Chapter 125

Episode 125

“If I fold it like this.”

“huh.”

“This thing sticks out and becomes an ear.”

“So what you’re making now is a rabbit?”

“Ugh, dinosaur.”

“Aha....”

The sound of small colored paper rustling.

Lee Yun-byeol slowly blinked his eyes as he looked at the blood-covered man who nodded in accordance with the child’s words. Perhaps because it was a cool day, my knees, which I held with both hands, felt cold.

‘...I have to do it.’

I had no energy.

Yunbyeol Lee liked children. Unlike adults, they enjoyed their own immature language and also liked actions filled with pure emotions. When they gave gifts with special value of their own, Lee Yun-byeol was so happy that he felt like he could fly.

But other than that, the work was hard. The values of children and adults were very different, and while they were full of strength, Yunbyeol Lee’s physical strength was not good. Especially in a world like now where there are monsters and anyone can die, Lee Yun-byeol was gradually getting tired.

She smoothed her empty hands.

“....”

It was sad.

‘Why does a child like that have to die...’

I heard the story from Detective Hong Gyeong-jun. The strange child she was looking for was found dead, and there were no other adults nearby.

Hearing those words, Yunbyeol Lee became suspicious of whether the person he saw at that time had killed the child.

I shouldn’t say this, but the guy who kept talking gibberish honestly seemed like a crazy person, and the way he looked at the child like a kid was not normal. If the child and the man had not known each other, they would have reported it.

But now I just regret it.

‘I should have taken you with me.’

Regardless of whether the man and the child were holding hands or not, Lee Yun-byeol should have taken the child’s hand and run away with Seo-ah. No matter how much I thought about it, it seemed like the crazy guy was using the child as bait to save his own life.

I still remembered the first thing the crazy guy asked me when he looked at me. It’s March 1st, so why isn’t anyone taking a break? At the same time, seeing her as a crazy person, Lee Yun-byeol defined her as a dangerous person. If we had just had more time, we would have been able to bring the child who was caught in the hands of a crazy person.

‘Why did I come to this world at that time?’

It was so sad.

Of course, the child and her really have no relationship at all, but...

“Teacher, this is it.”

“...huh?”

“This is a dinosaur.”

Lee Yun-byeol looked at Seo-ah, who was handing me a small bundle of paper.

To be honest, the ‘dinosaur’ the child gave me didn’t particularly look like a dinosaur. It seems like I didn’t fold the paper after knowing something properly, but just did what my heart wanted. As someone named Lee Jae-heon said just a moment ago, it resembled a rabbit.

However, when Lee Yun-byeol saw Lee Jae-heon looking at me and the child’s face as if he was watching me, Lee Yun-byeol suddenly felt proud.

“...Thank you Seoya.”

After all, a child’s gift had the power to make people feel good.

As Lee Yun-byeol carefully received the wad of paper, Seo-ah seemed to be in a very good mood. The child tried to hold back but ended up laughing, covering his mouth with both hands, and Lee Yun-byeol hugged the child.

“Did you fold it with your uncle?”

“Yes, uncle. Like this... for teaching me how to remove the tail.”

“Yes, it’s pretty.”

“That’s cool.”

“It’s cool too.”

As I chimed in and looked at Jaeheon Lee, he raised one of his eyebrows. Yunbyeol Lee thought, ‘What should I do?’ I think it meant a certain amount.

I couldn’t help but look at it.

‘...I should apologize.’

As a child, Seo-ah was much more vulnerable to this environment, so her nerves were tense. Besides, wouldn’t it be even weirder for someone to let a child approach a person covered in blood? In Lee Yun-byeol’s opinion, Lee Jae-heon, whom she saw for the first time, was someone to be wary of.

Actually, it wasn’t anything very strange or special. What Yunbyeol Lee felt was also her own thought, and the students probably brought firewood because they sincerely wanted to help. Since most adults were away to do something, they might have felt like doing something too.

I just felt a very slight sense of discomfort.

“....”

This is how they seem very happy to accept the concerns of Lee Jae-heon, who was the most seriously injured among the survivors.

‘...It might be a useless thought, but...’

Don’t you usually be a little more cautious with patients like that?

When I think about it, the reactions of the other party members were also a bit strange. Of course, we had only met for a short time, but if someone in their group got hurt like that instead of us, it seemed like Lee Yun-byeol wouldn’t even be able to make eye contact.

But despite that, everyone around Lee Jae-heon remained calm. When that person moves or does something, he shows his concern by nagging, but other than that, he doesn’t treat the patient as much as I do and wonder, ‘How can he be alive?’

There is no reason to worry about profit margins, which are not the parties involved.

“....”

“Teacher.”

“...Ah oh. huh.”

“Are you sick, uncle?”

“....”

She couldn’t answer the child’s question right away.

“...Yes, it hurts.”

Lee Yun-byeol didn’t even understand what exactly he had answered.

I felt like I was floating.

* * *

‘These are just kids.’

Jaeheon Lee sighed as he looked at the two students sitting on either side of him and talking back and forth.

He could not understand these people because he had never craved affection, but at least he knew what people suffering from lack of affection thought and did. They wanted to constantly attract attention to themselves in some way.

Even if he hurts himself.

“I saw a box in the grass, so I put my hand in and there were thorns.”

“Isn’t that really stupid? Anyone can see that it has thorns, but if you put your hand inside it...”

Lee Jae-heon suddenly found the current situation a little funny.

“...It must have hurt.”

How did they collect so many crazy seeds?

Even in the original novel, the siblings often displayed similar behavior. When the protagonist’s attention is diverted and it seems like they will not be able to properly protect themselves. I suffered a small injury that was not noticeable and pretended not to have it in front of him.

However, now the target and timing have changed.

‘That means you rely on me that much.’

Jaeheon Lee was curious about how the main character would lead these siblings after his death. In the original novel, they were characters who depended on Jung In-ho, so it would have been easy to deal with them, but if Lee Jae-heon dies at all, the siblings’ mental health will not be safe.

Still, he had no intention of changing his current relationship.

“Kim Yeon-woo will be watching you outside anyway, so get some rest.”

“...yes.”

“If you really want to work, join the adults later. Or you can just see whether the bonfire goes out or not. “Because that’s pretty important too.”

“yes yes.”

“If you’re tired, rest next to me.”

At those words, Da-Hoon Park folded his long body and hugged his knees, and Da-Young Park glanced at him and snuggled up next to Jae-Heon Lee. As I didn’t say anything to him, I felt some of the tension in my body relax.

The people who are acting like this now are people whose parents are alive and well and who eat well three times a day. The contradictory background and current situation are a bit funny.

Why do young people come here?

“...I’m going to die if I keep doing this.”

I became so tired.

It’s all going to end one day, really.

(Continued in the next part)