Episode 164
“….”
Kang Min-ah blinked at the unbelievable sight.
“…Ah, I think I can say it now.”
“…yes? Oh yes.”
“He’s more timid than I thought, but it’s easy to approach him.”
She shook her head unconsciously as she mumbled something that was almost like talking to herself.
‘No way.’
Kang Min-ah still remembered the time when Kwon Yeon-hee collapsed and cried after encountering that monster.
And that feeling that exists somewhere in my memory that I don’t even know why it exists. It’s a cliché, but it’s a monster with a disgusting look all over its body that drives people crazy just by looking at it. Aside from its appearance, it was difficult to even touch it due to the strange mucus oozing from the skin.
However, Director Lee Jae-heon was stroking such a monster without any hesitation.
“…Are you okay?”
It was a situation where such a question came up naturally.
“I wonder if it’s poison or something that hurts…”
“I don’t think there’s any particular problem from contact. “My hands are a little damp, but as you can see, there doesn’t seem to be any hostility.”
“….”
“If I had to be honest, I feel a bit nauseous.”
He continued speaking calmly.
“But it’s much better if you can get through it without fighting. “Already, thanks to all the monsters that attack us as soon as we make eye contact, our kids aren’t in a very good state of mind.”
“…Ah….”
“I don’t know about the others, but at best I get motion sickness… I never thought it would really happen, but if we can avoid battle in this way, it’s a big advantage for us.”
“….”
“I’m glad I found out now.”
Kang Min-ah’s hand, which was holding the hammer, trembled.
‘…Ah again.’
Also, Director Lee Jae-heon abandoned himself for the right path.
‘He used himself like an experiment.’
However, Kang Min-ah could not blame him like Jung In-ho or Ha Seong-yoon.
In the end, when he acted outside of our common sense or broke his promises, it was all for our sake. Since it was clear that Manager Lee Jae-heon received a lot of help thanks to his actions, we should not be angry at Lee Jae-heon, who was harmed because of it, regardless of how he felt about it emotionally.
“…But still….”
Still, it was inevitable to feel anxious.
“You don’t know what side effects there are. It might suddenly bite, or if that monster… approaches the manager too much, what should I do? “Like following me around.”
“Oh well. Even if it’s okay for me, it’s probably a problem for you guys. “I can’t not be bothered if there’s a monster next to me.”
It took a short turn and was back to the starting point.
No matter what she said, Kang Min-ah was left speechless at the sight of her worrying about others rather than herself. I had felt this for a long time, but Lee Jae-heon was really a person who did not know how to think for himself.
“….”
Around that time, the faces of Jeong In-ho and Ha Seong-yoon came to mind.
“…Yes, we are. that.”
“….”
“We are much weaker than you, manager. Even if this contact was successful, it is unclear what the outcome will be. Then, damage may also come to us, who you lead…”
“That’s right.”
“…I wish you would stop.”
It was a really selfish request to me, but unlike Kang Min-ah’s gradually distorted face, Lee Jae-heon remained calm.
“I’m sorry… If you’re that anxious, I’ll just find out how much is allowed and go back right away.”
“…yes.”
“But there won’t be any major problems. In fact, there are some monsters that aren’t very dangerous as long as you don’t get excited, so even if they show obsession with me when they come into contact with them, there won’t be any harm. “If there is a problem, we will take care of it, so you don’t have to worry too much.”
“If there is a problem, you must let me know. That way we can prepare too.”
“….”
Only when he said that did Jaeheon Lee finally raise his head and look at Minah Kang.
“…It’s pretty big.”
“…yes?”
“No, it’s a compliment.”
A faint smile soon appeared on the face that looked a little surprised.
“I did it because I liked seeing you say exactly what you wanted to say.”
“…thank you?”
Kang Min-ah muttered without knowing what she was saying, and Lee Jae-heon, who heard the thank you that flowed out of nowhere, turned his gaze back to the monster. The monster, which looked like a crude and dirty doll, was waving its stiff tail as if it was very pleased with his attention.
Kang Min-ah’s stomach swelled once again at the sight of that misshapen body part.
“….”
I wouldn’t be able to do something like that.
‘That’s selfish.’
I wasn’t mature enough.
The two hands holding the hammer trembled slightly.
Ever since I had the dream, my mind has been confused. I got goosebumps from the memories in my brain that were shaking wildly, and I couldn’t shake the feeling that they weren’t mine, which made it even more bizarre. These were traces of a time that had nothing to do with the present Kang Min-ah, passed by a person who looked exactly like me.
‘…If what the manager said is true, did Inho Jeong also dream like me?’
Director Lee Jae-heon told me to organize the memories and traces of the dream and report it to him…
“Do you know that, Kang Min-ah?”
“…What?”
“This park. “It is said that there were many abandoned dogs in parks in real life, not in the underworld.”
“….”
“I haven’t seen it in person, but that’s what I heard.”
“But it’s not really a dog, it’s just a monster.”
“It’s a monster that can bring to mind all the emotions of an abandoned dog that we can think of.”
Kang Min-ah’s eyes landed on the black monster.
“…Aha….”
I could see where the disgusting sympathy I felt for that thing came from.
“I felt pitiful somehow…”
A memory spread through her mind.
In her memory, Kang Min-ah was looking for someone with Ha Seong-yoon. I think it was probably Manager Lee Jae-heon. As she was running with impatience and anxiety about finding him, monsters came rushing in, and right after escaping from the monsters, Kang Min-ah ran into one of those abandoned dog monsters.
“I don’t want to hit you and I don’t want to kill you.”
“….”
“…I was just watching.”
It was a pitiful monster being killed by a killer.
“I shouldn’t have done that.”
For some reason, the thing in Lee Jae-heon’s arms wasn’t as disgusting as before. No, it was gross. It was disgusting, like bugs crawling on my skin, but I felt sorry for it nonetheless. To the extent that it was funny to myself, I felt like there was less rejection than before.
Because ‘Kang Min-ah’ just watched it die in the hands of Song In-myeong.
“….”
It wasn’t much different from the time she was hanging from the cliff to Director Lee Jae-heon.
I blinked.
“…Can monsters cry too?”
I remembered lumpy beads of tears, like fallen candle wax, falling from eyes made of buttons.
“I’m sure it exists. “Although it is rare.”
“Have you seen the manager?”
“…It’s not like it doesn’t exist.”
“Then you felt sorry for them?”
Then Jaeheon Lee burst into laughter. It might have been ridicule.
“My nose is three feet long, so who takes pity on someone else?”
On that subject, his hand was still stroking the monster’s back.
“…I thought you would say that.”
He is truly a contradictory person.
At first glance, he was the most selfish and cruel person in the world, but when you look at the results, it was Manager Lee Jae-heon who was the most tattered. As of now, his attempt was for the benefit of our group, and isn’t there compassion hanging from his fingertips as he strokes the monster?
If Jaeheon Lee didn’t truly feel sorry for that monster, he wouldn’t have been able to touch it. The abandoned monster dog could not have been held in such a comfortable position.
“….”
As expected, Jaeheon Lee always gave only the correct answer.
‘So I…’
All I had to do was protect him.
Okay then that’s enough.
“…Now go back.”
“Has time passed so quickly?”
“When In-ho Jeong gets angry, he gets really scary.”
“Huh, are you now rubbing the manager against the assistant manager?”
“You don’t care anyway…”
Kang Min-ah gradually gathered her thoughts.
3 days. The time that Manager Lee Jae-heon gave her was a total of 3 days. In a short period of time, Kang Min-ah had to organize these ridiculously terrible memories and report them to him.
“Isn’t it cute when you look at it like this?”
“…Are you serious?”
“Was this such an outrageous statement?”
but.
“It’s so strange.”
You are alive and moving like this now.
“So stop it now, it’s too late.”
“Oh wait….”
In Kang Min-ah’s memories, Lee Jae-heon was dead.
It was such a cruel memory. It is like a toy broken by a child or meat prepared by an incompetent chef, leaning against an eye-shaped tree with a carefree face with both eyes quietly closed. Just thinking about it made me nauseous.
I instinctively felt ominous.
“What should I do if I encounter something dangerous like this?”
And
that anxiety turned out to be reality.
“That is correct.”
“….”
“Wow… have you tamed the monster now? How did you do it? Doesn’t your hand hurt? “Just looking at those gave me a headache and I couldn’t stand it.”
“…You…”
The killer hiding among the bushes smiled innocently and said.
“It’s really cool.”
* * *
Song In-myeong really didn’t like this world.
‘It’s a good place to kill someone, but this is a bit much.’
The reason he killed people in the first place, honestly, I can’t say that there was no pleasure in the process, but in the end, it was to obtain materials to complete his work. It was a world without proper tools or a workroom, so even if I found something I liked, it was difficult to capture it.
“I’m already feeling sad because I touched something that wasn’t even in my heart…”
I frowned, remembering the man I met for the second time at the park.
“Why is that mojiri bastard acting like a bastard?”
He was a man with a very ordinary appearance and a lack of mental intelligence. No matter how scared he is, Song In-myeong, who has seen all sorts of things, also said that this was the first time he had seen an idiot hiding behind a kindergartener when a monster appeared.
To be honest, I felt like a psychopath. Looking at the talking pig, it seems that it lacks common sense and is trembling while relying on a baby. Song In-myeong usually said harsh things to people who had perfectly fine limbs, calling them idiots, but it seemed like Mojiri was a really poor bastard.
So, it was far from the topic I decided on this time, and I personally found him annoying, so I didn’t even want to touch him. I was such an idiot that I didn’t even have that option.
“Where did the body go again?”
I had no choice but to kill that bastard because he had spread Song In-myeong’s war stories.
‘What are you doing? At best, the monster would have eaten it.’
Song In-myeong entered the park alone, and soon after, he met a man named Munsan-gun and was walking around the park. When I finally found the traces of Vivian and Seo Jang-hwa, the only ones I met were Mojiri and some kid, but right before I met my friends, I guess Mojiri was talking needlessly.
Song In-myeong, who had no intention of losing his ‘friends’, quickly tried to kill them all, but missed because Seo Jang-hwa and Vivian were nearby. It was a fatal mistake, but there was no immediate problem.
“It’s still okay.”
In the end, that Mojiri bastard was killed using a monster not long ago, and Song In-myeong joined Detective Hong Gyeong-jun’s team before Munsan-gun and Aae-gi, so those two will be hanging around the park.
‘How long can Munsan-gun, who has so little luggage and no special skills, be able to endure?’ Even if
they
could hold out, it would have been enough to kill Song In-myeong. Of course, it was annoying to have to keep patrolling to find and kill those two first, but it was still better than ruining the job
. I witnessed an amazing sight.
“…omg?”
웬 아저씨 한 명이 개새끼에게 손을 내미는 모습이었다.
What the fuck is that crazy guy?
