Saeng opened her eyes and glared at them and gritting her teeth in anger to be inefficient in able to escape from their cage, U-ram smirked and turned towards Mi-Ok and said, " Look, isn't it great to be the ones that helped her realize her mistake and punish her as she deserves that for messing with our society.
She is just selfish, she was always like this ".
Saeng replied in a painful tone, " I do not understand why you always behave defensively with me. Since childhood, you always remained distant from me but friendly with our other friends, why is it that?
I never paid attention to it as I didn't understand your emotion, but now I feel that you have something against me, which is unknown to me.
Still, I don't think, you have the right to punish me on behalf of our society, let me go, let me help fix this situation.
I never intended to kill or harm anyone, I just wanted to prove and show people that our mentality and perception are misleading.
I didn't know that it would dangerous and hurtful to others as I never knew about these emotions, I was just acting like a muted animal.
So, please don't let these wild emotions overtake you, this is more dangerous than numb emotions. Mi-Ok, you always believed in me and supported me and what I did was the wrong way.
You have the right to punish me but I don't think the punishment should be decided when your emotions are untamed and wild, it just makes us blind.
I will accept both your and the government's punishment order but not when you both are not looking in a well emotional state.
Mi-Ok, you know me better than him, you know that it is time to fix and not make the situation worse by holding on to your emotions".
Mi-Ok feels and understands her saying, she realizes that they might be being too harsh on her and they need to fix this first, then they will talk about the punishment later.
She turns to U-ram and looks at him and observes his face, which was filled with unreleased anger and hurt, which was not because of Saeng's betrayal and more of the past incident, which they both only knew of, which involves Saeng.
Mi-Ok thought of another idea to indirectly make him realize his present behavior is unacceptable.
She raises her tail and places it upon the U-ram's furry-covered shoulder and patting softly indicating him to look at her, he looks at her and his eyes then return to a calm look, then she gives him a sign of going home, and explaining the incident that happened to us to her brother, who might be searching for us.
U-ram nods, then he looked again towards Saeng and growled lowly at her.
Saeng was feeling tired and angry, then Mi-Ok decided to make her unconscious as she might feel pain if she is awake, it is better to be numb after all, she requests in a sobbing tone to not make her unconscious, this made her hands hesitant to inject her.
But then U-ram took the syringe from her and injected her despite her struggle to avoid it, she cried out loud due to his harsh way of injecting her.
Mi-Ok heard her loud cries slowly fading into silent sound and then numb.
Mi-Ok then grabbed another injection sneakily and injected him swiftly in his neck, he turned his head instant and his eyes widen in shock and pain reflected in it.
she mouthed, saying sorry continuously to both of them, she fell flat against the ground and wrapped herself in her long scaled body, and wept.
Her sobbing sound echoed in the silent night.
After some moments, she raised her neck and crawled towards her friend and looked upon her closely and placed her forehead against her, and mumbled sorry to her.
She crawled towards U-ram and wrapped her tail around him and carried him upwards to the second floor and locked him inside the chemistry lab, full of chemicals until they again talk with Saeng together but not U-ram alone as he is now an untamed human/animal who has no limits.
She then also locked the windows well and also locked her door and locked it with a lock, so that U-ram can't enter.
She then left that place, crawling through many streets without being in sight of any human if present, as they might act on instinct like human or animal, both same she assumed.
She observed while on her way that many humans were turned into animals but still some of them behaved the same, some were causing chaos, and she avoided them.
She then noticed a human-structured tiger, whose skin was orange with black stripe marks on his arms, he was chasing a female human-structured eagle looking.
She felt to help that female, but then her gaze caught on a small human structured wolf pup-looking boy, that pup boy was injured and his beautiful eyes shone with glossy tears in his eyes looking fearfully at the ongoing scene and many cuts were on his arms.
Those cuts looked like beak marks, which made her realize that the eagle lady was the one, who was trying to take that pup for herself to satisfy her hunger.
She looked at the scene again, the tiger almost defeated that eagle lady but suddenly some other human-structured large birds joined her and those were vultures, that looked powerful and big against a single tiger alone.
He still tried to divert their all attention to him rather than that small pup boy. Her heart softened at this scene, she felt humans are just like animals and we are like them, she then remembered Saeng's statement and her conversation, where she always implied, " I feel like we all are one of those animals, I feel habituated to treat those animals, who doesn't know our language and vice versa".
Mi-Ok decides to take the risk of exposing her in front of them, this may be a wild decision, but sometimes we need to stand up for the ones who need help, she is also aware of the fact that snakes are afraid of those eagles and vultures but she can't let those birds hunt them.
She thought of how to swiftly move and smoothly sneak upon them unexpectedly and help them escape from those hunters.
She looked around and found a chain of rented bicycles near the bus stand, she slowly crawled and reached the bus stand and tried to apply the strength of a snake, which turned out beneficial.
She could withdraw the chain from the bicycle and she held it in her tail like some weapon and had a determined look.
She crawled slowly onto the ground and reached near the boy and placed her tail against the boy's mouth, that boy felt his body freeze, he looked sideways and found a snake beside her, he felt more fear.
But then, that snake started to sing lowly some kind of lullaby in a language unknown to him, he looked into her eyes, and he felt comfort and calmness.
He felt his fear subsidy to which he rubbed his head to tail, she felt his warmth and she leaned her head to his head and rubbed her soft shiny cheeks against the boy's cheeks, the boy gave her a wide wolf toothy smile, which might be scary to human but now she felt it like a small boy smiling at her.
She also smiled showing her fangs. She then wrapped him around her body and carried him silently to somewhere he is protected, so she took him to a public bathroom.
She signaled him to not come outside until she comes. The baby wolf howls with a cheery sound, which was only audible in that room.
She went to the place where the tiger is, and she observed that the tiger was badly injured, he looked sick, she then looked at the hunter's face, which was filled with hunger, greed, and malicious look over the tiger.
She then tighten her tail grip over the long chain, she crawled fast to the tiger and they noticed her, those bird's gazes filled with the greed of hunger doubled upon seeing her, and they all got ready in their attack position and used their wings like arms to fly all together in her direction.
The tiger saw this, he tried to stand up but couldn't, the birds were just now inches away from her, she felt fear seeing them close but she then just closed her eyes.