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I don’t know what it is like these days, but when I was going to school, there was something called environmental beautification at the beginning of the semester.

It was an activity where the children, led by the homeroom teacher, gathered in groups of threes and fives to decorate the class, but only the kids who did it worked hard and it was not a very fun time for me, who was not very dexterous.

There were many times when I tried to cut paper with a paper cutter with my fern-like hand and ended up cutting my own hand.

The reason I’m telling this story is that I’m very afraid of blades… I mean, anything that’s sharp and looks like it might make me bleed.

The eerie feeling of being cut is so creepy.

Maybe that’s why I’m so scared of this woman holding a knife in front of me.

“Inho, why are you swearing all of a sudden? You don’t believe what she says, do you? huh? huh? I told you… everything she says is a lie. It’s a blatant lie meant to ruin our relationship.”

The woman twisted her hair with her fingers and looked around. He seems emotionally unstable.

“Who are you?”

Oops, that was such a stupid question.

The woman cocked her head to one side and looked at me.

As if a chameleon’s eyes were moving around and catching its prey all at once. She glared at me with subtle anger.

“What do you mean?”

The force of it froze me and the words that were about to come out stopped and stuck on the tip of my tongue.

“What does that mean? huh? huh? huh? Now you pretend not to know me? I’m Hyejeong, right? Your girlfriend Lee Hye-jeong. Did that bitch tell you to do this? Or do you just want to see me go crazy? Answer me, Inho. Huh?”

The woman’s head rattles like a broken toy robot.

And then it gradually comes forward. Holding that ugly blade.

“That’s not it… ah…”

I tried to say that wasn’t it. However, I could not finish speaking due to the sudden feeling of a foreign body.

Ah… it hurts…

Am I stabbed now?

Ah… it hurts…

The woman holds the handle of the knife with both hands and begins to stir my stomach as if turning a millstone.

“Ah… it hurts…”

A pain that no sentence can describe. An expression of opinion that comes from raw emotions.

But this voice doesn’t reach her.

“Does it hurt? It hurts me more… My heart breaks when I’m ignored by you. It hurts a hundred times a thousand times more than being stabbed with a knife.”

No… it… it fucking hurts…

The feeling of a foreign body becoming stronger, and blood gushing out of my mouth.

This pain rising from my abdomen was cold, then stinging, then burning, then becoming heavy, and so on.

As if my eyes were covered with a dark cloth, my vision suddenly turned off, and in my fading consciousness, I could hear clearly.

“Ah… This is Inho’s intestines. It’s pretty.”

Crazy bitch.

My consciousness faded away as quickly as sinking into water.

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“Ugh!”

I was startled and woke up to find that it was some kind of bed.

Light was shining warmly through the curtains, and an unknown needle was stuck in his arm. From the looks of it, it looks like an IV.

But what, did I buy it? No, how did you get out of there before?

“Huh?”

I groped my body with my hands and it felt strange. If you got stabbed that much, you should at least have a bandage wrapped around your stomach, but strangely, your stomach is clean. Rather, there are bandages wrapped around his legs and head.

What is this….

The door opens with a clatter.

“In… Ho?”

A woman with long brown hair calls my name. I see you are wearing a school uniform. Are you a student?

“You’re Inho, right?”

Her gray eyes were shaking mercilessly, as if she had seen a ghost. She slowly approached me, stretched out her arm and touched my cheek.

Hmm… your hands are soft.

Her hand movements, starting from the cheek and moving to the chin, neck and shoulders, were similar to those of a craftsman who works on a luxury watch.

“Inho….”

Drops of tears form in the big eyes.

“You’re awake… Inho…”

She smiled brightly and hugged me.

It was difficult to keep my hand still, so I gently hugged her. I don’t know what it is, but I felt like I had to adjust to the situation first.

She buried her face in my chest and cried, as if she was so sad.

I patted her on the back without even knowing why, and each time I did so, she cried more sadly.

Approximately 30 minutes. She must have been able to control her intensified emotions, but now she got out of my arms and looked at me with wide eyes. Still, it seemed like he still couldn’t calm down, so he whined from time to time.

That look was cute, so I smiled softly.

Now, let’s understand the situation.

First of all, you need to know how I got here.

What was that crazy bitch’s name? That’s right, Hyejeong Lee.

I must first ask how they ended up in the hospital, even though they were apparently held in a basement.

“Hey… I have something to ask.”

“Yes! What are you curious about?”

“You know Lee Hye-jeong… right?”

Ask as carefully as possible, without raising suspicion. It’s like, ‘You and I know that person.’

“Hyejeong Lee, who is that?”

Oh, I guess you don’t know. Then change the question.

“No, I guess I was mistaken.”

I was about to turn to another question, but she grabbed my hand.

“I asked. Who is Lee Hye-jeong? Why do you know a woman I don’t know?”