You are Minty Lavender (Season 1)

EP32. The Fool (2)

※ This episode also unfolds from an omniscient narrator's perspective!

There was a reason Seokjin said this.

Park Jimin, he really didn't take care of himself enough to be called a fool. The female lead's presence had already taken over him, and it was a restraint he had never used before.

The wound Seokjin examined was far too severe to be called a mere injury. From the dozens of blade marks embedded in his back, red blood flowed out in place of his unshed tears.

As if that weren't all, even his left palm, deeply gouged as if he had blocked the knife with his hand, was stained red.

김석진

"...Why on earth do you go around fighting all the time?"

Seokjin disinfected the wound on his back first, and the disinfectant that touched the wound caused stinging, as always. Since his wound was no ordinary one, it seemed more appropriate to call it pain rather than stinging.

박지민

"Ugh..."

김석진

You know, you have to endure it.

김석진

It's just the beginning, so I'm telling you this in advance out of consideration. Just bear with it.

박지민

"Ugh... haa... that flower... ugh... where is it?"

김석진

"what?"

Thinking that even treating the wound was a waste of time, Jimin endured the surging pain and asked Seokjin

김석진

"I can't tell you anything or even talk until the treatment is over, you punk!!!"

박지민

"Fuck... You know we don't have time!!!!"

'widely!'

김석진

It's all done, you punk!!! You're so impatient.

Seokjin, looking distrustful as if he still saw me as just an idiot, tapped the bandage one more time and spoke.

박지민

"Damn it...!!"

김석진

"greatness..."

김석진

"Um... what is it? The wound on your hand is too deep so I wrapped it in a bandage, so don't put any force into it or hit me with that hand."

박지민

"..Who cares"

김석진

"...Seriously, you bastard!!!"

박지민

Okay, let's get straight to the point.

박지민

"Tell me where that flower is, and tell me exactly which bastards are after it and why, and which lunatic is trying to kill Kim Yeo-ju... Just tell me that."

김석진

"Lee Jung-wook... isn't that the bastard...?"

박지민

"That bastard already died that day."

박지민

"The day I was dying... that bastard died."

김석진

"What..?? Then who.. at Ami Hospital today..?"

박지민

It must be some bastard connected to Lee Jung-wook.

김석진

Usually, it is the pharmaceutical company that is after the female lead and that flower.

김석진

"That flower is a cure, but that only applies to the heroine."

김석진

"Absolutely not for pharmaceutical company shareholders"

김석진

"That flower is literally nothing short of a medicine, a mixture of mint and lavender. Anyone who gets their hands on this flower possesses a unique ingredient unprecedented not only in Korea but globally; in short, it is a 'treasure' itself."

박지민

So... that was it..

김석진

"Since my parents developed it... neither I nor even the people who were in that lab know what the efficacy of the ingredient is or what the side effects are."

김석진

That’s why it’s more dangerous, and even if the female lead is saved, the aftermath might be an even bigger problem.

박지민

"..No..Absolutely not. I have to save him no matter what."

김석진

"Hah... Is it as easy as it sounds! You asked where that flower is, right? I don't know either! I'm so frustrated I feel like I'm going to die!!"

박지민

"It must be somewhere among the pharmaceutical companies."

김석진

"No, there aren't any... I asked Jungkook to assign police officers to the audit teams at each pharmaceutical company, but as expected, there were none."

박지민

"Haa... fuck, who the hell is this..."

Was it Jimin's delusion to think he could find something out from his conversation with Seokjin? On the contrary, the more he talked with him, the more Jimin felt lost and at a loss.

박지민

"I have to find it... I must... find it!!!"

As Seokjin watched Jimin, who was obsessed solely with searching for flowers as if his soul were possessed by something, he felt as though the man who had fallen into a long sleep before his eyes was truly alive.

김석진

"...He said he was a younger brother he cherished... damn... his behavior is exactly like his own self..."

박지민

"What... did you just say...?"

김석진

"W-what... M-Min Yoongi said something!!!!"

Seokjin stammered in embarrassment at Jimin, who asked with an expression that had instantly turned cold.

박지민

"Yoongi... Hyung... Min Yoongi... Min Yoongi!?!??"

김석진

"H-Hey!!! Park Jimin!!!!! Where are you going, you crazy bastard!!!!!"

Upon hearing the name Min Yoon-gi, as if something had occurred to him, Jimin ran outside without hesitation and headed urgently somewhere.

박지민

"Haa...haa..."

Having just recovered from his injury, he was running like crazy for a distance that was quite far to walk.

As if even his shortness of breath was a hindrance to him, he frowned at the rough gasps surging in and did not stop for a single moment.

박지민

"ha..."

He slowly came to a halt, as if he had arrived at his destination before he knew it, and tears welling up in his eyes were already obscuring his vision, though he was unsure of what he had seen.

박지민

"Ugh... *sob*... Yoongi hyung... this isn't right... *sob*..."

That was so. What came into his sight was something blooming brilliantly, emitting a mysterious color of light, on Min Yoon-gi's grave where weeds had grown profusely...

It was none other than 'mint-scented lavender,' the very flower Jimin had been searching for.

박지민

"This... *sob*... *sniff*... Why... why!!!!!... Why do you have this, Hyung... Why on earth... *sob*... *sniff*..."

Whatever the purpose, the flower everyone had been searching for was blooming not in the pharmaceutical companies or Lee Jung-wook, but in the arms of Min Yoon-gi.

Min Yoon-gi wanted to protect the flower safely from what was happening outside the world. Perhaps he had noticed the shadow of death slowly approaching him from the very beginning and had instead seized it as an opportunity.

Lee Jung-wook, having realized that she was keeping the flower seeds, would have used the dark shadow that he would one day kill her and take the seeds to his advantage; she would have gone to him with the seeds in her bosom and met her death without any resistance...

Perhaps... that is why he asked Jimin to bury him. So that, regardless of the truth about his death, flowers could safely bloom right before his eyes...

박지민

"...Ugh...Turn...Ugh...Ugh...Min Yoongi...idiot...idiot....Ugh...Ugh.."

And then, he would have given the key to his younger brother, Park Jimin, so that he could come to him after finishing all his revenge.

민윤기

"Cough... cough... haa..... Park.. Jimin.. I.. I have to bury him....."

A blade of grass swaying in the gentle breeze circled the arm of Jimin, who had slumped listlessly to the ground. Burdened by the truth still buried deep within this earth—the earth where Yungi lay—Jimin grabbed the blade of grass as if entranced.

Perhaps that thin blade of grass was the thick arm of an older brother who cherished his younger siblings.

박지민

"Ugh... ugh..."

The fool who went underground carrying all the truth, and the fool watching him, met again in the sunlight like this after several years.