Chapter 143 – Old Town

“Are you leaving now?”
“Uh.”
“Take good care of yourself.”

As I spoke while stroking his shirt collar, Kim Joo-won grinned and patted my butt.
Yesterday
After Mr. Min-cheol visited, Kim Joo-won secretly seemed to be paying attention to me.

“Where are you going to touch in the morning…”
“Why.”
“No. Be careful.”

He probably didn’t know that I would cry so hard.
In his own story, did he think I was in pain as well?

“Yes. Call me if anything happens.”
“Huh.”
“Because I won’t be around that long anyway.”

Kim Joo-won carefully raised his hand and touched my cheek, then brought his face to my forehead and kissed it.
Seeing the guy walking out of the house with a smile on what was so good made me feel grumpy inside.
Although I didn’t show it on the outside.

“Sayya, Daddy’s coming.”

I stood looking at the empty porch he had left, then turned his feet and entered the room.
He carefully put the bird down and changed his clothes.

What kind of dog-like setting the typeface I wrote turned into.
And what kind of fucking effect that setting had on Kim Joo-won’s setting.
If you think that all of this came from me, the results you need to check to be responsible.

“Sister, I’m here!”

The door lock unlocked, and Seo-yeon came running to me, saying hello.
She just took off her shoes and ran to her and embraced her. “What, why are you doing this?” She awkwardly opened her mouth.

“Yeah, you can stay with Sae-ah for a long time!”
“Okay, so wash her hands first.”
“Right, okay!”

She looked up at her sleeping baby for a moment towards the crib in her room than her cheerfully trotting her way to her bathroom.
After briefly touching her cheek before leaving, she said a word to Seo-yeon, who washed her hands before she knew it.

“If you have any problems, call me. Don’t struggle to give me time.”
“Yea, I got it.”
“You know my sister’s ability, right? I can come right now, wherever I am.”
“I know.”

She smiled at Seo-yeon, who smiled at Sae-ah and said, “This is my aunt.”
I don’t know if it’s someone else, but if it’s Seoyeon, I’m relieved.
Closing her eyes, I recalled the image of my workout that I had seen in pictures beforehand.

The place where Kim Joo-won has a nursery school where she used to live as a child.
In the past and now, it was a little underdeveloped, and unlike this place where I am now, I think of that neighborhood even a little bit of a slum feeling.
In order to move instantaneously using dimensional transfer.

“Then I’ll come back.”
“Yeah, have a good trip.”

A blue light covers the body for a moment, and the surrounding scenery changes in an instant.
Obviously, the one I used is the same dimension transfer.
However, the moving distance increased dramatically, incomparable to the previous one, showing me the surrounding scenery passing by like a fast-playing video.

‘This is how it feels.’

Before, the distance traveled was short, so it passed by so quickly that it was impossible to see.
It’s probably because my ability is now strong enough to not be defeated by anyone.

‘I didn’t want to.’

After the transfer ended like that, what I saw around me wasn’t a figure that had slightly deviated from the street in the neighborhood where I lived.
It was a neighborhood that was quite underdeveloped than I thought, with low and old buildings as a whole.
All that was done for aesthetics was the sparsely planted roadside trees, giving off a desolate atmosphere.

‘Kim Joo-won was in a place like this when he was young…’

It pains my heart to see that the setting to bestow misfortune on him without thinking is alive and breathing in this place.
Maybe it would have been different if I had described it a little.
If the description had been a bit closer to happiness rather than unhappiness, wouldn’t he at least be crooked like he is now?

It hurts my heart thinking about this.

‘There was only one nursery school around here.’

I walked slowly, recalling the information I had been looking for on the Internet.
My workout.
Even if I searched all the records from quite a long time ago, there was only one nursery school that came out.

‘The name was an angel nursery school.’

I searched the map on my smartphone to find the way and moved on.
Following the old road and the stairs, a slightly large building began to come into view.

My workout.
It’s an old neighborhood that looks pretty run-down.

“Is it here?”

In fact, even though the neighborhood was underdeveloped, it might have been worth living if the people at the orphanage were okay.
However, judging from the welcoming ivy-covered exterior of the building, it was immediately felt that the environment was not so good.

Small hill.
A nursery school with a gloomy atmosphere, nestled on top of it.
Of course, even if it seems like the last hope that people won’t be bad will disappear, I slowly approach the neighborhood just in case.

But I have nothing to do with this place.
It’s hard to get in, but behind the fence, in a place where no one’s eyes can reach, I quietly look inside with the eyes of the dimension.
And facing the truth.

The interior looks disorganized.
A bunk bed with only assorted colors as a room and crammed in like a chicken coop, with children brawling and fighting each other.
I can see the adults who only receive money in the name of running a nursery school and save money for their children as much as possible.

‘Kim Joo-won…’

He quietly called out the boy’s name.
He had grown up in this environment, and had gone through countless nightmares.

Because of a novel I wrote without thinking.
If this world did not exist, we do not know.
However, as long as I knew this world and this place became my world, Kim Joo-won’s unhappy times.
And the feelings he felt for Seoha Lee and the feelings he felt for me now mixed together and tore my heart apart.

“Oh, is this your first sister?”
“Nuna, are you our supporter?”
“Wow, hey, who’s sponsored by this sister?”

I walked slowly into the orphanage.
Students fighting in the living room stopped bickering and looked at me.
At the appearance of an uninvited guest, a voice shouted, “Director!”, And a person who did not look like the director of an orphanage appeared.

“Hey, who are you…”

Nausea arose inside.
When he thought that Kim Joo-won must have suffered a lot from a guy who only revealed money like this, his hand trembled.
Originally, I probably would have endured it.

“Yang Ok-cheol.”

He quietly called out the director’s name.
Then, little by little, the question began to turn into a boundary.
In fact, if I were an ordinary woman, I might be in danger.
Everyone here right now is a man, and only I am a woman.

“How much did you receive and eat at the orphanage?”
“…What are you?”
“Me?”

Raise your hand quietly
Blue energy gathers to create an arrow.
At the evidence of that Awakener, the vigilance turns into fear once again in an instant.

“Someone related to one of the kids you abused.”
“Sir, what the fuck are you talking about!”
“I was originally thinking of giving it one chance, but I’ve changed my mind.”

And anger starts to rise inside me.
The patience of having to endure the thought that he treated and abused the guy who has become impossible to give up now is erased from his head.

Squeak-.
It’s quiet, but I hear that sound that shouldn’t be heard.
The blue blade cuts through the nursery school building and the entire mountain in an instant.

“I can’t help but think I’ll forgive you.”

Then I looked ahead.
There are no dead or injured.
I deliberately avoided only people, and only cut mountains and buildings in two.
No matter how much the building is split in half, it doesn’t collapse right away or something like that.

“Go, Awoken?”
“Of course, I’m not going to kill you right now.”

Through the two-dimensional space, I lead the ledger containing their negativity straight to the front.
When the wad of papers he had hidden in front of him fell in front of the slumped guy, he started screaming and screaming at me as if he was afraid and desperate at the same time.

“Go and turn yourself in. Go to your own feet and reveal everything one by one about what you’ve done.”
“Who the hell are you?”
“Otherwise, I won’t kill you gracefully.”

However, ignoring the guy’s words completely, he only says what I have to say.
Even if it’s only in front of overwhelming power, it’s not even worth listening to the words of a guy who doesn’t even resist and kneel.

“And you, I’m warning you. If you take out your anger on the kids that I’ve been to today, there’s nothing left to do. You’ll just die.”

I pressed the guy’s chest with my foot and pressed it to the floor, giving a final warning.
But I can’t stand it
Anger was burning inside, but the moment I tried to suppress it and turn around after I finished talking.

“너, 설마 그 김주원 새끼한테 대주는 년이냐? 왜, 그 새끼가 자기 복수 해주면, 해주겠다고 하든?”

I couldn’t stand the words and eventually kicked the guy with my feet.
It’s the first time kids will see a person fly backwards.
Seeing the fainted guy and being amazed at the fact that the person flew away, he doesn’t want to be there anymore, so he quickly escapes through the dimensional transfer.

‘I was crying.’

And then I started to feel it.
Tears running down your cheeks.
As he wiped his eyes with his hand, moist tears touched his hand.

In fact, it was anger against myself.
Things I couldn’t feel when simply writing with typeface stabbed myself.
I was angry at myself, crying at the thought that I was the one who made it.

“Fuck, sir…”

Where no one passes.
I sat down in such a place and wept alone.

The other day, when I was hiding in the academy and crying alone, did Kim Joo-won come?
No one came today, and until I went back like that, I alone stole tears.