1979, Manager Kim is Inheriting Dictatorship! - Chapter 68



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Episode 68

In the past, there were many times when I would step forward to take the place of the clumsy and incompetent party members.

But now that I’m used to fighting, there’s no need to step forward.

Phew!

Kwajik!

Kim Jin-kyung jumps into the middle of her opponent and starts the fight with a powerful right hook.

A duo of soldiers with rifles followed, swinging their boots and buttstocks fiercely.

We’ve been dealing with countless looters and infected people for so long, so why are these thugs the problem?

Aaaah!

X-Fuck, what the hell are these guys!

They burst out here and there, screaming terribly, leaving no room for resistance.

Olivia, who was carrying the child on her back, scratched her head in embarrassment at the sight.

“Should I go and fight too?”

“Just stay.”

It seemed like the situation was being sorted out without the two of us having to step forward.

I watched the fight with Olivia and listened to the cries coming from all directions.

“Eww! You fucking dogs!”

But at that moment, a man with all his front teeth missing suddenly appeared, screaming.

In his hand was a five-shot SW revolver used by the South Korean police.

widely!

At the last moment, I leapt forward and grabbed the bastard’s right hand.

“uh?”

Then, he lifts the gun up, takes it away, and turns his right hand the opposite way.

Whack

Kkaaaak!

The creature lets out a horrible scream, accompanied by the bloody sound of its right hand bones breaking.

But I grabbed the bastard’s head regardless and slammed it against the left wall.

Kwajik!

After the sound of a head crashing, the surroundings are enveloped in a heavy silence.

I shook my bloody hands off as if nothing happened and glared at the crowd gathered around me.

Then, one by one, the men began to put down their weapons with pale faces.

“Is that kid?”

“Yes, sister.”

However, Jin-kyung Kim went after the guy who had instigated the gang in the first place.

“Live, live… … .”

Kwajik!

He then landed a right hook and uppercut to the jaw, completely shattering it.

The bastard fell to the ground like a puppet whose strings had been cut, and after a brief convulsion he stopped moving.

“Room, did you just kill him?”

“Shh! I can hear you all.”

Other survivors who had gathered around started muttering with frightened faces.

Among the crowd were Shin Min-a and Park Jeong-su, who were half-asleep.

The two people asked in trembling voices while looking at Kim Jin-kyung with blood on her face.

“Sister?”

“You, you’re really Jin-kyung… … ?”

Blood flowing from his fist, cold eyes, heat rising from his shoulders and head.

Shin Min-a’s eyes fluttered as she watched her friend who had changed so much in that short time.

But Jin-kyung Kim wiped the blood from her fist and sorted out the situation.

There is a suffocating silence for a while.

That heavy silence was the best answer survivor Kim Jin-kyung could give.

* * *

The subdued gang tied up their limbs and locked them in an empty room, then buried their bodies in the snow.

Since we were going to leave anyway, it didn’t matter what happened to those who were left behind.

But the real problem arose in a completely unexpected place.

“Are you okay?”

“It seems like it was slightly sprained.”

A little while ago, in a fight, Private Lee Hyeon-su ended up spraining his right ankle.

I remember getting hurt last time too, but I think it broke because I was using too much force.

“I’m sorry, brother.”

“it’s okay.”

First, we applied a cast and brought in snow from outside to apply a cold compress.

Judging from the slight swelling, it seemed like it would need to rest for an hour or two.

We had no choice but to unpack on one side of the restaurant and wait and see what happened.

“Oh, unnie, you’re really cool!”

“Are you a soldier, sir?”

“Maybe a special agent or something?”

But some clueless students came into the room we were in and started making a fuss.

We were planning to take a short break, but we frowned at the unexpected intruder.

Eventually, Private Oh Chan-il, who could no longer stand to watch this, gathered the noisy students together in one place.

“Can you guys just stay here like this? Shouldn’t you be aware of what’s going on around you right now?”

Then, the male student who had first opened the door pointed to his reddened cheek and said.

“Those kids are still fighting! They were all scared, so they endured it. They never once thought of us as fellow comrades!”

“But why do you hang out together?”

“Those people were the only ones who knew how to fight properly. That’s why Jung-soo hyung and Min-ah noona couldn’t say anything.”

At that moment, a female student who had been quietly sympathizing next to me cried out with tears in her eyes.

“You couldn’t say anything! You knew but pretended not to see it! Honestly, you both know.”

“Ugh, drinking all day, hitting, and being a jerk… What did we do so wrong?”

For a community to survive for a long time, it needs people who can protect the group.

Park Jeong-su and Shin Min-a probably knew this too, so they pretended not to know even though they saw the evils they were doing.

“Still the same.”

Kim Jin-kyung, who had been listening to this quietly, muttered as if she had known this would happen.

It seems that this is not the first time that the two have shown such an evasive tendency towards reality.

But I was just quietly listening to the story and didn’t show any disgust.

Maybe that person was just the most ordinary human being living in this ruined world.

Squeak!

“Excuse me.”

Shin Min-a and Park Jeong-su, who were watching closely to see if even a tiger would come if called upon, came to see us.

The students who had been chatting for a while suddenly ran away, and we just watched them in silence.

Shin Min-a, who flinched at the reaction, tried to approach Kim Jin-kyung, with whom she was somewhat familiar.

“Hey Jin-kyung… … .”

“stop.”

But Kim Jin-kyung shook her head coldly as if telling him not to come any closer.

“I have nothing to say.”

“but…….”

“I have nothing to say. Didn’t you hear?”

Shin Min-a and Park Jeong-su, who were trying to somehow get over her resolute attitude, flinch.

I thought that if things continued like this, a real fight might break out, so I decided to step forward this time.

“Shin Min-a?”

“yes yes?”

“I’m really sorry that things have come to this. We’re leaving soon, so you can let go of your group as you see fit.”

The Jongno shelter no longer exists and it was even dangerous to the north.

We even distributed food, so our humanitarian aid ended here.

“Please get out.”

I firmly drew the line and politely asked the two of them to leave.

“Jin-kyung!”

But at that moment, the two people approached with earnest faces and knelt before Kim Jin-kyung.

“If we continue like this, we’ll all die. Okay? There’s nowhere else to go and no one to help you. I won’t ask you to take responsibility. Can you please just take me to the shelter where you are?”

“I’m okay, Sister. But the others are innocent. Please help me.”

Shin Min-a shed tears and Park Jeong-su bowed his head with a determined expression.

On the surface, they all looked like people who regretted and reflected on their past.

“Are you guys really retarded?”

But Kim Jin-kyung still looked down at them with cold eyes and spat out harsh words.

“If I were you, I would pretend not to know even if it meant getting screwed over. How ugly do you want to be?”

Shin Min-a and Park Jung-soo’s faces turn pale at the sharp words that stab them.

“People here? Okay, fine. I’ll tell you the way. But you two and those guys can’t come with us. Is that okay?”

I’ll spare the others, but I absolutely cannot accept these two and the gang that are trapped there.

Park Jeong-su, who had never thought he would do this, stuttered and crawled over.

“Who, Sister! Is it because of that shelter incident back then? I explained everything back then. We really had no choice! Do you think the people above would listen to me if I spoke? F*ck, Shin Min-ah! You say something too!”

Park Jeong-su raised his voice as if he was being treated unfairly and pulled Shin Min-a forward.

But Shin Min-a just shed tears and didn’t say anything.

At that moment, Jin-kyung Kim muttered softly with eyes that looked like they were looking at an animal rather than a human.

“I should have done something.”

“I, I… … .”

“You should have been blamed, not just because you are blamed!

Kim Jin-kyung’s eyes, which had been glaring at the two people, were soon filled with tears.

We turned our heads away, pretending not to see her, and waited for her to sort out her feelings.

In the place where the storm of emotions had swept through, only a thick feeling of emptiness was left.

“Get out, I don’t want to see you.”

So the two of them went out weakly, and Kim Jin-kyung left with a sigh.

I told my companions to take a break for a moment and followed her to the terrace.

* * *

Kim Jin-kyung was looking at the snowy scenery outside from the terrace on the second floor of the restaurant.

“Do you have any cigarettes?”

She naturally accepted the cigarette from me and lit it, as if she had known I would come.

And as he added cigarette smoke behind his breath, his complicated expression gradually subsided.

“I’m sorry. I made you look bad.”

“it’s okay.”

In fact, from the moment I first met her, I knew she had a past she couldn’t tell.

But when I saw this fragment in person like this, I couldn’t hide my embarrassment.

This was the first time I saw Kim Jin-kyung cry like this since we started hanging out together.

At this, Kim Jin-kyung scratched her red, swollen eyes as if embarrassed and spoke.

“I told you, right? I was originally at the Hapjeong Station shelter with my college friends.”

“yes.”

“Aside from Shin Min-a, there was another friend who was particularly stupid. She was naive and trusting, and her peers called her a fool. She was so kind that even when she was bullied, she would just laugh it off.”

“Were you close friends?”

“Yes, I liked him. He was really kind.”

Kim Jin-kyung lowered her head and took a drag on her cigarette as if reminiscing about that time.

“But it seems like it was easy for other people. After about a month of living in the shelter, one of the soldiers patrolling the civilian area touched the friend while he was sleeping. We heard his screams and ran over to find him. The shock was so great that the good boy was so scared that he couldn’t even speak properly.”

Kim Jin-kyung clenched her fists and trembled as if she could still clearly see it before her eyes.

“But you know what’s funny? They didn’t even properly restrain that kid because they were short on manpower. What do you think my friend thought when he saw that soldier walking around the next day as if nothing had happened?”

“no way…….”

“He committed suicide. He didn’t leave a will. He hung himself while going to the bathroom.”

My friend hung himself.

Even the long string of cigarette ash fell off.

Bam.

Kim Jin-kyung, who had been absentmindedly staring at the falling cigarette ash, muttered as she exhaled smoke again.

“I was sitting there in a daze, unable to even hold a proper funeral, when a soldier came and said, ‘The case is closed here due to lack of evidence.’ Oh, there’s no evidence? That’s when I realized. I was the only one who tried to help that good friend.”

“The two people… … .”

“I found out later that that kid had connections with the higher-ups. Park Jeong-su just quietly watched his superiors go at him because they were being noisy, and Shin Min-a, who was working with him, didn’t even testify because she was afraid that the sparks would fly to her. Haha, isn’t that funny? I must have looked like such a retard in their eyes.”

There is no tragedy when seen from afar, and there is no comedy when seen up close.

Kim Jin-kyung also seemed to be the same, as she let out a hollow laugh and put out her cigarette on the floor.

“So that’s why you came out?”

“How can we be together when people no longer look like people? But before I could even dream of revenge, the shelter disappeared.”

So she went back home and, as if by some kind of divine trick, she met us.

I stayed by her side in silence, reminiscing about her past, which I had heard about for the first time.

“I said before that it was a fateful relationship. Damn, now that I think about it, it’s just a bad relationship. It hurts my heart to see you alive and not dead.”

“Shall I kill you?”

“No, I think that would make me feel even more fucked up. I don’t want to be stuck in the past anymore.”

The past is left in the past.

Yesterday will pass as if nothing had happened, just as another snow piles up on the footprints.

When I patted her shoulder, Jin-kyung Kim naturally leaned back against the wall and closed her eyes.

Today’s events will soon be forgotten.

Just like her story, which has now become ordinary.