65 – Haerin Kang (65)
Haerin Kang (65)
‘ruined.’
My first thought was probably that.
If the wiretap was correct, he would have heard the phone call with the class PD or Baek Yoo-ram, and the small talk with the nurse.
But I soon made up my mind.
This is a strict surveillance of me.
It was Kang Hae-rin who committed the crime and did the wrong thing, so I don’t think I need to be scared first.
I decided to hit the player first before being questioned.
“Strong Haerin. what’s this?”
“Eavesdropper, that’s right.”
“Why is this here?”
“You need to know what you are doing.”
Kang Haerin said shamelessly.
“I’m not kidding. Didn’t you think I’d be offended? Can I be a criminal? Could you explain why you are putting this on me?”
“because-“
Kang Hae-rin sat across from me and said.
“I keep leaving my seat in the evening, but if something happens, it’s troublesome. is not it? She’s so cute, but she’s a weak person, so I have to protect her.”
Her eyes turned to my hand.
The part that was pierced by Ban Yi-jae.
The pain gradually subsided, but I knew that Kang Hae-rin was watching this place carefully whenever she nursed her.
With eyes that seemed to be resolute.
A symbol of my weakness.
There were excuses.
Contrary to his appearance, Ban Lee-jae has a body that is so strong that even active detectives cannot subdue it.
Maybe it’s because of the setting given to the novel.
I was speechless for a moment at Kang Hae-rin’s words, as if it was only natural for her to be watching me.
But it picked up momentum.
“Surely there must be more?”
I said, putting the wiretap on the table.
“I can’t stand this. I’m going to ask Detective Categorical, no, Detective Park Seong-gang to check the detector…”
“babe.”
Before I could even begin a full-fledged bluff, Kang Hae-rin cut me off and spoke quickly.
“I hate meeting that detective. If he keeps in touch with the detective, I will kill him. Just like in the novel.”
It was an unexpected strong reaction.
“I will find my sister.”
Kang Hae-rin spoke in an unusually strong tone.
“That is why I am away in the evening. Leaving the one you love, why would you do that? So stop hanging out with Detective Park Seong-gang.”
“……”
There’s no way that would be the case, but the moment Kang Hae-rin spoke, the hospital cafeteria seemed to become quiet.
I coughed and said.
“Anyway, stop watching.”
“okay. I will demolish it.”
Kang Hae-rin answered willingly.
This, too, was far more hesitant than expected.
“… Really?”
“huh.”
I was suspicious of her compliant attitude, but I couldn’t push her further, who showed resistance to Park Seong-gang.
Now, it seemed to listen to my opinion as much as possible, but as she said, I don’t have a card if she goes on a rampage.
It is also necessary to compromise in moderation.
Haerin Kang was surprisingly calm.
I didn’t mean anything else, but it wasn’t like her who was fiercely sharpening her teeth at everyone around me.
I didn’t say a word about nurse Jo Se-jeong, Baek Yoo-ram and Ban Yu-ri PD.
To say that I stole the timing to speak, Kang Hae-rin wasn’t such an easygoing person.
It’s not like I didn’t hear it either.
“And this.”
Haerin Kang took out a laptop from her bag.
Blue, the one she had bought me before.
“I heard you started writing novels again? I don’t know what you’re thinking, but I think it’s a good choice.”
A way of speaking that reminds me of the conversation with PD Ban Yu-ri.
It was clear that he had overheard the conversation.
If that’s the case, it’s not like I’m going to pretend I don’t know.
“You want me to write here?”
“huh. Of course. I saw him working on his broken laptop. Were you scared at first? My darling, I’m so heartbroken… I wonder if I’m mistaken that something is being input into my broken laptop…”
“…was there CCTV?”
Kang Haerin speaks as if he saw it.
There are wiretaps, so it wouldn’t be surprising if there was a CCTV or something somewhere in the hospital room.
“Why, when dogs and cats are left alone at home, there are often butlers who install CCTVs and watch them remotely. Do you know what I mean?”
Haerin Kang shook the phone slightly.
I know roughly.
An application that shows the state and situation of the target in real time in conjunction with the camera.
Other than that, it would be a metaphor to make it easier to explain, but it was dumbfounded because it was shameless to say that it was a dog and a cat.
“Should I have a baby? I saw the news. They say there was an accident when a baby was left with a babysitter, but he fell asleep with the light on.”
Evolved from animals to humans, but not comforting.
I opened my mouth and then shut it.
‘Are you kidding me?’
The other day, seeing my red wine-colored laptop, Kang Hae-rin asked why I had a broken laptop.
‘And I still can’t see it?’
The meaning of this word is that even though Kang Hae-rin saw me manipulating the laptop through CCTV, she still ‘recognizes’ it as if I were typing a keyboard on a broken laptop.
The veracity of the statement is still unknown.
Nurse Sejeong Cho could see the contents of the red wine-colored notebook, but only Kang Haerin couldn’t see it?
I felt that my energy was drained from the laptop, but in reality, it seems that it is not completely so.
‘It’s not exposed only to certain people.’
Then, we can hypothesize that laptops are invisible only to the characters in the novel.
I thought of people who had touched laptops before.
Kang Hae-rin, Park Se-young, Noona, etc…
A special case was Song Yeon-woo.
He couldn’t see the screen.
‘Is Song Yeon-woo also a character in a novel?’
Although Song Yeon-woo does not appear directly in 『Journal』, he was involved in the real Ban Lee-jae incident.
If even the extras I did not name are defined as characters in the novel, the hypothesis is correct.
Of course, I can’t be sure yet.
There was no deceit in Kang Hae-rin’s eyes as she handed me the laptop, but I don’t know.
Maybe she’s cheating on me.
“From now on, use this. You don’t like the design, do you? Then I’ll buy you a new one. huh?”
Haerin Kang looked good today.
There was no exchange of words as expected, instead she got up and sat next to me and stroked my hair gently.
“Don’t go anywhere, write hard. self. Isn’t that what you are good at?”
“……”
I had never received it from my biological mother, it was a bummer, but it was not very comfortable because I had never received it.
Wouldn’t it be like every man’s romance to be loved by a beauty like Kang Hae-rin?
Indeed, I could feel the envious gazes around me.
“Eat some rice-!”
I heard an old woman screaming.
“……”
“Ooooooh. okay? lol.”
Harin is still stroking my hair and smiling.
“Again, I will find you. So don’t think of anything else. OK?”
Haerin Kang grabbed my cheek and turned me around.
“answer?”
“……”
“Because I don’t want to do something like Ban Lee Jae again.”
Kang Hae-rin’s tone lowered a little when she said that.
I understand her motives.
She hates me getting hurt.
No, I find it terrifying.
It’s unacceptable, but the papering of the CCTV and the wiretaps must also be trying to separate me from the incident.
Perhaps his dislike of contacting detectives stemmed from the same motive.
Because if I get involved with them, the possibility of getting involved with the villains will also increase.
“I will do everything.”
As if hypnotized, Haerin Kang held my face and looked at me vaguely with moistened eyes.
#
Kang Hae-rin was away again after 7 p.m.
According to her, she was going to look for traces of her sister, but I can’t trust her 100%.
and.
“… This is too much, really.”
I said like a sigh.
A low table placed between the sofa bed and the bed.
There, about 10 wiretapping devices and CCTV devices formed a small hill.
Kang Hae-rin voluntarily ripped it off in return for not asking Detective Park Seong-gang to detect it.
It came from under the bed, between the sofa beds, behind the TV that I rarely watch, and so on, as well as inside my jumper.
It took 15 minutes just to pick it up.
I wouldn’t have had much time to empty the hospital room, but it was amazing when it was installed.
It was fortunate that it wasn’t in the bathroom.
Most of the clothes were changed there.
‘but…’
I looked at my phone and was lost in thought.
Even if Kang Hae-rin confessed, there were already more than 10 devices, but there was no guarantee that a few that had not been collected would not be hidden in the hospital room.
‘Pretending it was a mistake, or intentionally leaving out something.’
Maybe even in the bathroom.
I had no choice but to check it myself.
[I’m going now. Are you looking outside?]
A text from Baek Yoo-ram.
We couldn’t ignore the possibility that the wiretaps were still attached, so we communicated via text.
Well, it could be said that it was already a case of losing a cow and fixing the barn, but there is nothing wrong with being careful.
[But suddenly, what kind of detector? By the way, is this expensive?]
[(Frowning emoticon)]
[It’s all here. Do you want to come down now?]
I went outside.
It is to check the USB she said she found.
When I came out, Baek Yoo-ram, who was covered in thick padding, walked towards me grunting.
“Hey, aren’t you coming soon? My sister is cold, did you wait?”
She smiled and lightly tapped my shoulder.
Then he said with a serious expression.
“I’m sorry about your novel. The kids are truly regretful too, so please forgive me. huh?”
It seems you are talking about an illegal sharing site.
“There is nothing but forgiveness. Because you won’t be able to do that in the future. Illegal is bad.”
“of course-“
Baek Yu-ram playfully wrapped his arms around my neck.
Her attitude toward me was sometimes cynical and sometimes overly intimate.
It wasn’t very comfortable, but it seemed like he was trying to be friendly with me, so I stayed silent.
“Pup, why are you so stiff?”
“…Can I see the USB first?”
“huh. here.”
Baek Yoo-ram took out a USB from his pocket.
The black and red USB that I used on the day I met Kang Hae-rin was correct.
It is not a special design.
Sold in units of 4GB, 8GB, and 16GB on the market.
Since the text file itself is not large, there was no problem using only that amount of storage device.
Of course, confirmation was necessary.
I pulled out my laptop from my side, sat on the bench, put it to work, and plugged in the USB.
Baek Yu-ram sat next to me.
“What, are you checking here?”
I asked instead of answering.
“Can you see me too?”
“You see. what?”
“Laptop screen.”
“… What are you talking about?”
As if Baek Yoo-ram didn’t understand, he put his hand on my forehead and burst into laughter.
“Of course you see. It’s a Korean file. And the files from 『Kang Hae-rin’s Murder Diary』 you wrote.”
You can see it too.
The laptop screen was also exposed to Baek Yoo-ram.
Then again, is it only for the beings who materialize in the novel that the laptop is not visible?
Or, is there a rule I don’t know about?
I wish I had checked this premise before my laptop completely stopped working, but sorry.
“… huh?”
Baek Yu-ram pointed at the screen with his finger.
“Did you also write ‘Abside Story’?”
“huh.”
“I’m going to go crazy with Jiyoung and Yoona. Do you know that their respect for you has tripled now?”
When I clicked on the folder with the same name as the novel, I saw the ‘Abduction’ folder I had written before.
That was several months ago.
Executing the file in that folder and writing on my laptop on its own was the beginning of all this.
Since then, fiction and reality have been together.
… By the way, the capacity was bigger than I thought.
That is, beyond the point where the laptop stopped working.
Does this mean that the laptop was still working even while it was junk?
“……”
“What is it, take it so seriously? What is missing?”
Baek Yu-ram asked, leaning next to me.
“… Yuram. thank you for today Can you give me the detector now? I will send you the money later.”
“… Uh, uh… But, what is this sudden greeting? Please, can I go right now?”
Baek Yoo-ram asked with a sad expression.
“Uh, sorry, I’ll buy you a meal later. Go in carefully-”
After receiving the sensor from Baek Yoo-ram, I ran up to the hospital room with my laptop on my side.
As soon as I got there, I searched all over the room with sensors.
Although he was put on several occasions due to his old age, Kang Hae-rin didn’t seem to lie, and there were no additional monitoring devices.
After everything was ready, I turned on my laptop.
USB inserted.
#
Baek Yoo-ram handed over the USB and I read the novel for a few hours, deep into the night.
So it’s not a novel I wrote, but it was ‘our’ story that started with a novel I wrote.
My predictions were right.
The moment Kang Hae-rin realized her identity and stopped working, the story from then on was contained in the ‘Abduction’ folder without being omitted.
Naturally, the main character of the novel was Kang Hae-rin.
[… Kang Hae-rin had no soul.]
‘Is it from the beginning again?’
A haunting sight.
But I made up my mind.
It’s different now than it was a few months ago.
Back then, my goal was to avoid Haerin, but now I want to be happy together.
‘…if Haerin hadn’t done anything bad to her sister.’
Seriously, I wasn’t sure if Haerin had hurt my sister at all.
Can I still do it for her?
Anyway, my older sister was my blood relative.
Feeling my heart beating, and suffering from anxiety that Kang Hae-rin might burst open the door and come in, I devoured everything.
I read what kind of psychology Kang Haerin has and what kind of plans he has.
What I was particularly immersed in was the scene where my sister went into Kang Hae-rin’s house and talked to her.
According to the contents of the notebook, the two met.
Then, did Kang Hae-rin imprison her sister?
I lowered my cursor slowly.
However, the flow of the story was a little strange.
[… the moment when doubt becomes reality. Kang Hae-rin was shocked by the words that came out of Lee Da-mi’s mouth. astonished? Is it possible to sum up this feeling in words like that? Anyway, emotions were like a distant other world to her.]
[… “I love Dongmin.” A normal voice came out of Lee Da-mi’s mouth after meeting him on a different day. “I am fully prepared for this to happen. Dongmin can’t hang out with a cruel monster like you.”]
[… The more that happened, the colder Kang Haerin’s heart got. Like many women who wandered around Lee Dong-min, Lee Da-mi was just a b*tch.]
[… “I wasn’t wrong either.” Haerin Kang murmured. “He is weak, so he needs a strong woman. don’t sell your eyes. I have to be strong so that no one can touch me.”]
[… I feel very comfortable.]
“What is this…”
I was dumbfounded and said it out loud.
It’s already past midnight.
As if lost, I read the conversation between the two of them on the night my sister went missing.