Episode 283
Let’s go back to the original novel for a moment. At that time, the main character could not return and did not know much about the behind-the-scenes world. There were only two reasons why the main character was able to survive to the end despite being in a situation where Lee Jae-heon was lacking in many ways compared to the present when Lee Jae-heon recalled his past life.
First, the protagonist’s crazy mental power. Second, the healing ability of azalea.
‘If I had to point out the ability of azalea, it would be folk remedies.’
In fact, azaleas hate folk remedies. Because she had basic medical knowledge, she knew how absurd it was, and because she had suffered from her parents’ folk remedies when she was young, she felt ashamed of herself for coming to the underworld and treating survivors.
‘It’s effective because it’s a secret world, but in reality, it’s about catching people you don’t like.’
However, there were times when she received intuitions that were too strong to ignore, and those were the perfect times to treat survivors. All of the treatments that Azalea felt were possible worked. Even if it’s absolutely ridiculous.
“Why is this… really why…?”
“What kind of reason are you looking for in this miserable world?”
“But common sense….”
“Where is common sense here? “Come to your senses and take care of this mop.”
For reference, the ‘rag partner’ was Lee Jae-heon.
‘…I think I’m about to lose my mind.’
The reason Lee Jae-heon held on so as not to die was because he was worried about the disadvantages he would receive if he was killed by the possessor, but there was no need to worry about that even in the current situation. This is because I felt that the azalea’s folk remedies worked well as my organs recovered and the bleeding stopped. I felt like I would be fine again if I recovered slowly.
However, Lee Jae-heon’s fatigued mind was on the verge of giving up.
“Uh, if I carry you on my back… it won’t work, right?”
“It will be difficult for the patient. Even though I’m magically saved from death, I’m still in bad shape. If possible, it would be nice to have something like a portable bed…”
“Shall we make a stretcher?”
“It’s not bad, but… if it doesn’t work out, I think the easiest thing would be to create a simple shelter here, let him recover until he regains consciousness, and have someone buy him medicine from the pharmacy.”
“The bones… what should I do about the medicine that heals the bones?”
“I guess I’ll have to think about that.”
My solar plexus was pierced indiscriminately while I was already in a bad condition, and my organs have only just barely recovered. The bleeding was stopped with azalea folk remedies, but that did not mean that the torn muscles and bones returned to their original state. This was the reason why Lee Jae-heon’s mind went back and forth.
You are just one step away from the verge of death.
‘If I lose my mind like this… what’s the problem?’
It seems that his companions already thought he had lost his mind, but Lee Jae-heon carefully organized his thoughts with the remaining consciousness. Is there any reason to come to my senses in this state where I feel exhausted and exhausted?
“Oh, looking at the smoke, I guess the search team has returned.”
“Shouldn’t you tell me a little bit about the situation here?”
“You are correct. Mr. Munsan, could you please bring some people here?”
It seems like we’ve been planning a strategy among ourselves, so it’s pretty quick.
“yes yes! “The kids are already very anxious.”
“Please… keep those kids from coming here as much as possible. “It’s not a good thing to show.”
“Ah… I’ll try my best.”
Munsan-gun, which was busy struggling, is now doing its job quite well.
“…Mom, if you refrain from using folk remedies as much as possible…”
“So I killed this gentleman? You didn’t do that. “Why are you so strict?”
“Can’t you at least talk to me and then write it down? That’s because this soft-hearted doctor was surprised. “Please be a little more understanding.”
“I don’t do things like this without even thinking.”
Judging by the conversation, it looks like abilities other than Azalea’s abilities will soon be revealed.
‘…I think it’s okay?’
He probably wouldn’t die if he left his consciousness like this. I felt that the organs that had been punctured were functioning properly again, and more than anything, Jaeheon Lee himself was tired. At this rate, wouldn’t it be okay to fall asleep like this?
“I wish Jaeheon Lee would come to his senses sooner than that.”
“Do you see what this girl did again?”
“Besides, I have a lot to ask.”
hmm.
“I think we need to talk.”
It won’t work.
Jaeheon Lee decided to let go of the ceremony in peace.
* * *
“Mister…!”
It was Park Da-hoon who panicked the most after seeing Lee Jae-heon’s condition.
“uncle Uncle…! OMG…!”
“Dahun, wait a minute. Let’s calm down.”
“mister…!”
Jeong In-ho blocked him, but Park Da-hoon didn’t even notice him. This was because he was so confused that he didn’t know that someone was blocking him. His condition was so bad that his older sister, Park Da-young, patted him and tried to stop him.
“Park Da-hoon. Hey Dahun. It’s okay… He said he’s not dead.”
“Ugh… Ugh…”
“It’s true. Do you believe what you say is true? “He’s breathing.”
“Hmm….”
Despite Park Da-young’s comfort, Park Da-hoon did not calm down easily.
“Because of me….”
“What are you talking about? It’s not because of you. Didn’t you hear? “I heard that strange kidnapper was so damned.”
“I got greedy…”
“…Why are you really like that…”
Park Da-young also cried, but Park Da-hoon couldn’t stop blaming himself. I don’t know about Park Da-young, who has no memories before returning, but they had already committed a big crime against Lee Jae-heon. Park Da-hoon knew that.
‘If it weren’t for us, he wouldn’t have died.’
Please make me prettier and save me more. Jaeheon Lee died in the last episode because of his greed to not abandon us. As Park Da-hoon, who remembers that he was tormented by monsters for an hour and stayed by Park Da-hoon’s side until the end, he couldn’t help but blame himself.
It’s already a situation like that, and I can’t come to my senses after seeing Lee Jae-heon dying again. Memories from before the regression overlapped and my heart pounded.
“Uncle…”
All this time, I was trying hard to ignore it and say it wasn’t my fault. Because of my selfishness, I couldn’t even apologize for what happened back then. If he died like that, Park Da-hoon would have suffered irreparable damage.
“How is Dahun?”
When Jeong In-ho, one of the search team members who returned to the shelter only after the incident occurred, asked, Park Da-young answered in an uncharacteristically stuttering manner.
“Now… I think I need to give you a moment. “I’m not really that kind of kid.”
“I’m not trying to blame you, so Dayoung, let’s calm down. It’s okay, Manager, you’ll wake up soon.”
“I’m sorry….”
“You guys have nothing to be sorry about. “Why do smart kids do this?”
Following Park Da-hoon, Park Da-young’s condition deteriorated significantly to the extent that even Jeong In-ho, who had no particular attachment to the students, had to be comforted while sweating. Seeing Park Da-hoon, who had no responsibility for this situation, blaming himself and saying it was his fault, I was able to guess what happened in the last episode.
“I really do. I’m really sorry…”
Park Da-hoon made most of the decisions together with Park Da-young. So, Park Da-young thought that if Park Da-hoon was at fault, she was also at fault.
“Park Da-hoon will get better soon, too. I’m sorry, it’ll get better soon…”
“Dayoung, no one is blaming you. You seem to be very surprised, so it would be better to take a break with the students. huh?”
“…Yes, yes… I will.”
In-ho Jeong managed to comfort the siblings, but the adults were also disturbed by the sight of the Park siblings looking whiter than usual.
“Children aren’t like that to begin with…”
“I feel sorry for them. “He just muttered that it was his fault.”
The morale of the students had sunk to the extent that Lee Yoon-byeol, who spoke little, agreed. Even students who had just joined the team knew how important Jaeheon Lee was to this team of survivors. Moreover, Kim Hee-chan even recovered his leg thanks to Lee Jae-heon.
“Are you sure this guy Lee Jae-heon is okay?”
“yes I’m fine. “You are recovering slowly, so there is no need to be scared.”
“But…”
“You’re a patient too. It is important for patients to rest comfortably. got it?”
“…thank you.”
After consoling the students for a while, Ha Seong-yoon rubbed his tired eyes.
“It’s good that the kids are nice, but in this case, the problem is that they’re too nice.”
“It’s a world where originally good people suffer losses.”
“There is no need for children to suffer such losses. “This is all the fault of the adults who ate it up.”
Ha Seong-yoon sighed and said.
“Why on earth was Jae-heon Lee facing that crazy guy?…”
The most credible hypothesis was, ‘It may be a result of Jae-heon Lee’s reason being clouded.’ Hasn’t there been a time in the park where you couldn’t bear the stress caused by an injury and ran out in the middle of a conversation?
“I heard it looked like we knew each other. “Maybe that’s why he went.”
“If I had met an old friend while my judgment was clouded, I would have easily been drawn in. It’s obvious even if you don’t look at it, he must have been so shocked that he ran away…”
Although he pretended not to, Lee Jae-heon was a very affectionate person. If a survivor I had been with in the past had called me to come here, there was a high probability that I would have followed them voluntarily. I don’t know if he was in a good state of mind, but he wasn’t in a good condition to begin with. I roughly understood it.
“I would like to ask for more precise details, but it rarely happens.”
In particular, Ha Seong-yoon had many things he wanted to ask him.
“I never knew a body could be cleaned up so cleanly.”
“There were too many strange parts in the information that Han Do-yoon gave me.”
Jeong In-ho blinked his eyes slowly.
Han Do-yoon relayed what he heard, saying, ‘The manager dragged the kidnapper to the secret world, and in the process, his name disappeared, and the kidnapper had to kill Lee Jae-heon to return to reality.’ However, Han Do-yoon himself, who delivered those words, did not have the slightest understanding of what the kidnapper was talking about.
“…Let’s sum it up slowly. First of all, the kidnapper is Jae-heon Lee’s old colleague.”
“I said everything to the point where the manager couldn’t tell what was coming and ran out. “Why did a person who was smart enough to throw away his shoes and socks so as not to make a sound do such a foolish thing?”
“Isn’t that because we have a lot of affection? It seems that the kidnapper was not usually very clever. Who would have thought that sending the search team outside was the kidnapper’s ploy? Plus, seeing as I called you Captain, it seemed like we got along quite well.”
“You’re saying we’re on good terms?”
Jeong In-ho frowned.
“You mean the guy who was whining and begging for death for himself and the manager who is the victim who hasn’t even regained consciousness yet?”
“What can’t you do if your life is at stake? From what I heard, it seems like he relied on Jaeheon Lee a lot in the past… I won’t deny that it seemed like something. But more importantly, what does the name have to do with the manager?”
Ha Seong-yoon touched his earlobe.
“Administrator… An administrator has the power to take someone’s name and force them into the secret world. … Is this what you mean?”
“I think that’s right. If you want to go back to reality, the person who ordered the manager to be killed would have been a manager, so a manager like that… would not be friendly to the manager.”
“…Then is it God?”
“yes?”
“The god of the other world.”
The doctor’s eyes rolled back as clear as glass.
“Maybe it’s because I’m a believer, but this is the only way I can think about it.”
“…he didn’t seem to have a very deep faith.”
“It’s just not relying on God. Even if I pray thousands of times, God will not save my poor patients. “Believe in the existence itself, but do not rely on it.”
“I’m not particularly curious about Ha Seong-yoon’s religious life. “It is a little interesting that the god of the secret world is the manager, but…”
Jeong In-ho made an embarrassed expression.
“If that were the case, shouldn’t it have been called ‘God’ instead of ‘Administrator’? Han Do-yoon said that it was an attitude of calling and treating people you clearly knew.”
“It could be a seed from God. Empowered?”
“Does this mean that one of the survivors…has been given the authority to be an administrator?”
“….”
Ha Seong-yoon said, removing his hand from his earlobe.
“well.”
He looked at the translucent ghost among the survivors.
The police officer smiling like a snake.
