50 – Funerals
When I heard the director say that Yoo Seon-i was at his father’s funeral, I didn’t understand what I was hearing.
That’s also true, because Yoo Seon has been at the nursery school longer than me.
That… It doesn’t make sense to hear about your father’s funeral.
Common sense tells us that we have a means of contacting each other as long as we can deliver such obituary news, and we’ve known each other enough to even communicate, but it’s strange that Yoo Seon-i was at an orphanage until now.
Again… Yu Seon should be at Mirae High School right now, but he’s going to a funeral that’s happening in the city in the opposite direction of Mirae High School… No, that’s because I heard the news about the obituary.
Guess how he went.
To be honest, I don’t understand what’s going on.
It seems that many things have happened to Yoo Seon without my knowledge… I don’t even understand what’s going on.
-Let’s go to Yu Seon for now.
I don’t think even the director knows. Both me and the director- I wake up at dawn and go by car.
I think it’s just me and the director.
Actually, it’s hard to wake up all the teachers and the kids in the facility to go.
Because I don’t think they’re very close… Because, when it comes to funerals, people who are close to each other usually go.
Since it was midnight, there was no train going to the city, so I got in a car on the highway and drove all the way to the city where Yoo Seon-i is.
I didn’t eat, and I didn’t stop by the break room unless I had urgent business. Except for going to the bathroom because the director had a stomach ache… And how much coffee he drank at the convenience store there.
Actually, that’s… Driving a car without sleep all night. I did think he was going to be very tired.
Hey, I can’t drive, so I was able to go a little more comfortably. You’re not the manager.
When we got to the city where the funeral home was located, the director was completely exhausted and seemed to need a break.
“Jung Yoo, I’ll park and come back, so go see Yu Seon first.”
“Yes!”
The director drove to the parking lot, and I got out of the car and walked towards the funeral home.
In a little while, the front of the rainy season…? It goes up to the Korean Peninsula. Maybe that’s why it came out on the news a few times. The air is already damp here.
The sky was dark and it looked like it would rain any minute.
-Kururung! Yes Kuru!
Looking at the flashing thunder and lightning, it looks like it’s going to rain soon.
“I need to go inside soon”
When the raindrops started to fall one by one on the asphalt… I hurriedly moved on.
Since the place I got out of the car was a bit far from the entrance to the funeral home, I ran out of breath.
That… It looks like it’s going to rain anytime soon. Strangely, the weather in this city is hot and humid. So it has a strong feeling of sticking to the skin.
It seems like I only ran a little bit, but the back of my neck is already starting to sweat… But it’s okay if I go inside…?
Why did they build the funeral home on such a high hill instead of on a flat ground..?
When you feel resentful of the person who built the funeral home here. I was barely able to get to the entrance of the funeral home.
That… There were a lot of people at the entrance.
Black vehicle. And there were a lot of guys in black suits.
No… That. First of all, it’s a funeral home, so that’s the correct dress code, but…
Even so, there are too many people like me. It looks like they’re just a group… But it doesn’t look like they’re gathered to commemorate the deceased.
Besides, it was full of people all of the same size… It was very scary to see those guys sitting in the smoking area and smoking.
I saw too many people like that when I was young. You know what you do and what you say. No… I’m not saying they’re thugs or thugs. It’s true that… Just by looking at its appearance… It looks like that lineage…
First of all, to meet Yoo Seon, I have to pass through that area.
“What’s up?”
“Ah, yes- there…”
As I’m hanging out in front of me, a man in a suit talks to me.
He has a big scar on his face, and he looks like he’s a head taller than me. I’m also… I’m almost 175..6, So I’m as tall as most men.
“You’re a condolence visitor. A VIP came and blocked the entrance for a while. We’re sorry for making you feel uncomfortable.”
V…Vip..? I guess it didn’t go too well…
Such a well-rounded greeting. And… They’re all as big as bears. A person like that just apologized to me saying he was sorry, but a very awkward situation happened even to be angry here.
First of all, I have to go inside, but… What should I say…?
“You’re going home”
Someone inside opened the door to the funeral hall and shouted outside- everything from the man who was talking to me to the men who were spending time in the smoking room.
They stood in a line to the left and right around the entrance, opened the door, and waited for someone to come out. And the glass door opens…
“Thank you for your hard work! Miss!”
Th… I’m sure this big guy with the scars on his face is guarding the door of the funeral parlor…
Gangster. I thought something like a thug would come out… But it wasn’t.
Much shorter than me. Slender physique. The brown hair caught my eye first.
A white karati and pink tennis skirt that don’t go well with a funeral home.
A doll-like appearance. …. It’s not like a knave or a thug.
It’s far more dangerous than ‘that stuff’.
Future Group…
This city is very muggy, and it was so humid and hot that even the slightest movement made me sweat.
As soon as I saw that child, it felt like all the blood drained from my body.
My hands and feet couldn’t get cold and hardened. I have to run away, but I can’t block that woman’s path.
Like a piece of film, terrible things that I don’t want to remember started playing quickly in my head.
Mom, Dad, Carl, and the girl. Grandfather. Black suit man Again… Again… Yoo Seon. Yoo Seon-i… I miss Yoo Seon-i. Somehow, I thought that today might be the last day of my life, so I missed Yoo Seon.
If I go one step further, I can see Yoo Seon… Will he leave me alone…?
That… That… It’s so scary. I want to run away. But the footsteps do not fall.
– Tuk…Tuk Tuk…Shoot aaa
The sky has been uneasy since a while ago, but it rained heavily as if there was a hole in it.
Starting with the t-shirt I was wearing today, my pants, and my hair were all wet from the rain, so my body started to get wet.
“Umbrella. Hey! You there! Do you have an umbrella? It’s raining!”
“Sorry! Here’s an umbrella.”
“I’ll cover you, lady!”
“…I don’t need it…Everyone go away…It’s because of you guys…”
The successor to the Future Group.
Jinah Lee said she would put an umbrella around her, but she ignored it and got hit by her bare body in the rain just like me.
I was still in the same place, as hard as a rock.
That… Lee Jin-ah took a step forward. It came to me one step at a time. He… Maybe he’ll recognize me?
Couldn’t it have caught my eye for no reason?
Should I put her head on the floor…?
Many thoughts were tangled and tangled in his head.
“…Huh…Uhh…”
-Sniff
He didn’t even seem to notice that I was by his side. I saw it with my own eyes. I was clearly crying.
At first I thought it was raining, and the rainwater was running down my face… I saw with my own eyes that my nose was reddened and I was wiping away tears with my hands.
And it looked sad. It was so sad, to the point that I couldn’t care if someone like me appeared in front of him… It looked so sad.
Lee Jin-ah passed me by. By the time all the old men who had just filled the entrance to the funeral hall disappeared…
– Full seats.
I lost strength in my legs.
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My heart beat faster than when I ran up here. It’s hot – it’s disgusting. That feeling is long gone.
Because she was on her knees, absent-mindedly … The director hurriedly came running.
“Yoojeong-ah, what are you doing here… Are you hurt? You’ll catch a cold if it rains here. Let’s go back quickly.”
As if helping someone with a broken leg, the director led me into the entrance of the funeral home.
It rained heavily, so the raindrops dripped… It’s quite cold inside the funeral home, probably because the air conditioners were turned on.
Yeon Seon-i. Where is Yoo Seon? Look around- Director Look around took me with him and went to see Yoo Seon.
I was able to find the location of Yoo Seon.
Other funeral homes are full of remorse from the entrance, but Yoo Seon’s only has a wreath sent from Mirae Sangjo.
There were no condolences, and I was squatting in front of the photo of the portrait..
“..Yoo..Yoo Seon-ah…”
I also had a very frightening experience, so I was low on energy… I couldn’t let Yoo Seon-i look like this.
So, I went right into the funeral home… And approached Yoo Seon.
I can see Yoo Seon-i’s body trembling slightly as she rounds her body like a ball.
Yoo Seon was crying.
“…Seonah Yoo…”
It looks too bad.
I don’t think he’s the Yoo Seon-yi I used to know. The scary thoughts disappeared and the thoughts of wanting to comfort and soothe filled his head.
“…It’s okay now…”
-Ssukseuk
I slowly approached Yoo Seon-i and squatted down and hugged Yoo Seon-i’s head as she was crying.