Chapter 95 - Pojangmacha 2

"What a beautiful couple! Are you actors, by any chance? They look like celebrities!" a male voice interrupted them, drawing attention to themselves. 

Ye Rim turned to the intruder, a gentleman in his fifties with no particularly striking features, but his cheeks were very red from soju consumption. He was sitting alone at a table next to them, where a collection of empty bottles lined up beside the plate of food. The people in pojangmacha were naturally attracted to them due the loud comment; it was clear that he wanted to draw attention.

Ye Rim was about to thank the compliment and return to her conversation, where she would try to find out about 'Kim Jun Hyeon's great love', but something deep in her mind bothered her. 

She was sure she had seen this ajuhssi before.

She looked more closely, and the man smiled at the couple, apparently encouraged by the fact that Ye Rim stared at him. 

'OMG! He's the gravedigger of the cemetery where I went to sing! ' she realized in shock, wondering how much he would remember of her, and if he would comment in front of Lee Dae Won about this low in her career.

"Thank you, Ajuhssi," she nodded, hating to be dressed so flashily tonight, from all nights. She turned quickly to Dae Won, who regarded the man with a cautious expression, watching over the older man's attitudes.

"Not a problem, I don't mind," she said, figuring the musician was bothered because of her. But before Dae Won said anything, the gravedigger got up, stumbling drunkily, and managed to come to them. Ye Rim's heart chilled in anticipation of a moment of embarrassment.

"She's a pretty girl, 'President'! Ah, from all the things in a cemetery, nothing better than fresh, vivid flowers, don't you think?" the unpleasant ajuhssi stopped beside their table and said in a unctuous manner to Dae Won. 

For the first time, Ye Rim noticed Lee Dae Won in annoyance, as he stared at the gravedigger coldly,

"You must be mistaking us for someone else, ajuhssi."

"No, no, I'm very good with physiognomies. I've seen the…"

"I'm not famous, I'm sure you're INDEED mistaking us, YES?" Ye Rim stated hurriedly.

"Oh, right, right. I think I'm getting in the way. I must go… But…" the man was staring at them with bright, mischievous eyes, as if he was mentally enjoying himself with things that only he knew. "President, I'm sorry I took long to deliver your things. Will you still need me to do that? Now that…" the gravedigger's words sunk down on purpose, but Ye Rim couldn't see any sense in what the drunken ajuhssi was talking about.

"Surely you are taking us for another acquaintances of yours, ajuhssi. I neither know you nor know what you're talking about." Lee stood up, calling the pojangmacha's owner to settle the bill. The drunk man laughed mockingly, bowing in fake respect to the couple. He gravedigger turned to Ye Rim once more, about to say something while pointing his finger at her. Ye Rim was embarrassed, but Dae Won stepped in front of the singer, protecting her,

"Please stop, you are bothering the lady."

"Won't she be jealous…?" the unpleasant man asked, but his erratic behavior also irritated the owner of the pojangmacha, since he was scaring her customers away.

"Ajuhssi! You are bothering my precious clients! Sit at your table or walk away!"

But Dae Won just asked Ye Rim if he could take her home, and the drunken man episode was forgotten.

But Ye Rim didn't have the opportunity to know more about Jun Hyeon's girlfriend either.

…

At the top of a building, Hunter Shin reached out to help Eun Ha climb onto the terrace where the a.d.u.l.terated billboard stood. They had come looking for clues about the graffiti perpetrator on the sign, who surely was the same person who had sent the book to the young fairy.

"Have you seen weird people near your building lately?" asked the Hunter, looking around for clues. The young stylist woman followed him.

"No, I didn't notice anything strange… The only different people I've seen around here lately were Musician Lee, who came to visit Ye Rim without invitation that day. That very day when 'another stranger' was walking around this neighborhood at night..." she hinted, staring at the Hunter and waiting for his reaction.

"I just came to know why my 'pupil' had missed class," the Hunter said, lighting a cigarette without even looking at Eun Ha.

"For me it was lurking in the shadows ..." Eun Ha muttered, but the fairy took the blue monocle from her pocket and looked around for signs similar to those she had seen at the muffin factory. The miasma and the black spots. But there was none of that on the terrace floor. When she looked up at the sign, however, the letters in it emitted a bright, pleasant, almost fluorescent, light.

"Wow, Professor, the writing is shining!" she didn't even need her Magic Teacher to know that this was just the opposite of what she'd seen earlier, closer to the good feel of the Bookstore.

The Hunter looked at the sign above his head again, and with an enigmatic expression took a pull on his cigarette before saying,

"Why, you have a very sincere admirer, Jung."

'Hmpf, how can he say that with such calmness?' Eun Ha wondered indignantly. 'We kissed, it was good. Doesn't he have the slightest shred of jealousy? Oh yes, he must be finding me an easy girl!'

"So I have an admirer who is insinuating to know what I am ?!"

"Well, this is the tricky part," replied the older fairy. "But since you were walking around causing chaos with your wand, it's not hard to imagine that someone less skeptical has linked the facts."

"HEY! I wasn't walking around causing any ch… Well maybe I caused some chaos once or twice," she had begun to defend herself, but at Shin's skeptical glare, Eun Ha only admitted the truth.

"You have to find out who it is, Eun Ha. This human needs to be identified. He could put himself in danger now."

"Professor, are you saying that because of the monster that devours fairies? Don't you think you should skip some lessons and explain to me at once about these threats? And… Don't forget that you owe me a class because I opened the door of the candy store door."

Whatever it was that went through the Hunter's mind when Eun Ha said it, he looked suddenly distressed, and went to the service ladder, calling Eun Ha to leave.

'Which subject bothers him? The monster, or ... me?' Eun Ha needed to find out soon.