I Became a Framed Villain

Episode 47 – Regret (2)

One day after Kang Maru found out all the truth.

“Isn’t that the Great Order?”

“Ah, no way. Why would someone still in the hospital come here?”

Everyone’s attention begins to focus on her, who comes to the hero’s communal incense altar, where the fallen stars are buried, with a damaged appearance.

“But they look so similar.”

“Compare what to compare. Would it be a great order to look dark like that?”

“…is it?”

The staff chatted with each other for a while, then looked away and let her in.

– Tub, Tub…

Kang Maru staggers and walks forward without paying attention to those employees and the people around them.

– Thump… Thump…

Every time she walks, her heart tightens.

The more people talk and the gaze around her is felt, the more her heart shrinks.

But even then, Kang Maru could not stop moving forward.

Because there was something that had to be done before reaching the end.

“excuse me.”

“yes?”

She clutched her chest like that, biting her lips tight enough to bleed, and recovering her spirits, she soon threw a question to the guide in a trembling voice.

“Kang Haneul…”

Then, Kang Maru stopped talking for a moment.

“Oh?”

Seeing her drop her head and shed a single tear while she was talking, the guide asks a question in surprise.

“Why is that?”

“… Oh Ji-seok.”

Kang Maru corrects her words with dark eyes.

“Which is Oh Ji-seok’s grave?”

“Oh, yes. Hold on.”

Seeing the employee who started looking through the list in response to that, Maru Kang muttered to himself with a sad heart.

‘I’m sorry… Heaven.’

Kang Maru’s younger brother could not die even with Kang Ha-neul.

Kang Maru has lost the status of his own child forever.

He died in the form of Oh Ji-seok, who did not exist in the world, the appearance of forcing his face to age with this ability.

“This is it.”

For Kang Maru, who had been lowering his head with eyes that had lost light for a while, the staff covering the list began to guide him.

“It seems that your acquaintance was a wonderful hero.”

“………”

“Cheer up. Heroes always smile when they close their eyes, thinking of the people who have laughed at them.”

The heartfelt words that the staff threw upward were exerting the same power as bullets to Kang Maru.

“This way.”

“ah…”

The tomb of Kang Ha-neul appeared before my eyes.

“………”

An ordinary tombstone standing in front of an ordinary grave.

The name written on the tombstone, Oh Ji-seok, comes into her eyes.

“Sky… ah…”

Gangmaru, who has now dried up even the tears shed, sits down in front of him and stretches out his trembling hands.

– Sreuk…

The cold touch of the tombstone is transmitted to her hand.

Of course, I couldn’t feel the warm warmth of my brother.

The chilly night air that hovered over the incense burner in autumn swept her away.

“Sister… was wrong.”

But even so, Kang Maru, who was on her knees and caressing the tombstone, muttered with eyes as if she had lost her soul.

“…how nice it would be if I could turn back time.”

“………”

“It would be nice if I could look at your face and apologize even once.”

By the time her dry voice cracked.

“I’ll finish it today.”

Kang Maru clasped her hands and pressed her forehead to the tombstone.

“The monster that both my parents and my younger brother swallowed.”

The tears that had previously pooled in his eyes flowed out and wet the stone monument.

“…with my own hands.”

The scars that had been drawn were revealed on her arm in a bright blue color.

“then…”

After saying that, she was about to get up.

“excuse me.”

“………!”

At the same time, an employee who was behind her suddenly spoke to her as she rummaged through her arms.

“You, you…”

For some reason, Kang Maru turned his head to the voice of the staff who had become quite familiar with it, but then hardened.

“……..”

Kang Ha-neul’s side kick.

While trying to escape the framed man somehow, he was discovered by Kang Maru and was stripped of his academy student status and black agent qualifications.

She was standing behind Kang Maru, wearing the clothes she had just worn.

“You may not give me flowers.”

“Ah, uh…”

“Flowers are provided by me every day.

Ira asked with a cold voice as Kang Maru froze with her hands in her arms, staring blankly at her.

“But why are you here?”

“………”

“Did you think someone would forgive you if you came and mumbled a few times?”

Only then do various memories come to Kang Maru’s mind.

“Think of what you’ve done.”

Usually, he strongly restrained his brother with orders.

Being held in front of her younger sister by the woman who drove her younger sister into the abyss.

Kang Ha-neul subdued Ira, who was holding a one-man demonstration holding a sign saying he was not guilty, and shattered the sign.

Kang Ha-neul, who was holding on to the bars of the prison and screaming, “Please give me an order to tell the truth just once,” was neglected while laughing.

He assaulted Kang Ha-neul, who was dying in the seminar room, and strangled him until his flesh was ripped off.

“Did you know that Justia liked Kang Ha-neul? Did you know that Kang Ha-neul always touched your picture when he was in danger on a mission? Did you know that half of Kang’s wealth was deposited in your bank account by his will?”

“I-I…”

“If you don’t know, get out.”

The moment those scenes slowly come to mind, Ira’s cold voice flies into her.

“To you who doesn’t know your sister better than me, you don’t deserve to be here.”

Naturally, there was no room for rebuttal.

“Get out.”

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Just keeping her mouth shut, Kang Maru had no choice but to leave the incense burner without even putting the flowers she had bought on the tombstone.

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– Profit…

What greeted Kang Maru, who returned to the old house again, was Kang Ha-neul’s lunch box lying on the table.

– Sreuk…

However, Kang Maru, who passed the lunch box as it was, walks to the kitchen.

[Stir-fried squid recipe!]

[※Caution: Adjust the spiciness to suit your taste :)]

Kang Ha-neul’s recipe, which had been accumulating dust on the refrigerator, was in her hands.

“…..ah.”

Now, as she was belatedly granting her sister’s long-awaited request, she began to search the refrigerator, but soon gave out a dark flurry.

Naturally, except for the materials that were treated for permanent preservation, the rest of the materials were all rotten.

“…….”

However, Kang Maru, holding the ingredients in her arms with dark eyes, heads back to the kitchen.

– Cheek…

Then, Kang Maru puts the ingredients aside and turns on the gas fire.

– Tick… Tick…

But there was no way to turn on the gas fire.

“…you’re late.”

After pulling the lever without a soul for a while, Kang Maru lowered his head and muttered.

“Now, what are you going to do?”

Even if he eats rice well as he asked of Kang Ha-neul, even if he cooks by following the recipe he researched with sincerity, nothing will change.

They were all meaningful when the river sky was alive.

“……..”

Kang Maru, who had been idly stirring an empty pot with a ladle, suddenly begins to recall what happened in the past.

“Sister, are you here?”

The image of Kang Ha-neul, where he was standing right now, wearing an apron, greeted him after his mission was over.

“Eat food.”

When that image overlaps with the image of Kang Ha-neul, who jumped out with an apron on when she left the house, she closes her eyes, while waving the ladle blankly.

“……….Sorry.”

Both Kang Ha-neul had blue bruises because of him.

Still, he was always for himself.

Until he was framed and almost killed, until eventually he was strangled by his own hands.

‘…disgusting.’

When the thought reached that point, Kang Maru could not stand it any longer.

Adults who once cursed terribly at the nursery school.

However, facing the same situation, she became more of an existence than them.

Kang Maru couldn’t possibly keep such a terrible monster alive.

“…Where are the lines I wrote then?”

It was time to hunt down the monster that had swallowed his brother.

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– Gig…

Kang Maru, with a rope fixed to the ceiling, stands on the chair.

Then, a rope in the form of a lasso appears in front of her.

“……..”

She was about to hit her feet with the lunch box in her arms, which she couldn’t even take a bite of, and suddenly she puts her hand in her pocket.

[Professor Oh Ji-seok’s saved student, in fact, is Justia’s only blood?]

[The condition is very critical, and according to the doctor in charge, tonight is the most difficult…]

On the main screen of the Hero Network, there was news with thousands of comments.

“……I could have stopped it.”

Ironically, in a situation where he, the culprit of all this, was being praised, Kang Maru muttered in a low voice.

– Less…

As she let go of her hand, the smartphone rolls on the floor with the screen smashed.

“……..”

Ariel’s photo attached at the end of the article.

And, the moment when a picture of Kang Ha-neul from her student days caught her eye.

“…Huh.”

This time, the chair she was standing on tumbles to the floor.

“Kuk, heuk… Uh…”

The area of the noose shrinks and suffocates her.

“Ugh…”

Thanks to her, she struggled with her legs, and then desperately stopped moving.

‘…I must die.’

If she fails, she bites her tongue as hard as she can while her consciousness is flying out of fear that the next time a monster will pop out.

– Jureuk…

Then, with the tingling pain that spread throughout her body, blood flowed from the corners of her mouth.

‘…Heaven.’

Kang Maru, who was watching the blood-stained smartphone soaking the faintly visible picture of the sky, closes his eyes.

‘Can I go to apologize to you now?’

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– Kwajik…!

“…hehehe!”

The cord suddenly broke, and it was at that moment that she, who had been on the verge of death, fell to the floor.

“Hey… heh heh… heh…”

Holding her neck and writhing in pain as if her heart was about to explode, she looked around to see what had happened.

“ah……..”

and the next moment.

Their eyes met exactly, but the eyes were so familiar.

– Huh?

The monster that had jumped out of the shadows, clutching the broken cord and staring down at it, was tilting its head with a pleased expression.

“no…..”

The moment when Kang Maru’s expression, who was thoroughly denied even the last path of redemption, began to crumble so horribly that it is difficult to explain.

– Support position…

Suddenly, the world began to turn upside down.