episode_0013

That’s strange.

I’m sure there won’t be any elements that will take a long time.

The last time I saw the hospital, there was a nurse in charge and several elderly people who depended on the nurse.

If those people were alive, there might be some noise in the process of obtaining the medicine, but it wouldn’t be that difficult.

” What’s going on? ”

It would take at most an hour or two.

But now it’s been over 5 hours.

The sun will set soon.

” Honey.. Is that kid.. ”

The wife next to him speaks cautiously.

I was worried that the child might have suffered a miscarriage.

” That could be it. ”

Besides, the kid looked anxious.

Eventually I started getting ready to go out.

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After briefly preparing to go out, I came out of the shelter.

I think it would be best to go to the hospital first. Then something will come out.

I thought like that and started moving.

After about 5 minutes, I saw something in the distance.

There was something. Was that… a dog..?

A dog was chewing on something.

The thing being eaten was still trembling, wondering if it was alive.

A girl with small stature and blood-soaked white hair

The girl I was looking for was being eaten by dogs.

I took a kitchen knife out of the bag I had brought.

My wife forced me to take the weapon with me, and now I actually have a use for it.

I approached the dog cautiously.

The dog didn’t notice because he was so absorbed in eating.

I got close enough to him, then raised my knife and stabbed him in the neck.

Bam! Pushuk!

As soon as the knife was stuck in his neck, blood spurted out.

The guy fell to the ground and died without even being able to scream.

I pulled out my knife and looked at the child.

The condition was really serious.

Both arms had been torn off, and one leg had a large area cut off.

Despite this, the child was still breathing shallowly, not dead.

” Hey! ”

I’m still alive. But it didn’t seem right to continue living. The wounds were so serious.

The child opened his eyes with difficulty at the sound of my voice.

He looked at me, closed his eyes, smiled slightly and said:

” …… Carry…… Uh…….. medicine……… here…… take….. it….. ”

With those words, the child fainted.

Even though the child has become like this, does he still worry about others?

” Huh.. ”

I picked up the carrier that was lying nearby.

It feels heavy. It’s a good thing I’ve been carrying around something like this.

And he lifted the child up in his arms.

Blood flowed from the wound.

Maybe it was because he was a father raising a child. I felt like my heart was breaking because this child, who was just a stranger, had become like this.

If this had happened to my daughter instead of this child, I would have collapsed and collapsed.

You returned to our house, the shelter, carrying the child and pulling the carrier.

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When I entered the shelter, my wife was there to greet me.

And then he looked at the child I was carrying and made a sad expression along with shock.

” Dead… right…? ”

” Still alive. ”

” … Oh my god.. ”

The wife couldn’t speak any further.

” What about your daughter? ”

” I put you to sleep just in case. It was a good thing I did.. ”

It really is. If I saw this child now, I might burst into tears.

I went into the room where the child’s companion was, carrying the child on my back.

Then I put the child down next to me and opened the carrier.

There were indeed a variety of items inside the carrier.

From bolt cutters to spanners, WD40, ramen to burners, butane gas and batteries to maps.

There they found IV drips, needles and pills.

These should be administered to the girl suffering from a high fever.

I asked my wife, who was laying the baby on the bed next to me, to bring me a first aid kit.

After a while, my wife came with a first aid kit.

Inside were various items such as disinfectant, bandages, gauze, bandages, medical thread, scissors, ointment, etc.

I hung the sap on a high place and connected a thin tube to it.

A sterilized needle is inserted into the girl’s arm and connected to a tube.

Check if it’s done properly. It would be good to give him some pills, but he’s unconscious right now, so let’s wait until he wakes up.

And then I looked at the child.

The child’s wound was not a problem that could be solved by disinfecting or applying medicine.

The bleeding has stopped, but how many stitches will this wound need?

Honestly, it’s beyond what I can handle.

At this point, you should be taken to the emergency room and put on the operating table right away.

While I was doing nothing, I saw the wound on my child’s leg starting to move little by little.

What is this…?

When I looked closely, I saw that they were gradually connected to each other.

As if the cracked ground was filled again after a long time.

” What the heck is this..? ”

The human body is not capable of healing its own injuries like this.

Oh.. I see.. So this child was a mutant.

Sometimes when I heard stories about mutants on the radio, I didn’t really want to believe it, but now that I’ve witnessed something like this, I can’t deny it.

Then this child can survive on his own.

The man sighed slightly, got up from his seat, and left.

Because now a man has done everything he can do.

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Ha Seo-yeon opened her eyes in a quiet room.

She was in a dazed state now. The sap had brought down her fever, but it would take some time for her to come to her senses.

(What happened..?)

She lay there, recalling her last memories.

Her last memory was hazy, but it was of her repeatedly approaching a strange plant before losing consciousness.

I tried to remember that strange plant, but I couldn’t remember it very well, so I gave up for now.

It was still hazy and hard to remember clearly because I kept going back.

( But… where is this..? )

She looked around, wondering about this place, and found Idacheon lying under the blanket.

” Huh…? ”

It was always the case that I slept with Dacheon in the same room, but Dacheon’s complexion looked slightly pale.

Where does it hurt..?

” Now that I think about it, how did I end up here..? ”

I have no memory at all.

To confirm that curiosity, I touched Idacheon’s arm to wake him up.

” Huh..? ”

There isn’t. There should be.

No arms. Not just one, but both.

Surprised, Ha Seo-yeon checked every part of Da-cheon Lee’s body.

Remnants of minor scratches, cuts, puncture wounds, and lacerations that had healed now but seemed to have been there only a few hours ago.

There were marks all over his body, as if he had been fighting with something. His legs in particular seemed to have been torn a little.

But while the legs are still being repaired, the arms show no signs of that.

No, to be exact, only the arm holes were blocked and covered with flesh.

Is it true that lost parts can’t be regenerated..?

” Dacheon-ah..! Dacheon-ah! ”

I shook Idacheon to wake him up, but he showed no sign of waking up.

He just maintains a slightly pale expression.

” Oh, you’re awake. ”

In the midst of all this, the door opened and a familiar man spoke to me.

” Yes? Uh, you’re in that shelter? ”

” Yeah. The fact that I’m here means you’re in the shelter. This kid brought you here. ”

” In this… physical condition..? ”

Brought to the shelter with no arms? I can’t imagine.

” Oh. That’s not it. When I brought you here, you were tired, but you didn’t have any injuries. That kid got like that because he went out alone to get your medicine. ”

” …… That kind of.. ”

Because of me… it turned out like this…?

On the one hand, I was a little suspicious of what this man had done.

” Who did that to Dacheon? ”

” When I found that kid, he was being eaten by a dog. ”

… works?

” Dacheon must have had a gun.. ”

” I looked around the kid, but there was no gun or means of transportation. All he had was that carrier with the medicine in it. Judging from the fact that the kid and the dog were all bruised up, there must have been a bigger fight. ”

I went along to protect that child.

But in return, I was protected. I don’t even remember clearly what I was protected by.

” What the hell have I done to you.. ”

” You said you were possessed by some kind of giant Venus flytrap gas. According to the kid, the store was taken over by strange plants. You said the air was strange too. ”

” A plant.. ”

Now, I guess even plants are being targeted..

” Don’t blame yourself too much. Neither you, nor that child, nor I could have ever expected or imagined this. And that child. I thought he was a mutant because his leg wound healed on its own, right? ”

” Yeah… what.. ”

This was a question that was almost certain, and it seemed that he had personally witnessed it, so there was no room for evasion.

” Then maybe that child’s arm will be okay someday.. I wish there was some other way. ”

The man said so and looked at Idacheon.

I could see the pity in his eyes.

It seems that he feels compassion for the child as he sees him come close to death twice.

” Let’s just watch until he wakes up. We’ll be able to consult him once he wakes up. ”

The man said so and went out of the room.

Ha Seo-yeon approached Ida Cheon and gently held him in her arms.

I don’t know if it was because of my mood, but Idacheon’s face seemed to have improved a little.