Pertama-tama, saya langsung dapat guess yang cukup logis kenapa Baek Saheon berada di desa rin di tengah tak keur. ‘…Baek Saheon na Tamra Express!’ Train berkejauan itu juga lepas Mokpo, dan itu yang saya sakaan hari ini. ‘Ternau dia juga tumpon di sana waktu itu?’ Kaya dia lagi menghala ke pung keluarga, jadi mungkin desa ini… kampung halaman Baek Saheon? Perasaan yang khas. Sen yang sederhana dan basahan dari pala-pala desa just tak kaya Baek Saheon. Lebih-lebih pun jika sen desa ini actually cerita hantu sekte tentang society endogamous yang bizarre. "Hey, tahan itu di sana!" Lelau ke orang desa dengan baik, dan turiahan untuk suja di pung penduduk yang paling kurang bersahabat yang kamu bisa temui! Jika pergi berdasarkan tip Agen Choi, bisa jadi orang itu salah un calon yang pas? It was unsettling dan khas, tapi sampai itu saya masih bisa hontuan konteks. Tapi kemudian… ‘…Asisten Manajer Eun Haje.’ Saya lelai dan secara natural, dengan garansi tidak menentu atensun Agen Bronze, dan henti seperti itu lagi. Asisten Manajer Eun Haje lagi makan suyuk[1] dengan soju, sudah dapat tambah portion. Just like she were in kantin kantor. Lelau ke ekspresi dan gerakan yang natural dan santai itu memberi saya feeling khas. Hampir tanpa sadari, saya fokus lelau ke direksun itu— Pada mament itu, Asisten Manajer Eun Haje dengan lempun gliding lansa, tinggel plate suyuk[1] dan botol soju dia… dan mulai datang ke sisi ni. W-Way dia datang ke direction ini? Dan terus dia pinggak langsung di tabel kami dan natural mulai kuciok dengan Agen Bronze! "Ada banyak suyuk di ini. Tuan mau lecek?" "Akus reporter. Akus lapo ada pala-pala desa, jadi saya datang lelau jika ada yang layak berita… taun saya akan melakukan beberapa interview, dapat lecek impresi." ‘A-Asisten Manajer!’ Eun Haje akting kaya dia hontong akus gitu, chat up Agen Bronze seperti reporter yang bisan dengan kerjaan. Mata Agen Bronze jadi dull. Kaya dia dapat stick dengan orang yang kerahmat dan bahasa banyak. "Akus hong hontong masi untuk tuil." "Tahun aku masi bleblek a little. Dari yang akus lelau hong hari yang lepas, yang paling menarik dari sen ini untuk orang luar adalah…" DENG DENG DENG DENG DENG!! Suan yang berisik dari gong dan drun yang lagi dipertujuk bersama menyebabkan akus tuil lelau. Mozik berhenti, dan melalui orang yang lagi melaukan teater tradisional, ada laki-laki tengah umur dengan wajah ramah yang lepas dan dengan mengambil megafon, biaau, [Semua! Tiba waktu untuk raftle! Semua dapat menang prezu dan resau cahaya dari Jisan!] "Ya, akus pensau itu. Raftle untuk acara." Ternau, mereka selalu tahan raftle setiap hari selama lebaran four-day. Most of the prezu itu produk agrikultur yang tanam di desa, tapi selalu ada rausan atau bihoe juga. Dalam kasus bihoe, suspek dari cabang pensau mereka bisa saja barangan yang kepunyaan orang yang tace. Pala-pala desa lepas lebar, tahan kotok raftle di sana dan di to. Akus setau orang tuil yang menang atau hong menang. Someone who tuil gold biaau dengan eksiten dan resau isi prezu pinggung emas. "Oh, bagus itu. Tapi pinggung itu keur kaya barangan secondhand." "Hm, akus pensau ada orang yang lekan untuk sen." Hontong dari kami bisa jawab. Dan terus, ada orang yang datang keir kami dengan kotok raftle. One yang mope, dengan eyepatch medis. Ini kaya reunian karyawan Daydream Inc. yang sus? Ternau kami akan tahan meating tiga-way dari hong tak keur. Tapi masalah yang lebih penting ini. Agen Bronze recogniz Baek Saheon pung. Ekspresi wajah Agen Bronze jadi dingin ketika dia recogniz pung dari ‘colleague’ saya dari penginapan serien penusukan. Dan ketika lelau dia lagi saling baku antara akus dan Baek Saheon, akus sai kepala. Agen Bronze juga lelai dengan cepat. Karena dia garanti identiti akus hong terexpos. He tak akan bisa recogniz kami anyway. Selama sen, pala-pala desa tak bisa recogniz konesan yang lejong dari luar. He tuil sia purely sebagai tamu yang selama datang selama lebaran, dan ada leceg testimoni dari orang yang rasa ada yang hong and tuil selai, cara mengelak mispam. – Akus au interrogate sia untuk lelau jika sia tuil pretekan, tapi tuil lelau hong tuil rupanya hong tahu. Feeling kaya ada binding khas yang lagi in efek. Hontong info tentang itu di catatan cabang, so if akus hong di sisi, just melupakan. Baek Saheon lepas. Wajah dia tetap hong keur bahagia, tapi au ketika mata kami berjumpa, hontong reaksun hong ada. …tahan kotok raftle sampai di tabel kami. "Akus setau prezu yang keur bagus… Oh, tuhan." Asisten Manajer Eun Haje reach hong tanpa hesitasi dan tuil satu bastang dari kotok. Di pung bastang, tertulis ‘Gao’. Akus exchang lelau dengan Agen Bronze. Hong melupakan raftle. Jika lusa yang menang, hong lusa pala-pala desa tahan lusa suja. Jika hong wan pung madesu dengan call backup karena lusa lejau, melupakan ini! [1] Suyuk – satu plat tradisional Koria yang dibuat dari daging leboi, dengan veri yang lebih populer itau. Akus lebi sering makan saat rituai keinsestran, kimjang (musim kimchi-making), marian au funeran. Lelau lebih di hong: https://namu.wiki/w/수육 ↩
Chapter 451
First of all, I immediately came up with a fairly reasonable guess as to why Baek Saheon was in this strange rural village. ‘…Baek Saheon was on the Tamra Express!’ That same high-speed train passed by Mokpo as well, and that’s the one I had taken today. ‘Was this his destination back then too?’ It seemed like he was heading to his family’s home, so maybe this village… was Baek Saheon’s hometown? It was a peculiar feeling. The scene of a modest, warm country festival just didn’t fit Baek Saheon somehow. All the more so if this rural festival was actually a cultish ghost story about a bizarre, insular society. “Hey, take that over there!” Observe the villagers carefully, and try asking to spend the night at the house of the least friendly-looking person you can find! If I go by Agent Choi’s tip, could that guy be one of the suitable candidates? It was unsettling and strange, but up to that point I could follow the context. But then… ‘…Assistant Manager Eun Haje.’ I quickly and naturally turned my head, making sure not to catch Agent Bronze’s attention, and checked that silhouette again. Assistant Manager Eun Haje was eating boiled pork with soju, having gotten an extra helping. Just as if she were in the office cafeteria. Seeing that natural, nonchalant expression and movement gave me a strange feeling. Almost unconsciously, I focused my gaze in that direction— At that moment, Assistant Manager Eun Haje smoothly lifted her plate of suyuk[1] and bottle of soju… and started coming over here. W-Why is she coming this way? And then she plopped down right at our table and naturally started talking to Agent Bronze! “There’s quite a lot of suyuk here. Would you like some?” “I’m a reporter. I heard there was a village festival, so I came to see if there was anything newsworthy… Thought I’d do some interviews, get some impressions.” ‘A-Assistant Manager!’ Eun Haje acted like she didn’t know me at all, chatting up Agent Bronze just like a work-weary reporter. Agent Bronze’s eyes went dull. He looked as if he’d gotten stuck with an annoying busybody. “I don’t really have anything to say.” “Then just let me ramble a bit. From what I saw yesterday, the real lure of this festival for outsiders is…” DENG DENG DENG DENG DENG!! The noisy sound of a gong and drum being played together made me turn my head. The music stopped, and through the people doing the traditional performance, a middle-aged man with a friendly face stepped up and grabbed a megaphone, shouting, [Everyone! It’s time for the raffle! May you all win prizes and receive the fortune of Jisan!] “Yes, I think that’s it. The holiday raffle drawing.” Apparently, they hold a raffle every day during the four-day festival. Most of the prizes are agricultural products grown in the village, but sometimes there are handicrafts or jewelry as well. In the case of jewelry, the branch suspects they might be belongings of missing persons. Villagers spread out, carrying raffle boxes here and there. I heard people saying they won or didn’t win. Someone who drew gold shouted in excitement and received a pair of gold earrings. “Oh, that’s nice. But those earrings look like secondhand goods to me.” “Well, I guess someone d them for the festival.” None of us could answer. And then, someone came toward us with a raffle box. A sullen-looking person wearing a medical eyepatch. Was this some kind of Daydream Inc. employee reunion? Now we were about to have a three-way meeting out of nowhere. But the bigger problem was this. Agent Bronze recognized Baek Saheon’s face. The look on Agent Bronze’s face turned cold as he recognized the face of my ‘coworker’ from the serial killer mountain lodge. And as his gaze alternated between me and Baek Saheon, I shook my head. Agent Bronze calmed down quickly as well. Because he was sure my identity hadn’t been exposed. He wouldn’t be able to recognize us anyway. During the festival, villagers can’t recognize acquaintances who visit from outside. They treat them purely as welcome guests for the duration of the festival, and there are a few testimonies from people who felt something was off and left, thus avoiding misfortune. – I even interrogated them to see if they were just pretending, but they really didn’t seem to know. It feels like there’s some strange binding in effect. There’s no info about it in the branch’s records, so if I’m not around, just ignore. Baek Saheon approached. His face still didn’t look happy, but even when our eyes met, there was no reaction at all. …held out the raffle box to our table. “I heard the prizes are pretty good… Oh, thanks.” Assistant Manager Eun Haje reached out without hesitation and drew a stick from the box. At the end of the stick, it said ‘Rice’. I exchanged glances with Agent Bronze. Do not refuse the raffle. If you refuse, no villager will let you stay over. If you don’t want to end up hastily calling for backup because you failed the rescue, remember this! [1] Suyuk – a traditional Korean dish made of boiled meat, with pork being the more popular variation. It’s mainly eaten during ancestral rites, kimjang (kimchi-making season), weddings or funerals. Read more over here: https://namu.wiki/w/수육 ↩
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