Academy Silver Gatekeeper

202 – Side Story 1

Sick. Sick. It hurts so much.

Before, I didn’t even know that this feeling was painful.

Because I didn’t know anything. Because I didn’t hear anything. I couldn’t figure it out.

The only thing I learned about writing was because a few people taught me about it.

“Hey. Stop sending it. “I did everything I had to do.”

“All right. Little. “Get dressed.”

Even if you ask me to wear it, all it takes is one set of clothes.

The good news is that I don’t have to wear it until it gets worn out.

“How many people died today?”

“They say it’s the best ever. I don’t even know the numbers. “Maybe forty people died?”

“That much in one day? “Can you handle this?”

The average was about 10 people a day, but it kept increasing and increasing.

Now I’m in my forties. If this continues, there will really be no one left.

“I don’t know. “Those above keep urging us without even knowing the situation.”

“You’ll figure it out, okay? “There’s nothing you can’t do as long as you give money.”

“Yes. Oh, take him out quickly.”

At those words, the man nodded and took the boy out.

“…”

Walking down the hallway in silence, the boy glanced around.

In the past, it was a space filled with the sounds of friends talking.

At some point, it gradually decreased and became quiet.

‘Forty.’

I’m glad to know that forty is forty.

As of today, there are 40 fewer friends left than yesterday.

“Go in.”

The boy went through the thick iron door without saying a word.

The place where I first opened my eyes, and where I continued to spend time.

I thought it was everything in the world, but it turns out that I am not even the dust of the world.

Kwaang-

When the door closed, the boy glanced at it.

Will I one day be able to go beyond this, beyond this hallway, and beyond the world?

“Ugh.”

At this time, a small child in the room grabs the boy’s leg.

He is such a small child. He said It’s the kind of being that you wish you didn’t know anything about.

“Huh. I’m here. One hundred and forty.”

The boy went inside, holding the child.

*

“How long do we have to manage these? “They die every day.”

“Keep your mouth shut.”

“Senior. This is not an issue that can just be overlooked. This…”

“I told you to shut up.”

Suddenly—

Another man grabs the man by the collar and grins.

“You idiot. “Is that the problem now?”

“Then what is the problem?”

“Listen carefully, you idiot. Now the people involved keep disappearing. What does this mean? “I’m not just going to deal with those kids, I’m going to clean up everything around them.”

The man who was grumbling at those words gasps.

They know very well that what they were doing was very dirty and unethical.

The idea that the people involved in such matters are being sorted out is definitely not a good thing.

At least in society, if you look at it seriously, you could even lose your life.

“If you want to save your life, from now on you will do whatever you are told, and you will be clear about the nuance that you don’t know the details. “If you continue to act like this, you will become a corpse tomorrow.”

After the man’s warning ended, the grumbler closed his mouth.

Hearing this fact that I knew nothing about made me break into a cold sweat.

Why didn’t I know? I thought this research, this experiment, was completely useless.

If that happens, everyone involved will eventually become useless as well.

If you make even the slightest mistake, even mice and birds can die without you even noticing!

“Don’t worry about those kids from now on. Resist, wonder, or do nothing. “If you don’t want to be buried with dirt on things that are meant to be thrown away.”

*

The boy, who had his ear against the huge iron door, slowly pulls his body away.

Finally, they confirmed that everyone in front of their room had disappeared.

“Are they all gone?”

“Huh. They’re all gone. Thirty-two.”

The person called Thirty-two is a girl younger than the boy who was listening.

Six years old or younger at most. His body was thin and his face was extremely pale.

The needle holes all over his body made it possible to guess what was happening.

It wasn’t just the girl. The boy who was listening was the same.

There were even several stitch marks, as if the body had been cut several times.

“What happens now?”

“I don’t know. Sixty-eight. “I haven’t done anything since a week ago.”

Literally, it’s been a week since I stayed in my room without anything happening.

It has never been like this. All kinds of experiments were conducted day after day.

Having blood drawn is a normal occurrence, and I have suffered countless worse things than that.

If it were normal people, they would have gone crazy long ago.

How terrible it is to be treated not as a human being, but as an object.

How hellish it is to exist without any rights, consideration, or consideration.

The reason these little kids were able to endure them is simple.

I was born naturally and have never enjoyed the things that a human should enjoy.

It was created with ugly desires and a wrong mind, because it knew nothing in the first place.

That’s why I was able to endure it. Because I don’t know what’s difficult or what’s wrong.

No. Not anymore. Because I didn’t know, it changed to because I didn’t know.

Even though these children were created, raised, and treated as non-human beings.

Meanwhile, there were some who were unable to completely abandon their humanity and offered a very small helping hand.

Because of them, some of the surviving children were finally able to learn about the real world.

‘Let’s live. Let’s survive.’

From then on, the children learned that there was hope.

Rather than resentment, more than hatred, more than anger, that’s what they learned first.

And I endured that hope, holding it deep in my heart.

Let’s make sure we survive. Let’s live and let people know that life is so precious.

Let’s protect them in this world where there are people who are having a harder time than us.

Let us fight so that there are no more sick and suffering people like us.

“How about one hundred and forty?”

“It hurts a lot. “My body is still really hot.”

Sixty-eight sits next to him and touches the forehead of the little child who was learning.

It’s a fireball. Even if it’s hot, it’s too hot. Children have seen this a lot.

If you get sick like this, it won’t be long before you are taken somewhere and never come back.

Looking at those children, some people said, ‘They went to a place where they wouldn’t get sick.’

The children who now knew the world knew the truth.

Being abandoned when you are sick. If we are abandoned, we will never meet each other again.

Sigh-

The boy stands up and approaches the child named Baek40.

Although they are all still young, 140 is the smallest and weakest among them.

So much so that even they are wondering how they survived this far.

“One hundred and forty.”

Sssss-

No answer came back. The only sound is the sound of heavy breathing.

The boy bit his lip and hugged Seon Baek40 carefully.

“Hold on just a little longer. Just hold on a little longer. Let’s live. Let’s survive. You promised. “I don’t want to die.”

Okay. Everyone promised. Let’s all survive.

Although some of them ended up not being able to keep their promises and left.

I decided to live even harder on behalf of my friends.

Then one day.

Geek-

A huge iron door that seemed like it would never open opened.

In response to the sudden incident, the boy cautiously stuck his head out.

A dark and quiet hallway with no one in sight.

It used to be a place crowded with all kinds of people.

Now it has become such a strange place where it is difficult to see even a single person.

“What happened?”

“I don’t know. Suddenly the door opened.”

“… Wouldn’t it be better to go in? “If I get caught, I’ll be scolded a lot again.”

The boy thought for a moment and shook his head at Sap12’s words.

And then I mustered up the courage and went out into the hallway this time.

Nothing happens. Even the loud siren sound.

There is no sound of people running from far away, or anything.

“… Let’s go.”

“Yes? Uh, where?”

“Anywhere. Any place. Let’s go.”

The boy said and went inside.

And carrying one hundred and forty, and carrying forty-two and sixty-eight.

I started running towards the end of this dark hallway.

*

“No, over there. Don’t the public servants here work for taxes?”

“Hey, ma’am. I know you’re frustrated, but if you do this here…”

“Why do you keep calling me ajumma? Are you ignoring me now because I’m older?”

Then tell her what to call you. Hey? You? Or this damn civil servant?

Trying to suppress his bubbling heart, the young man parted his lips.

“Calm down. There is nothing more our department can do. This…”

“Ah! I can’t understand. Not you! Call someone high up. How much tax do I pay? I have to hear this from someone like this! High-ranking people come out! Come out!”

In the end, it was only after the superior came and told me to apologize and apologize quickly.

Even though she was over 50 years old, she was able to send off a ‘jumma’ who was much older than her.

Treat complainants more sincerely. When we go up to Sinmungo, everyone is embarrassed.

He went on his way home from work today as well, hearing the same words.

“… Ah.”

It’s tough. I’m tired, my chest feels tight and I feel like I’m going to die.

I guess I caught a cold or something, but I haven’t been feeling well since the afternoon.

Let’s go back quickly, wash up, and sleep. It would be better if I took a deep sleep.

Even though tomorrow will continue to be the same hellish day as today.

Still, I thought it would get a little better.

“Haaa…”

A young man, one hundred and forty, slowly closes his eyes and leans against the bus window.

High fever rises in the body and simultaneous collapse occurs, so slowly.

However, my breathing becomes lighter and soon I end up in a difficult world that feels like falling asleep.

I thought it ended like that. It had to end.

“… Uh.”

In the place where one hundred and forty disappeared, a new person arrived.