119 – Nursing
After putting on whatever clothes were visible and leaving the room, he started wandering around.
…Lee Jin-ah didn’t say anything even when I walked around the house.
Is it really okay to walk around? Even if I move like this…? Sorry for bringing up the old story.
What would she have done if she was the old Lee Jin-ah? Had she tied me to the bed and made me unable to move? Or me…
I lacked imagination since I was young, so I couldn’t imagine what kind of novel way Lee Jin-ah would abuse me.
…Actually, Lee Jin-ah right now didn’t seem to put much meaning into my movement.
So… A big deal is her challenge to herself…? Or rebel…? I mean, I don’t think so,
Lee Jin-ah was watching my movements very carefully.
Toddling.
I just watched from afar as he wanders around the house waddling and waddling his legs that don’t move well…
“-Oops!”
If you step on her carpet like now, lose her center of gravity and try to slip…
“It’s dangerous..! Walk carefully…!”
She was trying to catch me from behind when I was about to fall.
… Because Jina Lee and I have a big difference in her size, she doesn’t mean that I won’t fall to the floor just because Jina Lee does that.
I got along well- I fell to the floor, but I wasn’t seriously hurt. I didn’t feel sick because Lee Jin-ah was spread under my body…
“…If I walk slowly with my feet on the wall, I think I’ll be able to avoid falling…! But yesterday I couldn’t even walk…! Now I can walk just fine…?”
A man who was one head taller than her pressed her down… Didn’t it hurt? I frowned as if it was slightly painful, but that was for a while.
As soon as she saw me, her impression became clear and straightened. Instead, she seemed to give advice on how to walk well.
…I don’t know. If I had known Jinah Lee until now, would she have done this to me?
She honestly thinks that if it were Lee Jin-ah, she would never let me go.
I never thought you’d see me wandering around like this.
…If you think about it, what is ‘Lee Jin-ah’ like..?
Abducting and harassing people is what Jinah Lee is like…?
Lee Jin-ah when she was young was a friend who cried a lot, laughed a lot, and had a lot of soft parts.
Even when I was in middle school, no matter how hard I tried to push it away. She always laughs and chats next to me…. She tries to get closer to me again.
I think it’s the wrong way. Because you tried to help me in any way.
No matter how hard Lee Jin-ah treated me.
That happened over the course of a few months at Mirae High School.
Is it the right thing to evaluate everything about Lee Jin-ah based on what happened in that short period of time?
…Now I don’t know.
“If walking on the wall is difficult… Give me your hand! Let’s walk slowly while holding my hand this time!”
… When she was little, was it like this when she first learned to walk?
The way Jinah Lee walked backwards one step at a time while holding my hand was similar to the way she was teaching a child how to walk.
She had no strength in her legs yet, so every time I tried to stumble and fall to the side, she came up to me and Lee Jin-ah balanced my body.
And then step by step… This is obviously a nuisance.
As for Lee Jin-ah, she seemed to have no reason to teach me how to walk… But she was teaching her how to walk on her own.
While I spin around the living room a few times, Jinah Lee blinks her brown eyes and watches whether I fall or not.
-Don’t open the front door. Or don’t ever think about running away.
I never said anything like that out of my mouth.
Kung-kung- My heart raced.
A cold sweat began to flow.
Apparently the only thing I did was walk around the living room with her hair.
It was because I wanted to check what was in the house, I didn’t mean to exercise like this…
I couldn’t do anything and lay down while groaning at her, and then I took a few steps.
My whole body was already drenched in sweat just because I had barely done that one thing.
“…I want to rest a little…”
“..It’s hard..? Then let’s rest!”
Lee Jin-ah led me to her sofa.
She really only walked round and round, but her clothes were all covered with sweat.
…Now that I know how I used to cover 20 km in 2 hours,
Or maybe I could do one push-up per second… I don’t know.
Even if it’s rotten, if you touch your legs or arms, the muscles are tightly held, but in the current situation, it was useless.
What are you doing if your body is hard?
“…Now… Drink some water…”
…I naturally drank the water Jinah Lee gave me. I was thirsty… But fortunately.
It is human nature to want to sit down when standing and lie down when sitting.
My whole body was full of sweat, so I felt like taking a shower.
I didn’t like the feeling of the clothes sticking to me because of the sweat.
“…Do you want to wash…?”
“…”
“Wait, I’ll get some water in the bathtub”
…As if Lee Jin-ah had looked inside my head.
What I want now. I knew that all too well.
-Shoot..
I was sitting on the sofa while the bathtub filled with water.
I looked out the window and saw the evening sunset.
…Coming to think of it, I can move freely like this, can’t I just open the front door and go outside…? I thought about that for a while.
Jinah Lee doesn’t make a sound even when I walk around the living room, maybe she opens the front door and goes outside.
-Do you want to go outside?
She said and seemed like she would help me look around outside.
…Of course I didn’t.
For now, just because I went outside, I was able to get rid of Lee Jin-ah there… My body didn’t even recover.
Again… Right now, I’m just sitting in the house doing nothing. Leave me alone, if you really want to get out of this house. What will Lee Jin-ah do to me?
Because no one knows that.
I didn’t want to leave all my possibilities to something uncertain.
The windows occupying one wall of the house were enormous.
And I don’t know if it was accidental or intentional, but there was a chair near the window.
Surely- as tempting as I am to take this and hammer it down the window… Of course I didn’t.
It’s the same reason as opening the front door and not going out.
Let’s say I break the window, then subdue Lee Jin-ah and escape from this house.
So what are you going to do next?
… You can live a life that is worse than dying in a cell without parole for some crime right now.
“…What do you think?”
A voice came from behind.
“…Ah…? This…?”
Lee Jin-ah, who had been staring at the window alternately with me, started tapping the window with her palm.
-Strong impact is the biggest cause of display failure.
Red text came up on the window. And… The window turned into the sea full of fish instead of the evening sunset.
This would never happen if it were just a window.
In the current situation where an ordinary family home has changed into an aquarium, no further explanation was needed.
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Maybe… Really maybe. I was worried that I might be imprisoned in a facility that is dozens of floors underground.
If you smash that display right now, what will come out..? Complex wires..? Or grayish cement..?
Whatever it was, I’m glad I didn’t plan on knocking it down with a chair and escaping outside.
At least… The scenery of this house could have been much more desolate than it is now.
“…I got the bath water, so let’s wash quickly..?”
“…”
…For some reason, I could feel that Lee Jin-ah’s voice was harder than before.
It seems like a lie that we just walked around the living room holding hands.
I took heavy steps and entered the bathroom.
The bathroom was incredibly spacious.
It was wide and deep enough for two or three people to enter… It also had a bubbling function.
After rinsing my body in the shower, I soaked myself in the bathtub.
It was a pleasant temperature.
I feel like the chill of the moment I felt while talking with Lee Jin-ah just a little bit has disappeared.
After she sweated enough to soak her body like this, it seemed that all the wastes were drained from her body.
…How much time has passed?
– Smart.
Lee Jin-ah knocked on the bathroom door.
“Can I come in…?”
“What happened…?”
-Jumping.
…I don’t think I ever said I could go in.
She hurriedly covered her lower body with a towel hanging on the wall.
The bathroom door opened with a sound. Looking back at her, there was Lee Jin-ah.
She continued her words with her head turned to the side, wearing a shower gown that looked like it would come out of a movie.
“…I’ll push your back”
“…Uh…?”
“You can’t even walk properly yet. I’ll help you wash up… You can’t even walk properly, so you’re taking a bath by yourself…”
My body was half submerged in the bathtub, so my upper body was completely exposed.
Jinah Lee, who moistened my body with her small basket, began to wash my body with the sponge she was holding in her hand.
“I’m sorry I came in all of a sudden…But… You have to wash thoroughly, you won’t get sick… Can you give me your hand over there…?’
Fluffy Bubbles began to rise from the sponge Lee Jin-ah held.
-Ssukseuk.
Jinah Lee grabbed my arm and started taking her bath.