Please Forget Me - Chapter 134
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I trembled, pleading.
“I-I don’t want to go. I’m not going.”
“Calm down. No matter what happens, I won’t let you go.”
“But…”
The other side holds power, while Johann is just a powerless schoolteacher. A teacher cannot defeat a military officer. If he tries to fight against them and loses…
“Gasp, gasp…”
“Rize, nothing will happen. Please trust me.”
Johann whispered soothing words to calm me as I hyperventilated, but I couldn’t hear any of it.
“I’ll go down and check.”
But it made me came to my senses.
“D-Don’t do that!”
Johann pried my hands off his shirt and forced me to sit at the edge of the bed.
“Just wait here. I’ll talk to them and send them back.”
Talk? That soldier cannot defy the Major’s orders. So there’s no way he could be persuaded. The thought of irritating a soldier and ending up in a worse situation made my vision blur.
“No, Johann!”
Bang.
But Johann didn’t give me a chance to hold on. He threw on his coat and walked out on his own.
I quickly changed my clothes and followed him down. I knew full well that I could be dragged away, but watching Johann get hurt while I sat by helplessly was just as horrifying.
“…citizens must follow the mobilization order without exception, day or night.”
“I’m not asking for the legal basis of the mobilization order. I want to know why the Major is calling my wife at this hour.”
As I hurried down the stairs, I heard Johann confronting the soldier who was there to take me away.
“I don’t know that either.”
Just as I reached the bottom of the stairs, I caught the soldier’s expression beyond Johann’s arm, which was blocking the door. It was a familiar face—the Sergeant who always escorted me to the Major’s bedroom.
He was someone who prioritized orders over any empathy for my situation and often grew impatient if I hesitated.
“You don’t know why the Major is calling another man’s wife at this late hour? Anyone would think the Major is using the mobilization order to abuse civilians…”
“I’m just following orders.”
“An order to destroy another person’s family? An order to bring a woman to be violated? Those who follow such orders aren’t soldiers protecting the country, but thugs in the alley!”
“……”
The Sergeant still looked annoyed by Johann’s questioning.
“What kind of thought process allows you to obey an order to facilitate a violation? Aren’t you ashamed before God and your family?”
It wasn’t that Johann couldn’t see the expression on the soldier’s face, so I wondered what he was thinking to keep confronting him like that. The sergeant frowned and placed his hand on his hip, where I caught sight of his holstered gun, making my heart skip a beat.
“Johann.”
I rushed down the last two steps and clung to Johann.
“Don’t do this.”
In fear, I tried to stop him, but Johann hid me behind him. The sergeant’s hand reached for my clothing through the doorway but just missed it. He barked at me with irritation,
“Mrs. Renner, come out at once!”
“I can’t let you do that. Please go back.”
As Johann tried to close the door, the Sergeant pushed his way in and warned him menacingly.
“Refusal to comply with the mobilization order will result in imprisonment, and under the wartime special law, prisoners are sent to the front lines…”
“Then you’ll just kill me? If I’m going to die anyway, why not do it now? After that, don’t even give the woman who lost her husband time to mourn before dragging her to the Major and handing her over. That way, you forsake your humanity and become just a dog that obediently follows your master’s orders.”
At that moment, the Sergeant’s cold expression faltered.
“Damn it, shut up. I’m not doing this because I want to.”
“Then just go back.”
The soldier’s gaze, which had turned somewhat blank, suddenly lit up again just as Johann was about to close the door.
“Hah…”
The soldier drew his gun from the holster and aimed it at Johann’s head. Then, glaring at me from behind Johann, he ordered,
“Rize Renner, come out right now!”
“Please, don’t do this. I-I’ll go. So…”
I trembled as I tried to comply, but Johann pushed me into a corner where the soldier couldn’t see me.
“No, Rize won’t go on her own.”
Johann was clearly not in his right mind. How could he speak such reckless words while staring down a soldier with a gun?
“If you want to take her, kill me first. Shoot me with that gun and take my wife to the Major.”
The hand that had reached through the door didn’t retreat. In fact, I could see him pulling back the hammer of the gun clearly. This was no longer a threat. He genuinely intended to shoot.
“Don’t!”
I screamed and ran forward, but Johann blocked my way. I clung to him and pleaded,
“Johann, just say you’re sorry. That it was a mistake, please apologize.”
I felt like I was going to lose my mind from fear, yet Johann didn’t seem frightened at all; he didn’t plead with the soldier.
“Sergeant, I’ll apologize on his behalf. So please, just put the gun away. Don’t kill him.”
I begged the Sergeant instead of Johann, who wasn’t getting through to the man at all.
