THE TRUTH MANSION'S
Chapter 16's

        At first, the owner of the company does not recognize Do-kyeong. Do-kyeong does not intend to apply for a job there, but so that he can meet directly with the company owner, he applies for a job at the transfer service company, passing the initial selection process, passed interviews with middle-ranking employees, and finally managed to get a chance to do a live interview with the company owner.

        “My mother did not kill herself.”

        That was the only sentence Do-kyeong said to the owner of the company in the small room.

        “Hah? Whatdidyou say? What do you mean, you son of a bitch?” ask the owner of the company repeatedly.

And Do-kyeong repeatedly gives the same answer. “My mother did not kill herself.”

        With a puzzled expression, the owner propped both hands up to the corner of the shiny wooden table. Suddenly, a cold tremor rippled through him. He looked at Dokyeong's right eye, then left eye, nose, philtrum, curvature of the upper lip, corner of the mouth, then said, “Your mother committed suicide.”

        “Ibuku... don't commit suicide!”

        “Your mother committed suicide. I don't know why he had to do it on the balcony of a client's new home. The losses I suffered were not small at all. The fence on the balcony is waist-high, so he could not have accidentally fallen while composing the items on the shelf.”

        When seeing Do-kyeong trembling with both hands, arms, and clothes drenched in dark red blood, Jin-kyeong recalled the old Mansion. The old mansion in the small country town in the southern region that formed dozens knew ago. A country that builds a strong high wall to separate itself from the world. And in that country there is a remote Mansion. There is no other hiding place more perfect than that. Jin-kyeong thinks Do-kyeong would never have been captured had they been able to hide in that place. If only that place really existed.

        The brothers hid in a freighter and crossed the ocean. When the ship docked at the Town pier, they jumped into the water knowing full well that they might die and hide in the water until sunset. They swim through the night sea in early spring and run like crazy in the dawn. Apparently, the Saha Mansion really exists.

        Jin-kyeong and Do-kyeong arrive at the building's supervisory office with faces covered in a thin layer of ice. Do-kyeong immediately falls to the floor, while Jin-kyeong tries to beg for help, but her frozen mouth cannot be moved. The building supervisor's old man took the two of them to his own apartment attached to the building's supervisory office he filled a tub with warm water he took from the engine room, take off Jin-kyeong and Do-kyeong's clothes as best they can, and have them soak in the tub.

        He wrapped the towel soaked with warm water from the tub to the heads of Jin-kyeong and Do-kyeong, saying, “Wet this towel on and on so as not to turn cold, warm your face first. It must have hurt. Hang in. Don't you faint. You guys have come all the way here, it's a pity that you just give up.”

        Jin-kyeong continues to warm Do-kyeong's face with a hot towel and repeats the old man's words. “Do not faint. We've come all the way here, it's a pity that we just give up.”

        Do-kyeong nodded with teeth chattering.