“after.”
I put Yuga-ryun down on the bed as carefully as possible. When I saw her sleepy face, exhaling slowly and thinly, I felt like the tension I had built up until now was relieved for once.
“brother… … .”
Ga-ryun Yu, with a frown on her face, waved her hands toward the air, and tears welled up once again on the corners of her eyes that she had wiped a while ago. Are you having a nightmare?
“it’s okay.”
I used my fingers to wipe the tears away. Perhaps surprised by the sudden foreign body, Yu Ga-ryun flinched and trembled, but after a while the tears stopped and fell asleep again.
Yu Ga-ryun’s gesture of wriggling while holding my finger was very cute.
“Oh my gosh… … .”
I just want you to stop licking your cheeks. All right, if you can sleep well, that’s all.
“Kaa… … .”
Meanwhile, Midsummer was sleeping with her head on the floor, making strange noises. I’ll have to move that to the bed later.
It was a moment when I had such a silly thought.
“Dojin!”
Suddenly, a woman in a suit came into the room, calling my name.
“No, there.”
“It’s twenty-one. Founded by Dojin and two others. The place is a bedroom on the second floor, so please bring in medical staff immediately.”
As soon as the woman finished speaking, a large crowd of people rushed through the door.
* * *
After various tests, we were only released in the morning.
“Currently, we are escorting Dojin-nim and two others by boat. Arrived in 40 minutes. Please check the road conditions on land so that there is no disruption to transportation after landing.”
On the return boat, people in suits were busy walking around and radio somewhere.
They said they had been waiting on land all along, and came to rescue us as soon as the rain stopped.
Had the rain stopped a little earlier, it would have been a disaster. While he was leaning against the railing and holding his breath for a while with that thought in mind, his familiar silver hair appeared from afar.
“Oh, dear.”
I opened my mouth to continue what I had to say yesterday, but as soon as she saw me, she blushed and ran into the cabin.
“Great.”
“What and how did you cook it so that people change like that?”
Midsummer’s voice flowed into the back of my head as I licked my lips as I looked at Yu Ga-ryun’s back.
“What do you bake and boil?”
“No, what should I do to change that venomous b*tch so much in one day?”
“Hey, whatever you say… … .”
Hearing my words, Midsummer pouted his lips as if he was dissatisfied.
“What am I? What’s the point of drinking and splitting the head of a healthy man in two, if not for the catastrophic?”
Midsummer looks at my forehead with a worried expression.
“it’s okay. It’s not even that deep of a wound.”
“I guess so.”
Hearing my words, Midsummer jumped up and grabbed the railing of the boat and began to shake her body.
“Then it goes away.”
“Namisa.”
I also stood next to him, grabbed the railing, and shook my body.
“Then it goes away.”
“Miss Nam. It feels good.”
After a few minutes of shaking the railing together, Midsummer, who looked over the horizon, slowly opened her mouth.
“So what really happened?”
“I confessed.”
“What?”
At that word, Midsummer opens her mouth and looks at me.
“No, confession? really? that, what It’s not weird. love? love confession?”
“uh.”
“therefore… … did you get it?”
“no.”
As if midsummer was shy, he licked his lips with his tongue.
“Are you still angry? revenge?”
“It’s just, I’ve never been conscious of that kid that way.”
“… … So is it over now? You refused to confess, so you’re not seeing each other anymore?”
“It’s the opposite. I decided to start over with friends.”
“why not? What reason do you have?”
As if midsummer didn’t make sense any more, he inflated his eyes like a frog.
“Because I wanted to know about Garyun.”
“Huh… … .”
As if completely tired of my answer, Midsummer sighed with his eyes wide open.
“Dissolve, dissolve.”
“what?”
“I thought I could forgive myself for doing something like that. I never can.”
Midsummer’s eyes murmured like that, as if they were chasing something beyond the horizon.
“Or am I weird? Is it because my stomach is too narrow?”
“No way. Rather, your reaction would be more common. And I never really thought I was forgiving.”
Forgiveness is about accepting with a generous heart what the person has done to you. But I was too narrow-minded to do such a thing. but.
“I just thought that the joy of being with Ga-ryun was more valuable than wasting emotions by getting angry.”
“… … What’s different?”
“… … I’m just acting like I’m the worst, so don’t worry about it saying it’s normal or abnormal.”
Hearing my absurd answer, Midsummer’s lips rose again.
“It’s terribly complicated.”
The salty wind tickled our hair. I inhaled it as hard as I could and then exhaled repeatedly.
The two days of commotion on this sea, those memories. To keep in my heart even a little bit of the salty tears that flowed down Ga-ryun’s cheeks.
* * *
The sound of squeaking shoes echoed in the lobby of the hospital, which had become quiet after the treatment time had passed.
“there… … .”
“Ah, yes, what did you come here for? If you would like to receive treatment, it is already closed today, so I would appreciate it if you could come tomorrow. If you would like to make a reservation, we can help—”
“Oh, that’s not it. It’s the person I called earlier. I want to visit patient Yu-jin.”
“Oh, wait a minute. I’ll check. So… … Seol-ha Chae, are you right?”
“yes.”
Chaseolha let out a rough breath as she brushed her long black hair.
Contrary to her usual neat appearance, her hair was tangled and twisted around, and drops of sweat were dripping all over her body.
“Hey, are you okay—”
“Because it is! Because it’s like me… Please tell me where to go.”
“Oh, yes, yes. Take the elevator on the right and go to Room 910. Although it is a single room, please note that visits are restricted after 9 pm for the safety of the patient.”
“yes… … .”
As soon as the nurse finished speaking, I moved towards the elevator where they were mining. The sound of slippery, corpse-like shoes resounded in the lobby again.
“quickly… … .”
There was a brief moment waiting for the elevator to arrive, but in the meantime, Chae Seol-ha’s lips were dry.
As soon as the elevator door opened with a ding-dong sound, he threw himself into it.
“Suck… Whoops… … .”
The roar that he had been putting up with was now about to cross the threshold.
I want to see Dojini’s face quickly. I want to see you in good health and feel safe. Only that thought pounded Chae Seol-ha’s throat over and over again.
He was spending days like hell, digging for two days. If Haengyeo or Dojini fell off the island and got hurt, or if she couldn’t overcome hunger and got sick from eating something.
Even if he lay down in bed to sleep, he could not sleep properly for even a second until now, when only such ominous thoughts ran through his head.
It was an event he had planned. He put Dojini in trouble again because of that damn bastard farewell party, which he spoke before anyone else in the company.
Why did this happen?
I must have planned a farewell party to restore the relationship between Dojini and the people at the company, who had been twisted because of me. This time, I didn’t do anything greedy, I was stuck in a corner like an invisible person and I was thinking of slipping away, but why?
When Minseo offered to help, I should have refused. Rather than focusing on inflating the exterior, it should have been a place where the sincerity could be revealed even if it was small.
Looking back, he was always like that. Regret about what you have done, but fundamentally nothing changes.
Chae Seol-ha’s footsteps get faster as she exits the elevator. 907, 908, 909, and 910. Only after checking the name of the stone man on the sign, I was able to breathe a sigh of relief.
He opened the door, blocking the harsh breath that leaked out through the gap between his lips.
“Do, Jin-ah.”
Yoo Ji-jin was sleeping on the bed in the hospital room.
A slender and manly angled chin, a tall nose, and shades of eyes that stimulated her decadent beauty came into her eyes.
“Whoa, whoa… … .”
As soon as I saw her face, I was engulfed in the urge to hug Yu-Jin Chae. He himself was not surprised. Isn’t that the only piglet that’s completely in estrus?
The arm that had been reaching out toward Yudojin’s cheeks suddenly stopped in an instant.
“uh?”
A long bandage was wrapped around Yu Yu-jin’s forearm. If you look closely, there is a large band-aid on the forehead as well.
Injured, Dojin was only injured on the island. I hurt you. With that fact alone, it felt like the power of my whole body was released.
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Tears began to flow from the corners of his eyes, and his teeth were trembling with crackling noises.
A scumbag, an asshole. You always see only what you want to see. Instead of healing your wounds, you are full of thoughts of filling your vulgar sexual desire.
I ran out of the hospital room where I pushed my throat and the nausea that came up.
“Uh-huh, uh-huh… … .”
Chae Seol-ha’s soft sobs echo through the hallway. I was nervous. It was unacceptable that Yu-Jin Yu would try to forgive a garbage woman like him. I don’t deserve it myself.
When I close my eyes, I think of Yu Ga-ryun looking at Yu Yu-jin with a sad expression. Perhaps the other members of the club have been suppressing their hearts because of them. No, it was suppressed. It was his own ego and desire that made him so.
I didn’t even have the courage to confess. No, I didn’t even have the courage to hear the confession.
But now, what are you going to do to help? Rather, it only gets worse the more you intervene for four years.
He always murmurs that he gives up only with words, but in the end, he wanted to see Dojini’s face again, so he started working and it’s been three months.
“… … .”
let’s go Let’s go and become a completely non-existent person to the person named Yu Yu-jin.
If I don’t, Dojin-i, who is weak in heart, will continue to reach out to me, and I will also forget the atrocities I’ve committed and grab her hand.
And I’ll hurt you again.
He stood up against the wall he was mining. All the tears that flowed away were wiped away. That was the moment she walked towards the elevator.
“Where… … ?”
A hoarse voice flowed into Chae Seol-ha’s ears. It was Minseo Oh. She was leaning against the wall and looking at Chae Seol-ha with her arms crossed.
“Home.”
“How long has it been since you came in? … .”
“Because there is no more reason to be there.”
Min-seo Oh, who heard Chae Seol-ha’s answer, tilted her head.
“I see… But I don’t think it’s Dojin… … .”
“what.”
“Dojin said Seolha wanted to talk to you… … . That’s great… … .”
Hearing this, Chae Seol-ha bit her lip.
“What do you know?”
“Why?”
“Because I don’t deserve it. This time too, after all, Dojin was injured because of me!”
“It’s not your fault that something happened and the weather got worse… … ?”
“It doesn’t change that I was the person who planned the farewell party.”
“Aha… … .”
Tears welled up in Chae Seol-ha’s eyes as she continued to speak. I tried to wipe it off, but each time I did it, more tears came to my eyes.
Oh Min-seo was looking at the scene with a calm expression.
“Seolha, you want to atone for Dojini… … .”
Atonement, that one word penetrates Chae Seol-ha’s heart. yes, atonement. That was what he needed. Surely you shouldn’t have to do that.
“Yeah, for what I did—”
“lie.”
A voice sharper than ever before cut through Chae Seol-ha’s words.
“It’s not atonement, it’s that you want to run away.”
Chae Seol-ha shrugged at that eerie feeling.
“… … I don’t know what you’re talking about because you came all of a sudden.”
“Every time I see Dojin, I don’t run away because I remember what you did. What is the atonement on such a topic, after all, it is only because he is afraid.”
Min-seo Oh, who is throwing words like a mockery, Seol-ha Chae opens her eyes and stares at him. Blood was oozing from her bitten lips.
“What do you know… … .”
“You guys really can only say things like that. I don’t know either. I have no intention of wanting to know. But it’s just disgusting.”
“What?”
“I thought that I could repeat the subject that has always hurt Dojin with that attitude.”
Chae Seol-ha’s breathing is getting worse. His head was dizzy and turbid, as if he had been hit several times with a large hammer. It felt like I was going to be sucked into the abyss-like eyes at any moment.
It’s not like that. this is atonement Because he doesn’t deserve it. because I have sinned Because sin cannot be forgiven. ‘Cause I have to suffer I have to regret it. I have to live my whole life like that. So I.
When the elevator arrived with a ding-dong sound, he hurriedly shoved himself into it. Soon the door closed and Chae Seol-ha’s face disappeared from Oh Min-seo’s view.
Their conversation ended there.
“You bastard year.”
Min-seo Oh didn’t like Seol-ha Chae. I hated Chae Seol-ha so much that I wanted to stab him to death if he could. No, her feelings were not simply expressed as ‘dislike’.
Rather, it was closer to a more intrinsic disgust. Min-seo Oh felt like she was vomiting every time she talked with Seol-ha Chae, as if vomiting in the rot that came out as soon as she met him.
Minseo Oh kicked his tongue and moved forward. The destination is Yudo-jin’s hospital room. As he opened the door carefully so as not to break it, he saw a huge glass bottle lying at the entrance.
Inside the glass jar were a thousand paper cranes, and next to them were several letters. It was clear that Dasom had left it in the morning.
Minseo Oh hated Dasom as well, but at least it didn’t feel like vomiting.
Trying to run away is the same, but at least he doesn’t try to deny his desires. And that’s what Dojin is hoping for.
“… … .”
Min-seo Oh slowly reached out and caressed Yoo-jin’s cheek. Once you fall asleep, you never wake up. This was just the way it used to be.
But now he was about to change. It was slow, but he was steadily stepping forward.
I hope you can make that decision there. No, I have to say it’s you.
Minseo Oh opened her mouth with a bitter smile.
“By the way, Dojin-ah.”
Those who commit crimes must be properly punished.
Otherwise, you won’t go crazy.
With that thought in mind, Oh Min-seo bit Yu Yu-jin’s upper lip with a small mouth.
