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Episode 189. Turmoil (2)
I said.
“I can’t let you go. Those who harmed Man-gyeong must be punished. There must be a way to contact Jun-ho while you’re locked up here. Find out. And… … .”
Chae Chae-yeon interrupted me again and spoke while bleeding.
“No, I’m Junho’s lover… …?”
“If you stop talking to me now… … .”
I grabbed her by the neck and punched her in the stomach.
Phew-!
Chae Chae-yeon vomited blood.
“… … I’ll release the red gemstone and make you suffer until you’re on the verge of death. Are you kidding me? I’ll tell you one thing clearly. Right now, I’m the leader of Man-gyeong. Man-gyeong’s victory is my top priority. I don’t have time to worry about how my brother will react if I kill you. But I’ll give you a chance. I’ll help you get a proper trial. If you want that, just answer my questions.”
“… … .”
Chae Chae-yeon's two eyes, looking into mine, shook.
I asked her.
“You must have come with someone. You wouldn’t have gone alone, right?”
“… … .”
“Where are you? Answer me.”
“There is… … but.”
“Where is my question?”
I hit her stomach again.
Phew-!
She answered, screaming in pain.
“Man-gyeong! It’s in Man-gyeong! Ugh… … !!!”
“Man-gyeong?”
“… … That older sister too. Said she was going to look for her younger brother… … . Ugh… … .”
Chae Chae-yeon used to act strong, but now she cries a lot.
I released the hold I had on her neck.
I'm not rational right now.
I needed to calm my emotions.
But it wasn't easy.
What have we come here for?
If that goal were right in front of us, no one would be able to maintain their sanity.
Still, trying my best to regain my senses, I asked her.
“What’s your name?”
“… … Lee Ju-yeon.”
I thought I'd heard that name somewhere.
I don't remember exactly though.
“Okay. I’ll find Lee Ju-yeon and bring her back. I’ll decide what to do about you after that.”
I ordered my subordinate to release the red handcuffs so that Chae Chae-yeon could recover.
A concrete prison was set up around it to prevent it from escaping while it was being released.
Chae Chae-yeon's sorrowful cries erupted from inside the concrete prison.
“… … I’ll tell you everything. I’ll tell you everything… … !!! Do you know how much Junho cares for me… … ? Junho is willing to single-handedly destroy an entire force for me… … . A hyung like you… … . Junho can beat me up in one go… … . If you really do this to me… … . You can’t do this to me… … . Sobbing… … !”
I tried to leave the barracks while listening to her crying.
Just before that, I made eye contact with Jin Jae-hee, who was in a corner of the barracks.
She had anxious eyes, and then quickly lowered her head.
“… … .”
I let out a short sigh and went out of the barracks.
And he called in Commander-in-Chief Hwang Min-jae.
* * *
The sun was slowly setting.
Jin Jae-hee was gloomy all day and just stayed in a corner of the campus.
Should I say that the grass is dead, or should I say that I am disappointed?
I had no appetite and only occasionally felt thirsty.
She sat on the wall, looking down at the schoolyard.
The intervention of a player capable of mass killing was fatal to the infantry.
Due to Chae Chae-yeon's intervention, Kang Si-on's army came to a standstill.
The spores did more damage to the soldiers than expected.
Soldiers directly affected by the spores died instantly, and those around them were not spared either.
Influenza-like infectious diseases began to spread here and there, and spores clung to people's entire bodies, rotting their skin.
There were many people who couldn't even walk.
Kang Shi-on ordered the reorganization of the entire army and seemed to be staying here for a few days.
Jin Jae-hee looked at the raging troops and got up from his seat, thinking he had to do something.
As she walked around the unit, many soldiers bowed their heads to greet her.
According to a report earlier, Chae Chae-yeon only knows how to remove poison, but not how to detoxify it.
Chae Chae-yeon said that if you regularly wipe off the venom spores on your body, your condition will improve a lot.
More than 100 people died instantly on the battlefield, and more than 200 people suffered from the spores that clung to their entire bodies.
Seoul National University School playground.
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There were patients lying in rows there.
In fact, the patients did not enter Jin Jae-hee's eyes.
It was because I was worried that Kang Si-on might change.
Anyway, if I get to meet my younger brother through this incident, there will be a change in my heart, big or small.
In the worst case scenario, Kang Si-on could have left Jin Jae-hee and gone to his younger brother.
Jin Jae-hee clenched his fists.
‘… … That’s not enough.’
The plan that Kang Shi-on thought of.
Now, at this point when the first puzzle is about to come together, if he suddenly leaves, all plans will be disrupted.
In any case, only Kang Shi-on can end this league.
At that moment, a man's rough voice was heard.
“Hey! Busan! Did you wash the rag?!”
“Oh, yes! I’ll go!”
Jin Jae-hee found Lee Ho-seung wearing a mask and holding a towel.
Lee Ho-seung was taking care of patients and drawing water with his unit members.
Jin Jae-hee approached him cautiously.
And she called him in a small voice like a cat getting wet from rain.
"……hey."
“Oh, surprise.”
Lee Ho-seung flinched in surprise once.
Lee Ho-seung's senior, who was standing next to him, immediately stood up and shouted.
“Hey, hey, hey, sir! Ah, ah, hello!”
Jin Jae-hee showed his palm to Lee Ho-seung, his senior, and said he was sorry.
“Make yourself comfortable.”
“Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!!!”
From the perspective of a regular infantryman, Jin Jae-hee's position was that of a person ranked second in power within the force, someone no one dared look up to.
So, if a normal infantryman encounters her, his whole body will freeze.
No matter how much I tried to be comfortable with her, I couldn't be comfortable.
Lee Ho-seung opened his eyes half-heartedly, looked back and forth between his senior and Jin Jae-hee, then dragged her out to a place where there were no people.
Ugh-.
Lee Ho-seung put his hat on Jin Jae-hee.
“… … ?”
Jin Jae-hee lifted the brim of his hat slightly and looked at Lee Ho-seung.
“You’re the kind of person who’ll become a celebrity much later in life. Don’t you have the basics down?”
“… … What basics.”
“Okay! Put on your mask too. I can’t even give you sunglasses.”
Jin Jae-hee obediently put on the mask that Lee Ho-seung handed her.
Lee Ho-seung naturally went to another patient and continued his mission.
Jin Jae-hee also followed him.
Ho-seung's hands were covered with several layers of rubber gloves.
The towel used to wipe the patient had purple spores slowly appearing on it.
He asked as he dried the patient's body with a towel.
“But what is the captain of the capable unit doing in such a shabby place~? This is the infantry barracks~.”
“… …Can’t I come here?”
“There’s no way you can’t come.”
Lee Ho-seung chuckled and turned the towel around to wipe the patient's body again with a clean area.
Jin Jae-hee also picked up a towel that was nearby, crossed to the other side of Lee Ho-seung, and began wiping the patient's body.
She was a young girl.
Same age as Jin Jae-hee, or younger.
The woman was groaning repeatedly as if in pain.
Jin Jae-hee bit his lower lip once and then carefully cleaned her body.
The two of them stayed silent for a while, just cleaning the patient's body.
Then Lee Ho-seung asked.
“… …Why. Did you fight?”
“… … ?”
Jin Jae-hee looked back at him in surprise.
Lee Ho-seung lifted the fallen glasses up onto his sleeve and began diligently wiping the patient's body again.
Then he spoke again to Jin Jae-hee, who did not answer.
“You know, you’ve always shown your emotions on your face. When you’re sad, you cry. When you’re happy, you smile. When you’re angry, you frown. When you want to beat someone up, you beat them up. When you like someone, you rush at them. Are you really that simple?”
“… … When did I.”
“Dog-sound. It definitely was. To the point where it looked like you were having mood swings, even though you actually weren’t. Your facial expressions changed so quickly.”
“… … The word ‘emotion’ is forbidden in front of me.”
“Feelings? Oh… …. You fought because of feelings?”
Jin Jae-hee suppressed the urge to hit the sweet chestnut.
Lee Ho-seung has always been quick-witted in this regard.
“Are you mad at the hero?”
"hey."
“What? It’s all over your face. It’s written all over your forehead.”
Lee Ho-seung chuckled and put the dirty towel into the bucket.
Then he brought a new towel and went to the next patient.
“You can get in trouble for something so dispiriting.”
“I was about to be kicked out of my nest.”
“I am different.”
“What the heck.”
“I felt like my life had no meaning. Man. Honestly, it was really hard back then.”
Lee Ho-seung and Jin Jae-hee approached the soldiers' shelter side by side to receive new towels.
Jin Jae-hee was less likely to be recognized by soldiers thanks to the hat and mask he wore.
Jin Jae-hee asked Lee Ho-seung.
“But now it seems like it has returned to its former self?”
“… … That’s right. Because I want to live. That’s why I’m struggling.”
“How did you find meaning in life?”
Jin Jae-hee asked naturally, and Lee Ho-seung stopped in his tracks.
Then he tilted his head and said calmly.
"you."
"uh?"
“You.”
Jin Jae-hee said with a frown.
“… … I told you not to confess.”
“F-fu*k. Please. That’s not it. You told me. Why I should live.”
Ho-seung picked up a box full of towels from the shelter.
Jin Jae-hee also followed Ho-seung and picked up towels with both hands.
“What did you tell me?”
"I don't know either."
Jin Jae-hee opened her eyes slightly at Ho-seung's simple answer and said.
“I didn’t do much.”
"that's right."
When Ho-seung agreed, Jin Jae-hee asked again.
“Usually in times like this, don’t you say no?”
“It’s different. Emma.”
Lee Ho-seung walked side by side with Jin Jae-hee.
This was a university.
Jin Jae-hee wanted to go to college, but he couldn't.
For some reason, she felt awkward walking side by side with Lee Ho-seung here.
Of course, the world was destroyed and universities lost their meaning.
“No matter how much passion and sincerity the person giving the comfort puts into it, if the person receiving it is not very good, it will not be comforting.”
On one side of the school yard there was a ginkgo tree that was still alive.
The ginkgo leaves were glowing yellow in the setting sun.
“But even if the person comforting you speaks vaguely, if the person receiving the comforting message values it more than the person’s feelings, then it will be comforting enough.”
“Are you saying I’m the latter?”
Lee Ho-seung answered with a giggle.
“You could say that.”
The two went down to the playground covered with thick grass.
Many soldiers were lying down, each receiving treatment.
Lee Ho-seung spoke in a lowered voice.
“It’s fortunate that it’s the latter.”
“… … ?”
“So you should accept it well. I don’t know what the hero and I talked about, but in my opinion, if the hero was going to do something for you, he would have done it for you. I don’t think he would have said something like that to look down on you or treat you badly. Let me say it again, I don’t know what was said between the two of you.”
Jin Jae-hee bowed his head slightly at Lee Ho-seung's words.
“Take it. The Jin Jae-hee I know is a strong person.”
Lee Ho-seung put down the towel.
Not only that, he also received a towel from Jin Jae-hee and organized it neatly.
Lee Ho-seung enlisted in Kang Si-on's army and was carrying out his assigned mission.
He had a sword strapped to his back, and he said he had been in several battles.
Jin Jae-hee was worried about him, but at the same time, he was proud of him.
Lee Ho-seung was squatting and putting a clean towel in the water in a basin.
Jin Jae-hee, who found that sight funny, gently pushed Lee Ho-seung's butt with his foot.
Lee Ho-seung fell into the deep sea.
Iron Fist-!
He fumbled with his glasses, put them on, and shouted at Jaehee.
“What are you doing!”
“Don’t die. If you die, you’ll really fall behind.”
Jin Jae-hee left after leaving those words behind.
Lee Ho-seung shouted at the back of Jin Jae-hee's head as he turned back.
“What the hell are you talking about! Why did you push me?”
(Continued in the next episode)