3 Rounds by Myself

64 – A writer who is better than a pick-up artist, a reader who is a hunter (1)

“When we talk, something feels like I’m falling for this person? That feeling that sucks me in like a whirlpool? No, he must be someone who knows a woman’s heart well?”

Jinhee tilts her head as if she doesn’t understand even as she speaks.

‘It’s charming.’

Attractiveness means an abstract advantage that can make a person special in the human element, whether it is the opposite s*x, the same s*x, or work.

Charm.

Even if someone is insignificant to someone, if you fall for that person’s charm, in the eyes of the person you fell for, that person can be said to be a medium of kinship worthy enough to give the illusion that the person looks the most handsome and cool in the world.

Siwoon asked.

“Do you think attractiveness is that important?”

At the question, Jinhee sighed as if she was dumbfounded.

“Of course. No matter how handsome and talented a person is, if he doesn’t have charm, he won’t be curious. Doesn’t that person have to have their own charm to become curious about and fall for that person?”

“I see.”

A wine bottle came into my vision, which was getting drunk and blurry.

At some point, the wine bottle of Ballantine’s was reduced by 1/3.

“The glass is empty, I will fill it.”

Jureuk-

I was about to pour the cup Jinhee poured into my mouth. Jinhee’s eyes move to her own glass and then back to her table.

I could see her pupils quivering.

‘Have I just been a bit harsh?’

The reason Jinhee reacted like this was obvious. Seulgi, a bartender, performed a technique commonly referred to as ‘throwing away alcohol’, also known as alcohol work, and Siwoon gave it a shot.

Seulgi was kicked out as if he was being kicked out to another table, hiding his frightened look. A woman named Jin-hee, who was watching the serve at the next table, couldn’t help but see such a scene.

Bartenders have a habit of checking customers at other tables every hour while talking to customers in front of them.

What the customer is eating.

When did you come?

What else does it look like?

What’s more, when a good-looking guy like Siwoon is drinking.

Anyway, the eyes are bound to turn at least once.

‘I want to drink, but I’m hesitating because of that.’

In short, it means watching.

Honestly what.

Using the skill to throw away alcohol was an unconscionable problem close to fraud in the bar system.

It was only natural that Seulgi would be scolded for committing an unconscionable act even with the bar equipped with that system.

“I’ll get you a drink.”

“Yes? Can I eat it?”

In an instant, a bright color appeared on Jinhee’s hardened face.

“I was just advising you not to work with alcohol. I didn’t tell you not to drink after looking at the bar. And… Right now, you want to drink too, but you can’t? If you eat the liquor I ordered, later when the bottle is empty, I’m afraid you’ll shoot at me for why you ate the liquor so carelessly?”

“Ah…… “

Jinhee avoided Siwoon’s gaze and then kicked and laughed. It was a bonus to have my eyelids wide open as if my intentions had been revealed.

Jinhee said with a smile.

“There are many true customers like that. Whenever he wants to eat. Later, when I finished the wine and paid the bill, the customers suddenly got angry and said, ‘I can’t pay for alcohol because you drank all this expensive liquor!'”

Siwoon shakes his head.

“I’m not that kind of person.”

Tak.

Straight glasses collide with each other.

Jin-hee empties her glass and puts the tongs holding ice into the glass next to Si-woon’s straight glass and does not forget to fill it with ice.

“Is the liquor keeping period 2 months here?”

“Yes. At our store, leftover liquor is stored for two months. Have you been to a lot of bars? You know all that….”

Siwoon smiled silently.

Actually, this is the first bar.

However.

Even if it’s your first visit, you can make it look like you’ve been there to some extent.

‘Thanks to being a hunter.’

It was.

Hunters are hunters who fight monsters while holding their lifeline in the other world. Regardless of whether it’s F-class or S-class, as you accumulate such experiences, several senses naturally develop.

One of those senses is the sense of hearing.

The sound of a monster breathing. The presence of monsters in the dungeon.

In order to figure out what type of attack the monster would attack, it was possible to hunt skillfully only by using the organ of hearing as well as sight to discriminate by sound, drawing the next number in your head, timing it, and counterattacking.

‘Not only the eyes but also the hearing.’

To survive.

In other words, in a decisive battle with a monster for survival, humans have no choice but to use their five senses.

Hunters who simply rely on sight can only grow to that point.

Was the explanation a bit long?

But if you haven’t understood yet, I can explain a little bit.

If you have already understood,

Until the time when Jinhee spit out words,

We kindly encourage you to scroll down.

The reason I recommend it is because you already understand, you will spend your brain energy listening to another explanation.

If you are a reader, you can go in and out of the future and past of this story at any time with just one scroll.

For example, let’s say that there is a bastard on the upper floor of a house who has a careless personality and makes noise between floors to the point where he could die, causing damage to the house below.

Then the people living in the lower house will suffer.

And the ears of the person living downstairs are opened instinctively.

This is called hyperacusis.

When your ears are opened, you will hear the sound of the second hand of a clock that you have not felt before your ears are opened, or the door will be slammed! Even a small sound like closing will cause a big reaction.

Because noise between floors acts as stress to humans, humans instinctively demonstrate survival defense mechanisms,

It is to open the senses called ears to detect and avoid the sound by making the sound more audible.

Siwoon can also be seen as an instinctively open state for survival as a hunter.

‘So the conversation between the customer next to him and the customer right next to him.’

The words that guests implicitly throw at the bartender enter Siwoon’s open ears, and the meanings of terms such as ‘serv’, ‘keeping’, ‘drinking’ and ‘rotation’, which are used only in bars, are implanted in his brain through sound.

Just like that.

Through Siwoon’s mouth, those words could be passed on to the bartender.

“What are you thinking about so intently?”

Siwoon widened his eyes at Jinhee’s question.

“Ah, I just thought of something else. Rather, what is the customer next to me doing?”

“That guest?”

Jinhee glanced at the guest next to her with pouty eyes, as if she was asking questions about the guest next to her, not about herself.

“Ah…. That person is a writer.”

“Are you a writer? What author are you? Drama? Web toon? A movie script?”

“A web novel writer.”

“A novel?”

Siwoon’s eyes widen.

‘He must have a rich imagination.’

“It’s a romance web novel, but it’s really famous on the bottom.”

Siwoon’s eyes widen even more as Jinhee speaks while looking at the table next to her.

“Are you a romance web novel writer?”

Women usually write more romance novels than men.

Something doesn’t match.

“You don’t believe it, do you?”

Jinhee replaced Siwoon’s inner thoughts with her own question.

‘Does it have something to do with being a novelist with a sense of self-confidence and making young women fall for you? No, weren’t those parts more relevant to kids who were pick-up artists?’

Siwoon took out her cell phone.

“What’s that customer’s name? Search for a novel.”

“Kang Chun-shik. But why are you so interested in that guest? I’m bored. He doesn’t even drink…. He doesn’t even ask about me.”

Jinhee sighed as if she was sad.

Siwoon returned with a smile and buried his eyes on her cell phone.

‘These days, it is the era of reading novels on mobile phones rather than paper books. ‘Because he said he was a novelist on the web.’

Two minutes.

So, for two minutes, Siwoon buried her eyes on her cellphone.

“What are you doing? What are you doing to scroll through your smartphone so quickly?”

“Nothing.”

In two minutes.

I have read all the novels of a guest named Chunshik Kang. Up to 25 free episodes.

The 25 episodes of the web novel amount to about one book as a paper book.

‘Amazing.’

Siwoon moved his gaze to Kang Chunshik next to her.

Still he is.

“Hey, oppa, I was going to go in quietly after pouring liquor down my throat in a cool way. Our Seulgi keeps tapping my brother’s third body?”

“Puhahahaha! Aww, how can you write your brother’s last name so emotionally? Really funny.”

The bartender’s mouth was bursting.

His novel.

‘The main character is a man.’

Besides.

The work itself is excellent in writing,

It didn’t even make me feel that the quality of the work was outstanding.

‘Even though I only watched the 25th episode.’

What do you know?

The story he wrote through the male protagonist in the romance genre, where female protagonists are taken for granted.

‘I can never write like this without experience.’

Even if your writing skills aren’t good, or if you don’t think the quality of your work is outstanding.

I was completely immersed in it, I felt like I was the main character reading it, and it really made me feel so real.

One of Kang Chun-sik’s works, , Is gaining explosive popularity among male readers.

‘Experienced with many women… ‘ Because it was written based on

.

At least, the word ‘real’ cannot beat the true story, no matter how vigorous the imagination.

It’s an aside to say that the title of the work is a bit bizarre and vulgar, so I want to give it a go.

‘End of miscellaneous thoughts here.’

I think I should approach Chun-sik and have a conversation.

If so, I think you can get that hint.

‘Why am I to Cheon Se-jeong without knowing, really why? Are you attracted enough to ask yourself? I wonder if I can twist that limitless attraction in the opposite direction and bring it back.’

“Please give me a drink. Ah, why are you looking at your phone like this? Are you going to leave me bored alone?”

Jinhee frowns.

First of all, Siwoon smiles and pours her a glass of wine for her.

***

A woman wearing a long gray coat and heavy make-up entered her bar, tapping her ankle boots.

‘There are two guests today?’

“Welcome, boss!”

“Are you out now?”

The two bartenders jumped up and bowed.

Women are greeted with sloppy hand gestures.

‘Two tables of liquor? However….’

I caught my eye on one table.

A table with Valentine’s 17-year-old liquor.

In front of him, a young man with a face that would attract young girls is dignifiedly drinking.

‘He looks like he’s in his early twenties at most, but he ordered Ballantine’s 17 Year Old?’

Besides.

It’s normal for such young bloodheads in their early twenties to talk non-stop when they come to a bar like this.

‘Is it surprisingly quiet? Feeling dignified?’

A worry passed through her mind.

‘Ah, these days, there is a truckload of customers who are killing me for not having money when I eat liquor and pay bills…. Does that young boy, who is old enough to drink convenience store soju, have the money to pay for the liquor? You might scold me later for not being able to pay due to alcohol, so be prepared….’

The female president walked in front of Siwoon.

Siwoon’s head turns at the sound of the heel of his ankle boots knocking on the floor.

“I’m sorry, customer.”

Let’s say the female president with a service-like smile to Siwoon.

“Yes.”

“Oh, I’m sorry… Couldn’t you pay for the wine you drank first? Oh, that’s because we don’t usually pay in advance because it can be rude to guests. These days, there are so many, so many customers…… “

A pretty woman in her late 30s makes excuses in an apologetic tone.

At that time.

Jinhee frowned and waved her hand to send her autograph.

“Why? Jeong Jin-hee. Have you paid in advance here?”

“No, that’s not it. Boss, wait a minute…. I have something to tell you.”

Jinhee came out of the table and hurriedly walked in front of the president.

Then she glances towards Jinhee where her waiting room is.

“Why is he like this? Talk here.”

The president says that Jin-hee’s reaction is strange.

At that time. Shiwoon gets up from his seat.

“I’ll do the math first. Here is your card.”

The moment Shiwoon held out his card, Jinhee stopped her by waving her hand from side to side.

“No, you can eat it all and do it later. Wait a minute, sir.”

Jinhee now pulled up the female president’s sleeve and pointed to her waiting room.

***

“Hey, Jeong Jin-hee. What are you doing today And no matter how close you and I are, do you dare to act like this while I am talking to a customer?”

The lady boss frowned at her pretty face, enough to make Jinhee scare her, and kicked her arms around her waist.

“Boss. Me, that’s not it in fact….”

Jin-hee’s difficult next words were unrealistic and surprising enough to make the president’s eyes, nose, and ears completely open.