Chapter 23 – Tale of a Demon – The Stained Man

* Tale of a Demon – The Stained Man

A man was running.

A large, stained white tank top. Sporting short-cut hair and oversized construction work pants. He looks like a fisherman, running barefoot along the dock, but he is still a young man. There were deep wounds all over his body, but he continued running without any sign of stopping.

Take a deep breath.

When you exhale, saliva mixed with blood flows out.

The people following behind are a bit older. Grandfathers and grandmothers with an atmosphere commonly seen in the countryside. But that face was anything but gentle. The wrinkled eyes are floating smoothly like a ghost, glaring at him.

“Give up… I can’t go any further than this… “

“… “Fuck you.”

“Let’s go home quietly with Grandma, okay? Go and talk… “

“Leaving me like this… ?”

The crowd looked at the two grandfathers and grandmothers who took the lead as if biting them. One person shouted that they would kill the young man right away, one asked him to drown him, and another person threatened to sell him to a male prostitute. Everyone was filled with anger.

“Why did you do that!!!”

In the end, one person who couldn’t overcome his anger ran out and asked the young man. The kitchen knife he is holding is trembling.

“… “What is it?”

“What? How are you? Do you realize how big of a deal what you just did?! The area around here collapsed last time too! Those damn broadcasting stations are coming! Even the Navy came and turned the family upside down! I barely got over it at the time, but then they made it happen again! “Are you still human?!”

An old man who couldn’t bear the heat was wheezing, his face was red, and his nose was bleeding. However, the young man also opened his neck wide, probably because he was excited by those words.

“Are you a person?! Hold on to the woman! Rape! Fooling people from other countries! Old men work like slaves because they can’t return home! Are you telling me to just wait and see? Is this normal?!”

“Without those guys, we’ll starve to death!”

“Think of the village! Who gives birth to children if there is no woman?!”

“Either starve to death! She doesn’t have to have children! The workers who were deceived are not getting a single penny and are even losing their language, while old people who are addicted to drugs are talking about people to me?! Are you still human?! In what era did they do something like this?”

“You yellow guy! “I should have known from the beginning!”

“Aren’t the clothes you’re wearing made by those guys in the first place?”

“How dare you ruin a place where you can live happily if you stay still!”

The old man, who was at the front with a bloody nose dripping with anger as the screaming crowd cheered him on, growled softly.

“You’re selling off your family like this, just a meal. Just wait and see. Be sure to wait and see!!!”

“Isn’t that the one to wait and see?”

“No, you will regret it. You fucking, fucking bastard. Do you think we’ll get caught like this? You probably know what kind of guys the police around here are, right? Just get rid of the kids and bring them back before those idiots overthrow the island. In the meantime, you will die miserably.”

“It won’t happen this time. Everything I know is gone. This time, I will somehow catch the trace.”

“You kid, that’s funny. Don’t trust this country. “What can we trust in these people who have done something like this on the island and have yet to take any action?”

“It’s better than doing nothing. I would rather die than become trash like you. Even though no one knows about me, wouldn’t it be a happy ending if this island disappears and other people are freed?”

The young man walked behind him quietly. There is a sea at the end. The night sea was violent, hitting the pier with high waves. If the waves are calm in the morning, you may be able to reach a nearby island, but you will still be caught and killed by someone.

“What are you planning to do here? … I can’t go. “Whether you swim or take a boat, everyone who lives outside the island is an accomplice.”

“Does it look like that?”

“… Who made you like that? Is it because of that bitch?”

“Wouldn’t you be receiving treatment at home by now?”

“That bitch tricked you. I will catch you and kill you. “I would like to catch and kill you right in front of you, but it’s a shame I can’t.”

“Isn’t that your specialty? Finding out the identity of the person who reported about the island through his accomplice, the police. But that won’t be possible this time. I told them not to contact the police. “I’ve been quiet so far, but you wouldn’t know that I’m doing something.”

“The car your bastard rode in… “

“The black box is already under the sea.”

“This fucking guy… “

“As expected, I shouldn’t have brought in the guy who got wet outside.”

“Where will that blood go?” “

The young man remembers the first time he came to this island through their gossip. He came to the island because he could not find work in the city. He tried to learn the trade as a grandson of his grandfather and grandmother who lived on the island. His grandfather and grandmother also seduced him by saying they would get him a pretty girl. The innocent young man at the time foolishly set foot on this island.

At first he thought he would become a fisherman, but he didn’t.

Fisherman? It was a funny thing.

The reality was terrible.

“Do you know how I feel? My grandfather, who had been smiling brightly at me until yesterday, hit and assaulted the young woman with that same smile on his face. “With her bright smile, she was beating up an older man than me, as if her grandmother knew it too.”

Still, the young man acted rationally. He took care of the violence and managed the spirit of the women who were taken in. If there was a man who was lamenting about his situation until yesterday, he will disappear tomorrow and the only answer that comes back is that he is dead. The daily routine of leaving large trash in front of the pier. A drum full of concrete. The young man pretended not to know anything and did his work.

“Disposal of corpses… It was good up to that point… No, that wasn’t good either. Anyway, it was a line that I could barely tolerate.”

“This is what everyone does here.”

“Aren’t you saying you don’t understand that?”

The grandfather, who cared for his grandchild, sincerely thought and comforted him, saying that he would be fine soon and that he would get used to it. But the young man’s heart was not worn out. Every year, as the woman changed and the sound of sobbing changed, the number of dead people came to mind.

Is this the right thing to do?

There is no choice in order to live.

What would be different if I violated a woman too?

Meanwhile, the young man met the woman. She was a trashy woman who betrayed her boyfriend and then got stabbed in the back by her. She remembered the time when he could not resist her earnest request and sent her back to her home. It wasn’t because I felt sorry for her that I let her go. She was a woman who felt so bad that she was dumbfounded when she heard the situation. So there was something she knew. In this world, if you do something shit, it comes back the same way.

The woman in front of her was proof. Because she did bad things, bad things happen to her. There was no guarantee that the family members who were now smiling at their grandchildren would not betray the young man. He wondered if it was necessary to commit evil deeds while enduring such anxiety about betrayal and disgust at work.

Only then did the young man admit that he was wrong about this island. He first saved the woman as part of her atonement. She was in tatters after being fucked by everyone, but she opened her pussy begging for her life. She also reflected like a young man. When asked who she would apologize to first, her boyfriend’s name popped up. In that drug-soaked voice, she repeatedly apologized to her boyfriend. Like a believer confessing his sins to the Lord.

“When she was sober, she was a good girl.”

“… If you liked it that much, you could have become a sexy woman.”

She is a woman who desperately wants to apologize to him. His name comes out of my mouth every time I run out of energy. It was a pity to watch him apologize so many times for how wrong he was. The young man’s heart was not strong enough to stop such a woman.

“What about your grandchildren? Did you teach them to treat women like that?”

“Of course. All you have to do is give birth to a good child and cook well.”

“Is it so? I guess I have a horse vest. I like a woman who knows how to properly hold the reins on her husband. “A broken woman is not her type.”

She said that it was none other than the young man himself who sent the woman to her boyfriend’s house. She personally delivered it using her own car, which was parked outside her island. When the drugged woman came to her senses, she managed to recall her friend’s number one. She called her friend’s number and found out the location of her boyfriend’s house.

… Did you say she was Jeong Song-mi?

The young man chuckles, saying that the woman was noisy. She even revealed that she had found out the location of the house, and she threatened him. She decided to pretend to be a villain. Furthermore, she said that if she gets involved with the police she will risk your life and her boyfriend’s life while she threatened her. In fact, if she reports to the police, she will be connected to these old people here.

“Can I say I prepared to die?”

“I will struggle.”

A young man throwing himself in response to old people running towards him with knives.

Into the deep, deep sea.

Young people are disappearing.