Chapter 5 (1/2)

In the backseat, I and randfather’s house

While I was stirring up oldand uneasy

The silence settled like a grey cloud over our parents’ faces

The grandfather’s house looked like a castle, in which there were four buildings with two stories above ground and two underground levels

A paved parking lot acco approximately 50 cars

Stone curtain walls enveloping the castle

It was hemmed in by dense trees and locked up like Fort Knox

Two guards bowed and opened the huge door, then our car slipped inside

The garden where I pulled weeds cauests relishi+ng the war

As we stepped out of our car and began to walk into the ashed, ht nod while others pretended not to have seen each of us

I searchedto recall them

It occurred to ht be someone as involved in my death in some way

As we entered the foyer and went into the large living rooan to race

The fauests

What would happen to us, ould happen to my family?

Would they ignore us as if ere invisible?

In the living roo on the sofa

Hungry wolves and foxes; successor candidates

They would be counting down the days until the grandfather’s death, in order to snatch a loaf of Sunyang

The eldest son, Jin Young-ki

Second son, Jin Dong-ki

Third son, Jin Sang-ki

Only daughter, Jin Seo-yun

And the youngest son, my father, Jin Yun-ki, ould always try to avoid their sharp eyes

A short silence followed

As reeted with a deep bow,

”You are so damn late!” said a shrill voice

Its oas the granny who had had sex with her young guard in the fitting room

Which lingered on my head I couldn't help but titter

My father got baffled and gave a firrip on my hand as if to say ‘stop it’

”What’s so funny? What are you tittering about?” she asked, frowning at me

She looked as if she was poised to knuckle me on my head

When Young-ki told her to knock it off, raising his voice,

”What the hell is going on down there?” said a man’s deep voice

All the people in the living room looked in the direction whence the voice came

It wasHe was standing on the steps that led upstairs

A steel mask

That people nickna as steel, and which was shown on his face

And because of his cold heart and stubborn mind; he had kicked his elder brother out and taken all the power to himself

I had never experienced hiasted when he eed

They were afraid of him

To be sure, the original cause of the fear was his money

They were so afraid they would not get their share

The chairman walked down the steps and stood in the center of the living room

I sed hard

Hoould he react? Would he welcome me or put me aside?

I stole a glance at my parents They looked extremely nervous

When they greeted hilance

He looked at my brother like he was a worm

And then he looked at me

Another worm? Or?

”A, snookuled