Then, during the times they risked their lives in the northern parts, he took peeks at her in his spare time.
But with each and every time he saw her, she continuously exuded attractiveness.
It wasn’t because Seoyoon was increasingly becoming more and more beautiful.
She was already beautiful from the beginning. It was because the more closely he got to look at her face, the more beauty he saw in her.
Eyes, nose, eyebrows, forehead, chin and lips.
There was no way to totaled up her features.
While wondering how dreadfully beautiful something was, a new attraction came into play whenever he took a look.
No matter how long he stared at her face, he could not get tired from the sight. With each and every sight to admire, he had no choice but to look!
Lee Hyun wanted to find flaws in Seoyoon’s face.
He leaned in so close that he can feel each of her breath, a rare chance to do so since she was still sleeping.
‘Skin. Well, it’s perfect. Not one crease and I can’t even see a single pore. How can human skin have such milk like quality? Facial feature. Great. It’s the perfect golden ratio of placements if I was sculpturing. Long eyebrows…how does her hair even have such orderly placements?’
Trying to find any facial flaw in her, even if it was just a tiny ugly part in her, did not work out.
‘Fine, I admit the face is too good. What about other places…’
Lee Hyun’s eyes ran downward. He could roughly make out the figure through the dress. And here still, he could not find a fault.
Tall and slender, her body was also good.
The calves, thighs, and even the waist line were smooth.
Even the freaking toes exposed from the sandals were also beautiful!
Lee Hyun did not hate women.
He simply wanted to avoid having a relationship with one because there will be money to spend. But this idea has changed quite a bit after watching Seoyoon.
‘If it’s her then it’s prolly ok to treat her to a Kimbap shop. No wait. If I do that then it’ll go bad if she develops a habit of wanting to go there. Oh yea, I suppose I could treat her at an udon stall or sumthin!’ (??? sushi shop or something, google image sushi, but not sure what else it also encompasses.)
This was a somewhat of a significant change in him.
Lee Hyun was still giving Seoyoon a lap pillow even as the sun fully emerges.
The sunrise from the sea was a spectacular sight to behold.
Due to the fact that yesterday morning was filled with fog that he could not able to see such sunrise; but today, not a single cloud in the sky could be seen in this sunny weather.
From where the sky and the ocean attempting to touch one another, the sun seemingly burned them both as it rose.
“Ahh!”
Lee Hyun’s morale also rose.
Anyone looking at such beautiful sunrise can feel their commitment on the rise; Lee Hyun was not an exception.
‘This year I have to earn a lot more money!’
The sun had risen completely so there was no way to differentiate anymore.
Lee Hyun returned his gaze onto him lap and focused on the Seoyoon on it.
She somehow became prettier in the given sunlight. Due to the alcoholic facet, the view became slightly enhanced.
At this close distance, she looked as if she was a sleeping baby.
Lee Hyun bent down and picked up a nearby piece of wood. And his arm pulled out a small knife.
Sagaksagak.
He was trying to carve the soundly sleeping Seoyoon.
The handy skill he learned in Royal Road made it easier for him to sculpt.
Making Masterpiece, Classic, or Magnum was not possible, but regardless of the Artistic Values, he could still sculpt as long as he had the cardiovascular control and will.
Though still, in reality, he still didn’t have the Zahab carving knife.
Even if he gave it his best shot, in no way can he create exceptional works.
However, due to the innumerable experiences and commitment, the piece was becoming similar to what he wanted to make.
Lee Hyun was carefully carving the sleeping Seoyoon.
Chapter 6: The Loots’ Shadow
Weed finished the MT and re-entered Royal Road.
But he didn’t feel very good. It was entirely due to Seoyoon.
‘I was too careless.’
Weed had face several people.
The malicious humans.
At the core, all humans are parasites leeching off on others.
The weak align themselves with the strong, while being subservient to those who are stronger than them.
Those who fail to be careful and aren’t hesitant to hold back their trust are only susceptible to being exploited in the world.
The usual seeds of discord are sown once the family members can not receive much from the given salary.
The first salary he was going to receive for working was 600,000 Won; of course, that doesn’t even come close to the minimum cost of living.
But at that time, he greatly thrilled.
It was the first time he could be paid in full for cost of labor.
And with the money, he planned on going on a shopping spree to buy his sister and grandmother clothing.
He was purely delighted.
But even at that low wage, the president did not give the full amount to him.
Using the terms of condition, the ‘unemployment insurance’ or whatever, to take from him.
Saying ‘few fellow colleagues left the factory last month so being their unemployed self, each will reap 30,000 Won from you.’
At the end of all the ‘difficult calculations’ in order to pull few a few bucks back into the factory, he received a total of 450,000 Won.
They removed a whopping 150,000 Won.
The month after, the same thing happened.
By claiming it was for the ridiculous ‘the employment insurance of employing illegal minors;’ of course he did not know, so all that was left was to believe.
Only to find out later through other colleagues that he shivered from the feeling of betrayal!
The anger wasn’t just placed on the president.
It was also toward his fellow colleagues, whom kept on spitting speeches about him being the youngest and through cumbersome and hard work that he could make something of himself.
Knowing he had suffered the injustice from the president was one thing, but finding out that the people he worked with used these spiel to tease him was another thing entirely.
Weed well knew he was at the bottom.
Just like those gamblers, drunkards, and debtors, not a single hope to living life!
Then having fallen down the pit a second time, it was difficult having to climb up once again.
So he did not believe in anyone easily.
Lee Hyun was confident that through his own suffering, he had already seen the many sides of people. But contrastively, Seoyoon was the first being unique from those he saw.
The completed sculpture was in fact, not pretty.
Its level could be counted as a souvenir; although there was a bit of resemblance, it was difficult to capture the feel of Seoyoon in the real.
The lack of time, tools, materials, and the many thing weighted in his mind weren’t at all encouraging.
Filled with his sincerest intention, he placed it secretly in her pocket.
‘I’m repaying some of the debt I owe to you.’
As in the many sculptures he made of her candidly.
No secret could be kept forever; this was simply a gesture of concession on his part to show he conceded first if it someday will be discovered.
He wanted to make sure that at least in real life he wasn’t going to get beaten to death!
For dark gamers, a death within Royal Road directly correlated to the financial loss; but comparatively, it was comforting to the mind if it was just simply that out in the real world too.
By the way, the awoken Seoyoon wasn’t angry.