You Promised Me, Mr. Lee San-ha - Chapter 120



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Episode 120: The Boy Behind the Door (5)

I put my hand on the status screen, suppressing my heart that felt like it was going to burst.

… … : Promise to return Ahn Hee-chan home safely upon confirmation of deposit.

As expected, a warning window pops up.

-Caution! The social experience of the target you are trying to force to keep the promise is too high. It will cause an overload.

Are you sure you want to cancel the request to fulfill your promise?

Y/N

※Is it your future hope to die with your head exploding like popcorn?

The target of this promise is already Eun-eun.

This is a person who has appeared in countless dramas across the nation, from the youth drama to the weekend drama , the melodrama , and the alternative history drama .

There was a time when the saying, “If there comes a day when Lee Mi-eun doesn’t appear on TV, that will be the day the Republic of Korea falls.” was popular.

Anyway, the warning message in the most annoying warning window ever caught my eye.

I am fully aware of the risks of this matter.

Because every time I got overloaded, I felt like I was going to die.

Because, without any exaggeration, the pain was so severe that I thought, ‘I’d rather die.’

But now I had to endure it.

As soon as I touched the status window, an indescribable pain came over me.

“Eeeeeeeeek!”

More than the first overload who kept his promise to Park Hyun-woo to get his father’s money.

More than when I faced the ‘nation’s little brother’ Lim Se-yeol to try to get him to quit drugs.

More than when PD Son Seong-woo, who was manipulating rankings, came to his senses.

Pain several times, several dozen times greater, is stabbed into my head.

“Eugh! Kkeuu… … .”

He staggered about in the darkness, waving his arms.

As soon as I threw myself on the bed, I lost consciousness.

and.

“Ugh!”

I woke up with excruciating pain.

I clutched the blanket so hard that my hands went numb, and then I lost consciousness again.

I can’t tell how many seconds or minutes have passed.

The important thing is that consciousness has returned.

“Ahhhhhhhh!”

I don’t have the strength to wipe away my tears.

All I could do was lie face down on the blanket and groan.

I buried my face in the pillow and tried to scream.

How many times have I lost consciousness and regained it?

The pitch-black darkness that made it impossible to see even an inch ahead made it impossible to tell whether I had fainted or come to my senses.

I can’t possibly gauge the passage of time.

As if even time had melted into darkness.

I walked around the room frantically.

thud.

I bumped into something, but I don’t even know what I bumped into.

I can feel the cool texture of the walls.

Looks like he came into the shower room.

Kwachangjang!

I heard the sound of glass breaking.

Did you break the mirror?

Consciousness fades away.

… … I thought I had lost consciousness, but I regained consciousness right away.

It feels like I’ve been forced to reboot.

I can’t understand why hot water is flowing from my head.

Has the thinking organ died?

I don’t know.

It just hurts.

I’m so sick and tired of it, I just want to rip my head off.

“Ugh… … .”

Roll into the bathtub.

I turned on the cold water and wet my head.

The cold winter water, as cold as ice, flowed down my head.

The pain did not freeze.

The pain did not subside.

The pain is… … .

I can’t even think of the right expression now.

Just lose consciousness.

* * *

“Ugh… … .”

I opened my eyes with a groan.

The bright lights and soft bed feel unfamiliar.

“Sanhaya!”

Ahn Hee-yeon, covered in tears, hugged me.

‘Why is Ahn Hee-yeon here?’

The excruciating pain makes it difficult to think clearly.

I turned my head to look.

It’s completely white everywhere.

Curtains, metal ringer hangers, electrocardiograph, patient bed, refrigerator.

It took me a long time to realize that it was a hospital.

“Heechan, Hee, Heechan… … .”

It was as if the part of my brain that controls language function was broken, and I couldn’t speak properly.

When Ahn Hee-yeon turned her head, she saw a boy lying down.

It looks like he was admitted to the same hospital room as me.

‘It’s over.’

I need to open the status window and complete the execution as soon as possible, but even that is difficult.

Holding on to my fading consciousness… …I barely managed to complete the task.

“Haaaa …

I let out the longest sigh I’ve ever let out in my life.

With a sigh, the pain disappeared as if washed away.

There is still some pain left, but this wound is just a bruise that occurred regardless of ability, so there is nothing that can be done about it.

There was something else that had to be taken care of first.

“This is a patient gown made of linen. If you pull on it so hard, it will probably rip.”

“Are you kidding me?! Seriously, you’re really bad!”

An Hee-yeon glared at me with a face full of tears.

What did I do wrong to make you so angry?

She soon gave an answer.

“You said nothing would happen. You said you wouldn’t do anything dangerous!”

“Um… … . In the end, it ended without any problems, right?”

I tried to be coy, but it didn’t work at all.

Tears flowed down from Ahn Hee-yeon’s eyes.

“Do you know how shocked I was when I saw you, blue from drowning in the bathtub? After that, you didn’t even open your eyes, and the doctor said your electrocardiogram was abnormal. So, I… I… I… .”

I held her hand gently.

“You must have been very surprised. But I’m okay now. Really.”

An Hee-yeon bit her lip and looked at me quietly.

As if I would disappear if I fell out of sight.

It is an infinitely pitiful and hazy look.

She spoke to me, swallowing back tears.

“I really don’t know what it is, but… … don’t… … ever do that again.”

Just then, a group of men opened the door to the hospital room and came in.

“Excuse me. Are you Hee-yeon Ahn?”

“Huh? Oh, the detectives are here.”

“I came here after hearing the news from my relatives. Thank you for your hard work.”

It appears that they are the detectives in charge of Ahn Hee-chan’s disappearance case.

They asked Ahn Hee-yeon how she got Ahn Hee-chan back.

“You just dropped Hee-chan off in front of the house and left?”

“Yes. I was waiting outside the house just in case, and someone in a white van pushed Heechan out and drove away.”

“Have you seen the vehicle? What is the license plate number and model?”

“I couldn’t see it well because my hat was pulled down low. I should have seen the license plate, but I missed it because Hee-chan saw it and ran away. As for the car model… I don’t know… I’m sorry.”

“No. For now, it’s fortunate that we found Hee-chan. Detective Kim! Check the nearby CCTV!”

As I listened to the conversation between Ahn Hee-yeon and the police, one more thing that I had to do came to mind.

I raised my hand like a student asking a question in class.

“Detectives! I have a tip to give.”

One of the detectives who was talking to Ahn Hee-yeon glanced at me and answered.

“I don’t know what it is, but if you want to formally file a complaint, you must go to the Civil Affairs Department―.”

“This is about a kidnapper.”

The busy detectives suddenly freeze.

All the detectives in the ward had their eyes fixed on me.

I said in a confident voice.

“I think I know who it is. The kidnapper.”

* * *

Dawn. A villa village somewhere in Gangnam.

A man wearing a black hat pulled down low got out of a white van.

He muttered to himself with a blank expression.

“Why did I let him go… … ?”

Feeling an inexplicable sense of discomfort, he looks at his cell phone.

Launch the coin exchange app.

Check the deposit amount in your e-wallet.

The most recent deposit history is ‘1ply’.

Below that were a few coins with numerous downward graphs.

Those were the coins that always got his frustrations going, but that wasn’t important right now.

The ‘1-ply’ amount deposited a little after 11 o’clock was important.

He clearly asked for ‘150,000 Rishi Coins’.

That’s an amount equivalent to 1.5 billion won.

But ‘1ply’ is 300 won.

If you withdraw money, you will incur additional fees, resulting in a loss of 2,700 won.

But for some reason, the moment I checked this ‘1-ply’…

He brought Ahn Hee-chan out of the abandoned factory site as if possessed.

Then he took me safely home.

When I got home, I just sat in the car the whole time.

As if I was possessed by something.

Now he had no time.

“Fuck, I was walking around so defenseless.”

The hostage was released.

No, I let it go.

The kidnapping target is a child, so he may not remember much meaningful information, but it is a dangerous situation anyway.

Moreover, he went all the way to the hostage’s house by car.

The chances of it being caught on CCTV are almost 100%, no, 120%.

I had to quickly pack my bags and run away before the police arrived.

He walked home, looking around without stopping.

If it were only the police that were the problem, there would be no need to be so vigilant.

Even if the police are fast, it will take several hours.

But his worries weren’t limited to the police.

Because numerous gangsters and loan sharks were chasing him.

A silhouette is drawn on one side of the road leading to the house with a very stiff gait.

A man of considerable size walked toward him.

‘A gangster or a salty fish?’

Either way, it was going to end the same way.

Maybe he’s just a big, local guy.

However, it was not common for large townspeople to approach from both the front and the back at the same time.

Ta-da-!

He immediately turned around and ran down the crossroads.

The men approaching from both sides shouted.

“Here it is! Catch him!”

Ta-da-da-dak!

He ran down the hill, made a sharp turn, and raced down an alley.

A torn up trash bag and patches of frozen snow quickly pass him by.

Even while running away, he did not step on any snow-covered areas.

Because they might chase you after seeing your footprints.

“Ugh… … . Ugh… … .”

I run and run through the alleys without a destination.

As I kept running, I suddenly stopped hearing the sound of footsteps following me.

“Huk, huk, huk, huk… … . Did I, did I get kicked?”

Although they had shaken off their pursuers, they were not yet safe.

He ran down the slope along the alley.

Tadadak-

As he was running frantically, something caught his leg.

widely!

“Huh?!”

The body that was running at full speed floats up.

He flew in a parabolic arc for a long time before rolling around on the road.

Kkudangdang!

“Ugh! Huh! Keuheu… … .”

There were numerous abrasions and bruises all over his body.

He raised his body, touching the ground with his blood-stained palms.

At the end of his field of vision, where he had raised his foot to check the identity of what was happening, there was a man standing there.

The man standing under the streetlight pulled back his legs that had been stretched out in front of him.

“It’s been a week since I’ve seen you, Mr. Insurance Salesman.”

The man who appeared, basking in the streetlight like a spotlight, was me, Lee San-hada.

I picked up the hat that was rolling on the floor.

“Hey buddy. You said you’d contact me? I guess you’ve been busy doing bad things this week.”

He twirls his hat around on his finger and looks down at the kidnapper’s face.

“… … .”

There, Han Tae-seok was looking up at me with a gaze full of hatred.