Episode 132
“…Ugh….”
“….”
“Ugh….”
Lee Jae-heon looked down at Jeong In-ho, who was lying down with a shocked expression.
“…Oh my gosh….”
A lament flowed out of my mouth.
I’m sure we won’t be able to catch a single main character at this rate.
‘Then it’s a big loss.’
He glanced around inconspicuously inside the pavilion where the commotion had passed.
The situation was like this. Immediately after Lee Jae-heon swallowed the fruit semi-forcibly, Jeong In-ho collapsed, and after he was moved into the pavilion, the sleeping survivors had no choice but to wake up.
Lee Jae-heon, who looks much finer than usual, and Jeong In-ho, who is practically crawling on the floor.
Detective Hong Gyeong-jun, who was the first to understand the situation, calmed the commotion and laid down the struggling Jeong In-ho. The survivors, who had been confused thanks to the commotion of the night, gradually began to realize what the situation was.
And then there was silence.
“…It looks like you’re barely conscious.”
Lee Jae-heon shrugged his shoulders at the words of Detective Hong Gyeong-jun, who was talking cheerfully near the protagonist.
“What can I do? It’s my own karma.”
“As expected, Mr. Jeong In-ho suggested it first.”
“I refused.”
Lee Jae-heon muttered, full of dissatisfaction.
“Some crazy people are blocking the front, back, and sides like gangsters and trying to stuff me into my mouth. What can I do?”
“You’re a gangster, manager. You shouldn’t disparage people’s good intentions like that.”
“Ah, then how do you describe that situation? “I thought some kind of loan shark came by.”
“This is a terrible thing for someone who has never owed anything in his life.”
“Huh.”
Lee Jae-heon leaned against the wall of the pavilion while giving a cursory reply to Dr. Seong-yoon Ha’s words. I was glad to see healthy legs for the first time in a long time, but at the same time, I was dumbfounded.
“…If you’re going to borrow money like this, what can you handle?…”
Tsk.
My tongue clicked.
As can be seen from the fact that he collapsed immediately after eating the fruit, Jeong In-ho’s condition was not normal.
He scratched his neck with his fingernails from time to time, as if he was itchy from the pain, and when Ha Seong-yoon, Kang Min-ah, and other members of the group saw him, their faces turned pale. It was probably a feeling of déjà vu.
“…No, it hurts, but how can it tickle…?”
Lee Jae-heon scratched his neck and responded to Kwon Yeon-hee’s trembling voice.
“If it hurts more than it should, it actually tickles. “I just feel like I have a cramp, a dull tingling sensation, and then at some point it feels like it explodes.”
“Uh oh…”
“Especially the area you’re scratching is your neck. The skin on the neck is less exposed to external stimulation than other areas, so even the slightest shock makes it tingle. For example, someone strangled me.”
“It’s okay. “I think you can stop telling me.”
“What are you doing?”
Lee Jae-heon couldn’t even think of teasing her any further as she spoke with a face that almost looked like she was crying. Thanks to the mental stress that the main character suffered on his behalf, he had a much more pleasant brain, and he could see that the current situation was taking a significant toll on the chicks.
In fact, Jaeheon Lee’s explanation in such detail could have been just grumpy.
‘Anyway, they seem like disgusting bastards.’
If he was going to ruin my plan and make a fuss like this, what kind of confidence did I have to attack him? In fact, the reason he half-obediently ate the fruit was also because of his grumpy attitude, saying, ‘Well, you’ll have to try it once.’
As a result, the protagonist was now out of his mind. It was natural that he couldn’t control his limbs as he wanted, and he couldn’t even speak properly, so he was only making gurgling sounds. Tears were flowing, perhaps as a physiological phenomenon caused by severe pain, and it was visible that Kang Min-ah and Kwon Yeon-hee were fidgeting.
Seeing things like that sometimes made Lee Jae-heon want to show mercy.
“….”
It seems easier to die.
‘…but that may not be possible.’
This was not a convenient world where all status ailments could be resolved just by dying a few times and waking up. There is only one life left and the advancement of medical technology is poor. It was fortunate that there was nothing wrong with his body, but if he was going to suffer that much, I thought it would be better to kill him, even if it was his only life.
But that guy was the main character and no one else, and Lee Jae-heon, who was only a third-rate villain, couldn’t kill him. Now that things were like this, what Jaeheon Lee had to do became clear.
Die quickly and turn back time.
“…what about you, uncle?”
“….”
“You talk as if you’ve never been strangled by someone before.”
For a moment, I almost thought it was Song In-myeong due to the explicit content, but the owner of the voice, which clearly belonged to a woman, was none other than student Seo Jang-hwa. She was looking at Lee Jae-heon with a very shocked expression.
“Are you just the manager of the company?”
What is contained in that gaze is a hint of boundary.
‘But it’s a border to protect your friends.’
Also, a sympathy that even he himself does not want to admit. A regret that we cannot help but feel as humans. The worry is obvious because it is a character with conviction. Such small, sad and confused looks.
As expected, he was quite a waste of talent to become friends with such waste.
“Are you going to start an argument?”
“I’m sorry if I heard that, but… usually company managers don’t get strangled. “Unless it’s a company that’s running quite poorly.”
“I’ve never worked in a back alley.”
“…I’m just saying that. “Why do you always give examples like that?”
Although he said no, he must have suspected that it was from that group. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have to stand in front of your friends and look at them with caution.
‘He’s a really good talent.’
If you were to look at it by the standards of your past life, you would get points deducted for being too affectionate, but in this world, things like ethics and kindness were also considered important. What Seo Jang-hwa considered most important in the story was trust and friendship.
‘So that kid is even more trash.’
Lee Jae-heon’s gaze landed on Song In-myeong behind her.
“….”
“….”
It was looking at Jeong In-ho, who was out of breath.
It was clearly an interested look, but the cruel interest was hidden by his languid and quiet face. His particularly sturdy body and the paint-stained apron on top made him look like an unusual artist.
I didn’t think much of it when I saw it in print, but still.
“…Then, you were originally in as much pain as I was.”
He’s a dirty guy.
“…I guess it won’t be as bad as I originally thought. Because the multiples of pain are random.”
“I feel like I’m almost going to die, but that means the default value is high. “Isn’t that right?”
“Anyway, it didn’t hurt me.”
Lee Jae-heon sighed and shook his head, pretending to be troubled.
‘I need to stimulate it more by now so that it will come over on its own when the sun rises.’
The idea was to make it so hot that it would jump at the slightest touch. If I were to turn my head around to a point where I felt quite normal, I thought I would probably be able to blow up the case within today.
He continued speaking with his gaze still focused on Jeong In-ho.
“…That stupid guy did something for no reason…”
His nerves were directed at the college students who had a shocked expression on their faces, pretending not to care.
The story about the three college students is not detailed. The author himself had an aversion to describing the psychology of criminals, and of course, if that was the case, I wondered why he included criminals as characters, but it was a narrative trick of its own and the past descriptions were not done properly.
So, I couldn’t figure out why student Vivian, who seemed a bit simple but honest and personable, and Seo Jang-hwa, who had a fierce attitude but was extremely careful about anyone who came within his control, became friends with that guy. I just think he must have managed his image enough that people like him would consider him a true friend.
‘Now that I think about it… where is that character who used to go around with those guys?’
A sudden thought occurred to Lee Jae-heon, who rolled his eyes and made eye contact with Song In-myeong.
“…Because you did something for nothing?”
“…That’s enough, let’s stop.”
I was craving nicotine.
‘If I go out, I’ll buy a pack of cigarettes.’
In order to take good care of myself, I did not drink, smoke or use drugs. But I needed the pleasure of inhaling cigarette smoke deep into my lungs and exhaling it. It’s a feeling that makes your whole body feel thrilled, your mind brightens, and then you feel stupid for a moment.
‘Even though the plot was wrong, it was too wrong.’
Strictly speaking, the group of college students who originally attended separately from the detective team were not a group of ‘college students’. Among them, there was one more character who clearly had a very weak mentality.
However, that guy was swallowed by a centipede monster for trampling a flower in the flower garden, and a couple more people died after that. In his own way, he died quickly.
‘The problem is that now I wonder what condition he is in and where he is.’
It’s not that I can’t completely understand it, but there’s more to find out after returning.
“Anyway… you’ve seen it, so you know. “Not just anyone can use this.”
Several people shook their shoulders as Jaeheon Lee spoke while looking around.
“I have a dull sense of humor, so I am doing well, but the constant pain that I don’t know when will end is almost like torture. Even if you did it because you wanted to, you wouldn’t be able to handle it.”
“Why are you talking about our In-ho, Manager….”
“Since when are you ‘our’ In-ho? “I believe I am excluded from that ‘us.’”
“You’re so cruel….”
“Are you going to keep pouting at adults?”
At those words, Kwon Yeon-hee twitched with her lips sticking out, and the expressions of some of the survivors became strangely distorted. In particular, Grandma Dallae was busy giggling without even trying to hide her laughter.
“Oh my, I’m out of breath. “Just saying funny things is a talent.”
“…I’m not sure what’s so funny, but…”
Lee Jae-heon continued, his lips curling once.
“If possible, it would be best not to use the fruit.”
His face calmed down as he recalled the contents of the novel, and the eyes of the survivors fell on his face. Ignoring that, Lee Jae-heon pulled out the information he wanted from his memory and spit it out.
“I feel like the situation that ended well after using this… is not long in coming.”
“….”
“If you want to become a scoundrel, you can gather as much as you want.”
The main character in the story used that fruit to save the seriously injured Azalea and Park Da-hoon. Immediately after taking on the pain of the two people, I screamed and crawled on the floor.
Park Da-young and Yoon Gar-ram, who could not bear to see the protagonist like that, brought a cure that had no side effects, but the injury to be treated eventually disappeared, so the story passes without being used. If you have already experienced imaginary pain in your body, there is no other way to avoid it than to melt your mind by taking narcotic painkillers.
After enduring it for about a month in a safe position, they were able to behave like humans, but considering their inefficiency and soft mentality, it really wasn’t a good idea for these chicks to use the fruit.
And conductor Kim Ki-jeong, who had been quiet in response to Lee Jae-heon’s words, asked.
“Is that an experience?”
“….”
It was a question that revealed that Lee Jae-heon had experience in this world, as was already half-revealed.
So there was no reason to avoid it.
“yes.”
Of course, it’s not my experience.
‘If this were an experience story, it would be an experience story.’
Isn’t it?
Lee Jae-heon, who calmly covered the main character’s story with himself, looked at the faces of the survivors who were slowly falling apart. These were probably people who wanted to use the fruit in some way.
But you will naturally feel fear. There are probably people who were shocked because he used it so casually, but they must have been shocked to see Jung In-ho shaking as if he was about to die. The guy who always smiled sincerely and dressed up neatly is turning into a complete nuisance.
‘…Well, I’m holding up pretty well.’
His gaze landed on the protagonist.
I don’t want to be condescending, but the fatigue and pain Jaeheon Lee had accumulated so far were not in vain. Even though I’ve recovered a lot, I’m sure I’m going crazy, especially since my leg was chewed up by the green algae monster. It must have been an unbearable pain for the current protagonist, who was not crazy enough to avoid the pain.
Yet, you somehow manage not to bite your tongue. Even though he was scratching my neck, I didn’t strangle him, which meant that I still had reason to think. However, it was because I wasn’t in a position to move my body as much as the remaining reason was.
When I saw something like that, I thought it must be the main character.
“….”
So doesn’t this mean that this level of pain is worth enduring?
“…When the sun rises, I will move this time too.”
One of the rules of fiction.
The main character has a below-average and unfortunate past.
(Continued in the next part)
