215 – Selfish hearts collide # 3
215 – Selfish hearts collide # 3
After Jina Lee dropped me off at the well house, she left the village right away.
Daldaldaldal-.
Oinoi rubbed his sleepy eyes as he watched the truck spewing out smoke.
“I don’t know why, but Junkore Jina is very angry… !”
“Yes.”
I was also embarrassed that Lee Jin-ah suddenly got angry and hit me.
Now that her excitement had subsided, she calmly looked back on the events so far, and one word suddenly rang in her ear.
━You selfish bastard!
It was Lee Jin-ah’s abusive language.
I couldn’t help but be shocked, because until now I had never thought of myself as a selfish person.
But as her mood became calmer, I was able to vaguely understand what Jinah Lee was trying to say.
“They say I’m selfish because I don’t think about the people I’ll leave behind.”
Lee Jin-ah was someone who had waited for her family for a long time. She was a bereaved family left waiting for someone she didn’t know who might not come back.
Did I see the image of her mother, who had been swept away by a crack and never returned, superimposed on the image of me being dead for about 10 seconds?
No, even so, there was no need to hit her and call her a selfish person.
I roughly stuffed a tissue into my nose where the nosebleed was pouring in the mirror.
━Kkeongkeong… !
Then, a skunk came towards me, climbed up her clothes starting from her ankles, and sat on her shoulder.
He sat on my shoulder and started eating strawberries, and he looked so peaceful that the commotion that had just happened felt like a dream.
Suddenly, I imagined what it would have been like if I had been knocked down by the superconducting dragon’s explosion and never woke up.
What happened to friends like Kkungkkung, Bangkkwang, Ang Ang, and Kalinoi?
Since I, who was his guardian and partner, couldn’t wake up, did other people take over and raise him? Since they are kind, cute, and capable animals, the probability of that happening was high.
But that could not have been the case.
“If I die, what will happen to animals like Kungkkung and Bangkkwang?”
I asked Oinoi what I was curious about.
Then Oinoi, who had returned to the well house and was unpacking his luggage, spoke.
“Rare and independent animals such as dog squirrels, emperor ants, and ghost spiders are not something that just anyone can tame… ! There is a high probability of returning to nature… !”
I see.
It was a story that deepened my thoughts in many ways.
I sat by the window and turned on my charged cell phone.
“The evolved copper snake looks very dangerous, but it jumps into it.”
└ㄹㅇㅋㅋ If it were me, I would have peed on the spot.
└I guess not everyone gets to A rank, so I’ll just live as a C rank.
└Isn’t Haildo great, not just A ranker?
└I think I would have done the same even if other A-rankers were there.
Awakening SNS, where there were many stories about artificial respiration, has now started mentioning the parts where I performed well.
It was a good thing for me.
It means that my fame will increase just as I thought.
But it didn’t feel as good as I thought.
Rather, I became calm, lost in many thoughts.
“To be honest, I was only focused on doing what I had to do and never thought about the people who would be left behind. “What should I have done?”
I closed my eyes and searched for memories.
My mother cried at the funeral when my classmate Kang Cheol-min died. The daughter of Min-gyu, a classmate who died, was living a difficult life.
Bereaved families of crack victims.
In fact, the media tended to talk a lot about such stories.
However, I deliberately tried not to think about such things, but I was wary of being tied up at an important moment.
When I think about the animals like Kkungkkung, Kwangkkwang, and Hungang, who will wander around my graveside after I die and eventually return to nature -.
When I thought that my mom, dad, or sister might cry while cleaning my tombstone, I felt like my integrity as a human being would diminish.
Should I say that my resolve has become dull?
If you think that way, I am actually a selfish person.
It may have been natural for Lee Jin-ah, who was left behind, to be angry.
Soon Oinoi spoke.
“By nature, heroes are selfish… ! Achilles, who played an active part in the Trojan War in the past, also gained fame, but his life was short-lived, making his family sad… !”
“I see.”
“Heroes usually live short lives while going back and forth between life and death… ! We nymphs like to sing the stories of such heroes… !”
It is said that the lives of heroes who became the songs of the nymphs are passed down from mouth to mouth, transcending history and eventually becoming immortal.
I guess that is the difference between the life of an ordinary man who will not be remembered by anyone after he dies and the life of a man who will be remembered even as time passes.
Pot-!
At that time, Oinoi climbed onto the sofa.
Having observed nymphs for quite some time, I knew very well that nymphs like to climb up high boxes or platforms and look down on people.
Oinoi, standing high, shouted like an orator.
“Whether to walk a tightrope with death to be remembered and sung forever, or to end an ordinary life happily has always been a concern for heroes… !”
“Really?”
“What the owner of the house is worried about now is that it means that he has set out on the path of a hero to truly become a “Hero”… ! It’s good to think hard about it… !”
It seems that the worries I am having now were completely natural and correct steps.
I opened the book titled “Hero’s Path Commercial Area.”
After completing the mission “Kiss with Kore,” The book has not been updated.
Perhaps this was the end of the commercial world.
# # #
The autumn dawn had a strange, burnt smell.
There were many people collecting fallen leaves and burning them.
Suddenly, Giik-.
5 O’clock in the morning.
I woke up earlier than expected and slowly opened the door and came out, but the cat that had been curled up on the cushion in the living room must have woken up, so he shook himself off and climbed on my shoulder.
━Kkeongkeong… !
Angang, who was sleeping in the kitchen, woke up at the sound of the crying. Then he brought the vitamins and nutritional supplements I needed to take today along with a water bottle.
He must have sensed that I was about to go outside.
━Zuji… !
Actually, I was thinking of going outside today.
There was a place I wanted to go.
As a daily routine, I ran around the neighborhood a few times to see if anything much had happened the night before.
When I ran through the rice fields like this, dog squirrels and honey ants always flocked to look at me, but today there were fewer of them.
When I was worried about this, the chief said.
“Everyone has gone to hibernate. We’ll be able to meet when spring comes. I really wish we could meet again. “There are many squirrels that go into hibernation and are never able to wake up.”
Sussssseu-.
Saying that, the village head scattered bags of peanuts on the ground for the dog squirrels.
“Of course, dog squirrels are different. “Unlike common squirrels, I heard that dog squirrels can easily live for over 100 years.”
“I say so. “Everyone will live a long time.”
I thought it would be great to be able to meet dog squirrels next spring. That way, I will be able to see it for a long time.
Boom-.
7 O’clock in the morning.
A car entered Taecho Village.
In the car that stopped in front of my house, a tall man with actor-like height and neatly groomed hair yawned, closed the car door, and got out.
“There are so many dog squirrels. If it were the same, I wouldn’t have been able to breathe because of the allergy. The newly developed drug is good. “Even though there are so many dog squirrels, it’s fine.”
━Kung. Okay.
It was Lee Jeong-hoon who raised Bitnari, a spirited squirrel.
“Haildo, why did you call me so early? “I came because I owe you something.”
I was thinking of going somewhere in Lee Jeong-hoon’s car this morning.
Lee Jeong-hoon said.
“Usually, whenever I go somewhere, I ride in Lee Jin-ah’s car. Are you busy today? Well, you must be busy. I also watched the broadcast yesterday, and it seemed like the broadcasting company spent a lot of money. “I heard you had a lot of stories, right?”
Lee Jeong-hoon also seemed to have seen the broadcast that took place yesterday.
I was thinking of telling Lee Jeong-hoon about the fight he had with Lee Jin-ah yesterday, but I felt like explaining this and that was cumbersome and stupid, so I just kept quiet.
“So where are you going?”
Lee Jeong-hoon asked me about my destination.
I showed an address to Lee Jeong-hoon, but he frowned.
“Really?”
“It’s true. Let’s go quickly. “I want to be back here before lunch.”
Lee Jung-hoon’s supercar took off.
It was indeed a good car and we were able to arrive at our destination quickly.
Daejeon National Cemetery.
A special place where not everyone can be buried.
It was like a hall of fame where those who served the country or those who died in the line of duty were laid to rest.
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I was able to find some names I recognized there.
“It’s here.”
「The Tomb of Hero Kang Cheol-min」
I remembered the face of my classmate, who was big and had a fierce spirit.
Kang Cheol-min.
My comrade-in-arms, with whom I have clashed and competed for various reasons since time immemorial and have built up bad feelings.
If awakened people die during a mission, are they collectively killed in the line of duty and called ‘heroes’?
Such a hero, Kang Cheol-min, was lying under this small tombstone.
Although the National Cemetery is quiet now, Kang Cheol-min’s death was quite a commotion, so newspapers and the Internet were talking about his name.
It’s so quiet right now, though.
“Why here?”
Lee Jung-hoon, a celebrity, asked me with a slightly brusque feeling as he took out sunglasses from his inner pocket and put them on.
Then, it occurred to me that Lee Jeong-hoon particularly disliked Kang Cheol-min.
Even now that Kang Cheol-min is buried under the graveyard, it seems that he can’t be very happy about it.
“If I were dead, I would be buried somewhere around here. “Here at the graveyard of the awakened.”
I said that and thought about it for a moment.
Just then, someone came up to us and said.
“It looks like customers came here today after a long time. Cheolmin’s friend? “Colleagues?”
She was a woman wearing a long fall coat.
Because she was quite old, it felt appropriate to call her ‘Mrs.’
Similar age to my mother.
There was a Bible in his hand.
“Mr. Deacon, nice to meet you. Cheol-min’s classmate is Ha Il-do. This is Lee Jeong-hoon, a junior from Gisu Han. “I may have seen you at a funeral before.”
Mrs. Kim Ok-soo, mother of classmate Kang Cheol-min, remembered that she was a deacon at a small church.
Deacon Kim looked at me and Jeong-Hoon Lee and her face brightened.