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Chapter 9 - Chapter-9

After a few seconds, then small Saeng returns to the crowd, but not alone as she brought someone along with her, who was a guard in that area, small Saeng informed them that the CCTV never lies, so, the CCTV camera attached to the streetlight poles in the park will expose the truth to all of you.

The guard brought the laptop, in which CCTV camera recordings are being recorded, and it is still recording them live right now, then that guard rewinds the time to the past 10 minutes, and all of them saw that the mean girl was the one who attacked small Saeng and was trying to harm her and they also observed that their small Saeng remained still until she realizes that she was bleeding, so, she acted out of defense and pushed her.

Saeng's parents warned the mean kid's parents and informed them that this is serious abuse trying to harm someone but this time they will let it go as she is still a kid but that doesn't escape her from punishment. That girl's parents apologize to Saeng and her parents.

That girl's parents ordered her to take care of small Saeng until she fully recovers.

Saeng's parents felt bad for that girl's injury so they refused their request but that girl's parents insisted, so, Saeng's parents, at last, agreed to their request.

Then Saeng's parents immediately took their daughter to the hospital for the treatment of her injury, which looked serious injury to them, as the skin tissue surrounding her eyes was damaged.

The doctor treated her wound and stitched that wound, then Saeng's parents took good care of their small Saeng.

One day Saeng's mom asked her daughter softly, " Saeng-a, why did you push that girl towards the bench instead of just pushing that girl aside? We know that you intentionally pushed her towards the bench because she hurt you and it was just a self-defense act for you.

Saeng-a, what she did was extremely wrong but that doesn't permit us to cause harm to others intentionally".

Small Saeng replied," Yes!, I did push her towards the bench because she caused me an injury, which caused blood loss, so, she just deserved it ".

Then small Saeng just turned her face away from her parents.

Then they are back to the present time, they saw Saeng staring out the little window.

She speaks in a soft tone," Both of you were right. When I became a doctor, I realized that I was wrong about the fact that Self defense act is the way to defend yourself by intentionally hurting others instead, self-defense is just about protecting yourself with the unintentional thought of harming.

It is already night, I should go back home. I won't stay anymore, I stayed until now due to your valid excuse, but now I need to go, so please don't try to stop me".

After saying that, she grabs her handbag, and other grocery bags, walks downstairs and walks straight out of the house.

Then, she books a taxi and after waiting for 5 minutes, the taxi arrives, she enters and that taxi starts and rides back to her home.

Her parents observed her from the window till she disappears from their sight.

They were happy because they got to know that fact that their daughter is a doctor, so they just need to find out about her more, so that they can visit her workplace.

Saeng's parents felt that today was quite a special day for them as they got a chance to meet their daughter again after long years.

This night fades away and morning rises and as usual, life continues like the usual everyday life for Saeng. One week passes, then another week comes, and her once-a-week routine returns as well, but this time she is careful from the sight of Yeong, and she escapes away from her home to the railway station and reaches Upo marshland in the morning time because she took a day off.

Saeng feels relaxed and took an hour's nap in her booked room in that regular cabin.

After an hour, she walks out of the cabin into the forest along with her guide.

Saeng observed some new growing small plant species, and some beautiful flowers, which are exotic and have medicinal value.

She wrote down the points, and details about the plant species, and also clicked photos of new growing plants and also of still plants that were like her( living, and healthy but had neutral colors like her).

She then walked along with the guide, more deeply into the forests to see different animal species, and also to check on their health state.

She walks deeper and deeper into the forest and roams around with the guide, then suddenly they hear a scream which sounded masculine, but she was unbothered and calm.

The guide suggests that they should reach as fast as they can to that person, who screamed maybe due to an animal attack or something.

Saeng nods but she slowly and casually follows the guide, which the guide noticed and asks her to fasten her pace as that person might be in danger.

Saeng nods again and fastens her pace, and whispers to herself, "But I think the case might be vice versa, instead of an animal attack, it might be a human attack on a poor animal".

The guide follows the sound and shouts out loudly to the stranger in danger by asking where that person is, so that person can hear and signal them about the location.

They again hear another scream, which sounded painful, they were trying to reach that person as fast as possible but were unable to find that person as the forest is quite dense and vast.

But the guide knows quite well about the forest area, so he searches in every direction to find that person, but he is unable to pinpoint the location of the sound source.

Then Saeng notices a tiny detail, which was footprints upon the fallen leaves, then Saeng points at footprints to the guide, they follow the footprints and arrives at a lake, which is beautiful, but then the guide saw the scene of a huge alligator trapped in a thick fishing net, which was held by a young man ( a boy in its 20s), whose legs were injured and had bite marks.

That boy was trying to protect himself from the alligator but that alligator might break through the net after a few minutes, then Saeng too saw that scene but both of them couldn't figure out his face as he was at a far distance from them.

The guide told Saeng to return to the cabin and another guide will come to escort her safely back to the cabin.

Saeng denies his order and tries to convince him that she can handle this. But he refuses, he commands her to stay there.

But she didn't want to obey his order as she want to know who that person is, as that person was not letting the alligator run and jump back into the lake, instead he is trying to capture him.

She waits for another guide, then after some time, Saeng decides to return on her own to the cabin as that alligator is released free from the net into the lake and that guide and that boy disappeared into the forests and maybe went through some other route to the medical center, which is a few distances away from the cabin

She then meets a guide halfway through the route, the guide recognizes her and safely takes her back to the cabin.

She enters her room, and she hears a few females gossiping loud enough audible to her room, coming from the side room, the gossip is about the boy who was quite brave to survive against an alligator for 15 minutes, and his legs are badly injured but right now he is unconscious due to blood loss and exhaustion, he is being treated in the medical center nearby.

And also another thing, he seems to be quite handsome and is in his early 20s, his beauty is enchanting, which that female heard from the people in the medical center.

Then she hears a female speak in a sweet voice, " I also want to see that handsome and brave one, I mean, It is rare to find both handsome and brave qualities in one person. Then the gossips continue about other matters".

Saeng has a thinking look on her face and wonders Whether the person is brave because he survived an alligator or because he was able to prove his power upon the alligator as being human, but it could be a defense act but If it was only a defense act, then why didn't he just push or throw the alligator back into the lake as that net looked strong, it would have given him enough to get rid from there and run back safely to the cabin.

Like this she continues to think, then she shrugs off and lets it go.