Chapter 232 – 232 – Compassion
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After the fight, Jinwoo looks around.
‘I understand why he told me not to fight…’
The aftermath of the fight was amazing.
A split table, a scorched floor and a hollow wall,
In the worst part, it was a complete mess to the extent that there was a part where even the steel frame was exposed.
Even though Jinwoo only used a little bit of strength, it’s like this…
If Jin-Woo had run out of anger, or if Joo-Won had been a bit stronger, I thought that not just a room, but at least one building would be destroyed in half.
‘Then why are you hanging around…’
Jinwoo saw Joowon on the floor and moved to Seoyeon’s side.
“Are you okay?”
Jin-woo asks Seo-yeon to say hello.
Concerned that the aftermath of the fight might have affected Seo-yeon, he asked Joo-won if he was okay about the arm he had been hit by.
“Huh…”
Seoyeon nodded her head softly.
Fortunately, Seo-yeon did not appear to be involved in the fight, and above all, her injured arm seemed to be recovering.
The blue bruises were noticeably reduced, so it seemed that he was recovering with Athena’s divine power.
“Are you okay?…”
“Huh. As you see.”
There was a little risk in the middle, but as a result, Jinwoo won cleanly.
When Joo-Won tells her to live within her means, she confidently brushes her lips to the point of shame.
‘Ah. Come to think of it, didn’t he know that I (Jin-Woo) was me (Woo-Jin)?’
Come to think of it, Joo Won didn’t seem to know that Jin Woo was Woo Jin.
Apparently, when the two first met, Joo-won asked Jin-woo who he was, so it sounded like he didn’t know that Jin-woo was Woo-jin.
However, in the middle of the fight, I thought that Jin-Woo would have noticed that it was Woo-Jin.
In particular, I thought that by the time Jin-woo dealt with the brain, he would have been sure.
Because…
It was because Kim Joo-won knew that he (Woo-jin) had been chosen by Zeus.
Poseidon, the guardian god, probably informed Joo Won…
Athena said so.
…
“So Kim Joo-won, that new… Guy knows about me?”
Woo-jin, who had a conversation with Athena in the previous dream, learned a lot.
This is a story related to one of them, and it was at this time that I first learned that Joo-won was the owner of the app.
[Yes. Poseidon must have told a human named Kim Joo-won what kind of existence Woo-jin was. Poseidon-sama deliberately intervened in this game to get revenge on Zeus-sama.]
Athena’s explanation was:
It is said that he once rebelled against Poseidon and Zeus.
But at the time, it was said that it was a major failure, and that it received a very humiliating punishment for the rebellion…
[It was such a humiliating punishment that I was deprived of my godhood and became a human slave.]
Anyway, nothing much happened after that… By chance, Poseidon said that Zeus and Hera’s play must have been discovered.
And he added that he must have secretly participated in the game to get revenge on Zeus, avoiding the eyes of Eris, the manager.
[Really. I don’t know how they averted our eyes!]
Eris complains that she is also a victim of Poseidon’s intervention.
Aside from that Eris…
“So to sum things up… Poseidon is trying to help Kim Joo-won or something to achieve mental victory through me, who was chosen by Zeus, right?”
Woojin organizes his thoughts and asks.
[The words are a little strange, but yes. You can see that.]
Then Athena heard a voice of affirmation.
[We expect Poseidon to seek revenge through his agent, Kim Joo-won.]
If you can’t do it by force, use your head…
And he said that it seems to be to realize revenge by defeating Zeus through a proxy war using humans, not an all-out war.
…
Back to the present…
When I see Joo Won collapsed in front of me…
Poseidon’s revenge seemed to have failed miserably.
Joo Won was weaker than I thought,
It seemed that he only used Poseidon’s earthquake (vibration) ability, but couldn’t use the representative power of water (sea) well.
More than anything…
‘I’m gradually losing energy…’
The alien aura that I felt from Joo Won was gradually disappearing.
Now that I think about it, this heterogeneous energy seemed to be the divine power of Poseidon.
But as time goes by, it’s getting smaller…
It was thought that this might have retrieved the power that Poseidon gave to Juwon.
Is it supposed to be some kind of evasion?
It seemed as if they were secretly leaving to leave no regrets.
Then, what happens to Joo-won, who has been thoroughly cooked with brain power?
Jin-woo judged that Joo-won would not die.
If you’re really unlucky, it’s about half asshole(?) Of disability?
But that probably won’t happen.
The reason was that Joo-Won’s body was recovering because he still had divine power.
It was judged that the recovery would be quick compared to the damage suffered, but it would still be immobilized for a few days to a few weeks.
Most of all, it was great that Jinwoo controlled his brain power and wrote it.
If he had increased or sustained the output any longer, he would have died.
I was thinking of killing myself, but…
‘Some murderers…’
Just like Jinwoo said, I didn’t want to become a murderer…
Because Joo-won was Seo-yeon’s ex-lover and long-time friend, he showed mercy.
More than anything, he didn’t feel worth killing.
‘I’m sure I thought I’d really kill him just a moment ago, but…’
As I said before, Joo Won was weaker than I thought, and because of that, I lost all of Kim.
And that guy named Kim Joo-won was dead, and it was clear that even if he woke up, he wouldn’t be able to defeat him.
Until now, it had been a threat, because it seemed clear that he was avoiding himself, let alone a threat, in the face of his divine power fading.
What if you bare your teeth again?
Then what…
‘Then I have no choice but to kill…’
Or he tortures me to the point of wanting to die…
Of course, even if you don’t show your teeth and live quietly squatting, you will be harassed.
In the meantime, he’s done something to himself, and he’s done ugly things to Seo-yeon…
He intends to make Joo-Won regret for touching him and for kicking Seo-Yeon out of blindness to Sia.
“By the way, what do I do now?”
Well… It seemed that things were over now.
The problem was how to deal with the situation after this.
The original plan was to get a call from Sia and part ways quietly.
However, due to Joo Won’s intervention, many of the plans… No, they are completely ruined.
In the first place, Jin-woo had no plan to fight Joo-won like this.
It can be said that it is a complicated situation in many ways.
If Yumi was by her side, she would have even asked…
Yumi seems to have something to do, but she can’t even contact her.
Jin-woo had to make the decision.
“…”
Jinwoo closes his eyes and organizes his thoughts for a while.
And…
“Wait a minute.”
After telling Seo-yeon to wait for a while, she got her body up and walked away.
Tboob-
Tboob-
The place we arrived was in front of Shia.
“Hee!”
Sia was scared by Jin-Woo and shrunk her body.
There was something pathetic about that look.
“Hmm…”
Jinwoo bends her knees to Sia’s eye level…
Sia averted her gaze as if she didn’t want to meet Jin-woo’s eyes.
However, Jinwoo had no intention of leaving it that way.
“…”
Jinwoo quietly caresses Sia’s messy hair.
He slowly tossed her hair to reveal her face.
Swish- Swish-
After tidying up her hair for a moment, her frightened Shia face was revealed.
‘Just a few months ago, she was a girlfriend whom I really liked and wanted to show off to others…’
Why did this happen now…
Looking at Shia, who was terrified, Jinwu began to think of the old Shia.
_
During her school days, Sia was very timid.
Is it supposed to be like her frightened face now?
She was that timid.
The man only knew Woo-jin, and he was a girl who preferred to stay at home rather than go out.
At that time, Shia was the kind of child that her Woojin had to take care of.
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She was when Sia was just an adult.
Sia developed her self-esteem through her embellishments.
Little by little she got into the habit of going outside and she grew prettier.
_
About half a year had passed since then.
Sia has turned into a person who is comparable to her no matter where she is put.
Should we say she made her college debut?
Abandoning her timidity as a student, she became a new person.
Unlike before, when she was difficult to talk to, she was overflowing with affinity with people and got along well with her senior colleagues in her department, and she became an enviable existence in many ways.
It was the perfect time when the timid Shia of her school days disappeared without a trace.
At that time, Woojin was proud of Shia.
It was because Woo-jin had seen how hard she worked.
At the same time, she felt that Shia was a woman she deserved.
That’s also true, since many of the evaluations around him were that Sia was a waste for Woojin.
Woojin doesn’t like to hear such a thing, so she enlisted in the military in order to become a shining existence like Shia herself.
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That’s when she finished most of her military life.
When she looked back, unlike her thoughts, she didn’t change much in Woo-jin…
While Woo-jin stagnated in her army, Shia became a formidable person.
As time passed, the difference between the two widened.
Because of this, she was worried that Sia could kick herself and go to someone else at any time, which turned into symptoms similar to her dysphoria…
Fortunately, Shia reassured her, and she was able to move on.
At that time, Woojin felt very grateful to Shia.
_
By the time she was discharged…
Sia was at the top.
Family, economy, ability, everything.
As I said before, thanks to Sia, she overcame the symptoms of suspicion, but someone received evidence that Lee Soo-ah in the app was Sia.
After that, she started to suspect Shia.
And on the day she was discharged, she showed her video to Sia and directly asked her.
Are you Lee Soo-ah?
But she said she wasn’t Shia.
And Woojin believed Shia’s words.
It seems silly to think about it now, but at the time, Woo-jin was unaware of the ability of an app to change a person’s appearance, so she made that choice.
And… I wondered if it was because Woo-jin at the time wanted to believe that.
It was because Shia was that important to him.
So, at that time, it was over, but Woojin could not erase his doubts about Shia.
It was because various circumstances were pointing to Shia=Lee Soo-ah.
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And shortly thereafter,
Woo-jin went through many things and became convinced that Shia was Lee Soo-ah.
And she learned a lot.
No… I realized.
In the app, the woman who made fun of her body like a rag exists in reality.
She said that the woman was her own girlfriend Sia.
If you release…
Shia found out that she had been chasing after her pleasure by mingling with over 100 men for nearly half a year, and that she had deceived herself by playing with that guy named Joo Won.
And even erasing her own memories…
‘No, if I erased it and started over, I’ll do well.’
After erasing her memories of Woo-jin, Sia starts teasing her body again, what she thought Woo-jin did not suspect.
Because of that, things have come to this point.
Is it because the app is so addictive?
Anyway, after that, Woojin couldn’t treat Shia as her lover.
Because the expression and the smile she made in front of her were all hateful.
‘But…’
Sia now looked very pitiful.
And she also felt compassion.
It’s partly because Shia was putting on her pitiful expression, but in a way, it was because she was a victim of entertainment like Shia and herself.
However, Woo-jin was also a victim of Yu-hee.
And all of these things happened because of Shia’s choice, so she couldn’t be called a complete victim.
Unlike Sia, there were people who made the right choices, such as enduring even with the app, so it was even more difficult to call her a victim.
That was Seoyeon…
Seoyeon overcame all the temptations of her app, and she has refrained from using it with great self-control.
Seoyeon was in an army full of men + no lover.
A state where she has a society + lover that she can avoid if Shia can be avoided.
Judging by the difficulty of the environment, which allowed her to refrain from pleasure, Shia was overwhelmingly easy.
However, unlike Seoyeon, Sia couldn’t control her pleasure, and she chose pleasure without responsibility.
In other words, it was a story that this wouldn’t happen if Sia had made up her mind.
Most of all, Sia looked down on her Woojin, and secretly cheated herself by mingling with another man behind her…
Everything could be said to be Shia’s choice and karma.
That’s why it was right that she should be dealt with firmly…
“Sia-san.”
Perhaps because of their past relationship, Jinwoo decided to give Shia her last chance.
A chance to apologize to her.
In order to do that, Shia also had to know about Yu-hee.
So why did she act the way she did?
She’ll be able to figure out exactly what she did so wrong.
“I have a story to tell.”
Jinwoo decided to tell Xia exactly about Yu-hee and how things had unfolded.
“A story?”
“Yes.”
Jinwoo hoped.
Please let Sia blame herself and admit her own guilt…
Please don’t blindly blame others…
If not… Jinwoo really…
