86. Leisurely (1)

After crossing the gate, as always, another place was waiting.

“Hey, are you all right?”

The living room of my house.

Joohyun, who was sitting on the sofa, pursed her lips and crossed her arms.

“What about Mihyeon?”

“I went home a long time ago.”

“Is that so?”

Everyone was safe.

To be honest, I was a little worried, but I was relieved.

“Yu Yeo-han is over there.”

I saw Yoo Yeo-han hurriedly eating bread at the kitchen table.

I wondered if there was nothing but bread in this house.

Rather than that, why are you eating now?

There’s no way I’m still eating.

“They told me to feed them first.”

“It was late because I was washing, giving clothes, and doing various things.”

“Yeah well, good job. Good job.”

It was true that you worked hard, so they praised you.

“What is that?”

Joo Hyun-ah immediately asked if he had heard the praise or not.

“What do you mean by a person?”

“Answer me.”

“Isn’t that obvious? It’s a secret.”

“Tsk, I guess so.”

As if Joo Hyun-ah expected it, he made a sarcastic remark.

“But even considering that, it’s strange, isn’t it?”

“… What?”

“What is it?”

“·······.”

“How much do you know?”

I thought that someday this kind of question would come to me.

But I didn’t know it was Joo Hyun Ah.

······No, did you ask because it was Joo Hyun-ah?

Other kids wouldn’t have asked even if they had a question. Will take care of me

I asked Joohyun baby, who has nothing like that.

“Well, I won’t ask any more because I won’t tell you anyway. Instead.”

Joo Hyun-ah now crosses her legs and says.

“Answer this. Why is he here?”

The gaze was directed directly behind me.

Following that line of sight, there was talk of gossip.

“Sure.”

Yoo Yeo-han intends to let her live here.

But it is not an oral narrative.

“Do you have a place to live?”

“No… De…”

Gu Seol-hwa looks at me with a slightly expectant look.

“I can’t help it.”

Having no place to live is a big deal.

“I must be homeless.”

“Huh?”

“Fighting.”

I took out two loaves of bread and handed them out to drive away the gossip.

“A heartless bastard.”

“Then take care of it.”

“Why me? You’re a bastard who betrayed the captain.”

“What are you saying to me?”

Juhyeonah shrugged her shoulders.

I really wanted to hit him once.

I have to be patient.

“Where did the other kids go?”

“I heard everyone is sleeping.”

“Really?”

Come to think of it, I saw everyone collapsed right before going to the lab.

How long are you planning on staying up all night? To be worried

It’s only now that I understand the feelings of my parents who used to nag me when I grew up early every day.

“I miss you, mom.”

I want to see it, but now I can’t see it even if I go back to the original world.

Because he passed away.

That’s probably why I have no attachments to that world.

After licking my lips bitterly, I headed to the table where Yoo Yeo-han was sitting.

“Can you adjust to the jet lag?”

“It is difficult.”

“Is the bread delicious?”

“It is delicious.”

“I wanted to serve you something more delicious, but something urgent happened. Sorry.”

“Enough.”

“How are you feeling?”

“It’s okay.”

A continuous four-letter answer.

It’s proof that you don’t trust me yet.

If you think of what Yoo Yeo-han has been through… Well, is it worth it?

“Yeo Han-ah.”

“Yes.”

“Don’t you believe me?”

“Yes.”

“Then you don’t have to believe it.”

“·······?”

“I live here instead. You can live and leave when you feel like it will be okay.”

Yoo Yeo-han puts down the bread and looks at me.

Then he asked.

“Why are you nice to me?”

“Umm…”

Yoo Yeo-han doesn’t have the ability to tell lies like Seo Na-ra or Shin Yeo-eun.

So she was tricked and turned into a test subject.

Because you’ve been beaten once, you’ll be constantly suspicious now. Whether it be others or yourself.

I will try not to be fooled anymore.

“No big deal.”

So rather than saying obvious things, I tell my sincerity.

“There’s something I need to do, and I need your help. That’s why you’re doing well.”

Trust me.

“I will think about it.”

Of course, it will be difficult to buy trust right away.

It’s the first time we met today, and I’m full of suspicious things even to myself.

“It’s okay to think slowly.”

The remaining time is half a year.

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Will that time be short, or will it be sufficient?

I don’t know now.

I hope the results are good.

“Aww, cringe.”

“·······.”

First of all, it was clear that Joo Hyun-ah hated me.

***

It was a normal day.

I was sick as usual and hungry as usual.

‘It’s strange.’

I’m sure ‘usually’ meant something similar to ‘normal’.

Yoo Yeo-han seemed a little different from usual.

‘Even the same word is so relative.’

Yoo Yeo-han leaned against the wall without strength.

Lab rats spend their entire lives in a glass box from the moment they are caught. The only way out is death.

Among them, Yoo Yeo-han was a rat who was not even allowed to die.

“I am hungry…”

“Ugh…”

Moans came from everywhere.

Some people haven’t eaten for several days, and some people are severely beaten today.

I thought this was all an experiment.

I think he said he was trying to find out if the threat of life is helpful for awakening abilities or something like that.

Fortunately, I haven’t taken any strange medicines lately, so I’m comfortable.

Yoo Yeo-han looked out the window.

Yoo Yeo-han likes to sit by the window. The reason is that I can get the moonlight.

They are taken before sunrise every day and returned after sunset.

In a word, there is no time to see sunlight.

So I relied more on moonlight.

The faint light coming through this small window was the only way to prove that he was alive.

Clumsy.

Just then, a strange sound came from the direction of the door.

The sound of something breaking.

‘What else?’

Are you a researcher?

It’s bedtime now, but there was nothing strange about it.

I’m used to being dragged along even during bedtime.

‘At least it will be me. Because I’m the strongest.’

Yoo Yeo-han is the longest-lived test subject.

She’s been through a lot, and even though she was sick to death, she didn’t die.

It is natural to use relatively healthy mice in this place where most of the diseased mice are.

Yoo Yeo-han moved her gaze back to her window.

Seeing as you’re coming at this hour, it must be urgent.

If I’m taken this time, I don’t know when I’ll be able to see the outside again. It should be left out as much as possible.

As I was doing that, someone approached me and started talking to me.

“Relax.”

It was the first time I saw it. There was someone else behind.

I thought it was a new researcher, but neither of them were wearing research uniforms.

So I asked.

Are you a researcher?

“I won’t be able to sleep tonight.”

After the question, he even spat out a bit of lamentation.

In fact, I was half-sure of their identity.

Researchers’ violence is only an experiment, not a way to vent their anger, so a reasonable complaint will go unnoticed by them.

But the man’s answer was negative.

“Let’s get out of here.”

The man said he doesn’t do experiments.

Of course I didn’t believe it.

This time, I thought it would be a psychological experiment.

Let’s get along well.

“I am hungry.”

“Then we should eat first.”

Yoo Yeo-han grabbed the man’s hand.

Strangely warm hands.

It was comfortable, but also unpleasant because it felt like something was being denied.

The woman who was with him asked the man about the safety of the other test subjects.

The man replied later.

At that moment, Yoo Yeo-han was convinced again.

As expected, this is an experiment.

So I wondered if I should go this far when exchanging radio calls with someone.

“·······.”

I thought the same thing when I was carried around a man’s waist.

A siren sounded along the way.

“·······?”

Still, isn’t it too much to sound the alarm?

It felt like my head wasn’t working properly.

Kwaaang!!

“·······??”

Then, when the wall was broken, the accident stopped altogether.

I wanted to know what I saw, but I was so shocked that I couldn’t even make a face.

My mind was still blank as I walked through the hole.

······This wasn’t an experiment.

I guess I escaped.

Outside the first lab.

It smelled of the sea and the grass was fresh.

Yeohan Yu raised her head and looked at the sky.

The moonlight I saw properly after 5 years was brighter than I thought.

Unknown emotions rose and fell.

There is no pure goodwill in the world.

Just as this was the place that my adoptive parents brought me to with a smile five years ago, that man must have been saved for a purpose.

I can’t believe it.

“Is that him?”

“Yes.”

While I was thinking about that, another woman with orange hair appeared.

The two had a conversation at a distance.

I couldn’t hear what he was saying because he talked even in small whispers.

I wasn’t even curious about it in the first place.

But the orange-haired woman suddenly started to get angry.

“Are you crazy?!”

“Why are you doing this to me?”

Yoo Yeo-han watched the scene blankly.

Our eyes met for a moment.

“······Yes~ This is an order from our handsome Lee Yoo-hyeon, so we have to do as he is told.”

The orange-haired woman who had been saying that approached.

“What is your name?”

“It is leisurely.”

“My name is Joo Hyun-ah. Can I ask you a question?”

Yoo Yeo-han nodded her head.

I’m used to being asked questions.

“Are you acquainted with the man you saved?”

Yoo Yeo-han shook his head.

Knowing each other is a face you don’t know at all.

“Isn’t that right?”

Joo Hyun-ah clenched her tongue as if annoyed and gestured to the air.

Then a small-sized portal opened.

“Hu, let’s go.”

“Where are you going?”

“My house.”

That’s how I followed Joo Hyun-ah.

It was a wonderful experience. After crossing the thin portal, she changed her location in an instant.

“·······.”

The changed location was really home.

Not dirty, not cold, not cramped.

Just a warm house.

What existed only in my imagination was right in front of my eyes.

“Hey, where are you going?”

Yoo Yeo-han walked forward.

A large window located to the right of the living room.

I stood in front of him.

“It is daytime here.”

“·······Ah, come to think of it, it was night there, right?”

The first time you left the lab and saw the full moon.

Yoo Yeo-han thought that there could be nothing more beautiful than this.

There was.

It was brighter than the moon, brighter than the moon, and warmer than the moon.

“·······It is sunlight.”

She is so bright that I dare not look at her, but even without looking at her, her sun is already shining on her.

Then I realized.

How miserable her own life was.

It is said that too bright light blinds people.

It was just like that.

The life that passed without even being able to enjoy the sunlight was now painful.

It was unfair.

I thought these feelings had blunted.

I just forgot about it for a while.

“Why are you nice to me?”

There is no pure goodwill in the world.

After seeing the sunlight, this thought became stronger.

Lee Yoo-hyeon, who gave Yoo Yeo-han something to eat and put her to sleep, was just suspicious.

So I asked that question.

“No big deal.”

Yoohyeon Lee’s answer was honest.

“I have a problem to solve, and then I need you.”

Yoo Yeo-han was confused by the answer.

“That’s why they do it well.”

What can I say about Yoohyeon Lee?

He is like an ‘early morning’ person.

Early morning is when the sun finally rises.

It is said that the sun at that time is not burdensome even with the naked eye.

This overly candid person was like the early morning sun that Yoo Yeo-han couldn’t even remember.

Clearly, it was not dazzling even in bright light.

It wasn’t even miserable.

I don’t know why. It just was.

That’s why I was more careful.

In order not to be fooled by that light.

‘Let’s never believe it.’

And that resolution collapsed exactly one month later.

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