Chapter 59 – Discussion

It has been about an hour since I received the service (?) From my mother and Seunghee.
Now it’s gotten to the point where I don’t know if they’re serving me or I’m serving them.

“Hey, hey…”

To my left, an exhausted Seunghee gasps for breath.

“Hey Changjae…”

On the right, a similarly exhausted mother lies down.
Enfolded in my arms, with a hazy expression as if dreaming.

Over the past few days, I have learned something from overlapping my body with my mother every day.
In this state, the mother is said to fall asleep quickly.

“Mom.”
“Huh… ?”

When I call, wet eyes turn to mine.

“Please finish what you were talking about before going to sleep.”
“What you said… ?”
“Why did you suddenly decide to do today’s service?”
“Ah.”

It seems to have come to mind in my words.
But instead of talking, Mom looked at Seung-hee.

Is it related to Seunghee?
When I saw Seung-hee, Seung-hee suddenly brought up a story.

“Brother. You look like another woman?”
“Another woman?”

It was an absurd story.
Where is the woman on this deserted island?

“I know everything, so tell me honestly. The woman I was looking for earlier, she followed and made me her partner, right?”
“Ah… What else am I saying?”

I saw that there was another woman

“Well, let me explain the woman first.”

It just went well.
This was something I had to discuss with my mother and Seunghee.

“First of all, did you overhear what I was talking to her about?”
“Huh. You mean the medicine?”
“Yes. She came to this island with one member of her family, just like the rest of us. She came to get him medicine because he was sick.”
“Seven years old…”

My mother groans at the end of 7 years old.

The first time I met my mother was when I was 10 years old.
If she’s 7, she’s 3 years younger than him, so you’d have to consider it a starting point that would be impossible to survive in a normal way from the start.

“But I don’t know if that’s true or not. I couldn’t confirm if my son was really there.”
“Why? Brother, didn’t you follow me to see that?”
“It did. But it didn’t work. When she arrived, her baby was already dead.”
“Omg!”

Seung-hee swallows her breath with a cartoon-like sound.

“Actually, I wasn’t even sure if he was really dead. When a person dies here, there is no corpse left, right?”
“Ah…”

As I spoke to the two of them, I organized the story in my head.

“Maybe the woman realized that I was following her and planned her acting like that from the beginning. So, I’m not sure if the son is really dead and gone, or if she lied from the beginning about the son she didn’t have.”

In the end, nothing is certain.
What the hell did I do I was in vain.

“How was it from Changjae’s point of view?”

After hearing my words, my mother, who was thinking hard about it, asks.

“What?”
“Did Chang-jae think he was acting? Or was it real?”
“Performance… It didn’t look like it. You wouldn’t have known that I was following you, so you wouldn’t have to act.”
“So, what Changjae said might not be ‘one in ten thousand’?”
“Yes.”

It was hard to believe that it was really acting.
But I couldn’t guarantee it based on my personal impressions. A hasty judgment could endanger Mom and Seung-hee.

“Assuming it was acting, what benefit does that person gain from acting like that?”
“What, buying me some sympathy and distracting me?”
“So?”
“… Killing me and stealing supplies when I’m not paying attention…”

If there are other men in the party, Mom and Seung-hee will be the ‘material’.
I didn’t even say it there.

“But isn’t the method too cumbersome for that? I don’t know if I can get sympathy or not, I don’t know if I can catch my guard or not. If it was meant to hurt us, Mom thinks there might have been a simpler way.”
“Yes… That’s exactly what mom said.”
“Yes?”

Mom shrugged her shoulders and raised her nose.
‘She can reason like this,’ she seems to claim.

Well, the accident may have been too narrow because of the anxiety that even her mother and Seung-hee could be in danger. If you keep in mind even the smallest possibilities, important decisions will be delayed. Shall we be a little bolder?

Match.
Seunghee, who was listening intently from the side, clapped her hands and said.

“So oppa, was that girl pretty?”

That was another difficult question.

“Pretty… Should I say Actually, I couldn’t see the face properly.”
“No way. Lie.”
“Really. And because I’m a bit of an odd person.”
“Is it unusual? What about it?”
“Well, I was a foreigner once.”
“Foreigner?”

This time mom asks.

“Yes. American or European? She’s a white woman, and it seemed like she could speak Korean well.”
“I see. Well, there is no law that only Koreans come.”
“So, brother. Was it pretty?”

For some reason, Seunghee was obsessed with whether or not she was pretty.

Um, should I call it pretty?
It was definitely not a pretty category. Although she can be called cool.
It was grotesque, and the desperate atmosphere also played a role.

“To be honest, I didn’t think it was pretty. Seunghee is prettier.”
“Huh~.”

Seung-hee narrows her eyes in disbelief.

“And he was very tall. I felt like I did some exercise. It was easy enough to catch a wild boar alone.”
“Are you tall? How much?”
“I think that would be over 190, wouldn’t it be close to 2 meters?”
“Hehe.”
“Hey, how can a girl be 2 meters tall?”
“Definitely taller than me. I don’t know if it looked that way because of the proportions, but it looked like a head taller than me.”
“A head longer than your brother?”

Seung-hee added a head to my head and measured it, and made a fuss.

“Hey~ That’s ridiculous! Is it real?”
“Really. Check it out later Maybe we’ll see each other soon.”
“Uh? Is it so?”

That’s why I’m worried too.
If we never meet again, there’s nothing to worry about.

“Because my son died… Huh. That’s right…”

I think my mom understood too.
However, Seunghee still had a question mark in her head.

“You have to collect coins to save your son, right?”
“Ah!”

Seunghee seems to have barely understood.

“Since we helped them once, I think they will come this way first. Then… How should I respond, Mom?”
“Huh? Me?”

Mom with wide eyes.
It sounds irresponsible, but I wanted to defer all judgment to my mother.

“Honestly, I don’t know what to do.”

A woman who can fight.
If this was a game, it was a talent that had to be recruited unconditionally.

However, human-to-human relationships are not so simple.
Because I don’t know what kind of trouble it might cause.

“I thought being on the same side would help. She’s a woman who can even catch a wild boar bigger than me with a single spear. I don’t know what it’s like against people, but it’s better than nothing.”

I am virtually the only one among us who can fight right now.
That fact was a heavy burden on me.

“But because of the fact that it can fight, it can also be dangerous. We might be attracting dangerous people to our headquarters.”

The problem was that the woman wasn’t completely trustworthy like her mother or Seung-hee.

“If we don’t accept her… She can’t simply send it back. You know our hideout, and you can hold a grudge for being rejected…”

I didn’t want to, but if I wasn’t going to accept it, it was safe to dispose of it.

Ha. I don’t want to. Really.

Maybe the past few days have dulled my mind because I’ve been lying around with my mother, Seung-hee.
When she first came to this island, she thought that Seung-hee or Seung-pil would get rid of them if they were wrong.

“It’s Changjae.”

Does mom even know how I feel?
He caresses my cheek with a gentle hand.

“Can you do that with him?”
“Yes?”

Laughter arose at the unexpected question.

“Mom. I’m 21 years old. A 21-year-old man will drive even a knot in a tree.”
“He is. I’m not talking like that.”

My mother tapped me lightly on the shoulder.

“… 21 years old?”

Meanwhile, Seunghee reacted in a different part.
Oops.

“Only 21 years old.”

I quickly corrected it.

In fact, Seunghee and I are 21 years old and are the same age.
But until now, I had been hiding my age and had Seung-hee call me oppa.

“Um~?”

As if Seunghee was suspicious, she made her face and glared at me.
I massaged Seunghee’s butt to avoid embarrassment.

“Wow!”
“It doesn’t matter what you do. That’s rather good But then the coins will be distributed.”
“Woo!”
“There will be fewer opportunities to spend time with my mother or Seunghee.”

Seunghee lightly bites my forearm from the side. Is it acupressure?

“Huh… I know what Changjae is worried about. It is certainly not an easy matter.”
“What do you think is good for mom?”
“Mom wants to tell Changjae to do whatever he wants.”

Mother with a wry smile.
It seemed so too.
This was ultimately a matter for me to decide and take responsibility for.

“But there is no guarantee that he will come here, right? If he really does come, I think it would be better to meet him and judge him then.”

Even if my mom got another woman, she didn’t seem to care much.

But what about the real heart?
Does she really not care?
If she accepts her, won’t she also increase her jealousy level?

… Would it be safe to just get rid of it?
It was a difficult problem.

“Brother. Why don’t you ask me?”
“You live in our house.”
“Woo!”

Seunghee’s opinion was very good.