201. Isn’t there anything that can be done here!

Unlike usual, the blue bird nursery was very busy from early morning.

“I’m going to take my friend Minky too.”

Eight-year-old Yeseul couldn’t hide her excitement and said while holding her favorite rabbit doll tightly in her arms.

“Hohoho yes, Minky will like it.”

“hehehe. Minky always protects me.”

“Huh. Be strong. Please tell me to protect this mother as well.”

“Of course! I’ll tell you. Don’t worry Mom.”

Kang Anna couldn’t help but laugh at Yeseul’s chest full of wind with a triumphant expression.

The other children couldn’t hide their excitement and started putting their belongings in their bags.

Today was the day to go to the blue bird nursery school summer camp.

“Make sure to bring your water gun, guys!”

“Take care, brother!”

The children who had been waiting for this day were excited and hummed.

The children at the orphanage were very excited about the first camp they went to.

Seeing this, Anna Kang smiled happily and asked.

“Is it that good? What are you going to do, Gyu-min?”

“Um… I’m going to see the sea too! I’m going to play in the sand with my friends.”

Then he put his favorite Roboman T-shirt in his bag.

“Director. We are ready too.”

“Then shall we depart soon? Are you all ready?”

At Anna Kang’s words, the children showed extraordinary unity.

“Yes!!”

“Hohoho, how nice would it be if I listened to you like this every day? Then let’s go.”

“Oh yeah~! Cold feet!!”

Following the guidance of the volunteer teachers, the children got on the bus one by one.

After checking the number of people, Anna Kang sent a signal to the driver, and the bus started off vigorously.

The bus was noisy for a while with the singing of children, but soon one by one they fell asleep, and soon only the sound of the children’s breathing could be heard.

Kang Anna looks out the window blankly at the peace that has come after a long time.

“It would have been nice if Kyuha had gone with me…”

For some reason, it was Kang Anna who felt the vacancy of Kyuha greatly.

***

Ganghwa Island Haemok Training Center.

On a sofa in a messy room that looked like an office, two middle-aged men were drinking makgeolli and talking in broad daylight.

“Keuuu woulduu best to drink while working with others.”

“Puhahahahaha, director Tak knows romance. Alcohol is, after all, a daytime drink.”

The identities of the two men exchanging drinks were Tak Ho-gyeong, the director of the Haemok Training Center, and Kim Seong-ho, the governor of Ganghwa County.

The two were senior and junior in their hometowns, and now they were like business partners.

“Still, did you manage to complete the license application? It wouldn’t have been easy since he was a single-minded man.”

At Ging Seong-ho’s question, Tak Ho-gyeong roughly poured makgeolli into his mouth as if he was angry.

“It was tough. It was hard. No matter how much you said no. Tsk. To be arrogant about being a mediocre civil servant.”

“That man is famous for being inflexible. But how did you convince him?”

“Keuhehehehe. I just sent my kids and tried to tease them, but in the end they gave up. Well, can you say that I’m holding on?”

“Kyaa. Our Director Tak. From the old days, one thing has been broken. But I also looked at the documents, but wasn’t this built too poorly? Is there really no problem?”

“Ah. Hyung-nim too. Aren’t we doing this kind of business one-to-day? Shouldn’t this younger brother be able to help and do it if you use cheap materials and leave it somehow?”

Tak Ho-gyeong took out a thick envelope from her inside pocket and held it out.

“Kumkeum. What else? All of these things? Cheers. In this poor village where there is nothing to cook, the only thing you can trust is your younger brother.”

“Ha ha ha. Just trust this younger brother. Shouldn’t you be the mayor and a member of the National Assembly from now on?”

“That’s right, I only choose pleasant sounds. Have a drink from me.”

“Oops. I’m deeply moved after receiving all the alcohol poured by the future member of the National Assembly.”

“hahahahaha, man. Come on.”

Kim Seong-ho, who was chewing on a piece of beef jerky for a snack, asked Tak Ho-gyeong if he had remembered anything.

“Didn’t you say there were many guests coming to the training center today?”

“I see. Two months’ worth of reservations are fully booked. Honestly, is our training center a bit cheaper?

“Looking at what you’ve heard, does it make sense?”

After playing the drums and drums for a long time, the two of them got moderately drunk, so they left their seats and went out to do their own business.

The cheap fluorescent lights in the empty office flickered pathetically, as if they had run out of life.

***

“Kyaahahahaha take it”

“Ahhhhh! Don’t do it! Wooyss!”

In the small swimming pool on one side of the training center, children wearing tubes were frantically enjoying themselves.

There were not only children from the orphanage, but also many other children of their age from all over the country, so they quickly became friends and played together in groups of three or five.

Director Kang Anna and the volunteer teachers who were sitting on tables and chairs in the corner of the pool and watched the scene, clucked their tongues.

“No matter how young they are, what kind of stamina… they don’t seem to get tired.”

“So that’s why. After playing like that in the tidal flat, they’re doing that again here.”

The tidal flat shellfish experience also consumed a lot of stamina due to the mud so deep, but while the adults were exhausted and could not do anything, the children immediately jumped into the water as if they were tired when they saw the pool.

“They’re kids. But how nice it is. Seeing them happy like that.”

“There really won’t be anyone like our director.”

The other teachers nodded as if they agreed.

They also like children and do volunteer work with a selfless heart, but honestly, they didn’t have the confidence to devote their whole lives to it like Director Anna Kang.

It was because I knew very well how noble and arduous it was.

“Oh, embarrassingly, you suddenly say such a thing. Ho ho ho anyway, it’s dinner time, so I’m going to tell you to wash up and prepare to eat.”

A teacher who checked the time on his cell phone was startled.

“Is it already this time? Guys! Come out now!”

There was a long scuffle between the children who didn’t want to come out and the teacher who urged them to come out, and only after Director Kang Anna stepped up, the children went up to the dorm with eyes full of regret.

***

ten o’clock in the evening.

Tired of swimming in broad daylight, mud flat experience, and even a talent show, the children stretched out as if fainting as soon as they put their heads on it.

“He must be tired seeing that he snores hohoho.”

“It’s worth it. We’ve been running around all day.”

“Still, I think it’s been a long time since I’ve seen children’s laughter.”

“The director also had a hard time.”

“Teacher Jeong too.”

Anna Kang and the volunteer teachers, exhausted from taking care of the children all day, fell asleep next to the children.

It’s already 1:00 in the morning.

Haemok Training Center facility manager Mr. Jeong ran into a local resident while on duty patrol.

“Mr. Jeong, are you still working at this hour? You must have suffered a lot.”

“It’s my duty, so I have to stay like this all day.”

“Take it easy. There’s nothing much to do anyway.”

“But we have to patrol. If not, Director Tak will give a damn.”

“Director Tak was drinking with his lover in the next town? Instead, how about a quick drink?

Mr. Jeong, who is tempted by the villager’s temptation.

“Is that okay?”

“What’s up? Director Tak is going to drink and sleep there anyway. Aren’t all the kids here going to sleep too?”

Checking the building without a single light, Mr. Jeong nodded.

“Then I’ll have to eat some and come back to the duty room before the sun rises.”

“Good idea. Come on let’s go.”

Soon after Jung left.

gripping weave

Electric sparks suddenly flew from the wire tray on the ceiling of the hallway on the third floor of the Haemok Training Center main building.

how much time has passed

White smoke began to rise between the fluorescent lights in the hallway, and soon the hallway was filled with smoke.

At that time, Cha Jin-ho, a guest on the second floor, who happened to be taking a walk at night, notices smoke billowing out of the window.

Cha Jin-ho instinctively felt it.

“Boo, fire!”

It didn’t seem to have spread much yet, so Cha Jin-ho hurriedly ran to the first floor of the main building and hurriedly pressed the fire alarm.

“No! Fuck. Why can’t this work!”

The fire alarm does not respond no matter how much you press it.

Inevitably, Cha Jin-ho shouted like a madman and knocked on the door on the left and right at random.

“It’s fire!!! It’s fire!!!”

Adults and children who had been woken up by the sudden commotion came out in a daze and unable to properly control their bodies.

“Fire! Evacuate quickly! Quickly!”

Only then did the people who understood the situation rushed out of the building.

By the time the guests on the second floor got out safely.

Cha Jin-ho, who was wet with sweat, went up to the third floor.

Even at a glance, the fire had spread considerably with gray smoke to the extent that one could tell that the fire had started on the third floor.

But luckily, it wasn’t to the extent that I couldn’t get out of it.

Cha Jin-ho picked up a fire extinguisher placed on one side of the hallway, pulled out the safety pin, and pressed the handle towards the flames.

“Oh fuck! There’s nothing to do here!”

Cha Jin-ho, who had thrown the fire extinguisher, hurriedly knocked on the door.

“Fire!! Fire!! Wake up quickly! Hurry up!”

Cha Jin-ho’s shouting and rough knocking on the door awakened the teachers and children at the Blue Bird Nursery School.

“Oh my! Boo, fire!! Oh my God! What’s going on!! Kids!! Are you okay?”

The confused teachers rushed to soothe the children who were crying in fear.

There was no such thing as an abyss.

Still, the children were able to come down to the first floor safely, moving in an orderly manner under the guidance of the teachers.

At that time, Mr. Kim Jeong-sook suddenly let out a shock.

“Oops! Kyu-min! What should I do with Gyu-min?”

“Kyu, why is Kyu-min? Come to think of it, where is Kyu-min..?”

Kang Anna’s trembling voice made Kim Jeong-suk weep.

“You said you were going to the bathroom earlier… but I think you’re still there.”

“I’ll go up again. Please go first. I’ll come down right away with only Kyu-min.”

“Whoa, boss! No. It’s too late now! It’s dangerous.”

The teachers dissuaded Anna Kang, but her eyes were firm.

“I can’t abandon a child who was abandoned once. I have to go too!”

Without even waiting to hear the answer, Kang Anna frantically climbed the hallway stairs with her frail body.

“Cough. Let’s get out of here. The smoke is getting worse.”

That moment when most of the Bluebird Nursery School staff safely escaped the building.

bang

With the sound of an explosion coming from somewhere, the flames began to grow out of control.

“Huh? There are still people! Director Kang!!! Kyu-min-ah!!! What should I do!!!”

Seeing the building engulfed in fire, the remaining teachers literally panicked.

The children who were swept away by the atmosphere also cried sadly and stole tears.

The seeds of despair began to settle in my heart little by little.

When I saw the inferno in front of me, I didn’t think I would be able to come back alive.

“late….”

The time when no one was able to speak and looked at the building with gray smoke and red flames soaring like a mangbuseok.

“Tongue, brother! No! I’m really going to die!”

someone’s urgent call.

“Gyuha hyung-nim!!!”

Gyu-ha stepped into the gray smoke.