Chapter 113 – Puppy in a Cage (5)

Puppy in a cage (5)

It is very late at night after the festival that undoubtedly stirred the library today.

Cha Ha-yan stared alternately at the library soaked in pitch black darkness and the headlights of vehicles that lit up the night.

As soon as the conversation with the Agricultural College camp members was over, he climbed into the bedroom and put on a blanket as if he were running away.

The courteous knock that woke me up from being stuck in my bedroom, skipping even the tryst on the rooftop, which I always never forgot.

When Cha Ha-yeon said that his brother-in-law was calling him, he got into the prepared vehicle without a sound.

The headlights of a vehicle are the only ones that can distinguish sight in the terrible darkness without a single street light.

Cha Ha-in kept her silence as she gazed at the unfamiliar scenery in front of her.

“Im here.”

The first words of Yoo Seo-jun, who kept her silence with her.

During the driving time, which was not as long as expected, Ha-yan Cha’s head naturally returned to the window.

Unlike the library that fell asleep with all the lights turned off, the large building still has bright lights.

Click-!

Realizing that the building was the student center, I shuddered at the slowly opening car door.

Koh Goh-hoon, who looks at himself like that, smiles softly as if it’s nothing.

Cha Ha-yan carefully stepped out of the car, looking at Goh Goh, who was quietly waiting for her to get off.

Koh Jang-hoon, who always had a little bit of flattery and a bright smile whenever he faced himself.

In particular, whenever I saw him at the ongoing festival, his somewhat static expression, rather than his relaxed face, was so unfamiliar.

Took-!

After Koh Koo slowly closed the car door, he gently gestured toward the student center with both hands.

“I will see you.”

Just like Yoo Seo-joon, who drove the vehicle, Koh Goh-hoon refrained from unnecessary words and went straight to the point.

Ha-yan Cha followed Goh Goh-hoon’s steps, still confused about everything.

The hallway of the student hall, where there are no people other than Koh Jang-hun, who was introduced earlier.

Tuck – tuck –

The footsteps that follow Goh Jang-hoon naturally speed up in the chilly silence where only the sound of their footsteps climbing the stairs resonates.

On the 4th floor of the Student Union Building, Koh Jang-hoon stopped walking while guiding.

Ha-yan Cha read the nameplate on the door facing a room on the 4th floor that Goh Jang-hoon quietly pointed to.

[BUBS Banseok Education Broadcasting Station]

Very Late Night, Call of the World, University Broadcasting Station.

They were random pieces that could not be connected at all.

Moreover, Goh Jang-hoon takes a step back as if to let him know that his role is over.

He silently nodded his head at Cha Ha-in’s trembling eyes and glanced at the door of the broadcasting station again.

Kiki-Ik-

Ha-yan Cha turns the doorknob very carefully at Goh Jang-hoon’s urging, not urging.

Beyond the wide-open door of the broadcasting station, Han Se-gye, who had been sitting in front of complicated machines, looked up.

“Ah – are you here, White?”

Apart from Han Se-gye, who smiled brightly, it was a situation that I couldn’t understand.

Thud-!

Shortly after she walks into the station, she hears the station door closing with a loud bang.

A warm hand crept into her shoulder as she flinched in surprise.

Cha Ha-in, still swinging around the station with her eyes wide open.

“Weren’t you surprised to suddenly wake up right when you were sleeping?”

Her world led her gently into her broadcasting station.

Han Se-gye gently leads her to the spot where he was waiting for her tea white.

He pointed to the transparent glass windows beyond the machines made up of multiple monitors and complex buttons.

“Still, I thought it would be easier to start by asking the opinions of the parties.”

Cha Ha-yan followed his gestures and quietly looked inside the window.

Then, she opened her wide-eyed eyes even wider and stiffened her whole body.

Slowly open your mouth and inhale without stopping.

In her eyes looking through the window of the broadcasting station, the scene inside the window trembled and reflected.

A single chair was placed in the studio behind the window.

And one person who is tied to the chair with his whole body bound.

A damp blindfold exposed in bright light and a gag tightly wrapped around a slightly open mouth.

Both arms turned behind the chair and both legs tightly restrained.

The saliva that flowed from his open mouth to his chin and his long hair were constantly shaking as he twisted his body around somehow.

“How will we do it?”
“… Yes?”

Cha Ha-yan had no choice but to ask Han Se-gye’s question in a rather stupid way.

Thanks to Han Se-gye, who leans slightly with her shoulder to shoulder, they see each other’s eyes closely.

In response to her question, Han Se-gye sighed through the window and said it again.

“What kind of punishment do you think would be good, White?”

To that Kim Hanbyeol.

A familiar name that flowed into her ears without the slightest gap.

Cha Ha-in did not answer Han Se-gye’s question and continued to stare through her window.

No matter how many tears shed, drip-drip-drip tears from the thick wet blindfold.

A gagged mouth that was busy moving as if it were babbling nonstop even now.

However, it was just a gesture that felt so bizarre beyond the sound barrier that no noise from the studio could be heard.

Cha Ha-yeon turned her groggy head, feeling the chicken flesh ride her whole body with her bow.

She opened her trembling lips to the world, who was quietly waiting for her own answer.

“… I-I think that would be enough, brother-in-law.”
“What?”
“Bur, burr, earn. I-I’m fine, brother-in-law. I’m really fine-! Hanbyul unni is not such a bad person, brother-in-law. It’s just- he was so stressed out that he said a few words that he didn’t even mean. I’m sure Hanbyeol unnie also—”

Han Se-gye gazes intently at Cha Ha-in, who urgently makes excuses for her.

As his expression hardened, Cha Ha-yan’s voice gradually faded.

“Well.”

Han Se-gye narrowed her eyes in a cold voice.

“It wasn’t enough to insult you very openly in front of the other campers, you insulted your sister and insulted me.”

As soon as Cha Ha-yan recognized the change in Han Se-gye’s expression, he closed his lips tightly with a white face like a sheet of paper.

“There is no option to let go of Kim Han-byul, White-ah. In the first place, we will never let Kim Han-byul go like this, even for the sake of maintaining camp discipline.”

Took-!

The hand of the Han Se-gye, who loosened her shoulder strap and tightly gripped both of her shoulders.

Among the two people who faced each other head-on from the gaze looking through the window, Han Se-gye whispered first.

“White.”

It’s a friendly name, but there’s no warmth in it.

“It’s really disappointing.”

The dagger pierces Cha Ha-yan’s chest without any delay.

“How could you, no one else, say such a thing?”

Is the person in front of me really the Cha Ha-yan I know?

“How are you telling me to let go of the person who insulted your sister and me because you weren’t enough?”

Cha Ha-yan flinched greatly every time the dagger was fired.

However, Han Se-gye suppressed the flinch with both hands and glared at her eyes.

“Don’t you care that your sister and I were being swearing at each other? Are you okay enough to forgive me casually?”
“…”
“Answer me.”
“… Oh, no- no no-“
“Yeah—even cursing at Seol-hee, but that bitch also cursed at me. But how come the sound of quitting comes out of your mouth?”
“…”
“Am I the only one misunderstanding between us? Are we only that close?”

Before the world’s question was finished, she hurriedly shook her head – swish – my tea was white.

However, Han Se-gye grabbed Cha Ha-yan’s shoulder tightly with unrelenting eyes.

“But why are you looking at me with those eyes, Cha Ha-yan?”
“…”

Cha Ha-yan’s pupils, who began to tremble even more at Han Se-gye’s low whisper, hurriedly avoided Han Se-gye’s gaze.

Tearing her lips, the white eyes of her lowered towards the floor.

“I know, White.”
“…”
“I know very well that this is a scary and bad thing not to do.”

But I only confided in White to you.

“Sometimes there are bad things you have to do to get something bad.”

Han Se-gye stared through the window for a moment, then turned her head toward Cha Ha-in.

“Someone needs to put an end to the campers who continue to eat food while not making a proper contribution to the camp.”

“Someone has to give a stinging warning to the ringleaders who incite the campers by pouring out complaints.”

“Someone has to punish the bitch who speaks carelessly without knowing the details.”

Cha Ha-yan raises her lowered eyes from some point and makes eye contact with Han Se-gye.

One world stared at those blank eyes and followed them a little closer.

“Why on earth do you have to listen to such harsh words from those women? You worked so hard going back and forth between the library and the agricultural college to reconcile me and Nam Do-yoon—what on earth did those women treat you as a traitor and curse at you for what effort?”

Those girls don’t know anything-

You don’t even think about finding out why you had to do that, and you’re just busy cursing at you.

“This isn’t it, White.”

As she watched the world shake her head—twist—water gradually formed in her eyes.

Han Segye met Cha Ha-yan’s eyes, which were gradually becoming darker, and gently stroked her shoulders.

“Kim Han-byul, who cursed at you without knowing why he had no choice but to do bad things.”
“…”
“That Kim Hanbyul needs punishment.”
“…”
“You have to punish me, White.”

Yes?

Cha Ha-yan’s head, which was facing his pupils, moved cautiously at the words of Han Se-gye, who quietly asked back.

“Why.”

A short question struck by Cha Ha-yeon, who nodded her head very slightly.

“… Cows and precious food were consumed, but they did not contribute properly to the camp.”
“Also-.”
“… I incited the other camp members with strange lies.”
“Also-.”
“I insulted her sister and insulted her brother-in-law.”
“Also-.”
“…”

The question of a world that continues without end.

Recalling the answer he had given to the ensuing question, her eyes were degururu — tea white rolling.

“You forgot the most important thing.”

Cha Ha-yan slowly opened her lips as she looked at Han Se-gye, who smiled lightly in her eyes.

“… She said bad things to me without even knowing it.”
“…”

A world that doesn’t spit out any answers to the answer sheet that carefully mumbles while watching the world.

However, I could tell just by nodding my head and letting go of the hand that was stroking her shoulder.

His arms spread a little wider with the hand holding his shoulder.

Cha Ha-yan took a hesitant step forward at that familiar signal.

Cha Ha-in, who rubbed her face against her chest at once, as if finding her place, and a soft embrace that hugged her one after another.

“Yes, white.”

Cha Ha-yan listened to the warm whispers and comforted his heart, which had been shaken by the unfamiliar appearance of a world.

“That is why Kim Han-byul is being punished.”

I hurriedly nodded her head so that such a moment would not come again.

***

A conversation in her first librarian’s office that ended with Cha Ha-in’s sudden departure.

The very next day, I slowly leaned my back against the wall in the same spot as yesterday to overhear the continuing conversation.

“… What happened now, Cha Ha-yan!”

Unlike her first day, when Cha Ha-yeon spoke to her first, the female camp member’s shouts rang out terrifyingly when Cha Ha-han entered her office.

“Where did Hanbyul unnie suddenly disappear—what else is the special management center written on here—!”

The fluttering of paper clearly audible in the urgent cry.

“Why did a person who was perfectly fine until yesterday suddenly have a mental problem and unilaterally notify her and move her place of residence?! Is this a lie?!”
“It’s not a lie, it’s as written in the notice, Gohana.”
“… Senior Taeha.”

Park Tae-ha blocks a female camp member who flutters the notice that Kim Han-byul will be moved to a special management center due to mental problems.

He was the former vice-president of the student council who was sent in with Cha Ha-yan to prepare for any misfortune that could happen.

“What are you talking about when you come in with Cha Hayan all of a sudden?! Do you know what happened to senior Doyoon and senior Junki?! Senior― Seriously, why are seniors like this, really… My senior, Hanbyeol, has disappeared.”

With a voice full of tears, a female camp member chanted to Park Tae-ha as if pleading.

However, Park Tae-ha does not say anything private even after crying.

Bang-!

“Don’t pretend you don’t know anything, Cha Ha-yan! It’s all your fault!”

The deafening sound of hitting the table hard and the sound of the chair being dragged back echoed at the same time.

“You are the only reason why Hanbyeol unni suddenly disappears! Is she saying that your sister said a few words to you yesterday?! Hey—you’re such a scary bitch—?!”
“Sit down, Gohana.”
“… It’s crazy-! The sunbae is crazy- that Cha Ha-yan is crazy too- just everyone here is crazy-! Just call someone else! Not you and that hateful bitch, but Yeri-senpai—yes, where is Yeri-senpai?!”

Female Agricultural Sciences camp members seem to be in a state of panic at once due to the disappearance of their eldest sister.

Among them, I am the main character of this voice now.

I repeated her name again.

Go Hana.

Yesterday, he was the first camp member to push Cha Ha-yan, and a kind of right-hand man who was said to have followed Kim Han-byul very well.

“… Say it.”

I whispered the second name and shook my head slightly.