Chapter 53: Yoo Seonjun (2)

“You knew…?”

Wow, this is surprising.

I don’t know if he knew in his past life, or if he found out while studying, stimulated by me.

I think it’s probably the former… but I don’t feel like asking. It was such a shocking statement.

“Why? What’s the point of being so foolishly taken advantage of?”

It was a sensibility I couldn’t understand. Will that person be grateful if he gets stabbed in the back like that? I don’t think so.

“Meaning, meaning… Then, is what we’re doing meaningful?”

Yu Seonjun muttered dejectedly.

“I don’t know. Is this really that meaningful? As my father said, am I too young to know yet? We’re not in a bad situation, and we have enough money, so why do we have to be like this with our family…”

I shook my head.

“There’s no such thing as enough money. And power is much more valuable than money.”

“Yeah. Hayeon, I can’t understand you at all. Honestly, I sometimes resented you.”

“…Why?”

“Because I felt like the other kids agreed with my thoughts to some extent. We might have some fights, but let’s not go to the point of life and death like that family. But when you suddenly appeared, I couldn’t help but think a lot, wondering if I was wrong.”

“If the other kids are like that, then I’m different?”

Yu Seonjun asked back as if it was absurd.

“Then are you the same? Would we be the same as a guy who’s already trying to run a company at elementary school age? And… that’s not what I’m talking about. Hayeon, you’re different from us. You’re like Uncle Jinha or grandfather.”

Intense greed.

It was the biggest difference that separated me and Yu Seonjun, Yu Jinha and Yu Jinseok.

“…You have a better eye than I thought, oppa.”

I thought he was just a fool who wasted his time indulging in gambling, but it turns out he was a fool who was too kind.

I pouted.

This makes it difficult to be harsh. How did they educate their family?

If you’re a chaebol’s 3rd generation, act like one. Driving drunk, doing drugs, having s*x scandals… Ah, oppa did drugs, huh.

But he looks fine now, so he must not be doing drugs.

“Then what are you going to do? Just live like this, get stabbed in the back by Lee Seonpyo, and quietly step down?”

Do you have an alternative?

Giving me a 500 won coin in my small hand, Yu Seonjun said.

“Flip the coin.”

“…?”

An intense fire burned in his eyes. Oppa whispered in my ear in a soft voice.

“And if it comes up heads, I’ll be on your side for the rest of your life. I won’t care if you stab your uncle or whatever.”

“What? Th, that’s…”

I was flustered. Th, this madman…!

Yu Seonjun laughed.

“Nice. That expression, I wanted to see it. I didn’t like how you always hardened your face and acted like everything in the world was under your control.”

“…If it comes up tails, what will you do?”

“I’ll have to give up, I guess. If I don’t even have the luck to get heads here, will I have any luck in business? I’m betting my life, so I should have that much luck.”

“That’s, the gambler’s fallacy. You can’t guarantee that you’ll have good luck in business just because you’re lucky in this game…”

“Well said, I’m a gambler. I’m a superstitious person who foolishly believes in luck.”

Stomp.

Yu Seonjun approached me. A faint aura of a madman seemed to be lingering on his haggard face.

“So… flip the coin! Test your luck! Yu Hayeon!”

Holding the coin tightly in my hand, Yu Seonjun said so.

I frowned slightly.

“This, it’s not a coin with heads on both sides…”

I opened my half-forced fist and examined the coin, and it was just a normal 500 won coin.

He laughed as if it was funny.

“Yeah, my clever sister. I knew you would expect this kind of trick. Unfortunately, this oppa has that kind of coin.”

Yu Seonjun took out another coin from his pocket. It was a coin with the same heads and tails.

“…Why did you bring that?”

“To tease you.”

This guy…!

It’s a bit much.

‘I should use it on Sihyeon later.’

I looked at the coin blankly, thinking nonsense.

“…Should I just flip it?”

“Well… if you beg this oppa earnestly, I might let you flip it with this coin? Call me orabeoni, Hayeon.”

Yu Seonjun laughed playfully.

“That… I can’t do that.”

My pride can’t allow it. I bit my lip and flipped the coin.

-Ting!-

The result came out quickly.

Heads.

It was a success.

“You’re lucky.”

Yu Seonjun muttered.

Thanks to winning the bet, I received the special coin as a bonus.

‘Did you use it a lot…?

While I was stroking the shiny coin and looking blankly at the sky, Yu Seonjun smoked in front of his cute cousin – yes, he’s talking about me.

“If the two of you fight seriously… my father won’t be able to win.”

-Phew.-

I smelled cigarette smoke.

“I don’t know what will happen if I take my father’s side… but at least our family will be f*cked up.”

“So you’re taking my side?”

“Yeah. I don’t know your uncle’s personality… but I think I know your personality roughly. You’re a person who is too greedy to cut off close people. You’re very greedy, but you’re definitely capable.”

“Hmph, making assumptions as you please.”

“Aren’t you? You say I’m foolish, but you’re the same, Hayeon.”

“…I have my reasons for everything.”

I shook my head.

I didn’t want to think about this now.

“…Oppa. But why now? I won’t ask why me. Because I’m special. But… I haven’t done anything yet. I don’t know about talent, but I have no power or influence right now.”

No matter how smart Yu Seonjun is, there’s no way he can know what I’ve done. Yu Jinha, who is more experienced and similarly smart than Yu Seonjun, probably didn’t notice almost anything…

“Huh? That’s obvious. It’s when you can’t do anything yet… that I have value. If I made the same offer to you when you were twenty, would you have accepted it?”

There’s no way I would have accepted such an arrogant offer.

“See, right? And a gambler doesn’t consider probabilities. He just rushes in, looking at the stakes.”

Yu Seonjun flipped the coin.

-Spin.-

The coin spins. Heads came up.

“It’s heads.”

I muttered. Yu Seonjun shrugged and smiled.

“Yeah, it’s heads. But it wouldn’t have mattered if it was tails. Right? What meaning does a mere coin have?”

“Sigh…”

I sighed. I finally understand what he’s saying.

“Flipping the coin was meaningless in the first place. Because I had the right to decide.”

He just put on a show to paralyze my reason for a moment.

Regardless of social status and relationships, Yu Seonjun had no choice but to cooperate with me. He was the one in a hurry, not me.

“You’re smart, as expected of my clever sister. There’s not much time left to tease you.”

Yu Seonjun said sadly and stroked my head.

“You smell like cigarettes, take your hand away. Just quit smoking.”

I shook my head.

“You’re saying things you shouldn’t to your orabeoni.”

Yu Seonjun, who grumbled and took his hand away, was staring blankly at Yu Jiwon and Yu Hojun coming from beyond the pension. Yu Jinha’s two children were bickering with bags full of ice cream in their hands.

“I wonder if they bought delicious ice cream.”

“I hope it’s not B-B-Big… Is there a Baskin-Robbins here?”

“There’s no way something that’s barely in Seoul would be in this countryside.”

Tsk.

It was nice that the food was getting better these days.

Yu Jiwon waved his hand from afar.

One by one, the other children, who had just become energetic middle and high school students, came out and received ice cream.

So, when it was our turn, there was almost nothing left. Yu Jiwon looked at Seonjun oppa with an awkward look.

“Sorry, there wasn’t much, so I brought everything that was there… This is all that’s left.”

…Two B-B-Bigs and a Double Crunch.

“Ahaha, Hayeon’s least favorite thing came out. I’ll eat the B-B-Big, so you eat the chocolate flavor, Hayeon.”

I pouted as if I didn’t like it and picked up the last remaining Double Crunch.

Fairly, 1 and a half each.

“Here, oppa, eat this. One B-B-Big and half a Double Crunch. This is enough, right?”

“…Yeah.”

‘Tsk, there’s not much left. I can’t chew it like usual.’

This is why I don’t like kind people.

I slowly licked the remaining half of the ice cream. Until the sweet chocolate mass melted and stuck to my lips.

A few days later.

I met Yu Seonjun and slowly laid out the documents and explained.

“So… what you have to do, oppa, is to go to these comprehensive financial companies and firmly mend the conflict. It was fortunate that I was worried about being caught by my uncle. Even if the company goes bankrupt, you can open an escape route for the top management, or something like that.”

“…Wait, wait a minute. What, what is all this?”

Yu Seonjun’s bewildered eyes scanned the documents and me alternately.

“Hmm… the debt that came from the failure of the comprehensive financial companies’ investment in Japan?”

“So why do you have that document?”

“Because I arranged that investment…? Don’t worry. There will be no damage to Daeha Securities.”

“This scale, if what I’m seeing is correct… this won’t end like this!”

“Yes, yes, it will be hundreds of billions of won if you combine it all. It’s a good bomb to detonate at the right time.”

Originally, a hydrogen bomb also uses an atomic bomb as a detonator. This will be the detonator that will trigger the IMF crisis later.

-Thud.-

The cigarette that Yu Seonjun was holding fell. I smiled playfully and patted oppa’s shoulder.

“Oh, did you finally quit smoking today?”

Yu Seonjun didn’t answer.