17 – Haerin Kang (17)
Haerin Kang (17)
(picture)
Two days later, a message came from my sister.
Maybe it went up to the roof of the neighboring building, but the main house was taken from the angle of the view from a high place.
Our house is a detached house.
Although it was shabby, it had a yard and a small single room that could be rented.
The father was caught in a strange posture as if he were doing gymnastics in the yard.
He’s a lazy man who likes to drink, but he also secretly takes care of his body, and he’s like a man who works out regularly.
That was his routine too.
Seeing that my older sister had run away, both of my wives had run away, and lastly I hadn’t changed while I had run away, he was also very upset.
(video)
“… that’s right, it’s definitely working.”
In case I wasn’t satisfied with the photos, my sister even sent me a video with a fairly wide view.
A scene in which he is wearing only a white meriyaz, bending over and waving his arms from side to side like an airplane.
He was flirting with the aunt next door.
He was a man who did not change even in his old age.
Well, he must have made two wives who were at least 10 years younger than him because he was so shameless.
I sighed.
[Did you see it?]
In the video, the sister said.
The video was shot with a camera or something, and the date and time were exposed with a phone at the end.
Are you saying that because I’m suspicious of manipulation?
It was very thorough.
[Dami Lee]
Then I got a call from my sister.
[Why are you curious about this?]
she said in a crackling voice.
She was usually a kind noona to me, but since she recently came out that she was dating Kang Hae-rin, she’s been like that the whole time.
Even so, it was like an older sister that when I called, she couldn’t hide her joy like an old woman in the countryside.
“just. I want to be healthy.”
[Lee Dong-min.]
my sister said
[Now I know for sure that you are lying. That he’s hiding something from me.]
“… it’s not like that. sister.”
I immediately noticed that my sister was shooting Kang Hae-rin.
However, the heart that did not want the two people to be involved in the beginning was still the same.
My sister is a precious person to me.
Kang Hae-rin is also precious to me in a different way, but she is incomparably dangerous to my older sister.
I was the only one who could handle her.
Because she is a woman who never knows when she will change.
[I know this is a lie. But there must be a reason. My sister is very sad… but I think there must be a reason. If you still need help, you should tell me first. Understand?]
“… huh.”
[What is blood?]
“…thicker than water…”
[good job.]
I heard her laugh over the phone.
I hung up the phone in tears and apologetic.
My sister and I are five years apart.
We lived together until I was in elementary school.
After that, she ran away and I didn’t see her for several years, and I only met her again when I was in my freshman year of high school.
As usual, when I was being harassed by Seo In-woo and Nam Jae-chan’s gang, someone called me in front of the front door.
It was a stout man in a leather jacket.
A woman stood next to him with her arms folded and her eyes turned away. She was his older sister.
When she was in elementary school, wearing a school uniform or a shabby t-shirt, she would often talk back to her father and get her hair caught, but she was completely different.
She looked like the so-called older sister.
Of course, I later found out that it was a concept.
At the time, she said it was her boyfriend, but when I heard from my older sister’s friends later, it seemed that she had just set up a friend as her best friend and pretended to be a strong older sister.
From that day on, the bullying completely disappeared.
It is all thanks to those memories that I promise to repay her if I earn a lot of money.
In fact, even in the process of my independence, she supported me physically and mentally.
There were many times when I had a really hard time putting it to bed.
She was like a mother to me.
As much as she was, he had to protect it.
“……”
Anyway, thanks to my sister, I realized that not all the ‘settings’ related to Kang Hae-rin were realized.
father is alive
so healthy.
Maybe she never committed a murder.
I felt hope and fear at the same time.
The hope that Kang Hae-rin will be able to live as an ordinary woman, and the fear of her reaction when she finds out that all the memories surrounding her are fabricated.
Even I, the creator, could not have predicted it.
… Will Haerin Kang be okay?
All I could do now was watch.
#
[… “Nonsense.” Kang Hae-rin felt a severe headache. Uncharacteristic of her body, which had been resentful and strong since childhood when she was abused, the vomiting was intense. My heart ached as if I was being stabbed with a needle. It’s okay even if your whole body hurts. All these physical reactions happen just by reading a novel.]
[… Kang Hae-rin completed 『Kang Hae-rin’s Murder Diary』, which consists of 1287 episodes, in just two days. Some of her reading comprehension skills are excellent, but in fact, it was largely because she ‘already’ knew all of those events.]
[… All the crimes committed by the murderer ‘Kang Hae-rin’ in 『Journal』 were the same as those committed by Kang Hae-rin in real life. It was an accurate and detailed description, as if he had watched all of it up close and right beside him.]
[… My head hurt again. “Ah…” She groaned and covered her phone. After a while, when she calmed down, what she did was search for articles on the Internet. If what she had done was described in such detail, someone would have noticed. that this is not simply a novel.]
[… “No…” After a while, Haerin Kang murmured. She got up and went to the basement. There were various tools she used when working. Haerin Kang could write them even with her eyes closed. But is it really? If she doesn’t have dead victims, she can’t even be good at these.]
[… Kang Hae-rin knew that her memories were ‘fabricated’. If so, how far? First of all, she remembered a recent murder. Dongmin Lee. Meeting her handsome angel, Lee Dong-min. In the process, she committed another murder. It was none other than Lee Dong-min’s biological father. He was a man worthy of death by her standards, so I killed him.]
[… “No way…” Kang Hae-rin never said that he killed Lee Dong-min’s father. If that were the case, no matter how immigrants, they would leave her. But now I was afraid in a different way. What if he, that lowly man, is alive? How did Kang Hae-rin and Lee Dong-min meet?]
[… Kang Hae-rin felt helpless for the first time in her life. She has a strong stamina that does not easily get drunk with alcohol or drugs. Her head was spinning so much that she had to close her eyes. “… I have to kill him.” she whispered softly. “Lee Dong-gwan… We have to kill that man.” Lee Dong-gwan was Lee Dong-min’s father. If I didn’t kill him, the relationship with Lee Dong-min would collapse.]
[… I know it’s not rational. But this is the reality. Kang Hae-rin felt her self-control collapse. She started to get confused about who she was. I even felt like my ego was collapsing. ‘Losing’ herself was her greatest fear.]
[… Kang Hae-rin desperately thought of Lee Dong-min. Thinking of him puts my mind at ease. A handful of light shines on her unfortunate and anxious soul.]
[… Thinking of Lee Dong-min like that, desperately holding Lee Dong-min as if he were a rope, and clinging to his name, Kang Hae-rin was able to protect himself. and said “… If I kill Lee Dong-gwan, Dong-min will hate it, right? will you hate me I don’t know if it was before, but now that I know the relationship between the two, I can’t kill him…”
[… “I’m a murderer.” Kang Haerin said. After saying that, my heart gradually calmed down. Haerin Kang, the killer. Kang Hae-rin, who is not a murderer, has no meaning in existence. It may be a leap, but she thought so.]
[… I’ll have to find out later, but if Kang Hae-rin’s past was ‘concealed’ in some way, so if there was a power to erase her existence, there was only one thing she could do. “… just kill someone else. Then I’m still Kang Haerin, the killer.”]
[…the nervous tremors disappeared. A twinkle flashed in her eyes. And, if anyone tries to destroy her life, her ego, she will kill them too.]
#
“Hey, Lee Dong-min?”
It was the time when I was going to my room after the lecture as usual to think about a new work during the lecture.
Someone lightly tapped my shoulder.
When I turned around, Baek Yoo-ram was waving his hand.
“Where are you going?”
“… house.”
“Eww, you really can’t even pay for your face. Do you not attend department meetings and do not have any expectations for campus life? Oh, I’m glad we’re dating.”
“……”
Baek Yoo-ram strangely pretended to be close to me recently.
Although it has been gloomy lately, the image of her that I saw before living in the public service was correct.
She was a so-called ‘inside’ with a lot of friends, and her tension was quite high, so it was fun to be with her.
The last time I stopped getting slapped by Song Yeon-woo, maybe this was the trigger, so he became quite close to me.
I wasn’t too bad either.
Beside her, Park Se-young was looking at us with her hands behind her back and a happy smile.
“Song Yeon-woo decided to break up with me.”
As they walked together, Baek Yoo-ram said.
“Thanks to you.”
“…what thanks to me…”
“I don’t think a beauty like Kang Hae-rin would fall for such an idiot, but if you need a testimony, tell me? I will do anything to stop it.”
she grinned.
Is it because of what Song Yeon-woo said?
When I tried to protect Baek Yoo-ram and slapped him on the cheek instead, Song Yeon-wu was dumbfounded and warned me.
‘Since you touched my girlfriend first, I also work on your girlfriend. Are you fine? You sick bastard.’
“……”
To be honest, I thought it was unreasonable, so I had forgotten about it a long time ago, but Baek Yoo-ram seemed to be paying attention.
Still, there are some benefits.
It was pitiful that such an outgoing guy was so depressed because he couldn’t meet his boyfriend well.
“Don’t worry about Harin.”
“Oh, you have great trust in your lover, right?”
Baek Yu-ram subtly put a headlock on my neck and rubbed it against his chest.
It wasn’t that intense, but suddenly the PTSD came.
When I was in high school, I was always beaten by Kim Hye-eun, but this happens even after I become a college student.
Unlike the light cigarette smell that came from Kim Hye-eun’s body, it had a healthy body odor.
“We’re having a party to commemorate our breakup with Song Yeon-woo, can I go to your house today?”
“…we’re having a party, why at my house?”
I asked because I was dumbfounded.
“Since I came to my house last time, I want to go see your house this time. Seyoung and I have already agreed. We will buy everything we eat.”
“……”
I was so embarrassed I couldn’t think of anything to say.
Are we already this close?
“… I don’t like having strangers in my house…”
“Hey, don’t do that. let’s play together. If it’s because of Haerin Kang, can’t we sing together? I also want to be close to a pretty and genuine lady like Harin, hey.”
Baek Yoo-ram said in a manly tone.
I pondered for a while.
I was a little tired.
Because last night, something I was worried about happened.
He typed on a red wine-colored laptop that depicted Kang Hae-rin’s mind in real time until dawn.
The content was particularly problematic.
It seemed that she had finally run into trouble.
He found out that the things he thought he had done did not actually happen.
From my point of view as an artist, she is on the verge of ‘caebung’ by questioning her memory.
It’s blatant, but I ‘remind’ her of me because she looked really dangerous.
[… Kang Hae-rin desperately thought of Lee Dong-min.]
Perhaps thanks to that, her crisis passed smoothly.
As a result, it was a problem because the place where it settled was ‘murder’, but it could not be controlled.
As soon as I wrote it, the sentence was deleted.
“……”
If I left her as it is, and if she collapsed her character, then I had a hunch that I would move unpredictably.
She didn’t come to school today.
I also kept an eye on her behavior until just before going to school, and eventually came to this conclusion.
‘Kang Hae-rin becomes dangerous if left alone.’
Then I was able to make up my mind.
“okay. I’ll contact Harin.”
I told Baek Yoo-ram and Park Se-young.
If I am with normal human beings, I may be able to give Kang Hae-rin a ‘daily life’ that I cannot.