Time Mansour - Chapter 46



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Episode 46: If you bite your tongue, a scar will remain

If you bite your tongue, it will leave a scar.

He fiddles with the drink can. A sharp tongue is thrust back.

Then and now, the mind of Mr. Cheon Sang-mu is truly inscrutable.

He is a man who is good at deceiving, but he never crosses the line.

In other words, it was a competent salesmanship. Before I went to White Soft. Even while the platform business was failing one after another.

Still, he was a person who managed to sell licenses somehow.

‘You shouldn’t think about winning with words.’

If I speak longer, I feel like it will cut through Cheon Sang-moo’s tongue.

So just.

“sorry.”

After bowing my head lightly, I was about to leave.

As expected.

“Director Jeong. Wait a minute. Think about it a little more. If you don’t want to come back, consider becoming an executive at a partner company…”

Director Chun grabbed my arm. The padding on my jacket sank.

‘Ha. That’s why I didn’t want to see you anymore.’

In the first place, he is not the type of person to be swayed by emotions.

Even if I slap Director Chun in the face right here.

He’s the kind of person who will tell you that everything is okay and to come back to work.

A person who can calculate profit and loss faster than anyone else.

Right now, I’m just doing simple operations at the bank, so I don’t really need it.

But once you get your app up in the cloud, and it starts getting busier, soon you’ll need someone to do the same job as you.

If you’re lucky enough to get into the accounting department, there’s nothing more to say.

Because there is always a shortage of people to do odd jobs in foreign countries.

“No. I just want to rest for a while.”

“Director Jeong. Think about it one more time. This is a really good opportunity. It’s the first of its kind in Korea. If we build a system for the accounting department, banks won’t be able to easily withdraw it. And if you change jobs after that, you can move on to much better conditions. Just trust me this once and go…”

Director Chun stops speaking.

The word faith. It just stuck out there.

It seems like he feels sorry even after saying it himself.

It was the same when we tried to bring Manager Chae to White Soft.

Just trust me.

It’s just a habit of CEO Cheon. Or, in some ways, it could be seen as an occupational disease.

Because it’s not easy for sales to completely avoid lies and make sales.

The words, “Trust me,” were stuck on my lips.

I quit my job because I didn’t like how I was changing.

however.

so.

‘Can I confidently say now that I am a different person from him?’

I wonder if he was just making excuses about work.

To the silent question that echoes in my heart,

The soft drink can gave off a silent, sweet scent.

**

The event just started.

Director Chun stood quietly next to me with his mouth shut. The necklace with the word “Step” written on it fluttered in the heater wind.

He glanced at Director Cheon Sang-mu and then quickly turned his gaze back to the stage.

Jaeshirong comes up on stage while giving a high five.

After making a heart with your fingers on stage, only then do you pick up the microphone.

Jaeshirong explains the latest features of the Spring Framework.

This is the content that I have already presented at the Singapore conference as a representative of Asia.

I only saw it briefly in the video, but it seemed like almost nothing had changed.

There’s no reason to come all the way to Korea to do that.

I listened to the end just in case, but there was no additional content added.

“Wow, wow, wow.”

After finishing the lecture, Jaeshirong comes down with cheers. This time, he gives a high five and disappears to the other side.

So, after Jaeshirong’s session ended, I had no reason to stay here any longer, so I tried to quietly leave.

“Director Jeong. Are you going to leave?”

Director Chun’s voice was heard from the side.

“Yes. I came here just to see this.”

“Well… I thought about it a bit… It’s shameless to ask someone to trust me again, even when I think about it myself.”

What more excuses can Jae-ga make? Cheon Sang-mu laughs awkwardly, out of place. I don’t know if he’s stopped acting. Or if he’s just pretending to stop acting.

anyway.

“But we’ll meet again somewhere later. I hope we won’t avoid each other then.”

Director Chun smiled at me and extended his hand.

If I had been someone like him, running towards the goal of success, would we have become good colleagues?

“I’m sorry. I ran away from you.”

I take his hand and shake it. My hand shakes lightly up and down.

I never thought that Director Chun was a bad person in the first place.

He’s just someone who’s adapted very well to the small world called society.

After bowing our heads to each other and greeting each other like that several times.

I was about to turn my back and run away.

“Can you take a picture with me?”

By chance, Jaeshirong’s appearance caught my eye.

Jaeshirong smiles brightly and gives a thumbs up.

Outside he’s an American guy, but here he’s a celebrity.

Jaeshirong taking a picture together upon request.

The way he smiles and poses so skillfully.

I took her to do the dishes. Oh. What was I thinking? No. No. Come to think of it, I didn’t ask her to come, did I?

I was watching that scene with a smile on my face without realizing it.

“Jeong! You’re here. Wait a minute after the event is over. Let’s talk for a bit.”

Jaeshirong spots me and waves. Please. Please. Don’t go first. He repeats the same words several times from a distance.

When someone approached me with a cell phone,

“Can I take a picture too?”

Strike a pose again.

**

The convenience store parasol was in the shade. The shadows on his face were clear.

Exactly.

The top of the beer can is pushed back, its sharp edges disappearing into the darkness.

‘Beer at a convenience store in this weather.’

Snow that has not yet melted is piled up like graves at every street corner. Gray hairs are growing here and there on the black snow.

“Sorry. Sorry. I just wanted to try drinking like this once. In America, you can’t drink outside.”

“You can’t drink at all? Even at an outdoor table?”

“Well, in principle, yes.”

My hands are shaking even when I’m still. I hold the can with my fingertips and tilt it at an angle.

The beer rocks precariously inside the can.

“How did you come to the Korean event?”

“Because the Korean branch asked me to come.”

“You’re not going to do everything that’s requested, are you?”

The reason was too weak.

If that were possible, each branch would unconditionally invite Jaeshirong for every event.

Then, even if Jaeshirong had ten bodies, it would be an impossible schedule.

“That’s not it. But I thought I should come to Korea at least once, so I came. Since you are all in Korea. Well, I received a lot of help from your team while preparing for this presentation.”

But this is delicious. What’s its name? Jaeshirong asked, putting a shrimp cracker in his mouth and chewing on it.

“Ah. Right, but why didn’t the other team members come? It’s too bad. I wanted to go see it together one more time.”

The bag of chips is spread open, exposing its belly. It dries its body in the winter wind.

I was just staring blankly at the drying shrimp crackers

“Actually, it wasn’t a team.”

I blurted out a few words indifferently toward the passing winter wind.

“Huh? What?”

“I did it all by myself from the beginning.”

My breath suddenly burst out.

Jaeshirong tilts his head slightly.

After a moment of thought.

His eyes widen as if he realized something.

“Preparing conference materials? Or…”

“Including that.”

“All of it? That’s ridiculous… You wrote all that manual by yourself? In just a few months? And you even did all the testing?”

“huh.”

I nodded as I passed the beer. Maybe it was because of the alcohol. I felt like the weather had cleared up a bit.

“How on earth could you do that alone···?”

“I’m sorry. I want to tell you, but it’s just too complicated. It’s hard to explain everything.”

I couldn’t continue talking because I felt like you wouldn’t believe me even if I told you.

The phenomenon of time stopping. Honestly, even I couldn’t believe it yet.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m really crazy. I’ve often thought that way.

“Actually, I didn’t believe anything you said from the beginning. No, I actually thought the opposite.”

“Are you against it?”

“I thought there would be a bigger group behind them. Well. Honestly, I still think so. Huh? Wait. Then. So all the guys I saw back then weren’t developers?”

Yeah, you could think of it that way.

It’s been a while since I’ve lost my sense of time.

The concept of time was completely broken, to the point where I couldn’t even figure out how many people could do it.

Well, if that’s what Jaeshirong thought, then he’s right.

Because they are more expert than me.

“Yeah. They all do different things. They’re just my high school friends.”

“Hey. Honestly, I can’t believe it anymore. It was an unbelievable amount of work even for a team. And he did it alone.”

“No. I’m not asking you to believe me. I just wanted to say that it is.”

You’re saying this all for my own good.

That’s all.

Without realizing it, I tried to repeat what Gukyoung said.

They say that if you spend a long time with someone, you start to resemble them.

Since I met the kids again.

I feel like I’m slowly going back to those carefree days.

When I turned my head and looked at the sky, it felt like the sunlight was avoiding my gaze.

**

The alcohol makes me feel better.

I have something to do before it gets warmer.

“Hello. Now, we will start Lesson 1 of Scratch, which anyone can do.”

He raised his voice into the air.

The camera lens sparkles.

A small classroom in a study cafe.

In an empty classroom, a lecture is given for desks and chairs.

Desks and chairs for students to listen to the lectures diligently without making any noise.

Without the kids, I feel empty and awkward.

“I guess I should go now.”

Since I rented the classroom, I tried to film the entire lecture at once, but it took longer than I thought, so I filmed only up to the second lecture and then folded up the tripod.

“If we’re really short on time, I should consider taking pictures in my sister’s room.”

I couldn’t continue filming because I had a commitment later.

With all that equipment dangling from my body, I walked towards the piano academy.

Daughter.

Let’s push the door and go inside.

“You are here.”

“Teacher. Are you here? I’m really sorry. The child asked me for something unnecessary.”

“No, it’s not that difficult.”

Junwoo’s mom kept bowing her head, so I gestured several times to tell her that it was okay.

Like that, Junwoo peeks his head out from behind his mother.

“Hello, teacher. I never had the chance to trust you with our jackpot. Thank you so much.”

Then Junwoo handed me a case.

Inside the case, a cat was blinking its eyes.

It’s a cat.

“This… I mean, I’ve never raised an animal before. Can I just feed it food for a few days?”

I said with my mouth that it was nothing serious.

Actually, I’ve never even raised a Tamagotchi.

I was a little worried.