Old People Don’t Hold Hands - Chapter 146



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Episode 146, The Frost Queen’s Crown (18)

As the screams spread through the dark room, the commotion quickly spread to the inside of the subway station.

In the middle of the darkness, I heard someone suddenly waking up.

“… … W, what’s going on!”

Meanwhile, Nowen, who reacted quickly to the scream, said this.

“Lee, leader… … .”

As Nowen opened his mouth, the sound of crying could be heard from the waiting room as if it had been waiting.

It was the voice of the middle-aged woman who always comforted and soothed her young child.

“… … What’s going on? Tell me.”

Because the light didn’t reach the inside of the subway, it was dark inside even though it was close to morning.

Through my eyes, which had become accustomed to the darkness, a silhouette approaching the waiting room was revealed.

Maybe it’s Nowen.

“Heuk, heuk, Lee, Leader… … .”

But even when Nowen approached and asked actively, the woman just kept crying.

“… … .”

The other guys gathered in the waiting room were silent.

Finally, the answer to why they were screaming and crying.

“Hey, turn on the lights inside the subway station.”

As Nowen said, it was revealed by turning on the lights inside the subway station.

A man in the corner hesitated and turned on the light.

The inside of the subway station immediately came into view.

The first thing that appeared among them was… … .

The blood flowed so much that it spread across the subway station floor tiles.

The blood was coming from the waiting room.

To be precise… … .

It was something that had been passed down from the young child who was found dead in the middle of the waiting room.

“Huh, hhhhhhh! Th, what is this… … !”

As soon as the light was turned on, other people were also surprised.

Diana and I, who had been on guard duty and had expected that there would be bloodshed, were indifferent.

However, Inogen and Biella, who were used to this kind of situation, just frowned.

… … Outsiders who had never heard of or seen this kind of situation could not help but react violently.

Among them, the man who was very timid even fell backwards.

“Hey, what is this?”

“… … .”

A person who was sleeping in a safe space with them was dead.

That too, by a child.

As soon as he realized the situation, Nowen’s voice became heavy.

No one answered that question.

I guess it’s because we don’t know everything about why this happened.

Otherwise… … .

Or you want to pretend you don’t know.

Instead of looking at Nowen, I quietly observed the people gathered in the waiting room.

“… … .”

Some remained silent, still shocked and bewildered.

“Ah, no… … ! No, no… … !”

A middle-aged woman was crying while holding the body of an already dead child.

Looking at it like this, it’s really disgusting.

They killed someone with their own hands and are pretending not to know or feel sorry for them.

If you look closely, there seems to be nothing as cunning as those Welcome Body guys… … .

As the woman hugged the child and cried, Nowen approached and placed his hands on the child’s body.

After feeling the pulse for a while, he sighed and said this.

“It’s been a long time since you last breathed… … .”

“That, that’s impossible! It was definitely the night before… … .”

“Then it seems like it happened overnight… … .”

“That’s ridiculous… … .”

In response to Nowen’s question, the woman only shed tears again.

… … When I looked closely, I saw that they were cleverly guiding Nowen’s thoughts in the way they wanted.

I just stood there with my arms crossed and watched them.

It’s obvious what the next repertoire will be.

There is a criminal among these, so you cannot move around freely until you catch the criminal.

The grief of losing a child is so great that I will ask for just one day.

I was confident that I could somehow make it move, even if it was just to that extent.

This excuse they worked so hard to make is full of loopholes.

however…….

They moved a little differently than I expected.

It started when one of the guys in the waiting room opened his mouth after a period of silence.

The person who opened his mouth was the man who had been rolling around holding his stomach the other day.

“Come to think of it… … , didn’t you hear that story before? That there was a raid on the shelter… … .”

“Yeah, that’s right, yeah.”

“Wasn’t there a child attacked back then too?”

“… … .”

When one of them asked again, everyone in the waiting room fell silent.

And instead of being silent, he looked at me.

Hmm, okay… …. Is that how it’s going to turn out?

I uncrossed my arms and stood upright in front of them.

I can’t let things flow the way you guys want them to.

“Yes, I told you.”

“Yes, I remember there were other people besides you.”

“Yes, yes! That, that time, there was definitely another person… … .”

As soon as I stepped out, they quickly changed the subject and whispered.

At their words, one of the outsiders stepped forward again with his hand raised.

“I, I also said that… … .”

When the woman raised her hand, the men looked at her as if they had been waiting and opened their mouths.

“What exactly did you say back then?”

“I, I don’t know because I didn’t see it myself… … , but there was a tall woman with me at that time… … .”

“You were together? Not just that woman?”

“Yes, yes… … .”

The woman nodded absentmindedly to their persistent questions.

They started spreading stories again as they pleased.

“Oh, so it wasn’t just one monster?”

“Have you heard any more stories?”

“Oh, maybe there was another guy… … .”

As the woman answered again, muttering incoherently, the men began to murmur.

As if this flow itself was the flow they had been waiting for.

Aha… … , are you going to push it like this?

Well, it was a little different than expected, but there were no problems.

“Lee, Leader, then is it possible that a monster has invaded this place?”

“It’s not really an intrusion, the shutters are still closed… … .”

Once they got the hang of it, they continued the conversation by gossiping as they pleased.

Perhaps by the end of this conversation, he’s going to brand us, who were also from the shelter where the attack occurred, as monsters.

But we have no intention of taking it lightly.

Besides, opening my mouth was my specialty.

“So you’re saying that a monster attacked this place?”

When I asked this, they hesitated for a moment.

“I, I’m not saying that’s true, but… …! You never know!”

“That’s right. If not, why did this child suddenly die?”

“It’s not that some crazy guy killed this kid, it’s that it had to be a monster.”

“… … .”

At my words, they all fell silent.

“Sir, who would kill a child? Not a monster… … .”

“Then how about we start by looking for the weapon that could have killed the child? If the shutter was literally never opened, then the murderer and the weapon would still be here.”

But they smiled strangely at my words.

Just look at Nowen.

“S, search, then! Lee, leader, then moving to the shelter today will be postponed?”

… … Oops.

I was thinking I had to clear my name quickly so I missed this part.

When I thought about it, their goal was simple.

Delaying movement to shelters as much as possible.

But Nowen still maintained a firm stance despite their words.

Of course, they were surprised because a murder had suddenly occurred.

“… … The space isn’t that big, so the search will be over quickly. Let’s move as soon as it’s over.”

“… … .”

When Nowen unexpectedly refused to back down, the men’s expressions hardened as if they were disappointed.

From then on, we started searching.

The search was also divided into a waiting room group and an outside group.

Considering the extent to which the child’s torso was mangled, it’s clear that a sharp instrument was used…

No matter how much I searched, nothing turned up.

Afterwards, people’s belongings were also searched, but no sharp objects were found.

In the first place, I brought food from the mart and didn’t bring any dangerous items like knives or scissors.

In the first place, the conclusion could not be reached that there was no weapon here that could have killed a child like this.

With that conclusion, the atmosphere inside the subway station began to take a strange turn.

“Then, I guess… …, I guess we can’t help but see it as an attack.”

“Let’s get the flow going,” one of the guys blurted out again.

Unlike before, there is no longer any weapon that could have killed the child.

Nowen could no longer ignore their words.

So the situation was somewhat set for a monster attack… … .

Based on the testimony of the woman who had been in the shelter, they began to formulate a hypothesis about the ‘monster’ they were talking about.

There our opinions were completely excluded.

They went to great lengths to exclude us from the very conversation.

As such conversations continued, the result could only come out like this.

“Then, if the child died from a monster attack, then perhaps the monster… … .”

The monster that killed the child is me.

“But, don’t you know? DeClen also provides food for us… … .”

Although Nowen tried hard to defend us.

“Oh, that’s right, Leader. Come to think of it, you two went to the mart together and brought some food with you, right?”

“Now that I think about it, that’s true. You didn’t even bring a weapon, so how did you get into the mart safely… … .”

… … Hmm, okay.

Are you going to push ahead with that now?

Surely we came back unscathed.

They seemed to find that strange and were trying to push it even further.

“… … .”

Even the soldiers who at first tried to defend us as if it was nonsense became silent when the story about the mart came up.

“Oh, come to think of it, they have strange abilities.”

… … In the end, I ended up turning around.

I guess I had no choice but to believe their words after seeing Biella’s hiding ability back then…

Empowered by the soldier’s testimony, the men began to press on even more.

So there were two things they were claiming.

First, execute the monsters, Deklen and Biella.

Second, we will postpone shelter movement for several days.

Nowen looked troubled by both opinions.

We tried to argue in our own way, but it wasn’t easy.

Because most public opinion was already leaning in that direction.

In a situation where even outsiders half turned away, only Nowen remained steadfastly silent.

Even though their story sounded plausible, it seemed like he still didn’t believe it.

And above all… … .

I guess it’s on your mind that the shelter move has been postponed again.

So, by targeting this part, I had to make sure that Nowen’s mind was set.

“Mr. Nowen.”

“… … That, that’s right, Declen.”

“If this is the conclusion, who do you think will benefit?”

“… … .”

“What we wanted was to move to a shelter. But if we do this, isn’t that what they wanted?”

“… … .”

“As if we had never moved to a shelter before.”

“I know that too, so it’s confusing. Above all, you… … .”

“You don’t think he’s a monster, do you?”

“… … That’s right.”

“Do you really think that executing someone and delaying evacuation because of something the truth of which has not been clearly established is in the best interest of ‘everyone’?”

Nowen was silent at my words.

Yeah… …, think about it and think about it again.

And answer me.

No.

If you just say that, you can move.

After waiting like that, Nowen’s answer was.

“……no.”

This was it.

“Yes, that is enough.”

As if I had been waiting for this moment, I called Inogen as soon as I heard Nowen’s story.

“I got it, human!”

Inogen quickly transformed his arm and began cutting off the heads of the men in the waiting room.