Hiding the House in the Apocalypse

39. Yuse (3)

Where should I begin to explain?

It is to convey the situation to the mother who lost her son.

In fact, you can just leave.

Stop ignoring it.

When will I ever see you again?

If there was an afterlife, we might meet, but the odds of that would be slim.

Because that world after death will be crowded with unprecedented guests.

But when I saw the old woman, left alone in the dark, having to accept the fact that her only son had died, I couldn’t help but feel that I, who had been the closest witness to her son’s death, would not give me any explanation.

There is still time until the armored car arrives.

I spoke to her with a feeling that even I couldn’t tell if it was a sense of duty or a whim.

“… your death was heroic.”

Park Sang-min’s mother seemed like a strong person.

There are signs of wear and tear, but the clothes are luxurious and the accessories worn on the body are unusual.

However, I couldn’t find even the slightest trace of grace, and that might be because her personality was too harsh to accept grace.

“There’s no way that stupid bastard could die like a hero.”

The old woman glared at me with wide eyes.

“Did you kill him? huh? Did you kill him?”

Trying to grab my collar.

He shook his hand and shook her hand.

“Be careful with your words.”

“Where is this answer! The son of a lowly twin! You bastard with no genealogy!”

“Habits!”

Her attitude was so overbearing that I unknowingly raised my voice.

“Before the war, something so low that you couldn’t even look at it?!”

The old woman raised her hand and tried to slap me on the cheek.

This crossed the line.

There may be other methods of suppression, but to teach him a lesson, I pushed him with his foot and made him roll backwards.

“Ah!”

There is also a tribe that comes to its senses only when pain is engraved on its body.

This woman also seems to be of that type.

It was only when she was scattered on the floor that her fine clothes were covered in dust and she felt pain in every corner. Only then did she realize her reality and bow her head with her buttocks on the ground.

“Why does everyone hate you? my son Sangmin, our son Sangmin…”

The old woman’s eyes were wet for the first time.

I pondered for a while.

To tell this rude old woman the truth or not.

“…”

The conclusion may have been decided from the beginning.

From the moment I heard that she told Park Sang-min to come back.

Should it be a sense of duty?

Park Sang-min may not be able to come back, but he thought that he should give back to his mother what happened to him.

“···ruler. I’ll tell you in order. If you don’t believe it, you can go inside the Capitol and check for yourself.”

The story goes right after we left the old woman.

*“I couldn’t help it. Honestly, what can the National Assembly do in a situation where the government runs away and the country is out of business? Our role under the Constitution is to keep the legislature and the executive in check. But isn’t that check only possible when the country is placed on a normal rock? The president, the head of the executive branch, has run away. All that remains is the official. The head of the administration has all fled, what can we do?”

Park Sang-min’s protest was not listened to.

I understood that he also had a lot of circumstances.

“Even the elections are not decided by us. It’s not what I decided. It is decided by the head of the head.”

He threw me several provocative questions, but I ignored them because I didn’t want to mix them up.

The Capitol was in front of me.

Park Sang-min took out his cell phone and fiddled with it, then showed me a picture.

In the photo, several gloomy and messy children were standing in rows and rows, and in the center, Park Sang-min was standing proudly holding the shoulder of a boy and smiling.

Park Sang-min started talking while looking at himself in the picture.

“I know I am unlikable. It’s a politician’s destiny. It’s a job you can’t help but be criticized for. But I think it’s better than a judge.”

“give birth? Are you giving birth?”

“no. What do you give birth to? it’s better Not Ver-s, Verrer!”

“ah. yes.”

“This is a picture of a private nursery school that I sponsor.”

Park Sang-min passed the photo with proud eyes.

There were not only group photos, but also pictures of children and the scenery of a childcare facility that was collapsing but felt a sense of life.

In each photo, Park Sang-min occupies the most important place, and making a political smile was also a point of appreciation.

“I am proud to have saved countless children who lost their parents. But if I am not elected as the national representative this time, I will have no power to take care of these children.”

Park Sang-min looked up at me with sad eyes.

“If I’m not elected, all these kids will die.”

didn’t say anything

No, he didn’t even look at me.

Even if it was to manage his expression since his intention was childishly obvious.

Now the Capitol is in sight.

The door through which the most powerful and influential people in Korea once entered was wide open and decaying.

A few doves fluttered and fluttered their feathers.

“I disobeyed my mother for the first time.”

Sangmin Park said.

Unlike the previous story, I turned my head to look at him.

he smiled and looked at me

“Can you believe it? That a person who is a member of the National Assembly is a mama boy who has lived as his mother told him to do all his life.”

he opened the door

“I will not go in.”

just cut it off

“Couldn’t you just pretend to go in? Your mother is watching you.”

“…”

entered the Capitol.

It was the first time I set foot in the National Assembly, but I didn’t feel any inspiration or thought.

Only the usual smelly, dark, chaotic ruins stretched out before me.

More than that, it was the marks left on the floor that aroused my interest.

“?”

I looked back at Park Sang-min.

“Didn’t you say capsule?”

“yes. capsules are correct. Whether it was a coincidence or someone maliciously committed it, it was in the center of the Capitol.”

“Do you see this mark?”

pointed to the floor.

The hallway floor was dotted with evenly spaced marks, as if they had been made with a sharp chisel.

“What is this?”

Again, Park Sang-min has little experience.

I knew.

It is said that he won proportional representation by claiming his hunter qualifications, but in reality, he is a human with a qualification that is questionable even in the battlefield, let alone in the training course.

“Among the smaller species of monsters, there is something called the spider type. Similar to Earth’s spiders, but with only six legs. ”

“Yeah, that much I know. Isn’t it the representative type of a sedentary monster? If you just build a base, it’s more difficult to eradicate than any other sedentary type.”

“Why be picky?”

“That, that.”

“Because they make mazes and hatch puppies. To be precise, it should be called a minion.”

What Park Sang-min said is true.

Spider-types are more difficult to deal with than any other small species once they have established a foothold.

Like a spider weaving a web, he changes the occupied terrain itself and creates hundreds of minion-spider-rings that resemble him, erasing the humans who enter the maze from the world.

“There are traces of that minion everywhere. In addition to the capsule, it seems that a monster has appeared here.”

“By the way, I can’t see any change in the terrain?”

Park Sang-min looked around.

“Doesn’t the spider-type turn the area around the stronghold into a eroded area in an instant and turn it into its own fortress?”

“It must have appeared recently. Mixed with super-large species.”

“By the way, I know that spider types produce minions since I built the base.”

“…”

It looks like you studied hard.

This time, this person is right.

Spider-types, like queen ants, only produce spiderlings once they have completely established their territory.

That context shift hadn’t been reported, at least not when I was on the battlefield.

Come to think of it, this person named Park Sang-min.

He is a better student than me.

He graduated from one of the leading universities in Korea and completed graduate school in the United States.

Hunter’s career was so insignificant that I almost denied everything about this person.

“······ha.”

Park Sang-min sat down on the floor.

The fear of being in the realm of monsters was also a sense of fear, but even more terrible fatigue covered his face.

“Are you not going anymore?”

“yes.”

“Let’s go in 10 minutes. That way, I think my mother will understand.”

A heavy silence enveloped us.

There was nothing to talk about.

Because we don’t like each other very much.

If we were teenage boys, we might be able to quarrel and make up once in a while, but we are already grown-ups.

There is no such thing as reconciliation in the adult world.

It’s because each other knows that the location of the land they have established is too different for reconciliation.

“I heard you were Kim Da-ram’s senior?”

Park Sang-min broke the long silence.

He nodded quietly.

“Daram Kim was at least someone I could talk to.”

I looked at my watch.

It’s only been 2 minutes.

I think it’s been 10 minutes.

“A person named Woo Min-hee is a bit strange. I speak strangely. how to say feel bad? There was no malice, but the tone itself was like that. It just makes people feel bad.”

Minhee Woo is like that.

Park Sang-min let out a deep sigh.

“Like my mother.”

saw him

This is the second time.

Coincidentally, both times I paid attention to him when he mentioned his mother.

His mother didn’t seem to have a very nice personality.

It’s the epitome of a strong and fussy wife.

It reminded me of the image of a young female employee kneeling at a department store or luxury store and beating her up with various words.

Park Sang-min burst into laughter as he looked into the distance.

“Well, in hindsight, maybe it’s because of my mother that we’re here like this.”

“Didn’t your mother tell you not to go?”

“no. I mean, when you look at life as a whole. So it’s like inertia. I was pushed by the inertia my mother created.”

“Inertia…”

“My life has been decided ever since I came out of my mother’s womb.”

Park Sang-min opened his hand and stared at his palm.

He looked at his palms and then turned to me.

“It’s like palm reading.”

“…”

“Snacks, games, clothes, school, hobbies, friends, wives. Everything was arranged by my mother. It is thanks to my mother that I got a job as a member of the National Assembly.”

“You seem to come from a good family.”

“yes. It’s true. You may not be lucky.”

Suddenly, a curiosity arose.

“What about your father?”

What kind of life will the husband of such a strong woman live?

“I went out after starting a new life.”

indeed.

“Who would stand up to that character? Even my wife couldn’t stand it and left. My younger brother also suffered from autism-like illness. You will be surprised when you see it. That there is such an incompetent younger brother under this arrogant Park Sang-min.”

Certainly, this person, self-objectification has been established.

It means knowing what other people see and think about you.

Still, being able to live a life that hurts and uses people like that is a great thing in a way.

Mostly ugly people don’t know they’re ugly.

by the way.

“It’s been 10 minutes.”

Park Sang-min stood up from his seat.

Oddly enough, it was me who felt regret.

I became intrigued by the story of a man who was only five years older than me, and who had gone through a completely different life journey than I did.

In a way, it might be the interest created by fate.

The story of the oppressive parents he went through is an illusion that there is no way for a parentless person like me to experience.

“Would you like to go inside?”

In addition, I realized that this person named Park Sang-min did not become a member of the National Assembly Huturu.

This person reads the flow well.

His cheeky, arrogant, and selfish personality hid the claws of keen insight.

Quickly realizing that Park Sang-min, a lawmaker, did not work for me, and throwing a fishing rod at me as a human, Park Sang-min, was an astute response to the point of applause.

Thanks to this, I moved to the center of the constitutional history that I had not planned.

There were several picture frames hanging in the hallway leading to the Capitol.

Excerpts from constitutional amendments, rounding off, gymnasium elections.

The stigma of the constitutional history, which symbolizes the helplessness of the National Assembly, was put on the canvas in a modern artistic style and was worn away under the roofless ruins.

“I still vividly remember the day I first entered the Capitol.”

Park Sang-min said as he walked toward the Capitol with comfortable steps.

“Everything was amazing and new. I felt alive for the first time.”

His steps stopped.

His eyes glared at the circular gray-white object that stood brazenly in the center of the podium.

“…Even if it’s on the rails that my mother prepared for me.”

A monster egg was placed in the center of the ruined capital.

“I like it here.”

Park Sang-min put his hand in his pocket.

Before he took his hand out of his pocket, the familiar handle of metal and plastic in his hand was revealed.

it’s a pistol

“…”

It was to be expected.

clap

“Put the gun on the floor.”

It was me who aimed the gun first.

“I’ll give you three seconds.”