Now that I was really sure that we were dead, my fear disappeared. So, I got up and stood beside Eun-Jong as I bumped his shoulder.
Even though I last used my fist when I was in high school, I was a sergeant in one of the army basis just one month ago. Wouldn't it be a shame if I did not at least fight back?
Maybe Eun-Jong understood my gesture because his demeanor changed from flustered to firm. He turned his head slightly and nodded with a serious expression as he met my eyes.
On the surface, we were two brave young men trying to defend his friend out of their beautiful friendship, but in reality we were two grown men shivering in a horror movie.
Well.. they are not going to really kill us, would they? We comforted ourselves, but we could not stop our bodies from trembling. Watching us, the burly bros slowly closed in on us with smiles on their faces.
The circle of the burly bros was so tight that it was just matter of who step up to start the fight. The three of us were on the edge when an unexpected sound took away the tension from the group.
'Click'
Our eyes were now on the door that the gang used to brought us in earlier. Breaking the tension in the office, the door slowly opened, revealing a long leg that is wrapped in a black suit.
Is that another member of their gang? With the mind set of going all out, I tried not to appear too panicked. In an effort, I tensed my muscles in my body.
However, as soon as I saw the person who came through the door and into the dimly lighted office, I almost took an involuntary step back as I sucked in a lungful of air.
He was about one hundred and eighty centimeters tall, had slightly lean body that was warped in all black including his dress shirt, and styled his hair slicked back, revealing his face.
Even though everything about him was impressive in my eyes, one aspect of him caught my eyes right away was his eyes.
His lazy eye lids were half open and half closed like that of a languid cat, but his eyes glimmered like a sharp knife.
Would it be possible for him to kill a person with a look? When I noticed his eyes, I became terrified. I felt chilled by the surprise as if I accidentally found a wild beast by opening a box.
Without double eye lids, his eyes looked like a horizontal slit. They had a keen edge that it seemed almost possible to cut your fingers with them. However, his face features created a striking contrast. Unlike the person's eyes, his face was expressionless and, and at a glance, had nothing out of ordinary about them.
If you do not meet his eyes directly, the person would appear normal except for his dangerous aura that could only be detected with careful inspection of his lean body.
As if confirming my intuition about the person's dangerous aura, as soon as the burly bros saw who came through the door, they all bent their body to the ninety degrees angle and shouted out their greetings.
"Greetings, section chief!
Because the burly bros greeted loudly in unison, the echo of voices bounced off the office walls. They did not straighten their bodies until much later. The half-moon scarred boss whom I assumed was the boss horridly approached to the person's side, bowed his head, and asked in a shaky voice.
"Se..section chief.. w..what brings you in today.."
The person did not answer the half-moon scarred boss. Instead, one of the two people who stepped into the office, after the person, spoke. The person who was greeted as the section chief scanned the office once and stopped his gaze to fix his eyes on one part of the room with his mouth shut.
The problem was the person's eyes were on me.
The person's stare boring into me, I felt my blood running cold. However, for some reason, I did not avoid his eyes.
Maybe it was correct for me to say that I was held in place by the invisible strings and unable to escape.
That was when the person slightly opened his mouth.
"What is going on?"
Even though he was speaking to the half-moon scarred boss, he did not remove his gaze from me.
It's not a staring contest…I shouldn't have stared at him in the beginning…I swallowed my saliva and was wondering if I looked like a toad when the half-moon scarred boss started explaining the situation.
"Ah, yes, they caused trouble in our business site, so we brought them in to-"
"…"
Uh? What is happening? As I stare into the person's eyes, I detected slight changes in them. Cold sweat still trickled down from my back but…I felt like his eyes started to loss its edges.
They were still scary but something…maybe the eyes started to hold emotion in them.. subconsciously I licked my lips as I blinked a few times.
But wait, did I see his thin lips slightly moving up? Before I had the chance to confirm what I think I saw, the person moved his mouth to spit out an order.
"Let them go."
"What, sir?"
A slightly shocked voice of the half-moon scarred boss rang in my ears. The person who was called the section chief finally turned his gaze away from me and focused on the half-moon scarred boss's face for the first time since he entered the office.
The section chief did not speak. Instead, he just stared at the half-moon scarred boss. Without any threat or curses, the half-moon scarred boss's face began to turn pale. Suddenly, the half-moon scarred boss bent his body as he began to beg with a loud voice.
"P…Please forgive me!! Yes, we will let them go immediately. I apologize for not understanding your words right away!"
The half-moon scarred boss continued like that for a while. He then barked out orders to the burly bros who had stiff expressions on their faces.
"Get those bastards out, right now."
We were making 'oh' faces when the burly bros pushed us out from the office. In an instant, we were outside of the office door.
However, because of unknown feeling of vestige, I hung back.
The person who was called the section chief …Why is he still on my mind?
When I was fully pushed out the door of the office, a voice of thirty something year old male who came in with the section chief traveled to my ears. My back was to the door, so I could not see their faces when he spoke.
"Seung-Pyo, do you know him?"
Seung-Pyo? From the depth of my faint memory, a name that I've buried and almost forgotten surfaced to my consciousness with a sudden force.
Like a shooting star in a night sky, his name dominated in my mind.
Ignoring the force of the burly bro's arm that was dragging me out from the building, I stopped walking as I turned my body to look at him with a whoosh.
Our eyes met for the second time and this time I cleared read the existence of some emotion that was reflected in his eyes.
And for the last time, I watched his lips slowly open as the door closed right in front of my eyes.
"..A little."
It was… It was the first imposing meeting between Pork Belly and me since the last time I saw him in my room almost ten years ago.
TN: Oh yeah~~! They met again! Wonder why Seung-Pyo didn’t greet Jung. Sorry for those who might have felt annoyed with the extended description of Seung-Pyo’s eyes. I thought there were too much description as I translated. As always, thank you for reading!