By Zephyria The moment Sung Se-han’s name was called, I blinked urgently. Suddenly, my vision cleared up. I saw Sung Se-han rushing in like he had a booster. With an instinctive sense of crisis, I quickly covered my head and hunched my shoulders tightly.
“Keuk!”
My legs staggered with the dull impact sound that seemed to echo in my ears. Soon after, a vivid sound of a burly man falling to the floor made goosebumps rise all over my body.
“Sung Se-han! What are you doing?”
Someone was scolding Sung Se-han.
“Do you really not see anything? You today…”
“Sky Blue, Lee Tae-kyung.”
Only after hearing Sung Se-han’s cold voice did I slowly lift my face.
Sung Se-han’s solid body in a white short-sleeved T-shirt and jogger pants was standing in front of me. Nothing else was visible in the field of vision blocked by his broad shoulders except for Sung Se-han.
“Sung Se-han…!”
His hair, which must have been perfectly styled, was disheveled and half covered his forehead. Sung Se-han looked down at me as if he didn’t care about such things.
“Who are you?”
I lost my words for a moment at the cold gaze directed at me.
“What are you doing here?”
His low voice, which didn’t contain even a speck of emotion, made me as scared as a lost child.
“I’m…”
What am I doing here?
Sung Se-han. I wanted to get rid of those bastards before you came. If I could, I wanted to make sure they never appeared in front of you again.
“Those people are strange.”
My voice was hoarse, so I had to swallow hard.
Like he was dealing with an inanimate object, there was nothing in Sung Se-han’s bright eyes as he looked down at me. That kept making me scared.
“I was going to report them because they’ve been loitering suspiciously since earlier.”
“What are you?”
One corner of Sung Se-han’s mouth twisted up. Like those bastards watching from behind, Sung Se-han was laughing at me as if I was pathetic.
“They’re my guests. What are you to be talking about them being suspicious, huh?”
I seemed to have been hit by Sung Se-han’s words. Even though I knew he wasn’t saying it sincerely, my vision was dazed as if I had been hit in the head.
Sung Se-han, don’t even joke about those bastards being your guests.
“Go.”
Sung Se-han pointed behind me with his chin. He was telling me to get out of here and go to the elevator.
“Go and record well.”
I clenched both fists at Sung Se-han’s words to go up and film. I glared with bloodshot eyes, but Sung Se-han no longer gave me his attention.
Sung Se-han, who turned away from me without any regrets, was walking away on his own two feet. To that hateful bastard.
“Sung Se-han, it looks like Wang-ho lost a tooth because of you?”
The hateful guy with deep double eyelids called Sung Se-han’s name in a friendly way. As if he was treating a younger brother he had known for a long time. That sight was so disgusting that I felt like I was going to throw up, but I don’t know how Sung Se-han was okay. I couldn’t tell anything from his turned back.
“Sung Se-han! You little shit, I won’t let you get away with this!”
The man who was bleeding and staggering to his feet shouted at Sung Se-han. But no one gave him their attention. Even I couldn’t take my eyes off Sung Se-han.
As Sung Se-han walked straight to the car parked at the front, the biggest man opened the back door.
I saw him obediently getting into the back seat.
“Sung Se-han!”
When I screamed, Sung Se-han, who was about to get into the car, raised his upper body. And he turned to look at me.
Without thinking any further, I kicked off the ground and ran out. It wasn’t like I was out of my mind or anything. I was conscious enough to see the faces of the hulks looking back at me one by one clearly. I had been feeling their murderous pressure from the beginning.
That’s why I absolutely couldn’t let Sung Se-han go.
“Don’t go!”
Only after running like crazy and blocking Sung Se-han’s path did I catch my breath.
“The recording is, is about to start…! Where are you going! If you’re late like this, ah!”
I groaned without even having time to catch my breath because Sung Se-han grabbed my arm tightly.
“Sung Se-han, wait…!”
Sung Se-han, who grabbed my arm and strode forward, pushed me against the wall. I was pushed by his brutal force and hit the hard wall with my back, but thanks to the backpack, the impact wasn’t great.
“Hey, don’t bother me and get lost.”
I was unbearably angry because of the guy who was coldly looking down at me.
Does he think I’ll be hurt if he does this?
“Then, I’ll go with you!”
I grabbed Sung Se-han’s arm and clung to him as he turned around. I crashed into the wall again with a thud because of the strong force that shook me off, and I slumped to the floor.
“Ugh…!”
After the shock of being thrown away by Sung Se-han again subsided, I barely lifted my gaze. Sung Se-han, who had already strode far away, was getting into the back seat of the sedan. Soon after, the door slammed shut, and only then did I hurriedly get up from the floor. My legs were trembling, so I couldn’t move quickly.
“Sung Se-han!”
I quickly ran after the sedan that was leaving the parking lot. I couldn’t let Sung Se-han go alone. I can’t let those bastards hurt Sung Se-han again. Never.
“Ah!”
I staggered because of the sudden pain in my knee and stopped my legs urgently.
“Keuh…!”
As I bent over, clutching my knee tightly, and raised my head, the rear of the sedan was disappearing far away.
“Damn it…!”
I gritted my teeth and rummaged through the pockets of my training pants. Can I call a taxi now and catch up? What do I do now?
“Are you looking for this?”
Just as I was about to fall into a panic, I heard a heavy voice. As I turned my body and looked back, a man with a solid build was walking towards me.
“Vice Manager!”
I felt a surge of resentment that the Vice Manager, who always stood by Sung Se-han’s side, had only appeared now.
“Vice Manager! Strange men took Sung Se-han!”
I limped towards the Vice Manager and pointed to the entrance of the parking lot.
“Quickly, we have to chase after them! Quickly!”
“Lee Tae-kyung, take this.”
What the Vice Manager handed me was my phone. Only then did I remember that I had dropped my phone when I was trying to report it to the police earlier.
“Thank you! But Vice Manager! We have to follow Sung Se-han quickly…”
“Lee Tae-kyung, go up and record.”
The Vice Manager’s calm tone cooled my head. He fixed his gaze on the entrance of the parking lot and said to me.
“And it’s best to forget what you saw today.”
I felt the strength drain from my shoulders.
“You’re… planning to leave Sung Se-han alone without following him? How can you…”
“This is not something Lee Tae-kyung should be concerned about.”
The Vice Manager, who raised one eyebrow, looked at me.
“Are you always this interested in other people’s business?”
My lips moved, but I couldn’t easily answer. The Vice Manager’s words that it was someone else’s business seemed to pour oil on the boiling inside. If I opened my mouth now, fire might burst out.
“Vice Manager, you know where Sung Se-han went, right?”
I strode up to the Vice Manager and grabbed his arms tightly with both hands. The arm muscles under his short-sleeved T-shirt felt as hard as steel.
“Follow him quickly. If you don’t go quickly…”
If I don’t see Sung Se-han safe, I might suffocate and die.
“I’m going to call the reporters I know. I’m going to post on the internet, and I’m going to tell everyone that the Vice Manager ignored Sung Se-han. And also to the company…”
I didn’t know how to make the threat work, so I rambled on haphazardly. Meanwhile, I regretted that it would have been better to catch a taxi at this time.
“You have a weirder personality than I thought.”
The Vice Manager’s strange eyes seemed to be probing me. But I quietly closed my mouth at the positive signal that was being conveyed.
“Wait here for now.”
The Vice Manager, who took out his phone from his back pocket, moved away from me. The Vice Manager, who was talking on the phone somewhere, turned to look at me.
I saw the Vice Manager’s lips moving, saying, ‘Yes, I understand. Sunbae.’
“Let’s go.”
The Vice Manager, who put his phone in his pocket, pointed behind him with his finger. I saw the very familiar sedan parked there and ran without hesitation.
“Vice Manager! Where did those people take Sung Se-han?”
As soon as I got into the passenger seat, I asked urgently, but the Vice Manager started the engine without answering.
As the sedan slowly moved and started to leave the parking lot, I became even more anxious. I need to hurry to catch up with Sung Se-han…
“You don’t have to worry that much.”
The Vice Manager, who glanced at me sideways, turned his gaze back to the front.
“Because there’s no one who can touch Se-han.”
There was a clear conviction in the Vice Manager’s calm tone. But I couldn’t completely let go of my heart, so I scratched the seat belt with my fingernails.
“It would be better to worry about Lee Tae-kyung himself than Se-han.”
“Yes…?”
When I turned my head to look at him, the Vice Manager frowned.