Chapter 131

Chapter 131

I removed the towel pressing on Sumire’s hand and thigh and examined her thigh. The bleeding was due to the soft, plump skin being imprinted by the rough barbell plate. Whether the bone was damaged was the most important concern, but I couldn’t tell just by looking. This seemed like something that would require an X-ray to know for sure.

I could disinfect and stitch it, but right now, all I had was a towel. Since we were in the Central Building, we could go to Deep Blue to disinfect and stitch it, but I didn’t want to go that far with this person.

...It’s strange. I’m someone who climbed over 4,000 stairs in the dark while crying, with an injured leg and carrying a person much heavier than Sumire. Yet I don’t want to make a quick trip to the dental clinic, which is on flat, bright ground and less than 10 minutes away. Trying to shake off the feeling of not wanting to do anything, I moved my hands.

I left the towel pressing on the leg in place and took out another towel from my bag. Then I tried to tear the towel with my hand strength.

...It’s not working. Both clothes and towels, aren’t they made too well? Or is my grip strength lacking? No, that’s not it. I have enough strength to extract wisdom teeth.

Since Baek Ae-young, who was aiming the gun at Sumire’s head, was the closest, I asked her:

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Baek Ae-young watched me struggle with the towel as if observing a primate, then answered:

“How can I do that?”

“Please use the knife strapped to your ankle to help tear the towel.”

“...”

Baek Ae-young’s face froze instantly. Then, sighing, she whispered to me softly like the wind:

“Don’t expose other people’s backup weapons.”

“Oh... I’m sorry.”

Baek Ae-young took out scissors from her left pants pocket and handed them to me. The scissors looked familiar. It seemed one of the kitchen scissors Seo Jihyuk had brought from the cafe had ended up with Baek Ae-young.

I cut the towel into pieces with the scissors and tied it around the thigh like a bandage. Sumire, with her cheeks puffed out, asked me:

“Excuse me, do you have any painkillers?”

If my translator isn’t malfunctioning, it seems she’s using polite speech only with me. I didn’t know she was this kind of person when she came to the dental clinic. I only remember her being quiet without saying much during cavity treatment and scaling. I remember asking her many questions because she was so silent. I didn’t expect her to have this kind of personality then.

“No, I don’t.”

While Sumire and I were talking, Yoo Geum-yi lost her grip on Tumanako. Tumanako tried to lunge at Sumire, but I caught her by the waist in surprise, and she shouted:

“We could have died because of you if we had taken the West District escape pod!”

Sumire looked at Tumanako while touching her leg with the makeshift bandage, then sneered at Tumanako’s face.

“But you didn’t. And I didn’t do it!”

“I’m going to put you on an escape pod and send you away first! You should experience it too! Eeek! Let go of my waist!”

If I hadn’t grabbed his waist, he might have flown like a bullet to attack Sumire. ...I just treated her leg. Let’s not add more injuries. Thankfully, Yoo Geum-yi was diligently covering Henry’s ears.

“Calm down. What will beating that person solve in this situation?”

“You’ve never written an English report with your own hands, have you? Have you ever read what he wrote?”

Sumire, who had been frowning, closed her mouth. Shin Hae-ryang spoke affectionately to Baek Ae-young, who was checking the remaining bullets and the gun’s condition:

“I’ll shoot.”

Following Shin Hae-ryang, Seo Jihyuk gently added:

“Ae-young. I’m here too. If you’ve forgotten how to shoot because it’s been too long, or if it’s too heavy...”

“I’m not giving this to anyone! It’s my gun now! Team Leader, you just carry that hunk of metal! And you, just carry your dumbbell!”

Baek Ae-young acted as if she would bite anyone who tried to take the gun from her.

“This is all my wealth right now!”

At those words, Shin Hae-ryang seemed to quickly give up on the idea of taking the gun Baek Ae-young had captured. However, Seo Jihyuk, holding the dumbbell, asked Baek Ae-young:

“How am I supposed to fight someone with a gun using this?!”

“How should I know?”

Seo Jihyuk didn’t ask any more and just sighed deeply. Sumire shouted at Shin Hae-ryang’s profile:

“I’m going to sue you for doing this to my leg!”

Shin Hae-ryang didn’t even answer to that. Instead, Kang Soojung looked at Sumire and said:

“Sure. Sue as much as you want. I have tons of things to sue for too. Let’s send each other so many lawsuits that our mailboxes burst. I’m planning to hire 100 lawyers and 100 yakuza. You ganbatte with your lawsuits too!”

...It seems Kang Soojung doesn’t use her fists because she can beat people sufficiently with her tongue. Sumire bit her lip hard and glared at Kang Soojung. Then Sumire cried loudly and shouted towards Shin Hae-ryang:

“Why are you treating me like this?! I didn’t break the escape pod! I didn’t shoot anyone! Why are you being so cold to me?! You even suggested immigration to Korea for Tama-tama!”

I wondered what the immigration suggestion was about, then barely remembered. Didn’t they say something about making such offers to foreigners who did decent work in each engineer team? It seems Engineer Team A offered Tamaki Yuzuru to immigrate. Judging by what she’s saying now, Sumire apparently never received such an offer from Engineer Team A. Sumire shouted as if wronged:

“Tama-tama is just an idiot from Kan-Kan-Dou-Ritsu (mid-tier private universities) and a country bumpkin! He’s a fool who doesn’t fit in at all with our Tokyo Ikkou (top-tier national universities) team members! Why are you so kind to him but not to me?!”

“Is that why you fed him needles?”

What? Shin Hae-ryang crossed his arms and looked at Sumire as if she were an insect.

“Engineer Team S Leader Richard contacted me. He complained that the shower room was covered in blood, saying I should beat people in moderation. He asked if putting needles in someone’s mouth wasn’t going too far. He said if you did such a thing, you should at least clean up all the needles that fell on the floor.”

Putting needles in someone’s mouth?

Is that even possible? I was stunned for a moment by the shock.

How did Tamaki react when I asked if he had chewed on a sea urchin or hedgehog? Tamaki was consistently quiet and tried not to say anything, seeming intimidated. I thought it was because he was tired and exhausted.