Episode 290
“We don’t have to do anything like this, right?”
Seong Ji-ho muttered shakily at student Maeng Na-eun’s words.
“I’m picking up tree branches, but it hurts a little…”
“I’m that nasty old man, Lee Jae-heon… I screamed when he came, bleeding profusely. But they didn’t bother to tell me the circumstances.”
“It seems like you’re trying to protect me, but it’s also out of conscience. a little.”
Park Da-young and Park Da-hoon, who looked at the students’ reactions, opened their mouths.
“Still, wouldn’t it be better to receive something when someone is considerate? I understand what you mean, but adults seem more uncomfortable with us joining in. No, rather than saying it’s uncomfortable….”
“A more accurate way to say it would be to be cautious. In fact, we are not the only ones who are protected like this.”
Kim Hee-chan asked after Park Da-hoon’s words.
“Those kindergarteners? “They are real babies.”
“No, not them….”
Park Da-hoon slowly raised his finger, and his gaze fell on teacher Lee Yun-byeol. She, who was in charge of playing with Jang Seo-ah and Choi Min-hong all day, also had an expression on her face that asked, ‘Am I doing this well?’ It was evident on his face that he was not good at hiding his emotions.
“Aha….”
“Well, that’s true, but….”
“Besides that older sister, the grandmother over there, Munsan-gun, team leader Woo Soo-young, the conductor… there are many people who are being cared for. “Adults are also protected, so is there anything we can’t get?”
Maeng Na-eun countered Park Da-hoon’s quiet words.
“So isn’t that more of a problem…?”
A deep sense of guilt was evident in the cautious question.
“Only people who get hurt every day get hurt.”
“That’s right.”
Neither Park Da-hoon nor Park Da-young could say anything about that. If we were to be fair, all survivors should have joined the search team at least once to look around and retrieve necessary items, but the current survivor team had a strong tendency to stick to what they were comfortable with.
“It’s not for those of us who received help to say anything, but I guess this is… a bit… a bit…”
“I feel very uncomfortable. “If I go out looking for food and someone comes back dead, I don’t think I’ll be able to come to my senses.”
Seong Ji-ho, who hesitated for a while, muttered.
“…Shouldn’t we also join the school tour?”
“…Right…”
The Park siblings were dumbfounded as they looked at the students who were sullen with a sense of useless duty, but they soon remembered what had happened in the last session and made sad expressions.
“Then should we ask for a seat too?”
“Uh huh…? “Is that possible?”
“Why not? You can just ask. Kim Hee-chan seems to be almost completely better now… It won’t be difficult to at least hold out on the first floor and inform you over the phone.”
At first, they got hurt a lot and died because they didn’t know the strategy, but didn’t they all come out alive during this visit when Da-hoon Park remembered the previous episode? If you knew the rules that well, it wasn’t a problem to sneak out by exploiting loopholes.
“You can take turns staying in the bathroom.”
“Or hide under the chair…”
“There are grooves between the hallways. “I think it’s more worth doing than I thought.”
“Of course, if you work hard for 8 hours, it will be a bit difficult to last 16 hours.”
“It’s the same no matter where you go in the other side of the world.”
Of course, no matter where you go in the underworld, there are few places where you can exercise your mental power as much as school, but the Park siblings calmly carried on with their morale. Judging from what Lee Jae-heon was talking about, he seemed like he was going to enter the school, so to save him, it wouldn’t have been a bad idea to have some students who knew the school structure well accompany him.
‘Instead, be a quick guy.’
‘Except Kim Hee-chan. ‘When that bastard panics, he does stupid things.’
‘At least Seong Ji-ho is better. Even though I’m dull, I’m strong.’
‘I’m sure Maeng Na-eun will do well.’
The siblings exchanged opinions with their gazes and decided to use them effectively. To avoid sacrificing Lee Jae-heon to save these guys like in the last episode, they brought him out with at least his life intact.
Jeong In-ho smiled at the students’ opinions.
“I see…”
There was a look hidden between neat smiles that said, ‘These little things are doing tricks,’ but the Park siblings held their heads up proudly. In any case, if students who are familiar with the school structure and are good at their jobs are included in the search team, the probability of success in the search increases.
Jeong In-ho rolled his eyes a few times and asked if he thought that too.
“Is it true that you have discussed it sufficiently with the students? “It’s going to be very difficult.”
In other words, when asked, ‘Aren’t you going to whine later?’, Park Da-young smiled her signature sly smile.
“On the contrary, I am depressed because I am not getting any help. “Wouldn’t it be possible to wait on the first floor and make phone calls?”
“Well, they are all smart students… Well, let me tell you something. “You don’t know what will happen, so don’t expect too much.”
“sure.”
Even though they said this, the siblings could tell that they seemed to like the students’ suggestions. In the first place, Jeong In-ho had a strong sense of responsibility and was not a person who truly cared about children.
Dayoung Park thought as she walked among the students.
‘…After all, the only person I can trust is you.’
The other adults were great people who, even if they felt responsibility or remorse for minors, would say no to me when things got difficult for them. Hong Gyeong-jun was strange and inflexible, Ha Seong-yoon was oddly strange and unsympathetic, and Jeong In-ho just had no conscience. The only one who could truly take responsibility for them was Lee Jae-heon.
“He said he would make a suggestion. “Let’s wait!”
“That’s right. “We have to do something too.”
“That’s right…”
A strange darkness appeared on the faces of the students who muttered that.
‘They’re not ordinary at all.’
Park Da-hoon rested his chin and turned his gaze to the bonfire.
If it were other ordinary students, they wouldn’t have come to their senses from the other world in the first place… but still, they wouldn’t have wanted to voluntarily go to a place to die. In fact, the guys right in front of me seemed to be doing it out of a sense of compulsion and obligation rather than out of a genuine desire to help.
In a word, I suffer from the feeling of nervousness that ‘it can’t just be like this.’
“…I want to go to my uncle’s house.”
“me too.”
Ignoring the twists and turns in their daily lives, the Park siblings talked about ordinary things.
It was an extremely normal, conversation like any other student.
* * *
Jaeheon Lee was the one who opposed the students’ opinions the most.
“What nonsense are you talking about?”
“Teacher, these kids are saying nonsense.”
“What are you talking about? Those students are not suicidal and there is no way they want to go back to school. “This is ridiculous.”
Ha Seong-yoon shrugged his shoulders.
“From what I heard, it sounds like you have a strong sense of debt. “How about entrusting me with even a small task?”
“Still, school is still… If that’s the way to go, let’s join the garden exploration team.”
“This is a treatment that is inconsistent with the students’ claims. Those children know the structure of the school well and know what the atmosphere at Eonhak High School was like. “Isn’t it too much to ask children who want to use it to explore the garden?”
“Since when did the world’s standard for ‘too much’ change? No, why did they make that decision in the first place…”
Lee Jae-heon was troubled by their behavior when they treated him like a minor and then kicked him out. If it were me, I would make a big joke out of it when someone compliments me, but I wonder what these crazy people are thinking. I couldn’t quite understand it.
“….”
Actually, yes.
I understood the context.
“…was it too cheap?”
“It’s not just the students’ story, but… we’ve become a bit entrenched, I guess?”
Jeong In-ho nodded at Ha Seong-yoon’s words.
“Only people who are exploring are going out and coming back every time. It was like that when the manager collapsed…”
“He was sleeping, not collapsed.”
“Yes, anyway, even when you were down, only people who had been there before went to the convenience store. “Other survivors will definitely be slower to react when we are not there.”
“Still… I understand that team leader Woo Soo-young and Mr. Kim Ki-jeong often expressed their intention to join the search team?”
“That’s a different story.”
Jeong In-ho waved his finger in the air.
“What I meant was, when all the key personnel are gone, are the remaining survivors capable of dealing with the threat? As you can see from the students’ reactions, some people feel a sense of debt.”
“That’s…”
Lee Jae-heon thought of teacher Lee Yun-byeol, who came to me the day before and talked nonsense for a long time.
“…I see.”
“I don’t have anything to do, so I have no choice but to zone out all the time, so I seem to have a tendency to fall into bad thoughts. After all, people have to act so they don’t think about anything else.”
It was quite a scary thing to say from doctor Ha Seong-yoon, but Lee Jae-heon also agreed.
“People… are meant to roll. you’re right.”
“Haha, you know the truth of life. “Humans in the world are divided into two groups: those who grow by rolling and those who find no answer no matter how hard they roll.”
“Seeing as you two are telling really scary stories, you seem really fine.”
Jeong In-ho attacked the two with a sad smile, but neither Lee Jae-heon nor Ha Seong-yoon suffered any damage. This was because both of them had been in a position where they were both responsible for driving other people at the same time as Cloud.
Ha Seong-yoon made the first suggestion.
“Then, for the first search, we will only consist of existing members, and for the second and third… Let’s add slightly different people for the subsequent searches. “If students volunteer, it would be better not to stop them.”
“Actually, students also have to adapt. “Once you’ve been to this side of the world, you never know when you’ll come back again… I think it would be a good idea to take Eonhakgo with you and teach him how to escape in case we’re not around.”
Lee Jae-heon made a subtle expression during the conversation between Ha Seong-yoon and Jeong In-ho.
“…Is that okay?”
“I really think about this every time, but there is a part of the manager that tries to care too much for minors.”
“But the kids are still…”
No, aren’t you supposed to be saving minors?
‘That’s how I learned it?’
It may have been the culture of a past life, but according to common sense in the world today, minors should be protected and cherished unconditionally. Of course, it would be a different story if they were people who took advantage of the fact that they were minors to do crazy things, but wasn’t it natural that we should cherish and cherish such sane students?
Jeong In-ho let out a hollow laugh at Lee Jae-heon’s frowning face as if he didn’t understand.
“…How much protection have you received…”
“What did you say?”
“No, I made a mistake. “Then, let’s form a garden exploration team first.”
“No, this person right now…”
Despite Lee Jae-heon’s reaction, Jeong In-ho and Ha Seong-yoon gathered the survivors and determined the number of people to move to the garden. They carefully formed an investigation team to see if there was a crazy person attacking the main base like last time when key personnel were not present.
“Then let’s do it this way.”
Kim Yeon-woo, a police officer, has to pass by the shopping mall. Kang Min-ah, a talented search team member, and Yoon Gar-ram, who can set off a fire when the time comes. Jeong In-ho, who can respond quickly, and Ha Seong-yoon, who can provide first aid in an emergency…
“Oh, can I go?”
“Han Do-yoon is not fully recovered yet… If you’re going to stop by the pharmacy, I’ll put it in, but this time we’re exploring the garden. Let’s go together next time you go to the pharmacy. “I’m also considering whether I really need to go.”
“Oh, I see. “It would be nice for me to rest.”
“In the meantime, don’t bother the monsters… ha, I really try to say all these things.”
“I won’t bother you…”
Han Do-yoon wasn’t bad either, but he didn’t recover well, so he passed. Kim Ki-jeong, who has amazing hearing, also lost his ability again due to fatigue, so he was left on standby.
“I won’t be okay?”
“Vivian, I think you need to stay on standby. “I would appreciate it if you could keep an eye on Hong Gyeong-jun to make sure there are no strange people around.”
“All right.”
Lastly, Vivian and Hong Gyeong-jun are also left behind.
“I’m fine too.”
“Manager….”
“Oh, kinda. “Everything has healed.”
“The stomach and legs…”
“Stop talking about that damn injury. It’s not like I can’t walk 10 minutes. I also rested a lot. “How long will you keep me here?”
“At least until we escape?”
“That doesn’t sound particularly funny…”
Due to his strong claims, even Lee Jae-heon was included in the search team.
“I understand the students’ motivation, but let’s check the surroundings and then go together. We may have more work to do later, so please take your time and rest.”
“Ah yes yes!”
The six-member search team formed like that headed to the vegetable garden.
After 10 minutes they were amazed.
“Shall we move it?”
“It’s not bad…”
Because the garden was really nice.
