episode_0165

Mountains and Sea (6) – One Mind Salvation Church Republic of Korea Branch

The eyes of the river and sea tremble as if they are afraid to answer.

Kang San seemed to know without having to hear her answer.

Something that had been stationary for a while began to creak and move.

A cold head compared to a boiling heart.

The jewel that shines brightly in the hands of the river and sea… …

“… … There must have been something with that cult leader.”

It definitely had something to do with it.

Disparate abilities that suddenly appeared, just like zombies that suddenly appeared.

Although he did not possess the irrational abilities that only existed in his imagination, he was certain that he had observed them from the closest.

Paaa!

That jewel was clearly related to Han Gu-won.

“… … No.”

Kang San let go of Kang Bada’s hand that he had been holding tightly and jumped out of bed.

I quickly put on my shoes and started walking quickly to the hospital room door.

“Oh, brother—!”

The river comes late and blocks the door.

She asked cautiously in a trembling voice.

“Uh, where are you going… … .”

“… … Get out of the way.”

Kangsan growled, suppressing his heart that was about to explode.

Kang Bada flinched even louder at the gloomy voice and lowered her head.

Hands and legs shaking, afraid of something.

Kang San sighed at the pitiful sight and gently nodded.

“… … I’m not mad at you, so don’t worry. At least that person probably approached first.”

“… … .”

“So I told you to be careful. Let’s get some rest first. I think I need to meet that person.”

“… … .”

Kang Bada is quietly lowering her head even when explanations are given quietly.

She asked cautiously, still blocking the door.

“… … What are you going to talk about when you meet?”

Kang San narrowed his eyes at the unusual appearance of his younger sister.

“… … Is it the sea?”

The river and sea flinch again at the quiet question.

She carefully grabbed Kang San’s hand with trembling eyes.

“Oh, oppa, what are you going to do when you go to the religious leader?”

“… … Leader?”

“What is important about titles in this situation? … . Well, my brother needs to calm down first… Let’s go to bed, okay?”

Kang San looked down at his pleading sister with disbelieving eyes.

A mouth that cannot be closed and a forehead full of wrinkles.

“You… … I didn’t just receive this… … .”

The most unimaginable family returns to cold reality.

Kang San once again stared at his younger sister, who had been chatting away in the hospital room without notice.

Unfamiliar suit and unfamiliar expression.

A feeling of foreignness, as if she was not the lovely sister she knew, as if she were not the river or sea.

“… … It wasn’t just jewelry. And yet you didn’t say a word to me… … .”

Even though I told him to be so careful and that he was a dangerous person.

I lost all my strength due to the feeling of betrayal and despair.

The river and sea quickly support a naturally staggering body.

“Oh, oppa… … .”

“… … Let go.”

Kang San shook off Kang Bada’s hand and coldly recited.

“Don’t say it twice. Get out of the way, river and sea.”

“… … .”

However, even though Kangbada trembled pitifully, she did not move away from the door.

Kang San’s eyes were so wide that they were torn apart by shock.

Kang Bada looked at that and quickly shouted as if making an excuse.

“Ji, come with me later, not now! My brother is so excited now that he will definitely make a mistake if he goes to the religious leader!”

“… … Mistake?”

“Oh, oppa… … These days, I attend meetings every single day. But now, if my brother goes and fights with the religious leader, how will I look at the religious leader’s face during the meeting? … .”

“… … Ha!”

Kang San let out a series of empty laughs with a blank expression.

Kang Bada was looking up at Kang San with an earnest expression as if she was praying.

I bite my lip so hard that my face bleeds.

“… … I have to go even further, really get out of the way.”

“… … Oppa-”

“Get out of the way!”

Kang San’s shouts echo throughout the hospital room.

With his red eyes again, Kang San pointed towards the river and sea.

“Look at what that person did now and talk about it! River, sea, think about what you are saying and doing to me right now!”

“… … .”

how-! how-!

A cry filled with anger was fired at her.

“Seong Ga-eul can do that too… … . Mother too… … okay! Mom can do that too. Don’t do it~!”

Kang San raised his head and cried and shouted.

He lowered his head again and looked at the river with watery eyes and thought.

“How… … How can a child who knows nothing… … .”

“… … Ah.”

A sigh that flows softly in the midst of despair.

The face of the river and sea collapses and gradually becomes blurred.

A black suit with a deeply bowed gaze.

I wanted to show him that I had changed, but I was still the same to him.

Kang San continued, wiping away his tears with trembling hands.

“How can you persuade a child who knows nothing―”

“… … Don’t do it.”

A whisper that quietly cuts through the pitiful lament.

In Kangsan’s pupils, Kangbada is reflected, glaring at him with his mouth closed.

His face getting redder and redder as he clenched his trembling fists.

Like siblings, with faces that mirror each other-

“Don’t say you don’t know anything―!”

My sister burst the dam that had been suppressed for a long time.

The sound of someone shouting echoes again in the hospital room.

“Now I’m a college student who knows everything! I am also an adult who can drink and do anything! How long are you going to look at me as your little little sister!”

Kang San’s brow, which had been tinged with embarrassment, furrowed again.

“If you wanted to be treated like an adult, you should have been more discerning rather than wearing a suit—!”

In our pounding heads, each other’s shouts echo like loudspeakers.

Kang Bada clenched her teeth and shouted as if fighting back.

“On the contrary, I am making a good decision now. It is much more childish to be stubborn like my brother!”

“Sect leader, are you being sensible when you distance yourself from the founder of a pseudo-religion?! Huh?!”

“Oppa, don’t call it a pseudo religion when you don’t know anything about it!”

The more Kang Bada participated in the meeting, the clearer the feeling became.

Mother, salvation leader, and even Bulyeosi.

They were all busy working for people every day.

“What kind of pseudo-religion foolishly operates like this! What kind of cult leader even cares about the welfare of his followers?”

My younger sister’s first rebellion, screaming at the top of her voice.

As if he couldn’t lose, Kang San also raised his voice.

“Don’t judge everything just by looking at the outside! A person who rules as a god in his own kingdom is now right?!”

“Then what happens? He feeds me, puts me to sleep, and keeps me safe. That’s God, then what is it?!”

“The problem is that you really think of yourself as a god, not a metaphor!”

“Don’t play with words! Metaphor or anything―”

“Don’t be mistaken—!”

Kang San raised his head as if to shoot and shouted.

He pointed his finger at the sky with a red face.

“Han Gu-won is just an agent! If there is a god, it is a system that gives power, why is Han Gu-won a god?!”

Just as my sister’s dam bursts, my brother’s dam that he had been holding down is bursting.

“What happens if Han Gu-won and the system order different things later?! Who are you supposed to follow?! Do I have to climb on that person’s shoulder like a pig and then fall off and die with him?! Is that what you want?!”

“Stop making assumptions! Everything you said was just the worst of the worst! So, are you saying that awakened people have to endure this situation without using any abilities?! The mother that my brother trusts and follows so much… Yeah! My brother also calls Ha Chae-kyung, not his biological mother, ‘mother’―”

“So ahhh―!”

Kangsan’s trembling index finger points straight towards the river and sea.

He stopped Kang Bada mid-sentence and chewed his pronunciation as if he was trying to gnaw at it.

“… … So don’t cross the line. Because I don’t know what will happen!”

My mother did not exalt herself as a god.

However.

‘It’s dangerous if you continue to stay there! Come over here!’

‘If any problems arise, I will take full responsibility.’

My older brother, who was clearly just a good and kind person, was exalting himself as a god.

“How long can a self-proclaimed god who is not omnipotent and even narcissistic be able to choose only the right answer? And if we choose the wrong answer, will we who are riding on his shoulders even have a chance to choose something?”

I could definitely say there was none.

“Han Ku-won is just wearing a false mask as the leader of the Salvation Church. Han Gu-won, who took off that mask, will never-”

You can’t be God.

Kang Bada’s face frowned in dissatisfaction at Kang San’s assertion.

An arrow is thrown with narrowed eyes.

“So is there a better alternative?”

“… … .”

It was a question that always gave me a headache, but now even my mother has given her strength to the Salvation Church.

There was no alternative that Kangsan could confidently come up with.

The river and sea gained momentum and began to rush stronger.

“How long are you going to act like a perfectionist and be picky, saying you can’t do this or that?

The flames cool down as if cold water had been poured on them.

“The world has become like this. How long are we going to live in the past? Oppa, open your eyes now!”

The more she fights with her brother, the more the voice echoes in her head.

Before considering how straight and upright it is, there is one condition that is absolutely necessary.

Kang Bada shouted as she felt the touch of a brightly shining jewel in her clenched fist.

“Oppa, you have no power anyway!”

────.

There was no answer after the last voice shouted as if it were being squeezed out.

A hospital room filled with chilly silence.

Parr – Kang San’s eyes tremble as if resonating with the gaze of Kang Bada, who raised her head with trembling eyes.

Kang San’s face slowly stops shaking and becomes more peaceful.

“… … Ah.”

A deep regret that belatedly comes with an alien calmness.

“Oh, brother―.”

The lips of Kangbada, repeatedly opening and closing their mouths, were trembling.

“… … It’s the same.”

Kang San shook his head and muttered.

“Autumn and Mother.”

… … you also.

The river sea shaking noisily like waves and the river mountain standing tall in its place.

Kang San let out a small smile and opened his mouth as if reflecting.

“The process is similar and the reasons are similar.”

Because of Gaeul’s weakness as a childhood friend, she has to choose between her family and colleagues.

Because of my mother’s weakness as a police officer of the Republic of Korea, she was unable to resist and was deprived of city power.

My younger sister was stabbed in the back by an immature high school student and was crying in the hospital room because of my brother’s weakness.

Everything—

“Sea, you’re right.”

It’s all because you have no power.

This is because he was an ordinary person who only spoke loudly.

“… … My brother got a little excited, I’m sorry.”

He gently bent down and wiped the tears flowing down his sister’s cheeks.

Kang Bada continued to watch her brother with anxious eyes.

Kang San smiles at his younger sister.

A hiccup comes out from inside her tightness.

“… … Sobbing―”

“Hahaha― They say I’m not a kid when I do this.”

Kang Bada’s eyes, looking at the brightly smiling Kang San, were full of anxiety.

“Now that I think about it, didn’t I originally go to the meeting around this time?”

“Oh, brother― I was so excited that I spoke a little harshly, sorry.”

“I know, it’s my brother, but I’m afraid you don’t know that. Still, it’s uncomfortable for both of us today, so should we just stop at this?”

Kang San holds my trembling hand and carefully opens the door to the hospital room.

Kangbada had no choice but to take a step toward the gentle welcome.

Kang San sees off Kang Bada from outside the hospital room for the first time as she continues to turn around due to anxiety.

I couldn’t move forward very well due to the meaningless eyes staring at me quietly.

Kang San was watching those awkward steps until the end.

All the way until she finally reached the elevator and went down to the first floor.

***

As her brother said, Kang Bada, who only had one day with each other, rushed to the hospital room as soon as the sun rose.

Many words of apology lingering in my mouth.

Phew –

Kang Bada took a deep breath and firmly grasped the doorknob of the hospital room.

“… … .”

Jaw – As soon as I hold the doorknob, a feeling of darkness comes over me for some reason.

Drurrr

I quickly opened the door to the hospital room and looked at the bed where my brother was always.

“… … Ah.”

A bed bathed in bright sunlight.

Her older brother, who always greeted her with a smile, was no longer there.

“… … Ah.”

As she flops down, all she can see is a neatly organized blanket.

She whispered, rubbing her face with her arm as her eyes gradually blurred with tears.

“… … Oppa?”

The one who must answer her earnest call.

“… … Oppa.”

wasn’t here