chapter 21
21 – People generally don’t like the smell of sweat
Episode 21
Cheon A-ram gulped down the entire bowl of seolleongtang with radish radish soup and was amazed.
“Big! kill.”
The luxury suit and the poisonous snake-like eyes melted into the vibe of a hard-working foreman and became blurred.
There was only one worker who had finished a hard day’s work, not the CEO of the agency.
Seo Su-yeon, who has been helping Cheon A-ram since she was young, felt dizzy when she saw her like that and asked.
“I made a reservation at a nice restaurant, but do you mind eating at a place like this?”
“They say they’re good at escargot? “This restaurant is better than there.”
The more Seo Su-yeon listened, the more dizzy she felt, so she did not want to share this story any further.
That’s why I changed the topic.
“So what did that man named Seon Tae-yang smell like?”
At first glance, her question might seem like a rude question to evaluate the smell of others, but it was received differently by Seo Soo-yeon and Cheon Ah-ram.
Smell had a different meaning to them.
They shared the fact that Aram Cheon could smell the heart of someone with selfish intentions.
“… The truth is. It’s not the first time I’ve smelled him.”
“Then, when did you take it in advance?”
“I wanted to smell it before trying to recruit him, so I went to the place where Sun Taeyang gets on and off and sniffed it.”
Seo Su-yeon wondered when and how she, an outsider, entered the place.
“Were you acquainted with the manager of that distribution center?”
“No, I applied for a part-time job and became an employee? “While loading and unloading, I went up to it during a break and smelled it.”
Seo Soo-yeon felt dizzy again.
The fact that Cheon A-ram, who had never done that kind of work in her life, had to jump up and down brought about cognitive dissonance in her.
For now, she decided to pretend she didn’t hear anything.
“What did it smell like then?”
“… There was a smell. “The person I want is someone who doesn’t smell like you, Suyeon.”
Her talent was absolute.
If Taeyang smelled something, it meant that his heart was not pure.
“Are you okay?”
Seo Soo-yeon asked if it was okay to recruit Seon Tae-yang, who gives off that kind of vibe.
However, Cheon A-ram seemed to understand Seo Soo-yeon’s question as a question about whether loading and unloading was okay.
“My back and joints hurt really bad, but it wasn’t that bad. Luckily, the smell of the people I worked with was bearable. … And the thick and strong friendship between men? “I felt something like that, so it was kind of fun.”
It was a world that Seo Soo-yeon did not want to know at all.
“I learned this too there!”
Cheon A-ram added kkakdugi soup to Seo Soo-yeon’s white seolleongtang soup, which she had not touched yet.
“This makes it delicious!”
Seo Soo-yeon lost her appetite after seeing the pink soup.
Still, I couldn’t ignore my boss’ sincerity, so I ate a spoonful of soup.
It was delicious.
So I was angry.
Seo Soo-yeon said while looking at Cheon A-ram who was drinking pink seolleongtang.
“What I was trying to ask was whether it would be okay to recruit Sun Taeyang, who has that kind of vibe.”
Cheon A-ram muttered, as if she had finally realized it, ‘Ah, that’s what I said.’
And he said it with a meaningful expression.
“… “I mean, it stinks, but it’s something unique.”
“In what way?”
“What can I say… “If you call it a stink, it stinks, but is it strangely addictive?”
Cheon A-ram said, tilting his head as if he found it difficult to define it himself.
“Cheonggukjang seems to have gone too far… . Should I say it smells a bit like a man’s sweat? “It’s classified as a bad smell, but when you smell it, it feels like something you don’t hate, right?”
Seo Soo-yeon gave her honest impressions.
“… “People generally don’t like the smell of sweat.”
Although she was close to a yes man, she did not want to sympathize with Cheon A-ram’s words.
***
“This is the conference room!”
I said while admiring the view of the neat conference room.
“president. “It’s okay if you speak comfortably.”
“Really? “Then, I will speak comfortably from now on.”
It was rather comfortable.
“This is the shower room!”
“oh.”
“wow,”
“And this is the training room!”
Like a child showing off a good test report card, Cheon A-ram introduced the facilities of Two Bear Entertainment one by one to Gyeol and me.
“You invested a lot.”
“Do you see that?”
I thought she deserved to be proudly introduced like that.
“Although it is small in scale and size, the overall structure and equipment of the facility are mostly of the highest quality.”
“No expense was spared in that regard. “I tend to think that the quality improves as much as I invest.”
“I agree. Saving money on equipment does not produce good quality.”
I nodded and said.
“To be honest, it was an agency I had never heard of, so I imagined it to be a small business, with meals and practice classes in an unwalled room.”
Those expectations were betrayed, in a good way.
“Well, that’s the situation with most new agencies that don’t receive proper investment.”
Two Bear Entertainment’s facilities were far from that of a new startup.
When it comes to equipment, you can even look at SS facilities.
This was not something that could be accomplished by investing a penny or two.
“It seems like Boss Cheon is truly willing to invest in this work, so I am also more motivated.”
Cheon Aram smiled happily at my reaction and asked Gyeoreum.
“How do the winter sheep look?”
“… Me, me? “I really like it!”
“is it so? “It feels like my hard work was worth it because they looked at me favorably.”
“… But I wish it was a little darker. “I’m a little scared of bright spaces.”
… Winter, I understand, but let’s not show off outside.
“You get used to it.”
“… yes,”
I said to A-Ram Cheon, who was beginning to worry, saying to herself, “Did I choose the lighting that was too strong?”
“I think the facilities have been confirmed to this extent. I like it so much. “Now, can you introduce me to the other trainees?”
“Another trainee?”
Cheon A-ram reacted curiously, as if he had been asked a question he had never thought of before.
I asked the obvious, but why did I get that reaction?
“Yes, another trainee.”
“We only have one trainee?”
“… “That doesn’t mean winter, does it?”
“As expected, Team Leader Seon, that’s the correct answer!”
Cheon A-ram said happily, raising her thumb.
Am I out of my mind?
“No, that makes sense… . Where are the other employees? “I think we should talk about it.”
The boss handled things this way, and the employee who didn’t say a word was the criminal.
I had to see their faces.
“If you’re an employee, there’s Suyeon. However, it is difficult to see Suyeon’s face because she has now gone to her parents’ house instead of me. “Do you want to call me?”
“What about the other employees besides that Suyeon?”
“Other employees?”
It sounds like ‘another employee?’
Is this just a prank?
Is this a form of hazing, like a fun hidden camera?
Ah, now the employees are showing up from behind.
“We have two employees.”
Reality was cruel.
“Do you mean me and Sooyeon, who you just mentioned?”
“As expected, Team Leader Seon. “That’s right!”
I made a quick decision.
“I will pretend that I never had a job. It was a pleasure working together so far. “Boss Cheon.”
I haven’t signed a contract yet, so it won’t be a big deal.
I took Winter with me and tried to run away from this evil world.
“for a moment.”
“… ?”
“If Team Leader Seon is like that, I can’t stop him. But I think there’s one thing Team Leader Sun doesn’t know, so I think I should tell him that.”
“What are you talking about?”
“You haven’t been able to get a job as team leader these days, have you? “You don’t think that’s a coincidence, do you?”
Of course not.
I just couldn’t figure out the reason.
“Does President Cheon know the reason?”
“Yes, of course I know. “Because it’s none other than my family’s business.”
family? … no way.
“That’s because my eldest brother, team leader Cheon Jong-hoon, gave advice to all agencies.”
“… “What kind of words are you talking about?”
“’Be prepared for the agency receiving Sun Taeyang and Midwinter to be completely hostile to the SS.’”
It was crazy stuff.
“Hey, diplomatic documents sent from a powerful country to a dependent country shouldn’t be like this. “They are my family, but they are amazing.”
“Is that guy Cheon Jong-hoon suffering from dementia?”
I’m not old enough for that.
“I think it’s still been corrected.”
I said, stroking my throbbing hair.
“I know Cheon Jong-hun quite well, but isn’t he such a great person?”
“That’s right, he’s not that great of a person.”
“It is as you said. Why would someone who is the embodiment of pride and boasts an impeccable career do something like that? “Are you really crazy?”
“Isn’t the crisis felt enough to warrant doing that?”
What kind of person can feel a crisis when the crisis is brought on by someone else?
“Something like the emergence of a strong competitor.”
“… “That doesn’t mean me and Winter, does it?”
I think it was an overreaction.
Is there any successor to a large company in the world who would feel threatened by one job seeker and one ostracized trainee?
Cheon A-ram did not answer but shrugged his shoulders.
It seemed like what I was saying was right, and sometimes it seemed like it wasn’t.
“Anyway, it won’t be easy to find a job in the future because of this situation. Do you have any plans for the future?”
I returned the same steps I had taken and approached Cheon A-ram and spoke.
“I want to make Two Bear Entertainment the best in the country. president!”
“As expected, Team Leader Seon. “That’s right!”