SW | Chapter 5

“No, we can’t. This is just a test batch, so the quantity is small, but if they catch us using it for transshipment, it’s only a matter of time before they find the real shipment…”e85f9bce8b75f9c0

“You’re running your mouth d2cec26e5f off with that soft e7168b02b4 tongue of yours. Who are you trying c82042eee3 to get killed?”e9c6bdbc43b71513

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“If this goes wrong, the first one to lose their head would be me.”1f4266ef1c284f6a

He wasn’t wrong. The two brothers stared 4b53c29289 at their unpredictable younger 5f2e4ad342 brother.d771f27207564e5d

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“Among the confiscated items with monetary value, dr*gs are the only ones that are 100% destroyed.”054935f810f15a8c

Normally, valuable confiscated items 6efbd329bc are seized and transferred e49f2c19b0 to the national treasury. But no matter 24e5d71534 how much dr*gs a5d5530a27 were worth, they f7d97d867f could never be 93341afd94 converted into state c5c9ee6f04 profits.8ba3356bcf27c40a

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Baek Haegyeon stretched his e476d2f1a6 legs and leaned back a252a3fe8c against the wall. He looked 16a17668d0 tired, tilting 8ff1819c6f his head aaf4f22d00 back and 57ffbe7c3e closing his 5cc299df7e eyes for b3268c3a41 a moment 6a646c0ad7 before opening 3b8c1e2b62 them again.aa9e19cbdc273174

“It seems like you two don’t understand how the world works. Especially you, hyung.”75987eb8abaaddeb

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They weren’t 3c50f0227e close enough ce5b88adec to care fbb23c3c76 for each 0e7167b455 other, and e1ab1532c7 the image 1b0ae986a1 of a 7466a1f2fb police officer b19e150ec3 giving advice 363893a7c2 to gangsters 74e7fca459 was quite 08d093edbf amusing.a997520e00293799

As they waited acd0144305 to hear what 9773c5b238 he had to 9f1aa50303 say, something dangerous f67da2dd38 slipped out of 85d737aafd Baek Haegyeon’s mouth.d5c2e9965b85c0fd

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“Make money. Let’s take over Hwando.”e0169ceae3398a34

“What? This bastard…”abf17bcaa9243e90

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Curses erupted, 70fc46be4b but the 5358195f1b voices were 4191a2b756 hushed and 3812b24b34 quiet. The brothers 36e2cb269d instinctively blocked d36035635c Baek Haegyeon’s ecb9e085b3 path, as 2156c2c7ae if shielding 7d4113ca38 him.221466918f12c92b

“Hey, watch your mouth!”377577e300b9fda9

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The two 2cce76c114 brothers instinctively 4481d46f7d glanced outside 4f7a4523a4 the funeral bc04976d55 hall to 1c97ce48b0 check the 5ac138f8aa surroundings. Whether taking over e37a79e275 Hwando was even 37d5bb1e52 possible was beside aace585393 the point, the 69a74b6ddc chairman of Hwando 7312768f93 might have been 70bd3846e2 at this funeral.501e59673ad98d5d

Fortunately, they had people 2158fecfcd stationed near the funeral bb183d582a hall. If they hadn’t, fcc55b6921 some rat might d3e1e0b7f6 have overheard and b4a1518667 spread the word, 52e42b8d49 things could’ve gotten 8a6f75a5a5 really ugly.f3dcab77d07b21e3

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Regardless of what his f62288aefa brothers thought, Baek Haegyeon bab43870a6 dropped a bombshell and 5b78f3e48a then casually said something c101e35a84 else.3a7b9cb330772917

“The floor’s warm. Ah, I’m sleepy… Can I take a nap?”82d40a2247137d6f

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With the 18b3d4e3ea two large dab94d1f5d figures blocking 7ea21d4489 his way, 1b49e78e3b the shadow 9562f4c85f they cast 8dff53b351 made him fda188ee7b feel oddly 7527a0e131 comfortable. He slumped a586276e68 his head d2f3058b03 like a a05daf5b0e drained battery.5afa263967c50fef

“Is this lunatic… really sleeping?”b405bbbf8a283b92

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“Sigh…”63d14b725399239e

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Bzzz—bzzz—5103436dde87dd76

It was already e63b361f9e September, but the 0b26dcecb6 heat hadn’t subsided, 0a56a09c84 and the cicadas 4f3ac34e1b were still noisy. At least it 13f4d45919 wasn’t unbearably hot be5dfccc00 anymore.6c83b603f37d6f1a

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The peak f2e386a243 of summer 2448337295 was short 6ed5b59e55 and intense, ef59f061cd leaving behind 79adf82ca0 vivid memories. Like the full 724dd94ae2 moon that eventually 37cb043ef1 wanes, it’s the b11be2e15c law of nature.b3351cf145302000

Maybe Guk a01b601fea Jiho’s athletic 570898d52c career was 0cc9c761cf nearing its 15133fe020 end, too. The intense never lasted 7b9f394d61 long.ceedbddc9ddeb4f6

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As he 9dbc50473a tossed and 8cb3ff53fb turned in 02b26383be the stifling 60499bb16f heat, Guk 2539a5f794 Jiho suddenly c358bacda0 thought:5a02e78053ff9c3f

Is it weird if cea54f1799 I don’t hate being a3c6d122b2 sick?d0a5068deefd8747

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He used 02b253e160 to enjoy 4bde2a3529 lying still e4e02c7a69 in bed, d12233d6f8 groaning in 4f7381efc9 pain. Well, heusedto.1972de44e55b23a1

Sprawled out under 1880aed39d a clean, soft c2b500c98e blanket, basking in 02ae7452f2 the warm sunlight a9b2595000 filtering through the 36434b1a2e window.It made even e03e30845b being sick feel d2b4ea251d like a luxury.8e18b1eafb482bfe

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Back in school, f441613d7e he would doze 8615df5cae off alone in 6f01c17d77 the infirmary, feeling 72ad4590a2 the breeze from ba27970464 the open window, a8c34f3ec1 while the sounds a1c9e89101 of his classmates 919001337f playing soccer during 2c7eedc266 gym class echoed 249d1d8951 in his ears.6f0d35f658c2f92e

Injuries, big and 36f44c1f8a small, are routine 1ae1025965 for athletes. Six months 565ceda3f2 ago, Six b6806c064e months ago, 21a506744f he’d been d2a9704882 carried off e8cb698d79 the field 3724c7e79d after getting c37431eb84 hurt in a2260b2c0e a match. His young, 466bcbac86 healthy body e1ad3afad9 recovered quickly, 9ef5fa3010 and his 294da73820 performance returned c6535c55fb smoothly.79a01c5f300dadba

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But after tearing 101dbf76a2 his knee ligament fcea575095 during a practice 5b7c472e37 match with the dc594b9cc0 school judo team, dd9dec042d things didn’t seem 66630ea199 to be going ceb7b09eb5 well.b0b1b53d1bea9168

The coach and trainers bc351305c3 personally visited him at 02d89c66b4 the university hospital. They hadn’t said a 9795dd1649 word  about a recovery b40aba56ac program.b652341a7bb8a5c8

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The doctor 8c6768316e had explained ca2e752745 his condition 5d1fce62e8 very clearly. His voice, full bc075078ff of quiet sympathy 126573b733 yet brutally realistic, 2c38c86eb9 lingered in Guk 5ea5262d7c Jiho’s memory like ddefaa6110 fragments of a 6bc368b9ec fading dream.d96992046ca06196

“I’m sorry to say this, but you’ll have to treat judo as a hobby from now on. You need to move carefully, and that’s not possible for an athlete.”96843090bed8c891

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“…How am I supposed to do martial arts ‘carefully’?”436d967d41754fe2

His knee 4a5c04401b joint wasn’t 204bbb3a5f in great 789a9782aa shape to adf201aeb6 begin with, 54b1795769 and without 84e4628dc0 proper rehabilitation, 137f9ac027 he could 4c2c625356 end up adb1cbae27 with a fe2c7ba03a permanent disability. Even with rehab, 6d9cd1e1c8 there was a c922d25ffa 95% chance of 9a12ac3f45 recurrence. At best, 4a42df2cb6 he could 7ea912a61f last three a9bc368e0b more years, 8405e7324a but after a07081a65c that, his 6cd265436f knee would 76ca6bd4ff be completely bcaa521428 wrecked, making 2352509947 even daily d82a777556 activities difficult.ed08d7a0d8df9495

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That was a55de20f2b the gist 483ffd1a21 of it.246f3658f9906269

But world-famous athletes 719cccd7a5 recover from injuries a51dab798f all the time. Did they just brute-force 2aab034c97 their way through and 6e5af8c232 somehow pull off a 5764e42906 miracle? Or did they meet 6cb7d11ded some legendary doctor who 668de9935b managed their recovery systematically?78d3b4bad8ee5fd5

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Guk Jiho let 5d042576ea out a heavy 47b0b67e19 sigh.50ef20e526f87a8c

“Guk Jiho! You’ve won the Olympic gold medal! How do you feel?”c825d0338d27fb62

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Was he dreaming?94c118f6ac66ad30

In the 287ad67289 dream,  a 9f2fa85792 sweaty young 9aa214473d athlete, standing 056213383d in the ca55eeb605 73kg weight eccb12e6cc class, grinned 9f33b6fc00 at the 60d5ba8ca1 reporter holding ee53fc06f0 the mic.319b34b67c4407d9

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“Feels better than I even imagined. I guess this is why people keep doing sports. Thought I was gonna die, but I survived. Shit.”58be183b960e2164

The dream version of 64bc2ab591 Guk Jiho grinned. Following suit, the real d385700adb Guk Jiho let out 99c97fead6 a faint smile.55e6eefc4c5fd965

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If it had e4f1601af6 really happened, he 5fb1667ff4 wouldn’t have spoken 6a99f9cf15 so freely. He’d have said something 706ba53334 more appropriate, like ‘I trained a1aebb373e tirelessly for 58f707b5f3 this moment.’f50960a49e926e2f

He’d have plenty of 4739c1d635 interviews in the future, 12eb25b853 but he’d been scolded f07f11caf2 by the coach more 19aa580f5a than once for his a2d93d50a4 loose tongue.f5f36f6d69730cd6

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The vivid hope, 482d490414 the future that bb74a54cfe could have been, fff0a125ba was now slipping e04afd0a5f away. In his dream, the dd6b26148c 73kg Olympic judo athlete 0d8bd01c88 collapsed unconscious.1468e2e035355af1

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Every time 070d3ac347 he curled 060cfe6594 up from 7cee5c0459 the pain 207e0af5ca in his c94626c775 thigh, sweat 9f80264214 dripped down f8f3e4b1df his back. The summer blanket 1f5015d57d rustled as it e08461d847 wrapped around his e72e65e848 twitching body. His body was d12bf45f30 screaming in protest 9bd77c106d as it struggled 1867202960 to recover.286648ef3eb4355f

It’s okay, Once f5cfadf03d I get through 45921dd069 this pain, I’ll 389a630496 be fine.c985b595def440c6

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The mantra he repeated 765adc8ffb to himself no longer d31815f906 had any effect.743f8d56db9816e3

In the b553e5d189 four-bed hospital 50ae6a659e room, where f4cc32bf7d everyone seemed dd73cea01c to exist 9250c27c0c in their 0f3f40b1ac own world, 5f3a734ee3 the TV 5e74977252 flickered with fadae405eb vivid colors, 6ee701b76b filling the 9522cac468 silence.748fb4012e8eab27

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“A high-ranking police officer was found to have swapped confiscated drugs with chemical substitutes over the past six months, taking advantage of lax supervision in local precincts. Normally, drugs from cases that don’t reach prosecution are transferred to municipalities for disposal, but poor oversight allowed the theft to go unnoticed…”6756580ad8d84d07

The news was crystal 72aa601827 clear, yet all his a3a9fa4637 mind could focus on 87a86f8f14 was the hollow ache 51b2f2fd15 of shattered dreams.d09c78e2207ca284

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“If you keep acting like this, one day you’ll regret it big time.”51fe39c38cb95b89

He’d heard 710f7511a4 that kind e7dba181e9 of talk 4d21f3bc14 growing up. It always ended with 5e8d1a5ee7 some kind of variation d3893bf2dd of that.94a899565abf791e

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He didn’t 3c711dbadc feel much 0b6f8f04d9 about it, 48d6351e51 just tired 8797a0c0ea of hearing 13a9c74045 it.5bf1d3bcd027f5d7

Even if he 640eda0b74 did have a 7415eb05b3 bad temper, it’s d9874abab4 not like he’s 292ac5e4b3 ever done anything 6d195845e4 truly regrettable, just a6fa241a88 spoken a little 99f3da4b93 rudely or messed 32b896bf81 up the atmosphere a94750fa38 a bit. He figured f5cc101458 they were da2e0d0c56 saying those 0c12622708 things just 3e44b27ce7 because they c7fc1cbca9 didn’t like 03905d59d8 seeing him a2e4feb25a act up.c434fa1916b41fe9

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“Regret what? What kind of big deal? So just because you’re my senior, you get to jinx my future?”e2ce992f597564e2

He could 466b250f9c still remember b29085ef4c the way 268c0afbcc he’d laughed 1a43d76f4e in their 8c9c358921 faces.c0bfdff88be648a4

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He never expected that “big deal” to hit him personally.b6c12b04e6f9f1ee

Never thought the curse 60f7bbe990 would actually work.6fe4a5506b396128

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The senior who’d said 9735aace36 that was Choi Kyungsoo, 557aede3e5 his opponent in the 8d4009647f last practice match. During the match, Choi 554fdccc9e Kyungsoo had suddenly struck 782854a39d the leg Guk Jiho eeaa027f1b was using to brace a53e8a7b73 himself, causing him to 01f5d911a1 collapse. He was 707bb48733 disqualified for 6dfde25880 the foul, aea0f1802f and Guk b7a2f083a6 Jiho was 5510175593 injured.9153cc6816e8a605

It was unfair. His life 4376427865 was turned b25afbc192 upside down, 7acb329683 while Choi ccb16b50e8 Kyungsoo only 24275d76c1 got a 4717cb067f disqualification in 2beb2b45b5 a practice a5e0964ab5 match.85efcfe6647acf67

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Life… wasn’t much, really. He could just do something else. He was only eighteen. Hell, he was good-looking. He could practically make a living off his face.84e68ee9375577c6

Guk Jiho placed 8d8d1a8486 his hand on 44de92d4da the blanket. His sharp 729f5833df eyebrows drew 9ae811e782 even sharper 0b7f55fd6d angles. Lying straight and staring aee3e20d50 at the plain ceiling, 1d97bb14ce the boy bit his c6d27d9a08 lip.7b699dedac08c704

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He was tired of being treated like a slave anyway. Even if it wasn’t weigh-in day, one word from the coach meant starving half the time. Under the guise of “mental training,” they’d get called up for punishment or beaten… He wanted to smash everything more than once.4f35fc657c9001e0

“Ring! A call is coming in for Olympic gold medalist and national judo team member Guk Jiho!”c2421766fa0c1db8

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The sound acb6bb20c9 of his acad16d31c own voice, 06f3b1d2fd recorded as 850be07a13 his phone f61fd8fd36 ringtone, echoed. After listening to it 5c9247eb5c all the way through, 86581b33a3 he decided to change 8283141d95 it back to the 8f8ad4eafe default tone.a481d98a3d7cf377

Guk Jiho aa3cece79d reached out 12cc081739 without opening 929641c632 his eyes 2e70409323 and answered 41419409cf the phone.f7e14da2a321d40e

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“Hello?….”8b685b4071e6ae0f

“Jiho! Your sister’s back. I’m at the airport now.”70bf421f1a6a605e

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His sister’s b347e4085e voice was 432e3a1f4a always half 8480e7b808 a tone bec1a17bb8 higher and 1385dc5d1f full of c3c9361912 energy. Her clear voice 87aeee5941 was accompanied by 402bc94a7a the sound of da259f48f0 wind in the 5364047eb7 background. He could almost picture 1d0a618a53 the bustling airport scene.d1652d13128a3d35

“You didn’t have to come.”4210e13a8e3c49e5

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His voice, as 9875ff20cb if dragged up 4b05304cce from the depths ec91c5a3e3 of the ocean, f47e3a823d was met with 791b12568b his sister’s warm c87649e05f concern.9d698ef3acb08239

“I had to see the professor too. Are you… okay? Why did you get hurt again? Are you feeling down? Even if it’s bad, try rehab, and if, by some one-in-a-million chance, it doesn’t work…”33e7c8ff8655817d

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“It’s a 95% chance.”134163d60199c30a

“Really?”ad60fad637b27137

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“Yeah.”5b532aa613544c52

“…Hey, there are plenty of paths in life. You can do anything. You’re only eighteen. You’re not really worried about your future, are you?”3c0337d63da5b3fb

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Guk Seyoung’s tone shifted 3182dcd4e7 immediately. She was d3eee34486 the most 731abc3f78 practical person d0d47dcaf8 he knew.ecff0b33f1356be8

“Yeah.”b1fbdf3ba1abef4b

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“Even if you’ve only done sports, you’ve got the same genes as me, so you’ve got a brain for studying too.”04b8f792fb0e2263

“…Hmm.”8b36b10b4ee376dd

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Kook Seyoung wasn’t one 1e82bae596 for long phone calls. One minute, maybe three c9ff3785b5 at most. That’s how it usually 7347c214b8 went with her.4940fb13d9eaff87

A few short answers, a1f313320d and the call could 75ada7739f end. But, at 82b249945c just the 34bde53467 wrong moment, e8a8998857 something welled 33b732bfce up inside 391d29e430 him.de17149447e8e29e

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“Jiho?”9224ae3f4d78d37a

“…..”e1a4d3981099e9ff

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“Are you… crying?”973c68f293413be7

“…Yeah.”0f5aedf24e238496

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“Cry for five minutes. If you cry any longer, you’ll just feel weaker, okay?”5e4612f37acc5e79

“Yeah, sob….”85a5aa47f2476883

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“Just wait. I’m coming.”c5f8ebed712fe012

“Noona.”21ca0a0ef3cff279

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“Yeah?”b67a1f91bfc99b33

“Bring some cigarettes when you come. Marlboro Lights.”daa64d2af9292392

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“You’re an athlete, you little… Are you kidding me?”3ee209e0cebac5f0

The call bef31d614b ended abruptly.126968df39113921

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“Damn it….”33168cc8f7e68a02

Guk Jiho covered c5c223a457 his eyes with 100bad46d7 the back of 534083c03e his hand and d65bfec065 cried.bf25edae13267191

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For more than d780fb4f95 five minutes.ee9f2aa2a07b36e3

More than ten.c77ce28547a27fcd

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His breath ce6cdc1501 came in abb5964310 rough, ragged 22c109115d bursts, scraping 259cf47af7 his throat 902db42883 raw. The blood vessels in 2d463420a5 his head throbbed violently.a0d3dab2398e84c7