“Come back, Lee Woonghee. If you just do that, there’s no problem.”
I can’t understand it at all with my head. Is that kind of thing important to you even in this situation? Is it important that I return to your side…!
Rumble, the cruise shook as if it would be overturned. It must be the sound of the man’s subordinates searching for me. Only then did Woonghee’s face brighten a little.
Fuck, I’m finally saved. He felt like pleading for them to please take this person away, to somehow stop him from doing such dangerous things. Because they’re subordinates who think of him to a horrifying degree. This time they might disobey his words.
And at that moment, the man laughed.
“Those bastards can’t come.”
The voice the man spat out collapsed Woonghee.
Why on earth…! Woonghee grimaced his face into a mess. Drip drip, damp moisture fell from the ceiling onto his lips. The man stuck out his tongue and licked it up stickily and drank it.
“Because they don’t know about here. They don’t even know such a place exists.”
What that meant was that there was nothing that could save the man in this situation. Gradually, the footsteps grew distant. They had passed by without thinking at all that the man would be down here.
Then what should I do, how can I stop Tula and send the man back…!
Can I save this man? Woonghee felt like he would collapse in despair. Helplessness pressed down on him, as if shattering his bones and ruthlessly crushing his skin.
‘Please do something…!’
He wanted to scream out loud until blood burst from his throat. But he couldn’t do that, so it was maddeningly frustrating.
“I told you to come here.”
The man smiled slowly. A fierce sea breeze fluttered through the wide-open window. His dark hair flew, his suit jacket fluttered. On his smooth forehead, thick blood vessels rose thickly. He had a face as if he would jump off a cliff at any moment.
Soon his shoe steps approached boldly.
[Don’t move!]
That bastard Tula re-gripped the gun as if a button had been pressed. It seemed like he would shoot at any moment, but Gi Junhyuk didn’t blink once. As if to make a bullet hole in his chest, he approached closer and closer.
[Stop, stop I said! Does my word seem like a joke, you crazy bastard?]
Even though Tula was screaming out in convulsions, that large body approached step by step. As if he had lost his sight, lost his hearing, and finally lost all reason. He moved as if only his mouth could move.
“Either die eternally by my side, or live even briefly.”
Now his features all came close enough to pierce into Woonghee’s vision. Bang, ta-bang! Tula aimed at Gi Junhyuk’s feet threateningly.
The area next to his feet, large as a battleship, shattered crack. His foot almost got smashed. Aren’t you scared, shouldn’t you run away right now! Why on earth is he so calm?
Woonghee became maddeningly anxious, his heart was pounding so his hips twitched. Stop, please stop there…! As Woonghee’s face was cruelly distorted, the man sneered.
“Ah, so you’re scared of this?”
His spine felt chillingly cold. Why, what on earth are you trying to do again? As if he understood something, as if he realized which direction he should go, the man smiled slowly.
And what he did was turn the gun barrel that had been aimed at Woonghee. Watching the gun slowly turning, wondering what he was trying to do.
“Why?”
Firmly, the man was pressing the gun barrel against his own temple.
“Are you afraid I’ll be scared?”
He had noticed. The fact that Woonghee would be more frightened by him aiming at himself than aiming at Woonghee. Tremble tremble, Woonghee’s frightened thighs shook. It seemed like he would spring up from this spot like a coil and rush at that man right away.
“What’s wrong, Woonghee-ssi?”
Are you scared now? His lips twitched.
“Right, you can’t think straight because of guilt.”
Who is Tula aiming at? Me? The man? Even that couldn’t be properly recognized as the view before his eyes darkened. It felt like at any moment, crash, this entire cruise would crumble and be smashed into the bottom of the ocean. Those steel beams would collapse, covered in dirt, and he would be buried in darkness where no one could ever find him.
“You don’t know how long I stayed with you after that bird bastard died.”
So what? So…! After shattering his head and dying in front of me like that bird, are you planning to stay in my memory for a long time? Please, please…!
Those eyes that seemed like they would skewer him like a harpoon at any moment say. Look at me, look only at me, come straight to me…
Your wounded soul seemed to be wailing. Your soul wearing thick armor to protect its weakened interior seemed to be bleeding profusely with its head smashed.
“I, I…”
So Woonghee’s lips twitched. Even if the glass ampoule shoved into his throat broke and went down winding through his esophagus spewing poison, he couldn’t keep looking at your wounds.
“I…!”
Woonghee tried to babble something, but soon the sound became stuck at the humming sound heard from above. The floor resonated boom boom. No, the air surrounding the cruise was shaking violently.
At first he thought it was just wind.
But it wasn’t. Boom, boom, boom. The propeller sound was becoming clearer and clearer. The sea breeze had completely lost direction. The waves broke fiercely and continuously hit the ship’s side.
A huge sound approaches. More, more, more.
“Seems like it arrived.”
No way, the helicopter already arrived…? Woonghee couldn’t believe it and swiftly threw his gaze beyond the window. But it was real. Truly. A pitch-black helicopter was flying through the sky.
At Woonghee’s face that couldn’t believe it at all, the man sighed lowly.
“You’ve seen his face, that bald Russian. I stole his.”
As if explaining to a lover, he said it so kindly.
“What will you do now? Will you make me die lonely and leave?”
“I, I…!”
His heart became impatient. Because it seemed like he would ride that helicopter right away and leave this man. Woonghee put strength in his throat once again. Crack, the shattered glass ampoule was firmly embedded like crocodile teeth in Woonghee’s tender mucous membrane. It stung and hurt terribly as if poison was spreading. It felt like a blade was stabbing through his throat swish swish. Gulp gulp, the disgusting taste of blood flowed painfully and his speech was completely blocked.
[Fuck! Finally!]
Tula shouted in joy and grabbed the window frame and slid his body. Woonghee was dragged along while hanging on his arm. No, no, Woonghee tried somehow to grab the window frame, but it was useless.
“……!”
Woonghee tried to resist being dragged, but that bastard Tula held onto Woonghee and wouldn’t let go. Of course. He would be a card useful to Tula until the very end. When Tula forcibly opened the window wide, the propeller pressed down on the air above the ocean. A typhoon-like wind swept through.
‘Let go of this, let go I said, you son of a bitch!’
From the close helicopter, ropes tied with knots here and there fell down swoosh. As Tula reached toward it, the helicopter approached even closer.
It was very smooth progress.
Just a little more and it would be the peak. The bastard whose eyes had rolled back in excitement struck Woonghee’s side firmly with the gun gripped in his hand. As if unable to control his strength, it felt like his ribs were almost breaking down.
‘Fuck, be a little gentler…!’
Tula sent Woonghee up toward the rope first. No matter how much he tried to resist, since the gun barrel was shoved firmly into his back, Woonghee reluctantly grabbed the rope while crying and eating mustard.
A gale-like wind blew as if it would blow away Woonghee’s body at any moment, so Woonghee had to endure by putting strength firmly in both his hands.
When Tula also safely grabbed the rope, the helicopter rose up, vroom, with a floating sensation. Now, it’s done now, please! That bastard Tula, he hoped he would please let go of that Gi Junhyuk now.
But.
“Wh-what are you…!”
What are you doing, he wanted to scream. He wanted to shout until his throat burst. The problem was Tula’s gun barrel hanging on the rope below him. It was still touching the cruise, wasn’t it?
“This son of a…!”
He tried to quickly kick the bastard’s hand with his foot, but he had already pulled the trigger. The bullet seemed to fly in slow motion and then was soon shoved into the rice pot.
Soon fwoosh, bright red flames rose. Woonghee was staring blankly at those flames.
A hole was instantly pierced in the cruise. That cruise as large as a mountain was collapsing diagonally onto the water surface. Kyaaaaa, screams were heard and people evacuated in confusion causing a commotion.
However.
Only that man, why on earth was he still standing like that? The large man could be seen still standing blankly beyond the window. What are you doing, please, run away, why are you standing there like that…!
Woonghee let go of one hand gripping the rope and reached out desperately toward him. Even though he was getting farther and farther from him, even though he couldn’t reach at all. Woonghee reached out his hand as if he would grab him right away.
“I… I don’t want to leave you…!”
The cry shouted until his throat burst was blocked by the massively flowing propeller sound and was crushed.
And soon bang, a sound pierced the air once again. It was a gunshot that burst from inside the cruise. It was the gun the man shot while aiming at his own temple.
