109 – Dongmin Lee (44)
Dongmin Lee (44)
If you have a dream in a dream again.
Is it possible to awaken again in an awakened state?
Haerin’s low voice of ‘You got it?’ Was much louder than that of the cymbals.
“Why?”
[It was to protect himself.]
“Watch me? From what?”
[………]
Haerin didn’t say anything.
That made me more certain.
Isn’t the fact that the eloquent Kang Hae-rin is like a mute who has eaten honey?
Once the questions started, they bit their tail after tail.
In the first place, she also thought that Haerin did not give me the ‘original’, but a modified version of the novel in some way.
Is there no original print of Kang Hae-rin of the world?
So her extensive mind manipulation would affect her too, would she allow that?
“Are you my sister?”
I asked.
“Is it because of your sister?”
[There’s more than that.]
“………”
Haerin’s answer after silence was too ambiguous to say that it was about my question.
She said dreamily.
[… Plus.]
“What bullsh*t!”
I screamed.
“… I guess, I need to think about it.”
I clutched my head.
Of course, the only thing Haerin still did to me was that he gave me a mysterious drug that made me sleepy every night.
But her doubts burned like wildfire.
Although she promised to help me, what she did so far was actually a secret from me.
Her At first, the only thing I believed in her was that her laptop informed me of her news one by one.
However, the notebook did not tell why Jeong Seong-min died, nor could the actions of Park Sang-woo and Ban Lee-jae be predicted.
New features of the notebook.
I liked that one the most.
“… I’ll be alone for a while. I’m sorry, Harin.”
I was notified so.
[No.]
Haerin said.
[I’ll go now.]
Even though those words were calm, it sounded like a warning that Haerin was coming to kill me, or that she at least had her limbs bound and tied so she couldn’t escape.
Is it because the ground I believed in has shaken?
I hung up the phone abruptly.
And then I shook the class PD-nim awake.
She raised her forehead and slowly stood up, making a yup, puppy-like sound.
“…Did I sleep?”
“PD-sama, we have to leave quickly. Quickly.”
“… Ugh… Huh?”
“Quickly, hurry up. Hurry!”
I did not hesitate to touch her arm, which had not been touched before, and forced her to stand up.
But without a moment to be conscious of that, I could feel Haerin coming here every moment.
She seemed like she and I were in sync.
I could feel it getting closer.
The heavy exhaust sound and wheel sound of Haerin Kang’s red Mercedes seemed to scratch the ground.
While PD Ban was awake, I packed her coat and put her laptop in her bag.
“Go, hurry-!”
“Now, writer, why are you doing this all of a sudden…”
I almost pushed her on the back.
Before I left the front door, I stopped and grabbed my wine-red laptop.
“……”
And we went out.
If Haerin interfered with my life pattern, it would be impossible to have a legitimate conversation.
You can forcefully knock me out while saying you apologize, or you can secretly give me medicine.
What if you wake up and get tied up?
Let’s just leave here.
A few days is fine, so we settle down in a motel or hotel and talk calmly over the phone.
Of course, there are things to check before that.
I need to organize my thoughts first.
The midday sun was shining behind my back.
I crossed the garden of Haerin’s house built on a relatively high hill and went down the stairs.
PD-nim followed my words while crying and unbuttoning her coat.
A car stopped in front of the gate.
It was a red Mercedes.
“PD-nim, wait!”
I set up a class PD.
Before leaving the gate, Kang Hae-rin appeared.
Her face, which I thought had human complexion, had the porcelain-like skin I had imagined, and her expression showed no emotion.
She stared blankly at us.
Then he said.
“Are you seeing off the PD?”
“… I told you. I need to think about it.”
“What the hell?”
Strong Rin tilted her head.
“What are you so afraid of?”
“What you did to me-!”
I yelled.
PD Ban, who was a little ahead of me, shrugged at my sudden loud voice.
“Be quiet. People listen.”
Haerin gave a low warning.
The more I did, the more I screamed.
“Listen?! What if you hear it? Does it matter?”
“… I don’t know what the hell he did.”
As if she didn’t care about the class PD, she lightly walked towards me and reached out her hand.
I was terrified of her and ran away from her hands.
Haerin’s expression grew cold.
“Where are you going?”
“… I don’t know, anywhere is good. Let me stay away for a while I don’t know the meaning of your actions.”
I lost my temper and shouted.
“The timing is also exquisite. Were you even watching us? Yes, it was.”
I was sure.
“Did you hear that? You heard!! I was watching you-!!”
Scaredly before I realized the identity of the liquid I drink every night, Haerin called.
He’s coming here.
Is that really a coincidence?
When I was seriously injured by Ban Yi-jae and was in the hospital, she installed a wiretap in my hospital room.
… Why didn’t I think of that?
Isn’t there such a thing as a house?
Haerin Kang was a woman who deserved it.
She didn’t answer my question.
Instead, she said:
“To go to Idami?”
“… I never did! You said My sister and I have nothing to do with it. Why are you talking about your sister?!”
I got goosebumps.
After learning the truth about Kang Hae-rin, she thought of her older sister’s behavior, which was disgusting, in a different way.
Did your sister know the truth?
She is smarter than I am and is good at world affairs, and has had enough social life.
So you might have noticed.
Kang Haerin’s plan.
“If you go there, the third strike is-“
“It has nothing to do with that!”
I shouted.
“Okay, what if I go to my sister? At least my sister didn’t install a wiretap with a camera to keep an eye on me. I was not forced to sleep.”
“……”
“To be clear, I don’t like my sister. My sister and I are not like that! Maybe your thoughts are strange? But I’ll have to check! I’ll meet you somehow And I’m going to have a serious talk.”
“……”
Maybe it was because the time I spent at Kang Hae-rin’s house was so peaceful, my blood boiled more than usual.
When I was in school, I heard a lot of people say that I was quick-tempered, but isn’t that enough now?
“………”
As I screamed in anger, PD Ban was watching me from a little distance away.
My face was burning.
I’ve never shown anything like this to anyone.
“I’ll go.”
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I passed by Haerin.
I thought she might grab my arm or throw me up, but it didn’t happen.
To my surprise, she let me go.
“Now, author-!?”
PD-nim followed me.
The door closed behind my back.
“… Author, what the hell is this…”
“PD, please take me.”
I told Ban PD.
Her vehicle was parked in front of the house.
“I want to get away from here quickly.”
She didn’t seem to understand, but after seeing my depressed expression, she said as if she had made up her mind.
“… I don’t know what it is, but please get on it.”
I did.
I looked back several times, but Kang Hae-rin didn’t come out after us.
I was relieved, but at the same time I was anxious.
Even that.
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“……”
I didn’t say the destination in particular.
But out of consideration for my feelings, PD-nim didn’t ask any questions and just focused on driving.
I could see him checking my eyes from time to time.
She has already circled around several times.
As if I’d say I’d come home anytime, I’d go on the same course-
“… I’m sorry. PD.”
After a while thinking that I was showing ugliness, I said.
Because I know how my image usually is, and because I’ve been through this a few times, I can understand PD-nim’s dismay.
Yeah, it really wasn’t the first time something like this happened.
I think of myself as a timid man, but there were not a few times when I suddenly jumped out when I got stuck somewhere.
When I was in middle and high school, there was a time when I was bullied, so there was a time when I screamed and shouted, embarrassing the people around me, and there was a time when I even challenged my parents.
If it had just been ‘challenging’, I wouldn’t have said anything.
I screamed until my throat was hoarse, stomped in place, and cursed like a tongue.
As a result, I was beaten twice as much.
How it will look to a third person.
I know how they will react.
Of course, in all of these actions, I did not harm anyone, nor did I use violence.
It must have looked pretty ugly, though.
You may have lost your affection.
I was really scared.
I was anxious and stressed out.
I didn’t know it, but Kang Hae-rin in the original work I wrote one day secretly pressured me in this way.
Why couldn’t I relate to it?
Like domesticated pigs.
At first, it was this much, but later, every morning and evening, I would serve her, and the rest of the time, where she could see, she would be waiting for me to play with the things she liked.
Like a frog in a hot pot.
Why didn’t I know that?
It was pathetic.
“It’s okay. Writer.”
PD said calmly to me.
Although she had the features of a child compared to her heavy make-up and large breasts, when she said this, she still had an older side.
“If you feel relieved, tell me.”
I fixed my gaze outside the window.
The anger and confusion were washed away.
Gradually, the situation became more objective.
I saw the wine-red laptop lying on my lap.
“………”
This feeling of waking up gave me a feeling of refreshment after a long time, and the reason was PD-nim’s comment.
I felt a sense of incongruity.
The basic principle is probably the same.
If there is an ‘original’ novel, you can grasp the clues of the transformed reality just by reading the novel.
There was something similar in PD’s comment.
That woke me up.
Then how-
Wait, why didn’t I think of that?
“PD.”
“Yes, author.”
PD Banyuri turned his head.
I thought she came out as if she was running away, but she was already wearing her seat belt.
Her presence clearly showed her breasts.
I looked away.
“Do you have the original file?”
“The original?”
The PD-nim opens his eyes wide.
“Yes, 『Journal』.”
“Well, I will have it. Yes, i have it Without it, you can’t upload novels on other platforms. I haven’t bothered to open it lately.”
That’s it.
I called for joy.
There was an answer in a foolishly pitiful place.
“Can you send it to me?”
“There is nothing impossible.”
PD-nim readily answered.
“Then are you going home?”
“… No.”
“…Then…”
“PD, I have another request.”
“Yes, yes.”
“Can I borrow some motel money?”
I said with an awkward smile.