The Nature of Possession chapter 256

256 – EP.10 Guide-3

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“Sia, have some water.”

As she was sitting on the caregiver’s bed, lowering her head and looking at her cell phone, a sound was heard from next to her.

Yun Shia skillfully tilted the remaining half of the water container and poured lukewarm water into her cup.

“Here.”

She handed over her cup, and her father took it and brought it up to her mouth.

She had recently regained enough strength in her hands to be able to hold a cup herself.

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Water entered, and the mokuldae moved.

Gulp, I drank water one after another, as if the pain I had felt was thirst.

“How are you feeling?”

Her daughter, who was looking at that scene, asked.

The gray-haired man was somewhat weak, but smiled softly.

“It’s okay.”

“The doctor said I’m getting better.”

She couldn’t even remember when her father had been sick.

In reality, it didn’t really matter whether the period was short or long. In my experience, it’s been over ten years.

That fact was important.

[It’s not that there haven’t been cases, but it’s a very unusual situation.]

I can still vividly remember what the tired doctor was explaining.

The fact that I got out of the long tunnel of misfortune was important.

“When will I be able to be discharged from the hospital?”

Looking outside at the falling leaves, a middle-aged man muttered.

“Seeing as you’re talking about being discharged from the hospital, it looks like you’re all better. But the doctor asked to see the progress, so just be patient.”

Yun Sia chuckled.

At school, hospital and tutoring,

It seemed like I was smiling a lot these days.

“Sia, nothing bad happened, right?”

The door to the hospital room opened and her mother came in.

Judging by the way he was dressed, it looked like he had stopped by the house and not come straight from the supermarket.

“Yeah, nothing happened.”

Yoon Sia stood up from her seat and patted her wrinkled pants.

“Let’s go right away?”

Unlike her usual conversation, her mother asked as she saw her packing her luggage.

“Ah, yes… I have a lot of homework to do.”

Yun Sia left the hospital after briefly saying hello to her parents.

A cafe where you can hear jazz-style piano sounds.

Seated in the corner of the cafe, a sacred place for the Kagong people, Yun Sia was doing an assignment while searching her data on her cell phone.

She transcribed her data by hand on A4.

It would have been nice to have at least a laptop, but my finances were still too tight to buy one.

Perhaps it was because she was constantly moving her hands, but she felt a stretch in her muscles, so she put down her pen and massaged her wrist with her opposite hand.

“What is Inho going to do?”

Before her mind could even perceive it, the words came out of her mouth.

Yoon Sia opened her eyes round for a moment, then she smiled and rested her chin.

‘I thought she would never smile in her life… But she’s smiling often these days.’

She thought.

She went to the bathroom. She was stuck in the mirror.

It was different from the image of herself that she had pictured in her head.

Contrary to the idea that she would be gloomy and with her mouth closed, the girl in the mirror was smiling softly.

It was unfamiliar, but nice to look at.

“It’s pretty.”

Yun Sia muttered.

She picked up her cell phone.

I received a text message asking me to confirm the purchase of a product that had been delivered from an internet shopping mall.

She mechanically pressed the button and returned to her seat.

She still had a lot of work to do.

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She moved her hands non-stop, and her wrists seemed to be elongated.

Ugh – my hands hurt so much. I’ll have to look into a laptop when the tutoring fee comes up next month.

If you just use the Internet and write documents, you can buy it for less than 1 million won… They say there are a lot of useful used items these days.

[Getting off.]

After swiping my transportation card and getting off the bus, a familiar route home unfolded.

“It’s dark.”

An alley with no streetlights welcomes me.

When will the street lights be installed? Wouldn’t it be better to leave this neighborhood before then?

I follow the path using old sneakers.

Inward, further inward… I walk this dark path toward the home called home.

Look at the sky.

Unlike the city sky, the moon and stars were visible today.

The brightness is very faint and not very impressive.

Inho, why do I remember the brilliant light of the moon and stars on the hillside I saw with you?

Maybe it was because you were next to me, right?

The first meeting wasn’t that good. You annoyed me, and I didn’t understand you.

I thought our relationship, once established, would never change.

But, it was my mistake.

You have changed so much that you can’t even remember what you used to be, and your eyes shine.

That’s right. Just like the moonlight at that time.

Is it a coincidence that the situation around you started to change from the moment you tried to change?

My dad. They say you can be discharged soon.

I still have debt, but I will be able to pay it off soon.

There is no causal relationship, but I think it is thanks to you.

Because you started to change, I was able to get out of this long, long tunnel.

It’s still the end of the tunnel, but I can clearly feel the light fluttering before my eyes getting bigger.

Thank you. You may complain that it’s not relevant, but I think I owe you a lot.

For listening to my class well, for my dad being okay, for rescuing me from that park…

I was helped by you, so now I want to help.

I don’t want you to miss the opportunity to walk on the right path and dream of a bright future.

So….

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With a single scream, the woman collapsed on the side of the road.

And in front of him, another woman stood tall and looked down at the woman crawling on her floor as if she were looking at a bug.

“I warned you.”

“Ah, ugh… It hurts…”

The woman crawled on the floor in pain that did not go away easily.

“Am I short-thinking or stupid… No, probably both, right?”

The voice of the person who sympathized with the pitiful face was filled with a deep sneer.

“You have that in your hand…”

The other person, who had managed to get his body together, stood up unsteadily.

The person I was facing was holding something plastic in his hand.

It was an object that made a crackling sound when you pressed the button.

‘So, Inho.’

‘Even if I do something like this… You have to understand.’

Yoon Si-ah looked down emotionlessly at Shin Jeong-ah, who woke up gasping for breath.