episode_0196

Ha Chae-kyung (10) ― Hanmaeum Salvation Church Daehan Branch Salvation Hall, left hallway

“But like I said before, not everyone is like you.”

“… … .”

“Rather, like you said, I am weak, easily frustrated, and easily broken down.”

So those people are desperately needed.

“So it is too harsh to take away their right to hate someone.”

Just like you said that it is harsh to reflect on your mistakes in just one day in the cult leader’s office.

“… … Then why.”

Her question rings softly.

She asked, making eye contact with me once again.

“Why are you telling me this only now? You could have done it before I forgave them in court.”

“Well… … .”

I smiled lightly and stroked her cheek.

“I don’t think Chaekyung, whom I know, would have changed her mind even if I said this?”

“… … .”

“Above all—”

[05%: Happiness for all of us]

Understanding the deficiency where only the truth, not lies, can exist.

There remained true love, not exaggeration and boastfulness.

To me, it’s just a deficiency that needs to be eliminated, but in itself, it’s already a sparkling belief.

Minguk’s mother, who actually embraces the old-fashioned goodness that I dare to mention.

“I understand you like that.”

“… … .”

“And I promised to understand you before those people. We are who we are.”

Yes?

In response to my question, Ha Chae-kyung purses her lips and nods.

I smiled and continued as I looked at her becoming more and more watery.

“So, before you become a crybaby instead of Daehan’s mother, wipe away your tears. The recess is coming to an end soon.”

“… … I’m not a crybaby.”

Ha Chae-kyung grumbles and wipes away her tears with her palm.

“Jeo- Mr. Guwon-”

She seemed to be remembering the question she should have asked me in the first place.

“Yes?”

But she can never ask me that.

“… … No.”

never.

***

It is now night, with a fairly bitter wind hitting the window.

Ha Chae-kyung quietly opened her eyes as she felt a hand gently wrapping around her waist.

Suuu

The breath of Han Gu-won, who is hugging himself and exhaling evenly.

Ha Chae-kyung quietly touched his arm, feeling his warm breath.

It was truly a very happy night.

And as that clear happiness deepens, her face slowly hardens.

In order for this happiness to continue, she has something to check tonight.

Suspicious words that I heard in conversations between female believers that I secretly overheard.

Non-believers, repentance, faith recovery room.

Since she couldn’t bear to ask Han Gu-won those words, she had to go there.

A space where female believers, clearly remembered in my mind, disappeared underground.

‘At the end of the hallway on the left side of the relief hall on the first floor, in the basement.’

Slurp-

She very carefully released Han Gu-won’s hand and stood up from the bed.

Then, he took his underwear and clothes off the floor full of evidence of a violent night.

Suuu

Perhaps because he had moved very cautiously, Han Gu-won still couldn’t wake up.

Phew!

Ha Chae-kyung, who saw his blank face and let out a small smile for a moment, began to quietly leave the bedroom.

Once a second, I stop my hand to close the door and put my delicate feet into the shoes that are placed haphazardly in the shoe rack.

Kii- Yii- Profit-

I closed the front door and walked quietly down the quiet hallway.

Take the central staircase and quickly go down to the first floor.

I walked through the spacious lobby, past the Salvation Hall, which had been filled with worshipers only a few hours ago, and down the hallway on the left.

Past the place where I heard the female believers’ conversation, I went to the basement at the end of the hallway where they disappeared.

Write!

Even though it is clearly inside a building, the stairs have a shallow light source that makes it feel like a cold wind is blowing.

“Huuu―”

Ha Chae-kyung took a deep breath and began to carefully go down the stairs.

Tap- tap- tap-

Strangely, the sound of shoes coming closer and closer to my ears and the white door getting closer and closer.

Ha Chae-kyung carefully placed her hand on the doorknob and read the sentence engraved on the door.

[Nevertheless, you will be saved.]

Nevertheless, salvation.

The more I think about the sentence, the more I feel an uneasy feeling.

Ha Chae-kyung, who looked anxious again, hurriedly pulled the door handle and opened the door.

Good!

The cold wind blowing on her body through the white door and the creepy sounds.

[Black, black, black, mommy! Mom!]

[Please save me – please save me oh – hehehehe!]

[Sorry, leader! Sorry!]

Some people pour out cries and apologies that no one was listening to.

Now, one person who could hear the cries and apologies took a trembling step forward.

The fluorescent lights are so bright that you can only see the surroundings very shallowly, and the structure looks like a prison.

Ha Chae-kyung covered her mouth with both hands and slowly approached the first door.

[Hehehehehe- I was wrong- I was really wrong- This time I was really wrong–]

The sound of someone crying constantly rang out there.

But strangely enough, that cry was very familiar.

And the more she felt that familiarity, the more ominous thoughts that she wished were not true cluttered her mind.

Ha Chae-kyung covered her mouth with her still trembling hand and checked the name plate on the door.

[Parkan’s believer]

“… … Ah.”

A word that I don’t know if it’s a sigh or a cry.

[…] … uh. Now, sister? Are you a sister? Are you a sister?!]

The believers inside the door heard Ha Chae-kyung’s voice and reacted like crazy.

The more I listen to his voice, the more certain my prediction becomes.

[Sister! Now, I’ve really reflected now! I really repented! Please, please save me!]

Because it was the crying voice of a male believer in his twenties that I had heard so many times today.

[Ahhhh! It doesn’t matter if you’re not a sister! Jebaaaal! Please save me! I want to go home, please someone please save me! Black, black, black—!]

Someone’s earnest and sincere plea.

Ha Chae-kyung placed her hand on the doorknob as if by instinct.

Rattling-

My hand, which was shaking more violently than ever, was shaking the doorknob.

She looked at the doorknob with her trembling pupils and cried.

I close my eyes and think about what comes next.

If we open this door, a lot of things may change.

[Keeek!]

[Ahh! No, I’m sorry! I’m sorry! Do not come-! Don’t come! Please, someone—please—!]

Someone was desperately hoping for a helping hand.

‘That’s why people followed you. ‘You looked to the side at a moment when it was too difficult to take care of yourself.’

At the same time, that person’s voice filled her head.

[Don’t come! Long live the leader! Long live the leader! Long live the leader!]

She bit her lip until it bled and pressed against the doorknob.

Good!

***

Tap! Tap!

I tapped my fingers on the table, trying to estimate how long she had left the room.

Tap! Tap!

20 minutes? 30 minutes?

In any case, it was enough time for her to check the faith recovery room.

Today is a day when there is no escort or surveillance at the Daehan branch.

Tap! Tap!

The clear tapping that echoed through the dining table somehow made my pounding heart feel at ease.

Is this why Yeon-cheol never got over this habit?

I let out a laugh and sensed footsteps coming closer and closer to me.

Now the result of my radical persuasion was coming.

Ha Chae-kyung, who had confirmed the faith recovery room and the punishment called repentance, was approaching.

Tap! Tap!

I tapped the table again and asked myself.

Why am I so restless, so unusual for me?

Maybe I’m nervous right now?

Why, what?

Ha Chae-kyung can never give up on me.

No matter what she finds out, she can’t give up on me.

Because that is charity.

Because that is her essence and principle of action.

She would rather fix me than abandon me.

Because that’s the Ha Chae-kyung I’ve seen so far.

Because it was Ha Chae-kyung that I guided.

This is after enough time has already been devoted to Ha Chae-kyung.

There are still too many things going on in Salvation Church to spend more time persuading her.

Through this, Ha Chae-kyung learns the other side of the Salvation Church that I had been hiding, and I get rid of the bomb that will lead to her unexpected actions.

There is no clearer win-win for both sides.

From now on, all I have to do is to leisurely change Ha Chae-kyung’s shortcomings, which were half-resigned.

Like autumn.

But why?

Tap! Tap!

Am I tapping my fingers on the table?

Wow!

A noise that quietly enters a space where only the sound of banging on the table was loud.

When I checked the door, I saw Ha Chae-kyung approaching me with unsteady steps.

“… … You.”

A sad tone that is not like her.

I also got up from my seat and approached Ha Chae-kyung, who was staggering towards me.

Ha Chae-kyung suddenly stops within close range of each other.

Grumble!

Ha Chae-kyung ripped the neck of the school leader’s uniform as if grabbing the collar with her trembling hands.

“It wasn’t just heavy… … .”

“… … .”

“… … Your painting was scary rather than heavy.”

At fairs and on trains.

We were talking about the picture of happiness.

“I saw it.”

Her body trembles more violently at my whisper.

Knock knock!

A grip that grabs the leader’s uniform as if it were to be torn apart.

She slowly raised her head and saw red blood stains on her lips leading to her chin.

“When I went down the stairs, I heard a sound. The sound of people crying. The sound of pleading for a mistake. The sound of begging to go home.”

and… … .

“Even the zombie sound… … .”

Ha Chae-kyung asked me with eyes already filled with moisture.

“Is that the whip you were talking about? Is it a process of releasing anger?”

Grumble!

A hand desperately grabbed me as I was about to look her in the eyes and nod my head.

“… … please. Please say no. Please―”

“… … .”

However, I moved my head again after stopping for a moment.

Her eyes turn bitterly cold as she looks at her head nodding briefly as if in affirmation.

“… … Garbage.”

“… … .”

“Cult leader! dissembler! What are you better than burning iron! this-! Hey—!”

He looks at me with more hate than when I first saw him.

“… … How could you do that? How could you say something like that and do something like that… … .”

“… … .”

“… … You were more evil than I thought when I first saw you… … . He’s such a scum of a devil… … .”

He pours out curses in a trembling voice.

The tears that had already formed in my eyes filled with anger began to flow.

The beautiful tears flowing down my cheeks pool at the tip of my chin and drop.

Then, it mixes with the red blood that was already on the tip of his chin and drips down.

“But… … .”

Her sharp expression slowly crumbles along with her slightly trembling voice.

“… … I am no different from you.”

The grip that was holding the leader’s uniform was gradually fading away.

“He definitely asked me to save him… … I asked for help… … .”

“Still… … That can’t be… … I just couldn’t do that… … .”

Her voice crying as she looked up at me.

Ha Chae-kyung continued speaking with trembling lips.

“If you don’t look… … You don’t know anything… … .”

“If I don’t see it… … Guwon is still the Guwon that I have seen.”

She slowly placed her forehead on my chest and trembled and whispered.

“I need to understand you before those people,”

“We are who we are… … .”

“You said so… … . Ugh—!”

Eventually, she dropped something and started crying.

“Black—! sorry… .”

A damp feel can be clearly felt on the teacher’s uniform.

She continued to bury her face in her chest and began muttering an apology to no one.

“Black—! sorry… . I’m so sorry… .”

I looked down at the top of her trembling head with a somewhat dazed expression.

Ha Chae-kyung did not forgive me or try to fix me.

No, she did not open the door to the faith recovery room in the first place.

“Black—! sorry… … I’m really sorry… . Black—!”

He closed his briefly quivering lips and carefully placed his hand on her head.

A warm yellow light blooms quietly on Ha Chae-kyung’s whole body as she cries for a long time.

The yellow light was slowly turning into white light.

[We discover the seed of an ‘apostle’ in ‘Ha Chae-kyung’, a prospective member of One Mind Salvation Church!]

[The first prospective apostle of the One Mind Salvation Church has been born!]

[You have achieved the special achievement ‘First Agent’!]

[Exclusive job and skills will be passed down to the first prospective apostle ‘Ha Chae-kyung’!]

[The seed given to ‘Ha Chae-kyung’ as an apostle is ‘charity.’]

[05%: Happiness for all of us (compassion)]

[Converting… … .]

[Happiness of all of us (benevolence) -> Happiness of one person (favoritism)]

Ha Chae-kyung

END.