BOYFRIENEMIES

DEMAND OF THE BIG BEAR

"You're home yet?"

A woman turned her attention away from the pot of nearly boiling soup to look at her husband who had just entered the house. His soft smile emanated making anyone who saw him instantly lose feeling tired from a day of work.

"Yes I'm here, that means I'm home"

Ronan threw himself on the sofa in front of the television, from which he could still see his wife continuing her cooking activities in the kitchen because there was no partition between the spaces.

Miyazaki Rika's name, the old woman with short stature, age 3 years older than Ronan, has almost all her hair white due to age.

Ronan and Rika had just celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary last month, but unfortunately to this day they have not been blessed with a child.

Although Ronan is grumpy, rude and seems to care about nothing, in fact he loves Rika more than anything in the world.

"Have you taken your medicine?" Ronan said half-screaming so his wife could hear him, Rika had suffered a hearing loss for the past year.

"Yes I'm here and I'm not dead yet, which means I've taken medicine" Rika returned Ronan's words to him.

"Huh stop making fun of me" Ronan snorted and smiled.

"How's the kid doing, is he okay?" Rika stirred her soup sauce and tasted it to measure the taste.

"Who?"

"The kid you used to tell me about, Chaerin. Lately you rarely talk about the boy, I get worried"

"What kid! He's 30, maybe more!"

"But if I hadn't miscarried then, maybe our child would have been as big as her" Rika smiled bitterly and a tear fell on her cheek.

"Already, I'm grateful we don't have children, my friends always complain how difficult it is to take care of children, everything becomes tiring. I'm gonna take a nap, wake me up when dinner's ready"

Ronan got up from the sofa and went into his room.

Ronan leaned against the closed door and looked straight ahead. His chest felt tight because of his wife's words.

He did not want to have children at all. In this world who doesn't want to be a parent, her life and Rika might be happier if she's a child.

But Ronan does not want to show his sadness especially to his fragile wife, Rika had a heart transplant surgery five years ago, and his condition began to improve even though he was still dependent on drugs, he did not want his wife to fall ill again just because of the events in their bad past.

As Rika brought it up, Ronan's once calm heart, turned agitated. He had heard about Chaerin running away from Lady Castle, and recently Chaerin had dared to barge into the Gold tower to meet Ethan. Ronan doesn't know Chaerin's intentions and purpose in coming there, he worries that Chaerin might know that Ethan and GD are the same person, and Chaerin might be in danger because of Ethan.

"That woman, I shouldn't have brought her to Ethan"

*

Bear sharpened his knife to cause a sound of friction and also sparks. He lifted the knife into the air and saw it in the light of a yellowish lamp, trying to see if his pajamas were sharp enough to be reused.

"It's your pay, Bear, you can go and live your life normally"

Chaerin threw a bundle of money neatly rolled onto the table. Bear had wanted to protest Chaerin's words as if telling him to leave, but was interrupted by Inguk quickly.

"What about me, you don't want to pay me?!"

Once again Chaerin threw a bundle of money on the table, right in front of Inguk.

"Only this! Damn, I risked my life, I also risked my reputation and you only gave me money no more than a thousand dollars. It's not even enough to pay for the weapon I gave you, and don't forget that corrupt contractor, if it wasn't for me tricking him, you won't be able to catch him and hand him over to that handsome ceo. You're a gangster leader and a loan shark, you should have a lot of money!"

"You can take my share" Bear said.

Bear doesn't really care about money, he just wants to work with Chaerin for a long time.

"Silence fool!"

Inguk was upset, only this time he was paid very cheaply after doing a very difficult thing. Although you want to know Chaerin quite well, but the name of money does not know the word friend.

Chaerin rolled his eyes panted, eager to break the head of the man before him with a concrete hammer.

Inguk has a very disturbing nature, whatever he does he always complains.

"Do I look like a rich woman! I lost everything in an instant, many of my men were caught, left to run away somewhere and no longer want to work with me! I told you to keep my place as long as I wasn't around but look what happened, shouldn't you be in charge!"

Chaerin snatched the knife from Bear's hand and pointed it at him.

"Who? Me? Be responsible? I'm not even your man. At that time I never said yes" snorted.

It is true, Inguk never agreed to Chaerin's request to take care of his alley and also his money lending place which was disguised as an animal slaughterhouse. Chaerin irresponsibly leaves behind a dozen of his men and goes after Ronan to work on GD. Although he also never worked on GD and even made a prostitute.

Now Chaerin felt very guilty for leaving his men behind and getting them into trouble.

"Agh fucking shit! If I knew it would be like this, I wouldn't go!" Chaerin shouted in frustration.

"At least you can pay the Gold Medical ceo for what we did yesterday. Or you threaten him, I see you have a special relationship with him, tell him you're gonna expose your relationship to the public if he doesn't give you money"

"I'm not that low"

"Talk about low, instead of you working in a brothel recently, I admit your chest is big enough to tempt men, except me, I don't really like big-breasted women" inguk smiled in disdain.

"Damn it!" Chaerin threw the knife in his hand in the direction of inguk but fortunately inguk can still avoid, although he had to be willing to fall into a mud puddle.

"Hey demon lady, you want to kill me! What if it really hit me! You are ungrateful, and I have helped you so far!"

Chaerin tried hard to hold back his laughter. Inguk looks like a dog that splashed into a pool full of dirt. It was a fitting reply to his dirty mouth.

Inguk stood up, patting his clothes dirty because of the mud, trying to remove the stain that stuck even though it did not work, instead making the mud stain more spread on his clothes.

"I'll come back to collect it, so get the money ready. You won't be able to make peace with me if it has anything to do with money!"

Inguk left the old warehouse where Chaerin was hiding now.

Chaerin and Bear saw the departure of the red Jeep Rubicon, and simultaneously they breathed a sigh of relief.

"He's very chatty" Bear said.

"Didn't I just tell you to go and live a normal life like any other human being!" Chaerin glanced at Bear.

"I think spending my life working with you is pretty normal too" Bear smiled as he showed a row of himself that was lined with green wire. The braces look more like seaweed crumbs that stick after eating.

*

Ethan's brown eyes sparkle when someone he's waiting for finally shows up. Ethan even stood up to welcome his arrival.

For more than 20 years Ethan has not met him, making his bleak childhood memories twisted back in his head.

"I'm glad you called me first?" Ethan held out a friendly hand.

Bear smiled wryly, without welcoming Ethan's hand, he immediately pulled out a chair and sat down before Ethan without any respect, even though Ethan had not allowed him to sit down.

Ethan looked at his neglected hand and suppressed his anger by squeezing his own.

Sean who was next to Ethan immediately moved, pointing the gun's mouth at Bear's head, making the man's large-bodied head tilt to the side following the gunpoint.

"I used to be very scared when someone pointed a gun at me, but the more you experience it, it feels normal, my heart is no longer even pounding" Bear looked at Sean defiantly.

If compared to Bear who has a large and stocky body, Sean has a thin body, if they both fight, it can be ascertained who the winner. That was why Bear was not at all afraid to be defiant in front of Sean.

"I'm not trying to make you flutter" Sean grinned, his index finger preparing to pull the trigger and Bear could see the glint of Sean's eyes ready to kill.

The meaning of Sean's terrible grin can be captured Bear well. But he refused to be afraid of Sean let alone submit to the skinny pale. Bear just straightened his body and bowed respectfully to Ethan, knowing he should be nice, because he was here to ask for help.

"Is that how the rich welcome guests at gunpoint?"

Ethan flicked his hand, telling Sean to retreat immediately.

"You have 15 minutes to talk, you know I'm very busy"

Bear put on a lazy face, he was very unhappy with Ethan's arrogant and condescending attitude.

"Did Chae know that you were this kind of person, compared to ceo, you looked more like a gangster, oh not not a member but the boss"

"Should I tear your fucking mouth apart" Sean raised his voice, he didn't like his master being told that it was true.

"Gangster boss? You must be talking about Chaerin" Ethan smiled.

"You know Chae's a gangster?"

Ethan nodded as he sipped his afternoon tea. Drinking tea in the afternoon has become a habit.

"And you still like it?"

Bear's words almost made Ethan choke, he coughed a few times and sprightly, Sean gave him a handkerchief.

"I like Chaerin?" Ethan smiled, he said the sentence in a repugnant tone.

"Written clear on your forehead"

Ethan touched his forehead subconsciously, and rubbed it with his hands as if there was something there.

"Is the writing that big, until you can see it?" Ethan smiled witfully and covered his eyes with the back of his hand.

Ethan had a habit of closing his eyes with the back of his hand when he was embarrassed.

Bear stood up, pointing his finger right in front of Ethan. Sean had prepared to attack Bear but Ethan held him back, making Sean growl like a dog.

"This is not a joke. I came to warn you, if you want to play, find another woman. If you get Chae hurt, I swear I'll skin you and bathe in your blood"

"..........." Bear was silent for quite a while, he was at a loss for what to say. Between responding to Ethan's speech, or telling him the real purpose of why he came to see Ceo Gold Medical.

"I know you didn't come here for this, tell me what you really wanted, I didn't have much time" Ethan's face turned serious, with a smile etched into his face a few seconds ago.

"I beg of you"

Unexpectedly Bear dropped his knees on the floor, his hands placed on his thighs and his head lowered, his pride was already thrown away when he decided to meet Ethan today.

"Please protect Chae, the police are still chasing her until now"

"It's not just the police, George is still after him" Ethan added.

"Not anymore"

Ethan looked at Bear with a face full of questions, what was the meaning of his words.

"What do you mean, not anymore?"

Ethan remembers that he ordered George to go after Chaerin. Not to capture the woman and return her to Lady Castle, but only to scare her into asking Ethan for protection, and Ethan can apply for payment for helping her.

But what happened was not like the scenario Ethan had planned. Because to this day, Chaerin still struggles alone to avoid George without ever once asking for help.

"I'm gonna kill that fucker"

A little surprised, but Ethan's shock did not last long, he put a smile on the corner of his lips.

"I'm against your crazy idea"

"What right!" Bear stared at Ethan sharply.

The big man had been thinking about it for days and his decision was unanimous, he had to get rid of George, so that Chaerin could live freely, without having to hide.

"No, I mean...."

Ethan knows his temples, Bear says, making his head a little sore.

Ethan wants to shut down Lady Castle for good, but he needs a little time to make it happen.

And Bear's plan to kill George could make his initial plan fail.

Because of Bear, Ethan's head is now filled with a variety of new, more profitable scenarios, scenarios that could make Chaerin fall on him, without having to put Bear in danger when dealing with George, and closing Lady Castle, destroying the place made it seem like it never existed.

"You're confessing your malicious intentions to me, I could have called the police and reported you, but killing someone is not good"

Ethan tries to make Bear give up.

"I assume you refuse, don't regret refusing my request, this kind of opportunity doesn't come too often" Bear wakes up and prepares to leave Ethan.

"So what should I do?"

Ethan's words stop Bear, leaving the big man with hope.

"Please give Chae a new identity, protect her, you have money and power, I'm sure you can do it. Because after I killed George, the people from the Gold Dragon might come after him" Bear looked at Ethan, hoping that the man would accept his request.

"Gold Dragon?" Ethan asks, pretending to be stupid, but he knows very well what a Gold dragon is, because he is the leader.

"It's a mafia organization, Lady Castle is part of their business, lest Chaerin be found by them, let alone by GD"

"Oh that's easy, of course I'll take good care of Chae"

Ethan finally gives up and agrees to Bear's request. He has found the right scenario for this.

Ethan patted Bear's shoulder slowly.

After a long talk with Ethan, Bear decides to leave. The lingering with Ethan makes him uncomfortable, however, Ethan is on a higher level than he is.

Bear was about to stand up after saying goodbye, but Ethan stopped him by saying a name.

"Austinians. We haven't seen each other for 20 years, shouldn't we have talked for much longer"

Bear stared at Ethan in shock, all this time he was called Bear because of habit, he even changed his name to Bear and few people know his real name.

"You know my real name? You're digging up information about me?" Bear looked at Ethan full of probing.

"Of course not, honestly we've known each other for a long time, I'll tell you who I really am"

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

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Behind the Scane when Bear is gone.

Sean: sir, are you willing to help the big bear because of Chaerin?

Ethan: (captured)

Sean: Are you seriously going to marry her?

Ethan: (smile, steady nod)

Sean: You're going to sleep with him? (Fuddled face, plain)

Ethan: (ternganga, confused what to answer)

Sean: will you do ****?

Ethan: where did you learn that word?! You're too young to know! (Elarge voice, ambush)

Sean: I'm an adult, I'm 21 years old, in the book says the average person has done it by the age of 17? I also want to try to do it. (Pain face - moron more precisely)

Ethan: (screaming) don't do it, give me the book you read, I'll burn it! Don't grow up too fast!

Sean: (still with a plain face) but it looks like fun.

Ethan: being a dinosaur is much more fun (challenging the conversation)

Sean: dinosaur (sparkling)

Ethan: yeah yeah yeah come on, I'll buy you a dinosaur (pull Sean's hand)

Sean: what's the long neck? (excited)

Ethan: yes

Sean: are his fangs sharp?

Ethan: yes

Sean: what's the horn there 10

Ethan: there's 100

Sean: waaaahhhhh (sparkling)

Christopher peeked behind the pillar.

Chris: I'm glad I didn't give you the book (fear of Ethan)