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All the leaders looked grave as they gathered in the Hotel L restaurant.
I’d finished telling them about the black creature, and it seemed most of the leaders could not accept the dire situation that we were in. Lee Jeong-Uk massaged his temples gently as he looked around the room at the others who sighed or moaned.
“Mr. Lee Hyun-Deok,” he said.
"Yes?"
“Did you know about this from the beginning? That the eyes of the black creature in Jeju Island had changed color?”
“It was all hypothetical to me as well. I had no hard evidence. I never gave anyone a definitive answer because I knew that rushing to a conclusion could put unnecessary mental and physical strain on the survivors,” I said, laying it all out honestly.
Lee Jeong-Uk sighed deeply and remained silent. Hwang Ji-Hye, who was beside me, crossed her arms and looked at me.
“If you’d told us in advance, we could’ve come up with a countermeasure together.”
“...”
“By making the judgment alone… I can’t say that I’m not disappointed.”
I wasn’t expecting her to actually say that she was disappointed, but I understood where she was coming from. She grimaced and looked away. Kim Hyeong-Jun looked at me, then at the leaders, and went up to the podium.
When Kim Hyeong-Jun took the podium, all the leaders focused their attention on him.
“Please accept our apology for not being open with everyone. But we… we just wanted everyone to have one less thing to worry about, especially in a new environment.”
Hwang Ji-Hye raised her eyebrows.
“Are you saying that you knew about this as well?” she asked.
Kim Hyeong-Jun nodded.
“The original plan was for myself and Hyun-Deok ahjussi to take care of the black creature,”...
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