Regressor Instruction Manual (PART 1)

Chapter 11. Jung Ha-Yan (2)

"Hey, dude. I suggest you let go of that hand if you don't want it broken," Park Deok-Gu warned.

"Sorry?" Yoo Seok-Woo asked.

Crack!

"Ahhh!" Yoo Seok-Woo yelled.

"Ah!"

I[1] wasn't exactly sure what happened. The moment a large shadow covered my face, I ended up closing my eyes. However, the scream that I heard was real. When I opened my eyes, I saw Park Deok-Gu quietly looking down and Yoo Seok-Woo screaming while sitting on the ground.

"Mr. D-Deok-Gu?" I asked.

"Ahhhh..." Yoo Seok-Woo continued to scream.

"You're such a scumbag. Look, it's not even broken so stop crying like a baby," Park Deok-Gu commented.

"Ahhhh..." Yoo Seok-Woo screamed again.

Park Deok-Gu raised his large hand into the air once more. With his hand exactly above Yoo Seok-Woo's head, it made a thwack sound as it landed on his head. As if he got hit with a blunt weapon, the way Yoo Seok-Woo fell on the ground looked absurd.

"Ahhh! Uh...ugh..." Yoo Seok-Woo groaned.

"Hey, stop overreacting. I didn't even hit you that hard...someone might think that we have a newborn baby here because of your screams," Park Deok-Gu told him.

When he lifted his large foot, Yoo Seok-Woo's body floated in the air for a moment. Park Deok-Gu kicked him. I was worried that he sustained serious injuries because he was curled up on one side of the wall.

"I-I'm fine now, so please stop. He'll get hurt, Mr. D-Deok-Gu," I said to him.

"Oh..." he said.

The way Park Deok-Gu glanced down at me was scary. But if I didn't stop him, I was certain that Yoo Seok-Woo would really die because I saw him trembling while cowering on the floor.

"Don't worry too much, noonim. I just pushed and kicked him. Jeez, this dude is exaggerating..."

But this wasn't the only thing that happened. Several people came after hearing the commotion and after hearing Yoo Seok-Woo's scream, they were running on their way here.

***

"Stop it!" someone yelled.

"......."

"What do you think you're doing right now? Mr. Seok-Woo, are you okay?" Lee Ji-Hye asked.

"I-I'm fine..." he answered.

Lee Ji-Hye was the person that caught my attention the most. She came here with a few people and then looked at us with a surprised look.

"Wh-What do you think you're doing? Violence is prohibited inside the shelter," she said.

"That man started harassing Ms. Ha-Yan, so all I did was hit him," Park Deok-Gu explained.

"Is that true?" Lee Ji-Hye asked.

"I saw it with my own eyes," Park Deok-Gu answered.

"It's...not true," Yoo Seok-Woo said.

"What?"

"Of-Of course, me grabbing Ms. Ha-Yan's arm could cause a misunderstanding, but...it-it was an accident..." Yoo Seok-Woo explained.

"You sure talk a lot," Park Deok-Gu commented.

"St-stop it, please. Deok-Gu oppa, as I've mentioned earlier, violence is prohibited here. Even if Mr. Seok-Woo did something wrong, using violence without hearing his side of the story can create a sense of incongruity among the survivors. Th-this method is...this isn't right. We should first find out who was in the wrong," Lee Ji-Hye suggested.