chapter 5
5 – Street girl hunting for a test (1)
My stomach is burning. But that’s already expected.
‘Let’s endure it just once. Because my mother and father are also there.’
Siwoon repeated himself to himself.
She quietly puts food in her mouth and munches it.
Is the food chewy? Is it chewing on a lump of rubber?
‘It’s been a long time since I’ve felt so uncomfortable eating at my house.’
A stormy sense of doubt comes over me.
A second life?
At that time, my relatives were like that.
Siwoon, who had failed to see the light of day due to continuous failures until the age of thirty-four, was treated poorly by her relatives as if they were impatient because they couldn’t catch and eat them.
As if treating bugs.
So Siwoon hated her holiday more than any other day, when she had to meet her relatives.
Frowning between her brows, Siwoon lifted his chopsticks and put a piece of meat into her mouth.
Once you think that raw enemies are everywhere, even munching meat, you don’t even know what it tastes like.
“Oops… this West.”
Her eldest aunt silently called Siwoon’s father, who was making soju.
“Yes.”
“Siwoon gives me good education. Don’t focus only on making money. Now is the time when Siwoon is more important to him than any other time. In today’s world, you don’t even go to college and you’re going to live on something.”
Joo-wook
Siwoon’s father drinks another glass of soju with a sad expression.
“The West. Our sons Tae-seok and Tae-hyung. And look at Hyewon and Daehwan. How prosperous Are you going to let Siwoon live in poverty like you?”
“Stop it! Siwoon will take care of himself and take care of himself. My son is no longer a child.”
“Oops… I’ll do pretty well When Siwoon entered the room, he couldn’t find any books to study. Whew. This west. I didn’t object when you married my brother… What is this? My brother, who should be living at home, isn’t he suffering from a double income with you right now?”
“……….”
Siwoon’s mother joined in.
“Ah, sister! Stop it How hard does my husband work? You know, I brought my kids and my husband to have a good time with my relatives. It’s time for you to stop too, now.”
At Siwoon’s mother’s words, the eldest aunt closed her mouth for a moment, frowning at her.
Lee Si-woon wanted to leave his seat right away.
He could tolerate being ignored, but he didn’t want to put up with his father being insulted like this.
‘Father… ….’
My eldest aunt always looked down on Siwoon’s family.
One reason is that they live in poverty due to lack of money.
‘As if the poor were guilty of a mortal sin.’
I really didn’t want to eat rice, but I held back.
Hye-won stared at Si-woon, who was eating rice with a stone-hard face, squinting at her pupils.
“You are good at eating one meal. Okay… You should be good at that too. Eat a lot?”
“hahahaha!!”
“Yes, at least eat a lot, hahahahaha.”
At Hyewon’s sharp words, her cousins burst into laughter.
I heard that you don’t even touch a dog when you eat.
‘I can’t stand it any longer. Are these people my blood relatives?’
Siwoon’s lips moved.
“I will definitely go to university on my own. If my brothers and sisters are my relatives and are older than me, they act like them.”
“What? Under. What did you say now?”
The atmosphere became chilly in an instant. The angry eyes of Tae-seok, Tae-hoon, and Hye-won turned to Si-woon.
“How can you answer such a thing to us, who are much older than you, without any quirks? Are you proud of what you didn’t learn?”
Siwoon’s father said at Hyewon’s shot.
“Stop it!”
Hyewon finally shut her mouth.
This time, Taehyung pushed her face toward Siwoon.
“Man. In the presence of adults, my older brothers and sisters are giving me good advice, but is it possible to answer with such absurd words?”
“I appreciate advice and words once in a while, but this goes too far.”
“What, what?”
This time, Tae-seok asked her again, squinting her eyes.
Siwoon happened just as it was.
“I finished eating, I will get up.”
Taehyung stared.
“You cheeky bastard. Adults Don’t you know the meal isn’t over yet? Rather, what did you just say? Say it again.”
“……….”
“Isn’t this the answer?”
There was life in Taehyung’s eyes.
“Please finish your meal.”
“An uneducated child really doesn’t listen.”
Siwoon bites his molars. Then he turned and looked at his father.
When I saw the look on my father’s face, who was silently holding on with soju, hiding his wrathful heart, I felt choked up.
I felt the urge to pour hot tears from my eyes.
It was then.
“Siun! You go in first and relax.”
It was my father’s voice.
My father’s mixed voice sounded so sad in my ears.
He silently drank soju as if he couldn’t see his child being humiliated any more.
‘Father. I will rise so that my family will no longer be ignored. This life will never fail.’
Tears squeezed my eyeballs and were about to fall.
However, I held back the thought that if I even shed tears here, I would only become an object of ridicule for my relatives.
Siwoon opens his door and tries to enter, but a single word stabs him in the back of the head and pierces his heart.
“Lee Si-woon, he is also quite decent.”
“Didn’t you just blindfold yourself and see him attacking me?”
“No answer, Jean.”
Jumping.
After closing the door, Siwoon lay down on the bed.
‘Did I harm those people just because I didn’t go to college, or because I’m an unemployed jobless person? Relatives are humans! The guys who didn’t pay me a dime when my house went downhill.’
Siwoon had a lot of stories about family affairs. He wasn’t Mojiri, who just said he didn’t want to go to college.
Immediately, the blanket was pulled over his face.
I try to hold back the tears.
Although the degree of his self-indignation was clearly tolerable.
I did not know that my eldest aunt would humiliate and humiliate her father so much in front of her.
“I’m afraid I’ll change my car. Should I change to a Benz instead of a Porsche? Opening the lid is so cold that I can’t burn it now.”
I heard the voices of my cousins giggling through the door.
I plugged his ears with my hands.
‘I will definitely succeed. An insult to my father and me. I’ll give it back to you after I succeed. Father… wait a little bit me… Because I can.’
I will definitely pay you back within the next year.
I will stamp and press you twice as much as you suffered.
I bit his lower lip.
Damn!
The TV suddenly turned on by itself.
Siwoon lay on the bed and seemed to touch the remote control button with his back.
-Here it is! This is the house of SS-class Hunter Park Tae-seok. And! Don’t you have a luxury mansion?
-I live a frugal life.
I fixed my eyes on the faint sound of the TV.
In the TV, the voice of Park Tae-seok, a famous SS-class hunter, is coming out.
And behind him is a large mansion with a swimming pool and spa, followed by a row of flashy supercars he owns on the screen.
SS-class hunter Park Tae-seok.
He became the first SS-class hunter in Korea.
He was already more famous than most top actors.
Moreover, his wealth alone is estimated to be over several hundred billion.
Sponsors of each large company are lined up, and he is a very influential person in society.
In a word, it is called a walking company.
Furthermore, he has five personal bodyguards.
He climbs into the Rolls-Royce, a luxury British car, smiling as he appears on screen.
-I bought this car a while ago because I was in a hurry. The ride was better than I thought.
-You bought this kind of car just out of awe?
-Yes, who is riding in this car on TV? I saw it and bought it right away.
-This car that ordinary people can’t even dream of… Mr. Tae-seok speaks so calmly? After all, it is different because it is the job that society recognizes the most.
-It’s not like that…
-But I, Mr. Tae-seok. This is a question that many people ask, how much is Tae-seok’s annual salary? Is it a secret?
-I can’t say exactly, but I think it’s enough to pick up a few cars like this a month and have a few more.
– Wow……. This car alone would be enough for 500 million. After all, you are SS-class Hunter Dow.
Siwoon’s eyes shone as he focused on Taeseok.
‘Yes, Hunter. In this lifetime, I will become that Hunter too. In my previous life, I tried, but failed like an idiot. This life can be because? Because I have abilities that others don’t have.’
Siwoon closed his eyes tightly and recalled the contents of the books he read at the bookstore today.
A lot of the details that were densely described in the book float above his head.
‘Remember. Everything I read at the bookstore today!’
Dreaming of a brilliant future.
Lee Si-woon.
Hunter Challenges that dream once again!
This third life will never be boring.
***
A few days later.
How long have you been asleep?
I opened my eyes spontaneously as the warm sunlight peeked through my eyes.
Looking back at the desk, I found the book I had been using for speed-reading for several days open.
‘Is it morning?’
I looked at the screen of my cell phone lying on the desk.
-AM. 10:15.
I was scratching my head when I saw a book on the desk.
The book I bought from the bookstore when I met Sejeong again.
Siwoon was particularly interested in the book about his theories on body signals.
Body signal.
When a person feels a certain emotion, a signal that unconsciously expresses the reaction according to the emotion through a physical reaction.
‘If I learn it, can I use it in real life with my own eyes? I’ll have to experiment with these eyes first to see if this is possible.’
If only.
What if this could be used in practice?
In other words, the range of abilities that Siwoon can do is considerably broadened.
Once I opened the book.
Huge pages.
Plop-plop-
The sound of paper falling over echoed rhythmically.
‘Okay! I’ve read it all!’
Speed reading in 5 minutes.
However, Siwoon opened the book once again.
To review a lot of content to memorize.
An hour passed just like that.
Soon in one hour.
I have read this book over and over again.
After repetition, the contents of the book were firmly engraved in my head.
For ordinary people, it would take at least two weeks to read and memorize all of these books.
A smile crept across his lips.
‘I don’t just have the ability to speed-read. No matter how much text you put in your eyes, your eyes won’t get tired.’
‘And as a result of the review, the contents of this book were completely incorporated into my brain. Body signal. It’s an amazing theory that can read people’s minds….’
Body signal.
A person can lie with his mouth, but his body cannot.
There was a clear reason why Siwoon was investing time to learn this tight theory.
It was to read people’s emotions through this knowledge.
What if the general public?
Even if you have knowledge of all these theories, it is impossible to read people’s emotions like the Law of Interest.
But Siwoon is different.
After that strange experience he felt while leaving the hospital a few days ago, he realized that he had an eye with insight that was incomparable to ordinary people.
‘Knowledge gained. Now all he has to do is gain experience. Then… Shall we move on to practice?’
Can we really read human emotions and psychology through the theory of body signals?
Is that also in practice?
Becoming a hunter became my goal.
But before that, I wanted to make sure I knew how far I could use these eyes.
What if you could use that ability with these eyes?
It was supposed to be helpful in all aspects of Siwoon’s life.
So,
I had to put my studies on the back burner and experiment.
I changed my clothes for going out.
However, he refused the loose and comfortable style of clothes he usually wore and wore stylish and neat clothes.
‘Today is going wonderfully.’
I trimmed my clothes here and there and began to look at my face in the mirror.
Not a dull face, but subtle and harmonious features.
And Shiwoon’s appearance with white skin as a weapon was enough to attract the opposite s*x.
He dressed up like a person going on a blind date, took his wallet, and went out.
So he arrived at a downtown area in Sinchon.
When it was time for office workers to leave work, the downtown area was crowded with people.
Siwoon looked around.
He started looking at the women who usually walked the streets, and he was amazed.
I could see dozens of people’s expressions and clothes at a glance.
Really amazing eyes.
‘Hunting is perfect for testing body signals! Because? He talks to a woman and catches her heart through the instantly visible body signals of the woman. And that’s what I’m trying to do. Then you’ll know right away if the answer I gave is really correct…….’
For hunting, Siwoon came out dressed up like this today.
I walked down the street with my eyes wide open.
A woman with a beautiful pelvis in hot pants trudges along.
‘Target found.’
Siwoon went straight to her.
As if there was no such thing as shame.
“Hey… I’m sorry.”
“Yes?”
Siwoon paused for a while after talking.
In the meantime, I looked at her physical reaction and facial expression change in a single moment.
Surprisingly, the subtle changes in her expression caught me at a glance.
‘Undilated pupils. Movement of invisible body muscles. Moreover, there is no change in this woman’s heart rate. Because there is not even the slightest movement in her left chest where her heart exists…. Even when a man I’m seeing for the first time starts talking to her, her physical reaction is insignificant. In other words, the conclusion is that this woman is not interested in me. Shall we see if she is right?’
After thinking about her, Siwoon asked.
“Ah… I’m sorry she said this out of the blue. I’m not the type to talk to people I’m seeing for the first time, but I saw him walking from a distance… I am interested in that.”
Siwoon boldly continued her words, but she didn’t even listen to Siwoon’s words with a snoring expression on her face.
“Oh, that’s okay. I am busy.”
The woman raised her right hand, signaling her not to speak to her anymore, and she strutted her way.
It’s a disgraceful and somewhat embarrassing situation.
I felt proud.
Rather, she was excited by the idea that she matched women’s thoughts by applying body signal theory.
‘Okay, I was right! But she can’t guarantee that this is certain after one try. Maybe it was just a coincidence…….’
The sun is setting and a pitch-dark night is approaching.
The neon signs of the signboards of the shops embroidering the streets of Sinchon are shining brightly.
Siwoon entered the convenience store she saw in front of her for a moment.
“One Parliament light, please.”
“Yes, it is 4,500 won.”
While I was handing over the cigarettes that the part-timer gave me, I noticed the lottery papers piled up next to the sales counter.
Siwoon clenched his teeth.
‘If the world only flowed in the same pattern, I would easily become rich if I memorized a few lottery numbers in my head and returned. …. Too bad.’
I came out of the convenience store.
I’m smoking a cigarette, exhaling thick cigarette smoke.
I felt someone’s gaze strong.
Siwoon instinctively turned her head and looked in that direction.
She sees a woman staring stunned at her vision for a moment.
As soon as her eyes met her eyes, she jerked her head away to avoid her gaze.
‘Oh, my God.’
Red wine-colored bouncing hair color.
And a tattoo on the side of the neckline.
A woman wearing a shirt that clearly exposed her breastbone and navel looked pretty good.
Siwoon recalled her just fleeting moment in her mind.
‘That woman…. The pupils that shook when our eyes met, the corners of the mouth that went up at the same time. Besides, I brushed the hair on the side of her toward her ear.’
‘It was written in the book that a woman instinctively wants to reveal her neckline in front of the opposite s*x she likes. So it indicates her habit of flipping her hair back. That woman didn’t turn her head away in embarrassment when her eyes met mine.’
Will that woman really respond positively to me?
Let’s go.