NOVEL NEXT chapter 24
24 – Haerin Kang (24)
Haerin Kang (24)
Kang Hae-rin’s facial expression was not the only thing that changed.
It’s like a mind-set.
That must have been cataclysmic.
“Honey, would you like to eat first?”
“… Haerin. excuse me…”
“Let’s take a taxi and move, we.”
Kang Haerin lightly ignored my words and called a model taxi passing by to pick me up.
“Please go here.”
Kang Hae-rin showed the phone to the driver.
At first glance, it was quite a distance.
It’s a restaurant that’s far enough to be burdensome to travel by taxi, and the price range isn’t at the level of college students.
“Haerin, this is too…”
“are you okay. This is what he gave you anyway.”
“……”
Kang Hae-rin tapped the card with her finger.
If I felt sad on my face while doing such a leisurely action, would it be my own illusion?
She said without looking at me.
… you know it too.
It doesn’t mean that I gave her the card, it must mean that she knows that I gave her that ‘setting’.
Originally, Kang Hae-rin did not reveal that she was rich and acted as a ‘college student’ in an appropriate way.
However, when she saw that she was willing to take a deluxe taxi for a long distance and to use an expensive restaurant without hesitation, she had no intention of hiding it.
that you are rich.
“… Haerin. I am…”
“Shall we go in?”
When I got out of the taxi and entered the restaurant, I tried to speak again, but failed every time.
She skillfully finished ordering expensive menu items.
“Now tell me.”
Kang Hae-rin said after taking a sip of water.
She put her hands on the table and looked at me gently with her hands on her chin.
There was no anger or hatred in those eyes.
“Dongmin, you are ‘Kang Haerin’ right?”
checkmate.
A smile with the lips but not the eyes.
I nodded.
I couldn’t help but admit it.
Because she was already convinced.
It was my defeat.
“… Sorry. I never thought I would be like this…”
“no.”
Haerin Kang said.
“What are you sorry about? To be honest, I still don’t understand, but I don’t think this was his intention. If you have this ability, is that a god? Of course, the author is a god in his work, but to put it a little more complicatedly, the author is not a god either.”
Quoting a famous humanist, she reminded us of the relationship between writers and readers.
Even from the point of view of creation theory, the author could not be seen as ‘dominant’ the entire novel.
It is similar to the fact that the characters are alive and moving.
But strictly speaking, that’s another story.
Of course, Kang Hae-rin’s way of thinking is also familiar because it was taken from the setting of a novel I wrote.
Kang Haerin will soon be me.
As if I’m getting stronger soon.
“however.”
She said as she watched the appetizers come out.
“There was no mention of our meeting in the 『Journal』. So, was this something you were going to write about after that?”
“… there was a study.”
“Unpublished works?”
“I had no intention of making an announcement. I just… wanted to write a story about falling in love with you. That’s all.”
“That means… I’ll only half believe it.”
Kang Hae-rin said nothing, but there was something subtly hurt in that expression.
I felt guilty.
“It’s going according to the novel. this too?”
“……”
“What about us in the novel?”
“… that…”
“Don’t even think about lying. self.”
Kang Hae-rin was speaking in a soft tone the whole time, but I could tell when I looked closer.
She wasn’t usually an anesthetic.
She is taking this situation seriously.
“…it ends with you killing me.”
“I myself? That’s amazing.”
She said intriguedly, cutting the cheese and tomatoes from the salad into her mouth.
“I really did try to kill myself.”
“……..”
“Then what about this conversation?”
“no.”
I said urgently.
“… It went wrong at some point. Haryn, it wasn’t like this that you noticed this novel. Of course, there was no talk of losing contact with you. Meetings like this…”
“Do you have a novel? let go.”
Haerin Kang tapped on her phone.
“It’s a practice. I don’t believe you anymore, so I’ll check it myself. What is it? Just in case, don’t you think about editing the contents and sending it?”
I sent the file as she asked.
She did not confirm on the spot.
“… what are you going to do now?”
I asked in desperation.
Instead of giving Kang Hae-rin a penalty of insensitivity and murderous urges, I gave her intelligence, acting ability, and wealth that ordinary people cannot match.
If it targets me, I won’t survive.
Now that she doesn’t have a laptop to predict and modify her actions, she’s a rat in a dock.
“… are you going to kill me?”
“I? self? Fuha.”
Haerin Kang put down the fork and covered her mouth with a smile.
She laughed for a while longer.
almost 5 minutes.
“why me?”
After a while, the real woman spoke.
“… I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. What will I become if he dies? I am an anesthetic Without you, I can’t enjoy anything. Emotions and sensations.”
She licked her lips with her tongue as she savored the mixture of fresh mozzarella cheese and basil in her mouth.
“… this taste… I’ve never felt it.”
She had a strangely ecstatic expression on her face.
“He cursed me.”
“……”
“yes? So you have to take responsibility. It means you made it into a body that couldn’t exist without you.”
I had nothing to say.
“Now I will live as I please.”
Kang Hae-rin’s words were frightening.
live on your own
Are you talking about committing murder?
If she uses her wealth, acting skills, and other talents, she will become the worst murderer in history.
More brutal than any novel I’ve ever written.
“I’m thinking of actually reproducing the ideas in the novels I made.”
“… please.”
I said.
“Please forgive. Now, you can start anew. Haerin. therefore…”
“Puff…”
Was Kang Haerin a character who smiled so well?
she said, holding back a laugh.
“That would be up to you. Let me suggest one thing. Asking you to come and live in our house, is it something in a study novel?”
“… huh.”
To be precise, this is what happens at the end, when Kang Hae-rin’s obsession with me is maximized.
She took human life hostage and said she would commit more crimes if I didn’t come by her side.
So her suggestion was rather quick.
“I don’t like to follow the development as it is… but I will suggest it anyway. Come and live in our house.”
Kang Hae-rin put down the fork and said while licking her wet, shiny lips.
Just looking at her movements, I could feel her change.
That feeling of hesitation on the verge that seems active to me is completely gone.
She felt like a dangerous femme fatale to me.
“…that’s… Harin-ah. If I go into your house, we won’t be good to each other. Besides, you don’t want to see a human like me up close.”
I said.
I am the creator who deceived Haerin Kang.
She wanted to kill me too, so there’s no reason to want to have such a man nearby.
“I consider this to be my karma. I want to hate myself, but strangely I can’t. No, I hate it, but I can’t stop craving it.”
Haerin Kang gently touched my leg from below.
As I did that, my sharp eyes were fixed on me.
“You said you couldn’t stand it anymore. You and I are now united forever. I was scared at first No matter how I was, I was scared at first.”
“……”
“But I’m not afraid anymore. After all, I was born to desire myself, so isn’t it a certain fact that we will mix our bodies someday?”
“… Haerin, that’s…”
“Why not again?”
It was a rather daunting topic in an upscale restaurant where dressed-up couples whispered face-to-face.
Do you mix your body?
However, Haerin Kang did not hesitate.
“I will no longer hold back my desire for myself. Because I know you don’t have to.”
“… Haerin, that’s not okay. According to my settings, after ‘that thing’, we’re completely…”
“completely?”
Kang Hae-rin raised her eyebrows as if she was interested.
“…we will become addicted to each other. So in the end, they will destroy each other.”
“Nice.”
Haerin Kang’s lips curled up.
She looked like someone with broken brakes.
So, really, it was decadently beautiful.
“That is what I want. The death of all of us.”
“… Harin-ah, please…”
“Can’t live together, can’t have s*x?”
“……”
“Then, how about this?”
Haerin Kang picked up the phone.
Just then, a full-fledged dish came out.
Even looking at the deliciously glossy steak, I didn’t have the slightest appetite.
What the hell is Kang Hae-rin trying to do?
“… look closely, the things he gave me.”
Her eyes shone dangerously.
“… hello?”
She called somewhere.
In an instant, my body froze.
Because the voice that came out of Kang Hae-rin’s mouth changed from her usual lively yet mature voice to Baek Yu-ram’s, who was a bit nervous.
Kang Hae-rin imitated Baek Yoo-ram expressionlessly.
“Seyoung? Can you come out now?”
I jumped up in surprise.
The people at the restaurant turned their attention to us at the sudden uproar, but I didn’t care, I turned around the table and took Kang Hae-rin’s phone and ended it.
In my haste, I tilted my body towards the stronger side, and it became a hesitant hugging posture.
“…Do you mind if I kill this child?”
Haerin Kang whispered.
The distance between her and me was less than 20 cm.
“It’s the desire he gave me. If you don’t solve it yourself, you have no choice but to live according to your desires. I was born to ‘kill’ people.”
“…don’t touch them.”
“Is it okay for you to call me brother? Be sweet.”
she is sarcastic
“…you said it wasn’t like that.”
“The last time I called and asked in Park Se-young’s voice, you must have known that too?”
“……”
“Decide. What are you going to do?”
“He did nothing wrong.”
“It’s the love of a junior that makes me cry. or not…”
Haerin Kang said.
“Is it another love?”
“Absolutely not!”
“Everyone sins. that’s my theory No, is this the theory he made for me? Anyway… I don’t think there’s anything I can’t find if I look for it. Whether it’s Park Se-young or Baek Yu-ram, it seems difficult to find three sins that will kill two people.”
“… please.”
“Then do as I say.”
“……”
“Let’s start with dinner. When I’m with you, I find that these dishes are delicious. I don’t know what kind of pleasure I lived until now. You must be with me forever. Because he is the one who made me this way.”
“……”
“I’ll give you a few days, don’t worry.”
Kang Hae-rin spoke in a teasing tone, then gracefully straightened her back and sliced the steak.
“Eat this.”
He handed me the cut.
Eventually I had to give up.
“… okay. But give it time. I need time to organize things too.”
“Ah, then.”
Kang Haerin said with satisfaction.
“There is a lot of time. How are you going to organize your surroundings? Other than the new friends I made after college… who else? not be the father not even the mother Then, after all, is it your older sister?”
“Don’t touch my sister!”
“It’s fine if you spend all your time. But just keep in mind that you are mine. And when it gets too boring, I can’t stop myself.”
Haerin Kang came over and hugged me by the neck.