episode_0257

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Shin Jeong-ah took a deep breath as the exhilarating sensation still lingered in her body.

Her eyes were burning with hostility as she glared at Yoon Sia through her long hair, which was dripping with cold sweat.

Yoon Si-ah kept an appropriate distance and looked at Shin Jeong-ah.

I looked at her from top to bottom, and clicked my tongue when I saw the small blade in Shin Jeong-ah’s hand.

“I tried it just in case, but as expected… you really are a person who cannot be guided.”

As if re-instilling an obvious fact into herself, Yoon Sia spoke calmly.

“What should I do…!”

Shin Jeong-ah growled, patting her still tingling body.

“You didn’t do well!! As long as you don’t turn your back unnecessarily…! This never happened!!”

Shin Jeong-ah, overflowing with emotion, shed a tear at the corner of her right eye.

“What I didn’t like so much! Did you hate me being next to Inho that much? Is that something like that!!”

Little by little, Shin Jeong-ah approached Yoon Sia.

Yun Shia pressed the button on the object in her hand, and a crackling blue electricity erupted from the spot that resembled the snout of a stag beetle.

Before Shin Jeong-ah rushed in, Yoon Sia once again struck her with lightning.

“I’ve been looking into it since they tried to lynch him in the park…”

Shin Jeong-ah collapsed and screamed again, and Yoon Shi-ah looked down with an expression of disgust on her face.

“You…are you really that extreme? If you see them even trying to kill people…”

“Cee… Baal… What are you, stealing Inho away! Inho… needs to be with me.”

“Why?”

“What?”

“Why does Inho have to be with you?”

When Yoon Si-ah lifted her foot and touched Shin Jeong-ah’s shoulder, she, who was squatting in an unstable position, hit her butt backwards.

“That’s right….”

Shin Jeong-ah continued speaking while stammering.

“That’s right! It’s because of Inho that I became like this!! In-ho, if only In-ho hadn’t called me that day! If you hadn’t kept calling me to play!! Even if you hadn’t told me about alcohol and cigarettes!!”

Shin Jeong-ah screamed in a voice filled with evil.

“Whew… Okay, let’s say so. Let’s say Inho is the reason you live a ‘bad’ life.”

Yoon Sia spoke quietly in a tired voice.

“Is Inho still threatening you to live like that?”

Shin Jeong-ah closed her mouth in response to a question that scratched the surface of what she had been trying to ignore.

All she could do was snort and huff.

“If you were threatened by In-ho… and you did it together because you were afraid of the violence In-ho would wield… then you should actually be happy about it.”

“As far as I know, Inho was trying to get away from you… but you clung to him, right?”

“I think what Inho did to you was really wrong. But… not now. Rather, you are trying to move forward on the right path.”

Yoon Shia put her cell phone in the front pocket of her shirt.

“If you had intended to go down the right path like In-ho, I would have supported you. But… isn’t it?”

“You keep rolling around in the mud blaming your situation, right?”

Yun Sia let out a bitter laugh, but the road was dark so she couldn’t see clearly.

“I….”

“I admit that you were a victim. And I feel sorry for you…”

It was Yoon Si-ah who had some sympathy for the hidden story she heard from In-ho.

“But… the way you look now is just an abuser. The perpetrator just complied, saying, ‘I can’t help it,’ or ‘That’s the way it is.’”

The words, like a cold awl, pierced into Shin Jeong-ah’s heart.

“Would you like me to take a day off from tutoring and recite everything I researched? Everything you did at school and outside of school.”

“…….”

Shin Jeong-ah glared at Yoon Sia.

“Extortion, theft, smoking, drinking and….”

“Deceived a man with a false pregnancy and manipulated him as he wanted…”

Yun Shia shook her head.

“Uh, what the heck…”

Shin Jeong-ah stood up again.

She took a stance and held the silver blade tightly in her hand.

“One person is going to die here anyway, and then Inho won’t know anything.”

“Your lies will be revealed over time, right?”

“You can really do it. So you can get pregnant.”

“Ha… I really don’t have any guidance.”

Yun Shia pressed her temples and sighed.

“But you said that if I just get rid of it, no one will know, right?”

After calming down her headache, Yoon Si-ah opened her eyes and looked at Shin Jeong-ah.

“……”

As Shin Jeong-ah furrowed her eyebrows at the strangely changed atmosphere, Yoon Si-ah spoke like an instructor giving the correct answer.

“Why did I tell you about my schedule today so that you could hear it?”

“And why did I buy these self-defense items and wait for you?”

“What now…?”

When Shin Jeong-ah, who could not understand the meaning of her words, opened her mouth, Yoon Si-ah continued.

“In-ho doesn’t know? Well… is that really the case?”

Yun Shia took out her cell phone from her front pocket and headed towards her.

“…!!!”

Shin Jeong-ah, who was looking closely at the screen of her cell phone, immediately fell to the floor in shock.

[…Really?]

On the video call screen that suddenly turned on, there was Kang In-ho with a stiff face.

“Hey, Inho…! Well, that…! I will explain everything….”

Shin Jeong-ah, who came to her senses belatedly, hurriedly hung on to him, but the call ended just like that.

Yoon Si-ah kicked the blade in the hand of Shin Jeong-ah, who was sitting down, and bent down.

Yoon Si-ah put her face close to Shin Jeong-ah’s ear and whispered.

“I told you, right? It won’t be moderate from the second time.”