Black Badger - Chapter 345



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345. Sasha (1)

Samuel also seems to know about Ye-Hyeon’s family history. He spat next to her.

I also sighed and thought.

and.

Ye-Hyeon must not know this until the end.

This story must never leave this room.

No matter what Seunghyun Lee went through, the abuse he inflicted on Yehyun was not justified.

While I was upset by Seunghyun Lee’s misfortune, I also felt offended by what Sajid had told me about Seunghyun Lee.

‘I thought I had to survive because Ye-Hyeon trembled whenever she met anyone other than herself.’

It sounded like if Ye-Hyeon hadn’t suffered from trauma, she would have left her to a nanny for the rest of her life and just ignored it.

It was unpleasant that she was left to the care of a nanny until she was six years old, and it was also irritating to hear that she would have continued to do so if there had been no abuse.

If he truly loved Ye-Hyeon, wouldn’t he have said, ‘I should go back to the child who was abused due to my ignorance’?

After that day, there was no instance of Ye-Hyeon being neglected.

All that mattered to him was whether or not Sasha’s son, Yehyun, was alive.

“Did he tell you more about his real son?”

He asked in a subdued voice.

Sajid looked at me and Samuel carefully.

“I occasionally mentioned that I was going somewhere because of my son’s treatment.”

“Ah. I guess he took his son to the hospital during the surgery.”

“At that time, there were many skilled doctors on this island. He must have brought his son here while he was undergoing intensive surgery. I didn’t see him though.”

“okay….”

I heard that Ye-Hyeon barely remembers that time.

That’s fortunate. He was already a child who couldn’t bear to separate from his biological father because of the warmth that Seunghyun Lee rarely showed him. If he knew or remembered this fact, he would be even more confused.

Samuel sighs.

I also let out a heavy sigh as Sajid spoke.

“But I don’t think he would have been a good parent.”

Samuel and I stared at Sajid.

Sajid fiddled with his glass of water, his eyes intently thinking about something.

“Because he was so deprived. The chances of such a person becoming a good parent are very slim.”

“Yes.”

I agreed with what the doctor said.

In both the previous sentence and the next sentence.

“I know him too.”

Sajid turned and looked at me.

He didn’t seem surprised. I think he guessed it based on my and Samuel’s reactions.

Of course, there is a possibility that the surviving Luca may not be Seunghyun Lee.

I asked just to be sure.

“Do you remember what it looked like?”

Sajid looked at me intently.

“He was Asian.”

also.

“He was a pretty boy, but he always had a poisonous aura about him.”

right.

Lee Seung-hyun was right.

“I guess it’s a sphere?”

“yes.”

“Did you know that he was Luca?”

“I just found out that there was a real person named Luca. We weren’t that close. I just knew that he had many shortcomings.”

Eyes that distrust the world.

There was always anger in his eyes. It was an emotion that the cruelty of the world had directly engraved in his eyes.

Although he was a man of few words, Seunghyun Lee’s emotions often ran wild.

The fact that he was sometimes nice to Ye-Hyeon and sometimes raised his hand even when Ye-Hyeon didn’t resist was probably a result of his distorted behavior.

It’s a common form of domestic violence.

Some of those who grew up in violence passed that violence on to their descendants.

“That’s right. He had so many scars on his mind that he seemed incapable of forming normal intimate relationships. That’s probably why he was chosen as a candidate for an enhanced body transplant. I think he was disliked by those above.”

“What were the criteria for being selected as Luca?”

“Healthy adult men and women. Over 25 years old. Mostly military. Not all of them were rich. I heard there was a huge financial reward.”

I remembered. When Seunghyun Lee was young, he wasn’t very wealthy.

How could an orphan have any money?

“And I should say this now that there’s nothing left to hide, but it seems like they’ve selected people with no connections or unstable status. So that if anything goes wrong, they can completely hide Luca’s very existence.”

“I feel nauseous.”

Samuel spat out the words.

I swallowed a sigh and agreed.

I know that Seunghyun Lee’s misfortune is not my fault.

Who told you to do human experiments?

Not satisfied with having stopped aging, humans eventually went so far as to conduct human experiments. I worked hard to cut the throats of those disgusting humans. Whether it was through self-replication or something, those types of humans did not disappear.

So, what I’m saying is that Seunghyun Lee’s misfortune is because of those people.

I know very well that if we had never come to Earth, he would not have been experimented on.

The sense of debt grew in size.

I put that feeling aside for the time being.

Let’s focus on Luca first.

“Can you tell me more about that?”

Sajid accepted my request with coolness.

Like someone who’s been waiting their whole life to confess this to someone.

It is said that the subject of the research on the reinforced body was a female scientist later called Medea.

The strange title was given to her after her death, and of course she had both a real name and an alias.

Neither of them knew Sajid.

“It was a talent that Olivia discovered.”

Is that Bingjae woman again?

“She was completely different from Eve. She was quiet and cynical. But she was definitely as intelligent as Eve.”

“What did you call me?”

“I just called her that. Or the chief researcher.”

They say she was an inhuman woman.

Sajid had only encountered her three times. When he first encountered those called Luca. When their bodies began to reject him. When everyone else died except for Seunghyun Lee. A total of three times.

When I finally confronted her, the researcher, who was posthumously nicknamed Medea, said this without blinking an eye.

Looking out at the sea that was turning blood red.

‘I guess I should have watched the progress of the transplants on death row inmates for longer.’

The voice was said to be calmer than the calm sea.

‘I chose Luca because there was nothing wrong with their bodies. Who would have thought that six months later, such a strong rejection reaction would occur?’

Sajid felt scared.

It was a fear that gripped my gut and made me shiver.

The indifference in her voice, the calm eyes that didn’t even glance at the remains of the dead and buried, was what scared him.

He said it was even more terrifying knowing that the woman wasn’t a full-blown psychopath.

“In front of Olivia, I was just a normal person who laughed and cried.”

It wouldn’t have been so scary if we were born without knowing our conscience.

“It’s not pretense. She really loved humans in some sense.”

The ice cream was like that too.

“That was our last meeting. Medea asked me for the medical records of the dead and the survivors, and she took them all and left. It was only much later that I heard the news of her death. It was after the augmented body had been successfully transplanted. It was after the war broke out.”

“Are you sure he’s dead?”

“I heard.”

I guess revenge won’t relieve my debt.

I looked out the window and thought to myself, if she were alive, I would have cut off her head and sent it to Seunghyun Lee to forgive some of my debt.

All I could do now was to later remove Colton, who clearly knew about this experiment but condoned it.

It wasn’t something that could be done right away.

Sajid moistens his throat with water.

I waited patiently until he was ready to speak again.

The doctor finished his story after emptying the water.

“After several more trials and errors, the enhanced body we know today was created. I don’t know much about the whole process. After I buried Luca in a fit of rage, I never left the island. Even those above welcomed my choice. Although there were people who came to kill me in order to keep my mouth shut.”

“You survived?”

“I survived.”

Sajid let out a triumphant smile.

“Thanks to someone’s protection.”

Sajid placed the empty water glass on the windowsill and leaned against the bed frame.

Outside the window, darkness falls as the sun sets.

The doctor who chose to grow old muttered while looking at the sea turning black.

“She looks like Olivia.”

Ekaterina.

I recalled the conversation I had with Ska in the hospital room. The elder had been strangely obscure for a long time compared to her skills. She only came to prominence after the end of the First War.

There was a reason for the long period of anonymity.

“According to rumors, that woman killed Medea and took Luca, who survived.”

It must be true, not a rumor.

Currently, Seunghyun Lee was under Ekaterina.

“No one knows the reason. Some say that he was acquainted with the surviving Luca, some say that he was in the process of becoming the second Ice Emperor, and some say that he had a lover among the dead Lucas.”

I think the first hypothesis is the most likely.

I didn’t really wonder. After all, Ekaterina and Colton’s ultimate goal was power. Even if they sometimes showed mercy in their pursuit of power, it didn’t change their nature.

Trash is just trash.

Anyway, this is how Sajid’s story ended.

A doctor who has lived in seclusion since coming under Catherine’s protection.

He smiled faintly when he heard my story that the only survivor was still alive.

But I never asked how Seunghyun Lee was doing, how I knew him, or what happened to Seunghyun Lee’s son.

From the beginning, it seemed like he didn’t want to know much about Seunghyun Lee.

“It feels good to be open about it.”

Sajid said this and lay down on the bed, saying he was tired.

“I thought I would die without telling anyone. Thank you for listening. I really wanted to tell someone.”

After muttering in a complicated voice, she pulled the blanket up to her head.

The man buried himself under the blanket.

Samuel approached him and asked to see the condition of his wound, but he refused.

“Let me rest for a bit… .”

A voice that is crawling in.

We granted his request.

***

Samuel came out of the sickroom.

I found a place that was as comfortable and deserted as the one I had been in before, closed the door, and sat down.

There are about two hours left until the core inspection is completed.

A dark and warm room where midnight silence comes.

I wiggled my arms and legs under the blanket Samuel had covered over me.

I absentmindedly looked at my phone and sent a message to my seniors.

People who sent me messages expressing their concerns in various ways.

After replying, I sent the same message to Yoon, Yehyun, Ricardo, and Ami.

[Should I cut my hair?]

Earlier, Tvein was accused of saying this and that.

I didn’t really listen closely, but I was worried that I might have been violating the code of conduct without knowing it, so I sent it and then dropped my phone.

As if he had been waiting for this, Samuel opened his mouth.

“Are you going to tell this story to Yehyun?”

I looked at the doctor sprawled on the sofa next to me with a bitter smile.

“I will never do that.”

“Yeah. Good idea. He’ll be shaken when he hears this story.”

“Yes, I know.”

Even though there is no need to do that.

I wanted Ye-Hyeon to completely lose interest in Seung-Hyeon Lee.

I hoped I would never have to face Seunghyun.

But I know that realistically it’s difficult to do that.

This was one of the reasons why I had not intervened deeply in the relationship between Seunghyun Lee and Yehyun Lee until now.

Lee Seung-hyun is Yekaterina’s right-hand man. He is not someone you can beat up without worrying about the aftermath. If Ye-hyun had asked her to beat Seung-hyun or get rid of him, even if it meant enduring the aftermath, she would have gladly done so.

The aftershock isn’t just coming to me, you know.

It wasn’t a situation where we could physically separate, as we had to attend elders’ meetings periodically.

So, rather than throwing a punch that the child never asked for, I decided it would be better to gently coax Seunghyun into getting Sasha’s stuff.

I’m not sure if this is the right thing to do.

In fact, I once made some rash remarks about the relationship between Kisis and the Emperor.

I told him that I wish he would stop caring for me because it was obvious that he didn’t love me.

I still can’t forget the expression Kissis showed me at that time.

From that day on, I spent some time with Kissis on a low note.

Growing up without any love, I didn’t really understand the complex love and hate between family members.

But having Ray and Kissis by my side taught me to be careful with my words.

That’s why I’ve kept a step back until now.

Because I’m not confident that I can handle it well.

“Are you going to contact Seunghyun Lee?”

“yes.”

Answered Samuel’s question.

Regardless of Seunghyun Lee’s mistakes, I wanted to hear about what he had been through.

Stories he never told me.

“I’m going to do it now.”

***

I got a call from Hilde.

Seunghyun Lee looked down at his cell phone and reached out.

As I replied, I thought of the two people.

Sasha. The one who was his reason for living and is still the reason he lives to this day.

Hildebert Taleb. His first teacher.

When Seunghyun Lee faced Hilde for the first time, he felt fear at being looked down upon.

I didn’t want to be looked down on by him alone.

It was a very unfamiliar feeling.