Chapter 42 – Episode 42. The Connection Between Jang Hye-Ri and Me (2)
Episode 42. The connection between Jang Hye-ri and me (2)
Let’s say someone swings a knife at you.
The knife narrowly missed your vital spot.
The other person uttered the psychotic line, ‘Hmm, you missed the mark.’ After killing the ‘robber’ who was wandering next to him, he leisurely and leisurely left the place.
“…”
It’s an absurd story, but that’s the only way to explain Han Seok-in’s situation.
He was attacked by Spe some time ago.
This is because Han Seok-in is not an actual recovery person, but just accuses a guy he doesn’t like of being a recovery person.
At the time, Han Seok-in, who was experiencing difficulties finding a job, including being repeatedly rejected in job interviews, lost his mind.
He also admitted it.
Spe didn’t kill him.
I felt a shiver when he said in person, ‘I came to deliver death,’ but he is still a good man.
So, rather than killing a pathetic human like himself, he just warned him and then left leisurely.
In the meantime, he found the recovery person who had broken into the room at that time and went so far as to kill him.
Is there really nothing he doesn’t know?
There was no sign of anything, but the recovery person was hiding exactly where he was aiming.
It was a secret that even the homeowner did not know about in the first place.
Why was he there?
There was no reason to inspect an ordinary civilian like Han Seok-in, so perhaps Spe was being followed.
When you’re almost killed by someone, you usually feel malice, but it happened so quickly and frantically that he didn’t even feel malice.
If you think about it, his actions were a crime.
If Spe had not been able to distinguish between recoveries, brainwashers, and civilians, an accident would have really occurred.
[Can’t you see ‘Officer Jeonghun Mr. Han’ these days? Behind?]
ㄴ[Don’t mention it, I’ll plaster it again]
Han Seok-in stared at his phone.
At one time, he let out the frustration he had accumulated in society by painting this place, and developed a desire for revenge by worshiping Spe, but now the wise man has come.
When he received a warning letter from someone he admired, he was scared, but it also seemed pointless.
So these days, I just keep eyeing… But it was still difficult to completely cut off spa.
It’s a mystery.
Anyway, Han Seok-in almost died from him.
“…”
Smile Face.
Now, decades after the alien race called Paramas invaded the Earth, an Earthling-born villain has shown himself to be even more powerful than them.
There is also a strong theory in the world that he is an alien.
It’s because of the strange abilities he uses.
Since there are no cases of people on Earth displaying supernatural powers, perhaps they are in the same category as magical girls.
There are many analyzes of his abilities, but on the outside, he moves like lightning, cutting off the opponent’s vital parts, such as the neck, in one fell swoop.
Despite his seemingly soft and smiling face, this is an attack with powerful charisma.
He has already killed countless recoveries with it.
Representative examples include Pastor Ahn Byeong-guk and Cho Baek-chan, the previous president of the PR group.
Spe was a shadowy hero.
At least Han Seok-in thought so.
In addition, everyone who is active in the community ‘Smile Face’s Space’ and watches videos on the YouTube channel ‘Scarlet Fox’ thinks so.
In accordance with the policies of the government and UNAA, brainwashers who were once Paramas’ minions changed their name to ‘recoverers’ and were walking around all over society.
Because of the tendency to ‘favor’ them, those who had lived good lives were being harmed.
Spe’s fans were the ones who hated them.
This is because, for their own reasons, they know that the restorers are disrupting the order of the Earth and are not ‘purified’ as promoted by the government and UNAA.
Although they pretend to be victims of persecution, they reveal their evil nature whenever they get the chance.
For example, many people who have recovered are involved in crime.
Some ‘experts’ explained that they were forced to commit crimes due to society’s prejudice against them, following a kind of ‘broken windows law’.
That can’t be possible.
Recovered people are receiving significant subsidies from the government and are being introduced to jobs, and recovering people are already occupying positions in all classes of society.
A network has also been formed between them.
The unique ‘network’ of pushing and pulling each other made me think of it as an honor to have killed and harmed people while running rampant as a brainwasher in the past.
Moreover, the ‘crime’ mentioned above was also deliberately controlled by the police, military, and government departments on the grounds that it harmed the image of recovered people.
The small number (but not that many) of recovery cases and accidents that appeared in the media were only a small part of the countless controlled news.
There are some holes in the dam.
In such a situation, good civilians knew everything, and dissatisfaction with the government and the magical girls who purified them gradually began to build up.
So wouldn’t Spe be a hero?
He went on a rampage.
They killed the recoveries and treated them like bugs.
People who still don’t know the reality or who are hypocritical compared Spe’s behavior to that of Hitler.
‘What is it if not the Holocaust?’
Absolutely impossible to compare.
Of course, if you think about it, Han Seok-in, a Korean, does not know the relationship between Jews and Europe in detail, but even so, aren’t the restorers clearly evil?
They block the development of society, live well among themselves, pretend to be good, but commit crimes behind their backs.
They were even under government protection.
It was later revealed that many of the recoveries killed by Spe had criminal records.
Recently, evidence was discovered that Pastor Byeong-guk Ahn, who was called the ‘Shepherd of the Recovered,’ had stolen money from believers under various pretexts and transported it somewhere illegally.
If it comes out in the news, it can only be said that there is a source so reliable that even B.H. Or the government, which has a pro-recovery policy, cannot stop it.
There is no need to mention Jo Baek-chan.
On the surface, he made donations to various places and gave speeches blaming himself for his mistakes, in order to apologize for his past mistakes, that is, living as a brainwasher and killing countless people every night, but in reality, he The recipient of the donation was his own foundation, and contrary to the content of his speech, a video of him assaulting an employee was also uploaded.
So, even if Han Seok-in was almost killed by Spe (though he didn’t actually kill him), he had no choice but to place his hopes on him and trust him.
Compared to that, he himself is truly trash.
Isn’t he trying to purify society and realize justice, even while receiving criticism from the public?
He was completely different from ordinary citizens like Han Seok-in.
Han Seok-in reached a compromise.
For example, just today, he showed up to a training session for new recruits at the PR group that was so criticized in the community.
His mother smiled when she heard that her son, who had been complaining all the time after graduating from college, had been accepted into ‘PR Pharmaceuticals’, the number one PR group in the business world.
She happily spread the word about the neighborhood and even spent a lot of money to buy her a suit, but Han Seok-in was reluctant and uncomfortable with the situation he was in.
First of all, it doesn’t fit his beliefs.
The PR group is a company run by Jo Baek-chan, and Jo Mi-hyun recently openly declared that he would create a company made up of recovered people, so it goes against his beliefs.
Of course, no matter how Han Seok-in is, he still doesn’t think about leaving his mother, who goes out to the restaurant, to ‘pick’ a job that suits him.
However, I don’t understand it at all.
Even when he applied to lower-ranking companies, let alone PR groups, he was repeatedly rejected.
But in a place where he pretended to be crazy, poked around, and didn’t even care, he received a notice of acceptance.
The atmosphere was strange during the interview.
Although Han Seok-in was expecting to fail the interview again anyway, he was nervous about the fact that he had come to a leading conglomerate in Korea, but the interviewers were strangely kind to him.
What I remember among their questions was whether he was attacked by Smile Face.
Although the attack that day was reported on the news, Han Seok-in was given a pseudonym such as ‘Mr. Han’, so there was no way anyone would know his identity.
At that time, I thought they had figured it out because they had the information power of a PR group, but after listening to the speech of new Chairman Cho Mi-hyun, who argued for anti-Smile Face, everything strangely fit together well.
Do they want something from Han Seok-in?
Money or faith?
He had such flirtatious thoughts, but he soon leaned towards the latter, not because he was particularly a hero, but because of the situation he found himself in.
“Oh, aren’t you a recovery person?”
Before the new employee training session begins in earnest, it is time for new employees to chat among themselves.
As Jo Mi-hyeon had already declared, the hundreds of people present were all recovered.
I exchanged greetings with several people, but Han Seok-in was the only one who had no past ties to Paramas.
That gave me a tremendous sense of discomfort.
As they got to know Han Seok-in, they began to whisper among themselves, still friendly but strangely distant.
Even if they worked for the same company, they would have been strangers until today, and they seemed familiar, as if there were even colored collars on their heads that were connected to each other.
The strange expression on his face seemed unfamiliar.
It’s like it’s not human.
Perhaps this was also due to Han Seok-in’s hostility toward the recoveries, but he felt alienated and fearful of the strange solidarity between them.
Why is he here?
I suddenly wanted to see my mom.
‘… Unfilial children cry, Tusk.’
As Han Seok-in adjusted the suit his mother had bought him, he felt ambivalent about this peaceful hell.
‘But I was quite popular when I was in school.’
While those thoughts were being expressed, an assistant manager from some department who played the role of moderator came forward, and the recovered people lined up as if they had already kissed each other.
Han Seok-in was devastated after being discharged from the military, but during his time in the military, he used to be an A-level soldier.
Even though he wasn’t the type of person to be criticized for being bad, I wonder if living as a hikikomori for the past two years has ruined him, or are the people here strange?
In a hurry, I followed one of the lines.
He seemed like the worst person here.
‘…Army, what?’
Han Seok-in snooped around.
Just like a military parade in North Korea or China, the new recruits stood in columns and columns, just like soldiers.
How good is your posture?
As his anxiety and discomfort slowly climbed the ridge, suddenly, the ceiling collapsed with a thud.
“Smile face appears-☆”
For a moment, the entire building seemed to be subtly shaking.
Did they plant a bomb or something?
Smile Face landed lightly, then snatched the microphone that the deputy was holding and took it for himself.
“Hello. Are there so many bugs? Without needing to go into detail, who should I kill first?”
He chuckled, then immediately raised his gun and blew off the head of the embarrassed deputy next to him.
“Kyaaa ah ah ah.”
The new employees who were in charge of order screamed and tried to run away, but the door was locked.
“Open, fucking door!!!”
New employees banging on the door.
However, strangely enough, Han Seok-in felt reassured by the appearance of the man who almost killed him, and actually felt better about it.
He wasn’t anxious at all.
Because he didn’t think he was going to kill himself.
“It’s uproarious, really. Because I hate noise. “Isn’t making noise a pest?”
Spe raised his gun again.
His gun hit two of the recoveries in quick succession.
Pick, pick.
“Why, why are you doing this!”
“What did we do wrong!!!”
Screaming recoveries.
It was strange.
Obviously, Smile Face suddenly appears and is slaughtering people, and although the people’s words are clearly unfair, it all feels like a play.
Han Seok-in’s expressions of discomfort when they were gathered together earlier were erased, and he looked at the recoveries who had ‘frightened’ faces.
But… Well, it’s a little different.
To put it bluntly, this has a more human-like expression, but if you look closely, it doesn’t look that way.
If this frightened expression and his typical cornered behavior all seem like acting, has he gone crazy out of malice toward the recoverer?
“It’s really noisy. But if it’s a mistake, it’s already been done before. And, you are saying and doing positive things about Paramas in the media, and all the money you earn is flowing into it, right?”
“What bullshit are you talking about, you fucking idiot!”
“Haha, what a fucking bastard-“
Spe’s gun pierced the screaming man’s temple.
It was so calm that it gave me goosebumps.
As if he had made up his mind, he started killing the recoveries.
“Unless a magical girl appears, no one will stop me. But it will take at least 10 minutes for them to appear. In the meantime, I completely blew up this place with the bomb I planted here-“
“…That’s it, Smile Face.”
At that time, someone appeared from the ceiling that Smile Face had broken through, making elegant movements, but speaking in a strangely stuttered manner that did not match the movements.
“… Magical Scarlet will not forgive you.”
“Oh, uh, how-!?”
Smile Face was unusually embarrassed.
“…”
However, something was strange.
“Of course not, because magical girls are everywhere. “We are responsible for the safety of our citizens.”
“Ah, I see. You always were like that. I don’t think the same way as you, but I respect your sincerity. But, would you be able to stop me?”
“…”
Han Seok-in became shaken.
No, it’s a smiley face. Originally, the trademark was a face that didn’t lose its composure in any situation and was almost contrived.
But was Magical Scarlet like that too?
It was like she was reciting lines to act out something, and the woman, who was so quiet, was even stuttering over her words.
Also, what about that term between words?
“Oh, oh, kill that Smileface bastard!”
At that time, starting with one of the recoveries shouting, cheers for Magical Scarlet erupted.
“It’s noisy, you bastards-“
Smile Face incited the first man to be killed.
This resulted in the death of five recoveries.
“Hey, bastard, there’s no need to go that far!”
Magical Scarlet rushed towards Smile Face.
