Episode 139
How many times has an ordinary office worker fallen from a building and almost died?
And then there’s the horrible and disgusting sight of monsters gathering below, waiting for me as if I were their prey. What are the chances that I’ll be able to forget about that series of events after experiencing them?
We may not know the exact answer, but at least Kang Min-ah was not an exceptional type of person. She had the situation in her mind where she almost killed herself engraved in her mind.
“Gasp, huh, huff.”
The world called it trauma.
“Ugh…!”
Running away, running without knowing where to go, being chased by someone. Kang Min-ah was sure that it would kill her.
The reason Kang Min-ah was able to look calmer than the others was because there were others beside her. It was thanks to the people she had to protect and take responsibility for that she stayed by her side. Kang Min-ah, who ran away alone, was a bit absent-minded and very timid, just like her nature.
It’s scary, this fear seems like it won’t end. Even though I’m constantly looking at the colorless trees and grass with my eyes, my mind is completely white or black, confusing my vision. I’m instinctively running to survive, but I’m not cool-headed at all.
“Hey.”
“Ah, ugh.”
“Ms. Kang Min-ah, I need you to take your things. Okay?”
“Huhhhhhhh… .”
The distance was clearly not very close, but the man’s voice was loud enough to whisper right next to her ear. Kang Min-ah was clearly in a panic, but there was no one there to correct her and console her.
If I get caught by that guy, I’ll die. The doctor tried to kill me like that, so I, who am nothing special, will die soon. I’ll die alone in a place where no one will look after me.
In an unknown world, alone, with monsters.
“Eww, ahhh…!”
Knock knock.
I increased my foot speed even more.
I wanted to live. I wanted to live. Kang Min-ah moved her feet even more tenaciously, out of the instinct that every human being should have. She didn’t even realize that she was jumping right next to the edge of a cliff.
“Ugh, ugh… Ugh.”
Kang Min-ah helped Ha Seong-yoon because she wanted to save him, not because she was prepared to die.
Even though he knew this would happen, there was no particular reason for hitting Song In-myeong on the head. Ha Seong-yoon took great care of Kang Min-ah and the other group several times, and although he rarely spoke first, he always answered kindly and affectionately when spoken to.
I just didn’t want to see such a good person die. That’s all I did.
Well, anyway, I don’t know, Kang Min-ah just wanted to live.
“… Uh, uh…”
“… Ms. Kang Min-ah.”
“Manager…!”
That’s how she met Director Lee Jae-heon,
For a moment, my legs gave out and my center of gravity shifted to the side.
“ah.”
Kang Min-ah was clearly falling into the air.
I felt a strange sense of familiarity. Suddenly, I thought I saw a monster at the bottom of the cliff, a sense of eerie floating engulfed my whole body, and a large hand reached out to me and grabbed Kang Min-ah.
There is another monster attacking Chief Lee Jae-heon.
“Kang Min-ah!”
“… … .”
It was all too familiar.
It’s too much.
* * *
Please save me.
* * *
“Ms. Kang Min-ah. Hey, Kang Min-ah.”
“… Please save me, please save me… .”
“… … .”
I’m going crazy.
‘Why were Song In-myeong’s nerves focused on this?’
He held on tightly to a thick tree root with one hand and continued to think while hanging from the cliff.
Again, the flower garden in the park has the power to attract survivors, and most people who don’t know where to go head towards the flower garden. That’s how they fall down the cliff and die.
The bodies of the dead are devoured by the raccoon monsters. After sucking them out for a week to a month, they are spit out as complete skeletons. These bone fragments serve as nutrients for new flowers to grow. There were many medicinal herbs that could be used as medicine in such flower fields.
“Oh, I got hit in the head and jumped right away so I’m a bit out of it….”
“… … .”
“Here we go again, sir.”
So, there were only two ways to die in the flower garden. You could either run around like crazy and fall off a cliff, or you could touch a flower and get killed by a monster.
And now, Jaeheon Lee has discovered a third type.
“Wow, you’re really not going to let that go?”
“… … .”
“really?”
He bit his lip at the sight of Song In-myeong holding a jackknife.
“Even if I stab you?”
“… Seriously, I’m going to kill you…”
Lee Jae-heon, who had been mumbling like that, closed his mouth again.
With one hand, he was holding onto Kang Min-ah, who was trembling as if she had lost her mind and was clinging to his arm and waist, and with the other hand, he was holding onto a tree root sticking out from the edge of the cliff. In short, he was holding onto a grown woman and trying to keep her from falling off the cliff.
In addition, unfortunately, there was a murderer in front of Lee Jae-heon, who was barely holding on to the tree roots. A murderer who was holding a knife, as expected.
“… You know.”
“… … .”
“I’m just a disaster from now on. The old man was unlucky, and that old woman is already out of her mind because of the disaster. If the old man can’t handle it, the two of them will fall down there together?”
Yes, the third development that did not appear in the novel.
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“That would be really cool.”
Get pushed off a cliff by someone else.
“… What, this isn’t even a movie from the 1980s…!”
Lee Jae-heon was so dumbfounded that he let out a small scream. Even though the writer was someone who liked cliches, he didn’t know that the development of ‘throwing a person hanging from a cliff’ would turn out like this.
“Wow, you’ve come to your senses, mister… Are you worried that if you don’t come to your senses, someone will die?”
“You, you, I’m really, really going to kill you…!”
“You could have come to your senses on your own will, right? But why did you act so crazy in front of me? Was it because I wanted to kill you so badly? Am I saying that it’s okay for me to kill you? Or maybe it was your altruistic desire to save others that forced you to come to your senses.”
“I’ll kill you. I’ll kill you and bring you back to life. Live in hell for the rest of your life.”
“Do you know what’s really exciting for me right now? When I first decided on this topic, I honestly never thought that such great material as yours would show up… .”
Shit, that didn’t make any sense.
Lee Jae-heon couldn’t help but admire the crazy guy in front of him, even as he held onto Kang Min-ah’s arm, who was trembling and clinging to his other arm. As expected, there was no one he could understand who liked to stab people with a knife.
‘Well, that kind of guy would probably try to throw a healthy person off a cliff.’
He thought of Kang Min-ah, who was escaping precariously along the edge of a cliff.
I wondered why someone who wasn’t even that stupid would go to such a dangerous place, but it seemed like Song In-myeong had guided him there. He seemed uneasy for some reason, and the moment his eyes met with Lee Jae-heon’s, he stumbled. I expected it was probably because his legs gave out.
The moment I grabbed Kang Min-ah, feeling a familiar sense of deja vu, Song In-myeong jumped out from the side and swung his hammer, and we both fell off the edge of the cliff. Thanks to my body having recovered, I was able to hang on like this. If I hadn’t eaten the fruit, I might have died.
Of course, even now, I was in a situation where I was on the verge of death.
“Whether I can endure it or not, I think it’s cool in its own way.”
“Who are you going to kill, now…?”
“That kind of contingency is the beauty of abstraction. More than anything, I like the audience to participate in my work. You are my material and my audience. No matter what you choose, it ends up becoming a work of art. Isn’t that great?”
“… He’s not crazy.”
“It would have been better if we hadn’t met here. Then I could capture you in the form of a painting. Oh, do you know the dripping technique? It can capture the flatness and non-representation that are the basics of painting in a way that is better than anything else. No one knows what is in this work. In fact, this is a technique that I don’t particularly like because it doesn’t convey the meaning of my work to the public. But I can definitely say that it will suit you well. It will suit you well.”
“… … .”
“And then, in that flower field, the old man’s body falls in a random location and gets scattered?”
A languid, excited voice pierced my ears.
“Then you become the paint itself.”
“… … .”
“If the most sacrificial madman in the world, who sacrifices everything he can, ends up with everything that makes up his body turned into material… and dies like that.”
A sliver of the pure white light of the sky shines on the sharp blade. The cool color soon lightly presses the center of Lee Jae-heon’s hand, and a familiar, chilling sensation soon stabs his brain.
A drop of blood formed lightly and soon ran down his arm.
“If that becomes my work.”
That tingling sensation takes over my whole body.
“Will you live in my head?”
“… … .”
“Keep going, so I can kill you.”
Yes, a sigh escaped.
“… Huh.”
That son of a bitch is f*cking crazy and falling down.
‘No, but more than that, if I die now, I won’t be able to kill that bastard.’
Lee Jae-heon couldn’t shake off his worries even though he was quickly thinking about them.
It’s true that he started this uproar because he wanted to get out and get back to work quickly, but Kang Min-ah’s death wasn’t part of that plan, and if he died now, he wouldn’t be able to deal with that trash.
‘If the green algae monster came near here, I might as well just leave it behind. I can’t see a single vine, so if the situation doesn’t allow it, I’ll have to kill it… .’
Lee Jae-heon had made a contract with the green algae monster. Even the monster he made a contract with was a green algae monster in his dreams, so even if he returned, the transaction situation would not change. So Lee Jae-heon had to once again create the possibility of offering Song In-myeong to the green algae monster by timing it appropriately.
Of course, if Lee Jae-heon was hanging on the edge of the cliff alone, he would have easily solved the problem.
“Ugh, ugh, huhhhh… .”
“… … .”
“Save me, save me, please. Ah, uh… huh…”
There was a situation where a crazy chick was hanging from a weight.
Even for Lee Jae-heon, who had recovered to some extent, it was difficult to get through the current situation under the condition of saving a half-crazy adult woman. Even holding on with just one hand was starting to hurt his shoulder, and if he went up, there was a murderer standing there.
‘What should I do with this?’
I’m in a difficult situation.
If this was the world of the previous life, we would all just fall down and die together, but here, once you die, it’s over, and Jeong In-ho remembered before his return. If Kang Min-ah died after Lee Jae-heon, it seemed like his mental health wouldn’t be completely sound. If that happened, then definitely… .
“… … .”
Lee Jae-heon felt that he had no other choice left.
“…hey.”
“… … .”
“I don’t want to kill myself.”
Anyway, given Detective Hong’s personality, he’ll come to arrest Song In-myeong soon, and the person I had in mind will also come this way. In the end, all I have to do is hold out until then.
“I want to kill you myself, but I’m doing this because it would be a waste.”
Lee Jae-heon decided to entertain the murderer.
“Don’t you want to stab them with a knife? Put your hand inside their eye and make a circle, and then gouge out their eyeballs. Or you can strangle them with both hands, or beat them with a big hammer until they’re a mess.”
“…uh….”
“Huh? How is it?”
And, in his previous life, he was quite talented in this field.
He continued speaking with a smile.
“Wouldn’t it be fun?”
By reading the novel, Lee Jae-heon knew what kind of person the criminal named ‘Song In-myeong’ was, and what he was happy about. He knew the method of the crime and the type of thinking, so why would it be so difficult to stimulate that kind of interest? If it was a complete stranger, he might not know, but he knew the murderer in front of him very well.
‘Song In-myeong’ took up murder as a hobby and a profession, and because of that, he had a very refined sense of art. However, since he already had picky tastes and it was difficult to obtain the materials, he would not waste them rashly. When he was young, he would have played with the senses without knowing the value, but now that his head has grown considerably,
To such a ‘Song In-myeong’, ‘Lee Jae-heon’ was a person he would never meet again in his lifetime, and so it would have been a great waste to enjoy a game for the sake of peripheral pleasure.
“It’s too thrilling to just kill in your head.”
So that’s why you just said that. You were just talking nonsense about wanting to live in my head.
Lee Jae-heon was sure that his remarks had made Song In-myeong quite happy.
He had a bright smile that was annoying.
“… I thought you would understand me, sir.”
“gibberish.”
“Oh, what should I do? I really want to cut it into 36 pieces and put it in the fridge….”
“I don’t like the refrigerator because it’s cold.”
“Okay, then. Let’s do that.”
It swept its face once and continued speaking with a wicked laugh.
“I know this is all to save Kang Min-ah anyway. If we waste time like this, the detective will probably come looking for us soon. Our good gorilla will chase after us too.”
“… … .”
“But you were the only one who made this offer to me. So… um, yeah. That’s what I mean.”
Song In-myeong, who had been muttering a few times, slowly turned the jackknife that was resting on the back of Lee Jae-heon’s hand. After watching the sharp edge tear through the thin skin and dig into the flesh, the murderer met Lee Jae-heon’s eyes again.
“This is my first time creating a piece with materials.”
To his dismay, his face looked extremely happy.
“So this time, will I also become a work of art?”
“…under.”
Seeing something other than Song In-myeong overlap like that, Lee Jae-heon felt f*cking scared.
The pain that must be endured without being able to fight back.
“You really….”
“… … .”
“I’ll kill you, Inmyeong.”
“…Wow.”
Phew,
The small knife pierced the back of his hand perfectly.
“This is awesome.”
Shit, that’s right.
