They limped toward the stairwell, two bloodhounds who had found their scent and refused to let go—not for money, not for glory, but for the simple, brutal truth that some debts can only be paid with knuckles and loyalty.
The fight that followed wasn’t beautiful. It wasn’t like the movies. Geon-woo took a pipe to the ribs and heard something crack. Min-jae’s left eyebrow split open like a dropped egg. They fought back-to-back, using boxing footwork to dance through the wreckage of broken mirrors and overturned benches. When it was over, five of Choi’s men were unconscious, one was limping away, and the two bloodhounds were kneeling in a pool of sweat, blood, and shattered plaster.
Min-jae stood. He was shorter than Geon-woo, but denser—a fireplug of muscle and quiet fury. His own story was simpler: a sister drowning in medical bills, a loan from the same snake. “Then we don’t think,” Min-jae said. “We bleed. Together.”
“Two dogs with rabies,” Choi said, almost admiringly. “You could have worked for me.” Bloodhounds.S01.480p.WEB-DL.HIN-ENG-KOR.x264.MS...
“He can try,” Geon-woo replied. But his voice cracked.
“We go home,” Geon-woo said. “We heal. And if someone else needs us…”
Geon-woo’s knuckles were already split. He hadn’t even stepped into the ring yet—just the warm-up, just the old leather bag in Mr. Baek’s half-abandoned gym. Each punch sent a needle of pain up his forearm, but he didn’t stop. Pain was the only thing that felt real anymore. They limped toward the stairwell, two bloodhounds who
Min-jae nodded slowly. “Then we run again.”
“We work for people you crushed,” Geon-woo said.
“What now?” Min-jae asked.
But Choi wasn’t a man who lost pawns quietly.
The giant stepped forward. Min-jae met him. The fight was short and ugly—Min-jae took three punches that should have killed a normal man, but he kept coming, wrapping the giant in a clinch, biting an ear, doing anything to survive. Geon-woo, ribs screaming, ducked under Choi’s wild golf swing and landed two perfect punches: a jab to the throat, a cross to the temple.