Possessed an Academy Security Guard

15 – 015. Yewon Ji (7)

It’s dark. And black

The visible world is black.

A pitch-black world where nothing can be seen, heard, and felt.

Continuing thoughts in a hazy way with a hazy consciousness. I can’t even guess what happened to me now or how much time has passed.

However, a vaguely warm and cozy feeling.

Like a child trying to oversleep on a holiday morning, I curled up in that dark world, consciously refusing to clear my consciousness.

I don’t want to wake up.

I want to sleep like this.

I thought that even in my hazy consciousness, because I unconsciously remembered that my life was ruined.

As an orphan with no parents or relatives, he grew up in an orphanage.

From the outside, it was an ordinary orphanage, but in reality, it was a cradle for raising new members.

The Dawning Corps is a terrorist organization with noble ideologies.

A gathering place of ideological criminals who preach that the current society is wrong, and cry out that all norms and systems must be destroyed and rebuilt.

What kind of life would a child raised in such an organization lead?

Before I grew up, I learned to hate. I learned to hate society, hate institutions, hate vested interests, hate the world.

As I grew older, I learned to practice that hatred. The organization taught in many ways, but the one I learned the longest was murder.

I was a bullet in the organization. A piece of chess that flies to the target the organization is aiming for, pierces the heart, and is thrown away. That was my role.

There were no questions or complaints about the role. There was no common sense to question, no feelings to be dissatisfied with. All the bullets I trained with were like that. A life that is used once and thrown away is a natural thing for us.

But if there is something different about me from other bullets.

‘You worked hard today too, Yewon! Voila! Look at this I secretly hid the leftover strawberry milk from dinner earlier! Since there are only 2 of them, you and me, let’s drink together and keep it a secret? Got it?’

It must be that there was only one person who gave color to that bleak life.

The child’s name was Minah. Minah Kim. It was not a name given to her by the orphanage teacher, but a precious name properly given to her by her parents.

Maybe that’s why, even in the achromatic orphanage, Mina kept her uniquely bright colors.

Of course, a mere name cannot affect the environment.

The reason Mina was able to maintain her bright personality was thanks to her convenient and useful psychic power of storage of space. Thanks to her ability, she was able to grow up as a proper gang member, not as a bullet candidate.

I wasn’t envious. At the time, the ego to judge that she was envious of Minah was rare for me.

However, she felt that it was a nuisance. Her private chatter is forbidden among ‘students’ who have reached her age and are beginning to receive ‘education’ in earnest, so she is often scolded by ‘her teachers’ for her conversations with her. Because it was bound to happen.

Minah must have known that. Even so, for some reason, she would come up to me and talk to me, splitting up the time I didn’t have.

That kind of girl was annoying. And she was burdened.

I wondered if I had been influenced by her constant approach to her, and when I suddenly came to my senses, I waited endlessly for the time with her, which was only allowed for a few moments before going to bed after her education was over.

In terms of time, the conversation only lasted about 10 minutes.

A trivial chatter that has no special content, no useful value, just random talk and random ending.

However, that 10-minute conversation came to me like everything in life.

Suddenly, Minah has become an indispensable presence in my life.

I was able to overcome the exhausting life at the orphanage because of Mina.

When the other bullet candidates failed to endure the education and fell apart, and when I wanted to give up and become comfortable while watching them, I just endured and endured with the determination of wanting to talk to Minah for one more day.

Thanks to her, I was able to not give up, and thanks to that, I accidentally caught the attention of an organization executive, was freed from being destined to be consumed as a bullet, and was able to be reaped as an official member of the organization.

Minah’s presence was like the morning sunlight that brightens the gray dawn to me.

A warm and cozy being like the morning sun, brightening up the darkest sky and dispelling the thickest fog.

However. Mina is no longer by my side.

Although she was a member of a criminal organization, her nature was kind, she always wanted to do her good and could not tolerate her injustice.

That’s why, when she accidentally found out about the organization’s plan, she couldn’t bear to look at the terrible plan and finally betrayed the organization.

She became the most important part of my life to the extent that I cooperated with her without asking anything when she revealed to me that she would betray her organization.

She was eventually captured by the organization and severely tortured.

She thought, even in her dim consciousness, that she had probably died at the hands of the organization.

A traitor who was made to reveal information through torture and became useless. There’s no way her Dawning Corps will keep her alive.

That’s why she didn’t want to wake up.

That’s why I wanted to sink in this darkness forever.

A vaguely warm and cozy feeling, like her touch, keeps reminding me of her even in this hazy consciousness.

When I open my eyes to her longing for her, I think she will have to accept the reality that she is not there.

So, I didn’t want to wake up in this darkness.

Even if I fall asleep forever like this, no one will blame me. After all, I had already done my job well.

You defeated the Assassins of the Dawning, and saved Talisman from their hands. Talisman, who is key to their plans, will be taken care of by the guards.

However, being able to discern like this is proof that my consciousness has become clearer, which means that it is not too far from when I will wake up.

Wow, how did he survive with those injuries?

A man’s face appeared in my mind, which was gradually becoming clearer.

A man who identified himself as a guard and was polite but had a strangely nervous side.

Did that man pour that expensive potion on himself? I clearly told you to live a life without regrets anyway, don’t save criminals like me and take care of your colleagues.

Ah.

Looking at what I remember up until right before I lost consciousness, it seems that there really isn’t much left.

The consciousness that has sunk below the surface gradually rises.

The hazy mind becomes clearer and the lost senses return. A warm feeling on the back, a warm sensation on the back of the hand, a faint scent of disinfectant, and a bright light seeping through closed eyelids.

When I finally opened my eyes, an unfamiliar ceiling greeted me.

I expected it to be a hospital because of the smell of disinfectant, but I woke up to a bedroom in a grand mansion.

The whole place was full of luxurious furniture and fancy ornaments, but somehow the scenery seemed to be untouched by human hands.

Belatedly, I remembered what I heard from the guards. A safe house owned by the Hansung Group. Perhaps this is the safe house.

I tried to stand up on the bed. However, the left arm, which moved unconsciously, was fixed to the torso with a bandage. Remembering that I injured my left shoulder belatedly, I moved the opposite arm.

– Flinched.

However, the right arm also felt caught on something.

Moderately heavy, yet strangely cozy and warm to the touch.

When I gently turned my head, a man was sitting on a chair, asleep with my arm as a pillow.

I couldn’t see his face, but I could guess who he was. Ahn Soo-ho. It must be the same man who was by my side right before I lost consciousness.

Maybe she fell asleep because she was tired while nursing me.

Thinking that the warmth I felt in my hazy consciousness might have been this man’s touch, I gently shook him to wake him up.

“Ugh, hmm.”

He groaned lightly, then suddenly came to his senses and raised his head. My gaze meets the two puzzled eyes.

“…… You’re awake.”

“Yes. Just now.”

An awkward silence fell between the two of us. He was so embarrassed that he was still holding my right hand. When I squeezed the hand I was holding, he was startled and withdrew his hand.

He said with a shy smile.

“I’m glad you regained consciousness. Are there any places where you feel uncomfortable? In case you’re still sick-“

“Why did you save him?”

His expression hardened. A look that seems to have a lot to think about.

“It was an injury that would never survive. Even if it was just a narrow block, it was because his lungs were torn and his arteries were injured. But if you see that I’m alive, you’ve probably used a potion on me, right?”

He said it was definitely an intermediate recovery potion. If it was a mid-level potion, the wholesale price would be 300 million each. It was not an amount he was willing to spend on someone who was unfamiliar with it.

“…… Yes. I used it.”

“Why?”

After thinking for a while, he cautiously opened his mouth.

“…… Yewon is an important source of information. He decided he couldn’t lose it on the spot. No matter how expensive the potion is, the information Yewon provides is definitely more valuable.”

“But your comrade was also dying. You don’t know what level of information I can give you, and you prioritize me over your colleagues?”

“That, if you are talking about Chae-yeon, she uses her own ability-.”

“Just.”

My hollow voice cut him off.

The opponent is the benefactor who saved my life. I know I shouldn’t say such things in front of such a benefactor, but my lips moved freely against my will.

“I wish I had just let him die.”

Inadvertently protruding his true intentions, he chewed his lips carefully. However, the lips still moved freely.

“…… I was prepared for death when I betrayed the organization.”

“And when Mina found out she was captured by the gang, she let go of her life.”

“It was really sad and painful, but I endured it with only a sense of mission to stop their plans. To be honest, as long as I didn’t fall for the Talismans, I didn’t care about my life.”

“No, maybe I wanted to die.”

“When you heard that your one and only friend had become a disabled person, when you realized that the useless child’s death was almost certain, and when he finally defeated the assassin and handed you the talisman.”

“I have finished all that I have to do, and I have no reason to live anymore. I may have accepted my own death with pleasure in my heart.”

“When you said you would save me by using that expensive potion, I was a little bit happy. But at the same time, it was burdensome.”

“I’m a low-level organization member anyway. There’s nothing special about the information I know. It might not even be worth as much as the potion you used.”

“If you willingly saved me, even risking the death of a colleague to save me, if you are disappointed with the information I gave you.”

“If you think that I, who survived by losing friends and sacrificing the lives of strangers, will be useless to you in the end.”

“There can be no other miserable life. I’ll live on because I can’t die with a sense of guilt and debt. So, that’s why I thought it would be better to just die on the spot.”

“Even so, you saved me in the end. Even though I told you to save your comrades instead of me, you saved me anyway.”

“Thank you very much. Really.”

My lips trembled after I finished talking to Jung-gu Heating.

Even thinking about it myself, I felt like trash.

I wouldn’t be grateful if I was saved, but it’s like resenting why you saved yourself.

His expression rotted in a complex way. It’s not unreasonable since he said that to his face.

I was trying to tell him to apologize belatedly, to forget him, but the moment I wondered if those words really meant anything.

“…… Just a few corrections.”

He cautiously opened his mouth.

“………… Correction?”

“First of all, first. Vegetables are not dead. He was a regenerative, albeit of a different kind. Now, there is no need to worry as I have recovered completely and returned to work without any aftereffects.”

“…… Uh?”

He continued without even asking me what to say.

“Second. It seems that Mr. Yewon sets the value of the information he has too low. If he could get to know them even a little bit more through information, no matter how trivial, and reduce the number of victims of their terrorism as a result, even by one. Would that be worth the potion?”

“Third. He says that it is a debt or a burden, so he talks about why he shouldn’t have let him die. Are you going to traumatize me, Mr. Yewon? Does he mean to just watch people die right in front of his eyes? After Ye-won dies, do you want me to regret it, saying, “I could have saved it, but I couldn’t!”? I don’t care what Yewon feels. I saved it because I wanted to save it. So there is no need to take it because it is a feeling of debt or burden.”

“And the fourth. Just in case, really, don’t even think about suicide. If you tried to kill yourself while saying that you have no regrets in your life after keeping it alive, I will die with you and become a ghost, following you for the rest of your life and annoying you.”

A calm and clear voice that pierces your ears.

The more he spoke, the more I didn’t know what expression to make.

Seeing him not blaming me for crying out of self-pity and deliberately mixing jokes so that I wouldn’t feel in debt, I really didn’t know what expression to make.

“I don’t know how important that Minah is to Yewon. However, it is a cliché, but he would never want Ye-won to lose his life because of him and end his life.”

“…… What do you know?”

“Then, let me ask you the other way around. Is Yewon’s friend the kind of person who wants her friend to die as well when she dies?”

No, Mina was definitely not that kind of person.

As I weakly shook my head, Ahn Soo-ho relaxed his expression and said.

“If you understand, please stop whining. I saved him with expensive potions, but what am I going to do if I just keep crying?”

“………… I know. Sorry. You’re right.”

I apologized to him with a deep sigh.

‘…… It’s too emotional.’

It seems that I couldn’t control my emotions for a while because so many things happened at the same time.

Of course, Minah’s work was sad. It was sad to the point of being like crazy, but as he said, Mina wouldn’t want me to be sad because of her or end her life like her.

“Have you calmed down?”

“Yes.”

“Then, while I’ve calmed down, I can only apologize.”

“Huh?”

As I tilted my head, he gently raised his right hand.

“…… Uh?”

A talisman tucked into his index finger.

The moment I saw that ring, all the complex emotions I had harbored until then were washed away at once.

“…… Hey.”

“Yes.”

“Why is that in your hand?”

“Kuhm.”

“Why is that in your hand?”

Throughout his mouth, the events that had happened while I was passing out flowed out step by step.

The assassin of the organization I thought I defeated was actually a regenerative person, and after I passed out, I recovered from my wounds and was resurrected.

In order to defeat him again, he had no choice but to wear a talisman with the feeling of being all or nothing.

However, only Talisman successfully settled after breaking through the atrocious odds, and as a result, he defeated him, but he too fell due to the recoil right after.

At that time, the assassin’s fellow sniper arrived at the scene belatedly, and at the moment of desperate crisis, Jae So-yeon, who regenerated the wound, appeared and subdued the sniper.

After that, the two of them took care of the scene before they were noticed by the people around them or the police. Even the fact that the current sniper is confined in the underground shelter of this safe house.

Throughout the explanation, all sorts of questions did not leave my head.

How did he break through the 1 in 10,000 chance, what was the Yongin-hwa ability of the vegetable-yeon, why the hell did he come to the point of dying in the first sniping at a subject with such an ability, Didn’t the police get caught?

All sorts of questions followed, but he dismissed them as trivial.

“If you have any questions, ask later. There is plenty of time ahead.”

There is plenty of time in the future.

The words he spat out as if they were natural.

However, at those words that strangely resonated in his heart, a lump of emotion rose from the depths of his heart.

“…… Ok, thanks.”

I thanked him once again, fixing my expression. Not as sarcastic as before, but sincere thanks.

“Thank you.”

He smiled shyly. It’s not like it’s something to be thankful for.

“Apart from the Dawning Corps and Talisman, you are an academy student and I am a security guard. Security guards should always try to ensure the safety of students. I just paid for my meal.”

That laugh soon turned into a mischievous one. It was blatant condescension. Just like before, it was an intentional joke that took into account our feelings.

“hahahaha.”

A smile was naturally drawn on his lips at his clumsy yet friendly consideration.

“…… It’s good to see you smiling.”

Seeing that smile, he was deliberately surprised, then smiled warmly and said.

“Aren’t you just waking up and going out? Even if it’s simple porridge, I’ll boil it. If there is anything else you need, just let me know. Because I’m in charge of Mr. Yewon.”

“Thank you. But are you in charge? What is it?”

“I am a caregiver, bodyguard, and watchdog. You can’t leave the patient alone, the Dawning guys might come in again, and since you’re a criminal, you’ll need a watchful eye. You can just say that everything related to Yewon is done through me.”

“…… It’s really hard.”

“As long as Yewon is cooperative, there is nothing to suffer. Thanks to this job, I am exempt from normal work for the time being.”

Just like a safe house, I think of it as a half vacation.

He added so calmly and left the room.

“… ….”

I was left alone and buried myself in a soft bed. A pleasant warmth embraced the entire back.

‘…… You’re alive.’

It was only then that I realized that I had survived.

I survived.

I survived.

Minah should have died by now. All alone.

‘Another negative thought.’

A man alone My thoughts naturally flowed to the negative side again. To get rid of my thoughts, I got off the bed to look around the room.

“What?”

And only then did I notice that my clothes had been changed.

I was wearing only a wide-brimmed gown, without a single thread under it. It must have been quite high-quality, and the wool that came up softly on the surface warmly wrapped up the skin.

…… Well, the clothes I was originally wearing must have been soaked in blood, so I had no choice but to change them.

‘Wait, do you want to change?’

A question struck my mind at that moment.

I looked at the door where Ahn Soo-ho came out of a question that gave me a strange sense of deja vu.

‘Who changed clothes this time?’

I looked up, but the man who could clear my doubts had already left the room a long time ago.