Try Begging

Episode 156

"... ... ."

How much time had passed? Leon stared at the last blank page, and only then did he come to his senses when he reached for his cigar, which had become shorter and shorter.

"Did that woman see this?"

As Joe nodded, Leon cupped his forehead with one hand and closed his eyes.

"Fuck...."

When she was sent by her brother to find out the truth about her birth and the beautification scheme, the woman was confronted with an even more horrifying truth. It was such a horrifying truth that it was amazing that she didn't take her life on the spot.

When I returned to Chesterfield, I couldn't suppress the regret that I should have abandoned the operation and brought her back. I already knew that the woman's brainwashing had been released, but I was blinded by my greed to make her betray her comrades and leave her alone in the woman's world. I didn't see that the woman was in extreme pain at that moment.

Leon groaned belatedly in shock at what the woman must have been going through.

I had such doubts in her boarding room.

'What kind of life have you lived?'

And now that question has finally been completely answered.

Contempt, indifference, discrimination, and lies.

Grace Lee lived, in a word, in a state of ugly malice.

And the woman grew up unaware of the malice surrounding her, just as a fish in the sea cannot sense water. After realizing this, when she looked back at her hometown, she must have seen hell, not heaven.

Those disgusting demons. They systematically brainwashed children by confining them in the village and raising them for their own vile purpose, simply because they had received the blood of their enemies.

A plan to make dogs eat dogs and pigs eat pigs.

Maybe the rebel leaders ordered the woman to seduce him because she was raised for that purpose from the beginning. For them, it would have been quite a satisfying movie to see the daughter of the woman who seduced and killed her father kill her son in the same way.

Leon couldn't shake the feeling of humiliation that he too had been used in their perverted play.

"You didn't know."

He asked Joe questioningly, who was observing me with eyes full of bewilderment.

"I found out a few years ago. I washed my hands of it as soon as I found out."

Leon stopped Joe from putting the diary back. He turned the pages, stopping when he saw the words Abington Beach.

"I wish that kid had just disappeared. I wish that some kind family that was vacationing in Abington Beach had taken him away."

It meant that he had not brought the woman with him for the purpose of having her join him in the mission to torture and kill his father. This was the truth beyond doubt, as Angela Riddle could not have written lies in her diary expecting him to see it one day.

"Grace changed. Blindly."

Leon pointed to these two passages and asked Joe.

"What happened after she got back from Abington Beach and turned blind?"

Joe searched his memory for a moment and then answered.

"I had a really bad cold. I had a high fever and was talking nonsense sometimes...."