Time Mansour - Chapter 132



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Episode 132: It’s not even work

I returned home around sunset. The black plastic bag moved back and forth, and the soju bottles made a cheerful sound as they hit each other.

“I’ll just have one drink.”

“Shit. It must be one bottle.”

In the end, Chang-seok bought two bottles of soju.

“If you drink a bottle like a glass, then it’s still a glass.”

When Chang-seok twisted the neck of the soju bottle, a bone snapped. The bottle tilted with its neck cut off, spilling out its contents.

“Did you call to say you were going to sleep over?”

“It’s okay. No news is good news.”

Wow. Sweet. Sweet. Changseok poured the first glass without even toasting. There were a few drops of dew on the paper cup. Then he placed the bottle back on the glass.

“Are you thirsty? Why are you drinking so quickly?”

“You should eat quickly and go to bed. You’re busy too.”

We were chewing and mumbling cookies in our mouths. We had too many conversations in the cafe. The only sound that could be heard in the living room was the sound of cookies breaking. We had nothing more to say to each other, so we spent a long time fiddling with our phones.

“Isn’t it really cute?”

Suddenly, Changseok thrusts the LCD screen towards me. A boy was smiling on the screen. He didn’t look like him at all before. As he grows up, his father’s face gradually appears.

so.

“Oh no. The kid seems to be starting to look like you more and more.”

I was worried. I felt sorry for you and wanted to offer some words of comfort.

“That’s right. So I’m thinking about making her a child actor. No. Maybe an idol would be better?”

He chuckled as he answered. What was so good about it? He flipped through the pages of his phone. The photo album was full of baby pictures.

“You should definitely get married too. Okay?”

“··· Is that what you want to say now?”

Sometimes I think he’s crazy. He’s just fighting with his wife and he’s telling me to get married. He’s funny. I’ve taunted him like that over and over again, but he doesn’t care.

I kept smiling faintly while looking at the child’s picture.

He was holding a cell phone in one hand and a bottle of alcohol in the other.

As I continued to fill my glasses like that,

Before I knew it.

“Oh. There isn’t any.”

The bottle of liquor was on its head. Chang-seok twisted his wrist all the way. His elbow was pointed at the ceiling, but no more liquor fell.

I bowed my head at Changseok’s actions and looked at my dry glass.

A clean glass without even a drop of water.

Changseok drank the entire bottle by himself.

“I haven’t even gotten drunk yet.”

Then he started shaking the bottle of soju. A whirlwind rippled inside the still bottle of alcohol. The storm grew even more violent.

I reached out and grabbed Changseok’s arm.

“Okay. Let’s drink the rest later.”

“why?”

“Inma. I came back to Korea today. I’ll get some rest too.”

As I put the remaining soju in the fridge, Chang-sik got up hesitantly, as if he didn’t want to.

“But where do I sleep?”

“My sister’s room before. I came here once before.”

As I opened the door, a pink light poured into the room.

After seeing the cute interior, Chang-seok immediately closed the door. After taking a step back, he turned his head to look at me.

“No. I don’t think that’s right.”

“No, that’s not true. This is your room today.”

“No other room?”

“There are two rooms, where is the other room?”

Even if I wanted to give up my room, I wouldn’t have anywhere to sleep. If I were alone in my sister’s room, time wouldn’t pass.

Well, actually, more than that.

I just didn’t want to give up my room.

“Hey… Wait a minute.”

bang.

After Chang-seok pushed him into the room, he closed the door without listening to the rest of the story.

And then.

“I should keep in touch. I know you’ll be worried.”

I fiddled with my phone and looked for Changseok’s wife’s contact information.

I guess you can just say you’re going tomorrow.

I’ll probably just sleep today and leave right away.

I don’t think you’ll want to stay in that room for two days.

**

Lunch the next day.

When I woke up late and opened my sister’s room, the blanket was already made on the bed. She must have left first. The smell of alcohol lingered in the room. I opened the window to ventilate the room.

When I checked my phone, there was a message from Changseok saying he was coming first.

I heard you talked to your wife this morning. I’m glad the conversation went well. It didn’t seem like it was going to be a long fight from the start.

So I checked Changseok’s message and tried to put my phone away.

At that moment.

-Where are you? I’m here now.

The vibration rang and at the same time a message came to the director.

‘I arrived yesterday and you’re here today.’

I went into the bathroom, thought for a moment, and then came back out.

‘I’ll wait a bit after you wash up and go out.’

After roughly styling my hair with a hair dryer without washing it,

I headed straight to the office.

“Director Lee? Aren’t you tired? Since this morning?”

“Morning? It’s 1 o’clock now.”

As I entered the office, my eyes naturally turned to the desk. There was a lot of stuff piled up on top of it.

There was a pile full of things I had bought in Thailand, like cookies and sunscreen.

After pulling the chair back, I sat down next to the manager and asked.

“Is this why you came?”

“Yes. I forgot to bring the kids presents and took them with me.”

While I was looking through the gifts for no reason, I turned my head and looked at Director Lee.

I briefly suggested that we go meet this representative together.

“Do you want to go together?”

The atmosphere is one of total dislike.

“Yes, if you don’t mind.”

“I absolutely hate it.”

“Why? He’s my younger brother.”

“What about my younger brother? We’re not even as close as strangers.”

The director answered, shaking his head. He frowned, as if his bangs were poking his eyes.

It won’t work. When I meet this representative, I tried to use the younger brother’s shield, but it seems like I’ll have to go at him bare-handed without any items.

“But if I see you going to meet your brother, does that mean the global service of the donation app is ready?”

“Yes, I just checked briefly, but there’s not much to do technically. Since the app I referenced from the beginning is an app that focuses on global services, I think I just need to make some simple changes to the functions.”

“Is there an app you referenced?”

“Yes. It’s an app for the Ive fan community.”

“Ah! Our app?”

“Yes. So I think it won’t be difficult to expand into a global service.”

The framework was almost the same. Well, it wasn’t developed with global service in mind from the beginning.

At the time when I was making the donation app, I was cracking the code of the Ive app.

As I continued developing with familiar code, I ended up with something similar.

As I was having a light conversation with the director, I received a call and the children came.

“Sister!”

Sohyun ran over and spun around in Director Lee’s arms.

After about half a turn, the director’s posture had already collapsed.

“Sister. Why. Why did you come now? How long have I waited for you?”

“I came late because I was buying a gift. Here it is.”

A smile appeared on Sohyun’s lips.

The smile that had been hanging over me suddenly fell to the ground as he looked at me.

“Don’t look at me like that. I lived with this manager.”

Sohyun sticks her tongue out instead of saying thank you for my excuse.

“thank you.”

“Thank you too.”

In contrast, Da-eun and Jun-woo bowed their heads politely and received the gifts.

Except for Manager Chae, everyone gathered together for the first time in a long time.

“Manager Chae seems busy.”

“Yes. My sister… we haven’t met since then.”

Da-eun answered with a regretful voice.

It’s been a long time since we all got together and talked about what’s going on with each other.

suddenly.

-Jiying.

The vibration rang.

“Who are you?”

“This is the director’s brother.”

I showed him the LCD. Even while I was holding it, the phone kept vibrating. I was about to make a call, but someone called me first.

After thinking about it for a moment, I immediately pushed the LCD.

‘I’m in a regretful position right now.’

It wasn’t time to think long.

**

Ive data center.

As I walked up to the office, I glanced around.

‘The atmosphere is not good at all.’

I feel like this representative called me because he wanted to ask me for something. Then it would be much easier for me to ask him for something.

I opened the door and went inside.

“I heard. You had a good time.”

“I came here to have fun. How was this manager?”

“I don’t know. The kid doesn’t answer my calls. Youngjun, please tell him instead.”

Since we only have this director in common, we started the conversation by talking about this director.

And then.

“I honestly think it’s a shame for Youngjun. He’s wasting his talent.”

The representative is slowly getting to the main point while adding to my compliments.

This director also said something similar at first. Seeing that they think similarly, I guess they are siblings.

The only difference is that this director has no intention behind his words, whereas this representative always has an intention behind his words.

“If you have time these days, could you help us with some work?”

“Yes… Actually, I had something to ask of you, too, so that’s good.”

“Youngjun?”

“It’s because of your donation app… But what’s going on?”

I asked why first.

Representative Lee sighs at my words.

“I’m trying to migrate my entire system to Kubernetes. Oh my. Something keeps failing.”

“You don’t know where the problem is?”

“Yes. That’s the biggest problem. Each department keeps saying it’s not true.”

This is a problem that originally arose when collaborating. This problem is especially more prominent in platform products.

“I really don’t know why. When we were working on our AI project, it was easy. There was almost no noise. But Kubernetes is supposed to be an easier technology, so I don’t know why it’s making such a fuss.”

I chuckled at the representative’s words. In fact, the difficulty of technology in this field was the second problem.

No matter how difficult the technology was, it was not as difficult as people.

“You wouldn’t know about AI technology if you weren’t an expert. Even I am so ignorant that if an AI developer explained it to me, I would just say, ‘That’s all.’”

“That’s why AI projects have to be more difficult.”

“No. Artificial intelligence just follows what experts tell it to do. But cloud-related technologies are the complete opposite.”

“Are you against it? What are your thoughts?”

“It’s literally true. Developers know a little bit, and engineers know a little bit. Since the cloud platform is a technology that’s right in between, they both claim to be right. However, there are no experts who can do both sides. That’s why the project is going nowhere.”

It’s always a problem to know things in a half-hearted manner. Only then did Representative Lee nod as if he understood what I was saying.

“Please contact me when the performance check date is set. I will take a look at everything and analyze the cause.”

When I appealed more actively than usual, the representative looked at me as if he was surprised.

“I think Youngjun’s request is not an ordinary one.”

“··· That’s right. That··· I’m planning to launch a donation app globally, so I was wondering if you could help me out.”

“Us?”

“Yes. Our singers are famous overseas. And we even have a fan community with 100 million downloads.”

Although I tried to be a little roundabout, the representative understood what I meant right away.

The representative was lost in thought for a moment.

“Can I ask you one thing? What is your goal, Youngjun? Whether the app is successful or not, it doesn’t really benefit you, right?”

When I heard the word goal, the word UNICEF immediately came to mind.

however.

I’m a little embarrassed to say it out loud.

“I don’t really have a specific goal. It’s something I can do. So I’m just going to try to do it as much as I can.”

Instead, he scratched his head.

The representative tilted his head and asked.

“Is it something like dedication or sacrifice?”

“No way.”

At the representative’s words, he half rose from his chair and waved both hands vigorously from side to side.

‘What is sacrifice…’

Risking their lives and enduring discomfort in dangerous wilderness areas.

There were people who truly made sacrifices and dedication.

Compared to that.

It’s just a matter of gathering bits of data in the comfort of your own room.

Honestly, it wasn’t that big of a deal.

no.

It wasn’t even work.