I'm still alive

The rescue team's office had also received a statement that I had returned missing. Of course, the elderly stopped visiting the hospital to prevent the hospital from becoming noisy, but I, and the party, wanted to see each other quickly. I moved busily to meet the anxiously awaited group of people, and was soon able to get past the familiar path to the front of the office.

Huh? But meeting in front of the office was not a group of us who were glad and wanted to see, but a bunch of faceless staff and sharp-eyed guards. I stopped in surprise at the unimaginable sight, and soon looked around and watched the situation.

Near the office were heavily guarded, with more employees working hard inside. I approached the front of the office and looked around eagerly, but I couldn't even see anyone who knew me, let alone my company. Feeling alone out of place, I scratch the back of my head and lick my torn lips with my tongue.

Where did they all go? There was no sign of the party who thought they would look for me anxiously, and only those who were busy walking past me indifferently and doing their jobs. Yeah, this place is, uh......... looked like the central building in Eden where the heads of the organizations and executives worked.

What happened while I was gone? Why did the office change so much? It was definitely our only office, but it had changed so much that we didn't know what to say. And I snooping in front of the door thinking like that, but I was pushed inside by an employee who came in, and I came inside without realizing it.

But these people were all doing their jobs whether I was standing here or not. Ah....... I feel awkward with something embarrassing. Still, I called an employee who was working at the front, thinking to ask first.

'Hey, let me ask you a question.’

Then the hard-working female employee looked up at me, and soon breathed a sigh of irritation. Maybe it's because he's talking to me while he's busy working? In the eyes of the employee, who showed discomfort first, was full of annoyance and intense tiredness.m. of fatigue. But for a moment the woman employee, who looked a little young, sighed once again and answered me dryly.

'Mr. Man, this is not a place for civil complaints.'

The female employee had dark circles and dry skin. Perhaps all the employees are busily running around trying to patch up the attacked Eden. Yeah, I understand a female employee at least for now. I knew how annoying and difficult it is to work overtime, to stay up all night, and to extend a heavy workload. But my position of losing my office in the blink of an eye was also very embarrassing. So I usually avoid arguments, but for now I opened my mouth and asked her again.

'Oh, I'm sorry. But I used to work here, but the situation suddenly changed. Could you tell me where the rescue team's office has been moved?’

I explained my situation clearly and even asked the female staff for help by revealing the team name. You're not going to ignore me when I ask you this much, are you? I waited quietly for her answer, hoping that she would give me a little clue. But the female employee unexpectedly let go of her expression and soon looked at me with a face full of questions. What should I say about that face?...... you? Really? he looked as if he would say

What's your name?’

The female staff straightened out and asked me for my name. Unlike before, I was very happy to hear the name of rescue team and to respond like that. I approached her slowly, beginning to busily look for the papers, and smiled brightly at the thought of meeting the party soon. And I called my name after a long time, which is a little awkward.

'Kwak Dong-yoon.'

At that moment, the noisy office suddenly becomes quiet as if time had stopped. And all the employees who were working with their heads pinned to their desks and guards who were wary of all sides stopped moving and began to look this way.

I can feel the strong gaze, and I can sense it. I looked around as if I had done something wrong, and soon tried to scratch my back and take out some words of excuse. But at that moment, the woman who was comparing me with the papers jumped up and shouted.

'Sil, excuse me!!!!!!!!!!!'

What a surprise. I was suddenly startled by the woman screaming, and I could see that the female employee shouted, even chewing her tongue. I don't know why. I raised one hand to calm down for now, but I couldn't get myself together because of the hiccups and apples the female employee was making.

Hiccups, hiccups.

The static-ridden office rang quietly with only the hiccups. And in the meantime, the female employee was trying hard not to make a sound, blocking her mouth.

Employees and guards get up quietly from their seats. And looking through me, they began to gather here one by one, and each of them contained curious and mysterious feelings in their eyes. It's awkward to be suddenly focused.

Feeling troubled, I slowly began to backtrack. But I was backed up and blocked by the wall of the crowd, and soon many people gathered around me to notice that the road I could get out of had disappeared.

'Hey, hey! Do you remember me? She saved me from xx dong with my daughter!’

At that moment a man staring at me from one side through the other raised his hand and shouted at me. He was a middle-aged man with a shaggy beard, strangely familiar and familiar. You think I saved him?

So many refugees and survivors that I couldn't remember all their faces. But what's important is that the man's mournful cry ignited a fuse that seemed about to burst.

Thank you, thank you. I have been holding my hands and body, thanking each other whether most of them were rescued or the families of the rescued survivors. I'm out of my mind. I couldn't respond to each of the greetings and handshakes flying from all sides. But it was the voice of a man who let me out of here for the first time in a long time.

Dongyoon? Is that right?’

The voice was coming from the door of the office. The man who called me was holding up a pile of papers as if he had just come in, and with his appearance, people stop buzzing for a moment and turn their eyes toward him. And in the dazed gaze stood the silver-rimmed glasses that always stood beside the head of the group, who had come out and helped him hard.

I was speechless in front of the unexpected appearance of the character. But for a moment, too, silver-rimmed glasses diligently roamed around to patch up the staff and helped me get out of the crowd safely.

* * *

This place I'm in is a small room inside the office. Originally, it was a place to collect supplies, but now the silver-rimmed glasses were turned into a team manager's room where he worked alone. Entering the room, the silver-rimmed glasses were the first to put down the documents full of hands, and they put the warm mixed coffee on a paper glass and gave it to me.

I received it with my head slightly lowered. Then, let the sweet mix coffee slip through the thick mouth. Oh, it's sweet. I feel warm inside after a long time.

'I'm glad you're safe.’

I put down the paper cup and said to the silver-rimmed glasses. Then Eun-te's glasses smiled with a face full of bitterness and soon sat down before me and sighed weakly. The sigh seemed to have a great deal of mixed meanings.

I'm relieved that I'm alive, and I'm sorry that I'm the only one alive. The face of the group leader, who was dying lonely at the water restaurant that day, passed by, and the scene forms an homage to the face of the emaciated silver-rimmed glasses. Silver-rimmed glasses answer.

'I was lucky. I was the only one in the other building.’

On that day, the Central Headquarters was attacked by vagrants and was completely destroyed. There were many victims, and officials, including the head of the group, were dragged like dogs to face a miserable end. The ending that Choi Tae-sik, who is now dead, wanted.

Chaos and despair had struck Eden. I drank all the coffee left in the paper cup, and sighed slowly, crumpling the empty cup. And when I don't say anything, Eun-te's glasses leave the dark face behind and try to smile and say.

I'm glad you're okay. When I heard that you two went to chase after each other, I was so surprised, and I thought my heart was going to drop because I was worried that Dong-yoon and the elderly would lose them.’

Working together, we became attached to each other unknowingly. There were times when Eun-te's glasses, which started as a business relationship and always looked at our convenience face to face, felt stiff, but sometimes I never hated the friendly behavior he showed me.

And it was heartbreaking to see him with such a gaunt face. There was nothing to comfort him. I looked at him without a word, and the silver-rimmed glasses were smiling hollowly and mesmerizing for a long time. Ask me.

How did the head of the organization die?’

It was a gentle and mature person. He was the head of Eden, who led many people and had a character that shone exceptionally in the end. But even such a great man has become a piece of nothing in the face of cold floor and death.

It was miserable. It was such a miserable death. But until the very end, he died without losing his title as head of Eden and his identity as a human being. It's possible for anyone, but not for anyone. He died as a human being.

You didn't want to be a burden. And he thought of Eden until the end.’

It was a true answer, not a speck of falsehood. Upon hearing the answer, Eun-te's glasses quietly took off their glasses, and soon drew the sign and prayed little for him. Spring rain-like tears fall through the emaciated face.

The tears were plain tears, neither ugly nor immense sorrow. The drizzling, even though warm spring had not yet come, I could see a spring rain falling with flowers before my eyes. I closed my eyes and didn't watch him shed tears.

And after the time of swallowing sorrow, the silver-rimmed glasses, which had been wiping the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief, spit out all the breaths left behind. Then he stood up and shook hands with me and answered in a bright voice.

'I'm sorry, he's busy, but I shouldn't have let him go. I'll give you the address of the new office where you're with your company. It's been a while since you've met, so I hope you have a good time.’

He's a good man. And thanks to the survival of the silver-rimmed glasses, Eden was able to quickly clear up the mess and find himself. It's my home now, and it's like a nest of Eden. I thought it was a good thing that Eun-te's glasses led me, not a stupid and bad person. I shook my hand vigorously, and spat out words in his mind to him without filtration.

Please take good care of Eden.’

The silver-rimmed glasses will be maintained by the head of the group to make a good leader. But the silver-rimmed glasses slowly let go of their hands, finishing shaking their heads. And the answer to my request was not thank you, but an unexpected denial.

'No.'

Huh? For a moment I was mesmerized, staring blankly at the glasses and the hands I let go. The heads and officials of the groups who were supposed to lead Eden were dead. That means there should be people to replace them, which I naturally thought would replace the head of the group with silver-rimmed glasses.

Unexpectedly, however, the silver-rimmed glasses were unclean, and am I with another? I had no choice but to think. And at that moment, the silver-rimmed glasses said, holding my hand once again.

You remember the last thing you said to Dong-yoon, right?’

The last thing you said to me. Finally...What he said.

[Go to Eden. Please take good care of the people. To Dong-yoon......... I owe you every time.]

The voice of the group leader that I heard that day brushed past my ears and dropped a drop of water on my heart. Slowly raising his head and looking at Eun-te's glasses, he was smiling brightly with his eyes wet.

I will be the only one who heard the last will from the head of the group. But the silver-rimmed glasses looked at my eyes, guessing the will of the group leader as if he had no doubt.

My heart feels heavy. And a lot of thanks that I had earlier knocked through my memory. The cloudy clouds that had darkened the moment left, and the bright lunch sunshine began to project inward through the window. It's blinding, and your skin gets warm. The silver-rimmed glasses told me in a powerful voice, waving my tightly held hands quietly.

'I look forward to your kind cooperation, sir.'