Episode 17
Director Lee Jae-heon was not a good person after all.
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I didn’t really have any regrets about life.
Well, how well have you been living so far? Born as the third child of a family with a silver spoon, I was living the way I wanted, working as a parachutist for a large company, and even trying out the stuff that most idiots would do.
Of course, there were times when he felt inferiority complex due to his inherently dirty personality, but in any case, looking at it objectively, it was an undeniable fact that he was living a very good life.
To be honest, I can’t say that he had a good personality either in his past life or in his current life, so this old man’s life was quite to his taste.
However, the reason he willingly threw away his life was because too many variables were created due to his suddenly remembered past life, and as a result, he lost confidence.
‘I inherited a physical condition just because I remembered my past life.’
Of course, it is an ability that did not exist before.
Isn’t ‘Lee Jae-heon’ a character who will die in the hospital episode anyway?
There was no reason to label him as having worked out or being in good physical condition.
I survived in the park because I had a lighter, but it was a different story in a hospital full of monsters.
However, by recalling his past life, Jaeheon Lee received the abilities of his previous life intact.
Of course, it’s not exactly the same, but it was quite useful from the perspective of this life, and it was even better for increasing one’s value.
This means that although I don’t want to get close to him in private, he has become a talent that I would want to hold hands with in public.
However, the important thing here was how much of the abilities from my previous life were inherited.
‘Before, I couldn’t even die at will.’
In the world of past lives, there was a fixed lifespan.
If a person died before reaching that lifespan, he or she would immediately come back to life, and because of this, the value of life was ridiculously low.
It was a very natural fact, at least for Lee Jae-heon.
Considering that he inherited his tattered mental power by recalling memories of his past life, he judged that it was possible that he had transferred something other than his physical condition.
However, in this world, the concept of resurrection is not as natural as in the world of previous lives, so questions arise.
I thought it was a very reasonable question.
Is death here an eternal end?
‘Or…’
Will it come back to life in some form?
If it’s the former, you’ll die in peace, but if it’s the latter, it’s a different story.
If it is the same as the previous life, it will be resurrected in the same way that the dead body comes back to life.
In that case, it would be very difficult if there were other people around, and the presence of Lee Jae-heon, who can be resurrected, could have been seen as a tool to the party members, who were gradually abandoning their humanity toward the end.
Naturally, Jaeheon Lee was not happy about that situation.
I had already been treated like that enough in my past life, and being treated as a tool meant that the other person looked down on me in the first place, so my pride was hurt.
In this case, Lee Jae-heon’s resurrection requires no one around to witness it.
‘Of course, there are many other possibilities…’
I had to worry about this, but as common sense suggests, I may just die.
Or the form of resurrection could be different from before, or changes could have occurred around him, not him.
Therefore, Lee Jae-heon has acted to accommodate all cases as much as possible.
‘First act according to the settings.’
I don’t know if I can die right away or not.
However, if I was going to be resurrected like in my previous life, I had to lay the groundwork keeping in mind that I would ultimately survive to the end.
In that sense, the setting that Jaeheon Lee himself created was quite plausible. It explains why he is familiar with this world.
This explains why he is a psychopath accustomed to pain. It convinces us why his common sense and values are so different from other people….
If Lee Jae-heon had to continue living, acting according to the above settings would add legitimacy to his actions in the future.
‘Next time, keep a reasonable distance.’
To be honest, this was a failure.
Fortunately, it wasn’t to this extent when I was in the original world, but after entering the other side of the world, my mental power was lowered, so I became confused about the common sense of my past life and my current life.
For example, in the previous world, it was only natural that better people would get the most credit.
They valued efficiency even if the strongest person had to stand at the front in a dangerous place or have his or her limbs torn off as a result.
Of course, the parties involved swore tens of thousands of times, but they could not win over the majority.
But in this world, there was such a thing as polite gratitude.
In particular, because the value of life is high, the act of saving someone is very noble, and there is a tendency to view the person who performed such an act more favorably.
No matter how disgusting the old manager was, he couldn’t escape that scope.
Jaeheon Lee should have kept this in mind. The fact that people in this world are softer than you can imagine, and that they very easily show favor to others.
And finally the third.
“Director Boo.”
“….”
“What should we do…?”
Be as altruistic as possible.
Lee Jae-heon pursed his lips as he saw three pairs of gazes looking at him with shaking gazes.
“Whatever you do, get ready to run.”
“yes yes. Yes….”
“Same goes for students. “Is the injured leg worth it?”
When his eyes landed on the two students, they nodded quietly.
“…I can run.”
“That’s right.”
“…Huh….”
Lee Jae-heon sighed as he heard Employee Kwon crying as if he were being eaten.
She was protecting two high school students who were taller than me, and those students were also holding Kwon’s hand tightly while listening to the monster’s footsteps.
Damn it, the situation did not go as Lee Jae-heon remembered from the novel, and the siblings, who should have had a conversation with the main character first, came to Director Lee Jae-heon first.
I knew that my very existence was a variable, but the story changed more rapidly than I imagined.
He opened his mouth quietly, feeling the blood flowing from his arm and hitting the pipe in his hand.
“…It feels like I’m drinking that monster’s blood.”
This was a fact that could be known if we recall the behavior of the monster that stayed by the corpses of former Chief Kang and intern Noh Yeon-seok for a long time.
Aside from tearing through corpses with its toothy tentacles, the monster had no interest in human meat.
In that case, what you want is blood. There was no room for suspicion as the monster licked the blood with its tongue to lure Deputy Jeong, who went to pick up a tree branch.
“If you can’t find us right away, it looks like your eyesight and hearing aren’t good. “Maybe because of my size, I can’t run even though my strides are long.”
“….”
“So, if one person holds on… I think we can buy time.”
At his words, the expressions of Employee Kwon and the students hardened.
“Let’s use bait?”
“I can’t help it now. Are we all going to die?”
“But…”
The siblings shook their heads in fear, probably thinking that one of us would be used as bait, but Employee Kwon stared at him with round eyes, as if he sensed something from Jaeheon Lee’s suggestion.
Yes, to put it bluntly, he needed to die once.
“…Boss?”
“Executive Kwon, you understand everything I’m saying, right? yes?”
“No, wait, wait….”
“There’s no need for everyone to die here.”
Since we did not know whether there would be resurrection or not, we had to experience death ourselves to find out.
But as he was also human, he wanted to live if he could.
The life of the old manager was quite enjoyable as it had been so far, and since my previous life was so tiring, I wanted to live my life with a bit of dirty personality and enjoy it…
but in this world, it was just impossible.
Therefore, in order to determine the correct course of action in the future, Lee Jae-heon had to die once.
“I’ll stay.”
And the most understandable death was that caused by such a monster.
“…yes yes?”
“I can’t run anyway. “You know.”
Jaeheon Lee glanced at the creaking leg, and employee Kwon and his siblings fell silent.
Jaeheon Lee broke his leg, not even his ankle, while running all the way here.
Because it was so dark, I didn’t see the vines crawling on the floor approaching, and my leg, which was already in bad condition, collided with the green algae monster once and completely broke.
The students who saw this seemed to have decided something inwardly, but Employee Kwon didn’t even see it before he turned to Lee Jae-heon and let out a trembling voice.
“…Director, Manager. What’s wrong.”
“Employee Kwon took the kids and ran away.”
“yes? yes? “I hate you, Manager….”
Employee Kwon shook his head without even being able to wipe away the tears he had been shedding since Manager Kang died, and the siblings looked at them with confused eyes.
Jaeheon Lee roughly understood the students’ thoughts.
‘Since they were the last to join the group, they probably thought they were being used as bait.’
He felt an inexplicable sense of satisfaction at the prospect without a shred of humanity.
As expected, it was an efficient decision as befits the main character, and I was even happier because it was a situation that would have been very likely had he gone to someone other than our group.
Even though it wasn’t as good as mine, which is a mental illness, it was a judgment that I liked.
But Jaeheon Lee had no intention of doing so.
To be precise, he also thought it would be efficient to use students as bait, but he concluded that it would be foolish to show behavior that deviates from the setting in a situation where you don’t know whether you could die right away or not.
However, since that one death could be his last death, it had to be a situation where it didn’t matter if he died.
“Can’t we all just run away together? “If I help you…”
“I don’t think you’re in your right mind, so I can’t explain it to you kindly.”
However, it failed to keep its distance and the story got a little twisted.
“It’s not that I don’t do it, it’s that I can’t do it, Kwon Yeon-hee.”
Therefore, Jaeheon Lee had no choice but to create a situation in which he had to die.
Fortunately, perhaps thanks to his previous altruistic attitude, Employee Kwon did not listen to his words.
If her perception of the old manager had been the same, it would have been improbable and things would have become awkward between them, but since it was Lee Jae-heon’s remark, who had sacrificed for them until now, she understood his words without difficulty.
Of course, I resisted several times, as if I didn’t want to accept his words, but the situation was not as relaxed as Lee Jae-heon had hoped.
In the end, Employee Kwon had to be convinced by the monster narrowing its range by scanning the floor with its toothy vines as if it was chasing its prey.
Jaeheon Lee looked at employee Yeonhee Kwon, who was holding the hands of the students with empty eyes.
Lee Jae-heon could feel Chief Kang’s traces in the action of holding hands even though he had to run away, but he soon erased it by looking at the main characters, the siblings.
He handed his lighter to the older sister of the siblings, who stared at me with pale eyes.
“The reason that bastard comes here is because he smells blood. “Officer Kwon is not seriously injured right now, is he?”
“….”
“Yeah, I don’t think there is one. The student has an injured leg, but the monster is still one. If we split in two, that bastard will go to the direction where he smells more blood. okay?”
“…yes.”
“Thank you so much for answering that.”
Suddenly,
Jaeheon Lee stood up, leaning on the tree with his back against it, and continued speaking.
“…I will be here.”
“Boss.”
“It takes a lot of time to take off the bandages anyway. Go now. “It’s late.”
“….”
Without another word, the students held the hand of absent-minded Employee Kwon as he watched the doctor unwrap the bandage that had been used to stop the bleeding.
Perhaps because I had not met them for very long, it was much easier for me to leave him behind than for Employee Kwon.
Of course, that doesn’t mean the siblings aren’t chicks either, so they left with gray faces, but Lee Jae-heon was greatly impressed by the fact that they at least had the ability to lead even employee Kwon.
As expected, he had the acting skills of a guy who survived in the park with just one person’s management skills. When it is resurrected, you need to raise it well.
After removing the bandages and opening the wound with his hands a few times, Lee Jae-heon sighed as he saw the body bleeding again and the monster approaching him as if it had smelled blood.
This is a pretty good situation.
‘I’m glad.’
Kwasik.
Countless teeth pierced his neck.
However, he had to help Employee Kwon, who had run away, so he lured Assistant Manager Jeong with his blood, but he gave his head to the monster so that Assistant Manager Jeong wouldn’t have the foolish idea of saving him.
If he thinks he can save him after seeing this scum, he must have misread the person named In-ho Jeong.
As I was blocking the monster that was trying to kill me with one arm, hoping to take as long as possible, I heard a familiar voice through my blurry mind.
“…Boss.”
The main character was assistant manager Jeong In-ho.
“Yah.”
This means that Director Lee Jae-heon’s role is over.
“Hey, Jeong… Assistant Manager.”
“….”
“…Si hibal. “This is also running away. Kids, this is….”
He stamped the pipe that he had been unable to hand over to Employee Kwon earlier with his foot.
I kept it because I thought he wouldn’t be able to escape if I handed him this, but it was no longer of any use to him.
After all, what more does a dying person need?
“…Help me.”
As long as the living ones survived, that was enough.
“…Chief….”
“Bah Harley.”
“Wait a minute, no, wait a minute”
“….”
“Why…”
Even though that disgusting Assistant Manager Jeong In-ho is still alive, he still seems to have not grasped the situation, he just hesitates and does not move.
It was just ridiculous that a guy who would throw away everything, including his humanity, in the second half of the film, would do that just because he was still a chick.
Feeling tired that the story would be long, Jaeheon Lee offered his head to the monster.
“…Kahahah.”
“….”
“Bff.”
If you don’t leave after doing this, you don’t even deserve to be the main character.
To be honest, I couldn’t remember what happened next.
I was so tattered that I couldn’t even breathe properly, so it was amazing that I was able to come to my senses this far.
However, it was instinctive to know that Deputy In-ho Jeong had left the scene safely as he intended, so there was no one who would watch Jae-heon Lee’s death until the end.
Even if he came back to life right away, there wouldn’t be much risk since there would be no one around.
Of course, when we meet again later, the reaction may be ‘How on earth did you survive in that situation?’…
‘That’s about it.’
Jaeheon Lee also prepared an excuse for this.
Since there was no need to go find the group immediately after being revived, there was no problem even if the dead body was revived on the spot.
If the group were to meet each other again, it wouldn’t be that difficult to find a new base since President Yoon was there, and the mental power of the siblings who joined later was quite useful, so it would also be helpful to the disgusting protagonist.
At least in his opinion, it was the best result, aside from his personal gain.
Jaeheon Lee stared at the monster that cruelly opened its mouth towards him with blurry eyes.
‘I think this is enough to serve as bait…’
Tuk.
He soon relaxed his grip as he felt his body becoming cold and his mind becoming dazed.
The blood seemed to have drained away for a long time, and there was no feeling in the hand anymore.
Although his head was buzzing and his stomach was pounding, Jaeheon Lee struggled to glance at the spot where I had last rolled the pipe.
The grass with the bright red blood stains was empty, and it was clear that the protagonist had finally left with his pipe.
“….”
Disgusting bastard.
Now it was my turn to die in peace.
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…and survived.
“Huh.”
“Boss?”
“No, I just have something to think about.”
To be exact, it regressed.
It’s really hard to make a living.
