Episode 285
It was five days later when Lee Jae-heon woke up.
“But you woke up earlier than expected.”
“I wonder what the expectations were.”
“Well, about two weeks?”
“Who are you considering as a critically ill patient?”
“Doctor, you are a critically ill patient. Don’t talk nonsense.”
Lee Jae-heon looked tired of the nagging that started as soon as he woke up, and Ha Seong-yoon smiled sadly.
“If you’re already tired, the future will be difficult…”
“What is it? “What does that sympathetic look mean?”
“It’s even more surprising that you ask because you don’t know that.”
And Lee Jae-heon was pampered by the chicks who had been waiting endlessly for him to wake up.
“Mister…!”
“Chief, are you okay?!”
“Hehehe, Manager!”
Even so for Park Da-young, Woo Woo-young, and Kwon Yeon-hee, who were purely worried about Lee Jae-heon’s physical condition.
“Are you out of your mind to follow that?”
“If you’re hurt that much, please stay still.”
“Unless he’s really crazy…”
The chicks who were angry that Lee Jae-heon followed the possessed person were really disgusting to see. He looked away from them in disgust.
“Still, I guess you managed to stop by the pharmacy.”
“Are you changing your mind?”
“Ah, are you going to keep talking back when an adult speaks? huh? “Very cocky.”
“….”
“Why?”
Ha Seong-yoon, who was looking at Jeong In-ho, who was at a loss for words, as if it were funny, said with a smile.
“While you were asleep, I stopped by the convenience store twice and the pharmacy once. “There was no way to do anything with the bones, so we only hastily pulled out the fragments, so please refrain from violent movements.”
“For some reason, it was difficult to breathe.”
“Sleep in discomfort, and please know that this time you really almost died. “They say that if something goes wrong in the chest, not anywhere else, it means life.”
“I didn’t pierce the solar plexus on purpose, right…”
“I just happen to want to ask you something about that.”
Ha Seong-yoon crossed his arms and asked.
“What on earth was that stupid friend doing?”
Yeah, I knew this question would come up.
“…I wasn’t that stupid…”
“Why are you defending me again? “Are you a fanatic?”
“No, that’s not it. This means that it is true. He really wasn’t that stupid. “I’m not saying he did the right thing at all, but…”
I sighed as I felt the bones around my solar plexus tingling.
“Shit, I don’t even know.”
Jaeheon Lee didn’t know much about this situation.
“First of all… uh… I followed along that way, but of course I am reflecting on that. I was out of my mind at the time… I thought I wouldn’t miss it, so I followed along…”
“You must be so foolish.”
“Hmm.”
Fortunately, Ha Seong-yoon seemed to think that Lee Jae-heon did not follow him voluntarily, but that the possessor clouded his mind and made him follow him. While Lee Jae-heon was making a perplexed expression, Detective Hong Gyeong-jun approached him.
“Were you already talking?”
“Detective, why are you here again?”
“yes? Well… isn’t that what the police do? Listen to the circumstances.”
“The words are too serious….”
“I don’t want to do anything serious with Mr. Lee Jae-heon, but what can I do? “You always get caught up in strange things, so I have to do something like this.”
While saying that and shrugging his shoulders, it felt strange to see that ‘Jaeheon Lee’ seemed to be really at ease. As it was, there was no reason for Hong Gyeong-jun to feel this comfortable with ‘Lee Jae-heon’.
‘They keep comparing me to the shooter… Will this be a problem later?’
Jaeheon Lee thought for a moment before shaking off his thoughts. It wasn’t a problem right away, but in order to maintain Yuri’s mental strength, I could at least imitate the shooter. In the first place, the shooter was also Lee Jae-heon himself.
After thinking about it, he opened his mouth.
“Okay, let’s hurry up and get it over with.”
“Why are you saying the right thing?”
The disgusting middle-aged chicks welcomed Lee Jae-heon’s proactiveness, but unfortunately, there was little he could say.
“I’ll tell you in advance, I don’t know anything either.”
This was because he too was a shrimp that got caught up in the fight between the whales called managers and writers.
“All I know is that a former close colleague tried to kill me to return to reality. “I was surprised that the guy I thought I would never see again rushed at me, threatening to kill me.”
“이거 여러모로 개새끼군요.”
“….”
“Why? Please continue, sir.”
There was silence for a moment due to the rare and explicit remarks that came from Ha Seong-yoon’s mouth, but then Lee Jae-heon cleared his throat and continued speaking again.
“There was something strange. “He’s not really that dull and judgmental, but he was already in a bad state when I first met him.”
“Do you mean the mind or the body by state?”
“I think it was both… Because it was covered in blood. I don’t remember very well, but it seems like the injury was not from a human, but from a monster, but he wasn’t the kind of guy who would be that stupid to get hurt by a monster. “No matter how crazy I was, I couldn’t understand it.”
Jaeheon Lee spoke based on facts in his own way.
‘I don’t know what the probability is, but I can’t lie.’
In fact, a person who lies must know the whole story to be able to tell a lie clearly. Especially in this place full of disgusting chicks, if you lie hastily, your settings error could be discovered right away. Jaeheon Lee tried to tell the truth whenever possible.
Moreover, since the chicks here have a knack for writing novels, there is an expectation that if you roughly throw in the truth, they will create the setting on their own.
“And… um….”
Lee Jae-heon said as if he remembered it.
“That’s right. “I couldn’t remember the name.”
“What’s your name?”
“I remember what he was doing, but I couldn’t remember his name. “At first, it was difficult to even remember who the other person was.”
Lee Jae-heon, who roughly finished, stroked the corner of his mouth.
“That’s all I know. “Really.”
“You didn’t tell me what your relationship was with the kidnapper.”
“….”
“Even if you stare at me like that, I have to do my job, right?”
Lee Jae-heon frowned as Hong Gyeong-jun slyly shrugged his shoulders. I’m sure he wasn’t this sly guy when I read the novel, or even when I first met him, but I don’t know how he ended up like this.
“It really wasn’t that much of a relationship….”
“It can’t be.”
“Huh.”
Lee Jae-heon sighed deeply as he saw the main character’s dark gaze looking at him.
“It was just… a colleague. “Younger than me.”
It wasn’t wrong as he was a junior at my previous job.
“If you were trying to point out a bitter relationship, it turned out to be unfortunate. The relationship was pretty good. “I don’t know if I was the only one who thought that way, but we had a relationship where we helped each other do our jobs.”
“For something like that, I heard he tried to kill me violently.”
“Aren’t humans basically creatures that go crazy when they get scared? I want to go back to reality, but since I’m on the verge of death, my judgment is blurred and I’m probably anxious. There are many people who change their words when they are having a hard time. “I just became plain selfish.”
“I listened well to what you said about trying to understand the other person somehow.”
“No, not somehow… If only he had the time, he would have been a really nice guy.”
“Why can’t you be sure?”
“…Ugh…”
Honestly, when comparing this world to my previous life, there was bound to be a big difference in the average personality of the residents. Because the conscience of a world where you never die will be different from the culture and perception of a world where once you die, it’s over.
“….”
Still, by the standards of his past life, he wasn’t a bad guy, right?
“Well he was a good guy.”
“I reject it.”
“If it’s going to be like this, why did you ask?”
“To analyze Jaeheon Lee’s mental state?”
“Look at what you’re saying. “What did I do so wrong?”
“Rather than saying ‘I did something wrong,’ shouldn’t we look at it as ‘wrong’?”
“Huh.”
When I let out an exclamation of astonishment, Ha Seong-yoon raised his hand.
“Then do you know anything about the manager?”
“…Administrator?”
Jaeheon Lee made a desperate effort to pretend not to know. Here, it made no sense if ‘Jaeheon Lee’ knew the manager.
“…Ah, when we were fighting… I think the other person muttered a few times when I was fighting that guy.”
“Did you say anything else?”
“I’ve heard quite a few people say they don’t want to die, or beg for help, or beg for death.”
“aha.”
As Ha Seong-yoon’s smile grew deeper, Lee Jae-heon asked.
“…Do you hate it that much?”
“Are you saying that?”
“I made a mistake. sorry.”
“Even so…”
He tilted his head, looking at Lee Jae-heon’s solar plexus.
“It must be difficult to tell because the bones in your chest are broken, but you are speaking quite smoothly.”
“Well, this isn’t a very… serious injury.”
“That doesn’t sound like a horse?”
“Why do you criticize me whenever I say something?”
“You have to sound like a horse to be accepted, sir.”
Hong Gyeong-jun intervened in Ha Seong-yoon and Lee Jae-heon’s comic talk.
“It seems like they were on good terms, and they weren’t too upset that the criminal died.”
“….”
“I even tried to kill you first, but it doesn’t seem like you were disappointed.”
Lee Jae-heon blinked slowly and answered.
“It’s just for some reason…”
“For some reason?”
“I thought it might be like this.”
Hong Gyeong-jun asked.
“What do you mean this could happen?”
“It doesn’t seem like anything special.”
“It’s something special.”
“I don’t know if I thought it could be like this someday, or if I just didn’t feel it… I wasn’t really surprised. “Since the first time we met.”
It wasn’t surprising. Not only was the park already aware of the existence of possessors, but it was a common occurrence for former residents to sacrifice a small number of people for the benefit of themselves and the community. So, I wasn’t surprised when a junior, whom I had a good relationship with, tried to kill me.
“That could be true.”
Even if he tries to kill Lee Jae-heon out of selfishness or, conversely, dies in his own grass.
“It’s not really anything special, after all.”
Anyone could do that.
“…Oh, by the way, do you have enough food? If you didn’t have cash, it would have been difficult to buy things at a convenience store. “You’re not flexible enough to give your finger.”
“…I spent all the cash I had, but that was enough for now, and I traded by-products such as simple clothes and hair. I don’t have any problem.”
Jeong In-ho said with a smile.
“Manager, when you have some free time, let’s go to the pharmacy. Even if the organs and skin somehow got better, the damage to the ribs was still severe. “No one has any broken bones, so it would be better for the manager to visit in person.”
“I’m fine. It would be impossible to go alone, but…”
“No crazy person would send a patient like you to the mall alone.”
Hong Gyeong-jun nodded at that.
“Well, I’ve heard everything, but there are still a lot of things that haven’t been resolved… It’s not important right now, so it’s best to get some rest first. Let’s proceed slowly. “There’s no need to rush.”
After talking for a while, they put Lee Jae-heon down again and left. Lee Jae-heon, who had suddenly received such a warm welcome, blinked blankly and then closed his eyes. This was because recovery had not yet occurred.
Then, a sudden thought occurred to me.
“….”
Now that I think about it, why did it have to be a plaster statue?
‘…It’s a really random thought, but really, why?’
Survivors trapped inside the school were turned into plaster statues.
‘But why? why?’
Why did it have to be a plaster statue? There must have been many different types of monsters. There was a reason for everything in this world, even if it was very trivial.
So what is the topic related to plaster statues?
“…Uhm….”
After tossing and turning for a moment, Jaeheon Lee closed his eyes again.
Whatever it was, I was sleepy now.
