Chapter 105
105 fury
The eleventh ghost story -
A friend no one remembers (18)
“Jinhee?”
The wooden door of the locker room slowly opens and someone sticks out their head..
Big eyes on a skinny face.
Everyone's friend Kim Eun-jung.
“Wow, it’s been a while. why did you come?”
The tone of voice is as if he were asking why he followed me to the bathroom..
Jinhee answered in a low voice, hiding her nervousness..
“···To stop you.”
“what?”
A bright smiling face.
“What are you blocking??”
“…Killing people like this.”
“What's wrong with that?.”
Eun-jeong is hanging on the door, staring intently at Jin-hee, and the hinges make a creaking sound under her weight..
“People usually die.”
“···Still, you shouldn't kill him first. So……
Jinhee raises her chin towards her friend..
Stuttering, trying to find something to say.
“···You shouldn't kill someone earlier than their original lifespan..”
“ oh~’,
After hearing her friend's clumsy answer, Eun-jeong hung on the door as if playing a joke and giggled as if it was funny..
“I came here suddenly to say that.?”
“Actually, I don't really care. I'm just doing what I want.”
Jinhee, who was looking for something to say in front of her giggling friend, stutters again..
“···That doesn't work either.”
“what?”
“…Doing whatever you want.”
Jinhee moistens her dry lips with her tongue.
I twitch my lips a few times and barely form a sentence..
“…People catch it. A person who does whatever he wants.”
“what‘?”
Eun-jeong looks dumbfounded..
“I don't understand. What do you mean by suddenly visiting me??”
“···To stop what you're doing-”
“6It's been a year since we met, but don't you wonder how I lived? Don't even say hello?”
Only then did Jinhee awkwardly raise her hand..
“···long time no see.”
“huh~”
Eun-jeong accepts the greeting as if passing it by..
Jinhee hesitates again and continues what she was trying to say..
“···I came to stop you because you said you were going to kill people..”
“You don’t have to stop me. are you okay. Stop and go.”
“···I'll stop you.”
“Hey, kidding.?”
Eunjeong opens her eyes wide and raises her voice..
“I want you to be that kind of person?”
“Are you calling me a psychopath? I killed all the people I was told to kill, but why are you doing this again??”
Unlike the strange yet immature side of me when I was young, my current self is full of venom..
But Jinhee does not give in and clenches her fists..
“…sorry. I thought wrong. You shouldn't do that..”
“But Jinhee, you do whatever you want and live your life..”
Eunjeong sticks out her mouth.
“You come to school when you want and take classes as you please..”
“···You must be mistaken. I don't live like that now.”
“really?”
Eunjeong put her face close to the crack in the door, as if she had finally become a little interested..
“Then how are you living??”
“···I make money while working and don't miss school..”
“omg. lie~”
“···It's true.”
Jinhee nods her head again to Eunjeong, who opens her eyes wide as if asking if it's true..
“It's true. That's how I live.”
“…why live like that?”
Eunjeong tilted her head and asked as if she didn't understand..
“It wasn't like that in the past. You lived your life doing whatever you wanted..”
“···Remember the kids I hung out with back then??”
“you princesses?”
giggle.
“Of course I remember.”
“…There's a cell in there. I live my life doing whatever I want.”
“People catch it. A person who lives according to his own will... A person who cannot suppress his nature……
“Everyone lives like that. While suppressing……
Eun- jeong, who was quietly looking at Jin-hee with a slightly stiff expression, soon narrows her eyes and sticks out her tongue..
“Yeah, don't be fooled. You’re a bitch~ Jinhee is a liar~.”
“I've known it since they kicked me out of school for making up things that didn't exist.!”
“···I was deceived. Yes, I was deceived. I didn't know……
Jinhee's tightly clenched hands become wet with sweat..
“That, and the Eucharistic……
Lady, what did Lee Joon say?.
Was it identity?.
Her mind becomes complicated.
“···Are you experiencing identity confusion? Who are you, my friend?.”
Eunjeong’s hand covers her lips as if she’s laughing..
“What~ really.”
“Go see. Jinhee, I will save you.”
Jinhee stood still with a stern expression..
Feeling like the situation might end like this, I hurriedly take a step closer and try to say something..
“Is it because you don't know who you are? That's why I keep doing this?”
“Nope. i know who i am.”
Eunjeong sticks her head out and a playful smile appears on her lips..
“Eunjeong Ji-rong came back to kill all the kids who thought they were normal..”
“Go quickly. I really change my mind.”
Eunjeong points towards the entrance with a knife.
Jinhee's tightly held hands are shaking from tension..
“···Let's talk for a moment-”
“oh! I think I heard a voice whispering to me somewhere.!”
Jin-hee suddenly cuts off, and Eun-jeong looks into space and looks around as if she were playing a play..
“Who else is going to curse at me? Someone is criticizing me again. Hey, you're cool?
are you normal?”
Suddenly, a man is pointed out in front of Eun-jeong's finger..
A man leaning against a wall barely breathing after being stabbed in the neck..
Judging by his black uniform, he seems to be the manager of this place..
“Hey, did you just curse at me? I knew it would be like this, really. I can’t stop the bastards. I mean~ What did you do? Hey, you're worse. You're the worse one. know?”
Even when talking jokingly, the look in his eyes changes every moment..
“Okay? Is it because you don’t know? How can this happen?.”
Eun-jeong glares at the man who is just breathing..
“you are bad.”
“···Stop it.!”
Eun-jeong suddenly tries to rush in, but Jin-hee quickly stops her..
“Well, he didn't say anything.!”
“What are you saying?.”
Then, Eun-jeong turns her head so hard that she makes a noise and looks at Jin-hee..
His eyes widen for a moment, but then he looks back at the fallen corpses and mutters..
“Like this, I killed it. I. They're swearing at me and harassing me. You know this. It's self-defense. If you are guilty, you can die. Instead of the judge, I handed down the death penalty..”
“Who? Check it out. Actually, I asked because I didn't know. If you don’t know, why are you arguing? Really, people are funny. Do you think it's me? “You don’t know why, so you heck and heck as you please.” Then suddenly Eunjeong looks at Jinhee and smiles brightly..
“Oh, Jinhee. Long time no see.”
“6Has it been a year? It's been a really long time.”
“how have you been doing?”
O in full bloom in the stupid nasolabial folds.
Jinhee looked at those big eyes for a moment, then took a deep breath and bit her lip..
“Oh, but I didn't do it, but they keep pushing me. It was very unfair. But what should I do? After being alone like this~ Jinhee suddenly appeared as my partner. Yes, teacher. These days, I'm playing with Jinhee. Jinhee takes me to many fun places and plays with me. “No one really played with me, but Jinhee treats me really well?” “I watched a clown video yesterday. While diving, he cuts the rope and kills the person. It was very cruel. I wanted to follow along, but Jinhee seemed to dislike it. So I didn’t do it.” “I think I’ll be very bored there. I want to play with Jinhee more. Yes, he is my partner. Teacher, can I not go there? Actually, I don't want to go there. If you go there, you won't find a partner like Jinhee. I'm weird, but Jinhee is really nice. play with me Good. Oh, but who cursed at me? Honestly, this person could die. But if you kill them, you go to jail, so they only look at you once. Ah, I'm bored. excuse me… excuse me." “Hey, Jinhee..”
Eunjung stops talking to herself and opens her eyes wide..
He was blank for a moment, then slowly smiled a very sad smile..
«... I'm strange?”
“… Ugh, euuk, euuk..”
Before I knew it, Jinhee was crying silently..
“...Jinhee, what are you doing? I told you to go quickly. Before I change my mind……·”
Jinhee cries silently, biting her lips tightly and whimpering..
Tears are flowing down both cheeks - Eunjeong rolls her eyes for a moment as if anxious..
Suddenly opens your mouth in surprise.
“Huh~ It’s Jinhee. It's been so long.”
“···Quuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. Ugh……
“I missed you so much, but how did we meet here? how have you been doing? I always wanted to see you.”
Jinhee can't control her overflowing tears..
I lift my hand, wipe away my tears, and nod..
“···I'm sorry. Eunjeong... I'm not sorry……
“···what? what?”
Eun-jeong is stuck against the door and has a perplexed expression on her face..
“What is it, why are you crying? Is Jinhee also going to an alternative school?.”
“Even though I'm next to you, you don't know me... Sorry……
Jinhee rubs and wipes the tears overflowing from her eyes..
“···I'm sorry for being deceived by the counselor... … “Wow, counselor.” At those words, Eunjeong shrugs her shoulders and looks around..
“That person shouldn't come. You're making me a fool.”
Eun-jeong is anxiously looking away, and Jin-hee is sniffling and wiping away her tears with difficulty..
Soon, she seemed to have calmed down a bit, wiped her eyes, and asked in a tearful voice:.
“Alternative school... what happened there...……?”
“What's going on between you and the counselor?
Something happened……?”
Eun-jeong gradually loses her sense of playfulness and becomes a stern expression..
“tell me.”
“I'll help you……
Eun-jeong's eyes, which were sticking out her head, are slowly turning into fear..
Eunjeong shrugs her shoulders and rolls her eyes around the staff room..
“···what's the matter?”
“···excuse me.”
Scared, he raises his finger and points to the wall..
“…I won't say anything because that person is listening..”
Jinhee turns her head to where her finger is pointing..
There, an employee who was trying to stop the bleeding from the knife stab wound earlier was barely breathing..
“···This is something no one should hear?”
« huh ”
Eun-jeong looks around in fear.
Jinhee sniffled and asked with an expression of not understanding..
“···You're already dead. What is there to be afraid of now?…?”
“I think……
Eun-jeong whispers while shifting her gaze uneasily, fearing that someone will see her..
“…I think it's because you think so..”
“what?”
Eun-jeong's shoulders flinch even more at Jin-hee's urging tone..
“…You're thinking of me as a 4th grader..”
“So I think it's scary. It's something no one should hear……
An expression like a child hesitating to tell a ‘secret story that will cause big trouble if an adult finds out’.
It was a change that could have occurred because there were only a few living people in this space who recognized her..
Jinhee sniffles.
Eunjeong is anxious.
And in between them, a man holding his neck to stop the blood flowing out..
The three of them look at each other for a moment in a standoff..
tick--
Soon, Jinhee clenched her teeth and walked towards the man with great strides..
“Cluck, cluck……
A man puts his hands on the floor to run away from the approaching Jinhee..
When I took my hand away from the wound on my neck, which I was desperately trying to stop, blood began to flow out quickly..
Jinhee looks at me in a cold sweat, wondering what to do with that person..
The man managed to crawl a few steps, but soon he was unable to control the blood flowing out and started to flinch in place..
This person is going to die anyway.
The moment you hastily open the door to save Eun-jeong, you don't know how her personality will change under the influence of other people..
With that in mind, Jinhee left the dying man alone..
“Gagging, gagging……
flutter.
“Haa, haa, haa, haa.”
A man cannot handle the blood gushing from his neck and eventually collapses..
Then, Eun-jeong, who had been sticking her head out from behind the dressing room, finally walks out..
“Haa, haa, haa... There is no one anymore, Eunjeong. are you okay……
“···Jinhee.”
Eun-jeong approaches Jin-hee, who is in a cold sweat..
“Jinhee……
“…Can you tell me now? The school I transferred to. what happened there……
Instead of answering, Eun-jeong slowly takes her hand and mutters worriedly as she looks at the corpse..
“···Jinhee, you're going to jail
“Fuck you. Tares, whatever..”
Cold sweat flowing down, and Jinhee wiping her tears with her sleeve..
“It can't get any worse.”
Eun-jeong, who was touching her partner's trembling hand, slowly opens her mouth as if the door to her heart has opened..
“···The school was a kind of laboratory.”
“laboratory?”
“huh.”
The back of Jinhee's hand was covered in scars for a woman's hand, as if she had been fighting a lot here and there..
Eun-jeong fidgets with those rough hands like a child..
“Gather together children who cannot adapt to society, and make them take strange medicine... Make them keep memorizing spell-like words……
“···My parents?”
Jinhee asks, clenching her molars..
“My parents didn't say anything.?”
“···My parents hated me. And they only send children from families that don't care about such things..”
Eun-jeong quietly turns Jin-hee's hand upside down and looks at it..
It looks like a child is playing pranks..
“The counselor is, so to speak, in charge of public relations... the same role.......
“···You mean Teacher Ryu Jin-ah?.”
“Yes... That person's main job is to find students who have moderate mental problems but also come from bad families, and send them to their special schools. Jinhee suddenly realizes that when she was young and skipped classes, she would go around the neighborhood and check on them. The image of the counselor I was looking for came to mind..
‘It's all just to win our favor..’
After sending him to an alternative school that was a laboratory, he had no choice but to take great care to ensure that he continued to attend school since he was a guarantor..
“···Let's go George now.”
“what?”
Eun-jeong, who was playing with Jin-hee's hand, looks up in surprise..
“what?”
“···Let's go to that bitch now.”
Jinhee speaks with a face flushed with betrayal..
Eun-jeong, who was looking at Jin-hee like that, smiled and said, “This is my put.”.
“You are still feisty. Nothing has changed.”
“If you hit someone, you go to jail. Don't do that.”
Suddenly, her appearance became younger..
Jinhee remembers the appearance of a slender, mentally disabled but still innocent girl from the fourth grade of elementary school..
“···Of course, the rope on the roof of that apartment building. You didn't quit.”
“what? tether?”
It was Eun-jeong, a fourth-year student who was well aware of the social reasons why people should not be mistreated..
“Sorry about the rope. I don't know what you're talking about.”
Eunjeong laughs and kicks.
“I guess I was misunderstanding something other than the rabbit..”
“But I really would do that. Counseling teacher. That person should have been killed first. but
Eun-jeong carefully lets go of Jin-hee’s hand..
“It's late. I'm unstable. From the moment I came to my senses, I had nothing but a strange instinct to establish what I was doing..”
“Even when I was frantically hacking away at this place according to the image you guys gave me... … . Nothing else came to mind. All I have is the urge to go to a crowded place and stab anyone to death.……
“···now?”
Young Eun-jeong smiled softly at Jin-hee who asked bluntly..
“Look at me. You really thought of me as a friend.”
Young Eun-jeong walks slowly barefoot on the blood-stained floor, then stands in front of the large mirror in the locker room..
I look around at myself wearing a pure white dress..
“I also remembered the clothes. Even if there is a mole under the eye……
“…Come here.”
Jinhee soon approached the girl.
snatch my hand.
““Let’s go play together.” "···huh.”
Soon the door to the staff room opens, and Jinhee covers young Eunjeong with a coat so that no one can see her, then carries her on her back and passes by the staff..
“···Jinhee?”
“ fizzle.”
Just as someone was trying to talk to him, Lee Joon held out his hand as if telling him to stay still..
Just like that, Jinhee walks out of Seoul Station covered in blood, carrying the girl on her back..
Towards the white shining door in the distance.
[Uh, it's me. Soon there will be a girl wearing a school uniform carrying a kid on her back. Since you are a victim, you can send him out right away so he can receive treatment. I took your personal information..]
“Yes, detective. All right.”
The police who surrounded the entrance and prevented anyone from entering the station discovered Jinhee walking out of the glass door of Seoul Station..
And after checking the girl on their back, they guide her so she can go outside..
“It's okay, there are no injuries. You don't have to go by ambulance..”
Jin- hee was going down the stairs while trying to stop the police officers who were trying to lead her to the parked ambulance, and at that moment, the coat she had covered little Eun-jeong with slipped down..
Citizens whispering while looking at the girl on her back.
“Oh my, even a child like that gets involved... … “How many people were injured? Another person is being carried.”
Citizens look worriedly at Jinhee in her school uniform and little Eunjeong in a white one-piece dress being carried on their backs..
He beats his chest and gets angry as if he feels sorry..
“Don't say it, don't say it. Crazy guys come out with knives and stab anyone to death.......
“Wow, I see where you got hurt. I should be safe
Eun-jeong, like a blank slate, shapes herself according to people’s sympathetic eyes..
“Jinhee, it hurts… I'm sick……
“···Just be patient.”
The pure white dress suddenly turns red due to the wounds that appear. It was an old wound..
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-
“Wow!……
Jinhee's motorcycle speeds along the Han River Bridge..
Behind him, young Eun-jeong hugs her with a big smile, her dress flying..
Jump up. Jump up. A forest near the neighborhood where I often played when I was young..
Little Eunjeong jumps on all fours and runs around to catch the lizard, but she can't quite catch it..
“···You idiot. Okay, here.”
Jinhee, who was watching, quickly reveals a nearby stone and catches the running lizard..
“ wow
Her partner, Eun-jeong, walks up to her and her eyes sparkle..
“touch it.”
“Wow……
Unable to overcome Jinhee's reckless nature, Eunjeong picks up the lizard with a smile..
“This time, not the tail, but the body..”
“huh.”
Follow her advice and slowly pick up the lizard..
And the girl squatting down with eyes full of curiosity.
After watching the lizard struggling for a while, Eun-jeong seems to have finished watching the lizard and quietly looks up at Jin-hee and smiles..
“I hope you are my partner next time too.”
After saying that, he slowly disappears..
Jinhee kneels down next to the disappearing Eunjeong..
“Where are you going?.”
A girl who smiles brightly and disappears without answering.
Jinhee's lips twitched a few times, but in the end she couldn't say goodbye..
Soon a lizard falls from the air and quickly crawls away through the grass..
The grass where I played when I was young.
Traces of trampled weeds left there, as if someone had been there..
Jinhee, crouching there alone, mutters quietly..
“This is why I shouldn't play with you……
Even after muttering that, Jinhee remained curled up there for a long time, a long time longer..
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