"It's too far..."

He took her to that beach regardless, because he thought that he might as well take the chance to show her the pretty sights in Uruk... and maybe, get on her good sides again. They did start on a bad footing, ever since meeting each other again at the airport. And he did still... like her a lot. And he could care less about the circumstances that brought her to Uruk, or her scandal with the owner.

But Kang Moyeon... just how long did she want to keep rejecting him?

xxx

Moyeon has changed since he last saw her. Or perhaps she had already started to change on that day when she dumped him. Suppose he had to accept that.

"Thanks for the help. But I rather you keep out and leave treating patients to the medical..."

Yet for some reason, he couldn't help feeling offended. He was just offering his assistance regarding the boy's condition. Because despite not being a doctor, he was quite familiar with the situation in Uruk and how things might be different compared to back home. He was trying to help, he was not even trying to belittle her expertise in her field!

Was it that hard to receive help from people? Why did she have to be so defensive when he pointed out something that was helpful to her? He recalled her own words that she used to argue against them being incompatible, and couldn't help seeing the irony.

"What I meant is that you seemed like a different person from the one I knew."

He couldn't believe how much Kang Moyeon have really changed after so long. He didn't want to believe it. Even if it might be a bit selfish of him to think it like this, but he really liked the old Kang Moyeon that charmed him back in Seoul. To imagine that person to be long gone...

"...not all doctors are Albert Schweitzer."

"That's right. Some doctors should be on TV."

xxx

Perhaps, he was a bit too harsh on her. He usually was able to keep his emotions in check but somehow tonight—as if all of his pent-up emotions in the last eight months has come forward and burst open. Well, there's no point regretting now. There's no way he could take back all of the things he's said to her.

Alarms suddenly blared all around him as Sijin stopped to look around. Sergeant Seo came out from another room as he walked up to him urgently.

"FPCON2 is in effect in the Medicube zone."