75 – Dongmin Lee (10)
Dongmin Lee (10)
To be precise, it’s my sister’s ‘old’ style.
Ribbon knits, crop tops, and short bottoms are things my older sister liked to wear when she was a college student.
After that, I didn’t wear it as much as I preferred more mature and high-end manufacturers, but it was a style that comes to mind when I remember my older sister.
There was even a dress identical to that one.
Color and combine.
Even I existed unconsciously, almost dead, at the bottom of my memory, how did she know?
“… Ah, so I was used to it…”
I kept my mouth shut.
It’s not enough to try to dress my girlfriend in her older sister’s style, and the combo is the worst.
Because it’s my older sister’s clothes, saying that they’re used to it can’t be an excuse, so Haerin shook her head expressionlessly, as if reading my expression.
“Why, these clothes are pretty enough.”
She took the clothes separately.
Does it mean that it will suit my ‘taste’?
… It can’t be.
I was grateful that Haerin didn’t look at me coldly, and I hurriedly tried to make up for it.
“No, this is fine. I was mistaken for a moment because I had seen the clothes for a long time. It doesn’t suit you.”
“All these?”
Haerin’s fingers gracefully turned to one side.
First of all, in an attempt to sift through the candidates, I picked out the ones that seemed appropriate and made a pile of clothes on one side.
The clerk or the owner was looking at us and the pile of clothes we had accumulated with eyes full of anticipation.
Come to think of it, all of these also seemed to be close to my sister’s old style.
“… Sorry.”
I honestly admitted my mistake.
Unfortunately, the time when I saw my sister in street clothes a lot was before she became independent.
At the time my older sister was in the middle of college or just got a job after applying for a job.
When I was doing public service, I had nothing to see. After I became independent, I mostly met at home.
Because I went to visit her a lot.
She was the biological woman I was closest to, and she had no interest in how other women dressed, and she had neither the courage nor the courage to look closely.
Thus, the standard of ‘women’s clothing’ imprinted in my head was mainly referred to my sister’s university days.
Unbeknownst to me, that prejudice came out.
As I naturally chose things that were ‘familiar’ to me, I got closer to my older sister’s style.
“It’s okay.”
I was seriously contemplating whether I should kneel down, but Haerin said in a light tone.
“Really?”
“Sure.”
Whether she is a clerk or the owner, she said to
“I’ll buy all of this. As her girlfriend, I have to adjust myself to-“
“Now, now, wait-“
I said to the owner who approached with a bright smile.
“… I will choose again.”
The owner’s expression quickly deteriorated.
I felt uncomfortable at the thought of causing a needless nuisance, but I said, thinking that it would be better to endure the inconvenience than to go home and receive cold stares.
“Let’s choose again. Haerin. No, make it even again.”
“………”
Harin crossed her arms and tilted her head.
“Haerin?”
“… Shall we brainwash…”
“… Haerin? I think I’ve heard of it…”
She said it was obviously brainwashing.
Aka brainwashing.
Isn’t it to erase the opponent’s mentality for the purpose of receiving a confession or mind control?
When I was at the public service training center, there was an older brother who said that kind of thing, although it wasn’t serious.
Of course, seeing as she received level 4 and not exemption, it didn’t seem like she was at a serious level.
He was also an older brother who wrote novels…
However, when Haerin speaks, it has more destructive power.
I think it will erase my real brain.
Fortunately, among the fraudulent abilities I gave to Haerin, there was no such thing as hypnotism.
“Huh? What are you talking about?”
Haerin said with a bright smile.
That’s even scarier.
“Did you hear? Just joke.”
“………”
That’s how I got a chance to try again.
However, as the ‘standards’ disappeared, it became more difficult to choose clothes. Rather, while being conscious of the initial standards, trying to choose something that was far from them, Haerin’s gaze became conscious.
In the end, we failed to choose clothes.
I bought a bunch of clothes I didn’t want and came back.
“… I’m sorry.”
After getting into the car, I apologized again.
“Next time, I will study clothes.”
It may be a bit exaggerated to say this, but it seems like I just shouted the name of another woman in bed.
Under normal circumstances, it would be possible to pass over the reason of ‘I’m an older sister’ and the peculiarity of my growing environment, but now I’m rather holding back my ankles.
I know how conscious Haerin is of her sister.
What’s more, the situation just before the end is the end.
‘… Noona, why did you really say that?’
I bit my lip as I recalled the contents of the notebook.
I conceded a hundred times, so my sister could have grown attached to me and ‘misunderstood’ this as love between a man and a woman.
But it’s legally forbidden, and if you’re a rational person like your sister, you have the ability to refrain.
Dami Lee.
She went to a design company, and during her school days, she was a science type person who was good at math and science.
The ability to think and speak logically was excellent.
The person who will be the writer might not be me, but she.
Of course, since she is a reader of classic literature, she may not like web novels.
Judging from the fact that I quickly completed market research since I started writing web novels, she might even get results that exceed my 『Journal』 If she decides.
“………”
She can’t mistake her sibling attachment for love, but even if she’s mistaken, she’s not the kind of person who would dare to say it out loud and create a danger.
I don’t know what thought process she went through to do this, but this could kill me.
‘…I’m dying, I.’
My denial and denial about my sister went through a series of regularities and finally reached this point.
My sister gave me a lot of heart in the process of growing up, just like I did, and I misunderstood that feeling.
So, if I were to reunite with my sister, I had the confidence to explain how she would feel.
Dami Lee is a logical and rational person.
‘If I die here, it’s over.’
While I was feeling resentful, Haerin sat in the driver’s seat and was still in thought.
“Shall we go to eat?”
“Huh?”
“Aren’t you hungry?”
“… Gop.”
Contrary to what she was worried about, after a bit of silence, Haerin returned to her normal self and started driving.
There was no specific questioning.
In the static.
“… Am I two-strike by any chance?”
I asked because I was always worried.
“Huh?”
Haerin asked back.
Then she burst into laughter.
“Ahahahahaha…”
“… Isn’t it?”
“What are you talking about, honey? Two strikes with something like that, would you have already died?”
“……”
Shouldn’t I have to explain something further?
While not knowing whether to be safe or not, Haerin stopped the car in front of a restaurant.
Looking at the outside, it seems like a place for rich people to come.
Besides, it was evening, so the atmosphere was different from when I was kidnapped straight from school.
The restaurant where Haerin called me after finding out that she was a character in a novel still had quite a few family customers around, and it was during the day.
So it was okay, but now you feel more serious?
The price range was also much higher.
“I made a reservation.”
I followed Harin and walked inside.
We sat face to face with her.
“My self.”
Haerin opened her mouth.
“Two strikes, no, three strikes, what do you think I will do to you?”
“………”
A question I was afraid of but never asked myself.
If I had two conditions set by Haerin.
Meeting with my sister without consulting Haerin.
Approaching the villains of 『Journal』 At will.
What if I break them?
Then what will happen to me?
Haerin already promised to allow my sister and me to meet at least once.
I don’t have to force myself to go see you alone.
Of course there is no need to go out to find the villains of 『Journal』.
Then I’m likely to stop at ‘one strike’, but if I could imagine it anyway?
“…Will I die?”
“Baby.”
Haerin took hold of my hand.
Across the table, our hands met.
“It’s too much.”
“… Huh?”
“Why am I killing you? Are you a criminal?”
“……”
“It is not a crime that he betrays me.”
I’m at a loss for words because it’s too straight forward.
“You still don’t believe me.”
“…Sorry.”
“Let me ask you again, what shall I do?”
“… Confinement?”
I said honestly.
There were several ending scenarios for ‘Abduction’.
First of all, I ended up killing Kang Hae-rin, who felt betrayed by Lee Dong-min.
If that possibility is eliminated, it will end with Lee Dong-min being trapped in Kang Hae-rin’s ‘castle’.
It’s better than dying, but it’s not particularly good in terms of losing your life as a human being.
At least it was an open ending.
“mmm.”
Haerin waved his finger.
“You don’t know me.”
“… Isn’t it?”
“It can’t end like that.”
“…Is confinement right?”
“Well?”
She didn’t give me a clear answer.
It doesn’t end in confinement, but it doesn’t die.
What the hell am I going to do?
Is it really possible to be raised like a pig?
It was a complicated feeling, but it’s not even two strikes yet, so let’s not start thinking about dying in advance.
“… It’s really nice here.”
I’m clumsy, but I tried my best to make Haerin feel better.
I tried to make up for a silly joke, and I tried to make up for the small but annoying mistake of her clothing store.
One of the strategies was to say that the mistake was nothing, lightly joking.
After the main meat dish was served, after a while, when the plate was empty, I brought it up again.
“About the clothes.”
“Yes.”
Harin put the meat cut with a knife into her mouth and chewed on it, she answered quietly.
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“That is a very common fashion. I think this is a style that girls in their early 20s often wear. So I hope you don’t feel bad about it.”
“I don’t really care.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
Still, I was suspicious and looked around.
And fortunately, I found a decent example to back up my words.
“Look, the same thing over there- Ah!?”
“Why?”
I kept my mouth shut.
I was momentarily confused.
The back of the woman walking past wearing a cropped tee and wide pants is just like my sister’s old days.
Actually, it was the same kind of clothes that my sister would have, but she couldn’t have her sister here.
There’s no way a person who is obsessed with pretending to be missing would walk around the outdoors like he’s earned, and there’s no way he’d show up at a restaurant like this wearing the clothes he wore in his early twenties.
Let’s not scratch and make a boil.
I awkwardly turned my gaze to the plate.
“Oh? What do you have?”
“… Ah- delicious, the meat is so tender!”
“……”
When I looked up, Kang Hae-rin was pulling the corners of her mouth.
“…Me too, it’s delicious.”
“………”
Human psychology is so strange.
Even though I knew it wasn’t my sister, I kept feeling distracted.
Just because I saw someone similar to my sister.
If that woman is really an older sister, she is here compelled to catch her and not let go.
I desperately suppressed it.
Anyway, if Haerin keeps her promise to me, she can meet with my sister anytime, even if it’s not here.
Maybe this is a test of fate.
“……”
Because of such sudden agitation, delicious food is hardly tasted.
Is this what Haerin’s insensitivity was like?
I can roughly understand the sweetness and saltiness, but I only feel that part and it doesn’t harmonize in a complex way.
Still, I think my strategy was successful.
There was a bit of awkwardness, but Harin immediately felt better, and we talked about the laptop and the times we would spend together.
I decided to go on an overseas trip in the future.
If 『Journal』 Materializes in order, the case will be confined to Korea for the time being, and overseas will be safe.
I’m not Conan, and there’s no chance we’ll run into a character from a novel wherever we go.
“If she has a child of her own, will that child be a fictional character or a real person?”
Haerin asked a difficult question.
But it wasn’t particularly difficult.
She still seemed like she couldn’t get out of the fact that she was a character in a novel, and that’s why she was asking that kind of question.
In that case, I will only reassure her again and again.
“Of course it is real. Haerin, you, have become a real person, and you don’t have to think about that anymore.”
She just laughed quietly.
The meaningful laugh didn’t seem particularly pleased with my words, nor did it seem suspicious.
“…You can’t believe me?”
“Then, shall we make a baby today?”
“… Oh, that’s…”
I had no choice but to retreat due to the active offensive.
Haerin said that she seriously wanted to have a child with me, but I had no choice but to say no.
Until I find my sister, explain and organize all of this, I don’t feel like that.
Fortunately, she understood.
We once again decided not to get involved in the outside world, and to be content with quietly studying only the mysteries of the 『Journal』.
Late in the evening, we returned home.
#
Eight o’clock without a doubt.
Since she drank lightly last night, she should have slept in, but Haerin was already in bed.
Gradually, I felt sorry for leaving her to prepare her meals every time, so I checked her phone, thinking that it would be better for me to prepare or take turns from now on.
There is no one to contact.
It wasn’t because I didn’t use social media, it was because I still had the habit of waking up while checking the comments in 『Journal』.
I uploaded 『Journal』 Again a while ago.
Therefore, additional comments were running.
Over dozens of alarms.
Thankfully, they gave us a lot of support.
The latest issue will start serialization only after a few weeks, but there are always the latest ripples because there are a lot of things accumulated.
Recently, the evaluation of the episodes was not good, but the reaction was good until the 1000th episode, which gave me strength.
[Congratulations on resuming the series, author]
[Haerin, Kazuah~~]
[You are reading well. I’m tired of tension.]
[Are you crazy, writer human? It’s fun-]
[This is the most fun novel I’ve read on the platform, stay safe, author]
[First of all, I would like to thank the writer for writing delicious writing (…) I apologize for not being able to properly express the excellent workmanship due to my lack of vocabulary, and I ask that you always work hard to write your own writing. Posting readers cheering for ]
“… I really appreciate this.”
Gratitude and guilt at the same time.
My heart felt heavy at the thought that the direction in which the novel would run toward the end would disappoint the readers who supported and supported it.
‘Of course, they might like it.’
… But today, my eyes went to something other than comments and support notifications.
There was a call.
[(Photo)]
“………”
The sender was ‘Grace’.
Unregistered users, of course.
At first glance, I saw a profile that looked like a full body picture, but rather than that, I clicked on the photo he sent.
“… Huh?”
The interior of a restaurant.
I could see Harin’s face concentrating on the conversation.
She was looking at me, with her back turned to the side that took her picture.
‘…Hidden camera?’
The moment I was about to type ‘Who are you?’.
A new message has arrived.
That’s very fast too.
[Hey, Lee Dong-min, do you have a girlfriend?]
[Recipe?]
[Your first girlfriend is me, but.]