true?”

Mr. Kim, who had a familiar face, tilted his head with an expression that said, ‘Huh? I don’t think it was to this extent.’

Maru was the same. Should I say that the synchronization was so good that I really thought, ‘I really don’t know.’

The bodyguard who came in as a bonus was a woman. Maru, who thought it might be Manager Lee Ki-young or a taciturn old man, looked at Ms. Kim because she was the first time he had seen her. Ms. Kim shook her head. It was the first time she had seen Ms. Kim.

She nodded without saying anything, wrapped her small body in the hood she was wearing? something like a robe, and headed to the corner.

“You don’t have to worry about her. She only thinks about my safety and acts accordingly, so as long as my safety is not at risk, she won’t cause any problems.”

Sim Eun-hwa’s voice briefly drew his attention. Ki-sun tried to call the woman who quickly turned to the corner with an expression that said, “Even so, I still have to give my name.”

“Huh? Where did that female bodyguard go earlier?”

At Gi-sun’s words, both Maru and Kim Yang looked around the corner. It wasn’t there. They looked around. It wasn’t there. It wasn’t there. It wasn’t there.

What is this?

Maru and Kim Yang moved at the same time. The two men, sword and gun drawn, looked around cautiously.

“Ah- I told you, you really don’t have to worry. As long as there’s no problem with my safety, I won’t come out of a corner until we arrive in Japan. Ah- You can put the food and water in a separate corner. Then, shall we leave before it gets too late?”

Ki-soon seriously wondered if the real hotel lady was pretending to be a fake. Even if that was the case, there was nothing he could do about it.

Wheeeeeeeeing-

The white, sleek yacht began to part ways, leaving the swaying waves behind.