Leo sat in the passenger seat of the sports car, breathing in the scent unique to the most expensive sports cars, and looked in surprise at the handsome lawyer sitting beside him and the sunglasses he was wearing at night.
Instinctively, Leo knew that this man was a side character from the webtoon that formed the foundation of this world.
A young lawyer wearing a black suit, idol level handsome, rich, constantly wearing sunglasses, and driving a sports car with one hand.
Leo felt like he could bet his pinky finger that this person was a character who appeared in the webtoon.
When Park chan noticed Leo leaning his face close to his own without any hesitation and staring at him thoughtfully, he scolded him angrily and pushed Leo's head away with his palm.
"I already realized you were a reckless person after hearing what you said in front of everyone at the station, but CAN YOU STOP ACTING LIKE A DAMN CHILD?"
"Sorry… it's my first time seeing someone like you."
Park chan, sitting in the driver's seat, frowned at those words.
"I don't understand a single damn word you're saying. Thank God the chief accepted my offer. If we had gone to court with you, we would've definitely lost."
"Oh, I was just talking about how handsome you are."
"Thanks. You're not bad either."
Leo felt insulted by those words.
"Not bad? You've got two kilos of cement on your face. I don't even wash my face in the mornings. What do you mean I'm not bad?"
Park chan showed a smile that clearly said he didn't believe a single word Leo was saying.
At first, Leo was going to keep arguing with him, but then he thought this conversation wasn't going in a good direction for him and stayed quiet.
Interpreting his silence as sulking, Park chan remembered that the kid sitting next to him had only just graduated high school and that there was an eleven year age gap between them. Recalling the twenty third rule of being every girl's dream boyfriend, he thought he should get along better with kids.
"Fine, I admit it. You're very handsome. You're even more handsome than me."
"I know I'm handsome. If you take off the mask on your face, I'll praise you too."
Park chan bit his lip, his hands gripping the steering wheel tightly, but he forced himself to smile at Leo.
"By the way, where are Ms. Saem and Hana?"
Park chan relaxed. He reminded himself that the boy's mother had paid him one million won for this simple matter.
"They were released a long time ago. You were the only one left behind."
"Racist sons of bitches."
Park chan stared at Leo with his eyes wide open, as if questioning life itself. Since they were stopped at a red light, he could look at Leo freely.
"Do you really think the reason they didn't release you was because they're racist?"
After thinking for a moment, Leo knew that the real reason was the people in higher positions watching him, but he acted as if he didn't know.
"What else could it be? Both Ms. Saem and Hana are completely Korean, so of course they'd be released. My mom already told you right? My dad is American."
As if he had reached the limit of his patience, Park chan's face flushed red and he shouted at Leo.
"ARE YOU REALLY SO STUPID THAT YOU CAN'T EVEN CONSIDER THAT THE REASON YOU WEREN'T RELEASED MIGHT BE RELATED TO THE DAMN NAZI TATTOO ON YOUR CHEST?"
"Wait… WHAT!!!"
Leo immediately opened the front of his jacket, lifted the T shirt underneath, and looked down at his own chest.
"Shit. I put on the wrong tattoo."
When Park chan saw that there wasn't even a trace of fakery in the shock on Leo's face, he leaned back and widened his eyes, like a frog seeing the world outside the well for the first time.
Unfortunately, this wasn't a Chinese novel world, so the moment the light turned green, the cars behind them started honking without caring what kind of expensive car was in front, dragging Park chan back into the real world.
"Uwa! You're even dumber than my client who killed his own wife and claimed the one who killed her was a moving statue. At first I wondered why you were so reckless and fearless that you broke a police officer's nose, but now I get it. The reason you're so reckless is because you're just straight up stupid."
Because Leo was struck by the grain of truth in those words, he felt the need to defend himself.
"Fuck off. You know what? I didn't even break that guy's nose because I was angry. His words couldn't even make me angry. At most, they were slightly annoying. Like a fly landing on my computer screen. Why would I be afraid of a being that's beneath me?"
"And what makes you superior to him? Other than being plain stupid, of course."
"Come on, just look at me. I'm handsome as hell, and as if that wasn't enough, I probably ranked in the top ten scores in this year's university entrance exam."
"Ha ha, probably. You know what? Forget the top ten. If you even made it into the top thousand, I'll pay for everything we eat today… I'll even admit you're superior to me and kneel in front of you."
Leo smiled and accepted the bet.
"What are you waiting for? The exam results were announced this morning anyway. Take my phone from here and check the result."
After a brief moment of surprise, Leo checked his exam result on his own phone.
He had scored exactly 485 points and ranked 444th nationwide in Korea.
Leo wasn't very surprised, since he already knew he wouldn't make it into the top ten, but Park chan nearly caused the car to veer off the road when he learned the result.
"You're telling me that someone dumb enough to accidentally get a Nazi tattoo and not even notice it scored only four points less than what I got back then? I refuse to accept this. There must've been cheating in the exam."
"I have ears."
After the trip ended and Leo and Park chan were eating their hamburgers together at a five star restaurant, Park chan finally regained his senses. He looked at the extremely greasy burger in his hand with disgust, set it back on the plate, and stared at Leo like he was looking at a monster.
"Welcome back to our ranks, alien friend. Hmm, aren't you eating?"
Park chan numbly pushed the plate in front of him toward Leo.
When Leo flicked the vegetables inside the burger aside and took a huge bite, Park chan realized another truth.
Someone like him, who cared about skin health, would run away without hesitation at the sight of food this greasy, but Leo was trying to stuff the entire burger into his mouth without the slightest hesitation.
Maybe he really was both a genius and naturally handsome.
"God isn't fair."
"So when are y
ou going to kneel? I've already prepared a customized Madara speech just for you. Let's do it after we eat."