Their sweet monster

24

Enjoy

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We got down from the bus, and I could see the relief and happiness on every survivor's face, like they had met God and believed He would save them. Poor them, they don't know what's about to happen here. I don't want to go inside, but I also can't say anything.

The start of season 2 was brutal for me, and I still curse everyone involved in planning that scene. I wish I could have saved the mother lizard monster; more than the humans, I felt bad for her. Poor thing just wanted to save her child.

It wasn't anyone's fault, but why do I have to witness it, knowing everything, but still can't do anything? I grabbed the sleeve of the person walking in front of me.

Sang-wook turned around and looked at me with his usual emotionless face. I gulped, shook my head, and let go of his sleeve. I was about to walk forward when my hand was held, and suddenly, I was walking beside him while Yi-kyung was on the other side.

"What's wrong?" he asked suddenly. What do I tell him? That I've seen what's going to happen next and we shouldn't go in? No way, that would sound insane.

"Just... I don't think it's safe there. Nothing else." What else was I supposed to say? NOTHING. It is scary, I don't know, what if someone shoots me during the shootout?

We entered the camp, and all I could see were people's hopeful faces, relieved that they were safe, only because there were soldiers standing with them. My eyes fell on the couple I remembered from the first episode. They were killed because of his nosebleed, but he was just sick, and after that, his fiancée became a monster. I didn't want to look in their direction, but I tried to suppress my introvert self and walked faster toward the couple and their family.

"Umm... hey." It was awkward; I could tell from their faces that they found it strange—a total stranger in sheer terror talking to them. I looked at the husband, who held his wig and hid his face so I couldn't see it.

"Is he sick?" AM I SICK?? What am I even asking? Why is it so hard to interact with strangers? Why do I get dumbstruck in front of strangers when I can talk for hours with my friends? I could feel others standing behind me, and they must be thinking of me as a madwoman.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say it that way. I just want to say that I don't think it's better to take him inside. If the officers find out, they won't think twice about killing him." I didn't know what I was even blabbering about, but I hoped they would stay behind and wait for things to unfold before leaving.

"I know, but we don't have any choice, do we?" His fiancée's frail, sorrowful voice responded, and they bowed to me before walking away. I felt bad, but wait, I'm also infected—what if I suddenly start bleeding and they kill me?

"Noona, what happened?" Hyun-su's voice startled me from behind. I turned to see a pout on his face as he looked at me with concern. A gunshot echoed, and I saw a person fall, bleeding from the nose—infected. I was terrified. I didn't want to go inside.

"Let's go, please. They're killing the infected." I was panicking. Yi-kyung put her hands on my shoulders, trying to calm me down.

"You're not bleeding, so they won't know—"

"What if I start bleeding all of a sudden?" I know cutting her off was rude, but I was scared.

She looked at the others while I tried to calm myself down.

"Stop being selfish, will you? Do you want us to die? No one wants to die, and of course, you're infected, so they have to kill the monsters," Jae-hwan said, and though he was right, I didn't know what to do. I didn't have the courage to leave.