"...This isn't a job fit for a human, now is it?"

The deeply-frowning Jo Gyu-Min stared at his silent phone, then mouthed another cigarette. The interior of his car was filled with so much cigarette smoke that passersby could mistakenly think that a fire had broken out inside.

Jo Gyu-Min rolled the window down a little to let the fresh air in, then alternated his anxious gaze between his phone's screen and outside the car.

“Couldn't he at least let me know if he was going to start it tonight?”

Of course, even Jo Gyu-Min understood that nothing would change even if he knew about it. Even so, he thought there was a major difference between doing something together and not even telling him about it.

Didn't Jo Gyu-Min go through all that hullabaloo earlier to get included? But for Kang Jin-Ho to leave him out and get the ball rolling like this! How was that fair?

“What's the point of complaining, though?”

Considering Kang Jin-Ho's easygoing nature, whining about this to him would ultimately be meaningless. Kang Jin-Ho would probably apologize with something like, 'I'll be more mindful next time,' then repeat the same thing again by leaving Jo Gyu-Min out.

That was what Kang Jin-Ho was like, after all! In that case, if Jo Gyu-Min was serious about earning his paycheck, then he shouldn't passively wait but actively monitor Kang Jin-Ho and think about how he would act. What a bizarre and scary thing it was, though; a subordinate actually...