After a few days, it was back to an ordinary and normal day. The school gave a 3-day vacation to get over the shock of this moment. In the end—although it was a reckless thing to Yun—people were shocked by the bear and fire one after the other, and were shaken by the almost traumatic event.
After the first two days of laziness, on the last day, it was planned to go to the company for a 'promotion' as understood with the main characters Lin Mei and Nanren.
As always, he donned the silver mask over his face, and the diamond under his right eye caught the attention of Nanren and of course Lin Mei too. Simple yet elegant and luxurious.
They both wore one of their regular masks. A common, familiar mask instead of a special mask like Yun. When you have the flu, it is one of those who hang out in order not to infect others. Or used to avoid getting sick.
Nanren and Mei felt a little strange looking at the silver mask... wasn't it self-explanatory to go out like that? It was obvious that it was a symbol…they would soon find out what it symbolized.
Mei was surprised when they entered the company. He was really... dreaming of something whimsical. For someone like Yun...it would be abnormal for her to be normal.
Rather plain and clean. Simple designed...
"Oh, the reception is really a human being.." yes, that was Lin Mei's reaction right now...
Nanren, on the other hand, was calmer.
"Boss"
Absolute obedience, cautious and careful attitude. Respect...no, maybe more fear.
'This is the setting that suits her better,' Mei thought. More suitable for a bad...
He toured the company from start to finish. She had particularly sharply emphasized that they should not reveal their identities or call them by name.
At first he talked about what the company does and how it works. In fact, it was…it was only apparent. What the company looks like on the surface.
The two bodies froze in place with shock as the real inside face slowly emerged. Their bodies froze.
Lin Mei was right.
Simple company?
Never.
All members are members of the underground gang..the leadership is overwhelmingly taken over by the other person...
Well, they really felt like they were in a joke or a fiction. It's too normal to be true.
Nanren was a little strange. Unlike Mei. He knew that neither he nor Yun were evil. Learning this all of a sudden shook him.
Illegal actions and actions.
It may look cool in the movies, but never in reality.
He was restless.
Drugs, kidnapping, human trafficking, torture, and more...
Did he mean he had his signature on these? Did he get blood on his hands? He couldn't accept this. Yun...she...didn't she actually know him at all? Because the Yun he knew was definitely not the type to touch them.
He saw good news. Reflecting the disgusting interior of people. And Yun was the source of all this… he couldn't accept, he couldn't accept…
Sensing the stares thrown at him, Yun turned around and caught Nanren hesitantly staring at him.
The expression on his face changed into a form he did not like at all. Confusion, disgust, hatred? What was he thinking?
Even Lin Mei, noticing the awkwardness, paused and reassured herself by taking a few steps away to adapt to the rapidly tense environment.
"Is there any problem?"
Finally, Yun spoke.
"So you were proving to me that you committed a crime?" It was definitely tough. The source of his anger…even he couldn't understand, but he was hurting, and this subtle but constant pain was making him breathless. Why these feelings? He was shocked. What he saw shocked him.
Maybe...
The person she knew was a lie from the very beginning. He was only so attached to the image he had built in his mind and believed.
And the more devoted she was, the more she overreacted.
He took a deep breath, suppressing himself, and repeated his question.
"Do you have any contribution to unspeakable works?"
Yun now thoughtfully looked at Nanren, feeling that he had some understanding.
He could not escape his fate.
He was destined to be the worst character in the series.
It is enough to question even the other villain of the series.
He comically didn't have his other villain. He was being criticized.
How ironic, he smiled at the thought.
Bri smile, humiliation? Sigh and disdain? Superiority or arrogance? Or it was just a simple smile.
While Nanren was alone with the thought of whether he was over-interpreting, he could say that this smile was quite painful compared to the one that had happened a few days ago.
If it was a soft coffee with milk when you laughed at the campsite, now it was definitely a bitter and sharp Turkish coffee.
This smile was as bitter as turnip, licorice and Turkish coffee, definitely!
The words that came after the smile finally seemed to confirm him, "We're doing illegal business after all"
Nanren bent his head, wanting to get out of here.
"But-"
"One last hope, maybe," he said, looking up.
"As long as I don't care for a moth unless it cries into the fire itself, I don't have a hobby of hurting anyone. I just use easier and wider ways to get what I need. It's more advantageous"
It didn't satisfy.
It certainly wasn't the answer he was expecting.
"What about the gang?"
One last hope.
"I don't care what they do"
The answer was an expected but still painful one.
"You're not doing any harm, what about your gang members? How many people have committed suicide, why are you so careless?"
He knew because his uncle was also a member of a small gang. Abusing him, beating him, cursing him every day...
How many nights did he come back from suicidal thoughts? She was hopeless, she didn't even dare to hope that this pain would end.
What about helpless people like him?
Why was he so careless towards her? Why ? What if he had at least tried his best? But no.
'I don't care what they do'
Those words were self-explanatory.
He was too careless to look back at the people he had indirectly harmed.
He turned and left, just wishing to get out of this place as soon as possible. He couldn't stay any longer. If they had the role of executioner, the pressure as a victim was too much.
Without looking back.
escapist.
-To be continued-