Chapter 306 (1/2)

“Uhm, ma’am. Take your foot off the brake pedal for now. As well as the accelerator pedal.”

“Wh-why?”

“Because it’s dangerous. You must be nervous, but this is not a big accident, so first, calm down and take your hands off the driving wheel. You might end up causing additional accidents if you keep grabbing the wheel tightly like that.”

Lawyer Park was very calm as he spoke. The middle-aged woman also obediently followed his words.

“Are you hurt anywhere?”

“N-no.”

“Fortunately, I’m not hurt either,” said Lawyer Park with a smile.

Gracefulness could be felt from how he talked to others. Although it wouldn’t be surprising if he got angry at the other party for her wrongs, he did not do so.

“Would you like to get out of the car and have a look at the collision?”

“Do I have to get out?” The middle aged woman asked back as she flinched back.

“Haha. There’s been an accident, so it’s better to have a look. It’s just a small collision, so there’s nothing big, so you don’t have to be worried about that. Do you have insurance?”

“Insurance? Probably….”

From the way she answered, it seemed that she drove a car that was under her husband’s name. The middle-aged woman told lawyer Park to wait a moment before making a call somewhere. After hanging up, the middle-aged woman just uneasily looked at lawyer Park and sat there obediently.

“Did you call the insurance company?”

“No, I called my sister. She’s here at school.”

“Ah, alright. That’s good.”

Lawyer Park treated her nicely this whole time. A few minutes later, a woman appeared at the parking lot. She had a slightly upset face though. Maru clicked his tongue when he saw the familiar face. She was in the group that scolded Woojoo for something that wasn’t his fault during the day. She had a big ring on her finger, and just walked right past lawyer Park, ignoring him and talked to the middle-aged woman for a brief moment. After nodding a few times, she looked at lawyer Park.

“What is going on here?” The woman with the ring asked, clearly on edge.

Lawyer Park replied with a smile.

“There was a collision accident. The driver was driving in reverse when this happened. It’s not a big accident, so if you don’t want to call insurance, I think I’ll end the case here by sending you the invoice for the repair fee.”

“Are you sure it was my sister that drove in reverse and hit your car? Are you sure you didn’t hit her instead?”

“Of course, you might think of it that way, but you can ask the driver and get a grasp on the situation.”

“I wouldn’t dare. I’m a shy man and I don’t even know how to raise my voice.”

Seeing lawyer Park reply to her so proficiently, the woman curled up her lips. Maru wondered if she was just being picky. He shrugged his shoulders while she wasn’t looking. Lawyer Park faintly smiled.

“Even though an accident happened, a woman will get scared if a man is staring at her from outside the car, don’t you think?”

“Hm. I guess that’s a possibility.”

“And also, it doesn’t look like your car costs anything much. You can’t threaten a person just because of some pocket change.”

Pocket change. For some reason, Maru was hearing that word several times today. This woman seemed like she wouldn’t be able to endure not putting her nose into other people’s business. Also, she sounded incredibly offensive with her words. It seemed like she had packed up her manners in a piece of paper and threw it in the trash. Maru wondered where her confidence was coming from. Was she not aware of the fact that it was the middle-aged woman that caused the accident?

“I guess I am a little big. I didn’t think about that,” Lawyer Park apologized with a kind smile.

Maru inwardly applauded. That flexibility was worth learning. The woman with the ring had to be feeling anxious right now. After all, the other party wasn’t being as submissive as she planned.

“Then should we proceed with what I just said?”

“Wait a moment, if you saw my sister driving in reverse, you should have gotten out of her way. Why did you not dodge in time?”

“I was waiting.”

“I don’t care if you were waiting or not. If you saw it, then you should’ve moved out of the way.”

“I thought that she’d take a long time pulling the car out of the parking space, so I stopped and was looking for an item in the glovebox, so I didn’t see her car approaching.”

“Then you admit that you have a share of the blame as well?”

“If this was an ordinary road, then it is most definitely entirely her fault. But I guess this is a school, and it’s near the parking lot. Considering that my car wasn’t in a proper slot, then we can say that I have about 10% of the blame. Then should I proceed with this?”

“Are you sure about that? I mean, you could’ve just gotten out of the way.”

“Hahaha,” lawyer Park laughed out loud. Maru intuitively realized that that laugh was his limit.

“Why don’t we just call insurance and take the easy way out?”

When lawyer Park took out his phone, the woman with the ring approached the lady in the car. After a short conversation, the woman with the ring spoke,

“Insurance is no good.”

She made her intentions clear. It seemed that the woman in the car did not want to call insurance. Perhaps she didn’t want her husband to find out that she caused an accident.

“Fuu, then give me a phone number I can call. I’ll contact you once I get a proper estimate on the repair fee.”

“There’s no need to do that. We’ll just deal with it here. How the hell do I know if it’s safe to give you my number?”

The woman with the ring had a look at the part where the accident happened before suddenly taking out five 10,000 won bills from her wallet.

“This will do, won’t it? It seems second-hand too.”

“I have to replace the front bumper and repaint this part here, so that’s not enough.”

“How much are you planning to spend for a car like this?”

“Even cheap Korean cars need more than 100,000 won if you factor in the labor costs. And that’s not considering the paint job.”

“You’re going too far here. Do you see this car? It’s a Mercedes-Benz. How much do you think the repair is going to cost? I was going to do this the nice way, but I guess I’m at my limit. Be honest here. You thought that you got lucky because the car you saw was a super expensive one, didn’t you? Also, you wanted to rip money off my sister because she looked scared. It’s obvious without even looking. This is why people are no good.”

“What’s no good?”

“Do I have to say it? Anyway, either you take the 50,000 won I’m offering you right now, or else, we’re going to send you the invoice for our repair fee as well.”

The woman was really obstinate and did not listen to words. She even had a smug smile on her face as though she felt that she had won this battle.

Maru had a look at lawyer Park. Lawyer Park sighed and redid his tie. He even redid the top button of his shirt and even put on a necktie pin, cleaning himself up.

To Maru’s eyes though, he seemed like a knight from the middle ages putting on his armor. He was preparing for battle. The woman with the ring frowned before taking out another bill from her pocket as though she was being extremely benevolent.

“Here. Let’s come to an agreement with this.”

Lawyer Park smiled back at her and refused her money. Just then, a group of middle-aged people came to the parking lot. It seemed that the parents were going back as well since the students were leaving school. People gathered around. They all asked the woman with the ring what happened as they seemed acquainted with each other.

“There was a bit of a problem. This dude here treats me like an idiot.”

“This dude?”

The man who was looking at the woman with the ring then had a look at lawyer Park. Lawyer Park, who had tidied himself up with his back towards them, turned around. Then, the man visibly brightened up before greeting him.

“Lawyer Park. You couldn’t be seen anywhere. So you were in a place like this.”

When the man cheerfully greeted lawyer Park, the woman with the ring immediately became uneasy.

“Ah, it’s been a long time. We met during a group dinner, didn’t we?”

“Yes. So you remember me.”