episode_0353

The experience of being held in someone else’s arms and running across roofs and walls as if on flat ground was dizzying in many ways.

No, does this child not feel fear?

If you do this and accidentally trip or land incorrectly, you won’t end up with a moderate injury.

“It looks like it has arrived.”

That was probably why my legs started shaking uncontrollably the moment I got out of Suhyeon’s arms and landed on the ground with those words.

“I arrived, but would you please hide behind this corner for now?”

Hiding behind the corner.

why?

“If Karin knows that the teacher is here, she might not come out and endure.”

What does that mean again?

“Didn’t you say the opposite incorrectly?”

“There are some circumstances. I would appreciate it if you could follow along.”

Words that arouse suspicion in one way or another.

Thanks to this, the eyes looking at Suhyeon naturally narrowed, but the other person didn’t seem to care at all.

‘I couldn’t believe I lied…’

Because of that, I even had that thought for a moment, but I quickly denied it by shaking my head.

Considering common sense, the possibility of that happening was very low.

It is true that Su-hyeon was superior to humans in terms of helplessness, but the contents written in the letter he delivered had nothing to do with that and were contents that only Karin could know.

So, it is correct that the letter was written by Karin herself.

‘And what more…’

In her opinion, there was no reason for Su-hyeon to lie to her.

In the first place, lying is something done to gain something by deceiving the other person, but if you think about it, Su-hyeon did not have anything additional to gain by acting that way.

He is already in a situation where he can take her body as much as he wants, so of course he can do that.

It’s like you can’t control a student and have to give up your body to appease him.

It’s humiliating and disgraceful, but what can you do?

There is no other way to stop Soo-hyeon’s rampage right now.

It must have been a moment when I felt the tree of thought stretching out its branches like that, and as Su-hyeon said, I was quietly hiding behind a corner that exists everywhere.

After taking the time to carefully check to see if there was anything dangerous around her, Su-hyeon took long strides and left the alley.

And then…

“Hey! Karin! Are there any?”

I started shouting towards the front line.

“I have something to tell you, so if you’re listening, come out!”

How long has it been since that cry?

The sound of someone approaching came into the alley where she was hiding.

“What happened suddenly?”

It was right after that that a voice that I had never forgotten even after the world had turned into this way flowed into my ears.

My brother’s voice.

The moment it occupied her ear, she reflexively reached towards the wall and touched it with her hand.

It felt like my legs were going to lose strength.

‘really···.’

You were alive…

He was alive…

I thought he was dead.

No, I thought he was dead.

She was somehow able to save her life thanks to Su-hyeon being nearby, but it was impossible for her younger brother to have such luck.

There… the world, which had become strangely distorted, was too rough for a woman’s body to navigate.

Even if it were an ordinary woman, it would be like that, but I thought that her younger brother, who only looked good and was very clumsy in his actions, would not have been able to endure it… but he was alive.

The conversation between the two continued even as I was biting my lower lip, feeling something unbearably hot rising from inside my stomach.

“What’s going on, does it really have to be on business?”

“That’s not true… Ah, that’s right. What about the letter? Did you tell your sister well?”

“Of course.”

As expected, the letter was indeed written by Karin…

“Thank goodness…”

A voice that seems relieved.

As she felt her jaw tightening, Karin opened her mouth as if she had just thought of something.

“So?”

“Huh?”

“What did your sister say?”

Didn’t you come here in person to deliver that?

Suhyeon scratched his cheek at the sound of Karin’s voice that seemed to say just that.

“Are you that curious about that?”

“Of course!”

“Then how about hearing it from yourself?”

“···What?”

“I think we’ve had enough of hide and seek, so come out now. Teacher.”

I took those words as a signal and went out of the corner I was using to hide.

As soon as I got to the side of Su-hyeon, who was talking to Karin, what I saw…

‘···?’

It was my younger brother’s face, hiding his features with a hood pulled down tightly.

That’s why I couldn’t help but have a question mark in my head.

If she remembered correctly, her younger brother didn’t really like wearing hoods or hats like that.

This was because my head was the type that was easily compressed and floated, so once I put on something like a hood like that, my head ended up looking like a ghost.

But, with the hood pressed down like that…

Why is it turned back there?

To check it out, I took a long step towards my younger brother, who was standing slightly away.

“Karin…?”

At the same time, I thought why on earth I was doing this and called my younger brother’s name…

It was counterproductive.

“Sorry, sister, I have some work to do… I’ll leave for today.”

The call must have been decisive, because her younger brother tried to run away from her sight.

It may have been obvious, but I couldn’t let it happen.

This is the younger brother I never thought would be alive.

I met my younger brother again, and I couldn’t part ways without seeing his face at least once.

Is it because such thoughts have taken over my head and even my body?

When I came to my senses, I found myself reaching out my hand towards Karin, who had turned around.

Who did that?

It is said that if you are earnest, you will reach the sky.

As he said, Karin was able to snatch her younger brother’s hand before he left.

After preventing my younger brother from leaving, I quickly moved my body and stood in front of Karin…

‘···?’

The sight I could see underneath the tightly pressed hood was somehow strange.

That was actually why I stretched out my free hand towards Karin’s face.

Maybe I didn’t like this person’s behavior?

As soon as she reached out, Karin tried to avoid the touch by turning her head to the side… but there was a limit to just moving her head in place.

So, the moment the hood that was covering her sister’s face was finally lifted… she naturally realized.

The reason why my younger brother showed up wearing a hood that he had never touched in his entire life…

Also… I learned the whole reason why Su-hyeon said that it would be better to hide for now because Karin would not show herself if she knew she was there…

“Karin, your face…”

Faces that remain in memory and faces that do not.

The moment I saw my younger brother’s face, which looked exactly like half of them mixed together, I was able to get a rough idea of it.

What happened to her younger sister while she was enjoying a relatively peaceful time under Su-hyeon’s protection?

“Uh, sister…”

And at the same time, I decided.

I don’t know if it’s the aftermath of revealing something I’ve been trying to hide my whole life, but I’m determined to somehow get my younger brother, who is crying a little, back to normal.

He literally said that he would do whatever it took to heal his younger brother’s body.

And… I decided that, if possible, I would find the people who made my younger brother look like this and take revenge on them.

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‘This is so…’

I’m not a very sentimental person, but I’m crying.

I don’t think it felt like this when Reiko and Reina reunited.

Looking at it this way, it seems like being rich isn’t necessarily a good thing…

As I was thinking this to myself and being wary of the presence of zombies that might appear… Is the hearing(?) finally over?

I don’t know if it was the aftermath of her crying in her sister’s arms, telling her to leave the alley, but Karen, whose nose was the color of strawberries in season and sniffling, had sat her down and returned to my side.

“So, have you said everything you need to say?”

“···.”

Well… if you ask, they’ll give you a simple answer, but it’s embarrassing.

Well, not being obedient like this makes Karen, a woman, even more disgusting.

It must have been a moment when I was nodding my head, thinking that to myself.

Karen looked at me blankly, biting her lip without saying a word…

dump···!

“Teacher…?”

He knelt down in front of me.

“···Help me.”

And then… Isn’t it just hanging on to my leg?

“Please help me, no, Karin. Anything… I’ll do anything…”