Siblings Working in Business (189)
Uninvited Guests
After the second episode of Legally Siblings aired…
Eun-ji, now with her learner’s permit, diligently practiced parking, not on the road, but in an empty lot with boxes set up as obstacles.
Eun-ho went with her to tease her.
It was also for the show, since when he was home alone, he just quietly wrote lyrics.
With the “TIME” album shipments starting, they had more to do outside the house than inside lately.
Besides Eun-ji’s driving lessons, there were recordings and so on.
The recent recordings were taking place at Composer Bae Jin-soo’s studio, which had much better equipment than the one on the first floor of their building.
This created a problem.
Their house, unguarded.
The cameras they had set up for filming became victims of Briquette’s wrath.
Although it was a hassle to reinstall the cameras every time Eun-ho and Eun-ji left, they had no choice.
It was the result of Briquette destroying several cameras while they were out.
Briquette had finally regained his freedom.
He left Eun-ji’s room, his safe haven, and sprawled out in the living room, his forbidden territory, scratching his belly.
‘Now this feels like home.’
Briquette enjoyed the comfort of the living room, a daily ritual after Eun-ho and Eun-ji left for their schedules.
So, today as well, Briquette was relaxing in the living room.
Just then, his bright yellow eyes snapped open.
“Wow.”
An unfamiliar sound came from nearby.
Briquette, usually languid and indifferent, suddenly became alert.
“This place is like a fortress.”
“What good is a fortress with obvious blind spots?”
The uninvited guests’ voices, initially only audible to Briquette, grew closer, within earshot of ordinary people.
Briquette shrouded himself in black smoke and shrunk in size.
When the smoke cleared…
He had concealed his human form and transformed back into his familiar cat form, tail swishing, crouching by the door.
Ready to pounce.
Meanwhile, the uninvited guests, avoiding the five CCTV cameras shown on Legally Siblings, climbed over the wall in a corner, one of the blind spots.
“Ouch! That stings. Fuck!”
“What? There’s still barbed wire? You said you cut it all!”
“No, what is this? I cut it all, but it suddenly stung…”
“Did you get poked?”
“Um, no. I didn’t get poked. Must have been my imagination.”
“Be careful.”
One of the uninvited guests jumped down, having scaled the “fortress-like” wall.
Although there was barbed wire, the wall itself was low enough that two people working together could climb over it.
Having bypassed the security measures and the high-tech security system, the two intruders snooped around the first floor and then headed straight for their target: the second floor.
“Wow~, this is a holy ground. A holy ground.”
“Haha. Bit Chang-seok boasting about his security system, and here we are, free pass~”
“Hahaha.”
The chuckling intruders, seemingly confident that no one was home, showed no signs of caution.
“Hmm.”
One of them looked around the house, then rattled the kitchen window next to the front door.
He was checking if it was locked.
Unfortunately for him, the kitchen window was securely locked.
And because of the bars, he couldn’t climb through anyway.
“Should have brought a screwdriver.”
“I was going to, but you said one of the windows would be open since there are so many.”
“Ah, I haven’t checked them all yet. Let’s check the side.”
“Fucking… nice.”
A single window without bars.
The one facing the living room, where the bars had been temporarily removed for camera installation.
Just as the intruder reached for the window…
“Hey, wait, look up.”
The other intruder stopped his partner and pointed to the top of the window.
A suspicious device was connected to the inside.
“Fuck, they’re thorough.”
“As if they’re so great…”
It was a rather ironic statement, considering they were the ones acting like they were in Mission: Impossible just to see these “not-so-great” people, but anyway…
As the intruders pondered what to do…
Click, slam.
Startled by the loud noise, they hid.
But nothing happened, so they slowly came out of hiding.
“Was that Briquette?”
“I can’t believe I’m this nervous. Haha.”
“Tell me about it. Ah, fuck! You scared me!”
Just as the intruder was calming himself down…
“Meow.”
Briquette meowed.
A clear, unobstructed meow.
The two intruders came out from behind the wall and cautiously approached the front door.
“Jackpot.”
“Haha!”
The intruders cheered.
The brown aluminum front door, presumably thanks to Briquette, was slightly ajar.
They thought they were lucky.
They exchanged glances and then signaled to each other, ‘Let’s go in,’ and headed towards the door.
Just as they opened the door…
“Kyaaa!”
“Agh! This crazy fucking cat!!!”
One of the intruders screamed, covering his face.
In a flash, Briquette jumped and raked his claws across the intruder’s face.
Briquette was swatted away but landed safely and continued to stand guard, his fur bristling.
Blood trickled down the intruder’s hand, near his wrist.
The other intruder asked worriedly,
“A-are you okay?”
“Do I look okay?!”
Seeing his partner’s blood…
He was relieved that it wasn’t him who got attacked.
“Briquette! It’s us! Calm down. There, there…”
Perhaps because he had seen him in videos…
Confusing perceived familiarity with actual familiarity…
The other intruder tried to calm Briquette down, as if he had met and greeted him several times before.
Of course, it was futile.
Briquette quickly jumped and bit the other intruder’s leg.
“Agh! You crazy cat!!!”
Although it wasn’t as bad as his partner, who got scratched on the face, since he was wearing shorts…
Briquette’s teeth sank deep into his leg.
The bitten intruder desperately tried to shake him off, but Briquette held on tight.
“Fuck!”
Just as the intruder was about to punch him…
Fortunately, Briquette released his leg before getting hit and escaped to the top of Eun-ho’s locker.
Red stains, presumably the intruders’ blood, were smeared around Briquette’s claws and mouth.
Just then…
Briquette slammed his body against the living room window twice.
“Wh-what’s he doing? Why is he doing that?”
Just as the intruders thought, ‘He’s gone crazy after tasting blood’…
Beep—!
Beep—!
Beep—!
An earsplitting alarm rang out, not only inside the house but also downstairs.
“…We’re screwed.”
The intruders remembered the suspicious device attached to the living room window.
The suspicious device was a security system that alerted security guards upon impact.
And if there were three or more impacts, an alarm would go off.
Although it could be set to trigger the alarm with a single impact, CEO Park had set it to three, concerned about intruders escaping before the guards arrived.
Of course…
When Eun-ho and Eun-ji entered and pressed the gate’s keypad…
All the security systems in the house were deactivated.
That’s why CEO Park had meticulously taught them how to use the keypad.
Otherwise, the alarm would trigger if they opened a window or touched the gate.
Briquette had accidentally triggered the alarm several times by touching the window with his tail.
Thanks to that, he learned that ‘if I touch this when those two — Eun-ho and Eun-ji — are not here, people will come.’
He had intended to trigger it sooner…
But he hadn’t anticipated it would take this long for them to leave.
“Fuck!”
“What are you doing! Run!”
The intruders glared at Briquette and ran towards the stairs.
Perhaps because they were panicking…
“Aagh!”
The one who was bitten on the leg twisted his ankle and tumbled down the stairs, and the one who was scratched on the face, fumbling around with one eye closed because it stung, fell and landed hard on his backside.
Dragging their sore bodies, they reached the front door.
They had planned to leave confidently through the gate, unlike when they entered…
“I-it won’t open!”
The gate was designed not to open from the inside if it hadn’t been opened from the outside first.
In other words, the gate was useless.
And with the earsplitting alarm blaring from the gate as well, the intruders panicked.
“L-let’s go back the way we came.”
Remembering the wall, they ran towards it.
Just as they were about to climb over…
“Not so easy, is it?”
CEO Park was standing by the wall, waiting for them with a smile.
The five CCTV cameras shown on Legally Siblings, with captions about “tight security”…
They were a decoy.
Not that they were fake.
There were actually 12 CCTV cameras installed around the building.
Five of them were high-resolution cameras that captured clear facial images.
In other words, unlike what the intruders thought, there were no blind spots.
Their faces and clothes were all recorded.
Besides, Chang-seok already knew intruders had entered the moment they climbed over the wall.
The moment the safety net on the wall was cut…
The power went out, and an alert signaling a “problem” was sent to his phone.
The stinging sensation they felt while climbing over the wall must have been from the residual current.
And thanks to Briquette having already triggered the window alarm when he heard them near the front door…
By the time CEO Park arrived at the building, which wasn’t far from the company, with the police…
The security guards who had arrived earlier had already checked the broken bars and called the police.
He often saw these kinds of people on the CCTV footage.
But fortunately, no one had ever successfully broken into the house.
‘It would be impossible anyway…’
Because of the ill-tempered creature guarding the house like a totem.
CEO Park knew about Briquette.
The fierce black cat Eun-ji brought home, who wouldn’t let anyone but Eun-ho and Eun-ji touch him.
If a stranger approached…
Briquette would bare his sharp teeth and hiss, his fur bristling.
‘She had to bring home a creature just like her, haha.’
Today as well, the scratches and bleeding legs of the intruders were proof of Briquette’s perfect defense.
“Can’t you see we’re hurt?!”
“Don’t touch me! Th-this is sexual harassment!!!”
The two intruders, their faces covered, shouted as they were apprehended by the police.
“We’re going to sue all of you!!!”
The one who was bitten on the leg threatened CEO Park.
It happened often.
People illegally intruding and then shamelessly threatening to sue.
But such people would only add charges of intimidation against themselves.
“Mister, you really won’t regret this?”
Regret…
This was the biggest reason he hadn’t listed the company.
If rumors spread, the stock price would fall.
Then the shareholders would rebel.
Back when he was at TaKa Entertainment…
This was one of the many things Toxin had to endure.
“No, I won’t.”
“If we sue you, E-UNG’s image will be ruined, and Toxin will be finished!”
“Haha.”
CEO Park let out a hearty laugh, then, a moment later…
…his eyes narrowed dangerously as he spoke,
“Go ahead and try.”