Episode 512
Lee Jae-heon said he would try both methods.
“Eun-Woo Jeong and Da-Young go together to the feeding corner to get certifications and wetsuits. Author Song In-myeong and I will browse the souvenir shop here. I think we can divide labor more efficiently this way. What do you think?”
The method that Song In-myeong and Park Da-young discovered was clear, but it took a lot of time, and the method that Jae-heon Lee came up with was not sure, but it took a relatively short time. Both were worth a try.
As always, there were negative opinions, but the group was eventually divided into two teams.
“Fortunately, neither I nor Dayoung Park were injured, so I think we can handle it well. “Did you say there was a monster in the feeding experience corner?”
“Oh yes… there is a monster that looks like biological slime.”
“I can’t really imagine it right now. “Is there any threat?”
“I don’t know much, but I think he had the trait of being drawn to blood and relying on sight…” While
answering Jeong Eun-woo, Park Da-young glanced at Lee Jae-heon.
Lee Jae-heon smiled and waved his hand gently, which actually made Park Da-young more anxious.
‘How are you going to check the souvenir shop in that condition?’
As expected, there was something in this aquarium. The blood Jaeheon Lee spilled was still bright red. This meant that the bleeding was not being stopped.
In addition, Park Da-young heard about Lee Jae-heon’s demise in the last episode from Song In-myeong, the final survivor. Although we do not know the exact cause of death, it is certain that he died after entering the souvenir shop.
So I wanted to stop him if possible, but…
“Have a nice trip, sister.”
“…Yes, thank you.”
“You can’t be a fish bro.”
“that’s right.”
I exchanged greetings with Minhong Choi and nodded internally.
‘It’s an unavoidable situation.’
Now her younger brother might drown and die. In this situation, Park Da-young was not mature enough to refuse the consideration of a trustworthy adult.
Although Lee Jae-heon was seriously injured, his limbs were still intact, and whether he was sane or not, Lee Jae-heon was strong, so it would be welcome if he confirmed meaningful results at the souvenir shop.
“mister.”
“Yes, Dayoung.”
“…don’t die.”
Despite Park Da-young’s words, Lee Jae-heon just laughed.
“….”
Park Da-young didn’t say anything more to him.
Park Da-young’s reaction when she first saw Lee Jae-heon at the concert hall seemed to have had a negative influence on Lee Jae-heon. The current Lee Jae-heon seemed to be convinced that if he could provide even a small help to the survivors by dying or suffering, he should do so.
‘Even if I say no, it won’t be heard.’
It was clear that it would be so.
“…If I leave and come back and find you dead, I’ll be angry.”
That is why Park Da-young chose Song In-myeong.
Song In-myeong, who was looking at Park Da-young with a languid look on his face, thinking that she had said something to Lee Jae-heon, soon opened his eyes wide. I realized that what I just said was directed at me.
He was bewildered.
“…what? Why are you telling me that? Hey, tell him about that directly. “Why are you talking to me when you clearly know that I am not the type of person to listen to you?”
“Oh, try your hand at it or whatever you do. “If you tease me, don’t become a serial killer.”
“What does it matter… No, it’s not something I can do just because I don’t want to do it. “What can you say to me when I already killed several people?”
“Please, please just give no fucks. I’m angry. I’m going to be really angry. I’m going to ask Eunwoo Jeong to cut your house. “If you don’t want to run away, be a good jailer.”
“I’m going crazy, really?”
Song In-myeong looked back at Jung Eun-woo with a face that said, ‘Are you really going to cut me just by listening to Park Da-young?’ However, as he watched Park Da-young, he nodded with his characteristic sincere smile.
“Don’t worry.”
“what…? What on earth do you have to worry about? The certainty of a future in which I will die?”
“I can help you avoid pain.”
“You guys really can’t communicate.”
But Song In-myeong quickly nodded.
“…I know what you mean, so just go ahead and go. If you want to get it out before your younger brother gets in trouble, you’ll have to move quickly. “How far is the feeding corner from here?”
Malbonsae didn’t like it, but he also understood why Park Da-young said that. Lee Jae-heon, who was crazy, didn’t seem to be able to communicate at all, so the best he could do was stab Song In-myeong, who could at least threaten him.
In the last episode, it was Song In-myeong who tried to save these kids according to Lee Jae-heon’s wish. Although being persecuted was not pleasant, it did not mean that we could not cooperate.
“Mister, be a good guard…! “Be good!”
“It’s shit until the end.”
As he headed to the feeding corner, he gave the middle finger to Park Da-young, who was giving a thumbs up to Song In-myeong.
If you get a little jealous, you’ll act irritated like that.
“….”
Wait a minute?
“Then let’s move too.”
“…Oh yeah.”
Am I crazy for loving these kids?
After analyzing himself, saying that he must have lost his mind for a moment, Song In-myeong followed up next to Lee Jae-heon.
“…Uncle, I agreed for now, but you really have to be careful. Do you know how the guy died in the last episode…? It was a body standing without a head. “It looked like he died as soon as he entered the souvenir shop, so there may have been a trap.”
I agreed with Lee Jae-heon’s opinion that he would return when he died anyway, but it was an undeniable fact that there was an unknown danger lurking in the souvenir shop.
“I don’t particularly want to see the man’s head blown off…”
No matter how Song In-myeong was, it was not pleasant to see a close man die right before his nose.
“How about we gather more information? Anyway, it will take a while for that bastard, Park Da-hoon, to drown, and we haven’t even checked rooms 10 and 11 yet. “There might be information about the souvenir shop there, but isn’t that too hasty a choice?”
“….”
“Huh? Think carefully, man. Don’t ignore what I say. I’m not saying you shouldn’t go to souvenir shops, but I’m saying you should take a more cautious approach. If there were rules in the underworld, there were always hints. There might be a hint like that here too…”
“Ah.”
“ah?”
When Song In-myeong asked Lee Jae-heon’s reaction to his sudden stop, he looked at Song In-myeong with a still smiling face.
Lee Jae-heon, who was looking at Song In-myeong with dry eyes, like a scientist observing a lab rat, asked.
“Are you worried about me now?”
“…Then what on earth did you hear?”
“I thought you were worried about the operational efficiency decreasing. “I apologize for not understanding the intention of the statement in advance.”
“…This isn’t a real monster…”
“Are you going to kill me?”
Song In-myeong wrinkled his face at the sudden words.
“what? “Why me?”
“Because it’s a monster.”
“…Are you really a monster?”
He said it so naturally that I thought he was out for a moment, but as expected, Lee Jae-heon was a human, not a monster. He continued speaking calmly.
“That’s what they call it.”
“Oh, it was just an insult… um, I’m sorry?”
“Is that so?”
“….”
Song In-myeong was at a loss for words.
Someone else once called Lee Jae-heon a monster, but his reaction seemed as if he didn’t even know it was an insult.
I couldn’t think of anything to say in response.
‘…No, there’s no way someone of Lee Jae-heon’s size wouldn’t have known that was an insult, but…’
I felt an instinctive resistance to the fact that he accepted the derogatory name so naturally and naturally.
For Song In-myeong, who has a strong ego, swearing in that way, which I did not intend, only made me feel repulsed. Lee Jae-heon must have been like that too, so why did he react like that?
I wonder why. It must have been because it was everyday life.
“You really make people burst out inside.”
Song In-myeong said quietly.
What a great person Jaeheon Lee is, who can bring out such frustration and irritation in me. I began to understand a little why the ‘chicks’ around Lee Jae-heon were mistreating him.
However, the crucial difference between Song In-myeong and them was that he was able to understand even Lee Jae-heon’s frustrations.
“Anyway… being called a monster means you’re that strong, right? How strong is the man now? “Are you really strong enough to be called a monster?”
“I think it will be difficult to show the performance as expected because my physical function is greatly reduced. “It’s hard to answer because I don’t know what level ‘Lee Jae-heon’ is normally.”
“No, at this rate, I think the mermaids in the tank over there will call me dad and uncle. “The atmosphere alone is monstrous enough.”
It’s not that Song In-myeong didn’t know how pitiful Lee Jae-heon was. But no matter how Lee Jae-heon was treated in the past, doesn’t he seem to have no complaints now?
First of all, if you are okay with it, Jaeheon Lee being a ‘monster’ seems to have more advantages.
“Well, the more he lost his mind, the more often he demonstrated inhuman abilities.”
“Is that so?”
“If you think about it that way, I think he’s still pretty strong… I’ll have to fight to know for sure, but I don’t want to fight you.”
In the past, they started fights without knowing what was cool, but to Song In-myeong now, Lee Jae-heon was just a friendly uncle who lived next door. It was natural that I didn’t want to ruin this strong relationship that was rarely built in my life.
Even if Lee Jae-heon doesn’t even remember me.
“….”
I feel strangely subdued.
“…What do you think, uncle?”
“I also don’t want to fight with writer Song In-myeong.”
“Hmm…”
Song In-myeong, who was rolling his tongue in his mouth, soon spoke.
“You don’t have to call me writer.”
“Jung Eun-woo calls me that.”
“…You didn’t call me that.”
I felt frustrated.
Whether he was a monster or not, the fact that Jaeheon Lee had completely forgotten about me was a little annoying.
‘…Now we’ve become closer, but I feel like I’m back to square one…’
That was the only thing that made Song In-myeong uncomfortable.
“Just call me Song In-myeong.”
“Of course.”
“Aren’t you calling me?”
“Inmyeong-ah.”
“…Isn’t that what it is?”
For a moment, I was a little excited because I thought I was being treated like a ‘chick’.
‘…But is this still a good thing?’
It seems like his memories of us have been reset or distorted, and as a result, the irritation and rejection towards Song In-myeong that ‘Lee Jae-heon’ had previously also seemed to have been reset. It didn’t make sense for Lee Jae-heon to call Song In-myeong ‘In-myeong-ah’ in the past.
Should I say that it feels like I received a small, unexpected gift in the midst of a disaster?
‘I know it’s just a taste of the tasting corner, but I don’t feel bad. I think I’m a bit excited to see how he’ll react when his memories come back in the future…’
Song In-myeong promised himself that he would try to act as close as possible to Lee Jae-heon before his memories came back. My heart raced just imagining how much Lee Jae-heon would jump when his memories came back later.
As we chatted about various things, it wasn’t long before we reached the souvenir shop.
“…Are you really going to just go in like this? I don’t think that’s right. Didn’t he just blindly enter and die in the last episode? “I can’t even imagine how much Park Da-young would roast me if he died in vain like that…”
Lee Jae-heon, who seemed to be worried, asked as Song In-myeong repeatedly tried to stop him.
“Then how about throwing some bait?”
“…That bait isn’t really me, is it?”
“No way.”
Lee Jae-heon, who answered concisely, fiddled with the lock on the door handle and then entered room number 1.
After waiting for a while, what he brought out was none other than a colorful plastic ball. Jaeheon Lee was soaked with black water.
“…mister?”
“for a moment.”
Lee Jae-heon, who bit Song In-myeong at the entrance, threw the ball into the souvenir shop.
“….”
There was no reaction.
“…Wouldn’t something like that be less effective as bait?”
“That might be possible.”
Jaeheon Lee immediately entered room number 2. What he brought out this time was none other than fishy-smelling intestines, and even when he threw them into the souvenir shop, there was no reaction.
“This doesn’t work very well either.”
Afterwards, I tried throwing a living file in room 3, a fish monster locked in a cage in room 4, and a live mermaid with an open stomach in room 5, but there was no response.
Song In-myeong said with a tired face.
“No, so let’s check room number 10…”
Before he could finish his sentence, Lee Jae-heon took another step.
The place Jaeheon Lee was heading to was none other than Room 2, which he had entered earlier, and he came out holding a kitchen knife that was very similar to the one he had handed to Dayoung Park. Song In-myeong didn’t know exactly what his intentions were, so he just watched.
And Jaeheon Lee hit my wrist with a knife.
Sigh!
“….”
Kwajik, Ujijik….
“….”
Patter.
“Uh….”
Clang!
Lee Jae-heon dropped the knife on the floor and threw his severed hand into the souvenir shop.
Clap.
“crazy.”
…Waag-jak, wag-jak, wag-jak….
“Really crazy…”
Numerous unidentified teeth that had been living in the darkness came out and ate it ravenously, and for some reason, the inside of the souvenir shop, where the darkness had cleared a little, came into view.
Only then did I see the monsters all over the souvenir shop.
“….”
All the monsters I had seen on my way to the aquarium so far were hiding in places that were hard to see and were looking at them.
“It seems that the only food that works is human flesh, and the more you satisfy the monsters inside, the brighter the souvenir shop becomes. Now I can see something. “If I had gone in unprepared like you said, I would have been killed by a monster hidden in the dark.”
“….”
“Did you say it was a dead body standing with its head cut off? I think the monster that killed me in the last episode was that guy on the ceiling. Does it resemble a starfish? “It looks like it has a mouth somewhere on its back or stomach, and it seems to extend downward enough to rip off my neck.”
“….”
“How are you, In-myeong?”
Lee Jae-heon looked at Song In-myeong with gray eyes and asked.
“It’s efficient, right?”
It was a really shitty line.
(Continued in the next part)
