I swallowed and repeated his statement back to him.

‘You saw Mr. Kwak in your dreams? Did this Mr. Kwak, who appeared in your dreams, try talking to you, by any chance?’

‘Huh? How did you know, ahjussi? He muttered that he needed strength, that he needed power to protect Ms. Koo and the children.’

‘And?’

‘Well, I got into a little quarrel as I spoke to him.’

‘...?’

I didn’t know what to say to that. It seemed like Kim Hyeong-Jun’s prickly personality carried into his dream self. Kim Hyeong-Jun scratched his head and continued to speak.

‘I won, in the end.’

‘Is that important?’

‘Hmm… Maybe it was a pointless dream.’

Kim Hyeong-Jun beamed like a fool and looked at me. I couldn’t help but sigh, seeing just how naive Kim Hyeong-Jun was.

Sometimes it seemed like he was extremely smart, but other times, he seemed like a really simple fellow. I bit my lower lip and asked him another question.

‘Are you saying that Mr. Kwak admitted his defeat? The Mr. Kwak in your dreams?’

‘Yeah, he charged toward me while taunting me, in a way, asking me to try if I could. Like he was threatening me, you know?’

‘He came charging at you?’

‘Yeah, it was like I was absorbing him inside me. It was a very strange dream. After I came back to my senses, I realized that I was lying in the guard room in your shelter. I then heard my underlings'...