episode_0312

Just one step.

For one life to disappear, one step was enough.

“Hoo…”

Climb up onto the windowsill.

All it takes is one deep breath.

Maybe it’s because I’ve fallen from an apartment before,

The pain she already knew couldn’t stop her.

Bam.

Just one step.

Eunha moved her body, frozen in fear, and took a step forward.

That will do.

The center of gravity shifted forward, pushing her frozen body out the window.

Swish!

The strong wind resembled the sound of waves.

If you ever had that thought… does that mean you’re still in your right mind?

I don’t know.

Phew!

In an instant, he hits the back of his head on the ground that has become close.

The feeling of my neck breaking was always terrifying.

The sound of fruit popping followed.

Unable to overcome the inertia of falling, my whole body is crushed flat on the floor.

Just like when you throw clay on the floor, it flattens out.

The galaxy that fell from the 8th floor of the apartment building was no different from clay.

Ugh!

The excruciating pain continued.

She crashed in the backyard of her apartment.

Eunha moved her arms while her whole body was in shattered pain.

The lungs were crushed and breathing was difficult, but the problem was solved by holding one’s breath.

Just slowly stretch out your arm, and the broken bone falls back into place,

Grab the floor with your recovered hand.

Kkeuggeuk!

I crawled on the floor.

The galaxy escaped from its crash site.

Eventually, she crawled to the wall and raised her body by moving her healed leg.

“Hoo…! Hoo…!”

I stood up, leaning against the wall.

I’m so sick I feel like I’m going to die… but it’s okay.

If you think of yourself as someone else’s substitute, you can endure it.

Kuung!!

Immediately afterwards, a lump of ‘something’ fell down into the same backyard where the galaxy had crashed.

『Ugh, uhhh!』

A sound full of pain… as if air was being sucked from the lungs.

A body writhing like a lump of darkness bursts out in all directions with a sticky sound.

Galaxy vomited out blood mixed with viscera.

Did you feel that way when you fell?

She raised the corners of her lips and looked down at the puddle of blood that was turning the backyard of her apartment red.

… … .

After midnight, a monster follows the footsteps of those who have passed.

How can I fuck this guy up?

I thought about it.

‘If you think about it, this entire apartment is ‘the security guard’s’ territory.’

The monster cannot be harmed by normal means.

What about the old security guard then?

Like the [Red Lady]’s claws.

What if we let a monster crash into this apartment managed by an elderly person?

A sudden thought of curiosity.

I tried it right away.

“Okay, next time.”

『Uh …

Phewㅡ.

Fall down.

On the 8th floor of the apartment.

The hallway window was opened by the cute [doll girl] of ‘Room 801’.

Enter the apartment, climb the stairs, and fall from the 8th floor.

Let’s suffer for a while.

Get back up, go into the apartment, climb the stairs, and fall from the 8th floor.

Struggling with pain.

That’s all there is to it.

Phew!

Crashed into the backyard of the apartment.

Eunha raised her broken body before ‘that thing’ fell on top of her.

Kuungㅡㅡ!!

Then, the ‘thing’ that crashed into the spot where she fell writhes in pain.

It’s surprisingly effective.

In the backyard, where there were a couple of falls, a sunken hole was created.

The blood and the fallen body parts piled up and gave off a terrible smell.

If I see that, I wonder if the old security guard will nag me.

However, since it would hurt a little less if she fell there, Eunha asked [Doll Girl], who was waiting on the 8th floor, to open another window.

“Whew…! Whoo…… Next! Come quickly. The sun is rising.”

『Ughㅡㅡㅡ Ughㅡㅡㅡ!』

It doesn’t matter if you’re sick.

Because I was always sick.

Right now, I just want to protect ‘Mr. Rabbit’ and ‘Fly’.

Since I brought them on night patrol, I will take responsibility for them and protect them.

That’s all there is to it.

Eunha, who had gotten up from her aching body, picked up a flashlight and walked to the entrance of the building.

Snap…

Suddenly I looked at the security office.

I made eye contact with a pure white stuffed rabbit.

He froze as if he had turned white from shock and just stared at the galaxy.

‘… … Now that I think about it, that rabbit guy. He had a fear of heights.’

A moment of thought.

Soon, Eunha straightened her back, which had been hunched over in pain.

He gave a thumbs up to ‘Mr. Rabbit’.

“It’s okay!”

『… … .』

“Falling is no big deal. I’m not scared at all.”

I don’t know if they’ll even let you through to the security office.

Eunha entered the apartment, punching her thighs, which were trembling with pain and fear.

Crunch…

‘Something’ that resembled a lump of shadow also crawled hurriedly into the building, chasing after the galaxy.

Phew… Kuung!

Fall down.

Over and over again.

I hope that ‘that thing’ that tried to harm the things that I wanted to protect hurts a little more.

Eunha hurt ‘that thing’ with her own pain.

Phew…!

like that,

How many times have I fallen?

Phew…. Kuung…!

Phew…!

earthly,

How much time has passed?

It’s a hellish time for many people.

Phewㅡ………

And then, at some point,

Leading a body covered in blood,

Eunha returned to the 8th floor on all fours.

“Haa…… Huh?”

I gently hugged [the doll girl] who was looking at me with worried eyes,

She leaned out the window again,

He frowned as he looked down at the backyard of his apartment.

『That……uh…』

A mass of shadows chasing you.

‘That thing’ with countless eyes and teeth embedded all over its body,

Even though the galaxy has reached the 8th floor and is ready to jump,

I was lying down there, shivering.

“What is he doing instead of following along quickly?”

I was a little annoyed.

Can’t you see I’m waiting for the next person?

But no matter how long I wait, it doesn’t seem like he’ll wake up.

Eunha, who clicked her tongue slightly, asked [Doll Girl] to open the side window.

Phew…

She fell right next to ‘that thing’.

How many times has this fallen?

I’m in so much pain I think I’m going crazy.

“Keuheuu……ugh!”

Galaxy, who had thrown out the pieces of her crushed lung, struggled to get up.

He put his removed guard hat back on and shook off his blood-stained vest.

Shine a flashlight on the floor.

“… … .”

The air was cold.

Blood-tinged, reddish breath.

Eunha shined her flashlight at the ‘shadow mass’ writhing on the floor.

‘That thing’, its entire body broken like a clay doll, lets out a sigh of pain.

“Whew… You’re not going to wake up?”

Knock knock.

Tap on ‘that’ with a flashlight.

“Get up quickly,” the bloody woman urges.

“You have to chase after them. It’s the rule.”

“That… uhm…”

Have you come to your senses at the word rules?

The ‘thing’ that had been groaning while buried in the ground raised itself up.

A body trembling.

And back to the apartment.

To chase the galaxy like a shadow, to fall from the 8th floor.

“Okay. You can do it.”

The galaxy, which had recovered in the meantime, smiled kindly and pushed ‘that thing’s’ back.

It’s weird.

This is not a normal situation.

It’s clear that the monster is chasing her.

Eunha kept tapping the monster that was about to fall with a flashlight.

He hurried his steps, bringing up the rules and stopping.

“Wow…!”

Then he vomited thick blood and, unable to control his staggering body, he leaned his shoulder against the wall.

The galaxy laughed.

The kindness that raised the corners of the lips existed there like a castle wall.

Because I promised.

Because I wanted to protect it by becoming a wall.

“Okay, let’s go quickly and get off.』

My brain has been crushed a dozen times,

Mixed with the pain that makes my mind go blank,

Now I wonder why I am like this, why I keep falling down from the apartment,

I can’t figure out anything anymore…

A kind smile.

“I have to fall. Then I won’t fall too.”

How many ‘pills’ have you picked up and eaten so far?

There were several pills that weren’t white.

There was a ‘resentment’ there that had lost both purpose and meaning.

『Ugh… Ugh…』

The ‘thing’, a mass of shadows, staggered up.

Behind him, the ‘Red Woman’ urges him to hurry up and go up to the apartment.

I tap the hesitant back with a flashlight.

It feels like you’re being pushed towards a cliff by a moving wall.

How did it come to this?

Nobody knew.

Thud… Thud…

But I can’t stop.

I have to chase the North Star and fall from the 8th floor of an apartment building.

After midnight, follow the footsteps.

Because it is a ‘rule’ created out of resentment.

Rules must be followed.

I don’t want to disappear.

But it hurts so bad.

Chased by the ‘Red Woman’ who is full of resentment,

How many times has the pain continued to the point where a normal person would have died long ago…

『Ugh… Ugh…』

Roles reversed.

A grudge that has no place to go.

Pushed by the galaxy…

The voice of ‘that thing’, which seemed smaller than before, became damp.

… … .

… … .

Hot and sour…!

like that,

Galaxy, who pushed ‘that thing’ away while spitting out blood,

Just then, as I entered the apartment again.

Hot!

A pumpkin bee ran out of the guardhouse.

The child runs to Eunha in a panic and hugs one of her legs.

『… … .』

Stop.

Galaxy, who had been smiling kindly, stops walking.

If you look down with a smiling face,

A baby was seen trembling but not letting go of Eunha.

Why is that?

Beep!

Then, [Doll Girl], who was walking out of the apartment unsteadily, hangs on to the other leg.

『… … .』

Baby chicks hanging from a bridge.

How long must the galaxy have been looking at them?

『… … Huh? What’s wrong, you little ones.”

The galaxy barely stopped walking,

She bent down and hugged the babies.

Ugh!

Only then did I bite my lip against the pain that came rushing in like a wave.

My own actions that I realized belatedly.

With the thought that I had done something absolutely crazy, I sat down at the entrance of the building, my legs giving out.

“Cough!… Oh, it’s hard… What time is it now?”

Hot and sour.

A baby pumpkin bee digging into the embrace of a fallen galaxy.

Galaxy exhales as her large breasts are held in the girl’s small hands.

My lungs hurt, as if I had been holding my breath for a long time.

It felt like something was mixed up and dropped for a moment.

Only then was Eunha able to check her own physical condition.

There were no injuries.

[Self-healing] This is because the skill restored the shattered bones and internal organs.

However, her disheveled clothes, her blood-soaked skin, and the stinging pain that resembled a scar give an idea of her physical condition.

In the parking lot, there is a ‘gray van’ that looks like it’s about to be scrapped,

The broken wall over there.

A trail of blood extends from the backyard to the eighth floor of the apartment.

Somehow I feel like I did something right and I feel a sense of inexplicable satisfaction.

Hot and spicy!

‘Fly’, who had been caressing the soft flesh of the galaxy, shook his head.

As if to tell me to stop now.

Beep…

The ‘rabbit doll’ that approached nervously while wearing a security guard hat also,

They had similar eyes.

[Stop it, Star. You can’t mix any more.]

“What do you mean mixed…”

Galaxy stopped talking and turned her head.

The ‘thing’, a mass of shadows, is lying on the floor, groaning in pain.

A monster that has to jump from the 8th floor once more to chase the galaxy.

But if you look closely… it seems to have gotten smaller than before.

『Uh… Uh… Uh…』

A ‘shadow lump’ as small as a pumpkin bee in one’s arms is wriggling.

The weight of the eerie grudge felt like it had become as ordinary as other monsters.

It’s not like the grudge I had was sucked out by another monster… Is it even possible to have a grudge taken away in the first place?

I couldn’t understand.

‘What is it… Is it because I’m in a good mood?’

He turns his head back again.

A bumblebee with its face buried in a large chest, a polar bear with a mite hanging on its thigh,

‘Mr. Rabbit’ is seen taking out a handkerchief and wiping the blood from Eunha’s cheek.

“… … .”

Everybody,

Without a single scratch.

That will do.

Just that one thing is enough.

It was worth the pain.

“… … I can still continue.”

[ That’s enough. ]

The rabbit’s firm words.

Then, Eunha picked up the smartphone she had left in the security office.

6:20 am.

Is it this late already?

It kept falling from around midnight, so it must have been moving like crazy for about 6 hours.

‘But… he didn’t die in the end. I didn’t even get to see [the black man’s] face.’

How on earth did he get his [Self-Healing] skill back?

I’m starting to get a little scared.

That thought lasted for a moment,

Eunha let out a sigh and made her usual smiling face.

I don’t know anymore.

The person who almost died says to stop.

The monster he didn’t like was crushed to the ground for six hours.

The sun will rise soon.

Let’s stop now.

“… … .”

The horizon is slowly brightening,

The night patrol is about to end.

Eunha, who had been blankly staring at the sight, received her cell phone back from ‘Mr. Rabbit’.

At the back, the ‘monster’ collapsed on the floor, struggling to climb the stairs with its shrunken hands and feet.

Do you want to follow the rules like that?

‘Surprisingly, he followed the rules… The night patrol will be over soon, but he’s climbing up to the top like he’s about to fall.’

For what reason.

What regret is there in a life full of resentment?

“… … Hmm.”

Beep.

The worries were short.

Eunha called someone.

Thump… thump.

– “Someone said that knowing when to quit is also a form of moderation and a virtue.”

“Grandpa.”

A wise old man’s voice is heard on the other end of the phone.

An old man rings the bell in the bell tower at the end of the day.

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4-2. Dawn is our time.

– A wise man rings the morning for you, not for the past.

– I will never forget the hand you extended to me.

– As dawn approaches, the sound of the sunset bells will rewrite everything.

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“Grandpa. When will the morning bell ring?”

– “Can’t you see the dawn breaking?”

“Please wait 5 minutes.”

The galaxy said.

Then, the ‘shadow lump’ that was climbing the stairs flinched.

Beyond the phone, the sound of the wind rustling the leaves of an old, wrinkled tree.

– 『… … I realized one day. There is no trading in time.』

“… … .”

– “My legs have been hurting lately, so it’ll take me 10 minutes to climb the bell tower.”

“Thank you, grandpa. I’ll buy some paste later.”

– 『Goyan…』

Pirolong.

I hung up the phone.

I looked back at ‘that thing’ with a more relieved expression than before.

“Did you hear that?”

『… … .』

“There is no next time.”

That seemed to be enough.

‘That thing’ that was climbing the stairs, wrapped its face around itself as if looking at the dazzling starlight,

Bow your head.

Bam…

Then he put one of the teeth stuck in his body down on the floor,

He hurriedly climbed the stairs and disappeared from Eunha’s sight.

“… … .”

The sun rises over the horizon.

The time when the night ends and the morning dawns.

… … Kuung!

After about 9 minutes,

With the sound of ‘something’ crashing in the backyard of the apartment,

Daaengㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ!!

The bell announcing dawn rang out from afar.

The morning dawned.

The bell rings to signal the end of a tiring night patrol.

… … .

… … .

“Thank you, Mr. Rabbit. You’ve been very helpful to me until the end.”

[ Even with something like this, we need to help. ]

It is morning.

6:30 am.

Eunha carefully took the ‘Fly’ that had fallen from her arms and handed it to ‘Mr. Rabbit’.

A pumpkin bee that fell asleep while clutching her large breasts.

What made the sleepy baby stay up all night was probably his concern for the galaxy.

As I sucked on the cheek of the sleeping ‘Fly’, he waved his small hands around and struggled in vain.

[Star, are you okay?]

“There has to be someone here who will stay and listen to the old man’s nagging.”

Eunha looked around at the broken wall, the forklift, and the bloodstained floor.

‘Mr. Rabbit’, who was watching her smile, lowers his head.

Since it is a stuffed doll, I cannot see its facial expression,

Looks like he has quite a lot to say.

“… … Mr. Rabbit.”

Mr. Rabbit is afraid of heights.

It must have been a nightmarish dawn for a girl with acrophobia.

So, before the rabbit goes back into the building with [Doll Girl],

Eunha, who roughly wiped the blood off her body, said with a smile.

“You saw me earlier. I fell.”

『… … .』

“How are you? Do I look sick now?”

The sun rising over the horizon.

The galaxy that turned its back on it asks the girl.

Thump… Thump…

‘Rabbit Girl’ looked on.

The galaxy smiling brightly,

A bloody woman.

I look up with difficulty as if my eyes are dazzled.

『… … .』

It was blinding.

Maybe it’s because of the rising morning sunlight,

Or maybe it’s because of the galaxy,

I think I know the truth, but…

“……no.”

In a small voice, take courage and express your feelings.

Put the note you are holding back into your pocket.

“Later, when you climb up high… if you’re too scared to move, call me. I’ll fall for you.”

『… … .』

“And I’ll tell you that it didn’t hurt at all.”

If you’re still afraid of heights, prepare to be scolded?

The mess of words makes me laugh.

Beep.

A pure white rabbit stuffed animal.

The girl holding the sleeping ‘Fly’ speaks.

『… … I love you, Star.』

Yes, what was once a silver bell.

Leaving behind a small whisper, I returned to the apartment with [Doll Girl].

The rabbit’s steps as it climbed the stairs were very light.

… … .

… … .

“Wow!!”

“… … Thank you for your hard work, Miss.”

Booths-.

The parking lot where everyone has left.

To the rabbit leaving, and to the galaxy spitting out the blood she had been holding in,

The old security guard approached.

An old man wearing a clean security guard’s hat.

He looked around at the broken wall, the wrecked forklift, the blood-splattered backyard and ground, and smiled kindly.

A person who resembles a wall.

The old man, who did not know how to bend, bends down and supports Eunha.

The old man’s eyes were filled with a longing past.

“In the end, you kept them all.”

“The wall is broken. And the floor is a mess.”

“The wall… can be rebuilt.”

The old man speaks.

The rising dawn illuminates the ‘Satbyeol Apartment’.

The morning I came back.

Today, when tomorrow has arrived.

The wall of the apartment collapsed,

The walls still stand here.

“… … However, you were quite brave. Didn’t you think that if you broke down the wall like that, things from outside would come in? ”

“Um… Not really? Ever since I fell from the 8th floor, all the guys hanging around the wall ran away.”

“Of course I’d run away. Would I be scared and wander around?”

The old man pointed to the broken wall.

Eunha smiled languidly, adjusting her bloody guard hat.

“And…what if it collapses?”

“… … .”

“No matter what happens, you will protect me… I mean, our apartment.”

I see.

So that’s how it happened.

You laugh like a rascal.

You end up being like ‘me’.

(No matter what happens, Grandpa will protect you.)

Morning rises beyond the horizon.

The dark dawn ends, and a new morning begins.

“… … Heh heh.”

The old man who became a wall.

In the past, he was an ordinary young man,

“You are lucky to be able to protect it.”

He held out his wrinkled hand to the ‘you’ who was sitting down.