The Lawyer Who Reads Tomorrow - Chapter 125

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Chapter 125

 

[404]: Hahahahaha they actually came

 

404’s eyes rolled around quickly.

 

It seemed my guess had been correct.

 

With the shallow knowledge I’d picked up somewhere, I placed 404’s mobile phone on the phone stand by his bedside.

 

[404]: Were you that ★worried★ about Young Master?

 

[404]: Answer

 

[404]: Ah, answer me;

 

[404]: Sung Tae-hyun

 

[404]: You came all this way and now you’re embarrassed?

 

…This bastard is perfectly fine.

 

The worry I’d been feeling faded away surprisingly quickly.

 

It’s just a mobile phone, after all.

 

Even so, 404, having obtained this device of civilization, took control of the atmosphere faster than anyone.

 

Sending me the chat window had also been instantaneous.

 

[404]: Ah why aren’t you answering when I’m right here lol

 

Fast typing flew up the chat window as quickly as 404’s eyes rolled around.

 

Even so, this fast?

 

He was faster than me, and I have two working hands.

 

Lee Yeon-woo really was 404.

 

[404]: Answer

 

[404]: Answer hahahaha

 

[404]: Keep calling until they answer? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

 

404 wrote in the chat window,

 

and I spoke aloud, beginning a strange conversation.

 

I didn’t know what or how he was doing it, but every time his gaze moved quickly, sentences that were no different from the usual 404 appeared in the chat window.

 

“Lee Yeon-woo.”

 

[404]: Coming all this way lol and that’s not even my name anyway

 

[404]: Just call me Young Master

 

[404]: Or you can call me ★Super Cool Taemin★ I’ll allow it lol

 

“Your way of speaking is strangely similar to Kim Ji-oh’s.”

 

As if that scratched his pride, the chat window started scrolling rapidly.

 

[404]: ?

 

[404]: ???

 

[404]: ??? Lawyer Sung Tae-hyun did you just? compare? me? to someone like? Kim Ji-oh?

 

[404]: The genius Sa-young-sa? Young Master’s heart is breaking right now??

 

“Whatever, you look fine.”

 

I was worried.

 

I can’t say I wasn’t.

 

After all, we’ve worked together for a while, so there’s some attachment.

 

However, making my worries seem pointless, 404 really did look perfectly fine.

 

“Why aren’t you working?”

 

The chat window paused for a moment.

 

404 just rolled his eyes to glance at me, then started rapidly creating sentences again.

 

[404]: So mean; I can be honest though

 

[404]: I mean you can say you came because you were sooooo worried about Young Master

 

“404.”

 

[404]: Ah why are you calling me that again;

 

[404]: I did send a replacement for work though

 

“You mean Kim Ji-oh? He’s the replacement?”

 

404 blinked his eyes as if affirming.

 

Good lord, I feel like I can now read what this guy’s eyeballs are saying.

 

Despite the title of being a patient, 404 was exactly the same as usual.

 

Perhaps because of that, the feeling of being surprised from earlier had somehow disappeared.

 

Now I could only think that I had reached a position where I could physically pressure him about work.

 

“Why didn’t you do the job.”

 

404 was silent for a moment.

 

“Why did you call me then.”

 

[404]: Ah that thing lol But you did pretty well figuring out that the consul called for you and coming here lol

 

[404]: Should I give you a praise sticker or something

 

He’s deflecting.

 

Something feels off.

 

I looked at him coldly.

 

I could tell without him having to say anything that his rolling eyes were gauging my reaction.

 

[404]: That’s ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

 

[404]: No, well I don’t really remember either

 

“What do you mean you don’t remember.”

 

[404]: It literally means I can’t remember lol

 

Look at this.

 

I approached 404 who was avoiding my gaze.

 

His gaze was now directed toward me, not at the small chat window on his mobile phone.

 

No, actually somewhere in the empty air slightly avoiding me.

 

His eyeballs rolled around desperately as if trying not to make eye contact with me.

 

“Did you do something wrong?”

 

[404]: Ah hahahaha no

 

[404]: Really Young Master is a ★good★ hacker so doesn’t know how to do bad things

 

In the midst of all this, he was frantically inserting emoticons as if to prove he was 404.

 

I looked at the continuously appearing chat window and then back at 404 lying down.

 

There’s something there, but he’s not certain?

 

If not that. Does he still have something to hide even after coming this far.

 

“404.”

 

[404]: Ah, why;

 

“You came all this way, but you’re the one not answering.”

 

404’s gaze turned toward me again.

 

He seemed awkward about me appearing in person.

 

He was talking a bit more than usual.

 

“So why did you call me?”

 

It was strange.

 

404 had never exposed his personal information to me from the beginning.

 

Not even once.

 

Hwan was the same way.

 

He only gave me a link with the chat window address, and after that never talked about 404.

 

Even though I was the one delivering their messages to keep their promise.

 

[404]: …

 

“Speak up instead of typing dots.”

 

404’s expression became strangely distorted.

 

They said his nerves above the neck were fine, and except for his slightly hoarse voice, he looked normal.

 

[404]: No, it’s just

 

[404]: I really wasn’t trying to bother you

 

[404]: The situation just got weird

 

[404]: But it doesn’t seem intentional so Young Master is feeling a bit awkward lol

 

[404]: Oh and if it’s nothing important then just… you can go if you’re busy…

 

He was bouncing around like a puppy seeing a human for the first time, and now he was deflated again.

 

Well, 404 was that young too.

 

I had never asked about his personal information and didn’t need to know,

 

but the patient card I happened to see showed that.

 

[Lee Yeon-woo, 21 years old]

 

“Is your age real?”

 

I asked him while organizing the information that suddenly came to mind.

 

404, who had been completely dejected and cautiously reading the room, quickly answered.

 

[404]: Yeah, we’re the same age

 

Young.

 

When did he start living such a confined life?

 

No, I’m not in a position to be curious about that.

 

I too, from the moment I crashed into the sea and died that day, could no longer call it a proper life.

 

[404]: Aren’t you going to ask? How I ended up like this?

 

Rather, it was 404 who asked first.

 

I shook my head.

 

“You’re 404.”

 

At my words, he blinked once.

 

“That’s all. Website Administrator. Hacker. Is there a need to know more than that?”

 

404 stared at me intently for a moment without saying anything.

 

“Why.”

 

[404]: Just… aren’t you really curious?

 

[404]: It’s not like I want to tell you lol

 

[404]: Really not curious? Really? About why I ended up like this?

 

What. Should I have been curious?

 

But since I confirmed that 404 was fine, I didn’t particularly feel like digging deeper into his personal details.

 

[404]: Wow lol I met the genius Young Master but he’s not curious about anything lolol

 

[404]: My pride is getting a bit scratched right now lolol

 

Moreover, his body really did look fine.

 

Aside from what Manager Han Kyung-ho had been grumbling about, when I briefly scanned his body, except for the paralysis, no particular external injuries were observed.

 

Ah, no wait. There was something left to demand before going home.

 

“You’re behind on hospital bills.”

 

404’s eyes widened greatly.

 

“I handled it for now. When you request the next case, just proceed twice without payment and it’ll be fine.”

 

Maybe it was because I informed him arbitrarily.

 

404 looked at me bewildered, then quickly turned his gaze to his mobile phone.

 

[404]: Hospital bills????

 

[404]: What are you talking about???

 

What.

 

Had the hospital not informed the patient?

 

I looked at him for a moment, then took out the receipt I had received earlier and showed it in front of his eyes.

 

[404]: Oh, stuff like this you can just scan and send… huh??

 

“Why.”

 

[404]: …it’s real.

 

“What is.”

 

[404]: The hospital bills are really overdue?

 

[404]: Hyung paid for everything… oh, that was the nursing home

 

[404]: Anyway, I should have automatic transfer set up…?

 

He rolled his eyes as if bewildered.

 

[404]: Wait a minute

 

[404]: Wow crazy

 

[404]: Wow hahahahahahahaha

 

“Why.”

 

404’s eyes began to gradually turn red.

 

What. Wondering if he was suddenly going to cry, I looked at him, and 404 trembled with rage and opened and closed his mouth.

 

[404] : Wow fuck

 

[404] : Wow

 

[404] : …??????????

 

“Why. Say something.”

 

[404]: My bank account got cleaned out?

 

“…?”

 

[404]: Me lolololol

 

[404]: Wow lol wow lol I became a beggar

 

[404]: Right now all my bank account balances are 0, does this make sense???????

 

Ah.

 

So, the storehouse was robbed?

 

* * *

 

“Since when?”

 

Sung Tae-hyun asked.

 

404 fell into thought for a moment.

 

Since when? He wasn’t certain.

 

Even his memory of being moved from the original nursing home to the nursing hospital was unclear.

 

What else was there.

 

He struggled to give an answer while digging through his hazy memories.

 

[404]: My memory….

 

“You don’t remember?”

 

Sung Tae-hyun’s face became even more serious.

 

The man who seemed like he would leave at any moment when I didn’t explain why I had called so desperately just moments ago was now sitting back in the chair.

 

In fact, that was just how Sung Tae-hyun was as a person.

 

From the very first time 404 got to know him through hyung, he thought he was a strangely kind person.

 

Just looking at that cold tone, any affection should have dried up long ago.

 

But look. He’s still here.

 

Unlike hyung.

 

[404]: lol so weird

 

But weird was weird.

 

At some point, sleep began to overwhelm me relentlessly.

 

Now that my body wouldn’t move, except for that, I was in a stable condition, so there was no need for active treatment.

 

That’s why hyung had put him in this nursing home in a remote mountain area.

 

While hyung was away, he needed a place that could care for him while maintaining what little freedom he had.

 

“What’s strange about it. Tell me straight to the point.”

 

Look at that. Straight to the point, straight to the point.

 

Always acting like a boss, yet he couldn’t hide the worried look in his eyes.

 

404 chuckled and answered.

 

Even though the situation wasn’t good, he strangely felt confident that everything would be okay.

 

[404]: Because I have a lot of money.

 

At his words, Sung Tae-hyun’s forehead wrinkled slightly.

 

“I know that, but where did all the money go? It’s not like you ate it all up.”

 

[404]: How do you eat money? Is lawyer Sung Tae-hyun crazy?

 

“….”

 

Sung Tae-hyun didn’t leave.

 

Instead, he calmly asked again.

 

“You said you don’t remember. Since when?”

 

Ah, is this what it feels like?

 

Hyung hadn’t properly shown his face since he had become like this.

 

Excluding doctors, nurses, and care facility staff, Sung Tae-hyun was the first person to visit him personally.

 

As his answer was delayed, Sung Tae-hyun’s gaze, which had been waiting patiently, narrowed.

 

404 chuckled and rolled his eyes.

 

Sentences appeared one after another on the small screen of the mobile phone.

 

[404]: Since recently? Uh well my memory isn’t clear I was sleeping all the time

 

“Because you weren’t feeling well?”

 

[404]: No my body was the same but ah… huh?

 

Come to think of it, the only proper memory I had was the last one from the nursing home.

 

After that, I was always asleep.

 

That was also why I had called for Sung Tae-hyun.

 

Being always drowsy from sleep.

 

Always alone in the dark hospital room of the hospital…

 

Ah, that’s right.

 

Every time I woke up, the position of the IV lines in my arm had changed too.

 

404 formed sentences while tracing through hazy memories.

 

[404]: Wow crazy wait a minute

 

“…?”

 

Just as Sung Tae-hyun’s face was becoming colored with confusion, 404 poured out absurd sentences.

 

[404]: I think I got screwed over?

 

[404]: Come to think of it, Sung Tae-hyun

 

[404]: Haven’t you seen my caregiver???

 

After being transferred to the hospital, the caregiver I had been introduced to was nowhere to be found.

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