Shadow In Your Mind [ARC 1- 5]

Chapter 123 - Wasting my time is worth it

XG 123 - Wasting my time is worth it

They reached the basement third floor and Kang Xunsu asked for her reason again. "What's the actual reason? You actually want to beat up Nanse under the guise of talking to him?"

"Tempting, but no."

"Your father did a good job torturing the kid just for the sake of revenge. There's nothing important to get from him, other than knowing how he awakened his ability. He's the natural type. Boss would have continued if because he had to awaken his gene and fly to Zinnia."

"... Is Woojin still able to answer questions properly?"

"Should be? Even if he died, I think no one would care."

Wong Xue Guo's eyes lowered, thinking that was a sad thing. "Teacher Jang would care."

Kang Xunsu stopped in front of a door with a guard standing in front of it. "That Jang fella is bargaining with the directors for Woojin to be spared. With Chin Chun there, the discussion will not be good for Teacher Jang."

Wong Xue Guo does not have the opportunity to ask why when Kang Xunsu had already asked the guard to let them in. If it was Kang Xunsu alone, he would never be allowed in.

"Director Wong told us to allow Miss Wong to meet the prisoner if she ever comes," the guard explained before unlocking the door.

Am I given permission to vent my anger or something?

Before they entered, Wong Xue Guo told Kang Xunsu not to interfere no matter what she and Woojin did. He can only cut in if she loses consciousness. He agreed after she promised she would not be in danger, and even threatened to find another bodyguard to accompany her before he agreed with her.

In a small room, Woojin was handcuffed, laying on a thin bed with no bed frame, and being the only furniture in the room. This service was worse than the prison cell in the movies she had seen but it was cleaner. The white walls feel a bit like a mental hospital ward.

Is it a coincidence that their lab had a suitable room to host a prisoner?

There were bruises on Woojin, but it was not as bad as she had expected him to be. He never reacted to their presence and continued laying down on the bed, staring into the space blankly. His pose was very different from the one in his memory, who was more expressive of his emotions by curling up into a ball and crying.

The guard closed the door, giving them privacy and tacitly agreed to be deaf to whatever sounds he would hear soon.

Wong Xue Guo does not mind being ignored and approached Woojin. Stopping not too close, and also not too far, she started the conversation. "Strange, aren't you curious how Teacher Jang is doing?"

Wong Xue Guo was plenty satisfied to see Woojin finally react, even if it was just a small twitch of his feet.

"We have worked hard to keep your Teacher Jang alive. What do you think?"

Glaring so intensely as if he wished for her to drop dead, Woojin finally sat up. "I remember you are the one that shot him."

"Oh no!" Wong Xue Guo waved her hands in denial. "You are the one I want to shoot, not him. Let's be fair in this blaming business and accept whatever factors we could not account for. And...Your friend had stabbed me in return. So it's fair."

"That isn't fair. You shot two bullets. One hit me and another hit Teacher Jang. You only got injured once!" Woojin contested.

"But we helped Teacher Jang. Isn't that fair now?" And she was pierced by a thick wood. How can that be compared to a bullet wound?