In-yeop heaved a sigh to calm himself. He is irritated right now but he has no right to be mad since he is talking to their boss. "Where do I bring the girl?"
"Oh, no no no! You are not bringing the girl anywhere," the man said and smirked. "I want...
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"Where do you plan to go? Mr. Han knows you are dead so you have to be careful of whatever you do," In-yeop said as he stood up and grabbed the towel he used to clean Soomi's wound. He walked towards the trash can near the window and disposed of the cloth.
"I have a cousin who lives in the province. I'll stay there until I finish my plan," Soomi said as she follows every movement In-yeop makes with her gaze.
In-yeop sat beside her again and stared at her hand. "Let me warn you," he said then looked at her in her eyes. "Mr. Han is something else. If you are planning to continue this fight all by yourself then you are just getting yourself killed. That old man is not easy to destroy."
Soomi did not say anything after what In-yeop said. Both of them stared at each other, drowning themselves with their silence, both feel something just staring deep into their eyes.
"Why are you helping me?" Soomi blurts out what's on her mind. She keeps on thinking why this man who kills for a living ended up helping her even though he was ordered to kill her.
In-yeop stayed silent and kept on staring at Soomi. To her shock, he raised his hand and gently rub her cheek, trying to remove a blood stain from it. Soomi just lets the man do what he is doing, liking how relaxing his touch is.
"It's too risky to go right now," In-yeop said, removing his fingers from her cheek and stood up. "I'll send you to the bus station going to your province tomorrow morning. We need to rest for now."
"Wait," Soomi called out when In-yeop was about to go out of the room. "Given the situation we have right now, I know it is absurd to ask for your name."
In-yeop turned to look at her again. "In-yeop," he simply said. "There's a sink at the corner of the room and clean towels are inside the bedside table drawer. You can clean yourself if you want to," he said and walked out of the room.
Soomi stared at the closed door where In-yeop exited. She doesn't know what she should feel in this situation. Of course, she feels scared that whatever it is she is planning might cost her her life and what she thought was coming happened. She nearly died. She fears the man who just went out of the room and at the same time she also feels secure. Is that even possible?
With her hands and feet now free, she could run and escape from them. However, given the circumstances in which the mysterious man saved her, she decided to stay. She also thought that it is not a bad idea to get help from them, anyway, In-yeop was the one who offered to give her a ride to the bus station. Jeez! Getting help from the guys who were supposed to kill her? What was she thinking? With a lot going on inside her mind, she locked the door and went to the sink to washed her face.
"That was quick," Chorong said as In-yeop got out of the room. All of them are sitting on the couch watching a movie, and stared at their leader, giving him a smirk.
"Dirty-minded freaks," he said as he walked past them and went to the kitchen to grab a cold bottle of water. Chorong stood up and walked towards their leader, grabbing himself a tub of ice cream from the fridge and a spoon from the dish rack. He opened the tub and brought a spoonful of ice cream in his mouth, giving his leader a meaningful stare.
"What?" In-yeop mushed his eyebrows, his hands hanging in the middle of bringing the bottled water in his mouth. "What?!" He repeated when Chorong kept staring at him.
"You're acting weird," Chorong said after swallowing what's in his mouth. He placed the tub of ice cream on the table and followed In-yeop who went out of the cabin, not responding to what he said.
In-yeop stood outside the patio and got a stick of cigarette from his pocket. He patted his pockets to search for a lighter and frowned when he cannot find it.
"Shit," he cursed under his breath with the stick of cigarette hanging in his mouth. Fire flickers in front of his cigarette, lighting the end of it.
"What's happening?" It was Chorong. He placed the lighter back in his pocket and sat on the steel chair near In-yeop. "What's wrong with you today?"
"What do you mean?" In-yeop asked as he puffed smoke out of his mouth. He knows what Chorong is talking about because he feels he is acting different today and he doesn't understand why.
"C'mon, boss," Chorong said as he stared at the darkness ahead of them. "What's with the girl? Why did we save her?"
In-yeop licked his mouth to wet it with his saliva, a habit of him whenever he feels nervous. "I don't know," he answered Chorong. "I want to feel something different. We've been doing this job for years now and when I saw her, I feel like I want things to be different." In-yeop looks at Chorong with a frown on his face. "Am I making sense?"
Chorong stared at their leader with a worry on his face. He understands what In-yeop is feeling right now. In-yeop looks scary and threatening on the outside and he does this job so well that someone would think that he doesn't have any conscience or whatsoever. But on the inside, he knows how soft he is. He is a nice person and if only life was not cruel to him, he won't accept these missions Mr. Han is throwing at them.
"I want to feel out of guilt just one time, Chorong. Just this time, I want to have something which will remind me that I did something right," In-yeop said and sipped from his cigarette. He is staring at the trees in front of them with his eyebrows mushed together from thinking too much.
"That's messed up," Chorong chuckled and sighed. "So what's the plan now?"
"I'll send the girl tomorrow at dawn to the bus station. She decided to go to her province and hide until her plan is final," In-yeop explained and threw his cigarette butt on the grass and stepped on it.
"What's her plan?" Chorong asked.
"To bring Mr. Han down."
"Well, good luck with that," Chorong chuckled and stood up. "Speaking of the girl, you just left her in the room? Did you tie her up again?"
"No," In-yeop simply answered as he brushed his hair up with his fingers.
"Are you sure she won't escape?" Chorong quizzically asked.
"She has nowhere to go. She's scared Mr. Han might spot her," In-yeop said and started walking to the door to enter the cabin.
"I don't think that's the reason," Chorong said as he followed his leader. "I think she's bewitched by your handsomeness."
In-yeop stopped from walking and glared at Chorong. "Stop that nonsense now before I cut your tongue."
"Okay okay. Chill!" Chorong chuckled. They both went inside the cabin and Chorong immediately shouted upon seeing Minwoo and Jib eating the ice cream he left on the table.
"Yah!" He ran towards the two who immediately stood up from the table and ran away from the furious fat guy. "I told you not to touch any of my food!"
"You left it on the table! It was already melting!" Minwoo shouted as well while continuously running around the living area. Jib is tailing him, scooping some ice cream, and bringing it in his mouth.
In-yeop sighed at how his men look right now. He can't believe that these guys who are scary when it comes to missions are acting like this just because of a tub of ice cream. He was about to get inside one of the cabin's rooms when Soomi bolted out of the room she's in. The three boys stopped at what they were doing and stared at the girl.
"There... T-There's someone outside the window," she stuttered from fear.
