episode_0162

Mountains and Sea (3) – One Mind Salvation Church Republic of Korea Branch

“That brother and that younger brother.”

The creepy smile the cult leader showed was fleeting.

The leader met again with his eyes that blinked for just a moment, and was looking at him with a soft smile.

“At this level, excessive self-consciousness crosses the line.”

The sense of desperation felt in the gesture of shaking one’s head.

He smiled and continued talking.

“It is true that I saw something special in you and that I wanted it. However.”

A sudden cold gaze,

“You shouldn’t be mistaken for thinking that that alone makes you something great.”

The well-honed tone shoots out like a cold blade.

“Introducing myself through my own mouth is childish, so I don’t need to.”

Instead of giving a lengthy explanation, he slowly looked up and down the river and sea.

Shoulders naturally become narrower as you look at them.

The gap between the One Mind Salvation Church leader and the general public can never be narrowed.

“It’s cute rather than the same.”

“I mean not me, but my brother―”

“That is also the same.”

The voice is heard more clearly perhaps because of the light darkness.

The leader did not take his eyes off the river and sea for even a moment.

“Look outside.”

The beautiful night sky outside the window indicated by his hand gesture.

This is the world that Ha Chae-kyung and I created.

“Strictly speaking, it’s a world I created.”

He continued laughing as if explaining this was funny.

“It is true that your brother criticized me. There’s a good chance I’ll have bad feelings about that.”

I’m not saying your reasoning doesn’t make sense.

“It’s just so funny.”

The front of the mansion he visited and the terrace of our house he visited.

I was embarrassed by his sharp tone, which was completely different from back then.

His whispers continued to penetrate my slightly trembling eyes.

“Today, I carried tens of thousands of people on my shoulders and protected their ordinary day.”

Your brother is like that.

“What did your brother who criticized me do today?”

Kang Bada raised her head to defend her brother in response to his question.

Her brother’s day replays again in her mind.

“You walked the right path until you got stabbed in the back by a crooked high school student and turned into a zombie.”

And ironically, the person who saved it was me, the person he criticized.

Kwaang-!

A fist slams into the table and Kang Bada jumps up.

“Don’t talk nonsense about my brother!”

Highly torn high notes and a red-faced face.

She pointed at the religious leader with her long white index finger and raised a blood vessel on her neck.

“What do you know about my brother?! My brother is also trying his best every day! you… … What do you know?!”

In her memories, Kang San was always holding on to documents or a gun.

My older brother worked hard every day to keep up with special people.

Yet, her brother always gave her a warm and bright smile.

“Just because you’re amazing doesn’t mean everything your brother said is wrong… … . Park Jin-heon is bad, but it’s not wrong that your brother trusted that bastard… … .”

Again, I wiped away the tears that were flowing down and calmed my rough breathing.

I lowered my gaze to the floor, feeling the sleeves soaked with tears.

Just as I was biting my lip and worrying about the future conversation-

“There is only one thing that is important, the sea.”

He spoke with a gentle smile as if nothing was wrong.

“We have come to a world where nothing can be changed with words.”

and.

He stood up and stretched out his hand towards the sea of the river.

The power of the city rests gently in the hands of the cult leader.

Paaa!

As soon as the jewel touched his hand, it lit up the office again.

A whisper was heard as she squinted against the sudden light.

“This is the only way to get to the starting line.”

“… … .”

A brilliant light fills my trembling pupils.

She pursed her lips as if resisting temptation.

“Still, I think I spoke too harshly. I apologize.”

A soft voice is heard again, as if from the terrace.

The leader stared in surprise at the sudden change in atmosphere and glanced at the chair with a warm smile.

“It’s always dangerous to judge someone carelessly. Could you please take a seat now?”

“… … .”

Kang Bada nodded hesitantly and sat down quietly.

The leader opened his mouth while looking at Kang Bada awkwardly pulling a chair.

“As we chat, a question suddenly arises.”

“… … .”

“Can I ask you something?”

“… … What, what is it?”

Kang Bada, who had not yet adapted, answered hesitantly.

A grinning eye as if to reassure her.

“The more I look at you, the more I realize that you have deep thoughts.”

“… … .”

“You think in so many ways that you doubt me, so why didn’t you notice Park Jin-heon?”

Every time I see him, he’s hanging out with either you or Kang San.

My fist naturally clenches in response to the leader’s question.

The days when I warned my brother several times about Park Jin-heon.

“… … i did it. It’s not certain, but I think we need to be careful.”

“That’s amazing. You knew something that Ha Chae-kyung didn’t even notice.”

“It’s not that great… … .”

“Eyes that see people. How many great people are said to have failed because they were not good at one thing?”

Well, it’s not that bad.

I don’t know what to do with the compliments that are more intense than I expected.

A question comes quietly to me as I shake my head slightly.

“Then why did you stay quiet when you wish you had at least tipped off Ha Chae-kyung?”

Before I could even open my mouth, my jaw clenched and my voice was blocked from my uvula.

‘… … ‘You can do it.’

Kang San’s stern expression and quiet sentence.

“… … .”

She ultimately failed to answer the religious leader’s question.

“I felt uneasy because I felt like I was punishing my colleagues.”

“… … No.”

“Then, Park Jin-heon, did he secretly make a mean threat?”

“… … No.”

then.

The leader’s warm eyes as he calmly chooses his words.

She didn’t even know why she was waiting for the religious leader to open his mouth.

“Did your brother ask you to stay quiet, saying he would solve everything?”

“… … .”

I just closed my mouth and nodded slightly.

“Hmm, it must have been quite embarrassing from your point of view.”

“… … Yes.”

“Even if it were me, it would have been difficult to decide on something.”

It was my brother who asked me to do it and no one else, so I couldn’t refuse it.

“I understand you, but it’s not your fault.”

The bridge is reflected in the eyes of the river and sea as they calmly lower their heads.

“Of course, you know that too, so your heart must be heavy and painful as if a stone has been placed on it.”

He gave her a small smile filled with regret.

“Listening to Kang San’s words was actually putting Kang San in danger.”

“… … That’s right.”

“If I had told Ha Chae-kyung or the old man, there would not have been such a disastrous result.”

“… … That’s right.”

… … that’s right.

She couldn’t deny the cult leader’s whispers.

“Those thoughts are sad, but they are the correct answer. The things that happened today happened because you didn’t do anything.”

You could have stopped it, but you couldn’t.

no.

“I didn’t stop it.”

As a result… … .

The leader spoke less, looking at the trembling pupils of the river and sea.

Even if she doesn’t say anything, there will be unforgettable, terrible memories lingering in her head.

“Look at yourself now, sea. The appearance of the pretty face being messed up and the shoulders being heavily shrugged.”

His appearance was completely contradictory to his lively appearance in the mansion and on the terrace.

An object that is secretly presented to a woman who knows her condition better than anyone else.

The jewel that was slowly rolling across the table stopped quietly in front of her.

“Didn’t I tell you? Even when you say that my brother is precious, and the promise that you so confidently declared to me.”

Beautiful jewels filled her eyes.

“You need strength.”

She thought, carefully grabbing the table with her outstretched hand.

“… … My brother will definitely hate it.”

“It’s like deja vu, that means.”

The leader of the Salvation Church only smiled strangely.

He slightly shrugged his shoulders and said to Kang Bada.

“It feels like a repetition of the story.”

“… … Ah.”

Lips crushed so large that they taste like bitter iron.

A trembling hand grasped the jewel.

Grace is quietly silent, as if the bright light from earlier was a lie.

“Nari said that nothing much changes when you become a believer. Is it true?”

“You must have done some preliminary research.”

“… … Because I don’t know what will happen.”

Kang Bada, who made that excuse, continued to say:

“What should I do now? Can I just trust you from now on?”

The head of Guwondo Bridge quietly faces the river and the sea, raising his voice to appear confident.

He answered her with a small smile.

“Faith and faith are not obtained through bargaining.”

“… … .”

“The trust gained in that way is quickly overshadowed by other good conditions.”

Kang Bada glanced at the jewel she was holding with eyes that had a lot to say.

I wanted to ask, ‘Then what is this jewel that was given to me for scouting purposes?’, but for some reason I couldn’t open my mouth.

The leader of the Salvation Church noticed the look in her eyes and shook his head and laughed.

“It is an opportunity and a tool.”

“… … What’s the reason? A chance to trust you?”

A smile that gently draws a line in response to the question he manages to blurt out.

The semi-circular lips gave a completely different answer than what was expected.

“An opportunity to open your closed eyes.”

Through that opening of eyes-

“An opportunity to realize that I did not suddenly appear but was always by your side.”

In the mansion and on the terrace.

And when your brother cries out in pain.

Keekeeek!

Her brother’s shouts torment the ears of Kang Bada, who is staring blankly at the pontiff.

“Even when I cover my mouth from a painful scream, shed tears and hope for salvation.”

A vivid memory that will never be forgotten.

A voice echoing as she staggered towards her brother.

‘Do you need help?’

“Faith that allows you to firmly believe that you are not alone in desperate times when you need help.”

‘Yes, please.’

“What I think is faith.”

The leader continued speaking in a warm tone.

“In that sense, the jewel I gave you has less meaning than a bargain.”

You couldn’t use it anyway, right?

As he said, I ended up throwing the unused gem on the floor.

“Everything needs order. Faith and love.”

love.

As those bittersweet words rolled around in her mouth, she was reminded of the purpose of her visit to the office.

The slightly strange conversation continued for a long time, but there was only one thing she wanted to ask.

Kang Bada struggled to open her mouth with earnest eyes.

“Well, then… … .”

The answer to the question that was asked strongly from the beginning was a resolute negative.

And it didn’t matter whether the words were true or false.

She wanted to find her own peace.

“Is your brother there too?”

Even my precious brother who criticized you.

Kang Bada just stared at the leader’s lips, just like when they first had a conversation in the office.

This time, I desperately hope for something other than a smile that sends goosebumps down my back.

“… … .”

Just like the first time, the leader didn’t say anything for a while.

The leader, who was meeting her quietly trembling eyes, opened his lips.

“If you pray like that.”

“… … Ah.”

With a brief moment of wonder, the eyes close deeply as if relieved.

That was the end of the conversation that took place in the dark night, in the dim lighting.

A beautiful jewel held in Kang Bada’s hands as she carefully left the office.

A small light flowing from ‘Grace’ surrounded her.