Chapter 155
As I was moving the unconscious person in the same elevator as before, I remembered Hai Yoon covering her face. What if… What if? What if we leave John Doe behind and end up repeating the same mistake as last time? What if John Doe dies here just like Hai Yoon?
Looking at the group moving, I couldn’t shake the feeling that Tumanako seemed just like Yu-geum from before. The two people are completely different, so why do they feel similar?
I steeled my resolve by exhaling all the air in my lungs, then hoisted John Doe, who seemed about my height, onto my back. He wasn’t so heavy that I couldn’t carry him since he was lean, but suddenly having to move while carrying an adult male on my back made me want to curse at the weight. … Shit.
John Doe was heavier than Henry and Sumire. More precisely, it felt like carrying both Sumire and Henry together would be similar to carrying John Doe.
Maybe Shin Hae-ryang’s opinion that we should abandon him here and go is really the most rational and correct one? Am I making a completely abnormal and illogical decision? Perhaps leaving him here would actually be safer for this person. While with us, hasn’t he been knocked out by a punch to the solar plexus, had his mouth and hands tied, been unwillingly carried around on someone’s back, and fainted from having his neck squeezed?
The thought crossed my mind that staying away from such a violent group might be a better choice for John Doe’s life. Moreover, even if we abandoned him here, it didn’t seem like anything major would happen. If he really was a Muhanikyo believer, the Muhanikyo people wouldn’t kill him when they found him.
It would be dangerous for him to lie alone on the floor until someone found him or he woke up, but isn’t that really less risky than the other dangers? Think carefully, Park Mu-hyun. Aren’t you doing something completely stupid right now?
I bombarded myself with reasons why I shouldn’t take the unconscious John Doe with us. Then I started moving while carrying him. As I took two or three steps following Baek Ae-young and Tumanako while carrying John Doe, Shin Hae-ryang, who seemed to be bringing up the rear of the group, came back silently from the other end of the corridor and asked when he saw my state:
“Are you really going to take him?”