After the Storm (2)
There were thousands upon thousands of reasons why a man and woman break up after dating, but we could summarize the patterns. One where the man has feelings but the woman doesn’t. One where the man doesn’t but the woman does. Both without feelings. And both with feelings but broken for some reason.
Actually, setting all that aside, what’s more important is this: have all the emotions left in the men been sorted out now?
No. Even if they have, is it okay to watch their ex-girlfriends sleep with other men or marry and have kids right in front of them?
“Live well, you bitches. I’m going to meet other women.”
Can we continue like before with the same words?
Whether the girlfriend who left, the one who cheated, or the one who broke up unavoidably… can we just decide and get them back now?
No.
Absolutely not?
This is a bomb.
If we mess up, bloody incidents among the men will occur. Moreover, they’re armed now. I told them to do that.
Shit.
Any crazy bastard who says “Your girlfriend was amazing~ Who knew this was the good stuff~” and then pulls out a K2 and shoots… even I would.
“K2 is a good conversation tool,” they say.
We need countermeasures for sure.
Sleep is gone.
“Hey, where did you come from? Tell me everything you know.”
Bad guy.
Only says what he wants and hangs up. I thought you were the type who answers when I call you. I don’t know how much trouble you’ve caused me.
Why did you do that on the balcony so I had to hear the peace sounds. I was the one who was wronged.
Me!
Don’t contact outside work hours!
Normally you’re more sharp. “You don’t contact outside work hours.” You say that!
Why only contact about this! I know you don’t see 1 as disappearing, but why keep sending it!
After the great change, jobs connected to males are extremely rare. Only the male family department’s civil servant, the escort unit, and diplomatic officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who help at diplomatic events.
So even I, who was training as a diplomatic candidate at the National Diplomatic Academy, was appointed due to the shortage of diplomats during the great change and worked, and met a male. It was only that.
I just worked the same as others. Why did you do that to me, making my civil service life difficult!
And if it’s good, I don’t care. The first contact after that was what the hell is this! What the hell, of course there’s a discussion report. I was watching how much diplomatic ripple this would cause!
Why! What are you curious about!
Bad guy.
This feeling won’t go away. Lying on the bed patting a rabbit doll, my hand hurts.
Bad guy.
Suffer a lot. I’m going to sleep! I’m going to sleep!
After roughly washing and putting on a hoodie backwards, I went up to the rooftop where Hyeongcheol promised.
The rooftop was a bizarre sight. On one side a penthouse, on the other a cafe end, and on the terrace a pile and barricades, snipers on duty waiting. It’s reassuring. And scary because they seem to be aiming at my head.
Guys, I have no interest in your ex-girlfriends. Cease fire. We’re allies. Allies.
“Hey. Did you have to watch from here? In this lethal place?”
“It would have been safer to watch in my room or your room.”
“I don’t want men in my room. You don’t either, right?”
“Of course.”
“The only one who can enter my room is my woman.”
“That’s right.”
“Let’s get to the main point. Where did the story come from?”
“The guy I mentioned last time?”
“Who?”
“The guy who touched that woman.”
“That guy whose lust overpowered his brain?”
“The guy’s name is Kim Donghyun. There’s a group he hangs around with, and it came from there.”
“What? The guy whose lust overpowered his brain did something with his head?”
“Hey, don’t look at me like that.”
“What?”
“Your eyes are looking at something you didn’t expect.”
“Anyway, so”
“This was the first time I heard this this morning while on duty. You know, as well as I do, that broken relationships aren’t good memories, right?”
“…Yeah.”
I don’t have good memories either. You bitch.
“So everyone is a bit tense now. Starting from the ones on duty, even married hyungs seem to be caught. Impressive?”
What are these hyungs planning? It would be infuriating if the husband is fucking another woman, and it’s the ex-girlfriend?
You’d ride a good horse. Men are such beings…
“If you got married, you should protect what you should protect…”
“Yeah.”
“What do you think we should do?”
“Eh? …We should just leave it in the gray zone, right?”
“Even if we apply, we secretly cut from our side and let the applicant handle it themselves.”
“Right?”
“Right.”
My thoughts exactly.
“Hey, how many do you have?”
“Me? Um… 10?”
I found out I couldn’t do it once. This guy, he was 20, did military service, and it hadn’t been years since conscription, how did he get 10?
“10? When was your first relationship?”
“Uh… high school 1st year? It was with a foreign kid from the same high school.”
Wow.
First relationship with a foreigner, not even Korean?
“What school was it? First relationship with a foreigner?”
“It was just an international high school. I went overseas, so mostly foreigners.”
Fucking gold spoon. Jealous as hell.
“From then on, almost no rest, so about 10.”
“So the last relationship was broken because of the war?”
“Yeah…. Couldn’t contact, so it broke. I wonder if he’s doing well.”
“Anyway, thinking from your perspective, with 512 men, about 5000 ex-girlfriends.”
“Let’s put it on the agenda for the regular meeting tonight and make a plan.”
“By the way, make a blacklist of people who need to be filtered for personality issues too.”
“Personality issues countermeasures?”
“Yeah. Even after filtering by system, make a blacklist to filter them.”
“To know the personality part well, experience is the best, right?”
“Yeah, but… I thought there might be a better way, but there isn’t.”
“No. You’re a guy whose head is a flower field.”
“Hey, stop saying that.”
What, stop it, you gold spoon.
“Hey. So how many are you?”
“I don’t know, man.”
“Ah, how many!”
It will be revealed later anyway, but for now I can’t say. Liar bastard.
After 8 hours of duty from 4 PM to late night regular meeting, I told them the story I heard from the acting president this morning and talked about the ex-girlfriend issue. Those who couldn’t participate would talk later.
And before starting, he said to hand over information related to ex-girlfriends, and suddenly ex-girlfriends of the guys appeared. This is like winning the lottery. There are only 512 men, and two of them have ex-girlfriends? Amazing. Curious though.
Anyway, I sent the two to talk, but it’s uneasy. The meeting went well, and they all agreed to leave the ex-girlfriend issue in the gray zone.
I understand your feelings. Who wants to see that mess. I don’t like it either. Ex-girlfriend… is she doing well?
Decided. You’re a bastard, you bastard.
[Park Seonghun: Shut up and fuck off, I’m going to sleep.]
Hyeongcheol bastard, I’ll kill him later.
From two weeks later, mandatory sex relations as a new obligation started entering the radar. It was clear that just a while ago, things between the government and men were speeding up. Everyone in the nation knew, I erased other ways, and no one can change it anymore. It will definitely change a lot. My life too. My human relationships too. My future too.
How should I deal with it.. What mindset should I have.. The feeling of a new world coming doesn’t feel bad. Like when entering elementary school. I didn’t think I could feel the change of the world again, but it’s not a bad feeling.