episode_0038

“Eee …

Even though I poured out all my strength, the handcuffs didn’t seem to come off.

“Eee …

In the movies, if you use force, the handcuffs break or your arms are ripped off and you escape, but that didn’t happen.

But, there is no time to think about that now.

Hayoon is in danger.

In a situation where I might die, I had to do something.

“Eungbu …

“Huh?”

This voice! Bianca!

“What’s wrong. Minjun. Ugh! What’s going on right now? What happened while I was sleeping.”

Bianca! Help me get these handcuffs out of here!

“Huh? Suddenly? Why are you in handcuffs?”

No time to explain! Hurry up!

“Hmm… These are handcuffs. They’re not as easy to break as you see in the movies.”

I don’t care. Rip my arm off or cut it off. Just let me escape!

“It seems like an emergency. There is a way. But I wouldn’t recommend it.”

hurry!

“Ha… Okay. From now on, I’m going to block all your pain and remove the limiter in your brain. Then, you can use what people think are superhuman strength. But the problem is that the side effects are more than you can imagine. How’s it going now? Can you feel it?”

“Ugh…!”

Suddenly my heart started beating fast. It was the first time it had felt this fast.

My heartbeat resonates throughout my body like a car engine.

“Eeeeek!!! Huh!! Huh!!!!”

I pulled the handcuffs away with the strength that surged from my body.

As the handcuffs began to bend, blood began to flow out from my wrists.

“Eww…!!! Eww…!!! Ewww!!!”

Exactly!

The handcuffs on one wrist broke with a sound and he was released.

“Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh…”

There is no time to rest.

I took the tape off my mouth and put on some clothes that were nearby.

“Is that… dead?”

Bianca is probably talking about Soobin.

That’s right. Soobin is dead…

I went to her, knelt down, and carefully closed my eyes.

Subin, I’m sorry I don’t have time to shed tears for you.

I picked up a nearby cell phone and called Hayoon.

***

“Haa. Haa. Haa.”

Ring, ring, ring. Ring, ring.

“Haa! Haa! Haa!”

Ring ring ring. Boom!

“Minjun?”

“Ha-yoon! Where are you now!”

“Huh? There’s still plenty of time.”

“What are you talking about! Where are you!”

“You told me to come to the cafe.”

“Did I say that?”

“Let’s meet here on KakaoTalk…”

“That’s fake. It’s a fake that Seoyeon made to kill you! If you go there, you’ll die!”

“What… joke…”

“Quickly! You know. When I lie.”

“.. It’s fatal to say that. Then I have no choice but to believe even nonsense…”

“Quickly! Get out of this neighborhood as fast as you can. Anywhere is fine. So… Ha-yoon.”

“Seo Yoon-ah… What’s going on here? Who are you talking to? I’m talking to… I’m talking to my dad.”

Damn it. Have we met already? Where are you now?

“Huh? No. I just said that Minjun asked me to meet him at the cafe… Seoyeon. What’s that knife?”

Cafe? Are you talking about the place you went to before?

“…”

“Ha Yoon?”

“…”

“Ha Yoon!”

“…”

Tch. The phone call got disconnected.

I have no choice but to get to the cafe as quickly as possible.

“Haa. Haa. Haa.”

A few minutes passed and we arrived at the cafe.

This is my first time running and arriving this fast, so I feel like my heart is going to burst.

However, they were nowhere to be seen inside the cafe.

“Excuse me!”

“Yes?”

“Excuse me. Have you never seen two women?”

The cafe owner glanced at me.

After much thought about the clothes I was wearing and the wounds on my body, I spoke.

“I’ve never seen two of them.”

“Tsk… Is that so.”

There’s no way to know since Hayoon isn’t answering the phone.

“Still. I felt like someone was chasing a woman.”

“… Where did you go!”

“It really hasn’t been that long. Over there…”

I ran in the direction he told me.

Please. Please. Hayoon. Please. Be safe.

***

Hayoon moved back to the neighborhood she lived in as a child due to her father’s work.

While taking a walk around her neighborhood for the first time in a long while, she made a wish.

To meet his hero, Minjun.

God granted my wish. I met him as if it were a lie.

Then God, please grant me just one more wish.

Please let me love with Minjun.

“Gasp! Gasp! Gasp!”

Hayoon, who returned from her old thoughts, ran again.

She originally wasn’t good at running because she wasn’t athletic. But the reason she has no choice but to run is because Seo-yeon is seriously coming to kill her.

Fur!

“Ugh!”

I fell to the ground and hurt my knee badly.

There was nothing wrong with the bone, but the bleeding wouldn’t stop.

“Are you okay? Hayoon?”

“Hiphop!!!”

Seoyeon suddenly appeared in front of me and was smiling while looking at me.

He immediately got up from his seat, left Seoyeon behind, and ran away again.

Even though I was trying to escape by wandering between buildings, Seoyeon always appeared in front of me.

“Ugh!”

Now we have reached a dead end.

When I tried to enter the door, it was blocked, and when I tried to climb over it, it was too high.

I have to go back…

chin!

Someone grabbed me and pulled me away!

“Ugh!!! Get out! Get out!”

I waved my thin arms at the guy who had caught me.

I had absolutely no intention of moving.

“I don’t know what you’re doing, but get out!!!”

“Ha-yoon! Ha-yoon!! Ha-yoon!!!”

“…”

I carefully opened my eyes to the sound of someone calling me loudly.

Minjun was there.

***

“Ha Yoon!!!”

“Minjun?”

“Where are you hurt? Did Seoyeon do this?”

“Minjun… sob… sob…”

Hayoon came to me and hugged me while shedding tears.

“…”

“I was so scared.”

“… Yeah.”

I also gave him strength and patted him on the back.

“Sorry, but. There’s no time for this. I have to run. Behind you now…”

“Seoyeon is chasing me. Why? Why is she chasing me? I didn’t do anything wrong.”

“That… I don’t know. Anyway. Let’s get out of here. It’s too dangerous.”

“Where? Where should I go?”

“I have a place in mind.”

When I investigated the location of the ruins before, there was one close by.

If you go there, you will be able to hide Hayoon.

“You’ll be safe if you go there.”

“Ah…”

“Why?”

“Bar, my feet. My feet won’t move.”

When Hayoon met me, her tension eased and even her legs gave out.

I couldn’t move, so I just squatted down, holding onto the hem of my pants and looking up.

“Me, me, what should I do?”

“Ride on my back.”

“Ugh…”

“Why. I did it a lot when I was young.”

“Oh, I see. It’s an emergency.”

Hayoon headed to the abandoned house while being carried on my back.

I kept checking to see if Seoyeon was coming, but no one followed.

Now you can relax.

After laying Hayoon on one side, I examined her injured leg.

“Are your legs okay?”

“…”

She nodded, thinking deeply about something.

“We’ll never find Seoyeon here. Let’s run away when it starts to get quiet.”

“… together?”

“No. I have to convince Seoyeon. I won’t kill her.”

“… Why is Seoyeon trying to kill me?”

“I don’t know. Seoyeon is not normal right now.”

“That’s also related to the devil.”

“I don’t think so.”

“What does Bianca say?”

“She denies it completely. I think the same thing. That was something completely different. I know because I see Seoyeon a lot. She’s not the type of person to do something like that.”

“I’m jealous.”

“Huh? What did you say?”

“… I’m jealous.”

“What?”

“This dependable Minjun is my boyfriend.”

“Ah…”

Hayoon lowered her head and blushed.

“Aren’t you my boyfriend?”

“Huh? You said he was your boyfriend.”

“That’s just what Seoyeon told me to do. That’s not our relationship.”

Although I have done things that went beyond my lover on several occasions.

“Then you don’t have a girlfriend.”

“Well… that’s right.”

“Well then…what about me?”

“In this situation right now?”

“I want to know. I really want to know. What about me?”

“I’ll answer later.”

“I don’t like it.”

“It’s not like I like it or I don’t like it. Your life is in danger right now.”

“Then you’re really going to tell me later?”

“Ugh…”

“I like Seoyeon as expected.”

“…”

“Minjun. You know when you were in middle school? When you pounced on me.”

“Umm… My dark history.”

I looked up at the window and looked around.

There is no one.

Not a single mouse is wandering around.

“That’s what I said back then. I regret it.”

“…”

“I’m just going to get pounced on then.”

“I don’t think now is the time to talk about that.”

“No. I want to do it now. If I hadn’t transferred schools back then and stayed by your side, I would have definitely been the one you loved.”

“Why, why are you talking about that now? Let’s do it later.”

“Because. I’m so jealous right now… You love Seoyeon more than me.”

“Don’t say that. I was saved by you. When I was having the hardest time, you were the one who helped me. And you were the one who understood me.”

“… Really? I’d be happy if you said so.”

“Ugh…”

“I know you know, but I really like you, Minjun.”

“Suddenly saying something like that…”

Let’s look at Hayoon. Behind her, a dark shadow spread out.

Someone was standing and looking down at us.

“No one should flirt with my Minjun♥”

Seoyeon stabbed Ha-yoon in the back of her neck with the knife she was holding.

“Ha Yoon-ah!!!!!!!”

He jumped in, pushed Seoyeon away, and grabbed Ha-yoon.

But I didn’t know what to do with the knife that was stuck in my hand.

“Ugh… Ah…”

Blood seeped into the corner of his mouth and gushed out.

“Ha Yoon-ah. Ha Yoon-ah!”

“Ah…uh…ah..”

Hayoon was shedding tears and letting out a lung-busting sound.

“Ha Yoon-ah. No. No. Stop it. No. No. No!!!”

“… Ugh… Ah… Min… Jun… ”

I looked at Hayoon.

Bright eyes. As always, they were Hayoon’s eyes.

She slowly reached out her hand and touched my cheek.

Is it because of the blood, or are your hands just naturally warm?

It melted my cold cheeks.

“No…”

“…”

Hayoon’s eyes began to lose focus and she closed them.

“Hayoon… Hayoon! Hayoon!!! Open your eyes!!! Hayoon!!!”

“…”

At the sight of her unresponsive face, I realized that she was dead.

“Sigh. I told you it was so hard to find.”

Seoyeon was wiping the blood from the knife while smiling as if she had solved a problem.

“Thank goodness Minjun has GPS on his phone… Ugh!!!”

He jumped at her, knocked her down, and grabbed her by the neck with both hands.

“Ugh… Ugh… Huh…”

“Why. Why. Why. Why. Why. Why. Why. Why. Why is that happening! Why the hell!!!”

“Keep… Kkeup… Heup…”

“Why did you kill me! Why did you kill me!! You too. You too. You too. You too. You too. Die! Die!!!”

“…”

Seoyeon looked at me with tears falling down her face.

And then he raised his hand and rubbed my cheek.

That was the place that Hayoon had just touched.

“Die! Die!!!”

“Min… Heuheu… Jun… Ah… Heuheu…”

“Die!!! You die too!!!”

“Huh. Huh….”

Seoyeon smiled and spoke softly despite her choking situation.

“Ah…gi…”

“… What?”

“Baby…♥”

baby?

As the strength in his hand gradually weakened, it was removed from his neck.

Seoyeon gasped and gasped for breath.

“Keuk… Gulp. Gulp!! Keuheuph… Gulp. Gulp!!”

“What?”

“Yeah. Gulp. Gulp. I had something to say.”

“…”

“Our baby is born…♥”

“Lies. Don’t lie. You were just about to die, so you lied to survive.”

“Colok!! Haa… Hehe♥”

Seoyeon took out what was in her pocket and showed it to me.

There were two red lines on the pregnancy test.