Returner's Magic Laundry

Chapter 65

Jang Seok-go, who had been silent for a while, spoke up.

“I thought for a moment. Selling her mother’s house would pay off some of the debt. Then I think I’ll be able to live with my heart again. As a parent, I might be able to do that.”

He let out a self-sabotaging laugh in the middle of his speech.

“Hey, that’s money, my life and my heart… … It’s absurd to be so shabby that you can’t see the floor. What would you do though? That is reality.”

I couldn’t agree with him, but I could understand his feelings.

“… … Then what about your mother? I can’t take care of them, and I’m thinking of sending them to a cheap sanatorium.”

“So you were sent to a sanatorium?”

“No, I just stopped thinking about it. No matter how ignorant I may be, I don’t know that I can do it even if I live with resentment because I didn’t receive anything from my parents.”

I was a little surprised.

Jang Seok-go doesn’t even know where his grandmother is.

“Then where did her grandmother go?”

He shook his head.

“… … I am also looking for it.”

“Then I will look for it. I will find it and take her to her grandmother’s house.”

At my words, Jang Seok-go pulled himself off the railing and looked straight at me.

He stayed for a moment as if searching for me, then pulled away.

“It seems that my mother has not lived in vain all this time. She has people who take care of her. She is better than me.”

“Grandmother Kim has often talked about her son.”

“Huh.”

Mr. Jang Seok-go lowered his head toward the floor again and showed a bitter smile.

“I just wanted to find one. I wanted to show you how your child lives. And I wanted to die and drive a nail into that chest! So he gave me the address of the house where I live. Even if I died, I thought I would feel refreshed if I found my body!”

Mr. Jang Seok-go’s words suddenly became furious.

“… … Grandma Kim was already living with a nail in her chest. She must have not seen that.”

“I saw it. So she just came back. And she was never going to see her again.”

“… … .”

After finishing his words, Mr. Jang Seok-go walked in front of me helplessly, opened the door of room 315 and entered, and he lay flat on his back in the unfurnished living room.

It’s like lying in a coffin.

His appearance seemed to say it all.

I watched it for a while, then slowly closed the door and left.

I don’t know what’s going on between the two of them, but it seemed difficult for their relationship to return as if nothing had happened easily.

Kim must have known that too.

After breaking up with Jang Seok-go, I drove the car and drove down the road.

‘Where did Grandma disappear to?’

I’ve been thinking about it, but I don’t think Grandma would wander the streets and go home.

In an instant, I remembered the words of Mrs. 314, who said that an old woman had been to Jang Seok-go’s house.

‘Yeah, Grandma Kim may have come to see how her son who suddenly came to see her. Then I saw these mails.’

She turned her attention to the publicity materials for the sanatorium that she had brought along just in case.

‘If you saw this mail, you must have been distracted. She said all she had to give her children was a house, and she said she originally intended to give it to her son, so what if she gave the house and she chose to go to a cheap sanitarium?’

The answer was leaning that way.

She may have had this ending in her mind for a long time.

* * *

Once I returned to the laundromat, I took a picture with Grandma Kim and her grandma.

I thought that if I showed you a picture, I would be able to meet people I knew.

I went to the police station where Jang Seok-go had reported it, but I was only told to wait.

‘I can’t wait.’

We started with the nearest nursing home by address, and removed those that were too expensive from the list.

I toured several nursing homes and found her, showing her grandmother’s name and picture.

They kindly told me that there was no such person among them, but there were more refusals saying that they could not confirm unless they were a guardian.

The sun was already setting and it was getting dark.

I couldn’t just give up and go back.

‘I’m going to use magic.’

But no magic came to mind that could be applied to finding her grandmother.

‘It’s not a shy cherry blossom, the bamboo unfolding doesn’t fit right, a whirlwind?… … No, what should I use?’

For a moment, Ariel came to mind.

Ariel’s predecessor was a dandelion spore, and the role was to ride the wind and watch the forest.

‘Mr. Dandelion Hall has never been summoned before… … ’

Still, she said it was worth a try.

If this magic didn’t work, he was going to sneak over the fence of the sanatorium.

After thinking about it that far, I shouted the summoning spell without hesitation.

“Dandelion Scepter!”

He shouted and waited for a response.

There was no reaction to let the moisture flow.

‘Isn’t this? then,’

“Ariel!”

It was quiet.

‘Isn’t this too? I can’t help it. You have to cross the wall.’

I got out of the car and looked up at the sanatorium’s tightly closed front door and high wall.

‘Is this amount of gum?’

Ever since I took the Laundry Technician exam, my unfounded confidence was controlling my body.

Thinking of crossing the sanatorium wall, I looked around and found a suitable place, put my foot on the wall, reached out and found a space to put my finger in.

When I applied strength to a muscle that I didn’t normally use, my body pulled up.

However, that was the moment when the terrible physical strength showed its power, and as soon as I took one of my remaining feet off the ground, I slipped and threw myself away.

‘Oh, Mr. what? Didn’t you even go up one step?’

When I stood up with the desire to give up, there was something like white dust gathering around me.

At first, I thought it was a fly, and I waved my hand to chase it, but when I looked closely at the stubbornly clinging barrel,

It was a dandelion spore.

“Oh, dandelion scepter! A magical forest?”

It seemed to make a circle as if the Halls were right in my words.

“It did! Thank you for coming!”

Dandelion spores gathered around me and waited for my order.

When she held out a picture of Grandma Kim in her hand, the halls gathered as if to look at it.

“Find out if this grandmother is in that nursing home.”

As soon as I could finish my words, dandelion stalks flew around me and scattered over the sanatorium wall.

And after a while, dandelion spores flew to me.

Soon after, he made a line in the air and made letters.

Just like when I first met Ariel in the forest.

I read the letters the dandelion spores were making in the air.

“No… … All?”

Apparently, she couldn’t find her grandmother.

“Did you search all over the place?”

Dandelion spores that seem to circle my question.

“Then it looks like it’s not here. Then let’s go somewhere else.”

As I got into the car, dandelion stalks also flew into the car window.

“Hey, I see you guys. reminds me of ariel It’s probably not Ariel, is it?”

At my words, the dandelion spores again made letters in the air.

“bruise… … blue… … this… … ?”

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‘It’s Ariel. It was Ariel.’

By the time we arrived at the next nursing home, the sun had already set and the road was dark.

Almost all of the nursing homes are sparsely populated, with no lights other than the headlights of my car and the sparse streetlights.

As I approached the next nursing home, I turned off my headlights and approached quietly.

It kind of felt like it had to be.

When I turned off the car’s engine and opened the window, the dandelion spores flew away and over the sanatorium wall.

After a while, Dandelion Hall came back and made letters in the air.

“No… … All? Then isn’t it here?”

After this nursing home, I went to two more places, but the result was “no”.

“Then there is only one place left, but this place is far away. It’s in the mountains.”

The name of the remaining nursing home was ‘Sarang Elderly Nursing Home’.

It was the cheapest place among the publicity papers for the nursing home.

It was a place that even received government support, so hopefully it was a place where you could enter for free.

If Kim had no money, she might have chosen this place.

‘Love is a nursing home for the elderly… … ’

The name was somehow familiar.

‘I’ve heard that name a lot… … ’

Due to my poor memory, I eventually summoned an apology.

‘Would it be just one?’

I thought, but in the end, I summoned and absorbed 5 more apples and remembered them as if squeezing them.

‘Damn poor memory!’

As much as the apples are absorbed, the stomach is full, and there is a limit to raising the memory further.

The only thing I could remember was that in a broadcast in 2007, the reality of this ‘Sarang Elderly Nursing Home’ was exposed.

I also remembered the beginning of the broadcast of a program PD called ‘PD’s Gaze’, which he started covering in 2004.

In addition to arresting patients, human rights violations, assaults, and exploitation of labor for the purpose of rehabilitation.

While working as a film director, it was also one of the tasks to find the subject of a story or to look at these current affairs programs to cover related incidents.

Among them, the best way to find the subject was the case-related programs such as ‘PD’s Look’ or ‘Shall We Recognize It?’.

When I needed to find a new item while working as a film director, the first thing I did when I woke up in the morning was to look at the social pages of the day.

After running for a long time on a bumpy and narrow forest road, we arrived at the nursing home in the address area.

‘It’s a nursing home deep in the mountains. I think it will be difficult for the guardians to visit even once.’

When I saw the corner of the white building in the distance, I parked the car in a back area.

Sarang Elderly Nursing Home was a large, white building with its back against the dense forest, and was surrounded by a high wall.

It was the role of preventing one from looking in from the outside and preventing a rat from escaping from the inside.

The sign of Love Elderly Nursing Home was lit up like a lighthouse in a dark forest, and the letter ‘Rang’ was engulfed in darkness as if the fluorescent lamp had gone out.

There were also several barns nearby, but it seemed that the surrounding land had been purchased and used widely.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

It seems that there was also a content that the management of the livestock was also done to the patients.

‘Isn’t Grandma Kim supposed to be in a place like this?’

With that thought in mind, I lowered the car window, and dandelion spores flew to the nursing home.

And not long after, the dandelion spores returned, and the letters they drew in the air.

“No… … All?”

Grandma Kim isn’t here?

I don’t know if it’s fortunate or not, but if so, where is Grandma Kim?

“Did you find it right?”

As I looked at the dandelion spores and urged them, I wrote in the air again.

[No… … All… … !]

Even an exclamation point to emphasize certainty.

Reluctantly, I started the car to go back.

Then, the heavy door of the nursing home opened, and a few men and women in white robes ran out.

―Find it quickly! How did you get out again?

They all looked like therapists working in a nursing home from the fact that they were wearing white robes, and they seemed to be looking for someone to hear their faces and shouts.

“This old man really is! Scatter around and look for it, and if you get hurt in the forest for nothing, you’ll get in trouble.”

“I came in without a guardian. If I die here, no one will know.”

“If you make a mistake, the police will come. You went down to another patient’s village last time and the police brought you back.”

“Ah, I was so cold back then. However, there is Kim Soon-kyung.”

Listening to the healers, something seemed wrong.

Scattered at the door, they disappeared into the woods in pairs, two of them coming towards us.

‘I’m going to get caught.’

If I started the car now, I’d be caught by those people.

‘Bamboo deployment!’

When the bamboo was summoned after deliberation, the bamboo quickly grew and surrounded the car.

I couldn’t see the people who were coming this way, covered by the bamboo, but I could feel them getting closer by hearing footsteps and words.

The light of their flashlight reached me through the bamboo gap.

“what? Were there any bamboos here?”

Light poured in through the cracks as a person looked into the bamboo with a flashlight.

seemed to catch up

‘Stop it with bamboo leaves!’

Then, the haphazardly stretched bamboo leaves slowly gathered and closed even the smallest gap.

The thin light that had leaked in was obscured.