《ROAD TO SALVATION》|| A Sweet Home Fan Story

Episode 24: More Tension

3rd Person POV

Hyuk stood on his spot between the elevators, his glasses broken from Jisu bashing her head against it.

"So... what did Hyun and Dae-shim say?" Eun asked as she turned to her brother.

"Hyun said that he won't do it, but Dae-shim... I don't know..." Hyuk sighed as he replied.

"Of course they won't. Why'd you have to call them 'bait'? Are you nuts?"

Hyuk glanced at the hole in the bookshelf and said, "Are we just too afraid to go outside? Or is this peaceful stillness an illusion?"

"Who knows? But still, telling Hyun and Dae-shim to leave... that was a terrible idea."

"...Hm..." Hyuk trailed off as there was a brief silence between the two before he said. "By the way..."

"What?" Eun asked.

"Why do you keep sticking up for Hyun and Dae-shim?"

This made Eun tensed up in embarrassment.

"Do you have a crush on either of them? How sweet!" Hyuk cheekily said.

"SHUT UP!!!" Eun yelled as she is flustered from the thought of Hyun or Dae-shim being her crush.

Meanwhile, at the fitness room, Dusik inspected the now-beaten-up weapons of Hyun, Dae-shim, Jisu, and Jayhun.

"These things sure took such beatings," Dusik said.

"Yeah," Hyun replied. "So did Jisu's bat and Jayhun's shield..."

"Oh, man..." Dusk sighed. "That old security guard sure left me with a lot of work to do."

"Oh, I wouldn't blame him," Dae-shim muttered. "He was just stressed out and look at what happened to him a while ago."

"Can you really fix all this?" Hyun asked.

"Well, for starters, I'll need somewhere to work. They said I can use the security office."

"The security office...?" Hyun gasped as he and Dae-shim weren't unhappy with this. "But right now, there's..."

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At the security office, Seok is smearing thousands upon thousands of circles on the walls and floors with lipstick. He started laughing manically as he continued drawing more circles on the wall by the bed.

"They're watching me!!!" he muttered. "They're looking at me right now!!! Tens of thousands of eyes... they're all watching me!!! Me! They're watching me!!!"

With that, his nose started to bleed as he dropped the lipstick. Before he knew it, he is now inside his head. As he looked around numerous white arms began to creep towards and surround him.

"You're a waste of life. All you do is make others miserable. Everyone's waiting. Waiting for you to die. Just die, you wife-beating trash. There's no single goddamn thing about you worth saving. No one loves old bastards like you. You're just a mean old fuck to them. Time to pay for you sins, fat-ass. You spent your whole life hurting others and now you get to die in the worst possible way. You disgusting pig. Ha! Hahahaha! Old pig! Hahahaha!" the arms said to him.

"For God's sake, stop it!!!" Seok yelled. "What did I do wrong?! What did I do so goddamn wrong?!! You bastards...!! I'll kill you all!! I'll kill you all when I turn into a monster! Every last one of you!!!"

"You're right," his soul said as he appeared from behind. "It's not your fault at all."

"What?" Seok asked.