Episode 113
If there is one thing that the timid Kang Min-ah is proud of, it is her ability to perceive the mood of others very well. As soon as Kang Min-ah came to this world, she realized that her surroundings were truly strange.
For some reason, the co-worker I used to eat with seemed to have lost her temper for a while, the owner of the flower shop, who I thought was sane, started to exude a strong sense of discomfort, and Kwon Yeon-hee, who was always bright, gradually became stiff. Why is one of the team members, a doctor, only smiling from afar?
The most powerful among them was none other than Manager Lee Jae-heon.
“I’ve been to this world a few times.”
He said he had something to say, so he called everyone over and said it all out loud.
“If I remember correctly, about five times. “I must have stopped by when I was at least 11 years old.”
“…yes?”
“To be honest, I don’t remember it in detail.”
He threw the bomb at them with such a calm expression.
Um no I don’t know. Actually, to be honest, I thought something was strange. At least the old manager that Kang Min and others remember was made up. Kang Min-ah wasn’t that stupid because she still didn’t know, and Lee Jae-heon’s sense of discomfort was too strong.
So, I was curious. Why is that person so calm? How can you be so calm? I wonder why the previous appearance was made up.
But you’ve already been here?
“….”
“…I know what I’m saying now is absurd and ridiculous, but… I thought I should let you know. “Some people already knew.”
“Uh…”
That’s 5 times? At least 11 years old?
From then on, we talked about rules and regulations and all that, but in reality, everything was ignored after that. It was rather absurd that all of that information was obtained by Lee Jae-heon, shedding blood and breaking bones. Kang Min-ah’s mind was so complicated that she couldn’t accept them all at once.
So, so far, Lee Jae-heon has been a great adult to Kang Min-ah. Actually, it’s not that great, but it still allows you to take responsibility for others other than yourself.
That’s why I had a question.
‘…Then who protected that person?’
It was a scream that resembled a question.
Director Lee Jae-heon also had a childhood. At a time when I was much smaller and weaker than the two students who stayed up all night with me. Who on earth could he receive protection from? Who on earth was by his side that made him so broken?
Who ruined him?
“And what else… Ah, to the green algae monster. When I was chased by the green monster, I barely managed to meet a police officer. “My name is Kim Yeon-woo, and I’m one of the survivor teams over there.”
“Did he also provide the first aid you received at that time?”
“No, as expected, an old lady on the team over there did it.”
“Aha….”
“Thank goodness I didn’t die.”
His face as he spoke of death remained as calm as before.
“….”
Shouldn’t we grow into adults like this?
Although it may not be healthy, it was good. Even though the process wasn’t good, the result wasn’t bad. But if all of that is eating away at Lee Jae-heon, shouldn’t it stop?
I suddenly thought so, but that didn’t mean Kang Min-ah could express her frustrating feelings.
Because Lee Jae-heon is already an adult, he is responsible for so many things, and he has already firmly established his beliefs. Only Kang Min-ah, a subordinate, could not say that.
“Are you and me the same?”
“…What do you mean?”
“Even if I die…”
Even if I heard such disgusting words.
“….”
“…Ah….”
Kang Min-ah felt like crying a little.
That person wasn’t disgusting. It’s just that Kang Min-ah was disgusted and disgusted by the entire environment that instilled such a way of thinking in such a good and good person.
and.
‘…is it the same for me?’
In the end, she was one of those who hated ‘Lee Jae-heon’.
Although he did not say why he acted like that, Kang Min-ah understood Lee Jae-heon. In any case, he was telling us a blatant lie, so he could have been embarrassed even if he told us about it. That much was understandable even with Kang Min-ah’s insignificant experience.
But before that? Before that, before we fell here. Before I get eaten. They have always cursed and despised Director Lee Jae-heon. They even insulted him by saying that he didn’t know and that he was an incredibly stupid parachute. Kang Min-ah did not agree, but silently agreed.
What did Director Lee Jae-heon think when he saw us like that?
“….”
…Wouldn’t he be hurt?
“…I made a mistake.”
Even after hearing Lee Jae-heon’s words, Kang Min-ah could not bear to open her mouth.
Monsters trying to kill everyone. The pure white sky that drives me crazy. A few people who were unlucky enough to be consumed by that world and Director Lee Jae-heon’s acting. A patient with a body that doesn’t look strange even if he’s about to die, and who doesn’t get any rest at all. A spirit of extreme sacrifice. Twisted beliefs.
Murderous intent that occurs independently of the will of such a person.
‘…Isn’t this too much?’
Even if Kang Min-ah were Lee Jae-heon, I don’t think she would want to live that much.
Yes, it seems like the whole world is looking at him and shouting for him to die. As Lee Jae-heon thinks, he has a useless patient’s body and has no effective value anymore, so you have grown up as a tool and you have confirmed it yourself, so die without burden.
Besides, he is the one who got hurt like this to save us. But now we are in a state where we don’t know when and who we will kill. It was all because of a monster that wanted to harm us.
Monster yes. That green algae monster….
“….”
Why didn’t you come back to us right away that day?
“…are you okay, sister?”
“are you okay.”
Kang Min-ah smiled slightly as she felt the warmth reaching her. It was a natural reaction that surprised me, but I couldn’t come to my senses from the disgust that was scratching the back of my neck.
Director Lee Jae-heon was dragged away by the monster while checking the surroundings with Jeong In-ho. He somehow managed to escape from the monster. In the process, I began to bleed and at the same time had thoughts of wanting to kill others. He escaped and survived after meeting Kim Yeon-woo, who was said to be a police officer.
That time was very long.
“….”
And in the world, this is called ‘bait’.
It’s so funny.
“…I am not promoting the ideal that all life should be respected.”
“….”
“The manager cannot die.”
Jung In-ho seemed to be trying to somehow fix Manager Lee Jae-heon’s twisted thinking, but Kang Min-ah was skeptical. And Jeong In-ho seemed to know that too. I thought maybe he was just getting angry out of frustration.
And in the end, Jaeheon Lee did not understand what he said.
“Why was I wrong?”
“….”
“Just one person saved everyone gathered here, and I’m not even dead yet.”
Then he says it with a very arrogant face.
“I think it’s a situation where we should actually be amazed.”
Even though that is not the case at all.
For some reason, Kang Min-ah felt like she wanted to hit that person on the back, but she couldn’t because she felt like Lee Jae-heon would die even with her little strength. Kang Min-ah just rubbed her face or played with the hammer she was holding.
I wanted to ask why you would say something like that if you ate something wrong and learned something wrong. I wanted to get angry. Why can’t you, at that age, only think such contradictory and damnable thoughts? What on earth did I grow up watching at that age?
Is your value this low?
“….”
Why did it become like this….
Maybe the reason he acted like an old manager was to avoid getting hurt. Since I’m a person who doesn’t mind dying at any time, I may not have wanted to leave my ‘real’ traces. Or it could be that your parents instilled strange common sense in you from a young age, long before you came to the underworld.
After enduring so much patience, when Lee Jae-heon handed them the last piece of information. When I heard that people outside the world were doing well without even knowing about our vacancy.
“Then…”
Kang Min-ah couldn’t hold back any longer.
“What about the manager?”
“…me?”
“I guess the manager has always been like that.”
At those words, Lee Jae-heon made an expression that he didn’t really understand what she was saying.
It was truly miserable. In the end, no one knew that that person had disappeared, and this had happened several times, and Jaeheon Lee had even gotten used to that fact. He felt that all these unreasonable circumstances given to him were very natural.
That was so funny.
“I guess no one knew the manager was gone.”
“….”
It was a terrible thing.
Unlike Kang Min-ah, Lee Jae-heon was a person who was ready to die.
It seemed like the whole world wanted him dead. In reality, there were many people who wanted Director Lee Jae-heon to disappear, and in the other world, Lee Jae-heon wanted the world and himself to die. He was a person who would gladly do so if Kang Min-ah pointed a finger at him and told him to die immediately.
‘…Do you think we will turn a blind eye after telling you this?’
There’s no way that could be possible.
In the end, I was a shameless idiot who couldn’t do anything.
We need you after all. He depended on him for a lot of things, both materially and mentally, and Lee Jae-heon only recognized the former. It seemed as if he thought everyone in the world should hate him.
There was a time when that was true. There were days when we hated you so much.
“…Can’t I meet those people first? “The police officers who met with the chief.”
“….”
“I want to at least say hello.”
All I had to do was hang on like this.
In the end, I am a person who cannot take responsibility for anything.
* * *
Seeing Lee Jae-heon frowning as if he sensed something strange about Kang Min-ah’s reaction, Ha Seong-yoon raised one hand and touched his earlobe. A smile was still drawn on his lips.
However, the gaze
was on Lee Jae-heon’s neck
“….”
A tattered neck as if it had been chewed and swallowed by a monster, an eyeball missing for no reason, and a leg that was deformed and bent. A strange corpse whose entire body seemed almost soaked in blood.
Ha Seong-yoon saw Lee Jae-heon’s form for the first time in his life and felt a familiarity that he did not even know the origin of. Even when I visited the battlefield as part of my volunteer work, I have never seen a corpse in that kind of condition. Wouldn’t it be completely absurd to see something like this while looking at Lee Jae-heon, who is still alive?
Ha Seong-yoon blinked quickly a couple of times due to the difference in visual information transmitted from both eyes.
‘…but I see it.’
To be exact, it was closer to being seen.
Ha Seong-yoon knew very well what he wanted. There was a reason why I had to immerse my whole body in this world. What the small lake’s mirror or glass-like eyes showed was none other than a corpse that appeared to have just died.
‘Why did I have to see this…’
But it disappeared in the blink of an eye.
“me too.”
“….”
“…I agree.”
Ha Seong-yoon just laughed.
“Let’s go see them.”
It was definitely what he could do best.
