VDN Ch 66
by STAR“Wasn’t it Kwon Seo-oh that keeps throwing manners out the window?”
Nam-woon thought for a moment and then admitted it.
Well, he knew it was understandable. He had a vague sense that he was Kwon Seo-oh’s first, so there was no need to ask. However, if he hadn’t known that fact, he might have been curious.
But seriously… distinguishing between the front and back? Shit. That was not on the list of expected questions.
As Nam-woon remained silent for a while, Seo-oh frowned.
“Why aren’t you answering?”
“The front…”
As Nam-woon started to speak, Seo-oh suddenly shut his mouth tight. A subtle tension filled the living room, like announcing a winner. It would be strange to say he hadn’t done it before, right? In novels, Seok Nam-woon had many lovers. But if he said he had, Seo-oh would probably get upset.
The reason Seo-oh asked if he was the first was very simple. He wanted to hear the answer, “Yeah. You’re the first.”
“The front… of course I’ve done that before.”
“…..”
Seo-oh shut his lips tightly and stared at Nam-woon. Just a while ago, when they’d been messing around on the sofa, he looked like a beast who’d conquered the savanna with his dick. But now, with his drooped eyes and shoulders, he somehow looked like a puppy that had gotten caught in the rain.
That shift made Nam-woon glance away awkwardly, but when Seo-oh stayed silent, he spoke again.
“But not that many times. I mean, by ‘many’ I mean like… just once or twice? No, not even twice, like… maybe once?”
He kept rambling, adding unnecessary clarifications, when.
beep-beep-beep
Suddenly, the sound of someone entering the front door code was heard from outside. Seo-oh widened his eyes and looked at Nam-woon. It was the same for Nam-woon.
Nam-woon and Seo-oh stared at each other with their eyes wide open. Strange male voices could be heard from the front door.
“Hey, no, it’s not.”
“Try sprinkling the powder again.”
“I don’t think powder would work for someone who doesn’t even come into the house.”
“But what’s this in front of the door? …Chicken? Oh no, did the bastard come home?!”
“No way, it’s probably a delivery mistake.”
Then the sound of entering the code was heard. Was it a burglar? Nam-woon frantically opened and rummaged through the cabinet under the sink, then took out a frying pan from it. As he approached the door stealthily, Seo-oh was faster. He blocked Nam-woon’s path and stood at the doorway.
The door code was 0000, so of course. It was easy to solve. And sure enough, a small cheer came from the other side of the door, followed by a voice doubting Nam-woon’s intelligence. Clank. As the two men opened the door, they looked puzzled when they saw Seo-oh standing in front of the shoe rack.
“Um, who are you?”
The intruders outside the house asked for the identity of the person inside the house. For a moment, silence filled the house. Just as Kwon Seo-oh reached out to grab one guy by the collar, they turned and shouted as they ran away.
“Run!”
“What are you guys?!”
They immediately started clattering down the stairs, making a run for it. Nam-woon and Seo-oh quickly shoved their feet into their shoes and chased after them.
“We’re dead if we get caught!”
“Crazy, why is he home?!”
“I don’t know!”
Nam-woon ran frantically to chase after the two fleeing men. The sight of Seo-oh’s running ahead of him was like a wild beast chasing its prey. Nam-woon was no stranger to running, so he chased after them as hard as he could, but suddenly his right leg gave out.
Thud!
“Ow, damn it.”
Nam-woon face-planted on the ground in a bad position. It was a mistake to do dirty things with Seo-oh and start running. Meanwhile, Seo-oh caught up with the men, tackling one and grabbing the other by the collar. As the man shouted something, Seo-oh suddenly threw a heavy punch.
Nam-woon, holding his throbbing jaw, rushed over and pulled Seo-oh away.
“Hah, hey, stop! You’re going to—hkk—kill someone!”
Seo-oh stopped his fists, looked at the man, and asked,
“Who are you?”
The man, caught by the collar, just coughed and didn’t answer.
“Hyung, let’s go to the police station.”
“Alright. Get him up.”
Seo-oh roughly pulled the man to his feet, like an obedient gangster’s lackey. Nam-woon grabbed the nape of the other man’s neck , who was watching him closely, waiting for an opportunity to escape and said,
“Let’s go.”
“Where are we going?!”
“Where else? The police station.”
Then the man held by Seo-oh raised his voice.
“Seok Nam-woon, you’re the one who should be going to the police station! You devilish bastard!”
The man was furious.
“You thieving bastard, you stole my boyfriend!”
“That bastard stole my boyfriend and pierced his nipples!”
The voice echoed in Nam-woon’s ears like an echo. Nam-woon looked at the man and muttered,
“Are you working at Umpyeong?”
“……”
“You’re the guy that did the phone scamming, right? It’s you, isn’t it?”
The man suddenly shut his mouth. He lowered his head and muttered softly, “N-No, it’s not.” Nam-woon, who had snatched the man’s collar from Seo-oh’s grip, suddenly threw a punch.
“Oww! What the hell!”
“It’s prosecutor Seo Nam-woon. You bastard.”
Nam-woon’s eyes shone brightly as he clenched his fist.
***
“I… I gave the watch to my ex, it’s kind of expensive, but Su-in said he gave it to Seok Nam-woon, so I came to look for it.”
Nam-woon looked down coldly at the man making lame excuses. His gaze was chilling. Intimidated by that stare, the man suddenly confessed to something he hadn’t even been asked about.
“Oh, and I’ll return the two million won I took from you earlier.”
What? Nam-woon glared at him, and the man’s shoulders slumped as he continued.
“And Su-in asked why you hadn’t paid rent yet and told me to tell you to transfer it to his account quickly.”
“What rent?”
“Well, after you broke up with Su-in, you begged—no, asked Su-in to rent this studio apartment. You promised to transfer the money every month.”
“Oh, and Su-in has a nipple infection….”
What was he supposed to do about the ex-boyfriend’s nipple infection? Nam-woon suddenly remembered something and his eyes widened. Seo-oh, who was watching him closely, observed him sharply. With a nonchalant expression, Nam-woon addressed the man.
“I understand, so why don’t you shut up and we go to your office…”
“What nipple infection?”
Seo-oh asked out of the blue. Nam-woon laughed awkwardly and stopped him.
“Hey, what are you asking that asshole?”
“If you don’t tell me, you’ll be wearing dentures starting tomorrow.
Seo-oh threatened the man, completely ignoring Nam-woon’s words. The frightened man opened his mouth without any chance for Nam-woon to intervene.
“That guy, no, Seok Nam-woon pierced Su-in’s nipple. It got infected and started bleeding.”
Seo-oh looked at Nam-woon with eyes like heavy snow in the middle of winter. Shit. Nam-woon clasped his hands in front of his stomach politely.
“Are you the owner of a piercing shop or something?”
“…No.”
“There’s a limit to perverted behavior, you know. Are you crazy?”
“That thing I did….”
“You even have a display of piercings in your house. Do you have a hobby for that?”
Were there piercings at home? Seok Nam-woon, you crazy bastard! Nam-woon was momentarily speechless at the surprising fact but then confidently responded to Seo-oh, who spoke like a gangster from the underworld.
“Hey, I didn’t do it. Please believe me.”
“If you didn’t do it, does that mean there are two Seok Nam-woons?”
Well, technically there were two of him. But Nam-woon couldn’t even bring himself to admit it and was verbally torn apart by Seo-o instead. The employees of Umpyeong watched in shock with their mouths open. Seo-o looked at Nam-woon like he was trash, as Nam-woon kept insisting he was innocent.
“If this is a hobby you enjoy, I guess I can go along with it too.”
Nam-woon looked up in surprise. Seo-oh’s eyes were pitch black.
“But I can’t be the one to get pierced.”
Seo-oh scoffed.
“I will be the one to do the piercing.”
He’s talking about nipples, right? The employee of Umpyeong asked the boss.
***
The Umpyeong Errand Center was not far from Nam-woon’s house.
The boss of Umpyeong had already cashed out the 2 million won he took from Nam-woon. Since all the accounts he was using were blocked, he said he would return it in cash directly. Nam-woon suspected his accounts were probably blocked because he had tried another scam.
As they got out of the car and followed, keeping an eye on the Umpyeong employees, the Umpyeong boss suddenly shouted loudly,
“Hey, you! Are you running away again?!”
A man wearing a cap was clinging onto pipes attached to the wall of a two-story building, dangling midair. As soon as the Umpyeong employees saw him, they started running, and Nam-woon and Seo-o followed suit without thinking. The man clinging to the wall screamed at the top of his lungs.
“I’m not running away! I just came out to make a quick call! Why can’t I even use my phone?!”
“Then why are you taking that bag?! Put it down right now!”
For a while, the man stayed suspended on the wall but eventually climbed down when his arms must have gotten tired. He slid down the pipes with practiced ease, clearly no stranger to such antics. The moment his feet touched the ground, the Umpyeong boss lunged at him and snatched the black bag slung over his shoulder. He roughly zipped it open and checked inside, then muttered angrily:
“You fucking asshole, are you trying to take my money again?”
“That’s my money!”
“How can this be your money! How hard did we work to rip it off from that bastard….”
Mr. Umpyeong, who was glaring at Nam-woon behind him, clamped his mouth shut. Nam-woon strode over and extended his hand, the man handed over the bag without a word. Nam-woon took out a black plastic bag from the bag, which contained a bundle of 50,000 won.
“No, that’s my money, you bastard.”
The man in the cap looked at Nam-woon’s face and said in a daze,
”Seok Nam-woon?”