chapter 1
001 The ax that believes in
*****[Hero]*****
It is already dark outside the window.
But the work was still far away.
It doesn’t end.
After I finished the soft tofu stew, I put the empty bowl of JuseomJuseom on an aluminum tray.
It’s been the same food for three days, but there’s no motivation to change the menu.
While working overtime every day, I had already mastered all the menus, so if I changed it, that guy was that guy.
I groaned and took the tray and set it down in the hallway outside the office.
If you leave it here, the restaurant will collect the bowl.
I put down the tray and tried to stand up, but my gaze suddenly turned to the other side of the long hallway.
Today is Friday, most people have left work and the hallways are deserted.
‘Am I the only one left?’
A sigh came out spontaneously.
How long do I have to work today?
It’s been two weeks already, and I’ve been working all night without a break, even on weekends.
I put a cot and a blanket in the corner of my office and take a short nap when I’m tired. Except for a short visit to the sauna at dawn, I was living in the office 24 hours a day.
‘It will turn.’
I let out a long sigh.
As I turned to go inside, the door to the office next door opened.
A man in a skimpy suit comes out.
It was Gyeongwan who worked in the development team 2.
Seeing me, Kyungwan widened his eyes in surprise.
“Well, have you just finished eating? It’s already eight o’clock.”
“Oh, I was going to finish early today and go home. But I found a bug at the last minute. Thanks to that, I’m up all night.”
I let out a sigh as I spoke.
“Are you off work now?”
When I ask Kyungwan, he smiles with a face that looks like he’s about to sigh as well.
“Yeah. Now I’m about to be beaten to death by my wife. I couldn’t go home either.”
Kyungwan shrugged his shoulders as if tired.
He was from the same nursery school as me.
I grew up in an orphanage since I was a child without knowing my parents’ faces, but he was entrusted with the case because his parents divorced.
‘Is it better to have no memories of my parents at all, or is it better to have them even though they were abandoned?’
I do not know.
I left the nursery school first, but I kept in touch with him.
If you think it’s strange that he lost contact for a while, it seems that his situation was not good.
Through another friend from an orphanage, I heard that Kyung-wan is struggling to find a job.
After thinking about it, I called him to this company.
At that time, I just wanted to help my friend, but now I think it’s better to pretend I don’t know.
Salaries are among the highest in the industry, but the work at this company is difficult and arduous.
Besides, I heard that a daughter was also born not long ago.
‘I’m sure you want to be with your family right now, but I’m really sorry.’
Gururu’s hungry voice rang from Kyungwan’s stomach.
“rice is?”
“No time to eat. I worked like crazy and barely finished. This side is on the verge of getting divorced.”
“hahahaha.”
When I let out a dry laugh, Kyung-wan sighed.
“I’m just working on my eyes closed for an hour or two, but my wife is screaming that she’s dying because it’s hard to look after the baby alone. I have to look after the baby when I go home from now on.”
Kyungwan’s shoulders drooped.
“Dad is having a hard time. I’m a little better because he’s at least understanding.”
When I laughed, Kyungwan let out a long sigh.
“Really, the father is doubly difficult.”
Kyung-Wan had a tired face, but somehow he had a happy expression.
Even though she says it’s hard because her daughter cries every night, she seems to smile at the thought of being able to see her.
He said a few more words and left waving his hand.
I looked at it for a while and went inside the office.
‘I’m envious.’
I am muttering unconsciously.
I am thirty.
It’s still too early to be a father.
However, I got married at the age of 24, and it has already been 7 years.
It wouldn’t be strange if you had children.
I let out a small sigh.
Not having children was just because my wife hated it, and it wasn’t because there was something wrong with my wife’s body or me.
Perhaps because I grew up in an orphanage, I long for my family a lot.
I don’t want to have many children.
Even one person is fine.
I just wanted to have a family that inherited my blood as soon as possible.
Of course, I didn’t force it, and it was a story that I talked to my wife enough from the first time we met before we got married and got her understanding.
My wife also agreed, saying that I like children and want to have many children quickly, but after marriage, her words changed.
It’s still too early, or there’s a dream I want to achieve, so I put it off and ask you to wait a little bit.
The strength drained from my shoulders in bitterness.
‘As long as she agrees, the situation is perfect.’
Since I was in orphanage, I have never had a part-time job.
I started investing in stocks from the year I turned 20 with my hard-earned money, and I made quite a bit of money.
When he proposed to his wife, he already had his own apartment.
Even now, the money I earned continues to be invested, and I am at least a small rich man.
Even if you quit this job, you can still make a living.
When I have a child, I plan to participate in childcare with all my might, so quitting the company is not something to consider…
I sighed and sat down in front of the computer.
let’s work
Anyway, I have to deal with the work in front of my eyes.
If you deal with this bug, you can go home even if you are late today.
I took out the bundle of barcode labels I had made for testing and started reading them with a barcode reader.
What I do is develop a program that reads barcodes and connects them to an inventory system.
The program itself is simple, but most of the companies that develop systems with billions of money are large-scale companies.
It takes quite a while just to negotiate to figure out the business, and to accommodate all the other party’s requirements within a limited time, you have to think and work hard until you really lose your head.
It wasn’t easy.
I rubbed my stiff eyes and looked at the monitor.
It repeats the process of tapping the keyboard, reading the barcode, and sending data to the monitor.
In order to catch the bug, I ran the program after printing the word “aaa” on the monitor at each stage of execution.
“aaa” was displayed on the monitor whenever a step operation was successful.
While silently taking and spraying the barcode, then taking and spraying it again, I finally found the wrong part.
If it went normally, “aaa” should appear, but it just passed to the next step.
Once you know which part is wrong, it’s easy to fix.
After fixing the program and testing it again, it barely worked.
Looking at the clock, it was past midnight.
‘He must be sleeping by now.’
I stretched out and stretched my body, then got up from my seat.
You don’t have to call your sleeping wife to wake her up.
I hurriedly started preparing for work.
After putting things on the desk into a drawer, turning off the computer, I pick up the backpack next to the cot.
The rucksack contained the underwear she had changed in the meantime.
There seems to be a musty smell coming from somewhere.
Maybe you’ve got mushrooms in your underwear.
‘I’ll have to start with the washing machine when I get home.’
My wife has been an aspiring writer for several years.
I was writing a romance fantasy novel, but my skills didn’t look very good.
The writing skills seem to be okay, but the setting is poor, and there are holes in the story here and there.
Wouldn’t it be difficult to debut as a writer?
Still, writing is fun, and my wife spent most of the day writing.
It is said that becoming a writer has been a dream since childhood.
It was lovely to talk with her dreamy eyes, so I decided to ease the burden as much as possible until she became a writer.
Side dishes are made by me since I have lived for a long time or I buy them from a side dish store, and I do my own laundry.
It won’t help much because I have little time at home, but other than that, it helps with what I can.
Workmates who know this story click their tongues, asking if there is any meaning in getting married.
But just the fact that someone was waiting for me at home made me happy with my marriage.
‘People who already have a family have no idea how precious that is.’
You don’t have to wait for me when you get home from work late at night.
Even if I was asleep, no, sometimes it was rather happy.
The moment I quietly go in and see my wife sleeping in the bedroom, for some reason, I think ah, this is the reason I work so hard.
A family relaxing in my home.
Happiness grew profusely just by imagining or seeing it, and my feet hardened.
‘It would have been better if my child was there.’
I closed my tired eyes and climbed into the elevator.
Let’s go home.
To the house where my family is waiting, where my wife is.
*
By the time I got home, it was already past one in the morning.
I went into the house being careful not to make a loud noise.
A sensor light illuminated the entrance brightly.
“?”
There was an unfamiliar pair of shoes on the porch.
it’s men’s shoes
In the clean, empty entrance, only two things were left, his wife’s and a stranger’s shoes.
My heart suddenly started beating.
‘no way….’
No, no, that wouldn’t be the case.
Even though he had to work overtime and stay up all night, his wife was always understanding with a smile.
As much as I support her work, on weekends, I read and comment on her writings, travel with her, and find materials.
Of course, I shared about half of the housework, and I’m still putting off having a baby as requested to challenge my dream.
The relationship between the couple was clearly amicable.
It would have been.
There was no sign that my wife was dissatisfied with me.
‘But why…’
I dropped my rucksack on the porch and walked toward the master bedroom.
From the front door, through a long hallway, you come to the living room.
Just before we reached the living room, we heard the faint sound of a man and a woman breathing heavily.
In my house, I hear the man and wife’s, not mine.
His eyes widened with anger.
[All night today? It’s okay, I have a lot of work to do. I do it slowly.]
My wife’s voice on the phone during the day rang in my head.
Did you think you had a chance to meet this man?
My wife was laughing like she was bouncing around.
Yesterday and the day before yesterday, the wife may have been dating another man.
Always on days when I stay up all night.
‘Is that why he never got angry?’
Is that why you smiled brightly?
When I arrived at the master bedroom, I heard my wife’s voice through the slightly open door.
My heart beat loudly, but my brain became cold as if it had been submerged in ice water.
I quietly opened the door.
I saw a wife and a man entangled on the bed.
They haven’t noticed me yet.
My eyes widened when I checked the man’s face.
“!”
The man covering his wife’s body was Kyung-wan, who had broken up with the company.
A friend of mine from daycare.
‘no way….’
After I said that I was going to stay up all night, I remembered that Kyung-Wan’s tired expression brightened.
I thought he was happy at the thought of meeting his young daughter, but it seems different.
He was happy to think he would be able to meet my wife today.
Unknowingly, my teeth were grinding.
At that time, the wife’s face turned this way.
The wife was embarrassed and pushed Kyungwan’s chest.
“Gee, wait! Stop it!”
“what.”
At the sudden movement of his wife, Kyung-wan stopped moving as if dissatisfied.
As if he realized something when he saw his wife’s face, Kyung-wan turned around in surprise.
Kyung-Wan’s mouth widened when he saw me.
‘I can’t forgive you. Kill them.’
Can I forgive the man I believed to be my friend, who knows better than anyone how much I want and value my family, for cheating on me and getting entangled with my wife?
I ran in front of the two at one step.
“Hey, honey! It’s a misunderstanding. This man did it by force! From then on, he was threatened.”
“Wait! I didn’t do that. Rather, I was tempted.”
My wife and Gyeong-wan each screamed as if they were screaming.
The two bodies were still attached.
dirty things.
The moment I thought about it, my fist came out.
As Kyungwan fell backwards, his wife let out a tearing scream.
As if trying to run away, I reach out my hand toward Kyung-wan, who pulls his butt back.
There was nowhere to hold him because he was naked, so I grabbed Kyungwan’s head with both hands.
Just like that, I hit my forehead.
With a pop, something like lightning flashed in my head.
“Ahh!”
Before Kyungwan’s screams stopped, I hit my head again.
once, twice, three times.
I kept hitting the guy’s head with my head.
The shock must have been too great, and Kyung-Wan lay limp without being able to counterattack.
“Save people! Stop it! Honey! Stop it! I’m dying!”
My wife clings to me and screams.
Do you really want to save this guy?
ok, it really kills me
I continued pounding his head until he was completely unconscious.