episode_0161

Mountains and Sea (2) – One Mind Salvation Church Republic of Korea Branch

“For now, let’s continue to resume the festival.”

“Why?”

“There is no need to make a fuss over such a minor terrorist attack. Wouldn’t citizens and believers feel safer if the festival continues?”

The church leader’s office is filled with only shallow lighting that illuminates the darkness.

For the first time in a long time, I relaxed into the soft chair, letting go of all the tension I had felt.

Seong Ga-eul, sitting right next to me, nodded her head in response to my answer, muttering lightly with languid eyes.

“Yes, do that.”

He tilted his head and narrowed his eyes at her gentle affirmation.

“… … What, are you a saint?”

“So are you following me now?”

Seong Ga-eul let out a laugh as if she was dumbfounded.

“No, at this point, he should be looking at me with an expression like, ‘Ah, what should I do with this guy?’”

“That’s when you keep mumbling things you really want to hit.”

“Oh… … . So now you’re saying it was a passing answer?”

Seong Ga-eul shook her head at my question.

When I looked at her again, I saw that she was also leaning on the chair in her own comfortable position.

“Sometimes, it seems like you see me as a machine that only picks the right answer.”

“No?”

To me, it’s like an autumn dream.

Seong Ga-eul’s expression became familiar with my immediate answer.

A face with an arrogant frown on its face, as if ready to punch.

“Is that correct? Or do you really want to get beaten up?”

“Oh―”

“You.”

A quick warning stopped my mouth from playfully opening.

Seong Ga-eul was wiggling her eyebrows and pointing at me with a thin finger.

“If you’re trying to do something like that, shut your mouth.”

“… … A harsh bitch, a smart bitch.”

“Because I blocked it, I’m going back to the old days.”

She shook her head from side to side again and let out a small smile.

“Really… … Have you changed anything?”

“I have a somewhat consistent style.”

Haha, it’s really annoying to have to laugh at something like this.

In the end, Seong Ga-eul burst out a little and covered her mouth with her palm to cover her laughter.

As soon as I felt so proud, I made a mistake, the cane was immediately thrown at me.

“Don’t smile.”

“… … Yep.”

While they were giggling at each other, Seong Ga-eul quietly looked out the window.

She muttered with her eyes filled with sorrow.

“Well, has it only been half a year?”

A brain teaser with many meanings.

She smiled and continued speaking in a low tone.

“You must have been busy preparing for employment and obtaining qualifications during summer vacation.”

“You already got a job. The clothes are just right – dressed nicely.”

Seong Ga-eul looked down at her office look and thought quietly, ‘That’s right.’

“… … So, don’t leave everything to a female college student who just got a job. What if I’m not right? ”

“It doesn’t really matter, right? I think it would be enough if you just stopped me from making sudden moves.”

She smiled again and shook her head, wondering what she was thinking.

“ Now that I think about it, I guess each person really has a different talent. How come you have such talent?”

Wouldn’t he take Shim So-young out of the hotel, or seduce Ha Chae-kyung from Minguk?

He shrugged his shoulders with a look of surprise in his eyes.

“Don’t forget Ayoung and Joohye. Actually, true talent is revealed late.”

“But why did I rush to do a telekinetic strangulation?”

“… … .”

Holly Schott.

“Those bitches will have to come to their senses after being strangled by your telekinesis.”

“… … .”

Wave after wave of barrage pouring down on me as I purse my mouth like a dumb person who has been completely absorbed in the silence.

“When I think about it like that, I suddenly feel like I have become a stepping stone to gaining experience.”

“… … Is there anything you want to eat this fall?”

“It makes me feel even more upset to think of myself as a child who only gets food.”

“… … There is no excuse for this.”

Out of embarrassment, I rested my arms on the table and continued to smooth my forehead.

The sound of giggling laughter can be heard as I slightly bow my head.

When I raised my head and looked at her, Seong Ga-eul was looking at me with unexpected eyes.

“What is it? Why don’t you do something about ‘Soori-‘? Or, ‘In the end, you benefited too.’ I thought I could do it at least.”

“I was going to do it, but it felt like something wasn’t right, so I didn’t do it.”

“It is a real human victory, a human victory.”

I have no time left even if I die now.

An exaggeratedly raised tone, as if overwhelmed.

She shook her head and continued speaking.

“I feel guilty for saying something like that as a joke, it’s not like you.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes. If someone secretly filmed this and broadcast it, wouldn’t it be worth watching?”

Doesn’t this make me something like the famous secret power?

“That wouldn’t be bad, right?”

“… … Huh?”

Seong Ga-eul, who was laughing weakly like a balloon, narrowed her pretty eyebrows.

“What?”

“… … .”

Han Gu-won, who raised his head and stared, said nothing.

Han Gu-won stares at her with an unknown smile.

As she cautiously opened her mouth again-

smart-

“Master, the guest you have been waiting for has arrived.”

A polite knock was heard from Inari, who was guarding the door.

“Ah – lead me to the office.”

Han Gu-won, who said this outside the door in a low tone, smiled slightly as he looked at Seong Ga-eul.

“Shall we finish the rest of the story in the morning?”

I slowly stood up as the congratulatory message came back.

“Ah! Please don’t lock the door tonight. Even if I lock it this time, I will definitely get in.”

“… … .”

This time, Seong Ga-eul did not respond to his joke.

His quiet eyes stared at him for a while and then he slowly walked towards the door.

***

“Welcome, sea. The leader has been waiting for a long time.”

“You waited?”

me?

Kangbada pointed at herself with wide eyes at Inari’s words.

“You suddenly came to me without making any promises?”

Inari didn’t bother to respond to the surprised tone.

She only showed a suspicious smile and carefully opened the white door.

Good!

The sound of high heels clicking at the same time as the large door opens.

Kang Bada stared at Seong Ga-eul walking out of the religious leader’s office.

Togak- Togak-

She continues to look behind her through the shallow darkness.

Kang Bada was nervous, wondering if they would exchange greetings, but fortunately, there was no need to smile and greet each other like at a meeting.

Seong Ga-eul checks behind him, perhaps not knowing that he is waiting in front of the door.

Her eyes, barely gazing forward, were full of doubt.

“The door will be closed for security reasons, so don’t be surprised.”

Good!

The white door closes again with Inari’s whisper.

Thanks to the dim lighting, my son-in-law was bathed in darkness as soon as the door closed.

“It’s later than I thought.”

“… … .”

Bright eyes waiting for you in a bright place.

Kang Bada bit her lip and walked confidently forward.

Trap – plod –

The sound of footsteps echoing softly against the white marble reached the slightly crooked chair where Seong Ga-eul had sat.

“Can I sit down?”

The former leader nodded and gestured to the chair.

She sat down on the chair, taking several deep breaths without being noticed by him.

“… … First of all, it’s too late to say thank you. Thank you for sharing the zombie cure with my brother.”

“There is no need to dwell on such small points as a family. How is Sani?”

“… … .”

It was a question that took my breath away from the first question.

The leader of the Gushun Church looks closely at her eyes, which begin to vibrate violently.

“If it is difficult to answer, there is no need to answer.”

“… … No.”

Kang Bada shook her head with a firm resolve.

Here today, I had to negotiate with that person.

That’s why I kept it a secret from my brother and came all the way here.

I couldn’t remain silent from the first question.

She clutched her trembling hands and recalled her brother from just a few hours ago.

‘Keeek—!’

My brother resists violently, waving his arms around the sack of the gun bag.

‘Damn, this moment is always the most annoying. It’s the sea! ‘Stay back just in case!’

Yoon-kang overpowered his older brother and forced him to take zombie medicine.

Paaa!

With a bright light, my brother returns to being my brother again.

‘Our sea must have been through a lot of emotional distress.’

His mother who hugs him affectionately and his old man who pats him on the shoulder.

My older brother had to be hospitalized in a hospital room at the newly expanded Hanmaeum Hospital in the Minguk branch.

A wave of motherly healing pours down from Kang San, who is lying calmly on the bed.

Warm mana pouring again into the body restored with zombie treatment.

Kang San, who had been bathed in the healing light for quite some time, smiled slightly as if nothing had happened.

For the sake of stability, all of the awakened people of the Republic of Korea who were trying to protect Gangsan were sent away, and the hospital room was left alone with them.

My brother, who was quietly looking out the window against a white background, opened his trembling mouth three times.

‘What about Jinheon?’

First whisper.

‘… … .’

My brother nodded as if he understood that he couldn’t answer.

Kang San whispered a second time to Kang Bada, who eventually shed tears again.

‘I’m sorry for everything, brother.’

He held Kang San’s hand and placed his other hand on Kang Bada’s hand, which was shaking violently, and let out his last whisper.

‘I’m fine. just… … ‘I’ll rest for a bit.’

After saying those words, my brother just quietly looked out the window.

“It’s okay. There is no problem with moving my legs, and my mother and other doctors said it would be fine.”

“Thank goodness.”

“I feel fine, but I feel a little bad because I was abused by a younger brother I trusted.”

“I’m a little worried about that.”

widely-!

A white jewel placed on the table while looking at the head of the Guwon Sect who smiles sadly.

Kang Bada calmed down her trembling heart and steadied her voice.

“I spoke honestly, so I believe you will speak honestly as well.”

Kang Bada took a gulp and made eye contact with the leader of Guwon Sect.

“Don’t keep avoiding answers with strange Zen questions and questions.”

She urged again and looked at the jewels on the table.

“You clearly said you gave me this as a bribe for scouting.”

A gem given to him, saying that if you are not an awakened person, you will be fine if you become an awakened person.

But the message that came back to her after swallowing the jewel was-

[I lack faith!]

[You are not a member of One Mind Salvation Church!]

There was only consistent rejection.

“I guess I have to be a member of the Salvation Church to believe in you for this gem to work, is that correct?”

“That’s accurate.”

My thin eyelashes fluttered as I heard the Salvation Church leader’s sure answer.

My older brother has been constantly wary of them ever since he met the leader of the Guwon Sect who got off the train and reunited with Bulyeosi.

No, it was my brother who went beyond the borderline and denied them to the point of blindness.

And the jewel secretly given to him by the object of the denial.

Where and how to use that gem.

Only those who become believers of the One Mind Salvation Church can be reborn as awakened people.

“… … Mr. ”

Kang Bada picked up the shining ball of thread that was the correct answer among the intricately twisted skeins.

A path created by a loose ball of thread slowly rolling.

“Are you using me?”

I hope you don’t go down that thorny, dark road.

“Are you planning to drag my brother into the abyss by dragging me in?”

I asked him with a slightly trembling voice.

────.

A silence that makes my whole body tremble continues.

Lord Guwondo did not answer Kang Bada’s question for a long time.

Deeply sunken eyes and powerfully vibrating eyes meet.

Kang Bada held her trembling hands forcibly and only looked at the lips of the Lord of Salvation.

Lips slightly open.

“… … .”

Not the answer she was hoping for,

I only drew a long, torn smile.