260 – EP.10 What is Responsibility-3
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It was a coincidence. No, since there is a being called God and the concept of causality, is this inevitable?
Inho chewed his lower lip. His legs were shaking as if he was anxious while he was in the taxi.
***
After having a late-night snack with Yoon Shia, he came up to his room and turned on the screen of his cell phone, which he had left unattended.
He thought that there must have been several messages from Shin Jeong-ah.
Since she hadn’t made up her mind yet how to deal with her, she thought about gathering her thoughts by reading the message she sent her.
However, after being handed over to the police, not a single message was sent to Shin Jeong-ah.
This is a strange thing. Sending hundreds of messages was what he thought was a normal situation.
Just as I was about to press the screen in confusion, an alarm came on the messenger, and Inho’s finger touched it.
Before I could do anything about it, there was a picture with a faint outline in the chat room between him and her.
It is a dark room, and there is something bright in the upper right corner.
The camera must have been shaken when taking the picture, so the out-of-focus, whitish photo didn’t look normal at first glance.
[Oh, you saw it right away?]
As soon as the ‘1’ disappears, words come flying from the other side.
“…….”
In-ho waited for Shin Jeong-ah’s next words.
[It sucks… But I wanted to remain in your memory at least like this.]
Another photo arrived. Clearer focus than before.
Her hands covered in something red, and the burning room.
[Hello. I really liked it.]
And the conversation ended. Inho felt like his blood was draining out.
Kang In-ho jumped up from the bed.
As he kicked down the door and went down from the second floor to the first floor, Yoon Si-ah, who was still sitting at her table, looked at him with a shocked look on her face.
“W-what’s going on?”
“I have to go to Jeong-ah.”
“What does that mean all of a sudden?”
“Taxi, starting from taxi….”
Inho moved his hands busily and called a taxi.
“Inho, why are you acting like this all of a sudden? What happened?”
Yoon Si-ah catches In-ho as he tries to head to the front door.
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“What, is there a fire?”
The taxi driver muttered as he saw the fire trucks approaching the entrance of the alley.
“Please stop here.”
In-ho held out a card with his good arm, and the taxi driver accepted it.
Kang In-ho and Yoon Sia, who got out of the taxi, passed the fire truck trying to enter and arrived at Shin Jeong-ah’s house.
Perhaps because it is a villa village with buildings close together, many people came out and stamped their feet even in the middle of the night.
As the fire truck was unable to enter due to illegally parked cars and rear trucks, firefighters were seen rushing in with hoses from afar.
Looking at the burning building, Kang In-ho took a step forward.
And then Yoon Shia grabbed his arm.
“What are you doing?”
Yun Shia read something in his eyes and her face hardened.
“…….”
“No? No way, right?”
Yoon Si-ah asked again what In-ho was about to do.
Pow, the fire grew stronger along with the sound of something exploding.
“If you go in, you’re going to die. Can’t you see that fire?”
Yoon Shia urgently grabbed his shoulders and shook him, but his strong body stood tall and motionless.
“What kind of movie is this? Is this a novel? What kind of hero are you? Don’t be rude! If you go in, you’ll die!”
Yoon Shia urgently hugged him. Her arms wrapped around his waist, as if locking her locks.
“No. I can never let you go. What are you doing? Are you crazy? Why are you suddenly asking the girl you cheated on?”
“Teacher. Please let go of this.”
Hearing Kang In-ho’s words, Yoon Sia tightened her arms.
The heat of the burning flames swept across her skin.
“No. No… Your arms and legs look like that and you’re going in there? Don’t do anything reckless. You’re a student. Just a student.”
Yun Shia muttered the same thing as he snuggled deeper into her arms.
His arm begins to slowly push her shoulder.
Yun Si-ah tried her best not to fall, but she was unable to stop herself from falling further and further due to her strong strength.
Just like that, there was a distance of about two steps between him and her.
“…….”
Kang In-ho swung his arm at the sloppily built masonry wall.
With a dull sound, the green cast opened slightly.
He grabbed it with the other hand and violently opened the gap, and soon the cast was torn off.
With both hands free, the leg cast could be easily removed.
“I’m not doing it out of guilt.”
“Then?”
“When I thought about it, I realized that all of this was my fault.”
“What do you mean?”
“You won’t understand. It’s a concept you don’t know.”
He slightly changed what he had once heard from Solari.
“Teacher. You like me, right?”
At her unexpected words, Yun Shia opened her eyes and her face blushed.
“What does that have to do with the current situation…”
“…Right?”
In response to Kang In-ho’s question, Yoon Sia closed her mouth and nodded her head slightly.
He turned her body towards the villa.
“That’s why I’m doing this. If I’m here, if I stay here… Things will get messy.”
With those words, Kang In-ho ran at full speed toward the villa where the flames were rising.
“If the longer I stay here, the more problems I create and the more things go wrong… I have to take responsibility, right?”
“Student!! Student!!”
There were many voices holding him back, but Kang In-ho never looked back.
After that, Yoon Shia never saw Kang In-ho.
***
“That was the last time.”
The second floor of the cafe, where many Kagong people gather.
Yoon Si-ah, who was in front of someone, muttered as she remembered that time.
Half a year has passed since that day. The season has suddenly become warmer, and people’s clothes are becoming thinner.
“Was there anything unusual?”
“I also found out later that I asked if I knew… But they said there was a deep stab wound on In-ho’s neck.”
They say it was difficult to check because everything was burned, but that’s for sure. Yoon Sia added.
“A stab wound?”
“Yes. In-ho was found in the entrance of Shin Jeong-ah’s house, and Shin Jeong-ah was on top of him….”
“The story goes that that kid named Shin Jeong-ah stabbed In-ho.”
“I guess that’s the case. This is just my opinion… I wonder if In-ho miraculously found Shin Jeong-ah and was stabbed in the back while carrying her out….”
“…….”
The person who heard Yoon Sia’s explanation closed his eyes and crossed his arms.
It seemed like something was making him angry.
“But… You said In-ho’s family? I didn’t know that In-ho had an older sister. He was a kid who never talked about his family.”
“It’s just… Okay.”
The other person closed his mouth while trying to explain something.
Yoon Sia, who took this to mean that she did not want to say anything, wet her mouth with a sip of coffee.
“Are you from my mother’s side? If you are ‘Lee’.”
As soon as her words fell, the other person opened his eyes.
“Anyway, thank you for letting me know. Thanks to you, I learned things I didn’t know.”
The woman with a dull face smiled slightly.
“Yes….”
Yoon Si-ah blurted out her words, and the other person stood up from her seat as if there was nothing more to see.
“Yes, you were nice to him.”
The person who was leaving the cafe seemed to have changed his mind and turned around again.
“Yes?”
“If he had been with you a little longer, it would have been a different story.”
With a brighter smile than before, the other person left.
Yun Sia felt a chill running down her back, though she didn’t know why.
She was clearly meeting a pair of eyes, but for some reason, it was like hundreds of eyes were staring at her at once.
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