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Chapter 16 - Chapter-16

Another scene opens, Mi-Ok working at the café and taking orders from customers, U-ram is sitting in the accountant section, and other staff members are also busy with their tasks serving customers.

Mi-OK is seen looking outside the window, gazing at the warm sun shining against the clear soft blue hues of the sky, the white clouds giving a soft candy hanging in the sky.

U-ram notices her staring out the window, then he goes near her after assigning a staff member to look after the accountant section, he observes her face, her eyes were looking at those clouds like a child with soft golden light upon her face and her hair, made his heart melt again and he pulls her cheeks softly, making her glare at him.

Then she giggles and they gaze at each other with fondness. Some of the customers notice this and felt adoration for them.

Then U-ram's gaze falls upon a lady who was carrying that Saeng-sacho flower bouquet, which triggered a childhood memory, but he then ignores it and focuses on Mi-Ok.

Mi-Ok claims. " Today's day seems the start of something magical, maybe the days will be more good from now onwards. Don't you think, U-ram?".

U-ram nods yes. Mi-Ok informs him when she remembers something, " I think Si-U likes Saeng. Isn't it good news?

Saeng needs someone like him in her life who accepts just the way she is and Si-U is the best candidate for that, he is such a sweetheart to ladies.

But Saeng is not the usual type but unique. I would be glad to have her as my sister-in-law if they decide to form a serious relationship".

U-ram feels irritated talking about Saeng's personal life, he tells her in an annoyed tone, " Saeng is not suitable for your brother.

She is not easy to handle, she and your brother are quite different from each other.

I don't think she can return anyone's feelings, cause she is emotionless".

Mi-Ok gets angry at his negative comment, and she replies, " I know about her more than you, she may be emotionless but not heartless.

She was just born like this, she used to annoy people but she never intend to harm anyone, she cares for animals and she is just honest and transparent, which is hard to digest for every person.

But that doesn't exclude her to have her part of happiness and love in her life. I will support them if she loves my brother.

And U-ram, you shouldn't be judgmental about her, especially when she was the person who accepted you first and let you in our lives.

She was always by my side and so will I ". Saying this she returns to her work.

U-ram feels guilty for yelling at her and also being judgmental about Saeng. U-ram also returns to his place, he was sad for making her upset. He apologizes to her and asks for her forgiveness, and after many tries, she forgave him.

Then another scene opens, where Saeng is teaching a singing lesson at her center, her students are obeying her and enjoying her class, then she observes that Yeong is giving him warm smiles from time to time.

She then just carried on, ignoring the disturbance, then Yeong asks her, " Seon-saeng nim, how are going to celebrate your birthday this time? Your birthday is in two days.

She just replies, " Nothing special, I will bring some bakery products and sweets for myself and eat by myself and read books, etc".

Other students exclaimed, "Only this nothing else. Teacher, you can celebrate with your parents or with your friends or maybe you can celebrate with us also".

She denied it, she likes the way she celebrates and her parents are quite busy. Yeong smiles mischievously as an idea pops into his head.

After that she went to her clinic, then after some hours, she reaches home. Then she took a shower bath and changed into her nightdress, then gathers some documents and starts scribbling notes, then typed something on the laptop and then took printouts of the documents and arranged them, and placed them in different file folders.

She then ate her dinner. Then she turns on her radio, and old Korean songs started playing, making her feel relaxed and satisfied.

She then feels sleepy, the songs are soothing her mind like a lullaby and she mumbles something about the upcoming beautiful day after two days, that day going to make her more beautiful than now, and falls into sleep.

Like this, one-day passes, and another half of the second already passed away, and Mi-Ok and U-ram are busier in their café as the number of customers has increased a lot than the previous day and Si-U exams are also near, he is focused on studies but still, he managed to visit Saeng's clinic today.

After the clinic, Saeng is seen returning home, with a different kind of intense excitement burning in her eyes, she buys some pastries and other necessary items, and she then also spends her alone time sitting beside the river.

She stared at her reflection in the mirror, then she sees another reflection in the water, and looks up and finds Si-U staring at her with a smile, which made her feel weird, she thought of visiting the doctor soon, this sickness makes her feel weird, she is not habituated to this.

He sat beside her and they sit silently for an hour without saying anything but he felt happy just sitting beside her.

He then plucks out some thin blade grasses and makes something out of it and presents it to her. Saeng observes it and figures out that this looks like a heart, she then feels puzzled by his gesture.

She asks, " Is this heart (from grass) some kind of ornamental to wear ? ".

Si-U laughs hard and says, " This is just a representation of my heart ".

To which she replies, " Your heart is made of blood vessels and tissue and not from grasses and this cliché romance thing is out of the syllabus for me. But I think this gift would be suitable for sheep as they love grasses, so they can accept your gift".

Si-U laughs again, somehow seeing him laugh, she feels good, which she can't describe, it is just like the feeling she gets when she sees Saeng-sacho flower or her rabbit plush. Then after some time, they depart back to their home.

At night time, Saeng stares at the moon through the window and says, " I think that tomorrow is gonna be a good day for me. Please help me fulfill my purpose in this lifetime ". Saying that she prays silently.

And then she lays down on the bed and falls asleep.

On the other hand, U-ram and Mi-Ok are having a romantic dinner date at their home on their open terrace, enjoying their dinner while staring at the moon.

Mi-Ok mentions, " I hope and feel too that tomorrow is a special day for us, it is Saeng's birthday, and I also feel that days will be sweeter in the future".

Her brother heard that tomorrow is Saeng's birthday. He feels happy and suddenly walks out of his home to bring a gift for her. He searches many stores that are not closed yet.

He finally finds something that she may like. He bought that. He also buys some baked items and also bought some books, all these things with his pocket money and extra money that her sister gave him for his dress shopping.

Then he returns home and quietly walks into his bedroom without making noise or disturbing them, he then makes a hopeful wish that tomorrow becomes an unforgettable day.

Then all of them eventually fell asleep dreaming about tomorrow.

The next day started as usual and was continuing to be normal until breaking news was seen on the TV about something quite shocking and terrifying to be possible.

U-ram and Mi-Ok were working in their café, serving their customers, the day was going well, but then in the evening time, there was urgent breaking news being telecasted on TV, one customer requested the owner to change the music channel to a news channel.

Both of them agreed, the news reporter was looking quite devastated and scared as he was trying to disclose some urgent news, he then gathered some confidence and disclosed information that there is an apocalypse happening in Juknokwon city, where weird human structured looking animals are wandering around but they seem quite mannered, which was strange.

Then the news reporter is informed about another piece of information, which terrified him as his face fills with anxiety and fear, he displays some images on the screen, which looked strange and weird.

The image depicted a scene, where humans are looking like animals but behaving like humans, they looked like animals but were behaving like humans, panicking and rushing here and there in the great "Daejeon-O world ( Amusement Park)", then another video pops up in the news, where normal human people coming in contact with the animal-human (Hybrid) creature, a strange reaction is seen first in the victim, then that human is suddenly transformed into an animal, which terrified all the customers in the café as well as Mi-Ok and U-ram.

Shouts, screams, and gossip can be heard inside the café. And the outside the café, people were running here and there, hurrying back into their homes, the terror, screams, and cries can also be heard outside the café.

But thankfully they are informed quite earlier which gives them time to people to reach safely in their homes.

The customers too paid their bills and some ran away due to the rush.

They also closed the café and locked it and surrounded it with some kind of net around the café, so those creatures can't cause much damage to their café.

They were driving back to their home, they saw some people transforming into some animal through their back mirror, so, they accelerated their speed and drove fast as they can to reach home.

On the other side, Saeng is also informed about this news through her phone as her visitors in the clinic, were looking at their phones with frightened looks, they were shaking badly as their family was alone at home and their children playing outside, some present in their workplaces.

They told her to look at the news trending on YouTube due to a video being viral, which seems too unreal to be real, some of their clients started bursting into tears, but she looked neutral, she was observing them.

She advises, " You all can visit my clinic next time, but right now, you should go to your home as I have some work today".

Her clients told her to be safe and reach home as fast as she can. She just nods.

Then she normally continued her tasks in that clinic and completed writing some notes and checking upon documents. She then felt like eating some baked cookies, she then locked her clinic and then bypassed the sky road, the road looked empty but some humans were rushing here and there.

But she was normally walking towards 'Sim Dung Bakery', but she found it closed and just stared at it for a long, then suddenly she heard some noise coming from a cloth shop, whose shutter looked half closed, she drew closer and closer to that shop, then she leaned her head forward and bend and went inside the shop, found everything normal.

But she heard some sobbing noise, she steps closer to the noise, then she found the source of the noise, a small fluffy cat was crying like a small human baby, then that cat looked up when a shadow fell on him, that cat then bursts out in tears and continuously cries.

This moment reminded him of that neighbor boy, she then looked back at that cat and bends down on her knees, and started comforting his back, which has soft blue fur, then she treated him just like she does when she treats a scared cat in her clinic, that cat feels calm and jumps into her lap.

She asks him, " Where are your parents?". That cat talked in human language with stuttering some meow sounds in between, he led her through the shop to upstairs, then she opens the door and found no one.

Suddenly, she felt someone climb upon her shoulders, she looked and saw a raccoon, who looked scared but defensive and wildness reflected in her eyes, then that raccoon growls at her and threatens her to not harm her child, then that baby cat defends her, and the raccoon calms down.

But then suddenly the raccoon lady jumped towards Saeng with a loud growl.