110.
Even knowing this, Haseo kept hesitating. Choi Mujin wasn’t making any excuses even though blood was spurting from his hand. Though his attitude didn’t seem like someone with a serious injury, he could read anxiety from it.
When Choi Mujin discovered Haseo coming out to the living room and approaching his side, he squinted his eyes and asked.
“Did you call 119?”
Haseo nodded and took a deep breath. Then he found a towel and approached Choi Mujin.
“I thought you’d run away.”
“I was going to.”
The white towel was instantly soaked red. He was still thinking it would have been better to run away. But still, he couldn’t leave Choi Mujin behind when he was seriously injured right in front of him. Maybe this would be the last chance to separate from him.
‘Why?’
Why couldn’t he turn away from Choi Mujin?
“Bad guy.”
“You’re only realizing that now?”
“You’re being crazy, so shut your mouth!”
“Yes.”
Choi Mujin leaned his back against the sofa with a playful expression. It was really annoying, but Haseo still liked Choi Mujin. So even though he was doing such ridiculous things with his own body, in the end he couldn’t run away.
Realizing this, tears of frustration flowed down. There had been good days after meeting Choi Mujin, but there had been more difficult days. Yet his heart wouldn’t move as he wanted.
“Just once more, if you do this just once more, I won’t let it go, forgiveness or whatever.”
At the words spat out through gritted teeth, Choi Mujin nodded. What if he became unable to use his hand? When he was getting anxious, 119 arrived. Due to the nature of the officetel, it seemed difficult for them to come up to the floor where Choi Mujin lived.
The paramedics were shocked seeing Choi Mujin’s wound and rushed to him. They quickly stopped the bleeding and lifted Choi Mujin to take him to the ambulance.
“Haseo.”
Haseo rode in the ambulance as a guardian. The ambulance that rushed quickly arrived at the hospital, and the doctor flinched seeing Choi Mujin’s appearance and wound.
“How did you get injured like this?”
“I made a mistake while handling a knife.”
“No, it doesn’t seem like that.”
Who would accidentally stab a knife into their hand several times? The doctor showed a suspicious expression but urgently treated Choi Mujin’s wound. From what he heard beside him, compared to the blood that had been flowing freely, the wound was smaller than expected. Though there was a hole in his hand, there seemed to be no nerve damage.
Only after all treatment for the wound was finished did Haseo breathe a sigh of relief. Only then did he have time to think about the forgiveness Choi Mujin had been talking about all along. Haseo sat on a chair in the corridor and leaned his limp body.
‘Forgiveness.’
Had receiving forgiveness been important to Choi Mujin too? Though the method was a mess, he could tell that he wanted to be forgiven.
“No, the method is the problem!”
Haseo rubbed his forehead with his hand and sighed. Couldn’t he have apologized normally? He didn’t understand Choi Mujin’s way of thinking. If he received forgiveness in such a way, would he be able to love him completely with what remained?
‘No.’
Yet Choi Mujin chose to self-harm and hold onto Haseo. Thinking of him made his chest feel stuffy. This was far from a normal relationship. Then how could he change the direction of the relationship?
The gamble had worked. Haseo was soft-hearted, so in the end he couldn’t abandon Choi Mujin and leave. Since he did so this time, he would do so in the future too. He would have to bring back the luggage hidden in the subway.
‘Did he think I wouldn’t know?’
Choi Mujin knew about everything Haseo did. He had assigned people for this, and this time he learned about Haseo’s suspicious behavior. Combining his actions, it was easy to tell that Haseo was thinking of leaving. At first, he thought of confinement.
Something he had done once before – couldn’t he do it again? However, that opinion was discarded before long. If he confined Haseo now, it seemed he would never see him smile for the rest of his life. So he decided to change direction. He didn’t know if it was the right direction, but it didn’t seem like a failure. Choi Mujin had succeeded in making Haseo stay by his side of his own will.
That was satisfying. Enough that he didn’t regret stabbing his hand for him.
Just then, the hospital room door opened violently.
“Hyung.”
Haseo with a stern expression closed the door and approached Choi Mujin.
“Are you going to keep doing this?”
At the question thrown at him suddenly, Choi Mujin tilted his head.
“I’m asking if you’re going to threaten with your body.”
“Ah, probably not?”
“Why?”
“Because I feel like I’d die without you. Rather than watching that, I think it would be better to die.”
At Choi Mujin’s answer, Haseo’s eyes became sharp.
“Aren’t you even afraid of dying, hyung?”
“I’m more afraid of you leaving than dying.”
Haseo bit his lips hard, then opened his mouth again.
“Then I won’t leave. But give me just one thing.”
“Give you what?”
“Yes, give me your life.”
Give him his life. Choi Mujin examined Haseo’s expression more closely. Right now he was suppressing his anger. And that anger probably came from Choi Mujin treating his own body carelessly.
‘Why is he so kind?’
To be caught by such a trashy human. Choi Mujin had such thoughts while smiling prettily.
“I’ll give it to you.”
If the person he loves wants his life, he should give it. Haseo would cherish his life much more than Choi Mujin himself.
“Good. Hyung’s life is mine now, right?”
“It’s yours.”
“Then swear. That you won’t carelessly self-harm from now on. Getting hurt from other places is also not allowed. If you damage it even a little, I’ll throw it away.”
“Even a little? Not even scratches?”
“Not allowed.”
Haseo answered firmly.
“You said you’d give it to me. Then it’s mine now. I hate it when my things get scratched. If you come back with scratches, then I’ll really throw it away and leave.”
“If I just don’t make scratches, you’ll stay by my side for life?”
The small head nodded firmly. Only then could Choi Mujin smile brightly.
“Good. Then let’s promise.”
To avoid getting hurt, he would have to give up all dangerous work. But now he had gained a certain position, so he just wouldn’t go to the field. When Haseo wanted it so much, how could he make scratches on his body?
“Promise.”
Choi Mujin hooked his pinky finger with the one Haseo extended. It was a childish way of making a promise, but at this moment it didn’t feel that way. He finally thought he had completely obtained Haseo.
“I love you. I really love you.”
At the sincerity spoken in a low voice, Haseo furrowed his brow. But that didn’t seem like a bad sign.
* * *
The first thing Choi Mujin did after being discharged from the hospital was to adjust his schedule.
“From now on, I won’t go to dangerous sites.”
“Good. You should have done that originally. Someone at Director-nim’s level should just order people around now.”
Kim Chunbong agreed with Choi Mujin’s words. Park Dongsu also seemed to agree with Kim Chunbong this time.
“Recently, Jang Deokman’s associates seem to be looking into various things through illegal routes. It’s right to be careful now.”
“Those bastards are persistent. Jang Deokman is already finished.”
“They must have lingering attachments.”
Kim Chunbong shrugged his shoulders.
“Looking at those bastards, they seem to think Jang Deokman is deliberately acting stupid to receive a lighter sentence.”
That wasn’t actually the case. The current Jang Deokman was in a broken state. He had persistently worked on him since meeting him again on the boat to make him that way. His subordinates seemed to have interpreted his docility in a different way.
“Idiots.”
Kim Chunbong said this and ridiculed Jang Deokman’s subordinates. Jang Deokman had sent away the most sincere and trustworthy subordinate by pinning dirty work on him, and only kept those who weren’t by his side. Those vermin who could do anything to gain profit.
Choi Mujin saw this as one of Jang Deokman’s mistakes. It would have been better for him to keep Secretary Ahn by his side. At least his loyalty was real. But the situation had already passed, and circumstances were racing toward an end.
“But even if they’re such idiots, we don’t know what they might do, so I’ll keep watching.”
“Yeah.”
After such conversation went back and forth, Jang Deokman’s subordinates really caused trouble. When Choi Mujin came down to the underground parking garage to leave work, a man who strangely seemed to be of different nationality rushed at him with a knife.
There were no other people around. It seemed they had rushed at him targeting this. In the past, he would have confronted them head-on, but now this body wasn’t entirely Choi Mujin’s. He dodged the man’s swinging knife and escaped into the car.
Screech.
The swung knife scraped the car window. Choi Mujin looked at him leisurely, then made a phone call to summon Park Dongsu. Since he was already on his way here anyway, it didn’t take long for the two to meet. The man swinging the knife was quickly subdued by Park Dongsu. Only after confirming this did Choi Mujin get out of the car.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
