"It's an honor to have you at our club!"

An honor? That was overdoing it, and then some.

The guards bent their heads a full ninety degrees.

Anyone watching might mistake me for the neighborhood's resident thug.

The two loud women at the front had vanished without a sound.

Not that I approve of discrimination, but once they'd been told no, there was no need to shout and pick a fight.

The moment I heard gender discrimination and sue, I was nearly at a loss for words.

Not knowing is forgivable, but plain ignorance has no cure.

"Is the VIP room free?"

"You mean the premium room?"

"Yes~ Please check the room at the very back."

When I smashed the place up that time, it had looked like the best room.

"Right this way."

A guard in a black suit led the way.

"Ooh~ Oppa, you're a player, huh?"

Kim Han-byeol smiled meaningfully.

The situation was easy to misread.

"This is my first official visit."

"Come on~ Since when is there an official or unofficial visit to a club? If you've been here, just confess. I'm not that narrow-minded a woman~."

I didn't see what being narrow-minded had to do with anything.

I followed the guard inside.

Doo~♪ Doo-roo-roo-roo-roo-roo doo-oo-oo~♬.

Ear-splitting noise hit us the moment the door opened.

Electronica club music boomed, enough to make your head spin.

It sounded nothing like the music that would take over the clubs ten years or so later.

"Kyaaaaa~!"

High-pitched shrieks of uncontainable excitement came from every direction.

The place was a frenzy, pure and simple.

Maybe because summer still hung in the air, women in outfits so skimpy they were half-naked danced wildly.

Next to the flowers, the bees were busy too, bumping and grinding.

Unlike in 2020, back then physical contact between men and women was natural and, at the same time, tolerated.

Soaked in hot desire, alcohol and the rush of the music, the young men and women burned up their brief youth.

The heat pouring off them made the club sweltering.

"Oppa, this place is killer!!!"

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