104 – Chairman
After 14 nights and 15 days of vacation, I returned to the base.
I think I spent a meaningful time this vacation.
Buying a mobile phone, and also buying clothes. I made a lot of money, and it feels like I got too much in one vacation..!
“Yoo Seon-ah, don’t be sick and come back well!”
“…It won’t be much of a big deal if I go anyway- don’t worry too much”
In our unit, there is a thing called Jjakton.
I use it when the rest of my military life is similar to the vacation I have to spend now. I’m back at the unit today, and I’m going on vacation again after receiving vacation training.
Really, I use the expression (turn) to just sleep (shoot) in the base, pack my things and go back home.
The rest of my military life and the vacation I have to spend in the future are similar, so I have to take turns.
After using all the vacation days, the longest time to stay in the army is 5 days..? 6 Days This is enough, and even the people in the base consider me a soldier only on paper, and almost everyone treats me like a civilian.
I don’t think there would be anything like this in the military where I had to do something to the extent that Yoo-jung would come out to the front door to see me off-
“…If anything happens…!”
“No, I’m fine”
“If there is a war, don’t go out first-“
“They don’t fly. They don’t intend to invade Korea.”
Yoojeong always did this the day I returned to the unit.
Don’t get sick, come to my house unconditionally after a war.
If you get hurt while trying to get out first, the government won’t even compensate you – that’s what they say.
If I were a private or private, I would know- Thank you. I would have said something like that.
Since this said something like this to me, a sergeant with only a few days left to go home- I was dumbfounded and also cute.
“…It’s because I’m so anxious. I’m afraid something will suddenly happen, I’m afraid I’ll disappear somewhere. I’m so…”
“I won’t disappear, I’m not acting, why disappear”
If it was the same as usual, smile and don’t worry- Yoojung! I should have said I’ll be right back!
Today’s Yoojung looked serious.
The eyes staring at me are cold and hardened.
Surely- like you think I’ll never come back to your house again.
I was holding the sleeves of my combat uniform with my fingers.
…Until just now, nothing had happened, and the atmosphere in the house, which had been so peaceful, became heavy.
Just. Really – I’m only going to sleep for one night. It became unnecessarily sincere.
“I’ll be right back. I’m going to be late for the bus now. I’m leaving!”
“..Yes”
I was a little uneasy because I thought Yoojung would collapse right on the spot.
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It was different from usual.
Feeling weak and vulnerable. Foolishness increased.
…Reminds me of recruit leave. Even then, I started off as a unit with such a solemn atmosphere.
…Time flies so quickly.
At that time, I thought the day I would wear a sergeant would never come.
I was wearing a sergeant like this.
Nothing happened when I was a private and first class, but now, as a sergeant, nothing more happened. …And I’m only going to sleep for one night anyway, so what’s the big deal?
You don’t have to worry too much because I’ll be home tomorrow anyway.
I was going to say that, but human psychology is a bad thing.
Seeing Yoojung’s reaction like this made me want to joke around.
Because I’m so seriously worried- I’m coming home out of the blue tomorrow.
Then, since she thinks in her head what kind of figure Yu-jeong will look like – she is a little excited.
…Are the pranks too much..?
2)
Her granddaughter is unable to recover from her wounds and stand up on her own.
A conclusion reached after Django’s troubles.
-I could see the lady circling around a boy and observing him.
-I didn’t look like I was doing anything, but I was trying to make the boy’s work environment better. For example, this time the workers’ shelter was set up near the boy…
…I read the report over and over again.
Beside the report is my granddaughter. She looked at the boy’s personal information that Gina was watching carefully.
-Kang Yu-seon.
She still remembers the story she had with him before she entered her future high school, because it was something she would never forget.
Yeah, while I couldn’t see you, you’ve grown a lot taller. School is a GED. And I didn’t go to college.
Again- Um…! Army…? She is serving in the military and was working as a part-time job during her vacation.
There was a more sincere part than I thought.
Unlike a child from a daycare center, there was no criminal record-no particular record of bullying someone in the student record-there was no such record.
In the unit, he was trusted by the company to the extent that he was rewarded as a model soldier, and he read a lot and exercised a lot while serving in the military.
Additional points continued to pile up in my head.
He also looks like a man. He has a good physique. Stop being sincere.
This is enough for my granddaughter.
Today is return time, so you couldn’t work and returned to the unit- When will your next vacation be..?
Tomorrow…? Ah, well… That doesn’t really matter. So. Where does he get off? I’d like to talk to you for a moment.
I guess I need to take my time.
I put down the report I was reading and looked down at my granddaughter lying on her bed.
There is no harm in life.
Surely, it will happen soon.
The experts at the hospital said so, but the granddaughter showed no signs of waking up.
On the contrary, as the days go by, the skin loses its vitality, and the sound of breathing becomes weaker and weaker.
Even as I have no experience in medicine, Jina’s condition was deteriorating day by day.
Jina is a child who cannot overcome her wounds on her own.
I have a child.
She broke her leg while walking down the street, though she couldn’t walk for a while. She was put on a cast and the doctor prescribed it so she could walk again.
But what if that child was the one she didn’t know how to walk in the first place…?
Even if her legs recover, she won’t be useful since she doesn’t know how to walk.
She could still be crawling on her ground.
She has legs anyway, so she won’t even treat her because she’s useless.
She’s obviously, she’s got the ability to walk as well, but she’s never done that until now. Because no one had ever taught her baby how to walk.
Because there is no one by her side to teach her how to walk.
You have no choice but to bring it.
Even in the midst of this, her wounds continue to fester and rot, and there is no time.
It was my anger that brought the situation to this point. Everything that happened right now is more than my karma to solve.
It’s my fault, my fault is big, and I’m responsible for everything, so I had to find a way to deal with this situation somehow.
And in the process, I can use any number of wrong ways.
There are more days to live than days to live, and there is nothing wrong with one more speck here.
Is this really a good thing? Is it wrong? Wrong way. There will be better options. But the way I do it now is the best.
If my Jina could be happy. If you can run around like other kids and have a happy smile, you can do anything.
I didn’t want to repeat any more mistakes, but I had neither the ability nor the time to solve this situation.
But how can I make my granddaughter happy? I know how.
Jinah has no ability to overcome her wounds and stand up on her own. Because the only person who gave vitality to the lethargic granddaughter was ‘Yoo Seon’.
I came to know this while researching her friend Yu Seon, and the ties from her daughter Ai are connected to Yu Seon.
I knew that fact, but I couldn’t pay attention to that. Because this side was also in a hurry to care and be considerate of such things.
Obviously, if that child finds out about this, he will definitely think of me as a demon, Satan, and brute beast.
It’s a matter of course, but I was confident that I wouldn’t even blink an eye when I heard that.
For the sake of my beloved granddaughter, I am prepared to become something worse than Satan.
3)
I simply returned, washed, ate, and went through vacation training again to get out of the base.
When I took my turn this time, I didn’t even eat dinner, I didn’t eat breakfast, so I prepared to go on vacation like that. It was literally like filming a military unit and coming back home.
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Although I was hungry after skipping two meals, I plan to eat at the bus terminal. The jjambab eaten at the military base was like the food of the underworld from Greek mythology.
Somehow, when I ate jjambab from the army, I felt like I would have to stay in the army forever, so I felt a sense of rejection.
What should I eat?
Anyway, there are many delicious restaurants near the bus terminal- I think it’s okay to go anywhere. Putting Bob aside for now, I wanted to go to the bathroom.
-Shoot ah
I was washing my hands after doing my errands when someone came into the bathroom.
It is quite large. And his hands were rough and rough. I was able to feel like a bear, not a human.
…Why are you f*cking standing behind me?
I looked at people while wiping my wet hands on my combat uniform.
I’m just an ordinary soldier- I’m just a common soldier in the terminal.
And you look like a normal old man.
No matter how you think about it, it’s not a relationship that you can stick to.
In the past, ‘military police’ often roamed the terminal.
I’ve heard rumors like that, but these people didn’t look like soldiers at all.
And I didn’t do anything to get caught.
Do you go into the bathroom and wash your hands or not? There is no military police in this world who monitors every soldier’s every move whether he pees or not.
“Hey, you’re Yuseon Kang, right?”
“…”
I remembered something that happened in the past when I was in the third year of middle school. Even at this time, these big men took me with them.
I knew instinctively. This… That’s it.
“…What’s going on?”
“…I just want to talk. It won’t be much. Let’s talk briefly..? Watch the world go by, listen to advice on your worries, and get some pocket money. Huh..? I want to make you an offer you can’t refuse. How about…?”
“…”
The entrance was already blocked, and there was no guarantee that I would be able to get out no matter what method I used, as there were already large figures on my left and right.
Besides, there was something protruding from their waists- I didn’t want to think about what the hell it was.
“Okay. Because it’s good, yes… I get it. I can walk alone! So, don’t cling too tightly to the back. It’s a burden.”