Episode 112
Jeong In-ho looked at Lee Jae-heon and said that they couldn’t understand each other, but in fact, Lee Jae-heon’s thoughts were not much different.
“No… no no no wait a minute.”
He spat out the words as if he were dumbfounded.
“Honestly, isn’t it right to be wary of me?”
“…Please at least say something with your mouth, teacher. “If this continues, everything will be traumatizing.”
“One of your eyes is sprained, and the doctor says you can’t understand the situation.”
“There are minors, so you have to use pretty and kind words.”
“Not that, no. Oh really.”
In reality, it was ridiculous.
“Do you really not see that you are the strange one in this situation?”
No matter how poorly I proceeded with the plan, the settings I had planned remained.
I have said with my own mouth that it can kill people at any time, and you never know when and how the influence of the green algae monster will be revealed. Honestly, it was a setup that would be understandable even if Lee Jae-heon was locked up or tied up somewhere.
But what is this?
“Now is not the time to worry about me?”
Look at this situation, where people are being told not to die when they see a person who may turn into a monster at any moment. Even though these are chicks, I really had no idea that even the disgusting main character would be like this. In the original novel, he wasn’t this stupid.
I felt a strange sense of foreboding from the moment I spoke with Kwon Yeon-hee, but I had no idea it would end up like this when everyone was gathered.
“The person you should be most worried about right now is the manager…”
“Yeonhee, are you making fun of me?”
“I was just telling the truth…”
After saying that, Kwon Yeon-hee quietly hid behind Kang Min-ah. However, Lee Jae-heon could feel that feeling as he proudly stuck his head out, and sighed while holding his forehead.
“…Unfortunately….”
“You don’t even care.”
“Who says they don’t care?”
“No matter who sees it….”
“Oh really.”
A light conversation took place, but the expressions on the group’s faces did not ease easily. As I always do, I try to make jokes and smooth things over, but when I really try to do it, I get blocked like this.
In particular, Lee Jae-heon sighed because his head was pounding when the main character stared at him with pitch-black eyes.
“…Well, that’s it. Even so.”
“I don’t think that’s the case.”
“If you’re going to mumble, come out and speak, Employee Kwon.”
After talking nonsense once more, he continued.
“Honestly, at this point, shouldn’t I ask at least one more question?”
Okay, I wanted to change the topic of conversation.
This topic was a very disadvantageous area for Lee Jae-heon. In the first place, their way of thinking was inherently different, and it was meaningless to argue about who was wrong and who was good. The problem was that only Lee Jae-heon knew that and it would continue to be that way.
To be honest, I thought that the chicks who got to this point and did not change their way of thinking were more at fault, but Lee Jae-heon shook his head, thinking that if he continued like this, there would be no conclusion and it would only be a waste of his strength. First, I had to change the subject.
And fortunately among the misfortunes, there was one topic left that the group could turn their attention to, even in this situation.
“…I…”
Dayoung Park, a student with curly hair, looked around carefully a few times and slowly raised her hand. He looked exactly like a student trying to give an appropriate answer to the teacher’s question.
She looked up at Lee Jae-heon and asked, ‘Is this right?’
“What happened to us in the original world?”
“….”
What happens if you die in the other world?
“…hmm.”
And Jaeheon Lee was embarrassed.
‘Is it right to think that way first?’
In fact, the two had similar thoughts. Anyway, I was asking how their state of being consumed by the underworld is revealed in reality. However, Park Da-young asked about the condition of the living party members, and Lee Jae-heon recalled the case of dead bodies.
He slightly touched the corner of his mouth and responded to the differences that appeared even in small places.
“…Okay, these. If I’ve given you this much information, shouldn’t you ask that first? “How can I not be smarter than I was when I was 19?”
At Lee Jae-heon’s words, Park Da-young did not bother to hide the corners of her mouth that turned up, and Park Da-hoon was sighing with his arms crossed. The other party members furrowed their eyebrows at Lee Jae-heon as if they were dumbfounded, without seeing the siblings like that.
The first to speak was Dr. Ha Seong-yoon.
“…I guess the reason our heads didn’t work was because the visual information we could see from the teacher’s body was so shocking.”
“It’s really inefficient for you to be shocked by something like this when you’re not even sick. “You have great empathy.”
“Please don’t bring up the ‘ㅎ’ in terms of efficiency. “I have a strong intuition that this will be a trauma for all of us.”
“You seem to be treating me a little more harshly as the days go by. Is that okay to be a doctor?”
“They say they don’t want to be treated like a patient, but there’s nothing they can do.”
“It’s hard to make a living.”
After finishing his lament, Jaeheon Lee continued speaking in a light tone.
“It’s the same.”
“…yes?”
“…I wasn’t asking how your absence would have appeared in the original world.”
I said it again.
“Everything is the same.”
No changes occur in the reality outside the other side of the world.
Lee Jae-heon will still be looking for subordinates as an old manager. Assistant Manager Jeong In-ho will be doing his job with a sincere smile, and Kang Min-ah will be occasionally helping intern Noh Yeon-seok with his work. Yeonhee Kwon is probably also doing her job as a marketing department employee.
‘Same goes for the rest.’
‘Someone’ is filling their gap.
Of course, it’s hard to tell what that ‘someone’ is…
“…Like that?”
“….”
“That doesn’t make sense….”
It may be difficult now.
‘You definitely changed the subject.’
Lee Jae-heon looked around at the group, hiding his inner satisfaction. In the case of the protagonist and the doctor, they realized that Lee Jae-heon was trying to change the conversation, but it would have been difficult to bring up the story again because the shocking facts were causing an uproar around them.
Lee Jae-heon, ignoring the gazes staring at me, continued speaking.
“There is a high probability that nothing will have changed once you leave this world. “Of course, they will not be registered as missing.”
“….”
Student Park Da-hoon, who thought for a moment, opened his mouth.
“…Don’t your parents know?”
“maybe.”
“…I see…”
The voice was quite calm, not knowing whether it was anxiety or relief.
And it was the same for Park Da-young, who was next to Park Da-hoon. Rather, it should be said that relief is stronger. She grabbed my younger brother’s sleeve from an angle where other adults couldn’t see him. Park Da-hoon let go of his sister’s hand and wrapped his arm around Park Da-young’s shoulders.
She, who usually bickered without any sincerity, was quietly accepting the behavior. The look of relief on his face grew even bigger.
A low voice came out among the chattering group.
“Then…”
It was Kang Min-ah who lowered her head to the floor.
“What about the manager?”
“…me?”
“I guess the manager has always been like that.”
Lee Jae-heon couldn’t understand her words right away. I barely looked away, but I was dumbfounded why the conversation came back to me, and more than anything, I couldn’t understand what exactly Kang Min-ah was saying.
She raised her head and quietly looked at Lee Jae-heon, then spoke again.
“I guess no one knew the manager was gone.”
“….”
Why is this happening…?
‘Why the fuck does the focus keep on me?’
It was great that the setting worked well, but it was even more ridiculous than that, so Lee Jae-heon bit his lip once and put it back. The protagonist was closely observing Lee Jae-heon, so he couldn’t show his nervousness.
But with just that amount, Kang Min-ah seemed to have gotten some kind of answer.
“….”
She pursed her lips and said nothing more.
For Lee Jae-heon, this was a shocking experience.
* * *
In Kang Min-ah’s opinion, an ‘adult’ was a person who took responsibility for everything that affected him.
When you meet someone you love, you take responsibility for that love. If you give affection to someone and it follows you, take responsibility for that affection. If someone was hurting because of me, I had to take responsibility for that person and the aftermath. That’s what Kang Min-ah thought of as an adult.
In that sense, Director Lee Jae-heon was neither an adult nor a child. He was too indifferent to be an adult and had too much responsibility for a child. Kang Min-ah was always unable to do justice to him as she watched him dripping blood during the entire process.
However, what was certain now was that Lee Jae-heon was always doing his best.
“…Then…”
Kang Min-ah made eye contact with the man who was looking at me with a frown.
“What should we do now?”
“…I have to do something.”
Lee Jae-heon, who said that, eventually avoided Kang Min-ah’s gaze.
I’m sure I saw that distorted face often when I was at work, but it wasn’t as unfair or scary as it was back then. Because in the end, she knew that everything she had seen at the time was nothing more than a play. Even if I go back, I probably won’t be scared by that expression.
But I was anxious.
“Either join the people you met over there, or wander around some more.”
“….”
“Personally… I would like to see again that statue that was said to have done something to our doctor’s eyes.”
That was someone who eventually adapted to all of this.
He was a person who was used to being forgotten by many people, and he was used to treating his body harshly as he recovered like a dream.
‘I said it’s been like that since I was young.’
What would have happened if Kang Min-ah had done that? If, like Lee Jae-heon, you fall into this world at a very young age, are threatened by monsters, and soon die, you end up living in a world where no one knows how many times.
I am.
“….”
He would have died just like that.
Quietly alone in a world where no one remembers….
“…Can’t I just meet those people first? “The police officers who met with the chief.”
“….”
“I want to at least say hello.”
It was a terrible thing.
