episode_0168

Bog (2) – One Mind Salvation Church Republic of Korea Branch

“See you tomorrow, leader.”

A secret space located on the upper floor of an ordinary building where prayer meetings are held.

Seong Jae-young, holding the Book of Salvation preciously in his arms, left the room.

“… … You are so pitiful.”

Seong Jae-young’s voice rings as soon as he politely closes the door.

Kang Bada was staring at the door he left through with a sad expression.

“I have to go back there again.”

Daehan’s daily life, which you naturally learn about every time you talk to him.

Seong Jae-young went through hell for his younger brother or for himself.

In any case, I was destined to return to Korea.

“I don’t think I could ever do it… … .”

And that fate seemed quite harsh to Kangbada.

“You seem to have quite a lot of affection.”

Well, I can’t help but feel attached to him as I come up to his room and spend several hours together every day to memorize the ‘Book of Salvation’.

In response to my question, Kang Bada shook her head with an awkward expression.

“Hmm… … I think it’s more correct to say support rather than affection.”

“Don’t worry too much. The safety device is secure.”

I remembered Joo Joo-hye’s face and reassured her.

Kang Bada shook her head at the gentle comfort and began to clean up the table.

I kept putting on my high heels and sorting out the bags of snacks left on the table.

“That’s enough, you should take a break now.”

Kang Bada, who was moving the trash to the inventory despite my dissuasion, shook her head in surprise.

“Uh… … Is there still some work left to do?”

It was “. Please sit down for a moment and catch your breath.”

I waved at her and urged her, and Kang Bada carefully sat down next to me.

I asked lightly, feeling the cool breeze from the air conditioner blowing in the room.

“So, have you gotten used to secretarial work?”

“I feel like I’m still a little confused about getting used to it. Still, one thing I feel certain is… … ”

Kang Bada thought about someone for a moment and slowly spoke.

“That fire… Oh, I’m sorry.”

“It’s okay. Speak at your convenience.”

“… … thank you I think I know for sure that the Buddhist master lived a busy life.”

Every time I read her answer, I thought of Seong Ga-eul, who lived buried in documents.

When I remembered the face raising its eyebrows hysterically, I couldn’t help but smile.

“ Gaeul will probably be grateful that you took away the work.”

“I’m really sorry, but this isn’t really that helpful consolation.”

“Hahaha—! Be careful. If it were fall, you might be listening to this conversation right now.”

“That is correct.”

The leader also needs to be careful.

There was a small smile on Kang Bada’s face as she told a serious joke.

I also smiled brightly and shook my head as if I couldn’t stop him.

As we are talking about Gaeul like this, I wonder what she is doing right now.

I thought of Seong Ga-eul, who would be handling the backlog of work on my behalf in Paradise, not in Minguk.

“Wait a moment.”

As an extension of the prank, I looked at the paper and pen prepared on the table.

A ballpoint pen scribbles something on a piece of paper floating on a table.

I said, picking up the paper with two letters written on it with my hands.

“Now that we’re in this situation, I’d like to ask you some tips that might be helpful.”

The paper that says [What are you doing?] moves smoothly into the inventory.

Now, due to Seong Ga-eul’s nature, a reply will come within a few seconds at most, or a minute at most.

It was our own way of communicating using her skill, ‘unprofitability.’

My note immediately disappears from inventory.

Kang Bada was looking at the table with a pouty expression, as if she wasn’t expecting much.

Soon, a newly updated note appeared in the inventory.

I quickly took out the note and checked it.

[ㅗ]

Not a sentence or a letter, but a vowel.

As I was looking at the note with trembling eyes, the river and sea asked me.

“What do you say?”

“… … You’re busy.”

“Aha.”

An exclamation that comes out half-heartedly, as if you weren’t expecting much in the first place.

Kang Bada nodded a few times out of courtesy and looked at the table again.

“It looks like you’re holding up well, I’m proud of you.”

She flinched at the sudden remark.

Kang Bada, who was silent for a moment, smiled bitterly and answered.

“ As the leader said, I am able to survive because I am busy with work.”

“That’s what’s important. The day you endure like that will become tomorrow.”

“… … Tomorrow.”

Kangbada quietly muttered along with my answer.

A dazed face as if lost in deep thought.

“So, let’s rest a little more today for tomorrow.”

“… … There’s something strange about the way the words are said.”

Suddenly?

At my joke, Kang Bada tilted her head and made a puzzled expression.

However, my intention seemed to have been conveyed, and she continued speaking with a small smile.

“No. I will be attending a prayer meeting later in the evening.”

“… … You too have become a secretary.”

Once again, the atmosphere flows calmly and comfortably, hiding heavy thoughts for a while.

Of course she knew who was occupying most of her deep thoughts, but she didn’t think about it in a hurry.

[You are being rewarded!]

The plan continued step by step.

Taking control of the river and sea.

“They might get suspicious, so let’s detain some agents for a while.”

“Yes, leader.”

Also countering their tricks.

***

Two weeks that will make you painfully aware of the relativity of time.

A dark night after peaceful days that were like heaven.

Seong Jae-young suddenly left the Republic of Korea on a ‘train’.

I returned to Daehan as a Nampa agent, quietly gazing at the night sky stretching thin through the car window.

Pushy-

The heaviness of the air you feel as soon as you step out of the train.

Just by looking down from the platform, your shoulders are weighed down by the obvious hardness and dullness.

“Who is this? Isn’t Seong Jae-young our proud No. 1 citizen!”

The officer’s voice rang out as if he had been waiting.

Seong Jae-young’s eyes fluttered as he looked at the boy who was waiting for him with the officer.

“Now, go ahead and hug Daehan’s Geon-ah, who is so proud of you.”

Seong Tae-young.

His younger brother approached him carefully, led by an officer.

“… … Brother.”

Deeply – my younger brother hugging me for the first time in a long time.

You can feel the skinny body of your little brother just by holding it.

He carefully stroked his younger brother’s head and looked up at the officer.

“Why, why… … My younger brother is here… … .”

Even though it’s been a while since I last saw you, my voice naturally trembles.

The officer smiled slightly.

“Still, he is a warrior who returned from a big mission. Of course, isn’t it right to greet your family first?”

A thorn hidden in the answer as if it was no big deal.

With a sense of ominous certainty, he imagined what would have happened to his younger brother if he had not come.

“But, if I didn’t come back, my younger brother would… … .”

“I don’t know why you’re asking about something that isn’t that important.”

The officer shook his head and looked at Seong Jae-young closely.

I swallowed my saliva, but when I did not refuse to look, the officer tapped me on the shoulder.

“Hahaha― But of course, a soldier who has done his duty should answer the question.”

Sooo!

The officer who had been quietly watching the train leaving Korea opened his mouth.

“Even soldiers who fail their mission are citizens of Korea. Their family can take responsibility for their failures.”

The freezing cold eyes glanced at my younger brother for a moment.

“I am just carrying out a responsibility that is a little more difficult and difficult than death.”

A responsibility that is more arduous and difficult than death.

The officer’s words immediately brought to mind the second-class citizens who were dragged to the labor camps with black faces.

“This is all thanks to His Excellency Yeon-cheol’s mercy.”

chuck-!

“Long live His Excellency Combustion Iron—!”

“Hmm—! This is indeed the spirit of a first-class citizen!”

The officer smiled happily at the automatic reaction and placed his hand on Seong Jae-young’s shoulder.

The power that can be felt even in the grip that feels like gently kneading.

“So- was the mission successful?”

A question so blatant that I waited to see when it would come out.

Seong Jae-young answered the question with a calm face.

“Yes.”

“Oh! Indeed, the hero of the country’s salvation is―”

It’s hell.

Seong Jae-young held his younger brother’s hand tightly and calmed his expression.

As I looked at the officer who kept comforting me with empty praise, I thought about the leader.

I repeated his words and responded to the officer’s words with laughter.

I feel it again, there was no hell worse than this.

So we will get out of this hell.

Seong Jae-young reported the information he obtained to Vice President Park So-hwan in the office where the officer guided him.

The approximate structure and lifestyle of the Republic of Korea.

The awakened people he saw and their appearances.

Even the small information obtained by joining the first faction called One Mind Salvation Church.

Vice President Park So-hwan listened quietly to his words and patted his shoulder with a satisfied expression.

“Well done. Your Excellency will be happy too.”

In this way, Seong Jae-young was labeled as a first-class citizen.

To be precise, he was reborn as a ‘Nampa agent senior training officer’ by enhancing his experience.

Second-class citizens who have a fairly spacious mansion provided by Daehan and can do whatever they want.

What he had to do in return-

“They’re lying, folks! That part of the broadcast over there is a complete fabrication! I clearly witnessed their hellish daily life with my own eyes!”

Let’s speak loudly to the citizens of Daehan and tell them about the Republic of Korea and Paradise.

“The natural way to join the One Mind Salvation Church is simple. Prepared at the Republic of Korea branch -”

Fulfilling my calling as a ‘senior training officer for Nampa agents’.

With that alone, he was able to enjoy luxuries he could not have imagined when he was a second-class citizen.

However, the day when he smiled did not come.

He faithfully carried out the daily routine assigned by Daehan in the morning and afternoon.

And when night falls –

“I’m telling you, don’t come into my room.”

“Yes, yes― Superintendent.”

He locked himself in his room and did not come out for a long time.

There, Seong Jae-young continued to copy the unforgettable ‘Book of Salvation’.

I carefully wrote down each page and began to implement the leader’s plan.

“Taeyoung, you have to listen carefully to what your brother says.”

I explained the plan to my younger brother until his ears were exhausted.

“I saw with my own eyes the believers who appeared on the broadcast, that is, the pseudo-believers! They were cursing their lives with such unhappy faces! Their broadcast was just propaganda on the surface!”

He went to propaganda events and quietly selected and gathered people.

“My friends will visit the mansion tonight.”

“Yes? Night traffic is prohibited after work hours are over―”

“This has already been approved. Are second-class citizens ignoring my words?”

“Oh, no! Sorry, sorry!”

Their own prayer meeting held secretly every night.

They read the ‘Book of Salvation’ with all their heart and heal their nightmares in Daehan.

But as the number of people increased, the anxiety became more evident.

“Instructor― Sangchan, who works at the instructor’s mansion, has an unusual look in his eyes. If we get caught like this, we are all dead.”

“It’s okay.”

“No, this is not a matter to be taken lightly. There is no guarantee that the new believers will keep the secret. If even one person snitches on this-”

“It’s okay.”

The answer is repeated calmly in response to the warnings of Shindo, who sensed that the atmosphere was going out of the ordinary.

Seong Jae-young only smiled slightly with a very peaceful face.

“School, education officer—! You left your umbrella!”

“Oh, I see.”

A day when the gloomy sky sprinkled heavy showers.

Seong Jae-young smiled at second-place citizen Park Sang-chan, who politely held out his umbrella.

“Oh, are you coming home late today?”

“… … I think so.”

Park Sang-chan asks questions that he wouldn’t normally ask.

He continued to glance sideways at the door, feeling anxious for some reason.

Kwaaang!

At that moment, the door of the mansion breaks down with a loud noise.

“Run it all without leaving a single speck of dust!”

The officer growled loudly like a tiger.

“Yes—!”

The wet military boots crunched and trampled the floor of the mansion noisily.

Soldiers swarmed in and began to search the mansion.

“Senior Education Officer! No, you damn pseudo-bastard!”

Whoa!

A kick that landed squarely in the stomach, breaking the umbrella he was holding.

A strong hand immediately restrained Seong Jae-young’s head as it fell on the floor.

Unable to escape the shock, Seong Jae-young continued to cough, and a burning look came into his eyes.

“We have received a report that irreverent activities are continuing at your house. Is it true?”

“Collok― Collock―”

Oops! Oops!

Before I could answer, a hail of hands clapped.

My head was shaking wildly and blood was dripping onto the floor – my lip was burst.

The officer thrust a document in front of Seong Jae-young, who was unable to come to his senses.

“This is a list of those who participated in your dirty deeds. Is it true?”

“Collok― Collock―”

“Yes. Don’t give an easy answer. I knew everything anyway.”

Whoa!

“Keuuuch―!”

A deep scream comes out as the kick plunges deep into the stomach.

“What are you doing, you bastards! Bring out the little pseudo-bastard first—!”

Pow! Pow! Pow!

“A shameless bastard with no grace, no sense, and no head! How dare you join hands with a pseudo-bastard and stab Daehan in the back?! Desecrating the name of a soldier?!”

A body that naturally curls up like a slug due to constant kicking.

Regardless, the kicking continues like a shower falling outside.

“I want to kill you right now, but I can’t spend it comfortably like this. You won’t die until you beg for death as an example.”

My mind buzzing from the impact of the blow.

In a space where all kinds of noise were mixed together, only the officer’s voice was heard clearly.

“Hyung—! Tonguuu!”

“Of course, I’ll let you watch the young pseudo bastard die. In front of everyone!”

Drag it away!

At the officer’s command, the soldiers began dragging Seong Jae-young and his younger brother.

“I’m proud, Park Sang-chan, No. 1 citizen—!”

I listened to the officer’s voice humming again from behind and soaked in the shower of rain falling in Daehan.

Tap – tap – My mind is becoming faint despite the rain showers that keep hitting me.

The mind that falls into sleep like that –

Whoa whoa!

“ ◦ Ahhh!

It flashed again as the kick struck deeply.

“Everyone, open your eyes and look clearly! All this time, I have deceived Daehan and betrayed the grace of His Excellency Yeon Yeon-cheol.

Before you know it, you can feel the texture of the wooden floor beyond your damp clothes.

Seong Jae-young stared straight ahead with blurry eyes.

Citizens gathered together like clouds without umbrellas even in the face of countless rain showers, as if there was a hole in the sky.

The second-class citizens were looking at themselves blankly with wet faces.

A continuous creaking sound on the wooden platform set up like a guillotine.

“Dare to pollute the soul of our country—”

An officer shouting loudly and circling around himself like a shark.

Seong Jae-young made eye contact with his younger brother, who was looking at him in tears.

Taeyoung Seong nods along with him, shedding tears as he nods his head helplessly.

“Even if you don’t see it that way! I know that there are many people who have been affected by the incitement shown on TV! I’ll let everyone know through this pig who was deceived by that guy!”

Grumble-

The officer grabbed Seong Jae-young’s head as if pulling out his hair and looked around with his glossy eyes.

The bodies of second-class citizens trembling from the unseasonable cold of summer and fear.

“According to the report, you prayed to him so hard every night. Why doesn’t he come to save you?! Huh?!”

Whoa!

A punch to the face, as if to vent one’s anger.

Something hot burst from my nose and seeped through my philtrum and onto my lips.

The harsh taste of iron mixed with the seeping rain shower gave it a strange taste.

“Even after this pseudo-bastard and the younger pseudo-bastard are gone, there are still a lot of guys left to kill! From now on, I will show you what happens to renegades who fall for the crude brainwashing of the cult!”

The officer who shouted to the second-class citizens who are now watching this bloody judgment whispered to Seong Jae-young.

“Come to your senses, you pseudo-believer. It’s starting now, but it won’t be fun if it starts now. Shouldn’t you go and see how your little brother is crying and chasing?”

I got goosebumps just hearing the voice clenching its teeth with how angry it was.

“Why are you shaking now? why? Didn’t that talkative bastard tell you what to do in a situation like this?”

Toad-duk-duk!

As showers continued to fall as if a hole had opened in the sky, the second-class citizens expected a miserable end for the man captured by the officers.

Soon there will be a cruel judgment from the officer, and that man’s younger brother will die a cruel death.

And after everyone hears his brother’s screams, that man will also be torn to pieces.

You can’t avoid that sight, you have to watch it with your own eyes.

… … It’s hell.

A whisper in everyone’s heart.

Toad-duk-duk-

The floor, soggy from the rain, looked like a swamp.

The second-class citizens stared straight ahead with eyes as if they were stuck in the mud.

The only thing in their eyes was resignation and fear.

“… … The religious leader didn’t teach me anything.”

A voice that trembles and laughs softly.

Seong Jae-young, who had become a complete nuisance to everyone, heard a whisper that seemed to be cut off.

“He only said one thing to me.”

“이 개새끼가―!”

“… … Now.”

now.

Paaa!

At that moment, sacred light broke through the gloomy sky.

At the moment when everyone’s eyes naturally squinted –

“… … Salvation will come.”

A very clear whisper rings out.

As the light quietly fades, the closed eyes open again.

─────.

Everyone who looked at the wooden platform that was the judgment table slowly opened their mouths.

Wow!

The huge white door was slowly closing.

A door that suddenly appeared, sprinkling holy light.

thud-!

With the door closed, only the officer was on the wooden platform.

Two cult members who will meet a miserable end against him.

“… … .”

All traces of those two people had already completely disappeared.