The next day, around noon, a white car arrived in front of the house.
“Jaegyeom, fighting for the first day at work!”
“My lord, please be careful.”
Jaegyeom tied the laces of his Converse shoes while being enthused by Jeongju and Mesani. After being contacted by Yoon Taehee and informed of the application news, Jeongju and Mesani had been clearly nervous since yesterday. Jaegyeom was calm, but the two of them were very fussy.
“I’ll be back.”
Jaegyeom walked out the front door with a small cross-body bag slung over his shoulder. When he opened the large gate that was still unfamiliar to him and went outside, someone got out of the driver’s seat of the white car as if they had been waiting.
She was a young woman in a gray suit.
“Hello? Perhaps, Jaegyeom-ssi?”
She approached Jaegyeom with a smile on her lips.
“Ah. Yes. Hello…”
Jaegyeom made a quick bow.
“So it’s the first time we meet, I’m exorcist Kang Yibin, the first team of the Naryecheong Exorcism Department. Nice to meet you. Chief Yoon requested me to pick you up for him.”
With a makeup-free face and long hair pulled into a tight ponytail, Kang Yibin introduced herself in a cheerful voice and casually extended her hand. Jaegyeom hesitantly responded to the handshake, and his hand shook up and down as Kang Yibin held it vigorously. Jaegyeom’s eyes widened in bewilderment, and Kang Yibin burst into laughter.
“Ah! Are you surprised? So cute.”
Jaegyeom averted his gaze and slipped his hand away.
“You look like a chick, with the clothes.”
Jaegyeom looked at his clothes with a puzzled expression. Jeongju even picked out an outfit for him to wear. Having a lot of interest in fashion, Jeongju’s outfit was pretty detailed. Yellow plain sweatshirt. Loose ripped blue jeans. He even picked out socks. When Jaegyeom grumbled that he could wear whatever, Jeongju insisted that socks were the most important thing in fashion. In the end, as requested by him, Jaegyeom rolled up his trousers and put on white socks with mushroom characters on them. With his randomly cut bangs crooked and even dressed like this, Jaegyeom looked younger and simple-minded.
“Come on, shall we get in?”
Kang Yibin grabbed his arm and dragged him. Jaegyeom was led by Kang Yibin’s hand and climbed into the passenger seat with a bewildered face. As soon as Kang Yibin sat in the driver’s seat, they drove off.
“…”
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Jaegyeom stared straight ahead with a slightly dazed face. It was as though he were sitting on a cushion of thorns. Jaegyeom was quite demure. It was all the more so because now that he was alone in a small space with a complete stranger.
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As they entered a wide road, Kang Yibin opened her mouth.
“I heard from Chief Yoon. He said you were a nice and witty friend. After struggling for over a month to find a successor, he said he found a cute and handsome successor.”
Jaegyeom, who was staring ahead, as hard as a plaster statue, glanced at Kang Yibin. A nice and witty friend? Hearing the words that Yoon Taehee would say through someone else’s mouth made him feel strange. Even the compliments of being cute and handsome felt awkward. In the end, Jaegyeom, unable to find the right words to say, quietly nodded his head.
“Jaegyeom-ssi. Can I speak informally?”
“Ah. Uh… yes.”
Kang Yibin continued, saying that she would like to be friends with him in the future, and that he could call her ‘Manager Kang,’ and added jokingly, “It’s okay to call me noona too,”.
“Actually, my younger brother is the same age as you.” So, as soon as Kang Yibin saw Jaegyeom, she took an instant liking to him and talked to the stiff Jaegyeom to ease the mood. She was a cheerful and kind person, even though she drove roughly.
Kang Yibin, who was holding the steering wheel, said with a smile.
“By the way, you totally got lucky!”
“What?”
Kang Yibin shrugged and looked at Jaegyeom.
“Why, because I’ve been working with Chief Yoon from the beginning. Chief Yoon is almost a star even in the headquarters. Noona also came to Team 1 because of Chief Yoon.”
Kang Yibin was originally a member of the Undercover Department. She had to go through a lot of hardships to switch departments and join Team 1. Not only did she have a hard time getting into the team because the threshold was much higher than the other departments, but the reputation of the team handled by Chief Yoon was enormous and the competition was very fierce.
“Chief… Yoon…-nim, is he that great?”
Jaegyeom, who had been quietly listening to the story, opened his mouth, noticing the tone. Calling that guy ‘Chief Yoon’ somehow made him feel a bit strange. Jaegyeom awkwardly finished the question because he couldn’t get the words out of his mouth easily. Kang Yibin nodded vigorously.
“Of course! Do you know how long Chief Yoon has been chief?”
Kang Yibin asked with a proud face. She seemed proud of the fact that she had a competent superior. However, Jaegyeom was not familiar with the rank system of Naryecheong. He only roughly knew that Yoon Taehee’s position was quite high.
“No, I… I don’t know…”
“When he was 19. 19 years old.”
Even though Kang Yibin said it directly with her own mouth, she seemed to be admiring it as if she couldn’t believe it. Jaegyeom was surprised in a different way. 19? So, did that mean that he became an exorcist at a younger age? Since Yoon Taehee was now in his mid-twenties, it meant that he had been in Naryecheong for almost a decade.
“Is that difficult?”
In response to his innocent question, Kang Yibin exclaimed, “Of course!”
“Noona is the same age as Chief Yoon, but he is now the chief. Whew. I was studying for the CSAT when I was 19 years old. Chief Yoonwas the youngest person ever to become a chief. When Chief Yoon entered the office for the first time, the headquarters was in an uproar. They said a monster had arrived.”
For many exorcists, Chief Yoon was the object of admiration. It was the same with Kang Yibin, a member of his team. Chief Yoon was a person from afar, from a high place. Until she joined the first team, she had never seen his bare face, so that was saying something. Having gone through such an arduous process to break through to Team 1, Kang Yibin was envious of Jaegyeom, whom Chief Yoon directly nominated as his successor, and was also amazed.
“He’s an amazing person. Really.”
He was that strong? It was a story that sounded very dubious to Jaegyeom. That would be the case, because all he knew of Chief Yoon was the image of him being squashed by him….
“Jaegyeom! You don’t know yet, but you’ll find out with time. It’s lucky to be working with Chief Yoon. Chief Yoon, he’s such a nice person.”
Praise for Chief Yoon continued from earlier.
He had a good reputation…
Jaegyeom’s eyebrows twitched and he looked out the car window. He was a guy who knew how to coax people. It was clear that everyone was being fooled. Just like how he himself was fooled…
His stomach twisted as he listened, and Jaegyeom fidgeted with his fingers with a rugged expression.
“Last year, noona’s mother was very ill. She needed surgery right away, but we didn’t have the money. Oh, noona is the head of the family. Hm, anyway? No matter how hard I tried to get money, there was no way, so it really felt like the sky was falling…”
Kang Yibin smiled brightly and tapped the steering wheel.
“Without speaking to anyone, I suffered all alone. But I don’t know how he knew, Chief Yoon paid all the hospital bills? That’s when I thought I was really going to faint.”
Jaegyeom, who was looking out of the window, hesitated and looked back at Kang Yibin.
“You know, he also attached a caregiver and gave me a month off? Excluding my leave. Even if I don’t have the money to pay back right away, I told him that I would pay it back if he gave me time, but he said not to do that because it’s a welfare for team members. And that if he takes money from me, he will have to get money from other team members in the future, so he couldn’t…”
Kang Yibin, who continued, suddenly made a face.
“Does this make sense! Aish, I still feel like crying when I think about that time.”
Kang Yibin began to pat her hands near her eyes. Jaegyeom was a little taken aback. He wondered if she was crying, but luckily Kang Yibin shook her head and grabbed the steering wheel again.
“Oh, I’m sorry. Noona is always talkative.”
Talkative… ? Jaegyeom scratched his cheek. The talkativeness didn’t particularly bother him, but what Kang Yibin was saying was surprising. The Yoon Taehee KangYibin spoke of seemed not to be the Yoon Taehee he knew. Yoon Taehee, who stepped in to help the misfortune of others… The Yoon Taehee that Jaegyeom knew was not that kind of person.
“Anyway, noona can do anything for Chief Yoon. Same with other team members. Any successor brought by Chief Yoon is welcome.”
Team 1’s trust in Chief Yoon was solid. Jaegyeom felt strange because he could feel it just by hearing the words. All the favors and kindness that Yoon Taehee gives him were impure, and his perverse and dark inside are cleverly hidden in his smile. This was the true nature of Yoon Taehee, whom Jaegyeom knew.
Jaegyeom, who was lost in thought for a moment, opened his mouth slightly.
“Does everyone like Chief Yoon?”
Kang Yibin, who had been pondering, said with a slightly flushed face.
“Mhm. Of course they do.”
Yoon Taehee hated exorcists and he planned to get revenge on Naryecheong. Kang Yibi would never have imagined that Yoon Taehee brought in a successor to break Naryecheong. For some reason, Jaegyeom was a little confused. How could such a person be kind to his teammates and earn their trust…
For the first time, Jaegyeom felt a faint curiosity about Yoon Taehee well up. At first, he thought that he didn’t know the real face of Yoon Taehee, but maybe there’s another side of him that he didn’t know… he felt as if a shape that had only been clear until now was suddenly enveloped in a mist.
“Honestly, there’s no reason not to like him.”
Kang Yibin smiled shyly and said. In response, Jaegyeom rolled his eyes around and looked at Kang Yibin. If he told her ‘I have a lot of reasons,’ it seemed like she’d tell him to get out of the car…
“Is there a reason why I must like him?”
Instead of arguing, Jaegyeom asked seriously. At that, Kang Yibin burst into laughter. It was because it sounded like he was asking out of genuine curiosity, without any intention.
“Well. What is the charm of a man, Jaegyeom is still too young to know.”
She poke Jaegyeom’s arm with a mischievous smile, and then said, “Oh, fuck. Red light. Red light.” and suddenly slowed down. Jaegyeom’s upper body jerked forward. Just before, he was shy, and he couldn’t help but be bold.
“Come, Jaegyeom. Noona will explain. Listen carefully. Since you are a new member of our team, I’m giving you a special lesson. First of all, a man must be handsome and tall. If the suit fits well, even better. And he must be sweet, kind, and rich. Do you understand?”
“Like Chief Yoon,” Kang Yibin continued her lecture seriously.
“Sprouts who listen well will grow up and emulate it.”
Ah. Why doesn’t she get tired… Jaegyeom weakly straightened his posture.
Kang Yibin: Captain Yoon is real nice
Jaegyeom: why the fuck you lying..
Me and Jaegyeom wondering if she’s talking about the same person lol
Taehee is so interesting…I really want to know how strong he is, if he could compare to Gyeom-ah. I also want to know where that income is coming from hahaha I also thought 200 grand a year was perfectly reasonable for a house