< Indiscriminate dream scattering >
When Jeong-hyeok’s mother was standing in front of a public phone for a long time.
At the same time, Taesung Group Chairman Cha’s house was turned upside down.
From early evening, the phone began to ring incessantly.
Ring ring.
Chairman Cha answered the phone.
“hello?”
-Father, it’s me, the first one. Just now, my wife, the kids, and I all had a strange dream. Well, the grim reaper appeared in my dream······.
Chairman Cha flinched.
In fact, he had the same dream five minutes ago.
It was a nightmare I had while watching the news on the sofa and dozing off for a moment as if I had fainted.
-Unluckily, Seongjun dies in a plane crash on New Year’s Day.
“Hmm!”
– Sungjun has a seven-year-old son. That stone-faced guy has a wife and children? There’s no way he’d have a seven-year-old. Hahaha!
“Khuuuhm!”
As the eldest son continued talking, Chairman Cha’s temples began to ache more and more.
It was even more of a headache because it was exactly the same thing my wife had been talking about when she came running in panicking earlier.
“Stop it. You’re making such a big deal out of a little nightmare.”
-But the way the grim reaper recites his date of birth in detail is so vivid and creepy······.
“Stop it!”
-Yes. Take a rest, Father.
As soon as I hung up the phone, the ringing sound started again.
“hello?”
-Father, I’m the second child. Just now, my husband and I had a really strange dream, right? The grim reaper appeared in our dream······.
The second son said the same thing as the first son.
Chairman Cha seemed to be out of breath.
“It’s not even eight o’clock yet! You’re already dozing off and sleeping so soundly at this early hour, so the company you’re in charge of is doing poorly! Hang up!”
The second son immediately hung up the phone.
Ring ring!
-dad!
“You weren’t dreaming about the grim reaper either, were you?”
-No, how did you know that? Did my dad get possessed by a spirit? In my dream, Sungjun······.
“ha······.”
Chairman Cha became very tired.
So I didn’t even respond to my daughter’s call and just hung up.
dump.
Chairman Cha buried himself in the sofa.
A soft voice and gentle gestures.
“Mr. Chairman, I brought you some honey water.”
His wife, who was twenty years younger than Chairman Cha, put down the tray.
“Drink this and calm down.”
My wife’s hand was shaking slightly as she handed me the honey water.
She was Seongjun’s mother and a superstitious woman.
So, I often went to famous fortune tellers with other people.
“Chairman, I’m really scared. If something terrible happens to our Seongjun······.”
“Nonsense!”
Chairman Cha shouted.
My chest felt tight, so I gulped down the honey water and then spit it out.
“Khuhuh!”
“That’s hot!”
“What the hell! Bring me some cold water, why the hell am I getting hot honey water in this situation…! Eww!”
Chairman Cha put down his mug.
It felt like my already burning insides were turned inside out.
‘How could this happen?’
It was an unprecedented story.
‘On the same day, at the same time, everyone in the house had the same dream. Is this really possible?’
Chairman Cha was a man who did not believe in superstitions.
In a world where people don’t believe in ghosts, religion, dreams or legends, what do grim reapers do?
‘Honestly, there’s no way our Seongjun would have a child that’s seven years old. What kind of weird······!’
Chairman Cha had always been very displeased with the fact that his wife often visited a famous fortune teller’s shop.
It definitely was like that······.
Ring ring.
The phone rang again.
Chairman Cha waved his hand because his head was pounding.
“I’m dying from annoyance. This time, you take it.”
“hello?”
-Madam, I am the Fairy Bodhisattva of Inwangsan Mountain.
Inwangsan Mountain Fairy Bodhisattva.
She was a very famous shaman who had worshipped the Baekho God of Inwangsan Mountain for generations.
“Bodhisattva? Why did you call our house?”
-I just had a strange dream. I think it was about Chairman Cha of Taesung Group. The grim reaper appeared and······.
“yes?”
The Inwangsan Seonnyeo Bodhisattva was famous for predicting everything from Joseon’s independence to the Korean War and the change of government due to a military coup.
In this way, famous figures from the political and business world of South Korea would frequent that house until the threshold was worn down.
Even in Japan, high-ranking officials came to have their fortunes read.
The wife of the Taesung Group CEO was also a regular customer of Inwangsan Seonnyeo Bodhisattva.
-Didn’t I tell you that there was a murderous incident at Chairman Cha’s house recently, and the atmosphere of sudden death was very thick?
The wife of the Taesung Group chairman felt her heart sink.
-It was an unusual dream. I thought I shouldn’t just pass it by, so I called.
“Thank you for your concern, Poet.”
The hand holding the phone was trembling uncomfortably.
-Madam, I’ll see you at the shrine soon. The horoscope says that a new person will be added to the household soon.
The Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva hung up the phone.
“oh my god.”
It was the first time.
It was known that it was very rare for the Fairy Goddess to make the first call.
The Taesung Group CEO’s wife looked back at her husband.
“Actually… Sungjun had a girlfriend.”
“what?”
It was the first time Chairman Cha had heard of this.
“There’s Lee Su-jin, who entered Korea University as the top student. The chairman also said that he briefly met Sung-jun’s junior from college in front of the house.”
“Oh, that girl who is neat and pretty and has a cute look. But was that girl Seongjin’s girlfriend?”
“No. I took it off when I gave you an envelope with money seven years ago······.”
Chairman Cha’s eyebrows rose sharply.
“Then what should we do? The chairman unilaterally pushed for the engagement between Wookwang Group’s youngest daughter and Sungjun.”
As soon as the engagement was decided, the youngest son enlisted in the army without permission.
After his military service ended, he only traveled outside, saying he was trying to win construction orders.
It’s already been 7 years.
‘Surely not…, right?’
Chairman Cha touched his forehead.
The wife moved her lips several times and then eventually retreated into the bedroom.
“Secretary Kim!”
“Yes, sir.”
“Sungjun is in the Middle East. Send a telegram telling him to return home immediately.”
“All right.”
“One more thing. Was it Lee Su-jin? Did you know?”
“Yes. I personally carried out your orders.”
The envelope with money was said to be Secretary Kim’s work.
“He disappeared shortly after being kicked out of the house. So, I didn’t investigate him separately.”
It meant that it was difficult to find right away.
Chairman Cha pressed his temples hard.
“Is that girl named Lee Soo-jin really raising my grandson? Where is she living, what is she doing? You take responsibility and find out.”
“All right.”
“I guess I should meet him sometime. How many days would be enough?”
“He’s been missing for seven years. It’ll take at least two weeks.”
“You’re late! In ten days it’s New Year’s Day!”
The Grim Reaper warned that his youngest son would die in a plane crash on New Year’s Day.
Even though it was a dream, I couldn’t stand it because it was so unsettling.
“Find him as fast as you can, no matter what! Search the entire country like a stray dog!”
“yes.”
“Mobilize the entire Taesung Group information team, and call all the troubleshooters from Myeongdong!”
“yes.”
“I guess I should make a phone call to the central office. Who is that guy who is good at finding people?”
Ring ring.
Chairman Cha answered the phone nervously.
“hello!”
-Oh, it’s been a while, Chairman Cha. I’m Lee Soo-jin. My youngest son, Seong-jun······.
No, how could this happen!
The person who had to search the entire country to find him was the one who called first? And that too after 7 years?
“Oh! I was just waiting for your call.”
Chairman Cha was very happy and welcomed it.
“So, why are you calling?”
-I’m sorry. I just felt like I should let you know that I exist. If anything happens to me······.
Make your existence known for the future?
Even if this is just the ramblings of an old man, I have nothing to say.
“Do you have a seven-year-old child?”
-Oh, how did you do that!
Really?
“Is it really true that our Seongjun is your son?”
-······Yes. I’m really embarrassed. I’m sorry.
“······.”
Chairman Cha opened his mouth wide.
‘This is a coincidence?’
Is there no other way to explain it?
Chairman Cha said with his eyes tightly shut.
“Let’s talk about the details when we meet tomorrow. And bring that child with you. Is that okay?”
-······yes.
A phone call brought forward a meeting that had been expected to take at least two weeks to just 15 hours later.
* * *
“Huh!”
I was lying on the floor of a hot inn, watching TV, and I got a chill.
“What the hell!”
I woke up with a start, my mind suddenly opened.
“Hey, Grim Reaper! Come in front of me right now. Go!”
[Poem, implementation?]
Swish.
The Grim Reaper rose up like smoke, embarrassed.
I furrowed my brows.
“Are you teasing me right now?”
[······?]
“What? My father’s plane crashed? I haven’t even met him yet? What am I going to do?”
The promises are different!
They said they would pass it down to me from a silver spoon in my mouth!
He said he’d let me meet my father!
[No, I never entered your dream in the first place······.]
“Then let’s say I spied!”
Suddenly, King Yeomra realized that he had asked his mother to ask him who his father was, but had never promised to help him meet his father.
‘Come to think of it, Taesung Construction was shaken because the youngest son of Taesung Group passed away at a young age. Because of that, he was unable to exert any effort in the subway construction bid and was left helpless.’
I only knew that the youngest son of Taesung Group died, but I didn’t know how he died.
That was something that happened a long time ago and had nothing to do with the stock price of Taesung Group.
But not now.
It was my father’s death.
[Who, why are your eyes like that?]
Why are my eyes? What? Why!
Yeah, I’m a person who doesn’t see anything right now!
“Hey, Guardian Angel. Isn’t it true that Grim Reapers can only operate in Korea?”
[······?]
“We are transmitting the same dream to the other side of the globe right now, do it!”
[Poem, implementation?]
* * *
A man suddenly stood up in a Dubai hotel.
I dozed off while filling out a construction bid document and ended up having a terrible nightmare.
A cold sweat broke out all over my body.
“What the heck? In my dream, there was a grim reaper······.”
A person who was warned that he would die in a plane crash in the Arabian Sea on New Year’s Day.
Cha Seong-jun shivered from the vivid nightmare.
Bam.
The hotel room door opened forcefully.
The secretary, who was both a friend and an attendant, approached me with measured steps.
He smiled broadly, waving his airline ticket wildly.
“Hahahaha! I worked so hard to get this! Ta-da, here’s a round-trip ticket to Bombay! Let’s go to India and get a bunch of construction orders!”
Cha Seong-jun saw the airplane ticket shaking miserably before his eyes.
< Departure time of Indian Airlines Flight 855: January 1, 09:30>
It’s just a nightmare.
Why does this look like a one-way ticket to the afterlife to me?
That wasn’t all.
‘My child? If he’s seven years old······.’
Even though I thought it was just a dream, my heart was pounding so hard that I couldn’t calm down.
“Get a plane ticket to Korea. It doesn’t matter if you have to transit through another country, and get there as quickly as possible.”
“Are you trying to enter Korea?”
“uh.”
The secretary’s eyes widened.
“For years, telegrams telling you to return home poured in every day, but you pretended not to notice, and then all of a sudden?”
< Indiscriminate dream scattering > End
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