You weakling! Are you acting because you don’t want to work?
“If you’re going to work like this, then give up right now!”
The boss, who hadn’t paid him his three weeks’ worth of payment, yelled at him.
Even when he was sweating all over from fever, and dark rings forming around his eyes, the boss never admitted that Hyun was sick.
Back then he couldn’t eat much, so his stamina wasn’t very good, and because of that he was always scolded on.
Other employees, too, scolded him whenever he did something wrong, whether big or small.
“Useless one.”
“Why should we use someone as brainless as him?”
“It’s better to not have you here at all. You only cause problems.”
“You trash! Because of you we have even more work now.
Just go steal or something instead of working here.”
He endured those countless snarling comments.
On that day, he wanted to get up and work if possible, but his body just couldn’t move.
But no one worried about him nor did they tell him to go to a hospital. When he was young, he curled up and cried in a corner where no one was. It was very painful.
After that day, he hated getting sick the most.
To someone like him who had to support his sister, getting sick was an unthinkable luxury. But, he couldn’t help but feel sad and pathetic when pain came.