episode_0039

It’s been two months since Sangmin left.

Hayeon and Dayoung still remained at the mountain cabin.

For the first few days, I was spinning my hope circuit, hoping that Sang-min would show up like a lie, but it didn’t take long for that hope to gradually turn into despair.

Thanks to Da-young, who adapted to reality early on, they were able to continue living in the mountain cabin as just the two of them.

Hayeon cried so hard that she fainted several times a day.

I felt uneasy as Da-young, but I thought about using the survival skills I had learned from Sang-min to my heart’s content and being praised when he came back.

Fortunately, most of the food left by the common people is preserved food, and drinking water can be replenished from springs.

Thanks to the wild boar meat that was smoked and stored, there was no need to worry about starving to death right away.

However, shoes and clothes were difficult. In Hayeon’s case, she had to put back on the clothes she was wearing when she was kidnapped, and Dayoung had to choose clothes from Sangmin’s closet because Sangmin tore all of her clothes.

Hayeon and Dayoung’s worries deepened because they were kidnapped in early August and the weather around the mountain cabin in early October was very changeable and the daily temperature range was large, making it very difficult to face winter like this.

“Sister. What should I eat for lunch today?”

Dayoung asked Hayeon while cheerfully chopping firewood.

As she struggled every day to make ends meet at the lodge, Dayoung’s body became a little slimmer and her survival muscles stood out.

My once pale skin had become bronzed to give me a healthy look, but I had a hard time applying sunscreen for a while.

“I ate almost all the wild boar meat. You can just eat what’s left today.”

As Hayeon answered, I felt as devastated as Sangmin was when he kidnapped her.

Hayeon, who had an attractive, elegant and innocent appearance, had lost her vitality and lost her will to live like a withered rose.

“Back then… If I had followed my master, it would have been better than now, right?”

Hayeon regrets every day and laments that she lost Sangmin out of her hands.

“Sister. The master will definitely come here. If it doesn’t work out, let’s leave now. Don’t be stubborn.”

However, Hayeon has refused to leave the mountain cabin where she had experienced many things with Sangmin even though it was only a short time.

No matter how difficult it was, it was possible to get out of here by preparing well and going down the forest road, but Da-young was also unable to move because of Ha-yeon, who had become a fool.

However, I didn’t know what I would do to leave my unstable sister like that, so escaping from here alone was not an option.

There were many times when Dayoung had to do the work of two people by herself.

Taking care of my sister wasn’t that difficult.

Because the mountain hut already had enough supplies.

More than that, when will Sangmin return?

I wonder if something happened.

He said he would never throw it away, but whenever he had questions about whether he had a change of heart, he tried to calm himself down by focusing on tasks such as chopping firewood, drawing water, and checking the remaining food.

“Black… Ugh… Master…”

When Hayeon started crying again, Dayoung started to feel irritated, but she felt like she would get exhausted again if she cried like this all day, so she hugged her and patted her.

“Don’t cry. Eat well and be energized. My master will scold me if he sees me like this.”

Dayoung sighed and was busy comforting Hayeon, so she didn’t notice the strange sound echoing in the mountains from afar.

“Master? It’s the master!”

“What are you talking about, sister? Didn’t you hear hallucinations again?”

After a month, Ha-yeon sometimes ran wild, as if she was hallucinating, saying she heard her master coming, so Da-young hugged her to soothe her bitter heart.

“No! The real master has arrived! It sounds like a car!”

“What kind of car sound are you hearing? what? Is it true?”

Only then did Dayoung realize that the sound of the heavy car engine, which she had dismissed as Hayeon’s auditory hallucination, was clearly audible in her own ears.

I thought it must have been ordinary people since it was a place where outsiders were restricted from entering due to a fence, but I felt unfamiliar with the civilization I had only encountered in two months.

“Master! master! Why have you come now! Hmm…”

Hayeon couldn’t hold back any longer and ran out towards the forest road where she heard the sound of the car.

Dayoung followed Hayeon, who didn’t know what kind of energy she had to run so fast.

When a four-wheel drive SUV, which was slow due to the rough road, encountered them, it slowly slowed down, stopped, and turned off the engine.

As Dayoung looked at the driver’s seat, clutching her pounding heart, the driver’s door opened and two crutches came out.

“Sorry. I waited a long time.”

Sangmin, with an awkward smile on his face, said hello to the sisters while on crutches.

“Haaa…”

Hayeon sat down in her seat and sobbed as if she couldn’t breathe.

Da-young ran to Sang-min, fell into his arms, and began to cry.

“Why! Why have you come now! why! Do you know how hard it was?”

Da-young’s fist hitting Sang-min’s chest was filled with emotion, but it only expressed anger and the force it contained was weak. However, when Sang-min’s expression became distorted, Da-young finally came to her senses and hugged him.

“Master? Where are you hurting? Now that I think about it, what do I do with these crutches…”

Only then did Dayoung discover the cast wrapped around Sangmin’s left foot and the large scar on his face and ask a question in surprise.

“Whew… If I were to explain it, it would be long. Let’s take care of Hayeon first because it looks like she’s going to die.”

She felt guilty because she remembered hitting Sang-min while he was on crutches, but she was so thankful that he came back, so Hayeon wiped away her tears with her hands and smiled.

“Yes, master, just follow me. I will take care of my sister and go to the mountain cabin.”

Hayeon, whose eyes were swollen from crying so much, couldn’t even think about moving, but when Sangmin bent down and held out his hand, she finally got up.

Dayoung helped Ha-yeon, who was holding on to the fingertips of Sang-min, who was on crutches, and they finally arrived at the mountain cabin, gasping for breath.

“How long has it been since… I’ve been here for two months?”

Sangmin let out an exclamation, his eyes sparkling as if he was deeply moved.

“Yes… that has already happened.”

Dayoung responded by hugging Hayeon tightly until she stopped crying and quieted down.

When he left, the naked bodies of the dazzlingly beautiful sisters were visible, and now, without having to listen to a long explanation, he could tell how much hardship the girls had endured over the past two months, and Sangmin was heartbroken.

“You worked hard. Hayeon seems to have had a hard time, and Dayoung seems to have persevered as I taught her.”

Dayoung seemed to have noticed a lot just by looking at it for a moment, so Dayoung was happy and thankful that her efforts over the past two months had not been in vain.

“I believed that the owner would definitely come back. And since my sister wouldn’t leave the mountain cabin, I had no choice.”

Sang-min thought that Da-young, with her courage and determination, would have escaped a long time ago, but he realized that Hayeon had collapsed as well.

Sangmin’s reliable and warm hands were placed on Hayeon and Dayoung’s heads.

“I’m sorry. You came so late. thank you. For waiting. love you. I will be with you for the rest of my life.”

“Ugh… Master!”

Hayeon, who couldn’t speak because she was crying the whole time, was hugged by Sangmin.

Sangmin’s expression hardened slightly when he hugged Hayeon, perhaps because of the pain, but he also hugged Hayeon and waited for her to calm down.

Dayoung, who was watching this scene, was happy, wiping away tears because it was a scene she dreamed of every night.

When Hayeon finally calmed down, Sangmin held the sisters’ hands and told them the story of how he came to be so late.

“I was riding a mountain bike downhill when I suddenly hit a falling rock and fainted, perhaps because it was raining continuously. Entry to this forest road is prohibited, so I almost died.”

The sisters’ hearts sank as they heard about the dizzying situation at the time.

Judging by the scars on his face and the fact that he appeared on crutches, it was truly fortunate that he survived.

“Luckily, a hiker who had taken a wrong turn found me and reported me. Because I was wearing a helmet, my head wasn’t seriously injured, but I cracked my ribs and fractured my left foot when I fell, so it took a long time to recover.”

Hayeon and Dayoung burst into tears again when their fears that he was wrong turned out to be true.

“So are you okay now?”

“Ah… what should I do…”

They thought they had finally found happiness, but the fact that it was almost gone forever weighed heavily on the sisters’ hearts.

I even thought that if Sang-min hadn’t gotten involved with them, he wouldn’t have been in danger of losing his life.

“It’s okay. I wanted to come quickly, but I really couldn’t move. Still, I held on, believing that you would be safe and well. Even though it was embarrassing, I believed that he would endure it because he thought of me.”

“That’s right… I waited, thinking only about my master… Crying every day… Ugh…”

Hayeon sobbed again, as if it was difficult to hold back her tears.

“If it weren’t for the things my master taught me… I probably wouldn’t have been able to endure it.”

Dayoung expressed her sincere gratitude and respect to Sangmin, who taught her everything to become who she is today.

“I told you so. We are destined. No matter what difficulties there are, we will meet again like this and cry and laugh together.”

Tears of joy also flowed from the eyes of Sangmin, who was smiling brightly.

“It was too late though. I went there.”

Sangmin’s wet voice contained many emotions in his heavy heart.

“Welcome. Master!”

The sisters smiled brightly for the first time in two months and welcomed their owner back after a long absence.

Ji Sang-min, Jeong Ha-yeon, and Jeong Da-young have just boarded a ship for a fateful voyage together again after a long journey.

A long obsession.

Endless regrets.

Even myself, who was devastated.

Leaving everything behind at the lodge, they got into the car heading out of the lodge.

“Samseong-dong mansion… It’s been a while since I’ve been gone…”

“Now, it is a place where I can live with my master.”

“Live together for the rest of your life, master!”

They will never forget leaving everything behind at the mountain cabin.

That summer day in the mountain cabin, after an intense struggle with love that burned his body and soul, he found supreme love and rest that promised eternity.

I felt true freedom and liberation.

The car heading to the Samseong-dong mansion filled with 10 years of memories was filled with the air that only those who can feel, full of love and trust that cannot be expressed in words.