Thorned Rose // chae hyungwon (#31)

Thirty-four

Hyungwon

"Just go home, Chae Hyungwon. Today is your day off and you are supposed to be resting as you should be, nothing is going to happen if you stop giving out these flyers." I pouted at Sana's words, I can't believe that she told me to stop doing it.

What I am doing is for her good, and Yoo Kihyun and I are trying our hardest to protect Sana and preventing her father from bringing her back home but she slammed down the offer, telling me to mind my own business and pretend that I don't know anything about her true identity.

There is no way that I can do nothing about it, it is alarming to know that there are a lot of people who are after Minatozaki Sana and she is an illegal immigrant if you think about it and she is one because she got her documents forged by her friend and that was how she became Woo Yiwon legally. And she is my roommate who lives in the same apartment as me and Yoo Kihyun, which would mean that we are heavily involved in her affairs and it is our responsibility to take care of Woo Yiwon because we are living together.

I know that she knows her martial arts very well and she defeated that huge number of guys that last time at the shopping district but her father can't be that stupid to do the same thing again, he will come up with something that Minatozaki Sana can't think of and he will lure her into his trap somehow and get her back to his empire where he will lock her up and she will never be able to escape that jail for the rest of her life.

It sounds very exaggerated but that is what exactly happened to Rapunzel from the Disney movie, she got locked up when she was a toddler and she finally managed to escape her tower when she was 18 and she had to return to her tower when her foster mother found her and she only managed to escape when Flynn rescued her from the evil foster mother.

But in reality, there isn't going to be anyone who will save Minatozaki Sana if she gets found by her father and is forced to go back home, her only option is to return home and be used as a pawn for her father's business plans and I don't want that to happen to her.

But it is not like I have any special powers to save Minatozaki Sana from her father, I am just some poor bastard who still needs to pay off his debt and lives in an apartment with the owner of the restaurant and I am paying him to rent as well, I am nowhere near being a very wealthy person and I will not able to achieve such a thing even if I do my best to earn money.

The rich were originally rich and they will only get richer and richer, the poorer will get poorer and there is no end to it, making it a vicious cycle. But I don't care too much about it, I am already poor from a very long time and my only ability is to be able to withstand any type of hard work and work my way to the top even if it is going to kill me and that is what I am going to do.

I have never cared so much for someone before and I have never thought that I would ever spend so much time thinking of someone and wanting to protect her and want her to stay by my side, I didn't want to admit it but I indeed feel something different for Minatozaki Sana. I like her and I want to protect her from her father and want her to pursue the life that she finally got, I want her to be happy and nothing else matters.

"Be safe and I will wait for you at home, just text me when you are in trouble and I will come running just for you," I told her and she nodded her head, she thinks that I am playing around with her but I am really worried that something bad might happen to her when I am not around with her.

And it has already happened once when she went out shopping alone and a bunch of men ganged up against her and she knocked out every single time but that was because they weren't carrying any weapons, they would be killed by the emperor if he ever finds out that they had weapons and they harmed Minatozaki Sana with those weapons.

She is lucky this time around but I can't be certain that she would be safe now that the men now know that she is in Gwangju, and they are going to be in the area and take her away when she is not aware of it. I can't just go home and not worry that something like that might happen to her. "Why aren't you leaving yet?" Sana asked me when she walked past me when she came out of the kitchen.

"I am going to after I have made sure that you have quit your job at this restaurant, you are in a dangerous position right now because the men know of your whereabouts and they are going to take you back someday. So the best way to avoid this kind of problem is for you to quit your job and stay low-profile so that they can't try to bring you back home." I said to her. "You can't stay in the restaurant for too long, I will tell Kihyun that you are quitting by the end of the day so that you can be at home and nothing bad is going to happen to you."

"Chae Hyungwon, didn't you hear what I exactly said to you earlier? Just mind your own business and don't worry too much about me." She yelled at me.

"But I can't stop worrying about you, my heart right here says that I need to protect you or I will never feel at ease. " I told her my true feelings about her.