68 – Dongmin Lee (3)
Dongmin Lee (3)
The truth the notebook showed about the older sister I thought was on my side was like a cruel fairy tale.
‘I love you. To the extent that I want to have children.’
The older sister described was like a lunatic.
Sometimes, she didn’t cover the expression of affection to the extent that it was embarrassing for me to be embarrassed by me, but I couldn’t believe she had a different mind.
I can’t believe my sister either.
I felt like a kite off the leash.
“… I’m sorry I lied to you. It was for ‘us’.”
Kang Hae-rin said while caressing my cheek.
Kang Hae-rin said everything surprisingly docilely.
The contents of the notebook and the confession matched.
“There is no way I can stand hearing such words. To a woman who wants to take her away from me.”
“……”
I wiped my face in exhaustion.
I lay down on the bed and covered my face with my arms.
The bright sunlight and the pale fluorescent light seemed to force us to see the reality we wanted to avoid.
‘My older sister likes me.’
‘No, I love you.’
It was something that should never have happened, and I almost used up my mental energy trying to weigh my desires.
“By the way, how did you find out?”
Haerin Kang whispers in my ear.
She touched my hair relentlessly, as if she felt sorry for me and didn’t know what to do.
“… I have a laptop.”
I decided to tell everything.
It’s hard to handle the feeling of betrayal towards my sister, but it seemed like I would collapse first if I doubted Kang Hae-rin.
And now it didn’t matter.
There were so many things that attacked me.
In order to safely block 『Journal』, which materializes moment by moment, cooperation with Kang Hae-rin was necessary anyway.
It’s better to talk openly.
I don’t know how far it will materialize, but if all the villains appear, there may be more than a dozen innocent victims.
Now we are a community of destiny.
My older sister is disgusting, but I don’t have to worry about it anymore.
From nob le mt l. co m
Just to make sure she’s alive.
“laptop?”
Haerin Kang asked.
I pointed to the wine-red laptop.
“… I’m sorry I didn’t tell you beforehand. It’s a notebook that shows your actions.”
Like Kang Hae-rin in ‘Abduction’, she might feel betrayed by the fact that she was being watched.
But it doesn’t matter.
I was so stressed out that I thought it was okay for her to run to kill me.
The mental illness that had been quiet for a while seemed about to break out.
Of course, in my heart, I knew that Kang Hae-rin in the side story would behave differently from Kang Hae-rin in real life.
Unlike the side story, Kang Hae-rin in reality already knew that she was a character in the novel.
“Baby, are you okay? It’s a broken laptop.”
Kang Hae-rin asked, who was sitting on the sofa bed and staring at her laptop tilting away from me.
“It’s just a black screen.”
“…Maybe it’s invisible to the characters in the novel.”
I confided my hypotheses about the laptop.
“Yeah, I definitely can’t see it. Your hypothesis might be correct.”
Haerin Kang said.
While I was saying all this, I was still lying in bed because I couldn’t even get myself up.
Kang Haerin’s silence continued.
I gently turned my head.
The corners of her lips curled up.
“……”
I felt a strange sense of discomfort.
I blinked.
When she got up, she was expressionless.
“… I’m sorry about you. I will leave the disposition to you.”
“no. There is no need to dispose of it.”
Kang Hae-rin pulled the tip of her mouth and looked at me.
“And maybe it will be fine.”
“Are you okay?”
It couldn’t have been worse.
I asked helplessly, barely controlling the urge to shout.
“Let’s put this notebook to good use in the future. Because I know he doesn’t trust me. Rather, if I had this, I would believe it.”
“… what?”
“My goal is to spend 100 years with you. Ideally, having many children, everything that is yours becomes mine, and everything that is mine is yours.”
“……”
“Can you trust me with this?”
Haerin Kang said.
“We are a community of destiny. now. Let’s stop doubting each other.”
“……”
“I’ve been thinking about it, maybe it worked out.”
She brought a chair near me and sat down.
“He wondered if his sister was alive or dead, and he wondered if she was safe. And I checked.”
“……..”
“And he didn’t want me to ‘directly’ kill the villains in The Journal. yes?”
“… huh.”
“Then can we do that?”
“… I do not know what I mean.”
“I don’t know exactly what your sister’s intentions are, but my guess is that she’s trying to distance herself from me. Cooperating with the detectives, driving me like I’m a dangerous person, to monopolize myself.”
I bit my lip.
My sister is trying to monopolize me.
It was as if I could hear her voice, which had always said out of habit that nothing was more important to me than ‘kin’.
Could it be that it was gaslighting?
Certainly, my older sister was an avid reader of 『Journal』, and although it is not accurate, there are illegal sharing sites now.
If the text is leaked, the hypothesis that the novel has materialized can be proven every time.
Based on that, you can bake and boil a categorical detective and a detective Park Seong-gang, who you had a relationship with.
And if all these hypotheses are proven, the detectives will of course consider Kang Hae-rin as a potential murder suspect.
“Your sister also has the knowledge of the 『Journal』, so based on that, you can ‘predict’ the future. After a few days of tracking, the detectives were already pretty close to Park Sang-woo. This is impossible without knowledge of the 『Journal』. know?”
Haerin Kang said.
If it is proved that the sister’s ‘hypothesis’, that is, the materialization of the novel, is true, the detectives will confront Kang Hae-rin.
She’s the worst murderer in fiction.
The only one who benefits from this is my older sister.
While the detectives and Kang Hae-rin are bickering, I get thrown in the air, and my sister catches it.
… It’s a bit hard to say with my own mouth, but Kang Hae-rin’s sister’s calculation will be like that.
Of course, if it’s true that my sister has that mysterious, shady desire shown on the notebook.
I reserved judgment on that.
Because I still couldn’t accept my sister as a pervert who dreams of incest.
“This is the point.”
Haerin Kang took out an A-Pad from her bag.
A white canvas appeared on a large screen of over 14 inches, and he began to paint on it.
“Idami’s plan is to keep her away from me, and she’ll probably think of the following scenario.”
She said.
“First of all, I buy the trust of the detectives and make them suspicious and wary of me. If I commit even one murder, it will be my defeat.”
“……..”
“To do that, I constantly create situations where I have no choice but to commit murder. With the appearance of Park Sang-woo, Lee Da-mi must have been convinced. In the future, Flight 1233, dozens of villains will provoke us one after another.”
“…that’s not certain.”
I have presented an objection.
I took her pen and drew.
“Park Sang-woo, Jung Sung-min, Jang Hye-ok. If materialization occurs sequentially from the first episode, like Ban Lee-jae appeared, and even if villains appear in the future, the activity areas are all different. Some of the later villains even have backgrounds in the provinces. There are also foreign countries. They say our territory doesn’t overlap.”
I said.
“Haerin, if you set your mind to it, there won’t be a ‘situation where you have no choice but to murder’ those people.”
“Of course, you are right.”
Kang Hae-rin took the pen again and smiled.
“But Idami would have expected it.”
“… what?”
“That he will not stand still.”
Kang Haerin’s finger pointed at me.
It was aimed at my face like a pistol.
“He’s a good man, and he felt guilty for turning me into an anesthetic psychopath. And you’re probably still thinking the same thing. If you don’t take down the villains yourself, innocent people will be harmed. That must have been the reason why he tried to kill Ban Lee Jae himself.”
“……”
“To sum it up, Lee Da-mi will use the personality she knows better than anyone else, the easily guilty and vulnerable personality to corner me.”
“… you?”
“Because I said so. It was my fault that Ban Yi-jae got hurt. Idami also pointed out that. If I had killed him, he wouldn’t have been hurt. So it’s my fault.”
“no. your fault.”
“thank you. But you are not enough to protect me.”
Haerin Kang said with a smile.
It was such an innocuous laugh, and an undeniable fact that I lost my strength.
yes i am weak
Due to the nature of the novel, where more vicious and cruel criminals come out, there is no way that I, who couldn’t handle even Ban Yi-jae, could subdue the other villains.
Even the bearish categorical detectives were raided.
The characters in the novel are already transcendental human beings.
It is as if you made Kang Hae-rin’s mansion in just a few sentences, which you can never get even if you struggle in reality.
“There is no need for you to step out. What number will you find? You don’t have to kill yourself.”
I protested even though I knew it was forced.
“It’s an obvious provocation. You don’t have to get involved…”
“No, this is a situation that you have no choice but to be aware of.”
Kang Hae-rin put her butt on the bed and said.
“I was born for myself. You are everything to me, everything to me is you, so without you, I have no reason to live. Lee Da-mi caught the driving force that moves me.”
She set the Apad down on the floor.
Kang Hae-rin sat lightly on my thigh, hugged my neck with her arm, and looked into my eyes.
An ominous yet alluring red eye.
My face was reflected in despair and anguish.
I lowered my gaze.
“So you said it was better.”
Haerin Kang held my cheek and our eyes met again.
“If you think about it, isn’t it simple? He doesn’t want me to kill, and I don’t want him to get hurt. Then we don’t have to make that happen. You don’t have to suffer.”
“But, you said. Haerin said you would kill the villains to protect me… Can’t you?”
“that’s right. You can come to my house.”
“……”
The confinement scenes in the second half of ‘Abduction’ passed by.
Of course, the situation in that novel and now was so different that it could be said to be a thousand different things.
Hae-Rin Kang and Lee Dong-Min in Aiden had already seen each other physically, and Hae-Rin Kang’s obsession resulting from that was not a persuasion method like it is now.
Rather, coercion and coercion.
My situation was much better than that.
“If he came to my house, and if he only looked at me, I wouldn’t commit a needless murder. I will be with you there for the rest of my life.”
Haerin Kang’s words were clear.
Certainly, if it goes according to her plan, no matter how many villains in 『Journal』 are installed, it will have nothing to do with our lives.
Kang Hae-rin’s house was over 100 pyeong on the first and second floors, and it was a paradise where there was no shortage.
We will be there forever.
There will never be a lack of money, and Haerin Kang’s love for me will never run out.
The villains do not even collide unless Kang Hae-rin visits and provokes them.
It was a perfect plan in every way.
“But people will die.”
I objected.
Not only the perverted s*xist ‘Jeong Seong-min’ and ‘Jang Hye-ok’ who serially murdered her husband for insurance money, but all kinds of vicious villains will invade the world.
They would not have existed if I had not written 『Journal』, but their victims would be people who existed even before I wrote 『Journal』.
The fact that the characters in 『Ilji』, like Park Seong-gang, had known each other for a ‘long time’ with a categorical character in reality, was evidence that the boundary between fiction and reality was colorless.
“That’s what detectives do.”
Haerin Kang said.
“Anyway, Lee Da-mi would have told the detectives about the materialization of the novel, and they would have learned that it was true through Park Sang-woo. If so, will they not catch the villains?”
“… What if your sister has other feelings? I might find out that I can’t separate you from me, and I might change my mind and stop helping the detectives.”
“Then I will go. He has the 『Journal』 file, so he can tell the detectives. you don’t have to do anything I will take responsibility.”
Haerin Kang’s words were unstoppable.
He spoke fluently, as if he had prepared all the rebuttals from me, and did not stumble at all.
“Of course, honey, the best thing is, you and I work together to stop the materialization itself, right?”
Haerin Kang smiles strangely.
She was right.
That was the most essential solution.
No matter how hard I tried, Kang Hae-rin’s plan seemed like the most reasonable and plausible solution.
“… okay.”
Finally I answered.
Kang Hae-rin made a small gesture, “Hooray.”
“I did it!”
“but.”
“yes?”
Kang Haerin blinks his eyes.
“…I need to confirm about my sister. directly.”
“……”
The smile disappeared from Kang Haerin’s face.
“why? I heard you watched it on your laptop?”
“… know. However, he is a person who has lived his life relying on him. I can’t end the relationship like this.”
I said frankly.
Of course I know the laptop doesn’t lie, but I wanted to check it out by asking my sister herself.
‘Did you really think of me that way?’
No, that doesn’t matter anyway.
Even if it was disgusting affection, anyway, rather than not seeing my sister for the rest of my life, I wanted to talk face to face at least once.
“And I want to check your sister’s picture too.”
I said.
Kang Hae-rin, described in the notebook, apparently took a picture of her sister making contact with the detectives.
I couldn’t immediately think of a trick to use, but I had to somehow check whether my sister was alive or dead.
“……”
Haerin Kang handed over the phone without saying anything.
The newest phone, which has a wider screen than mine, showed pictures taken from a little further away.
My sister’s features were vaguely distinguishable.
The detectives were also clear.
It was a scene of moving luggage from the villa where my sister lives, and talking while looking at each other’s faces.
My sister was clearly smiling.
For some reason, I felt relieved.
Even though he thought that his desire for his younger brother was ‘dirty’, when he saw his older sister’s face, he let out a sigh as if all tension was relieved.
“… I’m glad. Because I’m laughing.”
“……..”
I felt a dreary chill.
“… It’s not like you’re thinking of your older sister as more than an older sister, isn’t it?”
“Never, no. What are you talking about.”
I shouted.
It was sincere.
I’ve never seen my older sister as the opposite s*x.
He had no intention of reassuring Kang Hae-rin.
“Prove it.”
“… proof? how…?”
Haerin Kang’s eyes narrowed.
“There will be a chance to prove it.”
she said coldly.
“And I’m sorry, but you have to trust me completely in order to go through with my plan. If you stop doing something, you won’t be able to do anything. I can’t stand it if you inform my sister of our situation or try to contact her in the middle.”
“……”
“Because you already have one strike.”
Kang Hae-rin said with a smile that he couldn’t tell if he was joking or serious.