Chapter 322:
Just because it was a world of past lives where death was not clear, it did not mean that there were no people who felt aversion to murder. It is true that destroying a normal life in itself is not a very pleasant thing.
So, there weren’t any weaklings like that among Lee Jae-heon’s subordinates.
“Captain, I really can’t do this. “I really don’t think this is right.”
“Can’t you?”
“…I’m sorry, I thought it would be okay. When it happens like this…”
At my previous job, there were talented people selected from a specific orphanage, but there were also adult employees who came in after passing a test or receiving a scouting offer. They were a type of police, but unlike the world of ‘Lee Jae-heon’, the police there often had to kill people.
However, most employees did not feel a great burden from such work. Occasionally, dreams become violent, even if it is not a murder case, and it is funny and embarrassing to suffer because you will come back to life anyway. Rather, he took pride in subduing his mission target and was not afraid of killing people whenever possible.
“Everyone says it’s okay, but I feel like I’m the only one who’s weird… I’m sorry.”
“It seems like you’re having a hard time.”
“I’m sorry for complaining strangely when your grades are not good. But boss, I really don’t think I can do it. I feel sick. “I’m not really recovering my mind…”
“That’s a big problem.”
I always say this, but it was common sense that if your mental strength was low, it would be difficult to recover. The body can regenerate even if it gets hurt, but isn’t the mind very vague in that regard? Rather than a body that could be restored at any time, a mind that had no bottom, let alone recovery, was a more valuable resource.
“Hmm…”
That’s why ‘Captain’ Lee Jae-heon couldn’t just drive them away.
“…Would you like to have some tea first?”
“Yes eh? “Oh no, I’m not… that’s not it…”
“I got a nice gift this time, so don’t hesitate and take it. You know how difficult it is to get Captain Lee’s car. “Why would someone who knows that it is efficient to receive something kind when being considerate would do this?”
“Oh yes, I see.”
“Now go to sleep and drink it all up.”
Feed him a cup of moderately warm tea.
“Can you tell me exactly what part is difficult?”
“sorry.”
“I didn’t mean to scold you like this, but… I asked because it would be difficult for me to deal with it if you didn’t tell me where and how you were having a hard time.”
“Well…”
“It’s possible to have low grades. What’s important is how we progress from there. “Isn’t that right?”
The warm tea gently coaxed the other person, who was feeling slightly relieved.
Most of the people who came to this workplace were bright and intelligent people, so over time, they realized that they had been deceived by Lee Jae-heon. But not everyone notices at first. In the end, the prescription he gave was to gradually get them used to murder, so he assigned them tasks that would only have an indirect influence so that they wouldn’t realize it right away.
In any case, there was no change in the fact that I was assigned to work related to murder.
“….”
“It looks like you have something to say.”
“…thank you.”
“oh.”
“That’s just it.”
Nevertheless, there were quite a few people who expressed their gratitude.
“They seem like easy people.”
It meant that although there may be some resistance from the work itself, it can be compensated to some extent by receiving enough care. Being able to continue to utilize weak-minded people with just a few words of conversation was a lucrative business for the ‘Captain.’
Of course, there were people who disapproved of such behavior.
“Also, ███ was assigned the task of suppression.”
“I can’t help it because I am concerned about appropriately distributing the duties received from the superiors.”
“Do you really think that was an appropriate arrangement?”
“Junior, this must be the worst.”
He was a very disgusting junior who treated Ha Geuk-sang like he was eating food.
“Even if they come back to life, there are many employees who feel aversion to the murder itself.”
“You didn’t come here to fight me, so what do you want me to do?”
“Please place it properly.”
“Then what can you do for me, junior?”
“Isn’t it really your job to arrange things ‘appropriately’?”
“Let’s not be so gross. “It’s not like we can talk so innocently.”
“Seniors.”
“Junior, don’t muddy the water.”
“It is the senior who is clouding the minds of the employees.”
“I don’t know what criteria you use to say that your mind is clouded. You probably know that the strange one is your junior. I’m living my life adjusting to everything on my own, so why are you talking nonsense to yourself? “If you’re really worried, please help the poor chicks at a time like this.”
“…Don’t you know too, senior?…”
“What.”
“You’re fooling those poor chicks.”
“Junior.”
“yes.”
“Be good when people watch over you.”
“….”
“Do you want to go to the brig?”
It wasn’t very frequent, but my disgusting junior was persistent enough that I had to have these frustrating conversations from time to time. The cocky junior who never gave up easily ended up nagging him a lot until he died.
“….”
Yes, he died.
“Huh…”
In a world like this, you get eternal death.
It may be difficult to say that he was greatly influenced by his junior, but at least it was true that he became more devoted to the care of his employees. Even though Jaeheon Lee was someone he couldn’t understand, he did his best to help them not break down mentally. Sometimes it was a carrot and sometimes it was a stick, but in any case, it was a good thing because my overall grades went up.
“Captain.”
“Please speak.”
“thank you.”
“oh.”
“Thank you….”
“Okay.”
Even so, I still couldn’t understand.
“Then I guess that’s it.”
In the end, nothing has changed, so why on earth am I saying thank you?
You probably know that you were deceived by me. You probably know that I don’t truly help you in the end, so why are you sending me this meaningless thank you? Although I constantly thought about it and had constant questions, there was only one conclusion.
“Baby chicks.”
That’s because I’m immature.
“Us?”
“Chick….”
“Chick? “Isn’t that too much?”
So what can I do? Even if you look at the cooking and see how it is cooked, it is a chick.
‘One of the funny things about it is that people seem to be swearing behind their backs, but they get flustered when they see my face.’
While there are employees who diligently complete any task they are given, there are also cowards who say they cannot do it because they are scared. However, as the ‘captain’, he is in a position to utilize even those chicks as they are talented. This was one of the lessons I learned from that terrible job in my previous life.
“There is no chick that doesn’t roll.”
In the end, if a person rolls, everything will roll, so it is his role as the leader to sharpen it just enough to roll beautifully. The most important thing for chicks is mental strength, so just paying attention to that made things go somewhat easier.
He was quite talented at persuading people.
“….”
In a good or bad way.
* * *
Park Da-young, who always seemed to be speaking for Park Da-hoon, quickly closed her mouth after observing the atmosphere between Lee Jae-heon and her younger brother. It seems like he decided that he couldn’t solve Park Da-hoon’s condition, and he was very quick to even pretend to sleep.
Thanks to this, Jae-heon Lee and Da-hoon Park were able to secure time to talk alone.
“….”
“….”
But that didn’t mean the conversation started right away.
‘…It looks like they killed the survivors in the last episode…’
If not, then it’s a sorry misunderstanding, but judging from what I thought, it was the maximum damage to the corpse and the minimum attempted murder. For a guy who had lived steadfastly despite being mistreated by his parents to the point of losing his courage like this would mean that he had made a mistake, but seeing that the extent of the mistake was significant and that he was reluctant towards other survivors, it was clear that he had harmed someone.
Moreover, since there was a precedent before Park Da-hoon, it was a little easier to guess.
‘I heard that Kang Min-ah went crazy and tried to kill the entire school investigation team. I haven’t seen or heard much in person, but Ha Seong-yoon and Seong Ji-ho were victims of Kang Min-ah… They probably tried to kill everyone in order to make the regression happen, but they didn’t succeed.’
Personally, Lee Jae-heon really liked Kang Min-ah’s choice. In any case, there are only a few people who remember what it was like before the return, but if the school exploration had failed that much, they had to return in the end. In the meantime, no matter how emotionally driven the choice was, choosing the option of killing all survivors was quite commendable.
‘The problem is that that’s not healthy growth.’
If Kang Min-ah tried to make a comeback by persuading her by saying, ‘Everyone, please listen to what I have to say,’ that would have been healthy growth. However, if you did things based on your own guess without asking the opinions of other team members, it was no different from a meaningless emotional relief.
If there was a team member from my previous life who made this choice, the kid who brought him to the team would have been screwed.
‘In this case, I can’t help it because I dragged it out, but in the end, I’ll have to have a conversation with Kang Min-ah as well. It looks like he grew up in a strange way.’
There were more than one bastard that needed to be dealt with now. Let alone Jung In-ho, the main character with a mental breakdown, how many of the chicks are already time bombs with potential problems? Kang Min-ah, Hong Gyeong-jun, Munsan-gun, Kim Ki-jeong. Ha Sung-yoon is honestly in an anxious state, and the other high school students don’t look all that happy either.
“….”
Lee Jae-heon, barely able to hold back a sigh, opened his mouth.
“Dahun.”
“…yes.”
“Thank you for your answer. kind.”
“…Thank you….”
“I have something to tell you in advance.”
He continued speaking without looking at Park Da-hoon.
“I will never be angry.”
“…What?”
“Whatever.”
“why?”
“There’s no reason to be angry.”
In fact, strictly speaking, the last survivor was given memories by himself at the time, so it was difficult to see him as a person at that time. In the past, Kang Min-ah described it as feeling like she was hearing a story from someone who had the same face and was in the same situation as her, rather than from herself.
“I don’t know what happened, what you remember, or what you are thinking… Dahun.”
“….”
“Look at us.”
Jaeheon Lee looked around calmly.
“Everything is fine.”
Of course, they were a group of problem children who were nothing more than a time bomb that was about to explode, but they were talented people who could somehow get by if they were handled gently. Hong Gyeong-jun may have lost his taste, but he did it to survive, Woo Woo-young probably won’t do anything stupid because he was intimidated by eating too quickly, and Ha Seong-yoon was a tasteless person from the beginning, so I will take care of it and run it well.
Aside from Kang Min-ah, Munsan-gun, and Kim Ki-jeong, there are a few more unstable bombshells, but in a group with such a large number of people, it’s inevitable that someone who gets offended will come out. I was thankful enough that there wasn’t a bomb walking around the neighborhood imitating a pterodactyl standing on its head right now.
“I’m not sure what’s causing this, but I won’t be angry.”
“….”
“…Ah.”
Lee Jae-heon, who realized something in Park Da-hoon’s completely awkward reaction, added:
“I have no intention of being disappointed.”
What these types of children fear most is not that their guardians will get angry, but that they will be disappointed. The reason why the other person’s anger is scary is because they end up thinking, ‘They’re angry because I didn’t live up to their expectations,’ so it was better to point this out in advance.
As expected, Park Da-hoon’s face lit up, albeit slightly.
“…But…”
“Dahun, you haven’t done anything wrong right now. “If you dwell on unknown possibilities or an uncertain future, you will only lose yourself. All you did was move all the survivors to the garden, and nothing has happened yet.”
“….”
“I told you it was okay.”
Finally, Jaeheon Lee sighed.
“…There are times when you say it’s okay because it’s really okay, you disgusting chicks…”
Being okay wasn’t always a lie.
(Continued in the next part)
