episode_0352

Soohyun, who had been gone for almost a month, reappeared and I thought a lot about it for just three days, which can be considered long and short.

I wanted to go see my younger sister Karin right away, but I had no choice but to do so.

From her point of view, there was nothing she could do… because she knew that having been thrown into the jungle called society at a relatively young age, she had now become a perfect member of society.

There is no such thing as unpaid favor in this world.

Especially if it is a favor given by a man to a woman… it goes without saying.

‘If anything, they are intuitive…’

This time, the kindness that Suhyun showed her was somewhat unclear.

If I were to express it another way, I would say that I can’t guess the intention behind it.

In fact, in Soo-hyeon’s case, there was no reason to show her favor.

Basically, the reason a man shows favor to a woman is to gain the other person’s favor, but Su-hyeon was already able to freely take her body.

Instead of forcing his hands on other students’ bodies, didn’t she and Yukiko, the literature teacher, decide to resolve, or rather deal with, his sexual desires?

But is there really any need to try to gain this side’s favor?

If I agree, wouldn’t it be enough to just demand that the promise be fulfilled?

Nevertheless, Su-hyeon showed her considerable favor.

Even though she never asked for anything, he not only saved her younger sister, Karin, from danger, but also personally delivered the letter her younger sister had written.

This is only if everything written in the letter is true, but in that case, Su-hyeon becomes Karin’s lifesaver… At that level, it goes beyond the level of favor and it would be correct to call it grace.

‘That’s why I don’t understand it any more…’

Of course, what about the child named Su-hyeon that she has seen so far?

To put it in a good way, the person was honest, and in a bad way, he was very faithful to his desires.

To what extent can we say that he is faithful to the point where he is willing to use violence to satisfy his desires?

I can’t believe a child like that would act like this…

Perhaps because the number of people he spends time with has increased significantly, he has started managing his image in his own way.

At first, I thought that might be the case… but then I shook my head.

Since she only started managing her image now, the images Su-hyeon showed afterwards were not much different from the ones that remained in her memory.

If image management is not the goal, then what is the idea?

A whim in a moment?

‘···That is unlikely.’

As mentioned earlier, Suhyeon was very faithful to her desires, but she was not capricious.

Rather… I think it’s closer to being a bit stubborn.

So, rather than a momentary whim, there must be some kind of intention…

The problem was that I couldn’t figure out what it was.

There were more questions than that.

It appears to be a letter written by Karin herself. Even so, why were Karin and the ‘colleagues’ she mentioned in the letter not included in the group?

why?

‘I feel like I want to visit Karin by myself…’

Unfortunately, it was close to impossible in reality.

Apart from being faithful to her desires, thanks to Soo-hyeon’s strong performance that makes you wonder if she is really a human being like her, the academy she is currently in has been reborn as a clean zone with zero zombies, but this is only limited to the academy, and there are still zombies outside the academy. Because it was swarming with them.

That’s not all.

It was clear that there were survivors everywhere who had lost their appearance as members of society and turned into ferocious people because they had to survive among the zombies.

But in such a situation, she leaves the academy alone and moves?

In fact, it was tantamount to suicide.

No, if you kill yourself, you can die cleanly. If you are caught by zombies, you will struggle in pain as your body is torn apart alive, and then you will be reborn as one of them. If you are caught by a survivor… Su-hyeon, what happened to that child. There was no doubt that he would suffer even more humiliation.

And that too… for the rest of his life, until he dies naturally.

That’s why my instinct kept urging me to meet Karin even now, but I held back and focused on understanding Suhyeon’s intentions.

I don’t know what Soo-hyeon’s intention was for doing something he didn’t do, but if I could pinpoint that part, it might be possible to get that kid’s help at a relatively small cost.

However, even though I stayed up all night and thought about it over and over again, I thought, ‘This is it…!’ I couldn’t think of anything I wanted to do… I thought I shouldn’t delay any longer, so I went to Su-hyeon and stood in front of the child.

And then…

“Teacher? What is the teacher doing here…? Isn’t this the time to be guarding the ward?”

“That…”

I don’t know if it was a fake expression or if it was sincere, but he opened his mouth to Suhyeon, who was sitting with a puzzled expression.

“···I have a favor to ask.”

Of course, it was easier said than done.

Tens of thousands of thoughts ran through my head until I forced my upper and lower lips, which had been glued together, apart, and blurted out those words through them.

Starting with the basic question of whether this is really the right choice, and wondering if there might be another way that I just haven’t found yet, I racked my brain with meaningless assumptions like crazy… but the conclusion I came to at the end was the first. And there was nothing else.

“Please? To me?”

“···Yes.”

“Hmm… I’m just having fun with nothing to do anyway, so it doesn’t matter… Is it okay?”

Are you okay?

What did that mean?

I soon found out.

That’s because Soohyun revealed it with her own words.

“You may already know this, but even so, I am quite a high-level person. The price you have to pay must be considerable…”

“It doesn’t matter.”

Even if I didn’t know anything else, I was able to say that one word without hesitation.

In her opinion, no matter what Soohyun asked in return for this favor, Karin was the only one who failed in the end.

To her, her younger sister Karin was that kind of person.

My younger brother has no real memories with his parents because he lost them at an unknown age.

That’s why I feel even more sorry for my little brother and want to cherish him.

If only I could see with my own eyes that Karin was safe… no matter what I paid, it wouldn’t be a waste at all.

Those feelings were completely melted into her voice, but perhaps Suhyeon also felt it subconsciously?

Su-hyeon, who was sitting cross-legged on the edge of the bed with a sad expression, patted her knees and stood up.

“Well, if you answer that clearly… I understand. I don’t know what you’re asking me to do, but I’ll cooperate for now.”

“···Actually, you already know.”

“Yes?”

“What am I asking you to do?”

“Me?”

“Wasn’t that why you gave me the letter Karin wrote in the first place?”

Was it an undeniable conclusion?

As soon as it hit the center, Suhyun slightly opened her mouth.

The sound of ‘Ah’, which gave off a contrived feeling to anyone who heard it, was a bonus.

“So, teacher…you miss your younger brother.”

“···Yes.”

“Ah, then you should have said that a long time ago. Since you talk without mentioning things like subjects, I can’t help but misunderstand that it’s something else.”

“···?”

Words whose English is unknown.

It must have been a moment when he couldn’t get the question mark off his face, even though he knew there was nothing good about it.

“I’ll take you to where your brother is. Oh, by the way, there is no need for a fee.”

No need for compensation…?

“It’s not that far from here anyway, and I’m not that kind of person to ask for compensation for something like that.”

“···Are you serious?”

“If you find it hard to believe, shall we withdraw now?”

“···.”

I couldn’t bear to say yes.

That’s because it was such a bad story for her.

“Don’t change your words later.”

“Ah, isn’t that so.”

Why is he suddenly being so generous?

Considering that the group he leads has grown significantly larger than before, has he decided to act like a generous ruler for a while?

I still couldn’t guess Su-hyeon’s intentions.

The more I dug into it, the more the number of question marks in my head grew… but I had no intention of rejecting this story.

“Then… shall we leave right now?”

“Right now?”

“Yes, like I said just now, it’s not that far away. Let’s see if we leave now… It will take about an hour or two.”

If it takes two hours… it means that it would take about two hours if you run by foot instead of by car.

Although it was quite a distance away from what I said it was close to, it was definitely closer than Tokyo, where Karin had been before.

“Good.”

So, after thinking about it, I nodded… but after being held in Suhyeon’s arms and moving for nearly two hours, I realized the moment I arrived at the neighborhood where Karin and her colleagues had settled down.

Why didn’t Soo-hyeon demand compensation from her in this case?

“Karin, your face…”

“Uh, sister…”