Dad's Coal Pit Hid a Dungeon, Now Guilds Pay Me to Enter novel · Chapter 19 of 32
Chapter 19: The Bond
At 3:12 on Monday afternoon the wire to the Association's escrow account stopped, and the screen at the post office window said why.
PROVISIONAL ATTACHMENT, it read. DAEWON CREDIT V. GWON SEOK-HYUN. ALL DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS. FILED 12:04.
Seok-hyun stood at the window with the bond slip in his hand and read the line four times.
The Association kept its small-town escrow window at the back of the post office, beside the ember desk.
The clerk in the cardigan sat behind it with his newspaper folded flat, and for once he was not reading it.
"It went through the Agricultural Cooperative at ten to three," the clerk said. "Then their system froze the account and sent me this."
"Four hundred and ten million won," Seok-hyun said. "It was the Toll. Every won."
"Yes. All ten buyers paid by Saturday midnight." The clerk turned his screen. "It's a pre-judgment attachment, Mr. Gwon."
"A creditor files when he says the debtor will spend the money before the note falls due."
"He's saying I'll spend it," Seok-hyun said.
"He's saying you sold a pit's tags to a hall of strangers and might run."
The bond was due at six.
The clock over the ember desk said eleven minutes past three, and the Agricultural Cooperative was nine kilometers away, in Sabuk.
He had told himself the Toll was the hard part.
He had stood in a gymnasium and sold a door, and the cost to his mother had been a single sentence on a Wednesday morning.
He had not once thought about how a clerk in a different town would freeze a number on a screen.
Da-hae came in at a run at ten past three, with her case on her shoulder and her hair stuck to her forehead.
She had been in the car on the Sabuk road since the call.
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