Chapter 1 – #01_The Beast’s Playground (1)
One.
I put down my coffee cup.
Unlike the spicy taste, the fragrant aroma of coffee is very helpful for deep fatigue.
The coffee machine in the counseling room is a fairly old model, but the coffee beans delivered by air were of a famous brand.
“I’m sorry, how long have you been talking?”
“What is it, sir~ I was talking hard.”
“I worked all night last night, so I was tired. Sorry.”
“I heard that Hee-hyeon went out for drinks with the three of them while dating Chang-ju? So… About last Saturday? I saw it.”
Most of the students’ interests are there.
As he has to concentrate on studying all day in a prison called a re-study academy, he becomes immersed in gossip with a serious expression that he would have passed lightly in his school days.
In their lives, all those things must be dramas and big events, but it was quite hard to listen seriously to the story that someone in the academy was straddling someone else’s legs.
“Hmm, can’t you have a drink with your boyfriend? Preparing for the college entrance exam will add a lot of stress, and sometimes you have to do something called divergence. Moderate stress is helpful for maintaining tension, but relieving it is also important. What date is it today?”
“Um… February 2nd.”
“The CSAT is on November 16th. Preparing for the exam is a marathon. Breathing control is the most important thing. Especially, can’t a type like Yujin be able to focus on one thing for a long time?”
Why are girls so talkative? Lee Yu-jin, who came to visit during lunchtime under the pretext of a brief consultation, groaned for about five minutes before starting to talk nonsensically.
Like a cat drowning in water, he subtly changed the topic of frying with medium heating, but Eugene rubbed his forehead.
He grimaced and complained.
“Just quietly talking about the CSAT! You’re not even listening to me! That’s why Teacher Yuchan doesn’t have a girlfriend. Ughhh, what a waste of a face.”
Even though the days are slowly getting warmer as winter is coming to an end, the bitter wind is numb to the skin.
Yujin, who came back after having lunch at a fast food restaurant outside the academy, took off her padding to see if she was warmed up by the indoor temperature.
“Teacher is not interested in dating in the first place.”
“Then how about me?
Lee Yu-jin, who was wearing a white blouse and brown cardigan, poked her head out and smiled mischievously.
Eau des merveilles from Hermes.
The sweet and salty floral scent and slightly heavy woody scent tickle the tip of the nose with the cool scent of water.
I think it’s a bit expensive for a second student to use, but I don’t think you need to worry about that because it’s Lee Yoo-jin, who is a gold spoon.
However, to evaluate it, as it is still late winter, I wondered if a brighter and fresher scent would suit the season as well as herself.
Eau de Mervey Blue is a fragrance that is more suitable for spring or summer.
“Study is completely behind me. If I go out with you, I will curse at you. Aren’t you a belt brother? Do you start with ID number 00?”
“Ah~ I became an adult two months ago too, right? Honestly, even if the teacher is a little older, um… A little new generation old man? It’s the same feeling. I’ll feed you. We have a lot of money in our house.”
“If you get into S University, the teacher will think about it.”
“Speak or not. How can I go to such a place?”
Completely jet-black medium-length hair and pale double eyelids.
Light brown eyes that made me want to know how such a small face could have such big eyes.
There is no flaw anywhere in the elaborate features.
She was startlingly pretty from the first time I saw her, but she seems to have developed a taste for decorating these days.
Even the poorly drawn eye line, cheek touch and tint are changing brands differently every week.
“They said all of the kids who went to prestigious universities did well in their studies right from the beginning, right? They, like you, try again and again and again. I was studying late at night, and I got eye disease and hemorrhoids, and I went into it all the time.”
“Ugh, I can’t do that.”
Eugene, who had been shaking her hand while trying to help her, lifted a mug containing coffee.
The reason why she came here in the first place was that she was pushed by her mother’s back to her, but she is Eugene, who has no interest in studying.
Knowing that, Yoo-chan had no intention of forcing her to study.
“Then just meet friends. Not an old man like me.”
“Even if the real academy kids only follow the teacher’s class, I’ll go out with them too. I like my age. I don’t like people of the same age because they’re stupid.”
She said that even if she took 5 subjects together, she could barely score 300 points.
I swallowed these words in my heart.
It did n’t have to be said, and even if it was done in a joking tone, it could hurt her feelings her.
She wants a man who is comfortable and dependable.
Not a boy of the same age exchanging jokes.
Even if that’s not the case, it’s also true that grades aren’t always proportional to intelligence.
If Yu-chan had been such a stupid woman, no matter how beautiful she was, he wouldn’t have been interested in her.
“When you finish drinking, go back and study.”
“I don’t really want to speak that language… “
“Come on, stop talking nasty things.”
Eugene, who had pouted her mouth her, cut her tongue and wiggled at the hem of her clothes her disapprovingly.
The things she couldn’t do even if she wanted to be restricted by the law.
For example, she has sex at a motel, drinks, smokes, spends time at various amusement facilities until after 10, and goes to clubs she has not been able to enter.
In her eyes her, friends who have just been released from student status and indulge her adult pleasures will be trampled on.
I would hate it if I had to put all those sweet fruits aside and study something I didn’t want to do.
I can’t understand,
I can understand.
I can’t agree, but
It can be predicted.
“But will you really meet me when I go to S University?”
I narrowed my eyes.
The balsam flower on her chest Her trembled in the blurry, scattering vision like Magic Eye.
A faint figure as if the oil painting had spread and leaked out of the canvas.
The flower language of balsam is ‘don’t touch me’.
The first image that comes to mind is a risky fruit that bursts when touched.
It seems to have painted her danger her.
Perhaps that image is projected into Yu-chan’s image because it is established in Yu-chan’s mind.
Yu-chan watched the balsam flower, which was changing from indigo to pale purple.
Even the color of the image that reflected her unconsciousness has meaning.
Chan Yoo called that image a ‘black box’.
Purple.
An artificial color tone not commonly encountered in nature.
Therefore, longing and fantasies about deviations that cannot be realized in reality.
Depression, anxiety, hurt, lust.
Even Yu-chan could not figure out which meaning best matched her black box her.
However, it was the color most often seen in the statue in her heart her, balsam.
At the same time, it was also the reason why Yu-chan liked her Yu-jin.
“What did you ask? It’s embarrassing and doesn’t even answer Siri.”
Eugene twists her hair with her fingers and puts on an embarrassing expression.
Yoo-chan, who was trying to continue her conversation by grabbing her horse her, gently persuaded her, and saw her off with a smile until the moment she closed the door.
2.
Celestial World self-study academy.
Yu-chan worked at a self-taught academy with 300 students in Ilsan.
It is a self-study academy operated by a system that can only be found in Gangnam or Daechi-dong, where the monthly academy fee is close to 2 million won.
For each subject, an assistant is assigned to answer questions, and an assistant is attached to fill out the student’s self-study schedule.
They hire instructors to give special lectures on subjects they feel weak or lack confidence in.
Yuchan’s role was unique among them.
A psychological counselor.
It is a kind of outlet where students who have to focus on studying all day can freely express themselves when they are stressed by things other than schoolwork.
Yu-chan doesn’t have any qualifications for her psychological counseling, but she didn’t have much of a problem.
The academy’s psychological counselor itself is a device to show parents that ‘this school is operated with an advanced system’ and ‘not just improving grades, but also assisting students’ mental health’.
For example, it is like the decoration that comes out on a plate in a high-end Japanese restaurant.
Since students have relied on just having someone they can confide in freely, they may be playing the role of a flower on a plate.
Yu-chan thought that this job was very suitable for him.
Not only does she have no qualifications, but she has a lot of interest in human nature. She already has master’s level knowledge in counseling psychology, and she can use her own skills to peek into other people’s minds.
With its own phase and color.
“I will go first.”
“Mr. Yuchan, are you off work?”
“Min, you have to go home too. It’s already nine o’clock.”
“There are still some kids left. If you have a question, you have to accept it.”
“Can’t I leave it to the assistant?”
“There are a lot of friends who don’t ask the teaching assistants questions, but come back the next day with bari-bari questions.”
Before leaving work, I lightly greeted the Korean teacher.
Usually, teachers leave their seats at 8 o’clock, but Do Min-jeong, who is so diligent, still stays and receives questions from students.
Do Min-jeong.
Professor of Korean Language.
She is single 25 years old.
A Graduated from the Department of Korean Language Education at a women’s university.
My hobby is yoga.
As soon as she went to college, she was living on her own her, independent of her parents her.
She has no boyfriend, and it has been about 3 years since her last relationship with her.
The prize is a hermit crab.
Color is navy blue.
She is a woman with long, straight hair and an actress-like grace even with her haggard appearance.
A teacher who is always for the sake of the students, and the word true teacher is the most appropriate in this academy.
“You are always enthusiastic. Then they fall before the students.”
“It’s something I like to do, but what?”
“There is an oriental medicine clinic that I recommend to students. Shouldn’t Teacher Min also take one?”
“It’s okay. I also do yoga.”
Minjung smiles playfully and shows off her biceps.
She left the academy door with a light greeting.
3.
To be honest, the academy was not located in a very good place.
There are two large commercial districts that are good to play in just 15 minutes away, and right now there are PC rooms and billiard rooms in the building next to the academy.
The days are getting better, but I still go forward, putting on my coat in the chilly night air.
Destination is home.
It is a two-room apartment in an officetel complex that is less than 30 seconds away from downtown.
After buying simple food and water from a convenience store, he threw water into the refrigerator and headed to his desk.
He filled the coffee pot with tap water and put it on.
There is also a steam coffee machine, but I didn’t have enough nerve to grind the beans.
It’s bothering.
My whole body is tired and begging for sleep, but there is still work to be done.
Caffeine is essential to combat stress.
The name Lee Yu-jin spreads out a notebook decorated with an antique handwriting on the front.
The 100-page notebook with a leather hard cover was packed with information about the subject of observation.
I pride myself on having a good memory, but when I read this notebook again,
It was good entertainment to be able to recall the feelings of the time when I wrote that one line.
[Lee Yu-jin black box status change log]
[The saturation of balsam, which was a lilac color, has increased]
[Intensification of emotions, colors with higher saturation have more intense emotions]
[It is possible that the degree of depression has become severe]
[Possibly deepened emotions]
[It is a color that suits her very well with her ambivalent emotions her]
[It still needs a bit more maturation]
He opened the desk drawer, picked out the one closest to her black box among the 640 colors, and pasted it on the page.
Because the meeting is still short, the notebook is barely getting out of the beginning.
By the time this notebook is full.
What kind of award and what color is she shining?
Licking her lips greedily, Yu-chan could feel her heart pounding in her chest for the first time in a long time.
Pleasant exhilaration tickled my heart, like an ugly beast breathing.
Covering her notebook, Yoo-chan headed to her bathroom.
Red iron.
The smell of meat that has been left for about 3 days.
She got sodium nitrite and embalmed it, but the ice in her bathtub seems to have melted a bit.
The weather is so cold outside, but inside the house, the ice in the bathtub melts.
Yu-chan, who expressed a small gratitude for being able to have a warm nest even in this weather, took out her corpse of her, with only her upper body of her remaining like a torso.
Since the advent of various laws and surveillance networks, especially the walking surveillance network of smartphones these days, humans have always had a problem when dealing with killing rather than killing.
Since the blood has been drained properly, there will be no bloody thing to do with sawing, but you will be sweating anyway.
Then the shower will be later.
Taking out a toolbox from the shelf in the bathroom, Yoo-chan looked in the mirror.
I saw my black box.
The prize is canvas.
Color is white.
The edges of the pure white canvas were stained with blood little by little.
