Chapter 288 – Episode 288 – [Knight of Pure Love: Origin] His Final Memoir

* Episode 288 – [Knight of Pure Love: Origin] His final memoir

The beautiful girl who flew in from over the hill showed a sunflower smile.

I didn’t notice it, but when I was looking at the pension, Seongyeon was also looking at me.

“Changgi, if mom doesn’t eat breakfast, take her for a long time~!”

“The lady?”

“Yeah! I saw your parents going to town in a truck earlier, and when they heard that you had been sleeping all this time without eating, they got angry and said no!”

It wasn’t that rare in our neighborhood to see children eating and playing at neighbors’ houses.

I don’t know what the downtown area is like, but it’s not a desolate neighborhood.

However, since Seongyeon’s family came from outside, they were probably sensitive to such matters, but they actively blended into the village atmosphere.

As proof, my family, especially me, was strangely close to Seongyeon’s family.

“Let’s eat, take a bath, and even play the game we couldn’t play yesterday~!”

“I heard that that thing you did yesterday went really fast… Won’t you get scolded if you do it every day?”

“It’s okay when you have a prostitute~! Even mom can’t get angry~!”

“Isn’t it because I’m stuck at home that you can’t scold me because I’ve noticed?”

“No~! My mom likes you so much! So it’s okay to play as much as you want~!”

Seongyeon was always a healthy child who smiled brightly at me.

Her flaw is that she acts a little like a man, but that’s why she’s popular among people of all ages and genders.

I may have had my own reasons for moving to such a rural area, but I never revealed them to the public.

‘I’m not saying I’m going, but I asked them to come from over there, so I guess it’ll be okay.’

Seongyeon’s parents are good people, just like the picture.

I didn’t want to be told that I didn’t care about those people, so I stayed home as much as possible on days when I wasn’t called, and as a result, I ended up being dependent on them throughout the vacation.

-「I tried curry today, so finish it and leave.」

Eating at Seongyeon’s with the lady’s friendly smile is a common occurrence in everyday life.

After the meal, instead of the poop-smelling shower next to the conventional toilet, I got some water in the clean, newly built bathroom and played with Seongyeon.

“Hey, Seongyeon.”

“Wham~?”

“Even if I wash my hair, the shampoo doesn’t disappear?”

“Really~? It’s strange~?”

“Are you, by any chance, spraying shampoo on my hair?”

“No~?”

Wow! Sigh!

“No, it’s not true! You’re making it up, right! You’re going to get scolded by the lady for doing that!?”

“It’s my family’s shampoo, so it’s okay~!”

Perhaps because they are young, even if they are of different genders, they are not conscious of each other.

Seongyeon saw me as a friend, and I was like Noh Jin-goo, envious of this guy.

…

… At least that was the case until this day.

-“Right. Are you a prostitute?”

-「I heard your parents are coming home late today. Do you want to sleep here?」

It was common for me to sleep here like this.

From Seongyeon’s parents’ point of view, their daughter’s friend who lives next door is sleeping alone without her parents.

Moreover, there is no proper crime prevention in this rural area… That would be a concern for adults.

“Thank you.”

I behaved politely towards my parents who gave me such consideration.

There’s no good reason to hate someone like this.

I always bowed my head in a belly greeting, and when my parents saw my behavior like that, they scolded Seongyeon, saying, ‘You should grow up too.’

“You’re so precocious~! That’s what girls this age are supposed to be~!”

… Seongyeon, who talks back like that, is also quite precocious for someone her age.

Anyway, we played games, read comics, then ran around again and had dinner.

Still, she said that she was the same person between men and women, so he took her bath together and had her sleep in a separate room.

It was a blessing in itself to be able to sleep without worrying about there being a spider in front of my nose when I woke up, so I fell into a deep sleep as usual.

…

…

…

And then a fun day should have begun again.

A morning where birds are chirping, my parents are looking for me, and I say to Seongyeon that I will see her later.

‘Boom!’

A merciless heat rushed through my small dream and burned it down.

‘Haha… Ugh… It’s so hot~!?’

I, who was deeply asleep, couldn’t hold back my sweat and woke up.

At first, I thought I had turned on the boiler incorrectly, but I quickly realized that this was not the problem.

‘Fire!?’

At this time, I knew that the house was on fire just from the heat.

How did they know?

Is it like a survival instinct that remains in the human body?

Fortunately, the place I was staying was on the first floor of the pension and there was a window, so I opened it and crawled out like an earthworm.

“Callock calllock call…!!”

Then, I lost consciousness for a moment, and when I opened my eyes again, I was in front of a bright red flame.

Seongyeon’s castle, which I envied so much, was on fire, and I lay down in the courtyard and looked at it blankly.

-「Seongyeonaaaaa!!!」

-「Seongyeonaaaaa!!!!!」

It wasn’t just me in the courtyard, there were adults too.

Especially Seongyeon’s parents… The lady was crying towards the second floor.

The villagers tried to stop me from jumping into the flames at any moment, so I barely got up from my seat and was busy assessing the situation.

‘Seongyeon is that… It’s still on the second floor… ?’

She reassures her mother that someone has called the fire department.

But that was no consolation.

Everyone here knows how long it will take for a fire truck to arrive in this remote corner.

Even a child like me knows this, but when Seongyeon tried to say that to her parents, they only told her to wait until she died.

‘I fainted for a moment just from inhaling the smoke… So what happened to Seongyeon up there…’

There was no adult paying attention to me.

No, there was at first, but everyone was busy trying to stop Seongyeon and her mother.

What caught my eye was a hose in the yard and a few towels hanging outside.

‘Fuck.’

I didn’t even think about anything else.

Crawl under the hose, turn the faucet, and pour water on your head.

Of course, I wet several towels and jumped in among the adults without mercy.

-「Kyaaaaah!!!」

-「You prostitute! “You bastard!!!”

-「Honey!!!」

Only later did the adults notice me and reach out for me, but I escaped like a rugby player and threw myself into the flames.

I covered my mouth with a wet towel, put the towel around my neck, and made it to the second floor where Seongyeon was in an instant.

Perhaps because of the adrenaline, I didn’t feel any pain right away even though sparks flew and shit came out everywhere.

I was careful when opening the doorknob and wrapped it in a towel, but even so, I couldn’t avoid my palms getting cooked and found Seongyeon with a painful voice.

“Seongyeon!”

“… Ugh! Ugh!?”

In the midst of this, Seongyeon was crying, covering her mouth with her clothes. She was just as precocious as me.

She lowered herself to avoid the smoke as much as possible and supported herself with cloth soaked from a bucket of water in her room.

Unlike me, his mind was clear, but the reason he couldn’t come out was because the doorknob on the door was red, and he couldn’t come out.

“Follow me… Quickly…!”

I wrapped her child in a towel that hadn’t dried yet, blocked the sparks flying from all directions with her body, and somehow escaped the fire.

And right after crossing the threshold.

-「You prostitute! “You prostitute!”

-「You foolish bastard!!」

The faces of my parents, who came back after hearing the news, immediately appeared.

That was my last memory.

*

But that doesn’t mean he’s dead.

Of course.

This is my memory, memoir, and diary.

-「────!!!」

-「~~~!!! ~~~~!?」

When I opened my eyes, this time I was in a hospital.

I don’t know how long she was lying down, but behind Seongyeon, who was looking down at me with concern, there were adults pointing at each other.

When I realized that those were my parents and Seongyeon’s parents, my heart sank.

Because it was obvious why they were fighting.

“Ugh~!?”

But I couldn’t stop it.

I was startled and tried to move my body, but I shuddered from the burning pain throughout my body.

It was only when I saw the fluid dripping from my entire body and my palms that were swollen like the soles of bear paws that I realized I was a bitch.

Full body burns…

Even some of the hair flew off, making it a miserable sight.

“Prostitute. Are you okay?”

“…”

I looked at Seongyeon in despair.

Because I took care of it, there wasn’t a single wound on this side.

Instead, my eyes were swollen, probably because I had been crying all day.

His feelings seemed complicated because he thought it was because of him that he got hurt.

‘I can’t hear my voice…’

I also had something I wanted to say.

For example, all of this is an accident… Since I jumped in directly, there is nothing wrong with it…

So I tried to stop the adults from fighting, but… I couldn’t even say that because my throat was sore.

-「Oh my, this Mundi! Mundi! They say you died and came back to life!”

-「If they tell you that you have to have surgery soon, just lie down and don’t move!!」

‘Surgery…’

My young heart showed signs of fear.

It was even worse when I woke up with oozing fluid all over my body and meatballs on my palms.

“It’s okay… I have a potion…! Dad said if I use it, I’ll be fine soon…!”

Seongyeon, who said that, also looked in doubt whether it would really be cured.

My friend, who I used to play with in the morning, ended up like this, so I kept crying out of tenderness.

In the meantime, my parents raised their voices, trying to decide who was at fault and who was at fault, and my mind began to fade again.

‘I can’t even move a finger.’

It felt like my body was using up all kinds of nutrients.

The overflowing adrenaline has all subsided and all that remains is pain.

Not long after, the doctor heard that I had woken up, rushed over, took the bed I was lying on, and headed somewhere.

“You prostitute…”

As I clenched my teeth and held on to the fact that her eyes looked like they were going to pop up, I saw Seongyeon’s face again.

Even while his parents were fighting each other, he was able to keep up with his small steps.

I listened intently, wondering if there was anything he wanted to say to me.

“… Thank you so much for saving me.”

“…”

“I will never forget what happened today. I will remember it for the rest of my life. So please be safe…”

“Yes…”

After saying those last words, I rolled my eyes in relief.

Why was I relieved?

Because I’m obsessed with my actions?

Or is it because Seongyeon is nice enough to say that?

No.

-I was feeling a strong [Reward mentality] From Seongyeon’s sincere words.

The rubbish idea that ‘I saved you, so you should be grateful to me’.

In my heart, there was no beautiful friendship or good will that would make Seongyeon’s eyes shine.

No, rather, I was thinking something like this.

-I think I might be able to play with Seongyeon more in the future.

-You might be able to ask for things without worrying about what others think.

-In the distant future, I might get you out of that damn house.

A child who is precocious for his age and has an extraordinary spirit.

Just because someone’s situation is poor and miserable doesn’t mean they’re all good people.

I was just that kind of bastard.