96 – Dongmin Lee (31)
Dongmin Lee (31)
In the end, I didn’t tell Park Seong-gang.
‘Park Seong-jae is you.’
Haerin’s words made sense.
That would give him an existential crisis.
There’s no need to announce that right now.
He has to keep working for us.
Instead, we had to prepare for the future on our own.
Park Sang-woo was arrested.
He was arrested as a red-handed criminal by Park Seong-gang and the police, who exquisitely invaded ‘according to the contents of the novel’.
Once it falls into the hands of the police, there is nothing to worry about.
Because early episodes always ended with the villain falling into the hands of the police and being arrested.
A villain imprisoned in an iron cage never comes out again.
That’s against the ‘rules’.
If you follow the contents of the 『Journal』, Neither Ban Yi-jae nor Park Sang-woo will ever play a game again.
Haerin is a murderer starting with the episode of Jung Seong-min.
“………”
“Why is that?”
Haerin stared at my face.
“… I was thinking about the novel.”
I muttered as if possessed.
“… Kang Hae-rin reveals her qualities as a killer starting with the perverted killer Jeong Seong-min. So obviously…”
After saying this, I kept my mouth shut.
“……”
I felt something uncomfortable.
It felt strange that the main character, Kang Hae-rin, began to play in earnest from the 3rd episode.
It must have been difficult to succeed after arranging the episodes in which the main character will play an active part like that.
“Are you sure?”
Haerin asked.
I was dumbfounded after hearing that question.
“… Is that so? Also something…”
“I must have started with Jang Hye-ok.”
“………”
Jang Hye-ok.
She is the villain of 4 episodes, killing or maiming several men through fraudulent marriage and insurance fraud.
Starting with episode 4, not episode 3?
It was the same as Harin and I who raised the issue, but the points pointed out were different.
Is my memory wrong again?
No, I would have made the plot with Kang Hae-rin active starting with the episode of Jung Sung-min.
But after hearing what Haerin said, it seems wrong.
“You can check it.”
Haerin handed over the phone.
I turned on my phone without receiving it.
“………”
The early episodes of 『Journal』 Uploaded to the platform.
[… “You bastard-” Seo In-hwan was furious when he saw Nam Jae-chan stabbed in the chest by the unexpected surprise. A feeling of fear took hold of him, but once he saw the blood, adrenaline was released and he couldn’t see anything. As the number was large, he swung the prepared club.]
I turned the page.
It was hard to bear watching the scene where Park Sang-woo kills Seo In-woo, which must have been ‘implemented’ as it was in reality.
Now, this novel was no longer just a ‘novel’.
A novel that became a reality.
I couldn’t have the same presence as before.
The location was even more disgusting because it showed that it was a villa in Goyang City where the novel would have materialized.
I felt like I was going to get sick.
Harin was right.
She has been ‘active’ since the Jang Hye-ok episode.
The episode of Jeong Seong-min…
“No problem, right?”
Haerin said.
I re-read the episodes that have already materialized.
『Journal』 Described Ban Lee-jae and Park Sang-woo as being arrested by police ‘Park Seong-jae’.
All the scenes and descriptions matched so much that I wondered if it was an actual incident.
Suddenly, confusion came.
‘I wrote this?’
This is not a novel, but a prophetic book.
“………”
I quickly skipped through the latter part of the novel.
There are not many connections between the episodes to the point where it can be almost called an omnibus.
In other words, the characters in the episodes of Lee Jae Ban and Sang Woo Park do not have a significant influence on the later episodes.
“… But, novels are changing.”
I murmured.
I almost forgot, but now 『Journal』 Was not simply materialized, but was reflecting reality.
I don’t know exactly what comes first, but isn’t the content of the novel subtly changing?
Of course, ‘all’ was not written by me.
Some force is intervening.
The scope is uncertain.
“…How do you know this?”
The problem is that it is unclear how far I have written the novel myself and where the content has changed.
It’s a simple story.
In order to prevent incidents like Seo In-woo and Nam Jae-chan from happening again, we must prepare for the incident in advance.
To do that, you need to refer to the novel.
But what if only some of the novels ‘show’ the future, and the rest are ‘not yet’ changed?
I don’t know how much to refer to.
Or what if reality changes and fiction reflects?
My head was pounding.
What’s even more confusing is my memory.
No matter how much reality changes and novels reflect reality, there is no need for my memory to be confused.
‘Is it possible that even my memories can be manipulated?’
I asked myself seriously.
Even if you accept that hypothesis, the problem is this.
‘What changes a novel?’
Perhaps the most essential question.
It just won’t change.
After much thought, I told Harin.
“Haerin. Please, tell me the original story.”
If her guess is correct, and I think too, there is no deformation of the text book or the printed 『Journal』.
In other words, those who know the contents can know which part of the novel is ‘transformed’.
Simple logic.
Haerin said that the existence of those who knew the original was dangerous, but I don’t care.
I have nothing to do with her.
We need to know the text before it is transformed.
“You said you burned it, right?”
I asked.
If it’s Harin, there’s no way she would burn the original novel for no reason.
Even if for some reason you don’t ‘want’ me to know that.
She must have left something for herself to read.
Because without it, confusion will come to her as well.
“Um.”
Haerin pondered for a moment before she spoke.
“Good.”
I was taken aback because the answer was so easy.
“But there are conditions.”
“… Conditions?”
“He asked and decided to get involved in defeating the villains in 『Journal』, But in fact, if he or I disappeared, there would be no harm to us.”
“…That’s right.”
If you have an extremely selfish point of view, you can live in Haerin’s safe mansion without worrying about whether 『Journal』 Materializes or not, or who dies or not.
It’s not that the villains are specifically targeting Haerin, the police will be chasing them.
The reason I don’t do that is because of my conscience.
As a writer, I feel guilty that I made them.
And in fact, they were intruding on people who had nothing to do with my novel and harassing them.
Kim Hye-eun fell into a coma.
Some even died.
No matter how evil you were to me.
I didn’t want it to go that far.
“……”
The thought made me painful, so I closed my eyes to protect myself.
“He asked me for help even at the cost of two strikes, so I listened.”
“…Yes.”
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“But I never, never want to hurt even one of my fingertips like when I was Ban Yi-jae.”
She said twice, emphasizing ‘never’.
“…Then?”
“The prerequisites remain the same. The self is not involved in this matter at all. I’ll take care of everything. Besides, what can you say about yourself as a writer?”
Haerin said.
“I wondered if I might have lost my strength.”
“… What?”
I was perplexed.
Strength as a writer?
Haerin said calmly.
“Since I am a writer, I have said that I will use information that has an advantage over others, but look now, I can’t even remember the contents of the novel properly.”
Speaking like selling.
Of course, her expression was mild.
It may be paranoia, but-
“That’s because the novel changes-!”
I exclaimed in rage.
“Still, the story is the same.”
Haerin said.
“I have no reason to do anything under the justification of being a writer anymore, and I have no ability.”
“……”
Lee Dong-min is weak.
Is it an extension of that phrase again?
I was offended, but I had nothing to refute.
“Besides, in terms of ability, I am superior to him.”
“……”
“Don’t be offended.”
Haerin stroked my cheek and said.
I heard her soft breathing.
She was almost hugging me.
“Don’t be ashamed to rely on me.”
Her lips moved closer to mine.
“………”
“You don’t have to think too hard. It is very natural for people without ability to rely on people with ability. It’s nothing to be ashamed of.”
“………”
“Our lives will be different in the future.”
“… Hmmm.”
At that time, Seonggang Park came out into the hallway.
“We still get along well.”
He crossed his arms and said coldly.
“I think you completely forgot about my older sister.”
A glimpse of contempt was reflected in his eyes.
“If I knew what was going on because of that novel, I wouldn’t be thinking about dating.”
“………”
Haerin fell from me.
“This doesn’t mean that you have to shed tears every day thinking of Mr. Lee, right? For some reason, he, he must be watching us from somewhere.”
She also said cynically.
“Contrary to his appearance, he seems to be quite a shady person.”
Park Seong-gang snorted.
“Then, shall we discuss work?”
Haerin said with a sociable smile.
A gentle expression that wins people’s hearts.
With such a face that makes it impossible to recklessly push her away, even if she is set up as her nemesis and Park Seong-gang, who doesn’t like her.
#
An empty lecture hall at S University.
“All mysteries solved.”
It was in the web novel club room where lines that seemed to appear in any mystery comic were shouted out loud.
Kim Yuna said to Hwang Jiyoung.
“… After all, fiction is becoming reality, right?”
A heavy wad of paper was placed between the desks that were set up for discussion.
“If our predictions are correct, Jung Sung-min will definitely appear there. And, from there-“
Kim Yuna said.
Jiyoung Hwang made her face terrified of her.
“You want to go?”
“I have to go. So, are you going to let it be obvious? You know what goes on there.”
Yoona Kim replied.
“Crazy. It’s a real fantasy, this.”
“I never thought this would happen to us…”
Hwang Ji-young looked at the stack of papers on the desk with a mixture of fear and anticipation.
“Good thing I didn’t scrap it.”
“Those who haven’t printed it out before will not even know that the contents of the novel have changed, right? The site has been shut down and viruses are circulating in the distribution files.”
“Yes, we are the only ones.”
Their eyes met each other.