Knowing Brother-Chapter 65
<Seol-woo's answer: Since when you were a troublemaker>
<Seol-woo's question to Dae-young 1. Since when have you been obsessed with me?>
It was a question calculated to make the show more entertaining. The other person also gave an answer without much thought.
<Dae-young's answer: Since when your eyes sparkled like the Milky Way>
“Ha, shit. Look, it's annoying.”
Choi Seol-woo covered his eyes with his keyboard and made an expression as if he saw something he shouldn't have. Won Dae-young's question arrived soon.
<Dae-young's question to Seol-woo 2. I like my ex-girlfriend>
‘... ... What are you trying to do?’
Talking about your ex-girlfriend here. It was strange that he kept talking about his ex-girlfriend since the first episode of the talk show. Was he trying to annoy me? Choi Seol-woo hit the keyboard hard with an annoyed snap.
<‘Seol-woo’s answer: It’s a waste of time to ask questions. The answer is obvious. If it were you, wouldn’t you be my girlfriend?>
<Seol-woo asks Dae-young a question 2. What would your life be like without me? Would things be okay?>
He returned to the topic of breaking up and provoked Won Dae-young. He asked him a difficult question and got revenge in his own way. While waiting for an answer across the thin wall, the faint sound of someone typing on a keyboard could be heard mixed with the music.
<‘Dae-young’s answer: Well, you must miss coin karaoke so much.>
“What’s coin karaoke?”
“...Oh, I used to go there often.”
I didn’t go there often, but only when Won Dae-young asked me to sing.
<Dae-young asks Seol-woo a question 3. Do you have 500 won?>
<‘Seol-woo’s answer: Do you have it?>
<Seol-woo asks Dae-young a question 3. Do you carry a 500 won coin around?>
The staff laughed, saying who would waste a question opportunity like this? Seol-woo also laughed bitterly.
<‘Dae-young’s answer: If you have one>
<Dae-young asks Seol-woo a question 4. Do you want to go?>
“.......”
Player Dae-young! You should ask Choi Jeol-gyo what he feels. What if you waste it! There’s only one question left! The PD shouted loudly from across the wall. ... ... It might have been a question-and-answer session to make people laugh, but it wasn’t like that for the two of them. It could have been a question asking what he felt.
<‘Seol-woo’s answer: No, I won’t go with you. When I get a girlfriend, I’ll go and invite her.>
<Seol-woo asks Dae-young a question 4. Why do you keep asking me to drink instead of dating a girlfriend?>
He asked the question while keeping in mind the dating rumors with Ha Young-seo, the eating incident, and the conversation before filming began. Won Dae-young gave a typical answer.
<‘Dae-young’s answer: Why? I want to do it with you.> There is no question of the rim, but the answer is a long time. In particular, the psychological counselor nodded with a simple psychological analysis. After submitting a few sketches and a sentence completion test, they sat down at the table a few minutes later. The counselor greeted them with a smile.
“Yes, Mr. Jongma, who has a broken personality, and Mr. Hedgehog, who is very picky about his hands. ... Uh... Both of their results are...”
The counselor, who was quickly flipping through the drawings submitted by Choi Seol-woo and Won Dae-young, smiled as if he was troubled.
“In some ways, both of you are extremely above the ordinary category...! It’s really amazing that two people with such extreme personalities have been friends for so long.”
The counselor held up two snake drawings side by side. The snake drawn by Won Dae-young was large enough to fill the sketchbook, and it had a ferocious look due to its threateningly wide-open mouth, sharp teeth, and thick, long tongue. He also roughly painted it with strong color contrasts and even filled it with a snake pattern. On the other hand, the snake drawn by Choi Seol-woo was nothing more than a half-hearted earthworm with two poked-out eyes and a tongue sticking out.
“Uh... First of all, this snake drawing is none other than, a test of libido.”
“Really?”
“If you look at the two drawings, they’re exactly the opposite, right? One side has the maximum libido, and the other side is, like, barely visible, and it’s cute whether it’s a snake or an earthworm. You all know whose drawing has 200 or 300% libido, right?”
The production team burst into laughter while taking close-up shots of the snake drawing that Won Dae-young drew. Since Choi Seol-woo knows Won Dae-young’s sexual frustration better than anyone else, the result wasn’t all that surprising. However, the viewers who saw Won Dae-young laughing heartily could only feel the sex appeal from his sly appearance.
“But Choi Seol-woo, if you look at the snake, there’s something special about it. It’s going somewhere. Can you see the clear direction?”
The small, insignificant snake drawn by Seol-woo was heading somewhere, kicking up dust just as the counselor said. I didn’t think it was something I drew unconsciously, but I was curious to see how they interpreted that.
“It seems like you’ve liked the same person for a long time. You’ve been in a relationship for a long time, right?”
“......Huh? Well... I’ve never been in a long-term relationship.”
Choi Seol-woo tilted his head sharply to hide his true feelings. He was embarrassed because his true feelings seemed to have been revealed in an unexpected place.
“Could it be, then, a long-term crush?”
When one of the staff blurted out the words, the production team cheered in unison, livening up the atmosphere. It was a situation where even a joke was unpleasant. While he was thinking about how to quickly change the subject, Won Dae-young shouted in a refreshing voice from the seat next to him.
“Let’s stop talking about sexual desire. It seems like I’m the only one who’s at a disadvantage.”
The awkward situation was quickly covered with laughter. The counselor naturally moved on to the next topic.
“And there’s something unusual about the sentence completion test. Choi Seol-woo... I can understand why you want to break up. Hmm.... You have very high standards for people.”
<A friend is someone you can communicate with without having to say anything.>
<Love is an illusion.>
After listening to her, Choi Seol-woo’s answer seemed difficult and cynical. I knew this myself, so I silently agreed.
I’ve never had my own room or things since I was little. When I bought a collection of fairy tales, I had to throw them away and run away, and even when I finally decorated my desk, I had to leave it behind and run away to get used to another used desk. I didn’t have any of the usual attachment items like blankets or dolls.
Because everything will be lost, disappear, and fade anyway. Things, people, and love.
That’s why I don’t hold anything back. If I don’t love, I won’t get hurt.
“Usually, people who have been hurt a lot build walls like this.... What kind of experience have you had?”
He had no intention of saying the answer that crossed his mind. He rolled his eyes, trying to find something to say, but Won Dae-young playfully interjected from the side.
“Seol-woo? It’s because I’ve been harassing you too much.”
Won Dae-young raised his hand toward the production team after saying the words. Choi Seol-woo glanced at him. Won Dae-young, still smiling, asked the PD to stop filming with a serious face.
“Can you turn off the mic for a moment? I’ll have a quick chat with the teacher here.”
While everyone was watching Won Dae-young’s expression, Choi Seol-woo could hear what he was saying to the counselor from the seat next to him.
“Teacher, this is just an internet entertainment show.”
“Huh?”
“I think you should just pick out fun and funny stories. Don’t make things complicated.”
“.......”
“We don’t have much time to film, so I’m asking you this... Do you know what I mean? Stop digging into Seolwoo’s story and ask me your questions.”
In short, he was telling me to ask him deep or difficult questions. The counselor was a quick-witted person. He quickly gave an okay sign to Won Dae-young’s words.
When the microphone was turned back on and filming resumed, the questions were now focused on Won Dae-young.
“You look like you have a nice and witty personality on the outside, but you actually have a twist, don’t you?”
“Haha! What kind of twist?”
“If you have this much controlling tendencies, you can easily make up and control your own wittiness. I’ll take a sentence completion test.”
<To me, track and field is a fight that I have to win no matter what, and it’s my life.>
<The most stressful moment is when things in my area don’t go my way.>
It was refreshing to see Won Dae-young explain to Choi Seol-woo his true nature of being a brat and being hot-tempered. Choi Seol-woo agreed greatly.
“Wow. That’s an accurate analysis.”
“And you also show psychological suppression and compulsion... Both of you ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) have that side, but I think Won Dae-young is particularly compulsively deceiving and suppressing himself.”
“.......”
Does that mean he lies a lot? He caught the theatrics they’ve been doing for a long time. Choi Seol-woo, who never went near a fortune teller, was a little taken aback by the psychological analysis technique that penetrated his inner self.
“What does it mean to suppress yourself?”
“It’s hard to accept your own emotions as they are, and for various reasons, you can’t face them, so you deny them and censor them. In the end, you live by adjusting them as you wish. Usually, even you don’t know it.”
“.......”
Won Dae-young listened with his arms crossed. Choi Seol-woo, who naturally thought that he would suppress and endure his emotions more, heard an unexpected explanation.
“I told you earlier that Choi Seol-woo’s self-defense tendencies are above average?”
“Yes.”
“But.... This characteristic is much worse for Won Dae-young. It’s compulsively controlling and suppressing your emotions.”
I thought he would ask with a puzzled face what that meant, but Won Dae-young was completely lost in thought. For a moment, he blinked his eyes quickly as if he had realized something.
“Do you know anything, Choi Seol-woo? You’re a person with a lot of secrets. It’s really amazing that you don’t even tell your best friend. I think there will be a lot...?”
The counselor continued his explanation while looking at the drawing test and sentence completion test alternately. The staff members’ faces were filled with curiosity at the unexpected analysis. Choi Seol-woo joked around to fit the mood.
“What did you suppress so much? Do you have some secret taste that I don’t know about, you sexual demon king?”
“... ... .”
Won Dae-young slowly sat up. He smiled a beat later and leaned his shoulder toward Seol-woo. A whisper that only Choi Seol-woo could hear continued.
“Fuck, I can’t say anything because I’m in front of the camera.”
Goosebumps appeared on his neck. He pushed it away in annoyance, but on the other hand, a corner of his heart felt uneasy.
