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mysterious and auspicious (4)
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Jeong Hyun-seo’s room.┃
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-Geeing, Jieing, Jieing…!
flinch. The man woke up to the familiar ringing and vibration.
For a moment, only the noise of the duvet tossing filled the bed.
It was still a very dark night.
There was hardly any blue energy to say it was dawn, and he actually fell asleep quite deeply once he closed his eyes.
But I had to wake up to this sound.
He deliberately assigned specific bells and vibrations to specific numbers.
And when the music and trembling called him, he answered the phone no matter what.
Whether there is a natural disaster or an important meeting. It was received unconditionally, regardless of whether it was in the subway or anywhere.
The man, who had his back raised up, frantically groped the side table. tuk tuk tuk tuk… snap.
I frowned at the sudden light, and the bright phone screen came to mind.
March 23rd at 3:23am.
‘Geumgyeong Nursing Hospital’.
‘Lee Jong-hee, Nursing care worker (resident)’.
“yes. This is Jeong Hyun-seo.”
He searched for and put on the rimless glasses with quick hand movements.
-Hello, Guardian! This is a nursing hospital. Mother.
“Yes, sir. What’s wrong? Shall we go right away?”
– No, it’s not that serious. Since past midnight, my mother has been crying continuously while looking for her younger brother. I tried to comfort you by showing you pictures and videos, but it doesn’t stop. It’s a single room, so the noise is okay, but I’m worried that you’ll get a ride like this. I don’t drink water or soft drinks. Is it possible for Jesse to call you now?
“Jesse? Why is my mom suddenly calling Jesse…”
Hyeon-seo, who was busy collecting car keys and wallets with a jacket on the one-seater sofa, stopped.
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On a crying day like today, my mother mostly looked for her deceased father. It was very rare to call the children.
Since my father passed away, my mental illness has gotten worse, so it must have been.
When she was sane, she always showed regrets to me and her siblings, so Hyeon-seo thought that her deep sense of guilt was suppressing her unconsciously from looking for her siblings.
Even though I’m not a doctor.
“Wait. Jesse will wake you up soon and call you back.”
-yes. Still, you’re a lot better than before. Oh my, you must be sleepy now…
A woman’s muffled voice drifted away from the phone.
Next to me, I heard my mother’s mumble.
‘Yes, thank you.’ Hyeon-seo quickly hung up the phone and turned on the light in the room.
The black eyes ripe for darkness frowned again.
Seon-ah, mother of three children, had improved considerably until recently.
Her primary care teachers as well as the nurses who see her every day said the same thing.
‘Patient Seon-ah Choi seems to have a better prognosis.’
‘Because you continue to pursue hobbies that stimulate your brain. I feel emotionally stable, and that also seems to have a positive effect on drug treatment and rehabilitation programs.’
‘It’s rare to see a case that only improves like this for a year or so.’
‘Let’s see for now.’
The neurosurgeons and psychiatrists working together whispered hope.
Expectations of a miraculous cure for her mother’s illness had ceased as a teenager, but the flood of information was enough to excite Hyun-seo and the adults in her family.
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Of course, I didn’t tell Eunseo separately.
I only talked a little to Jesse, but he was happy with tears in his eyes.
It was last month that I barely decided to buy a cake and go.
“Whoa….”
And it was only recently that hope began to fade. Exactly from last week.
My mother’s condition got worse again, and she started yelling from time to time, and she couldn’t control the range of emotions that ran wild.
I didn’t recognize the caregiver I had been with for a long time, so I had a riot once or twice.
Hyeon-seo thought of something that could be a clue for a moment and then scattered it.
Thinking about it gave me a headache and made me feel a little tired.
So it was difficult. He was a tireless person.
“······· Be busy since Monday, Elite.”
Mumbling mixed with bitter laughter. It was time for Hyun-seo to take off her road jacket and open the door to the living room.
I heard a strange noise behind my back.
-Yi Ying…
“yes?”
His work desktop suddenly turned on by itself.
The man wrinkled his eyebrows when he saw that the purple light on the main body’s power button was on.
What am I doing out of nowhere?
“Is that purple originally?”
·······No, usually it was just yellow. The dark eyes suddenly became sharp.
No matter how tired he was with the manuscript, he couldn’t be confused by the color of the computer he had used for several years.
At the same time, a warning-like sensation pierced the man’s spine.
For some reason, my mouth felt dry and cheap. Did I not turn off the computer properly in the evening?
“…is it a Windows update?”
Those words must have been squeezed out to convince themselves, but strangely, as soon as the sound resounded, I had an intuition that said ‘no’.
It was just the beginning.
As if I had entered the aquarium alone, I felt like I was separated from the world.
Then, ‘that incident’ that happened a few days ago flashed through my mind.
It was a sensation closer to foreknowledge than recollection.
‘Oh, there’s another Korean error. Why are there two windows that are the same? Whoa!’
Completely out of his hand, ignoring the silent keyboard, the black cursor ran frantically over the pure white Hangul file.
Dozens, hundreds, and thousands of letters floated on the screen in front of the man’s eyes, and he was constantly gaining vitality as he spaced himself apart and changed lines.
It was such a frightening speed that even Hyeon-seo, who was good at speed reading, could not catch up with her eyes.
He couldn’t even figure out how to dare to deal with the shocking phenomenon.
His heart was beating violently and he was breathing heavily.
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Over the transparent glasses, the lightning bolts in the monitor continued to crash.
“Actually, I checked my phone after seeing Eun-seo off her back, having breakfast with her brother, and brushing her teeth.
But I didn’t have the courage, so I covered it up and washed the dishes.
My hands moved naturally to find a storage space and cleaned the induction.
Even though I had been away for a year, the habits and behaviors of my life were still in my memory.
Maybe it’s because the body is the same, I don’t know. therefore······.
“Another thought.”
I muttered abruptly. It’s been like this ever since.
When I think of ‘Toegye-gong’, when I think of the friends I left there, my heart is heavy and cramped.
There were so many worries that it was hard to breathe comfortably.
Because I couldn’t even say goodbye properly, let alone talk about the ‘real’ me.
Because I never thought I would be able to come home like that…”
I was appalled. The nape of Hyun-seo’s neck was damp with sweat.
All of the sentences were too specific to be called a virus or a bad hack.
He was a full-time writer who made a living by writing stories.
I was able to recognize the difference between jokingly graffiti and immersive writing.
So what is all this
「······ Until now, the fact that I had been stabbed, died once, and returned home was so shocking that I could not imagine the ‘next time’.
I was so busy taking care of myself that I couldn’t figure out the situation over there.
But when I saw it, the situation was too serious…”
Why does the story of Toegye-gong come out?
Are you writing from Jesse’s point of view?
‘No, by the way….’
Isn’t that what he’s been through?
‘Brother, why? Where did you put it?!’
Then, startled by his scream, Jesse ran into the room.
Hyeon-seo quickly finished the situation by closing the Hangul window.
But the terrified heart did not subside easily. It was a reasonable thing to do.
It was not a horror movie at the end of the century, and it was impossible for a file that he had never created or saved before suddenly appearing and writing down.
In fact, I was so stunned that it was hard to tell if this was a nightmare or real life.
The scruffy neck groaned indiscriminately without a break.
‘Did something like a ghost screen just pop up?’
it was similar
‘········When do you talk about enemies? Whoa.’
But, I just wiped it around and washed it dry.
Not only is it not a story you can easily believe that you will hear it…
‘Can you make citron tea? Is it very hard?’
‘It’s not like that, I have a little surprise.’
‘why. file gone? It’s basically synchronizing in real time.’
‘I think it would be better for the file to fly away.’
He rarely jokes like that, but anyone would have said so if he had seen the situation at the time.
Then Jesse turned and looked closely at his brother’s face.
‘What a terrible sound.’
Her expression and attitude were the same as usual, so Hyun-seo giggled in the end.
The feeling of suddenly returning to reality loosened up all the power in my body and made me feel drowsy.
It sounds absurd, but I also thought I might have slept for a while.
Were you feeling tired without knowing it?
After letting the younger brother out on the cigar excuse, he did what he had to do calmly.
He thoroughly checked whether his novel files were damaged or lost, paid for a paid program, and ran a virus scan.
It’s an unnecessary app and I’ve also cleaned out the old cache.
Thanks to this, the old desktop felt even lighter.
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Obviously it was…
– Wow!
“·················ogue.”
Now, his computer body was buzzing with an unfamiliar purple light.
Hyeon-seo, standing by the door, quietly took off her glasses and buried her eyes in her palms.
Her short black hair was pressed against the pillow and messed up.
I don’t have time for this and I’m in a hurry, but I couldn’t figure out why the incident from that day kept coming up. really.
“Ha, really…”
······· Actually, I knew very well that it wasn’t a brief nightmare or my own imagination.
For such vivid sensations could not fool the brain in the name of the unconscious.
No matter how I thought about it, it wasn’t.
More than anything else, even though Jeong-ye was talking normally, she looked into the air and bruised, nibbling with chopsticks at mealtime, and sometimes looking depressed….
Because it was the cold reality in front of him.
However, ‘knowing’ and ‘accepting’ the reality were completely different matters.
“Do I have to go to counseling instead of Jung Eun-seo?”
The man turned his back with a deep sigh.
The cold night air came in from the living room and brushed his forehead.
Hyeon-seo’s youngest brother Eun-seo received psychiatric counseling until she was 18 years old.
Although he was a lively and smooth school life, he had a deep sense of depression inside.
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Outside, he was fine, but when he came home, to be more precise, when he entered my room—the child would cry without a word or just collapse and fall asleep.
The specialist diagnosed that the child’s stress was much more serious than it seemed.
There were also explanations that they felt excessive pressure from ‘pretending to be okay’ in front of their friends and brothers.
Those words, including Eunseo, were a huge wound.
But it was also an undeniable fact.
Hyun-seo and Jesse did everything they could for their one and only sister.
The two truly loved the child, and the child also truly loved the brothers.
It was a miracle that was often found around.
The close adults’ touch became a support that the three of them could hold on to more firmly.
Thanks to that, Eun-seo got better quickly.
The day I returned from the winter break of my sophomore year in high school, I first said this to my brothers.
‘I don’t think I need to go to counseling this winter.’
‘I’m not too tired now, and I’m not too tired. To be honest, I’m looking forward to going to high school.’
‘Oh really! It’s not bluff, it’s real!’
-Woo…
Startle. Hyun-seo turned her eyes back to the unusual noise.
The light came on brightly up to his monitor. My heart pounded in surprise.
I haven’t been near the computer since yesterday evening-
“It’s completely broken, what is it?”
The man hurriedly approached the desk and moved the mouse.
Then, the very familiar Hangul window and, on the contrary, a warning window that I saw for the first time in my life appeared.
For a moment, I was out of breath.
‘Do you want to merge this folder with the folder below?’
what? suddenly?
“·················ogue.”
what a bullshit
Why don’t we combine the folder whose name doesn’t even look right with our story?
Who’s remotely controlling this now? Did I bring a grudge against someone?
‘No (N)’.
– click
Hyeon-seo hastily expressed opposition. There was nothing more to think about.
I was about to turn off the computer and unplug it cleanly.
By the way-
-Woo…
“······What?”
The warning window didn’t even blink.
An unknown golden energy began to flow from his monitor as if he had been attacked.
The man was startled and unplugged all the wires connected to the outlet.
Suddenly, his forehead was damp with sweat. He was now completely panicked.
The nursing hospital and the mother’s work are completely forgotten.
-Paaah…
“Huh.”
But the machine was good without losing any brilliance.
An indescribable fear struck.
Hyeon-seo hurriedly ran out of the living room, covering her mouth with her hand.
Immediately, the cold outside air enveloped him.
Everything that touched my skin was chillingly cold.
-Whee
“·················ogue.”
He realized that the outside door of the living room veranda was wide open.
——— it was him!!??