episode_0093

“Hold your hands up properly. I’ll know when you come down, right?”

“Hey, aren’t you being too scary over a little prank…?”

A strange sound came into my ears. The part of my brain that controls reasoning began to analyze the strange sound.

Playing around a bit = 4 tiny cameras

Even the installation locations and angles at which they were filmed were very impure and impure. One shot from the ceiling, one shot from the head of the bed, one shot from the doorway, a close-up shot of the bed…

This is a bit of a prank… Turning someone else’s room into some kind of AV filming set and playing around with it…?

Hyeji, who was already annoying, became even more annoying. Thinking that she couldn’t just leave him alone, she grabbed his cheek and pulled him closer.

“Aaaaah!!!”

“This crazy bitch!”

“Ian! Iaaaa!!!”

“If you know you’re sorry! You shouldn’t have done it! What the heck! Am I your daughter-in-law!!!”

The ball had stretched out. There was no doubt that he had gained weight by diligently eating the food that the two of us had diligently stockpiled while the old man and I were struggling outside.

“Someone who worked hard outside and came back doesn’t even expect a gift. But this is not true, you crazy bitch!”

“Ahhh! My head is falling out!!!”

“I’m pulling you to get out!!”

He grabbed Hyeji’s earlobe with his right hand and pulled it hard. With his left hand, he was pulling her cheek to the opposite side. Tears welled up in Hyeji’s eyes.

It looked like it was in a lot of pain. But I didn’t think it would stop just because I wiped away some tears. Children who don’t listen when you speak need to be given corporal punishment to the point where they pretend to listen at least a little.

*

“Uuuu…”

Hyeji, her cheeks red, was slumped on the living room sofa. After the punishment was over and her freedom was restored, she had been in that state since a while ago.

The atmosphere in the shelter was naturally chaotic. When I saw Lina looking noticeably anxious, I suddenly had that thought.

‘Didn’t Hyeji say that she and Lina were peeping together earlier?’

I began to ponder deeply over the question of whether Lina had any influence on the installation of the camera.

“Oh, unnie… Why is unnie Hyeji…?”

Her head was turned toward me as she asked, but Lina’s eyes were trembling diligently as she glanced at Hyeji.

Why is he shaking? Why is he shaking? He’s probably scared that he’ll end up like that too.

While I was judging Lina’s involvement, that conclusion suddenly popped into my head. I thought about it again just in case, and it turned out to be a valid guess.

“I did something wrong.”

I glanced at Hyeji and answered like that. When my gaze turned to Lina, Lina flinched. As I kept reacting like this, my existing suspicions were gradually solidifying into certainty.

“Lina, why are you so nervous? I don’t harass people for no reason, do I?”

I held the small camera I had kept in my pocket. I kept my eyes on Lina. As my hand moved to the table, Lina’s eyes also followed my hand and fixed on the table.

“Or maybe you did something wrong too?”

I took my hand off the table. In the spot where my hand had left, there was the camera that Hyeji had installed in my room.

Lina’s eyes wavered. For a moment, her breathing became unsteady, then returned to its original flow.

“That can’t be true. Sister, I’m busy with housework…”

“Right? I think so too. But Lina, do you know what this is?”

“I don’t know anything about cameras, Unnie Hyeji!”

I smiled brightly. I put the camera I had left on the table back into my pocket. I carefully held Lina’s hand.

Lina smiled faintly and did not reject my hand.

“I see, Lina has nothing to do with the Hyeji camera?”

“Yes!!! I have to prepare dinner and go prepare some ingredients!”

Lina tried to carefully pry her hand out of mine. Even her cute and disgusting mouth clearly showed a desire to be let go.

“But there is something?”

“Yes…?”

“You didn’t tell me that this camera is Hyeji. How do you know?”

“Ah…!”

I don’t know how suspicions don’t end as incidents but always turn into reality. I don’t want to be like this. People are really sinister.

I tightened my grip. Lina realized that I had noticed everything, and was busy trembling, unable to even try to pull her hand away.

“I, I told Hyeji unnie at first that it would be better not to do it!!! If Danhwa unnie caught it, it was obvious what would happen! Should I have said I was crazyooo!!!”

“You said you did it only the first time. Guilty, death penalty.”

Lina’s cheeks were stretched out. Unlike Hyeji, who was a fully grown adult, it may be because she was still growing, but her soft cheeks stretched out wherever her hands went.

I remembered the slime I used to play with when I was little, so I stretched it without hesitation and enjoyed Lina’s screams.

“These crazy bitches have been busy doing shit like they own the place while I was away?”

‘Squeak’

The sofa where Hyeji was sitting, crumpled and busy shedding tears of sorrow and regret, moved slightly away from me. It was clear that she was worried that the sparks would fly to her because of Lina’s arrest.

Whether he intended to completely take the blame or not, he decided not to punish Hye-ji, praising the fact that she kept her mouth shut even when Lina was vehemently denying the charges.

If you had just shouted ‘Lina, you’re lying!’ in that situation, I would have turned you into a puffer fish.

*

“Uuuu…”

“Whaaaang!”

The two girls were happily squatting on the sofa, hugging each other and crying. They both looked really ugly, their cheeks red and puffy and their stomachs puffed out more than usual.

“What did you do right to cry? Do you really want to die? I’m the one who wants to cry here, not you criminals? I came back after going through all that trouble, and these crazy bitches are really…”

“What about the shoes? Those two, did something go wrong?”

“Ah, Mr. Cheon Deuk, you don’t have to worry about it. He did something really ridiculous.”

“Tsk tsk, but that’s what girls look like… Hwaryeon, you go and take care of her.”

Since they are kids who cause a lot of accidents, Cheon Deuk didn’t really complain about my corporal punishment.

I thought that while I and the old man were gone, Cheon Deuk, the only adult in the shelter, had to deal with the antics of those two crazy women.

“That’s why I told you both not to do anything that doesn’t seem right to you.”

Hwa-ryeon, who was of a similar age, rubbed ice on Lina and Hye-ji’s bright red cheeks and spoke to them in a scolding tone.

Judging from the words that followed, unlike Lina who initially showed her intention to refuse but then joined, Hwa-ryeon seemed to have backed out cleanly.

After all, there was no way that Mr. Cheon Deuk would have raised his only daughter to be a child without any sense. From the moment they first met, her calm personality stood out.

If you think about Hye-ji, whose first impression was that she was crazy, and Lina, who was a psychopath, you could say that they had different origins.

‘Squeak!’

There was a sound of a thick iron door opening. Everyone in the shelter was gathered in the living room, and the only person who was absent was the old man, so it was clear that he had returned.

My eyes met Cheon Deuk’s. It was clear that Cheon Deuk had the same thoughts as I did.

“It looks like Mr. Do-Hoon is back. Judging from the fact that he came earlier than expected, things seem to have gone smoothly.”

“That’s right. This damned human has been wandering around without saying a word and now he’s here.”

I felt strange that they had completely different feelings about the same incident. And I felt a little embarrassed when I realized that Cheon Deuk’s reaction was typical for a member of the shelter.

Oh, no! Isn’t it natural for me to react this way?

My uncle and I had promised each other that we wouldn’t go out alone, and more than anything, we had discussed what to do about the second child.

There was nothing to be ashamed of. Rather, there was a need to be confident. Of course, I didn’t have the slightest intention of showing Hye-ji or Lina the scene where I was making love to an old man just because I acted confidently.

He got up from his seat and approached Hyeji and Lina, who were receiving ice massages from Hwa-ryeon. He made a fist and fed them a big piece of honey chestnut each.

“Evil!”

“Wow!”

Leaving the screams behind, I walked towards the front door where the old man would appear.

The door swung open and a familiar face appeared. I scanned the old man with my eyes for a brief moment, and after confirming that there was nothing wrong with his appearance, I opened my mouth.

“Where on earth have you been wandering around like that, only to show up now?”

“Oh, didn’t Mr. Cheon Deuk say anything?”

“Oh, I heard you right. You said you were so excited that you left me alone while I was sleeping.”

The old man’s eyes rolled around. He seemed to sense something was wrong from the way I spoke.

The old man’s gaze turned to Mr. Cheon Deuk, who was behind me. His eyes were filled with a mixture of a request for help and a little resentment, but there was no way around it.

As you can see, Mr. Cheon Deuk is a family member who has no power over my events. I grabbed the old man’s face with my hand and forced his gaze to meet mine.

“Where are you looking? Don’t you have anything to say to me?”

“That, I’m not doing this on purpose. Even if you go to the dam, you’ll just be tired, right? Huh? That’s right. Danhwa, you’re sleeping so well. Honestly, in my conscience, huh? ”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

I grabbed the old man’s sideburns with my hand. I could feel the cold sweat running down his face.

“I’m really sorry, Danhwa. I won’t do it again. But I think you’re really tired… Aaaah! ”

If you had apologized first instead of making excuses, I would have forgiven you. If you had even left me a small note, I wouldn’t have been angry.

I was worried whether I could make this ugly old man into a human being. If we lived together for six more years, maybe things would be okay.

Maybe. The kid would have grown up a bit by then. He would have some sense of humor.