Chapter 93 – Episode 93 Minah’s Tears (2)
Dohyung was embarrassed and didn’t know what to do with Minah’s reaction as she cried while looking at him.
He had no idea what the hell he was supposed to do, so he just had to fidget and watch Minah’s reaction.
Minah also wanted to say something to Dohyeong, but she didn’t have time to say anything because she was wiping away her tears.
The two of them couldn’t say anything and just waited until Minah’s emotions calmed down.
As some time passed, Minah’s tears subsided.
“Are you okay?”
Minah quietly nodded her head in response to Dohyeong’s question.
Dohyung was a little relieved to see Minah nodding her head, saying that it was okay. But she couldn’t understand why she cried after seeing the video of Min-ah kidnapping the guys and training her to get revenge for her own story.
“Why did you suddenly… Do that? Why…”
“I was so sad because I thought you changed so much because of those people.”
“Huh? I’ve changed?”
Do-hyeong was embarrassed because the reaction was completely different from what he expected.
Dohyung remembers that when he was in high school, he didn’t have much contact with Minah. She remembered that her school life started to go wrong after she bumped into Jia on behalf of a girl, but she didn’t remember that girl was Minah.
In her Dohyeong’s memories, Minah only remembers that she was a great person who came forward and tried to save herself when no one was helping her when she was being bullied.
Before she transferred to another school, she was a very grateful person who tried to take care of her.
But when Minah said that she knew her, she was so embarrassed that she was speechless.
“You weren’t the type of person to do something like this… But seeing you take revenge like this made me think about how difficult it must have been… Was it really difficult?”
For a moment, Dohyeong felt something stirring in his heart. He didn’t know what it was, but it was a feeling he didn’t want to deny.
Minah, who was looking at the shape she was thinking about, got up from her seat and walked towards her shape.
Before Dohyung could react to Minah, Minah approached Dohyeong and gently hugged him. She warmly took a wounded and weeping person into her own arms, patting his back with her hand.
“I’m sorry… I wish I had stayed with you instead of transferring… If I had… We might have had a better future…”
Dohyeong, who had seen Minah’s actions with his own eyes, was able to avoid her, but she did not avoid Minah’s hug.
No, she couldn’t avoid it. The emotions boiling up in her heart became her fuse and she could not move from her seat. Moreover, those feelings eventually exploded upon seeing Minah apologizing to herself.
Pop!
Dohyeong felt something flowing down the corner of his eyes and falling to the floor.
She thought it was sweat at first. She knew it was ridiculous to sweat in a fancy restaurant with the air conditioning turned on to keep the inside from getting too hot.
And then she realized what it was.
That the tears came from her own eyes.
The emotion I feel in my heart is sadness.
Since going to this world, Dohyeong has never shed tears of sadness. He just endured day after day, dreaming of revenge.
There was a time when he was injured in a battle with a monster and cried in pain.
But the tears I shed when I was sad have never been shed in another world. It was the same even when I returned to the original world.
Dohyeong didn’t know why tears suddenly came out.
Minah’s sincere consolation shook Dohyeong’s feelings that she had forgotten.
Realizing that she was crying, Do-hyeong grabbed Min-ah and pushed her away, who apologized to him with surprise in her heart.
“Why are you suddenly apologizing? I’m the one who should apologize…”
“Huh… Hah… No, you’re not at fault…”
Minah wiped away her tears with her hands and answered Dohyeong’s words in a sad voice.
“I owe you an apology!”
As Minah cried sadly, she remembered that the reason she brought up this story was for her Dohyung to apologize to her.
But she didn’t understand why Minah was trying to apologize to Dohyung, and Minah didn’t understand why Dohyung was trying to apologize to her.
In Minah’s view, she is not concerned with the revenge that Dohyung is doing, and Dohyung is just a victim of school violence.
“To me? What are you apologizing for? You haven’t done anything wrong to me…”
“No… It’s not…”
Dohyeong interrupted Minah’s sentence and looked at Minah with her sad eyes.
“Your life must be very… Twisted right now… I’m sorry, somehow I ended up finding out about your past. And… The reason your life got messed up… Is me.”
“Huh? What is that…”
“If only you hadn’t gotten involved with me! You wouldn’t have been bullied by Han Eun-ji or the other kids! You wouldn’t have all the scars on your body now, and you… Would be living the wonderful life you dreamed of… But! You ruined that! It’s me…”
Dohyung immediately bowed his head towards Minah.
“I’m so sorry! Your life was ruined because of me!! I’m so… So sorry!!”
Minah listened to Dohyeong and she didn’t say anything. She was just looking at the figure with her head down.
Dohyung heard her own apology and when Minah said nothing, she could not raise her head.
Just like when she showed the video earlier, she couldn’t imagine what Mina’s expression would be like. She waited for Minah’s reaction, thinking that it would be better for her to swear at her.
“… Raise your head.”
A little time passed and Dohyeong lifted his head at Minah’s words. There, Minah was looking at herself with complex emotions.
When Minah raised her head, she went up to him and hugged him again.
“Why is it your fault… You didn’t do anything wrong…”
Minah felt sorry to see her Dohyung blaming herself, saying it was her own fault. Anyone can see that Dohyeong has done nothing wrong, but thinking like that means that his mind is already pushed to the edge and he cannot think normally.
At the same time, he was glad that he had come to apologize to him for that reason. In fact, if she didn’t say anything even after noticing Minah, Minah wouldn’t have recognized that person at all. So, she could break up without saying anything, but Do-hyung came to Min-ah and apologized in person. It seemed like the image of the figure from the past that Minah knew had not yet been erased.
“But… Because of me…”
“No… You didn’t do anything wrong. Especially… Your influence on my life has been nothing but positive.”
The moment he heard Minah’s warm words, tears formed in the corners of her Dohyeong’s eyes and dripped onto Minah’s back as she held her Dohyeong.
“It’s not my fault?”
“Okay.”
“But… You were taken by those guys because of me. If it weren’t for guys like me, you would…”
“No. You didn’t do anything wrong to make me the way I am now. I don’t understand why you’re apologizing?”
Dohyung couldn’t say anything after hearing Minah’s words. He couldn’t hold back the tears that welled up, so he just let them roll down his cheeks.
And he opened his arms to Minah, who was hugging him, and hugged him in the same way.
“… Thank you. For accepting my apology…”
“Thank you… I’m more thankful.”
The two hugged each other for a while, feeling their bodies warmed by each other’s body heat.
No, maybe it’s not because of body temperature but because my heart has healed.
It didn’t matter what happened to Dohyeong. She just felt a little relieved at the thought that Minah had forgiven her.
After a while, the two people, who had sorted out their sad feelings, fell from the side with their faces turning bright red.
“Oh, I’m sorry… I held you for too long…”
“No, it’s me… I’m sorry for being such an ugly person.”
Minah turned her head, covering her face with her own burn scars with her hands.
“Not really.”
Minah was surprised by Dohyeong’s resolute words.
“You can’t say it’s ugly…”
“But no matter who looks at this, it’s hideous…?”
“If that’s the case, I’ll fix it. Come here for a moment.”
Dohyeong approached Minah, who was covering her face with her hands.
“Huh? Why, what’s wrong?”
“I’ll fix that.”
Dohyeong grabbed Minah’s arm that was covering her face and gently pushed it away, then took his free hand and placed it on her burn scar on her face.
Minah listened to Dohyeong and waited quietly. She was embarrassed to show her own ugly scar to her brother. But instead of rejecting her touch, she accepted it and closed her eyes.
As Dohyeong lifted Minah’s bangs, which were covering more than half of her face, to the side, her burn marks came into sharp focus.
Wrinkled skin covered more than half of the forehead, and the eyebrows were almost gone due to a scar extending below the right eyebrow, and it was seen that Minah had drawn on her eyebrows with makeup.
Anger began to well up in Do-hyeong’s heart once again when he realized that he had been treated in a terrible way, but Do-hyeong calmed down his anger, thinking that now was not the time.
She instead focused her magic into her hands and cast a healing spell on Minah’s burn marks.
In this world, Dohyeong thought that it was really good that he learned magic to heal his wounds because he was constantly injured when fighting monsters and could not be healed only by the saintly woman he walked with.
A soft light came from Dohyeong’s hand, and Minah’s wound began to gradually change.
The magic that Dohyeong was casting was a magic that could restore a person’s severed arm to some extent and return the person to their original appearance.
The burned skin on Minah’s face gradually began to return to the pure white skin she once had, and the scars she suffered from burns gradually began to disappear completely.
Only a few seconds passed and Dohyeong saw that all the scars on Minah’s face had disappeared and placed his hand on Minah’s face.
Minah felt Dohyeong’s hand fall and opened her eyes.
“That’s it. The scars on your face are gone now.”
“Already? Is it already gone?”
Minah gave an expression of disbelief as she went to her seat and took out a mirror from her bag.
Minah looked at her normalized face in the mirror, and tears welled up in her eyes once again.
“Today… I shed a lot of tears.”
Minah said as she looked at her figure who had treated her own face.
However, the tears that Minah was shedding now were not the sad tears she shed a moment ago.
These were tears of joy that I was able to shed thanks to shapes.
