You are Minty Lavender (Season 1)

EP39. Hello, Kim Yeo-ju (Complete)

※This episode unfolds from Taehyung's point of view!

Let's try to come up with some kind of excuse for this issue that has already grown too big to be put to sleep.

From the beginning, I didn't try to stop Park Jimin and you from being happy.

That day, even though he was badly injured, Park Jimin ran towards Yoon Ki-hyung's grave as if he was dying.

Before I knew it, the seed of my small desire had followed him first, and to retrieve it, I too followed Park Jimin.

After running for a long time, I arrived at the place where I saw Park Jimin sobbing like crazy, and the two emotions that had ignited the fight slowly enveloped me as if they had been waiting for me.

Compassion and desire that has become ambition

The former was for Park Jimin, and the latter was just for me.

I was frozen in place, unable to easily agree with either of the two emotions and act accordingly.

Neither of them could be called angels or devils.

The sympathy I felt for him, who had suffered for a long time, and the ambition I had for myself, which I had suppressed for a long time, played with me, changing the label of angel and devil depending on whether I was 'me for him' or 'me for myself.'

But the fierce fight was short-lived,

'Mint Lavender' The beautiful, ethereal flowers bloomed in my eyes, and that moment of encounter was enough to picture you waking up and smiling at me.

My ambition flared up so quickly that I was ashamed of the intense emotional battle I'd been waging. To be more precise, I was consumed by ambition.

As soon as reason left me, I laid my hands on him and put him to sleep very easily.

And then, holding the 'mint lavender' flower he had in his hand, the flower that was meant to save you, he ran to you like crazy, just like Park Jimin did.

김여주

"who are you...!?"

It was just as I expected. You didn't remember me, but it wasn't just me.

Your ability to distinguish people by scent, Park Jimin, Jeon Jungkook, you were like a blank sheet of paper, with all your memories of them gone, and it wasn't difficult to carve me into you.

김태형

"Hey, you don't remember me..? I'm Kim Taehyung, your boyfriend... heh"

You looked a little surprised, but that was because even that was a fading memory, and you accepted me easily.

The anxiety of 'what if I wake up and remember everything?' and the impatience of 'even if my memories disappear, I'll still smell like mint.' disappeared as if they never existed in the first place, along with the pretty smile you showed me.

The few weeks I spent looking at your face were incredibly happy.

I couldn't escape from the sweetness, not knowing that happiness was given to me by the devil.

As the time spent with you grew longer, I enjoyed the sweetness, forgetting that the small seed of my desire had blossomed into a flower called ambition, filling everything around you with false illusions.

But since it was supposedly a happiness given by the devil, it couldn't last long.

김태형

"Wh,what!? What the fuck are you talking about!!!!!"

김태진

"Don't get excited, Kim Taehyung! It's an unavoidable fact. Just accept it."

김태진

"It was you who started it all..."

김태형

"That's ridiculous!!!!!!!....ugh...ugh...ugh...."

김태형

"What the...why...why!!!!!!!!!!...sigh...sob.."

The research institute where your parents worked, the beloved protégé of a researcher there, and the director of Ami Hospital. That was my older brother.

I brought home a 'mint-scented lavender' that I had clumsily made out of ambition without even knowing how to use. My brother was quite surprised, but soon started doing research that I hadn't even asked him to do.

And a few days later, he told me: If what I did was true, Kim Yeo-ju, your memory will soon be completely clear.

Was the fantasy just a fantasy?

Happy memories of our time together gently spread through my mind, and my ambition faded, losing its strength as if pricked by a needle.

A chilling emptiness chilled my heart, and my whole body ached, forcing me to shed tears. I clenched my fists, desperate to deny the very fact that everything was ending, but my body lost all strength.

And above all, the sight of you staring at me with eyes filled with resentment kept tangled in my vision, following me around and tormenting me as if it were real.

It was a feeling of guilt

김태형

"I...uh...now...what do I...do...fuck...I already did it all...sigh...uh...what do I want me to do!!!!!!!!!"

김태진

"Take responsibility. You know best what Kim Yeo-ju wants. Time... isn't much, Tae-hyung."

김태형

"......"

Everything my brother said was spot-on. It was true that your heart was drawn to Park Jimin, and that you didn't have much time left.

Now it was time to take away the illusions that filled your surroundings.

직원

"Oh my, Manager Kim! You're not supposed to be working overtime today!"

김태형

"Ah... I still have some things to deal with. Mr. Yudae, you go in first~"

I wasn't even given time to go home and rest. I had to put everything back together and get Park Jimin back to you safely...

The company I worked for was a sort of organizing company.

Simply put, it was a place where CCTV was manipulated according to the situation, murder requests received from contract companies were destroyed, and all records of the person's movements were deleted or modified.

It was a perfect fit for my situation, where I needed to turn everything around, and I decided to finally take the label of "serial killer" off him and put it on myself.

Even though seeing your face is now painful enough to tear you apart, I still had to stay by your side for fear of you losing your memories.

After I always took you home, I returned to the company and erased and revised all traces of Park Jimin's whereabouts.

I was filling the hole in your happiness that I had destroyed with a greater happiness that you would like.

Since the description he was given to the police was of him wearing a black hoodie, they scoured thousands of CCTV footage, either deleting Park Jimin or pasting me in. Furthermore, they recruited someone to give a false statement to the police station where Jeon Jungkook worked, claiming he witnessed a serial killer suspect on the day of his final farewell.

The process was difficult, even if I tried to endure it by recalling the sweet times, but I clung to it for several weeks, completely ignoring the limitations of my head and body, which were filled with sadness, obsessed with returning it.

And before we knew it, it was the last day

I drank so hard that I felt like if I didn't get drunk, I would ruin everything I had worked so hard for, and I would go back to you.

That day, I avoided all contact with you, trying not to see your face or think of you. But I must have had too much to drink, so I ended up in front of your house drunk and ended up committing a reckless act.

Did you know back then?

That little silent sob wasn't just a simple drunkenness.

Even though it was a small sob, I knew that I was crying out in pain that was scratching and shaking inside me.

Even if it's a fantasy, I hope it lasts forever

I wish time would stop flowing at this moment

Even while sobbing, I begged and begged again

But I was the sinner who took away your happiness

No one showed mercy to a sinner like me.

I could easily see you running towards me from the end of that alley.

All preparations were complete.

Park Jimin, who was loitering in the alley, was trying to talk to Jeon Jungkook about something. I put him to sleep for a moment with my brother's medicine. Jeon Jungkook was almost at the alley with the police leading him, and I was already the perfect murderer.

You came to me and looked exhausted overnight.

I roughly tore you away from me, and I tore away my heart that was trying to go to you.

I wanted to hug you warmly as your tears fell, but I couldn't, and at that moment, I was in pain, when the police surrounded the alley on all sides.

The fantasy play ends here.

Now it was time for you to go to Park Jimin.

Soon the police caught me and I kept thinking about the smile you had shown me.

Perhaps it was easier to head to prison like this. Better to lock away my desire to reach you, so that it could no longer steal your happiness.

김여주

"T, Taehyung!!!!..Kim Taehyung..!!!!...sob...sob...sob..."

김태형

"Park Jimin is in the alley on the right. I'll put it back now, so go back, Kim Yeo-ju."

I say hello to you carefully

I send you off for the last time in my vision, obscured by tears.

김태형

"Hello... Kim Yeo-ju..."

hi

Don't let someone like me steal your happiness again...

[You Are Mint Lavender] Season 1 Complete

-The End-

Hello, this is Gotjim! Season 1 is finally over. Thank you for loving me and I'll see you again in season 2!! (I'm being greedy)♡