34. Hypocrite
When people finally realized the seriousness of the zombie crisis, it was already too late—the infection had spread out of control, infecting people across the city.
[Don’t worry about the government telling you not to worry!]
[What if the rescue team has already retreated? Then what will happen to us?]
So, people started huddling together in their apartments or wherever they could, trying to hold on.
The civilian defense teams in Meat City had done their part, and Gang Haseong had quickly stabilized the chaotic situation by controlling the people.
Of course, it was never easy.
Suddenly there were people turning into zombies, escaping, or committing crimes.
All of it piled up as unbearable stress.
Students were no exception. Delinquents like Min Do-yoon who caused trouble, stole food, and hung around were the norm.
As a teacher with adult responsibilities, he had to carefully control them.
It felt like eating a stack of pancakes layered with stress.
Seol-hwa was different.
Seol-hwa was the one who healed his tired heart.
[Teacher, you worked hard!]
It was the time when people took it for granted that they had to work hard and come back.
One day, he was sitting on the school stairs, lost in thought.
Seol-hwa approached him.
Unlike the children who knew nothing and just received protection.
She even brought a drink that was hard to find and gave it to him to relieve his fatigue.
[It’s a shame that our living place for the next three years is like this. But thanks to you, we can hold on. Keep going.]
With such goodwill, Gang Haseong could feel immense relief.
Beautiful and pure.
Also because she was young and had an untainted heart.
Yeah, no matter how this world is, I’ll protect you.
To prevent the innocent child from being stained by this dirty world.
Goodwill. It was rare for a student to show goodwill to a teacher.
He had experienced it himself when he was a young, popular teacher.
As time passed, when everyone was depending on him, it might have been easy to seduce Seol-hwa who had shown goodwill by just deciding to.
But he endured with superhuman self-control.
I am a teacher. I can never do that to my students.
Above all, she was a pure and kind child. Isn’t it an adult’s duty to protect and shield her?
Think about my position. My girlfriend is still alive. I can’t do that as a teacher. It would be taking advantage of anyone.
He made the vow thoroughly, and vowed again.
That was why he strengthened control and treated Seol-hwa strictly to prevent dirty adults from approaching her.
That was why Min Do-yoon’s gang appeared.
Of course, he hadn’t thought that Min Do-yoon’s gang would make Seol-hwa run away.
Was she not harmed by Min Do-yoon’s gang?
He was anxious, thinking only of Seol-hwa. He deliberately took a stance near the auditorium and tried to listen to all sounds.
It was almost like stalking.
Fortunately, Seol-hwa seemed not to get along well with the groups.
Yeah, Seol-hwa. You are a kind and pure child.
But from the reports of the guarding people, information came that other girls and boys were having a wild party.
What did they do to that child? As a senior, I should be a role model!
Unable to sit still, he urged students and teachers to send a rescue team.
Seol-hwa, please. It’s already happening, right?
At the moment just before his head exploded, the rescue team members he sent also returned injured.
For him, the worst situation occurred.
And at that time, a man fully armed from head to toe appeared.
He looked like a police or soldier, so he tried to ask for help, but when he said no, he was greatly disappointed.
But he induced him to deal with the auditorium where Seol-hwa was staying.
Please…
But surprisingly, Seol-hwa was not there at that time.
She had escaped by targeting the auditorium near the school gate and the school wall.
When Gang Haseong heard the story, he could only feel immense relief in his heart.
Yeah, rather than being dirtied by those bastards…
At that moment, he had a radical thought, but anyway, he focused on the fact that she hadn’t been dirtied.
That was why when that man brought Seol-hwa, he felt a mental orgasm.
She came. She came. Seol-hwa!
Even Seol-hwa, thanks to Jin Dohyuk, had washed cleanly and her appearance was even more radiant.
Real, in just a few days… huh?
But Gang Haseong felt something strange in Seol-hwa’s appearance.
Because he felt something strange in her smiling face or dazed expression, an odd eroticism.
Of course, at the time, he was dazed by the joy of her arrival and her clean attire and ignored it.
But Gang Haseong continued to feel something bizarre.
Yeah. This child’s demeanor is a bit…
Ignoring the stiff, the strangely flushed face and the shy attitude were not like that pure white canvas.
Gang Haseong was already an adult with sexual experience. He had a girlfriend.
To him, the actions of the girl in front of him now were bizarre.
Impossible. It can’t be.
The way she climbed the stairs playfully, then folded her legs in pain, and now sat on the mattress with a pained expression.
It didn’t look like the behavior of a woman experiencing something for the first time.
…No. It can’t be.
Gang Haseong’s girlfriend was not a virgin, but similar to what she showed after intense relations.
“Where exactly is it painful?”
“Teacher, no. It’s nothing. Just fine.”
Above all, Seol-hwa’s response was suspicious.
If it was painful elsewhere, she could just say so, but she was trying to hide it.
“If it’s painful, you have to tell me right away. You know that.”
“It’s really nothing. I rode a bike for a long time, so my butt hurts.”
“…”
Gang Haseong’s heart was pounding violently. It was a lie.
He had seen students’ trivial lies before.
Above all, Seol-hwa hadn’t ridden a bike herself.
When she came here, she had been riding behind that man, hadn’t she?
She’s lying to me? Seol-hwa?
As a teacher, he judged Seol-hwa was lying. Why?
“But when you came, that person didn’t drive?”
“Yeah… that’s right. I rode with that person.”
Yes, of course it could be. In fact, he had stolen it and taken her.
But Gang Haseong’s head kept ringing warning signs.
The seed of doubt was growing strongly now and was about to bloom.
“Uh, Seol-hwa. The teacher worked hard for you.”
“Yeah. That’s right. If it wasn’t for the real teacher, we would all have been in trouble. Right?”
Seol-hwa, noticing the strange atmosphere, tried to change the mood by giving enthusiastic reactions.
“Still, that person cleaned up around and will have a wider activity range! Don’t just return the bow? Right?”
“…”
Gang Haseong stared at the girl without saying a word.
“Teacher?”
“The teacher also has a lot of experience?”
Gang Haseong covered his face with his hand.
“But you seem strange now. Like you’re hiding something.”
“What am I hiding?”
Here, a cold tension passed between them. A cool, heavy but sharp knife.
Gang Haseong still covered his face and asked Seol-hwa.
“Tell me honestly. You weren’t assaulted, were you?”
“Teacher! That’s not something you ask a girl! What are you talking about?”
“You’re asking if it’s true!”
At this moment, Gang Haseong’s angry shout erupted.
Seol-hwa was shocked and couldn’t say anything.
It wasn’t about the lie, but she was surprised by the changed appearance of the teacher she trusted.
“I’m worried about you. The teacher knows, right?”
“…”
“I’m going to take revenge if something bad happened to you.”
Gang Haseong realized that his own emotions were now in disarray when he saw Seol-hwa’s expression harden.
Here, he had to back off. He had to comfort her, that’s what a teacher should do.
Why did I endure until now? Why did I cherish her so much?
All the efforts he had made until now had vanished.
Whether voluntarily or involuntarily, she had lost her purity? He had protected her like that?
The feeling that everything was futile began to gradually pull out his suppressed nature as a teacher.
“Seol-hwa.”
“Yeah?”
“Please tell me honestly. Please…”
The teacher’s action of clutching his head in pain, feeling the girl’s pain.
But Seol-hwa couldn’t understand at all. The always kind and gentle person suddenly had anger control issues.
“Teacher, why are you like this? Today you’re strange.”
“Strange? Me?”
At the moment Gang Haseong lowered his hand, Seol-hwa reflexively stood up.
The expression beyond the lowered hand was no longer the kind teacher she knew.
“What? What? What? What? What! What’s strange?”
“Teacher… why are you like this? You? Suddenly?”
“Tell me!”
Seol-hwa’s hands and feet were trembling from Gang Haseong’s rough pressure.
The trusted sanctuary, the transformed appearance of the trusted teacher.
Rather, Jin Dohyuk seemed simple because he was faithful to sexual desire.
“Teacher… that’s… calm down. Why are you suddenly like this?”
“Seol-hwa.”
At this time, Gang Haseong put on a gentle expression again and grabbed Seol-hwa’s shoulders.
“The teacher seemed a bit emotional. Sorry.”
“Teacher… it’s okay, it’s good! I was surprised too…”
“So tell me. Honestly. Nothing happened, right?”
Gang Haseong was pressuring her with a cunning smile at this time. It was like flirting.
Seol-hwa, who was already immersed in fear, had no choice but to tell the truth.
Seol-hwa was silent for a moment, then breathed out. To fulfill the request of the kind teacher no matter what.
“Th-that… ah, just once. I had no choice… it wasn’t resentment or anything!”
“Really? It must have been hard.”
“Yeah, that’s right. I thought I was going to die because of that damned guy.”
“Damned ‘guy’?”
Disappointment grew in Gang Haseong’s eyes.
Seol-hwa, trying to ease the atmosphere, was looking at the change without noticing.
“Seol-hwa. Your way of speaking…”
“Teacher was surprised too? I swear sometimes. Haha…”
The ideal he knew was completely shattered in front of him.
Gang Haseong bit his lip painfully and showed killing intent.
“I thought you were a pure and kind child.”
“Yeah?”
“Always kind, polite, and well-mannered…”
“I was forced! And in this era, virginity or whatever… it’s not that important, right?”
She was the one who wanted the kind teacher’s appearance that she had longed for with pleading eyes.
But ironically, Seol-hwa’s pretending to be fine just now ended everything.
“What is fine? Nothing is fine!”
At this moment, Seol-hwa was thrown onto the mattress.
“Aah!”
With Seol-hwa’s single scream, Gang Haseong suddenly pushed her down and started removing her clothes.
“Why are you like this! Why! Who will help… mmm!”
Gang Haseong’s hand that was working covered her mouth.
“You gave this breast, this pussy to another man? Who said that? Huh?”
He lifted Seol-hwa’s school uniform skirt and forcibly inserted his hand.
“Mmm! Ugh!”
Seol-hwa struggled and resisted, but a strong slap was imprinted on her cheek.
“Stay still! I cherished you because I liked you. Huh? How dare you to another man? That’s why I told you not to go out!”
He forcibly removed her clothes and looked at her body with greedy eyes.
“After all, the body that’s been discarded, you have to give it to me too.”
The man who had been leading here no longer existed.
Only a demon stained with ugly jealousy and lust.
When Gang Haseong was stripping Seol-hwa’s clothes, with a creaking sound, the door opened.
At the moment Gang Haseong turned around, Jin Dohyuk was standing there proudly hitting the shoulder with a hammer.
The man who should have left was in front of him?
“Eh, how?”
“Touching another man’s woman, is that okay?”
This scary man smiled wickedly.