Big Life

20 - Fear not (3)

“I guess so. ”

It was the answer of the reconstruction that was still staring through the sign.

It was a ‘holy bath'. It was called a ‘mustard bath’ because the 'O’ stand fell from ‘Sir’.

It had already fallen a long time ago, and the dust of the ages was covered in black.

“It's been closed for a long time. ”

I saw the reception counter past the entrance.

The entrance to the South Tang and the other side were respectively located.

The spider silk that was stretched over the glass was creepy.

“Rebuild, I feel bad. Let's go back.”

“I want to go in here. ”

“Excuse me?”

Reconstruction seriously looked back at Surprise Su Hee and added.

“I've come this far, but I want to go inside. ”

“Do you really need to go in there? It's getting dark.”

“If it's Lantern, I'm ready. ”

Reconstruction pulls the lantern out of the bag and lights it up against my chin.

Su-hee lost her words because she was ridiculous.

“Why don't you go wait in the car for a while? I'll be back in five minutes. ”

“No, of course. Come in with me. You'll be out in a minute? ”

Reconstruction pushes the door down.

After a moment of deliberation, he chose Nam-Bang and held Su-hee's hand.

The two of them stepped down a staircase and went down into the dark cellar.

“I could have been in trouble without Lantern. ”

Reconstruction mutters as you pass by the dressing room.

An old locker surrounds you like a hurricane.

Su-hee's hands, which grabbed the arm of the reconstruction, were sweaty.

“If we go in this way, it's Tang. ”

“Rebuild, do you really need to see more? Shouldn't we be seeing this right now? ”

Reconstruction was just taking a step as if it were being led instead of an answer.

I didn't ignore Su-hee's words, I didn't listen.

The more I dug, the more I was distracted by the unfamiliar interior landscape.

“You broke down the wall. ”

A rebuilding front of a large bath mutters, illuminating the right wall to the lantern.

The landscape that looked beyond the half-broken, tall wall was lacking.

“Aren't you going to use it for something else? ”

Su-hee said, still holding on to the rebuilding.

“There was a new steaming room nearby. It's a very old building and it's trapped inside. Maybe they're trying to use it for storage because of the wall. ”

“It could be. ”

Reconstruction works in harmony, shining a lantern through the area.

Then I found a graffiti painted on the wall next to the shower facility.

- Kim Jeong-hwan, Kim Jeong-seok Brothers Visit.

- Lee Hye-jung came to play.

The writing was crooked like that of a junior.

Reconstruction quietly retraced two lines of sentences.

The landscape of two brothers and a girl playing in the bathtub of this ruin seemed to be drawn in front of their eyes.

“Let's get out of here, rebuild. ”

“Yes, when we go out, let's go out the other way. ”

I wanted to take a closer look at the reconstruction, but I was considerate of Su-hee and woke up.

The two entered through the collapsed wall.

The landscape was no different from Nam Tang's.

However, there was a door that was not in the South Bank to the side of the sauna facility.

I stared at it and rebuilt.

“What's the matter? ”

“No, about that door.... ”

You wriggle your neck for rebuilding and muttering.

Both eyes still gaze at the door beyond the darkness.

Seeing his face stiffened with no expression, Su-hee had a chill on her back.

“Come on, rebuild. Scary.”

“That's got to be the bathroom. ”

“… huh? How do you know that? ”

“There's a bathroom in the front. And there should be a boiler room on the right. ”

Reconstruction took a step forward to confirm what it said.

Su-hee followed behind her.

Soon, the rebuilding opened the door without hesitation.

“Really?"

Su-hee who looked ahead through the open door opened her mouth halfway.

There was a cracked door and a toilet on the floor beyond it.

“How did you know? You've been here before, right? ”

“No, I really don't know. When you were a kid, you went on a family trip. ”

The unclear memory of the source frustrated the reconstruction.

The entrance to the boiler room was located as I turned my gaze sideways.

Su-hee asked after seeing the reconstruction to catch the door hook.

“Why? To open it? ”

Su Hee's frightened voice trembles faintly.

Reconstruction suddenly occurred to me.

He looks back at Su Hee with his thin, dark eyes.

“What, what's wrong? ”

“Su-hee, do you want to know... what's in here? ”

“Don't do that. I'll go first. ”

“Haha, I'm sorry. I'm just kidding. There's no point. ”

The door to the boiler room opened wide with a smile.

Just in time.

A girl with long hair sits crouched at the bottom of the boiler raises her head.

My eyes were shining between my unruly hair.

“Ahhhh! ”

“Gaaaahhhh!”

A frightened reconstruction crushes the buttocks first.

Su-hee stepped back and slammed her back against the wall.

“Who, who, who, who, who, who? ”

Su-hee's voice, which was severed by fear, was unfamiliar to the reconstruction.

Suddenly, the girl in front of me dug her face into her little hands and burst into tears.

“Ahhhhhh!”

“Ooh, don't cry. What are you doing here alone? Huh?”

“My brothers won't play with me! ”

When I woke up, I thought I was a little girl who would become an elementary school student.

Su-hee sighed for a very long relief, then approached the girl and patted her back.

“Bad brothers. I'll teach you a lesson. Let's go out with my sister.”

Reconstruction and Su-hee came out together, holding the girl's hand on either side.

After returning back to the first place, the children were still playing picking up the ground.

“Hey, your brother. ”

One of the kids who was playing said to a boy,

The boy who heard that raised his head.

As soon as he saw the girl standing with Su-hee, he threw a stone at her.

“Where have you been again? I told you to stay where you can see me. ”

“They don't play with you! I'm not letting you in!”

“I won't let you in because you can't dig the ground! Idiot!”

“Aaaahhh! I'm going to my mom! ”

Reconstruction and Su-hee bought a bag of ice cream and calmed the children and left.

I saw the real estate on the way back to the car, so I stopped by to rebuild.

“The Great Sage Bath? It's been a while since Mr. Kim bought it. I'm going to use it for storage.”

The aged vendor explained, picking up the lid of the drink given by the reconstruction.

“The building was old, so the original owner almost paid for the land. I haven't run a bathhouse in a long time. Why do you ask? ”

“It's nothing. I think I was here when I was a kid, but I can't remember. Thank you."

The two who came out of the real estate got in the car.

Reconstruction apologized by fastening the seatbelt to Su-hee in the passenger seat.

“I'm sorry. Surprised? ”

“It's not your fault. And it was just funny. ”

Suhee turns her head out of the window and chuckles.

“I was surprised to rebuild. Look at you grinding your butt. ”

“I thought I was going into cardiac arrest. Who knew there was a girl there? ”

“I didn't mean to scare you. I was punished. ”

The two of them returned to the hotel after a delicious dinner as head bones.

Su Hee was quite tired while wandering around all day.

While she went into the shower first, the reconstruction took out the fountain pen.

‘I think this is going to work. ’

Talks were floating all over the brain, not having a clear shape yet.

Reconstruction carefully wrote down what he saw and felt in the bathtub and what had happened.

In order not to forget the feeling of today that was not ordinary.

“Rebuild, are you busy? ”

You hear Su-hee's voice behind your back.

Reconstruction continued, not looking back.

“No, I'm not busy. Why?”

“Then wash it before it gets cold. I soaked myself in the tub. ”

Reconstruction turns its head back. Sun Soo-hee, wearing a white robe, was hairing her wet hair with a towel. Faced with a moist white skin, the reconstruction was dull.

“Have you washed up already? ”

“Yes, why? ”

“It's nothing. ”

Reconstruction entered the bathroom by itself in a sad color.

I was still ashamed to say let's go in for a bath together.

A shy voice echoes behind him, shirtless.

“I... I can push your back... if you need me. ”

As soon as Su-hee said that, the reconstruction wiped out all the memories.

I decided to think about novels after this joyful journey.

* * *

“By 10: 00 tonight? Hmm. You shot him? Why don't we close up early? I don't have any customers. ”

The cafe owner looks around the empty interior with his phone in his ear and is troubled.

Due to the recession, customers also decreased.

It's a feeling of desperation.

I was drawn to the temptation of a friend to drink or drink, and I was thinking about closing the door early.

Right then.

A guest walks in with the cafe door open.

As soon as I recognized his face, the owner picked it up and said to his phone.

“Hey, I'm sorry, I can't be there until 10: 00. I'll be there by 11: 20. Oh, you have a visitor. This customer helped me with the shutter. Can't you understand what I'm saying? Oh, hang up. ”

A guest came to the owner who hung up.

The owner greeted the guest with a smile on his face.

“Welcome. Can I help you with your order?”

“Hello, Iced Americano Regular. And a double cheesecake, please. ”

After the order was completed, the guest settled inside the café.

The owner already knew this.

This guest has never sat anywhere else.

‘But I think I saw him somewhere else. Does it look familiar to you? ’

The owner tilted his head and prepared a drink and cake.

I couldn't help but feel like I saw your face somewhere else, not as a guest here in the cafe.

The guest, who was just sitting in his seat, was taking out his handwriting kit from his bag.

His identity was a rebuilding.

"Phew, the muse from the cafe. Thank you again for today. ’

Following 'The Bress’ and ‘Oscar's Dungeon’, I found this cafe for a new piece.

At this stage, it was better to focus on being alone than in an office with other writers.

‘Once the protagonist is an older brother. My brother is in sixth grade and my brother is in fifth grade. And the girl is in fourth grade and her name is Kyungja. ’

Reconstruction took hold of Seo Gun-woo's fountain pen and cleared it out one by one from the characters in the notepad.

The main characters, two brothers and a girl, refer to the graffiti they saw in the Gyeongsang Bath.

‘Two brothers live in poverty, three with their mothers without their father. Then I moved to another town with my mom who works in a cannery. He's getting used to new schools and friends, but he's struggling. Then on the way home, I found a mustard bath...! ’

The rebuilding notes that began to concentrate were unruly.

For him who did not hear the ringtone, the owner took the beverage and cake and placed it on the table next to him, but he did not even notice it.

‘The girl is being mocked for being called a mustard because of the broken sign. So he used to play alone in the bathtub where his father used to store groceries. The two brothers who were accidentally found in the bathtub became close to this girl called mustard...! ’

Half an hour later.

Suddenly, I felt thirsty. After melting all the ice, I drank a large cup of coffee and immediately grabbed a pen.

‘The brother who paints well draws a girl's face one day. So the girl asked me to paint, but the brother who doesn't have any paint refused. So she teased her brother, saying, "Is there no paint in the world?" My brother, who was usually inferior to poverty, went back angry because he was depressed. While the girl was crying, she stole her favorite chocolate...! ’

Glug glug!

The phone rang and the reconstruction made me tremble.

It was a call from Director Tae-sung.

“Yes, sir. ”

- Everything all right, sir? I called to say hi.

“I'm fine. How's the short film coming along? ”

- Almost done editing. Good shape. Will you come to the premiere?

“Of course, it's by Director Yoon Tae-sung. ”

- Haha, it's an honor. It seems that the stock price is rising tremendously in China. Have you seen the news? I heard they're doing CF this time.

“Oh, really? I call sometimes, but Joon doesn't really talk about work. ”

- I know it's a lot to work with, but I think he's surprisingly shy. Ah, Writer Ha. Do you have any news on the new one? Honestly, this is what I'm most curious about.

“Ah, a new one……. ”

I was told to look down on the notes that the reconstruction had made.

It is a concept that begins without determining what genre it is.

In front of Tae Seong's question, it felt like the genre had been cleared up for some time.

“I think it might be a horror mystery. ”

The words of reconstruction echoed back and forth on the other side of the radio.

I hope you'll show me when you're done.

“Do you like horrors, Director? ”

- I love it, I love it, I love it, I love making movies. Haha, when you get a horror genre from the bottom, you go straight to the copyright agreement. I'm sure of it.

“Ah, yes. Right? By the way, I thought I had some insight into the director's emotions while filming the ocean. I didn't think you'd like horror. ”

The cafe owner was hiding behind the coffee maker and listening to the reconstruction call.

He flicks his fingers open as he breathes his mouth alone.

Thanks to the word 'there was a sea’, the identity of the customer was clear.

“Yes, I understand. I will ask you to watch it as soon as it comes out. Yeah, take a break. ”

Reconstruction that hung up the phone grabbed the fountain pen again.

At that moment, the cafe owner approached and stood beside him.

“Hey, customer. No, sir. ”

“Yes?”

Reconstruction raises its head.

The cafe owner wriggles his hands and snatches out an awkward smile.

“I'm always good at reading. I didn't build a cafe in a bookstore for nothing. ”

“Ah, yes. Thank you."

“I'm really sorry, but can you d-sign something big?" I want to hang it on the walls of the cafe. ”

“I'm a little young to sign, but if you don't mind, I can do it. ”

“Oh, thank you so much for this. I'll get the paper right away. ”

The cause of death was immediately framed and caught in the middle of the wall of the café.

And today, reconstruction went out with the owner who closed the door.

Thanks to the ‘mustard bath', which completed more than 90% of the concept, my face was full of smiles.

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