episode_0023

Hanmaum Church, for a church, was quite a suburban place… it was practically in the mountains. That was because if you walked along the hiking trail on Majangsan Mountain and turned off to the side, you would find Hanmaum Church.

Why is the church on the mountain? The answer is simple: Because it is a cult.

How did they survive while still in the mountains? It seemed like they were farming. They also took care of some of the orchards located on the mountains.

Cooperative farm… It sounded quite fitting for a pseudo-farm.

Anyway, I heard that based on that, they are interacting with survivor groups including the Blue Apartment. I guess the old man is also included in that group.

Apart from that, leaving aside the stories about Hanmaum Church being a cult or taking over an orchard like Altolan, I had to seriously consider whether or not the old man had really lost his mind.

“Mister, are you crazy? It’s winter, but you’re going to empty the shelter after bringing in a bunch of outsiders? Is that a reasonable thing to do?”

Hyeji? Cheondeuk? Lina?

How many times have you seen them? Have they been around as long as I have?

Have you ever struggled to survive, starving like a fool? Or have you tried to cross the line to solve some ridiculous request?

It would be safe to say that we had no contact whatsoever, except for the fact that the old man took in people who were basically strangers until recently.

But would you trust those people and entrust them with the shelter you built with your blood, sweat, and tears? In that case, I’d rather open the shelter to zombies.

While they’re occupying it, there’s no way anyone else will invade, right?

“Da, Danhwa… I’m not saying I’ll go right now…”

“You’re not saying you’re going right now? Oh, you’re going in about a month? Then…”

“That’s right! Isn’t that enough time to become a family?”

“one.”

“month.”

“Will it work?”

I poked the old man’s chest hard with my finger. The old man flinched every time I repeated the action.

Oh, I thought it was a rock. It’s so hard.

“Danhwa, honestly, even if you look at it, they’re not bad people, right?”

“Right now, Lina is the girl who tried to kidnap and imprison the old man.”

“That’s it! A guy who has the heart to kidnap and imprison me. Are you afraid he’ll swallow up our shelter? If he tries to swallow me, won’t you notice?”

What did I just hear? I revised my guess from ‘Is the old man crazy?’ to ‘He must be crazy.’

Clearly, he was a normal human being normally.

There was the minor problem that the usual had to go back quite a bit to the recent past.

He was a person who acted normally on the outside, even though his heart would tilt in a strange direction when the client was a woman.

These days, if I see a girl with a boyfriend, I tend to just throw her into the shelter, no matter when I see her.

How did I become that crazy kid who’s obsessed with little girls? Oh, was it like this from the beginning?

I fell into despair, deeply regretting that my partner was the man who, if the world were sane, would not have been strangely arrested at any moment.

At the same time, it seemed like it would be possible to offer some comfort to Lina, who was being treated like a rabbit by the old man, if the headmaster was completely excluded.

“Trash.”

How can you act like that with a girl’s heart? Isn’t that a bit inhumane?

Besides, in the old days, if the uncle had been just a little older, he would have had a daughter as young as Lina, but even if that weren’t the case, Lina would have been in kindergarten by the time the uncle entered college.

“No, that’s not it, that’s not it, what I mean is…”

“It wouldn’t be strange to hear him called uncle or uncle, but now he’s calling me oppa, oppa. Does that mean he sees me as a love interest? Wow… It wouldn’t be strange if something big happened in uncle’s room soon. I should prepare my bow every night in case something like that happens.”

I openly scolded the old man. To be honest, I was in a situation where the thought that he should come to his senses was growing like a watered-down sprout.

“Wow, a love interest! Danhwa, how old am I to feel that way about someone who hasn’t even lost baby fat yet? I sometimes feel something like fatherly love, but from my side, I have absolutely no intention of doing that to Lina!”

I looked at the old man with cold eyes. The old man slowly avoided my gaze, perhaps because he felt burdened by my eyes.

What are you doing without even making eye contact?

Besides, I found decisive evidence in the old man’s words.

‘From my side, I have no such intention.’

But, if Lina had said this, wouldn’t it mean that she would push him away?

This evil man…

“This guy is no good. I’ve been suffering all this time because I trusted this kind of person… I don’t know why I haven’t gone to the waste disposal site yet. Oh, am I the one in charge of recycling?”

I ended up telling you exactly what was on my mind. But I didn’t feel like I did anything wrong.

No, it’s wrong and crazy to try to do something to a kid who’s in middle school. It’s not wrong to point to poop and say it’s dirty, right?

“I’ve been worrying you a lot lately, Danhwa. But I think it’s too much to say this… Honestly, when I look at Lina, I just think she’s pretty and kind. Don’t you agree with that? She’s cute and adorable. She’s like a little sister to me. I can’t tell her to stop doing that to her face. Kids at that age would be scared if I did that. ”

The old man has been very active in expressing his opinion. Judging by the length of his speech, it seems he was right on the mark.

On the subject of being the one who almost got kidnapped and abandoned by Lina…

I’m starting to get a little tired of the way Lina insists that she’s nothing more or less than Daddy-Long-Legs.

“I’d rather you not know.”

“…”

I just heard the most surprising thing I’ve ever heard from a man today.

And that statement made me feel like I should throw away all partnership and all, and just crack my head in half, along with my physiological disgust.

No, what if I were you?

“Get out, just die. What the hell are you talking about.”

“No! I, I mean, Danhwa, I mean, if you’re mature and have clearly grown into an adult, I wouldn’t know. Right? I’m not saying that Danhwa would feel that way. Honestly, I like the bigger one. Do you know what I mean? So Danhwa, you…”

The old man was busy muttering in response to my words. He probably didn’t even know what kind of nonsense he was spewing out.

I was worried that if I left that guy alone, he would blurt out even more outrageous nonsense, so I immediately shut him up.

“My… bang!”

I hit the back of the old man’s head hard with the bow. There was a dull sound and the old man’s body staggered.

“Wait a minute, Danhwa. Hitting with that is a bit… Ugh!”

“Get behind me, you crazy bastard.”

If you help people, you will receive a reward later? Now that I look at it, it seems like the reward was just a harem for the old man.

Even now, Hyeji, Hwa-ryeon, and Lina. If the old man were to make up his mind and reach out, wouldn’t he be in a position where he could easily play with the girls?

Besides, I wasn’t really thinking about it, but no matter what my mind was like, my body was still a woman. In that sense, my situation wasn’t all that different from those three.

‘Hwaryeon, your father won’t be happy about leaving the shelter, right?’

‘Do… Mr. Dohun… Please… I’ll do anything…’

‘Hyeji, it’s good to maintain the shelter, but… I think I need to do some maintenance too. You’ll be here for a long time, right? Then you should take care of me to some extent.’

Lina said she wouldn’t touch it, but…

‘Do-Hoon oppa, it seems really cold today… Can we sleep together?’

‘Ah! Aah! Oppa!’

This guy is just… crazy.

The stiff bow that had not been hung up struck the old man.

“Da, short-shoes! Keuk! ”

As the common sense and concepts that had disappeared filled the old man, his back bent like a bow.

*

“Ugh…”

“Be quiet. Shut up and go to sleep.”

“Ugh…”

Is this fucking old man listening to me?

I looked at the man lying on the floor of my room, hugging a blanket.

It was comforting to see him groaning and unable to move thanks to the well-made equipment.

I don’t think I’ll be able to go to Hanmaum Church or anything like that for a while.

Moreover, I couldn’t help but praise myself for making a good choice, thinking that I wouldn’t have to project my strange wall onto the kids clinging to the shelter, who wouldn’t have been surprised if they got beaten up if they knew.

“Ugh…”

“Ha… I can’t even sleep. If I got hit by mistake, can’t I just suffer inside?”

“Wrong… Ugh… I think I was right…”

How can someone who would be fine even if someone stabbed him in the stomach with a knife be joking about getting stabbed in the stomach with a bow?

I have to do something about it.

I got up from the bed and headed towards the man writhing on the floor.

I know it’s just a joke and a joke, but I thought I should at least pretend to look at it from the perspective of the person who got beat up. And maybe apply some ointment or something.

Most of them were just bruises, but there was something a little weird about the left shoulder.

“Huh…?”

It was bright red and swollen, but somehow the appearance of the left and right shoulders was a little different. It seems that the skeleton itself was…

“Mister, are you okay?”

I was so anxious that I ended up asking a stupid question.

“Ah, no…ugh…”

I knew something was wrong when I saw him with his face covered in tears and unable to move one of his arms, so I immediately left the room.

Mr. Cheon Deuk was still sitting at the table chatting with his daughter, Hwa Ryun.

Thinking that it was a good thing, I just dragged Cheon Deuk to my room.

“Hey, sir, I think your shoulder is dislocated. Can you treat it?”

“Dislocated? What, did you exercise too hard? What happened?”

I was wondering. What should I say?

Can’t you say that it was because he swung the bow of justice to protect the girls of the shelter from a crazy old man who was dominated by sexual desire?

“I guess that’s what happened while I was doing bench press. Please fix it quickly.”

“In this room? Bench…press…?”

Mr. Cheon Deuk looked around my room with a suspicious expression. I felt uneasy. Wouldn’t this man realize that I had destroyed a person with a bow?

“Ah…! Yes. I understand.”

Then, as if he had realized something, he looked back and forth between me and the old man, then he came close to the old man and started touching his shoulder.

It’s a good thing there’s a doctor. It was good that I picked him up.

I nodded and watched the scene with satisfaction.