114 – Dongmin Lee (49)
Dongmin Lee (49)
I talked with my sister about what had happened.
If this is a roundabout story, then it will be a roundabout story.
He also mentioned my promise with Haerin Kang.
Because my older sister was well-informed about the worldview of 『Journal』 To the extent that she remembered details as much as I did, sometimes more than I did, I immediately understood Harin’s ‘strike’.
“That’s Haerin Kang’s behavioral principle.”
“You can see it that way.”
Instead of a dining table, a small table was spread out in front of the mattress and beer, fruit wine, and simple snacks were placed.
It was getting dark outside the window.
At midday, the room receives light from a large window and is surrounded by various reflected lights, so that you might think you are in heaven.
Is the desert like this?
Vastness that rises hot and then cools.
I felt that in this small room.
Three strikes.
In a way, it’s a pretty ridiculous setup that reminds me of baseball’s strike rules.
There was nothing like that between my older sister and I, but I heard that siblings often have episodes like this.
‘Xxx, I’ll give you 3 seconds, can’t you come soon? 3, 2…’
The figure of siblings counting like that.
I’ve never experienced it myself, but when I look on the Internet, it’s normal for brother and sister to eat each other.
“Poo-sup, isn’t it usually 10 seconds?”
My older sister, her face red from drinking several cans of her beer in quick succession, covered her mouth with the back of her hand and laughed.
“Why three strikes?”
In that way, we talked about the setting.
There was no particular reason.
Three usually meant the number of completion since ancient times, but I didn’t really care about that.
It’s embarrassing to say this, but it’s after the ‘3rd’ strike that a batter is out in baseball.
It was for such a simple and intuitive reason.
Although Kang Hae-rin doesn’t put the opponent out at bat, he puts the opponent out forever.
“Even if it was ten times, no, at least five times, our situation would have been more relaxed than now. Right?”
My sister buried her face in her lap and whispered.
“Kang Hae-rin follows the rules unconditionally.”
“… That’s right.”
“You’ve never broken one, right?”
“Yes, that is the essence of Haerin Kang.”
I spoke calmly.
“Perhaps if I violate that, wouldn’t it be the day that 『Journal』 Itself ends? Kang Hae-rin, who makes the rules and doesn’t follow them, is in itself a character collapse…”
I said.
If Kang Hae-rin, who has the financial power, intelligence, and physical ability to do anything in the world of 『Journal』, Runs rampant without the slightest restriction, the balance will collapse.
It wasn’t planned from the beginning, but her weakness was the three ‘opportunities’ to punish criminals.
In other words, it is the ‘probability’ of a character.
Probability applies not only to the level of the story, but also to the behavioral principle of the characters.
“On the other hand, there is also hope.”
My sister said.
“Dong-min has to make the second strike, then the third strike.”
“That’s the theory, isn’t it?”
I said.
The rule Kang Hae-rin set for the third strike was that I would not meet my sister alone.
There was an ambiguous corner there.
Is it that she doesn’t have a meeting that Rin Kang doesn’t ‘arrange’, or is she not having a strange relationship with her sister, as if Rin Kang is delusional.
I don’t know what the hell he was thinking, but Kang Hae-rin had a delusion that his sister was targeting me physically and rationally.
It’s the kind of thing where even if I make an unreasonable setting like that, it will be resolved as soon as I meet my sister.
This wasn’t Kang Haerin’s style.
… I even thought it was stupid.
“If meeting with your sister was a problem, it’s already over. If that’s not the case, I might be able to convince you in the future.”
I said.
I already met my sister.
Is Haerin Kang unaware of this fact?
I didn’t mean to cheat.
I’d rather admit this and confidently ask about Kang Hae-rin cheating on me.
If she admits (I have no choice but to admit), she might push for her ‘reconciliation’ with her sister.
It wasn’t meant to come back this far in the first place.
She said that if it wasn’t for that paranoid delusion that my sister is not a carnivore and that she would eat me.
I thought that Kang Hae-rin was leaving me too free, unlike her setting, but when I saw this, an obsession was wriggling inside her.
It’s still like this now, but we need to stop it from getting worse.
“You mean going back?”
My sister said.
“… Fortunately, Harin is strict about the rules she sets. She never once broke a promise. No, rather, she can say that she is subject to the promises she made.”
“If you go back, will you marry me?”
“Would you…?”
I said honestly.
“It will be a different marriage than normal people.”
Marriage with the character I created.
I was in the same position as Pygmalion in Greek mythology.
Of course there are differences.
Pygmalion prayed earnestly for the woman of her own ideal to become a reality, and he wanted her at the ‘moment’ when her prayer was fulfilled.
I wasn’t.
Although I had vicariously satisfied her as Strong Rin, I never wished for her to be real, and when she appeared in front of me, she was satisfied with reality.
The existence of the past has become an evil spirit.
Although it is a beautiful demon.
“How are they different?”
“…We get married, but nothing will change on the outside. I will continue to prevent 『Journal』 From becoming a reality, and there will be no combining with Haerin…”
I said.
Even now, I don’t press the button that drives Kang Hae-rin, who is trying to control everything about me, crazy.
That was my decision.
“… Is that possible?”
My sister asked.
“It is possible. If only my sister would help me.”
“Me?”
“Once you know what your laptop does, you know how to fix it, right? Yes?”
“… You know.”
As expected.
My sister is smarter than me.
If I had had that wine-red laptop for several months, she would have been strong enough to evade Rin’s pursuit and not just watch her and my life.
Of course, she must have realized that by manipulating the laptop, he could manipulate Haerin’s behavior ‘within the limits of probability’.
“…With that one?”
My sister said.
As expected, she was quick-witted.
“Yes, it can be changed little by little within the range of probability. It would be best for her if I changed the setting so that Haerin becomes excessively obsessed with me, but if that is not the case, she will not have any desire for me…”
There is a way to manipulate it.
I didn’t intend to go this far originally, but things were already going badly.
If I don’t do this, I might die.
Whether I die or my sister dies.
“As expected.”
“……”
A small voice came from my sister’s mouth.
Turning her head, she said.
“As expected, my brother.”
“… Will you help me?”
“Of course.”
At my words, she smiled.
“It won’t be easy.”
I said.
“Kang Hae-rin’s behavior is in a strong probability, so my sister probably knows better, but I have to change it very subtly, in a slow way, and subtly.”
I have already tried to manipulate Kang Hae-rin’s behavior with my laptop.
Every time the laptop refused to modify it.
That must be the reason why he is ‘not like Kang Haerin’.
But little things.
For example, on the way to catch the villain in 『Journal』, If it is an act of stopping by a bakery shop to buy a cake or dessert and eat it.
That much would have been possible.
And when it builds up one by one, the character Haerin Kang will change completely.
It will become a little less cruel, and the country may become less obsessed with incompetent humans.
The heroine of 『Ilji』, Kang Hae-rin, is to become free.
This wasn’t ‘organic’.
Suddenly returning with a writer’s mind, I laughed as I recalled the readers’ reactions.
“Then…”
I got up from my seat.
As we were talking about this and that, the alcohol I drank thoughtlessly made my eyesight turn around for a moment.
My sister grabbed my arm.
“……”
She laughed.
“Be careful.”
“… Can I see your laptop?”
Controlling your laptop is more important than ever.
First of all, Kang Hae-rin manipulates my meeting with my sister so that he does not count it as a three-strike.
That was it.
“… Starting tomorrow.”
My sister said quietly.
I wanted to be stubborn, but maybe because of the alcohol, my body couldn’t get enough strength.
“Tomorrow, are you sure to lend it?”
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“………”
I sat down on the bed again.
“Sister.”
“Yes.”
“Jeong Seong-min, did your sister kill you?”
“……”
“Who do you think ‘Darkness’ is?”
“You don’t remember the original, do you?”
“… Yeah, I don’t remember. Can you see that too?”
My tongue kept twisting.
Looking at me like that, my older sister laughed.
Just a while ago, it seemed that my sister was more drunk when her face turned red, but now it seems to be reversed.
“Of course not. The original file is also in there. If you look at it, things will look clearer.”
“… Aww, you’re smart. Also… I’m not even drunk…”
I sighed.
“… I’m sleepy, I need to sleep.”
“Should I brush my teeth and sleep?”
“…Yes.”
Like a sick patient, I went to the bathroom and brushed my teeth, supported by my older sister.
My face in the mirror was a mess.
I never thought he was handsome to begin with, but his bright red face looked even uglier than usual.
“………”
He spat out foam on his teeth and rinsed his mouth.
At the doorway, my sister stood with her arms crossed.
With a smile on his lips.
Like a loving mother.
It’s a cliché, but I felt her maternal love that I’ve never experienced in my life.
“… Sister, brush your teeth.”
I stumbled past her.
Maybe I’m really weak.
I can’t win against this kind of drunkenness.
But tomorrow I will come back to my senses, and I will hold hands with my sister and draw a big picture.
“Sister.”
I turned around and called.
“Yes.”
“… Did you find Jang Hye-ok?”
“Yes.”
“Really? After all, she’s my older sister…”
The villain of 『Journal』 That even Kang Hae-rin couldn’t find.
It is the evil woman who comes after Jeong Seong-min.
I don’t know if Rin really didn’t find it, or if she just pretended not to find it, but sister knew where she was.
… It was so reassuring.
“…We, that woman, let’s stop.”
“Yes.”
“… So, Im… So… Lee… Dong… Won’t die. Yes? If that man gets involved with Jang Hye-ok, he’ll die, right? That’s too unfair…”
My sister helped me and carried me to her bed.
Puffed up.
My whole body felt heavy.
I have often drank with my sister, but it was the first time I was drunk like this, so I was confused.
The ceiling spun around.
“… But, sister, there is only one bed… It is narrow…”
I murmured.
“How is it, we slept together often.”
I heard my sister’s voice from the bathroom.
The sound of water.
My sister seemed to be rinsing her mouth.
“Well…”
I muttered with my eyes closed.
I used to sleep with my sister often.
I think the bed, no, the mattress is too narrow, but siblings can sleep next to each other.
That’s not very strange.
I laughed as I blamed myself for thinking of my sister as a strange woman with incestuous desires because I was fooled by Kang Hae-rin’s tricks.
“… Haa…”
The light went out in the bathroom.
The room quickly became dark.
I heard the curtains being drawn.
Kikik.
I felt the bed, no, the mattress press down.
My sister must be on the way.
When she slightly opened her eyes, she saw the shape of her sister lying down next to me as she approached on her knees.
Is it because they are close?
Or maybe it’s because the darkness is familiar to them.
I could see my sister’s breasts tilted to one side under the influence of her gravity as she turned over while looking at me.
It was distorted against her arm.
“… Good night, Dongmin.”
“… Yes, my sister too.”
I spoke to her in her dying voice.
She seems to have lost her mind just like that.
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It was still night when I opened my eyes again.
Unless I slept a full 24 hours, or close to that, because I was tired, there was no other day.
Maybe he woke up after a few hours.
I felt a slight headache, but I turned her body over, frowning for some reason.
By the way, I felt a tickle from below.
And I felt my legs spread out in an artificial position, from side to side.
Someone was in between.
It was a little chilly, perhaps because the blanket was folded back.