Chapter 014: Suspicion (3)
Hearing Min-jeong's words, Chairman Choi smiled gently and shook his head.
"Hahaha. Do you really like Hee-soo that much?"
"Like him?"
"That's an understatement."
"I seriously don't understand why he refuses to notice how I feel."
Yoon-hee now understood exactly what kind of situation she was looking at.
If I publish an article, I'd basically be helping her.
Let's ignore this one.
They're probably going to end up together anyway.
And other media outlets could easily cover this story.
Dobong Fire Station cafeteria.
After completing the shift change, Hee-soo sat at a table eating chicken breast.
Steam was still rising from it as though it had just been heated.
The cafeteria door opened, and Min-ah entered.
She immediately spoke to him.
"You're only eating breakfast now?"
"Yes."
Min-ah sat down across from him.
It was a sudden action, but Hee-soo wasn't surprised.
Min-ah naturally acted this friendly with everyone.
At first, Hee-soo had been extremely cautious around her.
He thought she might have been approaching him because she knew about his family background.
However, that suspicion quickly disappeared.
He had seen her behave exactly the same way with everyone in the station.
"Are you really okay eating nothing but chicken breast?"
"I need to maintain my body."
"You even exercise every morning when you're on night duty."
"It's part of my routine."
"Whether I sleep or not, I start exercising at six in the morning."
"Wow. That's impressive."
Their conversation didn't last long.
Ding-ding, ding-ding.
"Emergency medical dispatch. Emergency medical dispatch."
Min-ah smiled and immediately got up to run.
"Ah, seriously. This was such a good opportunity too."
"Hohoho. Enjoy your breakfast!"
"The young man is receiving proper treatment."
"Huh?! Ah... yes."
"That's good."
Her final words came from outside the cafeteria.
That young man is being treated properly.
A little while earlier, the system had officially registered Yoo Min-hyuk as one of the people Hee-soo had saved.
His lifespan had increased by another day.
Watching Min-ah run away energetically, Hee-soo couldn't help smiling slightly.
"She's full of energy."
After finishing his meal, Hee-soo roughly packed up the empty container and returned to the office.
Nobody was there.
When there was no training or paperwork to complete, most of the firefighters spent their time in the fitness room.
Hee-soo began studying building blueprints from around the district.
There are far too many accident risks.
Then he shook his head.
But if there are no accidents... I'll die.
"Haah..."
The thought immediately made him feel miserable.
What the hell am I wishing for?
Maybe the lack of sleep is starting to affect my thinking.
This constant conflict between two opposing emotions created a cognitive dissonance that Hee-soo still couldn't resolve.
He stretched and adjusted his posture at the desk.
"Enough useless thoughts."
"Today, I need to match location data, victim data, and building layouts."
He was about to place his hands on the keyboard when he heard a commotion downstairs.
"What is that?"
"Someone filing a complaint?"
The fire suppression team's office on the first floor occasionally became noisy because of angry civilians.
Unable to concentrate because of the shouting, Hee-soo went downstairs.
There, he saw a fat man in his fifties covered from head to toe in expensive designer clothes.
Behind him stood five large men in black suits with threatening expressions.
The middle-aged man was shouting furiously.
"YOU BASTARDS! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!"
"HOW DARE YOU REPORT ME!"
"DO YOU NEED SOMEONE TO FILE COMPLAINTS AGAINST THIS ENTIRE FIRE STATION BEFORE YOU LEARN YOUR LESSON?!"
"LOOK AT THAT SCRATCH ON MY CAR!"
"YOU PEOPLE DID THAT, DIDN'T YOU?!"
"DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW MUCH THAT CAR COSTS?!"
The fire suppression team members were struggling to deal with him.
"Sir, what exactly are you talking about?"
"We don't know anything about that car."
Hee-soo quickly looked out the window.
That Hentley?
Yeah.
That's definitely the car that blocked our dispatch route last time.
He clearly remembered the license plate.
Seeing the man causing trouble inside the fire station made anger rise inside Hee-soo.
When the suppression team captain noticed him, he gestured with his hand, telling Hee-soo to return upstairs.
"Just go back up."
"We'll handle this."
"This isn't the first time we've dealt with something like this."
However, there was no chance Hee-soo would listen.
"I can't do that."
"You expect me to see something like this and simply walk away?"
"If I did that, I wouldn't be Choi Hee-soo of Suseong."
He walked downstairs and stood directly in front of the man.
The man looked barely 170 centimeters tall.
Standing in front of the much taller Hee-soo, he was clearly intimidated.
"W-what the hell are you?!"
"I'm a firefighter."
"Are you the bastard driving that car?"
"And are those idiots behind you your little gang?"
"So what if they are?!"
Hee-soo glanced toward the Hentley.
"That car is far too good for someone as low-class as you."
"If the craftsmen who built it knew someone like you was sitting inside, they'd probably beat their heads against the ground in despair."
The man's eyes widened.
His anger seemed to rise all the way to the top of his head in real time.
It was at that moment that Yoon-hee arrived at the fire station.
Hee-soo was too focused to look toward her.
However, he still noticed her arrival.
When Yoon-hee saw Hee-soo facing a group of obvious troublemakers, excitement immediately appeared on her face.
She turned toward Photographer Jang.
"Senior, hurry up and take pictures."
"This looks interesting."
Jang Deok-su already had his camera pointed toward them.
"Of course."
"I love this kind of thing too."
As the middle-aged man became more aggressive, the five men behind him stepped forward.
"What the hell?"
"Is a firefighter allowed to attack civilians now?"
"When did I attack anyone?"
"Do you have evidence?"
"If you think I did something illegal, file a proper lawsuit."
The largest man reached out to grab Hee-soo by the collar.
Before his hand could touch Hee-soo's chest, Hee-soo slapped it aside.
The man staggered from the force.
Hee-soo pointed around the room.
"There's a CCTV camera over there."
"And those reporters are filming everything."
"We can identify every single one of you."
"The moment you grab me, this becomes a completely different matter."
