101 – Dongmin Lee (36)
Dongmin Lee (36)
‘Haerin talking to Jiyoung Hwang and Yuna Kim?’
I left the crouching Baek Yu-ram and went to them.
Hwang Ji-young and Kim Yoon-a found me and retreated.
“You guys got it wrong too, right?”
I told them.
“I told you not to approach Jung Sung-min. Why is that? Why the hell Are you crazy about wanting to die?”
Since it has already happened, I thought I should calmly explain it, but when I started talking about it, I got angry.
Actually, I was more worried than angry.
You dare to intervene in something that should have been quiet.
“………”
Baek Yoo-ram, who came along belatedly, asked.
“… What are you talking about?”
“… Yu-Ram-ah, be careful too.”
I spoke to no one.
“Someone is stealing my novel. Really.”
It was so frustrating, and this situation seemed like a comedy, so I said to myself like a sigh.
“What is Eokka? Forcibly peeling?”
“… Just because you know the contents of my novel doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do anything stupid to stop it.”
I said.
“…But if it wasn’t for us, someone would have been killed anyway. Isn’t it?”
Yoona Kim, who was listening, said.
“… I’m sorry. But it should have been stopped. If it wasn’t for that, I’m sure someone would be in a scary situation…”
“Aren’t you misunderstanding something?”
I said.
Kim Yuna said this.
Since she and Hwang Ji-young knew the story of the original, they had no choice but to prevent what would happen in the future.
“Someone must have been raped.”
Hwang Ji-young also helped.
“… That’s soul murder.”
“Is it okay for you guys to die!?”
I shouted.
And they were mistaken.
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“You guys, are you sure you read it? The woman wouldn’t have been raped. Someone will protect you.”
Although I was mistaken for a moment, I was able to speak clearly based on the printout that Haerin gave me.
If Haerin’s was the original, the content would also match what Yuna Kim and Jiyoung Hwang scraped from an illegal sharing site and printed separately.
Then their actions were purely useless.
If no one intervened and the novel became a reality, the woman would have been interrupted by ‘someone’ and ran away from Jeong Seong-min.
“Now, wait a minute. What I’m talking about is-“
Baek Yoo-ram, who was listening to the story, interrupted.
“… Is that me now?”
“……”
I didn’t answer.
It was a situation so clear that it didn’t even need to be explained, and it was because Yuna Kim refuted it.
“Senior, aren’t you mistaken? Read the novel again. What happens.”
“… What?”
I was also taken aback by that statement.
The woman loses her usual senses from Jung Sung-min’s pursuit and retreats to her secluded place, but that doesn’t mean she’s in trouble.
This incident, which is shown when Seong-Min Jeong first appears, is just a directing that gives a little tension and then releases it.
The real serious incident is that he kills two women who got in his way because of this incident.
But what they said was different.
“What are you talking about? How terribly it is portrayed in the novel, if the author does not know…”
Although it was momentary, I was startled by the disgust and disgust on Hwang Ji-young and Kim Yoon-a’s expressions.
If the novel that they are described as ‘terrible’ is ‘Journal’, then that is also my story.
Because it’s a novel I wrote.
Besides, if it’s the original, it’s purely my competence that I can’t even make an excuse that the novel has been altered.
… Surprisingly, most readers do not hold to the position that the author and the work must be viewed separately.
If you write a novel with garbage or a terrible scene, you judge it as proof of the writer’s true nature and that it is the author’s taste.
But I didn’t write that.
I don’t even remember the file Haerin gave me-
I looked at Haerin.
In the middle of an argument between us, she stepped away from us and looked at me.
“…Did you cheat?”
I asked her.
“Is it that the one you gave me wasn’t the original?”
My hands and feet were shaking.
Although I believe in Haerin, there is no way that there are multiple versions of the original.
If so-
“It is the original.”
But Haerin said calmly.
“The one I gave you is the original.”
“………”
I looked at Jiyoung Hwang and Yuna Kim.
“Did you see it? You got it wrong.”
“… It can’t be. When did that come up?”
“………”
I see you in silence, they averted their eyes.
“… I’m sorry. I know. What we did wrong But I mean, it was saved when the senior posted it. So the original is correct…”
If I said that, my confidence was shaken.
Jiyoung Hwang, Yuna Kim.
And Haerin Kang.
Doesn’t that mean that one of them is lying?
Or, intentionally or unintentionally, there was also a possibility that one person’s version was not the ‘original’.
“No, wait, what are you talking about-!”
As if the fear from earlier had completely disappeared, Baek Yoo-ram raised his voice a little and grabbed my arm.
“Hey, what are you talking about! Please explain-! Rape? Jeong Seong-min? I remembered. Could that be from your novel-“
However, there was no time to answer.
I spoke to Jiyoung Hwang and Yoona Kim.
“…You guys, how do you know that?”
“Yes?”
“How did you know and intervene? You knew what kind of woman Jung Sung-min was chasing. Didn’t you think there would be a risk?”
“… I don’t know. Still, when she thought about what that woman was going to do, she thought she had to stop it somehow, so…”
“Ha…”
I sighed.
The attitude of the two did not seem to be able to imagine what Jung Sung-min would do to them after being disturbed.
Well, I wouldn’t have been brave enough.
I’m not certain that the printout that Haerin gave me is the complete original, but at least it’s clear that Hwang Ji-young and Kim Yun-a didn’t know what was going to happen to them.
In their ‘original text’, the aftermath of their actions that interfered with Jeong Seong-min was not written.
“f*ck.”
I had never shown myself swearing before, and when I spat out, everyone’s eyes widened.
“… Seo, senpai…?”
“… You guys, die.”
I said it heavily.
“… Yes?”
“You die. Jiyoung and Yoona, you guys.”
I held out one side of the platform viewer with the novel I was reading earlier written on it.
The point of view of Jeong Seong-min targeting two women who threatened to reveal ‘his secret’ was depicted.
Everyone’s complexion became pale except for Haerin.
Tears welled up in Hwang Ji-young’s eyes.
Yuna Kim stood there, covering her mouth.
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“…Is there any way?”
I took Harin away from them.
Looking far away, Baek Yoo-ram was holding Hwang Ji-young, who was standing in a panic, and patting Kim Yun-ah.
First of all, Hwang Ji-young and Kim Yoon-ah were told to leave at an unexpected time so that they could avoid Jung Sung-min’s pursuit.
Originally, the party should have traveled with Baek Yu-ram’s car and Park Se-young, but if it did, it would be like following the contents of the modified 『Journal』.
If the cause does not change, the effect remains the same.
“Rather than that, is the novel the original?”
I asked something I’ve been curious about for a while.
Haerin quietly raised her head.
Even though it was under the shade, the eyes were dark as if the light had disappeared, but the usual light was not visible.
“Yes.”
That kind of answer came back.
“There will be no choice but to eliminate the cause.”
Haerin said calmly.
She calmly accepted the current situation.
But even if it wasn’t for Hwang Ji-young and Kim Yoon-ah, who were either crying or absent-minded, my heart didn’t calm down.
They were sentenced to death.
I acted recklessly, but I did it to save an ‘anonymous’ woman from being raped.
There shouldn’t be an ending like this.
It is not always the end of a good novel that the good man is happy, but this is not a novel.
It’s a reality.
“…If it’s removed…”
“Are you going to kill me?”
“………”
Herin’s words are not wrong.
It’s good to be isolated from society by sending them to prison like Ban Yi-jae or Park Sang-woo.
However, in order for that to happen, the other person’s crime had to be tolerated.
We didn’t know about Ban Lee Jae’s existence, but he had been embodied in reality for a long time, and in the meantime, the ‘Gangnam Club Group Assault’ incident had already occurred.
That’s why a justification was made to put her in prison for dating violence against Kim Hye-jeong.
Park Sang-woo committed murder.
Seo In-woo, Nam Jae-chan and a young man.
Their deaths were in a way that I could not have predicted at all, and in the end he was arrested red-handed.
If sacrifices are made to deal with one of the villains in 『Journal』, This is just a game of chicken after all.
To capture Seong-Min Jeong, you have to induce him to do evil things, or you have to catch him after watching him.
But what good is that?
Harin was right.
If no one wants to get hurt, Haerin needs the power to kill and dispose of someone without a trace.
But I don’t want that.
If she became a killer, I wouldn’t be able to live happily ever after with her.
Above all, it was too late.
“… No way. Haerin, if you do something like that, Park Seonggang will come after you. I don’t know if it’s like the original, but will that person who knows the contents of the 『Journal』 Let you go?”
Park Seong-gang is a talented detective.
Her main story was unfavorable in many ways, but now that she knows the contents of her 『Journal』, She will be imprisoned somehow with the help of her categorical type.
It is like knowing the culprit and catching the thief.
It also has a bad effect on those who know that 『Ilji』 Has become a reality, such as Hwang Ji-young and Kim Yun-ah.
If Haerin commits murder, that fact will be known to everyone who knows the 『Journal』.
It’s already too late, too late.
“… For now, let’s ask Detective Park Seong-gang.”
I said.
Jeong Seong-min is going to kill Hwang Ji-young and Kim Yoon-ah.
Because it became known that he touched his complex and that he knew a secret that no one else knew.
It was a mistake I should never have made.
The only person who could sincerely understand this situation and protect him from innocent sacrifice was Park Seong-gang.
He’s a police officer anyway, and he’s armed enough.
It turns out that the only thing that can stop a character in a novel is a character in the same novel.
Even a person with a good physique like a categorical detective can’t deal with a skinny guy like Ban Lee-jae.
The unavoidable difference in power.
Only Park Seong-gang can overcome that.
Until I find a solution-
“But he made a mistake.”
Haerin said.
“What do you think changes the novel?”
“… Elements?”
“You already know the answer.”
“……”
“The ability to change a story is someone who knows all the stories.”
“… I don’t know what you mean.”
“Written stories do not change. Because it is written in letters. But when no one is looking, the story is rewritten to reflect reality.”
Haerin’s sudden words were meaningful, but he couldn’t figure out his intentions at all.
“At least we’ve never seen a novel change before our eyes. Yes?”
“…That’s right.”
“This is what I am curious about. What would happen if someone continued to watch the contents of the novel reflected? The letters wriggling like ants—”
Haerin’s lips moved.
“Is it going to change? Is there such a thing as magic?”
The words shocked me a little.
For some reason, I remembered what I had instinctively hesitated to do in the past when I was trying to find out about Haerin.
Kang Hae-rin’s grandfather is Kang Hwan-jae.
He is the chairman of one of the leading conglomerates in Korea.
His youngest son was Haerin’s father.
But he was an idiot and flirted with many women, and he gave birth to Haerin.
He was the child of her family, and Hae-Rin grew up with such parents and was abused, and one thunderous night, her parents were all her hands-
“………”
It doesn’t make sense that Haerin’s grandfather actually ‘exists’, but that itself has become a reality.
I know best that she couldn’t have written a novel using a real person, but it became a reality.
Kang Hwan-jae was a real person.
But I haven’t identified her father.
I thought that wouldn’t work.
If Kang Hae-rin is a character who became a reality in her novels, if she is a character who suddenly appeared, it means that her past is all fiction and does not exist.
Only her ‘memories’ were reflected.
But when you check-
If the existence of her father is confirmed, perhaps, it may actually happen.
“OK, is it realizing itself soon…?”
“… If anyone is looking at it.”
Haerin added,
“And the power to change the novel itself must be someone who knows what the original novel was like. Hwang Ji-young and Kim Yoon-ah were not shy about knowing that the novel had changed, so they took other actions to avoid it, and that changed the main story.”
“……”
That the heroes of Greek mythology who tried to change the oracle eventually proved their destiny-
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That must have been the story.
“You really make mistakes.”
Haerin held my cheek lightly.
“A cute mishap.”
“……”
Her words didn’t contain any reproaches or accusations, but on the contrary, the refreshing tone made me feel her powerlessness against myself all the more.
“You shouldn’t have seen that.”
“………”
Haerin smiled silently and gently dropped her hand from her cheek to her shoulder.
She looked up and held up her own phone.
The call log was recorded.
The sender was said to be “Mr. Idami.”
“… Sister?”
Wow.
At that time, my phone vibrated.
“You may know who it is, but look.”
Haerin gestured.
There was a text message.
[Thank you, Dongminah. Thanks to you, I lived.]
The sender… Was, of course, ‘Dami Lee’.
Haerin said.
“Sister, Idami-san seems to want to continue this play. The role of the imprisoned lover?”
She smiled, but there was something like a shimmer in her eyes.