Chapter 79 – Memory

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I wasn’t that panicked when it fell into the bathtub and swallowed water.

Of course, not being able to breathe is hard and painful, but that’s why Older Sister Hyesun gets in the tub with me.

I haven’t made a mistake yet, but who can live without making mistakes?

I washed my body before getting into the tub, but there was a bit of foam left from the body wash, and as Older Sister Hyesun picked me up and sat me in the tub, she slipped and I slid out of her arms into the tub like a slide.

I gurgled for about a second after falling into the tub, but Older Sister Hyesun quickly pulled me out.

“Arang!!!”

I was surprised by the sudden fall into the water, but I wasn’t panicked and didn’t really care.

The problem wasn’t Arang.

‘I lost control.’

I’ve always empathized with Arang’s emotions, but I’ve never been buried by them.

‘Is it trauma?’

My whole body trembled, water poured out of my nose and mouth, and the food I had eaten for my health rose up my esophagus and I started to vomit.

My vision blurred with tears, and Arang’s memories that I hadn’t remembered until now awakened.

A person who looked like a caregiver threw me into the bathtub and laughed as I struggled.

‘It’s Arang’s memory. Arang’s first caregiver was a piece of trash.’

Starting with the memory in the bathtub, I could see the starting point of how Arang’s heart closed and her mind broke as the memories awakened one by one.

Fortunately, the caregiver’s atrocities were really short-lived.

Arang’s family, who loved her, were able to quickly check on Arang’s condition, and Older Sister Hyesun, who had recommended the caregiver, felt guilty.

‘So that’s why she looks at me like that and tries not to leave my side for almost 24 hours.’

I thought I knew everything about Arang, but I didn’t.

Arang didn’t want to remember these memories, so she sealed them in her memory, so I didn’t know when I first received Arang’s memories.

And the trigger to unlock those sealed memories was, of all things, falling into the water and not being able to breathe.

Older Sister Hyesun hugged me tightly as I had a seizure, whispered that it was okay in my ear, and stroked my back.

Tears, snot, vomit, she didn’t care about any of it and hugged me.

It’s a strange feeling.

It’s like I was controlling a character named me with a game console and then dropped the console.

Until now, I had fused with Arang, so no matter how strong Arang’s emotions were, they just came out as expressions, but I had never lost control itself like this.

Maybe it’s because the sealed memories weren’t fused with me. When they were fused, the memories themselves were sealed.

‘I thought I understood and accepted Arang’s negative emotions to some extent now… but something like this was left.’

I was already angry because of the nurse who was laughing at Arang, who was in pain, but what made me even angrier was Arang’s emotions.

Anger? Resentment? Revenge? There was none of that.

Just helplessness and despair.

‘She’s really kind. If it were me, I would have only thought about killing them.’

Even now, if I saw that nurse in front of me, wouldn’t I kill them? Of course, it’s impossible because I don’t have arms and legs.

‘Ah, so that’s why I felt helplessness and despair?’

After some time, I felt that I could regain control of my body, but I didn’t.

It just allowed me to feel the warm and gentle love of Hyesun Older Sister, which was the only emotion Arang had left.

‘I need to think about what I need to be careful about.’

First of all, water. It’s not just that there’s a problem with simply taking a shower or a half-bath. I need to be careful about my whole body falling into the water.

Next is fire. That caregiver bastard said that the parts where my arms and legs were cut off were disgusting, so he used a lighter to burn them so they wouldn’t be visible.

‘Crazy bastard.’

I really want to kill him myself, but I heard that the nurse suddenly disappeared.

If I rummage through the sealed memories, Hyesun Older Sister told me directly, so it must be true.

Disappeared? Did he run away after making Arang like this?

Next is strangulation. These are the biggest memories among Arang’s sealed memories right now.

‘So what I need to be careful about in my life is… lower abdomen, strangulation, falling into water, burns. Is that about it?’

The seizure gradually subsided. Hyesun Older Sister continued to say that it was okay while crying, and comforted me without caring about the dirt on me.

‘I understood why Arang died before… but there was something even worse left.’

I have to live happily for Arang’s sake.

My eyes are closing.

Was it because the fatigue and stress of my body and mind were at their limit due to the seizure? Sleep is rushing in.

I just closed my eyes as my body followed, and fell asleep in Hyesun Older Sister’s arms.

==

I hoped that Arang would never remember it for the rest of her life.

It was a short time, but it was a time that should never have happened to Arang.

As Arang’s illness eased and she regained her mind, and when she started to like the half-bath in the bathtub that she hated so much, I realized.

Arang doesn’t remember that time.

Hyesun talked to Anna and discussed Arang’s condition.

The conclusion was to not let her remember those memories.

Now that Arang was just starting to recover mentally and her illness was getting better, making her remember those memories would definitely put her at risk of being seriously hurt mentally.

I took care of Arang as carefully as possible so that Arang wouldn’t remember those memories as much as possible.

But was it because my physical condition wasn’t good? Hyesun lost her strength slightly in the process of entering the bathtub with Arang, and because of Arang’s slippery body, she sat down and dropped Arang.

Arang slid down Hyesun’s body and fell into the water in the bathtub.

Hyesun urgently called Arang’s name and lifted Arang up.

Fortunately, she didn’t seem to be hurt, but there was another problem.

Arang’s appearance, shaking her whole body violently and starting to vomit, was the same situation as when I fired the nurse and first entered the bathtub to wash Arang.

Hyesun, thinking that Arang had remembered that memory, hugged Arang’s body tightly as she had a seizure and comforted Arang.

‘It’s all my fault… all of it…’

I believed it.

It was a nurse I had known for quite a long time.

Even before, I had trusted her to take care of patients who were uncomfortable after surgery.

But…

She did terrible things to Arang. She thoroughly ruined Arang by doing things that shouldn’t be done by a human being.

Arang is in pain.

But all Hyesun could do was hug her and tell her that it was okay.

Eventually, Arang fell asleep exhausted. Hyesun cleaned Arang and her own body, which had been dirtied by vomit, and laid Arang on the bed.

I calmly told Anna what had just happened so that Anna wouldn’t be surprised, and soon Anna returned to Arang’s hospital room, crying.

Anna hugged Arang, who was fast asleep, and cried.

“Hmmnya… Chicken… Puradak Chicken…”

The hospital room, which had been trapped in a swamp of hell, was released in an instant by Arang’s one word.

“Pfft!”

Anna and Hyesun both burst into laughter at Arang’s sleep talking.

“Whose sister is sleeping so comfortably like this?”

“She was so terrified until just now…”

==

I woke up in the morning.

But…

Why is there chicken in front of me? And it’s Puradak Chicken.

There was chicken, but Anna Older Sister and Hyesun Older Sister were also there.

I turned my head to check the time.

It’s 8 a.m.

8 a.m., the time I usually wake up these days. Usually when I wake up at this time, Hyesun Older Sister greets me and asks if I slept well and then I eat breakfast.

I thought I had been eating quite healthy food recently for my weakened stomach and body health.

But suddenly chicken? And chicken this morning?

“Arang, did you sleep well?”

Anna Older Sister kissed me on the cheek and picked me up.

“Yeah. I slept well… but what’s that…?”

Judging by the steaming heat, it’s freshly made chicken that hasn’t been made for long.

It’s chicken that makes my mouth water just by looking at it.

“I ordered it because I thought you might want to eat chicken after a long time.”

In the first place, does a chicken restaurant open this morning? And a Puradak Chicken restaurant? I don’t think that’s ever happened before…

Well, I wanted to eat chicken, so wouldn’t it be okay?

“Is it a bit too much?”

“No… I’ll eat it…!”

Anna Older Sister smiled brightly and sat on the chair while holding me.

I don’t know why, but there were a total of 5 chickens, and only chicken legs were in them. There are only chicken legs in all different chickens. As expected, the rich are rich.

I like it quite a bit.

Anna Older Sister naturally took out the most basic fried chicken, put it on the plate in front of me, and started to debone it with chopsticks.

“There are so many legs. I don’t have any…”

I jokingly said something about the situation where all the chicken legs looked delicious and the atmosphere seemed to be down, but I ended up casting a wide-area silence.

‘Is this not it? I was trying to lift the mood a little…’

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