“ of course. what else is there to offer, if not a piece of my mind ?? ” with anyone else there would still be resistance left in eungi, but trying to pick a fight out of something so petty with fuyuko wouldn’t exactly be the same as arguing with the rest of the world. “ right. i’ll be taking your silence with incredible value. only because behind it, you’re clearly trying to look out for me, ” the man quips back, grinning. he’d rather be caught dead than admit it aloud, but it’s inching towards heartwarming to be around fuyuko. perhaps, to the extent of being surrounded by a figure of an older sibling. handing over the baton of a role he’s so used to playing, and now for once, eungi gets to be on the receiving end. “ oh no, definitely not. we can leave all the milfs for you, thank you very much. ”
although tempting, eungi manages to restrain himself from cutting her sentences, letting the older finish her spiel before nitpicking through ( what he senses to be ) logical fallacies. “ if we’re going with your logic that he does everything by himself, then wouldn’t that mean that we could just find him at reception ?? ” he couldn’t help but let out a scoff, “ except there are four buildings and hence, four different receptionists at a time. i doubt that this is some scifi movie where our landlord’s actually some extraterrestrial being with the ability to clone himself. ” his lack of awareness was concealed behind the absence of a proper answer, offering his go-to mechanism of snappy retorts instead. comedic relief, some would say. but really, maybe this was a sign for eungi to stop taking things for granted.
eungi swallows thickly, ducking his head slightly at the words that slipped through the woman’s lips. it’s nothing serious, he tells himself. just regular banter between two friends. should’ve known better than to instantly acquire a concrete solution from merely one conversation, right ?? but there’s this tight, stuffy feeling growing inside his chest that he absolutely hated. eungi never liked things he didn’t understand. eungi never liked having his ideas brushed away either. it’s the expectation of being perfect that’s instilled inside his mind, a standard he unconsciously sets on himself in every little feat he undertakes. “ i’ll take my chances, ” he replies simply, lips pursed into a forced smile.
it’s as if a flip switches back on inside his brain once fuyuko pushes her inquiry, rubbing his temples in thought. “ there’s a girl. i don’t know– i mean, i don’t recall her name, but she’s had trouble with some loud neighbours too. ” some was clearly an overstatement – from memory, there’s only been that one obnoxious construction worker ever referred to by #0214, but a white lie won’t do him any harm. in fact, it’d only help lift his case even further. “ i don’t think her luck is any better than mine though, considering that we have yet to find out where this asshole actually lives… and so her complaints would just sound like baseless accusations. ” eungi quirks a brow as he looks up to meet fuyuko’s eyes, tossing the question back at her. “ what about you ?? has anyone else complained to you about this ?? maybe even reported a sighting as of late ?? ”
“right, a piece of mind.”, fuyuko reiterated, nodding along. after all, time spent with eungi was time spent in a good way – the other was witty and fuyuko could definitely pick up from that and maybe learn a thing or two. she laughed at his words, giving him a short nod. “thank you for leaving the ladies to me. i’m sure... well, nevermind. i don’t really know.” in the end, it was just a joke and she didn’t need to run it down.
“that’s not really what i said or thought, though. technically, you should see landlords around. have you ever lived at another place? if something breaks, they should be there to at least overview what people are fixing. he needs to let people into the building, maybe open doors for empty apartments and so on, so at somepoint we should see him wandering around, right?!”, at least it was logical to her, maybe things were different in korea – maybe eungi had had different experiences. she could tell that the other was getting annoyed; as he often did, however fuyuko brushed it off as ‘eungi behavior’ as she liked to call it in her head.
having more ‘witnesses’ to the noise definitely helped and fuyuko showed the other a smile, nodding her head along. her fingers had found her nape, massaging it gently with her fingertips sinking into her skin. “how about... we take matters into our own hands?”, she suggested – still afraid of whatever consequences not paying her rent could have for her, she would prefer to just figure things out that way. “when does this noise usually happen? maybe we should be stalking the hallways and then just following it and have a good old talk with that person.”, fuyuko suggested, raising her brows a little. after all, it was the only way if the landlord wasn’t to be found. “i’m not sure... i have had complaints about stuff going missing, but not noise or a disappeared landlord, no.”
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