Vows and threats

Immediately afterwards, Mi-Suk continued the story right from where Min-Jun had left off.

"And once you got home, you kept talking about that Director Kang."

"Wait a second." Su-Jin interrupted, glancing nervously between her brother and her friend. "You mean to say that I was left alone with just him last night?"

"I guess, since he was the only person I saw when I got to the restaurant." Min-Jun replied with another shrug.

"Oh, heavens, what did I do?!" Su-Jin unexpectedly cried out in mortification, grabbing her head with both her hands. "Did I do or say anything weird?" she asked her brother quickly.

"I wouldn't know. You were asleep when I got there." He said simply, then added with a small smirk on his face. "Though, I have to admit something. That boss of yours was looking quite nervous, like he was expecting for the sky to fall on his head. Did you attack him or something?"

"I wouldn't know! I can't remember a blasted thing!" Su-Jin shrieked with a mixture of desperation and annoyance. "How am I going to face him today at work?!"

Mi-Suk chuckled, gazing at her friend meaningfully.

"It should be alright. As long as you didn't call him Sasin to his face last night, you are safe."

Hearing her friend's ambiguous words, Su-Jin's wails instantly paused. She lifted her eyes slowly, gaping blankly at her friend. For some reason, she was getting another bad feeling about this whole matter.

"What are you talking about?" she asked slowly.

"Last night, you first took turns calling him Demon Director and Grim Reaper, seemingly undecided which one fit him best. Then, you started complimenting his eyes for being pretty, while looking at yourself in the mirror. That's about it." Mi-Suk shrugged, finishing with a teasing wink. "Truly, it was quite harmless."

As she spoke, Mi-Suk stared at her friend, looking thoroughly amused.

Su-Jin, on the other hand, was far from being calm. Her face was currently like a rainbow of expressions, ranging from embarrassment to utter fright. Even the color in her cheeks swiftly changed from red to blue, then green, until it ultimately became a ghostly pale.

Replaying Mi-Suk's words in her head, caused goosebumps to rise all over Su-Jin's skin.

A second later, though, Su-Jin swiftly cast away the look of mortification and suddenly stood up. Her hand rose slightly, then fell with a loud bang on the tabletop. At the same time, her words flew out of her mouth like a torrent.

"That's it! From this day onwards, I am not going to drink ever again!" she declared righteously.

Seeing how Su-Jin was speaking as though she was making a solemn vow to protect the country and save the world, the other two at the table stared at her expressionlessly.

"Mhm, and I am going to become stupid all of a sudden." Min-Jun piped up offhandedly.

At these words, Mi-Suk let out a very unladylike chortle. She swiftly covered her mouth to hide her laughter. Meanwhile, Min-Jun's humorous words earned him a batch of sharp daggers coming from Su-Jin's eyes.

~~~

It appeared that Su-Jin wasn't the only one who was prone to make vows that morning.

The moment Ji-Won's office door opened and his eyes fell on Seo-Jun, he instantly began emitting a chilly aura. His mouth opened, and the only thing that came out was a bone-chilling threat.

"If you do this to me one more time, I swear that you won't like the way I'll deal with you. Trust me when I say that they will never find your body, Seo-Jun, even if they search the entire country."

The man who was threatened in such a manner quickly took back the step he had just taken inside the office.

"Oh, steady there." He raised his arms defensively.

Despite his wary stance, though, his expression didn't seem regretful, as he continued to speak shamelessly.

"It's not like I did anything wrong. Is giving you a chance to curry favor with a young lady really that damnable in your eyes?"

Ji-Won snorted codly. He lowered his eyes, picking up a file and starting to peruse it. In his heart, he made a decision to ignore that person.

Even in the face of this treatment, Seo-Jun's cheerful nature still prevailed. Without much worry for his personal safety, he decidedly entered the office, closing the door behind him. As soon as no one from the office could hear them, Seo-Jun finally let his curiosity loose.

"So, did anything interesting happen last night?" he asked, sounding extremely eager.

His eyes were fixed on Ji-Won's face, trying to find traces of anything unusual.

Seeing him looking like a stupid, gosippy high schooler, Ji-Won's mouth twitched. As his expression slowly darkened, he actually had to exert all his willpower not to whack Seo-Jun over the head with the file he was holding.

Still, due to his experience in dealing with this foolish person, Ji-Won knew very well that if he ignored the man for too long, the consequences could be worse. As such, he grudgingly opened his mouth to give a perfunctory answer.

"Nothing happened. I just stayed with her for a while, then her boyfriend came and picked her up."

"Ah, I see." Seo-Jun said, smiling and nodding slowly.

A second later, though, his mind finally registered Ji-Won's words and he let out a yelp.

"Who did you say came?!"

"Her boyfriend, and if you don't stop shouting I will add decapitation to your previous punishment, instead of a simple murder. Let's see you running your mouth with no head on your shoulders." Ji-Won retorted, his eyes flashing with murder intent.

His expression was so dark that not even a burned pan could be any blacker. Seo-Jun subconsciously shivered. Yet, his interest was piqued to the point that he didn't care about his life anymore. So, he lowered his voice and continued to probe.

"Are you sure? I mean are you absolutely positive that he was her boyfriend?"

"The man was saved in her phone as 'My little man' and had a heart near the name. Who else would it be if not her boyfriend?" Ji-Won retorted with a straight face.

At his friend's suspicion that his judgment was faulty, he could only sigh ruefully. So, he continued to give another argument to support his conjecture.

"Besides, who else would come running to pick her up at that late hour? Even carrying her on his back because she was too drunk to wake up."

"He could have been a friend or her brother perhaps ?" Seo-Jun tried to reason.

"What normal girl would have her brother's number saved as 'My little man' and, to top it all off, add a heart next to it?" Ji-Won snapped.

Seo-Jun swallowed his ideas back into his stomach. That last part was indeed odd and he had nothing to refute with.

Seeing how his friend remained silent, Ji-Won nodded. He felt victorious, so he casually waved a hand.

"I thought so too. Now let's get back to work."