Episode 206 Imdiately
after eting with the two police officers and sharing the plan, Lee Jae-heon sent a request to the errand center to investigate the survivors’ residence. The information would arrive within a day at the earliest, but looking at the old manager’s social status, it seed unlikely that he would work that hard, so Jaeheon Lee decided to take care of one thing before that.
“Boss.”
The idea was to visit the neighborhood where the main character lives.
“Oh, Assistant Manager Jeong.”
“…Why are you here?”
“Then why are you here?”
The bench where Lee Jae-heon is currently sitting is very close to the road where he blew up Shaoxingju last ti. In other words, it is the scene of an accident that struck Choi Min-hong, and it was located in a place where the main character always jogs.
Jeong In-ho, who had not received a single call, closed his mouth while smiling for a mont as if confused, and then spoke with a sad smile typical of the protagonist. When I returned to reality, I wondered if it was even worth living. It was so disgusting.
“Oh my, if you had called , I would have co out near the manager’s house.”
“What phone call is that creepy?”
“Weren’t you waiting for ?”
“Why am I waiting for you?”
In fact, I was planning to contact him soon.
‘I ca here because I was wondering if I could et the Choi family here.’
The activity radius of a child like Choi Min-hong was not that wide, so the Choi family’s residence was probably around here. As I had experienced all kinds of hardships in the other world, I would not leave the child outside, but since there was no chance of eting him by chance, I went to visit him in person.
However, the probability of eting him like that was naturally low, and I planned to wait 10 more minutes and call Jeong In-ho if I couldn’t run into him.
However, there was no need to reveal all of these trivial details, so Lee Jae-heon just swallowed his words.
“…All right.”
The protagonist’s gaze sank as he wondered what Lee Jae-heon’s appearance was like.
“You bought alcohol again?”
“…there’s an empty spot in the display case.”
He was looking at the Shaoxing liquor that Jaeheon Lee was holding.
‘Oh, isn’t it?’
Maybe he was looking at his watch.
The watch that broke last ti was left in a corner of the house, and the watch I am wearing now is different from the last ti. Lee Jae-heon had no choice but to buy alcohol in order to use the excuse he used before, ‘I ca to this town to buy Shaoxing liquor.’ Although you will rarely actually drink it.
But I couldn’t figure out why the main character reacted this way.
“Not really… I didn’t buy it to drink. “It’s for decoration.”
“I didn’t say anything.”
The unpleasantly smooth smile was ant to hide the negative feelings in anyone’s eyes, and the eyes inside the gently folded eyelids were as black as ink. He was looking at Lee Jae-heon with a face like a well-made porcelain doll.
“…Did I sprain my eye? Even if you just look at it, you look upset, so what…”
“It’s not like that.”
Jeong In-ho mumbled his answer and once again smiled brightly.
“Then shall we change seats? “Were you planning on going to my house?”
“It’s strange for two dark guys to go to a cafe together.”
“It’s an unremarkable studio, so I don’t have anything to treat you…”
“Do you think I ca to you, Jeong In-ho, hoping for a treat? Please guide .”
“Haha, I understand.”
After that conversation, Jeong In-ho continued to talk nonsense while moving to his ho. From the weather to the story about what Jaeheon Lee wore today. Lee Jae-heon sighed inwardly as he clearly showed that his mind was preoccupied sowhere.
‘Why am I so distracted today?’
Of course, it wasn’t that I didn’t understand.
Lee Jae-heon looked around and asked Jeong In-ho.
“Are you okay?”
“yes? “What are you talking about?”
“Don’t be so pretentious. “You understand what I’m saying.”
“….”
Jeong In-ho shifted his gaze and looked at the large mirror abandoned on the side of the road.
It was full of dust and was torn to pieces for so reason. The mirror, which seed unable to properly reflect even a simple object, let alone a person, had a faded appearance befitting an old neighborhood like this. Jeong In-ho looked into the mirror of such yellow and cloudy light without saying a word.
Soon, when his pitch-black eyes blinked slowly, Jaeheon Lee knew what he had seen.
“Doesn’t that bother you, Mr. Jeong In-ho?”
Mannequin monster.
This monster, located in the mirror, is trying to beco a survivor and tornts them in order to beco human. They are so startled and scared that they beco ntally exhausted and hope that the survivor will eventually die.
‘It’s quite painful to see.’
Seeing sothing that shouldn’t move is more creepy and unpleasant than you might think.
What would you think if your puppy stood on two feet by your bedside and looked down at you? What would you think if your phone rang while the line was disconnected or if a doll on a drawer was dancing? Maybe it’s interesting and just surprising, but most people will find it confusing.
The mannequin monster was not much different. Things that shouldn’t be there, places where they shouldn’t be, and behavior that shouldn’t be shown.
“Don’t you feel like your position is being threatened?”
Even survivors feel it instinctively. That thing wants ‘my’ life. We are doing our best to take it away in its entirety, and we also realize that we will eventually die.
“I ca back from sothing like that, and sohow I saw sothing like that in the mirror.”
“…I see.”
“Don’t you think I’m whispering to you that you can’t completely escape?”
You see things like that not just in mirrors, but all over the world. The existence of those who have already been eaten by the underworld, died, and were eventually replaced by mannequins. Unlike the monster in the mirror, it looks very human-like and acts like a human, so it erodes the spirit of the survivors.
“Many of the survivors were distracted by them and died.”
That is, as described in the novel.
“What should I do if I co out alive? When we co out there’s a monster and it wants us dead. I don’t know when I will enter the other world and people go crazy. “That’s when I started thinking about this.”
“….”
“Is there any need to live?”
Although he is still struggling to survive, Ha Seong-yoon’s friend in the original novel also seems to have died in this way.
“You end up dying.”
Jaeheon Lee had a thin smile on his face.
Jeong In-ho’s expression did not change despite his story. Smoothly curved lips and shallow curved eyes. However, the calm gaze that seed to indicate that he was not happy at all was the face of ‘Jung In-ho’, whom Lee Jae-heon had seen all along.
‘…gross bastard.’
He is a guy who has no taste for teasing.
Jeong In-ho arrived at an old building and stopped in front of the door. Then he looked back at Lee Jae-heon and said.
“so.”
“hmm?”
“You want to die?”
No, that’s not it.
‘If possible, it’s better for to live too.’
When people say they want to die, they usually an ‘I want to live happily.’ But I don’t have the courage to do it and I don’t even have ti to rub my butt, so I give up. Running away How sweet it is to be able to escape through death like this.
Therefore, Lee Jae-heon was born into a good family hoping for wealth and fa, and achieved the basic conditions for wealth and fa by taking a position as an old manager at a large corporation. What he needed more in his life now was survival and safety. In order to do that, I had to completely escape the other side of the world, and that’s why I desperately needed a protagonist.
“…Boss?”
“….”
“Manager.”
“well.”
Actually, even this is not certain.
‘Because it is not clear why the main character was able to escape from the secret world.’
Jeong In-ho is the only character who completely escapes the underworld, and the reason for this is never explained in the novel. When Lee Jae-heon asked the writer, he only said, ‘It’s because I wanted to,’ and didn’t even give a proper explanation.
However, this is reality, and the setting errors made by the author would have been replaced by reality. Therefore, the only hill that Lee Jae-heon could rely on to permanently escape from the underworld was the main character, Jeong In-ho.
“I…”
Then what should I answer?
Since ‘Lee Jae-heon’ wants to die, would it be better to answer that he also wants to die? Or silence? In fact, it wouldn’t have mattered which one. Since the main character already believes in ‘Lee Jae-heon’…
he spat it out with peace of mind.
“I want to live.”
The protagonist responded as if he couldn’t believe it at all.
“Is that so.”
“….”
Look.
“…I guess so.”
You believe in ‘Lee Jae-heon’.
* * *
“Would you like so coffee? “It’s a mix, though.”
“It’s okay… Just give a place to sit.”
“Then please sit down in the chair. “I will sit on the bed.”
“It’s because the room is so small.”
As I grumbled and sat down, the protagonist also sat down on the bed. There was a small creaking sound, as if it was not a particularly good quality product. To be honest, it was not a very comfortable space for Lee Jae-heon, who was accustod to living in a large and nice house.
But from now on, I had to keep my spirits up.
“…Then….”
‘Lee Jae-heon’ continued speaking with a characteristic expression.
“What should we talk about first?”
“…I have so many things on my mind that I don’t know where to start.”
“I’m in a similar situation.”
So, it is ti to solidify the setting of ‘Lee Jae-heon’.
It wasn’t a very urgent task, but it was sothing that had to be done at so point. I went there first because I didn’t know what kind of accident might happen to Choi’s father and son, but at least this was sothing that only needed to be dealt with before the next move to the underworld was decided.
‘There’s so much going on in the underworld.’
If he had stayed sane, this trouble wouldn’t have happened, but unfortunately, Lee Jae-heon thought too easily about the heavy atmosphere of the other side of the world. There are too many accidents caused by people being distracted. I felt a little at ease thinking that I was now clearing away that karma.
As Jaeheon Lee hesitated, Inho Jeong spoke first.
“…Do you know what? “We all saw the manager die together.”
“He wasn’t dead… Or rather, we were all together? “And Mr. Hong Gyeong-jun’s team mbers?”
“They ca rushing in, wondering what was going on. At the back was police officer Kim Yeon-woo. “I think it was because it was difficult to manage moving only part of it… Maybe that’s why the children were there too.”
“Huh.”
All the survivors saw that gorgeous tail.
“Of course, the adults covered the children’s eyes.”
“There’s a green algae monster right in front of you, but you don’t run away?”
“Not only was that green algae monster holding on to the manager, but probably because there was a final boss, other monsters didn’t co close. Even the vines stayed still.”
“That’s a good thing.”
“It’s a blessing in disguise.”
Jeong In-ho shrugged his shoulders. The face with a neat smile was extrely calm, but Lee Jae-heon realized that his eyes had beco even darker.
“Even that misfortune was so great that no one at the ti even thought about leaving the lake.”
The protagonist added that it was probably so kind of survival instinct.
“Actually, if you think about it, it was the safest space.”
“Why?”
“The green algae monster did not attack us because it was eating the manager, and other monsters could not approach us because of the green algae monster. “I think everyone was safe except for the manager.”
“I’m so glad that that body, which was almost a corpse, was useful.”
“I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or sincere. “Honestly, given the manager’s personality, I don’t think he would bla us, so… I don’t know.”
It was neither sarcastic nor sincere.
‘I just said this because I felt like I needed to say sothing.’
Jeong In-ho, who did not know Lee Jae-heon’s true intentions, continued speaking.
“So, I want to ask you, what did you see on the green algae monster?”
“…What did you see?”
“Don’t change your mind for no reason.”
No, I asked because I really didn’t know.
Feeling a strange sense of déjà vu, the protagonist slowly blinked his eyes in front of Lee Jae-heon, who was trying hard to correct his distorted expression. The scene where the pitch-black eyes were hidden by the eyelids and then reappeared was clearly revealed.
“Looking at that monster… well, yeah.”
“…Oh wait….”
“Baby?”
“Fuck.”
Fuck.
“…Write a poem….”
Seeing Lee Jae-heon barely holding back the curses that were about to co out in succession, Jeong In-ho also looked very shaken. After a few seconds, his face contorted and he muttered.
“sorry.”
“That will have to do.”
Part of wanted to make fun of him, so I spat out the words, but it seed like he was also hurt. Lee Jae-heon, who heard the disgusting main character being called sothing like that, added even more.
Jaeheon Lee stuttered as he endured the pain of vomiting blood.
“So… why is that…”
“…isn’t that what the manager said while looking at that monster?”
“That’s true, but… why… like that…”
Lee Jae-heon said, gently wiping away the goosebumps that had appeared all the way to his neck.
“…I just saw soone I knew.”
In fact, it was just a green algae monster, but Lee Jae-heon did not complain about the setting that the main character created for himself. Perhaps, after seeing CEO Choi Jeong-man beco a monster, he thought, ‘The green algae monster has the ability to hallucinate and appear as soone’s precious person.’
And at this point, it is ti to reveal the past history of ‘Lee Jae-heon’.
“We first t in the other side of the world.”
“….”
“He was the person I liked. So….”
He continued speaking with an expression as if he was swallowing what he had worked so hard to write.
“…He’s dead now.”
I think your wife might be a little disappointed that her life was suddenly stolen from her to fix the accident I caused.
Can you look at this much?
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