Lilith: Side Story

· @manga_collector· Sirius

3.5

Bab 11

3. Warning: this episode contains direct and indirect references to suicide, domestic violence, and blood.

1. "Ugh...!"

1. Gyeowool was in a car accident... 2. "Huh...? What are you talking about?"

1. "She told me she made it home!" 2. "Why would I joke about something like this?"

1. "O-okay, then how is she...?!" 2. "Is she okay? Did she get hurt?!"

1. I'm not sure either. I just got the message myself. 2. They reached out to me when they saw her student id. Her phone was too smashed to find any contacts... 3. "What? You mean..."

1. "...she's unconscious?"

1. "Get me on the next train to seoul!" 2. "O-okay... Window or aisle-"

1. "It doesn't matter! Just hurry!"

1. "H-here... It leaves in two minutes." 2. "Platform one!"

1. "Did you try calling her family?" 2. "The train is leaving the platform..."

1. "Yeah... I couldn't reach her parents, so I called her house instead..." 2. "The housekeeper lady was so shocked that she passed out..." 3. "What?!" 4. "We've already got someone headed over there. Come straight to the sacred heart university hospital!"

1. "Sacred heart..." 2. "Sacred heart hospital..." 3. "Come on, come on!"

6. PICK UP, PICK UP! 7. "ALL OUR LINES ARE CURRENTLY BUSY. PLEASE HOLD..."

1. I know in my head... 2. ...that it's perfectly possible gyeowool didn't get hurt that badly. 3. But I keep having these... Terrible thoughts...

1. Just like back then... 2. "Okay, see ya."

1. "I'll be back a bit later than usual because of this practicum." 2. "Don't wait up for me to have dinner." 3. "Will do."

1. "Have fun!" 2. I thought it was going to be just another day...

1. I wandered in the shades of night... 2. Till jesus came to me... 3. And with the sunlight of his love... 4. Bid all my darkness flee...

1. ...but I lost everything that day.

1. "Who let her in?!" 2. "Get her out of here!"

1. "You've got some gall showing your face here!" 2. "Hyojin wouldn't have had to die if it wasn't for you!"

1. "This is all your fault!!!" 2. "You devil's whore!!!"

1. She took her own life because she couldn't handle it.

1. She couldn't handle the pressure she had to face when her devoutly religious family discovered that she likes women.

1. She couldn't handle her father's fiery wrath. 2. And most of all...

1. ...she couldn't handle the feeling of loneliness and emptiness when her family abandoned her.

1. "I'm sorry..."

1. I had every right to scream right back at them, to tell them it wasn't my fault.

1. But I couldn't. 2. "I'm sorry..."

1. Because it was clear to me that I wasn't there for her either.

2. "Your call could not be completed. Leave a message after the beep..."

1. "Oh, come on!" 2. "Pick up the damn phone, jaehee!" 3. Finally! It's going through!

1. "PICK UP, PICK UP!" 10. "HEY, YOUNG..." 11. "SHE PICKED UP!"

1. "Aaah!"

1. "Oh, for fuck's sake...!"

1. "No...!" 2. "!!!!"

1. It can't get much worse than this...

1. I can't do anything now that my phone's broken... 2. Jaehee must've reached the hospital by now...! 3. Why was her phone busy for so long?

1. Was she calling gyeowool's parents? 2. Is it that serious? Enough to stay on an international call for that long?

1. Whatever the case... 2. I just hope the kid is safe...

2. "Coming through! We've got a traffic accident victim here!"

1. "We tried to stop the bleeding but she's lost too much blood already!" 2. "Get the patient to the operating room, now!"

1. Could it be... 2. ...that gyeowool was carried in here like that too?

1. "No..."

1. Not her...! 2. Why...

1. Why can't I find her? 2. I could've sworn jaehee said it was this hospital...

1. No, it can't be...

1. "Ah..." 2. "Aah..." 3. "If only..."

1. "I-I got tickets to my favorite musical that day..." 2. "I-if you don't mind... Would you like to go with me?" 3. ...I didn't go on that date with her...

1. "Look, ms. Sunwoo!" 2. "Isn't it beautiful?" 3. I should've sent her straight back up to seoul instead of taking her to the beach...

1. "I'd rather get to know you properly first..." 2. "...before I decide whether to keep liking you, or move on..." 3. "So could you help me with that?" 4. I should've just told her that I don't care whether she likes me or not.