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kim soleum ([personal profile] eodum) wrote in [community profile] windfall2025-08-13 02:01 pm

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[personal profile] sunbae 2025-08-17 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[As Soleum explains the method to maneuvering the bike, Choi barely takes any of it in. He's turned around in the seat, smiling widely with a sense of worry in his brow.]

...Now, that's just overkill, don't you think?

[With a sigh, he reaches into his pocket and retrieves the cigarettes and a lighter. Both are tossed toward him as Choi shakes his head.]

Do you know how often Jaekwan-ah begs me to quit? Now you'll get the same attention from him. Aren't you happy?

[Turning back around, he grips the handle bars and takes in a breath. Okay. Steering and braking. He can do that.]

Now, off we go!
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[personal profile] sunbae 2025-08-18 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Choi laughs when he hears Soleum start to struggle, politely slowing down as they approach an intersection. He looks behind himself with a grin, coasting slow for a moment before the light changes and they can go again - at which point he turns back around and continues on at his usual pace.]

Don't worry, don't worry! Just do your best, you said I was the one navigating! Now, which way is north...

[And so, with the front basket full of contaminated items and a more-or-less reliable sense of direction, Agent Choi bikes them through the city. He looks back every now and then, mostly to make sure Soleum hasn't fallen off or something, but generally keeps his usual pace. Soleum said it himself, after all - he's mainly there for extra power, not the braking or directing. So Choi is more than happy to manage all three parts by himself. He's moe than used to taking on every single part of a mission without expecting the others to do anything. Much less risk involved.]

[Along the way, he points things out. Places he's been, some restaurants he likes. Mentions an area he used to live in being nearby, before he joined the bureau. But as always, most of his past is obscured, unshared. It's never occurred to him to go into any of it. He's just trying to share information that his junior might find useful, is all.]

[As they get closer to the market, he slows his pace - since, honestly, he's getting kind of tired. Two disasters, both of which required him to take a good long walk to get to, and now riding tandem with his junior... It's kind of a lot on him. His old bones or whatever. He should have taken off his jacket, but whatever. Where would he have put it, anyway? The basket's full.]

Soleum-ah! Think you can make it? We're almost there!
Edited (MOE) 2025-08-18 01:19 (UTC)
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[personal profile] sunbae 2025-08-18 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh... He might have pushed him a little too hard, huh.]

[Choi grins at him as they disembark. He strips off his jacket and sets it over the basket to conceal the contained items, then stretches his arms with an overdone groan.]

Hoo, that was a workout!

[He's sweaty, sure, but he feels good. Exercise feels good, doesn't it? His heart is pumping and it reminds him he didn't work out this morning, he was in such a rush. Nice and stretched, he leans forward and plucks the unlit cigarette from his mouth, waving it in between his fingers. It's pretty much ruined. Can't have his first smoke be this terrible.]

You wait here with the bike. Can't lose two in one day, right? Aha - Ajumma!

[And he's waving to one of the stalls, greeting the older woman working there like she's an old friend. She greets him similarly and they engage loudly in the transaction, Choi pointing out what he wants and her adding extra garnishes for him, making suggestions, asking if he's eating properly - it's a conversation he's had hundreds of times and will have hundreds more. He left Looky Mart alive, after all.]

[When he returns with the bag of food, Choi holds up an ice-cold bottle of water, fresh from a cooler, and presses it to Soleum's cheek, bypassing any attempts to accept it via hands like how normal people give things.]

You did great work today, hubae. [Now he finally lets him take it, a sort of prideful look in his eye. He's got another full bottle in the bag for him if he downs this one.] I put you through a lot, but you never complain. Thanks for putting up with me.

[Kind of joking, kind of not. He's aware of his overbearing manner but he also believes it's a means to an important end. Soleum is doing well despite all of this, and that means he's something special.]
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[personal profile] sunbae 2025-08-19 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Still on his senior-kick, Choi sets his hand over Soleum's wallet before he can even pull the bills free.]

No, no, you can pay next time. [He says this every single time.] This is a treat, remember? I called you all the way out to deliver a bike, so you deserve something to repay your effort. Here, eat, eat.

[Choi holds open the box of food, still red hot. There are tons of fish cakes mixed into the rice cakes, doused in spicy-sweet sauce which Choi holds up eagerly for Soleum to take a taste of. There's even a couple eggs in there, split down the middle and bright red all throughout, fully marinated in the stew.]

You know how Jaekwan is, you have to enjoy some now before we get back. He'll eat the whole bag, he's got the stomach of a bear. [Is that the saying? Regardless, he uses a toothpick to stab up a few of the rice cakes - and, yeah, it's hot, but isn't that a good thing on a hot day? You're supposed to eat spicy, hot things when it's sweltering outside, right?]

Hoo... [His tongue hurts, actually.] Besides - She gave me the waters for free! [Because she said "Are you still torturing your juniors, Choi-ssi" and he couldn't really deny that but that's okay it's free cold water!]
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[personal profile] sunbae 2025-08-19 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
[He has given Jaekwan much worse comparisons, he should be happy to get something as tame as "bear-like." Soleum has surely seen that guy shirtless by now, anyway.]

Well, it's just a snack, so it's not like he'll have to survive off it... Hmm, this place cuts them up instead of folding them, and I like that way better, myself. [Without a thought, he leans forward to accept the food, taking it in one tug of his lips and chewing thoughtfully. His tongue and lips feel like they're going to char.] Yeah, it's good, right? And it's not that far from the bureau. You should come here sometimes, too.

[It's hard to tell how long Soleum has been in Seoul, given the total dearth of information that the bureau has found on him, so in a way Choi finds it oddly necessary to show him these things. As if he's never been a student, or lived in the city - which, given how he acts and speaks, surely can't be the case, right...? But who even knows.]

Spicy food makes me want to smoke, you know. Have you ever before? I made an assumption earlier, but then you tried to light up right away.